"Han Lin, the matter of trading and buying and selling materials with Zhao Xun's people will be handed over to you. What to do, how to do it, you should understand in your heart! Situ Hao's eyes flashed with coldness, and he explained to Han Lin. Since he thought of it, Situ Hao naturally would not give up the opportunity to strengthen his strength, and he was very interested in King Yong's chair.

After a pause, Situ Hao said again: "Father is also ready to give an order to the fourth child, asking him to gather the troops of the state and retreat to Feng Ling's mansion to rest. I suspect that my father has the intention of re-raising the old four, and he can't help but prevent it, so what can you do to prevent it? ”

Sima Hanlin, Yang De, Political Governor Shi Xu Qiwen, and Tang Lin, who was in charge of the secret agent, were all slightly shocked, and they suddenly understood what their master wanted to say, that is, they didn't want the fourth prince to come back, or in other words, they didn't want the fourth prince to come back with a large team.

"Metropolitan Governor, the prince has already ordered, this matter is only afraid of ......," Yang De said hesitantly.

Situ Hao's face turned cold, and he said in a condensed voice: "You say, what position will the old man arrange for the fourth child to come back?" ”

Han Lin said in a deep voice: "The Zhao army has gone, and the Qi army and the coalition army outside the two levels are the biggest threat. When the fourth prince came back, he was naturally the place of Yongzhou where he was stationed in the fortress to resist the Qi army. After all, the fourth prince had defeated Murong Cheng once. So, Grand Governor...... The prince is only afraid of ...... to the fourth prince"

Situ Hao said sharply: "Damn old guy! The fourth capital has lost the land of the state, and wants to let it settle in Yongzhou, what does it mean, where is the governor of Bendu? ”

After his sharp eyes swept over several people, he said to himself coldly: "No one wants to take the position of the governor of Pontus." Then he stared at Tang Lin, and his tone became even more gloomy, "Tang Lin, can you intercept and kill the herald?" ”

As the leader of the secret agents under Situ Hao's command, he naturally knew how to answer at this moment: "Back to the Grand Governor, there should be no problem here for his subordinates!" ”

"Most of the governors are slow, the prince's order is transmitted to Bingzhou, if the fourth prince returns to Luoyang, he will let the prince know. Even if the fourth prince can't come back, the prince can see the problem. At that time, you will bear the brunt of it! ”

Han Lin shook his head and said, "Judging from the fourth prince's previous actions, he is ready to evacuate directly. The prince's military order is nothing more than to preserve the strength of the fourth prince, let the fourth prince withdraw justifiably, and avoid conflict with the Zhao army. Therefore, if there is no military order from the prince, the four princes will not stick to the annexation of the state. The withdrawal of the fourth prince to Yongzhou is only afraid that it is already a sure thing, since this is the case, it is necessary to weaken the strength in the hands of the fourth prince. As long as the descendants in the hands of the fourth prince suffered heavy losses, when they arrived in Yongzhou, even if the prince divided his soldiers and horses, he was still not afraid. ”

Therefore, it is imperative for the Metropolitan Governor to do this. However, it is better to act carefully to intercept the herald, and it is better to let him die in the open, and in front of the eyes of the soldiers in Hanoi Province, at the hands of the outcasts who have fallen into the traps. Of course, we're going to have to keep him captive for ten or eight days. By then, the herald's military order had arrived, but by that time it had become a different situation. ”

Situ Hao nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Tang Lin, you go to handle this matter, what to do, you should be very clear in your heart." ”

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Although Zhao Xun sent people to negotiate with Situ Lei, it did not mean that Zhao Xun stopped the attack on the Bingzhou army. Zhao Xun's army besieged the remnants of Yang Lisuo of the Bingzhou Army and Cao Gang of the Bingzhou Northern Army in Dingping. The rest of the army and Li Huaiyuan's troops from Jizhou swept from east to west from the north and south to the southern prefectures and counties. Because of the strength of the Zhao army and Situ Tai's first escape, the local state armies were completely defeated, and the defenders and local officials surrendered one after another.

By the time the Zhao envoys Deng Zhongyao and Situ Lei had completed the agreement, the Zhao army had already occupied the entire southern garrison of Bingzhou except for the two prefectures of Fenzhou and Changping. At the very least, in the rest of the prefectures, there is no longer a formed merger state army. In this regard, Zhao Xun was also very surprised, he didn't expect his soldiers to move so quickly, and the state army was defeated so quickly. As a result, Zhao Xun had to send an order to Youzhou, so that low-level officials should be sent to various places to order officials and restore the rule of local officials.

