"The city ahead is Shinno City. As long as we want, we can break through this city."

Chen Qingzhi pointed at Xinye City with a horse whip, and before he knew it, he fought from Guanzhong to Xinye.

Chen Qingzhi and others approached Xinye City with a victorious army, causing Xinye City gate to be closed and the defenders to be frightened.

It is no problem to use the troops in the hands of generals such as Chen Qingzhi to break through a Xinye City.

"Xinye is just a town level. If Gao Huan wanted to conquer Xinye, it was easy to get it, but why didn't Gao Huan take it? Because Xinye lost, he would face the continuous attack pressure of Xiangyang and Fancheng. Since the lord decided to take the Central Plains first, he should not be here, and there will be troubles."

Chen Qingzhi finally resisted the temptation to capture Xinye.

"The lord has an order. If Xinye and Xiangyang send troops, they will retreat to Wancheng and the war will not be started lightly!"

Zhang Hua sent the young Jiang Wei to recall Chen Qingzhi, Deng Ai and others who had tried to attack another great prince territory.

Xinye City is small, and it is useless to seize it. It will also have a great war with the great princes in Jingbei.

"It is indeed not advisable to make too many enemies at this time. It is necessary to escort Duan Shao and others back to Wancheng."

The Xia cavalry who pursued Xinye led the captive Duan Shao and other tens of thousands of Northern Qi troops to return to Wancheng.

The defenders of Shinye Castle finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the Xia army leave.

The defenders of Shinye City only had 9,000 people, and they could not defend this small city at all.

Xinye is indeed difficult to defend, but it is just a bridgehead set up by the princes of Jingbei here. The real fortress is Fancheng located north of the Han River and Xiangyang located south of the Han River.

These two cities are mutually supportive, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

When Guan Yu's northern expedition to the Central Plains, he was blocked by these two fortresses before he could see the shadow of the Central Plains and was delayed in taking it down, which led to Lu Meng's opportunity to take advantage of it.

The Battle of Xiangfan, which was launched by the Mongols to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, lasted for a full six years before conquering Xiangfan and breaking through the Jingxiang defense line of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhang Hua was worried that he would take too much time in Xiangfan, so he did not go south.

"Lord, Duan Shao has been brought here!"

Zhang Hua recruited the Northern Qi soldiers who were surrendered in Wancheng, and obtained dozens of military generals at all levels, and added a group of military generals.

In addition, Zhang Hua recruited 80,000 soldiers from Northern Qi to supplement the losses caused by the attack on Gao Huan.

Duan Shao was brought to Zhang Hua.

Duan Shao was a relative of the Northern Qi Dynasty because he was the nephew of Gao Huan's queen Lou Zhaojun.

With Duan Shao’s relationship with Gao Huan, Duan Shao was not as easy as Peng Le to surrender.

However, Zhang Hua has dealt with many military generals, and there is a set of methods to deal with any type of military general: "Duan Shao and Gao Huan have been defeated. You might as well serve me to save the lives of the Gao family, the Lou family and the Duan family."

Sure enough, Duan Shao couldn't help but feel moved.

When Zhang Hua conquered Wancheng, he captured many important figures of the Northern Qi forces alive, including the Northern Qi royal family like Gao Cheng and Gao Changgong, as well as Gao Huan's queen Lou Zhaojun, and many Duan Shao's clan members.

These people are important hostages.

If Zhang Hua wants to drive Gao Changgong and Duan Shao, he still needs to use these hostages captured alive.

"Are you threatening me?"

"That's not the case. You need them to survive, and I need you to fight for me. This is an equivalent exchange. Otherwise, why should I support them? You must know that it is their luck to fall into my hands. Otherwise, if it falls into the hands of Cao Cao and others, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Zhang Hua is telling the truth. After all, Zhang Hua does not have the special hobby like Cao Cao, otherwise Gao Huan's wife Lou Zhaojun would not be able to escape.

Duan Shao fell into hesitation.

Gao Huan's power was defeated, and Gao Huan led tens of thousands of remaining soldiers to Jingbei to try to turn the tables, but the possibility of success was too small.

In order to preserve Gao Huan's bloodline, Duan Shao, as a relative of the foreign country, chose to surrender: "I can serve, but please leave everyone's lives behind."

"Those who know the times are heroes. As compensation, I will leave their lives."

Zhang Hua agreed to Duan Shao's conditions.

Duan Shao's military power is not low, and his commander value is even more than 90. In any force, he is a pillar of the way.

"Thank you."

Duan Shao knew that Zhang Hua's move had given him enough face.

Duan Shao may still be indispensable to ordinary princes, but Duan Shao may not be that important for Zhang Hua. Therefore, Duan Shao did not put forward other conditions.

"It's over, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do."

In the previous battle, Chen Qingzhi's strong enemy, Yao Xiong, who was captured by Zhang Hua, sighed and chose to surrender when he saw Gao Huan's power was defeated.

Yao Xiong was also a military general in the troubled times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. After seeing the rise and fall of power, he also believed that it would not be a big problem to surrender to the new lord after the power was destroyed.

"You are the only one left, Lanling King Gao Changgong."

Among the famous generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty captured by Zhang Hua alive, only Gao Changgong was left without surrendering.

Gao Changgong is Gao Huan's grandson and the most difficult one to surrender.

"I can't surrender."

Gao Changgong still did not agree to surrender. After all, Zhang Hua had just eliminated the Northern Qi forces, and many Northern Qi soldiers who were familiar to Gao Changgong were killed in battle. Gao Changgong could not let go.

