Qiao Rui was leading the army to Hefei with all his strength at this time, and he had received the news that Pei Qing's army immediately led the main force to chase Yuan Shu into the Lujiang River after occupying Hefei, which would mean that the troops in Hefei City were empty, and he also inquired, there were only 3,000 troops there, and there was no need to be afraid at all.

"I attack Pei Qing's Hefei with ten times the force, this is simply easy, once Hefei is broken, it will be able to form a front and rear attack with the lord's army, in that case Pei Qingyan can be undefeated? At that time, the first credit for defeating Pei Qing this time will be mine. ”

The more Qiao Rui thought about it, the more excited he became, he seemed to have seen the scene of his success, he believed that with this battle alone, he would become a famous general through the ages, so as to go down in history, and at the same time he would be rewarded by the lord, with such a feat, even if it was not difficult to worship as a general.

So Qiao Rui led the army to Hefei City decisively, and immediately ordered his soldiers to shout: "Listen to the soldiers on the city, you are now surrounded, I know that there are only 3,000 soldiers in your city, today I brought 30,000 troops to conquest, with your little strength to resist is simply an egg to hit a stone, so I advise you to quickly open the city and surrender, so that you can save your life, if not, today is your death!" ”

Qiao Rui felt that he was crushing with an absolute advantage, so he looked very proud in his heart, and felt that he had already given them a lot of face by allowing the other party to surrender.

After a while, I saw a general walking over to the city, laughing loudly at Qiao Rui: "Qiao Rui, you don't lie and intimidate here, let me tell you the truth, we have 30,000 troops in the city, and they are all elite, with your strength there is no hope of victory, if you don't believe it, I will order the city gate to be opened, let you wait to attack the city." ”

"Oh? At this time, you are still using the empty city plan to deceive me? Do you think I'm going to fall for you? Since Pei Qing's fame, many of his battle examples have also been recorded and become the object of study by the princes, including the battle examples of empty city plans, Qiao Rui also happened to hear such war examples, so when he heard this, he hurriedly sneered: "In this case, wait and open the city gate to see if I dare to attack?" ”

The general at the head of the city didn't care at all, waved his hand, ordered the city gate to be opened, and smiled at Qiao Rui: "I have opened the city gate, you are attacking." ”

"This ......" Qiao Rui saw that the other party really opened the city gate, and looked fearless, and suddenly became a little timid, he was afraid that the other party really had an ambush in the city, if this was the case, he would suffer a loss today.

However, then he thought of the sure looks on the faces of the few farmers he had met on the road before, and he felt that his source was reliable, if Pei Qing's army was still in the city, why not directly launch the army to fight outside the city, but hide in the city and sneak around?

So Qiao Rui thought that there was only one such ending, that is, the guards in the city were lying, and he was now using the empty city plan to deceive himself.

"You can't be indecisive, and many times opportunities are missed in hesitation." Thinking of this, Qiao Rui immediately made up his mind, waved the command flag, and shouted: "Pass my order, the whole army will attack the city!" ”

Then only the sound of war drums could be heard, and the whole army rushed over like a tide.

At this time, I saw that the general at the head of the city suddenly changed his complexion, and hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed, and shouted: "Why didn't my plan work? ”

Qiao Rui immediately felt extremely happy when he saw this scene, and said with a laugh: "I have already mastered the information in your city, do you think such a clumsy plan can hide it from me?" ”

Later, Qiao Rui was more assured, and in order to show himself, he personally stepped forward to supervise the battle, and urged the team to enter the city through the city gate from the rear.

However, not long after he entered the city gate, he heard a creaking sound from behind.

Qiao Rui's heart was very surprised, and he quickly looked back, only to find that the suspension bridge outside the city gate had been hung up for some reason.

At the same time, I only heard the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound suddenly from the city, and soon after I saw a commotion in the cave of the city gate, and the order quickly became chaotic.

"This, what's going on? What happened? Qiao Rui was flustered, but she still pretended to be calm and asked in a deep voice.

After a while, I heard a personal general in front of me say: "Okay, a lot of people, the enemy is shooting arrows down the city, and there is an army blocking our road to the city, and now our soldiers are trapped at the head of the city, becoming a live target for the enemy, many soldiers died under the rain of arrows, and the soldiers are desperately retreating, so this is why we are particularly crowded here." ”

"What?" When Qiao Rui heard this, he immediately felt cold from head to toe, it seemed that this time he had really fallen into a plan, and the enemy army was really ambushing heavy soldiers in the city.

So in this case, Qiao Rui hurriedly withdrew from the city gate cave, fortunately, the city gate was not closed, at least he could come to the city gate to avoid the crowd, otherwise, as long as everyone desperately squeezed in, they would soon be squeezed to death.

However, even withdrawing was useless, because the drawbridges of the four city gates had been hoisted, and the bridge and his soldiers could only hide in the narrow area near the base of the city wall, and the defenders at the head of the city kept firing bows and arrows, throwing down rolling logs and stones, and constantly heard the sound of screams in their ears.

And this is not the most terrible, the most terrible is the shortage of food, these people because they are in a hurry to attack the city, the food and baggage are behind, most of them are lightly attacked, even the rations are not brought, now they are trapped in the root of the city wall, there is no food, and they have to be on guard against the feather arrows and rolling stones on the city head at any time, one by one, they are frightened, the warriors are all gone, and they don't know when such a day will end.

What made them even more desperate was that after a short time, they saw an army on the other side of the moat, which quickly killed the soldiers who were guarding the baggage, which were slowly filling the river with the soil, and if time permitted, they could fill in a road in half a day, but now the last hope was gone, and their food and baggage were gone, and the enemy soldiers on the other side of the river used the crossbow arrows they had left behind against them.

"How so? How did it get to this? Qiao Rui's heart gradually collapsed, and now his soldiers had no desire to resist, hunger and fatigue tormented them all the time, and many of the soldiers huddled together, looking at him with bad intentions, which was obvious that these people wanted to be against him.

"Things have come to this point, it's better to surrender quickly, otherwise it will be difficult for me to save my life, it doesn't matter if I die, then there will be no hope for my two daughters from now on."

Thinking of this, Qiao Rui suddenly let out a long sigh, he wanted to gather the generals to discuss the surrender.