Knowing that Chen Hansan swore to defect to Yanlu under the city and sent troops out of the city to attack the Huaidong army, Yuan Hancheng, the king of Chu, sat on a sandalwood chair and muttered to himself: "Chen Hansan, this dog thief is really doing a fake show!" He sat there in a daze, lifeless and motionless, as if he was dead, and the generals such as the chief of the palace, the chamberlain, and the commander of the guard camp were also at a loss for a while, helpless.

Chen Hansan is really about to descend, they are trapped in Xuzhou City, and they can't escape with their wings.

Donghu started in the name of punishing the people, and since the southern invasion, he has treated officials and scholars quite favorably and courteously, but it is a matter of "killing" the Yuan clan, which is very bloody and never leaves room for it.

Yanhu wanted to settle down as soon as possible, stabilize the rule, and adopt a policy of wooing the gentry and gentry, and the war-torn northland, it is difficult to resume production for a time on the old scale, and a large area must reduce taxes and taxes to recuperate, but Yanhu must maintain a huge military expenditure, and must also have a group that can pull out the knife and plunder.

There is no more suitable person than the children of the clan.

Over the past 200 years since the founding of the Yuan family, the clan has multiplied for 12 generations, and there are more than 100,000 people with the surname of the Yuan king, which is already the largest clan force in this land.

Although many of the children of the clan are also doing poorly, in terms of the total amount, the wealth and land occupied by the children of the clan are also an extremely staggering figure.

When Zhang Xie coerced Yanjing to defect, almost all the officials and gentry were not harmed, but there were about 50,000 people, including palace maids, eunuchs, and children of the royal family, which became the most thorough targets of plunder since Yanhu's southern invasion.

Except for more than a dozen people with the title of prince who were dragged to Dongshi to be killed in the name of punishing the people, almost all others without exception were reduced to slavery and driven to Liaoxi to raise horses and reclaim famine. In the past year or so, nearly 10,000 of these people who were driven to western Liaoning as slaves died of starvation, freezing, and disease.

plundering the royal clan, Yan Hu not only obtained millions of acres of fields and large houses, but also plundered tens of millions of gold, silver, pearls and jade, and Yan Hu relied on these to support the huge military expenditure in the early stage.

After the Huaisi War, the palace of the king of Chu also declined, and there was no glory in the past, even the son-in-law of the king of Chu was killed by Lin Lian, confiscated the family property, and there was nowhere to redress the grievances, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse.

The palace of the king of Chu in Xuzhou outside the city of Wangzhuang also has more than 2,000 hectares of dry land, the granary still stores more than 100,000 stone rice grain, the silver kiln does not store much silver, only more than 100,000 taels, and the famous palace of the king of Chu is quite incompatible. However, there were nearly 3,000 people in the palace of more than 100 people, as well as servants, maids, guards and family members, and it was easy to get 100,000 taels of gold and silver if they plundered all over the place.

Regardless of Yan Hu's consistent attitude towards the children of the clan, Chen Hansan has openly rebelled, can he still let go of the big fat sheep of the Chu Palace?

Yuan Hancheng's heart was like ashes, he opened his eyes and looked at the people around him, and said with a face like dead wood: "There are many places that are not to be seen over the years, please be lenient, the current trend has been lost, you all run for your lives, don't follow me to be buried in the palace of the king of Chu......"

Chen Hansan controls the whole city, and the children of the clan naturally can't escape, but the guards, servants, and maids of the guard camp escape, and Chen Hansan will not be bored enough to search and arrest the whole city to kill.

Yuan Hancheng is a rare virtuous figure in the clan, and he also presided over the Zongren Mansion in his early years, and he was generous to the people in the palace. Originally, some people had the idea of escaping in their hearts, but Yuan Hancheng said this, and Changshi, the inner servants, and the commanders of the guard camp all howled loudly, vowing to live and die with the Chu Palace, but no one was willing to escape from the Chu Palace.

There are 600 people in the palace guard camp, and the armor is bright and neat, after all, it hinders the majesty of the palace, but there is little training, and Yuan Hancheng is also afraid of suspicion, and he does not dare to train the guard camp strictly on weekdays. The guards took out the guard of honor, which could scare the people, but fighting against Chen Hansan's tiger and wolf army, Yuan Hancheng was also disheartened when he thought about it.

At this moment, there was a loud uproar in the front court, and Yuan Hancheng only thought that Chen Hansan's men and horses broke into the door, and stood up with a blue face, only hoping that Chen Hansan could see that for the sake of acquaintance, he would cause less killing!

"Lord Chu! What do you guys do here? Zhang Yubo held a knife in his right hand, and his crimson official robe was stained with a large area of blood, the color was darker, and the smell was fishy.

"Master Zhang, I can't imagine that you are willing to be Chen Hansan's minions!" Yuan Hancheng said dejectedly.

"Lord Chu, you are confused, I, Zhang Yubo, would rather die in vain, and I may be in the same league with the thief," Zhang Yubo said angrily and anxiously, "Chen Hansan, the dog thief, has openly rebelled against Yanyu, Chen Hansan's men and horses are about to attack, where are the guards and generals of the Chu Palace, why don't you pull it out and resist the rebels?" ”

"Does it work?" Only then did Yuan Hancheng know that Zhang Yubo did not defect with Chen Hansan, but led the crowd to fight and join the soldiers and horses of the Chu Palace, but he didn't think that relying on the Chu Palace, the hundreds of people under Zhang Yubo could have any room for struggle.

