Chen Lin couldn't stop laughing when he received Yang Kai's letter asking for surrender, Chen Lin thought to himself that it was all at this time, Yang Kai was still thinking about surrendering, he really didn't know the situation. Jia Xu took the letter and looked at it, lowered his head and thought for a while, but he did not despise Yang Kai as much as Chen Lin, but said to Chen Lin: "Lord, I think that I should accept Yang Dazhan's invitation to surrender." ”

Chen Lin sighed and said, "This, Wen He, you tried to get rid of Wen Yang before, why did you change your hexagram now?" Jia Xu smiled and said, "Things are trending, and the situation is changing because of things." Now the situation is very different, the foundation of the Wenyang clan Nanzheng has been lost, and Yang Dazhan's eldest son was killed by Zhang Xiu. Yang Dazhan can be said to be at the end of the road, if the lord gives him a way to live at this time, Wen Yang must be grateful to the lord, and then the lord can contain Wu Yang. When Zhang Xiu decided that Yang Kai had rebelled, he not only cut Yang Song, but also ordered the arrest of many of Yang Kai's cronies and protégés. And Jia Xu suggested that Chen Lin accept Yang Kai just to show the scholars in Hanzhong, people like Yang Kai Chen Lin can forgive, what are you worried about.

Chen Lin said again: "I also said earlier that Wen Yang is capricious and has no loyalty, how can such people be used. Jia Xu replied: "The lord doesn't have to worry, the eldest son of Yang Dazhan is dead, and now there is only the second son left, the lord can keep Yang Dazhan's second son aside, and Yang Dazhan will not dare to have two hearts." ”

Chen Lin saw that Jia Xu was talking about the Tao, so he said: "It's okay, then order someone to reply, and say that Yang Dazhan will support Yang Dazhan in Baozhong County for a few days." Wenhe, do you think our army should also take this Chenggu? "Today's Chenggu City has been taken away by Zhang Xiu with 10,000 troops, and the remaining more than 10,000 are also worried and scared all day long. Zhang Xiu's army is obviously divided into two types, one is an army composed of the members of the Five Doumi Sect, and their loyalty and combat power are good, but unfortunately there are not many of them. The other is the young Zhuang recruited by Zhang Xiu to consolidate Hanzhong, many of whom were county soldiers at that time. Originally, Zhang Xiu still wanted to slowly render the people of Hanzhong with teachings, but he didn't expect Chen Lin to come so quickly, Zhang Xiu didn't even have a local scholar, where could he have time to organize the army.

Now many scholars who are attached to Zhang Xiu have begun to contact Chen Lin, and of course, some scholars do not know what to do and stubbornly resist. So whether it is Nanzheng or other county towns, there are obviously two attitudes, Chen Lin is constantly secretly communicating with the wavering scholars among them, and co-opting them for their own use.

After many days of armistice, Chen Lin suddenly ordered Gao Shun and Yang Ren to lead their troops to attack Chenggu City. As soon as the shouts of killing sounded, the hearts of the scholars in the city were groaning. Among them, there are even more people who have been ordered to cooperate, and they are even more nervous and hesitant, after all, there are still 10,000 troops in the city, I am afraid that Chen Lin will not succeed so easily. That's what these scholars thought, but when Yang Ren led his troops to appear in the city, many scholars made up their minds, and if they didn't take action, they were afraid that they wouldn't even have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. So several like-minded scholars secretly joined forces and colluded to devise how to help Chen Lin break the city.

The order Gao Shun got was not a strong attack, but oppression, after all, Chen Lin was now only 3,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 cavalry under the city, if he attacked strongly, he was afraid of a lot of casualties. So Gao Shun just shouted and demonstrated after the drum in the city, but it was best to dare to go out of the city to fight, even if the rice thief dared not go out of the city, he could be scared.

Because Chen Lin sent Chen Ze to be responsible for robbing and killing Zhang Xiu's scouts, he was afraid that Zhang Xiu would not know about Chenggu's siege for a while. On the second day of the siege, there were nearly 1,000 people in the city with smiling faces, all dressed as family members, and said to the generals defending the city: "Master, the city is fortunate, and several big families have come together to send some wine and meat to the master's army, and I hope you don't want to dislike it." ”

At the beginning, the guard was quite guarded, and when he saw a team of nearly a thousand people coming, he heard that he was a reward, and he knew these big families, so he ordered someone to come forward to check to see if there was really wine and meat. The inspecting congregation's eyes lit up when they saw the wine and meat, and they inspected it carefully. How many things must be carried by a thousand people, and the guard had to ask the scholars to trouble the family to help send them to the city wall, and he was too lazy to mention them. All the scholars, laughing in their hearts, knew that this would be the case. So the crowd watched as the soldiers of the city guard moved the fence and went straight to the gates of the city wall.

At this moment, the city shouted: "Master be careful, there is fraud." But it was one or two families in the city who were willing to shout for Zhang Xiu's minions. Although these warriors who wanted to sacrifice the city were cautious, they still let these people find clues, and heard that they wanted to reward the defenders for no reason today, so they hurriedly rushed out to call the police.

The scholars who led the team secretly said that the disaster had happened, so they hurriedly shouted: "Do it" Suddenly, the scholars who were originally gentle and bowed their heads broke out, drew their knives one after another, and rushed to the city gate. The generals defending the city also scolded and ordered their men and horses to block the attack. Chaos began at the gates, and the sound of killing reached the outside of the city.

