Chapter 25: Enlightenment (Chapter 24 should be Chapter 1)
Mu Chong didn't enter the city immediately, just stood there and watched. He saw a long line of civilians coming out, and the long line went out of the city gates, past the place where the fire was shining, and finally disappeared into the darkness to the east. Some people in the crowd were holding torches, but most of them hurried by the moonlight, and a black shadow could be faintly seen on the snow-white official road.
Outside the common people, it is not surprising that there are Qin soldiers around the city gate who are peeping and wandering. They should be worried that the king will move south to Chu like King Zhao, so they naturally have to watch on the sidelines to beware of the king's death in Chu.
In the plan, it would not take long for tens of thousands of ordinary people to leave the city, and it would not take many people to leave the city, what the Qi army wanted was to open all the three blocked city gates without making the Qin people suspicious. After more than an hour, no more common people went out of the city, and the city gate was burned to a white ground, and the long night was quiet again. When I looked up at the sky, the moon was already in the sky, and soon it would be the agreed rooster crow.
Mu Chong, who had been staring for more than an hour, hadn't seen the Qin army reprimanding for a long time, and was hesitating to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the city, when the drums burst out. In the middle of the night, except for the howling of the north wind, there was no abnormal sound, the drum sounded abruptly, not urgently, not slowly, but faintly, when he was thinking about why the drum was beating in the city, the military officer beside him said: "This gathering will also." ”
"Ju General?!" Mu Chong didn't pay attention to the intention of the drums, and as soon as he was reminded, his whole body shook violently, and he shouted: "Rest, rest!" ”
See you at the first exhibition dagger! No matter how deep the conspiracy is, it will become an undisguised conspiracy at the last moment, and the purpose that the conspiracy can achieve is nothing more than to get an opportunity when the other party is unprepared and their own side is advantageous, but now the Qin people have finally realized their own scheme.
Mu Chong's mind was full of the results of the conspiracy being revealed, and he was at a loss on the horse, he didn't know whether to go to Linzi City or meet Xiong Jing, and told him that the Qin people had detected their own plot and were gathering generals.
When I was anxious, the sudden drum beat stopped abruptly, and Linzi under the moonlight became quiet again. It's just that this time it didn't be quiet for long, the three gates of the eastern city were opened one after another, and the cavalry of the Qi army took the lead in rushing out of the city, dispersing the Qin army that was wandering around the city gate, and then the Qi army went out of the city in columns, and they rushed to the dark place outside the city to line up in a hurry, waiting while on guard. At this time, the drums in the west of the city sounded again, and the fire inside and outside the city was so bright that the sky seemed to be about to be illuminated.
"Let's go!" Mu Chong rode his horse to Linzi, and Qin Jun had already noticed it, and he believed that Xiong Jing would make the right choice.
"Drive." Following him, the military officials of Linzi Dasima Mansion rushed to Linzi together.
"Report ——!" When Mu Chong rushed to Linzi City, the poignant sound of military reports was sounding in the shogunate in the old city of Linzi. The shogunate still occupied the main dynasty, and the length and width of the nine feasts of the Great Court were still small for the shogunate commanding 300,000 Qi troops. Tian Zong, whose eyes were full of exhaustion, pressed his hands on the long table and looked at the Hou people who rushed in.
"The Qin people's camp is on fire, and the camp is also being pulled!" Hou Ren's words made everyone in the tent gasp.
"Really?" Tian Zong quickly calmed down after gasping, but the scalp was still numb with pins and needles. Qi State risked the cost of losing the royal city to try to keep the Qin people, but he didn't expect Wang Jian to be alert so quickly.
"If you don't pull out the camp, you will leave the camp." The observation of the Hou people standing on the walls of Guocheng is not entirely accurate. Guo Cheng is shorter than the royal city, and you can only see the fire in the royal city, but you can't see the details of the city; Although you can see that the Qin army camp on the Qin Yuan is also lit by fire, after all, it is ten miles away. But in any case, the camp is on fire in the middle of the night, and either the camp is pulled out or the camp is released, and one of the two must be occupied.
