Chengshan is just a small hill north of Xiapi City. It is only a few dozen feet high and only two miles in a radius. Zhao Bohu led more than 80,000 Jiangdong Yishi, and it is still more than enough to surround the hill.

Soon, several generals under Zhao Bohu led their troops to surround the Chengshan Mountain. With Zhao Bohu's order, more than 80,000 Jiangdong generals would attack this hill and kill Zhang Jing and the more than a thousand Grand Tutors who followed him into the mountains.

At this time, Chen Jie and Xiahou and Lu, who had led the remnants to break out earlier, learned that Zhang Jing was trapped in Chengshan by the Jiangdong rebels, were panicked and ordered to turn around to rescue him. At this moment, he was in a melee with half of Xiang Geng's army. Although Du Mi sent troops to reinforce, Wang Si believed that the killing of Zhang Jing could not be delayed.

After all, the pressure brought to them by Jin generals like Chenmen Wuhu is too great. It is better to remove the subtleties as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

If Zhang Jing escaped, it would be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain. Even if he killed ten thousand more Jin soldiers, it would not be enough to make up for it.

In view of this, Wang Si immediately asked Zhao Bohu for advice: "Master Qu, immediately ordered the soldiers to attack the mountains from all sides and put Zhang Jing to death. Once Zhang Jing died, the remaining Jin army would definitely give up, and morale would plummet, which would help our army pursue..."

However, Zhao Bohu just looked at the distant mountain silently and did not give an order to attack the mountain.

I have to say that since he arrived in Xia Pi City on April 19, Zhao Bohu has been eager to get rid of Zhang Jing and ordered the five tigers of Chenmen to reduce another tiger. But now when he really surrounded Zhang Jing on this city mountain, he hesitated in his heart.

After all, Zhang Jing was the one who helped him rehabilitate the Zhao family in Luyang. Although Zhao Bohu actually didn't care about Zhang Jing's help, could he survive if he had rehabilitated him? His father and mother could survive? Since a person could not be resurrected, what's the point of even if he was washed away by the Zhao family in Luyang?

Not to mention anything else, at least Zhao Bohu, and his younger brother Zhao Yu, would not give up on revenge on Jin State because of this.

In short, in Zhao Bohu's opinion, Zhang Jing's help is actually meaningless to him, the Zhao family in Luyang.

But even so, Zhao Bohu still accepted Zhang Jing's favor. After all, Zhang Jing was a general of the Jin army with tens of thousands of troops. Just because he wanted to help him get rid of the crime of the Zhao family in Luyang, General Zhang left the army and traveled thousands of miles from Jinan to Luyang. Not to mention the credit, Zhao Bohu was still in love with this "hard work", even Zhang Jing was only ordered by the Grand Master Chen and was entrusted by Mao Gong, the former county magistrate of Ye County.

It is precisely because of this "hard work" that Zhao Bohu finally had the opportunity to kill Zhang Jing, but instead hesitated.

After a long time, he let out a long sigh and nodded: "Attack the mountain."

"Abide by the order!"

Wang Si held his fists and ordered the army to attack the mountain, and sent someone to inform Du Mi, Cheng Yi and Sun Yong.

About a stick of incense came, the four generals Du Mi, Wang Si, Cheng Yi and Sun Yong led their troops to attack from four directions in Chengshan at the same time.

Although Zhang Jing on the mountain had more than a thousand Grand Tutors around him at this time, how could he withstand the siege of tens of thousands of Jiangdong Yishi?

But what is incredible is that it is not known whether it is because of the help of the mountain, or whether Zhang Jing and the more than a thousand Grand Tutors under his command have developed ambitions one by one, so that after a full half an hour of fierce battle, tens of thousands of Jiangdong Yishi were unable to attack the top of the mountain.

Seeing this, Wang Si was very anxious.

After all, there is only one hour left before the setting sun. Once it is dark, it is impossible to attack the mountain and kill Zhang Jing. God knows if Zhang Jing will escape in the dark?

The other generals Du Mi, Cheng Yi, and Sun Yong also thought of this and stepped up the offensive.

Under the urging of the generals, tens of thousands of Jiangdong soldiers fought hard to attack the mountain. With the advantage of being large and powerful, they finally attacked the mountain little by little, trapping Zhang Jing and his few hundred soldiers on the top of the mountain.

Seeing that Jiangdong Yishi was about to attack the top of the mountain and killed Zhang Jing and his remaining soldiers, Zhao Bohu suddenly ordered the attack to stop.

He ordered Chu Xiao, "Send an envoy to persuade him to surrender and tell Zhang Jing that as long as he is willing to surrender, I can spare his life."

"Ship Qu?"

The people were shocked when they heard this. They could not understand what this coach Qu was thinking.

Among the crowd, Chu Xiao, the guard of Zhao Bohu, could understand the thoughts of his eldest son. He spread his hands and said, "I think it's time to waste my time. How could Zhang Jing agree?"

"Go." Zhao Bohu didn't explain.

Seeing this, Chu Xiao shrugged helplessly and said, "Okay... Then I'll just go there myself. I hope that Zhang Jingmo will kill me first in anger."

