The sudden pacification of the Xiaoguo army made all the princes secretly surprised. For ordinary people, this Xiaoguo army is expanding its territory, expanding the territory of Dayan, expanding the territory of the Han people, and ruthlessly cleaning up these alien races who did all kinds of evil in Dayan in the past.

However, in the eyes of the various princes, this is not so simple. The Liaodong Kingdom and the Sumo Yan Tribes were taken, which meant that the northern part of the Xiaoguo Army had been stabilized. In other words, from now on, the Xiaoguo army does not have to care about the threat behind Zhao and the threat from the flank, and can invest all its energy and most of its troops in the Central Plains.

What does this mean? This means that the Xiaoguo Army can no longer focus on the rear flank in the military aspect, but instead turn to the southern region. So, no one could have predicted what changes such a powerful prince's sudden intervention in the Central Plains dispute would bring to the Central Plains dispute, but everyone had to start paying attention to the possibility of this Xiaoguo army going south.

If you want to say who is the most nervous now, it is undoubtedly the Tang Army and the Xuzhou Army. Among the princes of the world, the Tang army and the Xuzhou army were the weakest. Of course, there is also a Sanyang Army. However, the Sanyang Army is not worried now. If the Xiaoguo army went south, the first to bear the brunt would naturally be the Tang Army, the Shanyang Army and the Xuzhou Army. So, it's impossible not to worry about either.

Outside the Tiger Prison Pass, Murong Cheng, who had been attacking for more than ten days and could not get down, was also angry and blue after learning the news. Naturally, he didn't want the Xiaoguo Army to become stronger and stronger, although he also hoped that the Xiaoguo Army could solve the Tatar tribes. However, he didn't want it to be now, what he hoped most was after he took Situ Lei and sat on the throne of Luoyang City. Because the Xiaoguo army has now stabilized the problems in their rear, but he is still helpless with Situ Lei. That means that in the future, the Xiaoguo army is very likely to go south directly and participate in the battle for the Central Plains. This is extremely unfavorable for the current Qi army.

"Strengthen the attack, don't stop, take turns to attack, even if you finish fighting all the people, you must also break through the city. Drop all the coalition forces into it, and attack the city with our army. Don't pay attention to their crooked words, this king's army is desperately attacking the city, why can't they? Immediately, Murong Chengcheng stepped up his efforts to attack the city.

It doesn't matter if Murong Cheng increases the siege of the city, but the Tang Army, the Shanyang Army and the Xuzhou Army are also incorporated into the army by Murong Cheng at this moment, combined together, and some of you and I will attack the city. Now, in the eyes of the princes of the three parties, they are all equal. At this moment, Murong Cheng didn't care if he needed to win them over, and directly sent them all out, without discrimination.

At this time, the generals of the three armies are all big-headed. In the past, it was possible to procrastinate for various reasons, or to fail to work. However, now this is obviously not going to work, Murong Cheng was stimulated by the Xiaoguo Army, and he was determined to attack the Tiger Prison Pass. Therefore, the military law for the three parties is the same, acting according to military orders. Therefore, in just five days after getting the information of the Xiaoguo Army, only half of the soldiers and horses of the three princes were gone. In this regard, the three main generals also looked bitter and were speechless.

No matter how much they fought with each other before, they would not let their soldiers and horses end up like this. But now, this Murong Cheng obviously didn't care about anything. It's just that the siege is the main thing, and the rest are secondary.

For the news of the Xiaoguo Army, the three main generals all know. Like Murong Cheng, they are very concerned about this. The only difference is that Tang Bin is naturally secretly in his heart, and his face is solemn, while Meng Zhao and Li Yu are extremely dignified.

"How? If this continues, sooner or later our coalition will be finished! "After sunset, the siege ends. This Tiger Prison Pass really deserves to be the first pass in the east of Luoyang, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. For most of the month, it was still as stable as a mountain. Meng Zhao couldn't hold his breath and finally asked the other two. The 30,000 army he brought with him now has just over 10,000. This is his right soldier, that is, this is all his command. Now that he has lost so much, it is enough for him to feel distressed.

