Shinno Castle, inside the lobby of the government office. [Ran^Text^Library] []

Xu Shu opened the bamboo slip that had just been transmitted, and after a quick glance, he showed a smile. Raising his head, he said to Jian Yong and Sun Qian: "My lord, they have captured Runan City, our first step plan has been successfully completed, and then we are ready to start implementing the second step." ”

Jian Yong nodded, took out a blank bamboo slip from the side, and carefully wrote on it with a pen. Xu Shu continued: "The order to the lord is about to be passed over, and our side must also be ready to respond. In this way, Sun Qian, you go and call Zilong, and I will give him detailed instructions. ”

Sun Qian came out in response, and Jian Yong was about to finish writing the letter at this time, he stopped his pen with some embarrassment and asked, "Yuan Zhi, are you sure you want to do this?" ”

Xu Shu smiled confidently: "Of course, in history, Kong Ming once burned Xinye, and now I, Xu Shu, have come to burn Runan and burn him to ashes." ”

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In Runan City, Liu Bei took the news from Xu Shu, and frowned deeply after reading it. Guan Yu asked on the side: "Big brother, what does the letter from the military advisor say, it won't really let us five thousand people defend the city, right?" ”

Ma Chao's expression was also a little unnatural: "Yes, most of my soldiers are cavalry, suitable for charging on the plains." It's really difficult to defend the city! ”

Liu Bei sighed and said, "That's not the case, the military advisor asked us to prepare to abandon the city and let Cao Cao in." ”

"Huh? What does this mean? The city that you just won with so hard work, and you will return it before it is hot? Zhang Fei scratched his head in confusion, completely unable to understand the thoughts of the military advisor.

"Third brother, don't get excited, although the military advisor said that we should abandon the city, he has a plan. He told us to hold out in the city until Cao's army arrived. Then he made the appearance of closing the city and defending it, and resolutely did not go to war. After that, the people of the city were released from the main gate, and our soldiers were disguised as inside to sneak out of the city, leaving only a small number of men and horses in the city as bait. After that, Cao Cao must forcibly attack the city, and the people left behind pretended to be invincible and abandoned the city and fled. After Cao's army entered the city, he ignited the gunpowder prepared in advance in the city. Liu Bei explained in detail.

When Zhang Fei heard this, he laughed: "So that's the case, worthy of being a military advisor, if this strategy can be successful, I will directly burn these grandsons to the ground!" ”

Although the strategy was very good, Liu Bei just couldn't be happy: "Alas, although the military advisor has no last resort, there is one most important point that he didn't think of. ”

"Didn't expect that? What is it? Guan Yu asked suspiciously.

"Of course, who will stay in the city? You must know that there are definitely not many people left behind in the city, and after the introduction of Cao Jun, they can certainly be burned to death, but how can we stay behind come out, won't they also be burned alive inside? ”

After listening to Liu Bei's words, everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know how to answer for a while. On the contrary, Ma Chao showed a relaxed expression: "If Lord Liu Bei is worried about this, then leave this task to me, I promise that I can bring in Cao Jun at the same time, and at the same time, I can also rush out of the city!" ”

Liu Bei said solemnly: "Brother Ma Chao, this is not a joke, are you sure you can leave the city safely?" ”

Ma Chao patted his chest, and his handsome face looked very serious: "Just rest assured that you will leave it to me, I will definitely return safely." ”

Liu Bei saw that he was indeed confident, and after hesitation, he agreed to his request.

In the evening, Cao Cao's army had already approached the city, standing on the city wall to look, and what appeared in front of him was an endless army, although there were many people, but they were still able to maintain a very neat formation.

The north gate of Runan City was slowly lowered, and a large number of people rushed out, all of them carrying packages on their backs, and hurriedly ran out of the city. Previously, Cao Cao had promised them that he would wait for all the people to leave before attacking the city.

Seeing the people come out, Cao Cao not only did not become suspicious, but became more convinced that Liu Bei wanted to defend the city, after all, this was his Liu Bei's consistent style. For these ordinary people, he did not embarrass them, and directly asked the army to give way and let them leave.

