Although the Huihui cannon is powerful, it is not easy to break the wall of Xiangyang Jiancheng, but Li Bao has besieged Xiangyang City for half a month, and before the Huihui cannon is delivered, he has sent people to closely inspect Xiangyang on all sides.

The careful Weiyuan army sergeant found a crack in the city wall east of Xiangyang, and Li Bao assumed that five return cannons were placed on the east city wall.

After most of the day's attack, a large hole immediately collapsed in the eastern city wall, and the prepared Weiyuan Army sergeants immediately assumed a pontoon bridge at the gap, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion used small catapults to throw large crockpot mines into the gap.

The effect of the crockpot thunder was obvious, and Zhao Deyan's subordinates saw the mysterious weapons of the Weiyuan Army, and the lethality was so amazing that they were already frightened and fled.

Therefore, the Weiyuan army that was able to enter the city strengthened the position at the gap, and then the continuous Weiyuan army entered Xiangyang City, and the devastated Xiangyang people in the city discovered the nature of Zhao Deyan's subordinates who were afraid of the soft and afraid of the hard, so they immediately assisted the Weiyuan army that entered the city to hunt down and kill those scum. And some people organized a thief team to catch the lone soldiers and bandits.

After most of the night's cleanup, Zhao De's troops have basically been purged. It was the elated Zhou Rui who came to Li Bao's big tent with his personal guards.

Li Baozheng and Zhang Zhifang were playing chess in the tent, and Li Bao, as a low-handed Go player, found it very easy to play chess with his generals, so he immediately became obsessed with this fun, and whenever he had time, he would find the generals to play chess.

Therefore, almost all the commanders of the Weizhou Army were ravaged/ravaged under Li Bao's men, and Zhang Zhifang and Zhang Qingping, who were born in famous families, cannot be said to have superb chess skills, but they are not bad at Li Bao's level, as if they were tired of playing with the generals, he also liked to play chess with Zhang Zhifang and his son.

Today, the army broke the city wall of Xiangyang during the day, and after seeing that the Weiyuan army was going well everywhere, Li Bao pulled Zhang Zhifang to play Go. In just two hours, they played the third game.

Zhang Zhifang has a very close relationship with Li Bao, because he doesn't want other generals to deliberately lose to Li Bao or don't know Go, he and Li Bao are equal in chess because he also likes to compete with Li Bao in chess.

Although he is not young, his mind is still similar to that of a child in chess, and this game of chess is basically in the final stage. On the chess surface, Li Bao had the advantage, but as soon as Zhou Rui came to the big tent, Zhang Zhifang immediately flicked the chessboard with his hand and said loudly: "Commander Zhou is here, the king should hurry up and deal with official business." ”

Li Bao was thinking hard but found that Zhang Zhifang had messed up the chessboard, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed, pointed at Zhang Zhifang, and then put down his finger and smiled bitterly at Zhang Zhifang: "Okay, you Zhang June, you dare to play tricks with me." Okay, I'll make a note of your loss today. ”

"What is the king talking about, this game of chess is still early, the chess pieces in a certain hand are not less than yours, besides, our official duties are important, and we can't play things to lose our minds, right?"

This old guy still beat him up, Li Bao muttered in his heart, but he was still good-tempered, so he said to Zhang Zhifang: "Forget it this time, don't take it as an example." ”

Zhang Zhifang immediately laughed, Zhou Rui was full of smiles, but he tried not to laugh. Li Bao said to him: "Okay, just laugh if you want to, don't be tense." ”

Zhou Rui got permission, he immediately laughed, and then said to Li Bao: "Don't be familiar with Zhang Jun, you are all 'chess masters' and can't be angry for a game of chess, why don't you let someone accompany the king to relieve his anger in the next game?" ”

Li Bao heard Zhou Rui say that he and Zhang Zhifang were chess masters, and he couldn't help laughing. "Okay, you don't flatter you anymore, with your chess skills, as long as you can play Go, you are a master in your eyes. By the way, is the city cleared? ”

Zhou Rui listened to Li Bao's complaints, he immediately grinned and smirked, and when Li Bao asked about the situation in the city, he immediately put away his smile and said in a deep voice: "So that the king can rest assured, today's subordinates are very brave, most of Xiangyang City has been controlled by us, and Zhao Deyan's family has also been caught and imprisoned in the prison in the city." I came here to invite the king to stay in the city, and if the city is more comfortable, I don't want to sleep in the field barracks anymore. ”

After hearing Zhou Rui's report, Li Bao was overjoyed. However, this entry into the city is of great significance, Li Bao relied on the army in his hands to finally grasp the city he wanted as the capital, because Li Bao decided not to enter the city at night, and waited until tomorrow after dawn to hold the entrance ceremony.

