"Huh? Five, five days to break the enemy? It's true? Tang Bohu and Xie Lingyun were happy after hearing this, but they still couldn't believe it, so they asked.

"It's true, you can relax, right, what about your teachers? I heard that he has been studying the art of war recently, and I wonder how effective it is. You go and bring him here for me, and I'm going to discuss the art of war with him. ”

Pei Qing found an excuse to take Tang Bohu and Xie Lingyun away, and said with a smile: "These two are kind-hearted, but the military strategy is not the director, how can they know that you and I have a clever plan?" ”

Xun You and Zhang Chao were silent when they heard what they said, only Yin Zhongkan and Yin Hao still didn't understand a little, but they just came, they didn't know Pei Qing's temperament, and they didn't dare to put forward their opinions indiscriminately, and now they were relieved when they saw Pei Qing say this, it seems that Pei Qing does have a clever plan.

Although Yin Hao and Yin Zhongkan had never seen Pei Qing fight, they had stopped a lot of things about Pei Qing's war from Yin Kaishan, so they still had confidence in Pei Qing in their hearts.

So in the following days, Pei Qing and the others still drank when they should drink, played chess when they should play chess, and lived a leisurely and comfortable life.

Ji Ling, who led the army to defend in the city of Qiaoxian, was impatient, he originally wanted to use the city defense to reduce his casualties, and then he could get Yuan Shu's reward with less battle losses, but he didn't expect Pei Qing to look like he hadn't launched an attack for three days, and Ji Ling also heard that this Pei Qing actually put wine and banquets in the camp every day, and his life was not comfortable.

Hearing such news, Ji Ling suddenly couldn't sit still, he worked hard to build the city defense, originally to create a sense of crisis for Pei Qing, at least to reduce the morale of his army, so that it could affect their performance when attacking the city, and he could further reduce casualties, and even Pei Qing could be scared away directly after hearing about it, and he could just lead the army to chase and kill from behind.

But now the other party did not play according to the routine, as the besieging party, he did not even have the consciousness of attacking the city, not only did not launch an attack, but drank and played chess in the camp, which is really a bit abnormal.

"What? You said that when you were in the cottage, a small soldier under Pei Qing once bluffed, and scared off the 500 army with a dozen sergeants and a group of scarecrows? Is this true? ”

At this moment, Ji Ling heard He Man, the leader of the Yellow Turbans who had been defeated under Pei Qing's command, talk about the original incident, and asked with a look of disbelief.

"It's true, when Huang Shao was captured, he heard it with his own ears in Pei Qing's cottage, but unfortunately the five hundred troops were captured later, mainly because Pei Qing led thousands of people to surround those hundreds of people after he came back." He Man knew this very well, because Huang Shao had told him this in person.

"In this way, this Pei Qing should be bluffing, dragging my 80,000 army with a small number of troops, and then his main force has already gone back to attack the lord, no, we can't wait like this any longer, otherwise the lord will be in danger, I said, this Pei Qing will abandon his old nest Yingchuan, this is really a little unreasonable."

Ji Ling originally felt that Pei Qing was doing something wrong, but now when he heard He Man talk about it, he suddenly realized that he had fallen for Pei Qing's trick, and was easily dragged by the other party with a small number of troops to hold back an army of 80,000.

"This little thief is really cunning enough, it is really shameless to use such a trick, but this little thief dares to take a few people to dangle under my nose in person, but he really dares to take risks, is my Ji Ling so stupid that I can't see through your tricks? Since you are looking for death, then don't blame me, hehe, this is a good opportunity to capture Pei Qing alive again and again, we must take advantage of it, as long as Pei Qing is captured, the lord will be very happy. ”

However, Ji Ling still sent spies to Pei Qing's camp to investigate, after all, this is not a trivial matter, and it is necessary to prepare in advance.

However, the news that Ji Ling got was very exciting, because judging by the flag, there were indeed not many people in Pei Qing's camp, and there were also sparse sergeants in the camp, probably only one or two thousand.

When Ji Ling heard the news, his heart was simply happy, so he immediately issued an order, the soldiers of the whole army had a full meal, had a good rest, and attacked Pei Qing's camp at the third watch tonight, and he was sure to capture this Pei Qing alive in one fell swoop.

In order to ensure that Pei Qing was captured alive, Ji Ling also specially ordered that Pei Qing's life must not be harmed, and those who must be captured alive must be captured alive, and whoever captures Pei Qing alive will be the first merit in this battle and will definitely be rewarded, and those who kill Pei Qing will not be credited.

"Haha, tonight Pei Qing's thief must be unable to fly, brothers, if you want to get rich, you need to depend on your luck, after all, Pei Qing has only one, but if you can capture the general under his command alive, it can also be regarded as meritorious, although the reward is not as good as capturing Pei Qing alive, but it will definitely make you a fortune."

After giving the order, in order to be able to mobilize the majority of soldiers, Ji Ling can be said to have tried his best to trick the soldiers into fighting with all his might.

However, in the face of the question of who will defend the city, the generals under Ji Ling's command quarreled, because they learned from Ji Ling that Pei Qing was only dragging Ji Ling's army with a small number of troops, and this attack on Pei Qing was definitely ten percent sure of victory, if anyone could capture Pei Qing alive in this battle, not only would they be rewarded by the lord Yuan Shu, but they would also be favored by Yuan Shu from now on, and it would never be a problem to promote their official positions.

In that case, why stay and defend the city? As long as you go, you will have the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, and if you don't go, you will definitely not get anything.

So who stays to defend the city has become a very tricky problem, everyone under his command is vying for the first, rushing to fight, if this is changed before, Ji Ling is too late to be happy, but now he is worried, his generals are dozens of people, how can at least one of them be left to defend the city? Even if it wasn't to guard against Pei Qing's attack, what if someone made trouble? Why should there be corresponding forces to suppress it?

Ji Ling looked at these generals and thought about it, and finally said to He Man: "Brother He, it's better for you to stay and defend the city, you have always been steady, I really don't feel at ease to let other people stay, brother, just rest assured, after winning this battle, I will definitely show credit for you in front of the lord, if it weren't for your reminder, it would be difficult for me to see through Pei Qing's conspiracy, and with this alone, your merit will definitely not be low." ”

"But general, I ......"

"Okay, don't say it again, I know what you want to say, but after all, you just came to join the lord, and there must be a question of seniority for everything, but I will assure you, when there is such an opportunity next time, the first thing I think of is you, so be it, prepare well, I will leave you with all the five thousand people you brought, and I will also leave you eight thousand old, weak, sick and disabled together, so that you have a total of thirteen thousand people, even if there is really an enemy attack, you can defend it."

Ji Ling didn't wait for He Man to say anything, so he officially announced that He Man would stay behind to defend the city, and the others would go out together tonight to conquer Pei Qing.