Under the siege of 30,000 Zhongzhou troops day and night, the 5,000 defenders in the city of Chuzhou Prefecture were gradually unable to support it.

Before leaving, Han Yuan only left two brigades in the city, and the two brigades would be Yang Yongxing and Xia Feng.

Speaking of this Yang Yongxing, this person's qualifications in the Chu army are not old, when he was in Jia County, he was one of the ten sentinels under Wang Bingyun, and Han Yuan was only one of the ten sentinels at that time. The world is impermanent, who would have thought that in just a few years, Han Won would be able to go all the way to today, become the lord of a state, and become Yang Yongxing's unattainable existence?

Speaking of which, among the ten sentinels appointed by Wang Bingyun at the beginning, in addition to Han Yuan, Ma Erhan, and the two brothers Dahu and Erhu, he Yang Yongxing has a big life and can live until today.

Yang Yongxing can survive all the way to this day, and naturally has her own set of ways to survive. He will never rush to the front every time the Chu army fights, for him, it is better to live well than anything, what bullshit military merits, let those who don't want to die earn it, it is already very good that he can maintain the status quo.

However, it was Yang Yongxing's attitude that caused him to not be able to integrate into the decision-making circle of Han Won at all, because his official position has always stopped at the brigade general. If it weren't for his high qualifications, Han Yuan was afraid that even the brigade general wouldn't want him to do it.

Another brigade general, Han Feng, is different, this person is a newly promoted young officer, less than twenty years old, when he was in Gaoyang County, he was originally an ordinary soldier in Han Yuan's personal guard battalion, because he participated in the battle of Linwu City and made great achievements, so he was promoted to brigade general by Han Yuan. Speaking of which, this person is loyal to the Korean won.

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The siege of the Zhongzhou army for several days has made Yang Yongxing afraid, in his opinion, the five thousand defenders are only afraid that they will not be able to hold this huge Chuzhou city. Therefore, he began to send people outside the city to contact in a planned way, and from time to time he tested Xia Feng's attitude, all kinds of behaviors, obviously not planning to die with the city.

Xia Feng naturally sensed Yang Yongxing's thoughts, but on the surface, he remained silent, and just secretly reported the matter to Han Xian, the second master of the Hou Mansion. Now that the situation in the entire state city is precarious, and Han Won is not there, Han Xian has become the backbone of everyone.

When Han Xian learned of this, he immediately signaled Xia Feng to cooperate with him to arrest Yang Yongxing. Just do it, just when Yang Yongxing was still hesitating about whether to surrender, Xia Feng suddenly led a large group of men and horses to enter the military camp and take him down, accused of secretly collaborating with foreign enemies and intending to rebel.

Of course, this charge was imposed by Han Xian, although Yang Yongxing intended to defect to the enemy, it was only a plan and had not yet been put into action, so he shouted injustice when he was captured.

In order to deter Xiaoxiao and calm the morale of the army, Han Xian had to be ruthless and ordered Yang Yongxing to be beheaded for public display. Poor Yang Yongxing has survived all the way to the present, and it is difficult to escape death after all.

After Yang Yongxing was beheaded, the officers in the army who tried to defect to the enemy wilted all of a sudden. It seems that this second son of Han is not a character to mess with.

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Because the garrison of the city was really stretched, Han Xian and Xia Feng discussed and decided to open the treasury of the state city, lure money and food, and hire young people in the city to help defend the city.

It is not a trivial matter to defend at the head of the city, and one careless person will die in Huangquan, so at the beginning, not many young people were willing to apply, even if Han Xian's salary was repeatedly increased.

Han Xian immediately ordered that every ten households must draw lots to select a man to defend the city, and if anyone does not comply, he will be punished for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, and he will be beheaded all over the house.

This trick really worked, but in a few days, tens of thousands of young people were forcibly conscripted to the city to assist in defense. The Zhongzhou army also gradually slackened because of repeated attacks.