After making up his mind, Li Bao said to Zhang Zhifang and Zhou Rui: "It's not too early, I won't enter the city tonight, Zhang Junenvoy and Commander Zhou will make you two enter the city first." Settle down all the affairs in the city first, and settle the household registration, people, and merchants and liquor stores in the city, etc., we come to recover Xiangyang on behalf of Wang Shi, because the two of you must take the arrest of the rebels and the hidden Zhao Deyan as the top priority. After dawn tomorrow, we will hold a ceremony to enter the city, so that we can enter this city justifiably. ”

When Zhou Rui heard Li Bao say this, he had some objections in his heart, but Li Bao gave an order, and he had no choice but to obey it. Zhang Zhifang also felt that it was a little strange for Li Bao to do this, but as subordinates, it was not easy for them to question the lord's decision. After he also saluted with Zhou Rui, he took his leave of the camp.

After the two of them got out of the big tent, they immediately got on the horse and galloped to Xiangyang City, walking on the road, both of them muttered a little in their hearts, but there were many guards around them, and it was inconvenient to talk, so after they arrived in the city, they went directly to the Jiedu Embassy.

After entering the mansion, the two came to the lobby of the mansion, and after dispersing the guards and servants, they sat down together to talk by candlelight.

Zhou Rui is a junior relative to Zhang Zhifang, but the king's performance tonight is really strange, so he said the doubts in his heart, "Don't Zhang Junenvoys think that the king is a little strange today?" ”

"Well, I also have this question, in the past, after we laid the city, we all entered the city immediately, but today the king wants to do some kind of entry ceremony, which is a bit abnormal."

"Does the king have any ideas, otherwise why do you need to do any entrance ceremony in a big way, by the way, how to carry out the entrance ceremony?" After Zhou Ruifang listened to Li Bao's instructions, he just agreed, but he really hadn't experienced the entrance ceremony, so he threw the question to Zhang Zhifang.

Zhang Zhifang was also at a loss, how to do this ceremony to enter the city, he has no experience, could it be like that time to coax Chai Cun, get all the officials at all levels in Xiangyang City to welcome the king at the city gate?

Zhang Zhifang thought for a while and felt that it was about the same. So he told Zhou Rui his thoughts.

When Zhou Rui heard this, he immediately slapped his thigh, "Well, it's still the king, he can think of such a majestic thing, and a certain rough person can't think of it, hehe." ”

Zhang Zhifang heard Zhou Rui say this, and he felt that it should be like this, after all, Li Bao is not very old, and he wants to be admired by all the people, and the feeling of standing above everyone is really great. Since the king likes it, then what else can be said to get it up.

After figuring it out, the simple-minded two high-ranking generals immediately took the matter of entering the city tomorrow as a top priority.

Since it was a top priority, it was not something that the two foreign generals could do, so they ordered their guards to go to the city immediately to bring the officials at all levels of the Jiedu Envoy and the Xiangzhou Mansion to the Jiedu Envoy Mansion.

After the order was issued, the entire Xiangyang City immediately boiled in the scattered Xiangyang City. After a long day of fatigue and mixed surprises, the frightened people of Xiangyang were resting at home, but they did not want to be called open in the middle of the night by the officials of the state government holding lanterns and torches.

Followed by a large number of fierce-looking but rigorous soldiers, they pointed to the people and explained that they were going to get up on the fifth watch, and they also had to buy some colored silk to attend the entrance ceremony of His Royal Highness King Qin.

The GIs were afraid that the people would not remember, so they would often ask the silent people to repeat it three or four times before they could leave with peace of mind, and then continue to photograph the door of the next house.

After the soldiers left, the frightened people came back to their senses, got up on the fifth watch, and now it is not the third watch, and they still have to make colored silk, and the rich people are not worried, but the poor people are in trouble, where do they go to get colored silk?

The huge city of Xiangyang was noisy in the late spring night, all kinds of people were communicating and complaining, and more people were tossed and complained, but they still did what they were told to do.

If King Li Bao, who is now asleep, knew that one of his inadvertent thoughts had caused such a big consequence, he would definitely regret that he should not be so willful.