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Xuzhou Mansion is an important military town, has always been a place for soldiers, originally there were more than 6,000 Xiang troops, Qiu Yue was ordered to come from Huaiyang, Xuzhou to transfer troops, the Xuzhou Mansion 6,000 soldiers were transferred away 5,000 people, Xuzhou Mansion left only more than 1,000 people, plus the patrol of the government is only 1,7800 like that, because even Qiu Yue would not think of attacking Jeju, and he could be attacked by someone to attack Xuzhou, too much thought of creating such a carelessness. (hua, latest chapter access:.)

Bao Xu led a few scouts dressed as woodcutters to carry firewood to the north of Xuzhou City, there was a long queue outside the north gate, the team into the city was hundreds of meters long, the "gate" army checked one by one, searched, this speed is too slow, Bao Xu took a look, and a few accompanying woodcutters looked at the "look", and said: "Retreat." ”

The woodcutter 'door' scolded: "If you enter a city, you have to search your body, and you will not go." ”

The group carried firewood and retreated, and when they came back to see Li Kui and Fan Rui, Bao Xu said: "No, the 'door' army is checked one by one, and it is difficult to 'mix' in, but there are not many 'door' troops, so you can break in." ”

Fan Rui shook his head: "No, we only have 3,000 men and horses, not to mention that we have to be able to defend Xuzhou City, so we must minimize the casualties, and when you go again in the evening, there is a river entering the city in the northwest corner, it is now winter, it must have frozen, if we can do it, we can go in from here, and take Xuzhou Mansion to the end, the defenders have no leader, so it is convenient for us to enter the city, so that we can reduce casualties and unnecessary losses." ”

Bao Xu said: "Yes." ”

In the evening, Bao Xu took five people, this time there is no need to carry the burden, go straight to the northwest corner of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou is next to the canal, water resources are also very rich, a small river is about ten meters wide, from the city wall through the straight to the city, because the water is not deep and did not use him as a canal, for the sake of city defense with an iron fence to block, such as the night of the cold wind biting, Bao Xu led people to 'touch' the river, tried to test the river water to freeze 'strong', the river to the city wall is almost seventy or eighty centimeters away, leaving people to guard the others' Touching the past, I shook the iron fence with my hand, and it was loose, and I took out the hammer and knocked it gently, and it didn't take long to remove it. Bao Xu looked around, there was no one, put it on again, and then went back to report to Li Kui and Fan Rui.

Li Kui was overjoyed when he heard this: "This is to give us a big credit, take Xuzhou City, everyone will be rewarded, silver and land are indispensable, go, enter the city, and arrest the prefect first." ”

Fan Rui said, "Wait, I have a few words to say. [See the latest chapter of the book]"

Li Kui said: "You are a military advisor, if you have something to say, you can say it." ”

"The people of Xuzhou are fierce, and there are many strong men in the city, in order to avoid the disgust of the people, the first we must raise the banner of the Jeju army when we enter the city, and the second soldier must not 'disturb' the people and take the people's property when they enter the city." Fan Rui said.

Li Kui said: "What do I think you are talking about, the military law stipulates that those who rob the people must have their heads cut off, and after entering the city, Fan Junshi will lead the team to inspect the soldiers, but anyone who dares to rob the people and 'disturb' the people will be arrested first." ”

Fan Rui said: "Okay, just do it, as long as our military law is strict, maybe the people of Xuzhou will help us." ”

Immediately, the team started, and the army stopped five miles away from Xuzhou City, and Bao Xu and Li Gon formed an advance team of 600 people. The two led the team to the northwest corner, the defenders on the city wall were not vigilant, Bao Xu quietly led dozens of people to 'touch' the past, took the iron fence, and drilled in, and there were three hundred people who drilled in one after another, and Li Gon also came in.

Bao Xu said: "You rob the city 'gate' Xuzhou prefect must be heavily defended, I will lead one hundred and fifty people to the prefect's ya' 'gate', control the prefect, wait for my signal, you will snatch the city 'gate' again, and then you will send a signal to the brigade after snatching the city 'gate'." ”

Li Gon nodded and said, "Don't worry, everything will be done as agreed." ”

Immediately the two separated, Bao Xu led the team along the street, along the way the people thought it was the local army of Xuzhou Mansion, no one cared, and when they came to the Ya 'Gate', the Ya 'Gate' was no longer in office at this time, and when they saw so many soldiers, the Ya Gong was shocked and asked: "What are you doing?" ”

"Urgent military affairs, I have to report to my lords." Bao Xu said.

"Which part of you, what military affairs report do you have, but you can have a waist card." The official asked Bao Xu.

This thing is always fake, and it will be 'exposed' again, Bao Xu put the big sword horizontally, and the soldiers behind him also took out the big sword, Bao Xu gritted his teeth and smiled: "We are from the Jeju Army, and those who block me will die." ”

Immediately a big sword horizontally, split a servant in front of him in half, and led people to kill it, Xuzhou Mansion Ya "Gate" of the Ya "Officer" is "quite a lot", there are almost seventy or eighty people on duty at night, but most of them are not powerful weapons such as water and fire sticks and waist knives, not to mention that the government officers bully the people on weekdays, eat and take cards, and rarely train, freaks like Bao Xu should have soft feet, and they are scared of farts and 'urine' flows.

Bao Xu led the team to rush into the ya'men', and found the prefect's residence in the back study.

"Search." Bao Xu ordered.

