Chu Xuan quietly explained:

"Zhongnan, we took Tianqi Pass in order to occupy him permanently, but how to occupy him justifiably? You know, Tianqi Pass is not our Taidang County's territory, but belongs to Taihe County, and we privately raised troops to attack friendly countries, which is really a big violation of discipline in the Dawu Empire! ”

Xia Zhongnan said: "But we can't blame us for this matter, it was Hou Dayong, the skin, who first seized our army's grain and grass for no reason, affecting our army's fight against the barbarians, and they were the ones who provoked the incident first, and they are responsible." ”

"That's what I said, but you also know, who is Hou Dayong?"

"It's Su Xing's people, Su Xing is not a good thing, he has been against us many times"

Xia Zhongnan gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes, Hou Dayong is Su Xing's person, but Tianqiguan is Pu Zhihuai of Taihe County, if we kill Hou Dayong, Pu Zhihuai can say that this is Hou Dayong was bewitched by Su Xing and Taidang County is embarrassed, he really doesn't know, there is no proof of such death, if he asks us to return Tianqi Pass, and is willing to compensate us for all our losses, what should we do?

Pu Zhihuai can even mobilize the one in the palace to issue a holy decree to Taidang County, what should we do? After all, now is not the time to completely turn his face with him, although everyone knows what is going on, but he still has to be amiable on his face, so we let Hou Dayong go, no matter whether Pu Zhihuai catches this person or not, we can frame Pu Zhihuai. ”

"What if Pu Zhihuai catches Hou Dayong and sends him to us to excuse himself?" Xia Zhongnan asked.

Chu Xuan said with a smile: "I estimate that Pu Zhihuai will definitely not be able to catch him, what kind of person is Trist, once we hear that Tianqi Pass has fallen into our hands, we must try to save this person, and then Hou Dayong came forward to claim that he was ordered by Pu Zhihuai to act, and the matter was revealed and he wanted to kill him, hehe, this stolen goods were firmly planted on Pu Zhihuai's body, and we can rightfully occupy Tianqi Pass, presumably Su Xing is also very happy for us to occupy Tianqi Pass and threaten the Kang family." ”

Yan Qinghua also smiled and said: "Su Xing wants to weaken us through food, seeing that this plan is ineffective, but it prompts us to occupy Tianqi Pass, and he will definitely be busy coming to us to form an alliance, and the Kang family also knows that we actually know the situation, Hou Dayong is Su Xing's person, and the grain deduction is also from Su Xing's idea, thinking that we will definitely hate Su Xing, and will inevitably find us to form an alliance against Su Xing, if this is the case, he may also acquiesce to us to dominate Tianqi Pass, hahaha, so left and right, Taidang County can get the maximum benefit from it. ”

Xia Zhongnan was confused by Chu Xuan's words, touched his head, and said:

"My lord, Yan Junshi, what you said seems to be very reasonable, but I don't understand, but there is one thing, we seem to have a deep enmity with the Kang family, how can the Kang family be willing to form an alliance with us, and we occupy the Tianqi, which is a real threat to them."

Yan Qinghua said with a smile: "There are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only eternal interests, right now, the number one enemy of the Kang family is not us, but Su Xing, not to mention that we just expelled Kang Renzhi back then, even if we dug the ancestral grave of the Kang family behind our backs, as long as it is not put on the surface, in the face of huge interests, the Kang family can only knock out their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, and they will still find an alliance with them." ”

Xia Zhongnan seemed to understand a little, was stunned for a long time, and suddenly said with some indignation:

"My lord, military advisor, you have a point, but it sounds like Su Xing and the Kang family look down on us a little, thinking that we can only form an alliance with them, are we worse than them, I think we are much stronger than them."

Chu Xuan and Yan Qinghua glanced at each other, and laughed at the same time, Chu Xuan stretched out his finger, nodded Xia Zhongnan, and said:

"You, I see that I'm about to catch up with Gao Meng's rammer, it doesn't matter if you can afford us, it's better to look down on us, there's always a time to make them cry, okay, okay, you go down and clean up, a dignified general, crying in front of the hall, it's really damaging to my blood-red demon queen's face."

Xia Zhongnan snorted, saluted the two embarrassedly, and turned to leave.

"A brave general is both affectionate and righteous, rare"

Yan Qinghua commented behind her back.

A few days later, Trist, who had just left Taihe County, received secret information, and after a long silence, he ordered his subordinates to lead Hou Dayong's wife and children to Su Xing's territory, while he hurriedly returned to Taihe County, and urgently summoned Sima Yongyan to Taihe County, his purpose this time was to find Hou Dayong and take him away.

The Tiandugrad offensive and defensive battle has been going on for more than a month, and the deep defense line that stretches for several miles outside the city has been cut off layer by layer by the Taidang County Army like peeling green onions, and the fortresses and strongholds have been lost one after another, and the Taidang County Army has advanced to a place more than a mile away from Tiandugrad, and if it moves forward, the long-range attack weapons of the Taidang County Army will directly threaten the Tiandugrad city wall.

Although the barbarians have been fighting with Su Jun for several years, Bai Deyuan has never personally faced the Taidang County Army, this time he finally understood the excellent equipment of the Taidang County Army, the sharpness of the weapons, standing on the high city wall, watching the Taidang County Army attack the outer defense line of Tiandugrad in the distance, seeing the crossbow arrows like flying locusts, stone bullets like rainstorms, and the frenzy of black soldiers completely equipped with iron armor, Bai Deyuan was overshadowed, although he knew that defeat was a foregone conclusion, but he saw the strength of the opponent with his own eyes, But my heart was still depressed.

Compared with the fierce attack of the enemy outside, the situation in Tiandugrad City is also deteriorating day by day, mainly because the food has also begun to be tense, although Tiandugrad as the capital of grass, it is not abundant, but Bai Deyuan did not expect that the situation has deteriorated to such a point in a short period of time, so that hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in Tiandugrad City, although a batch of materials have been rushed into the city in the later period, but compared to the huge population base, it is still a drop in the bucket.

From the day of the siege, Tiandugrad began to adopt a centralized distribution system, providing only enough food for soldiers every day, not combatants, and family members could only barely survive, as for the slaves in the city, after they completed the defense of Tiandugrad, it would be good to have a little food every day.

Among them, there are many barbarian nobles who directly suggested killing these tens of thousands of slaves, so that they can save a lot of rations every day, but Bai Deyuan, as the supreme ruler, has to consider the consequences of doing so, killing people is very simple, but once these tens of thousands of slaves are killed, after the city is broken, the barbarians will have to bear the revenge and anger of the Taidang County Army, judging from Su Zhongqing's early actions, he still cares about the lives of these slaves.