At the head of Suiyang City, the smoke of gunpowder fills the sky, and at a glance in the city road, there are corpses of soldiers wearing Qin armor and Chu armor everywhere, soldiers, sharp blades, and arrows can be seen everywhere, in the dense footsteps, more and more Qin soldiers are slashing and killing a few Chu soldiers together.

When the sound of the howling killing gradually quieted down, at a glance, there were dead bodies of the Chu army everywhere outside the city, countless corpses, and the army of Chu that receded like the tide, all of which were naked under the eyes of the Qin soldiers on the city.

Frames of frames that have been burned to charcoal, but still stand on the ladders and cars, can be seen everywhere along the outside of the city wall.

Looking down from mid-air, there are dense Qin soldiers standing in the city road, all the soldiers look outside the city, their eyes are full of fierceness, and among them, a Qin army general hurriedly walked towards the city tower from behind the dense Qin army, because the city wall is very far away, so it can be seen that the pace of the generals is not particularly fast.

"General, the city has all been cleared!"

The generals of the Qin army came to the outside of the city tower and reported to Bai Yan, who was sitting on the stone steps, his clothes and armor were covered with blood.

"Good! Let the soldiers clean the city roads and have a good rest! ”

Bai Yan commanded.

After watching the generals give up their orders and leave, Bai Yan wiped the speckled blood stains all over his face, and looked at the distance outside the city, where the army of Chu was crowded and slowly left.

This has been five consecutive days, since the detention of the little uncle in the city, in these five days, the Chu army has never stopped attacking the city, the devastated city walls, and the corpses outside the city, you can see how crazy the Chu army has been in the past few days.

However, the more anxious the Chu army was to attack the city, the less anxious Bai Yan was.

"General, the Chu army has already planned to exhaust all the arrows and arrows in the city!"

He walked over at this time, frowned and glanced outside the city, then turned his head to Bai Yan and said.

"How many storerooms are left?"

Bai Yan looked at him and asked.

"The treasury is depleted! The arrows on the head of the city will take less than half a day at most! ”

He shook his head.

With arrows, it is easy to defend the city, and it is also pleasant to kill Chu pawns, but relying only on those blacksmiths in the city cannot make up for the consumption required by the soldiers defending the city.

If it weren't for the previous destruction of Wei, there was no siege war, and now the arrows brought from Daliang were squandered as early as the second day of the battle with the Chu army.

This made the soldiers of the Qin army want to go out of the city at night to secretly pick up some arrows and come back, but when they saw that there were no arrows left for them, they could only completely break this thought.

"General, if you don't wait until night, I will lead some men and horses to harass the army of Chu!"

Looking at Bai Yan's frowning appearance, he opened his mouth to plead.

"Xiang Yan will definitely be on guard!"

Bai Yan shook his head and did not agree to let him harass the Chu army camp.

"Let's go down and rest! There are many ways to defend the city without arrows! ”

Bai Yan got up, patted his shoulder, and came to the outer city wall.

On his bloodstained cheeks, looking at the dimming scene outside the city, Bai Yan calculated the time, and within a day or two, the people of the Huang clan should be in the Chu army camp.

The Huang family is not a small clan in the Chu State, and it can be seen from the tens of thousands of troops led by Huang Ye that the Huang Ye line is the main line in the Huang family.

Although Huang Ye is not an only son, the Huang family will never give up Huang Ye easily when they learn that Huang Ye is alive.

It's getting dark.

On the head of Suiyang City, torches began to be lit, and rows of Qin soldiers patrolled, during which they also checked whether there were any soldiers standing guard dozing off.

At this time, in the distant sky outside the city gate, there were suddenly more than ten fires, which also made the soldiers on the city tower immediately perceive.

"There's movement!"

In the exclamation of the soldiers, the Qin soldiers standing guard next to the outer city wall looked at the outside of the city with a vigilant face, they had experienced the night attack of the Chu army, and now there was any wind and grass outside the city, and the Qin soldiers did not dare to be sloppy.

Many Qin soldiers who were patrolling also stopped at this time, leaning against the outer city wall, and bent down slightly to prevent being shot by the Chu army's bow when they couldn't see anything in the darkness outside the city.

After a long time.

As more than a dozen fires slowly approached, several Qin soldiers holding bent bows in the city tower quietly took down their arrows, pulled their bows and strings, and aimed them at the Chu soldiers who were gradually approaching.

"Who?"

The general of the Qin army led by him turned his head, stretched out his head to look at Bai Yan, who was writing in bamboo slips under the candlelight, and was not asleep, so he was relieved, turned his head and shouted loudly outside the city.

