Taiyuan City has been bombarded for five days.

The north gate has been completely destroyed, and a lot of bricks and stones blocked inside have collapsed. Most of the walls above and around the north gate have severely peeled off, and a large piece of rammed earth collapsed in one place.

There is no complete female wall on the top of the city wall. Almost all the walls have been collapsed. The top of the city wall is full of potholes, covered with broken bricks and shells, so it is difficult to find a place to stand.

In this case, it is difficult for the defenders to organize effective defense. If Qin Chuan leads his troops to attack the city, he can attack at any time.

But Qinchuan did not attack the city because there would inevitably be a large number of casualties when attacking. Taiyuan City was a king of Jin, and the officials inside would inevitably resist desperately. From entering the city, there would be certain casualties. After entering the city, they would also face fierce street fighting. They would also have to attack several other city gates, attack the Jin Palace, Ninghua Palace, Hedong Palace, Yining Palace and many other royal palaces, as well as various gentry and wealthy families in the city.

Qin Chuan only has three thousand soldiers and horses. If this little force pours in, he may have to fall into the quagmire of street fighting.

You should know that there are more than 10,000 defenders in the city. If the officials and gentry in the city pay for the people to mobilize the people, it will be no problem to raise 20,000 to 30,000 defenders.

Moreover, it is difficult to exert the maximum power of artillery and muskets in street battles. The enemy hides in a corner and throws bricks, or fires cold guns and arrows, which may cause casualties to the Guandi Army.

Taiyuan is not Qin Chuan’s strategic goal, and it cannot be a loss of troops and generals here.

Keep your strength and sweep all the way to the south, and the number of people harvested is no less than looting a Taiyuan City.

Therefore, on the sixth day, Qin Chuan still didn't say hello, and directly pushed the cannons to continue bombarding the city.

The people in the city can't stand it anymore.

Before the bombardment began, Wu Yan quickly summoned the guards and officials in the city to discuss countermeasures.

Because the news just came from the east: Shouyang City has fallen.

Several merchants including the Fan family in Zhangjiakou Fort were attacked north of Shouyang City. Liu Liangzuo led his troops to rescue him. Unfortunately, he was defeated and defeated. Liu Liangzuo led the remaining troops to retreat to Mengxian. The general under Qinchuan, Liu Youzhu, immediately led his troops to Shouyang City, and broke the city in just half a day.

The magistrate of Shouyang, Zhang Yixiang, the county magistrate Tao Zhishu, Wang Shiying, the gang general of Shanxi East Road, Wang Youyi, Wang Jiabao, Zhai Jia, Tian Shengqi, Shouyang gentry Mengniu, Yin Lili, Li Yi and others were beheaded, and their heads were hung above the four gates.

In addition, there were as many as thousands of soldiers, officials, yamen runners, gentry, family guards, etc., and seven officials, gentry and merchants in the city were robbed, with more than 7,000 stones of grain, more than 30,000 taels of silver, countless cloth, silk, cattle, sheep and horses.

However, the Guandi Army left 100 taels of silver and 100 stones of grain to each of the officials, gentry and merchants, saying that they were leaving them a way out.

Moreover, the Guandi Army did not violate the ordinary people in the city, and neither killed or looted them at will.

Not only that, they also killed all the gangsters, gangs, villains, etc. in the city, without leaving any one left, and they were killed completely.

This move made the people who were originally trembling in the city applaud. When the Guandi army left Shouyang City, many people took the initiative to pack up their belongings and follow them.

There are also tenants, long-term workers, etc. from the families of major officials and gentry families, and they are also driven away by various means such as coercion and inducement.

In the end, there were more than 7,000 people who followed the Guandi army to leave Shouyang City, which was as large as most of the population in the city.

Now, the Guandi army and the people are coming towards Taiyuan City in a mighty manner.

Wu Qi knew that he could no longer sit still and wait for death.

When the Guandi Army joins Qin Chuan, the other party will likely attack the city immediately.

The North Gate was already full of holes and could not be defended at all, and it was impossible to defend.

So, early in the morning, Wu Yan's face looked ugly. After everyone arrived, he asked with a dark face: "What should we do now?"

Everyone quickly lowered their heads, looked at their eyes, nose, and hearts, and no one dared to say anything.

"snort!"

Wu Qi was a little angry: "Wang Zhong, this matter has arisen because of you. What should you do?"

"this……"

Wang Zhong's face was also ugly, so he quickly stood up and bowed, saying, "Master Futai, we wait... we only need to hold on for another three or five days and wait for reinforcements to arrive to relieve the danger of Taiyuan."

Wu Qi slapped the table violently: "Hmph! Reinforcements, where are the reinforcements you mentioned?"

"Shouyang City was captured, Liu Liangzuo fled from Meng County, and Jiang Guan, Yanmen Pass, had two thousand troops but said he was ill. He ignored the orders of the Fu repeatedly. Ni Chong and Zhang Dechang, with 4,000 troops stationed in Jiaocheng and Wenshui, but lied that the Guandi army was under heavy troops from Luliang Mountain and did not dare to rush to Taiyuan."

"Where are the reinforcements you mentioned?"

"this……"

Wang Zhong was speechless and had to lower his head and dare not say anything.

"snort!"

Wu Yan patted the table again.

