Pei Cai stepped onto the woman's prepared horse and rushed out of Wancheng at a gallop.

Before leaving, he also asked the woman's name - he felt very strange in his heart, if Xun Song really wanted to save himself, who could not be sent, why did he send a girl who was not yet an adult, and he also had to dress up as a servant in male clothes? But the woman only arched her hand: "It doesn't matter if you have a cheap name, Pei Gong, please leave quickly." After saying that, he turned around and went back to the county office through the dog hole.

Pei should gallop all the way, and said in his heart that Wancheng is a place of tribulation, thinking that Cao Cao was in Wancheng back then, Jia Xu's plan, probably like himself now, he was worried in his heart, fled in a hurry, and wanted to move the rescue soldiers outside the city. It's just that no one reported to Cao Cao in advance, so he folded the general Dian Wei and his nephew Cao Anmin, and he ...... Hey, what about the few of my men who brought them into the city?

Fortunately, a lot of subordinates have been recruited recently, so that even the "Thirteen Taibao" will not be complete...... No, Zhen Sui and Lu Yan have both been promoted to camp governors, and Tao De went to Youzhou to deliver a letter and never returned, and the "Thirteen Taibao" has long been out of order.

Although he was worried about those parts, he was unable to turn around and save them, so he had to rush out of the west gate in one breath and turn around to the north of the city. When he entered his own camp, he took a breath and completely let go of his heart. Immediately ordered, drumming and gathering. As soon as Zhen Sui came in, he asked: "The governor entered the city for a banquet, how did he turn back?" I saw Wancheng suddenly close the city gate and pull up the drawbridge, I don't know what the intention is? ”

Pei Gai slapped the table indignantly: "The fifth Yi wanted to rob me, so he was forced to return on horseback!" ”

In fact, he thought a lot along the way, and he didn't suspect that it was the woman or Xun Song behind him who deliberately lied to cause him to fight with the Fifth Yi. The reason is also very simple, this Wancheng was originally Xun Song's, and was forcibly occupied by the Fifth Yi, at that time it was weak and helpless, so it had to submit, and now if you can instigate yourself to drive away the Fifth Yi, you may be able to stay here. said that it was "not a good feast", but until he escaped from the table, the fifth Yi and Wang Gong did not have any special expression, the picture is not endless, how do you know that there must be a dagger hidden inside?

It stands to reason that at this time, you should not be careful, let alone angry, but should send someone into the city to ask the Fifth Yi for clarification. But to do that is tantamount to selling Xun Song, Pei Cai's perception of Xun Song is much stronger than that of the fifth Yi.

And the Xun family still has a large family, if Xun Song is trapped, I am afraid that more than one or two people will be offended, and in the future, I will cooperate with Zu Ti to advance into Yingchuan and Henan, I am afraid that it will suffer considerable obstacles. As for the fifth, there is only one person alone, I will fight it, so what is there to be afraid of?

What's more, Pei Gai entered the city and observed the situation of the defenders in the city, all of them had dishes and gloomy colors, and the weapons and equipment were also very simple. I also want to know that the soldiers and horses of the Fifth Yi were all recruited by Yu Lu when they went south, so they had no opportunity and time to farm and train like Pei Gai, and Du Zeng and Wang Gong's troops were just a group of rogues, and they were defeated by Zhou Yu before fleeing to Jingbei, how good can they be? As for the Xun army, one is very few - otherwise it would not have been forced to surrender - and the other was besieged for months, and finally forced to bow to the enemy, if there is still high morale, it is strange.

In contrast, his 5,000 soldiers and horses are excellent and majestic, even if there are more than 10,000 soldiers in the city, he is sure of victory. Although the city wall is a problem, it is not a big problem, after a fierce battle, the city wall collapsed in many places, and it has not had time to renovate, so Wancheng, why is it difficult?

In short, Lao Tzu is embarrassed today, whether he was deceived by Xun Song or not, in short, he brought seven or eight subordinates into the city, and as a result, he rode alone and fled back to the camp out of breath, if he played with Zhen and them, it might be a misunderstanding, and I will send someone to the city to ask first, what will they think? It will definitely affect the morale of our army.

Morale is hard to drum up and easy to slacken, how can it be that because of a guy like Fifth Yi who can't leave a few strokes in the history books, he turned the sharp pawn I had cultivated with great difficulty into a decadent soldier?

