While occupying Song County, the cavalry of the revolutionary army first attacked the post station near Song County, ensuring that no one could rely on the stagecoach system to quickly spread the news of the fall of Song County. But even so, it was still a test for the revolutionary army to run to targets hundreds of miles away.

Huang Zide gathered the cavalry of more than 200 people under his command, let half of them dismount and walk, and handed over their horses to the other half, and let Liu Jiexuan, He Zhangqi and Dang Shouyi take this group of people to Ruzhou first.

Liu Jiexuan took these 100 people, day and night, and it only took two days to rush to a forest only 20 miles away from Ruzhou City. Liu Jiexuan left most of the horses behind and handed them over to Hu Yidao and them to take care of. Then he and He Zhangqi took more than 100 people respectively, let them all wear civilian clothes, and disguised themselves as merchants and went to Ruzhou City.

Let people blend into the city, and the inside and outside should be combined to seize the city, this is the most common trick used by most armies that lack the ability to attack fortifications, such as in Liaodong, the Tartars relied on this hand, and captured fortified cities such as Shenyang and Liaoyang in a short period of time. And when the peasant army fought against the imperial court officials, it mainly relied on the use of internal responses to attack the city or something.

Ruzhou is one of the hubs of north-south transportation, and there are many merchants coming and going. Liu Jiexuan divided a hundred or so people into three groups, each of which was no more than thirty people, and when he entered the city, he divided them into small teams of about ten people according to the formation of the team, plus these people all had "regular" road guides, and at this time there was no alarm around Ruzhou, so the defense of Ruzhou City was also lax. These people made it to Ruzhou almost effortlessly.

Liu Jiexuan himself disguised himself as a pharmacist who had bought medicine from Song County and stayed at an inn in the city.

After staying for a day, someone entered the city, found Liu Jiexuan, and told him that Huang Zide had arrived at a place twenty miles away from Ruzhou with his follow-up troops.

"The king said, with the speed of the cavalry, twenty miles will not take half an hour. Early tomorrow morning, Hu Yidao's side will be the first to launch. After succeeding, Hu Yidao will send out a flower cannon as a signal. The general then set out to take advantage of the enemy's confusion to seize the west gate and hold it for half an hour. ”

Liu Jiexuan nodded and said, "Okay." Tomorrow it's up to Hu Yidao. ”

On the second day, Liu Jiexuan took more than a dozen of his subordinates, all of whom hid sharp knives and bones in their clothes, and went to the east gate, and when they arrived near the east gate, Liu Jiexuan noticed that Dang Shouyi also came to the neighborhood with people. Several people glanced at each other, but none of them spoke.

At this moment, I saw several fast horses rushing straight from outside the city gate, and immediately several people were wearing helmets and armor, and swords hanging from their waists. The person at the front held a token high in his hand, and shouted towards the city gate as he ran: "Emergency military situation, urgent military situation!" When a few horses arrived at the city gate, the men dressed as officers jumped off their horses, and a few soldiers guarding the city gate greeted them under the leadership of a small banner: "Where did the brothers come from, what is the matter?" ”

"Song County's emergency military situation, the yellow bandits have to besiege Song County, and the county order Wang sent us to break out and ask for help!" The officer with the arrow at the head replied.

The little flag looked at the token, and there was really nothing wrong with it. So he got out of the way. The officer took a few soldiers and got on the horse again, and then the small flag also reminded: "After entering the city, go straight for more than 300 steps, and come to a crossroads, and turn north to the prefect's yamen." ”

The officer thanked him and urged his horse forward, avoiding the passers-by. A few horses arrived at the prefect's yamen in the blink of an eye. The officer jumped off his horse, stepped forward, and said to the official who was guarding the gate of the yamen with people: "A certain person was sent by Lord Wang, the magistrate of Song County, and there is an urgent military report. The Yellow Bandits besieged Song County. As he spoke, he handed over the token and the farewell.

The man glanced at it, and saw that the messenger was a general banner, and that the officer who delivered the letter, and the soldiers who followed him were covered in sweat, and their horses were also covered in sweat, and knew that the matter was urgent. Hurriedly said: "You wait a little longer. The villain will go in and pass through. With that, he walked in with the token and the farewell. After a while, he saw the head of the capital come out with a servant, and said to the officer, "Your Excellency will let you in." Then he said to the official who came out with him: "You quickly go and invite General Lin to discuss!" The official answered and galloped away.

The officer who came to deliver the military intelligence was pretended to be Hu Yidao. At this time, Hu Yidao listened, so he asked a few soldiers to wait outside, and only took Fan An alone to follow the head of the capital and walked in.

