[Just got home, it's a little late, sorry!] 】

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Xinxiang County is located on the south bank of the Vinh Chai Canal, and the transportation status is very important, as early as a few years ago, Li Jiancheng secretly ran Xinxiang County, making it his foundation in Hanoi County.

Xinxiang County is just a very ordinary middle county in Hanoi County, if the number of population, Xinxiang is far inferior to Hanoi County, in terms of strategic position is important, it can not be compared with Jiyuan County, in terms of convenient transportation, it is not as good as Wen County where the Yongji Canal flows into the Yellow River.

The main reason why Li Jiancheng decided to establish a foundation in Xinxiang County was that his brother-in-law Zheng Yan served as the county magistrate in Xinxiang County, and with the cover of the government, Li Jiancheng's various activities in Xinxiang County would naturally not be discovered.

This time, Li Jiancheng personally led 20,000 main forces to Liyangcang, leaving Xu Shiji to lead 5,000 troops to garrison Xinxiang County.

Since Zhang Xuan led the army to Liyangcang, Xu Shiji really felt worried, he had been in Wagang for many years, and knew the defense of Liyangcang well, with Zhang Xuan's strong naval strength, it was easy to capture Liyangcang, on the contrary, without a thousand stone ships, even Lu Mingyue's 100,000 troops would be difficult to capture Liyangcang, and Li Jiancheng led 20,000 troops to take Liyangcang, which was almost impossible.

Xu Shiji was worried that Li Jiancheng's 20,000 troops would be discovered by Zhang Xuan and annihilated by the Qingzhou army in one fell swoop, although he kept telling himself that this was just his own speculation and that it was unlikely, but it turned out that the more worried he was, the more it would happen.

Just when Xu Shiji felt uneasy, his spies outside the city suddenly discovered that a cavalry of nearly 5,000 Sui troops appeared in the suburbs of Xinxiang, this discovery surprised Xu Shiji, and he immediately realized that Zhang Xuan's army had entered Hanoi County, and Li Jiancheng may not have found out.

Xu Shiji immediately sent his subordinates to Cangyan Mountain to inform Li Jiancheng, but a few days passed. Except for the cavalry of the Sui army, which was infested, the main force of the Sui army was not found, which made Xu Shiji faintly feel that something was wrong, perhaps the Qingzhou army laid a trap and waited for Li Jiancheng's army to enter the pit.

Before dawn, Xu Shiji was woken up by Cheng Biting Jin's loud voice in his sleep. "Go and wake up Lao Xu, and I'll skin you one step later."

Xu Shiji put on a robe and walked out of the door, only to see that the yard was stopped by several personal soldiers, and he was so anxious that he stomped his feet, Xu Shiji frowned, "Zhijie, what's wrong?" ”

"Oops! My ancestor Xu, you have finally come out, go to the city to have a look! Soon the price of the coffin will go up. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Cheng Yanjin stepped forward and grabbed him and left. "I'm not talking nonsense, I don't know how many troops are coming outside, and the city is about to be attacked."

Xu Shiji was startled, and hurriedly followed Cheng Yanjin to the head of the east city, only to see that the defenders on the city head were all nervous, he walked to the battlements and looked down, and was taken aback, there were all sporadic fires outside. As far as the eye can see, this is at least the size of an army of 100,000.

But Xu Shiji knew. It is impossible for Zhang Xuan to send 100,000 troops into Hanoi County, and he does not have so many troops, Xu Shiji looked carefully for a while, and gradually saw a clue, "No, the firelight is two and a pair." This is the effect of the soldiers of the Sui army holding double torches, at most 40,000 troops, it is impossible to have 100,000 people. ”

"Lao Xu, you read it right!" Cheng Yanjin asked nervously.

"There will be no mistake, the Sui army is just putting pressure on our hearts. Let's panic. ”

In fact, there is no need to set up a light array, Cheng Yanjin is already flustered, it should be a heart ape, this is Zhang Xuan's army! Maybe Zhang Xuan himself is below, he Cheng Biting Jin is Zhang Xuan's buddy, the first person to follow Zhang Xuan, now Zhang Xuan is the lord of Qingzhou, no matter how bad he is, he can mix with Jibei County too guarded, or be a heroic general, what a scenery it is, after returning to his hometown, those who usually look down on him should kneel down and call him Uncle Cheng, hehe! There are also a few famous prostitutes in Baicuilou, he can play as much as he wants.

