"Zhou Hu, if you have the ability, you will lead the army out of the city and compete with Xiang."

Outside the city, Xiang Xuan pointed to Zhao Yu in the city and shouted.

On the city wall, Zhao Yu did not show weakness, pointed to the open city gate, and shouted: "Xiang Xuan, if you have the ability, you will enter the city to scold, what kind of ability is hiding in the distance?" ”

"If you have the ability, you will come out!"

"If you have the ability, you can come in!"

"You come out!"

"You come in!"

"You come out!"

"You come in!"

……

"Poof."

On the silent city gate tower, Jing Nu, who was standing beside Zhao Yu, fantasized about the above scene in her mind, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, which not only caused Tian Qin, Liao Guang, Wang Yan, Chen Lang, Xun Yi and others to look sideways, but even Zhao Yu, Niu Heng, and He Shun also looked at Jing Nu with inexplicable expressions.

Probably feeling the strange gaze of everyone, Jing Nu leaned towards Zhao Yu with a red face and hid behind him, but fortunately at this moment, she was wearing a mask on her face, and everyone couldn't see her flushed face.

"Woman?"

Tian Qin, Liao Guang and others realized at this time that this person wearing the same mask as Zhou Hu turned out to be a woman.

However, considering the relationship between the masked woman and the Zhou Duwei, including Tian Qin and Liao Guang, everyone pretended that nothing had happened.

“……”

Zhao Yu was also curious about why this tense atmosphere made Jingnu laugh, but this was obviously not the time to care about this at the moment.

I saw him take a deep breath and smile at Xiang Xuan who was far away outside the city: "What's the matter, General Xiang, Zhou opened the city gate and invited you to enter the city to scold in person, didn't General Xiang dare?" It seems that General Xiang is not as heroic as rumored. ”

"Haha."

Xiang Xuan, who was outside the city, laughed angrily and said: "Zhou Hu, in terms of despicability, Xiang is far inferior to you, do you want to use this three-year-old child-like provocation to earn my life, is it too child's play?" ”

Zhao Yu replied loudly: "Xiang Xuan, if you don't dare, you don't dare, why pretend to excuse yourself?" If you don't believe me...... Okay, I'll swear in public here, you come into the city, I won't kill you, so you're satisfied, right? ”

Of course, Xiang Xuan would not believe Zhao Yu's oath - who would put their lives on the point of whether others were trustworthy?

What's more, although Zhou Hu on the other side swore not to kill him, he didn't promise anything else, such as asking his subordinates to kill him Xiang Xuan.

He shook his head and said, "I don't believe you. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yu sneered and said: "I understand, it seems that General Xiang only dares to hide in a place where I can't reach Xuchang to ridicule and insult, in this case, wouldn't it be safer for General Xiang to hide from your army and scold again?" ”

"This damn Zhou Hu......

Xiang Xuan frowned, feeling a little scolding but not the Zhou Hu opposite.

He frowned and looked left and right.

The left and right immediately understood, and immediately pointed to the city gate tower and scolded: "Zhou Hu, don't talk nonsense, if you have the ability, you will lead the army out of the city to fight, I will wait for a showdown!" ”

As soon as the words fell, someone scolded: "Dignified Xuchang, is there no man who dares to go out of the city to fight?" Like you and other cowards, why don't you sacrifice the city wall early, or you can save a life......"

Afterwards, a group of people insulted and ridiculed again, and heard the indignation of the city guards on the west gate of Xuchang.

However, no one dared to speak out.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Yu turned his head to look at the generals beside him, and scolded unhappily: "Are you all dumb? Scold me back! ”

"Scolding back?"

Led by Tian Qin, Liao Guang, and Wang Yan, a cadre of soldiers looked at each other.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu shouted unhappily: "If you lose even the momentum to the rebels outside the city, what else will you fight in this battle?" Surrender it all! …… All the soldiers in the city obeyed the order and scolded me back! Give me the most vulgar, the quickest, the most humiliating words to scold back, this is the order! ”

The Marquis of the Gate was the first to react, and shouted to the soldiers beside him, "Have you ever heard the order of Lord Duwei? Scold me! Scold hard! ”

“……”

The guards standing in front of the city gate tower and near here looked at each other, and finally did not dare to disobey the order, and scolded Xiang Xuan and his party outside the city, and even, just as Zhao Yu requested, some words of greeting the other party's ancestors and the daughters of the family also blurted out one after another.

Jingnu listened to it with red faces, and Chen Lang and Xun Yi also heard it with strange and embarrassed faces.

But Zhao Yu was very happy, and ordered with a smile: "Okay! Keep scolding, whoever scolds the most fiercely, I will reward him with 500 dollars! ”

Hearing this, Gong Cao Shuzuo Feng Ji, who was standing in the crowd behind Zhao Yu, immediately took out the pen and booklet from his arms, and recorded this order of Zhou Duwei with a strange expression, as the basis for issuing the 'reward' later.

Five hundred yuan, which is a lot, in an ordinary county town, it is almost more than two months' wages for the county citizens, even for the soldiers of Xuchang, it is a considerable amount of small wealth.

As a result, the soldiers on the city wall were suddenly mobilized to be enthusiastic, and the more they scolded, the more fierce they became, and the insults converged into a wave of voices, completely overshadowing the voices of Xiang Xuan and others outside the city.

Thinking about it, there are only about 20 people in Xiang Xuan and his entourage outside the city, how can they scold the hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the city wall?

It is no exaggeration to say that the voices of Xiang Xuan and others could not even reach the city in this wave. every day

Seeing this, Xiang Xuanqi's ground turned red, and he immediately turned his horse and returned to the army with the team of soldiers.

Seeing the other party's angry and angry appearance, the soldiers in the city laughed, as if they had won a battle, and their emotions were high.

