Sun Xuanya was placed under house arrest in the Sui army barracks, covering three large tents, surrounded by a thick camp fence, guarded by thirty soldiers in front and behind.

Zhang Xuan treated him well, with preferential accommodation and accommodation, and let his former personal maid serve him, after all, he was a bandit leader, and there was still a Linyi county town that had not been taken, and Zhang Xuan still needed his cooperation.

Although the treatment was good, Sun Xuanya was extremely nervous, and he spent three days in fear, he was extremely worried about his fate, and he lost a lot of weight in just three days.

Sun Xuanya sat at the small table and drank a sip of wine, her heart was so depressed that she was going crazy, the maid was carefully pouring wine for him, Sun Xuanya suddenly grabbed the maid's hair and roughly pressed her head under herself

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the tent, and it seemed that a lot of people came, only to see Zhang Xuan's figure appear in front of his tent, so frightened that Sun Xuanya hurriedly let go of the maid and shouted in a low voice, "Get out!" ”

The maid with messy hair ran out of the tent, Zhang Xuan stood at the door of the tent and watched this scene quietly, he could see that Sun Xuanya's survival ** in his heart was haggard like a different person in just a few days.

"How is King Sun doing?" Jang Hyun walked into the camp tent and asked, followed by several personal soldiers.

Zhang Xuan's title made Sun Xuanya feel very harsh, he snorted heavily, turned his head over, and ignored Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan didn't care, and sat down opposite Sun Xuanya, "I'll still call you General Sun!" So you don't have to be embarrassed, I'm here to make a deal with you, would you like to listen? ”

"What deal?" Sun Xuanya asked in a hoarse voice.

"Regarding Linyi County, of course I can also take Linyi County, I believe you also know that Meng Rang is already the lord of Linyi County, and he did not kill your wife and children for the time being in order to entrap the soldiers, but he announced to the soldiers that you are dead. Even if I take you to the city to show the public, he will say that you are a fake, and you are not really useful, but I still want to give you a chance. ”

Sun Xuanya's face turned pale, he knew that Zhang Xuan was telling the truth, only he was dead. Meng Rangcai succeeded in seizing power, and the little pride in his heart disappeared without a trace, and he lowered his head and said nothing.

Zhang Xuan glanced at him, and said slowly: "But you should also have a way, I hope to capture Linyi County at the lowest cost." ”

"And what do I get?" Sun Xuanya asked in a trembling voice.

"You have only two choices, first, I will keep you a whole corpse and give you a good coffin; Second, if you don't want to die at my hands. I can send you to Jiangdu, but I don't know what the court will do with you, but I can attach one more condition to you, I will spare your son's life, you choose! ”

Sun Xuanya almost fainted, he would die if he was sent to the court, then he still couldn't live.

"But I didn't kill civilians like Zhang Jincheng did!" Sun Xuanya said in a low voice. There was a clear pleading in his tone.

"It's just that these civilians are useful to you, and you need them to grow food. It's not your condition. ”

"I still have gold, a few thousand taels of gold, which I have hidden, and I am willing to give it to the general in exchange for my life." Sun Xuanya said eagerly.

Zhang Xuan stared at him coldly for a moment and said, "The concession I can make has already been said just now, and I don't want to say it a second time." But if I were you, I would choose the second one, and maybe there would be a chance of survival. ”

"What do you mean by that, General?" Sun Xuanya's voice trembled even more.

"I'm not rare with your thousands of taels of gold, but maybe someone in the court wants it, you should understand who I'm talking about!"

Sun Xuanya's dead fish-like eyes burst out with a glimmer of life. He suddenly thought of Yu Shiji, who had secretly sent someone to entrust Yu Shiji's relationship.

Zhang Xuan immediately said: "But if you want me to send you to the imperial court, you must cooperate with me to take Linyi County, otherwise, I will send your head directly to the Son of Heaven for merit." ”

"Then we'll make up our minds!"

Sun Xuanya had a trace of confidence, and he immediately said: "The general can go to Chen Haishi!" ”

Zhang Xuan only felt that this name was very familiar, he groaned slightly, and immediately remembered, "Is it the original Fei County guard, the person I put back?" ”

"That's it! I can't trust anyone else, but I can trust him. ”

"What if he already swears allegiance to Meng Rang?"

"Others may be, but he won't, he has followed me for many years, and I can give him my life."

After a pause, Sun Xuanya said hatefully: "And I also hope that the general will destroy Meng Rang!" ”

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Fei County and Linyi County are only fifty miles apart, and the army can be arrived in one day's march, and taking Fei County is equivalent to opening the door of Linyi County.