At this time, Xu Shiji found that Cheng Yanjin was distracted, grinning and giggling, saliva was about to flow out, and he couldn't help kicking his ass hard, "Wake up, don't dream." ”

Cheng Yanjin was so frightened that he woke up from his daydream, quickly wiped the corners of his mouth, his face was flat, and said solemnly: "Since Xu Gong is the lord of a city, he bears the lives of tens of millions of people, I think Xu Gong should think about the overall situation."

Xu Shiji didn't bother to pay attention to him, walked quickly to the west of the city, and shouted loudly: "Prepare to roll the wood and stones, and move all the arrows from the warehouse." ”

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The sky is gradually brightening, the Sui army under the city also shows its magnificent face, 30,000 Sui army infantry is divided into six large phalanxes, like six huge black carpets, arranged in a row in the wilderness outside the east city, the armor is bright, the spears are like a forest, murderous, chilling.

At the front of the Sui army, about two hundred paces away from the city, stood two huge trebuchets, like two giant squatting beasts, staring at the city.

Although the Sui army was ready, Zhang Xuan had no intention of attacking the city, and the result he wanted was to go to the army to attack and conquer without a fight, not to mention that there was also a general Xu Shiji in the city that he was eager to subdue.

"Dashuai, you're ready!" A partial general reported to Jang Hyun-yu in a low voice.

Zhang Xuan looked at the obviously nervous defenders at the head of the city, and smiled: "Launch!" ”

The two trebuchets creaked apart, the Sui soldiers carried two huge black balls onto the iron bag, and one soldier raised a fire and lit the oil rope, and everyone dodged away.

Another soldier used his long knife to cut the rope that held the throwing rod in place, and only listened to 'Bang! Boom! With two sounds, the trebuchet fired, and two huge black balls flew into the air towards the city.

The soldiers at the head of the city exclaimed, they all fell down, they thought it was the trebuchet of the Sui army began to attack the city, but unexpectedly, two big black balls suddenly cracked in the air, and thousands of small pieces of paper floated out of the balls, blown by the wind, like snowflakes, flying to all corners of the county.

"General Xu!"

A soldier rushed forward and handed a note to Xu Shiji, Xu Shiji glanced at it, couldn't help but be angry, and shouted: "All leaflets are handed in, and those who possess them will be beheaded!" ”

Under the city wall in the distance, Cheng Yanjin grabbed a handful of leaflets and stuffed them into his arms.

"Oops! Lao Tzu has an upset stomach, go and! He clutched his stomach and ran down the alley.

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After the Sui army marched in a demonstration, they began to set up a large camp and put on a posture of besieging the city to fight a protracted war, and a large tent rose from the ground, densely packed like mushrooms that grew overnight.

At the same time, Cangcao participated in the military Pei Hong was sent into the city to negotiate, but Xu Shiji's attitude was very tough, inside the east city gate, Xu Shiji, who was wearing a thin scale armor and holding a horse lance, blocked Pei Hong's way.

He had no intention of inviting Pei Hong to the official office to drink tea and talk, so he put his lance across the saddle and said to Pei Hong directly by the city gate: "Please Pei join the army and tell General Zhang, I, Pei Shiji, am ordered to defend the city, and be loyal to the military order, my soldiers are not afraid of life and death, and are willing to live and die with Xinxiang City, I am these words, Pei joins the army, please go back!" ”

Xu Shiji's attitude was expected by Pei Hong, and he didn't expect to persuade Xu Shiji once, he took out two more letters and handed one of them to Xu Shiji, "This is a handwritten letter from my marshal to General Xu, please take a look at it." ”

Xu Shiji took the letter but didn't look at it, he glanced at the other letter in Pei Hong's hand, "Who is the other letter for?" ”

"This is for Zheng County, may I ask if Zheng County's order is available?"

"He's not here for a while, give me the letter! I'll transfer it to him. ”

Pei Hong hesitated, but still gave him the letter, "Then trouble General Xu." ”

"If there is nothing else, please go back to Pei join the army!"

Xu Shiji waved and shouted, "Open the city gate!" ”

The city gate slowly opened a crack in the door, Pei Hong took two entourages to turn over and get on the horse, urging the horse to run out of the city, Xu Shiji looked at their backs and went away, at this time the city gate slowly closed, the drawbridge was pulled up, and Xu Shiji opened Zhang Xuan's handwritten letter to him

(To be continued.) )