In the dimly lit water prison, Han Jun, who was beaten all over with sticks and canes, spent the past few days like years. In addition to the severe pain in his body, he was frightened by the slightest disturbance outside. He was still worried about Gu Zhilong in anger.
They will be dragged out and cut into pieces at any time.
He felt a mixture of regret and regret in his heart. Of course, he regretted that Han Qian had ruthlessly used them as bait. Regret also regretted that he had served well in front of the concubine. With the concubine secretly assisting him, there was no need for him to worry about his rapid rise to the top and come here to compete for this false reputation.
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"Bang", Han Jun's heart trembled when he heard the iron gate being pushed open fiercely from the outside. When he saw dozens of armored soldiers walking in along the passage, his face became even more ashen. He looked at a school lieutenant.
The general-looking man came over and motioned to the jailer to open the cell door. Han Jun felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
"The Governor has invited three Masters Han!" The general stood in front of the cell door. His words were polite, but the stern look in his eyes made him want to eat the three people in this cell alive.
Han Jun felt his whole body stiffen. Now he was slumped on the ground, unable to move. Are they going to be dragged out and quartered?
"I wonder which family Mr. Gu has decided to send us to?" Han Daochang was still calm, and with iron locks on his hands and feet, he moved to the cell door with difficulty and asked.
In Gu Zhilong's rage, although he did not push them out and behead them, nor did he cut them into pieces, he suffered a lot of physical pain in the past two days.
Han Daochang limped forward. His thigh was so painful that he suspected that his left thigh bone had been cracked by ten canes yesterday.
However, since Gu Zhilong did not kill them, Han Daochang was not worried that their lives were in danger now. He even suspected that Han Qian's use of troops against Lang Xi without authorization had been ruthlessly defeated, and Gu Zhilong had completely broken up with Yue Yang this time.
After that, there is no room for change and no worries anymore. At this time, we should make a choice between Anning Palace and Chuzhou, and send the three generations of their ancestors and grandchildren as a certificate or gift.
"The boys from the third family should have taken Langxicheng," Han Wenhuan coughed violently. He was old and weak and could not withstand physical torture. Gu Zhilong had no intention of killing them with his stick for the time being, so he suffered the least. At this time
I straightened my robes a little, walked to the cell door, and asked the general, "Is it Mr. Li or the military supervisor Zhang Ping who has arrived in Xuancheng?"
"Hehe!" The general just stared at Han Wenhuan coldly and smiled without saying a word, and motioned to the left and right to drag Han Wenhuan, Han Daochang, and Han Jun's ancestors and grandsons out of the prison.
Seeing that his grandfather actually imagined that the Chishan Army had captured Langxi City and sent people to negotiate, Han Jun endured the severe pain of being beaten to a bloody pulp on his back, and couldn't help but resent his grandfather. He thought that Han Qian was a wolf-hearted guy who held no grudges.
My father and second uncle were so rebellious that they used their uncle and ancestor as bait to lure Gu Zhilong and Yaying out of Langxi City. Even if there was a slight possibility of taking Langxi City, how could they use their lives as bait?
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They were taken out of the water prison, turned left and right in the streets and alleys, walked for a while, and were taken to a side courtyard in the east wing of the front house of the Xuanzhou Governor's Mansion.
Seeing Fu Mo and his son, who had also been tortured to a bloody pulp, sitting on the side of the hall with difficulty and waiting, Han Daochang was about to ask Fu Mo if he knew how the war in Langxi was going in the past few days. He heard footsteps outside.
The sound rang out, and in a blink of an eye, Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei walked in, led by several armored soldiers.
Han Daochang was stunned: Did the Chishan Army really capture Langxi City?
Han Jun was as stiff as if he had been struck by lightning. The appearance of Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei meant that what he feared most would not happen. But seeing Han Qian's scenery, he felt a hundred times more jealousy gnawing at his heart.
How could this bastard capture Langxi City?
At this moment, Han Jun even wanted to see Han Qian defeated and killed.
"Mr. Han, Mr. Han, Mr. Fu has suffered." Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei glanced at the hall, stepped forward and saluted Han Wenhuan, Han Daochang, Fu Mo and others, and said.