"I am an envoy of Chu, I want to enter the city and meet General Bai! I hope to inform! ”

Outside the Chen Building, in the light of more than a dozen Chu soldiers holding torches, a man in Chu clothes walked out of a carriage and responded loudly.

Hearing this, the generals of the Qin army turned around, returned to the wooden house, bowed their hands to Bai Yan, and asked Bai Yan if he wanted to see people outside the city.

"See you!"

After Bai Yan glanced at the general of the Qin army, he said softly, and then continued to look at the bamboo slip in his hand.

In the face of the siege of the Chu army, the West City Gate was garrisoned by Bai Yan, Hewlett-Packard, and other generals to deal with the main battlefield of the Chu army, while the other city gates were all handed over to Hewlett-Packard to deal with.

As the main general, Bai Yan led the soldiers and fought a decisive battle with the Chu army, and Hewlett-Packard was also in the rear, counting all the military supplies, and finally handed it over to Bai Yan for inspection.

The main generals and deputy generals cooperate together, so that when facing the Chu army, they can be calm and unhurried.

This is also why at night, Bai Yan, who is sleeping here in the city tower, still has to look at the bamboo slips under the candlelight.

After a long time.

In the quiet environment, with the sound of footsteps, it didn't take long for a general to bring a man in his thirties, dressed in silk clothes, to the building, and then walked in front of Bai Yan.

Bai Yan put down the bamboo slip and looked at the man.

In the faint candlelight, the man couldn't help but glance at the young Bai Yan at this time, and with a touch of surprise, he looked around again.

The castle tower is very dilapidated, not only is there traces of arrows everywhere outside, but also inside the house, it is full of the smell of blood, and the source should be the bloodstained armor next to it, and the dazzling sword next to the armor.

Zhan Lu !!

That is the rumored famous sword given to Bai Yan by Ying Zheng?

The man thought with some curiosity, but all this was a momentary thought, and then the man turned his head and looked at Bai Yan.

"Chu people, Huang Zhong, meet General Bai!"

The man named Huang Zhong bowed to Bai Yan.

Bai Yan slowly got up and returned the salute to the man.

"I don't know why the envoy Chu visited at night?"

After Bai Yanli finished, he looked at Huang Zhong and asked.

Huang Zhong put down his hands, looked through the dim candlelight, and looked at Bai Yan dressed in simple black, even a few steps away, he could smell a strong smell, and under such a cold complexion, Bai Yan sat under the cloth, and it was all hay as a mat.

These eyes of Huang Zhong made Huang Zhong extremely surprised, but in his heart, he was full of confidence.

"Huang Zhong once heard the name of the general and admired it for a long time, but now when he sees it, the general is young, which really surprises Huang Zhong! And what surprised Huang Zhong even more was that he didn't expect to see General Bai here! ”

Huang Zhong said to Bai Yan, whether it was his eyes or tone, he revealed the surprise of seeing Bai Yan here.

"Don't hide it from General Bai, Huang Zhong has also seen the battle defending the city, and then he saw that the general is the first person to guard the city tower at night!"

Huang Zhong smiled as he spoke, and then glanced at Bai Yan without a trace, and said bluntly in his words, is it that the previous general Xiang Yan ordered someone to attack Suiyang City at night, so that Bai Yan was like this.

In Huang Zhong's expectation, when the young and vigorous Bai Yan heard these words, he should have taken him to the mansion to talk, and he should have heard that what he meant by these words was that even the main general was so down, and it seemed that the Qin army was also the end of the crossbow.

As a result, Bai Yan's whole person seemed indifferent to his words.

"If the Chu envoy has words, he will make it clear that if the Chu envoy thinks that Bai Yan is afraid of Xiang Yan, then Bai Yan can go back to the mansion, and let the Chu envoy go out of the city, after the Chu envoy returns to the Chu army camp, remember to tell Xiang Yan that Bai Yan has returned to the mansion and let him Xiang Yan attack Suiyang City at night, as long as he Xiang Yan sends troops to attack at night, Bai Yan will definitely not be half a step close to the city gate!"

Bai Yan said with a flat face, but his tone made Huang Zhong's smile disperse directly, and he stared at Bai Yan with some suspicion, as if he was thinking about whether Bai Yan's words were true or false.

After a few breaths, Huang Zhong frowned slightly, and his expression was no longer confident, but he still looked at Bai Yan unwillingly.

"If the general is not afraid of the great general Xiang Yan, why do you stay here and treat the envoy so much when the weather is freezing and the earth is freezing!"