When Gao Shun heard this, he saw that many defenders on the city wall turned around and went down the city wall, and Gao Shun thought that there must be changes in the city. Drawing his sword, he shouted and ordered: "Sima Yang, lead your troops to attack the left side of the city gate, trap the camp to attack the right side, and beat the drum." "Gao Shun and the other armies came by their real names and were only in the city gate less than three arrows, so they attacked Yang Ren on the left and on the right. When the defenders of the city heard Gao Shun's drums, they were even more panicked, there was a rebellion inside, and they attacked the city outside, and they were attacked by the enemy for a while.

The trapped camp has advanced and retreated, and there are suddenly fewer defenders in the city, only one charge, there are trapped camps to climb the top of the city wall, and the trapped camp on the wall is not something that ordinary defenders can resist, often three defenders are still defeated against the last one trapped camp. When Gao Shun gave the order, he moved his heart again, and ordered Yang Ren to attack the side with more people, and the side of the camp to attack was relatively small. So the camp went up to the city wall in a moment, so that Chen Lin, who was in the camp, was surprised when he rushed out to see after hearing the shouts in front of him, and exclaimed: "This is the city wall?" ”

Jia Xu was more rational and said: "I'm afraid that there was an accident in the city, and Gao Duwei saw the opportunity to attack the city before he had time to report." Chen Lin also thought that Jia Xu misunderstood that he was blaming Gao Shun for acting without authorization, so he also said: "If you are outside, how can you report everything in time, you must know that the fighter plane is fleeting, Gao Shun is good." Sure enough, as soon as Chen Lin finished speaking, a sergeant sent back by Gao Shun came to report, saying that Gao Shun had found that there was a change in the city, and he ordered the siege of the city without consulting Chen Lin, hoping that Chen Lin would forgive his sins.

The scholars in the city were struggling to support, and a thousand families were about to be wiped out, and the scholars who were anxious for their lives suddenly heard countless shouts of killing from the outside in, spreading closer and closer, and from time to time they saw a sergeant dressed as a Han army rushing down from the city wall. I was overjoyed, I didn't expect that this Taishou army would be able to cooperate with the siege so quickly, and attack the city wall so quickly. When there were 500 traps on the city wall, Gao Shun also began to climb the city, and as soon as he got on the city wall, he saw the situation in the city, and quickly led the 500 trap camps on the city to capture the city wall and go to the city gate, as long as the city gate was opened, everything was over. But in any offensive and defensive battle, after the city gate is broken, the defenders will be in chaos, morale has been lost, and it will naturally be over.

At this time, no less than 4,000 people gathered at the city gate, attacking the Shi clan, Gao Shun didn't care, he killed the army, and the Shi clan was also demoralized, Gao Shun and the Shi clan gathered a total of less than 1,000 people at this time, and they actually killed the defenders and retreated again and again, and they couldn't help but climb the wall to make up for the trap camp. The guard's cronies were in a hurry, and said to the guard: "Master, withdraw, the officers and soldiers are too fierce to resist." ”

Half an hour later, the guard general led more than 1,000 people to flee from Chenggu City in a panic, and Chen Lin entered Chenggu County. As soon as they arrived at the city gate, all the scholars knelt down to meet them, and Chen Lin knew that it was these scholars who temporarily rebelled, so Gao Shun seized the opportunity to attack. So he hurriedly comforted the corporals, and at this time, these scholars did not forget to invite merit, and hurriedly said: "Lord Taishou, there are still many stubborn people in the city, and it is these people who report it, otherwise the grass people will open the city gate more smoothly and welcome the Taishou righteous master." Chen Lin was also moved when he heard the complaint, based on Hanzhong, it is necessary to personally use some of the scholars and remove some of the scholars, so that Chen Lin's foreign forces can have a gap to enter Hanzhong County. So Chen Lin immediately ordered Huang Yan to take three hundred guards, with these scholars as the head, to raid the house, confiscate the property of those scholars, and confiscate it, which happened to be empty in Hanzhong County.

As soon as Chenggu broke, Nan Zheng saw that the situation in Hanzhong was becoming clearer and clearer, and Chen Lin couldn't stop feeling good. Hurriedly ordered Yan Pu, who ordered Shangyong, to rush over and start the government affairs of the two new counties, and even appointed a young man from Anyang who had been messing with Chen Lin all day long as the county lieutenant of Xixian County, Chen Lin thought to himself, the county order was used to win over the local scholars, but the county lieutenant in charge of the army must be his own cronies.

After capturing the two counties, Chen Lin had 4,000 prisoners of war in his army, and then Jia Xu asked: "Lord, I don't know what to do with these 4,000 prisoners?" Yang Ren next to him happened to hear it, and hurriedly knelt down: "Lord Taishou, I hope Lord Taishou is extrajudicial and gracious, these are the people of Hanzhong County, I hope that Lord will be lightly punished." At this time, many scholars also happened to be there, and Chen Lin didn't know why Jia Xu would ask such a question in such a situation. Could it be that he wanted Chen Lin to buy people's hearts, so Chen Lin said: "Well, the people of Hanzhong are often bewitched and rebel against the imperial court. These prisoners of war were ordered to be enslaved for one year, and the official road between Shangyong and Nanzheng was renovated, and after a year, they regained their freedom and served the people well. ”

Chen Lin's move can be described as killing two birds with one stone, not only to gain the hearts of the people, but also to renovate the official road, the passage between Shangyong and Nanzheng for hundreds of miles after a year, greatly strengthening Hanzhong's control over the three counties of Shangyong. And because Chen Lin couldn't stop recruiting displaced people, some small villages began to appear on both sides of this long official road, which made the business exchanges between the two places closer.