"Okay, okay."

Shi Min, who was playing Go against Qin Mu, was overjoyed after receiving the good news from Wu'an, and nodded and said, "Haha!" I really didn't see anyone wrong! Conquering Wu'an, Li Xin and them only took one day! ”

Qin Muzuo said: "Lord, now that Wu'an has been ordered, the strategic purpose of cutting off the connection between Handan and Yecheng has been achieved, I don't know what the lord plans to do next?" ”

Hearing this, Shi Min couldn't help but squint his eyes and said, "Conquering Handan is not the most important thing. Handan is just a stumbling block on our counterinsurgency road, which can't be beaten for the time being, so we can bypass it! ”

"Oh, in this way, is the lord planning to give up attacking Handan and go south to attack Yecheng?"

"Not bad." Shi Min bowed slightly, "In the past few days, we have besieged Handan City without attacking, and the soldiers have been recuperating, it's almost time!" At present, our army still has 300,000 or 400,000 people, and there are many generals, and it is more than enough to surround a Handan city. Qin Mu, I am ready to start riding 200,000 and attack Yecheng in the south, strive to take Yecheng as soon as possible and quell the Shixuan Rebellion! What do you think? ”

"Wonderful. But my lord, Shi Hu's side, you may have to give him an explanation. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The defenders of Handan, most of whom were the original guards of the East Palace, were the elite divisions of the rebels, well-trained and had good combat effectiveness. The lord might as well try to send an envoy to persuade Liang Qian and Ma Qiu to surrender and surrender without a fight. ”

"This ...... Liang Qian and Ma Qiu are very cunning, and they are both masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles. If you want to persuade them to open the city and surrender, I don't know what conditions to offer? ”

Qin Mu said: "Lord, the matter of conditions can be discussed slowly. Now that Shi Xuan's general trend is gone, it is already very unrealistic for Liang Qian and Ma Qiu to work for Shi Xuan again! As the saying goes, if people don't do it for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. Liang Qian and Ma Qiu are both people who know the times, if they have to wait until the day when Yecheng City is broken and Shi Xuan is the head, I am afraid that it is meaningless for them to guard such a lonely city as Handan, and they are not qualified to negotiate. So now is the time to persuade the two of them to surrender! ”

"Where's Shi Hu?" Shi Min was still quite hesitant about this.

Qin Mu said again: "On Shihu's side, the lord can understand it. With Shi Xuan's rebellion, the strength of the Central Army was greatly weakened, and it was obvious that the soldiers and horses of the Hu tribe in various local tribes were enlarged! This rebellion is actually the internal friction of the Zhao State, and the beneficiaries are the princes from all walks of life, and Shi Hu and his Zhao court are the biggest victims! It is impossible for Shi Hu not to know this. ”

"Zhao lost his deer, and the world chased him. Fortunately, the current situation has not deteriorated to that point! If Shi Hu didn't want to reproduce the situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the heroes rose together and competed for the world, he would inevitably accept the rebels who were guarding Handan. ”

"I see."

What Qin Mu said made sense.

The current situation is just like the end of the Han Dynasty and the end of the Tang Dynasty.

There is no way, after this Shixuan Rebellion, the strong soldiers of Zhao Guo, who were originally invincible in a hundred battles, have been greatly hit, such as Kui'an, Zhu Bao and other battlefield generals have fallen one after another, and there are few troops left who are loyal to Shihu and have strong combat effectiveness.

The army of the imperial court underwent a major blood change, and there were far more new soldiers than old soldiers, so it was impossible to subdue the princes of the Quartet.

The state of Zhao has only been established for more than 20 years, and its roots are not very deep, and the only thing that can guarantee the prosperity of this country is its own incomparably strong force.

And this force has declined, and the princes of the Quartet, such as Pu Hong, Yao Yizhong, Liu Xian, etc., have taken the opportunity to recruit troops and expand their own power, and Shi Hu can only turn a blind eye to this, and he does not dare to give an order to reprimand anything.

In the past, there were seven or eight hundred thousand troops in the imperial court, and the vast majority of them were well-trained and strong soldiers who had survived a hundred battles, but now after such a turmoil, these armies have long been out of shape, and new soldiers account for more than two-thirds.

After receiving Shi Min's advice, Shi Hu immediately approached Shen Bian and Shen *** to discuss the matter.

If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!

In the end, Shi Hu decided to adopt Shi Min's advice and handed over the matter of persuasion to Shi Min.

After capturing Wu'an, Shi Min then waved his army south, crossed Wu'an, crossed the Zhanghe River, and surrounded Yecheng.

At the same time, with Shi Hu's authorization, Shi Min sent a letter inviting Liang Qian and Ma Qiu to meet in the city.

On the side of the official army, in order to deter the defenders in the city, they set up a position.

The officers and soldiers set up a phalanx.

The phalanx is a formation used by the ancient army in battle, and it is a formation in which the participating troops (vehicles, infantry, cavalry, etc.) are arranged according to the operational requirements. Generally, according to the establishment of the ancient army, based on the army or team, the composition includes the middle army, the left rejection (moment), and the right rejection (moment), forming a square or rectangle.

According to the different scale of the operation, it can be large or small, and the large phalanx can reach more than 10,000 people; According to different combat situations, there are more or less contents, and some are divided and some are combined, and "the division is like a lightning switch, and the integration is like a dark cloud." The convergence rate is natural and varied.

It can be said that the phalanx is a method of employing troops to adapt to various situations in ancient times, and the so-called "battle after battle, the art of war is constant", which is also about this truth.

