Although there were only 2,000 soldiers left behind in Xiangping, since Gongsun Du dared to entrust his life to the 2,000 people in the city, it shows that these soldiers are different.

Xu Huang came from afar, knowing that the defensive forces in the city were empty, but he didn't dare to hold it up at all, in order to take Xiangping in the shortest possible time, he immediately divided the troops into four roads, and launched an ant-attached siege from four directions at the same time.

After a short but fierce battle, and after paying hundreds of lives, the troops besieging the city from the east attacked the city and carved a foothold on the city. Xu Huang followed the city, holding two big axes, and killed the road on the inner side of the city wall, and finally fought a bloody way and opened the east gate of Xiangping City.

The east gate was lost, and the troops besieging the city from several other directions immediately stopped the siege and poured into Xiangping around the east gate. The soldiers defending the city saw that Xiangping was lost, and retreated to the Hou Mansion in Liaodong, and when Xu Huang led the army to kill, they actually formed a barrier in front of the Hou Mansion.

Xu Huang had some admiration and respect for these loyal soldiers, and he did not immediately order an attack on the Gongsun Clan's mansion, leaving only 2,000 soldiers and horses here to surround the remaining 800 or so Gongsun Du's guards.

Subsequently, Xu Huang commanded the troops to control the four gates of Xiangping and the main roads in the city, and then sent Zhang Nan to lead the army to Wang Lie's mansion to disarm Gongsun Du, who was guarding Wang Lie and Guan Ning, and then personally came to visit Wang Lie and Guan Ning.

When Zhang Nan led his men to rush into Wang Lie's mansion, Wang Lie and Guan Ning were taken aback, they were in the mansion at that time and only heard the sound of killing outside the mansion, but they didn't know which troops had entered the city.

Xu Huang, who arrived later. informed Wang Lie and Guan Ning of their identities, and the two celebrities were surprised to learn that Xu Huang had actually traveled thousands of miles around Gao Xian.

Xu Huang said to the two: "Don't hide it from the two gentlemen. Now Gongsun Du's mansion has been surrounded by my soldiers, but the guards left behind by Gongsun Du are very loyal and would rather die than back down. Xu came here to invite the two gentlemen to come forward to go to Gongsun Mansion to appease people and persuade Gongsun Du's two sons to order the guards to disarm. As long as the Gongsun clan cooperates, I promise not to kill a single person in the city! ”

Wang Lie was very appreciative of Xu Huang's behavior. Immediately stood up and said: "Gongsun Du's two sons have also studied under me, so the old man went to the Hou Mansion and persuaded the guards in the mansion to put down their swords and guns and surrender. ”

Not much. Wang Lie came alone to the gate of the Liaodong Hou Mansion.

"Old man Wang Yanfang, the head of the General Mansion of Xiju, has an important matter to ask to see the two sons today, and he also asks the guards in the mansion to make a way!" Wang Lie stood outside the gate of the Gongsun clan. He shouted this sentence with an awe-inspiring face.

Not much. The door creaked and opened a gap from the inside that only allowed one person to pass through, Wang Lie stepped in without hesitation, and the easy-going door slammed into the door from the inside.

Under the angry eyes of hundreds of guards, Wang Lie calmly walked through the hall and came to the place where the two sons of the mansion lived on weekdays.

I saw Gongsun Gong standing under the eaves with a worried face, and when he saw Wang Lie, he hurriedly said: "Teacher, please save the hundreds of people in the house!" ”

"Why don't you see the eldest prince?" Wang Lie asked a little strangely.

"Don't dare to hide your teacher, the eldest brother has been secretly sent to Lelang County by his father before January. Take over the defense and troops over there. ”

Wang Lie sighed and said, "Your father is really scheming in order to be able to occupy Liaodong for a long time! He sent your brother to Lelang. What you must want is that once Xiangping is lost, you will retreat to Lelang, relying on the complicated situation on Samhan Island, and continue to confront the imperial court in the future, right? ”

Gongsun Gong had a look of guilt on his face, bowed his head and said nothing, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

"That's it, these things of cheating, fighting, killing and killing have nothing to do with the old man, and I don't bother to ask. Although your father treats me with disrespect, but in the love of your two brothers as my students, I have come today to find a way out for you and the hundreds of people in this house, as well as the hundreds of guards crowded in the front and back courtyards. If you want to live, listen to the old man's arrangement, how about it? ”

"The matter has come to this, everything is only arranged by the teacher!" Gongsun Gong hurriedly said.

Wang Lie then asked Gongsun Gong to come forward and tell the hundreds of soldiers guarding the Hou Mansion that now that the tide was over, if they wanted to stay in the city, they must hand over their weapons and be guarded temporarily. If you don't want to stay in the city, then leave Xiangping immediately and go out of the city to find Gongsun Du, and you can also report to Gongsun Du.

After some persuasion, more than 300 of the more than 700 guards finally chose to lay down their arms and surrender, while the other 400 people left from the south gate of Xiangping under the leadership of a captain. During this process, Xu Huang kept his promise, not only sent a force to escort the more than 400 people out of the city, but also gave each of them a horse before leaving, as well as some food, grass and healing medicine.

After these die-hard and Gongsun Du's guards left Xiangping, all parts of the city were completely under Xu Huang's control. Xu Huang asked Wang Lie and Guan Ning to show their faces to appease the people in the city, and the tens of thousands of people who were originally panicked and uneasy were relieved to learn that the army that had attacked Xiangping was under the command of Taifu Liu Yu. What's more, several families who were bullied and suppressed by Gongsun Du in the past actually beat gongs and drums to celebrate, and at the same time sent wine and meat to the troops as a reward.

