The poem says:

At that time, hatred and anger were indescribable, and they poured out dust as a dead man.

The heart is cold and cold, and the self-injury and sadness are declining.

The east wind is fine and the willows are green, and the sun is warm and the river is melting.

The grace of the poem and sword can turn into rain, and the iron heart of Qingcai is relieved.

At that time, on the city wall, Yang Qingcai was dizzy, and Wang Han and Ma Ming in the city were also startled, and hurriedly asked people to save them. Li Shijian under the city said:

"A small amount is not a gentleman, and a husband is not excessive. Your Lord will not be able to stand the anger, this cultivation of the mind is not enough!

Listen to the people in the city, since Yang Qingcai is dizzy, I, Li Shijian, will definitely not take the opportunity to take advantage of you! But I want to tell you clearly that I will sneak attack and seize the city tonight!"

So Li Shijian collected the army and returned to the camp.

However, he said that in the city of Gray County, Yang Qingcai was rescued by Wang Han and Ma Ming, and when he saw that he was already in the county government of Gray County, he asked: "Two generals, how is the battle going?"

The second general Wang Han and Ma Ming said: "Heavenly King, Li Shijian said: 'I, Li Shijian, will definitely not take advantage of you! But I want to tell you clearly that I will sneak attack and seize the city tonight!'

Yang Qingcai listened, sighed, and said: "This Li Shijian is very good at using soldiers, and he loves night battles and sneak attacks, let's strengthen our defense." ”

The two generals Wang Han and Ma Ming naturally led the troops to defend the city, and they guarded it all night, and Li Shijianjun did not even reach the city alone.

At dawn the next day, the two generals just went down to the city to take a breath, and they heard the medium cannon of Li Shijian's camp outside the city, and the two generals hurried up to the city wall again, and when they looked at the opposite side, they saw Li Shijian leading the men and horses out of the camp, and shouted for Yang Qingcai to go to the city to answer.

Wang Han and Ma Ming listened, leaving Wang Han to guard the city, and Ma Ming came back to report.

Yang Qingcai was half angry yesterday, and when he heard that Li Shijian had asked himself to go to the city to answer again, he said: "General Ma, this king is sick today, so I won't go to the city to see him Li Shijian." ”

Ma Ming listened and hurried away. After a while, he came back and reported: "Li Shijian ordered the old lady to shout under the city and ask the king of heaven to go to the city to answer. ”

Yang Qingcai listened to Ma Ming's report that his old mother called him to the city to answer, and had to come to the city with shame and grief, but only to see eight cars being pushed away one by one.

I saw Li Shijian shouting to himself: "Yang Qingcai, do you surrender or not? If you don't surrender, I will kill Fu Liming first!"

When Yang Qingcai looked at Fu Liming, he saw that he was not stuffed into the prisoner car today, but he was riding on a horse, bowing his head and saying nothing.

It turned out that Li Shijian had Fu Liming tied a curved iron horn behind his back, forcing Fu Liming to bow his head, and Li Shijian had Fu Liming stuff a wooden plug in his mouth, so that he could not speak. He also sent Li Shilong with a commander to support Fu Liming on the left and right, just like a guard, in fact, he couldn't move.

Yang Qingcai in the city, after all, was far away, and he could only see Fu Liming bowing his head and not saying a word, but he couldn't see the strange situation behind Fu Liming, so Yang Qingcai couldn't help but feel that Fu Liming's performance was very different from yesterday - could it be that his mind had changed and he was going to surrender to the Taiping Army, and he was embarrassed to look up and talk to me?

Yang Qingcai was suspicious in his heart, and secretly thought in his heart: Now that I, Yang, will be defeated, and he will fall into the hands of the enemy, if he really surrenders, then he will surrender. Alas!

However, Yang Qingcai couldn't help but shout to Fu Liming after all: "Senator Fu, you have suffered!"

Who knew that Fu Liming didn't speak, just seemed to be struggling on a horse. Yang Qingcai didn't know what he meant, and when he wanted to ask again, he saw that Fu Liming and his mount were helped away by the two generals of the Taiping Army!