"It seems that in the hands of Situ Tai, the governor of this state, I am afraid that there are not many troops left. It is better to attack it directly. Lord, why don't you just let Li Huaiyuan and other generals lead the army to directly attack. The subordinates guessed that at this moment, the state army was afraid that it would have no heart to resist. And those who were willing to fight to the death with Situ Tai, except for the more than 15,000 soldiers he originally brought from Yongzhou and later allocated by Yongzhou, the rest of the soldiers passed down. Yang Hu, the general of the town army, said eagerly.

"Haha...... General Yang, are you in a hurry to break through the enemy city in front of you, so you pretend to talk about the southern lands? Zhang Yuanjing smiled heartily.

Yang Hu smiled and said, "I still can't hide it from you, but the situation in front of us is already clear, even if Yongzhou sends reinforcements at this moment, we are not afraid." What's more, Situ Lei was afraid and didn't dare to transfer too many people. Otherwise, Murong Cheng is not a vegetarian. For Situ Lei, this Murong Cheng is the real number one enemy. He will not abandon Yongzhou, which is of vital importance to him, for the sake of the annexed state that has been lost. When the time comes, take Situ Tai and see if he will send troops into the territory of the annexed state. ”

Zhang Yuanjing said with a smile: "The matter has indeed become a foregone conclusion, and it is not a problem to win Situ Tai." However, for us, it is more meaningful to leave Situ Tai and let him go to Yongzhou than to be taken by us. As far as we are concerned, as long as the Bingzhou army is left behind, Situ Tai has nothing to do with the overall situation, and it is beneficial for us to let him go back. ”

Without waiting for Yang Hu to refute the question, Zhao Xun nodded and said: "Yes, Situ Tai was released, firstly, to save face for Situ Lei, so as not to make Situ Lei shift his focus to us, after all, this king has already sent someone to discuss with Situ Lei whether this is worth the question." If you take Situ Tai, it will be difficult to deal with. Second, Situ Lei is not young, and the four sons are together, so that they can fight for that chair, which is better than 100,000 soldiers for us. However, the remnants of the two armies in front of them have indeed come to be resolved. Yuan Jing, what do you think? ”

Zhang Yuanjing and Wei Zilin glanced at each other, and Zhang Yuanjing said: "For Situ Tai of Fenzhou Mansion, we can directly send someone to talk to him and ask him whether it is important to be the governor of Bingzhou who no longer exists or King Yong." In addition, Bing informed him of some information that the governor of Yongzhou, that is, his eldest brother, had sent troops to support him. In addition, we can also tell him what we mean when we talk to our father, Situ Lei, and he should understand what it means, and he should be wise enough to understand what it means. However, we request that it not be taken away from the troops that belonged to the annexed state. If he is willing, we are willing to let him go back to Yongzhou smoothly. Judging from his subordinates, this Situ Tai will definitely agree. ”

"As for the Bingzhou Army and the Northern Army of the Three Cities of Dingping, we need to use the momentum of thunder to break through the two small cities, and threaten the last Dingping County, at that time, they have no choice."

Zhao Xun nodded and said, "Okay, just do it!" Yang Hu, you led your subordinates and some of your subordinates to attack Dingyang City, and this king personally attacked Dingyun City, taking these two cities, which is the prelude to solving the situation of merging states. ”

"Subordinates take orders!" Yang Hu was overjoyed and congratulated on receiving his order.

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was bright, and more than ten horns in the Zhao army camp sounded at the same time, and the whimpering sound resounded through the heavens and the earth, straight into the clouds, and the huge cowhide drum in the army also sounded viciously, like thunder. The earth shook the earth, and with the sound of drums, groups of Zhao soldiers kept walking out of the camp and lined up.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhao Xun sat on the main seat, Wei Zilin was in the second seat, and Yang Hu and Zhang Yuanjing led the troops to the land of Dingyang City yesterday afternoon. The generals did not squint, and sat with their heads held high. For today's battle, the generals have been mentally prepared, after all, it has been three days since they arrived, and it has already brought heavy pressure to the enemy army here, and also cut off the connection between the three cities.