Under the puzzled gaze of the soldiers from the east of Jiang, Chu Xiao led a few guards to the mountain.

At this time, on the city mountain, Zhang Jing was taking advantage of the time when the Jiangdong rebels suspended their offensive. While resting, he was paying attention to the north. Looking at Chen Jie, the Xiahou and Lu Army returned to rescue him, muttering to himself, "So quickly lead the army to withdraw to Langya, Chen Jie, Xiahou..."

Yes, even though he was trapped in Chengshan at this moment, Zhang Jing did not want Chen Jie. The second general Xiahou and Lu were left to live without leaving. He turned to rescue him. It was not that he didn't want to live, but he knew very well that the little force Chen Jie and the second general Xiahou and Lu were not enough to rescue him from the siege of Jiangdong rebels, and would only sacrifice the lives of the soldiers in vain.

From the side, Xu Fu heard Zhang Jing's murmur and snorted rarely: "If the general was not trapped, how could the two generals Chen Jie and Xiahou be in such a dilemma as they are now?"

It can be seen that the captain of guard was full of resentment at this moment.

Zhang Jing and Xu Fu were together day and night, and naturally understood where the latter's resentment came from. He shook his head and said, "When breaking through the city forcibly, a team of people must be left behind, that is, the arm is cut off and the loss is stopped. Either I stay or Chen Jie, Xiahou and the others stay..."

"That's too..." Xu Fu opened his mouth and finally swallowed some of the most inappropriate words.

I have to say that Zhang Jing is very open about being trapped in Chengshan this time.

Because he knew that today either he was trapped, or Chen Jie, Xiahou Lu and others were trapped, and someone would have to cut off the rear and make sacrifices.

Considering that Zhao Bohu was eager to get rid of himself, Zhang Jing thought it would be better to leave the queen himself. As long as he cut off the queen, Zhao Bohu would inevitably relax the encirclement of Chen Jie, Xiahou and Lu army in order to surround him. In this way, Chen Jie, Xiahou and Lu generals, Xiahou and Lu, and the Taishi Army and Hebei Army led by him, would have a greater chance to break out.

The facts also prove that Zhang Jing's judgment was correct. In order to siege him, the 80,000 Jiangdong Yishi did not even take the opportunity to pursue Chen Jie and Xiahou Lu. Only half of Xiang Geng's troops were pursuing about six or seven thousand people. To be precise, this Jiangdong army is currently resisting the counterattack of Chen Jie and the two generals Xiahou Lu.

Zhang Jing, alone, dragged nearly 80,000 Jiangdong rebels in Zhao Bohu to the Chengshan area, creating conditions for breaking through and evacuating for five or six thousand people under Chen Jie and the two generals Xiahou and Lu. For Zhang Jing personally, he believed that this was the best "stop loss" strategy.

If he was an irresponsible general, he would have abandoned his soldiers and generals to escape when encountering such a thing, but Zhang Jing could not do such a thing. At that time, he brought 17,000 Grand Tutors and 10,000 Hebei troops to Xia Pi to prevent Zhao Bohu from seizing Xia Pi. How could he abandon him in Xia Pi and flee on his own?

Grand Master Chen has never taught Zhang Jing like this, and Zhang Jing never thinks that his life alone is more valuable than thousands of soldiers and generals under his command.

If someone must sacrifice his breakthrough today, Zhang Jing is willing to bear this consequence. Since the "Battle of Xia Pi" started because of him, then he will end with him!

The only thing that made Zhang Jing feel regretful was that Xu Fu and his more than a thousand Grand Tutors were implicated by him, and they were also trapped on this city mountain at this moment.

Just as Zhang Jing was talking to Xu Fu, a soldier suddenly came to report: "General, Zhao Bohu sent an envoy up the mountain to see the general."

Xu Fu had originally complained about Zhang Jing's resignation and took the initiative to cut off the rear. At this moment, he heard that the Jiangdong rebels sent envoys to the mountain, and his mood naturally became worse and worse.

He sneered and said, "I guess this is here to persuade the surrender!... Just kill it!"

“Hey.”

Zhang Jing immediately raised his hand to stop him.

Based on his understanding of Zhao Bohu, the other party should not have done anything like sending someone to ridicule him. He felt that it was probably just as Xu Fu said that the other party was here to send someone to persuade him to surrender.

As a general of Jin State and the adopted son of Chen Taishi, Zhang Jing naturally could not surrender to this rebel group, but he did not mind talking to the envoy sent by Zhao Bohu to see if he could save the lives of Xu Fu and more than a thousand Taishi troops in the mountains.

The battle has ended. It was because he was defeated by Zhang Jing. He was willing to accept the consequences of the defeat. However, Xu Fu and more than a thousand soldiers of the Grand Tutor under his command did not need to sacrifice fearlessly again.

He hopes to talk to Zhao Bohu about this matter, and to exchange the death of Zhang Jing alone for more than a thousand Grand Tutors here, and to the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers in Xia Pi City.

