Huang Kang's attempt to ambush the Black Tiger Thief failed.

When he packed up the remnants of the army and returned to the garrison to report the incident to Guan Shuo, the commander of the Changsha Army, Guan Shuo was in disbelief.

Didn't you just use the howl of wolves to lure those damned black tiger thieves into a trap? Why did it fail?

Facing Guan Shuo's sullen questioning, Huang Kang explained gloomily: "Somehow, those black turban thieves didn't fall for it. They didn't send too many people to pursue Zhu Yi, most of them lurked around, and when I and my soldiers came out, they blended in with our army......"

The more Guan Shuo listened, the more angry he became, and he angrily reprimanded: "Those black scarf thieves, why can they get mixed in with you and the others? ”

However, this question does not need to be explained by Huang Kang, Guan Shuo has figured it out himself.

Yes, a while ago, Huang Kang led 10,000 Changsha soldiers to defeat Kunyang, not to mention the black tiger thieves in Kunyang, who had their Changsha army's weapons and armor, these people even had flags.

With these weapons and armor, can't you pretend to be his Changsha army?

But why tonight?

Could it be that Zhou Hu saw through it?

……

"It was Guan Shuo who reminded me."

At the same time, on the second floor of the Black Tiger Righteous House, Zhao Yu and Jingnu chuckled and said when they mentioned this: "I heard him mention the 'wolves' yesterday, and I knew that he was going to do something to the brigade wolves......"

Of course, even if there was no Guan Shuo to remind him, Zhao Yu could think of it.

After all, according to common sense, since Guan Shuo was going to take action against him in Kunyang County, he would definitely try to clean up the traveling wolves roaming on the south bank of the Shahe River first, so as not to harass and destroy them from these people.

And to deal with such a group of unknown people, then the best way is to lure the enemy, lure these people into a trap, gather and annihilate them.

But how to lure those traveling wolves who even Zhao Yu doesn't know their specific whereabouts?

Obviously, wolf howl is a good idea.

So far, the wolf howls of the Black Tiger Thieves and Wolves passing messages to each other are still imperfect ways to transmit messages.

Although the brigade wolves would change the number of wolf howls every night, Zhao Yu still believed that there was a very serious hidden danger here - if Zhao Yu was the general of the rebel army, he could easily annihilate those brigade wolves.

As for the method used, it is similar to the method taken by Guan Shuo and Huang Kang.

With his own life, Zhao Yu had no doubt that the Changsha army on the opposite side might have figured out the law of wolf howling and was ready to wipe out the brigade wolves under his command.

In this case, the best thing to do is nothing more than to recruit the wolves back and let them return to the county seat.

In the case of his recall of the brigade wolf, is there still a way for the rebels on the opposite side to carry out the plan of luring the enemy into an ambush?

But after thinking about it, Zhao Yu suddenly felt that it was not bad to ambush a rebel army by pushing the boat down the river, after all, he could roughly guess the tactics adopted by the rebels, and even the location of the ambush.

He explained to Jingnu, "...... In order to lure the brigade wolf, the rebels will definitely send a bait downstream along the banks of the Sand River, because this is the most conspicuous. And when they are attacked by our Black Tiger Crowd, the sacrifice of this luring enemy will definitely not flee west, why? Because there are hundreds of thousands of rebels stationed on the west side, our Black Tiger people do not dare to pursue them, and the other side also knows this, so in order to lure the enemy, they will definitely not go west. …… It is impossible to go west, and it is difficult to arrange an ambush in advance to the east, so the sacrifice of the lured enemy can only go south, in other words, the rebels will set up an ambush around the Gray River......"

I have to say that in this matter, Zhao Yu guessed extremely accurately, and there was no difference from what Huang Kang said.

As for how those brigade wolves distinguish the wolf howls from their own people and enemies, this is even simpler, because Zhao Yu specially sent Wang Qing out, and let Wang Qing be responsible for reminding the nearby brigade wolf squad with wolf howls, and at the same time told Wang Qing and those leading wolves that from now on, wolf howls can only be sounded once a night......

In this way, when Zhu Yi, a general under Huang Kang, lured the black tiger thieves wandering around with a wolf howl, these black tiger thieves knew that it was from the enemy......

The fastest and most convenient way.

"Worthy of the young master......"

Looking at Zhao Yu's conceited appearance, Jingnu's eyes showed a touch of warmth, and she praised sincerely: "Every move of the rebels can't escape the calculation of the young master at all......"

Zhao Yu smiled slightly, and then said with a little regret: "It's a pity that this way can only pit the rebels once, after realizing that this kind of small trick can't wipe out the brigade wolves, the rebels will inevitably scatter more manpower, making it difficult for my Black Tigers to move on the south bank of the Shahe River, and at that time, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, I can only let them withdraw......"

Jing Nu chuckled and said, "Even so, the young master still beat the arrogance of the rebels. ”

"Arrogant...... What?'

Zhao Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head, feeling a little melancholy in his heart.

He knew very well that for an army of hundreds of thousands, a few casualties were not enough to shake the morale of the whole army, but on his side, after being forced to recall the brigade wolves, the situation would become more and more passive.

The only thing he could do was to try to sneak up on the rebel patrols as much as possible while his brigades had not yet been completely driven back to the north bank of the Sand River, even if they could only kill one more, it would be a little less difficult to defend the city in the coming days.

