The study is brightly lit, Gao Qin Zheng and another core figure of the Bohai Society, Lu Sijian, is the nephew of Lu Lingxuan, the famous female prime minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty, who is also in his early fifties this year, with a thin face, a long beard about a foot, and a bit of fairy wind bones.

It is a pity that although the appearance is sanctimonious, but his private life is very absurd, he relied on his huge wealth, and successively married more than 20 wives and concubines, which were placed in more than a dozen other houses in Anyang County and Hejian County.

This time he came to Gonggao County for a while, and he also brought three beloved concubines to accompany him, others were bored, but he lived a very nourishing life.

"Brother Qin thinks that this meeting master can capture Jixian?" Lu Sijian asked with a smile.

"I don't think the defenders are important, Guo Xuan's main force has been annihilated, and the remaining thousands of troops can't hold the city, I think the key is Luo Yi, will he take the first step to occupy Jixian?"

"Will Luo Yi do this?"

"It's hard to say! His son killed Yuan Yi, and the master hated him to the core, and he must know very well in his heart that if he didn't want to be killed, he would definitely strike first, but ......"

Gao Qin smiled and said: "Unless he is not afraid that the lord will hand over his blood letter of allegiance to the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, with his fingerprints on it, and the fingerprints left by the Ministry of War will know the authenticity of a pair, I think Yang Guang will never spare him, so he will definitely delay the decision, then we can seize the opportunity." ”

Lu Sijian smiled, "If I capture Jixian County, I will first choose a good house for myself, and I don't pay attention to anything else, but the house must be large, at least more than fifty acres." ”

"Could it be that my brother wants to marry a bride again?"

"I don't believe that Brother Qin doesn't want to marry two partial concubines."

The two of them immediately laughed tacitly.

At this moment, there was a sound of rapid footsteps outside, and the steward reported urgently, "Master, there is news from the guards that the Sui cavalry has been found outside. There are thousands! ”

Gao Tan stood up in fright, the chessboard fell to the ground with a bang, the chess pieces jumped all over the ground, and he shouted loudly: "How can there be Sui cavalry? ”

Lu Sijian's face turned pale with fright, "Brother Qin, what should I do?" ”

Gao Qin calmed down. Hurriedly ordered: "Just say my order, and order General Tang to immediately lead the army to meet the battle and cover our evacuation!" ”

The steward rushed away, and Gao Tan said to several of his entourage: "You go and inform everyone to get on the boat at the dock, and we will leave by boat!" ”

The manor was in a mess, a thousand guards climbed the wall and fired arrows indiscriminately at the outside in the dark night, and on the dock, more than 50 important members of the Bohai Society did not care about packing up their belongings. After boarding two passenger boats, the water gate opened, and the two boats headed for the creek, one after the other.

The two boats sailed for about 300 steps in the river, and Gao Tan secretly prayed in the boat, hoping that the Sui army would be dragged and let the boats buy time to sail into Zhangshui, as long as they entered Zhangshui, the Sui cavalry would have nothing to do with them.

That's it. The boat suddenly shook violently, and more than 20 people in the boat fell down one after another. The screams rang out, and one of the boatmen shouted, "Sir, there are big trees falling on the river, and the boat cannot pass." ”

Gao Qin was so anxious that he shouted: "Quickly withdraw to the manor!" ”

"There's also a big tree in the back that has fallen!"

Gao Qin's heart seemed to fall into an ice cave, and he knew that they couldn't run away, at this time. There was a stern shout from the shore: "General Zhang has arrived with the army of Hebei Recruitment, the people on the boat listen, raise their hands and surrender to live, if they don't surrender, we will set fire to the ship!" ”

Gao Qin hesitated. Is it really Jang Hyun who is here? At this moment, the rest of the members of the Bohai Society had already shouted, "Don't set fire, let's surrender!" Surrender! ”

Everyone was afraid of death, so they raised their hands and ran out of the cabin, Gao Tan had to sigh, and also raised his hands and followed everyone out.