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The news of Jiang Luoyue's death in childbirth, Lin Miao and others have been blocking it, and they didn't dare to let Han Yuan know. Because of this, Han Yuan, who is on the front line, has been having a headache about how to deal with Sun Xun.

The current situation is that the Chu army and the Yi army are in a stalemate in the area of Nanping Province, and the two sides have suffered damage to each other, but no one can help the other.

Maybe it's time for a decisive battle, whether it is Han Won or Sun Xun, they are silently deciding in their hearts.

However, for Sun Xun, he was ready to send a partial division to raid the city of Chuzhou, which also meant that if he wanted to have a decisive battle with Han Yuan, the Yijun side would inevitably face a situation where the troops were slightly inferior.

It's just that just when Sun Xun was thinking hard about the upcoming war, Yizhou Laochao once again came with unsettling news. Because of the large-scale offensive of the Qin army, more than ten counties in the northern part of Yizhou have fallen one after another, and the situation is critical.

Originally, Zhang Qin's attack on the northern part of Yizhou was just a tentative support for Chuzhou, and he didn't really want to offend Sun Xun, but the emptiness of the Yizhou border really surprised Zhang Qin. He sent only a few thousand soldiers and horses, and with great difficulty, he was able to capture several important cities. Zhang Qin, who tasted the sweetness, immediately gave up his plan to plot Jinju and instead focused on how to attack Yizhou.

Now Sun Xun is really going to scold his mother, Zhang Qin of this dog day, where did he provoke him, but he caused trouble for himself at such an important time.

No, he had to immediately gather his soldiers together to discuss how to deal with the situation in front of him.

When Sun Xun informed his soldiers of the news, everyone reacted differently, some advocated a happy fight with Han Won, and some advocated returning to Shiyizhou immediately to save the situation.

"What do you think, sir?" Sun Xun asked for advice from flavonoid.

Sun Xun has three gentlemen, and this expedition alone brought Huang Su with him, which shows the position of Huang Su in his heart.

Huang Su frowned and thought for a long time, and finally spoke: "If you return to the lord, Su means, it is better to withdraw the troops." ”

"Withdraw troops? What nonsense is Mr. Huang talking about? I'm against it! A young man who was about sixteen years old suddenly said sharply, "If you don't kill the person surnamed Han with your own hands, how can you solve the hatred in my heart!" ”

This young man is about six feet tall, with thick limbs, heroic appearance, surnamed Han Chengying, and his father is Han Wei, who followed Sun Fu to die outside Weixian County, Gaoyang County.

The battle that day was a battle for Han Won's fame, but for Han Sung-young, he was burdened with the blood debt of avenging his father.

Qin Chuan on the side comforted: "Cheng Yingxian's nephew, the old man knows that you are eager for revenge, but now is not the time to act rashly, the old man agrees with Mr. Huang's words." ”

Sun Xun listened to the words of a few people, and had already decided in his heart to withdraw the troops, but it was simple to leave the army, but it was not so easy to withdraw the army.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this sect has decided to withdraw its troops, but how can it be retreated? Can you come up with a plan? Sun Xun asked.

"My lord, I always thought that we might as well repair a book and talk to Han Won openly and honestly." Huang Su replied immediately.

Sun Xun stared at him with some doubts, and Huang Su continued: "Lord, I always thought that we were in a hurry, and Han Yuan was more anxious than us, but he was surrounded even by people in Zhou City. We want to withdraw our troops, but we are afraid that he will not be able to ask for it. ”

Sun Xun nodded and said, "Sir's words are reasonable, but if the other party repents halfway and suddenly makes trouble while we withdraw our troops, what should we do?" ”

Qin Chuan suggested: "Sect Master, you might as well make an agreement with the Chu army that both sides will retreat fifty miles each to show sincerity." If the other party doesn't comply, then let's fight first! ”

Sun Xun thought about it, and that was the only way.