Just early the morning after Du Fuwei was killed, when Xuzhou City was in turmoil, the Zhao army vanguard had already arrived at the city of Xuzhou.

In the north of Xuzhou City, the Jianghuai Army camp was stationed here. The five thousand soldiers of General Du Fuwei, Ximen Junyi. In the hazy sky, the vanguard of the Zhao army's vanguard scouts had arrived outside Ximen Junyi's camp. Upon hearing the news of the Zhao army's attack, Ximen Junyi immediately led a thousand soldiers out of the camp to challenge.

A thousand soldiers of the Jianghuai Army formed a strong formation, while Ximen Junyi, with a white horse and a silver spear, stood in front of the formation, majestic.

Qin Qiong, the vanguard general of the Zhao army, led 500 cavalry and arrived. Qin Qiong watched the formation on the hillside. Seeing that the Jianghuai Army was in front of the unparalleled Zhao army in the field, he was still standing outside the camp gate to fight, saying, "It seems that the Jianghuai Army is still a little confident!"

Wang Xiongdan said on the side: "Ximen Junyi is a veteran general of the Jianghuai Army. When he was still a rebel army, the Sui army attacked the camp. No, the King of Wu was seriously injured and could not move. Thanks to Ximen Junyi carrying the King of Wu on his back, he fought with his guns and fought hard to break through the siege, and the King of Wu escaped. This person is a powerful general in the Jianghuai Army. Be careful!"

"I'm a fierce general!" Qin Qiong didn't believe it at the moment and was about to go forward to fight. At this time, a fast horse galloped from behind and said to Qin Qiong: "General Qin is here to wait, your Majesty has the will."

After hearing this, Qin Qiong pulled the horse and asked, "What will?"

Then he immediately ordered the general to report: "General Qin, last night, the city of Xuzhou changed drastically, Du Fuwei was killed by Wang Shibian. Now the city is in chaos. Your Majesty is specially ordered to come down to report to General Qin."

Qin Qiong and Wang Xiongdan both showed shocked expressions.

As the pillar of the Jianghuai Army, Du Fuwei, the hero of the Jianghuai Army, was assassinated and killed. Wang Xiongdan's eyes suddenly showed a look of sadness.

Qin Qiong said: "Du Fuwei is dead, which saves some effort."

The general also said, "Your Majesty has something to say. Now Danyang and Jiangdu have been captured. Most of the generals of the Jianghuai Army have fallen into our hands. Now that the Jianghuai Army is in turmoil, we can take this opportunity to make profits from the chaos and convince the generals of the Jianghuai Army to serve us."

After saying that, the general looked at Wang Xiongdan, and his meaning was very obvious. As a general of the Jianghuai Army, Wang Xiongdan had an extraordinary influence in the Jianghuai Army. If he didn't leave the matter of persuading surrender to him, who else could he give it to?

In front of the Xuzhou City Camp, Ximen Junyi raised his gun and was ready for battle. He knew very well what happened in Xuzhou last night. Du Fuwei was kind to him, but now he died inexplicably. Ximen Junyi was full of sadness, but as a general of the former army, when he saw Zhao army coming, he should not show weakness and not fight. This would instead deteriorate the morale of his own army.

At this time, the Zhao army cavalry was on the mountain and did not go out, but rode their horses slowly down the mountain. After seeing the person clearly, Ximen Junyi couldn't help but be furious. She slapped forward and said, "Wang Xiongdan, have you surrendered to the Zhao army? You actually have the face to see your brothers!"

After hearing that the other party was Wang Xiongdan, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army were in an uproar. The general Du Fuwei trusted the most actually surrendered to Zhao Army.

Wang Xiongdan smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Brother Ximen is polite, and I am afraid of death. But now the Jianghuai Army is over, can't you tell me? Last night, I heard about my admiral's love. I felt very distressed. You should know who the real murderer was to kill his admiral. Why do you have to work hard for him? Brother Ximen, tell you the truth. Danyang has fallen, and your wife and children are under the control of Zhao Jun. If you want to save your wife and children's lives, you should seek a retreat early."

After hearing Wang Xiongdan say this, Ximen Junyi was shocked. He knew that Wang Xiongdan's words might be true. Wang Xiongdan stepped forward and shouted to the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army in front: "Brothers, I am Wang Xiongdan, don't fight anymore. Danyang has fallen. Our family is all in Danyang. Now surrender early can save the family's life from worrying about their lives!"

Wang Xiongdan has always been prestige in the Jianghuai Army. As soon as this statement came out, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army were lying down and talking.

Ximen Junyi looked around, but when she saw the soldiers no longer want to fight again, she couldn't help but sighed to the sky: "Okay, you Wang Xiongdan, you dare to touch our army!"

Wang Xiongdan lowered his head and said nothing.

Twenty miles north of Xuzhou City, Zhao army camped.

The soldiers hurriedly spread the sheepskin map in front of Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu looked down, but saw several eye-catching arrows intertwined on the sheepskin map.

Ji Chuan said on the side: "After Du Fuwei retreated from Langya County to Xuzhou, he sent his general Wang Hua. Wenren Suan retreated to Xiaopei to defend Xia Pi, forming a horn with Xuzhou. Wang Shibian was unclear and gave his territory all to the Jianghuai Army."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "Du Fuwei has the courage, and he is not afraid of angering Li Yuan. But now he has asked Fu Gongyou to kill him if he asks him what he does."

