"Bai Qiuren, the eldest son of the Bai family in Cangzhou, and he also has a younger brother named Bai Qiuyi." Li Ze handed the letter in his hand to Cao Xin and said, "His father Bai Mingli is a famous figure in Cangzhou."

"Where is this Bai Mingli held in Cangzhou? Why haven't I heard of it?" Cao Xin asked in confusion after browsing Bai Mingli's letter with a glance.

Li Ze laughed: "Why do you want to talk about an official position? The biggest position Bai Mingli has ever held is a servant in Cangzhou."

"A official?" Cao Xin was surprised: "How capable can a mere official have? What ability can he become our inner support?"

Li Ze looked at Cao Xin with some teasing words: "Duke Cao, you are from a Jinshi and have a very high starting point, but you don't know the following tricks. I will only ask you one thing, who did the matter if you are the governor of Yizhou?"

"I have a chief minister below, so I have another way!"

"Can they do specific things for you?" Li Ze asked back.

Cao Xin was stunned and closed his mouth, as if he had thought of something.

"The real people are those officials. The Bai family has never been a famous official in Cangzhou, but their ancestors have been officials in Cangzhou for generations. When Zhu Shou was not in charge of Cangzhou, his family was like this. It has been more than ten years, but his family is still like this." Li Ze said.

"So, this Baimingli really has some tricks. Not to mention anything else, just this ability to accurately see the world and place bets, we should not underestimate it." Cao Xin said.

"How did this Bai family get connected with you, Gongzi?"

"It's not that he joined us, but that we begged him at the beginning." Li Ze smiled and said, "Our Yixingtang wanted to do business in Cangzhou, but it was difficult to move forward at the beginning. It was almost a loss. Those officials who were not doing business with money or could not do good things. But this was wise and after taking 20% ​​of our shares in Yixingtang in Cangzhou, Yixingtang immediately became smooth sailing in Cangzhou. Not only in Cang County, but also in the counties below, they were still doing well."

"So that's how it is?" Cao Xin suddenly realized.

"The Bai family is not very famous, but they are entrenched at the bottom of Cangzhou. The relationship is complicated and the deep roots are unbelievable. After several generations of business, if you really want to talk about the deep foundation of this person in Cangzhou, Zhu Shou is afraid that he will not be able to compare with him!" Li Ze said with a smile.

"So, there is really a way to go." Cao Xin thought, "But young master, this Baimingli is obviously a very greasy person. Although he has the reason to join us, such a person cannot be trusted. Could this person collude with Zhu Shou to deceive us? "

Li Ze smiled and said, "Mr. Cao, our Yixingtang has been operating in Cangzhou for many years. Do you think I only operate the Bai family line? The Bai family does have the greatest help to us this time, but I will verify whether they are sincere or not. Bai Mingli is a personal genius, and I think he understands this truth, so he sent him his eldest son. The scene that happened last night could be dead. From this point of view, Bai Mingli really made up his mind."

"If he really helps us to easily capture Cangxian, we will make great contributions and be rewarded. But this person entrenched in Cangzhou is not a good thing for us to manage Cangzhou in the future?" Cao Xin said: "Cangzhou is important, and we must focus on it. If he was sent to him at that time, people would inevitably say, "Young Master, you will destroy the bridge when you cross the river and go up the wall to pull the ladder!"

Li Ze looked at Cao Xin and said playfully: "Don't you just said you have received merits as rewards? Of course, I have to repay him with such great contributions. His eldest son is an officer, so he will naturally become my righteous deputies. He has never become a serious official in his life. This time I will give him a real high-ranking official."

Cao Xin's eyes lit up: "Of course it's not in Cangzhou. As long as he leaves Cangzhou, he will never cause any storms. When he returns from being a senior official in another place, Cangzhou will have changed a lot. With Yang Kai's ruthlessness in doing business, I believe that Yixing Society will have blossomed everywhere at that time!"

Li Ze laughed and said, "When the time comes, Bai Gongrong will return to his hometown to retire, who will say that I, Li Ze, treat the heroes?"

Cao Xin gave a thumbs up, "The young master is Gao Ming."

"In the early morning of three days later, the Bai family will pick us up at Xichengmen to enter Cangxian. In the next three days, I will also verify the authenticity of this matter. During these three days, Cao Gong will fight as much as he wants!"

"The mountain is still built?"

"Of course, I gave up halfway without special reasons. Wouldn't Zhu Shou be suspicious?"

The two earthen mountains were finally completed when it was dark, and it was about a foot higher than the city wall a hundred steps away. The soldiers of Yizhou immediately put rows of crossbows on it and arranged archers.

The next day, Cao Xin started a step-by-step attack again.

However, this time, with the heavy artillery strikes of the counterweight catapult and the cover of countless crossbows and archers, the soldiers of Yizhou attacked the city wall for the first time.