Xia Zhixian, the prefect of Taiyuan, said carefully: "Master Futai, it is better to let the gentry in the city pay some money and food, recruit people and villages in the city, gather 20,000 troops out of the city to fight against the Qin thieves, and defeat them in one fell swoop."

"Go out of the city to fight? Don't you know how sharp the Qin thief's firearms are? The 20,000 troops left the city, and I'm afraid they were defeated by his artillery before they even had the military formation."

"Besides, there are two thousand soldiers and horses in the Qin bandits plundering everywhere in the area south of Taiyuan. If we leave the city and fight, the two thousand soldiers and horses will definitely run too far again. Who will resist it?"

Hearing this, Xia Zhixian also hurriedly lowered his head and stopped saying a word.

"Master Futai, it's better to... discuss peace."

In the atmosphere was tense, a word suddenly came from the corner.

Everyone present turned their eyes to each other, and then they realized that the person who spoke was Du Yingtang, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi.

Since Wang Zhong brought thousands of troops into Taiyuan City, Du Yingtang gradually withdrew from everyone's sight. With Wu Yan and Wang Zhong there, he could not speak in military affairs at all.

"Peacemaking?"

Wu Qi frowned.

"Yes, peace talks."

Du Yingtang stood up, bowed to him, and then said, "Master Futai and General Wang have just arrived, and they may not know Qin Chuan very well."

"This person is completely different from the leader of the bandits, and is different from the Tartars outside the pass, Dongnu, etc.."

"Qin Chuan is the most important thing. One is profit. You cannot get up early without profit, and you cannot take profits at all times. If he does anything and does not get enough benefits, he will never give up."

"The other word...is Via."

"Vi?"

Wu Yan frowned again.

Everyone present was also puzzled and looked at Du Yingtang in confusion.

Du Yingtang cleared his throat and continued, "Yes, the second word he paid the most attention to is the word "Wei."

"At that time, Wei Shijie and others, with him, robbed military fields in Ninghua, and killed his people. As a result... Wei Shijie and the heads of the 300 personal soldiers he brought were hung outside Taiyuan City."

"Xu Tingrong, the son of Xu Yijie, commander of Zhenwu Guard, received an empty salary in Ninghua, and ran into Qin Chuan in public in Xinzhou City. Qin Chuan said he wanted to take Xu Tingrong's life, but Xu Tingrong died outside Xinzhou City under the escort of hundreds of personal soldiers."

"King Ninghua... Hey, when Xu Dingchen and Lord Xu were still the governor of Shanxi, Zhang Zai, under his tent, contacted various forces, mobilized hundreds of elite troops to pretend to be a merchant, and entered Loufan to assassinate Qin Chuan, but he did not expect that all the heads of those people were hung outside Taiyuan City."

"When two hundred elite Jiannu sneered into Loufan and attacked Qinchuan, he still kept Jiannu's heads at Lord Xu's feet, saying that blood would flow into a river, but later it turned out to be a river."

"Including Jiannu, two hundred Jiannu wanted to kill him, but not long ago, there were no less than 20,000 Jiannu who died at his hands."

"From three hundred heads to Xu Tingrong's death, Qin Chuan's actions are to establish his authority, just to tell everyone that he is not easy to mess with. Whoever messes with him is a situation that will never end."

"Now, Liu Liangzuo, Zhang Yixiang, Wang Shiying and others robbed him of silver, but Liu Liangzuo was seriously injured. Zhang Yixiang and Wang Shiying were beheaded and hung up in the door for public display."

"And General Wang...hehe, General Wang killed dozens of Guandi Army, captured his people, and robbed his property. How could he give up?"

"Everyone knows that he is conquering Hetao recently. He may not want to lose troops and generals in Taiyuan City, otherwise he would have attacked in."

"But if he can't get enough benefits and cannot kill people to establish his authority... With his nature, he may attack no matter how much he suffers, and kill blood in Taiyuan City."

"So, we can only negotiate peace with him."

"But the condition for peace talks is to give him enough benefits and the opportunity to establish his authority, that is, he should be given money, grain and people, and the amount is not small, and the food may cost more than 5,000 stones and more than 10,000 taels of silver."

"For the Futai Lord, this number may be very large, but if it is spread to the gentry and powerful people in the city, it will be too much at all. Each family will take a few hundred yuan of grain."

"As for killing people to establish their authority..."

Speaking of this, Du Yingtang looked at Wang Zhong and then said, "His man died at the hands of General Wang, and his property was also robbed by General Wang, so this matter must be solved by General Wang."

"Mr. Du, what do you mean?"

Wang Zhong frowned and stood up.

Du Yingtang was not afraid, but just smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Du means that if you want to negotiate peace, General Wang needs to hand over a few people out to pay for his life, otherwise there will be no negotiation."

"this……"

"Mr. Du, are you sure to negotiate with Qin thief?" At this time, Wu Yan suddenly intervened and asked.

"I dare not say I am sure, but Bei Zhi has dealt with Qin Chuan and can say a word or two with him. I am willing to give it a try."

"Um."

Wu Qing nodded and did not ask any further, but lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Wu Yan suddenly slapped the table and said, "Okay, that's it. Lord Du, you will go out of the city today to negotiate with Qin Chuan, and try to get him to withdraw his troops today."

"General Wang, you will hand over the people who killed and rob Qin Chuan's subordinates to vent his anger."
Chapter completed!