Sure enough, before he could speak, Zhen shouted first: "What a fourth, fifth, what a big dog!" Old...... The last general led his troops to attack the city and avenge the governor! ”

Pei Gai immediately ordered: "It's only past noon, before dark, it is necessary to attack Wancheng and capture the fifth Yi alive!" ”

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Soon after Pei Gai escaped, a servant found the body outside the toilet and hurried to report to the fifth person. The fifth Yi was shocked and said, "Someone must have leaked our plot to Pei Wenyuo!" ”

Otherwise, what do you say? I didn't have time to open my mouth here, so Pei should run away inexplicably. If we had already opened our mouths and asked him for soldiers and food, even if he had not yet ordered the hijacking, he would not have shown his face as a jackal, Pei should have a keen nature, and when he saw the situation early, he would have fled, there is still something to say.

But at that time, the ambush could be launched at any time, and he couldn't escape if he wanted to.

It's like the "Hongmen Banquet", Liu Bang ran after Xiang Zhuang danced the sword and Fan Hao broke into the banquet, if it was earlier, he ran away under the pretext of going to the toilet when "Fan increased the number of Xiang Wang, and raised the three people who admired the jade jue to show it", it was also reasonable - although Xiang Yu would definitely not be able to spare him after that. But there was no banquet yet, and Liu Bang didn't even say anything to Xiang Yu to apologize, he ran away, how can this really be the case-why are you here?

So it must have been when Pei Cai went to the toilet that someone secretly communicated the news and told him that it would be detrimental to him to wait for us, so he killed the servant who led the way and fled in a hurry.

Du Zeng and Wang Gong couldn't help but glance at Xun Song.

Xun Song hurriedly defended himself: "Although Song is not worthy of the prince's strategy, the fifth prince has already made a decision, how dare he hint at Pei Wenyue." And I was in the middle of the banquet, and An Neng could communicate with him? Pei Wenyue and I are also meeting for the first time, if someone is sent to pass on the secret, how can he believe it? I'm afraid that among the subordinates of someone's family, there is a sense of the past. Then he glanced at Wang Gong, which means that the ambush was arranged by you, and there was a leak, and someone under your hand stabbed it, and it has nothing to do with me.

Fifth Yi still had doubts in his heart, but he had no solid evidence, and it was inconvenient to reprimand Xun Song, so he had to ask: "What should I do today?" As he was talking, the person sent to Simen to inquire came back to report: "Pei Yuanjun really crossed the horse and went straight out of the west gate, I don't know where to go." ”

Because several soldiers and horses had just merged, the establishment was chaotic, and a few people didn't think about who the guard of the West Gate was-besides, no matter whose guard was, they didn't dare to stop Pei Gai before the strict order-only pondered that this place was closer to the West Gate, so Pei should panic and escape from the West Gate, which was reasonable. Wang Gong hurriedly said: "You can immediately order the four doors to be closed." If Pei Wen sent an envoy to question, he could make perfunctory words, but he was afraid that he would lead his army to attack the city because of his anger......"

Du Zeng hurriedly asked: "Duke Xun, when I heard that Pei Wen was about 5,000 soldiers, Gong Shi went out of the city to greet him, how did he see his army?" ”

Xun Song shook his head and said, "I don't know the soldiers, how can I expect their military momentum?" However, seeing that the equipment is quite sophisticated, there seems to be a lot of grain and straw materials. ”

Du Zeng immediately bowed his hand to the fifth Yiyi: "The city is incomplete, and there are not enough bows and arrows in the city, so it is difficult to hold on." However, the enemy stopped 5,000 people, and the victory in the city exceeded 10,000, so he asked to lead the army to battle, and turned it against the outside of the city! ”

"Do you have a chance of winning?"

