At this time, there was already a panic in Taiyuan City. The Han army suddenly arrived, which caused the Taiyuan City to fall into horror. The shops were closed, the taverns were closed, and every family was closed. The streets were deserted, and only by chance would a team of soldiers run by.

Not only were the ordinary people panic, but the army was also extremely nervous. Except for 500 troops to maintain order, the remaining troops were all on the city to defend. Despite this, they were still busy and cups of food, which was far from meeting the needs of defending the city. From top to bottom, the officers and soldiers guarding the city had no confidence.

Taiyuan Governor's Yanei, Governor Wang Yan, Bingzhou Governor Qian Zhao and Chief Shi Xin Ping were urgently discussing countermeasures. The three of them were in a very heavy mood and never expected that the Han army would suddenly arrive, which made them extremely passive.

Qian Zhao sighed and said, "I heard that the Prime Minister confronted the Han army in Runan. The war in Guanzhong has not yet subsided. Now the Han army suddenly came to Taiyuan again. Cao's army lost sight of one thing and was led by Liu Jing. It was so passive."

"Take the governor!"

The governor Wang Yan raised his voice with some dissatisfaction, "Now is not the time to say such words. Now we are discussing countermeasures, how to deal with the sudden attack of the Han army?"

"Countermeasure?" Qian Zhao sneered: "The battle of Guanzhong transferred most of the Bingzhou army, and the entire Bingzhou was only 12,000 people, 4,000 Yanmen County, 3,000 Hedong County, and 5,000 people in Taiyuan City, and at least 30,000 people in the other side. I don't understand how to fight this battle!"

Qian Zhao's tone was full of complaints. At that time, he strongly opposed the transfer of Bingzhou army to Guanzhong, but Wang Yan told the Prime Minister that Bingzhou was not a big problem. Now that the consequences have come, it depends on his 5,000 troops to deal with it. It is hard for a good cook to cook without rice. Even if he has the talent to be able to fight against 30,000 troops.

At this time, Xin Ping said carefully: "I'll propose a plan!"

Wang Yan glanced at Qian Zhao coldly and asked Xin Ping, "Tell me what plan?"

Xin Ping thought for a while and said, "We can mobilize the people to participate in defending the city, and in addition, we urgently ask for help from Yedu. I guess the Han army came on a long journey and did not have any siege weapons. Even if we temporarily make siege weapons, it will take a few days. We will hold on for another two or three days. Perhaps the reinforcements from Yedu will arrive. What do you think?"

“This is the best solution!”

Wang Yan praised: "In this way, we will have time to defend the city, and there is no shortage of money and food in the city, so we can use it to recruit civilians."

Speaking of this, his face sank and asked Qian Zhao again, "What do General Qian thinks?"

Although Qianzhao was full of resentment, he also knew that now was not the time to complain and he had to deal with the crisis with all his might. He remembered the 100-man caravan he saw three days ago and pondered: "I also support Xin Changshi's suggestion. I am also worried that there are already spies from the Han army in the city. The most fear of defending the city is the inside and outside cooperation, especially when we have less troops, the city will be in danger."

"Since that's the case, search the city!"

Wang Yan immediately made a decision: "All hotels, taverns, brothels, shops, and all rental houses must be searched. No one is allowed to be left alone. If you lead the general, I will ask the government to cooperate with the army and start searching the city from now on."

Although the military and political affairs are independent, the scourge is far lower than Wang Yan in terms of qualifications and official positions. He had to implement Wang Yan's orders. He immediately stood up and said, "I'll make arrangements now!"

Wang Yan commented to Xin again: "It's too slow to send a pigeon letter. First use beacon to warn, and then send a pigeon letter to ask for help!"

As the sky turned dark, the beacon towers in the north of Taiyuan City were lit. Thick smoke mixed with fire rose into the air, and a warning was issued to Yedu, heading east, and beacon towers were lit immediately, and the beacon towers on Taihang Mountain also ignited a warning beacon.

At the same time, he mobilized two thousand troops, and with the cooperation of 300 yamen runners, he began to search door-to-door in Taiyuan City. The city of Taiyuan City was suddenly in chaos and chaos.

Zhang Qu, the shopkeeper of Nan'an Hostel, hurried back to his hostel. As soon as he entered the gate, he ordered: "Close the store door and stop business!"

He came to the backyard with great worries and happened to meet Wu Ban. Seeing that he had a strange expression, Wu Ban asked, "Eunuch Zhang, what happened?"

Zhang Qu said nervously: "The army has started to search the city, and there are soldiers everywhere on the street. Just now, the slutty leader Niu Er told me that the search for the city is very strict this time. It is useless to lead the team in person, and it is useless to stuff money. The foreigners who have more than ten people in their company will be captured and we will be searched soon."

Zhang Qu was very worried that there were three hundred eagle attackers in his hostel, which was easy to be found. What should I do? He thought about it and said, "Why don't you let your brothers hide in the secret room first, squeeze in, and feel wronged for half an hour, and then you'll be fine."

Wu Ban asked in contemplation: "Are you searching door to door? Do you also need to search for private houses?"

"You need to search for rented houses, but you don't need to search for ordinary houses."

