Spring and summer intersect, all parts of Chuzhou are dripping with light rain, but the state city is cloudy for days, not a drop of rain does not fall, a gloomy scene.

The mood of the millions of Li people living in the city was also extremely gloomy at this time, because the state city was surrounded by heavy troops from Zhongzhou.

Li Kui and his subordinates in Bei'an Mansion could not be said to have tried their best, but the gap between the enemy and us was really huge, Bai Junwu insisted on dividing his troops to besiege the Chu army in the city, and he could also adopt the strategy of the strategist Yang Wuwu, and sent another 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack the state city, surrounding the most important city in the entire Chu Prefecture.

The situation in Chuzhou suddenly became grim, and the worst thing was that Han Yuan of Nanping Province still knew nothing about the situation in the north, and he was still struggling to deal with the attack of the Yi army in Nanping.

Due to Han Yuan's personal visit to the front, the morale of the Chu army was slightly higher than before. In order to better motivate the soldiers to fight bravely against the enemy, Han Won adopted Zhu Yifeng's suggestion and temporarily issued many regulations to reward military merits. The regulations stipulate that in the future, the promotion of sergeants will only be linked to military merits, and have nothing to do with seniority and origin. Sergeants of all sizes were allocated only silver rings and land according to the number of military merits.

All in all, as long as it is a way to encourage soldiers to fight bravely, he will not refuse it now, if nothing else, but to solve this major crisis at hand.

Fortunately, this series of rewards and punishments of the won has really played a big role in a short period of time. At least the soldiers and horses of Yizhou have tried to attack the city more than ten times, but they have lost their troops and lost their generals, and they have failed. The defending Chu army even tentatively went out of the city to counterattack several times, and unexpectedly, they all achieved small victories.

Han Yuan did not hesitate in the slightest, and immediately according to the previous regulations, he greatly rewarded more than a dozen soldiers who had made military achievements, not only giving them military promotions, but also rewarding them with money and land.

This method had an immediate effect, the so-called people died for money, birds died for food, and the Chu army, which had a goal of struggle, suddenly soared in combat effectiveness. In the next few battles, the Yizhou soldiers who were in full morale suddenly felt very struggling, and they had a faint downward trend, which even Sun Xun himself felt incredible.

In the military tent, Sun Xun gathered dozens of generals to discuss the war.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Chu army has been reborn recently, and its combat power has increased suddenly, which is very different from before, do you know what the reason is?" Sun Xun asked first.

Qin Chuan responded: "Back to the sect leader, the veteran general sent someone to investigate, and Han Yuan issued an order in the Chu army, using military money and food as a lure to motivate soldiers to be enemies of our heavenly soldiers." ”

Qin Chuan is the old man of Sun Fu's generation of the Ascension Sect, he has always been highly respected, and he has Sun Xun's trust, so he calls himself a veteran, and everyone has no objections.

"Oh? It seems that in this Han Won army, I am afraid that there are some masters in charge. After hearing this, Huang Su sighed.

Sun Xun nodded and said, "I heard that Han Yuan invited a military advisor named Zhu Yifeng." ”

"Zhu Yifeng? It's this person! Huang Su couldn't help but be taken aback.

"Sir, know this man?" Sun Xun said with interest: "Sir, you might as well talk about it carefully." ”

Seeing Sun Xun asking, Huang Su didn't dare to hide his secrets, and hurriedly told the life of Zhu Yifeng that he knew in detail.

"Hmm, this person is the champion of the past, and he is expected to have done a good job in the article, how can he win such a high reputation in the world?" Sun Xun asked puzzled.

Huang Su shook his head and explained: "The lord underestimates the Xia Guo's imperial examination, and a really high-level scientific examination is not something that can be fooled by doing a few articles. Especially at the level of the palace examination, not only the subset of history, poetry and songs, current affairs and strategies, and even the strategy of the art of war, people's livelihood and government affairs will also be involved one by one. There are as many as five or six hundred thousand candidates for the examination in the Xia Kingdom every year, while only more than 100 people take the palace examination. Ordinary literati can have the opportunity to become an official if they can pass the state examination by luck, and if they can successfully pass the palace examination, it will be a great event in their lives! ”

"According to what Mr. Huang said, this guy surnamed Zhu really can't be underestimated." Qin Chuan on the side suddenly said.

Sun Xun sighed and said regretfully: "It's a pity that such a great sage can't be used by me." ”

Qin Chuan thought for a moment and suggested, "Sect Master, how to reward and punish the sergeants on Han Yuan's side, we might as well learn from it and use it for my use." ”

Sun Xun shook his head and said: "This matter should be considered in the long run, we are different from Han won, our army is relying on the Holy Sect, respecting and being orderly. If you take the liberty of determining your title based on military merits, I am afraid that there will be old brothers in the sect who oppose it. At least not now, I can only go back to Yizhou and slowly pay attention to it. ”

Since Sun Xun said so, Qin Chuan no longer insisted. After a few more moments, Sun Xun ordered the meeting to be dismissed.

All the soldiers retreated, but Huang Su was left behind by Sun Xun.

"Sir, do you know that the Zhongzhou army in the north has surrounded the state city of Chuzhou?" Sun Xun asked.

