Because Yan Xing's anticipation of the enemy was the first, the mountain people who successfully repelled the enemy's surprise attack with light soldiers had a sense of excitement and enthusiasm in their hearts, and they had changed from the original state of hearing the enemy's color change and the six gods without an owner, and they had become a little looking forward to the next battle and eager to try. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yan Xing successfully led them to repel two enemy attacks, although I don't know why as long as he obeyed Yan Xing's command, he could easily defeat the enemy who he had never dared to defeat before, but this did not prevent the mountain people from forming an inexplicable reverence and trust for Yan Xing, and even some mountain people arrogantly felt that as long as they were led by Yan Xing, they could defeat the group of people outside the gathering as long as they rushed out to fight.

But Yan Xing, who was trapped in the situation, knew better than anyone that this kind of small-scale empty city plan he had laid out would not last long, and even the moment for the group of men and horses outside to launch a general attack was coming.

The empty city plan is a ploy to deceive the other party by doing the opposite, using emptiness to cover up emptiness, and deceiving the other party in a critical situation. Under unknown circumstances, the enemy can easily fall into the trap of hesitation, or fear of retreating in the middle of the ambush, or being defeated by the opponent taking advantage of the chaos, Shu Zhan of Zheng Guo in the Spring and Autumn Period, Li Guang of the former Han Dynasty have used this kind of strategy, and at the end of the Han Dynasty Three Kingdoms, Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Wen Ping, and Zhao Yun also flexibly used the empty city strategy in different critical situations.

But the empty city plan is a kind of strategy, after all, it is only an expedient measure, if you can't scare off the enemy in time and have strong reinforcements to rescue, or take advantage of the chaos to kill and defeat the enemy, then the empty city plan will soon be seen through by the opponent, after all, most opponents will definitely not be stupid, even if they are worried about ambushes, the other party can also take steps and drop ten times. And the arrangement of his own side will only continue to show clues over time, until the other party finds a fatal flaw and breaks it in one fell swoop.

Yan Xing has already learned how the combat strength of the mountain people is, and although the group of men and horses outside the gathering were frustrated in the surprise attack, it was mainly a tactical mistake, not that the soldiers at the bottom were weak and unbearable, on the contrary, the cavalry that fought with Yan Xing were all soldiers in the army who were flying like horses and galloping.

Using a group of untrained and poorly equipped mountain people to attack a group of sergeants with many people and strong armor, even if Yan Xing has the courage of ten thousand people, it is useless, he may be able to kill dozens of people, but he himself is a human being, he will also be injured, and he will also be tired, often the enemy can take the life of a warrior with a cold arrow, and the brave King Xiang was also forced by Han Xin's ambush on all sides to force Wujiang to kill himself, Yan Xing naturally did not dare to be arrogant enough to take a group of mountain people to defeat a group of elite soldiers.

Therefore, Yan Xing had no way to take advantage of the fact that the enemy army outside the settlement was in doubt, and the group of soldiers and horses outside was already invincible, as long as he took it step by step, there were no big mistakes, bulldozing the fence and capturing the settlement was just a matter of time.

Yan Xing knew this very well in his heart, so he had to hurry up the time to arrange the retreat now.

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Outside the settlement, after arranging the soldiers and horses to monitor the movements of the settlement, Xu Kun dismounted and walked into the forest to rest, he also felt that his side was already in an invincible position at this time, but the strange response in the previous settlement made him still a little jealous in his heart, and he did not dare to act rashly at will.

He leaned under a tree, thinking about the things in the past few days after he led an army alone, at first he was in charge of the soldiers and horses, he was cautious and walking on thin ice, afraid that because of his own little mistake, he would cause the consequences of the army being killed, but after successfully killing several rebels fleeing in all directions, Xu Kun's heart became more and more proud. Imagine that the elite soldiers under his command will attack with the power of a great victory, and who else can stop them between these three auxiliaries.

Xu Kun maintained this strong self-confidence, and marched all the way, chasing the north until he reached the bottom of this mountain. Xu Kun has made many strange plans since he decided to send troops to sweep this oxtail gathering, but the results that appear are always completely different from what he thinks.

Xu Kun wanted to startle the snake and make the people of the settlement panic themselves, but he saw a quiet and vigilant oxtail gathering. Xu Kun wanted to attack the east and the west and break through the fence in one fell swoop, but the mountain people of the settlement gave him a blow to the head, and the strange soldiers who regarded him as the winner and the loser immediately repulsed.

The things he experienced today cost Xu Kun far more energy than the previous days, and the root cause lies in this oxtail gathering. Every time Xu Kun felt that his plan could be surprisingly successful, but the people of this settlement planned and responded in front of him again and again, disintegrating his offensive one by one.

This feeling of being able to do everything possible but unable to break through made Xu Kun feel a strong sense of frustration for the first time since he took charge of an army alone, so he eagerly hoped to be able to complete the battering ram quickly, and he wanted to immediately break through this settlement not far away, to see what was strange about this settlement, and it was able to resist him for so long.

