When he heard that there had been a civil uprising in various counties in North Xuzhou, and then these rebellious people gathered to approach Lanling County, the seat of Northern Xuzhou, and even in the city of Lanling County, many people began to move, ready to respond to this rebellion, the newly appointed North Xuzhou Assassin Shi Zuyan immediately exerted his resolute and decisive talent, while organizing the defenders to hold the city, while sending people to Yecheng, the capital of Qi State, to ask Emperor Gao Wei for reinforcements!

But when the messenger sent by Zu Yan arrived in Yecheng, his 100,000 urgent letter for help was stopped by Mu Tipo and Han Changluan, who were close ministers around Gao Wei, and they couldn't be handed to Gao Wei at all!

Because the reason why they drove Zu Yan, a political enemy, to Northern Xuzhou, a place where they were fighting with the Chen army, was to kill Zu Yan by the hand of Chen Jun, so now the people of Northern Xuzhou responded to the Chen army, raised troops to make trouble, and besieged Lanling County, which happened to fall into the hands of Mu Tipo and his gang! Therefore, they will never let Gao Wei see this letter of request for help, nor will they send a soldier to North Xuzhou to reinforce it, and they are very eager to hope that Chen Jun can break through North Xuzhou as soon as possible, and then hack Zu Yan to death, and get rid of this big trouble for themselves!

After a few days, the troublemakers had already gathered less than twenty miles outside Lanling County, but Zu Yan had not received any feedback from Yecheng, knowing that in the party struggle in the imperial court, in order to get rid of dissidents, Zu Yan of course knew that it must be Mu Tipo Han Changluan and these people who were calculating him, so he also understood that it was impossible for the people in Lanling County to have rescue from Yecheng, so he decided to rely on himself and use his own ingenuity to resolve this crisis!

Although Zu Yan is a villain who bends the law for bribes and frames Zhongliang, he is also a smart man who has read a lot of military books, so when he faced the siege of the city by mobs outside the city, he decided to resort to a trick to empty the city and suspect the soldiers!

Zu Yan first ordered the defenders to open all the gates of Lanling County, and then asked all the defenders guarding the city wall to withdraw and sit at the foot of the city, and all the people in the city were ordered to stay at home, no one could walk on the streets and alleys, and even chickens and dogs had to tie their mouths and not make any sound!

As a result, Lanling County, which has become quiet, looks like an empty city!

When the troublemakers outside came to the outside of Lanling County, they saw this very weird, quiet and terrifying Lanling County, and everyone couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that this new blind assassin Shi, like Gao Changgong, was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled when he heard that the Chen army was coming to attack the city, and the troops defending the city were withdrawn, so of course there was no one to guard and garrison!

But at this time, some people raised that there must be demons when things go wrong, could this be a trap, deliberately set up this seemingly empty city, and then deliberately tempted us to enter the city carelessly, but in fact, they had already laid an ambush in the city with heavy troops, just waiting for us to enter and suddenly launched an attack on us!

Therefore, although these people who raised troops to make trouble were full of people, they were not regular troops after all, and they did not have the courage to rebel and kill the enemy desperately, and the members of the Fuliang Gang who instigated them to make trouble also told them in advance that they did not need them to attack the city, they only needed them to bluff and make trouble, and the Qi troops who defended the city were panicked and unstable, so they all stopped and were only stationed outside the city, not daring to act rashly and attack the city!

At this time, Zu Yan, who was guarding the city, heard that these troublemakers were so frightened by their empty city plans that they didn't dare to attack the city, pinched his beard and smiled proudly: "Haha, these mobs are just a group of rabble after all, only seeing this big open city gate, the city without defenders began to be suspicious, wandering and not daring to move forward!" According to the order of the assassin of this book, at midnight tonight, the defenders in the city will beat gongs and drums together and shout to kill, and when the time comes, they will definitely be able to scare away all these mobs outside the city in one fell swoop! ”

And at this time, there was a well-groomed army outside Lanling County, which was the 10,000 Xuzhou army led by Xiao Yao himself!

Since Xiao Yao was appointed as the assassin of Xuzhou, and also brought Lu Guangda and the East Route Army under his command, Xiao Yao of course reorganized these two armies as soon as possible!

Because Xu Jingcheng, the commander of the Eastern Route Army, was assassinated by Wei Xiangyuan on the battlefield, so the Eastern Route Army suddenly fell into a leaderless situation, and after their failure to attack Xia Pi County, they could only gather less than 10,000 remnants of the army and hide in Supre County, until Xiao Yao defeated Gao Changgong and captured Xuzhou City and Xia Pi County, and then sent people to take over the remnants of the East Route Army!

So they didn't have any resistance to Xiao Yao's adaptation, after all, their commanders had already died on the battlefield, and if Xiao Yao hadn't rushed to reinforce them, maybe Supre County would have been recovered by Gao Changgong, and then wipe out their remnants in one fell swoop! In addition, Xiao Yao's current reputation is in the Northern Expedition of Chen Guo, but it is even louder than that of Wu Mingche, the governor of the capital, so these soldiers of the Eastern Route Army did not hesitate to accept Xiao Yao's adaptation!

As for Lu Guangda, although his qualifications are older than Xiao Yao, and his general grade is also higher than Xiao Yao, after the fiasco of the Battle of Xuzhou and the strength of Xiao Yao's forward brigade, he also knows that he and Xiao Yao cannot be compared, so although he knows that the reorganization means that he has lost his complete command of the army, and he is more or less unhappy in his heart, he still accepts Xiao Yao's adaptation.

Xiao Yao first directly dismantled the more than 20,000 people of the Eastern Route Army and Lu Guangda's Middle Route Army, and then selected more than 10,000 young and strong soldiers to be incorporated into the forward brigade, and the remaining more than 10,000 people, Xiao Yao organized them into reserve troops, and then assigned them to various counties and counties in Xuzhou to guard the city!

Because the more than 10,000 new people in the forward brigade are mainly infantry, and Xiao Yao is unable to provide muskets or war horses for these infantry for a while, and they have not received professional training, so Xiao Yao can only add another infantry battalion under the forward brigade now, with Lu Guangda as the battalion commander!

So Xiao Yao led this newly formed forward brigade, a total of 15,000 troops, and rushed to North Xuzhou with murderous spirit!

"General Xiao, Commander Xiao! According to the report of the spies, the people of Northern Xuzhou who raised troops to respond to our Chen army's battle are now gathered outside the city of Lanling County and have not attacked it! Lu Guangda was still trying to adapt to the various military regulations formulated by Xiao Yao, including the strange title of commander.

"Of course, these people are just a group of peasants, and they are not regular troops, so of course they will not make such a crazy move as attacking the city. And my purpose is just to let them disturb the morale of the Qi army, and then as soon as our army arrives, we will surround Lanling County again, causing huge psychological pressure on these Qi troops, and then we can persuade them to surrender! Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"But now all the gates of Lanling County have been opened, and there are no defenders on the city wall to defend, and there are no people in the city walking, the whole city is quiet, very abnormal, even those spies lurking in the city, they have not come out to contact us now, there must be something strange here, we can't be careless!" Lu Guangda reminded.