Chapter 393: Seeking to Capture Xiguan

Xiao Ding used a divisive tactic to successfully get the king of Jiaozhou to arrest Gu Ziji, the commander of Xiguan City, in prison, and then appointed Wang Ba to be the commander of Xiguan City.

In this regard, Xiao Ding was very satisfied after learning the news.

Next, Xiao Ding decided to implement the next step and take Xiguan City.

In the hall of the county government of Qingde County, all the military generals except for the Han brothers gathered together again. At the same time, there are also heads or leaders of various Jianghu sects.

Xiao Ding recounted his plan and then began to distribute his troops.

Order Yang Yueling's sister and brother to lead 10,000 soldiers tonight, secretly ambush near Xiguan City, wait for the division of troops in the city to leave the city, the north city gate was captured by our side, and then march into Xiguan City.

Ordered the two brothers, Yue Yunfeng and Yue Yunyu, to lead 10,000 forbidden troops, carrying crossbow carts and Lianzhu crossbows, to ambush in Xiguan City on the way to Jiaozhou City tonight, waiting to intercept and kill the troops from Xiguan City to rescue Jiaozhou City.

Then, let Mei Qiuyang and Bai Qianbei select a hundred Jianghu people, and during the day, Xiao Ding personally led them into Xiguan City, and at night, they captured the north gate of Xiguan City, and after occupying the city gate, open the city gate and let Yang Yueling's troops enter the city.

The reason why Xiao Ding wanted to personally lead these people into the city was because he had a jade pendant space and could help these people bring their blades into the city.

Then, Xiao Ding arranged for more than 20 soldiers, changed into the clothes of the soldiers of the Jiaozhou Wang's troops, and then pretended to be soldiers from Xiguan City, and tonight, he took turns to go to Jiaozhou City and Zhaoqing City to deliver letters, falsely claiming that there were enemy troops attacking Xiguan City, and asked these two cities to send troops to support.

This was repeated until the two cities no longer believed the messenger and no longer sent any soldiers, and then sent another soldier to Xiguan City to report the news, falsely claiming that there was an enemy attack in Jiaozhou City, and asked for reinforcement.

As long as Xiguan City sends troops to support, the Yue brothers who are ambushed in the middle of the road will be intercepted and killed halfway. At the same time, the Yang family sisters and brothers will also start a siege.

At this time, Jiaozhou City and Zhaoqing City, because the previous repeated messages were all false news, so at this time, even if Wang Ba sent someone to send a letter for help, the people in these two cities would not believe it. Therefore, Xiguan City can be broken.

Xiao Ding made some arrangements, and all the generals were impressed. praised Xiao Ding's resourcefulness one after another!

The momentum of the other party's three cities was used by Xiao Ding to use the loopholes in it to calculate, which is indeed not something that others can do.

Even Gao Quannei, who has always wanted to take some credit, began to admire Xiao Ding a little.

After the soldiers were arranged, Xiao Ding found Tang Chen, the senior brother of the Tang Sect, and Tang Yunzhi, and asked him to lead the people of the Tang Sect to Jiaozhou, Xiguan, Zhaoqing, and the vicinity of the three cities, and quietly destroy all the scouts sent out in the three cities. Prevent the scouts from being found out by the other side's scouts and hindering tonight's battle plan.

After everything was arranged, it was not too early, and Xiao Ding personally led the hundred Jianghu people selected by Mei Qiuyang and Bai Qianbei to set off for Xiguan City.

Of course, before leaving, all of their blades were collected by Xiao Ding into the jade pendant space.

Following Xiao Ding, there were also Yue Yurou, Fan Sanpang, Sun Dasheng, Luo Dafeng, Mei's sisters, Mu Hong and Mu Yiyi's uncle and nephew.

Before noon, they finally arrived at the west gate of Xiguan City, but there were too many people entering the city, and it was not their turn until the city gate official announced the closure.

Because Xiao Ding listened to Fan Sanpang's experience in the city last time, he hurriedly led everyone, quickly squeezed to the front, and directly took out twenty taels of silver and threw it to the city gate official, and then everyone rushed in.

Fortunately, dozens of people in the front line had already entered, and only more than 20 people led by Xiao Ding were left without their turn. Otherwise, more than a hundred people flocked to the city gate at once, and it would be difficult to break in.

The city gate guards can't control so many people if they want to. What's more, the city gate official got twenty taels of silver, so he turned a blind eye and did not give the order to chase after these more than twenty people who rushed in.