Ma Chao, who saw this scene on the city wall, quietly breathed a sigh of relief, Liu Bei and the troops sneaked out of the city smoothly, and there was no accident. All that was left was to lure them into the city and burn them alive in the city.

After all the people left, Ma Chao hurriedly asked people to hang the city gate and solemnly waited for the Cao army who was about to attack.

Cao Cao squinted his eyes and saw a young general standing at the head of the city, but he didn't know it, and he didn't know which general Liu Bei was underneath. Moreover, it is a little strange that Liu Bei did not appear on the city wall at this time, could it be that he was hiding?

Alas, it can't be so much, Cao Cao directly waved his hand and directly signaled to attack. You know, this time I came out with more than 200,000 troops, and I was worried that I couldn't attack a small Runan City?

Seeing Cao Cao's army charging with numerous siege equipment, Ma Chao ordered his subordinates to shoot arrows from afar. But after all, there are too few people left, only 500 people, and the effect is really small.

In less than ten minutes, the army had already arrived at the city and began to build a ladder to prepare to force its way to the city. Ma Chao asked the soldiers to lift a lot of thick wood on the top of the city and smash it down fiercely, suppressing the first group of soldiers who climbed the city. But after all, they have a strong numerical advantage, and the successive charges make Ma Chao's people have no time to defend.

After Cao Cao's men had completely climbed the city walls, Ma Chao hurriedly ordered a retreat. If you don't leave at this time, you really can't leave. He led 500 of his men to leave the city wall in a hurry, mounted the horses that had been prepared, and galloped towards the west gate of Runan City.

Since Cao Jun landed in the city were all infantry, how could he catch up with Ma Chao, who was galloping on horseback, he had no choice but to give up. When they saw that the walls were undefended, they hurriedly opened the gates and let the troops behind them enter the city.

At this time, Ma Chao, who had already arrived at the west gate, pulled the reins. The soldier next to him asked a little nervously, "General, why don't we leave yet?" Cao Cao's army has entered the city! ”

Ma Chao looked at the fact that there were still many Cao Jun outside the city, and said slowly: "Don't worry, you see that Cao Jun still has so many soldiers outside the city, which means that there are not many people who have entered the city now, if you set fire to it now, it will definitely not cause much damage to them." Moreover, even if we go out now, we won't be able to rush through so many people outside. ”

After waiting for a long time, the noise around him became louder and louder, and it seemed that Cao Jun was about to be hunted down here. Ma Chao's eyes lit up, it was now. He rolled over and dismounted, and pulled out a small object from his clothes, which turned out to be a strange-looking whistle upon closer inspection.

Ma Chao put the whistle to his mouth and struggled to blow out a strange melody. As soon as the whistle ended, the surrounding soldiers were shocked to see a strange circle of light appear behind Ma Chao, and a majestic horse slowly stepped out of it.

The horse was shrouded in pure golden armor, and only the head could tell that the horse was shiny black, and the hair was very soft and natural, and it was evident that it was often groomed. On the side of the horse hung a spear, also golden, with a piercing light.

Ma Chao jumped up, straddled the saddle, took out the golden gun, and held it in his hand. He gently stroked the horse's hair, and said to himself: "Black Rose, you are the strongest explosive and defensive among all my treasures, I am alive or dead in this charge, but I will leave it all to you!" ”

The horse seemed to understand Ma Chao's words, raised his head arrogantly, and neighed. Ma Chao smiled happily when he saw it: "Okay, now open the city gate, light the primer, and we are ready to charge!" ”

Hearing the order, one of the soldiers quickly opened the gates and ran to light a long lead. After doing everything quickly, he flew on his horse and entered the formation of five hundred men.

The west gate slowly opened, and Cao Jun, who was surrounding outside, saw a small group of cavalry inside. The team was arranged in a triangular matrix, and at the very end of the matrix, a general stood proudly on a gold-armored horse.

I saw the general point the spear in his hand and roared loudly: "Charge!! ”