In order to quell the rebellion in Shuixi as soon as possible, and by the way, to add chaos to chaos outside Shuixi, after Li Shan pretended to be a pretend, he very boldly accepted the lion's big mouth from the east and offered twenty cities in Shuibei to forgive his sins. Since www.biquge.info sooner or later he had to give it up, he naturally didn't have to bear any responsibility, so after making the agreement, Li Shan made a lot of promises in exchange for the city guards to surrender the city quickly.

For example, in front of the city of Mo Fiber, he sent people into the city to persuade him to surrender, promising to guard the Zhang family, and after surrendering to the Li family, he could still deal with all matters in the city, not only the rights were not affected in the slightest, but even the next five years can be exempted from the Mo fiber tax, which is not a small amount, although the Zhang family needs time to consider, but Li Shan firmly believes that they will definitely agree, since ancient times, there is no such generous persuasion conditions.

But he didn't want to think about this, so he dragged on for three days, just when Li Shan's patience was about to run out, in the early morning of the fourth day, the Zhang family actually sent a death row prisoner to reply, if he wanted to fight, he would fight, and Moxian City would never surrender. After learning that the envoy of the Yang family was also sent back, Li Shan had no scruples and made up his mind to attack forcibly, Yang Xiaotian had no objection to this.

After two hours, the two coalition forces formed more than 30 phalanxes outside the city and put on a frontal siege posture.

Mo Xian Zhang's family advocates like the sea, it is the rough man who pleaded the two of them to worship at the birthday banquet that day, at this moment he is standing upright on the city tower, looking at the army like an ant colony outside the city, he swallowed his saliva with difficulty, looked back at Jiang Yun with a relaxed face beside him, leaned his head and said softly: "Brother, do you think we can really hold it?" Our old Zhang family's private army, plus the men and horses you brought, add up to 8,000, and there are enough 120,000 troops on the opposite side. Let's listen to what you said, it's quite reliable, but it's still weak. ”

"Brother is not too worried." Jiang Yun said with a smile: "Mo Fiber City is not big, and even if the enemy has a million troops, it is difficult to deploy it. Eight thousand defenders were enough to hold out for three days. Besides, our task is only to resist the first wave of offsets, as long as we block it, even if my brother surrenders in the future, Xun'er and I will never complain to you. ”

"Well, then we'll go crazy with you." Zhang Ruhai's face suddenly changed when he said this. "Look, they're going to attack the city!"

Suddenly a war drum sounded under the city tower, more than 20,000 people from the five phalanxes belonging to the Li family took a firm step, carrying twenty ladders and slowly walked towards the city gate, and when they were close to the area covered by the rain of arrows, they suddenly increased their speed, and in the same shout, the vanguard of the Li family officially attacked the city. After the ladder was firmly raised to the top of the city, a huge rushing cart pushed by more than fifty soldiers appeared at the gate of the city.

"Shoot arrows at the rushing car, don't let them push the door!" The wooden stake with a diameter of about five feet and a thick iron sheet on its head made Zhang Ruhai's heart beat wildly. After receiving the news that the two families sent troops, he began to prepare to strengthen the city defense, the old city gate has already been replaced, but whether it can withstand such a huge impact, Zhang Ruhai has no bottom in his heart.

At his shouting, the defenders immediately shifted their targets, and most of the longbows in their hands beckoned to the rushing car. In the blink of an eye, the stake at the front of the cart was shot into a hedgehog, and a dozen or so cart soldiers fell down screaming. After a short time, about twenty soldiers on both sides suddenly untied a round wooden shield from behind them, and the shield surface was also covered with smooth iron sheets. They invariably raised their shields in front of them, and when they looked at the city, the rushing car seemed to hold up an umbrella, and the bows and arrows that shot away really became raindrops, accompanied by a "pop" sound, and immediately bounced off after touching, and fell to the ground in a sparse manner.

"Boom!" A loud bang exploded in their ears, and the new thick city gate successfully withstood the first wave of impact, and everyone seemed to feel the whole city tremble heavily, which was really amazing.

Zhang Ruhai immediately called a soldier beside him and ordered: "Send another 500 people to hold the city gate for me!" ”

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen enemy troops were already vaguely climbing to the top of the city, and Zhang Ruhai shouted loudly again: "Smash the stone down for us!" ”

The fierce battle for the castle tower began, and the huge stone was carried up the city wall by two or three soldiers, and with a strong push, the stone fell straight down the ladder, like a deadly brush, and everywhere it passed, wails were frequent, and the enemy troops who were trying to climb on the ladder could not avoid it, and after being hit by the knot, they did not even hit the ground, and then they died with a whimper.

When the blood stains on the ladder were not dry, the follow-up troops immediately went up and climbed again with black pressed figures.

Zhang Ruhai looked at it, and his heart was certain. Sure enough, as Jiang Yun said, because the city is not big, twenty ladders on a city wall is already the limit, although the ladders are large, but they can only be climbed by dozens of people at the same time, even if the four gates are attacked at the same time, there are only three or four thousand people who have the opportunity to threaten the city defense. In addition, I am well prepared, although I dare not say three days, but I support it for one or two days, I don't think it is a big problem.

