The county order said: "I thought of using drugs to bring him down, and then persuade the people to open the city and surrender together, so that the Wuhuan people would let us live." Now that this plan doesn't work, then you have to use a strong one. ”

"How do you use it?"

"Now you still have a few guards around you, let's get together, make up fifty people, take advantage of the night, let's kill Gao You directly!"

"Now it's all like this, it's all his own fault, no wonder we, everyone just wants to live."

Late at night, fifty people quietly touched the tent where Gao You was. The location of his tent is very recognizable, right at the original north gate.

Now the strength of the city is tight, and all the soldiers have been arranged to guard the tower, so that as the commander-in-chief, there is not even a single guard in front of the tall tent.

He felt absolutely safe in the city, and he didn't need any guards around him. The weather was cold, and everyone hid in tents at night to snuggle up to keep warm, and there was no one else on the street except for the patrolling soldiers. This also gave the county order and others a chance.

Fifty men surrounded the tent and were about to rush in and hack Gao Youchao to death. It was a torch that suddenly lit up from the side.

"Who are you?" Gao You shouted. As soon as he returned from his rounds, he noticed someone sneaking around in front of his tent. The light of the fire shone on the hands of those people, flashing white rays one after another.

Gao was shocked and hurriedly shouted: "There are spies!" Come on, catch them for me! ”

When these people knew that they had been discovered, they were also panicked and scrambling. When they saw that there were already patrolling soldiers rushing here, they didn't care about their mission anymore and ran for their lives.

However, the four walls were blocked, all the houses were demolished, and they had nowhere to hide, like headless flies, running around the city, and naturally they were surrounded and captured alive by the soldiers who rushed in.

Gao You rushed over, directly put his sword against one of them and asked, "Say, who are you, what are you doing in the middle of the night!" ”

This person confessed very spinelessly: "The general spares his life, the villain confesses truthfully, and asks the general to spare the villain's life." ”

"I can spare your life, you can get it quickly."

"The villain and the others were ordered by the county order to come to take the general's life."

Gao You's eyes widened, his heart was furious, and he kicked the assassin: "Bastard, I have only been here for a short time, and I have no grudge against him, why did he want to poison me." ”

"The villain doesn't know, the villain doesn't know, the general spares his life." The Assassin knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"I'll spare my life, and I'll start guarding the city together tomorrow."

"General Xie's grace not to kill." Defend the city, defend the city, there is still a glimmer of life, it is better than dying immediately.

The only building in the city, the Wangping County Ya, was quickly surrounded by Gao You's troops, and then the soldiers rushed in and arrested everyone inside.

The people who were originally sleeping were also woken up at this moment, and they ran over to watch.

When these people in the county government were brought out, they were still struggling and cursing.

"Gao Youpifu, Wangping City's small pond can't hold it at all, but you insist on defending it and sending the people in the city to death. You horseman, thief! The prefectural commander shouted.

A wealthy man also stared at Gao You and shouted: "There are more Wuhuan people outside the city than in the entire city, and defending them will only anger them." When the time comes, they will attack the city, and in a fit of rage they will slaughter the city, and the whole city will suffer! ”

Another person shouted: "Only if Kaesong surrenders, everyone will have a way to live." The Wuhuan people went south just to grab some food to survive the winter, as long as we give them the food, the Wuhuan people will leave by themselves, and they won't hurt me in the slightest! ”

They wanted to say something more, so as to encourage the onlookers. But Gao You didn't want to give them this opportunity, so he walked over and slapped one person in the face, and everyone was beaten and bloodied. The weight of the hand shows how angry he is.

"You bastards, as Han Chinese, actually want to surrender to the alien race, and this kind of thing is so high-sounding in your mouth, like a common thing, it's really damn good."

The county commander looked at Gao You resentfully: "You were originally a thief, and you surrendered to Zhang Hao in order to survive." We are all here to live, what right do you have to say about us. Please also see clearly, when the day the city is broken, you will be the first to surrender! ”

"Hehe, I surrendered to the general, and it's shameless. You probably haven't seen the slaves besieging the city today. That's right, people like you who are as timid as rats don't even dare to go up to the city. ”

Gao You slowly calmed down the anger in his heart, and then said: "Those slaves are all people who surrendered for their lives, there are all kinds of alien Hu people, and even Han people. They survived, but they didn't live as pigs and dogs, and now they ran up to die in order to survive.

If that's what you want, I'm not against it. I won't ask anything else, I'll already tell you the truth. Since this is the case, it will be dealt with according to military law, and surrender is equivalent to fleeing from the battle, and it should be beheaded according to the crime. When the execution is carried out at dawn, you don't have to be slaves like pigs and dogs, and you should thank me well. ”

All the onlookers dispersed, and there was not a single one who took pity on them, and some even threw stones and snowballs at them.

Everyone else was silent, only the prefectural commander was still cursing there. Gao You also scolded him, anyway, he didn't have many opportunities to speak.

After dawn, Gao You stood on the city wall and swore to the people in the city: "The city is in the people, the city is broken, and the people are dead, and I will never live alone!" Then he beheaded those who wanted to surrender in front of the whole city.

