The reason why Chen Da did not recruit the surrounding people to help him repair the bridge was because it was the busy time for farming, and Chen Da did not want to disturb the people in Xiapi City.

If Chen Da wantonly recruited the surrounding people in order to build a temporary bridge, regardless of the busy agricultural season, it would inevitably arouse the vigilance of people of insight in Xiapi City, and once the people in the city were prepared, it was inevitable to attack the city.

Sun Tzu's art of war has clouds, attacking the heart is the top, and attacking the city is the bottom.

In fact, if the battle situation develops to this extent, it will be the last thing the Chen family wants to see.

Cao Cao pretended to be in the name of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and canonized Chen Qi as the assassin of Xuzhou, and the Chen family actually knew Cao Cao's intention to do this, and finally caught a chance that Liu Bei, Xu Shu and Wang Xiu did not have the opportunity to be in Xiapicheng, so they raised troops. However, the Chen family most wanted to get a city that had not experienced any war.

To be honest, in the past two years, although some of Liu Bei's actions have hurt the interests of the Xuzhou family, they have benefited the people of Xuzhou and made Xuzhou's foundation more solid. For this alone, the Chen family acknowledged Liu Bei's efforts.

Before leaving, Chen Qi had repeatedly told the three Chen Da brothers that safety was the first, but he also hoped that his sons could take Xiapi City at the least cost and destruction. And the only way to do this is to deceive the city gates.

The soldiers who were sent out to investigate the cause of the sudden collapse of the bridge visited many local farmers, and these people naturally did not dare to hide anything from the soldiers. This news made Chen Da helpless, but at the same time, his heart became a little more stable.

As long as the bridge is not vandalized, Chen Da can accept it.

Chen Da is a local, and he knows very well in his heart that this bridge can be said to be the only way to enter the south gate of Xiapi City, and if he goes around, he will inevitably waste more than five days. It would take only three days at most to build a temporary pontoon bridge for military traffic.

In this way, after two busy days, with the efforts of the soldiers under Chen Da, the pontoon bridge was repaired.

At this time, even if Jin Hou had the ability to send people upstream to sabotage and delay the construction of the pontoon bridge, he did not do so. Because, to do that, it is too deliberate.

Chen Da is not a fool, and he will inevitably immediately find out that there is a human factor in this.

Jin Hou also didn't want to alarm Chen Da and let him be on guard.

Fortunately, two days have given Jin Hou more time to prepare.

In the past two days, the old subordinates who were sent by him to contact the townships of Xiapi County and now serve as Tun Sima have been secretly assembled and temporarily hid in the two Zhuangzi in the southeast and southwest directions of Xiapi City, and the Linan City Gate is less than three miles.

As for the original owner of Zhuangzi, one is Jin Hou himself, and the other is a medium-sized family surnamed Jiang, the head of the Jiang family is a kind person, and he is a well-known and kind person in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns. Originally, Jin Hou's people didn't want to provoke such a family, but who made the Jiang family's Zhuangzi position too good.

Therefore, without showing Jin Hou in advance, one of Jin Hou's own brothers, named Hou Dayong, was actually Hou Xiaoyong's own father, and in one dark night, he brought someone into Jiang's house.

Fortunately, when Jin Hou himself was training, he attached great importance to military discipline. Although these subordinates of his took the Jiang family's Zhuangzi, except for a dozen Jiang family members and family members who were injured because of resistance, they never hurt anyone in the Jiang family. After the matter was decided, Hou Dayong temporarily put his Jiang family under house arrest together with his family members.

After learning about this incident from Hou Xiaoyong's mouth, Jin Hou did not blame Hou Dayong for acting so self-consciously. Jiang Shanren's name, Jin Hou has naturally heard of it, and he is in a hurry to obey the power, for the sake of the lives of the people of the whole city, and even the people of Xuzhou, this is also a matter of no choice. Afterwards, Jin Hou will personally come to the door and apologize to Jiang Shanren in person.

Things continued according to the plan made by Jin Hou, and before dark, Chen Dashuai's troops arrived outside the southern city of Xiapi City. Chen Da was a little unlucky, at this time, it was just past the time for Xiapi City to close the city gate.

Chen Da naturally didn't want to delay any longer, so he immediately sent someone to the city to shout at the city, but the general defending the city at the head of the city replied very clearly, the military regulations set by the Lu army division, after the city was closed, no army was allowed to enter the city. Even if the lord Liu Bei led the troops back, he could only lead a few followers into the city from the corner gate alone, and the army could not enter the city until dawn.

At any time, any monarch is afraid that the soldiers of the army will enter the city and act in the city at night. Lu Su also attached great importance to military discipline, even if he has now served as the assassin of Yangzhou and the Taishou of Jiujiang, the army of Xiapicheng still implements the military discipline he formulated.

After listening to the answer of the general defending the city, Chen Da honestly led the troops and began to camp outside the city. Naturally, he didn't dare to follow Liu Bei's example, and only entered the city with a small number of obedients, and he was afraid that if the people in Picheng already knew about their Chen family's betrayal of Liu Bei in advance, then if he entered the city like this, he would just be throwing himself into a net.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, at dawn, the leader of his personal guards suddenly woke Chen Da from his sleep.

After all, Chen Da is older, and he has learned a lot about how to deal with government affairs with his eldest brother Chen Deng, and he does not have the arrogance of a family, just because he is in a hurry today, he has not been able to rest well in the past few days. Therefore, before going to bed yesterday, he also specially instructed the guards around him to get up half an hour later than usual today.

Unexpectedly, someone asked him to not sleep well, Chen Da asked with some annoyance, "What's the matter?" Didn't I already command me to wake up again in the hour? ”

The hour is equivalent to the period from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock in the later life.

"Boss Qiqi, someone on the city wall shouted, saying that Liu Ji, the next Pi Guocheng, wants to go out of the city to work in place of Mrs. Mi, please meet the boss outside the south city gate." After the leader of the guards explained clearly, he cautiously asked, "Boss, you see? ”

"The son of the lost dog, the fox is just a fake tiger!" Hearing this, Chen Da pursed his lips disdainfully and muttered in a low voice, but he still got up.

Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, no matter what the identity of Liu Ji is, after all, he represents Liu Bei's wife to work in the army. Chen Da didn't want the people in the city to be suspicious, so he had to go to greet this Xia Pi Guocheng, who would not be in office for a long time.

(End of chapter)