At night, the sound of fighting suddenly broke out in the south of Jiankang City, resounding throughout the night sky, and the noise was very loud. It reached the Qingxi area in the east of the city. In the Yuzhang Palace, the Yuzhang King Chen Shuying, who was walking back and forth in the yard, listened to the movement, stopped and looked to the southwest.

When the battle begins, I don’t know what the outcome will be. If I succeed tonight, it means that the official army will regain control of the south of the city and connect with the west of the city. At that time, the enemy troops occupying Taicheng will be surrounded by three sides.

Five days after the Zhou army entered Jiankang, the Chen army had not been able to recover Taicheng and drove away the Zhou army occupying Taicheng. This made Chen Shuying very anxious. Tonight was a critical moment, so he naturally restless.

Chen Shuying's palace was located in Qingxi, which was also a place where many powerful people gathered. The Zhou army attacked Taicheng that night, and most of the officials were not in the palace. Therefore, now all civil and military officials in the city were headed by King Yuzhang, gathered in the palace and obeyed Chen Shuying's command.

After a day of busy life today, Chen Shuying, who was exhausted, had no time to rest. At this time, he listened to the movements in the south of the city and sighed. It took him a long time to sit down patiently.

During this period, the Zhou army barely controlled the Changganli area south of Zhuquehang. Chen Shuying racked his brains to this end and thought of many ways to recover the south of the city, but the other party also used many means to control the south of the city.

The Zhou army had no foundation in Jiankang and was unpopular. Because of insufficient troops, in addition to occupying Taicheng and preventing the official army from approaching Taicheng, there were not many troops stationed in other parts of the city, and the same was true in Changganli.

Therefore, in order to win people's hearts, the Zhou army asked some Chen army scum to deceive the people, trying to win over ignorant and ignorant people to serve them by distributing food and cloth.

In order to incite the people, many officials from Chen State were arrested. In public, they ordered people to pretend to be miserables to denounce the so-called "crimes" of these officials, so as to win people's hearts.

However, what is ridiculous is that the people in Changgan are not buying it. Even though the scum worked hard to act and killed many officials who were "extremely guilty", the people knew very well that they were not confused by these behaviors.

When those officials who were brutally killed were taken to the criminal stage, the people who were forced to watch were not frightened by Zhou Bing and kept shouting "He is a good person" to show their resistance.

This is the truth that the official army had come back from Changgan's detailed work. More than one person said that, so Chen Shuying knew that the people's hearts were available and the people's hearts were towards the court, so he was very moved.

However, the unarmed people cannot deal with Zhou Bing, who is like a wolf and a tiger, and need foreign aid.

Foreign aid is the elite soldiers he sent out. Tonight, with the support of the people, he will attack Changganli and drive away Zhou soldiers and their scum who are accomplices of tigers.

At this time, the movements in the south of the city were made by the Chen army and the Zhou army entrenched in the south of the city. Although Chen Shuying didn't hear it very clearly, he could barely tell that the noise was not thunderous.

Thunder is the movement made when the Thunderbolt exploded. There was no sound of thunder at this time, indicating that the Zhou army in the south of the city was caught off guard when attacked and had not had time to use the Thunderbolt.

Thinking of this, Chen Shuying breathed a little relieved. He seemed to have succeeded in the night attack and successfully attacked Changganli. Then the next thing was the end of Zhou army defeating and fleeing into Taicheng in a panic.

As footsteps sounded, the guards came to report that several generals were asking for a meeting outside. Chen Shuying quickly let the other party enter.

Several generals led by Xiao Maha went to the royal palace to discuss matters at Chen Shuying's request. Chen Shuying saw that several generals on the battlefield were all there, and he felt much more at ease and expressed his thoughts.

After the official army recovered the south of the city, the Zhou army could only trap Taicheng. In order to avoid the opponent's in a hurry and burning the palace when he was defeated, Chen Shuying planned to negotiate with the other party and make a deal.

On the condition that the other party could leave Jiankang safely, the Zhou army generals were required to release all prisoners, not to destroy Taicheng, and not to take away the property in the treasury.

This is a way to minimize losses as much as possible. Chen Shuying did not want to trap beasts and fight the Zhou army burned Taicheng. Not to mention anything else, there was countless food stored in Taicheng Taicang. Once it was burned, if the two countries had a feud, the Chen State might have famine in the next year.