"It's okay, it's okay. The Chishan Army really captured Langxi, but the Chuzhou Army didn't send troops to reinforce Langxi?" Han Wenhuan was relatively calm, but he still found it somewhat incredible that the Chishan Army could capture Langxi City. After thinking about it,
I thought it was possible that the Chuzhou Army's reaction was too late and they didn't have time to take action, which gave the Chishan Army a chance to capture Langxi City.
Han Daochang opened his mouth and murmured for a long time, not knowing what to ask.
"Langxi City was captured the day before yesterday, and the Chuzhou Army was intercepted north of Nantang Village and could not move south," Zhang Ping said calmly, "Mr. Yuan and I went to Xuancheng to meet Gu Zhilong yesterday -"
Han Daochang, Han Jun, Fu Mo and his son opened their mouths and looked at Zhang Ping. It was unbelievable that the Chishan Army could capture Langxi City with elite attacks from both sides. How weak were the defenders of Langxi City?
Just kept watch for more than a day?
Han Wenhuan perked up a little and asked, "So, Gu Zhilong agreed to serve Yueyang?"
"Mr. Han is the special envoy sent by His Highness. The specific matter of recruitment must be decided by Mr. Han yourself. This is also what Han insists on. It's just that Gu Zhilong hesitated for a day.
Only then did we agree to meet Mr. Han first," Zhang Ping said, turning to Fu Mo Gong and handing over his hand, "This matter has caused Mr. Fu to suffer, but if Gu Zhilong can be persuaded to surrender to Yueyang, we will definitely report the achievements of the Fu family.
Your Highness!"
"It's easy to talk." Fu Mo said coldly. He was involved in Wuwu's disaster and almost lost his life, but no matter how angry he was, what could he say at this time?
Seeing that Han Daochang, Han Jun and Fu Mo and his son were all scarred, they must have suffered a lot in the past few days. Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei insisted on calling doctors to apply medicine on them first, and then patiently and carefully explained the current situation to them.
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Although the Chuzhou Army continued to reinforce troops and horses in Liyang City, they were not worried about their determination to send troops southward in the short term.
Because the Chishan Army captured Langxi so quickly, the Huzhou Army did not react at all.
After Langxi City was captured and the Chuzhou Army that intended to move south was repulsed, the Huzhou soldiers not only did not dare to send more troops to the front lines of Xianshan Lake and Jiudu Mountain, they were even worried that the Chishan Army might attack Huzhou's western cities.
Using troops, yesterday we abandoned Anji City in the south of Xianshan Lake and surrounded by mountains at the northeastern foothills of Fuyu Mountain, and retracted the more than 3,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Anji back to Changxing City in the east.
This allowed the Chishan Army's troops on the Eastern Front to be mobilized at will to reinforce the Western Front.
At present, the Chishan Army has five thousand elite troops stationed in Nantang Village, and Langxi City has sufficient food and grass. Han Qian captured the teachers and students of Guangde Academy, part of the reserve troops, part of the women's camp, part of the juvenile camp, and three battlefields.
Thousands of injured soldiers, a total of nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses, were gradually moved into Langxi City for resettlement in the past two days.
In addition, Han Qian and Gao Shao and Zhao Wuji gathered 6,000 soldiers and horses and stationed them at the southern foot of Magu Mountain and Xiaomiao Peak on the north bank of the Xiadu River, less than 20 miles away from Xuancheng, and also blocked the communication between Xuancheng and the north.
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Han Qian and Zhang Ping, Yuan Guowei sent Zhou Yuanhe and other prisoners of war back to Xuancheng, but asked Gu Zhilong to make a decision on whether to surrender or not to surrender within ten days. If the deadline is exceeded, they will no longer accept negotiations. The Chishan Army will consider continuing to use troops in the hinterland of Xuanzhou.
——Even if Xuancheng will not be attacked immediately, cutting off the communication between Xuancheng and the counties to the south will be enough to make Gu Zhilong uncomfortable.
"Gu Zhilong is required to surrender in ten days?" Han Daochang asked, "Did Han Qian put forward any additional conditions?"
