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『Kunyang...... Prepared?'

A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of Jiangxia Yishi Qu Shuai Chen Miao.

Although there was no news from the front at this moment, listening to the movement of the battle near the city wall in the distance, Chen Miao was still keenly aware of the change.

As Zhao Yu guessed, Chen Miao, as the commander of Jiangxia County, naturally did not put all his hopes of capturing Kunyang on Wu Zhi's defection, and his real strategy was a 'two-pronged approach': on the one hand, Liu De under Guan Shuo was asked to cooperate with Wu Zhi to enter from the north gate of Kunyang, and the inside and outside should join forces to seize the city; on the other hand, he and Guan Shuo waited for an opportunity to attack quickly and seize the southern city wall with lightning speed.

In his opinion, when the attention of the soldiers and civilians of Kunyang was attracted by the 'inside and outside cooperation' in the north of the city, they had a great chance to seize the southern city wall.

And for the sake of insurance, he not only suggested a quick attack on the south wall, but also a quick attack on the east and west walls to expand the winning surface.

To put it bluntly, Wu Zhi and others played more of a 'bait' role in his strategy, including Ju Sheng, the district general who was sent by Liu De to pick up Wu Zhi and others.

However, this strategy seems to have been seen through by Kunyang?

『…… Can you really see through it?'

Just when Chen Miao was secretly surprised, the herald in front finally arrived to deliver the battle news: "Qu Shuai, the people of Kunyang seem to have been prepared for a long time, when our soldiers sneaked close to the city wall, the guards on the city immediately found the traces, and in just a few dozen breaths, hundreds of well-dressed county guards climbed the city wall. …… General Tian Qu's sneak attack failed, and he had ordered a strong attack instead. At the moment our army is taking a strong offensive. ”

The Tian Qu general in his mouth is the Qu general under the command of Zhu Yuan, the general next to Chen Miao, Tian Jia.

"Dozens of interest...... Is it? ”

Chen Miao muttered in his mouth.

The matter has been very clear, and there are indeed people in Kunyang County who have seen through his plan - because even if Kunyang is on guard at night, it is impossible for hundreds of county guards to immediately ascend the city wall to reinforce in just a few dozen breaths, unless the opposite side has already expected it, just waiting for them to appear.

"Looks like I've seen through my plan......"

Chen Miao turned his head to look at Guan Shuo, who was standing beside him, and spread his hands helplessly.

When he said this, he was also a little embarrassed, after all, he was quite confident in this strategy before, and he thought that someone in Kunyang could see through his strategy.

“……”

Guan Shuo didn't say a word, frowning and staring at the battle in the distance.

After a long time, he said in a somewhat melancholy tone: "I am afraid that the one who saw through your plan was the Zhou Tiger ......."

After glancing at it, Chen Miao suddenly understood why Guan Shuo always attacked Kunyang.

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Miao said in a low voice: "If there is no progress, I am afraid that tonight can only end here......"

Of course, Guan Shuo could understand the meaning of Chen Miao's words, and nodded slightly.

He didn't have any ill feelings towards Chen Miao's 'retreat' at this moment, firstly, Chen Miao's intentions were kind to help him, and secondly, it was indeed an unwise act to take a night attack on Kunyang at this moment—not to mention anything else, the crossbowmen who covered and assisted in the siege were not in place, which meant that the soldiers of his righteous army had to pay greater casualties than during the day, and they might not have achieved anything.

Weighing the pros and cons, there really isn't much to fight.

"Let's go back and think about it for the long haul."

As Guan Shuo sighed, Chen Miao immediately gave the order to retreat.

After a few moments, the rebels outside the southern walls were completely withdrawn, followed by the rebels outside the eastern and western walls.

Due to the short duration of the night attack and the small casualties, the morale of the county guards and the black tiger thieves who repelled the rebels was high, and they looked at the rebels who quickly withdrew and shouted taunts at them.

"Haha, do you still want to sneak attack?"

"Hurry up and get back!"

"I'm going to cum your ass......"

"Hahaha."

In the ridicule and ridicule of the guards against the rebel soldiers, Sun Xiu quickly came to Zhao Yu, who was standing near the city gate tower, and clenched his fists: "Leader Zhou, the rebels have retreated. ”

By the way, although less than thirty percent of the three thousand Nanyang soldiers under Sun Xiu's command remained, and half of them were seriously injured, Zhao Yu still appointed Sun Xiu as the defender of the southern city wall and sent Liu Tu to assist him.

Sun Xiu is also very grateful for this, thinking that Zhao Yu has respect and respect for him and the sacrificed soldiers under his command, so he also has special respect for Zhao Yu.

"Hmm."

Zhao Yu nodded and said with a smile: "Thanks to the courage of General Sun and you. ”

"Where." Sun Xiu said sincerely: "The credit lies with the leader of Zhou, if it weren't for the fact that the leader of Zhou guessed that the rebels were attacking the west, I am afraid it would be difficult to hold the city wall tonight......"

"Huh."

Zhao Yu smiled and waved his hand, and immediately, he told Sun Xiu: "Although the rebels retreat, there is no guarantee that they will not feint and attack again, anyway, the brothers are also on the city wall, so let's just keep watch all night tonight." ”

As he spoke, he shouted to the county guards, black tiger thieves, and several Nanyang soldiers on the nearby city wall: "Those who participated in the repulsion of the rebels tonight, in addition to killing the enemy, will be credited with five additional meritorious deeds, and if they are guarded until dawn, they will be recorded with an additional five meritorious deeds." …… Can you have any objections? ”

"No objections!"

The county guards and black tiger thieves who heard Zhao Yu's shouting all replied loudly, all of them excited.

