Under the city, Huangfu Wujin was dressed in armor and appeared a hundred steps away under more than a dozen personal guards, although he had entered the range of crossbow arrows, but none of the thousands of defenders in the city dared to release arrows, and everyone knew in their hearts that the consequence of this arrow would be the slaughter of the whole city.

"Long history is here!"

Someone shouted, everyone flashed to both sides, He Ruomei came over worriedly, and under the city, Huangfu Wujin watched the ranks of the guards open and close, knowing that He Ruomei had arrived.

Although he was close to the city wall, he was not worried about cold arrows, seventy paces away, crossbow arrows could not penetrate his armor, besides, with his skills, ordinary crossbow arrows did not want to get close, and more importantly, the enemy's momentum had been lost, so there was nothing to fear.

He Ruomei approached the city wall, and saw thousands of troops and horses in the distance, waving banners and murderous spirits, while his own army was panicked and morale was low, he sighed secretly and arched his hand: "His Royal Highness King Liang, the lower official He Ruomei is polite!" ”

Huangfu Wujin urged the horse to step forward slowly, stood at fifty paces, and smiled: "He Changshi, I heard Yue Zu talk about you. ”

Huangfu Wujin's father-in-law grandfather Su Xun was the chief examiner of He Ruomei that year, after He Ruomei was admitted to the Jinshi, he came to thank him, this is Su Xun's protégé, He Ruomei was ashamed for a while, he smiled bitterly and said: "His Royal Highness King Liang's army is coming, I shouldn't stop it behind closed doors, but the sword and gun have no eyes, if the army enters the city, Hefei County will be trampled into powder, so I have to close the door and not surrender, please ask His Royal Highness King Liang to lead the army back to Jiangning, I should disband the white-clothed army in the city, and go to Jiangning to ask for guilt." ”

Huangfu Wujin listened to his meaning to let himself go back, he couldn't help but shake his head, he was really a scholar, his 100,000 army arrived, and he couldn't even capture a small Hefei county, so why did he return with a feather, where is the morale? Where's the face?

He couldn't help but say coldly: "He Changshi, do you think I can't capture your small county town?" I tell you, I don't need a ladder, within half an hour, I will blow up the city wall and collapse, the city gate will be opened, I just don't want to hurt the people of Chuzhou and these old and weak troops in white, so I can persuade you to open the city and surrender, you don't know what to do. ”

"The lower officials don't dare, the lower officials recruit private troops for Uncle Shen, the national law does not tolerate it, it is a guilty body, the lower officials will be punished in any way, but please make an oath to the sky here, promise not to hurt the white-clothed soldiers, I will open the door and surrender, let it be killed, and let it be disposed of by His Highness."

Huangfu Wujin shook his head and said in a deep voice: "He Changshi, I didn't come to you to bargain with you, I gave you conditions, first, immediately open the city and surrender, I will not commit any crimes against the civilians in the city, and I will bring the white-clothed army back to Jianghuai and return to my hometown; Second, He Changshi is a talented person, if He Changshi is willing, he can be the Yin of Jiangning Mansion, just these two items, after a quarter of an hour, please Changshi answer me, whether it is war or peace, it is up to He Changshi to decide! ”

After speaking, he turned his horse's head and returned to the military formation, Zhang Yannian stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, I suggest that it is best to bombard the city with artillery to boost the morale of the army!" ”

"Wait a minute!"

Huangfu Wujin did not agree with Zhang Yannian's idea of bombarding the city, he wanted to build Chuzhou into his base camp, not only to control the army, but also to let the local officials of Chuzhou support him, relying on artillery in exchange for fear, not the support of the heart, only with gentleness and respect can win the hearts of the civil officials in Chuzhou, a small Hefei County, the entire Chuzhou county is staring at it, staring at how to deal with He Ruomei, he must use both hard and soft means to convince the public.

Time passed little by little, and when it was almost a quarter of an hour, a soldier suddenly shouted, "Your Highness, the white flag has been erected at the head of the city!" ”

I saw a white flag erected on the head of the city, and then the city gate slowly opened, He Ruomei led a group of civil officials out, he held the official seal in his hand, followed by the officers in white, while walking, put down the weapons in their hands, and then, the brigade of white-clothed soldiers poured out and put down their weapons one after another.

Huangfu Wujin squinted his eyes and smiled, he found a detail, that is, He Ruomei's clothes, if he gave up his official position and left him at his disposal, then he should wear a white dress, but he was wearing an official uniform, that is, he accepted the conditions and surrendered, it seems that Jiangning Mansion Yin still has a great temptation for him.

The person who knows the current affairs is Junjie, he Huangfu Wujin likes this kind of person who knows the current affairs, He Ruomei is indeed capable, and the person who can quietly recruit 80,000 troops in a few years is definitely a talent.

．．．．．．．．． The 40,000 white-clothed troops who went west stopped in a col sixty miles east of Huoshan County, they were in trouble, and the spies found that there were 60,000 soldiers blocking the way thirty miles ahead, and they had repeatedly discussed this before, whether to take the Huoshan County Road or to take the Kaihua County Road, and finally felt that it was safer to take the Huoshan County Road, but they did not expect that they were still intercepted, that is, their whereabouts were completely in the hands of the Chuzhou Army.

