In the city of Bishui, there is a 'thriving', the people have gone through the initial panic, and gradually returned to a peaceful life, and the city is still lively.

Heavenly Sin sat on top of the city, the new city lord Xiang Zhilong was at the bottom, and the general Han Ping was further behind, and they were all quietly waiting for Heavenly Sin's order.

"How's the ration stockpile?"

"Lord Qiyu, the treasury has been emptied, and enough grain and grass have been collected in the various family gates, and they have spent money to buy peace."

"Well, have you caught it?"

"Lord Qiyu, there are thirty people in each of the big families, five people in the small family, and one person in the ordinary family, all of them have been arrested, and they are now waiting near the south gate."

Tiansin nodded, looked at the vast fields and plains in front of him from afar, suddenly sighed for no reason, and said calmly: "Good is not in politics, and mercy is not in charge of soldiers." Since I'm going to fight, don't blame me for being ruthless...... Under my order, only the necessary forces to maintain order were left in the hands of Xiang Zhilong, and the rest of the soldiers and horses set off immediately to pacify the three cities according to the plan! ”

There are three cities very close to Bishui City, although they are much smaller than Bishui City, but they cover a fairly wide area, if these three towns are occupied, they will stand with Bishui City as the center of the horns, relying on each other, the entire defense line will be more consolidated, and Nanming's troops will have more concerns.

This is Puyang City!

Puyang City is the first important town in the north of the Southern Ming Dynasty, its important Cheng dù and the shield of the Southern Ming Dynasty have to fight, here the army of one million, the original Northern Qi attack is in front of this city for a long time, can only be pinned on the shield of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the barbarians can break through a road, which can be seen that the terrible Cheng dù of this majestic city.

A hundred years ago, when the Southern Ming Dynasty had just established itself as a country, the Northern Qi Dynasty took the lead in attacking, but it stopped in front of this Xiongcheng for 12 years, and it was not yet able to conquer it, so it had to withdraw its troops in desperation, and recognized the existence of the Southern Ming Kingdom.

Just like the shield of Nanming, it is a Xiongguan that has never been broken.

If Puyang City sends troops at the same time as the Heavenly Sin attacks the other three cities, then Puyang City will become empty, if a million troops take advantage of the weakness, although it will not attack Puyang City all at once, but it can make this million army surround the point to help, and even if the Nanming army that went out to attack the three cities takes the three cities, they will not be able to return to this Puyang City.

This is also the reason why Heavenly Sin chose to attack in this direction.

Two days after the order was issued, the three cities attacked at the same time, which can be described as ...... Spooky attack.

There are 300,000 soldiers and horses on each side, but the number has reached more than 700,000, and there are 400,000 people in front of them! They walked in front of the procession, forced by spears and spears to stand under the city, shouting loudly at the city.

The voice is uniform, because on average, one person will hold a 'manuscript' in his hand and read it, and what is read out is not to ask the other party to surrender or not to beat them, but to read the names of each of them, from beginning to end, one by one.

This made the defenders at the head of the city very puzzled and confused, and those people did not attack the city, and the Northern Qi army in the rear also did not attack, so they blocked the three directions of the city, leaving only a city gate for them to enter and exit freely.

The guard general couldn't figure out what was going on, but he only had less than 50,000 troops, and it was extremely difficult to deal with this Northern Qi army, so he immediately ordered to run to Puyang City to ask for reinforcements, and even wrote to the imperial court. After all, this is a major event between the two countries, and it is necessary to notify the lord of Nanming as soon as possible.

In this way, apart from the shouts of the 400,000 people, there seemed to be peace inside and outside the city.

But...... Some people are gradually realizing the change in the atmosphere of the whole city!

On the first day, some people walked out of their homes with stunned faces and bribed the soldiers who defended the city to sneak to the top of the city to watch.

The next day, more and more people came to watch, and finally the guards found out and ordered that no idlers should be allowed to go to the city again. He was even more puzzled.

On the third day, hundreds of people in the city secretly ran out of the city, carrying large bags and small bags, and their movements were extremely suspicious.

On the fourth day, more and more people sneaked out from the south gate of the city, which was no longer considered 'secretly running', which naturally attracted the attention of the guards, and caught a forced question, only to know that these people were actually those who ate and drank and ran outside the city to give food to the 400,000 people, and the Northern Qi troops did not stop them, let them come and go, but the original 400,000 people absolutely did not let one slip out.

The first thing the Shogun asked was, "Why do you want to give them something to eat?!" ”

He didn't understand.

The arrested people cried and said: "Outside is the little grandfather, his old man's organs are not good, he can only eat some liquid food, so how can the barracks be complete?" The little ones had the courage to go out of the city and bring something to their grandfather......"

The guards were shocked!

