"Your Majesty, Li Qi is already disheartened and does not want to enter the court, so please allow him to remove his armor and return to the land."

Yang Heng was finally happy when he heard this. In fact, he was not very interested in Li Qi and did not want him to be a minister under his command.

The reason I said just now is that this person has made such great achievements. If he doesn’t reward him, how can he convince the public?

But Yang Heng still acted like a fake and sighed.

"Oh, it's because I'm not virtuous enough. Otherwise, how could such a talent want to retire to the mountains and forests?"

However, Yang Heng did not think of letting Li Qi go like this, so he would feel relieved to keep this person next to him.

Therefore, Yang Heng gave Li Qi an official position, but it was just a false position.

Although the fairy Qinglian still wanted to fight for it, he didn't say anything when he saw Yang Heng's firm attitude.

After that, Yang Heng changed his mind and asked Fairy Qinglian: "What reward do you need to make such a great contribution this time?"

"Your Majesty is joking. We should do our best to be protected by luck. We do not ask for rewards from Your Majesty, but only ask your Majesty to pacify the world as soon as possible and let the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment."

Yang Heng nodded, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He likes to hear these words.

Next, Yang Heng began to hold a big banquet to celebrate his great defeat of the enemy today.

After that, the army rested on the bank of the river for three days and then began to move south.

This time, there was no stop to the Yangtze River. The army was unstoppable, and all the cities along the way were descending with a look.

However, there are also one or two hard bones. Faced with the attack of Yang Heng's army, the county magistrate Zheng Huaixing of Dongshan County actually refused to surrender. Instead, he organized the people and bravely to act in Dongshan County as if he wanted to fight Yang Heng to the death.

The geographical location of Dongshan is very important and is the last stop to Nanjing. The person who can serve as the county magistrate here should be the confidant of King Li Xian of Wu.

Therefore, Yang Heng did not have any desire for talent, so he directly ordered hundreds of thousands of troops to start siege.

Originally, Yang Heng thought that the small Dongshan County could be captured in one day under his army.

As a result, after the battle on this day, Yang Heng's army lost nearly 5,000 people, but the Dongshan County still stood there, still standing there.

Yang Heng was a little surprised at this moment. What made the people in this small county town unite and blocked his hundreds of thousands of troops.

But the main thing now is not to explore the reason, but to think about how to break through this city.

That night, Yang Heng ordered the gathering of generals, and dozens of generals gathered in his central army tent and stood on the left and right.

Yang Heng looked at the people below with a gloomy face, and then said, "In a big battle today, we were actually blocked by a small county town, and we suffered such heavy losses."

After saying this, Yang Heng stared at the general below with his eyes, and his eyes began to become gloomy.

The generals below were blushed by Yang Hengshi's eyes. They all lowered their heads and remained silent.

"If every battle in the next big battle is like this, we may not have many people left even if we take over Nanjing City. Do you think there is any way to quickly take over this county town?"

The generals below looked at me and I looked at you. In the end, they all had a gloomy face and lowered their heads and stopped talking.

Yang Heng looked at the people below and felt a little disappointed, but in the end he was a little helpless.

If these people are fighting on the battlefield, they are naturally extremely brave, but if you ask them to give advice, it will really make things difficult for them.

At this time, Wang Hua, who was sitting next to Yang Heng and served as the chief clerk, stood up and bowed to the top and said, "Your Majesty, I have a plan. Although it is a bit insulting, it should be able to seize the morale and quickly take down this county town."

Yang Heng's eyes lit up. At such a moment, he had to rely on these literati.

"Wang Aiqing has a plan and says it quickly."

"Your Majesty, the reason why this small county town can withstand our army is that the county magistrate of this city is quite famous and he is loyal to the ideals of the King of Wu, so the people respectfully seized the city according to his will."

"Yes, this person seems to be an official."

"But although Your Majesty is quite talented, the people who guard the city are still ordinary people. As long as we collect ordinary people from nearby villages and let them serve as vanguards, the people who guard the city will definitely not dare to take action when they see the elders and fellow villagers under the city. Then our army will surge together and they will be able to capture the city in an instant."

After hearing this vicious plan, Yang Heng's heart began to stir up.

According to Wang Hua's plan, although he could capture this city, his reputation was a bit unpleasant.

Wang Hua, who was standing below, saw Yang Heng's face gloomy and clear. He knew that he was unsure of his mind, so he bowed and said again.

"Your Majesty, I am not talented. I am willing to serve as the chief general of the city of tomorrow. Please forgive me for your kindness."

Yang Heng narrowed his eyes and looked at Wang Hua, who was standing below with a serious face, and nodded in his heart.

This guy really had a wink and knew that he didn't want to be accused of the infamy, so he rushed out to earn the reputation.

But this is also good. Throw this person out and put it on your own, and at most you will give him some rewards to compensate him in the future.

