Yang Zhen's words did not completely dispel Yang Chaojin and Xia Chengde's doubts.

Speaking of Songshan City's defense, it is indeed more consolidated than when Jin Guofeng was guarding Songshan at the beginning of the year. Not only were bastions and urns built at the east gate, west gate, and south gate, but there were also many more defenders in the city. At the same time, there were more

They brought in a large number of firearms that they had never had before to assist in the battle, but even so, they still felt that Yang Zhen's actions were a bit arrogant.

If the Manchu Tatars really come with an overwhelming army, it will be self-defeating.

However, since Yang Zhen had already said this, and he was in high spirits, it was hard for Yang Chaojin and Xia Chengde to say anything more. If they talked too much, they would appear to be afraid of the enemy and avoid fighting in front of Yang Zhen.

At that moment, Yang Chaojin turned around and ordered his followers to follow Yang Zhen's orders and go to escort Tong Guoyin.

Xia Chengde also ordered the gunners on the Ximen City to light the torches, the gunners to light the match ropes, and the crossbowmen to board the city. Then he ordered the generals guarding the barbican to close the side of the barbican.

The door creaked open.

The changes at the west gate of Songshan City immediately attracted the attention of the Manchu Tatar and Han troops with yellow flags who were setting up camp a few miles west of Songshan City.

Soon, a group of armored sentinel riders galloped towards the outside of the west gate of Songshan City, approaching tentatively along the criss-crossing trenches.

The atmosphere in Songshan City immediately became tense.

At this moment, the sound of horse hoofbeats came from the city, and those Dongchang fans who had been ordered to arrest the prisoners rode their horses back to the west gate.

Yang Zhen led everyone from the outside side of the West Gate Urn City to the inward side.

Soon, the team dismounted and escorted Tong Guoyin, the Han army's armor-clad Zhangjing with a white flag, his hands tied and blindfolded, to the Wengcheng.

When they arrived at Wengcheng, they looked up at Yang Zhen and others on the city, obviously waiting for the final order from Yang Zhen or Yang Chaojin.

Seeing this, Yang Zhen stood on top of the city, leaned down slightly, and said to Tong Guoyin who was being escorted in Wengcheng: "Tong Guoyin, can Yang let you out of the city?"

Tong Guoyin was blindfolded and dragged by horses all the way to here. He thought that his life was over now. When he got there, he was about to beg for mercy, but unexpectedly someone suddenly told him that he wanted to let him go.

This sudden joy of surviving from a desperate situation made him ecstatic. However, when he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong. This Songshan general, Yang Zhen, had killed Shi Tingzhu and Shi Huashan. How could he let himself go?

"Seriously, Yang, Mr. Yang, are you really going to let me go?!"

Tong Guoyin looks like he is only in his twenties. His ability to become the Jia La Zhangjing of the Han Army with a White Flag is probably directly related to the fact that he was born in the Tong Yangzhen family.

Naturally, Jia La Zhangjing of the Han army, who was born as a pure playboy, could not be someone who would rather die than surrender.

But precisely because of this, Tong Guoyin's current situation is generally pretty good.

Although he didn't eat much in the past two days and only drank some water, he did not have any serious injuries on his body, nor did he suffer the kind of torture that Turg and Ilden suffered.

After witnessing the severe torture with his own eyes, Tong Guoyin was very cooperative when facing the interrogation of Zhang Chen and Zhang Guogan. He answered whatever was asked and told him everything he knew as if he was pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.

The performance of the Han soldier with a white flag, Maile Zhangjing and Jin Weicheng, was not much different from Tong Guoyin. After Yang Zhen interrogated the two men separately, they corroborated the results of the interrogation with each other, which allowed Yang Zhen to grasp a lot of specific situations.

Therefore, after these two Han generals with a white flag who were well aware of current affairs fell into the hands of Yang Zhen, they were not beaten much. Even when the Yang Dynasty made a low-level move, they were not punished much.

But this Tong Guoyin never expected that Yang Zhen would say such words to him after he asked someone to bring him here.

When he first heard what Yang Zhen said, he was surprised and happy, and at the same time he was afraid that he had heard Yang Zhen's words wrongly. His mind was spinning all over the place for a moment, and he muttered something like this in a hoarse voice,

Want to confirm.