Oh my God, he almost forgot that the other party's 400,000 Nanming people were all snatched from Bishui City, and Bishui City and the city he guarded were already like a family! No, no, what about likeness? The two cities have been marrying and trading with each other for a hundred years, and the major family forces are even more complicated, almost a random person dragged out of the street, and a person who may not be able to beat the eight poles but is definitely a relative in another city, and even more so, an in-law who travels between the two cities all the year round, or even simply a direct family, the family parents are in Bishui City, and he himself ran to this city to develop.

In other words, the 400,000 people standing outside the city walls are basically the 400,000 relatives of this city! No wonder they have to say their names when they come up, it turns out ...... It was meant to let the people in the city know that they were outside!

So how is this battle still fought? Are you kidding? When a row of feather arrows is fired, all the people who die are people from their own country, and even many of them are relatives of the soldiers of this city defense, how can those soldiers willingly obey orders?

The defender muttered for a long time, and finally could only give the order to block the southern city gate. Although it was strictly ordered that no one should run out to deliver food and drink, the guard general also knew that this was not a solution, and when the 400,000 people were going to starve to death one by one, how could he bear the infamy of the ages and ignore their life and death?

What to do? can only hope that the defenders of Puyang City will come to reinforce it, even if they want to kill those 400,000 people, they must pretend to be the soldiers of Puyang City, which is farther away and has a weaker relationship.

But is it really that simple?

Until the tenth day, the qiē did not seem to change, but every night the people of the city would sneak out, and the guards not only turned a blind eye, but some even took out their own rations and asked them to take them out as well.

The guard was accustomed to it, and gradually became numb, all he thought about was waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

But on this windless and moonless night, everything changed!

400,000 people all flocked to the northern city, frantically knocking on the city gates, trying to enter, where would the guards will? He is not stupid, he knows that if he is released like this, the Northern Qi soldiers will definitely blend in and attack the city together, and when the time comes, the streets will be full of people running wildly, will he kill or not? really ordered to kill, but how many people could obey the order?

So he didn't open the city gates, and he thought it was the best way.

But 400,000 people flocked to the city gates together, what a force was that? And there will be a stampede in almost every place, and when a person falls to the ground, he is immediately trampled into thin mud, shouting, crying, and invecting, and finally the target of the insult falls on the head of the guard, and the defenders of the city are hideous-faced and red-eyed.

"General, open the gates!"

The guard general didn't know how many times he had heard this, looking at the old subordinates who were working hard under him on weekdays, and then at the hopeful but threatening eyes of the others, he had to ruthlessly draw out his long knife, cut off the old subordinate's arm with a knife, and shouted: "If anyone dares to say this again, the military law will deal with it!" ”

But at this moment, a young incisor suddenly approached the guard, and with a flick of his palm, a sharp knife pierced the guard's chest!

……

What is the best way to conceal it? It's throwing a drop of water into the sea, what is the worst lie? It's a few hundred truths mixed with such an innocuous lie.

This time the three cities attacked together, but there was only one plan he gave, as if he had seen through the hearts of all the defenders of the three cities.

He never said that the people would sneak out to deliver food, nor did he say that the guards would close the gates, let alone how the army would march.

He only said that on the second day, he would let a person with a relatively high cultivation level disguise himself as a person who came to deliver food, and secretly blended in, and this was also a choice.

For example, 'Lu Xiaochuan'.

He is a rare purple-level master in the army, and he has a high prestige in the army at the age of twenty-three. He got such an order, to put on makeup and look like a small servant, and then stay by the side of the old man Wu in Bishui City, waiting for the other party's family to come to deliver food, then take down the family, change into his clothes, and then secretly follow the person who was released back into the city.

And when the guard general began to guard against the infiltration of spies and ordered to start a careful investigation, it was already the fourth day of the siege, of course, I didn't know that as early as the second day, Lu Xiaochuan had already entered the city unimpeded, and he held the family hostage alone. This family is the grandson of Mr. Wu, there are seven people in the family, an old woman and two men, a male owner with two daughters-in-law, and the rest is a housekeeper.

Lu Xiaochuan pretended to be this housekeeper, and after controlling all the people in the family, he pretended to be one of the men in the family. This man's name is Wu Dingfang, but he is the incisor general next to the general who guards the city.

Lu Xiaochuan lowered the brim of his hat, took advantage of the panic and righteous indignation of the soldiers, and secretly went to the head of the city to stand on the post where Wu Dingfang had stood for several years.

When the guard raised his knife and cut off one of his subordinates' hand, he knew that his chance had come, so he just got close, and then stabbed out......

Without waiting for those armor to react, they cried loudly: "My grandfather, my grandfather was trampled to death outside!" If the home is gone, what city do you need? The family is dead, what kind of city is Lao Tzu still guarding?! God-damn general, his own family is not outside the city, so he doesn't care about the life and death of our family, and he is innocent of death! Let's open the gates and release the people! ”