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"The general is saying that the big army is a disguise, the real killer ......" Zhao Hu showed a look of surprise: "I have already set off, and I will attack soon?" ”

"I heard that Bibai is good at horsemanship, when Wang Chonggu Xu had 2,000 personal horse army, the marching speed was extremely fast, day and night can be 400 miles, they put the main infantry on the west side, deliberately detected by the sentinel cavalry, to attract the attention of our army, so that our army gathered the main force in Xicheng, but secretly sent an elite man and horse to attack one of the other three gates, no matter which one was broken, for me, it was a dead end."

When Zhao Hu heard this, although he was not very convinced, he also felt a little worried in his heart: "What the general said may not be unreasonable, the thief army is already fighting on two fronts at the moment, and must think of taking the west side of Pingyu City as soon as possible to stabilize and cross the Yellow River south, we hold on here for one more day, it is a threat to the rebels' lair, then, what should we do?" ”

Xiao Ruxun said slowly: "I don't worry about it during the day, I'm only worried that at night, some of them will lurk under the city and try to go to the city to attack at night, then it's bad, so let's go, Bowei, you go to rest first, hand over the defense to a few of your subordinates, and arrange for the soldiers to take turns to rest and keep vigil, or that sentence, each city gate shall not be less than two hundred soldiers to guard, and the Franc machine shall not be less than five gates, and then wait for you to get up at night to patrol the night, you must patrol the four city gates, and once there is a police, immediately report the whole city!" We are waiting for the current situation, and we cannot afford to slack off. ”

Zhao Hu nodded, clenched his fists and commanded: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

Xiao Ruxun nodded and was about to leave, and saw the night torches stacked in the corner of the city wall, and suddenly thought of something: "Bowei, you should pay attention to these torches, don't light torches when you take people to patrol at night, where the torches are lit on the city wall, don't arrange more than one soldier in the place where the surrounding can be seen clearly, let the main night watchman stay in the dark place in the corner, if the thief army really comes to attack at night, it must first observe how many night watchmen are in my city, and then attack the night watchmen, the enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, and the dark guard is very important at this time."

You have to tell the soldiers who are staying in the shadows that if they find someone attacking at night, they should not make a noise at first, but wait for the situation, wait for the enemy army to appear, suddenly light up the torches, and fire the sentry arrows, so that this can greatly deter the night attack on the enemy army, so that they think that we have already taken precautions, this is a trap we have set, so that the enemy's army is in great confusion, and they only know how to retreat and flee for their lives instead of resisting, and then rush out to kill the enemy army at night, and then break it with one drum, so that the enemy army will not dare to attack at night again. ”

Zhao Hu nodded suddenly in realization: "The last general understands, please rest assured." ”

Xiao Ruxun inspected again, explained some key points to Zhao Hu in detail, and then left with confidence, Zhao Hu and Chen Xie discussed and arranged a vigil shift, then found a bunk to lie down and rest, and woke up, it was already sunset.

In March, the day is not long, not as long as the summer day, not long after the sunset, it needs to be illuminated with torches, Zhao Hu according to Xiao Ruxun's instructions, the torches lit are reduced, most of the torches are in the hands of the night patrol dark sentinel soldiers, only one soldier is arranged around the torch, and the rest of the soldiers stay in the place where the torch and the torch cannot be illuminated, secretly watching everything.

Zhao Hu led a team of guards to slowly patrol around the city wall, and after Xiao Ruxun's reminder during the day, Zhao Hu also cheered up the spirit of 120,000 points, carefully watching the movement of the city wall.

The night gradually deepened, a bright moon hung in the sky, silently watching the whole land, occasionally a few clouds drifted by, blocking a trace of moonlight, on the earth, it seemed that only the head of the city of Pingyu had a burning torch blooming.

Zhao Hu took the soldiers and horses to inspect the east city gate, the east of Pingyu City is a tributary of the Yellow River, the land east of the river is still in the hands of the Ming army, the rebels do not dare to bypass the east of Pingyu City to cross the Yellow River, for fear of being cut off by the Ming army of Pingyu City, so when Zhao Hu sent out the sentry horse, he did not send it to the east, but Zhao Hu still according to Xiao Ruxun's instructions, even in Dongcheng, also arranged a hundred soldiers to keep vigil, put in the bright place of fifteen, in the dark of eighty-five.

When Zhao Hu led people to inspect, he passed by Dongcheng, because the city wall of Dongcheng was the most broken, and there were several sections that were relatively low, so he paid more attention to it, and it happened to find that there were many soldiers who dozed off in the dark, Zhao Hu was furious, and beat those dozing soldiers one after another, but it was only beating, and he did not reprimand, and after he recovered his spirit, Zhao Hu went down the stairs to the south city wall with satisfaction.