As Zhang Xuan expected, after Sun Xuanya's entire army in Fei County was destroyed, Meng Rang immediately launched a coup d'état in Linyi County, and the six generals who commanded the army in Linyi County, two of the generals supported him, and the other two remained neutral, under Meng Rang's series of soft and hard methods, he finally took control of Linyi County, and the 30,000 defenders also obeyed his command.

Although Meng Rang initially wrote to Zhang Xuan, saying that he was willing to give up Linyi County and withdraw his troops to Liang County, there was no Eastern Expedition of the Wagang Army at that time, but after the Eastern Expedition of the Wagang Army was strongly defeated by Zhang Xutuo's army, Meng Rang also realized that it was impossible for him to withdraw his troops to the Central Plains, and even Pengcheng County was difficult to go.

In fact, Meng Rang found that he had no way out except to defend Linyi County.

It was for this reason that Meng Rang no longer fulfilled his promise and began to actively deploy defenses in Linyi County, hoping that Zhang Xuan would not be able to attack Linyi County for a long time, and finally had to withdraw his troops and retreat to Beihai County.

At dusk, in the tens of thousands of wheat fields around Linyi County, tens of thousands of soldiers and people were desperately trying to harvest the summer grain, the wheat was just ripe, they had to grab the grain back to the city before the Sui army attacked Linyi County, and a cart full of wheat ears lined up and drove towards the city.

Meng Rang stood at the head of the city, looking at the busy soldiers and civilians in the wheat fields a few miles away, and he was quite proud in his heart, at least these soldiers and civilians did not take the opportunity to escape after leaving the city, which was a good sign that the soldiers and civilians of Linyi recognized their rule.

Five days have passed, and the Sui army has never come to attack Linyi County, which makes Meng Rang's heart have a trace of doubt, he and Zhang Xuan have fought in Gaomi County, and it is very clear that Zhang Xuan is good at using tricks, will Zhang Xuan repeat the trick and let his elite soldiers mix into Linyi County?

Meng Rang looked at the soldiers and civilians in the wheat field worriedly, there were tens of thousands of people outside rushing to harvest grain, it was really easy to get in, the only way was to control every household, but he had just taken over Linyi, and even the army was not completely under his control, how could he control the people?

But if he didn't collect the grain outside the city, his army couldn't support it for even half a month, and most of the grain was transported to Fei County by Sun Xuanya.

After weighing it again, he could only take this risk, after all, food is the basis for maintaining the existence of the army.

In order to prevent this loophole from being seized by the Sui army, Meng Rang specially sent hundreds of spies to patrol the Linyi County thirty miles away, and the main Sui army appeared, and they would immediately release pigeon letters to notify the county seat.

At that time, he would urgently order the soldiers and civilians to return to the city, but if a small Sui army took the opportunity to infiltrate the city, he would have no choice.

Meng Rang sighed distraughtly, turned around and walked towards the city, at the city gate, a team of grain trucks was entering the city, each with a small wooden card in his hand, only with this small wooden card can enter the city.

This is the only way Meng Rang can think of, to identify himself, but

Meng Rang also knew that there was a big loophole in it, and he had no choice but to hope that Zhang Xuan did not send scout soldiers into the city, so he secretly shook his head and returned to the official office, that is, Sun Xuanya's Langya Palace.

As it grew dark, the soldiers and civilians who had been harvesting wheat outside the city began to return to the city one after another, and each gate was crowded with soldiers and ordinary people who were about to enter the city, each carrying a bag of grain, which was the reward for their labor.

At the gate of the east city, thousands of people quarreled outside the city, because the soldiers had to verify the wooden cards one by one, the progress of entering the city was relatively slow, so that the people outside the city were anxious and extremely dissatisfied.

"Next batch!"

Twenty soldiers guarding the city were inspected, but in fact, it was not slow, but everyone was in a hurry to go home and waited impatiently.

Twenty men were brought in, all men in their forties and fifties, each carrying a bag of grain and holding a wooden sign in his hand, and the soldiers who were defending the city were impatient, and when they saw that they had a wooden card in their hand, they waved their hand and let them in.

"Next batch!" The soldier shouted.

The soldiers defending the city could not have imagined that there were two Sui army scouts among the twenty people who entered the city just now, one of them was Shen Guang, and the other was Sun Ying, who followed him.

"Big brother, where are we going now?" Sun Ying asked in a low voice.

Shen Guang smiled slightly, "Just follow me!" ”

This time, Zhang Xuan took advantage of the opportunity of Meng Rang to send people out of the city to grab the grain, and ordered Shen Guang to lead two hundred scouts into Linyi County.

The two soon came to a large mansion that occupied a huge area, and Shen Guang smiled at Sun Ying: "This is our temporary stay, the mansion of the Langya Wang family. (To be continued.) )