Early the next morning, according to the previous agreement, the Zhou army launched a feint attack in the north of the city of Heye. When Han Shouzhong heard the letter, he immediately took action, and immediately ordered his lieutenant general to lead a group of partial generals to Beicheng to take up the town, and sent all the soldiers and horses under his command under the command of generals who were not his cronies to Beicheng to assist in the defense. At the same time, he himself took a few cronies and Wu Deming's personal staff to quietly cross the city from Nancheng and go to the Zhou army camp - although he had already set a strategy to assassinate the main general of the Zhou army on the occasion of the surrender of Xiancheng before leaving Liaoyang City, even if Han Shouzhong went out of the city directly, his generals, including the secret agents that Han Deshu might have placed next to him to spy on him, would not have any objections. But in that case, those generals with special missions and ulterior motives are likely to insist on walking with them. If he agrees, it will bring more uncontrollable variables to the trip to the Zhou army's camp; If you don't agree, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the other party and bring unnecessary trouble to the peaceful resolution of the danger of Tsuruno Castle. Therefore, it was the best choice to send those unreliable generals to deal with the feint attack of the Zhou army, and to secretly go out of the city with his henchmen.

Although it had been basically determined that the commander of the Zhou army would be his sworn brother Zou Zhenyuan the day before, as he got closer and closer to the Zhou army camp, Han Shouzhong's mood couldn't help but start to feel uneasy. On the one hand, I am afraid that I will recognize the wrong person because of the distance. He was full of hope and joy in the past, but found that he was only meeting a stranger with the same name and different surname, and such disappointment and loss were definitely something he did not want to experience; On the other hand, he is afraid that although he does not recognize the wrong person, the other party will look down on him because of the change of identity and status, and no longer recognize himself as a brother, but treat himself as a loser who surrendered the city with the attitude of a winner. After all, the other party is no longer the small deputy commander of the army back then, but the invincible general who commands tens of thousands of horses, and is fully qualified, reasonable, and qualified not to take his own small Liaoyang Mansion Township commander in his eyes.

Han Shouzhong is full of worries on his side, but Zou Zhenyuan has no psychological burden on his side. First, although he knew that it was the chief general of Heye City who came to talk with him, he didn't know the identity of the other party very well, but only heard the Marquis of Du Yu who was in charge of the preliminary negotiation say that the main general's surname was Han, from Liaoyang Mansion, and he was the commander of the Han Township Dingdu. Therefore, there will be no Han Shouzhong's feeling of being up and down and restless. Second, as the victor, and taking Heye City in the way of surrendering without a fight, Zou Zhenyuan's mood was naturally far more relaxed and comfortable than Han Shouzhong's, and it was impossible to have the latter's appearance of suffering from gains and losses and being uneasy. Therefore, after receiving the report of the scout scout, saying that the feint attack in the north of the city had begun, and the general Tsuruno had already taken a few followers out of the southern city and came to the camp, he ordered someone to tidy up the big tent of the Chinese army, and he sat behind the handsome case, and waited patiently with other generals of the front army.

It's just that Zou Zhenyuan's state of peace and contentment only lasted until Han Shouzhong entered the big tent. After the latter and his entourage entered the Chinese army's tent under the guidance of the guards, Zou Zhenyuan could no longer sit still. Although they haven't seen each other for eleven years, and although the wind and frost outside the plug have made Han Shouzhong more vicissitudes than at the beginning, after the other party raised his head and entered with his chest up, neither humble nor arrogant, and reported his official position and name to himself, and looked at him without fear, Zou Zhenyuan was slightly stunned at first, and after carefully looking at the other party up and down, he recognized that the Tsuruno guard who was standing in front of him was the sworn brother Han Tiexin, who had been on the ground with his head and had not seen him for eleven years since the Battle of Youyun. He immediately stood up and shouted, "Big brother, why are you?" Aren't you called Han Tiexin, why are you called Han Shouzhong now? As he spoke, he stepped forward, took the other party's arm and invited him to sit down, while ordering his soldiers to serve tea.