"Get out of town and get closer to explore!" Tian Zong's eyebrows tightened, and he ordered.
"If you get close to the Qin people and visit them again, you will know what I mean, this may be ......" Sima Tianshu still had some luck in his heart, he felt that it was another gift of wealth and goods, and he was also humbly asked to surrender, if he was Wang Qian, he would also be intoxicated and couldn't extricate himself.
"Miao! The Qin people know what I mean! Tian Zong glared at him vigorously. Why do you think the Qin people beat the drum and gather the generals? ”
"Tens of thousands of ordinary people went out of the city, although I said that this is a person who does not want to surrender to Qin and wants to die in Chu, it is common for Qin people to be uneasy." Tian Luo also said. "This ......"
"The dignified general can't sleep because of the disturbance of tens of thousands of ordinary people......" Tian Zong was no longer glaring, but sighing. Debates can only be held among people who have different opinions and positions. He is old, and in the Battle of Jixi of the Five Kingdoms, he is the personal guard of Tian Da, the deputy general of the Qi army, and the long-standing military tradition of the Qi army has been completely preserved in him.
Tian Shu is only forty years old, Tian Luo is more than forty years old, they were born in the peaceful era after the restoration of the Qi State, and people of this age lack real military literacy. Wang Jian was born but a fighter, and the Qin army generals killed by the sea of corpses and blood did not have a qualified and capable shogunate? Don't even know how to arrange your own limited time? Isn't this saying that the Qin army and the Qin state are fake?
There is only one thing that is fair, that is, everyone has only sixteen hours in a day, and no one can breathe more, and no one will breathe less. As the general of the Qin army, how could Wang Jian not sleep at night because the common people went out of the city? Suddenly gathering in the middle of the night, isn't this aware of your own intentions?
The war has begun, both sides are seizing the time to race against time to get out of the camp and line up, Tian Shu and Tian Luo are still under the illusion, thinking that the Qin people are still in the scheme! Tian Zong shook his head again and again after sighing, his sad gaze passed over the two of them, and shouted: "Someone! Ordered the whole army to hurry out of the city and line up in the west of the city, and then ordered the cavalry to gallop north of Linzi to tell the king of Chu, the Qin people have felt that our army is in formation! ”
"Respectfully!" The military officer took the feather and agreed without hesitation, and hurriedly came out of the curtain, and the sound of running continued to the bottom of the stairs. Tian Shu and Tian Luo stood awkwardly speechless, and Tian Zong's sad and helpless gaze was more painful than whipping them. Fortunately, this pain disappeared after a while, and the report came from outside the city, and the military division returned to the city.
After the cavalry of the Qin army led by Wang Ben withdrew, until Wang Jian led a large army to besiege the city, during this time Linzi City and the Yingdu of Chu State, and Xiong Jing, who landed from Langya Port by sea and led the Three Kingdoms Alliance into Qi, has been in contact. But for the sake of secrecy, in order not to be known by the Qin people's Hou spies, this kind of connection is only known to a few people, and even Tian Jian, the king, does not know.
Five days ago, the two sides finalized the combat plan and the array plan. After Wang Jian besieged the city, the two sides only had one-way contact, and the city notified the outside of the city with signal poles and firelight, and the outside of the city only received news but did not send news, so as not to be detected or even intercepted by the Qin people. Mu Chong must have brought the news of the coalition army here - Mu Chong is worried that he is playing tricks on the doctor, and Tian Zong is also a little worried about the coalition army deceiving him in his heart. It's just that he has never expressed this kind of worry, and on the whole, he believes in Xiong Jing and believes that he will not sacrifice Qi people.
"How is the Chu army?" Knowing that Mu Chong was coming, Tian Zong greeted him out of the bed early and waited at the bottom of the steps.