"As long as you rely on the palace to guard until tomorrow, you will definitely be able to slash Chen Hansan's dog thief to death, why should the prince of Chu say these depressing words at this time!" Liu Xilin stood up and shouted, the sound was like thunder, and he wanted to wake up the king of Chu, Yuan Hancheng and others! "Chen Hansan's plan to defect is obvious, how can he believe that he will conspire with Huaidong to conspire with Hu Gou? Acting before, it was just a plan, my family had already set a strategy to break the enemy, and the prince of Chu cheered up and saw how Chen Hansan, the dog thief, died tomorrow without a place to be buried! ”

Liu Xilin, on behalf of Huaidong, followed Zhang Yubo into Xuzhou City to communicate the plan of deceitful surrender and lure the enemy, and there were still 300 elite soldiers who followed Liu Xilin into Xuzhou City - Chen Hansan could not stop Liu Xilin from bringing 300 people into the city, in his opinion, Liu Xilin could not do anything with 300 people into Xuzhou.

After these three hundred brave soldiers entered the city, they were stationed in the Xuzhou Mansion, although Chen Hansan also sent two battalions of soldiers to be stationed nearby to monitor, but before the public rebellion, they could not really surround the government and the government without getting through, which provided an opportunity for Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin to take the lead and kill the government.

After Sun Zhuang led the front wing cavalry into Jiuli Mountain and Chen Hansan had not publicly sworn to defect to Yanhu, Liu Xilin and Zhang Yubo acted decisively, leading 300 brave soldiers and more than 100 government guards to rush out, not only killing a battalion of soldiers who were monitoring near the palace, but also killing the soldiers and horses who were monitoring outside the palace of the king of Chu.

However, there were mournful voices all over the palace of the king of Chu, and he had already planned to be arrested, and he was defenseless.

As soon as the north and south Cao Road was broken, the city of Xuzhou declined, during the Huaisi war, Ding Zhuang in the city pulled up the head of the city to defend, there were heavy casualties, and the people in the city had difficulty in maintaining their livelihood after the war, all of which led to a sharp decrease in the number of households in Xuzhou City.

Chen Hansan commanded 20,000 soldiers and horses, so he had to set aside a large area of the mansion in the city as a military camp and stationed in the city.

But if you want to say that the city of Xuzhou is still conducive to defending the place, it must be the Chu Palace, there are more than 1,000 soldiers to defend it, and it is not impossible to hold on to it for two or three days.

Xuzhou is the residence of the king's domain, and the palace complex is the most spectacular and solid in the city.

Chu Wangfu covers an area of about 100 acres, as solid as a small fort, the outer parapet wall is based on bluestone, up to eight feet thick, non-rushing car can not be attacked, above the base wall, the blue brick is the body, slightly tightened to the middle, to the top of the wall is five feet thick, can stand guard condescendingly, counterattack the enemy attached to the wall, and the four corners are also the tower for archery.

In addition, the outside of the palace is surrounded by residential communities, and the streets and alleys are deep and narrow, although Chen Hansan is strong in the city, there is not enough space for him to deploy troops - if he can't clear the houses around the palace, there will be a large space for Chen Hansan to send troops to attack the north and south gates of the palace in a short time.

This situation is more favorable, relying on the palace for a short time.

If Lin Jian wants Chen Hansan to fall into the middle of the road, he can't prevent Zhang Yubo from returning to Xuzhou; Letting Liu Xilin accompany him is to take advantage of the favorable situation of the Chu Wangfu in Xuzhou City to strictly defend in a short period of time, and at least to create the illusion that Chen Hansan "intends to use the Chu Wangfu to contain his forces".

Yuan Hancheng was full of illusions that Chen Hansan could conspire with Huaidong to trap and kill Yanlu's soldiers and horses by deception in order to achieve great success, and Chen Hansan openly rebelled, and he was in chaos. At this time, I heard Liu Xilin say that Huaidong was intent on using Chen Hansan's rebellious design, and Yuan Hancheng didn't know why Huaidong had such self-confidence, but if a drowning person saw the floating straw, it was impossible to care whether the straw could save people, and would only subconsciously reach out and grab it.

Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin looked calm and calm, but Yuan Hancheng cheered up, laughed, and said: "Okay, Lin Huaidong is good at using tricks, it really deserves its reputation, and see how Huaidong Army will make Chen Hansan's dog thief die tomorrow without a place to be buried!" It seems that before this, he hated Huaidong and had the heart to drink blood and eat flesh.

Morale is like this, if you don't have fighting spirit, you have thousands of troops and horses in hand, and you will only sit back and wait to be captured, and you don't have the heart to resist; Between these three words, these people seemed to be able to see that Chen Hansan would be defeated and die tomorrow, and cheered up as if they were beaten with chicken blood.

Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin stole the first move, and Chen Hansan's soldiers and horses monitoring the palace and the palace of Chu were caught off guard and rushed into the palace of Chu, but Chen Hansan's soldiers and horses reacted quickly, and at this time, they reorganized to encircle and attack the palace of Chu.

There was not much time to explain things, and Liu Xilin sent more than 100 elites to block the north and south gates of the Chu Palace, in case Chen Han's three soldiers and horses suddenly came in while there was no defense.

After guarding the two main points of the north and south gates, he asked Yuan Hancheng, the king of Chu, to summon the generals of the palace guard battalion to defend the head of the parapet wall to prevent Chen Hansan's soldiers and horses from attacking over the wall. In the end, he gathered all the servants and men in the palace, mixed with Zhang Yubo's officials, and made a reserve team with more than 100 elites around Liu Xilin, ready to fill in the gaps at any time.

In the end, the family members and women in the palace are concentrated in the courtyard in the middle of the palace, and even if the outer parapet wall is lost, they must be prepared to fight to the last soldier.