Because according to the edict promulgated by Zhao Yu, one meritorious service is worth ten copper coins, which means that they earned one hundred copper coins in one night - this is equivalent to half a month's income of ordinary civilians in the past.

As for killing enemies, this one counts separately: for every enemy pawn killed, you can get three meritorious points, and this is the case for both the Black Tiger Thief and the county pawn.

Looking at the county guards who raised their hands and cheered, the county commander Li Xu couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes, and the smile that he had originally shown because he had repelled the rebels became a little stiff.

The reason is very simple, because of Zhao Yu's words, his county government 'lost' tens of thousands of dollars - although his county government does not have to be responsible for the exploits of the black tiger thief, but he needs to be responsible for the merits of the county pawns, Zhao Yu 'promised' a total of thousands of merits to hundreds of county pawns on the city wall in one sentence, isn't that equivalent to tens of thousands of dollars?

Liu Bi, who was on the side, also smiled a little stiffly.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu smiled and persuaded the two of them: "There must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward, it is so difficult for me to defend the city in Kunyang, only a heavy reward can boost morale......"

Li Xu smiled bitterly and said, "Having said that, you owe such a huge debt......

You must know that since Zhao Yu persuaded the county government to improve the treatment of the county officials, Kunyang has fought two or three times with the rebels outside the city, and seven or eight times in small battles, and the county government has long owed a huge debt that makes people feel numb.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that the morale of the county guards is getting stronger and stronger, and the gap with the rebels is gradually narrowed, so that they replace the Nanyang pawns who suffered heavy casualties and become the two main forces guarding Kunyang together with the black tiger thieves.

"It's just going to be slow." Zhao Yu patted Li Xu's arm and joked with a smile: "It's better than being captured by the rebels." It's really not good, in the future, the county government can ask Zhou to borrow a sum of money, and I will give a preferential interest on the money. ”

Li Xu shook his head with a smile.

Where would the county government be so miserable as to borrow money from a bandit leader? - He said this with no intent.

The rebels on the three sides of the southern, eastern, and western walls retreated one after another, and the rebels outside the northern city wall also retreated, leaving only the group of rebels lured into the city.

As long as you kill all these people, tonight will be complete.

At least that's what Chen Mo thinks.

"Report!"

Under the guidance of some black tiger thieves along the way, the two county guards hurriedly found Chen Mo, clasped their fists and said: "Commander Chen, the leader of Zhou sent a small one to summon the news, the crisis has been resolved, and the rebels' trick to seize the city wall has failed, and they have led the people to evacuate." ”

"Hmm."

Chen Mo nodded.

I have to say that although Zhao Yu had explained to him, as well as to Liu Bi, Li Xu, Ma Gai, Wang Qing and others in advance, that 'the rebels might attack the east and the west', he was still startled when he heard the alarm bells sounding one after another on the city walls on the south, east and west, and immediately urged the county army led by him to step up the siege and kill the group of rebels who were lured into the city.

Unexpectedly, before he could free his hand, the rebels outside the city retreated.

"Please go back to the big leader, Chen's side is almost over......"

As he spoke, Chen Mo turned his head to look at the main street ahead.

I saw that on that main street, countless rebel soldiers discarded their weapons, knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands, and looked at the county guards and black tiger thieves walking around them with torches in their hands with a look of horror.

"Are these people really rebels?"

Tang Hong, the county soldier who was once appreciated by Liu Tu on the city wall, has now been promoted to the chief of the county army, and at this moment he is looking at the rebel soldiers who surrendered on their knees with suspicion.

The rebels who forced him Kunyang into the current situation, how could they be so weak?

Suspicious, he kicked one of the rebel soldiers to the ground and asked, "What tricks do you have?" ”

The defeated rebel soldier cried and begged, "W-What tricks?" The villain doesn't know, the villain was originally from Dingling County, and he has only joined the Changsha Army for more than a month......"

"It's the rebels!" A nearby county magistrate scolded, spitting disdainfully.

"Yes, yes." The soldier begged repeatedly: "Spare your life, spare your life." ”

This phenomenon is not unique, in fact, when the back road of consciousness was cut off, the vast majority of the soldiers under the rebel general Ju Sheng surrendered.

It's no wonder, after all, most of these soldiers led by Ju Sheng are newly recruited soldiers, and some of Xu Bao's routs, the former has no fighting spirit to resist to the death, and the latter, when they saw those black tiger thieves wearing black scarves, they were already frightened, how dare they resist.

Of course, not all the soldiers chose to surrender, and the old soldiers under Ju Sheng, those who had survived the Battle of Zhaoling, were still firmly surrounding their Qu generals at this moment, and fought to break through towards the north city gate. With the northern gate blocked by dirt pockets, the soldiers, led by Ju Sheng, were trying to storm the stairs used to ascend the walls, apparently intending to jump out of the walls and flee.

But unfortunately, the county guards and black tiger thieves from all directions from the west have completely surrounded them.

"One final warning: if you don't surrender, shoot them all!"

On the city wall, Le Gui, the guard of the north city gate, shouted loudly.

When he shouted these words, a team of county army crossbowmen had been transferred here, holding crossbows in their hands, aimed at Ju Sheng and the remaining hundred or so rebel veterans around him.

Looking at the dense county guards and black tiger thieves on the city wall and around him, Ju Sheng looked back at the more than 100 old soldiers around him who had been squeezed into a pile on the opposite side, and looked at their unconsciously exuded panic and despair.

"Hmph, stubborn."

Le Gui snorted coldly, and ordered in a deep voice: "Release the arrow!" ”

The crossbowmen of the county army, who had already aimed at Ju Sheng and the others, did not hesitate to pull the trigger of the crossbow.

"Whoosh-"