“…… To sum up, Leader Zhou ordered me to make a feint tonight to attack the rebel garrisons in the east and west directions. ”

Around two o'clock, Ma Gai sent people to summon Shi Yuan, Chen Gui, Yang Kang, He Feng, and other four catchers to the county office's squad room, and gave these people the order to make a feint attack on the rebel garrison outside the city tonight.

In order to avoid the leakage of the real night attack plan in the future, Ma Gai only said this, after all, no one can guarantee that the county officials who participated in the feint attack will not be caught by the rebels by chance.

And this also caused confusion among Ishihara, Chen Gui and others.

Immediately, Ishihara asked with some confusion: "Although it was just a feint, shouldn't you send that group of traveling wolves?" Compared with our county army, they are more experienced in night activities...... Or do they have other arrangements? ”

Ma Gai smiled and said, "Don't guess when you wait, just follow the instructions." ”

It's not that he can't trust Shi Yuan, Chen Gui, Yang Kang, He Feng and other catchers, purely because the less people know about this kind of thing, the better, so as to ensure the confidentiality of the matter.

It's like the brigade wolves who will be sent to attack the rebel Xu Bao tonight, they don't know what is going on at the moment, and they are sleeping in the houses near the city wall.

Only Xu Bai and Wang Ping were called by Chen Mo and instructed the two to prepare a feint attack on the Guanshuo garrison in the south.

Seeing that Ma Gai did not have the meaning of explanation, the four of Ishihara stopped pursuing, and under Ma Gai's arrangement, Ishihara and Chen Gui were responsible for feints to attack the station of the rebel general Xu Bao, while Yang Kang and He Feng were sent to feign the station of the rebel general Huang Kang.

Ma Gai told the four people: "The rebels must be tired after a day of hard fighting today, and all you have to do is to disturb them to sleep and make them restless all night." These rebels were tired but did not have enough rest to have the energy to storm the city again in the future. But remember, the rebels are only five miles away from the city, and they will inevitably guard against our night attacks, even if you wait for tonight's feint, but you must be vigilant, and once you notice any unusual movement of the rebels, immediately evacuate the area, and then resume harassment as appropriate. ”

"Yes!"

Seeing Ma Gai's solemn expression, Ishihara and the others also responded with a serious face.

Afterwards, the four of them bid farewell to Ma Gai and went to the east and west walls respectively, and selected men among the county guards who were responsible for guarding the city walls.

Not to mention Yang Dang and He Feng, Shi Yuan and Chen Gui are no strangers to harassing the enemy army, after all, when they were in Jiangxia County, they had carried out similar operations at the request of the Jiangxia garrison, so they naturally knew how to choose smart and calm county soldiers to act together.

The only thing that puzzled the two was why this matter was not handed over to the more suitable brigade wolf.

A moment later, Ishihara and Chen Gui selected about fifty county guards in the rest area under the city wall, and just as they were about to take these soldiers out of the city from the north gate, they suddenly saw Wang Qing coming from a distance.

At first, Ishihara didn't care, and he didn't take the initiative to go up to say hello, but to his surprise, Wang Qing seemed to be walking straight towards them.

Sure enough, after a while, Wang Qing walked in front of Ishihara and Chen Gui, and while looking at the more than 50 county guards selected by the two, he asked Ishihara: "Are you ready?" ”

As one of the big leaders of the Black Tiger Village, Ishihara naturally did not doubt that this person must know about the feint attack on the rebels, so he nodded and said, "Ready, I am preparing to go to the north gate." ”

Hearing this, Wang Qing licked his lips and said, "Sure enough." …… Today, the rebels deliberately stormed the three city gates, forcing us to block the city gates by ourselves, leaving only the north gate...... Do you think it's possible for the rebels to leave the gap in the North Gate and let us go in and out? ”

"You mean...... There is an ambush in the northern suburbs? Ishihara said suddenly.

Wang Qing shrugged his shoulders and said, "Don't ask me, it was Zhou Hu who said it, he guessed that the rebels were very likely to have a force in the northern suburbs, monitoring our movements and seeing if we would go out from the north city gate...... As soon as the north gate opened, the sound was enough to alarm the rebels for miles nearby. ”

"Zhou Hu? Sure enough, be cautious......

Ishihara nodded secretly, and then asked Wang Qingdao, "Then how do we get out of the city?" ”

"Follow me."

Wang Qing chuckled lightly and took Shi Yuan, Chen Gui and his party to the city wall.

Immediately, Shi Yuan and Chen Gui found that several ropes had been tied to the wall and hung out of the city.

"Oh."

Ishihara immediately understood.

"Don't fall to your death." Wang Qing said with a smile on the side.

"This guy really owes ...... mouth."

Glancing at Wang Qing, Ishihara didn't talk nonsense, grabbed the rope, turned over and jumped out of the city wall, only to see that while he put the rope in his hand, he tapped the city wall a few times with his feet, and in the blink of an eye, he successfully stepped on the ground outside the city.

"Shh~"

Wang Qing leaned over to watch Ishihara's movements and whistled, as if in appreciation.

After Ishihara, Chen Gui and the more than 50 county guards also climbed down the rope.

Compared with Ishihara and Chen Gui, the movements of the other fifty county guards were obviously much more clumsy, but fortunately, they all knew the stakes and kept their mouths shut, not daring to make a sound, so as not to alarm the rebels in the distance.

Not to mention that even they didn't know if there were rebels lurking in the distance at night, the mere fact that the rebels were camped five miles away from the city was enough to make them dare not speak, after all, in this silent night, the distance of five miles was too close for the transmission of sound.

