"Lord, the four gates of Macheng have been dug to ensure that half of the Xianbei cavalry will not get out!" In the afternoon, Meng Hu came to Ye Zhao's tent and bowed.

"Where are Li Xing's soldiers and horses now?" Ye Zhao asked.

"According to the Malay report, it has passed Takayanagi and is speeding up, and it should be possible to arrive before noon the day after tomorrow."

"Ali." Ye Zhao nodded, turned his head to look at Ding Lidao.

"In!" Ding Li stepped forward and bowed.

"Three thousand people, divided into three teams, every other hour, take people to Macheng for a turn, don't let those Xianbei people take the lead." Ye Zhao said in a deep voice: "Remember, only suppress with bows and arrows, don't attack." ”

"Whoa! Remember! Ding Li agreed.

"Lord, the Xianbei people have lost their horsepower, they are toothless tigers, why don't we attack the city directly? Even if there are only 3,000 people, the last general is also confident that the one killed and the piece of armor will not be left! Guan Hai clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

"Stupid!" Ye Zhao glared at him: "Wounded the enemy by a thousand, self-inflicted damage of eight hundred, the trap is only outside the city, but it has not been dug into the city, now if we go in, even if we kill them, our troops will be disabled, this is the work of a reckless man, it is not worth it to take my elite Han to fight with these Xianbei people." ”

"You go to Ningxian, bring some hot oil, and burn the four Jingguan outside Macheng, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that there will be a plague, and when the time comes, not only will Macheng become a dead city, but no one of us here will be able to escape." Ye Zhao waved his hand.

"Whoa!" Guan Hai bowed down to receive the order, turned and left.

"My lord, since there is a secret passage available, why don't I use it immediately?" After Guan Hai, Ding Li, Meng Hu and the others left, Qiu Chi looked at Ye Zhao with some puzzlement.

"It's not time yet." Ye Zhao shook his head: "The enemy's courage has not been lost, this is not the best time, even if we cut off the enemy's food and grass supply, force them to hurry, abandon the horse and fight on foot, although our army is not afraid, but the loss is inevitable, when the enemy's spirit is exhausted, and the courage to fight with our army is lost, then is the time to kill." ”

"It's just that we are worried, even if we burn the grain and grass in the city, but there is a lot of surplus grain in the hands of the people...... Qiu Chi said with some concern.

Ye Zhao turned his head, looked at Qiu Chi and said, "In the city, are there still Han people?" ”

"This ......" Qiu Chi's face changed when he heard this: "Didn't the lord say that all those who wish to be naturalized are Han Chinese?" ”

"Naturalization is the hearts of the people." Ye Zhao sighed: "If Macheng can stand here for ten years, there will naturally be no difference between Hu and Han in the city, and the people among them will naturally be the people of my Han family, but now, those people have just been naturalized, and at this moment He Lian will definitely turn against him, and even help He Lian to slaughter the people of my Han family, I originally wanted to use the method of naturalization to encroach on the grassland, and after a hundred years, there will be no difference between Hu and Han, but it's a pity...... The hearts of the people are not attached, if the horse city is not broken, those people will have a sense of belonging to my Han over time, but now, a defeat, two years of hard work are all destroyed, even if the horse city is recaptured at this moment, those people will no longer have a heart of attachment to my Han, in this case, what is the use of staying? Let them, for the dead people in the city, be buried. ”

"This ......" Qiu Chi looked at Ye Zhao, only to feel chills, Ye Zhao's fluttering words, but all the remaining lives in Macheng were cut off, Qiu Chi couldn't help but say: "But my lord, they have food in their hands, if they ignore it, wouldn't it make Nahe Lian have more capital to confront our army?" ”

"Isn't that right?" Ye Zhao sneered: "Just to see a vicious dog fight for food, I ordered the surrounding counties to move all the fire oil in the city here, this horse city, I don't want it, let He Lian and those under him accompany the funeral of the dead people of my Han family in the city." ”

Qiu Chi's heart was cold, and he silently bowed to Ye Zhao, said goodbye and left.

Ye Zhao this time, he really moved to kill, the four Beijing officials outside the city, like a needle pierced in his heart, the Han people in Macheng were all recruited by him from the counties and counties of Youzhou with low taxes, originally, it was hoped to increase the proportion of Hu and Han in Macheng, let the Han people occupy the absolute main road, and assimilate the naturalized Hu people step by step, after dozens of hundreds of years, there will no longer be a distinction between Hu and Han.

It's just that although his idea is good, but this time with Lian Koubian, Sun De's inaction made Ye Zhao's hard work in vain, and Lian broke the city, the first to go under the knife must be the Han people in the city, after all, Xianbei also needs a population, the Xianbei people in the city, the Wuhuan people, and Lian may not move, and even take the initiative to win over, the four mountains as high as the Beijing officials, the Han people in the city are afraid that they are all here.

It's not that Ye Zhao wants to give up his hard work, but even if he recaptures Macheng and re-governs him, it will be difficult to recover to his heyday, the Han people are not endless, Youzhou is bitter cold, and the people are not prosperous, and even this killing is equivalent to killing all the displaced people that Youzhou can recruit, and after this battle, no matter how simple he wins, the shadow of war will sweep like a plague, and when the time comes, who else wants to come to this place, maybe one day if he comes to Hu Renkoubian again, he will lose his life.

In the next day, Ding Li continued to command the soldiers to take turns to release arrows, and had already made a mark, the bows and arrows of the Xianbei people could not be shot, but the bows and arrows of the Han people could shoot at the head of the city, and at the end of the day, Helian had almost given up the defense of the city wall.

The range is out of reach, so I can only watch people shoot arrows at me, passively beaten, and I don't dare to go out of the city, until now, Helian still doesn't understand why his cavalry fell as soon as he left the city.

"Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on! Why do our warriors trip as soon as they leave the city? In the county office, Helian had already smashed everything that could be smashed, and on the ground, several naked women had fallen in a pool of blood, and they were killed by Helian who was angry and then slashed with his sword.

Fear spread in Helian's heart, although he still had thousands of royal court elites in his hands, he couldn't suppress the panic in his heart.

In the past, he had not fought with the Han army, although the Han army was powerful, it would not make him weak, but this time, in the face of this captain of Wuhuan, he had a feeling of strength and nowhere to go, up to now, the eight thousand iron cavalry he brought had folded thousands of people in Ye Zhao's hands, but Ye Zhao had almost no losses.

"What about the head and the budugan? Are they blind!? Helian roared angrily.

What frightened him the most was that at this moment, Ma Cheng was almost isolated from the world, he couldn't receive any information from the outside world, let alone ask the royal court for help, and he couldn't even get out of the city, and that feeling of waiting for death made him even more crazy.

"Wang, we have found out the reason why the soldiers fell for no reason." A leader came in and bowed to him.