The study room is brightly lit, and Gao Qinzheng and another core figure in the Bohai Society, Lu Sijian, play chess while playing. Lu Sijian is the nephew of Lu Lingxuan, a famous female prime minister of Northern Qi. He is also in his early fifties this year. His face is thin, with a wisp of long beard about one foot, and he looks quite fairy-like.

Unfortunately, although he looked hypocritical, his private life was very licentious. He relied on his wealth to marry more than 20 wives and concubines and placed them in more than a dozen other houses in Anyang County and Hejian County.

This time, he came to Gonggao County to avoid it. He also brought three beloved concubines with him. Others lived a boring life, but he lived a very comfortable life.

"Brother Qin thinks the leader of the association can conquer Ji County this time?" Lu Sijian asked with a smile.

"I don't think the defenders are important. Guo Xuan's main force has been wiped out, and there are thousands of troops left to defend the city. I think the key is Luo Yi. Will he take the lead in occupying Ji County?"

"Will Luo Yi do this?"

"It's hard to say! His son killed Yuan Yi, and the Lord hated him to the core. He must also know in his heart that if he didn't want to wait for death, he would definitely take the initiative, but..."

Gao Qin smiled and said, "Unless he is not afraid that the Lord will hand over his blood letter of loyalty to the Emperor of Sui Dynasty, with his fingerprints on it, and you will know the authenticity with the fingerprints left by the Ministry of War. I think Yang Guang will never spare him, so he will definitely hesitate and make it difficult to decide, so we can seize the opportunity."

Lu Sijian smiled and said, "If I capture Jixian, I will first choose a good house for myself. I will not pay attention to anything else, but the house must be large, at least fifty acres."

"Does my brother want to marry a bride again?"

"I don't believe Brother Qin doesn't want to marry two partial concubines."

The two of them immediately laughed tacitly.

At this moment, the sound of rapid footsteps came from outside, and the manager was reporting urgently, "Master, there were news from the guards that the Sui cavalry were found outside, with thousands of people!"

Gao Qin stood up in fear, the chessboard fell to the ground, and the chess pieces jumped all over the ground. He shouted in dismay: "How could there be Sui cavalry?"

Lu Sijian was so scared that his face turned pale, "Brother Qin, what should I do?"

Gao Qin calmed down and hurriedly ordered: "Just tell me my order, so that General Tang can immediately lead his army to fight and cover us to evacuate!"

The manager ran away, and Gao Qin said to several followers: "Go and notify everyone to go to the dock to get on the boat, and we will leave by boat!"

The manor was in chaos, with a thousand guards climbing up the wall and shooting arrows randomly in the dark. On the dock, more than 50 important members of the Bohai Association did not care about packing their belongings, so they boarded two passenger ships. The water gate opened, and the two ships sailed towards the small river one by one and one behind.

The two ships sailed about 300 steps in the river. Gao Qin secretly prayed in the boat, hoping that the Sui army would be dragged down and let the ships buy time to enter the Zhangshui. As long as they enter the Zhangshui, the Sui cavalry would have no choice but to do anything to them.

At this moment, the ship suddenly shook violently, and more than 20 people in the ship fell down one after another, screaming in surprise. A boatman shouted: "Master, there are big trees on the river surface, and the ship cannot pass."

Gao Qin shouted anxiously: "Quickly withdraw to the manor!"

"There are also big trees falling behind!"

Gao Qin's heart seemed to fall into an ice cave. He knew that they could no longer run away. At this time, a stern shout came from the shore: "General Zhang, the Hebei recruitment envoy, has arrived. The people on the boat listened and surrendered can survive. If we do not surrender, we will set the boat on fire!"

Gao Qin hesitated for a moment. Is Zhang Xuan really coming? At this moment, the other members of the Bohai Association had already shouted, "Don't set fire, we surrender! Surrender!"

Everyone was afraid of death, so they raised their hands to run out of the cabin. Gao Qin had no choice but to sigh and followed everyone out.

The ship had already landed. In just a moment, more than 50 members of the Bohai Association were all captured by the Sui cavalry. Gao Qin knew that the situation was hopeless, so he sent someone to ask the guards to surrender without making unnecessary resistance.

In the lobby of Wangshan Pavilion, more than fifty members of the Bohai Association were lined up in dejectedly to sign the registration book, and Sui soldiers stood around.

Zhang Xuan stood on a high place and looked coldly at the group of white and fat men. At this time, a soldier brought Gao Qin to Zhang Xuan, "Master, this person is the head!"

Zhang Xuan glanced at him and smiled and said, "I am Zhang Xuan. I guess you should have heard of it too. May I ask your grand name?"

Gao Qin smiled bitterly and said, "I am Gao Qin, brother of Gao Hui!"

"I have heard that the No. 4 figure of the Bohai Association is disrespectful."

Zhang Xuan said he was disrespectful, but he had no sense of respect. His face was filled with a sarcastic smile, "If I guessed correctly, these fifty people will at least be senior officials above the Minister of the State Council in the future. There should be powerful officials such as Shangshu, Prime Minister and other powerful people. Mr. Gao should be the prince."

"General Zhang handed us over to the foolish monarch, and at least he could be the Minister of the Secretariat."

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "I don't have the idea of ​​handing you over to the court, I just want to make a deal with Gao Lie."

Gao Qin suddenly felt a glimmer of hope in his heart, "Standard Zhang, please say, what deal?"

Zhang Xuan hasn't figured out what benefits these people can bring to him, but he must solve the most urgent problem.

"There are three conditions in total. I'll talk about two when I go back, but the first condition is that Gao Lie immediately withdraws from Zhuo County, and the Bohai Sea will not be allowed to be involved in Youzhou!"

