From eunuch to emperor

Long Chen brought Dugu Jiali and the two captains to Zhu Yong's camp.

Zhu Yong is training his men by imitating the way the Long family army trains troops.

Long Chen stopped and watched for a while, then shook his head slightly and smiled.

Zhu Yong is trying his best to imitate, but these people under his command are scoundrels, and they can't do the orders and prohibitions of the Long family army, let alone their physical fitness and martial arts.

Seeing Long Chen, Zhu Yong immediately trotted over to see: "The last general Zhu Yong, see King Wu."

Zhu Yong has learned some military etiquette.

"General Zhu is exempt."

Dugu Jiali presented the brocade box, Long Chen opened the box, took out a gold seal and handed it to Zhu Yong, saying: "This is the gold seal given to you by this king. From today onwards, you are the General Zhengxi of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Zhu Yong accepted the golden seal happily, and said: "The last general must fight hard and serve the Great Zhou court."

Long Chen brought another scarlet gold belt, and said: "This is General Zhu's belt."

In ancient times, when officials were appointed, in addition to giving seals and ribbons, belts were also given.

The ancients were very particular about wearing belts. Belts are an important symbol for distinguishing high and low official ranks and status. People of different ranks have different styles of belts.

Belt buttons are divided into gold, silver, rhinoceros, jade, iron, etc., and the colors are also divided into purple, green, green and other colors.

Long Chen gave Zhu Yong a scarlet gold belt, which is a standard only for senior officials, so Zhu Yong was very happy.

"Thank you King Wu."

Zhu Yong happily took the belt.

A group of brothers surrounded him, looking at Zhu Yong's gold seal and belt with envy.

"Everyone, follow General Zhu and work hard. When the city is conquered, this king will also give you a belt with seals and ribbons."

Long Chen encouraged loudly, and everyone screamed like they were beating chicken blood.

Long Chen said to Zhu Yong: "General Zhu has been here for two days, and this king sent two school lieutenants under your command today, so you can set off today."

"This king has agreed with you that all the cities you occupy will belong to you in the future."

"Occupying a county is the county magistrate, and a state is the prefect. If you can occupy half of the country, I will personally report to the Holy Majesty and make you king!"

Long Chen drew another big cake for Zhu Yong, and Zhu Yong bowed excitedly: "The last general will die!"

Long Chen said: "General Zhu holds this Great Seal of the General Who Conquers the West. This king gives you the right to appoint generals and schools. You can recruit other rebels. Below the generals, you can be canonized by yourself."

Long Chen only verbally promised benefits, and didn't need to pay anything.

Giving Zhu Yong a nihilistic power to win over the canonized rebel army would be of great benefit to Long Chen.

Zhu Yong was very excited, and said: "Thank you King Wu for your trust, the general will set off today!"

Long Chen said to Dugu Jiali: "Bring the wine, this king will give General Zhu a boost!"

Dugu Jiali immediately ordered the soldiers to bring good wine and slaughter the sheep for cooking on the spot.

Long Chen and Zhu Yong drank a good meal, and the subordinates immediately followed Zhu Yong to the west after eating and drinking.

After Zhu Yong left, Dugu Jiali was a little puzzled, and asked, "My lord, did you benefit Zhu Yong too much?"

Dugu Jiali felt that Long Chen's promise just now was a bit too much.

Long Chen said with a smile: "I'm just paying lip service. If they can pull up a large army in the rear, Shi Le will have a headache."

Dugu Jiali was a little worried, and said: "Even if you pull up a large army, the combat effectiveness will not be enough. They are all stragglers."

Long Chen said: "It doesn't matter if you don't have enough combat power. They are making trouble in the rear, and Shi Le can't recruit troops. What's more, these people are rebellious soldiers. The rebellious soldiers loot everywhere, and Shi Le can't collect food and grass."

"The army has no food and grass, and the morale of the army will be disordered. How can Shi Le fight with me!"

Of course, this strategy is harmful to the people of Xixia.