Yang Qing saw it, and he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.

Li Shijian shouted to the city at this time: "Yang Qingcai, my army is besieging the city with 100,000 people, and there are only more than 10,000 horses in your gray county, you can't turn the sky anyway!"

I, Li Shijian, told you clearly, don't you like strategy? I want to be patient with you and fight with you! Sooner or later, I will take your gray county and only use night battles to sneak attack and capture the city! You remember, I will come tonight, you have to be careful, hold on!"

Yang Qingcai had nothing to answer, hung his head and was speechless, and saw that in the Taiping army, the gong sounded loudly, and Li Shijian collected his troops and returned to the camp.

The defenders of Gray County were nervous all night last night, and they became nervous again tonight, however, Li Shijian still did not send a single soldier.

Yang Qingcai was exhausted, and there was no one who could help with the planning, so he was really sick unconsciously!

However, after dawn on the third day, the cannon outside the city sounded, and after a while, another guard came to report to Yang Qingcai and said, "The old lady is under the city, call the king of heaven to go to the city to answer." ”

Yang Qingcai had no choice but to board the city, but saw that only eight cars were pushed away, and Fu Liming did not appear.

Yang Qingcai couldn't help but exclaim: "Where is Senator Fu?"

Li Shijian said: "Think about it, he won't come to see you again!"

Yang Qingcai was speechless indignantly. Li Shijian collected his troops, and before leaving, he left another sentence: I will come to attack and seize the city tonight!

The hearts of the army in the city were already unstable, Yang Qingcai was sick again, and the second general Wang Han and Ma Ming couldn't help but be worried.

Yang Qingcai returned to the city sickly, and Wang Han and Ma Ming came to inquire about the strategy against the enemy and how to defend it tonight. Yang Qingcai ordered to continue to strengthen the defense at night.

After the two generals got the order, they all said: "Senator Fu may have been killed by Li Shijian, or did he surrender?"

Yang Qingcai said angrily: "Senator Fu will not surrender, he must have been killed by Li Shijian, a thief!"

So that night, the defenders in the city of Gray County were busy all night, and they still did not see a single soldier of the Taiping Army to sneak attack.

At dawn on the fourth day, Li Shijian's army released the cannon again, and came to the city again, only to ask Yang Qing to go to the city to answer.

Yang Qingcai naturally did not agree, however, there was a report that the old lady wanted to meet and had something to say. Yang Qingcai had no choice but to help the sick and go to the city, but when he arrived in the city, he saw that seven cars were pushed away.

Yang Qingcai couldn't help but hissed and asked: "Why are there seven cars? Why is there one missing? Li Shijian, you want to attack the city, even if you come to attack, you are too shameless!"

Li Shijian said: "Why is there one less car? You want to go yourself! I will come again tomorrow, and after seven days, you will not see a single car coming! Oh, let me tell you again, tonight our army may come to attack and seize the city. I'll beat you, just use the trick of sneak attack and capture the city in night battle, you should be careful to defend!"

Yang Qingcai still had nothing to say.

Li Shijian shouted again: "Yang Qingcai, you don't surrender, do you? Listen, let me emphasize to you two more words, I will kill one more person a day! After the killing, I will fight and attack the city at night! However, let me tell you again, our army is very likely to come to attack tonight!"

Regardless of whether what Li Shijian said is true or not, Yang Qingcai's army defended the city and couldn't help but guard against sneak attacks, so the defenders of Gray County couldn't rest at night continuously!

On the fifth day, the peace was still the same as yesterday, and Li Shijian went to the outside of the city to shout again. It's just that what Yang Qingcai can see is that six cars have been pushed away—one less car! This made Yang Qingcai frightened and broke his liver and intestines.

Yang Qingcai returned to the city, sometimes gritting his teeth, sometimes hanging his head, but he couldn't find any good way to solve the dilemma.

Wang Han and Ma Ming's second general said: "Heavenly King, why don't we rush out of the city and defect to Emperor Dadu Khan?"