Zhao Xun looked at the generals and said: "Presumably, you are ready to attack, the enemy army in front of you is already a turtle in the urn, today, we will take this place, in this city, to celebrate the victory." All the officers and soldiers will attack the city according to the predetermined momentum, and there is only one requirement, during the siege, no order shall not be allowed to retreat without authorization, and those who retreat shall follow the military order. Kill. Today, the city will be destroyed. ”

"Yes." The commanders of all the departments responded to their names and then obeyed the order.

A phalanx of thousands of people was neatly arranged, walking in unison, surrounded by huge siege equipment, and moving slowly. It's still a fence of three ques. The main attack on the West Gate. In the direction of the west gate, more than 50 catapults are neatly lined up in a large phalanx, slowly approaching the city wall under the support of the infantry, and there are more than 100 vans, 10 large well railings, and 200 shield cars. The siege soldiers and horses have dispatched more than 10,000 people at one time, and in addition, there are more than 20,000 Zhao troops in the rear ready to break through the city and rush to kill.

Dingyun City was originally not tall, but under the urgent construction of Cao Gang and Yang Li, this Dingyun City has changed greatly, which is also one of the reasons why Cao Gang and Yang Li dared to divide their troops to garrison Dingyang City and Dingyun City separately, instead of returning to one place.

The city wall of Dingyun City is more than 1,000 meters long, so it is impossible to rush tens of thousands of people at once. Even if so many people rush to the city, they are all targets, even if there are more than 10,000 people, looking down from the city wall, it is also black and oppressive. Don't forget, the defenders were just over 10,000 men.

The catapults stopped at about 800 meters to 1,000 meters in front of the city and began to reload and calibrate, each of which had a carriage next to it, and the carriage was loaded with countless stones. Of course, if it were to attack the fortified city, it would definitely be loaded with fire bombs and earth-shattering thunder. As for this, it is obvious that there is no need, and the two soldiers defending the city have panicked and their faces are as pale as earth.

"My lord, it seems that attacking these two cities is not too difficult. The enemy army was frightened, and their morale had plummeted. As for Cao Gang and Yang Li, if they want to be each other's horns, I am afraid that they will miscalculate. Wei Zilin said with a smile.

"Cao Gang and Yang Li belong to two parties, and they don't have a good cooperation, how can they fight with us? Moreover, there is only this little bit of land left, and it is surrounded by the territory of my Zhao army, so what is the use of its division of troops to garrison? If Situ Tai's Bingzhou army is still there, it is good that it can still support it, but for now, it will only let him scatter his forces and let us break them individually. Zhao Xun said with a little mockery.

Wei Zilin nodded and said, "Yes, internal discord is the deadliest place." Either way, however, their defeat is irreversible. ”

"Lord Qi, all departments are ready, waiting for the prince's military order!" The herald sent back information about the besieging army.

"Siege! All ministries take the lead! Zhao Xun shouted.

Subsequently, the herald loudly conveyed Zhao Xun's military order, and then, dozens of heralds not far from Zhao Xun's side waved the colorful order flag in their hands and gave orders to the forward army.

"Prepare for the Divine Machine Battalion, launch!" With the general shouting, more than 50 catapults were powerful at the same time, and more than 100 stones were thrown into the air. Suddenly, it was like a flying locust rising into the air, covering the entire sky, and a large shadow was like a black cloud and black pressure smashed towards the head of the fortified city, because these stones were temporarily picked up from the surroundings, so they were of different sizes and weights, so after being ejected, the flight trajectory was also different. After a while, these live bullets fell, and some of the flying stone bullets smashed directly into the water of the moat, causing a splash, and some of the stone bullets that were more than a human head smashed on the thick city wall, with a loud bang, leaving a white mark on the city wall and falling in the moat, but more of them were smashed on the city head, although the soldiers on the city head were hiding behind the battlements and in the hiding hole on the city head, feeling the city wall as if it was trembling and colliding, The veterans who had been through many battles leaned calmly against the caves, while the newly recruited soldiers looked back and forth a little nervously. Some of the brave soldiers even held their heads in their hands and buried them between their thighs, trembling in fear.

There were even many defenders, in this case, panicked, and even threw down their blades and fled in all directions. But then, they become the next to die. All of a sudden, there was a wail on the city wall.