Finally, before the city gate was closed, everyone mixed into Xiguan City.

Then everyone looked for the inn. There were more than 100 people, and everyone lived in three or four inns before they could be counted.

During lunch, Xiao Ding secretly informed them that they would go to the room where Xiao Ding lived in the afternoon and retrieve their own blades.

After that, everyone has been waiting for the evening to come.

When it was dark, Xiao Ding arranged a few people to stay near the city gate, and when he saw that a large group of people in the city were out of the city, he returned to the inn to report.

Everyone had already received their blades, and they were waiting in the inn, eager to try.

At this time, Jiaozhou City and Zhaoqing City were still quiet, as usual, the soldiers guarding the city, the patrol of the patrol, the guard of the gate.

Just when the soldiers guarding the gate of Zhaoqing City were feeling a little bored, suddenly a war horse ran outside the city, and someone shouted on it: "I am from Xiguan City, quickly inform the commander of Duan in the city, just say that the enemy army has a large number of troops to attack Xiguan City, please ask Commander Duan to quickly send troops to rescue!" I'll go to Jizhou City to inform the prince! ”

With that, the soldier outside the city turned his horse's head and galloped away.

When the soldiers at the head of Zhaoqing City heard this, they hurriedly ran down the city wall and went back to Duan Beishan, the commander in the city.

When Duan Beishan heard the news, he didn't dare to hesitate, because the king of Jiaozhou had told him before that the three cities should echo each other, one city would be beaten, and the other two cities would have to support quickly.

So, Duan Beishan hurriedly arranged for Duan Xiu and Duan Yao to guard the city, and he led 20,000 soldiers and horses out of the city and went straight to the direction of Xiguan City.

At the same time, the king of Jiaozhou also got the news that Xiguan City was attacked, and hurriedly sent his generals Niu Tou and Ma Wei to lead 10,000 soldiers to Xiguan City to support.

However, when Duan Beishan's troops and Niu Tou and Ma Wei's troops came to Xiguan City, they didn't see the fight at all, and sent people to ask the defenders at the head of the city, but no one came to attack Xiguan City at all.

The two people were very surprised, and explained that someone went to deliver a letter, saying that someone had attacked Xiguan City, but there was no such thing as this, what kind of trouble is this?

There was a false alarm, and the two teams returned separately.

Not long after returning to the city, Duan Beishan had not taken off his armor, and suddenly the defenders of the city gate came to report again, saying that someone had come to deliver a letter, saying that Xiguan City was attacked by enemy troops and asked for support. Duan Beishan asked what about the person who sent the letter? The guard replied that the man said that he was in a hurry to deliver the letter to Jiaozhou, and then he went straight away.

At the same time, the king of Jiaozhou also got the same news, and when he asked the messenger, the guard said that the messenger claimed to be in a hurry to deliver the letter to Zhaoqing City.

The king of Jiaozhou is as big as Duan Beishan, and he was deceived once, I don't know if it's true this time, but, as the saying goes, "I'd rather believe it than believe it"! In case it is true news, Xiguan City will have the least number of troops, if it is attacked, after the city is broken, then its advantage of the three cities will be broken.

Therefore, Song Yuanyan gritted his teeth and once again sent two generals, Niu Tou and Ma Wei, to lead the 10,000 soldiers out of the city to support Xiguan City.

Similarly, Duan Beishan had the same idea, and once again led 20,000 soldiers to leave Zhaoqing City.

The two groups of men and horses came to Xiguan City again, but still found no signs of enemy attack. This time, Duan Beishan was a little breathless, he pointed to the head of the city and scolded, saying that there was no enemy attack, you lied about the military situation, and quickly called your commander to come out!

Wang Ba had just finished dinner and was about to go back to his house to rest for a while, when a soldier from the city came to report that Duan Beishan wanted to see him under the city.

Wang Ba didn't know why, so he followed the soldiers to the city, and as soon as he talked to Duan Beishan, he was scolded by Duan Beishan, and Wang Ba was scolded inexplicably.

At this time, the leaders of the other team, Niu Tou and Ma Wei, also accused Wang Ba of lying about the military situation and causing them to run away twice in vain.

Wang Ba couldn't argue and shouted that he was wronged, but the other party recognized it, and he sent someone to deliver the news. This made it difficult for Wang Ba to explain clearly.