Huang Zhong asked rhetorically, raising a wide embroidered robe, his palm facing the surrounding scene, and his eyes looked at the hay written on Bai Yan's cushion.

"Bai Yan is here, because the soldiers of the Qin army are here, the weather is cold, on this city, if the soldiers are cold, Bai Yan will be cold with the soldiers, the soldiers will kill the enemy, Bai Yan can also draw his sword and kill the enemy with the soldiers! Although the city tower is ugly, Bai Yan is content! Although there are many Chu troops, the soldiers are fearless! Even if you die in battle, no one regrets it! As long as Bai Yan and the soldiers of the city are united, Xiang Yan wants to take the city, but he can only rely on the sword to take it! Qin is not afraid of war, Qin, also fight! ”

Bai Yan said something in a small voice, but Huang Zhong was stunned in place, especially when Huang Zhong looked at Bai Yan talking, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and his eyes were full of burning looks.

Lunatic!

This is a thought that instinctively appeared in Huang Zhong's mind after hearing these words.

Listening to Bai Yan's words, thinking of the Qin soldiers in the city, I don't know why, Huang Zhong, who had just arrived at the Chu army camp today and didn't know much about the situation at all, understood in an instant why General Xiang Yan led an elite army of no less than 200,000, so many days have passed, and he is helpless in the face of Suiyang City, which is guarded by the Wei people, why his brother will be defeated by the Qin generals in front of him.

In Qufu, Gongzi Xiong Qi commanded more than 100,000 troops, but he couldn't stop the Qin army from attacking.

In the face of such a general, it is no wonder that Jing Qi once said in Shouchun that Bai Yan served the Qin State and must die, whether it would be a great disaster for the Chu State.

It's a pity that many people recognized Bai Yan as a famous general at that time, but not many people really took Jing Qi's words to heart, thinking that Jing Qi was exaggerated, and at that time, Huang Zhong was the same, and at this moment, Huang Zhong listened to Bai Yan's words, and his whole heart was shocked, and he finally understood why Jing Qi said the name Bai Yan several times in the court of Chu State, in front of the King of Chu and the hundred officials of Chu State.

"Chu Envoy still thinks that Bai Yan is afraid of Xiang Yan?"

Bai Yan looked at Huang Zhong with a solemn expression, and asked with a smile, bluffing! Bai Yan is good at the battle of tongues, Huang Zhongchu, how could he know that Bai Yan was already waiting for his arrival.

Huang Zhong came back to his senses, looked at Bai Yan with his eyes, sighed, raised his hand and bowed to Bai Yan again, although he didn't say a word, but his actions already expressed his admiration and teaching.

"The Chu envoy hasn't answered Bai Yan's words yet!"

After Bai Yan finished speaking, he asked the general to come over with a bundle of arrows and sit for Chu envoy Huang Zhong.

"Huang Zhong came here today to invite General Bai to release General Huang Ye of my Chu State and the two Chu envoys who were detained before!"

Huang Zhong looked at the generals of the Qin army, and really brought a bundle of arrows over, the first time he saw this scene, Huang Zhong didn't know what to do, seeing that there were indeed no wooden benches around, Huang Zhong thought about it, and could only get his clothes and sit on a bundle of arrows.

That's it.

In the humble building, one was the chief general of the Qin army sitting on a hay mat, and the other was the envoy of the Chu State sitting on a bundle of arrows, and the two of them talked.

During this period, it seemed that something had come to report, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw Huang Zhong and hurriedly closed his mouth.

Late at night.

In the camp of the Chu army, in the huge commander's tent, there are charcoal stoves burning on both sides of the tent, which also makes the people in the tent not feel the cold wind outside the tent at all.

"Fifteen days of grain, impossible! This is almost half of the grain of my Chu army! ”

Xiang Yan heard Huang Zhong, who had returned, say Bai Yan's conditions, and instinctively shook his head to veto.

Tens of thousands of people for fifteen days of grain, that Bai Yan really dared to think, in Xiang Yan's eyes, in the situation of hundreds of thousands of Chu troops encircling and destroying the Qin army, even if Huang Ye was a famous general who was good at fighting, it was not worth spending so much grain to exchange with the Qin army.

"General, the news came from the Qin State that the Qin State army led by Wang Ben was trapped in Yingchuan by heavy snow, and the Qin State was unable to send troops south again, facing the encirclement of the Chu State, Bai Yan had already planted his wings and could not escape, so he might as well ......"

