An old man with his eyes closed heard the sound of powerful footsteps outside the door, and he already knew that it was the person who delivered the information, and ordinary maids could not get out of such a voice.

"What happened?" The old man who closed his eyes slowly opened the tiger's eyes, and looked at the person who came to report the news with his sunken eye sockets.

"Report to the master, the front-line flying pigeon has sent good news." Although the subordinate who came to report the news maintained a calm appearance, there was a hint of excitement in his words.

"You've been in my Zhao family for more than thirty years, why can't you hold your breath." The old man suddenly felt a little strange, what kind of good thing could make this person who had followed him for many years so excited.

The man took a deep breath and said, "Yanzhou Lu Zhan has won a great victory on the front line, and the elite Jingsai cavalry of the Zhi family has been completely annihilated. One of the tiger's teeth has been pulled out. ”

The old man stood up in his chair and laughed. "I, Zhao He, have the opportunity to overthrow the Zhi family in my lifetime, which is really blessed by the ancestors and ancestors. Inform Zhongli Xin that old thing that our chance has come. ”

"No, I'll inform the head of the Zhongli family." The subordinate retired.

Zhao He walked to the courtyard with steps, looked at the high sky in autumn and couldn't help kneeling on the ground, thanking the heavens for the blessing of his ancestors and ancestors.

"The time to prove the strength of my Zhao family is finally coming, after the Zhi family's gang lost the Jingsai cavalry, my Zhao family still has Hufu knights. Those barbarians outside the plug still have some places to learn, but the Hufu knight is the hole card that my Zhao family has hidden for so many years. Zhao He slowly stood up and looked at the northern sky with infinite expectation in his eyes.

The art of war says that if you can, you can't. Every family has some hole cards that are difficult for outsiders to know, and Tang Liyi's hole cards are those elusive agents and intelligence networks all over the world.

The Hufu knights were warriors raised by the Zhao family outside the border fortress of the Jin Kingdom, and these barbarian soldiers who were taken in by the Zhao family could only join after passing the screening.

The elite cavalry composed of the Han people, the Rouran people, the Xianbei people, the Huns, the Ding Ling people, the Qiang people, and the Wusun people who were exiled outside the Saiwai have been hiding in the grassland. Only there is a difficult place for spies and spies to penetrate, sending supplies through the border army every month.

In the buffer zone of the grassland and the border fortress, an elite cavalry of more than 8,000 people was secretly stationed, and these were originally the hole cards prepared by the Zhao family in order to prevent the Zhi family from making a move. Originally, I thought that the cavalry battle against Mai Mang would fall through like this, but now the balance of war is about to tilt in favor of the opponent of the Zhi family.

"Ahem, Old Man Zhao is finally ready to do it, the Zhao family's hole cards are ready to be revealed, and our Zhongli family must also be ready." Zhongli Xin instructed his son.

"Father, do you really want to use our family's hole cards?" Zhong Limu seemed a little distracted at the moment, and he did not act as the young master of the Zhongli family at all.

"What nonsense, the hole cards are to be shown at the last moment of the game, and the hole cards have been held in the hand and not played out, then it is the same as nothing. Do we have to wait until our enemy has a knife to his neck before using his hole cards? Stupidity! Go and transfer troops now. Zhong Lixin patted the table, looking at the successor in front of him who likes literature and art, and he had a feeling of hating iron but not steel.

Zhongli Mu saw his father start a fire, so he hurriedly said that he would go to mobilize troops and horses after retreating.

Quwo, the base camp of the Zhi family of the Jin Kingdom, is the most prosperous city outside the capital of the Jin Kingdom, Yecheng, and the most luxurious and solemn official residence in the city is the Zhi family's mansion. Looking at the wisdom of this house, on the surface, the mansion is built in accordance with the etiquette norms, but only when you go in does you know how magnificent it is.

Carved beams and paintings are not enough to describe the exquisiteness of this house, but the mansion of the Zhi family is not only luxurious.

The whitewashed courtyard walls are secretly fortified, and only a few people know where and how to open the secret passages. The mansion can be turned into a fortified fortress at any time.

There was a thud, and a fine porcelain teacup was slammed to the ground.

"How did the old man give birth to such an unsuccessful son, the Jingsai cavalry is the elite that has been trained outside the fortress for so many years. Those families must have been even more impatient when they heard the news. "The head of the Zhi family is getting older at the moment.

The news of this bad news seemed to be a heavy blow to the old giant of the Zhijia. The wolves preparing to prey on it seemed to have their eyes on the giant. The croaking of crows flying up next to the Zhijia Mansion seemed to indicate something.

With the melodious sound of the horn, the soldiers of the Jin army pushed the cart and carried the siege ladder to rush to the city wall of Yanzhou. Countless feathered arrows were intertwined in the air, and the soldiers of the Jin army couldn't help but sigh secretly as they looked at the tall city wall.

In the siege battle of the previous few days, the Jin army did not make the slightest progress. The mountain was first destroyed by trebuchets, but the height of the rebuilt mountain was not as high as the temporarily raised wall. The soil and mountains are loose and the foundation is unstable, making it difficult to build very tall.

As soon as the siege tower touched the city wall, a large pot of hot oil was poured on it, and the elite soldiers squatting in the tower were scalded before they could react. The iron armor that used to protect himself has now become a coffin made of steel.

The smell of meat paste accompanied by the heat smoked the besieging and defending soldiers, but the worst smell had not yet appeared.

As the Yanzhou soldiers guarding the city gradually became physically exhausted, the Jin army under the city launched attacks again and again with the advantage of numbers. Finally, the defenders were forced to use a big killing weapon - gold juice.

The golden juice is made from the dung of people and animals piled up in large vats and boiled, until the enemy sticks to the bottom of the city walls.

The soldiers who had been boiling the gold juice were wearing simple masks, and after holding back for so long, they finally spilled it. The soldiers who climbed the city walls were poured a yellow-brown, hot liquid on their bodies, and let out a scream like killing pigs.

The foul smell permeated the city wall, and as the smell slowly rose, the Yanzhou soldiers on the city wall were also smoked and coughed.

"It's an ancient biochemical weapon, it smells great." Lu Zhan, who was looking at the city wall from afar, also seemed to smell a trace of foul smell.

"The lord is the lord, this trick is really high, but it is a bit of a killing of a thousand enemies and self-damage of eight hundred degrees." Duan Xiaohan, who has been traveling from south to north for many years, seems to smell the stench.

"War is like that, to come up with unexpected tricks to deal with the enemy.".

"It's not a way for us to defend all the time, when can we go out of the city and fight back?" Duan Xiaohan leaned against the wall and looked in the direction outside the city.

"Well, let's not be in a hurry. Now the Jin army's offensive still has strength, and in a few days, when the sharpness is exhausted, it will be the time for us to act. ”