As soon as he led people to turn around the stairs, Zhao Hu seemed to hear something, frowned, waved his hand to let the entourage stop, squatted, and quietly touched the corner of the city wall, revealing a head to observe, only to be shocked at a glance, the fifteen soldiers standing under the torches had all fallen to the ground and their lives were unknown, and there was a whole row of flying claws on the battlements of the city wall.

was really said by the general! The thieves really dare to attack at night!! It's only been three days!!

Zhao Hu noticed that the soldiers guarding the dark place had all squatted on the ground and started to guard according to the instructions, and he relaxed a little and said hello to the guards behind him, the knife was unsheathed, the bow was set with arrows, the torches were prepared, and the whistle arrows were prepared!

A row of about twenty or so black-clothed figures had already appeared in Zhao Hu's vision, and there was no time to wait!

"Ignition! Shoot the arrows! Brethren! Kill the thief!! ”

Zhao Hu suddenly stood up and shouted, at the same time, the torches suddenly lit up, more than a dozen arrows roared into the sky, the "horn" exploded, and the night watchmen hidden in the shadows were completely ready, shouting and rushing to kill, leaning less, the other three city gates rang arrows into the sky, dozens of torches suddenly lit up, and the fire was flourishing!

Zhao Hu took the lead and rushed towards the black-clothed thief soldier, slashing a panicked thief army to death, and one of the thieves seemed to react quickly, and immediately shouted: "There is an ambush!" Walk quickly...... Ah......h

Before he finished speaking, he was solved by Zhao Hu with a knife, and the remaining dozen or so people were slashed into broken pieces by the soldiers, and Zhao Hu shouted again: "Cut off the flying claw rope!" ”

When the soldiers heard this, they pounced with their knives and cut off all the flying claw ropes, and then Zhao Hu immediately ordered again: "Crossbowmen prepare, shoot down!" It doesn't matter if you can see it or not! Shoot!! ”

The moonlight is bright, and the sky and the earth are not dim, but the light is dim in the end, and the soldiers can't see how many thieves there are below, anyway, they are firing bows and crossbows at the city, and they also hear some screams, as well as the sound of shouting "retreat" in a hurry, Zhao Hu looked at the city with torches, but he couldn't see too many enemy troops after all.

Listening attentively, the battle situation of the other three gates was not fierce, and Zhao Hu breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Ruxun said that the thief army is really coming, this situation cannot be explained, it can only be said that the thief army is quite confident in its own combat effectiveness, and rushed to Pingyu City with a horse team lightly armed, and lurked under Pingyu City until night, using sharp weapons such as flying claws as climbing tools to try to capture the city wall.

This is not an uncommon attack and siege routine, and there is nothing to break it down, but what Zhao Hu didn't expect was that their reaction was so violent, almost as soon as the defeated soldiers on this side went back, the light cavalry on that side rushed in, if it weren't for Xiao Ruxun's "multi-heartedness", it would really be attacked by the thief army at night.

The thief army is really cunning and abnormal, and it is not only a person who understands brute force.

In the city, because of the sudden sound of arrows, the battle bell rang, the whole city woke up from the dream, frightened, Xiao Ruxun opened his eyes and got up for the first time, and after appeasing the frightened Yang Caiyun, he finished wearing it as quickly as possible, walked out of the palace gate, and saw the soldiers come to report: "General, Dongcheng, is Dongcheng, Dongcheng is the first to sound arrows, and then the four city gates fly arrows together, the battle bell is ringing, and the whole city should know!" ”

Xiao Ruxun nodded, and then ordered: "You are divided into several groups, run back and forth on the main roads in the city, and loudly inform the residents of the city that the attack of the thief army has been repulsed, and from this moment on, the residents in the city must not take a step out of the house without an order, and the offender will be punished for collaborating with the enemy!" ”

The pro-soldier nodded: "No!" ”

Xiao Ruxun stared at Dongcheng.

Guess right, these rebels are not brainless people, Bibai father and son have been in battle for a long time, even if a stupid person survives the battle for a long time, he is definitely wise and stupid, and those who can survive on the battlefield are not stupid, this must be remembered.

Now the number of this group of rebels is uncertain, but it will definitely not be much, such a speed to rush over, they definitely need horses, the main force of the cavalry to deal with Wei Xuezeng, there is definitely not too much cavalry to distribute to Pingyu City, such a night attack is also this one, after this failure, the rebels are frightened, when they dare not attack at night again, knowing that this city is impregnable, the leader of the cavalry may not dare to use troops again, it is not easy to train cavalry, if the cavalry is damaged, the rebels can not bear it.

The next attack will probably be the main attack of the rebels, and it will probably be within a day or two.

The soldiers brought horses to help Xiao Ruxun sit on, Xiao Ruxun boarded the horse, and slowly galloped towards the gate of the East City.