The ship had docked, and in just a moment, more than 50 members of the Bohai Society were all captured by the Sui cavalry, and Gao Tan knew that the general situation was gone, so he sent people to make the guards surrender and not make useless resistance.

In the lobby of Wangshan Pavilion, more than 50 members of the Bohai Society were lining up to sign the register with their heads down, and the Sui army soldiers were standing all around.

Zhang Xuan stood on a high place, looking coldly at this group of white and fat men, at this time, a soldier brought Gao Qin to Zhang Xuan's side, "Dashuai, this person is the master!" ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at him and said with a smile: "I am Zhang Xuan, I think you should have heard of it too, may I ask your Excellency's name?" ”

Gao Qin smiled bitterly and said, "I am Gao Qin, Brother Gao Hui!" ”

"I've heard that the fourth person in the Bohai Society is disrespectful."

Zhang Xuan said that he was disrespectful, but he didn't mean any respect, his face was full of mocking smiles, "If I guess correctly, these fifty or so people will at least be high-ranking officials above the squire in the future, and there should be Shangshu, Xiangguo and other powerful people, and Mr. Gao should be the prince." ”

"General Zhang handed us over to the faint king, and at least we can be scholars."

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "I don't have the idea of handing you over to the imperial court, I just want to make a deal with Gao Lie." ”

A glimmer of hope suddenly ignited in Gao Qin's heart, "Zhang Dashuai, please say, what kind of deal?" ”

Jang Hyun hasn't figured out what benefits these people can bring him, but he must solve the urgent task at the moment.

"There are three conditions in total, I'll talk about two when I go back, but the first condition, Gao Lie will immediately withdraw from Zhuo County, and Bohai will not be allowed to get involved in Youzhou!"

Gao Tan said for a while: "I don't know if he will agree?" ”

Zhang Xuan sneered, "If he doesn't agree, none of you will survive, so let him be a loner!" ”

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At this time, it is the end of spring and the beginning of summer, it is the time when the vitality is the most, but the sky over Jixian County is a solemn atmosphere, more cold than the cold winter of Sanjiu, when Guo Xuan led the army to the south, Jixian County left 5,000 people to defend the city, commanded by the general Wen Ji, and let the staff Yao Kai assist.

The four gates of Jixian County were closed, the drawbridge was high, and the soldiers defending the city at the head of the city stretched their bows and arrows, looking nervously at the uninvited guests under the city.

Gao Lie's 30,000-strong army has arrived in Jixian County, and the army is stationed in the wilderness about a mile away from Nancheng, although many people think that after Guo Xuan's death, Luo Yi should inherit Youzhou, so that the Bohai Society will control Youzhou through Luo Yi, and even Zhang Xuan thinks so.

But in fact, Gao Lie never thought of handing over Zhuojun to Luo Yi, from the very beginning he wanted to occupy Zhuojun himself, establish the Houqi regime in Zhuojun, and then annex Luo Yi's army step by step, and at the same time open up Liaodong and connect with Goguryeo.

The death of his son Gao Yuanyi only strengthened Gao Lie's determination to eradicate Luo Yi.

"Mu Shuai, you send someone to send a letter to the city, asking them to surrender before noon, otherwise the city will be breached, and none of them will survive!"

Mu Huxin bowed down and agreed, and hurriedly wrote a letter of persuasion and handed it to a cavalryman, who urged the horse to run towards the city, and when he approached the city wall, he opened his bow and set up an arrow, and shot the letter of surrender into the city with an arrow.

A soldier had already picked it up, and hurriedly ran to send it to the main general Wen Ji, Wen Ji is now a Xiongwu general, more than thirty years old, tall and thin, strong in martial arts, calm personality, he is one of the four generals under Guo Xuan, because Lin Feng is dead, Hou Junji went to Taiyuan, Bai Jing served Zhang Xuan, and only Wen Ji was left alone in the four cards.

