After looking at it for a while, I found that it was all irrelevant things, and I suddenly felt a little bored. Zhou Xian put down the document in his hand, lay down on the seat, and began to close his eyes and rest.

Seeing his tired look, Zhu Ma said, "Zhou Xian, since you are tired, why don't you lie in bed and rest for a while?"

Zhou Xian did not open his eyes and said lightly: "I'm waiting for a news."

"What news?"

"Is Xiuyan City still in Ning Yu's hands?"

Under Xiuyan City, Qing troops gathered.

Dozens of Qing cavalry surrounded a Qing general who shouted loudly more than 200 steps away from the city. This distance happened to be outside the range of the bow and arrow. The number of people was small, so it was not worth bombarding with cannons.

Xiuyan City was originally a small fort, located remotely. However, in the initial battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty, the local Jurchens took the initiative to surrender to Nurhaci, who had not yet fully risen at that time.

Because its geographical location is extremely important, it can radiate dozens of camps and forts around it, and the Later Jin Dynasty at that time had weak control over it.

Nurhaci ordered his nephew Jirgalang to lead his troops to station the fort and start building a new city, thus making the small fort a military fortress with outer and inner cities.

After Zhou Xian occupied Jinzhou, in order to restrain the Qing army, he ordered Xie Qian to lead his troops across the river to land from the south of Xiuyan City.

During this period, Zalari surrendered, which led to a great increase in the strength of the local Liao army and occupied a large area south of Xiuyan City.

Although the Qing army had not had many troops in the local area, it always guarded Xiuyan City and the main channel to the north of the Liao army, which prevented Xie Qian from continuing to expand his results. When the Qing army reinforced Xiuyan City in large numbers, Zhou Xian had to order Xie Qian to give up the territory he had worked hard to withdraw and withdraw to southern Liao.

It can be said that Li Dingguo was able to take Xiuyan City this time as a pure luck.

Hunta led his troops to reinforce Tongyuan Fort, but there were not many soldiers left in the city and they were very lazy. When he broke into the inner city, he did not encounter any resistance.

In less than half an hour, he killed the main guards in the city and set fires everywhere, which made the chaos even more.

The remaining Qing army was not aware of the enemy's situation and panicked. They were either scattered and hidden in the city, or escaped from the four gates, allowing him to easily capture Xiuyan City.

Li Dingguo later ordered the eight gates of the inner city and outer city to close, and let his soldiers search and suppress the Qing army in the city. The hundreds of people caught were beheaded in one night, and they suddenly shocked the people in the city.

Then he summoned some Han gentry in the city, and found all the Jurchens and their families in the city through them, and gathered them all in one place to guard them.

Then he ordered the whole city not to go out to the streets at will, otherwise there would be no mercy. Only a few people were given some badges, and they were responsible for providing food to the people in the city.

Under such strict control, the city and outside the city are almost completely isolated. Most people in the city only know that the Ke Liao army occupied Xiuyan City, but they don’t know how many troops the other party has and what the specific situation is.

The people in the city were not clear, and the Qing army outside the city was even less clear.

Therefore, although there were many Jurchens around Xiuyan City, they also gathered thousands of troops in a short period of time. However, they neither knew how many enemy troops were in the city nor had enough siege equipment. Looking at the tall and sturdy Xiuyan City in front of them, the Qing army did not dare to attack easily, nor could they attack.

They set up a formation outside the city and sent people to call in an attempt to lure the enemy troops in the city. At the same time, they also sent people to inform Hunta of the news of the fall of Xiuyan City, asking him to lead his troops back to help immediately.

But after a day and night of continuous scolding, the enemy in the city did not react at all, and did not even say a reply.

The sun hangs in the sky, without a single wind, which makes people feel extremely irritable.

Nan Chu beat a long hache, turned to the side and ordered: "It's almost time to eat. Ask them to come back, and change a group of people to continue calling and scolding."

"Still curse? Do the general expect to scold them to death?"

Nan Chu turned his head and looked at him, and the man said that he was tall and full of disdain. His name was A Chier, and he was Hunta's brother-in-law, and the Qing general who currently has the second most in the city outside the city to Nan Chu. "A Chier, of course, this general doesn't expect to scold them to death. I just want to use this to lure them out."

"What if they never come out!"

"Then keep yelling."

Achier was immediately angry, "Nan Chu, you are afraid to fight. When Hunta comes back, I will definitely sue you."

Nan Chu glanced at Achier and said coldly: "Achier, you must understand that the reason why Xiuyan City fell into the hands of the Han people was because Hunta led most of its troops to Tongyuan Fort. It would be fortunate that the prince would not pursue the crime. What qualifications would he have to take care of me? And you are even more unforgivable. You stayed in Xiuyan City, and when the enemy came in, they abandoned the city and fled, so that there are still many enemy troops in the city now. I did not deal with you for the sake of Hunta. I would be rude in front of me, so I cut off your dog's head directly."

Achier's face was pale and she wanted to argue, but was held back by a man beside him. "General, I'm afraid he'll have to wait for the army to come back. If we keep doing nothing like this, and report the situation here to the prince after the master comes back, it's not a good thing for you!"

He secretly glanced at Nan Chu, seeing that the other party seemed to be moved, and then said, "We know that we had lost Xiuyan City and the crime was unforgivable, so we wanted to capture it as soon as possible to forgive our sins. But if the general could capture Xiuyan City before our master came back, it would not only be a great contribution for you, but also made our master owe you a huge favor. In addition, many soldiers' families outside the city were in the city. At this moment, they were all ready to conquer Xiuyan City and rescue their families. If they kept doing this, they would not be able to suppress their emotions at that time, and they might cause a disaster."

Nan Chu glanced at him, "Your name is Sun Yanling, you are the general of Kong Youde in the past, right?"

The general of the Han hurriedly bowed and said, "It's a slave, the general knows a slave?"

Nan Chu nodded gently, "I have heard of it. To be honest, I want to take down Xiuyan City as soon as possible. But look at it, although there are six or seven thousand people in front of me, less than half of the real soldiers are still there, and the rest are temporarily summoned from the forts. You have been in Xiuyan City, can they attack? Because of this, I will not move my troops. Of course, it is best to be able to lead them out. If you can't, wait until Hunta comes back before launching an attack."
Chapter completed!