"Smack."

After a slight sound, Chen Gui stepped on the ground neatly.

As soon as he arrived at the city, he immediately crouched down, ignoring the many corpses of the rebels at his feet, his eyes scanned the night in the distance vigilantly, and then slowly approached Ishihara, who was also squatting in front of him.

"Is there any movement?"

"Nope."

While they were exchanging words in a low voice, the more than 50 county officials also arrived outside the city one after another.

Seeing this, Ishihara and Chen Gui didn't dare to delay more, and hurriedly led people into the night, after all, the city wall was brightly lit, which was really too eye-catching.

According to what Ishihara had learned from Ma Gai, he led his army to the target of the feint tonight, the rebel general Xu Bao, who was now stationed about five miles east of the county seat, near where the Ru River joins the Sha River.

Hekou Township, which was once occupied by green forest thieves, is almost located in that area.

Given that the two sides were only about five miles apart, Ishihara and Chen Gui did not dare to venture easily, and used the night as a cover to advance cautiously.

It wasn't long before Ishihara had walked less than two miles to the east, and Ishihara saw a firelight in the distance in the night.

If you guess correctly, it should be Xu Baojun's campfire.

Seeing this, he immediately said to Chen Gui: "Ahead is the rebel garrison, we need to be careful of the secret sentry. ”

Chen Gui nodded, and whispered to the county guard behind him: "Convey it to the brothers, remind everyone to be more careful, don't make a noise." ”

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Ishihara and the others to see a group of moving torches—it was obviously a rebel patrol soldier holding a torch to patrol the night.

Because there was still some distance from the rebel station, Ishihara secretly ordered everyone to lie on the ground and wait quietly for the group of rebel soldiers who were only twenty feet away from them to go away.

In this way, Ishihara and his party quietly touched a place only about a hundred zhang away from the rebel station, and with the help of night cover, they secretly peeked at the rebel garrison in the distance.

Why do you say 'resident'? Because the garrison of the rebel general Xu Bao in the distance, not to mention the camp, there is not even a simple fence, as far as Ishihara can see, most of the rebel soldiers and soldiers are napping around a pile of bonfires, and there are few grass huts in the entire garrison that can shelter from the wind and rain.

Seeing this scene, Ishihara thought to himself: If there are 3,000 Jiangxia troops launching a surprise attack at this time, I am afraid that they will not be able to drive all these rebels down from Rushui.

The reason why he thought of Jiang Xiajun was because they had a lot of cooperation with Jiang Xiajun in Jiangxia back then.

However, unfortunately, according to Ishihara's investigation, the Jiangxia army that remained in Jiangxia had already suffered casualties in the rebels' large-scale northward attack.

With a long exhale, Ishihara whispered to everyone, "Get ready to act." ”

After a few moments, when everyone was ready, they quietly stood up, and suddenly struck their shields with their weapons, shouting, "Kill——! ”

According to Ishihara's own eyes, the rebel soldiers around the campfires in the distance immediately rioted.

"What's going on?"

"There's an enemy night attack?"

"Is it from Kunyang?"

Suddenly, a loud shout of killing sounded nearby, and these rebel soldiers, who were originally gathered around the pile of bonfires and were napping with weapons, were awakened from their sleep and looked around in a panic and wariness.

Among them, a man dressed as a general was furious and scolded: "What do the patrols eat? He was approached by the enemy to this distance...... You, you, and you, go and kill me at once!" ”

"Yes!"

Under the general's order, groups of rebel soldiers immediately rushed towards the positions of Ishihara, Chen Gui and others, including the nearby patrols with torches.

However, at this time, Ishihara, Chen Gui and others had already fled with their county guards.

They are not stupid, how can they wait for the rebels to surround them?

I have to say that in the dark night, it is really not an easy task to find only a few dozen people, whether it is the soldier in charge of patrolling tonight, or the soldier who was sent out to search for spies, he was busy for nearly half an hour, searched all around, and found no trace of Ishihara and others - they didn't even know how many people Ishihara and others were.

Because I don't know how many enemy soldiers there are, where can the frightened rebel soldiers still sleep?

One by one, they hugged their weapons tightly and sat around the campfire, looking nervously at the night in the distance.

It's no wonder, after all, their station doesn't even have a fence, and if Kunyang's soldiers take advantage of their defenselessness to kill, they will hardly have time to react.

After a short time, the rebel soldiers who failed to search for it reported the matter to General Xu Bao: "General Qiyu, it is suspected that Kunyang's soldiers attacked our army's garrison at night, but for some reason, they did not launch a sneak attack, but shouted in the distance to make a noise...... By the time our soldiers led the men in pursuit, the gang had already fled. ”

Hearing the advice of his subordinates, the rebel general Xu Bao frowned and thought for a moment, and muttered, "Isn't it a plan for tired soldiers?" ”

He shook his head with a smile and said to the left and right: "Qu Shuai overestimated the courage of the Kunyang people. …… Qu Shuai thought that when the people of Kunyang learned that our army had retreated five miles back and camped, they would inevitably send troops to attack and tell me to be cautious, but I didn't expect it...... Hehe. But then again, if it is really a tired plan, then the people of Kunyang are not too smart, and they can think of using this trick to drain the energy of our soldiers......"

Speaking of this, he commanded: "Pass my order, send another thousand more men to watch the night, and the rest of the soldiers, and order them to rest quickly, and not to be harassed by the enemy." ”

"Yes!"

Clasp your fists left and right in response.