Shi Kefa sat calmly in the yamen drinking tea, beside him, the magistrate of Shu'cheng County, who was accompanying him, tried to admire him, and finally couldn't help but speak: "The army of thieves is besieged, and the right senator is so calm, he really deserves to be the disciple of Zuo Zhongyi Gong!" ”

"My teacher's heart and lungs are all cast in iron, but the law is not as good as what happens." Shi Kefa sighed.

"The right senator is too modest, the left Zhongyi is like a stone in the center of the prison, and the right senator is calm among all the thieves, the two can be equal, just right!"

Zhang Keqian did not say the flattering words of "blue is better than blue", and after a few days of dealing with him, he can be regarded as understanding Shi Kefa's temper, he does not want others to praise him for being better than Zuo Guangdou, he only hopes that others will say that he seems to be Zuo Guangdou's second -- to say it is better, this is humility and not forgetting his roots, and if he does not listen to it, it is because this right senator lacks the courage to dare to be the first in the world.

But what he didn't expect was that his praise still made Shi Kefa's face turn purple as if he had been slapped in the face.

Shi Kefa remembered the situation when he was defending the city in Wu'wei, and he personally risked the arrow stone to go up the city wall, but the result was not as good as Yu Guozhen's housekeeper. Afterwards, I thought of being complacent in front of Yu Guozhen, but I was ridiculed and ridiculed.

If he hadn't had such an experience, how could he have been calm and calm in the siege of ten thousand thieves!

Therefore, he coughed embarrassedly and changed the subject: "The thief is still besieging but not attacking?" ”

"As Senator Shi said, the thieves lacked siege means, so they only feinted to attack." Chapter can try.

At this time, although the rogues were powerful, they actually did not have many means to attack the fortified city head-on, and generally relied on deception to seize the city. Therefore, when Zhang Xianzhong first went south, he would be at a loss in the face of a Lu'zhou city, until he seized the opportunity to lure out Wu Dapu, and then he succeeded.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong thought that the siege of Shu's city without attacking it would not arouse suspicion.

"Although the thieves have no means of attacking the city, if the thieves are allowed to run rampant, they will learn to attack the city sooner or later." Shi Kefa thought of what Yu Guozhen had said, and said worriedly: "Just imagine, when the thieves use artillery and explosives, dig trenches and dig soil, and attack the city...... In the absence of 'action, the thief ditch Zhang Kewang used artillery to bombard the city gate successfully. ”

Zhang Ketry also felt that the consequences were dangerous, and he frowned for a while: "I don't know if the reinforcements can come...... I look at the thieves, the elite is only one or two thousand, and most of the rest are rabble, if there are three thousand elite soldiers, it is enough to break it. ”

"The entire Nanzhili searched and picked up, and I couldn't find three thousand elite soldiers." Shi Kefa sighed: "This official has been acting in Lu'zhou for more than half a year, and he only has two thousand sergeants, which is not yet elite, and he was broken by the thieves...... Alas! ”

"Now I can only look at the young tiger of Wuwei, if he can break the thief, everything will ......"

When he said this, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside, but it was Sun Shimei trotting in, his face was slightly flushed, and he looked extremely excited.

"Got news?" Shi Kefa's composure suddenly disappeared, and he got up and asked.

"There's no news yet, but I see that there seems to be a change...... Moreover, there was a thief who shot this into the city. ”

Sun Shimei said as she presented an arrow with a piece of paper tied to it. Shi Kefa opened the paper, but it was a letter.

"Hehe, it's arrogant." After reading the contents of the letter two or three times, Shi Kefa said.

He handed over the letter to Zhang Kexian, which was a blackmail letter, asking the city to hand over 30,000 taels of silver and a hundred mules and horses, if he refused, he would order the siege of the city, and after the city was broken, the city would be slaughtered and the chickens and dogs would not be left.

"The heart of the thief is empty." Zhang Ketry applauded.

Shi Kefa nodded, if he didn't know that Yu Guozhen was thinking of thieves on the periphery, he wouldn't have guessed that this letter was actually a rogue with a weak heart.

"How?" Shi Kefa asked.

"When the lower officials come and reply, Senator Shi will reply, and he can't help but look down on the thief." Zhang Ke chuckled.

He called someone to bring paper and pencils, brushed them with a brush, finished writing and drying, and handed the paper to Shi Kefa, who applauded: "Okay, good, Zhang County is really an operator, this time it's good!" ”

He shot the letter to the city, and a thief picked up the arrow and quickly ran to hand it to Zhang Xianzhong. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was sitting in the big tent with a gloomy face, and when he heard that there was already a response in the city, he stood up anxiously: "Quickly bring it, let us take a look!" ”

What was written on the paper was very simple: there was money, food, horses and mules in the city, and if the thief had the ability, he would take it for himself.

is such a short sentence, but it is like a slap in the face of Zhang Xianzhong.

He prides himself on having skills, and he has no respect for the several leaders pushed out by the previous Liukou Gong, including the current leader King Chuang. This time to get rid of the rogues, with the old back and the king of the mixed heaven to the south, in his own opinion is a stroke of genius, in order to plan this step, as early as more than a year ago he began to arrange, the original Tong 'city people, although it is mainly the smell of incense, but behind the scenes, there are also his eight kings Zhang Xianzhong in the force!

This time he went south, in order to monopolize the rich Jianghuai, he even did not hesitate to find a small gap to separate from the king and the general, but things did not go as smoothly as he imagined. Nan Zhili, who was originally guarding against emptiness, first came out of Wu Dapu in Lu'zhou, and after being killed by him, his old enemy Yu Guozhen appeared again!

