It turned out that Gongzi Nan, the general of the Huo army, received the news that Huo Guo was besieged in the middle of aiding Geng, and he immediately ordered to stop the advance and turn around and return to the division to save Huo.

Gongzi Nan is an excellent general who grew up in the war; He learned that there were "pursuers" ahead, so he set up an ambush circle, defeated the Darong cavalry who came to pursue, and then avoided the heavily guarded fox kitchen, crossed Fenshui to the east, and captured the weakly defended Kundu. You must know that there are 200 of Darong's most important hostages in Kundu. The Huo army obtained these hostages, and then turned back to the west bank to surround the fox kitchen, and Da Rong, who was stationed in the fox kitchen, immediately gave the head of the leader of the Jin army to the Huo people, and joined the camp of the war against the Jin.

Hu Shen sent the news of the defeat to Shen Sheng as quickly as possible, and when Shen Sheng received the information, the Huo army had not yet captured Kundu, but the generals had already guessed Gongzi Nan's combat intentions.

Shen Sheng regretted not sending the hostages back to the Jin Kingdom, but it was too late to return to defend Kundu; If you want to ensure that the lower army is not completely annihilated, you must either capture Huo or retreat quickly before Gongzi Nan arrives.

But in the end, the generals made a desperate plan to lure the enemy. Shen Sheng blocked the news of Huo's army's return to the division, so as not to shake the morale of the army (especially the Darong army). He ordered the Jin army stationed in the southernmost part to retreat secretly, and ambushed this army in a pass area thirty miles south of the Huo State; Then he retreated with the coalition forces besieging the city.

The Huo people found that the Jin army was fleeing at night, and at the same time received information that Gongzi Nan occupied Kundu; As soon as the defenders changed their pessimistic and depressed mood, their morale suddenly rose, and the soldiers brandished their weapons and shouted loudly, demanding that the invading enemy be annihilated, as if they could really complete the task of destroying the enemy. With no reason to refuse the soldiers' request and the temptation of victory, Hober decided to personally lead his army in pursuit of the Jin army.

The Huo army quickly attacked, and they captured many coalition soldiers who were left behind, and also captured a lot of brine cargo. The Huo army, which had tasted the sweetness, marched even more briskly, and the soldiers were carrying all kinds of loot, like a group of robbers returning with a full load, and all the formations were in chaos.

The pursuers plunged into the encirclement set up by the Jin army, and the Jin army ambushed the Huo army, and the lower army, which was "running for its life", also turned around and attacked the ambush soldiers back and forth, and finally surrounded and annihilated the Huo army, Huo Bo and many generals became prisoners of the Jin people.

Shen Sheng escorted Huo Bo back to the capital of Huo State, and the Huo people were no longer able to resist, so they had to open the city gate and surrender; When Huo surrendered, it was the day when the defenders of Fox Kitchen Darong defected.

After receiving the information of the Da Rong mutiny, the Jin people isolated the Da Rong officers from their subordinates, and divided the Da Rong troops into pieces and placed them in the Jin military camp. The Dajon people complained that their situation was not at all like that of the Confederates, but like prisoners of custody.

When Gongzi Nan arrived with his army, the city of Huo Guo was already full of the banners of the Jin Kingdom. At this time, a very difficult situation arose: the hostages and part of the army of Da Rong who were rescued (and re-taken by the rescuers) were on the side of the Huo army, and the rest of the Da Rong army was on the side of the Jin army; Although Gongzi Nan held Da Rong's hostages in his hands, Huo Bo and the capital were in the hands of the enemy, and Huo Jun had the dual identity of the hostage and the hostage.

The two sides confronted each other like this, and the Jin army did not attack, and the Huo army did not attack the city. Shen Sheng didn't have any good solutions to the problem in front of him, but he wanted to break the deadlock as much as possible; And Gongzi Nan didn't have much to do, but he wanted to maintain this deadlock as much as possible.

Shen Sheng has a gentle temperament and never likes to solve problems with bloody means, let alone kill innocent people. But this time, he had to issue a strong threat to Gongzi Nan. He said that if Huo Jun did not surrender to the Jin, the Jin would execute a group of office members every few hours, and finally Huo Bo and Gongzinan's families.

But Gongzi Nan ignored this, because he knew Shen Sheng and his teacher Du Yuanqian well; He didn't believe that Du Yuanqian would teach his students to be bloodthirsty and brutal, nor did he believe that Shen Sheng, who had always been known for his gentleness and purity, would use the means pointed out by Qianfu to solve the problem.

But as soon as the hour came, the Jin people pushed the two doctors and their adult sons to the city, and the executioner shouted to the city: "Nan! These are the first people to die at your hands! Then he ordered them to be hanged on the battlements, and the bodies were hung outside the wall for public display.

Although the first few people to be executed were all famous villains in Huo Guo, the number of villains was limited after all, and the stimulation of these corpses to Gongzi Nan was also huge. Gongzi Nan hesitated, and Shen Sheng continued to kill; When the villains had been killed and Shen Sheng was ready to execute some virtuous ministers, Gongzi Nan surrendered to the Jin army.

Shen Sheng handed over the task of dealing with the aftermath to Hu Tu, and then led the army straight to Geng Guo.