CHAPTER 112 Who reckoned with whom?
"The beggar is gone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info" He Deaf reported quietly to Liu He.
Liu He, who was wiping the crossbow in his hand, raised his head when he heard this: "Are the others still there?" β
"It's all there," He Deaf replied, "in fact, only the beggar is abnormal, only he always likes to inquire about this and that, and others are most concerned about wages." β
Liu He chuckled at the corner of his mouth: "It's been a few years, and it seems that what the military advisor expected is about to happen." β
He Deaf said: "According to the report, that beggar circled around the military camp in the city for several days. β
"I'm going to report to your lordship." Liu He stood up, "In the past few years, I have asked you to pretend to be deaf and stupid, and it has been hard." β
He Deaf smiled knowingly: "This is all well arranged by adults." β
Liu He inserted the crossbow machine behind his back: "I'm really sorry, even I'm used to calling you He Deaf now, don't be angry." β
Liu Pan didn't rest, in addition to working in the government every day, he also insisted on inspecting the military camp and pulling the bow on the shooting range.
"Brush!" The arrow in his hand left the string, and the grass target red heart was fifty paces away.
"From now on, let all the grain ships be transported directly to Gangneung, and at the same time, I will let the forward sentry pay attention to observe, once you find that the enemy army is moving, you must quickly move most of the grain in the city to the underground temporary warehouse." Handing the strong bow in his hand to the sergeant beside him, Liu Pan turned around and ordered Liu He.
Ten days later, some merchants and craftsmen from other places poured into the city of Baqiu, buying and selling tea, silk and other things, or blacksmithing and carpentry, all kinds of things.
This is an advance team sent by LΓΌ Meng, a total of 150 people, they are scattered to all corners of the city, according to the map LΓΌ Meng drew before, familiar with the terrain and roads in the city and the defenses in various places.
After another three days, LΓΌ Meng's 10,000-strong army abandoned their ships and landed on the lake, and surrounded the city of Baqiu.
There are now more than 1,000 defenders left in the city, and Liu Pan has already received the news and arranged for the Tuntian army and most of his subordinates to evacuate, and he will stay here and prepare to break through tonight.
That night, the night was blurry, and the crescent moon seemed to be shrouded in a layer of clouds, and LΓΌ Meng asked his generals to command a vigorous attack on the west city gate, but he himself led a large number of men and horses to ambush outside the east city gate.
According to the prior agreement, they will set fire to the east gate of the city at midnight to create chaos and receive the army into the city.
Liu Pan was at the north gate at this time, looking up at the night sky, and felt that it was advantageous to break through the night like this, his men and horses were familiar with the local terrain, and with a little moonlight, even the torches were saved, so that the enemy who was a little farther away could not find it.
"Are you all ready?" Liu Pan asked Liu He in a low voice.
Liu He arched his hand and replied, "My lord, it's all ready." β
"I'll personally open the knife and sacrifice to the sky!" Liu Pan gritted his teeth, pulled out the saber at his waist, walked to the group of people who were tied up and kneeling on the ground next to him, and cut off the person in front of him with the knife in his hand.
"I'll leave the rest to you, waiting for us to kill you back." Liu Pan handed the knife to Liu He.
Liu He hurriedly stretched out his hand to take it: "My lord, take care." β
Liu Pan nodded: "You all have to take care, act cautiously, and don't be exposed easily." With that, he turned around and got on his horse and left.
Liu He beckoned his subordinates to do it, and beheaded all the more than 100 Jiangdong sergeants who had been captured and mixed into Baqiu in advance, and then ordered: "Start ignition!" β
The sergeants lit the pre-prepared fire-starters, and suddenly the fire in the northern city burst into flames, and then they opened their throats and shouted: "It's on fire, it's on fire, someone set it on fire!" There are enemy troops in the city! There are enemy troops in the city! β
LΓΌ Meng waited outside the east gate, and when the hour came, he didn't see anything unusual in the city, and from here, the defenders of the city were still holding on in an orderly manner, but a sergeant came to report: "General, there is an abnormality at the north city gate, and there is a fire in the city." β
How, didn't you say that you set fire to the east city gate, how did you run to the north city gate and do something?
didn't have time to think about it, maybe it was because the East City Gate was tightly defended and there was no chance, Lu Meng quickly commanded his subordinates, leaving a small group of men and horses to continue to feint at the East City Gate, and he led his team to the North Gate quickly.
Despite the city's blazing fire, the defenders at the north gate put up a stubborn resistance and did not allow a single enemy to storm the walls.
When Lu Meng arrived, the city was still full of murderous sounds, but his own men and horses had not yet attacked, so he was so angry that he called Song Hao, the general in charge of the north gate, over, and slapped him in the face: "Why hasn't you broken through yet?" β
"General!" Song Hao was very aggrieved, "You ordered us to just make a feint, and you didn't equip me with many men and equipment." β
Forget it, Lu Meng didn't have the heart to care, and ordered loudly: "Hurry up and attack the city!" If you can't attack it again, all the people in the city will die! β
When Lu Meng rushed into the city with all his might, he found that his advance team members were indeed all dead, one by one, holding knives, guns or torches, and falling to the ground with their mouths open, and many of them were separated from their bodies, which was miserable.
Although they didn't set fire to the East City Gate as planned, they still created chaos at the North Gate and helped the army to attack Baqiu New City, Lu Bu sighed: "Brothers, you are all big husbands! On the other hand, he glared at Song Hao fiercely, it was all you who failed to attack the city, otherwise how could they all die?
Song Hao was so frightened that he didn't dare to look at Lu Meng, he only stared at the corpse on the ground, looked at it and found that something was wrong, and felt that he should not be blamed, so he hurriedly said to Lu Meng: "General, they died a little strangely. β
Lu Meng sneered: "It's a wrongful death, they could have died unjustly." β
Song Hao defended: "General, I mean, the posture in which they died is a little strange. β
As soon as he heard the specific content of the people, Lu Meng couldn't help but bow his head and take a closer look.
Song Hao continued to explain: "If they were killed by hunting and killing the enemy, they would have been in various postures when they died, but now, most of them are lying on the ground, isn't it strange? β
Lu Meng hurriedly asked everyone to separate and take a closer look, and sure enough, he soon found something unusual, there was a dead man with a piece of cloth stuffed in his mouth, obviously he had been caught a long time ago, and then he was hacked to death.
That's right, no wonder they all have big mouths, it turns out that they were all gagged with cloth before they died, and those enemies deliberately took away the rope and cloth strips in order to create a false image, but in a hurry, one was missed.
Then someone found out that something was wrong: "General, why are we all one hundred and fifty dead, but we can't see the corpses of a few enemies?" It stands to reason that they attacked suddenly, and they should have killed a lot of enemies. β
Song Hao analyzed the hardest: "General, generally speaking, in a melee between the two armies, there should be a group of people who die under the enemy's arrows, but these people are all hacked to death with knives or stabbed to death with guns." Moreover, when they died, they were all so close. β
Lu Meng slapped his forehead suddenly, these people had already been caught and tied up, where was their turn to kill.
It's over, we've fallen for the enemy's tricks, so what are they trying to do by deliberately luring us to the north gate?
Before he could think about it, a sergeant came over and reported: "General, Liu Pan has led people to break through from the south gate." β