"Are the gates open? Don't have a defender on it yet? Is this welcoming us? Is this newcomer to Northern Xuzhou preparing to dedicate this Lanling County to me? Xiao Yao laughed in surprise and said.

"It is said that although this Zuyan is blind, he is a talented, clever and agile man, this time they put up such an empty city plan, they must want to lure us to let down our guard, and then recklessly enter the city, and they must also set up an ambush in the city!" Lu Guangda analyzed.

"Empty city? General Lu, since you all think that this Zu Yan is using the empty city plan, don't you know what the truth of this empty city plan is? Xiao Yao suddenly laughed, looked at Lu Guangda with a treacherous look and asked.

"The truth about the empty city plan? Isn't it just that they don't have enough troops, and then they use these illusions of opening the city gate wide and withdrawing the defenders to scare us from attacking! Lu Guangda said casually, then suddenly looked at Xiao Yao with wide eyes, and said loudly with a look of sudden realization: "Commander means that they are scaring us?" ”

"In the case that the strength of both sides is about the same, it may be possible to use these suspicious tactics to scare and scare the opponent, and then make the opponent dare not act rashly! Moreover, this ancestor Yan used this empty city plan to deal with those peasants who raised troops to make trouble, these peasants have no military training, and they did not really come here to fight with the Qi army, so seeing that the city gate was wide open and there was no army guard on the city wall, of course, it was this frightened! But our forward brigade, even if we send heavy troops to defend the city, we are confident that we will break through the city, not to mention that they have now withdrawn their guards and opened the city gates, then we can even save the effort of attacking the city! Go in directly and capture these Qi defenders, and then occupy this Lanling County! Xiao Yao said confidently.

"Okay, it's better for the commander to see it through! If only I, Lu Guangda, led the army here, I would definitely be frightened by their empty city plan, so that I would not dare to order the siege of the city easily! Then you may miss the fighter! Lu Guangda said ashamedly, and casually patted Xiao Yao's ass!

"The last general is willing to lead my infantry battalion, be the first to storm into the city, and then take this Lanling County in one fell swoop!" Lu Guangda asked.

"General Lu doesn't have to be in a hurry! I, Xiao Yao, evaluate the achievements of my subordinates, but I don't measure them according to the conventional standards of who rushed into the city first, who killed more people, and so on! Like the artillery battalion, they didn't even see the appearance of the enemy, they opened fire from a distance, and it was not them who charged ahead, and they were not the first to attack the city, but their record can be said to be what I value the most, more than Huang Wenyuan's cavalry battalion that kills the most people! So this time, your infantry battalion doesn't have to rush to charge and attack the city, and my purpose this time is to outwit Northern Xuzhou, not to storm Northern Xuzhou! I want to capture all of these Qi troops, not kill them all! Therefore, General Lu, your infantry battalion is responsible for besieging the city and not letting a single Qi army escape, this is the task I have given you, I hope General Lu will carry it out seriously! Xiao Yao commanded.

"My subordinates understand! It is indeed the last general who is too anxious to make meritorious contributions! But please rest assured, my infantry battalion will definitely surround the four gates of Lanling County, and then not let a single soldier escape! Lu Guangda also clenched his fists and said.

"Well, as long as we surround them, then we can catch turtles in their urns! However, if we want to occupy this Lanling County without blood, we must first destroy their fighting spirit, and then let them surrender to us on their own initiative! Since they play psychological warfare and scare us with empty city tactics, then we also play psychological warfare with them and scare them with shells! Li Nong, I order your artillery battalion to smash all the gates and towers on the city walls of Lanling County to me! I want them to know that I, Xiao Yao, want to kill them, it's so easy! Xiao Yao said domineeringly.

Soon, Xiao Yao's newly formed forward brigade quickly rushed to the outside of Lanling County while Zu Yan in the city of Lanling County was still in the empty city plan, and then Lu Guangda's infantry battalion was also divided into four routes, and quickly formed an encirclement of the entire Lanling County!

"Lord Thorn, it's not good! Suddenly a Chen army came outside, they, they surrounded the whole city! Wang Junzhi, the general who defended the city, rushed in and reported to Zu Yan.

"What? Chen Jun? Aren't those people out there just a mob of people who have raised up to make trouble? Where did Chen Jun come from? Could it be that Xiao Yao from Xuzhou is here? Zu Yan was also taken aback, of course he knew that his empty city plan was okay to scare those rabble, but it was not good in front of experts, let alone Xiao Yao, who was notoriously treacherous and clever!

"It should be Xiao Yao! Xuzhou is only more than 200 miles away from here, and you can rush to Lanling County in one day! And this group of mobs should have been instigated by Xiao Yao, and then gathered to besiege Lanling County, and this Xiao Yao took the opportunity to attack us! Wang Junzhi said anxiously.

"Careless, careless! I thought that this Xiao Shilang didn't attack when Gao Changgong was still in Northern Xuzhou, but now that Gao Changgong has left, he will not attack easily, I can't imagine that he is so cunning, taking advantage of Gao Changgong's sudden departure, the morale of the officers and soldiers in the army is unstable, and then instigate the mob to make trouble, divert our attention, and finally lead the army to suddenly attack us! Zu Yan said remorsefully.

"So what do we do now? On the other side is Xiao Yao, who is sinister and cunning, he must be able to see that we are using an empty city strategy, and when we were in Xuyi County, the king of Lanling had 30,000 defenders, and the height and thickness of the city could not stop Xiao Yao's siege, but now we have opened the city gate and withdrawn the soldiers defending the city, isn't that equivalent to giving the city to Xiao Yao? We're just going to close the gates now, and I don't know if it's too late! Wang Junzhi said a little discouraged.

"No need! If we take the initiative to close the city gate, it will be tantamount to telling the enemy that we are afraid, and it will be easier for the opponent's morale to rise, and then we will definitely be defeated! Zu Yan stopped, then showed a heroic aura, and continued: "Empty city plan, if you can't deceive them, then they will definitely rush in directly, then we will engage in street battles with them, and we have already prepared for an ambush against them, we can attack them by surprise, in this way, we have a better chance of winning!" ”

"The last general commands!" Although Wang Junzhi was a little scared, but now that he saw that his blind boss was not afraid of death than his own general, he was inspired by Zu Yan's bravery and fearlessness, and he also mustered up the courage and said loudly.

"Good! Prepare a war horse for me, and I will attack with you later! To boost the morale of the soldiers! And the world says that I am blind, but when Xiao Yao sees that even I, a blind man, dare to go on a horse and fight, I will definitely think that we have fraud in the city and dare not move forward! Zu Yan said even more fearlessly!