The cultivation level of the Daodan realm can usually have a lifespan of over 200 years old. Zhang Xiong was only over 80 years old at this time. Judging from his cultivation level in the middle stage of the Daodan realm, he can be said to be in his prime.

However, in Chen Hai, Ge Xuanqiao, Miao Mingcheng, and Yue Yiran walked into Yuchi City and was temporarily enforced by Zhang Xiong as a palace. The Zhang Xiong they saw was covered in white hair and aging.

You should know that in a few days, when Zhang Xiong was escorting the formation outside Yuchi City, he was standing on the gorgeous chariot with a head of crow-colored hair and shawls. He was tall and majestic, wearing Fire Cloud Armor, like an immortal general who came to the world.

In the conference hall, whether it was the children of the Zhang family or the generals who had previously surrendered to Zhang Xiong, their eyes were filled with more suspicion, alertness, frustration, fear and even curiosity, but they could not see anger, hatred or madness that was forced into a dead end.

When he entered Yuchi City, Yue Yiran was still looking forward to Zhang Xiong being eager to kill Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao - in his opinion, this is the biggest role Zhang Xiong can play while he was desperate, but when he saw Zhang Xiong's aging look, he was shocked and didn't understand why Zhang Xiong suddenly became like this.

So many of their generals and soldiers were ruthlessly killed by Jingjuejun on the battlefield, with broken limbs and bones and blood flowing into a river. Why did they have no anger and hatred in their hearts? Why didn't they ever think about killing Chen Hai with their hands and avenge their blood and hatred for their robes?

Both public and private, Ge Xuanqiao wanted to end the war as soon as possible, but he also thought in his heart that Zhang Xiong might be unwilling to give in and would not be so easy to surrender.

When you walk into Yuchi City, you will see that although the city is actively preparing for war, demolishing houses, strengthening barracks, building more protective walls, and digging trenches in the city, and several counterweight catapults are made. It can be seen that the rebel generals have rich experience in city defense, but the morale of the rebel generals is extremely depressed and there is no vitality on their faces. Ge Xuanqiao is really convinced. Now it is indeed the best time for him and Chen Hai to enter the city to persuade them to surrender and give them mercy. When they enter Yuchi City, they are not facing hatred and crazy eyes.

Chen Hai stood in the hall where the light was so dim that it seemed depressed, calmly facing the suspicion of Zhang Xiong and the rebel generals, and looked at it with vigilance.

Considering that the defensive magic circle could not last long and Yuchi City did not have enough depth, the so-called king's palace here would be within the range of the throwing stone crossbow outside the city. They reinforced it with rows of logs on the inside of the hall to resist the smashing of the stone crossbow day and night, but this also made the hall, which was not originally spacious, narrower and dimly lit.

According to the Zhang clan, which had thriving in Tianai Mountain, before Zhang Xiong, it was a small tribe on the south bank of Pingluhai.

Even after Zhang Xiong cultivated the Taoist elixir, the rise of the Zhang family could not be said to be rapid. In his early years, Zhang Xiong was known as a martial arts tycoon in Pinglu, and focused more on practice, while ignoring the development of the clan.

It was the cruel and bloody Western Expedition that caused huge losses to the old clan tribes in the Pinglu Oasis, and the Zhang family was able to quickly make the power vacant on the southern bank of the Pinglu Sea after the war, and rose to become a large clan that respected Pinglu with the Ye family, Shi family and Jing family.

However, as far as Zhang Xiong himself was concerned, he did not have a particularly strong greed for power. After the Western Expedition, Zhang Xiong only briefly served as the left-ranking position of the Western Qiang Kingdom. He spent most of his time secretly practicing in Tianai Mountain. Instead, his clan brother Zhang Jun represented the Zhang clan, and served as deputy governor in the Southern Army for a long time, in charge of military and political power.

The reason why Zhang Xiong was persuaded by the Demon God Temple and the Tibetan Qiang Kingdom to usurp the position of the Western Qiang Kingdom was not so much Zhang Xiong's personal ambition for power, but more important. The more core factor was that Kong Peng and his daughter had to make such a choice.

Previously, the western foot of Tieler Ridge was defeated. At the last moment, Zhang Xiong did not choose to break through with a few guards, but stayed to defend Yuchi City with the rebel generals. This made him seem indecisive and did not have the determination of the domineering lord.

This is also the key reason why Ye Chentian, the former leader of the Western Qiang, who was suspicious by nature, always lacked precautions against the Zhang family.

Zhang Xiong did not have the ambition to rule the hero, which was also the main reason why Chen Hai decided to surrender to Yuchi City at this time.

This is also the most appropriate time to give mercy and let the Jingjue Army come forward to recruit the forces of the Zhang family remnants.

War is bloody and cruel, but therefore no one will hold a grudge against the bloody and cruelty imposed by the Jingjue Army on the battlefield.

The battle of Yuchi City will also replace the memories of the tribes of the clans of the Pinglu Great Oasis for the bloody Western Expedition more than 20 years ago to a certain extent. At this time, the war will not only not deepen, but will even greatly weaken the hatred of the tribes of the Pinglu Great Oasis for Yanzhou.

If the cruel war continues, it will be unreasonably weakened the potential of the Pinglu Oasis. On the one hand, even if Ye Qinglin leads the subsequent war, as long as the Ye family commits bloody revenge and cleansing of the clan tribes that participate in the rebellion, and finds venting points outside the battlefield, more problems will arise.