Yang Qingcai sighed: "We are already surrounded, where can we rush out?"

As a result, one king and two generals were relatively speechless.

Suddenly, a personal guard came to report: "Report to the Heavenly King, the big thing is not good! Li Shijian has broken through the north gate!"

Yang Qingcai was shocked: "How is it possible? What's the matter? Li Shijian doesn't keep his word! Didn't he say many times that he would only use night battles to sneak attack and take away my gray county?"

At this time, Yang Qingcai's IQ was already zero, and he was completely dizzy.

The guard said: "It's the north gate guards, open the city gate, and let Li Shijian enter the city!"

Yang Qingcai sighed: "Two generals, you go and organize our soldiers and horses, and take them all to surrender!"

Wang Han Ma Ming said: "Heavenly King, what about you?"

Yang Qingcai said: "He killed several relatives of this king, how can I surrender to him?—— but after you surrender, please ask Li Shijian to raise your noble hand for this king and let go of the rest of my Yang Qingcai's family." ”

When Wang Han Ma Ming heard this, he was not angry, led the troops, refused to obey Yang Qingcai's order and surrendered, but came to fight with the Taiping army.

- Speaking of which, Yang Qingcai is still okay with the heart of his subordinates.

However, it was said that Li Shijian's battle to attack the heart not only made Yang Qingcai fall ill, but also made the already low morale in the city even lower, so that the soldiers had no heart to fight, and they all wanted to surrender, and some even escaped from the city.

There was the defender of the north gate, under the leadership of the general, who wanted to open the north gate, go out of the city and surrender, and made an appointment with the Taiping army of the Li family to capture the city.

Li Shijian had already sent people to keep an eye on the movements in the city, preparing to organize a night attack to capture the city in the past two days. As soon as they received the report that the defenders of the north gate of Gray County opened the city gate and surrendered, they immediately sent troops.

As soon as the Taiping army entered the city, the defenders in the city either surrendered or fled with their heads in their hands. Although the two generals of Wang Han and Ma Ming did not surrender and led the troops to meet the battle, they were not opponents, one was captured by Li Shijian, and the other was captured alive by Song Yi. Not long after, Li Shijian personally led people to surround the county office.

At this time, only Yang Qingcai personally guarded 100 people in the county government, and Li Shijian led troops into the government, and 100 people had already fled. However, there are Taiping troops inside and outside the city, and where they can flee is nothing more than the difference of being taken prisoner one step earlier and one step later.

Yang Qingcai was lying on the bed, hearing the noise of people outside, and after listening carefully, he knew that the Taiping army had hit his door, so he propped himself up and committed suicide by touching the bedside sword, and suddenly, a group of people rushed over crying and shouting.

Some people shouted, "Son, don't do short-sighted things!" and some people shouted, "Husband, take us home and farm!" and someone shouted, "Abba, I don't want you to die!"

When Yang Qingcai heard this, he was shocked, closed his eyes, and shed tears!

This is exactly what it is: the merit has been made into the dream of Nanke, and the feelings are more than lovesick gray.

However, several people had already rushed to his side, and Yang Qingcai had to open his eyes with tears, but saw his old mother, a wife and a concubine, two sons and three daughters all gathered around the bed, and He Zeng was missing one. Yang Qingcai's mother said:

"Ah Cai, you get up, get up and confess your mistakes to the Emperor Khan, the Emperor Khan is not bad to us, and he did not let us suffer.

What's more, our Yang family, our ancestors have been ordinary people for generations, and there is no one who is an official, and there is no life to be an official. When you rebelled, my mother was scared all day long. I'm afraid that if you lose, this family will not be able to save your life!

Now that the Emperor Khan is gracious and spares our family, why don't you get up and kowtow to the Emperor Khan?"

Yang Qingcai sighed and said, "Grandma, I've made you suffer from your sin!"

Yang Qingcai said to his wife and concubines again: "Help me get out of bed." ”

At this time, Yang Qingcai was helped up by his wife and concubines, and when he got out of bed, he knelt down to Li Shijian and said: "Emperor Khan, I, Yang Qingcai, am convinced and willing to surrender!"