The Empress Dowager, the Emperor, the Prince, the Empress and other royal families have already taken a boat into the river from Shitouzhu to Guangling downstream. The envoy sent by the Empress Dowager arrived in Jiankang this afternoon and asked Chen Shuying to temporarily preside over the overall situation of Jiankang, so he had to consider the overall situation.

Chen Shuying planned to use this method to recover Taicheng at the lowest cost. As for how to implement it, civil servants are unreliable and have to listen to the opinions of the old generals.

Xiao Mohe, who was taciturn these days, saw Chen Shuying looking at him and pondered for a moment, then expressed his opinion. He believed that there was a precedent for this move and it was not impossible to implement it.

More than 30 years ago, the Zhou army attacked the two prefectures of Ba and Xiang in the south. The main force of the Chen army immediately advanced westward and broke out fierce battles with the Zhou army stationed in Ba and Xiang.

The Zhou army's navy was defeated, and only one army was left to defend Xiangzhou Prefecture and govern Linxiang. The chief general was He Ruobi.

This man used all kinds of means to make the Chen army besieged Changsha, and in the end, the head commander of Chen army, Hou Ying, could only make an agreement with He Ruodun to let the other party lead the troops and regain Linxiang without fighting.

Xiao Mohe used this old example to agree with Chen Shuying's idea, and then did not say anything more.

Since he learned that his wife had an affair with the official family again, Xiao Maha felt as if he was ashamed. This time the Zhou army invaded Taicheng, the civil and military officials of Chen State were extremely angry, but he was like a passerby who was out of the matter and was unmoved.

Family and country are the goals he fought for throughout his life. Now that his family is in name only, it has nothing to do with him how the Congress has become.

Others did not notice Xiao Maha's changes, and Chen Shuying didn't think so much. Seeing Xiao Maha's worries, he only thought that the other party was worried about the country and the people, so several generals agreed with his ideas, which made Chen Shuying's confidence multiply.

When we recover the south of the city and surround Taicheng, we are going to negotiate with the other party and make concessions.

Recover Taicheng at the lowest cost, keep the large amount of grain and treasury money stored in Taicang as much as possible, and wait for the Empress Dowager to come back, so he can give an explanation.

While discussing, a soldier suddenly came to report. When Chen Shuying saw the other party's embarrassing appearance, he thought to himself that something was wrong. As expected, the other party brought bad news.

Tonight, the government army sneaked into Changganli, and the people were supporting him, and they wanted to drive away the Zhou army occupying the south of the city. It was very smooth at the beginning. The government army successfully crossed the Qinhuai River and entered the eastern section of Changganli.

As a result, this was a trap set by the enemy. Thousands of elite officials and soldiers fell into the ambush of the other party. Although they fought hard, they were outnumbered and most of them were left in Changgan.

According to the surviving soldiers, many of the enemy troops involved in the ambush were people of Chen.

"Snare...Ambushes..."

Chen Shuying murmured, stunned for a moment, and a rage surged into her heart and punched her on the case: "Unclerical people! These unruly people who are accomplices of tigers!!"

Several generals next to him frowned when they heard such bad news. Judging from the situation, Zhou Jun had already gained a foothold in the Changganli area in the south of the city, which meant that their plan to encircle Taicheng was hindered.

Not only that, they also had to divide their troops to guard against the Zhou army in the south of the city, so as not to be careful and be caught by the other party.

Thinking of this, everyone was a little worried, but Xiao Mohe was a little reluctant to speak but stopped.

Tonight's events may be because some people are accusing the tiger, but it may also be the reenactment of that scene back then.

Back then, Zhou general He Ruodun defended Linxiang alone and was besieged by Chen's army. The people around Linxiang were eager to Chen State and often brought rice, chickens and ducks on boats, and took the initiative to reward Chen's soldiers.

When He Ruodun found out, he sent soldiers to pretend to be a commoner and approached the Chen army camp on the grounds of rewarding the army and launched a sudden attack, causing major casualties in the Chen army several times. From then on, the Chen army became a frightened bird.

If someone approaches the military camp, even if they really come to reward the army, Chen Jun would not dare to accept it, and even if outsiders are not allowed to approach it, the people will gradually stop rewarding the army.

Xiao Mohe felt that what happened tonight might not be as everyone thought. Perhaps it was Zhou's re-use of the same trick that made Chen Jun distrust the people in the south of the city.
Chapter completed!