"Duan Shao, you are responsible for persuading Gao Changgong to surrender, otherwise Gao Cheng's life will be worrying."

Zhang Hua knew that it was the most difficult to surrender the Northern Qi royal family. Among the Northern Qi royal family, Zhang Hua only wanted to surrender the Lanling King at most and get his high-level iron cavalry "Baibaoxianbei".

Zhang Hua's power is still quite short of high-level heavy cavalry.

As for Gao Huan, Gao Cheng, Gao Yang and his son, they are too ambitious and good at power and difficult to control. Whenever they have the chance, they will try to rebel, so they will at least be destined to be under house arrest.

"I do my best."

Duan Shao also realized that Zhang Hua kept Gao Cheng's life in order to attract Gao Changgong.

If Gao Changgong never surrendered and Zhang Hua lost his patience, he might try to kill these people.

After the three generals Peng Le, Duan Shao and Yao Xiong surrendered, Zhang Hua checked the attributes of the three generals and then gave them appointment.

【Hero】: Peng Le

【Level】: 70

[Commander]: 69  【Military power】: 90  【Intellect】: 51  【Politics】: 66

[Talent]: Immortality (Weapon talent, after Peng Le is injured, defense and toughness increase. Moreover, Peng Le has extremely strong self-healing ability, which can consume the true qi in the body and recover the injury in a very short time. However, the true qi in the body is exhausted and it takes time to recover slowly.)

[Series]: Iron Cavalry with Arranged (Fifth-level troops, although they are conventional troops, because the people and horses are equipped with well-made iron armor, they are fifth-level troops, with terrible defense and attacking ability. The troops are gifted as "True Qi Equipment": consumes the true qi in the body and forms true qi equipment outside the body. The true qi equipment not only covers cavalry, but also covers war horses, and the human and horses are integrated.)

[Source]: The powerful general of the Northern Qi Dynasty almost killed Gao Huan's mortal enemy Yuwen Tai, but let him go. Gao Huan loves and hates him.

Peng Le is a reckless man who is suitable for charging, and there is no doubt about this.

Peng Le's troops are also ordinary cavalry equipped with iron cavalry, but cavalry equipped with iron cavalry is not a low-level military service. Because of its excellent equipment, it also started at least the fifth-level military service.

Baibaoxianbei, Tiefutu, and Xuanjia Army are high-level cavalry equipped with iron cavalry, which is more powerful than ordinary cavalry equipped with iron cavalry.

An iron cavalry with armor is an absolute elite in the hands of any prince.

After all, it takes a lot of money to build a cavalry.

【Hero】: Duan Shao

【Level】: 60

[Commander]: 95  【Military power】: 84  【Intellect】: 86  【Politics】: 78

[First Talent]: Army governance (League talent, Duan Shao's Legion remains absolutely calm, and will not be timid, shaken or disintegrate in any adverse situation)

[Second Talent]: Wait for labor with ease (Legion talent, Duan Shao can choose to greatly improve the attack or defense of the legion, and switch at any time, stick to the enemy, improve the legion's defense. When the enemy is tired, turn to the offensive and increase the legion's attack)

[Series]: Fire Crossbow Team (Seventh-level troops, the army's talent "Fire Crossbow": the true energy turns into true fire and attaches to the crossbow arrow, but it will not burn the crossbow. Even if it shoots ordinary crossbow arrows, it will turn into rockets and burn the enemy.)

[Source]: One of the three generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Duan Shao's ability is far more than Peng Le. He is worthy of being the three generals of Northern Qi.

However, with the ability of the three generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty and others, the Northern Qi Dynasty was still destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty in history. Because the later emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Dynasty killed Peng Le for the crime of treason, Gao Wei, the late lord of the Northern Qi Dynasty, killed Gao Changgong and Huluguang for the crime of treason. After Duan Shao died of illness, no one in the Northern Qi Dynasty could resist the Northern Zhou army.

Many famous generals in Northern Qi died at the hands of their own people.

This is equivalent to that the Southern Song Dynasty was not without famous generals, but the king was afraid of the ability of these famous generals and lacked enough prestige to control these generals, so he could only kill them.

Gao Huan, Cao Cao, Liu Xiu, Li Shimin and other first-generation kings who personally led their troops to fight were basically not afraid of betrayal by their subordinates during their lifetime, because they had enough prestige and won more than defeat. The generals had no reason to betray them and did not dare to betray them.

But once these first-generation kings died in battle, their subordinates would be unable to control their descendants because of their old experiences, or they thought they could not control their old ministers, and coupled with the enemy's plan to disagree, they would soon begin a great purge, the so-called emperor and ministers.

Huluguang and Peng Le were both killed by the plan of discrimination. Gao Changgong was a royal family and had military power, so he was afraid of the Later Lord of Northern Qi. In order to escape from the suspicion of the Later Lord, he did not hesitate to accept bribes to ruin his reputation. He also entrusted his illness at home and ignored political affairs. As a result, he was still poisoned and killed by the Later Lord.

Zhang Hua knew the experiences of the generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and he could only say that the Northern Zhou Dynasty could destroy the Northern Qi Dynasty, unify the north, and lay the foundation for the unification of the Sui Dynasty. It was not unreasonable.

It is also impossible for a famous general and a king to have no ability.

Zhang Hua checked the hero attributes of the third famous general Yao Xiong.

【Hero】: Yao Xiong

【Level】: 71

[Commander]: 89  【Military power】: 92  【Intellect】: 83  【Politics】: 71
To be continued...