Compared with Zou Zhenyuan's gaffe, Han Shouzhong, who had basically determined Zou Zhenyuan's identity as early as yesterday evening, seemed much calmer and calmer. Although he was also excited because of the former's "big brother", he was still unfazed on the surface, and replied in a calm voice: "Of course it's me." Otherwise, how could Tsuruno Castle take the initiative to go out of the city to contact you when reinforcements have already arrived to discuss the donation of the city. As for the name, Shouzhong was released from outside the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion as a commander, and Han Zuo Xiang took the word for me, and later called it a lot, but few people knew my original name. ”

Zou Zhenyuan heard that this was the case, but on the other hand, he slowly calmed down from the initial excitement, because Zou Zhenyuan found that the other party was not surprised or excited when he saw him, but was very calm and calm, as if he had known that it would be him who would talk to him. However, such doubts were only a fleeting thought, and then Zou Zhenyuan nodded, revealing an expression that was the same, and replied to himself: "Yes, yes." Presumably, when my brother and I were around Heye City yesterday to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, my brother was also observing our military camp at the head of the city, and it happened to see me, so it is not surprising that my brother knew in advance that I was the former commander of the Zhou army. If it weren't for that, I'm afraid that you and I would have already faced each other at this time. ”

Hearing this, Han Shouzhong nodded and shook his head, and said, "Brother Xian's words are not right. Yes, Brother Fool did know in advance that Brother Xian was the former commander of the Zhou Army, but not at the head of Heye City. In other words, seeing your heroic posture with your own eyes, Brother Xian, is the last confirmation that this Zou Zhenyuan is indeed the other Zou Zhenyuan. In fact, long before Brother Yu led the army to leave Liaoyang City to reinforce Heye, he had already been told that the former commander of the Zhou army who led the army to kill this time was probably my righteous brother who had been separated for more than ten years. As for the dedication of the city, it was not a temporary idea for the elder brother after confirming that you were the former commander of the Zhou army, but also planned it as early as when the foolish brother received the order to lead the army to reinforce Tsuno City. ”

"When my brother was in Liaoyang City, he knew that I was the former commander of the Great Zhou Right Running Army, and I had been ordered to sacrifice the city to the Zhou army before leaving Liaoyang City? Mo Fei Nayelu and Li and Han Deshu wanted to follow Nuli and the others and surrender without a fight. Zou Zhenyuan asked with some surprise.

Han Shouzhong shook his head when he heard this, and said with some bitterness: "Brother, although you are very cautious and march along the river, you have sent a large number of scouts and scouts to control the surrounding area. But first, your advance speed is too slow, giving the government along the way time to report to Liaoyang City. Second, even if you control the place where the army passes, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of negligence, and there will always be some fish that slip through the net and have the opportunity to send the news out. So, you haven't arrived at Tsuruno Castle yet, and my brother has already been ordered to lead an army to reinforce you. As for Yelu Heli and Han Zuoxiang, who stayed in Tokyo, although these two people are not people who can fight and are accustomed to fighting, they are not the kind of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they are still loyal to the Liao court and their master Yelu Jing. Therefore, Han Zuoxiang sent my brother and I to lead the army to Heye to reinforce and take the initiative to surrender to your brother, not really to sacrifice the city, but to have other intentions. ”

"Then what is Han Deshu's real intention in sending his elder brother to surrender to the younger brother?" Seeing that Han Shouzhong said something meaningful, Zou Zhenyuan immediately asked.

"Han Zuoxiang's real intention is to hope that my brother and I will use the brotherhood between the two of us and the act of surrendering the city to win your trust, brother, so that you can relax your vigilance, so that my brother and I will have the opportunity to talk to you face-to-face like now, and then create the best conditions for you to personally assassinate you." Hearing this, Han Shouzhong looked directly into Zou Zhenyuan's eyes and explained word by word.