Tuoba Shi Yijian looked at the generals beside him and said softly: "Pass the order, and the whole army will enter the city immediately." After saying that, he rode his horse into Shengle City.

Under the leadership of Tuoba Shi Yijian, tens of thousands of soldiers rode into the city and immediately began to build fortifications, preparing to defend Shengle City.

Shengle City is the capital of the country, but also the first city of the country, as a grassland nomad, when the country has just established the country, it is to live by the water and grass, there is no city at all, later, due to the gradual expansion of power, it began to settle down the life, thus, under the personal command of Tuoba Shi Yikey, as the capital of the country, Shengle City, was born.

As the capital of the country, Shengle City was built in full consideration of the enemy's attack, for this reason, the quality of the construction is absolutely first-class, the city is not only tall and wide, and every other distance is set up an arrow tower, in the four corners of the city, it is set up four heavy arrow towers, in addition, inside and outside the city gate, respectively, set up the urn city, in this way, if the enemy wants to attack Shengle City, it is necessary to break through three city gates in a row, so that it will inevitably be hit hard by the defenders.

At this time, in addition to the more than 20,000 main soldiers and horses brought back by Tuoba Shi Yikey, there were tens of thousands of reserve troops and many civilians in Shengle City.

With so many soldiers and horses defending the impregnable Shengle City, Tuoba Shi Yijian believed that Shengle City would definitely be able to hold it, and besides, the scattered army and the soldiers and horses in the north would gather sooner or later, so that they could form a counter-encirclement against the besieging soldiers and horses of the Jin army.

After Tuoba Shi Yijian and his soldiers and horses entered Shengle City, nearly 100,000 soldiers of Wang Meng's army. and the 20,000 cavalry under the command of Zhang Hao arrived at Shengle City one after another, and immediately surrounded Shengle City.

Wang Meng led his subordinates to circle along the four corners of Shengle City, and came to the conclusion that Shengle City was extremely difficult to break, and felt that the attack on Shengle City could not be rushed for a while, and preparations for a long-term fierce battle should be made.

"General, General Xie has led the main army and has arrived near Shengle City." Just when Wang Meng was thinking about how to attack Shengle City, the news of the arrival of Xie Ai's army came.

Wang Meng heard this. I was very happy. and immediately led his generals to run towards the location of the Xie Ai legion.

In the southwest of Shengle City, Xie Ai's army had just begun to set up camp, and Wang Meng led his subordinates to rush over. and planned to discuss with Xie Ai how to attack Shengle City.

"General Xie's movements are really fast. Arrived at Shengle City so quickly. Wang Meng met Xie Ai. First of all, a compliment.

Xie Ai smiled and said softly: "It's still a step slower than General Wang, who has been observing outside Shengle City for a long time. There can be a way to break the city. ”

Wang Meng thought for a while, and replied truthfully: "Shengle City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the defense of the Daiguo army is also extremely tight, if it is attacked, the loss will be very large, it is better to besiege for a long time and cut off the food supply of the Daiguo army, in this way, the Daiguo army will inevitably be difficult to support, and it can be won without occupying it." After speaking, he looked at Xie Ai.

When Xie Ai heard this, he nodded, and said: "General Wang's strategy can be described as extremely safe, but our army has nearly 200,000 horses, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is huge, and if there is a long-term confrontation, it will also be extremely unfavorable to our army." ”

"It is also said that if there is a long-term confrontation, the grain and grass consumed by our army is also very huge, but no matter what, our army must not attack by force, otherwise, the losses will be too great, and our army will not be able to bear such huge losses." Wang Meng said softly.

Xie Ai thought for a moment and said softly: "General Wang, now that Tuoba Shi Yijian is at the end of the road, if our army is persuaded to surrender, I don't know what the result will be?" After speaking, he looked at Wang Meng.

"It's not impossible to persuade us to surrender, but I am worried that Tuoba Shi Yijian will surrender in the name of surrender, and if Tuoba Shi Yijian surrenders by fraud, the danger to our army in the future will definitely not be small, besides, the army of Daiguo has been annihilated by our army by tens of thousands, and has a deep grudge with our army, so it is not so easy to submit to our army." Wang Meng expressed his inner worries.

Xie Ai pondered carefully for a moment, and said: "We can let Tuoba Shi Yijian personally go out of the city to surrender, and let him follow our army to attack Yan State, so that Tuoba Shi Yijian is always under the control of our army, and he can't play any tricks." ”

"Haha! With such harsh conditions, I'm afraid that Tuoba Shi Yijian will not agree! Wang Meng said confidently.

Xie Ai smiled and said softly: "What General Wang said is that the possibility of Tuoba Shi Yijian agreeing to the conditions is very small, but after he does not agree, our army will attack again, it will be to salute first and then soldiers, and when the time comes, Tuoba Shi Yijian will not be able to blame us, besides, our army can take advantage of the opportunity of the envoys to enter Shengle City to spy on the military situation, which will be conducive to our army's next siege operations." ”

"Killing two birds with one stone, General Xie is clever! Ha ha! When Wang Meng heard this, he opened his mouth and praised it.

