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Chapter 149: A Boring War

Zhao Yan's loud shout scared Li Yuan, but Li Yuan didn't understand what Zhao Yan meant. Why did he repeat what he had just said?

"Your Majesty, King You's purpose is to take down Dongdu."

"Zhao Aiqing said this sentence just now."

"No, attacking Dingzhou is just a feint attack. King You actually wants to directly capture the Dongdu. The Dongdu is equipped with all troops and sufficient money and food. As long as he takes the Dongdu, he doesn't have to worry about his money, food and horses."

Li Yuan was shocked: "What should I do?"

Zhao Yan still shook his head and showed doubts: "You only need to ambush an army in Dongdu. But what the old minister couldn't understand is that King You didn't have many troops, so why did he have to divide his troops into two groups?"

"According to the old minister's calculations, even if King You forced himself to conquer, he would only recruit 30,000 new soldiers in Youzhou, just a mob. How would he use these mobs to sneak attack and capture Dongdu, which had a heavy army?"

"Zhao Aiqing thinks that King You still has a helper?"

Zhao Yan looked at the map again. Dagan had enfeoffed many vassal kings since the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. These vassal kings only had military power locally. This is the only case like Li Feng who also had administrative power, which is Li Rui's preference.

The economy of Hebei Road is not very good, so there are not many princes enfeoffed, and there are only four princes. The other three hereditary princes have bad relationships with King You, and King You cannot come up with anything that can impress them.

Therefore, this is what Zhao Yan is surprised about. Where did Li Feng get his troops and dare to raise an army, and even divide his troops into two groups?

"Zhao Aiqing, since King You is young, we can take him down and ask about these questions."

Zhao Yan thought about it, no matter how capable Li Feng was to fight or how strange his ideas were, this is the fact that there were few soldiers and horses in Youzhou, and it was not difficult to defeat him.

The little eunuch used the re-programmed imperial edict, and the imperial edict was appointed Guo Pengyun as General Zhenbei, leading troops to quell the rebellion of King You.

After reading it, Li Yuan and Zhao Yan sent the imperial edict. As for those procedures, there was no need to leave. The situation was urgent, and it would take time to go through the process again.

What's more, almost all the six ministries are Zhao Yan's people, and following the process is just a matter of Zhao Yan's words.

The imperial edict was soon passed to Guo Pengyun. After reading the imperial edict, he still couldn't believe it. He thought to himself that King You was crazy? He also sneaked into Dongdu?

"Come on, send ten thousand troops to Dingzhou to quell the rebellion of King You, and the rest of them went out with me to ambush."

Guo Pengyu believed that he had sent 10,000 troops to suppress the feint attack, and if Zhao Yanshu had not made the news bigger, he would have wanted to send a thousand people to the point.

Ten thousand soldiers were dispatched, and then Guo Pengyu also took the soldiers out.

The news was soon discovered by the spies arranged by Li Feng. Seeing that the time was ripe, he arranged 500 special forces to arrive at Dongdu first, and he led a large army to raid behind.

The troops were mobilized at the same time. At the same time, Zhang Shoulin brought his troops to the city of Dingzhou, and did not attack the city, but just shouted outside.

In the military tent, Zhang Shoulin and Chen Da sat on the stool, eating snacks, and a spy kept reporting on the situation in Dingzhou.

The situation in Dingzhou and Youzhou was similar before. The one thousand defenders he gave were actually almost empty salary. There was not even five hundred defenders in real terms, and one round of charge could definitely be taken.

The magistrate of Dingzhou was similar to the magistrates before Youzhou, and they were all useless. When the army arrived, he actually ran away with two concubines, and the defenders became even more frightened.

Fortunately, the governor of Dingzhou City was a responsible person. Instead of running away, he rectified the morale of the army and summoned some people to the city wall to prepare to defend Dingzhou.

"Report, General, there are a few more crossbows on the city wall."

When Zhang Shoulin heard this, he took off the melon seeds and walked outside to check it out. Sure enough, he saw that there were many more people on the Dingzhou city wall. A middle-aged man in an official robe in the leader looked like he was living and dying with Dingzhou.

"Chen Da, is this scene familiar?"

Chen Da gave Zhang Shoulin a blank look and said nothing. Zhang Shoulin smiled: "When you attacked Youzhou, the prince looked like this. I didn't expect that Dingzhou also had a tough heart. Let's check who this person is."

Du Biao said unceremoniously: "General Zhang is still mentioning those old things, what does it mean?"

"Just kidding, don't be so nervous. You used to be bandits, I used to be a little guard, we're about the same."

Chen Da knew that Zhang Shoulin had no malice, so he smiled: "General Zhang is frank, but this man is ready to defend Dingzhou to the death, which is clearly looking down on us. The prince asked us to attack, not to stop. I suggest taking Dingzhou to strengthen our momentum

.”

Zhang Shoulin thought for a moment: "Okay, take Dingzhou, let's go in and have a warm meal, pull the crossbow over, blow the door open, and take Dingzhou."

The large crossbow used to attack the city was pushed to the front, and several people pulled the crossbow arrows as thick as their arms and pointed them at the Dingzhou city gate.

With a harsh sound, the crossbow arrow left the string and instantly penetrated the Dingzhou city gate, opening a huge hole. The crossbow arrow continued to decline, and it penetrated several people, and then it fell into the Dingzhou city.

Dingzhou Governor Lu Chengping, seeing the power of the crossbow, his face turned green. Dingzhou is no more than Youzhou. The city wall is tall and the city gate is thick. Dingzhou is just an ordinary city wall. If it is shot, the city gate will be broken.

What's even more terrible is that the defenders below who had never experienced the war were scared, and several timid people were even more scared.

Lu Chengping sighed deeply, saw the knife beside him, and the city gate was broken soon. Should he surrender or commit suicide?

After Zhang Shoulin finished his power, he nodded with satisfaction and asked someone to come forward and shout: "Li Yuan killed his father, the law of heaven is not tolerated, and King You performed the way for heaven. If you want to stop him, you will go against the will of heaven and die without forgiveness. Open the door and surrender,

No killing will be done.”

There was the timid defender who actually knelt on the ground and shouted for surrender on the city tower.

There was one, and soon all the defenders on the city wall surrendered.

Lu Chengping sighed: "Lu is willing to surrender."

He only shot an arrow and took down a city, which made Zhang Shoulin feel very boring and not challenging at all.

"Let's go, these people are too cowardly."

Chen Da looked at the surrendered Lu Chengping and others and then realized how terrifying Li Feng was. The situation Li Feng faced at the beginning did not have to be much stronger, but he could reverse the situation and not only won the battle to defend Youzhou, but also

Killing one of their leaders can only be described as miracles.

When the army entered the city, Zhang Shoulin treated all surrenders peacefully, and everything else such as official positions remained unchanged.

After being loosened, Lu Chengping asked, "Is it true that Your Majesty killed his father?"

Zhang Shoulin glared: "Then can there be fake? Eunuch Hai, do you know?"

Lu Chengping shook his head.

"Then you know, Eunuch Wei?"

Lu Chengping still shook his head, Zhang Shoulin had no choice but to say: "This news was told to the prince with the eunuch of the late emperor. It must be true, you don't have to doubt it."

"What should the prince do?"

Zhang Shoulin should have said: "Catch back to the capital and kill the fake emperor who killed his father."
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