In this competition, no matter who wins or loses, Baili Wuji will appoint Liu Jiye as the defense envoy of Daizhou in front of the soldiers, so that the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty will have something to look forward to, so that they will not die for Liu Min.

Ding Sijin and Liu Jiye were fighting in the arena, and they naturally didn't know that Baili Wuji had already set the result for this competition.

The two of them competed from wrestling, bow and arrow, and mounted archery to the blade, Ding Sijin won the bow and arrow, and Liu Jiye won the wrestling and mounted archery, two to two, Ding Sijin and Liu Jiye were not convinced, and told Baili Wuji to ask Baili Wuji to choose another one and compare again.

Baili Wuji didn't want to look at it anymore, and said: "Two, there is no need to compare, wouldn't it be better to keep the momentum and go into battle to kill the enemy in the future?" Liu Jiye stepped forward to listen to the seal. ”

Liu Jiye was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down.

Baili Wuji said: "Ren Yang Ye is the defense envoy of Daizhou, and from now on, he will be responsible for containing and reorganizing all the Northern Han surrendered troops." ”

In one sentence, Liu Jiye heard three meanings, one is that the emperor wants to restore his surname, presumably to draw a clear line with Liu Min himself, the second is that he was appointed as the defense envoy of Daizhou, and the third is that his current responsibility is only to contain and organize the troops of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Liu Jiye was a little disappointed, but he didn't make an inch, and he didn't dare to ask too much, Liu Jiye thanked him and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to request." ”

"Speak."

"The minister has been cared for by the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty for many years, and now the minister is attached to the Ming State, begging His Majesty not to send his ministers to use force against the Northern Han Dynasty."

Baili Wuji laughed and said, "Yang Ye, do you think that I need your help to attack the Northern Han with the strength of the Ming army?" You can rest assured. I will let you stay in the north of Daizhou and reorganize the Northern Han army. ”

Yang Ye's face turned red, and he was a little embarrassed and said, "Your Majesty Xie is considerate of the minister." ”

In fact, Baili Wuji misunderstood. Yang Yezhi is not disloyal, but he is not loyal to Liu Min of the Northern Han Dynasty, because Linzhou is too small to let Yang Ye make contributions, so he left Linzhou in the year of the weak crown and went to the Northern Han Dynasty. It is not enough to provide Yang Ye with a sufficient stage to display his talents, although Yang Ye has the heart to leave and defect to Zhou Guo in the past few years. But he didn't want to turn his back on Liu Min, and now the Ming Kingdom came to attack, and he became a prisoner, and took advantage of the situation to surrender to the Ming Kingdom. It can be regarded as a beginning and an end.

But Yang Ye was pressed by Baili Wuji to a position that was neither up nor down. This generation of state defense envoys has a lot of official positions, and Yang Ye is also satisfied, but the task is really cold enough, just imagine that Yang Ye himself is a general, and then every day to contain and persuade the Northern Han Dynasty to capture soldiers, which makes Yang Ye feel very embarrassed on his face.

But the intention of Baili Wuji's move is very simple, no matter whether this Yang Ye is his Yang Ye or not, Baili Wuji will help him to the position of Yang Ye. Such a well-known general in the Northern Han Dynasty could help Baili Wuji quickly settle the heart of the Northern Han Dynasty. The main thing is: With Yang Ye's in-law relationship, recovering Fuzhou and folding his family in the future will get twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, Baili Wuji didn't want to care whether Yang Ye was happy or not, the matter had come to this point, and Yang Ye couldn't be allowed not to agree.

Subsequently, Baili Wuji ordered Ding Sijing to lead the Fourth Army with artillery to assist the musketeers to attack Daizhou.

Daizhou is not large, but in Liang and Tang, it has been harassed and attacked by the Khitans for many years, so the fortifications are very strong.

Twelve thousand musketeers had been besieging for three days, and there was no hope of capturing Daizhou City.

In fact, this is also the reason why Liu Min of the Northern Han Dynasty was able to resist the attack of the Zhou State with a population of less than 200,000 in just 12 states, not only can he resist, but he can also send troops to harass the neighboring states and counties of the Zhou State from time to time.