In order to show that he had no malicious intent, Shi Min walked to the city alone and set up three futons, a table, and a pot of boiling wine.

At the head of the city, Liang Qian and Ma Qiu, who saw this scene, breathed a sigh of relief, and then opened the city gate and went out to meet Shi Min for a while.

"General Liang Li, General Ma Qiu, please take a seat." As soon as Shi Min stretched out his hand, he invited Liang Qian and Ma Qiu to sit down, showing the bearing of the master's family.

The situation is stronger than people, Liang Qian and Ma Qiu looked at each other for a moment, and then sat down. Shi Min politely poured three bowls of hot wine and took a sip of it himself.

"Please!"

"Governor Xie." Liang Li and Ma Qiu drank wine separately, and their hearts were a little calmer.

Shi Minyun said lightly: "Two, you must have seen the current situation clearly, right?" After only half a month of fighting, your rebels have been defeated repeatedly, losing their troops and losing their generals, and they have no power to fight back. Now, our army has captured Wu'an and surrounded Yecheng, and it is ready to be taken down overnight! Although Handan is strong and heavily guarded, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but Handan is now a lonely city, and it is stubbornly resisting, relying on the high city of Handan, I don't know how long your army can resist? ”

"A month? Two months? Half a year or a year? There will always be a day when the grain in the city will run out. As far as I know, Handan's grain and grass can't last for three months, right? General Liang Li, General Ma Qiu, I, Shi Min, sincerely hope that you can understand the righteousness, lead the army, abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and open the city to surrender. ”

"I have gone up to the king to ask him to forgive you for your sins. The king has left this matter to me. ”

Hearing this, Liang Qian and Ma Qiu couldn't help but stare at each other, pondered for a while, and finally Liang Qian asked out loud: "Governor, although the king has forgiven our crimes, I don't know what he plans to do with the two of us?" What to do with our people? ”

"The king can not blame the past and let you be reinstated. As for the rebellious soldiers, that is, the current Handan defenders, I can call the shots, dismiss the old, weak and disabled, and retain the elite. ”

Liang Qian couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Metropolitan Governor, you want to break up the establishment of our two subordinates, so that the king can settle accounts after the autumn, right?" ”

"General Liang Qian is really a smart person, just a little bit thorough." Shi Min nodded very calmly, "Not bad." Two generals, although the king has forgiven you for the crimes you have committed, he still has a grudge against you, and it is impossible for him to allow you two to keep your own army and have the power to rebel. ”

Liang Li's face sank, and Ma Qiu's triangular eyes beside him were also frightened.

Liang Qian said in a deep voice: "Governor, don't you think this is too much? Isn't it a joke that you keep saying that the king has forgiven our crimes, given us a lenient sentence, and reinstated me and Ma Qiuguan, but you have hollowed us out, leaving us without our own soldiers and horses, and without the power to protect ourselves? In the future, if the king wants to settle the old accounts and unload the mill and kill the donkey, wouldn't it be an edict that can make me and Maqiu Wuma separate? ”

"Liang Li, it's you who are excessive! The king has been very forgiving to you. Shi Min suddenly changed color and said, "The king just doesn't want his own soldiers and horses to be consumed too much and shed blood and sacrifice, otherwise for the rebels, according to the king's temperament, it will definitely be killed!" ”

"Two generals, you have lost the trust of the king. From the moment you led your army to rebel with the traitor Shi Xuan, you should know this! I, Shi Min, can tell the two of you unceremoniously that there is only one way to die if you resist to the end! Now that your general trend is gone, in a month or two, Shi Xuan will be the leader, and the rebellion will be terminated. What can you do when you're under siege? ”

"Yes. You are still defending the fortified city of Handan, and you still have 80,000 or 90,000 troops under your command, but how long can you hold Handan? You've got deserters, right? One day, you will collapse without a fight. Or on the day when Handan City was broken, did the two generals still have the qualifications to bargain with the imperial court, and did they still have the capital to negotiate with the king? No. ”

Shi Min said in a deep voice: "As the saying goes, those who know the times are Junjie. Liang Li, Ma Qiu, both of you are outstanding people for a while, and you have made countless contributions to the foundation of the Great Zhao Kingdom. You are now rebellious, but the king can forgive your sins, and if you are still obsessed with it, and if you really want to resist to the end, I am afraid that there is only one way to die. ”

"This ......," Liang Qian and Ma Qiu were speechless for a while.

Ma Qiu sighed faintly and said: "I didn't expect that the Metropolitan Governor is not only brave, brilliant, and proficient in strategy, but even this way of tongue is so sharp!" Ma Qiu bowed to the wind. But the Governor, with all due respect, I can't trust the King's character! What kind of character Shi Hu is, you and I know very well. Shi Hu is ten times more vicious than the tiger wolf, and more than a hundred times! ”

"He is also moody, tyrannical, and takes pleasure in killing. The soldiers and horses under my command and Liang Qian are the foundation of our lives, and now the Metropolitan Governor wants us to hand over these soldiers and horses, won't it cost us our lives? Liang Li and I don't dare to ask for anything, but the most basic point is to save our lives! ”

Liang Li also agreed: "Yes." Governor, we have a problem! If you can ask Shi Hu to let me and Ma Qiu continue to command our own army, and if the formation is not scattered, we will immediately open the city with soldiers and horses to surrender! ”

"The stakes are high, please let me be accommodating with the Xiangguo side."

"The Metropolitan Governor, please."