Sima Fang had to order to stop advancing, the whole army was stationed on the spot, Sima Fang was very irritable, in fact, what he was worried about was not that the Chuzhou army blocked the way, he was more worried that the road in Jingzhou was also blocked by the Luojing army, as early as ten days ago, he got the news that Li Yan, the general of Luojing Wuwei, led an army of 100,000 to the south, marched quickly, and had already taken Jiangling County, and now ten days have passed, Baling County and Changsha County should also be captured, so, can Jingzhou still pass?

He didn't tell the white army this information, he was afraid of causing chaos, and wanted to take one step at a time, but now not only Jingzhou is difficult to go, but even Lujiang County seems to be unable to go, making Sima Fang at a loss.

He was pacing back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back, and at this time, a soldier reported at the door of the tent, "General Sima, General Wu has an invitation, saying that there is something important to discuss with the general." ”

Sima Fang's spirits perked up, he remembered that Wu Jun wanted to speak again in the morning, maybe he could go south, he had a way to bypass the interception, at that time, the scouts had not yet found out the news, Sima Fang did not take it to heart, but now it seems that going south is the only feasible way.

He immediately went out of the camp and turned over his horse, with more than a dozen personal soldiers, rode to the camp tent of the Wu army, Wu Jun is the deputy general, according to the principle of army marching, must echo from the end to the end, the main general is in front, the deputy general is in the middle, and the general is at the end, and this army of 40,000 people has no generals, so the camp tent of the Wu army is a little behind the middle, about two miles away from Sima Fang's camp tent.

After a while, Sima Fang rushed to Wu Jun's big tent, only to see that Wu Jun was already waiting for him at the door, so Lao Yuan apologized and smiled: "I made a sand table here temporarily, and it is inconvenient to carry it, so I have to invite General Sima here, please forgive me for being rude!" ”

"Might as well be! Might as well! ”

For Sima Fang, as long as he can find a way out, he will not take Wu Jun's rudeness to heart, and he attaches great importance to Wu Jun's opinions, which are very thorough and sharp, and often talk about the crux of the problem.

He rolled over and dismounted, threw the reins to his soldiers, and "wait at the door!" ”

He smiled and bowed back, and then impatiently followed Wu Jun into the camp tent, Wu Jun casually put down the tent curtain and whispered: "It's a matter of confidentiality, and it can't be revealed." ”

Sima Fang saw that there was a sand table in the tent, he stepped forward to take a look, sure enough, it was the sand table map of the southern counties, there was a red line marking the marching route, he was immediately attracted, the red line was marked very clearly and accurately, bypassing Changsha County to the north, taking the Yiling Road into Shuzhong, he pointed to the red line and walked forward slowly, stopped by the Yangtze River, he found a question, how to cross the Yangtze River? If the Jingzhou naval army was accepted by Huang Fuheng's army, they would not have been able to cross the Yangtze River at all.

"General Wu, how did the Yangtze River pass?"

Sima Fang asked, but did not hear an answer, and couldn't help but raise his head strangely, and found that Wu Jun was not in the big tent.

"General Wu!"

He shouted again, and as soon as the words fell, he saw the inner tent 'Bang Bang! There was a sound of a teacup breaking, and before he could react, he saw hundreds of swords and axes rushing out of the tents on both sides, holding bright sharp axes in their hands.

Sima Fang was taken aback, he instinctively drew the sword, but touched the air, then remembered that the sword was on the horse, only to hear a few screams, Sima Fang couldn't dodge, was chopped to death by the axe, at the same time, more than a dozen soldiers resting in the small tent next door also died with a cup of poisoned tea.

Wu Jun walked out of the inner tent and glanced coldly at Sima Fang, who was lying in a pool of blood, and he gave the soldiers a look, and the soldiers immediately removed the corpses, and the blood stains were cleaned.

Only then did Wu Jun order: "Order all the biases to see me in the future!" ”

．．．．．．．． An hour later, 40,000 white-clothed troops formally surrendered to the Chuzhou Mansion soldiers, so far, the 80,000 private troops raised by Shen Guo's uncle in Chuzhou all surrendered to the Chuzhou Army, in mid-April, the 80,000 white-clothed troops were reorganized in Jiangning Mansion, reduced to an army of 40,000 people, Huangfu Wujin ordered the generals Wu Jun and Liang Ying, each led 20,000 troops to deploy in Zhongli County (today's Bengbu) and Shouchun County, and Jiangdu County together, forming a thousand miles of defense along the Huai River.

On April 15, Huangfu Wujin, who had been fighting abroad for nearly a month, returned to Jiangning City and was able to return to his home.

As soon as I entered the mansion, I saw that the mansion was busy, there was a long table in the courtyard, the table was full of dates, cakes and eggs, and more than 20 people were busy packing small bags, everyone seemed to be too busy to raise their heads, but it was not because of his arrival, everyone didn't seem to notice him coming back.

At this time, I saw Ah Luo running out of the inner courtyard and instructed his subordinates: "The second lady said that another 500 shares should be distributed to Qi Ruifu Commercial Bank." ”

"Arrow, what's wrong?"

Ah Luo saw Huangfu Wujin standing at the gate of the mansion, she was stunned at first, and suddenly jumped up with joy, "The master is back!" ”

She turned around and ran towards the inner courtyard, shouting as she ran, "Princess, Madam, the lord is back!" ”

The subordinates threw down their work one after another and stepped forward to congratulate: "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the lord for his happy son!" ”

Huangfu Wujin took a step back in shock, "Jing Niang..... Raw? ”

"Gave birth, gave birth to a big fat boy!" ――

(To be continued)