However, there is no perfect solution for a war between countries.

Ending the war as soon as possible and destroying Xixia is the greatest kindness to the people of Xixia.

Dugu Jiali nodded and said, "Your Excellency wants to use them to contain and disrupt the enemy's rear, leaving Shi Le with no soldiers and food to collect."

Long Chen nodded slightly, watching Zhu Yong lead his troops west.

Tang Heizi rode over and said, "My lord, the Xixia soldiers in Yangcheng started to fetch water from the moat with buckets to drink."

Long Chen smiled and said: "Just wait, in two days, the soldiers in Yangcheng will rebel."

"Shi Le must either leave the city for a decisive battle, or wait in the city to die."

After so many days of siege, the water source in Yangcheng was almost exhausted, and Shi Le probably couldn't hold it anymore.

On the city wall of Yangcheng, many soldiers held buckets, tied the handles with ropes, and threw them into the moat from the top of the city to fetch water.

Under the city, the Long family army looked at the soldiers on the city and mocked: "Are you illiterate? The water is poisonous!"

Long Chen put up a wooden sign outside the city, stating that he poisoned the water, the water cannot be drunk.

Long Chen did this to disgust these people on purpose.

There was no water to drink in the city, and smoke was coming out of my throat due to thirst, and the water in the moat could be seen to be drinkable. The pain in my heart was indescribable.

"Poisonous Lao Tzu also drinks it, it's better than dying of thirst!"

The Xixia soldiers in the city didn't care at all. When the water was brought to the city, a group of people ransacked it wildly. No one cared whether the water was poisonous or not.

After drinking the water, the soldier leaned against the city wall panting heavily, and cursed, "It's poisonous, I'll drink it too!"

Some soldiers were watching to see if the person who drank the water died or not.

As a result, those soldiers were completely fine, and the others followed suit to fetch water frantically. Countless buckets were thrown down from the city wall to fetch water.

Inside the prefect's mansion.

The infantry general Le Min entered the main hall, and the privy envoy Lu Qichang and the army envoy Li Chenglie were discussing countermeasures.

Both of them felt that it was the best choice to abandon the city and retreat now, and if it was delayed, the situation would only get worse.

But Shi Le might not accept this suggestion.

Le Min walked in and said anxiously: "My lords, the soldiers are starting to drink the water from the moat."

Li Chenglie said in astonishment: "Isn't the water in the moat poisonous?"

Le Min said helplessly: "It's poisonous, Long Cheng'en said it himself, we watched them poison."

"But the soldiers are so thirsty, they don't care whether there is poison or not."

Lu Qichang's face was ugly.

In order to drink a sip of water, he is not afraid of death, which shows that the soldier is almost at his limit.

Li Chenglie said suddenly: "This may be an opportunity. They are not even afraid of death. Let them go out of the city to fight, and maybe they can win."

Lu Qichang felt that it made sense. Soldiers who were cornered might be able to fight.

"I'll go and talk to the king."

Lu Qichang got up and wanted to leave, but the cavalry general Sha Wenchen came in suddenly, and said anxiously: "Someone in the city spread rumors that the prince destroyed the Zhaoti Temple and all the monks were killed."

"The monks and soldiers in the city were very excited. They wanted to ask the national teacher for an explanation."

Just now, Long Chen sent soldiers to shout outside the city, telling the monks about Shi Haoran's destruction of Zhaoti Temple.

These monks and soldiers didn't believe it at first, but Long Chen explained what happened carefully.

The monks and soldiers are now furious, and they want Monk Kong Ji to come out to refute the rumors.

When Sha Wenchen saw the monks and soldiers making trouble, he hurried over to report.

When the three of them heard this, they couldn't help laughing out loud: "How could such deceitful words come from Long Chengen's mouth?"

"Zhaoti Temple is my Great Xia State Temple, why did your son want to destroy Zhaoti Temple?"

"Furthermore, the prince dares to make a claim on such a big matter?"