However, even if the soldiers who hid were naturally immune to the stone bullets, the battlements exposed on the top of the city, the improvised arrow towers, and the bed crossbows on the top of the city were not spared. The boulder is small from the sky, with a huge strength smashed on the arrow tower made of bluestone and giant wood, and suddenly brought up a flying stone, each arrow tower will be smashed by the stone bullet three or two times, the head of the city before the dense arrow tower piece Xuan collapsed more than half, the rest have also been hit hard, there is little intact left, there are many stones scraped over the city, fell into the people behind the city, although many of those dwellings are stone and wood structure, but the roof is mostly tile thatch, as long as it is hit by stone bullets, It is inevitable that big holes will be opened, and the people inside will inevitably be affected by the pond fish.

For half an hour, more than 50 trebuchets were continuously throwing live ammunition, large and small, with different edges and corners, bringing a great blow to the northern army and the army of Bingzhou defending the city. This blow was not only a casualty of the defenders, but also a blow to morale.

"Foot march, crossbowmen forward, get ready!"

At this point, the trebuchet began to use uniformly sized stone projectiles to align the target and cover the advance of the footmen. Zhao's foot soldiers moved on while the trebuchets were suppressing the defenders, and they didn't seem to care about the defenders on the city walls at all, and rushed forward. I have to say that at this moment, the defenders on the city wall have not yet woken up from the fierce blows of the Zhao army.

"Zhao Jun is here, all fucking hurry up and get ready to fight...... Hurry ......up," some veterans and officers roared awesome on the wall, picking up their bows and arrows and starting to shoot. However, these intermittent and scattered clusters of dozens of arrows were not at all to be feared by thousands of soldiers......

At the time of three hundred meters, the crossbow that was necessary for Zhao Junzhen's army also stopped and began to load ordinary steel crossbow arrows, while the archers and infantry continued to advance, entering a distance of two hundred meters, and a chaotic roar sounded on the head of the city. Presumably, the defenders who were hiding in the cave were also in a hurry to kill and injure the city wall at this moment, under the order of the officer. Hiding behind the battlements, he was frightened to avoid the stone bullets falling from the sky, and carefully defended.

"Trebuchets stop shooting!" Seeing that his soldiers were beginning to approach the city wall, the trebuchet of the Zhao army stopped moving.

At this time, the chaotic head of Dingyun City also began to suffer casualties in the archers of the Zhao army, because the phalanx of soldiers walked to a distance of about 100 meters, and the archers formed a formation and began to shoot at the defenders on the head of the city. And the two infantry phalanxes also rushed towards the moat with their vans.

"Kill!" For a while, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, straight into the sky, buzzing, thousands of arrows formed a dense arrow rain cloud in the sky, shrouded the city, the arrow rain like flying locusts suddenly shrouded the city, several nervous recruits could not stand this depression, showing their heads, but only revealed a small head, the swishing arrow feathers penetrated from his head, the entire city wall was covered by countless arrow rain, the arrow rain continued to hit the shield array of the shield soldiers on the head of the city, like rain hitting plantains, out of the crackling sound, Soldiers were constantly being shot by arrows, and then when they came down, as soon as a crack appeared in the shield array, more than a dozen arrows would shoot in, taking away several lives.

"Vertical shield...... Vertical shield ......"

"Counter Strike...... Shoot back with arrows...... Hurry up......"

Perhaps out of extreme fear, the defenders began to fight back frantically, and of course, those who were cowardly and fled had become one of the corpses on the ground.

However, it is clear that the defenders did not have the high morale of the Zhao army that attacked the city, nor did they have the same tight and orderly order as the Zhao army. Although the defenders at the head of the city began to counterattack, compared to the huge arrow rain of the Zhao army, the defenders' arrow rain was obviously much thinner, but after all, the defenders stood on a high place, and the range of the arrows was much farther. The defender's arrow rain flew into the air, and it ushered in the second arrow rain of the Zhao army, and the two arrow rains collided together, and countless bows and arrows fell in the air.

At this time, the strength of the Zhao army was revealed, the sharpness of the armor of the Zhao army's envoys was also revealed, and the strength of the Zhao army's soldiers was also revealed. The defenders are not opponents at all, of course, the defenders' 15,000 or so people are guarding on all sides, and there are 8,000 defenders in the west at the moment, which has become about 6,000, but the archers are only less than 3,000, and it is difficult to suppress the Zhao army's more than 5,000 archers and 2,000 crossbowmen.