Lan Ziyi stood on the east gate tower and looked at the thief camp,

There was no movement in the camp of the thieves, and the shacks of civilians outside the camp were also lit by bonfires, and the silence of the night and the warm wind from the east almost transmitted the snoring in the camp into the city, which really did not look like they were going to leave the camp.

It was still pitch black on the walls of Xiangcheng, and occasionally a line of night patrols with torches would pass by, but in fact, the Jihu battalion, which had been serving as a reserve in the government office, had been quietly gathered, and each city gate had additional manpower to defend.

This is the silence before the storm, where both armies are gathering energy for the great upheavals that are coming, waiting for the moment to erupt, unless ......

Lan Ziyi withdrew his eyes looking at the east of the city, surveyed the other three directions, and there was still no movement on the other three sides.

Lan Ziyi squinted his eyes and asked Tao Zhulu beside him:

"How long will it be until the thieves are released?"

Tao Zhulu replied:

"According to the information that the earth will give us, the time is almost there.

After Lei Youde's department was broken. ”

Lan Ziyi said worriedly:

"Could this news be fake? Why haven't the thieves moved yet? ”

Tao Zhulu replied:

"The general also got the news tonight, it is said that the order for the thief Kou to withdraw to the east was issued urgently in the middle of the night, and the king of heaven asked the battalions to prepare quietly, so as not to be discovered by our army."

Lan Ziyi smiled bitterly:

"The defenders of Xiangcheng have been beaten to death, so what if we can see the clues? The movement of the thieves on all sides will only make me worry that it is a night attack by the thieves, will I still go out of the city to pursue it? ”

桃扵鹿 says:

"According to the general's intelligence, the news that the northern army was heading south reached the thief camp last night, but it was suppressed by the thief king.

The thieves are desperately attacking the city today is the order of the Heavenly King, and the Heavenly King wants to capture Xiangcheng before withdrawing the army, and take the young master's head to sacrifice the flag. “

Lan Ziyi seemed to be amused when he heard the last sentence, raised his eyebrows, and asked:

"Then my head sacrifice flag? How would such a fragmentary piece of information be known? ”

桃扵鹿 says:

"Because this is a formal order from a thief,

Before attacking the city today, the Heavenly King had already passed the order to take the young master's head to every thief warrior layer by layer, which was not a secret. “

Then Tao Zhulu looked at Lan Ziyi's suspicious face and asked:

"Young Master, are you doubting whether the thief really retired from the army?"

Lan Ziyi pouted and nodded, thought about it and asked:

"How did the earth get the order? Lei Youde personally gave the order to his officers? ”

Tao Zhulu replied:

"Exactly, Lei Youde urgently summoned the generals in the middle of the night to give an order."

Lan Ziyi was silent for a moment and then asked:

"How did the Thief Heavenly King know when he got the news last night?"

桃扵鹿 says:

"I just sent someone to ask the general carefully, and he said that there has been this rumor in the army today, and Lei Youde hinted that there was such a thing when he gave the order."

Lan Ziyi heard the words and asked:

"This rumor has always been there? Is it just that Ray has it in the German army or is there a thief camp everywhere? ”

Tao Zhulu replied:

"This rumor spreads the most in the Lei Youde camp, it is almost a well-known secret, and other thief camps also have it but they are all suppressed, and according to my summary intelligence analysis, the rumors of other thief camps are all spread from Lei Youde's camp."

Lan Ziyi asked with a slight reproach:

"If there are such rumors, why do we know now?"

Tao Zhulu replied:

"The rumors spread during the day today, and it was only in the evening that I connected with the information outside the city, and I was still compiling information from all over the city when the news was sent to me just now."

Lan Ziyi heard Tao Zhulu say this, and suddenly felt guilty in his heart, Tao Zhulu was busy commanding the army during the day, and he had to deal with internal and external espionage reports at night, and he probably didn't close his eyes these days, Lan Ziyi buried his head in sleep, but now he is blaming Tao Zhulu for doing things unfavorably, which is really unkind.