Tang Bin smiled secretly in his heart, and said coldly: "What else can I do, do we have other options?" Major General, it is said that your Xuzhou army should have a life contract with the King of Qi, how can you be allowed to fight to the death here? That doesn't seem reasonable. Why don't the major generals go and discuss with the King of Qi to reduce our siege efforts. After all, we don't have many troops in the first place, and we can't afford such losses. ”

Li Yu was secretly angry in his heart, speaking of which, the original secret agreement with Murong Cheng was diluted a lot because of some rumors, which made Tang Jun and Shanyang Jun a lot more careful. For this reason, the Tang army in the north of Xuzhou also held a series of talks with the Shanyang army in Yanzhou City, and the Xuzhou army naturally did not know what to discuss. However, after the two sides immediately launched a larger-scale trade, so that some armor and equipment and grain and grass were in the trade sequence, the Xuzhou army knew that the Tang army and the Shanyang army began to regard his Xuzhou army as the first major enemy in front of them.

"My Xuzhou army has a secret agreement with the King of Qi? General Tang, what you said is wrong. You must know that our Xuzhou army and Qi army have been fighting hard for several years in the south of Xuzhou and the north of Yangzhou, and the hatred between each other is as deep as the sea, so there is no secret agreement. However, I heard that the Shanyang Army and the King of Qi were discussing something. In this matter, General Tang should come out, and it will definitely play a role. ”

Tang Bin smiled and said, "My Shanyang Army has a secret agreement with King Qi?" It's simply not possible. However, the King of Qi is ready to make a secret agreement with the Governor of my family, so that the Governor of my family will be attached to His Royal Highness the King of Qi. It's a pity that His Royal Highness the King of Qi refused to return the place occupied by the Wuwei Army first, so in the end, they broke up unhappily. However, General Meng and I are very strange, since the young general said that your Xuzhou army and His Royal Highness the King of Qi have a deep grudge, why do you go alone and set off first. After entering the land of Yuzhou, not only was he not suppressed by Murong Cheng, but he was also waited by Murong Cheng. To say that you don't have a relationship is a strange thing. ”

Seeing that Li Yu was about to refute, Tang Bin continued: "Okay, no matter what happens to this matter, we don't need to discuss him." After all, the major general has the ability to call the shots for the Xuzhou army, but General Meng and I are not qualified. Therefore, what we say is only the speed of our words. Let's see if the current dilemma can be solved. As General Meng said, if this continues, our coalition will be finished sooner or later. ”

Seeing that Tang Bin suddenly reversed his words, he couldn't help but hate in his heart. Since the other party said this, he naturally couldn't continue to talk about the relationship with King Qi. However, he will not let the other party suppress him.

"General Tang, the losses of your Shanyang Army should be replenished quickly. Not only me, but also the King of Qi found that your 50,000 young men are not ordinary young and strong. I saw that in the very beginning of the battle of attack, your 50,000 Qingzhou took turns to join your team for actual combat. As long as they are incorporated into your army, not to mention 25,000, even 50,000 will be there. ”

Tang Bin said in a deep voice: "I know, because the grain and grass we carried are all gone, so I let these young and strong men join the army, which can also be regarded as a contribution to the siege of the city." It's just that I see that their siege effect is not very great, and staying here consumes too much food. Therefore, for the logistical considerations of His Royal Highness King Qi, I withdrew them to Yanzhou. ”

There are 50,000 Qingzhou people, and after some actual battles, there are still 40,000 left. However, these 40,000 people can be regarded as recruits who have seen blood. It's much better than a simple trained recruit. At the same time, Tang Bin also put some officers among these young and strong, made them officers, commanded and trained them, and evacuated all of them from the land of Huiyanzhou. Of course, as Tang Bin said, it was also to reduce the logistical pressure on King Qi, and he was promised by King Qi.

Hearing Tang Bin say this, Meng Zhao secretly admired, but Li Yu's face turned dark. In addition to the 30,000 soldiers in his Xuzhou army, there were also 50,000 young and strong people, but unfortunately, in addition to being recruited by the king of Qi, half of them were also sent to the siege team as cannon fodder by him. It's just that he didn't expect that the reserve army of the Shanyang Army, which had been preparing to eliminate these tens of thousands of potential threats, had already run away.

"Okay, let's not talk about that for now. General Tang, Major General, do we need to ask the King of Qi for instructions now, and leave us some time to recover. We can't bear to attack the city every day. When the time comes, morale plummets, and if something goes wrong, it will be difficult for you and me to take responsibility. Seeing that Li Yu and Tang Bin were not dealing with each other, Meng Zhao couldn't help but say.

Dao is not Meng Zhao wants the two to live in peace, he can't wait for the two to fight to the death. However, what he needs now is a tripartite alliance to put pressure on the King of Qi and suspend the actions of the coalition forces. After all, we're here to help, not to die.