"Of course. You go back with a message for Mr. Yang and tell your Prince Su Hauge that your Prince Duduo of Yu is in Songshan City, in the hands of Mr. Yang. If he wants to go back, he can call

He took the heads of brothers Ma Guangyuan, Ma Guanghui, and Shi Guozhu and Shi Tianzhu in exchange!"

"ah?!"

"Why, you don't want to?"

"No, no, no, no, Tong is willing, Tong is willing!"

Although the words Yang Zhen said made Tong Guoyin extremely surprised and panicked, he quickly figured out that as long as he returned alive, how could he care so much about others?

I immediately agreed to the idea.

"That's good. Leave something behind and then you can leave."

"Leave something behind?! What does General Yang want me to leave behind?!"

Tong Guoyin was confused after hearing what Yang Zhen said, and an ominous premonition suddenly occurred in his heart. His intuition told him that this matter might not be that simple, so he hurriedly asked in shock.

However, what was waiting for him was a burst of laughter from Yang Zhen.

At this moment, Tong Guoyin, who was panicking and bewildered, was suddenly pushed to the ground by the person escorting him, and his bound hands were pulled forward hard.

By this time, Tong Guoyin had realized the sudden danger. He lay on the ground and struggled desperately, trying to take back his hands that were pulled out, but it was too late.

In the panic, he only heard a "clang", followed by a "click". Tong Guoyin, who was struggling desperately, suddenly felt a sense of relief, and he actually retracted his arms!

However, as soon as Tong Guoyin retracted his arms and felt joy rising from the bottom of his heart, an unprecedented heart-piercing pain immediately followed.

The sudden sharp pain at the front of his arms made him almost faint from the pain. The pain was so painful that he temporarily lost consciousness, leaving only rolling on the ground screaming and wailing at the top of his lungs.

Yang Zhen stood on the top of the city and witnessed with his own eyes that Tong Guoyin's hands were cut off at the wrist by Yang Chaojin's men. He saw with his own eyes that blood spurted out of Tong Guoyin's two severed forearms, soaking the inside of the urn city red in an instant.

a piece of ground.

Seeing Tong Guoyin rolling on the ground in the urn city, screaming and wailing, Yang Zhen sighed first, then turned to Xia Chengde and said:

"Tell someone to throw him outside the Wengcheng! At the same time, order the brothers in the city to let him leave alive and not to shoot him to death halfway."

Now that the matter has come to this, Xia Chengde naturally has nothing to say.

Yang Zhen's order was conveyed quickly, and soon, Tong Guoyin, whose hands were cut off, was torn off the black cloth blindfolded, dragged and thrown outside the side gate of Wengcheng.

Immediately afterwards, the opened side door of the Wengcheng was tightly closed from the inside with a creaking and clanging sound.

The Tatar traitor Tong Guoyin had a strong desire to survive. After being thrown out of the city, he first lay on the ground and whined and gasped for a while. Soon, he struggled to stand up, biting his back molars and enduring the excruciating pain, stumbling

The land went westward.

Yang Zhen stood on the top of the west gate of Songshan Urn City. He didn't turn around and leave the city until he saw Tong Guoyin being taken away by the Manchu Tatar sentries who came to see him on horseback.

Yang Zhen had no sympathy for people like Tong Guoyin. Such people deserved their death, but after witnessing such a bloody torture scene, he inevitably felt a little uncomfortable.

For this kind of people, Yang Zhen would actually prefer to kill them with one knife and die as soon as they die, or simply send them to the capital and let Emperor Chongzhen deal with them, so that he can be out of sight and out of mind.

This time, he needed to select a prisoner of some importance to be released from the city so that he could spread the news that Duduo and others fell into his hands alive.

After much deliberation, he chose Tong Guoyin, a dandy from the Tong family. Firstly, he had a certain weight. Secondly, it would not matter even if such a dandy was let go.

Besides, the main prisoners that Yang Zhen brought back to the city were all big fish, and he couldn't let any of them go.

Needless to say, Dodo, Turg, and Ilden, even Jinwei City is also a Mele Zhangjing. Compared with Jia La Zhangjing Tong Guoyin, it is also a rare big fish. Wouldn't it be a pity to let it go?

Correspondingly, Yang Zhen couldn't just let him go for nothing, and leaving his hands behind was already considered very kind.

That afternoon, before leaving Ximen Wengcheng, Yang Zhen once again told Xia Chengde to pay attention to the movements of the Tatars and guard the West City.
Chapter completed!