"Pei Wen is a scholar, what is there to be afraid of? He must be captured alive and sacrificed to the fifth prince in front of the car, and his baggage will be taken as much as possible to strengthen our army. ”

Wang Gong waved his hand and persuaded Du Zengdao: "It is advisable to go to war, but you should not underestimate the enemy." I heard that Pei Wenyue once set up an 'empty city plan' in Huaiyin to scare away Hu Qi, but he knew how wise he was, and he could be a scholar? ”

Du Zeng pouted: "Talking about the ear, how can Zici believe those false words?" Empty city retreats from the enemy, how can there be such a reason in the world? ”

The "Empty City Plan" is not a battle, but the hearts of the people, so for those generals who are fighting on the front line, if they don't see it with their own eyes, it will be difficult to believe and even more difficult to understand - for example, when Zhi Quliu first heard Zhuge Liang talk about the retreat of the army, he was also quite unimpressed, and Pei Cai had to break it and crush it and explain it to him repeatedly before he heard it. But for those who were strategic, especially conspirators like Wang Gong, they felt that such a thing was very likely to happen, and it was not entirely absurd. In particular, the highest ideal of the scholars is to surrender without a fight, you have fought a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, it is not enough to be valuable, to say a great reason to make the enemy ashamed to flee, or even bow down and surrender, that is worthy of praise through the ages!

Therefore, Wang Gong was very dissatisfied with Du Zeng's words, but he had not actually experienced the "empty city plan", and he knew very little about the details of Pei Cai's plan, so he had no words to refute it, so he had to ask for an order: "Gong, please go with General Du, as an arm." "Du Zeng despised the enemy like this, I am afraid that it will lead to unnecessary setbacks, or I should follow him and remind him at any time that it would be safer-" Even if you don't win, you can retreat to the city and hold on. The city guards will have the second duke. ”

said "Second Prince", in fact, it only refers to the fifth Yi, and he is really not at ease with Xun Song. But I believe that with the fifth Yi in charge, the Xun clan can't play any tricks.

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An urgent report came from the north gate, saying that the Xuzhou army outside the city had successively set up camp and began to send people to cut down trees nearby to build simple attack tools, which clearly meant to attack the city. So Du Zeng and Wang Gong immediately lit up 8,000 soldiers, people were happy, banners were unfurled, the city gate was opened, and the generals were killed.

The two arrays were round, Wang Gong put a canopy on the horse, and when he looked at it from a distance, he saw the spirit of the Xuzhou soldiers, the queue was strict, and the armor and weapons were shining in the sun, and he couldn't help but be taken aback, and then sighed: "Who said that Pei Wenyue doesn't know the soldiers?" "Can a man who knows nothing about warfare be able to assemble such a well-trained army, and to line up outside the city, so calmly? Glancing at Du Zeng, he said in his heart: "I'm afraid this is a vicious battle, General Du, are you mentally prepared?" ”

Du Zeng was also frightened, so he turned his head sideways and discussed with Wang Gong in a low voice: "I want to take the defensive position first, but I ambushed the cavalry on the flank, and suddenly killed the Chinese army in Xuzhou in the middle of the battle, what do you think?" Only in this way can we have a chance of winning. ”

Wang Gong said that your idea is very good, then I will help you lure the enemy army first and force them to attack first. So he issued an order to go, selected a few people in the army who had a high voice and were good at shouting, and shouted in unison towards Xuzhou:

"I'm waiting for a banquet with good intentions, why did Pei Gong escape from the banquet and escape from the dog Dou, and lead the army to attack again?!"

Pei Gai heard this in the formation, and couldn't help but be so angry that his hair stood up, and his eyes widened angrily - you are so special that you drill a dog hole! Dare to announce this rumor, trying to shake my military heart!

- No one knows whether Pei should run away from the dog hole, but Wang Gong and they searched the footprints in the courtyard, and finally they will definitely track down the wall with the dog hole.

Pei Gai beckoned Zhen to come and asked him: "The thief ruined my reputation with foul words and wanted to disturb the heart of my army, what should I do now?" Zhen Sui pouted: "Then all the governors drilled the dog sinus and escaped, so what?" Regardless of honor or disgrace in the army, just look at the victory or defeat, I will wave the army to attack, and I must take down the heads of those shouting dogs, and dedicate my head to the governor! "Pei should say okay, let's attack first, but you must be cautious, I'm afraid that they will deliberately announce rumors, just to provoke me to make the first move, and I will definitely make a later move.

Zhen Sui smiled disapprerovingly: "This place is a flat river, what is the next move?" The decisive victory on the plains only depends on whether the array is neat, whether the equipment is excellent, whether the soldiers dare to fight, some small tricks, and the overall situation is harmless. As he spoke, he mounted his horse and ran to the front.