Huang Zhong looked at Xiang Yan with a humble face, and when he said the back, he glanced at the other Chu generals around, and then looked at Xiang Yan.

"Promise that Bai Yan, we and the King of Chu have already prepared a large army of food and grass, and we will be able to arrive here in a few days!"

When Huang Zhong said these words, he was actually still very nervous, after all, the general in front of him was Xiang Yan.

The Xiang clan is slightly stronger than the Huang clan, not only soldiers and horses, fiefdoms, after the king of Chu succeeded to the throne, the king of Chu was in charge, and almost all the soldiers and horses of the Chu country were handed over to Xiang Yan.

This is also the reason why Huang Zhong is worried, this matter, no matter what, must be agreed by Xiang Yan, otherwise Huang Zhong would not dare to secretly take the grain to Bai Yan in private.

Inside the tent.

Although there were many generals of the Chu State and many scholars, with Huang Zhong's words, the atmosphere was extremely quiet, and everyone was silent, even Fan Zeng glanced at Huang Zhong and Xiang Yan quietly, and stood beside the many generals silently.

Everyone knows that they can't be the masters of this matter, it is Xiang Yan who is in charge, as for whether they can give grain to Bai Yan, it is naturally the best, but if they say it, it will eventually lead to Huang Ye being killed by Bai Yan, and everyone is afraid of being hated by the Huang family because of this.

The Huang clan is not a small clan, after Bai Yan's death, the Huang clan will naturally not look for the dead to take revenge, naturally, whoever opposes the replacement of Huang Ye at this time, the Huang clan will put their hatred on whom, maybe when, they will find an opportunity to take revenge.

"Father, the child also thinks that he might as well give Bai Yan 15 days of grain, and on the 15th, Bai Yan can't make any move!"

At this time, Xiang Liang was quiet, and after glancing at everyone, he spoke to his father Xiang Yan again.

In the past few days, it is not the first time that Xiang Liang has said this, and everyone is accustomed to it, everyone knows that what Xiang Liang did was nothing more than to rescue his friend Xiao Gu.

Think of the valley.

Many generals of the Chu State were also full of admiration, if it weren't for Bai Yan, who didn't follow common sense, Xiao Gu would have made meritorious service at this time and was reused by Xiang Yan.

It's a pity that at this time, he was imprisoned by Bai Yan in Suiyang City.

"Just now in the city, what else did Bai Yanke say?"

At this time, Fan Zeng looked at Xiang Yan, who was silent, thought of something, and turned his head to look at Huang Zhong.

Hearing Fan Zeng's inquiry, in the eyes of Lu Qing and the generals of Chu State, Huang Zhong thought about it, and truthfully told everything he saw after entering the city.

When Fan Zeng and the other generals of Chu State learned from Huang Zhong what Bai Yan had said and the scene they saw, they all frowned and looked at each other helplessly.

"No wonder you can accept the heart of a person, Bai Yan's means are really good, it seems that in a short period of time, it may be difficult to break through Suiyang City!"

Fan Zeng shook his head helplessly at this time, Bai Yan was still the first person to make Fan Zeng so helpless.

However, when he inadvertently mentioned that a general of the Qin army came in to report the matter, when he saw Huang Zhong there, he hurriedly stopped talking about it, and Fan Zeng suddenly frowned.

"Could it be that what happened?"

Fan Zeng was a little puzzled.

Then he suddenly thought of the matter of Xiao Gu and turned his head to look at Xiang Yan.

"I'm afraid, only if it is about the Qin army, the generals of the Qin army, can they hide it! The only possibility is that the Qin soldiers and soldiers have all been poisoned, and it is freezing on this day, and it is difficult for the Qin army to detect, so ......"

Fan Zeng analyzed, but he was not sure, so he shook his head, sighed, and kept silent.

"Can you give Qin Jun another little medicine!"

Changping Jun, who had been silent, heard Fan Zeng's words at this time, suddenly looked at Xiang Yan and opened his mouth to suggest.

Since it is already known that the Qin army has not detected the poisoning, it is better to do it again, and compared to the previous smoke poison, the poisoned Qin army is just a pawn defending the city, if you can take the opportunity to use the medicine on the grain millet at this time, then the poisoned is all the Qin troops in Suiyang City.

After all, at this moment, Changping Jun felt in his heart that it was tricky to attack Bai Yan.

"That's a good idea!"

"Indeed! If we can poison the Qin army again, then we will not let our subordinates go to the city and die! ”

"But I just don't know if there is a poison that Qin Jun can't detect!"

