With Li Yi's assumption of office, the immigration work in Luyang County has become smooth and the speed has been greatly accelerated. Originally, Li Yi's reputation among the people was very high, enough to suppress the small people to make trouble in it, and when many people heard that Li Yi was the chief official of the immigration work, they put aside their worries, began to pack their belongings, and obediently began to migrate south with their families.

Of course, the reason why the immigration work in Luyang County is going so smoothly is that in addition to Li Yi's personal reputation and Fu Tong's current martial bravery, there is another important factor.

That is, because of the inaction of Cao Quan, the county magistrate appointed by Cao Cao, and allowed the county magistrate and the county lieutenant to harm the people, the people of Luyang County suffered a lot of crimes because of this, which made most of the people in Luyang County hate Cao Cao, a big traitor whose reputation has been almost ruined by Jin Jue.

And Bai Liu is a local snake, and he has heavy troops in his hands, and those who know him know that he is a villain who will repay him, so the immigration task in Lixian County also went unexpectedly very smoothly.

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The progress of the matter was just as Fu Tong expected, with the help of Neiying, Xi'e County and Zhi County were easily captured by Ma Han and Zhao Hu one after another, both of whom stationed three people in the county seat, not only digesting the defenders in the city, but also recruiting five thousand recruits.

Obviously, it is very likely that Du Raid predicted or detected the changes in the northern counties of Nanyang County in advance, and how Du Raid did it has become a mystery to know how to do it.

Because Du Xun was finally killed by one of Zhang Long's subordinate bandit leaders.

That night, according to the plan, Zhang Long concentrated his forces from the weak point of the city wall of Xi'e County, which he discovered in advance, the west city wall, and launched a night attack, and the soldiers who climbed the ropes rushed up, but in an instant, the first 100 soldiers climbed a hundred climbing ropes, and immediately screamed loudly and fell more than 20 people.

"What's going on?" Zhang Long saw that there was not much of a situation, and immediately came to the foot of the city wall, looked left and right, and asked in a low voice.

"Lord Qiqi Sima, it was someone at the head of the city who cut the climbing rope!" A clever soldier soon discovered the clue, he held a broken rope in his hand that had been cut off from the claws on the head of the climbing rope, and walked up to Zhang Long to report.

"Hmmm! Go and see if any of the fallen soldiers have not fallen to their deaths, and ask them if there is anything on the city. ”

"Lord Sima, look, there is already a fire on the top of the city." One of the soldiers beside Zhang Long had a bright eye, and he suddenly pointed to the city wall above his head and shouted at Zhang Long in a low voice.

Zhang Long raised his head, and sure enough, there were indeed more than a dozen lights that seemed to be torches on the city in front of him.

Immediately afterward, the northern and southern walls were also lit up with the light of more than a dozen torches at the same time.

When the leaders and soldiers of the castle saw this, they immediately became a little confused.

"Hahaha! Golden opportunity! But at this moment, Zhang Long suddenly laughed happily, and after laughing, he pointed to the three city walls with his hand, no longer suppressed his voice, and said loudly: "Everyone, generals, soldiers, brothers, it is obvious that our army's attack on Xi'e County has been detected by the other party's county commander Qiqian. This prefectural order has been prepared in advance,

But keep your eyes open and see, that our wall, together with the torches lit on the north and south walls, which are being reinforced here, does not have more than forty of them. Do you think, in such a dark night, how many soldiers can be seen clearly by a torch on the road ahead and the situation under the city walls?

Even if a chief holds a torch in his hand, it will be less than four hundred, and if you count it like this, don't you think of it? This county commander of Xi'e County actually has less than 400 troops in his hands. We have a small 3,000 men standing here, will we still be afraid of the city guarded by 400 men? ”

Zhang Long shouted in public, and everyone suddenly realized, didn't they?

The county commander of Xi'e County was prepared in advance, and predicted that Zhang Long would lead the army to attack the city tonight, but he only mobilized such a small number of troops to defend the city, and there were so many people in the city, it is not an exaggeration to say that these people can drown the defenders on the city even if they spit and spit.

People of this era were not aware of the effects of night blindness on night raids, because if there was no firelight, they would immediately become blind in today's weather when the moonlight is obscured by thick clouds.

In fact, Zhang Long's analysis has greatly overestimated the defensive strength in the city of Western Hubei. At the head of the city, there was only one torch in the hands of each commander, that is to say, the troops they had seen on the three city walls combined, were less than two hundred.

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As a result, Zhang Long also quickly adjusted his previous deployment.

On the one hand, Zhang Long immediately ordered the soldiers in the army who specialized in the management of equipment to go to the city, reinstall the ropes that had been cut by the soldiers defending the city in Xi'e County with new claws as quickly as possible, divide these repaired climbing ropes into two waves, and the two leaders of the volunteer army each took 500 soldiers to the northwest and southwest corners of the city wall, preparing to take advantage of the gap when the defenders on the city wall were reinforcing the west city wall, and take advantage of the loopholes to steal the city from the two corners.

This temporary remedial tactic was thought of by Jin Jue, and it has been applied in practice when attacking individual counties in Shu County and Guanghan County, and this tactic has also achieved very good results.

As for the soldiers who remained in the west, although they continued to use the climbing rope to climb the city, they took another approach, continuing to stay on the western city wall to attract the attention of the defenders who continued to use their swords and axes to cut off the defenders of the climbing rope.

Method 1: If the soldiers who have climbed high do not have the opportunity to climb the city, they will take out the iron wedge and hammer from their bosoms, hang them on the rope, and smash the iron wedge into the wall, and then he will make a few laps on the iron wedge, so that even if the rope of the claw is cut, they can continue to climb the wall.

An iron wedge is not enough, so two or three are smashed into it, this is also the method that Jin Jue thought of, in order to prevent the night attack from being recognized, therefore, Jin Jue selected the first soldier to use the climbing rope to steal the city, in addition to the personal martial arts wall, must be stronger, the body is smart. After testing, in general, three iron wedges nailed into the city wall can ensure that the soldiers hanging on the city wall will not fall because the ropes are cut.