Although Liu Bei led his army to Jincheng in a hurry, he did not forget to send messengers to Hao Zhao's military camp in Lintao along the way to inquire about the movements of Liu Qi's army from Hao Zhao.

Although Hao Zhao sent out many spies, he couldn't hide it from Liu Qi's ears and eyes at all, so he had already been quietly captured by Fa Zheng, and bribed them with a lot of money, and sent false information to Hao Zhao: Liu Qi's army was normal, and no signs of sending troops were found.

Hao Zhao was young at that time, although he had good military talents, but he was not too familiar with this kind of thing between use and counter, and he did not have due vigilance in his heart, so after getting the information, he immediately ordered the sergeant to fly to Liu Bei, and for the sake of prudence, he sent someone to deliver the message every half an hour.

In fact, it is said that for a layman like Hao Zhao, it is not easy to do this, but where can he correct the opponent of such a veteran who uses and counters? So as soon as he came up, he fell into the trap carefully prepared by Fa Zheng, so that Liu Bei and Huang Zhong were convinced of Liu Qi's movements, and they didn't know that Liu Qi had already set up an ambush under Yunwu City, waiting for his army to ambush.

In order to be able to hurry, Liu Bei's army has now exerted its unprecedented potential, and the soldiers of the whole army have traveled day and night, and it took five days and nights to finally come to Yunwu City, he looked at Yunwu City without the slightest guard in front of him, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

At this time, Zhang Fei and Yan Xing had been waiting in the dense forest twenty miles away for a long time, and when they heard that Liu Bei's army was coming, they immediately led their troops to rendezvous.

"Lord, what should we do next?" Zhang Fei's face revealed a trace of excitement, and he couldn't wait to ask.

"Hehe, what else can I do? Naturally, the siege persuaded to surrender? Now that Liu Qi is far away in Lintao, even if he found out that our army was here two days ago, it would definitely be too late to rescue. Besides, with Liu Qi'er's cunning, he will definitely not come to the rescue of Jincheng again. Otherwise, wouldn't you be caught in the net? At that time, Liu Qi saw that my Hanyang County was empty, and he would definitely lead the army to attack. didn't know that Hao Bodao had already led the army to hold on, and Liu Qi'er was destined to work in vain. ”

"Haha, what the lord said is exactly what I want, without further ado, let's start moving quickly." Zhang Fei couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and then he was gearing up, looking eager to try.

Seeing Zhang Fei's expression, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others were all overwhelmed. Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang glanced at each other again, then nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then let's start the operation, we will first gather the troops together, and then surround the entire city unexpectedly, General Yan will go to persuade him to surrender, most of the soldiers on the head of the city are the Xiliang army, if you see General Yan, and under the pressure of our army besieging the city, we will definitely go out of the city and surrender." In this way, we will be able to capture Yungo Castle without a single soldier. ”

Yan Xing glanced at Liu Bei, and then said suspiciously: "But Ma Dai Xiao'er has a deep blood feud with us, how can he be willing to surrender?" ”

But seeing Zhuge Liang, he smiled faintly and said, "Ma Dai really won't surrender." However, he could not prevent the surrender of his soldiers, and his best outcome was to be captured, and the bad outcome was of course to be killed by his subordinates. ”

Yan Xing was stunned when he heard this, and felt that what the other party said made a lot of sense, and then he knew why Liu Bei relied so much on this young man, because the wisdom revealed by this person was definitely something he did not have.

Yan Xing had no doubts, so he naturally had to do what Liu Bei had ordered, and after a stick of incense, he saw that the army was all gathered together. Then there was a hula, and it surrounded the entire Yungo City like a tide.

Whether it is Zhang Fei, Liu Bei or Yan Xing. The army saw the panicked expressions of the defenders at the head of the city.

At this time, he saw Ma Dai coming to the city, and he plucked up his courage and shouted: "Whose soldiers and horses are under the city?" How dare you invade our borders for no reason. Don't you know that this is the territory of the Duke of Chu? If you retreat quickly, our army will not care, otherwise, the Duke of Chu will be angry and will let you wait for millions of corpses. ”

When Yan Xing saw Liu Bei's eyes, he knew that it was the time to threaten and lure him to surrender, so he shouted loudly: "Ma Dai, it's over now, I didn't expect your kid to be still showing off his might here, under the banner of your Duke of Chu, I would have sued you, your master is not coming back, and he is now unable to protect himself, where will he take care of this small school's Yunwu City?" Now that you have been surrounded by our army, and 100,000 troops are coming to the city, even if Liu Qi is here, you will definitely be defeated, not to mention that his main force is not there? If you kid know each other, you will obediently surrender to Duke Qin, and you will not care about your revenge for killing my parents, otherwise, as long as Duke Qin gives an order, I am afraid that you, the army and civilians in the city, will suffer with you. ”

But he heard Ma Dai laugh and said: "Yan Xing, you unrighteous horseman, you served under Han Sui before, but you rebelled to the Duke of Qin in an instant, and now you have a new master, it can be described as a dog fighting with human power, and you are proud, hehe, I don't know if you will bite the Duke of Qin back if you get Jincheng in the future?" But you don't have to worry, Gong Qin has always been broad-minded, even if you bite his old man a few times, he will definitely not blame. ”