Just when Xu Kun was anxiously waiting, a military official came over, Xu Kun raised his eyes and saw that it was his uncle's deputy general, and he was actually the commander of the 800 men and horses that Xu Kun carried, Xu Kun was only stained with the light of his uncle Xu Rong, so he was able to take charge of an army alone in his early twenties, but most of the people he brought were his uncle's subordinates. In the process of taking power, he was naturally constrained by these old men in the army, but Xu Kun faced these old men in the army for a long time, although he was a little dissatisfied, he did not dare to show disrespectful words and deeds in person.

The lieutenant general was in a hurry, but he came to report because the scout he sent caught a mountain man who had no time to escape back to the settlement, and the mountain man was slow to flee back to the settlement, and when he came to the settlement, the periphery was surrounded by Xu Kun and his people, and he had no way to go in and could only wander around, but he was caught by the scout who was dispatched.

When the adjutant general saw that he had captured a prisoner in a settlement, he immediately personally tortured him, and after the torture, he got some important information about the oxtail gathering, and he knew that it was of great significance, so he immediately came to find Xu Kun, the nominal commander of the whole army.

"What, you said there are tunnels in the settlement?"

When Xu Kun learned this important information from the mouth of the deputy general, he jumped up from the ground in an instant, and when he saw the unhappy face of the deputy general, he immediately realized that he had just lost his temper, he hurriedly covered his expression, and hurriedly said:

"Bring that captive quickly, I'm going to interrogate him myself!"

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After the captured captive once again confirmed that there was a tunnel in the settlement, Xu Kun's face sank suddenly, and his hands were clenched. He felt that he had been deceived by the people in this settlement from beginning to end, and there was no one in the settlement, not those who were lying in ambush waiting for him to attack, but most of them had already escaped early through the tunnel.

But if most of the people fled, why was the archer on the corner tower so sure? And how can the other side conclude that they will attack from the east?

Xu Kun, who had a bunch of doubts, also immediately asked the captive about the authentic exit, but the mountain captive really didn't know, making Xu Kun's interception plan impossible to realize. Annoyed and angry, Xu Kun angrily drew his knife and killed the captive, he held the ring knife that was still dripping blood, and said loudly:

"The whole army is attacking, let me kill it!"

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Yan Xing didn't expect that the other party would see through the empty city plan he had laid out so quickly, he originally thought that it would take at least half an hour for the other party to make siege equipment such as a battering ram, but he miscalculated.

Yan Xing didn't expect that the other party accidentally caught a prisoner, and learned about the existence of the tunnel from the captive's mouth. He had already repatriated most of the mountain people in batches in advance, leaving a smooth escape space in the tunnel, and he took the thirteen mountain people who volunteered to stay, such as Tiger Head and Big Ox, to do the last thing to resist the pursuit of the enemy.

They were in full swing preparing the things that were set on fire, ready to be burned as they retreated, and used the fire to keep them at bay from the enemy's pursuit, and to destroy all traces of spider silk.

It's a pity that for the mountain, the success fell short, just on this last step, something went wrong, Yan Xing and the others had just arranged the hay and other things that ignited the fire, and they were about to call back a few people on guard and then set fire to retreat, but they didn't expect that before they could act, the settlement had already been captured.

There was only a few rapid anvil strikes at the corner tower, and the mountaineers on guard were shot through the throat by an enemy shooter, and the enemy soldiers turned over on the fences on all sides, and the dense human heads were revealed from the outside.

Soon, the gate of the fortress was also smashed open, and the enemy troops rushed in with a loud shout.

Yan Xing, who secretly screamed badly, also changed his face at this time, he hurriedly ordered the fire to be lit, and then fled to the back of the gathering with the twelve mountain people who remained, and now it is useless to hide in the tunnel, the enemy can choke to death the people who have not had time to escape from the tunnel at all with a fire, as soon as they let out a smoke.

Now he can only rely on the dwellings behind the settlement to fight with the enemy, and the net is broken.

The fire was quickly spotted by the enemy troops rushing into the settlement and extinguished in time. After discovering that there were still people in the settlement who did not have time to escape, the enemy army was greatly invigorated, and they came to the outskirts of the houses behind the settlement with swords and bows.

Yan Xing held a bow and arrow, looking at the terrified mountain people around him, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"The good traveler drowns, the good rider falls, each according to his favor, but he is in trouble", the commander of the enemy army likes to surprise soldiers, and was deceived by himself with fiction and reality, and he hoped to save everyone's lives with an empty city plan, and he ended up taking himself in.

His father told him that "the damage to the rigid and the soft", and the strict master also warned him not to "forcibly act", but Yan Xing was always unwilling to give in to the fate of the troubled times, he wanted to choke the throat of fate and tell this troubled times loudly.

"My life is up to me!"

At this moment, the people and horses surrounding him outside the fence were divided into two rows, and a young general rode out of the middle, and Yan Xing, who was in danger, moved in his heart.

So, this time, will you die here if you don't believe in fate?