Under Yining City, as the besieging enemy troops temporarily retreated, the fierce battle also came to an end temporarily.

Since the enemy launched an attack, he spent most of his time in the city dispatching soldiers to defend and counterattack, and the time to rest in the city was often only two or three hours.

The reason why he was so tired was because the enemy's offensive was too fierce, and when he attacked the city on the first day, he rushed directly to the head of the west city, forcing Han Zunian to urgently dispatch more than 1,000 soldiers to reinforce the west city from the east city through the volley plank road between the two cities, and barely held the city after a vicious battle.

The second is because the strength of the defenders in the city has been greatly reduced, from the initial tens of thousands of troops to less than 5,000 people today. Originally, the two cities were held by the river and were as solid as a rock, but with the lack of troops defending the city, the two cities were standing side by side and caused a huge burden to the defenders.

As the battle continued, the defenders of the city continued to incur new casualties, making the force more and more insufficient. Han Zunian had already considered the right time to simply abandon the West City, and concentrated his forces on retreating to the East City, where a lot of supplies were stored, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the back road.

Taking advantage of the enemy's suspension of the offensive, Han Zunian also slowly walked down the city wall step by step, and directly rested in the houses near the city wall and ate some food.

However, before he finished eating here, the sound of drums and horns sounded outside the city again, after Han Zunian heard this sound, the chopsticks in his hands subconsciously trembled, and he directly threw the chopsticks to stop eating, and then hurriedly climbed to the top of the city, ready to continue to block the enemy's battle.

This time, however, it was not the heavily armed enemy soldiers who came out with the sound of drums and horns, but hundreds of ragged and dejected apprentices, escorted by more than a hundred Wei knights to the open space not far from the city.

After a little look, Han Zunian recognized that these people outside the city were his own soldiers who had been captured by the enemy before, and all the soldiers on the city head who were waiting for the enemy with their bows also saw it one after another, so they all put away their bows and arrows, and poked their heads out of the city wall, wanting to see if there were any relatives and friends among those captives.

"Tang Gong Gaoyi, Rao Er and other lives, for several days to provide food, now into the city to persuade the defenders in the city to surrender, you can reunite with relatives and friends, and for meritorious people!"

After the Wei soldiers had led the captives to the city, they shouted orders to them to the city to surrender.

But these captives also knew that once they opened their mouths to persuade them to surrender, it would be an ironclad rebellion in the eyes of the countrymen, and now the two sides are still fighting without a victory, and if they shout and persuade them to surrender for the sake of temporary safety, it will inevitably affect their relatives and friends in the city, so many people are just silent. And even if some people are frightened and want to obey orders, when they see that most of their companions are silent, they are too timid to speak up.

The captives refused to open their mouths to shout to the city to persuade them to surrender, and Pi Jinghe, who had led the captives here, simply untied his hood and exposed his face, and then raised his face and shouted to the city: "Do you wait for the guards in the city to know me?" A certain Pi Jinghe, a native of Guangning, was forced to be a thief when he was young and weak, and he was captured by my lord Tang Gong at war with the Western Dynasty.

Tang Gong did not abandon my old sins, but selected Ren to be close to the account, and now he was knighted in the Western Dynasty Shimen Gong and the official residence Hussar opened the mansion. The thieves in the city are working for the Gao clan, how many officials can be better than me?

After a strong attack for several days, you should also know that our Wang Shi is brave and powerful, and the Tang envoy entered to persuade him to surrender, not to defeat you, but to pity your life. If you are still stubborn in evil, when the city is broken in the future, it will be the day when the thief will be beheaded! Whether it is life or death, in your thoughts, each has its own plan, and decides quickly! ”

"Drumming, drumming, don't respond to this evil voice!"

Han Zunian heard Pi Jinghe's shout at the head of the city, and his face changed slightly for a while, and he was busy making people make a movement at the head of the city to suppress the sound of persuasion to surrender, so as to prevent the hearts of the defenders from being shaken.

When Pi Jinghe heard the chaotic drums coming from the city, he did not continue to shout, but brought a few raw sheep, slaughtered and skinned them directly on the riverbank, cleaned them, and then put them on the grill and grilled them. When the lamb was cooked, he dismantled it and shared it among the captives.

The noisy drums at the head of the city can suppress the sound of other places, but it cannot restrict people's vision. When the defenders of the city saw the scene of the captives eating mutton, they were naturally quite touched in their hearts, and they may not immediately think of joining the enemy, but they also planted an impression in their hearts that the enemy would treat the captives well.

Not to mention the change of mind of the defenders in the city, after the captives under the city were fed mutton, the emotional ups and downs were also very intense for a while, some prisoners of war while eating mutton, while not holding back tears to the city to shout relatives and friends, although not directly persuaded to surrender, but the trembling tone, sad expression is also to convey in addition to many messages.

Next, Pi Jinghe led people to bring these prisoners of war back to the camp for resettlement, and in order to let the defenders in the city digest the mood fluctuations, the Wei army did not continue to attack the city for the rest of the day.