After a long tragic battle, the Yizhou soldiers retreated again.

The result of the attack on this day forced Zhu Shou to mobilize more elite troops from other city gates to the north gate.

Since the Yizhou soldiers spent a lot of energy, manpower and material resources to build these two earthen mountains, coupled with the powerful counterweight catapult, the focus of the Yizhou soldiers' attack was self-evident.

The walls of the North City have been severely damaged, and the battlements have long been completely flattened. The cracks on the walls are shocking and they will collapse at any time. Inside, Henghaijun built up layers of sacks to serve as temporary walls.

During the day, the crossbows of both sides fired at each other. Due to the height issue, Heng Haijun suffered a great loss. After the truce, Heng Haijun built a taller arrow tower with wood behind the city. Even if they risked being smashed by a counterweight catapult, they would also have to fight back against the Yizhou army's crossbows above the earthen mountain.

Compared with the counterweight catapult, these dense crossbows and archers suppress the city, the threat of the catapult is far greater than the catapult.

The catapult will only launch an attack before the Yizhou soldiers attack. Once the Yizhou soldiers rushed under the city wall, these terrifying things will stop attacking. Otherwise, these big things weighing hundreds of pounds will suddenly lose their accuracy and hit their own people. It is not fun.

But those crossbows and bows can be shot until the moment the Yizhou soldiers climbed to the city, they would stop attacking.

The next day, the arrangement of the people of Henghai finally played a role. These simple arrow towers that emerged overnight caused great casualties to the Yizhou soldiers on the Tushan Mountain. Although they were destroyed one by one by one by the catapult outside the city in a very short time, the Yizhou soldiers' attack ended in vain.

Of course, this is also due to Cao Xin's intention to launch a life-and-death battle with the Henghai Army. Otherwise, this loss would be completely bearable for him.

However, since he had a simpler method, he also took advantage of the slope to get down. The Yizhou soldiers seemed to have not recovered from this attack for the whole day. They were busy re-arranged crossbows on the Tushan Mountain and built female walls to cover the setting on the Tushan Mountain.

The third day, early morning.

In the camp in the direction of Xicheng, the elite troops in Yizhou completed the final assembly.

Over the past three days, Cao Xin and Li Ze moved all the elite forces of the Central Army camp to the Xidaying like ants. Chengde Langqi, Modao Team, and Li Ze's personal guard camp were all concentrated here.

And in the central army camp, which seemed to be still full, a large number of palace soldiers were filled in.

It is not easy to complete these transfers under the enemy's nose.

Min Rou's Chengde Wolf Cavalry took the lead in the camp.

The war horses snatched the horses, wrapped them in soft cloth, and quietly approached hundreds of steps away from the West Gate.

Min Rou looked up at the stars in the sky, lowered her head, and saw a little red light appearing on the top of the city, slowly drawing circles in the night, and almost at the same time, the hanging suspension bridge slowly lowered.

Min Rou no longer hesitated, lifted the reins of the horse and ran forward.

The war horse was like the wind, crossing the suspension bridge, and a gap had just opened for a horse to pass through the city gate, and Min Rou had already passed through the door.

Behind him, the hundred Chengde Wolf Cavalry had followed closely like a line.

Min Rou stopped the horses, looked up and saw that the two rows of Heng Haijun with white cloth tied around their necks were so conspicuous, and under the wall, there were about dozens of Heng Haijun's corpses. Obviously, these people were killed by people with white cloth strips.

Min Rou activated the war horse again, but this time she had no scruples.

Behind him, more than a thousand rangers led by Li De rushed in immediately.

Behind them, Shi Zhuang and Shen Congxing's troops also rushed in from Ximen.

When the infantry attacked, all the hidden things were no longer necessary.

When Zhu Shou, the governor of Henghai Jiedu, received the news, the entire Xicheng had basically fallen into the hands of the Yizhou Army. The main force of the Yizhou Army was launching wave after wave of attacks from Xicheng to Dongcheng.

But a few days ago, the field battle failed and now it lost the cover of the city wall. The fighting spirit of Heng Haijun collapsed instantly after seeing the Yizhou army break into the city.

As Li Ze expected, the Bai family played a huge role in it. It was not only that they opened the gate of Xicheng. After breaking the city, under the agitation of Bai family, more and more soldiers of Henghai Mansion tied a piece of white cloth around their necks and turned their bodies, and became the pioneers of the Yizhou army's attack on Dongcheng.

Fortunately, white cloth is the easiest thing to find, otherwise so many soldiers from Henghai Palace would have turned against each other and it would be difficult to get so many of them in a while.

After a long fierce battle in the city, Zhu Shou and hundreds of soldiers fled out of the East City, while Chengde Wolf Cavalry chased after Min Rou.

Zhu Shou's fate was destined when he escaped.
Chapter completed!