Yu Guozhen's successive clever tricks made Zhang Xianzhong's previous efforts come to naught, and even the harvest he plundered became Yu Guozhen's trophies.

He finally found an opportunity to reverse this unfavorable situation, and the results were ...... Now he can already be sure that this so-called opportunity is a trap!

It is a trap that separates him from Lao Hui and Chaotian King, so that they can be broken. The officers and soldiers first defeated Lao Huihui, who was fighting for reinforcements, and then defeated the Chaotian King who was guarding the retreat of the city, and now, it was his turn.

"If all this is Shi Kefa's arrangement, it is another Hong Chengchou, difficult, difficult." Throwing the letter on the ground, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but sigh.

He had already learned the news of the successive defeats of Lao Hui Hui and the Chaotian King, and now he did not know the whereabouts of Lao Huihui and the Chaotian King himself, nor did he know which officers and soldiers defeated them. The spies sent by Zhang Xianzhong were uprooted by another group of people almost within a day, which made Zhang Xianzhong lose his eyes and ears.

He could only get the corresponding news from the escaped Lao Hui Hui and the subordinates of the Chaotian King.

"Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers...... Is there a deception in it? "It's not that he didn't think about this, but Lao Huihui and the Chaotian King were both defeated in the blink of an eye, and the opponent's combat power was also terrifyingly strong, in Zhang Xianzhong's mind, in the field and siege, the only one who could defeat them so easily was the Guan Ning army from outside Shanhaiguan who fought with Dongyu all year round!

Thinking of Guan Ningjun, Zhang Xianzhong was shocked, after Zhu Dadian recovered the central capital, he was not far from the Lu's state capital, but he did not move, his subordinates were related to the Ning army!

If Zhu Dadian ostensibly stood still, in fact, he made a detour into the Yangtze River through the canal and rushed to the rescue day and night...... Then, it is really possible that there will be 3,000 Guanning troops with extremely strong combat effectiveness and 20,000 officers and soldiers in Nanzhili!

Zhang Xianzhong pondered for a while, but he still couldn't be so sure. He originally had another choice, which was to stay outside Shu's city and watch, but if it was really the Guanning army that came, and was bitten by this elite officer and soldier with many cavalry, it would be difficult for him Zhang Xianzhong to get out!

And Shi Kefa's tough reply also made him feel that the whole process was really something in the enemy's plan, and from the time Shi Kefa came out of nothing, he was tricked.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that I was very likely to be in the scheme. Zhang Xianzhong's surname is suspicious, if he changes to the king of chaos, most of them will stay and gamble, but Zhang Xianzhong thought that he might be tricked, and he immediately became anxious, and he ordered: "Order all battalions, prepare to go...... Go West! ”

As soon as he gave the order, the thieves immediately rose out of the camp, watching the Liukou go west, and Zhang Kexian, who was standing at the head of the city, looked at Sun Shimei.

Sun Shimei guessed that Shi Kefa and Yu Guozhen had a secret discussion, but he didn't know the specific content of the secret discussion, so he was also very surprised to find that the thief left like this.

"Gongcan, what do you think...... Is the thief a real or a fake return? Zhang Ke asked.

Sun Shimei stared into the distance, and saw that the thief was quite calm and methodical when he retreated, he shook his head: "The thief is cunning, far better than him, and the lower officials can't determine whether the thief is advancing by retreating, or he really has to retreat." ”

Both of them were anxious and wanted to know the true situation of the thieves, so they recruited a warrior in the city, roped down, and went to the camp abandoned by the thieves to see, sure enough, there was no ambush, and a lot of things were thrown in the camp, including siege equipment such as ladders, all of which were abandoned.

"It seems that the thief is really gone, but unfortunately we don't have enough troops, if we pursue at this time, we will win a big victory." Shi Kefa also received the news, and finally went to the city, looking at the place where the thieves had disappeared in the distance.

"This ......"

Zhang Keyan and Sun Shimei glanced at each other, and both smiled bitterly.

"Oh, you two think it's wrong?"

The two of them were really afraid that Shi Kefa would order, since this Shi Senator entered the city, he didn't say a word about how to defend the city, and completely handed it over to the two of them, so the two of them also understood that Shi Senator was not humble, but really hidden, and he really didn't know anything about military affairs.

"Indeed, the thief is cunning, and An Neng does not guard against the pursuit of our army, and it is expected that the thief will definitely arrange the elite to ambush the roadside, and if our army pursues, he will inevitably be ambushed. If he takes advantage of the victory to attack the city again, we are afraid that our little Shu's city will not be protected. ”

In order to be afraid that Shi Kefa would not understand the stakes, Sun Shimei explained in great detail, and after Shi Kefa listened, he smiled: "This official really doesn't know about military affairs, so he can only report to Jun En to Fu Li Shu with integrity. ”

The two of them were relieved. Half an hour after the thief left, there was smoke and dust in the distance, at first everyone thought that the thief saw that the ambush plan failed, and killed a horse pistol, they were all nervous, but after a while, they saw a few horses running to the city, and the leader was Bao Wenda.

"The right senator, Tong's city magistrate county Yang Gong, personally led the generals, broke the old back at night, and planned to seize Lu' Jiangcheng, now the old Hui and the king of chaos have been broken, and the thieves retreated, and our army won a big victory!"

"Hooray! Banzai! Several people around him cheered. And the sound of his victory spread all over the city, so there was a sudden cry above the city.

Shi Kefa stroked his beard and smiled, and his hanging heart finally let go, but in the laughter, his eyes were slightly dull.

Although Bao Wenda didn't mention it, Shi Kefa knew in his heart that Yu Guozhen was the key person in this big victory, but how should he face such a key person?

(To be continued)