Thinking of this, he calmly ordered the soldier and said, "Bring it up, I also want to hear what Zhao Bohu wants to say... Tell everyone not to be rude to the messenger."

"Yes!" The soldier retreated with his fists.

A moment later, at Zhang Jing's instruction, several soldiers of the Grand Tutor pushed Chu Xiao and others with their hands raised to the top of Chengshan and came to Zhang Jing.

Although Zhang Jing had already warned him in advance, Chu Xiao and his men were inevitably hostile to the actual hostility of the soldiers of the Grand Tutor, so they could only raise their hands to show that they had no malice.

Maybe he saw the soldiers of the Grand Tutor pushing Chu Xiao and the others, or maybe he guessed the reason why Chu Xiao and the others raised their hands high. Zhang Jing hugged Chu Xiao and apologized gracefully: "Zhang has told the soldiers not to be rude to the envoy, helpless... He also asked the envoy not to be surprised."

Chu Xiao then put down his raised hands, waved his hand and said with a smile: "General Zhang is so serious. If the soldiers of your army don't kill me, I will be satisfied."

Seeing the other party talking freely, Zhang Jing suddenly felt good about it, nodded and looked up and down at Chu Xiao. After a moment, he said with a strange look: "I remember you..."

"Oh?" Chu Xiao blinked and smiled slightly, "Can such an inconspicuous little person be remembered by General Zhang?"

Hearing this, Zhang Jing was even more impressed and said affirmatively: "The envoy was the one who stopped Zhang that night... Zhao Qushuai actually sent a general as the envoy?"

Perhaps because Zhang Jing remembered that Chu Xiao was in a good mood, he smiled and explained: "General Zhang misunderstood. He is not a general, he is just the chief guard next to Zhao Qushuai...... Chu Xiao."

Hearing this, Zhang Jing not only did not underestimate Chu Xiao, but instead attached more importance to it.

After all, this person is Zhao Bohu's chief guard, and is undoubtedly one of the most trusted people by Zhao Bohu, just like Xu Fu beside him.

Just now, even Xu Fu looked at Chu Xiao a few more times.

"It turns out it is the Chief Chu who is beside Zhao Qushuai." Zhang Jing hugged Chu Xiao and then asked calmly: "I wonder what advice does Zhao Qushuai sent Chief Chu to come this time? Could it be that he ridiculed Zhang?"

"Haha." Chu Xiao waved his hand with a smile: "How could my coach Qu do such a boring thing?" He looked at Zhang Jing and praised sincerely: "Even if he is an enemy of General Zhang, all the righteous army respect the general, including Zhao Qushu."

Although he had long guessed that Zhao Bohu could not send someone to ridicule him, Zhang Jing felt a little complicated when he heard this. He sighed: "In Zhang Jing's opinion, Zhao Qushuai is also a hero. Unfortunately, he went astray and started a rebellion... Forget it, if you don't talk about this, why did Zhao Qushuai send Chief Chu to come?"

Chu Xiao hugged his fists and said seriously: "Ship Zhao Qu is here to come and persuade the general... Judging from the current situation, General Zhang is no longer able to lead the remaining troops under his command to break through. As long as our army launches another attack, General Zhang and the soldiers on the mountain will be all meat mud..." Hearing this, Xu Fu was furious, but just before he spoke, a military chief in the Grand Tutor not far away shouted: "Arrogant! You call Zhao Bohu to attack the mountain, and my Tiger Division soldiers will definitely fight to the last soldier!"

Before he finished speaking, more than a hundred soldiers from the Grand Tutors around him responded one after another.

"Bo Chang Zhang said it well!"

"How can my tiger master be greedy for life and fear death?"

"It's a big deal to die!"

"Why kill this dog thief first and then try to break through!"

Listening to the angry grand sect soldiers around him, Chu Xiao quickly raised his hands again and said innocently: "Don't, I'm just a message here, why kill me?"

The several guards behind him immediately wanted to pull out their weapons with a look of alert, but Chu Xiao stopped them.

In the end, Zhang Jing stopped the soldiers.

Immediately, he asked Chu Xiao with a calm expression: "Shishuai Zhao Qu sent Chief Chu to persuade him to surrender?"

Perhaps the soldiers and soldiers around him stared at Chu Xiao one by one. Chu Xiao smiled awkwardly and explained: "Actually, I have advised Zhao Qu Shuai. How could a hero like General Zhang surrender? But my Qu Shuai is more stubborn... He asked me to tell General Zhang that as long as General Zhang is willing to surrender, he can let the general survive."

Seeing that as expected, Zhang Jing smiled slightly and was about to shake his head to refuse, but saw Chu Xiao suddenly say with a serious expression: "In fact, my coach Qu actually doesn't want to harm the general. He has given the general a chance...a full month and a half."

『…』

Zhang Jing, who was planning to politely refuse, was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Chu Xiao with a serious face in surprise.

Then Zhao Bohu gave him a chance? It was a month and a half?

Zhang Jing subconsciously didn't believe Chu Xiao's words.

But think about it carefully, with the current situation, is it necessary for Chu Xiao to deceive him?
To be continued...