Tian Qin, Liao Guang and others immediately felt that the morale of the soldiers in the city had improved.

“……”

Sneaking a glance at Zhao Yu on the side, Tian Qin vaguely understood the intention of the lieutenant to call the guards to scold Xiang Xuan and others.

Although the effect was good, effectively boosting the mood and morale of the city soldiers, Tian Qin felt a little unnatural, after all, in his opinion, this kind of trick was a bit ...... Not on the table.

"Ahem."

Coughing lightly, Tian Qin clasped his fists and said to Zhao Yu: "Duwei, the city gate can be closed, right?" In case the rebels take the opportunity to attack, I am afraid that it will ...... Not so good. ”

"Afraid of what?"

Zhao Yu glanced at Tian Qin and said lightly: "The rebels take the opportunity to attack, just send troops to block and kill in the city gate." …… If you can't even defend such a narrow city gate, what kind of city wall can you guard? ”

Tian Qin was speechless.

But after all, Zhao Yu finally ordered the city gate to be closed, after all, that Xiang Xuan had already left angrily at this moment, and it really didn't make sense to open the city gate.

"Rumble—"

"Poof!"

After a loud bang, the west gate of Xuchang finally closed.

At this time, Tian Qin, Liao Guang, Wang Yan, Chen Lang and others breathed a sigh of relief.

I have to say that compared with the former governor Cao Suo's modest way of defending the city, these officials and generals in Xuchang are really not suitable for the new captain's actions.

Opening the gates in front of as many as 10,000 rebels and cursing the enemy commander had never happened before.

However, one thing can be confirmed, that is, this Captain Zhou is really courageous......

Even Tian Qin and Liao Guang, who were unconvinced by Zhao Yu, could not deny this.

"Is that a declaration of resignation? Or is it homeopathic? ”

Gong Cao joined the army, Xun Yi looked at the rebels in the distance outside the city and asked Zhao Yudao.

In all fairness, Xun Yi is not good at military affairs, and the reason why Zhao Yu implored Li Junshou to transfer Xun Yi to his side as a gongcao to join the army is actually just to let Xun Yi handle civilian affairs on his behalf - Xun Yi is fully capable of doing this.

"It's hard to say."

Zhao Yu shook his head and said, "However, he shouldn't have come to attack the city. …… If he had planned to attack Xuchang, it would have been impossible for him to come alone, and the rebels in the direction of Linying and Yanling would inevitably have coordinated to attack the city. However, the south city gate and the east city wall have not sounded the alarm bell for a long time, which shows that there is no hostility outside the city, in other words, that Xuan came alone. ”

Hearing this, Xun Yi suddenly said, "It seems that he is here for Zhou Duwei." ”

"Perhaps."

Zhao Yu nodded.

From the side, Changshi Chen Lang saw that the conversation between Zhao Yu and Xun Yi was not to the point, so he couldn't help but ask: "Then according to Zhou Duwei's opinion, will that Xuan attack the city?" ”

As soon as Zhao Yu heard this, he guessed the uneasiness in Chen Lang's heart, for the sake of Chen Lang's dedication to assisting him in the past few days, and also for the sake of his intention to win over this person, Zhao Yu said with relief: "Chen Changshi doesn't have to worry, didn't I say it, unless Xiang Xuan and the rebels from Linying and Yanling come to besiege Xuchang together, otherwise with Xiang Xuan's army alone, he can't threaten my Xuchang......"

Hearing this, Chen Lang's uneasy mood finally settled down, and said with a smile: "As the commander said, the only choice for that Xiang Xuan is to retreat?" ”

"That's not what to say."

Seeing Chen Lang's puzzled expression, Zhao Yu explained with a smile: "Fang Cai, Xiang Xuan first slandered Zhou and wanted to make a plan to divide the world, but then he saw that the discord could not be achieved, and he tried to provoke us to go out of the city to fight...... However, after a while, he was scolded by our soldiers. I think he is very angry at the moment, he wants to attack the city but knows that he can't do it, and he wants to retreat and is unwilling, hehehe......"

Hearing this, Chen Lang, Xun Yi and others also laughed, and even Tian Qin, Liao Guang, Wang Yan and others, who were originally full of solemnity, gradually showed a little relaxation on their faces.

I have to say that Zhao Yu still guessed very accurately, and the two tricks did not succeed, but he was scolded by Xuchang's guards, and Xiang Xuan was really angry at this moment.

After returning to the main formation, he frowned and said to Yan Xu: "The worst situation happened, Zhou Hu was really in Xuchang that day, and he was not here to assist Cao Suo as you and I thought before, but replaced Cao Suo as the governor of Yingchuan County...... We just had a little fight with that Zhou Hu, and I saw that this person was really as despicable and cunning as rumored. Now that the tiger is in Xuchang this week, I am afraid that it will become a big problem for us and others. ”

Yan Yu nodded solemnly, and then said, "Why don't you withdraw the troops first and think about it in the long run?" ”

"Nope."

Xiang Xuan thought for a while, frowned and said: "I just fought with that Zhou Tiger, and fell behind, if we retreat without a fight, it is tantamount to helping that Zhou Tiger boost morale......"

"What then?" Yan Yu hesitated and said: "If only the army of the two of us attacks the city, I am afraid that it will not be able to threaten Xuchang ......."

"You don't have to attack the city, as long as you can recover the defeat and thwart the spirit of that Zhou Hu."

Thinking of this, Xiang Xuan turned his head and instructed the soldiers beside him: "Call Cai Wei to come to see me." ”

"Yes!"

A moment later, a tall and extremely burly general rode a war horse to Xiang Xuan and saluted with his fists.

"Cai Wei, I've seen the general."

Looking at the brave and burly appearance of this general, Xiang Xuan nodded with satisfaction.