"Okay, since the king is so confident, then tomorrow you will be the chief general of the army, and all the generals in the camp will follow your order."

After saying this, Yang Heng put his sleeves on his robe and left the central army's tent and gave the tent to Wang Hua.

At this time, Wang Hua's eyes became gloomy. He turned around and looked at the generals, then walked forward and stood beside the commando. He took a command arrow from above.

"Where is Tang Kai?"

General Tang Kai heard Wang Hua's shouting and did not dare to neglect it. He quickly stepped forward and bowed and said, "Here."

"I'm going to ask you to take the three thousand people in the headquarters to scatter to the countryside immediately. I will see fifty thousand people by tomorrow morning."

When Tang Kai heard this, he felt a little unlucky. How could such a bastard be on his turn?

However, the military orders were like a mountain, and he did not dare to disobey them. He could only take the token with a bad look on his face, and then ignore Wang Hua and turn around and leave the tent.

The other generals were relieved when they saw this errand led by Tang Kai.

Although I usually have a good relationship with Tang Kai, at this critical moment, it is better to die for fellow Taoists.

Next, Wang Hua continued to pass on the order, "Wang Xue, I will order you to be the commander of the supervision team and lead 10,000 troops from the headquarters tomorrow. As the supervision team, all the people will be executed immediately if they dare to retreat."

After hearing this errand, Wang Xue felt a black cloud covering his head, thinking that he was so unlucky. At the beginning, he avoided the bad habit of catching the people, but something even more unlucky came.

But he didn't dare to refute, so he stepped forward and continued the token, and then stood silently in the middle of the team.

Several of the generals who were better than him all cast pity on him in the team.

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The next morning, Yang Heng was awakened by the messy noise outside the tent.

Yang Heng casually wore a few clothes, then left the big tent, and asked a personal soldier outside the tent, "What's going on outside? The quarrel has become like this."

The personal soldier said indignantly: "That Wang Hua is really not a thing. I don't know where he captured so many people. I heard that today he wanted these people to be regarded as the pioneers of siege. This is really a lack of great virtue."

Yang Heng's mouth twitched a little after hearing this, but he still scolded his personal soldiers seriously.

"Don't talk nonsense, maybe Wang Hua wanted them to do some miscellaneous work, maybe."

After saying this, Yang Heng turned around and entered the tent regardless of the disbelief of the personal soldier beside him.

Yang Heng made up his mind. He stayed in the big tent one day, and no one said he would not go out.

Sure enough, soon after, personal soldiers from outside came to report that they were all generals and asked Yang Heng to go to the battlefield to supervise the battle.

However, Yang Heng directly passed on the message, saying that it was because he happened to be a cold today, and today's battle was hosted by Wang Hua, so there was no need to ask him.

Let’s talk about Wang Hua. After getting Yang Heng’s reply, he immediately lit the war drums, and countless troops rushed out of the camp and began to form formations under Dongshan County.

At this time, Dongshan County was ready, and countless Ding Zhuang stood on the top of the city with all kinds of weapons.

Moreover, looking at the constant whistling above, the morale should be very good. It seems that he defeated Yang Heng and the others yesterday, which gave these people some confidence.

Wang Hua sat on the horse, looked at the city opposite with a cloudy face, and then said to the general Wang Xue beside him: "It's time to start."

Wang Xue nodded with a cloudy face, then rode away from here on a horse. After a while, he heard a burst of wailing in front of the formation.

Immediately afterwards, countless people were driven out by the officers and soldiers.

These people are both men, women, young and old. They are now carrying simple ladders, their faces full of horror, and slowly drive them toward Dongshan County by the soldiers behind them.

There was a middle-aged scholar wearing a black robe in Dongshan County. His eyes were bleeding when he saw this.

This scholar is not someone else, but Zheng Huaixing, the county magistrate of Dongshan County.

He didn't expect that Yang Heng, who was opposite, had a good reputation and could come up with this bad strategy, and he wanted to use the people as a meat shield.

But at this time, he could not be merciless, so he said to a small school beside him: "When these people approached the city wall a hundred steps, they immediately started shooting arrows."

"But these are our people."

Zheng Huaixing glared at him fiercely, and then said, "No need to say much, act according to the order."

When the school saw that Zheng Huaixing had made up his mind, he had no choice but to send the order.

The people below were still walking forward crying and crying for their parents. Although the speed was slow, they still approached the city wall step by step.

At this moment, a few sparse arrows suddenly began to radiate on the city wall.

This is why the people on the city wall couldn't bear to shoot arrows at their relatives and friends, so they shot a few of them to warn the people below.

One or two of the people under the city were shot in the arrows. With these screams, the people below immediately became a mess and began to throw down all the engineering equipment in their hands and run back frantically.
Chapter completed!