Lan Ziyi turned back to Tao Zhulu and said:

"I'm sorry second brother, you've been working so hard these days, I shouldn't be so you."

桃扵鹿 says:

"I was in possession of internal and external information, and it was indeed my fault for failing to report the news in time, the young master was right, why did he apologize?"

Lan Ziyi looked at Tao Zhulu worriedly, ashamed in his heart, and after sighing, Lan Ziyi turned the company outside the city, looking at the torches patrolling the thief camp outside, Lan Ziyi said:

"Lei Youde hinted that the Heavenly King suppressed the news tonight, and the rumors in his camp spread the most, it seems that Lei Youde already knew the news."

Then Lan Ziyi turned to Tao Zhulu and said:

"Will Lei Youde let the thieves and spies out of the city like we did the day and get rid of the bad seeds, and this land will give us a message?"

Tao Zhulu thought about it and asked Lan Ziyi:

If that's the case, why did Lei Youde do this? The reason? “

Lan Ziyi looked outside the city and said after a while:

"I don't know, I just have this feeling, my heart is empty and unsteady."

At this time, there was a rush of footsteps behind Lan Ziyi, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the father and son of the Qiu family and Li Guangzhong who had boarded the city.

Seeing Li Guangzhong ascending the city, Lan Ziyi immediately asked:

"Are the soldiers ready?"

Li Guangzhong replied:

"It's all gathered around the government."

Qiu Wenruo says:

"According to Wei Hou's instructions, I have arranged for the people in the house to cook and boil water, and the soldiers are all full."

Lan Ziyi listened and nodded,

Next to him, Qiu Xiaozhi asked:

"Wei Hou, do you want to pursue the thieves?"

Lan Ziyi didn't reply, just looked outside the city,

Qiu Xiao saw that Lan Ziyi did not answer, and took a step forward to Lan Ziyi and said:

"Weihou, although there are plenty of horses in the city, the cavalry soldiers have suffered heavy casualties in the city in the past few days, and if we want to go out of the city to pursue us, we can only use the Jihu battalion that the government has been keeping, the number is too small, and the pursuit is not cheap.

And it was Lei Youde who was broken by the thief, this person was scheming, Wei Hou had already been taught, and it was impossible for him to be unprepared after he came to break off, and Wei Hou did not necessarily get a bargain if he rashly went out of the city. “

Qiu Wenruo waited for his father to finish speaking, and then said:

"I agree with my father's viewing,

Although the thieves attacked the city today with a lot of casualties, they did not hurt their vitality, and now they let Lei Youde, who had rested all day, come to the end, and wait for the long-term tired division to pursue the prepared elite enemy, no matter how you look at it, it is a dangerous road! “

Hearing the bitter persuasion of Qiu Xiaozhi and Qiu Wenruo's father and son, Lan Ziyi took a deep breath and replied ambiguously:

"I asked the Jihu Battalion to prepare, just to be prepared."

The father and son of the Qiu family have a unique vision, accurate analysis, and have always been a last resort, and what the two of them said is the truth, of course Lan Ziyi knows it, but the thieves really want to retreat, if the defenders do not take the initiative to attack, I am afraid that people will seize the handle of fearing the enemy without fighting, and even if the thieves retreat, even if they are fully prepared, they will definitely leave an opportunity to take advantage of, and it is always a pity not to go out and get a handful.

Seeing Lan Ziyi's hesitation, Qiu Xiaozhi said again:

"Wei Hou, it is of course the commander's obligation to find the right opportunity to seize the final victory, but it is also the commander's necessary ability to recognize the form and avoid danger.

As the commander of the first army, Wei Hou is the commander of the three armies, so he must not be cautious! “

Lan Ziyi heard Qiu Xiaozhi say this, and a certain string in his heart was tightened, and Lan Ziyi replied:

"It's uncertain whether the thieves will retire, so please don't worry about Mr. Xiaozhi."