"Today is the third day. Han summoned envoys to talk to Mr. Han. Mr. Han was appointed by His Highness to surrender. Everything was discussed within the framework given by His Highness. He has no right to interfere," Zhang Ping said.
Even though Han Daochang knew that the situation was stronger than his own, and that he had nothing to do with his nephew who deserved to be killed, he couldn't help asking angrily: "He used us as bait to lure Gu Zhilong out of Langxi so that he could use troops against Langxi. We are here
How could Gu Zhilong believe what he said?"
"If Mr. Han and Mr. Han had known their righteousness beforehand, and in order to use fighting to promote peace and surrender, they would not hesitate to use their bodies as bait to lure Gu Zhilong into the trap. I believe what Mr. Han and Mr. Han said, it is still
It has weight." There were only Fu Mo and his son in the room, Zhang Ping patiently induced Han Daochang and said.
"This Zhuzi is stingy with his feathers and reputation at this time, but how can he really hide his behavior of treating his uncle and his ancestors as flesh and blood from the world?" No matter how good-tempered Han Daochang is, the veins on his forehead are jumping with anger at this time.
He asked almost growling.
Han Jun was so angry that his brows were twitching. He didn't expect that they had been betrayed by Han Qian, but today they would have to cover up his heinous crimes. He asked in a hateful voice: "Is it possible that we were murdered by Han Qian? Can't we?"
Are you going out to complain?"
Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei looked at each other, sat aside, and temporarily ignored Han Daochang and Han Jun, who were still angry. They said to Han Wenhuan: "The Chishan Army is too difficult. There are 300,000 old, weak, women and children, and the daily rations for infants and children are...
They could capture Gu Zhilong, but dozens of people died of swelling and starvation every day. Even if they captured Langxi, the food and grass would be exhausted in less than ten days, and it was impossible to surrender to Gu Zhilong. At this time, the Chishan Army captured Langxilang.
Mo, the army was so strong that the Chuzhou army did not dare to go south to attack. The passage to the north of Xuanzhou was blocked. Gu Zhilong would only die if he did not surrender..."
"Xuanzhou soldiers still have more than 10,000 elite soldiers at this time, and they can continue to recruit troops. If the Chishan army really wants to attack, won't they be afraid of cutting their own teeth?" Fu Mo said angrily, "I heard that the Chishan army is...
Attacking Langxi City will cause a lot of casualties!"
"Yes, the casualties of the Chishan Army were not small this time, but the generals used their lives to kill the Chuzhou Army so much that they did not dare to go south, and it is also true that Gu Zhilong only dared to huddle in Xuancheng and did not dare to cross the Xiadu River," Zhang Ping said to Fu Mo.
He raised his hands and said, "If Gu Zhilong and the Zhu family do not surrender this time, the Chishan Army will have no choice but to attack the city again. In order to make up for the heavy casualties of the generals, Han Zhaoping will not strictly restrict military discipline. Of course, Mr. Fu will help
When persuading Gu Zhilong, you can speak more harshly..."
Fu Mo's face turned pale and he was speechless by Zhang Ping.
Since ancient times, it is common for soldiers to carry out large-scale plunder in order to reward and compensate generals after wars. However, Zhang Ping hinted that Han Qian's actions may be even more ruthless. Is he going to massacre the noble families in Xuanzhou?
Fu Mo thought that with Han Qian's ruthlessness, this might not be impossible. He thought that his wealthy family was currently considered a meritorious minister of Yueyang. It seemed that there was no need to stand in Yueyang and stand on the opposite side of the Chishan Army just for the sake of temporary anger.
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At this time, the Chishan Army was no longer the ragged, hungry rabble they had seen before the war! Now it was the mighty Chishan Army, a shining and rising Chishan Army!
Han Wenhuan pondered for a long time, sighed, and said to Zhang Ping: "At this time, I want to surrender to Gu Zhilong and let him put down his wariness against the Chishan Army and Han Qian. It is probably impossible to persuade him to give up his military power. Han Qian is
No problem?"
"Under the framework given by His Highness, it is entirely up to Mr. Han and Mr. Han to decide how to talk to Gu Zhilong." Zhang Ping said.