"We are secretly adding fuel to Fu Gongyou's actions. He probably thought that if he killed Du Fuwei, our Zhao army would retreat and then be at peace." Zhang Xuansu said with a smile.

Yu Shinan laughed and said, "Yes, I have given Fu Gongyou such a hint, but when did I agree to him again, let alone even if I agree, I can go back on my word."

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuansu and Yu Shinan were laughing.

Ji Chuan said: "We are not killing people with a knife. Fu Gongyou has long been determined to kill Du Fuwei. Even if we don't promise anything, he will still do it. If you really think he has been hit by your killing people with a knife, then you will underestimate the heroes in the world."

Yu Shinan was scolded by Ji Chuan, and he stopped talking in disappointment.

Li Chongjiu said: "Mr. Ji, don't speak so sharply. Yu Aiqing has been planning for this matter for a long time."

"No!" Ji Chuan agreed quietly.

After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, Yu Shinan's expression suddenly improved a lot.

Li Chongjiu said: "We now occupy Jiangdu and cut off the retreat of the Jianghuai Army, but the Tang army should be careful when it moves. Look at Li Tang's Shuzhou, Zhou and the Hongzhou General Manager Zhang Shan'an. These two people are not fuel-efficient. They are trying their best to move towards Xuzhou, which is to tear up our blockade of Xuzhou."

After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, everyone nodded, and Ji Chuan said, "Your Majesty, we are now meeting with the Song King Kong Army, and Zhang Qingte and Jiang Shanhe are also leading the village soldiers from several counties to come. Our army's strength is not Baekje, and Silla's reinforcements have reached nearly 60,000. Not only is it enough to siege the city, but it can also attack the reinforcements!"

Zhang Xuansu said: "Mr. Ji is right. We can not only attack Xuzhou, Pengcheng, and Xiapi, but also take the family of Jianghuai generals who were lifted from Danyang as hostages, and use this trick to persuade the generals of Jianghuai army to surrender. Besides, Fu Gongyou's children are all in our hands, so we can use it as a qualifier to force Fu Gongyou to submit."

Ji Chuan said dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Zhang, this is too much. Using a wife and daughter as a threat is a despicable thing. Our army is a dignified king's army, how can we do such a behavior? What's more, Fu Gongyou can kill Du Fuwei, which is obviously a person who does not recognize his relatives. When Liu Bang's father captured Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang to cook his father, and Liu Bang could even say a piece of the pie, let alone Fu Gongyou today?"

Yu Shinan said: "Mr. Ji's words are wrong. Even if he cannot force Fu Gongyou to surrender, he can disturb his mind."

Li Chongjiu listened to the discussion of several people: "It is indeed not possible to threaten Fu Gongyou with his children, but he may not succeed, but he can do the task of threatening the generals of the Jianghuai Army. Now it is not the time to be kind and righteous. Luoyang City is being attacked by the Tang army on both sides. Now the most urgent task is to immediately break Peng and Xu states and reinforce Luoyang!"

After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, the three ministers were all involved.

Just as the matter of discussion was decided, the quick horse sent an urgent letter here.

After reading the letter, Li Chongjiu was shocked. It turned out that Li Yuan gathered hundreds of boats in Chang'an, carried food and grass, and forcibly crossed the natural danger of Sanmenxia. Although many of the grain ships were sunk in a torrent, they finally transported the scarce military rations to the army of Luoyang North Road.

After seeing this news, everyone couldn't help but worry about the situation in Luoyang again. The news came through the fast horse. It was ten days ago. Now ten days have passed and I wonder how the battle situation around Luoyang is going.

Luoyang Heyang Military Camp.

The haze of shortage of food shrouded in the Tang army's Heyang camp finally disappeared due to the arrival of this grain transport ship.

Li Jiancheng is now full of confidence and stands on the North Central City, watching the floating bridge leading to the other side of Heyang, and the next moment, his army has sufficient military rations, and can pass through the floating bridge to break through the remaining Heyang South City on the south bank, and then directly approach the city of Luoyang to achieve the meeting with the Tang army of Hejian King Li Xiaogong, and complete the original plan to encircle Luoyang by the north and south routes.

Li Jiancheng looked at Qu Tutong and asked, "How about it, have all the annoying cavalry in Hanoi been driven away?"

Qu Tutong reported to Li Jiancheng: "Reported to the prince, General Chai Shao has successively captured the territory of Hanoi. The three counties of Huojia, Xinxiang and Huangwu, which were originally controlled by the Zhao army, have arranged enough troops to guard the area. Now, unless these cavalrymen have wings and flew over, they will no longer pose a threat to our rear in the future."

"Very good. With Chai Shao here, the lonely rear is as stable as Mount Tai. I just felt wronged. I know that he is actually determined to enter Luoyang."

Qu Tu Channel: "Your Highness, General Chai will understand your intentions."

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "That's good. General Qu Tu will lead his army across the Yellow River tomorrow and arrive at the city of Luoyang. The people of Jifu will be eager to see it. Tomorrow tomorrow, I will be able to send this good news back to Chang'an."

Qu Tu Channel: "Your Highness the Crown Prince must be successful."

Li Jiancheng nodded with satisfaction with laughter.
Chapter completed!