Liu Bei listened to Ma Dai's words, and his face suddenly became gloomy, not knowing if it was because he was worried about Yan Xing's rebellion or because of Ma Dai's insults. But Yan Xing's heart was beating violently, because Ma Dai's words did say something about his thoughts, and he was also afraid that Liu Bei would turn his face at this time, and he would die without a place to be buried, so Yan Xing's face changed, and he suddenly smiled: "I haven't seen you for a few years, I didn't expect your puppy to become as sharp as Liu Qi, but no matter how clever your teeth are, it will be difficult to escape death today." ”

Then Yan Xing ignored Ma Dai and shouted to the city: "Brothers on the city, you are all my Xiliang brothers, there is no need to accompany Ma Dai's little dog to give his life in vain, you have also seen it, now Qin Gong waved 100,000 troops and came to Yunwu City, as long as an order is given, all the soldiers and civilians in the city are not protected, but Qin Gong is the lord of benevolence and righteousness, and he can't bear to lose his life, so I am telling you that this time Qin Gong is conquest of Jincheng, only ask about the first evil, and the rest are not asked, and all those who come to Qin Gong will be given 1,000 yuan by the sergeants, and all the officials will be promoted to the next level. The Duke of Qin only waited under the city for three days, and if you did not surrender after three days, Hugh blamed our army for being cold-blooded and ruthless. ”

After Yan Xing finished speaking, he didn't say anything more, but quietly retreated.

After Yan Xing retreated, both sides fell silent, and for a moment there was a terrible silence up and down the city, but everyone knew that this silence was like a brief silence before a storm, and a terrible storm was brewing.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang couldn't help but smile at each other, they knew that no matter how firm Ma Dai's will was, he would not be able to stop the mutiny of the soldiers and civilians all over the city, because they couldn't see a glimmer of hope at all, plus Yan Xingnai standing under the city was an old boss, in this situation, they had no reason not to choose to surrender. So the next thing they have to do is just wait quietly.

Within three days, they believed that the soldiers of the city would open their doors and dedicate the city.

At this time, he also got news from Hao Zhao, saying that Liu Qi's army was attacking fiercely around Ji County, and the enemy surrounded Ji County, and he couldn't find out whether Liu Qi would send troops to aid Jincheng, so Liu Bei must be careful.

It is precisely because of this that although Zhuge Liang looks very leisurely, he is full of spies, asking if Liu Qi's army will appear. Although Zhuge Liang believed that Liu Qi was now attacking Ji County, it was impossible to send reinforcements to Jincheng, and even if he came, it was meaningless, but he was still cautious and made the spies pay close attention to whether Liu Qi's army was coming.

It was precisely because of the impermeability of his deployment that Zhuge Liang believed that no matter where Liu Qi's army appeared, he would never be able to avoid his spies. And as long as there is a situation, the spies under his command will definitely report the news to him as soon as possible.

Things really didn't happen as Zhuge Liang expected, and that night, some soldiers came down from the city and came to the camp to ask Liu Bei to surrender. And on the second night, the number of people who asked to surrender turned out to be more and more, the status of the mastermind was getting higher and higher, and the ways of surrender were also varied, some directly led the army to surrender in the camp, and some promised to secretly make internal responses, preparing to surrender to the third day, and on the second night, there was a thing that made Liu Bei feel the most happy: this time the person who asked for surrender turned out to be Yan Xing's old acquaintance, the envoy sent by Yang Qiu, who also belonged to the Guanlong warlord.

Listening to what the messenger said, after listening to what Yan Xing said, the hearts of the people in Yunwu City were already fluctuating, and most of the soldiers were thinking about how to save their lives, even those who had not yet considered surrendering, there was no one to serve Ma Dai anymore, and now Ma Dai had become a little unreasonable, and he was ready to escort all the families of the Xiliang army in the city to the outside of the city the next day, forcing the Xiliang soldiers outside the city to surrender to him.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang glanced at each other, and they both saw a trace of inadvertent worry in each other's eyes.

They were not afraid that Ma Dai would kill those Xiliang army family members in anger, in fact, they had been persecuting Ma Dai like this, but they had the intention of forcing him to kill the Xiliang army's family members, because as long as Ma Dai did this, it would definitely arouse the collective anger of all Xiliang soldiers, including even those Xiliang soldiers who were still in the city.

However, if Ma Dai really had some brains, he would rather burn all the jade and stones, and use the lives of the families of the Xiliang army in the city to coerce Yan Xing's army outside the city to surrender, it is estimated that at least about half of Yan Xing's more than 20,000 cavalry will have no choice but to surrender, so that even if they succeed in occupying Yunwu, they will definitely pay a lot of price.

At this critical moment in the battle with Liu Qi, some small losses may lead to unimaginable consequences.

But fortunately, Yang Qiu's envoy's next sentence solved a big problem for them: "Our general has decided to open the city gate and surrender to the Duke of Qin tomorrow after taking Ma Dai unguarded, capturing him, and only hoping that the Duke of Qin can ignore the past suspicions and give our Xiliang soldiers a way to live." ”

Liu Bei hurriedly smiled and said: "You go and tell General Yang, just say that Gu wants to show him as General Anxi, Marquis Yunwu, Jincheng Taishou, please rest assured that General Yang has made great contributions, and Gu will definitely not hesitate to reward him." ”

The envoy perked up at this time, saluted Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang respectfully, and then left the barracks with Liu Bei's handwritten letter and returned to Yunwu City. (To be continued)