Wen Ji had already learned the news of Guo Xuan's death from the mouth of the defeated soldiers, on the one hand, he strictly guarded the city, on the other hand, he urgently sent an eagle letter to Luo Yi for help, he didn't know that Luo Yi had taken refuge in the Bohai Society, the governor was killed, naturally the deputy governor was temporarily in charge of Youzhou, waiting for the official decision of the imperial court, this is the normal thinking of ordinary people, Wen Ji is no exception.

Wen Ji took the letter and looked at it, and wanted to surrender by himself, he sneered, how could the dignified Sui general surrender to the remnants of Northern Qi.

At this time, someone shouted: "Mr. Yao is here!" ”

As soon as Wen Ji turned around, he saw Yao Kai walking quickly, he hurriedly stepped forward and handed the letter of persuasion to Yao Kai, "Sir, please look!" ”

Yao Kai was also deeply saddened by Guo Xuan's death, although Guo Xuan was greedy for money and did not evacuate in time to cause the destruction of the whole army, but it was he Yao Kai who went to Duandou Jiande and Gao Shida's lair, and Yao Kai thought that he was also responsible, which made him feel very heavy.

Yao Kai took the letter and looked at it, he pondered for a moment and asked, "General Wen, how many defenders are there in the city?" ”

"Together with the more than 2,000 soldiers who escaped, there are now about 7,000 people."

"How long can 7,000 men defend the city?"

"It's hard to say!"

Yao Kai smiled bitterly and said: "The key is that I don't know the other party's combat effectiveness, but their army is not too much, more than 30,000 people, if the siege weapons are not sharp enough, I estimate that they can hold it for about three days, of course, if the opponent's combat effectiveness is very strong, it will be dangerous." ”

Yao Kai walked to the battlements and looked into the distance, only to see that the enemy army was neat, the helmets were bright, and the murderous spirit was vigorous, but there was no flag, and ordinary people could not see the origin of this army, but it was by no means a bandit, Yao Kai was also surprised in his heart, the Bohai Society actually had an army.

After staring at it for a long time, he turned around and asked, "How much time does it take to get here from Beiping County at the earliest?" ”

"At least two days!"

Yao Kai was also a little embarrassed in his heart, if half a day was removed, then they had to hold on for a day and a half, the premise was that Luo Yi had to come in a hurry, if Luo Yi's departure was delayed, or Luo Yi was intercepted by the enemy, then the matter would be troublesome.

"Sir, what shall we do?" Wen Ji asked again.

Yao Kai sighed, "Let's see if we can recruit people to help defend the city, everyone is united, and maybe we can hold out for a few more days." ”

After a pause, Yao Kai said again: "Actually, what I'm most worried about is that the enemy army is preparing to besiege the city and send reinforcements, they have another ambush, but the target is Vice Marshal Luo, you also know that Deputy Marshal Luo's army is not much, only 15,000 people, he can't pour his troops in, then the reinforcements are only more than 10,000, even if the other party has no ambush, but these more than 30,000 people are enough." ”

Wen Ji thought for a while and said, "I'm thinking about whether I can ask Zhang Xuan for help!" ”

"I'm afraid it's unrealistic for Zhang Xuan to come to help, first, it's far away, and secondly, there are three bandits Dou Jiande, Gao Shida and Lu Mingyue blocking the road, and if there are more reinforcements, his Qingzhou is not guaranteed, and if there are fewer reinforcements, it will be useless."

"Are we helpless then?"

Yao Kai shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Now there is only one choice, encourage the people to defend the city together, everyone works together, how long can they hold it, if they can't hold it, they will break through, I think Bohai will use Jixian County as the capital, and generally will not slaughter the city, so the general should not have any psychological burden." ”

Wen Ji nodded silently, and that was the only way

(To be continued.) )