Hearing Changping Jun's words, many Chu army generals in the camp began to discuss, although the two armies were fighting, poisoning was somewhat unscrupulous.

But when they heard Huang Zhong say Bai Yan's words, all the generals of the Chu army couldn't help but sink in their hearts, in the face of such a stubborn and single-minded Qin army, no one was willing to fight to the death with such an enemy.

The state of Chu can be different from the state of Qi, the state of Wei, the state of Zhao and even South Korea, the state of Chu naturally has the army of Chu, but the army of the state of Chu under the command of the king of Chu, in the final analysis, there are not many at all, and now here are the private soldiers gathered together by the major families, and the same is true of the generals Jing Qi and Chang Wenjun in another place.

In the matter of attacking Suiyang City, since General Xiang Yan ordered the elite of the Xiang clan to enter the city and suffered heavy casualties, the matter of who would lead the troops to attack the city on the second day would make all the generals quarrel with each other almost every night.

No one wants to be the one who leads the army to the city.

At this time, hearing what Bai Yan said, it made one by one Chu generals couldn't help but mutter, if they really want to fight Bai Yan to the death, they will consume all the private soldiers in the clan, and even if Bai Yan is killed at that time, it will be difficult to make up for the losses in the clan!

Thinking about the Shi clan who exterminated Li Yuan and his family in Shouchun, as well as many scholars who supported Xiong You, were quickly eliminated by Jing Qi, and now they are still safe and sound in the Chu State, which one of them does not have many private soldiers, so that Jing Qi does not dare to retaliate easily.

Think about those scholars who were wiped out by Jing Qi, there was no end of private soldiers in the Chu State, and if they had fiefs, they might not be safe!

Since you have to get rid of Bai Yan and get rid of the Qin army under Bai Yan, it would be great if you could poison it and break it without a fight!

Thinking of this, more and more generals couldn't help but look at Xiang Yan and Changping Jun.

And Xiang Yan saw this.

I don't know that all the generals of the Chu State have already moved, and the continuous attack has not been broken for a long time, so that many generals have been shaken, thinking of this, Xiang Yan and Xiang Liang glanced at each other, looked at their son Xiang Liang's pleading gaze, and then looked at Huang Zhong and Huang Fang on the side.

At this time, Xiang Yan looked at the wooden table, where the two rolls of bamboo slips were placed, one volume was the news sent by the King of Chu, and the other volume was Gongzi Xiong Qi.

The king of Chu is responsible for considering that in the army, the elite soldiers of the Huang clan are still there, and under the command of Jing Qi, the Huang clan also dispatched the whole clan of soldiers and horses, if Huang Ye is not saved, the Huang clan will inevitably be dissatisfied, and the Chu State and the Qin State in the future are not as simple as getting rid of Bai Yan, considering the future ......

Thinking of this, Xiang Yan looked away from the bamboo slips, looked at the many Chu generals in front of him, turned around, closed his eyes and thought.

After a long time, Xiang Yan finally sighed.

"Wizard, is there a way to poison it?"

Xiang Yan opened his eyes and asked, perhaps considering Bai Yan's words, and the momentum of the Qin army in Suiyang City in the past few days, or considering the overall situation of Qin and Chu, as well as the sophistication of the people, Xiang Yan finally chose to compromise and agreed to exchange food for people, even Xiang Yan couldn't help but think in his heart at the moment, perhaps, this is also the only way to quickly break the situation at the moment.

Otherwise, in the face of Suiyang City, which has an enemy general like Bai Yan and personally leads the troops to defend it, no matter how many soldiers and horses Xiang Yan has, he is not sure that he can capture Suiyang City in a short period of time, before the snow falls.

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Next.

The sky was getting brighter, and in the city of Suiyang City, the Qin soldiers and soldiers were constantly coming and going, carrying things, and the generals were also busy.

And in the city roads inside the city wall, the dense Qin army soldiers were waiting in the cold wind, ready to face the next Chu army's uninterrupted siege of the city all day, but as time passed, in the face of the empty plains outside the city, all the Qin army soldiers were a little confused.

Why did it take so long, I didn't see the shadow of a Chu soldier.

It wasn't until another hour passed that all the soldiers of the Qin army saw that a carriage was slowly coming in the direction of the Chu army camp!

Inside Suiyang City.

A man in a cloth coat hurried down the street, and then came to a mansion quickly, and after opening the door, he entered the mansion, and walked down the corridor through the courtyard to a study.

And in the study, Tian Ding and Gongzi Sheng were talking about something.

When he saw the man come in, he stopped talking and looked at the man.

(End of chapter)