Whoever had killed a few traitors before the battle to boost morale was now like filling in the missing procedures, and as the heads of these traitors fell to the ground, the morale of the defenders in the city was greatly boosted.

……

In the next three days, no matter how the Wuhuan army attacked, Wangping City would not be able to take it. This made Khan Qiu Liju very annoyed, he went south to grab things, but he was not here to fight with the Han army.

I thought that in front of his army, it would not be a problem to sweep the entire Pingzhou at all, but I didn't expect this small city in front of him to block him.

Although Qiu Liju said that he wanted to use Liaodong as his own grassland, according to this situation, it would be good if he could go south without losing money.

"It's been a few days now, and the Han Dynasty's General Duliao should already be on the way." Qiu Liju sat in the king's tent and said to himself.

The intelligence of the Han Dynasty, especially the intelligence of Youzhou and the two states, Qiu Liju was very concerned. He had a good understanding of the various terrains, the distribution of the Han army, the names of the local governors, and so on.

It can be seen that this Wuhuan Khan has long been prepared for the invasion of the Han Dynasty, and he has always kept in mind a Chinese saying: know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

As the largest high-ranking general in Pingzhou, Qiu Liju also has an understanding of Zhang Hao. Zhang Hao's origin information and how to get to his current position step by step, he has checked it clearly.

Speaking of which, there is also Qiu Liju's own credit. Last year's lack of preparation resulted in his army being kept out, and one of the largest cavalry that had infiltrated the territory of the Han Dynasty could have stirred up trouble within it and created opportunities for the army.

As a result, this army was annihilated, and it was the opponent he was about to face, Zhang Hao, who did it.

"This battle is just the right time to get revenge." Qiu Liju shouted outside the tent, "Go and call the greedy king to me." ”

Soon the greedy king came to the king's tent. "Khan, are you looking for me?"

Qiu Liju nodded and said, "King of Greed, we have been staying here for three days, and we can't go on like this." This time we went south to plunder, and we didn't have many livestock with us, so we couldn't afford to consume them here.

I hope you will lead the 10,000 cavalry under your command to plunder directly south, even if you encounter the Han army, you don't have to fight, I just want you to kill and destroy as much as you want in the hinterland of Liaodong. ”

The cavalry armies of the various tribes are called 10,000 cavalry, not 10,000 cavalry. The number of 10,000 horsemen in each tribe varies, some more and some less. For example, the cavalry under the command of the greedy king was only 8,000 people, less than 10,000.

Qiu Liju's words were exactly what the greedy king wanted, and he had long wanted to leave here and go to other places to release the killing desire in his heart.

"Your will, my mission, Khan." The greedy king fell down in front of Qiu Liju and kissed the upper of his shoes.

"Go ahead."

Then the greedy king set off south with his ten thousand horsemen.

Soon they passed by a village where the villagers had not yet had time to evacuate. The greedy king, who had endured it for too long, immediately ordered that everyone in the village, men, women, and children, be killed.

A village with only a few dozen households and hundreds of villagers was attacked by the Wuhuan cavalry, and it turned into a sea of fire in an instant.

"Hahaha~" All the Wuhuan cavalry laughed loudly, and the scene in front of them was so wonderful in their eyes.

The greedy king ordered: "Go, go to the next place!" ”

……

Since receiving the beacon fire from the north, Zhang Hao has stepped up his efforts to gather soldiers and prepare food supplies.

Subsequently, information continued to come back, and the Wuhuan army that entered the Kou was full of 70,000 people. Fifty thousand were their own cavalry, and the remaining twenty thousand were servants, made up of slaves. The army was followed by more than 30,000 cattle and sheep.

Judging from this number, Zhang Hao's previous plan to recruit only 10,000 people was obviously not enough.

But if there are too many recruits, the logistics will be overwhelmed.

So in the end, Zhang Hao recruited an additional 20,000 people, leaving 10,000 recruits to garrison, and he set off with the army and 20,000 recruits originally stationed in Liaodong, a total of 30,000 people.

This time, Zhang Hao joined the army with Du Ping and Yan Zhong, Qin Wen as a partial general, led 4,000 cavalry as the vanguard, Tian Jian and Wang He as the lieutenants, and each led 5,000 infantry as the left and right wings. The rest of the army was commanded by himself as the central army. Fang Zhu and Mi Zhu stayed in Xiangping to recruit people for the army and transport grain and grass.

But less than a day after Zhang Hao went north, the striker led by Qin Wen came back with a message.

"General Qiyu, General Qin found a burned village in front, hundreds of charred corpses were found in the village, and a large number of horseshoe prints were found around the village, General Qin guessed that the Wuhuan cavalry did it."

By the time Zhang Hao arrived in the village, the charred bodies had all been removed. In terms of body size, people of all ages are included, from adults to children.

The scene became very heavy, and everyone present did not say a word, silently watching the villagers who were killed in front of them.

Zhang Hao clenched his fists, his muscles bulged, and his eyes were bloodshot. After a long time, he said to the soldiers, "Bury them." ”