After Duan Beishan vented his anger under the city, he led his troops back to Zhaoqing City again. Niu Tou and Ma Wei saw Duan Beishan leaving, but they did not stay, and returned to Jiaozhou City with the team.

Not long after they returned, there was another person from outside the city who hurried to deliver the news, and when he had finished speaking, he turned around and left.

At this moment, Duan Beishan was angry. He was furious, roared loudly, and said that he would not send any troops out.

The king of Jiaozhou was also a little suspicious at this time, so he did not immediately send troops out this time.

However, it didn't take long for the people who came to deliver the news again outside these two cities, and they still didn't stop after speaking.

The content of the statements is roughly the same, all of which are that a large number of enemy troops have come to attack Xiguan City, ask the two cities to send troops to support, and then turn around and ride away on the pretext of going to another city to deliver a message.

The people of the city could not stop him from keeping the messenger.

In this way, four or five more times of news came in succession, and King Jiaozhou and Duan Beishan finally couldn't sit still. Thinking that if this time is true, if he loses Xiguan City because he didn't send troops to support, it will be a big loss!

So, the king of Jiaozhou once again sent Niu Tou and Ma Wei to lead 10,000 soldiers out of the city to support. Duan Beishan still personally led 20,000 soldiers to support.

As a result, when I arrived at Xiguan City, I found out that I had been fooled again. This time, even Niu Tou and Ma Wei were furious, called Wang Ba out, and scolded a dog's blood, Wang Ba still didn't know why there were troops in the city to support, and he didn't send anyone to send a letter, why did they insist that they sent people to lie about the military situation again and again?

Duan Beishan and Niu Tou Ma Dawei vented their anger wantonly, but they had no choice but to return with their troops.

After tossing these three times, it is almost the third watch.

After returning to the city, just as they wanted to rest, the annoying messenger came again to deliver the message, and the content of the message was exactly the same as before. No one can tell the truth from the fake.

The most annoying thing is that the messenger, after bringing the news, no matter what your side arranges, he turned around and rode away, under the pretext of going to another city to deliver the letter, and then galloped away, unable to catch up if he wanted to.

This time, the king of Jiaozhou has already determined that someone must be making trouble. Therefore, no more troops were sent out of the city. Duan Beishan was tossed three times in a row, sleepy and tired, and he didn't believe who sent what news this time.

The messengers from outside the city came again five or six times in a row, but there was still no movement in the two cities.

Subsequently, a messenger came to Xiguan City and told the guards at the head of the city that there were enemy troops coming to attack Jiaozhou City, and Xiguan City needed to send troops to support.

After finishing speaking, the person who delivered the news still used the excuse that he was busy delivering the letter in Zhaoqing City, and galloped away.

The defenders at the head of Xiguan City, although they felt that something was wrong, they still went to tell Wang Ba as soon as possible.

As soon as Wang Ba heard that the enemy army was attacking Jiaozhou, where did he have time to think about whether the news was true or false, so he hurriedly ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses and went out of the city to support Jiaozhou City. 10,000 defenders were left in the city and handed over to the county commander to guard Xiguan City.

However, Wang Bawan never expected that at the moment when he left the city, squatting at the gate of the city, the people arranged by Xiao Ding in advance had already found out, and then returned to the inn in time to inform Xiao Ding.

Xiao Ding calculated the time, and then secretly informed the hundred or so Jianghu people who entered the city that they were ready to seize the city gate.

From the day these Jianghu people arrived in Qingde County, Xiao Ding had already thought of using these people as special forces for future generations, and it would definitely achieve unexpected results.

Sure enough, in the first battle after the arrival of these people, Xiao Ding was arranged into the plan to seize Xiguan City.

Wang Ba led an army of 10,000 people, left Xiguan City, and rushed quickly in the direction of Jiaozhou City.

However, as soon as he was on the way, suddenly a cannon rang out in the grass on both sides of the road ahead, and then ten thousand arrows were fired.

Wang Ba was all too familiar with this situation. At the beginning, in the valley of Da Yuling, Song Yinbei encountered this kind of ambush. Although he didn't experience it personally, he later heard his colleagues mention the scene at that time, which was simply miserable!

Unexpectedly, it was his turn to be in this situation today. He hurriedly organized the soldiers to use shields to block arrows, and as a result, he also made the mistake of Song Yinbei before, ordinary shields could not block the spears and crossbows fired by the repeater carts.