And this point, Wang Qing, who has been sent by Zhao Yu to command the brigade wolf, also understands.

From August 28 to 29, Wang Qing tried his best to attack the rebels' lone patrol guards.

It's a pity that the rebels also made the same move as Zhao Yu expected.

In the event of an ambush failure, Guan Shuo no longer made a similar attempt, but sent a large number of soldiers, with 500 to 1,000 men as a team, stationed on the south bank of the Shahe River in batches, and each garrison was only three or five miles apart.

Obviously, Guan Shuo wanted to take advantage of his absolute superiority in strength to compress the space for the Black Tiger Thieves to operate on the south bank of the Shahe River, and force them to the north bank of the Shahe River, so as not to destroy the major event of his encampment.

For this kind of righteous path, let alone Wang Qing, even Zhao Yu has no way, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, he can only honestly withdraw the brigade wolves to the north bank of the Shahe River.

As a result, the brigade wolves were temporarily useless, and could only watch as the rebels set up camp on the other side of the river.

During this period, Zhao Yu didn't think about sneak attacks or anything.

But considering that it was too difficult to sneak attack across the river, once their whereabouts were exposed, the Black Tigers sent to the sneak attack would definitely not be able to escape back to the county seat alive, Zhao Yu finally gave up.

Of course, under the condition of giving up sneak attacks and harassment, Zhao Yu did not wait for the rebels to attack.

Taking advantage of the time when the rebels were setting up camps on the other side of the Sand River, he also instructed the county government and the brotherhood to organize people to cut down trees and bamboos outside the city, and transport as much wood and bamboo back to the city as possible.

Zhao Yu told everyone that bamboo can be used to make bamboo spears and spears, and wood can be used to build fortification utensils and can also be used as firewood.

Winter?

Does that mean at least until the end of October, or even the end of November?

Considering that it is only the beginning of September, this is not a simple matter, after all, even Zhaoling County, which is in danger of Luohe, has only held on for less than two months, let alone Kunyang?

During this period, Zhao Yu also sent people to Xiangcun in the north of the county and invited Sun Xiu, the general who commanded the 3,000 Nanyang soldiers.

Considering that the rebels were about to cross the Shahe River to attack him Kunyang, Zhao Yu still decided to summon the three thousand Nanyang soldiers to the city, after all, the role of these three thousand Nanyang soldiers was still not small.

I have to say that Sun Xiu obviously guessed what Zhao Yu's purpose was in inviting him to Kunyang, and when he saw Zhao Yu, his expression was a little arrogant, and he said to Zhao Yu with a smile: "Leader Zhou sent someone to invite Sun Mou, didn't he change his mind?" ”

Zhao Yu didn't bother to pay attention to Sun Xiu's pride, and said calmly: "The rebels have relied on the strength of the crowd, and they have forced the men sent by Zhou to harass his village back to the north of the Shahe River...... At this critical juncture, Zhou hoped that General Sun could lead the 3,000 soldiers into the county seat to help us. ”

"Yes." Sun Xiu nodded arrogantly, and immediately made a request: "But I have one condition, the armory, county warehouse, and various city gates in the city must be garrisoned by my people, and when the rebels attack the city, Kunyang needs to listen to my orders." ”

"No, I don't say yes." Zhao Yu did not hesitate to refuse this non-dividing request.

Sun Xiu glanced at Zhao Yu a few times, and said with a bit of strength: "The county warehouse is the most important thing, it is related to whether Kunyang can be defended, it must be garrisoned by my people, and the city gate ......."

However, before he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Yu raise his hand to interrupt, and then said in a deep voice: "General Sun, Zhou has no time to entangle, I know your purpose, I can tell you responsibly, if you want to take the opportunity to take over my Kunyang, I can guarantee that Kunyang will definitely fall into the hands of the rebels and become the front line for the rebels to attack Yexian, General Sun and the soldiers under your command will not only be wiped out here, but also unable to improve the situation of General Wang Shangde in the slightest!" ”

"You!"

Sun Xiu was furious when he heard this, and wanted to step forward, but he was forced to retreat by Niu Heng, and could only stare at Zhao Yu with resentful eyes.

Zhao Yu did not show weakness at all, and calmly said in the face of Sun Xiu's gaze: "On the contrary, if you and your soldiers are willing to obey Zhou's orders, Zhou can guarantee that before my Kunyang becomes a dead city, the rebels will not be able to capture it." …… Think about it, think about the situation of General Wang Shangde, and the private advice of a certain Yexian county magistrate to you, which is more important. ”

“……”

Hearing this, a little blue and white appeared on Sun Xiu's face.

After a while, he asked hesitantly, "You...... Guarantee? ”

"Of course."

Zhao Yu nodded solemnly.

Seeing this, Sun Xiu let out a long breath, nodded and said, "Okay!" I will obey your commands...... But if you fail to do so, I will cut off your head and set fire to the city when it is broken. ”

"If it really comes to that point, General Sun will be happy."

“……”

After taking a deep look at Zhao Yu, Sun Xiu turned around and left, and went back to Xiang Village to mobilize the army.

On the sixth day of the ninth month, on the fourth day when Sun Xiu led 3,000 Nanyang soldiers into Kunyang, the rebels on the south bank of the Shahe River finally moved.

In the early morning of the same day, tens of thousands of rebels and nearly 10,000 green forest thieves crossed the Shahe River and headed straight for Kunyang......