Wu Ban looked at Ye Se and smiled and said, "This is not a big problem. I have a way to deal with it. Let me just remove the traces of our stay and face it calmly."

Zhang Qu was suspicious, what was he going to do?

Half an hour later, hundreds of soldiers of Cao army finally found the slums in the southwest corner. Countless torches shone the streets like daytime, leading the horses on the war, their faces were gloomy. After searching for more than an hour, hundreds of people were captured, but he felt that he had not found the real Han army spies, especially when he saw a hundred-man caravan three days ago, he has not found it yet, nor has there been any record of their departure from the city.

Intuition told him that those people must have problems, and they were in the city, "Search carefully, and search the cellars!" Qianzhao said loudly.

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers smashed open the Nan'an Hotel. The soldiers did not explain. More than a hundred people rushed in like wolves and tigers, searching the sky and searching. Qianzhao also walked into the hotel. He looked at the hostel. It took a large area and many houses, and obviously it could hide many people. He became suspicious and ordered the searching Yajiang: "This hostel must search me carefully, especially to see if there are any cellars, secret rooms, etc."

"Abide by the order!"

General Ya led the soldiers to search carefully. Qianzhao walked around the hostel. He found that there were no guests in the hostel, which made him even more suspicious. At this moment, a soldier rushed to report: "General, we found a secret room."

Qianzhao was excited and quickly followed the soldiers to the backyard. At this time, hundreds of soldiers were concentrated inside and outside the study, tense and ready. The bookshelf in the study was also removed. Ya Jiangzheng ordered Zhang Qu to open the door. Zhang Qu explained repeatedly: "This secret room was used by the former owner to take refuge. It has nothing to do with me, it is full of miscellaneous things."

At this time, Qianzhao strode into the study, and the soldiers dodged one after another. Qianzhao glanced at the door of the secret room and said coldly: "Breaking it open!"

The three soldiers stepped forward and kicked the door hard together. With a loud "bang!", the door of the secret room was kicked open, and there were dark holes inside. Dozens of soldiers shot arrows into the secret room at the same time. After a while, several soldiers took torches and walked into the secret room. The secret room was quite large, and it was filled with various ragged boxes, cabinets, beds, no prohibited items, and no one hid them inside.

Zhang Qu explained: "I said that it is really all miscellaneous things, so you don't believe it."

Qian Zhao turned around and grabbed his clothes and said viciously: "I'll ask you, why don't there be a single guest in your hotel?"

Zhang Qu pretended to be frightened and said, "There were a few guests from Zhongyuan. When they heard that the Han army was coming, they were scared away. The shop was small and profitable, but it turned out to be a cemetery. No customer would be willing to live here."

At this time, the soldiers had searched the places and came back to report: "You reported to the general, no suspicious figures were found."

Qian Zhao then let go of his clothes and said hatefully: "Give you aside first. If there is any situation, report to the army immediately!"

"Sure! Sure!"

He waved his hand and said, "Go to the next house!"

Hundreds of soldiers left the hostel and smashed the door of a low-level brothel not far away. Zhang Qu breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Wu Ban refused to hide from the secret room, otherwise it would be over. In fact, he didn't know that even if he was searched, the three hundred Eagle Strike Army soldiers would be more than enough to deal with these Cao troops, but Wu Ban didn't want to alert the enemy.

In the next house, Wu Ban and dozens of soldiers hid in the room. The owner of the house was squatting in the corner, trembling with fear. Seeing that Cao Jun had left, Wu Ban said to the owner: "I won't kill you, but you dare to report the letter, I will kill your whole family!"

The male owner was frightened and said, "We dare not say it, just pretend nothing happened."

"That's right!"

He opened the door and led the soldiers to climb over the wall and returned to the hostel, but Wu Ban was still cautious and left a few soldiers to guard the family. He started to do it after two hours. It would be two hours later.

The chaotic search continued until the first update. At this time, military information suddenly came from outside the city, and it was found that the Han army was filling the moat with sandbags outside the East City.

The sudden situation forced Qianzhao to stop the army from searching the city and led the army to the East City. On the top of the city, more than a thousand Cao troops were shooting arrows downward in a dense manner, but the night was dark and the situation below could not be seen clearly. The soldiers could only shoot arrows at will, with almost no effect.

At this moment, five thousand crossbowmen of the Han army arrived and lined up to shoot arrows at the city wall. The dense arrows shot overwhelmed the sky, making the city wall sound, suppressing the Cao army soldiers.

He walked up to the city with a rush, and under the cover of more than a dozen soldiers holding shields, he carefully looked down. In the darkness, countless black shadows rushed towards the moat.

The moat itself has frozen, but because the water surface is too shallow and there is a certain gap between the two sides of the straits, it is not convenient for large-scale siege tools such as nest vehicles and siege rams. Therefore, the river surface must be filled with sandbags, and at least a flat road must be filled.

Qian Zhao was very worried. Did the Han army bring large siege weapons? It is very likely that when attacking Chen Cang, the Han army would have temporarily assembled heavy siege weapons such as nest vehicles. Perhaps the Han army would assemble overnight, otherwise they would not be so anxious to fill the river surface.
Chapter completed!