Gao Qin said for a while: "I don't know if he will agree?"

Zhang Xuan sneered, "If he doesn't agree, none of you can survive, so let him be alone!"

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It was late spring and early summer, and it was the time to be full of vitality. However, there was a solemn atmosphere over Ji County, which was even more severe than the cold winter of 39. When Guo Xuan led his army to the south, 5,000 people left to defend the city in Ji County, commanded by General Wen Ji, and assisted by his assistant Yao Kai.

The four gates of Jixian County were closed, the suspension bridge was pulled high, and the soldiers guarding the city at the top of the city opened their bows and arrows, and looked nervously at the uninvited guests under the city.

Gao Lie personally led an army of 30,000 to Ji County, and the army was stationed in the wilderness about one mile from the southern city. Although many people thought that after Guo Xuan died, Luo Yi should inherit Youzhou, so the Bohai Association would control Youzhou through Luo Yi, and even Zhang Xuan thought so.

But in fact, Gao Lie never thought of handing over Zhuo County to Luo Yi. From the beginning, he wanted to occupy Zhuo County by himself, establish the Qi regime in Zhuo County, and then gradually annex Luo Yi's army, while opening up Liaodong and joining Goguryeo.

The death of his son Gao Yuanyi only strengthened Gao Lie's determination to eradicate Luo Yi.

"Mr. Mourinho, you send someone to send a letter to the city and ask them to surrender before noon, otherwise they will not survive if the city is broken!"

Mu Shunxin bowed and agreed, and quickly wrote a letter of persuasion to surrender, which was handed over to a cavalry. The cavalry urged his horse to run towards the city. When he approached the city wall, he set off a bow and arrow and shot the letter of persuasion into the city with one arrow.

The soldiers had already picked it up and hurriedly ran to give it to the main general Wen Ji. Wen Ji is now a general of the Xiongwu, over thirty years old, tall and thin, with high martial arts skills and a calm personality. He is one of the four card generals under Guo Xuan. Since Lin Feng was dead, Hou Junji went to Taiyuan, Bai Jing participated in Zhang Xuan, and only Wen Ji was left in the four card generals.

Wen Ji had already learned the news of Guo Xuan's death from the defeated soldiers. On the one hand, he strictly guarded the city, and on the other hand, he urgently sent a letter of eagle to Luo Yi for help. He did not know the fact that Luo Yi had defected to the Bohai Association. The governor was killed, so naturally the deputy governor was temporarily in charge of Youzhou and waiting for the official decision of the court. This is the normal thinking of ordinary people, and Wen Ji was no exception.

Wen Ji took the letter and looked at it, and wanted to surrender himself. He sneered, how could a dignified Sui general surrender to the remnants of Northern Qi?

At this time someone shouted: "Mr. Yao is here!"

Wen Ji turned around and saw Yao Kai walking quickly. He hurriedly walked up and handed Yao Kai the letter of surrender to him, "Sir, please see!"

Yao Kai was also deeply saddened by Guo Xuan's death. Although Guo Xuan was greedy for money and did not evacuate in time, it was Yao Kai who planned it by going to Dou Jiande and Gao Shida's lair. Yao Kai thought he was also responsible, which made him feel very heavy.

Yao Kai took the letter and looked at it. He pondered for a moment and asked, "General Wen, how many defenders are there in the city?"

"In addition to the more than two thousand soldiers who escaped, there are now about seven thousand."

"How long can seven thousand people guard the city?"

"This is really hard to say!"

Yao Kai smiled bitterly and said, "The key is that he doesn't know the opponent's combat effectiveness, but their army does not have too many, with more than 30,000 people. If the siege weapons are not sharp enough, I guess I can defend for about three days. Of course, if the opponent's combat effectiveness is very strong, it will be dangerous."

Yao Kai walked to the battlements and looked into the distance. He saw that the enemy troops were neat, bright and bright, and murderous intent. There were no flags. Most people could not see the origin of this army, but they were definitely not bandits. Yao Kai was also surprised that there were troops in the Bohai Sea Association.

After staring for a long time, he turned around and asked, "How long does it take to get here from Beiping County?"

"At least two days!"

Yao Kai was also a little embarrassed. If they took half a day, they had to hold on for a day and a half. The premise was that Luo Yi had to come in a hurry. If Luo Yi delayed his departure, or Luo Yi was intercepted by the enemy, then things would be troublesome.

"Sir, what should we do?" Wen Ji asked again.

Yao Kai sighed, "See if we can recruit people to help defend the city. Everyone can unite and maybe last for a few more days."

After pausing for a moment, Yao Kai said again: "Actually, my most worry is that the enemy is preparing to siege the city to attack reinforcements. They have other ambushers, but the target is Deputy Commander Luo. You also know that Deputy Commander Luo has not many troops, only 15,000 people. He cannot lead to the army. Then the reinforcements are only more than 10,000. Even if the other party does not have ambushers, these more than 30,000 people are still in trouble."

Wen Ji thought for a while and said, "I'm considering whether I can ask Zhang Xuan for help!"

"I'm afraid it's unrealistic for Zhang Xuan to come to aid. First, it's far away. Second, there are three bandits of Dou Jiande, Gao Shida and Lu Mingyue blocking the road. If there are too many reinforcements, his Qingzhou will be in danger, and if there are too few reinforcements, it will be useless."

"Then are we helpless?"

Yao Kai shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Now there is only one choice. To encourage the people to defend the city together, everyone works together to determine how long they can. If you really can't defend, you will break through. I think Bohai will use Jixian as the capital, and generally not massacre the city, so the general should not have any psychological burden."
Chapter completed!