Although there were also reasons for the support of the Liao State before, the Northern Han did have a geographical advantage.

However, because Yanmen Pass was already in the hands of the Ming army, there was no defensible location in the north of Daizhou, so the Ming army surrounded Daizhou City.

At this time, Liu Min had 10,000 infantry and 15,000 cavalry in Taiyuan Mansion, and there were no other reinforcements to send.

The 25,000 troops in Taiyuan Mansion are already Liu Min's guards, and they want to be used in case of emergency, so Liu Min is willing to send reinforcements to Daizhou, so he sent someone to Daizhou to reward the defenders, and crowned Zhang Yuanhui as a servant, but there was no reinforcement.

The commander of the Ma Bujun guarding Daizhou made Zhang Yuanhui know that the reinforcements were extinct, and this Mao's empty rank was useless, so he quietly sent someone to ask the commander of the Ming army to negotiate.

At this time, the intention of the negotiation was self-evident, and after hearing the news for hundreds of miles, in order to better persuade Zhang Yuanhui to surrender, he personally took Yang Ye south.

The next day, Baili Wuji and Yang Ye met with Zhang Yuanhui outside Daizhou City.

When Zhang Yuanhui learned from Yang Ye's mouth that the person in front of him was actually the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, he immediately knelt down and asked to surrender.

Without saying a word, he recruited a general of the Northern Han Dynasty, and at the same time, he naturally knew that the Northern Han Dynasty had been destroyed, Zhang Yuanhui and Yang Ye were already three percent of the Northern Han Dynasty's military strength, and now Liu Chengjun's 20,000 cavalry had also been defeated by the Ming army, and there were not many troops in Taiyuan Mansion, and then Zhang Yuanhui confirmed the conjecture of Baili Wuji, Taiyuan Mansion only had 25,000 troops.

After Baili Wuji named Zhang Yuanhui as the Yin of Taiyuan Prefecture, he personally led the Fourth Army south to attack Xinzhou.

Two days later, the Ming army arrived in Xinzhou, Xinzhou Thorn History has already heard the wind and fled, along the way, the Ming army deeply felt the enthusiasm of the people of the Northern Han Dynasty, and also felt what is called the pot pulp, Baili Wuji was also infected by this atmosphere, and strictly ordered the Ming army not to have the slightest violation of the people.

In another two days, Baili Wuji led the Ming army directly to Taiyuan Mansion.

The Northern Han army had already taken refuge in the city early, refusing to show its head, and Baili Wuji looked at the towering city wall and shook his head with a wry smile.

If you really want to attack hard, how many people will the Ming army have to lose, you can only wait for the artillery to come, maybe the deterrence of the artillery can force the defenders of Taiyuan Mansion to surrender. Direct artillery, if you want to break through the Taiyuan city wall, it is a dream, if you are lucky, you can dodge and break through the city gate is a great luck, if the real 25,000 Northern Han army desperately resisted, the Ming army wanted to take Taiyuan City, without the corpses of tens of thousands of soldiers, it was impossible to enter Taiyuan City.

Baili Wuji absolutely does not believe that the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty will fight to the death, in other words, it is the Zhou State, Baili Wuji may believe it, but Liu Min of the Northern Han Dynasty is completely incomparable with Guo Wei.

Before the artillery came, the city of Taiyuan had already begun to be chaotic, first the soldiers began to rob the people and merchants, Liu Min did not dare to offend this group of Qiu Ba at this time, he could only open one eye and close one eye, as if he did not see and hear.

Three days later, the artillery of the Ming army arrived, and dozens of artillery pieces fired at Taiyuan Mansion four miles outside the city, which was a kind of power that the soldiers of the Northern Han Army had never felt.

As a result, the soldiers of the Northern Han Army quit and asked to go out of the city and surrender.

Liu Min was shocked and shouted to his subordinates: "Resist it quickly, I will give you all my silver!" Resist it! ”

The soldiers all shouted: "Die, you, your money is all fake, don't play!" "Scattered. (To be continued......)