More than 400 people who went out of the city rushed to the place where Gongsun Du camped in only half a day because they had horses to travel. When they came to the camp with miserable faces, it was already dusk.

In the past day, Gongsun Du lost more than 5,000 soldiers, and still failed to break through the formation of the Liao army.

When Gongsun Du, who was in a depressed mood, saw the lieutenant who stayed in Xiangping walking in with blood all over, he seemed to feel that someone had smashed his chest hard.

"You ...... Didn't you stay in Xiangping, why did you come here? ”

"General, forgive your subordinates for their incompetence, Xiangping has been broken by Xu Gongming." With tears in his eyes, the lieutenant said something that made everyone in the tent lose strength and confidence in an instant.

"Ah——! How can it be? Xu Gongming...... Can anyone tell me what's going on? The manic Gongsun Du suddenly drew the long sword at his waist, swung it wildly, and then suddenly fainted.

When Gongsun Du woke up, it was the middle of the night. Yang Yi and several generals stood in front of him, all with blank expressions.

"Quick, quickly send someone to the Liao team to send a message, let the troops stationed there board the ship, and go to Lelang by sea. Passing my military order, the army immediately pulled out the camp and marched eastward, and went directly to Xi'an after passing the room pseudo-water, we still have Lelang County, we still have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, we are not defeated! ”

Gongsun Du forcibly suppressed the pain in his heart, and gave the order to withdraw the army strongly.

Gongsun Dujun hurriedly evacuated east in the second half of the night, and soon after, Xian Yuyin received news from the spies.

"Hey, how could the direction of Gongsun Du's retreat be east? Could it be ......" Xian Yuyin thought of a possibility, "Quickly send someone to Xiangping to investigate!" ”

"Military Division, Gongsun Du has retreated to the east, should we send troops to pursue?"

Li Ru shook his head and said: "Our army has been fighting for days, with many casualties, and Gongsun Du still has nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses. ”

"However, if this guy escapes to Lelang, it will be difficult to block him again in the future!" Xian Yuyin is a little unwilling.

Li Ru pointed to the location of the Sanhan Peninsula on the marching map, and said to Xian Yuyin: "Minghui, you see, after Xian Yuyin retreated east into Lelang, to the north of him were the Goguryeo people, to the east of Lelang were the Dirty Tapir tribe, and to the south there were Benhan, Mahan and Chenhan. After this defeat, Gongsun Du did not dare to go west within ten years, we sent him a Lelang County, and he had to look forward to the east gate of Liaodong for us, so would it be better to force him to fight with us? ”

Xian Yuyin is not stupid, and immediately thought of Li Ru's meaning of "driving the tiger and devouring the wolf", although he did not catch Gongsun Du with his own hands made him feel a little unhappy, but personal grievances must be subordinated to the overall situation, so Xian Yuyin adopted Li Ru's suggestion and let Gongsun Du lead the army to retreat eastward.

A day later, Xian Yuyin led the Liao army into Xiangping City.

After Xian Yuyin saw Xu Huang, the first thing he said was: "Gongming, we tossed outside Xiangping City for more than half a month, but we didn't even touch the city wall. You're still so powerful, it only took an hour to take this fortified city! ”

Xu Huang has never liked to fight for merit, and hurriedly explained: "General Minghui must not say that, it is a fluke that he was able to win Xiangping with fewer casualties this time." If it weren't for the brothers of the East Road to attract Gongsun Du's main force forty miles south of the city, I wouldn't have been able to take Xiangping anyway. ”

"Okay, do we need to be polite! Regardless of the East Road or the West Road, if we can take Xiangping before the snow and drive away the bird of Gongsun Du, we will complete the task assigned by the son, and we can finally raise our eyebrows and not let those guys on the western front of Youzhou laugh at us. ”

"General Minghui, although Gongsun Du is heading east, he has also deployed a lot of troops between the Liao team and Liaoyang, and there are still a large number of naval warships patrolling on the Great Liao River, do you want to send troops immediately?" Although Xu Huang is the person in charge of the West Route Army, his official position is still the deputy general of the Liao Army, so after meeting Xian Yuyin, he still regarded himself as a subordinate.

"There is no need for the Liao team to send troops, I just received news before entering the city, after the defenders there received the order of Gongsun Du, they took the river sailor warship down the river and had already entered the Bohai Sea."

"Gongsun Du's second son, Gongsun Gong, and the family members in the house are all taken care of, how can they be released?"

"Send someone east to catch up with Gongsun Du and tell him that we can send his family to Lelang safely, but his second son Gongsun Gong needs to be sent to Jicheng as a proton, on the condition that Gongsun Du must cross the Ma Zishui and let Xi'an Ping out!"

"This time I went around to Gaoxian, and the Fuyu people sent 3,000 troops to accompany them, and now the Fuyu people still control Gaoxian and Xigaima, how to deal with it?"

"You can do this thing, you can do it, what conditions you promised them at the beginning, try to meet them, we can't be treacherous. For the time being, Gao Xian and Sigaima also asked the rest of the people to help us watch, so as not to make the Goguryeo and Xianbei people ready to move. Although this Xiangping was taken down, there were only a lot of troublesome things in the future, and the places that needed the help of the rest of the people in the future were still hiding. ”

Xian Yuyin, Xu Huang and other generals discussed and preliminarily agreed on many matters after the capture of Xiangping. (To be continued......)