These are not what Chen Hai wants to see.

This time, Chen Hai, Ge Xuanqiao, Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran walked into Yuchi City, so naturally he personally discussed the conditions for him to persuade Zhang Xiong to surrender.

Zhang Xiong killed the king and the young king usurped the throne and rebelled, and imprisoned or killed more than 10,000 children of the Ye family and their relatives. It was impossible to not punish them and tolerate them to continue to stay in the Great Oasis of Pinglu. However, no matter whether they were imprisoning Zhang Xiong and others in Taiwei Mountain, exiling Zhang's children to Heishan, and demanding Zhang Xiong to persuade Zhang Jun to surrender, Kong Peng and other rebel generals to give up resistance, these conditions were absolutely harsh and cruel.

Chen Hai personally went to the city to persuade the surrender, and the conditions for persuading surrender were Taiweizong and the Demon God Temple to endorse it. Zhang Xiong and other rebel generals could not raise any questions, but it took time to consider it. People also needed to send people to Zangdan Peak to communicate with rebel generals such as Zhang Jun and Kong Peng...

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Chen Hai, Ge Xuan and Qiao Anran returned to Ye Qinglin's camp, Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran took over Zhang Xiong to Zangdan Peak to persuade Zhang Jun and Kong Peng to surrender.

Although Zhang Xiong had not surrendered directly, and the generals were still preparing for the attack on the city, everyone knew that Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao were able to leave the city safely.

The generals of the Ye royal army were in a very complicated mood.

Not to mention Shi Wuying, Jing Yiyuan and others, even Zhao Jin, Zhou Yiming, Gu Yanxia, ​​Yang Jinsheng and other leaders of the clan tribe who later joined the Ye family, they all hoped that the rebellion would end in this way, and they also felt the mercy Chen Hai gave to the rebels.

Even though the generals of the Ye family's remnant clan were very dissatisfied, they could not express it at this time. They were persuaded to take the overall situation into consideration, only a few young generals such as Ye He left the camp angrily.

It was a pity that Ye He left the camp angrily. As the most outstanding child of the younger generation of the Ye family, after this war, he matured in all aspects and established his prestige in the army. After the Ye family restored the country, he would re-govern the northern and southern armies, and Ye He was also qualified to take charge of the army alone.

Chen Hai knew that the persuasion of surrender would arouse dissatisfaction among many people in the Ye family, but if he wanted to recruit the forces of the Zhang family, he could not satisfy everyone. Fortunately, Taiwei Sect and the Demon Temple did not want to see the Ye family dominate the Pinglu Oasis, balanced and restrained each other. This is the future situation of the Pinglu Oasis that Taiwei Sect and the Demon Temple would be happy to see.

Two days later, Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran returned to Dazhai from Zangdan Peak to the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge.

Although Zhang Jun and Kong Peng could still gather 40,000 to 50,000 troops west of Zangdan Peak, they knew very well that the situation was hopeless.

Even without considering the abnormality of the Jingjue Army, many clan tribes in Pinglu chose to join the Ye family's arms again. The Ye family's royal army's military strength is growing every moment, and the war resources that can be mobilized are constantly expanding. Whether it is open or dark, the Tibetan and Qiang Kingdom and the Demon God Temple will no longer work hard to participate in this war without hope in the short term. Zhang Jun and Kong Peng have no more choices at this time.

However, unlike Zhang Xiong who was besieged in Yuchi City, Zhang Jun and Kong Peng could not defeat him and lead their troops to flee. The condition they put forward was to allow the Jingjue Army and the Ye family to lead their troops and their direct descendants of Zhang in Tianai Mountain and their relatives to move to the Tahe Oasis to end the rebellion that lasted for a year.

At this time, many of the rebels who were stationed in Zangdan Peak and stayed in Tianai Mountain and Xiqiang Royal City were forced to surrender to the generals and soldiers of Zhang Xiong when Zhang Xiong rebelled.

Chen Hai and Ye Qinglin would not allow Zhang Jun to take this group of people away, which would make Zhang Jun and Kong Peng still have the possibility of leading these generals to counterattack Pinglu in the future.

Yue Yiran and the disciples of the Demon God Temple actually ran around. After several negotiations, the final agreement was that Chen Hai and Ye Qinglin agreed that Zhang Jun and Kong Peng could lead the soldiers of the direct descendants to move westward; other clan tribes who were worried about being cleansed by the Ye family could move to Changle City, but they needed to ensure that these people were voluntarily, rather than being coerced to move to Tahe Oasis or Changle City.

Even after the Battle of Yuchi City, the Jingjue Army and the Ye royal army had enough strength to sweep the entire Pinglu Oasis, but they still followed the pre-war agreement and allowed Changle City to maintain a relatively independent status like Lucheng.

Taiweizong was quite dissatisfied with the He family and the Demon God Temple's secting Changle City, but Chen Hai and Dong Ning took the pressure to push back the dissatisfaction of Taiweizong.

The Jingjue Army must maintain a relatively independent position, and cannot let Ye lead the nose, let Taiweizong lead the nose. The future pattern of Pinglu Oasis is achieved by the Jingjue Army. The right to speak and dominance must be held in their hands.

Otherwise, the Jingjue Army would completely become a vassal of Taiwei Sect. Although Ye family held a grudge against the Demon God Temple, they also knew that the real expulsion of the Demon God Temple from the Pinglu Oasis was absolutely not beneficial to Ye family, so they remained silent in this matter.
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