Since it was decided to fight a battle with the Qi people, there was no need to ambush outside Linzi City before dawn. But ambush is one thing, isolation is another. The knights didn't need to paddle, so while the foot soldiers were asleep, a group of cavalry was taking advantage of the darkness to force Linzi City, and what they had to do was to cut off the internal and external traffic of Linzi.

There is a village thirty miles away from Linzi City, and the cavalry runs through at night, and the dogs in the Lu keep barking. A dog barked, a hundred dogs barked, and in less than a quarter of an hour, all the dogs in the north of the canal barked. With the system of Qi Country Township, there are lieutenants and You Zong, but unfortunately the night is blue, even if the lieutenant You Zong gets up, he is helpless against the abnormalities outside.

But after the cavalry, the barking gradually subsided, and the earth was white in the night, as if nothing had happened. And in Linzi City, the feast has long ended, the music and dance are not heard, the huge capital only the north of the city, the textile workshop in the city comes from a little sound of the machine, outside of this, is the sound of the city every half an hour.

The palace in the small southwest city is sleeping, and Tian Jianzheng, the king of Qi, has entered a sweet dream. In the dream, the king of Chu ignored his previous suspicions, laughed with him as usual, and the two went out to sea on a huge Chu sea boat to find Penglai Immortal Mountain. Penglai, surrounded by fairy energy, heard that the two of them went, and actually used a seven-colored rainbow to build a bridge in mid-space, and the graceful Penglai fairy smiled and greeted the two on the color bridge, and they were invited to Penglai Fairy Palace.

From a distance, the Penglai Immortal Palace is getting closer and closer, but the two of them can't fly over. In a hurry, who would have thought that the king of Chu beside him suddenly drew his sword fiercely and asked why he had given the commendable to the Qin people. Draw your sword and ask for it, the most terrible thing is that for some reason you suddenly stepped into the air under your feet, and you screamed and fell into the abyss......

"Save the widow, save the widow, save the widow......" Tian Jian struggled in his sleep, and couldn't help shouting. Concubine Li, who was beside him, slept very lightly, so light that he woke up after only shouting two words.

"The king? King?! King! Concubine Li hurriedly grabbed Tian Jian's hand and shouted, at this time, the temple maid who was waiting outside hurriedly lit the lamp and candle, waiting for the summons in the room.

"The king......" Concubine Li called for a while, and Tian Jian finally woke up from his dream. He stared blankly at the roof for a while before he said, "The king of Chu does not save the widow, and the king of Chu does not save the widow." ”

"What do you mean by a king?" Concubine Li didn't understand Tian Jian's dream, and didn't understand why he said that the King of Chu didn't save him.

"What time is it?" Tian Jian wiped his sweat. Yesterday before going to bed, he deliberately went to pray in front of the queen mother's spiritual seat, and he broke his promise to the Chu country, contrary to the queen mother's teaching, 'have faith with the princes', but he didn't expect to sit in such a dream at night.

"What time is it?" Concubine Li didn't know when, so she could only ask the temple people outside.

"Concubine Li, it's just past this time." It was the voice of the servant Zeng Quan, and he slept in the outer room and waited for him at any time.

"It's clear." Concubine Li helped Tian Jian wipe her sweat again, it was cold outside, and the charcoal fire in the house was hot. "The king will sleep a little longer."

"Is it dawn?" Tian Jian gasped and asked again.

"Your Majesty, the sky has not yet dawned, and the dawn may need to dawn." The servant Zeng Quan's ears are very smart, and he won't wait for Concubine Li to ask again.

February should be regarded as early spring, half of the night and half of the day, eight hours of the day, eight hours of the evening, and the dawn is between the dawn and the dawn. It should be the darkest time of the day, the stars and moon have set, but the sun has not yet come out. The white earth became black and dreary, not to mention dozens of meters away, even a few meters away, and no one could be seen. At this time, the city is brightly lit, and although the market is not open, the sits are already cleaning the stalls and sorting out the goods, and they must prepare everything before the market starts.

"I've seen it...... I've seen the doctor! "In the dark Linzi City, under the fire that has not yet been extinguished, Doctor Tian Yang has begun to patrol the city in the past few days. He was also appointed as the doctor of the capital after the court meeting last month, and his responsibility was to manage Linzi and govern 50,000 soldiers.

"No courtesy." The soldiers guarding the city looked energetic, but the smell of wine on their clothes was strong, and he sniffed it, but he didn't realize it. After walking for a while, he asked Tian Lin, the military commander beside him: "Is it cold at night?" ”

Fifty Qi troops were a small army, two hundred were one pawn, two thousand were a brigade, and 10,000 were an army. This establishment is consistent with the establishment of households. There are more than 50,000 households in Linzi, excluding those who cannot be recruited, and one household has one pawn, which happens to be 50,000 people. 50,000 people and five armies, five commanders, one commander stationed a city wall, and the remaining army was the rear army. Another 50,000 halberd-wielding men only defended the small southwestern city.

"Doctor Yudu, the last general is not strict in governing the army." They are all smart people, Tian Liang knew why Tian Yang asked like this, and he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

"If a soldier drinks alcohol because of the cold night, he should add clothes to increase his clothes, and if he drinks for drinking...... Tian Yang was tactful, and he had just been appointed as a doctor, and he often spoke to the point, letting his subordinates figure it out for themselves.

"The last general will clothe the soldiers today." Tian Liang said busily. He didn't know why the soldiers were drinking, he just hoped that this matter would not affect his official position and gain a reputation for not being strict in governing the army.

