South of the Huai River, Shouzhou. Lu Rong was still looking under this city, he couldn't figure out why the Southern Tang Army had been repeatedly defeated in field battles, but this Shouzhou city had always stood tall under the long-term and fierce attacks of the Wei army?

Prime Minister Li Gu took into account that Zhengyang's pontoon bridge retreated, resulting in a delay in the warplane, and the matter has passed for a while, considering that most of the area south of Zhengyang is still in the Southern Tang sphere of influence, not captured by the Wei army, and vulnerable to the attack of the Southern Tang army, the emperor ordered people to rebuild a pontoon bridge in Xia Cai, north of Shouzhou.

The brutal and fierce siege battles for several days have made many officers and men afraid of war, and some of them chose to become deserters.

"Your Majesty......" a military general bowed, "the generals and soldiers who fled first in the city yesterday have been captured and brought in." ”

Lu Rong coldly glanced at the group of people kneeling on the ground, and said angrily: "All of them are cut!"

If such a serious crime is not punished, how will someone be dealt with as a deserter in the future? Not to mention the ineffective combat for the time being, escaping from the battle is enough to die ten times!

The military general left the tent, walked straight to the kneeling deserters, and said loudly: "Those who escape from the battle will be beheaded according to military law!"

Someone in the kneeling crowd in front of him suddenly raised his head and shouted: "Your Majesty, spare your life, for the sake of me and the northern war, spare us!" The people in the crowd begged the emperor for forgiveness, and there were even more people who wailed and cried, even if everyone had been in war for a long time, it did not mean that they were not afraid of death. "Your Majesty, it's not a way for me to escape, the Southern Tang Army poured down a fierce fire oil, the skin and flesh burned, life is better than death! Brothers go up to die, and there are parents, wives and children at home, I hope Your Majesty will be gracious! "The voices begging for mercy come and go, no one wants to die in vain like this, and how can they abandon a good life!

Lu Rongtie's face was blue, he didn't speak anymore, and he didn't look at it.

The rain was dripping, as if crying, the Wei army Mingjin withdrew its troops, and today's siege battle ended temporarily because of the rainy weather.

At this time, there was a messenger to the Chinese army in the rain to report the military situation, and the guards were pro-army Ma Junsi Du commanded Han Lingkun to capture the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty - Yangzhou City, Han Lingkun sent Bai Yanyu to lead hundreds of cavalry to rush into the city, but the city was unguarded and unresponsive like a report, Han Lingkun immediately led the army to arrive, and Jia Chong, the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, made Jia Chong abandon the city and fled south after setting fire to the city, and the deputy commander of the city, Feng Yanlu, the servant of the Ministry of Works, disguised himself as a monk and hid in the temple, but was still searched out by the Wei army.

Lu Rong was overjoyed, and issued an edict to encourage Han Lingkun, and ordered him to abide by military discipline and appease the people of Yangzhou, so that there was a mausoleum of the Southern Tang Dynasty royal family, and he also ordered to send people to protect the Southern Tang Emperor's Mausoleum with the Li clan.

The Wei army has received successes in all parts of the Jianghuai River, and even the Southern Tang Dynasty has taken it down, on the other hand, on the battlefield of Shouzhou, the Shouzhou that stands is like a thorn in the emperor's heart, which deeply stimulates Lu Rong.

The Southern Tang Dynasty army was defeated and fought repeatedly, and even the eastern capital Jiangdu Mansion was lost, so frightened that Li Jing almost wanted to leave Jiangning quickly, but fortunately, under the persuasion of the ministers, he broke off this idea for a while, and had the intention of asking for peace.

Suddenly, the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty came to ask for a meeting, and the envoy arrived in Chuzhou first, and then was sent north by the Chuzhou guard to the Shouzhou camp.

Lu Rong guessed that Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty might have been cowardly, and if he wanted to ask for peace, he asked the envoy to summon him to meet him.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a little displeasure in his heart, but when he saw that the envoy did not kneel, he just bowed respectfully and handed the letter of the Southern Tang Lord to the eunuch.

The eunuch who took the letter screamed: "Don't kneel down when you boldly see the emperor!"

The messenger was not frightened, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "A seven-foot man in the lower hall, the prince of heaven and earth, kneel to the heavens and kneel to the ground and kneel to the son of his own family, parents, how can he kneel to the lord of another country!"

Lu Rong was dissatisfied in his heart, because of the rule that the two armies would not fight and not kill, it was not easy to attack. took the letter in the eunuch's hand, opened it and took a look, although the letter had the intention of seeking peace, and the content was a little low, but at the beginning, he claimed to be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, there is only one emperor in the world, a son of heaven, such a peace, how can Lu Rong bear it, is it tolerable or unbearable!

"There's no sincerity at all, take it back!" Lu Rong snorted coldly and threw the letter of the Southern Tang Lord on the ground.

The believer argued on the basis of reason, and wanted to work harder: "The Great Wei and the Great Tang Dynasty have the same root and the same origin, they are brotherly countries, and the war between the two countries will only make the people fall into dire straits, and I hope that the Lord of Wei will think twice!"

As soon as he mentioned this Lu Rong, he was angry, he was also a human being, and he also had joys, sorrows, and sorrows, what kind of brotherly country, he/mother/, when he was a brother, he also stuck a knife in the back, colluding with a Rouran alien race to beat your brother?

He said: "Your lord claims to be a descendant of the Tang Dynasty royal family, and his etiquette may be different from that of other countries. You and I are separated by a Huai River, but you have never gotten along well, and you still go by sea to find Rouran, don't deal with the Central Plains, run to make friends with the barbarians, where is the etiquette? Do you still want me to quit? I'm not a stupid prince like Qi Chuyan, Han Zhaowei, do you think you can move me? Go back and tell your lord, that he may come to me himself, and apologize for his sins, and there will be nothing left. Otherwise, I will knock down your Jiangning City, and the treasury will be used to labor the army, don't regret it when the time comes! ”

The envoy's face was a little pale, but he heard Emperor Wei say: "The two armies are fighting and don't kill the envoys, I don't want to worry about people like you, come and blast me out!"

Immediately, two big men rudely grabbed the two arms of the messenger and carried them out. The messenger hung his head and was speechless.

Regarding the tea and medicine mentioned in the letter, 1,000 taels of gold, 5,000 taels of silverware, 2,000 horses of brocade, 500 head of army cattle, and 2,000 pieces of wine, he sneered in his heart.

What I want is your rich Huainan land!

It's not enough, you need to fight more violently, beat until Li Jing is convinced, give him a sober understanding, and beat him until he becomes a minister! Li Jing still doesn't want to be a minister, it's nothing more than that most of the cities in the Jianghuai land are in the hands of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he wants to bargain self-righteously!

He stood in the middle of the generals and said: "Our army's strength in Huainan is not enough, we haven't scared the Southern Tang Dynasty, during the western expedition to Shu, the main general of the Hujie army, Chen Xu, one day to conquer the city, I have already heard of it, presumably for the siege of the city has its own uniqueness, our army can not take Shouzhou for many days, ordered Tokyo to mobilize him and his Hujie army left wing."

Several battles have made Chen Xu gradually famous from obscurity, and now he is a famous general of the Wei State!

The summer rain came and went, and by this time, the rain had already been heard.

The soldiers removed the oiled paper from the trebuchets and other siege equipment and waited for it to dry, while other broken and damp ones were lifted out of the tents to be dried and repaired. Therefore, the siege did not begin for the time being.