Of course, there will be losses, if the coalition forces are entangled and attack in turn, this loss will even make Zhang Ruhai feel so distressed that he can't bear it, but that's just for the past. Thinking of the one million taels of silver brought by Jiang Yun in the treasury in the city, Zhang Ruhai's heart was full of energy! Even if all the 3,000 private soldiers were killed, the bereavement would only be a few tens of thousands of taels of silver, and if the expenses were removed from the mouths of the family elders, he would personally get at least 600,000 taels.

Even if the Zhang family is gone, this huge amount of money is enough for him to eat and drink without worry, live a worry-free life, and accept dozens of concubines, but I am afraid that he will not be able to let the family reopen and scatter? But the premise is that the city must be defended, otherwise the chickens and eggs will be beaten, and there will be no joy. Thinking of this, Zhang Ruhai's heart to defend the city was even more determined.

This siege lasted for more than two hours, and seeing that it was almost evening, Li Shan coughed a few times, waved his hand and said, "Mingjin withdraws his troops." ”

After returning to the camp, Li Shan sat quietly, closed his eyes and was silent, unable to tell whether he was happy or angry, only a few unbearable coughs would break the tranquility in the big tent.

Li Mu was full of worries, stayed with him for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say, "Dad, it's time for dinner." ”

Li Shan coughed a few more times, shook his head, and looked at the curtain with blank eyes. "The resistance is more fierce than expected, this bone is not easy to gnaw."

"You don't have to worry." Li Mu persuaded: "A small city, can block one day, can it be blocked for two days, but not three days?" Sooner or later, Moxian City is also ours. ”

"You're right, Moxian City will fall sooner or later." Li Shan retracted his gaze and looked at Li Mu again, a trace of imperceptible essence flashed in his eyes, and he asked lightly: "This result will definitely happen, I know, you know, how can that Zhang Ruhai not know?" All afternoon today, my father didn't think about whether he could win Moxian, but was wondering why the Zhang family would choose a path of defeat. Mu'er, if you only have thousands of people in your hands, facing an army of more than 100,000, what will you choose? ”

Li Mu was silent for a long time before he said, "Surrender." ”

Li Shan's palm pressed on the table, and his fingers gently tapped the table, as if he was asking Li Mu, and said as if he was talking to himself: "That's right, in the current situation, surrender is a person's instinct, and it is the only choice that can be made." Even if Zhang Ruhai was afraid that surrender would affect his rights as a patriarch, in the face of a certain defeat, the elders of the Zhang family would not let him come and ruin the family inheritance. Resistance is by no means a decision made by Zhang Ruhai alone, but a choice made by the entire Zhang family... Why? Why did they make this choice? ”

"Dad, why do you want so much! If they surrender, we will accept it, and if they do not surrender, we will fight until they surrender. The territory of Yizhou has always been respected by the strong, and it doesn't matter what they think, as long as we... ”

Li Mu was halfway through speaking, Li Shan glanced at him, interrupted him and continued: "Mu'er, do you think this is an innocuous trivial matter? Perhaps! But the Li family has been able to get to where it is today, and it has come out step by step carefully. Bagatelle? Small things can have very serious consequences! If I can't figure out this problem for a day, my father will not know the taste of food and sleep for a day. It's a small thing, but it's so weird, so weird that it makes my father very uneasy. ”

Li Mu was already smart, but due to the limitations of his age and experience, his vision was not as broad as Li Shan's, but after being mentioned by the latter, he immediately reacted, and said with a shocked face: "Dad, you say... Mo Fiber Zhang family, will it be that Yang Xiaotian has already taken refuge? ”

Li Shan was slightly stunned. "Go on."

"Dad, you are right, everything should have a reason to talk about, this is the basis of the law of the development of things, we look at the strange because of the different positions. You might as well change to the position of the Zhang family and think about it. If they don't surrender, unless the whole clan goes crazy together, they must rely on something, thinking that it is enough to fight against my Li family. Of the three major families in Yibei, only the Yang and Lu families can compete with my Li family, and now the Lu family itself is difficult to protect, so there is only one Yang family left. ”

"No, it doesn't make sense!" Li Shan shook his head and said, "If they take refuge in the Yang family, wouldn't it be okay to directly open the city and surrender to the Yang family?" My two families already had an agreement, could it be that my Li family could continue to do something to them? Why did Zhang Ruhai sacrifice his own soldiers to fight with me for more than two hours? ”

Saying this, Li Mu also felt that his ideas were a little unreliable, and couldn't help laughing: "Xu is a child thinks badly, the Zhang family really shouldn't be so stupid." It's good to attract us to attack the city, do you still want the Yang family to have a chance to sneak attack us. ”

This was a self-deprecating joke, but when he said it inadvertently, the whole big tent suddenly fell silent again, and the father and son looked at each other, their eyes full of horror. (To be continued.) )