"Good." Tian Yang smiled and nodded, "Does the marshal think that the Chu army can go to Linzi?" ”

"This," Tian Liang and the rest of the army commanders also heard that the Chu Guozhou Division had left Langya Port last night, but he didn't believe it if he wanted to say that the Chu Guozhou Division would appear under Linzi City. He didn't believe it, and neither did the other four commanders. The East China Sea is vast, not to mention winter, even in spring and summer, it is also turbulent, and it is impossible to bypass the south shore of Jimo to the north shore of Jimo.

However, seeing that Tian Yang's meaning obviously disagreed with this, Tian Yan stopped talking, and changed his words: "Even if the Chu army is in Linzi, it will not defeat me. ”

"Can't win?" Tian Yang smiled again.

"Our army can't hold out, the Chu army is attacking the city unremittingly, and the food will run out in October, and it will naturally retreat." Tian Liang Road. "Even if you go out of the city to face the battle, our army is outnumbered and the enemy is outnumbered, and I will win."

"It's all about fighting. The art of war is cloudy: with the right combination, with the odd victory, the Chu army crossed the sea, is it right, is it strange? Tian Yang asked again, he was also familiar with the art of war, although he had never been on the battlefield.

"I don't know, please give the doctor advice." Tian Yan hadn't read Sun Tzu's Art of War and didn't understand Zhengqi, so he was stopped by him for a while.

"The thirteen gates of Linzi, the Donglu Gate are still open for more than an hour at night, which is dangerous; Open the door in the morning, and there is little equipment at each gate, if the Chu army takes the opportunity to attack the city, what can it do? Walking on the dark city wall with his hands on his back, Tian Yang bluntly expressed his worries, he planned to make a statement to the king this morning, and ordered the guards inside and outside Linzi to strengthen their guard to prevent the Chu army from raiding.

"The doctor is very worried." It turned out that Qi was a sneak attack, and now Tian Liang understood. He was thinking about how to make a loud fart, and a Li Yousi rushed over.

"The commander of the army, the city and the city ......" is the chief of Xiaorong, and compared to the tun chief of the Qin army, he has jurisdiction over fifty people. He pointed to the darkness under the city and wanted to say it but didn't dare to say it, his face was a little frightened.

"What about the city?" Tian Yang was a little displeased, Tian Yang only inspected one city wall a day, and he had already caught the soldiers drinking at night, and he didn't want to do anything else.

"There is the sound of horses! The army is handsome, and there is the sound of horses under the city. Satoji finally finished his sentence. The north wind blew, and the sound could be heard clearly from miles away from the city.

"Xu is a business trip that wants to enter the city earlier." The brigade commander beside Tian Liang guessed. The sound of horses doesn't mean anything.

"Business travel? The road is closed at night, where does the business travel come from? "Tian Yang is the most vigilant." Today the doors are slowly opened. ”

The city is dark and can't see anything clearly, and no one knows if it's a business trip outside the city. At this moment, the drum of warning suddenly sounded in the north of the city, and the drum beat was extremely rapid, and as soon as it sounded, the drums around it also sounded.

Normally, drums are used to open and close the gates, but now the drums are beating before dawn, and everyone in the city is stunned. By the time everyone realized that something was wrong, the drums had already sounded five times.

There are 333 mallets for a drum, and 333 mallets seem to be many, and the mallets are more than a minute. Eight minutes passed, the generals in the city, the lieutenant You Zong in the city, the mercenaries who were ready to go to work and leave work, and even the merchants in the big city who were preparing to open the market, and the hundred officials waiting in front of the Gaomen immediately began to panic, and they finally understood that this was not opening the door, this was an enemy attack!

After all, the army is an army, and after the five drums, the armies and brigades began to assemble rapidly, and when they arrived at the designated position, they immediately sounded the drums in the army as an echo, indicating that the headquarters had arrived;

The common people in the city are different, according to military law, the enemy army is not allowed to make noise when it comes to the common people, it is not allowed to sit in three people, it is not allowed to run, cry, inquire, shout, argue, pull ......, and it is not allowed to pass in each mile, and all violators will be put to death; It is also forbidden to peep at the enemy, leave the city, or defect to the enemy without authorization, and the parents, brothers, and wives of violators will be punished.

The city gates have not yet been opened, and it is impossible to leave the city and join the enemy, but the noise, weeping, inquiry, and calling for children and daughters are always inevitable. Some lieutenant Youzong may be able to drink, and some people don't know what to do when the enemy attacks, and they either don't hear the reprimand of lieutenant Youzong or turn a deaf ear. The blade soon saw blood, but it was the blood of the Qi people themselves.

However, I don't know if it's fortunate or unfortunate, there are only a few who really rely on killing people to calm down, and the rest of the regions are still crying and screaming even at dawn, and there is chaos. Some cowardly lieutenants You Zong not only did not kill the common people, but were defeated by the common people and seized weapons.

The hustle and bustle in the city, the city wall is full of soldiers, everyone is busy, and some sections are even hung with canals to block arrows, but there is no Chu army in columns as imagined by Qi people under the city, and some are just some scattered cavalry, they are in teams of threes, threes, twos, and twos, and they don't seem to be fighting, but outing.

What really represents the arrival of the Chu army is the more than 30-meter-long winged warboat in the canal north of the city. In the cold early morning, there was a row of shiny armor soldiers standing on the deck of the warship, the white vapor exhaled from their mouths was clearly visible, and even more clearly visible was the military flag above their heads: Banner hunting, the word 'Chu' fluttered, and the Chu people finally came.