In an instant, his army of 10,000 people had fallen by thousands.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Ba wanted to lead his troops to retreat, but the opponent's crossbow arrows were dense and had blocked the retreat of their army.

At this time, Wang Ba couldn't advance, couldn't retreat, couldn't resist, was in a dilemma, and only got beaten.

The two brothers, Yue Yunfeng and Yue Yunyu, had already set up an ambush circle around here, just waiting for Wang Ba to lead people into the trap, so if Wang Ba wanted to escape, how easy was it to talk about it?

At this time, Xiao Ding estimated the time and guessed that Wang Ba's troops had gone far, so he immediately led the "special forces" composed of these Jianghu people to come straight to the north city gate.

At this time, the 10,000 army led by Yang Yueling's sister and brother was lying in ambush outside the north city gate, waiting to attack the city.

Xiao Ding led people along the horse road to rush to the north city wall, there were patrol soldiers at the head of the city, found Xiao Ding's more than 100 people, they hurriedly blew the whistle, sounded the gong, and issued an early warning.

Xiao Ding, regardless of how they informed his companions, took out the mace from the space, took the lead, and killed him.

How can these ordinary soldiers be the opponents of the Jianghu people? It didn't take long for the patrol to be wiped out.

However, Xiao Ding knew that there was such a big movement here, and there were soldiers who issued an early warning just now, and the other troops in the city would definitely arrive soon, so he must open the city gate and let Yang Yueling's troops enter the city when the big troops in the city arrived.

So, he led everyone to rush directly to the head of the city, killed the guards guarding the jack gate at the head of the city, ordered someone to twist the jack gate of the city gate, and then pulled off the iron bolt of the city gate and pushed the city gate open.

At this time, other soldiers in the city had already rushed to the city gate, and Xiao Ding hurriedly ordered someone to light the letter cannon and inform Yang Yueling to bring people into the city.

Yang Yueling was already waiting a little impatiently, and after seeing the letter cannon at the city gate, she shouted: "The whole army charges, attack Xiguan!" ”

The soldiers, like Yang Yueling, have been waiting for the moment of attacking the city since they came to ambush.

Because the city gate has been opened, Xiao Ding led the more than 100 Jianghu people to guard near the gate, and the soldiers in the city want to come and close the gate, but it is difficult to kill them in a short time.

As a result, Yang Yueling's troops easily entered Xiguan City.

In this scuffle, both sides suffered casualties.

It's just that the county commander of Xiguan City is a greedy person who is afraid of death, he heard that the enemy army has rushed into the city, so he no longer has the idea of commanding the battle, and he does not command the soldiers to continue to resist, but takes his family and more than 100 soldiers, secretly opens the south city gate, and escapes by boat from the waterway of the Dongjiang River.

The defenders in the city had no leader, scattered in a mess, and soon Yang Yueling's sister and brother commanded the soldiers to take advantage, there were a total of 10,000 defenders in the city, and after about four or five thousand were killed and wounded, the remaining five thousand soldiers all dropped their blades and raised their hands to surrender.

Xiao Ding successfully captured Xiguan City, and then sent Yang Yueling to lead 5,000 soldiers to pick up the two brothers of the Yue family.

At this time, Wang Ba, led an army of 10,000 people, more than half of whom had been killed or wounded, and after he took the lead in fighting hard, he finally withdrew from the encirclement of the Yue brothers.

With the remnants of the defeated generals, he returned along the same road, and before he came to Xiguan City, he was facing Yang Yueling's troops who came to meet him. Yang Yueling was very happy to see that Wang Ba's troops were blocked, and he took the lead and rushed over with his troops.

At this time, behind Wang Ba, the brothers of the Yue family had also caught up. Attacking from both sides, Wang Ba had about 5,000 soldiers left, and it didn't take long for them to be wiped out.

Wang Ba tried his best, led more than 100 people, fought out of the encirclement, and galloped towards Jiaozhou City.

Yang Yueling and the Yue brothers joined forces, and they were all happy, taking advantage of the night to clean up the battlefield, collect the loot, dispose of the corpses, and then return to Xiguan City.

At this time, Xiao Ding was already sitting in the center of the Ya Hall of Xiguancheng County, and all the people from the rivers and lakes who participated in the battle tonight, and the generals were all sitting on both sides, waiting for Yang Yueling and the Yue brothers to come back and report.

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