As soon as Lan Ziyi finished speaking, he heard a noisy sound from the west of the city, and looked back to see that the fire outside the west gate was soaring, and half of the sky was illuminated in the dark night.

On the side, Tao Zhulu said to Lan Ziyi:

"It's the thieves who are burning the camp, and the thieves are really going to withdraw."

"The thieves are finally gone!" The moment this thought rushed into Lan Ziyi's mind, he felt a sense of relief that he was in a desperate situation, but after a short period of relaxation, only anxiety swept through his heart, and the anxiety of whether to go out of the city to pursue quickly grabbed Lan Ziyi's stomach, making him uncomfortable and want to vomit out everything he ate at night.

The soldiers of the west city wall were all lit by the fire outside the west gate, and then the defenders of the four walls of Xiangcheng lit the torches, and it was no longer meaningful to hide it at this time.

After the camp of thieves outside the city lit a fire in the west camp, the north camp and the south camp also caught fire one after another, Xiangcheng was surrounded by fire on three sides, and it was almost daylight outside the city, by the light of the fire, Lan Ziyi could see that the black pressure team retreated from the north and south directions to the east, and a large number of people who followed the thieves followed the thief team in a hurry, only outside the east gate, Lei Youde's camp was still silent and did not move.

Looking at these flawed thieves' marching team, Lan Ziyi's heart was itching, such a chaotic scene was a good opportunity to go out and sneak attack, but with such a huge scale of thieves, the remaining bit of the Tiger Battalion in his hands was really not enough.

There was a hurried sound of horses' hooves under the city, and then I heard another man coming up from downstairs.

This time, Tao Zhuhu, Wei Qionglou, Gao Yanzong and Tao Zhutu, who were guarding the other three gates, all rode horses to the east gate.

As soon as Gao Yanzong got on the city wall, he laughed loudly:

"I said a long time ago that as long as the demon thief is nailed to Xiangcheng by us, reinforcements will come in a few days, how about it? The thieves were scared away by reinforcements, right? ”

Wei Qionglou also said:

"After three days of bloody fighting, I didn't expect the thieves to really retreat."

Gao Yanzong said again:

"What are you waiting for? Let's hurry out of the city and destroy the thieves!" ”

Seeing that Lan Ziyi didn't speak, Gao Yanzong said again:

"Wei Hou, I said before that I would attract the thieves to Xiangcheng, let them fortify the city, and lose their strength, and when reinforcements from all sides arrived, they could wipe out all the thieves here.

Now that the reinforcements have arrived, we are just going out of the city to stop the thieves, and we have joined forces with the army to destroy this group of demon thieves, why is Wei Hou still waiting here? “

Qiu Xiaozhi heard Gao Yanzong's words and said:

"The thieves got the news that the reinforcements were coming last night, and they dared to storm for a day today, so it can be seen that the reinforcements are far away, and it is not too late for the thieves to escape now.

Since the reinforcements are still far away from Xiangcheng, we are not going out of the city to fight like this, but to go out of the city to die. “

Qiu Wenruo also said:

"Our army has been fighting for three days in a row, and the casualties are huge, and now it is not easy to hold the four city gates.

Wei Qionglou was very unhappy when he heard the words "mantis arm as a car", and said:

"The soldiers are not many but fine, the thieves and the rabble, since I left the Beijing with the tiger battalion, I have been able to win more with less than several battles with the thieves.

Now that the thieves have fled, there is no way to return to the army, it is a good opportunity for a sneak attack, my Jihu battalion has been recuperating in the past few days, and now the spirit is booming, just wait for the order of the marquis to go out to destroy the thieves.

Even if you really can't stop the thieves, it's better to kill the thieves than to stay still and not be able to explain to the court.

You say, don't you? Wei Hou? “

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