When he arrived in the lobby, he saw that the prefect Liu was already sitting in the hall, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "The villain came to ask the prefect for help on the order of Wang Zhixian. Song County is now under siege, and it will be unsafe overnight, so I hope that the adults will send troops to rescue it as soon as possible! ”

When Governor Liu heard this, he said: "Don't be anxious first, stand up and talk back first, tell me, what is the situation in Song County, why didn't this Huang Zide go to the south" Why did he suddenly emerge from Song County? ”

Hu Yidao stood up and said, "How does the villain know this?" The villain only knew that Huang Ziqi got this centaur suddenly came out of the mountain, and rushed to the city at once, if the city gate was closed a little slowly, he was afraid that the city gate would be snatched down. Wang Zhixian and Zhang Jiang always led men and horses to guard the city, and the thieves rushed twice and were beaten. When the villain rushed out, they were cutting trees outside the city to make ladders. My lord, the city wall of Song County is short and the troops are small, if you don't send troops to rescue quickly, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold it, my lord, please send troops quickly......"

Governor Liu listened and said: "Don't worry, tell me in detail, how many thieves are there?" How is the equipment? ”

Hu Yidao was about to answer, when he heard footsteps coming from the bowl of noodles, and someone shouted: "Lin Shen will arrive." ”

Then I saw two people walking over, one of them was wearing a red official robe with a tiger complement, and the other was dressed as a soldier. The entourage stood at the bottom of the hall, and the military attache walked up from the hall, he walked to the place a little closer to Hu Yidao's side, and first clasped his fists and saluted to Governor Liu's mansion: "Governor Liu, the end will be late, please forgive your sins......"

Governor Liu said: "Lin Shen's future is just right, here ......"

Before the voice fell, the meaning changed suddenly. A knife tip suddenly came out of the chest of this Lin Shen General, but it turned out to be Hu Yidao, who took advantage of his fist to Liu Zhifu, and suddenly stabbed from behind and stabbed into the vest of this Lin Shen General.

Governor Liu shouted in shock and wanted to escape, but his feet were weak and he fell to the ground. Hu Yidao pulled out his knife and jumped forward, and jumped in front of Governor Liu's mansion. Under the panic of Governor Liu, he couldn't stand up, so he had to shout: "The hero spares his life......" The surrounding officials all shouted, and some people held sticks to grab up, but the distance was far away, how could they be in time? Hu Yidao didn't say much, his hand rose and fell, and he cut off the head of Governor Liu's mansion, and when he turned around, he saw two officials rushing over with water and fire sticks. Seeing that Hu Yidao was holding a blood-soaked Yanling knife in one hand and a blood-stained head of Governor Liu's mansion in the other, the two officials opened their eyes angrily, like a demon emerging from hell, and they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, and their feet slowed down. Hu Yidao raised his knife and rushed towards the two officials, who shouted, threw away their sticks, turned around and ran.

That is, when Hu Yidao assassinated General Lin with a knife, Fan An, who was left outside the lobby by him, also immediately took out the bones hidden in his sleeves, and killed the follower of General Lin with a bone, and was about to rush in to help, but saw that Hu Yidao had already killed the officials, and cut off the heads of General Lin with a knife, and then twisted the hair of the two heads together and held them with his left hand. Exit the lobby.

Fan An stretched out his thumb to Hu Yidao, then took out the fire fold from his waist, shook it and lit it, and then felt out a cannon and lit it, and threw it into the air......

When the artillery battle exploded, Liu Jiexuan was chatting with a vendor selling rouge powder next to the city gate, and as soon as the artillery battle rang out, the vendor looked up at the direction of the artillery battle and said, "It's really strange today, what are you doing over there?" After saying this, he suddenly heard the movement next to him and seemed to be wrong, and when he turned his head, he saw that the big man who was chatting with him just now was slashing people with a knife, and two soldiers guarding the city gate had fallen at his feet.

And over there, Dang Shouyi also took out a large slingshot from his sleeve, and hit the head of an archer leaning out of the head of the city to shoot arrows. As soon as the archer's hand was loosened, the arrow did not know where it had gone, and he himself lost his balance, and fell from the top of the city, and slammed to the ground, seeing that he was not alive.

At this time, Liu Jiexuan had already stabbed over the three soldiers guarding the city gate with the sharp knife hidden by his side, grabbed a spear, and rushed up the stairs with people, several soldiers rushed over to stop him, but they were all stabbed to the ground by him.

As soon as Liu Jiexuan rushed to the city wall, several more spears stabbed him. Liu Jiexuan flicked the spear in his hand outward, pushed the tips of these guns to the outside, and at the same time rushed forward, slamming two or three officers and soldiers to the ground with a hard blow on his shoulder. He withdrew his spear, and was about to take advantage of the situation when he saw an officer-like man shouting, "Put down the gates, put them down." ”

This gate is the "jack gate" mentioned in many commentaries. The "majestic sea force carrying the jack gate" in "Speaking of Tang" is this thing. Once this thing is put down, it is extremely difficult to rise again, and it takes a lot of time. At the officer's shouting, several soldiers passed towards the place where the gate was placed. Liu Jiexuan let out a loud shout, threw the spear in his hand as a javelin, and immediately nailed the officer to the ground. Several of the other soldiers were stunned. By this time, more people had rushed up. Liu Jiexuan pulled out his knife again and led those people to kill him, and the soldiers saw that Liu Jiexuan was fierce and abnormal, and there was no officer to control them, so they all shouted and retreated.