At this point, Wang Meng was in favor of Xie Ai's action, but after Xie Ai's efforts to persuade Tuoba Shi Yijian to surrender, the soldiers under his command would not wait on the outskirts of Shengle City, but immediately built large siege equipment and were ready to storm Shengle City at any time.

Seeing that Wang Meng supported his persuasion action, Xie Ai was relieved and boldly started the action, he first wrote a letter to persuade Tuoba Shi Yijian to surrender, and immediately sent a confidant lieutenant and five or six soldiers to Shengle City to persuade Tuoba Shi Yijian to surrender.

At the same time, this group of people has another important task, that is, to spy on the military intelligence in Shengle City, in order to prepare for the next attack on Shengle City.

In order to leave enough time for the siege army to prepare for battle, Xie Ai did not say it very dead in the letter, but left enough bargaining room for Tuoba Shi Yijian, so as to start Duolun negotiations, which can not only greatly spy on the situation of Shengle City, but also win enough time for the main army outside the city to build heavy siege equipment.

At this moment, the main force of the Jin army besieged the city on all sides, and the Tuoba Shi Yijian and the subordinate generals stationed in the city were very nervous, although the city hoarded enough grain and grass, but it could not withstand the consumption for many years, for this reason, Tuoba Shi Yijian also had a plan to make concessions, however, Tuoba Shi Yijian did not want to be completely obedient, but wanted to become a nominally obedient to the Great Jin, but the de facto independent force.

"Your Majesty, the envoy of the Jin army is outside the south gate, asking to enter the city, whether to let it go." At this moment, the news came that the Jin army had sent an envoy to arrive.

When Tuoba Shi Yijian heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Let them enter the city immediately, go quickly." ”

Soon, the order of Tuoba Shi Yijian reached the south gate, and the soldiers defending the city immediately lowered a drawbridge from the side of the city gate tower, and strictly ordered only three people to enter the city.

When the Jin envoy heard this, he led two guards to board the suspension bridge.

As the drawbridge rose higher and higher, the three envoys of the Jin army soon arrived at the city wall, and began to observe the military deployment of the army on behalf of the country on the city wall, so that after returning to the camp, they would make a detailed report to Xie Ai.

"Jin envoy, please come with me." An acting military captain, leading the three envoys of the Jin army, slowly walked towards the city wall, and went directly to the palace of Tuoba Shiyijian.

Along the way, the three Jin envoys constantly observed the situation inside Shengle City, especially the deployment of the army of the Dai Guo and the preparation of various materials to defend the city.

After entering the royal palace of Shengle City, the two guards were stopped outside the main hall, and one of the Jin envoys was allowed to go directly to the main hall to meet Tuoba Shi Yijian.

Tuoba Shi Yijian proclaimed himself acting king, and when the Jin army envoy saw Tuoba Shi Yijian, he naturally had to salute first, and then directly handed over Xie Ai's handwritten letter to Tuoba Shi Yijian.

After reading Xie Ai's handwritten letter, Tuoba Shi Yijian couldn't help frowning, Xie Ai's conditions were really difficult for him to accept, as an ambitious acting monarch, he couldn't stand such slave treatment, let alone accept such constraints.

However, from Xie Ai's words, Tuoba Shi Yijian found a glimmer of hope, and bargained with the Jin army envoy, seeing that the Jin army envoy could not call the shots, Tuoba Shi Yijian wrote a personal letter, expressing his bottom line, and asked the Jin army envoy to return to the Jin army camp with this letter and hand it over to Xie Ai, the chief general of the Jin army.

In this way, Xie Ai and Tuoba Shi Yijian discussed back and forth for five or six days, and in these five or six days, Xie Ai's army and Wang Meng's army built a large number of siege equipment, and prepared a large number of materials that can be used for siege, among them, just like thunderbolt cars, there are more than 2,000 vehicles, ladders, shields, rushing cars, stones, gunpowder blocks and other materials are countless.

At this point, Wang Meng and Xie Ai felt that it was time for a showdown with Tuoba Shiyikey, so they immediately ordered all the soldiers and horses under their command to force in the direction of Shengle City, and immediately prepared to attack the city.

At the same time, in Shengle City, the envoy of the Jin army also wanted to make an ultimatum to Tuoba Shi Yijian, as long as Tuoba Shi Yijian did not immediately agree to all the demands of the Jin army and lead his subordinates to go out of the city and surrender, he would immediately launch an attack on Shengle City.

Tuoba Shi Yijian felt a little confused by Xie Ai's sudden toughness, and it wasn't until the Jin army envoy left Shengle City that he realized that he might have been fooled, and he was furious about it.

"Your Majesty, it's not good, the main force of the Jin army is gathering under the city, and it looks like it's going to attack the city!" A junior colonel rushed into the palace and reported loudly.

Tuoba Shi Yijian was shocked when he heard this, and at this point, he was completely sure that he had fallen for Xie Ai's trick.

"All the soldiers, follow this king to the city." Tuoba Shi Yijian was furious, and immediately led his generals to run in the direction of the south gate, where the terrain was open and was the main direction of attack of the Jin army.

Soon, Tuoba Shiyigan and his generals arrived at the gate tower of the south gate of Shengle City, and saw that the outside of the city was densely packed with Jin soldiers who were preparing to attack the city, Tuoba Shiyiqian and all the generals under his command were surprised. (To be continued......)