Sun Xun's Ascension Sect has thousands of members, and as early as half a year ago, he secretly sent his followers to various parts of Kyushu to collect information for him and find out the news. Naturally, there are many spies of the Ascension Sect lurking in Chuzhou, which is also the reason why Sun Xun knew that the state city was besieged one step ahead of Han Yuan.

"Oh? Is this really the case? That's really God Bless Holy Sect, God bless the Lord! Huang Su was excited when he heard this.

Sun Xun shook his head again and again, and said, "There is another thing that Mr. doesn't know, I received a secret report that Zhang Qin of Qinzhou seems to be interested in making a move to the north of Yizhou. I know that this is because Han Won took the initiative to show favor to Zhang Qin before, and Zhang Qin is probably just a show, but he still has to guard against it. ”

"Well, this must have been taught by Zhu Yifeng, with Han won's knowledge, how could there be such a method." Huang Su took care of himself.

"What does Mr. think my Yizhou army should do next?" Sun Xun suddenly asked.

Huang Su was stunned and said with a smile: "The lord is only afraid that he has already made a decision." I guessed, I always thought that the intention of the lord was to seize the city! ”

"What do you mean by that?" Sun Xun asked knowingly.

Huang Su said: "Lure the enemy with a partial division, or drag the Chu army, while the main force of our army will take the opportunity to go north and take the state city!" With the state city under the state, the Nanping Chu army will definitely be in turmoil and collapse without a fight! ”

"No, sir's guess is wrong." Sun Xun said with a smile: "I want to drag the Chu army with the main force and capture the city with the partial division." Thinking that the state city has been besieged by the Zhongzhou army for many days, the offensive and defensive sides will inevitably fight fiercely, at that time I will only eliminate a partial division to suddenly kill, will be able to shoot away the Zhongzhou soldiers and horses, and the Chu army in the state city has already been almost consumed, how to resist my Yizhou heavenly soldiers at that time? ”

Huang Su shook his hand and praised: "It's still the lord who thinks carefully and uses the main force to contain the won, so that the won has no chance to come back to help, and the Chu army will be defeated!" ”

…

In the state city, there are 30,000 Zhongzhou enemies outside the city, and there are less than 5,000 Chuzhou soldiers and horses in the city. However, there are still many spies who make trouble in the city from time to time, trying to cooperate with the enemy army outside the city to enter the city.

Coincidentally, at such a critical juncture of many disasters and difficulties, Jiang Luoyue happened to be in labor.

Although the best doctor and Wen Po in the city were invited to the Han Mansion as soon as possible to deliver Jiang Luoyue. However, it seems that God always likes to tease the world, who would have expected that Jiang Luoyue would have a difficult birth for the first time.

At this time, everyone in the Han Mansion was in a hurry, and even Lin Miao was so anxious that she didn't know what to do, so she could only keep inviting the doctors and Wen Po in the city, hoping that they could help Jiang Luoyue give birth smoothly.

Jiang Luoyue's birth was extremely difficult and painful, and the entire delivery room was filled with her mournful wails. Even Lin Miao, who was anxiously waiting outside the delivery room, felt creepy when she heard this voice.

The delivery lasted from noon to evening, and by the end of the day, things had reached a point of no return.

"Second lady, the old woman is incompetent, and I am afraid that my wife's life will not be saved! Whether the child can survive or not depends on the will of God. A stable woman sweating profusely and with blood on her hands hurriedly walked out of the delivery room, bowing her head and blaming herself to Lin Miao.

When Lin Miao heard this, her heart was in a hurry, her hands grabbed her shoulders and kept shaking, babbling in her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but unfortunately she was a mute.

Wen Po knew what Lin Miao meant, but God was destined to take Jiang Luoyue's life, and the only thing Wen Po could do was to try her best to save the child. The stable woman sighed, turned around and entered the delivery room, and now, she can only do her best and obey the fate of God.

At night, the child was finally born after many twists and turns, it was a man, and Jiang Luoyue was completely exhausted, lying on the bed dying, and it was already on the verge of dying.

"Yue'er, you must be better, you, you... How can you be willing to be a father? ”

On the side of the bed, Jiang Feng was full of tears, and his voice was so sad that he was choked.

"Sister, you have to be good...... You've got to be good! Jiang Luoshuang couldn't cry silently.

Lin Miao stood aside, tears like pearls with broken threads, flowing in a stream. In her heart, she had never hated this woman who took away her sweetheart, on the contrary, Lin Miao had always been grateful to Jiang Luoyue and grateful to her for giving her a chance to be by Han Yuan's side.

Jiang Luoyue was half-open, but she was looking at Lin Miao, she suddenly beat her spirits and struggled: "Sister Miao'er, sister... Sister's life is thin, and in the future, Han Lang will be entrusted to me, sister, sister will take care of it. I, my child, please......"

When Jiang Luoyue said this, her breath was so weak that she couldn't speak. She opened her eyes wide as if she was returning to the light, and looked at everyone around the bed carefully, but she didn't see Han won, and she had mixed feelings in her heart, and she swallowed her breath after a while.

Pity a heavenly man who is like a flower and jade, and he died of incense. Up and down the Han Mansion, no one sighed.

…

It was night, thunder and lightning flashed, the wind was fierce, and it was pouring rain very unusually in Nanping Mansion.

For some reason, the won in the military tent tossed and turned, and he couldn't sleep for a long time.

He didn't know that his beloved wife had died, but in the dark, there seemed to be some kind of sense that hinted at him that the most important person in his life had left him.