Immediately, the soldiers searched in the house, this prefect is called surnamed Xu, he was newly transferred last year, he is in his thirties, he is good, he is climbing the wall, and the soldiers grabbed their feet and necks and pulled them down.

Seeing this, Bao Xu immediately sent a signal to Li Gon, and at the same time took over the prefect's ya's 'door', and all the necessary items such as the treasury and documents had to be taken care of, and they could not be damaged by fire.

Let's say that Bao Xu took people to the Ya' Gate, Li Gon and others lurked in the river for nearly two hours, at this time I saw three signal flares rising in the city, the red 'color' fireworks 'fireworks' bombs are very good-looking, the soldiers guarding the city at the west 'gate' are still strange, who has nothing to do with fireworks 'flowers' in less than the New Year's Festival, at this time, Li Kui led the troops to kill, a small round shield pear of a water' Flower gun, don't look at the bow and arrow, but the one hundred and fifty soldiers brought by Li Gon played with flying knives, and the short knife that was more than a foot long was thrown over and was immediately killed and wounded, and the soldiers defending the city did not react to the situation at all, so they were killed by surprise, symbolizing the resistance of "sex" for more than ten minutes, Li Gon obtained control of the west "gate", opened the city "gate", and sent a signal to the outside of the city, and the other three hundred soldiers came in together to firmly control the west "gate" in their hands, and followed the signal, not long Li Kui, The brigade led by Fan Rui arrived.

A small number of infantry took control of the walls, while the rest of the men went straight to the barracks. Hearing that the enemy soldiers had entered the city, the Xuzhou army did not know which way of soldiers and horses, the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals could not find the prefect, and the entire command system of the Xuzhou army was paralyzed. Li Kui shook the huge plate axe and shouted with a hideous face: "Put down the weapon, drink wine and eat 'meat', pick up the weapon and kill." ”

The Xuzhou army has no leader, and they don't know what to do. Li Kui continued: "We are the Jeju Army, and the old thief wants to transfer troops to deal with us, don't follow as cannon fodder, accept the adaptation, and drinking and eating 'meat' to get bonuses is not better than anything else." If you resist to the end, you can only eat my board axe. ”

Some of these big-headed soldiers wanted to resist and had no command, so they surrendered immediately.

Li Kui really did what he said, just let everyone put down their weapons, stay in the barracks and not move around, sleep when they should sleep, and if they don't want to sleep, let the room light the fire and cook, and everyone eats supper.

Fan Rui led a law enforcement team of 300 people to patrol along the city, except for a few ruffians who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to rob the people, no Jeju army endangered the people.

Immediately, Fan Rui came to Li Kui and said, "We have few soldiers, and we need to do this in order to stabilize the morale of the army." ”

Li Kui patted his big 'leg' and said, "Is this possible?" ”

"Cheng, why not, let's just come like this, it's better to use our 3,000 troops to control Xuzhou City." Fan Rui said.

The next day, the people got up and found that the sky in Xuzhou had changed, and the "plugged" on the upper floor of the city "gate" was replaced by the military flag of the Jeju army. Li Kui led 2,000 infantry with cannons into the city from the north 'gate', and the people on both sides saw it very clearly, this group of soldiers was really fierce, all of them were holding big axes, and the artillery had hundreds of 'gates'.

It didn't take long for the West Gate to enter the city, led by Li Gon riding a big horse, holding a shield and a 'flower' gun, this time it was 300 cavalry at the head, followed by a small 'flower' spear soldier with a clear 'color', and this team also had about 2,000 people.

There were also soldiers entering the city at the south 'gate', led by a general with a big sword, 1,500 soldiers, most of them with big swords, and the swords were all out of the horn, long and bright, and looked very scary.

In the evening, there were also people from the East Gate who led troops into the city, and the leader was a Taoist priest, and the people of Xuzhou knew him, who was this, Fan Rui was also. Fan Rui's team of soldiers is also majestic and high-spirited, and the people of Xuzhou have said that the Jeju army has invested a lot of money this time, and tens of thousands of troops have been driven in.

In fact, all of this is a trick used, the soldiers who enter from the north 'gate' go out from the south 'gate', change their generals and clothes and then come in from the west 'gate', so two or three thousand troops, back and forth into the city a few more times, where do the people understand this, they think that there are many people.

Li Kui said: "Master Fan, your strategy is to make the people believe that we have a lot of soldiers, and a clear-eyed person can see through how many of our soldiers at a glance, I'm afraid that Qiu Yue's army will come back early tomorrow morning." ”

"It's enough to let the people believe it, let's recruit troops overnight, but we just want to use the granary of Xuzhou Mansion, I don't know if this violation violates the regulations." Fan Rui asked.

Li Kui said: "Don't violate it, as long as no one is corrupt, let's recruit soldiers." ”

Immediately, Fan Rui recruited troops to defend the city, and all men over the age of 18 and under the age of 50 could sign up to participate, and they were temporarily recruited, and it only took five days to distribute 300 catties of grain.

The people of Xuzhou did not reject the Jeju army, it was originally a native of their hometown, and it was not an invasion from other places. Fan Rui opened the warehouse overnight, distributed hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, and raised more than 10,000 strong men that night, and went to the city wall one by one wearing uniforms. As for the weapons, it is easy to say, there are rusty spears and knives in the treasury of Xuzhou City, and these strong men make do with it, anyway, it is also for show, if it is really a fight, it will be 'exposed' stuffing, and it is very risky for the strong men to be used as 'fine' soldiers.

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