After the main generals of the three parties all came to Murong Cheng to ask for instructions, Murong Cheng also suddenly realized that the non-stop attack for six consecutive days was not only unbearable for this coalition army, but also his own soldiers. Today, the combined forces of the three parties have a total of 50,000 foot soldiers, and the Qi army is still less than 70,000. 80,000 soldiers were lost successively. And the growth defenders are no better. Although on the defensive, it also paid fifty or sixty thousand dead and wounded.

Seeing this, Murong Cheng stopped the continuous siege and let the soldiers enter a short period of rest.

"Is it really impossible to pass this tiger prison?" Murong Cheng muttered to himself in a muffled voice. You must know that in the place of Tiger Prison, at the beginning, 200,000 troops and nearly 500,000 people were gathered. But now, there are still 120,000 troops left, and more than 300,000 people in Qingzhou. The rest were all dead. If it weren't for the fact that many young people participated in the battle, I was afraid that the besiegers would suffer more casualties. Of course, this is also related to the fact that Situ Lei can strengthen the Tiger Prison Pass.

"Lord Wang, don't worry, our side is attacking, then the defense of Bishui Pass will be much weaker. In addition, we used young men to pretend to be soldiers and came here from outside Bishui Pass, which also reduced the garrison of Bishui Pass a lot. At that time, our army can seek a breakthrough from Bishui Pass. Zhong Yan lowered Murong Chengqing's feelings and persuaded urgently. When, soldiers and soldiers can lose confidence, but as the commander-in-chief, this is not okay.

Murong Cheng understood Zhong Yan's worries and said with a smile: "It's okay, this king is just sighing a little." This Xiaoguo army is a lot of pressure. ”

Zhang Tu said: "Lord Wang, according to our spies, the Xiaoguo Army has no intention of moving south. Moreover, his army of 100,000 and more than 100,000 young men had already entered the Turkic steppe in the north of Bingzhou to attack the Turks, and in the short term, he would not take action against the south. ”

"Moreover, if he acts, the Tang Army, the Shanyang Army and the Xuzhou Army are also his first targets. After all, the prince is a member of the royal family. No matter what the Xiaoguo Army does, it should not be done directly to the prince. Of course, he is also very likely to cooperate with the prince to conquer Situ Lei. However, in the end, he could not obtain much. Therefore, he will not go south lightly. Our top priority now is to take Luoyang as quickly as possible, so that the overall situation has been decided. ”

Murong Cheng said in a deep voice: "As you said, now the Xiaoguo army is going south directly, and it is not the greatest benefit, because the royal status of this king, before this king is completely defeated, it is impossible for this Zhao king Zhao Xun to directly attack this king, so he will first clean up his rear and the Turks." You know, this is the credit of expanding the territory, and if it goes on like this, King Zhao's reputation is much greater than that of my Murong Cheng. Do you know what this means? ”

"At that time, because of the war between Situ Lei and I in the Central Plains, the people were displaced and miserable. You say, 'Do the people of the world support him or do they support me?' Not to mention local officials and scholars. In the mouths of the people, they could not play a role at all. Otherwise, there would have been no uprising of displaced people. ”

Zhang Tu and Zhong Yan both understood that if they really wanted to be as Murong Cheng said, then Zhao Xun replaced him Murong Cheng as a ...... It's not impossible. Of course, the struggle in this is not something that can be explained simply.

"Lord Wang, no matter what, as long as we take Luoyang City first and dispose of Situ Lei, no matter how powerful the Xiaoguo Army is, unless he is directly the same as Situ Lei, otherwise, in the case of being evenly matched, and the prince occupies the name of righteousness, Zhao Xun will not take it lightly against us. Of course, after the prince takes power, he must also implement a series of measures such as tax reduction and exemption to win the hearts of the people in the world. The gentry of the big clans who are dissatisfied because of the new policy of the Xiaoguo Army will naturally stand on our side. When the time comes, His Royal Highness King Qi will sooner or later defeat the Xiaoguo Army. Lord Wang, you can't lose confidence because of the momentary victory of the Xiaoguo Army and the temporary hindrance of ours. Zhong Yan said in a loud voice.

Murong Cheng laughed and said, "Losing confidence? How can it be. This king sighed at the advantage of the Xiaoguo army, you can rest assured, it will be sooner or later to break through Luoyang City. What about the Xiaoguo army, sooner or later they will surrender to the king's command. ”