Although he did not continue to fight, Han Zunian's mood was quite heavy, and his steps were equally heavy and he walked down the city.

When he just walked down the city wall, several governors stepped forward quickly, with expressions of wanting to say nothing on their faces, and after looking at each other for a few times, they pushed out a representative and walked up to Han Zunian, and said in a low tone: "May I ask the prince, when will the reinforcements of the King of Plains arrive?" ”

After asking this, he hurriedly added: "The last general is not timid and afraid of war, but, just fighting for days, there are less than 3,000 soldiers in the city, and the two cities have to be divided. There are more and more enemy troops, and all of them are brave warriors. If there are still no reinforcements to rush to help, even if it is a certain battle to the death, it may be difficult to protect the city! ”

After Han Zunian heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning deeply, he knew that the current situation was indeed a little unfavorable, but it was by no means as serious as what the governor said, and the reason why the generals were afraid was just because they were affected by the enemy's plan to attack their hearts.

"Yining City guards Qinyuan, taking into account the east and west, and the importance of the terrain is also known, how can the king of the plains not know? Now that we know that the thieves are so harassing, reinforcements will surely arrive quickly. But now that the enemy's attack has not been ten days old, and the apostle is still on the way, you will go in front of you and ask about the reinforcements, can the reinforcements fly across the Guanshan and suddenly reach the city? ”

He pulled down his face and reprimanded the governor before he added, "The only way to do this is to just hold on and wait for help, and don't think about it!" As long as the reinforcements arrive and force the thief army back, we will all guard the meritorious service, and we will be rewarded! ”

After saying this, he waved his hand and retreated from the generals, and then dragged his tired body back to the military palace in the city.

However, today was destined to be another eventful day, not long after Han Zunian returned to the military palace, suddenly another soldier reported that there was another change outside the city in the north. When Han Zunian hurried to the northern city, he saw more than a dozen defeated soldiers shouting outside the city gate to ask to enter the city.

Han Zu thought that after a little inquiry, he learned that these people were the defenders of Guyuan City, and Guyuan City suddenly encountered a sneak attack by a group of enemy troops a few days ago, and the defenders were caught off guard and were attacked by thieves.

After learning about this, Han Zunian's eyes suddenly darkened, and he almost couldn't stand steadily. As the capital of Yining County, Guyuan City did not retain heavy troops, but it housed many military families, and Yining City could only be connected with Wusu Town and other cities in the rear through Guyuan City.

The enemy's attack on the front for days was already fierce and fierce, but he didn't expect to send a strange army to attack Guyuan City in the back, for a while Han Zunian was also confused, and after a while he reacted, he hurriedly looked at the sergeants present and shouted: "This matter must be kept secret, and must not be leaked out, so as not to cause panic among the soldiers and civilians in the city!" ”

"But, but, there are still a few people who have been picked up into the city by the defenders of Xicheng before."

The sergeants here nodded their heads hurriedly after hearing this, but soon another sergeant suddenly slapped his head and spoke.

After Han Zunian heard this, his expression suddenly froze, and he hurriedly gathered dozens of cronies, preparing to go to Xicheng through the plank road connecting the two cities to control the spread of the news.

But he had not yet arrived at the city wall on the west side of the city, when suddenly another soldier came to report and said, "Prince, something is not good! The defenders of Xicheng cut the plank road and surrendered to the enemy in Kaesong......"

When Han Zunian heard this, his face changed greatly, and when he finally arrived at the city, he saw that the connection between the two cities had already been broken, and the defender of Xicheng had already led nearly a thousand defenders to open the city gate, throw all the bows, knives and instruments out of the city, and send people to ask for surrender to the enemy camp opposite.

A series of accidents hit Han Zunian hard, in order to avoid turmoil in the city, he personally patrolled the whole city with a knife, and only under his intimidation could he temporarily stabilize the situation. And he did not dare to relax, and stayed in the city to monitor the movements inside and outside, until he fell asleep after nightfall.

In his sleep, Han Zunian only felt that it was unusually bumpy, and at the same time, his hands and feet were all in pain, as if he was entangled and bound by poisonous snakes, and in a daze, he suddenly opened his eyes, only to see the light and shadow floating in front of him, and then a familiar face appeared in front of him and smiled at him and said, "General Han is awake?" ”

"You, you are Zhang Baoluo Zhang Envoy? How shall you be, how shall I see you? Isn't it, isn't it, I'm dead...... Already in the Yellow Springs? ”

Han Zunian thought about it in his mind for a moment, and then remembered that the face in front of him was Zhang Baoluo, who had already been captured and beheaded by the enemy before, and he was shocked in his heart, and said in a trembling voice.

After Zhang Baoluo heard this, his expression suddenly became a little embarrassed, the smile on his face was slightly retracted, and he looked at Han Zunian and said, "General Han is not dead now, but he was bound by your generals to surrender." Later, I will see my lord Tang Gong Li Dacheng, and I can condemn you to life and death! ”