Li Shijian stepped forward to pick up Yang Qingcai and said with a smile: "Please get up!

Hearing this, Yang Qingcai got up and said: "Thank you, my lord, the Emperor Khan, for forgiveness! It turns out that the Emperor Khan is benevolent and virtuous, and he has neither killed my Yang Qingcai's entire family, nor has he killed Senator Fu! Yang is willing to persuade Senator Fu to surrender. ”

Yang Qingcai came forward, and Fu Liming naturally surrendered. So Huangzhou and Hongzhou were flat. Li Shijian immediately sent people to look for Shi Qiangsheng throughout Huangzhou.

——In this battle, Li Shijian called himself "Attacking the Heart and Forcing Surrender".

After Yang Qingcai surrendered, Li Shijun led the army to Huangzhou, and Li Shijian asked people to go to Dahu Prefecture to temporarily represent Lin Heng, asking Lin Heng to come to Huangzhou to discuss matters.

A few days later, the marshals of the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition and the Marshal of the Western Expedition arrived, and Li Shijian discussed the military situation with the second marshal and Yan Junping, Liu Wuming, Tian Mengchang, Xu Xing, Wen Ziming, Xu Wenhu and other strategists.

Next, the direction of the Taiping Army's attack will be the Datong Khanate of Zhongzhou Huangfu Junyou, or the Dadu Khanate of Du Huaibiao?

Lin Heng said: "My lord Khan, after the Nanping Khanate conquered Qingzhou, he suddenly stopped moving. The exact reason for this is not yet known. According to General Mo's opinion, we should hit Chungju first. ”

Li Shijian said: "Why?"

Lin Heng said: "The Nanping Khanate is our ally, and the Chungju Emperor Fu Junyou is the weakest among the nations; moreover, his Datong Khanate is at war with the Daxi Khanate, and the Northern Eight Prefectures Popular Khanate and the Dadu Khanate are also at war, so it is the best choice for us to attack Chungju." ”

Li Shijun also said: "General Lin is very right. Guys, do you have any other opinions?"

Wen Ziming said: "My lord Emperor Khan, our army pacified Huangzhou and Hongzhou, and fought a lot of evil battles, and the eastern eight states were the first places where war occurred, so it is better to recuperate for a period of time, and at the same time train and select generals, and then fight the emperor Fu Junyou." ”

Yan Junping said: "My lord Khan, at present, Du Huaibiao and Zhong Er are going to fight, Huangfu Junyou and Tang Zirong are fighting, but the Nanping Khanate is not moving; ”

Liu Wuming said: "Senior brother of Emperor Khan, I think that while Huangfu Junyou and Tang Zirong are fighting, and Du Huaibiao and Zhong are going to fight, we should seize the opportunity to fight Du Huaibiao or Huangfu Junyou first." ”

Tian Mengchang also said: "Senior Brother Khan, I also think that it is appropriate to take the opportunity to enter the army now. It's just that we should fight Huangfu Junyou first, after all, Zhongzhou is the center of the world, and after the unification of the world in the past dynasties, the capital is set in Tianning Tiantong Erfu, and our Taiping Khanate naturally has to fight Zhongzhou first. ”

Xu Wenhu said: "Senior Brother Khan, I think it is better for us to fight Emperor Fu Junyou first, after all, the opportunity is rare!"

However, what Wen Ziming and Yan Junping said about recuperating for a period of time is also reasonable, and I suggest that our army can be divided into three armies, left, center, and right, and the three armies will take turns to go out to fight, so that we can not delay the fighters, but also allow the army to recuperate. ”

Xu Xing also said: "My lord Emperor Khan, what Xu Wenhu said is extremely clever, may my lord Emperor Khan think deeply." It's just that after the Nanping Khanate conquered Qingzhou, it didn't move, whether it was to recuperate or have other plans, we have to figure out the reason. ”

Li Shijian said: "Okay, let's first agree on the division of the army, and then send someone to find out the real reason why the Nanping Khanate did not move!"