The next day, Li Tong mobilized 800 elite soldiers, of which 50 people pretended to be merchants, when the world was in turmoil, the merchants were generally under the refuge of the wealthy clans, and they walked in a fixed area, basically did not cross the county, in the era of the rampant wanderers and bandits, only the warlords who did business across the county were the warlords who divided the localities, not the merchants who took refuge under the local tyrants. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, the fifty people who pretended to be business travelers pretended to be business travelers from another county in Chengqiao County, brought some sought-after goods and carts, led by Li Tong and Lu Bu, and left Pingyu first after disguise and headed for Xiaqiu.

Three days later, Cao Zhangze and Li Tong's two other subordinates led Sima to sneak out of the city in batches with 750 people, prepared their own food and water for five days, equipped with short halberds for foot combat, and hurried towards Xiaqiu, waiting for news from Lu Bu and Li Tong in a pre-agreed place outside Xiaqiu City.

This is the first time Cao Zhang has led the army by himself, but fortunately, now he is not small, and he is quite famous, and he can also do the order and prohibition, and after four days of rapid travel, he came to a place called Kanglonggou outside Xiaqiu, which is a small ravine, which is the place where he agreed to meet Li Tonglu Bu.

As soon as he entered the ditch, he saw many simple tents standing in front of him, Li Tong and five sergeants were waiting for Cao Zhang outside the tent, and after seeing Cao Zhang, Li Tong said: "Third son, now the Hou Ye and the sergeants have lived in the courtyard of the Gan family of the Xiaqiu Hao clan, and negotiate business with them. ”

Cao Zhang asked, "Is there a sergeant in Xiaqiu City?" ”

Li Tong replied: "There are 200 people in the county government, and they say that they are subordinate to the county order, but I am afraid that they are also strong men of the Gan family." ”

Cao Zhang asked, "What are the arrangements of the Hou Ye?" ”

Li Tong replied: "What Hou Ye means is to directly rush into Xiaqiu with the sergeants, gather eight hundred people in one place, use four hundred people to suppress the people, three hundred people to control the people in the county, thirty people to control the Gan family's house, and the remaining seventy people are divided into seven teams to control the other seven large households in Xiaqiu, and then disguise themselves as people from the Gan family to earn money in the Gan family manor, arrest the strong man, and then go to Wuhe." ”

"Two hundred people, five hundred strong men, Xiaqiu County, how many soldiers do we want to stay here?" Cao Zhang asked.

Li Tong replied: "At least four hundred sergeants must be left." ”

Cao Zhang's brows furrowed when he heard this, the thieves entrenched in Wuhe are estimated to be no less than 5,000 people, if there are 400 people left, they can only bring another 400 people, the difference in numbers is more than ten times, can this battle still be fought?

Li Tong saw Cao Zhang's worries, and only heard him say: "Don't worry, the third prince, I have been dealing with Runan thieves all the year round, it is not easy for this group of thieves to gather thousands of people, if there are thousands of people, they must belong to different wealthy families, and if they are raided, they will inevitably be in chaos, and those who are brave enough to fight back are afraid that less than one in ten will surely flee." ”

Cao Zhang nodded when he heard this: "Since this is the case, let's do what Wen Hou arranged." Cao Zhang seems to have never fought a battle with less to win more since he joined the army, so he is naturally a little worried, but Lu Bu and Li Tong, two people who have experienced a hundred battles, said so, so he is naturally relieved.

When Li Tong heard this, he said: "No! Then let the seven hundred and fifty sergeants finish their last day's rations, let them go into the tents to rest, and wait for the attack on Xia Qiu late this night.

Cao Zhang also went into the tent to sleep for a while, because the weather was still relatively cold in the cold season of spring, so he didn't sleep very well, and he got up and walked out of the tent before the time to start the army.

In the open space in the camp, Li Tong urged the sergeant to build a simple flying ladder, seeing that the flying ladder should be less than fifteen meters, it can be seen that the city wall of Xiaqiu County is not very high, Li Tong saw Cao Zhangxing and saluted: "Third son." ”

Cao Zhang asked, "Li Taishou, how many soldiers are guarding this Xiaqiu City?" If we rashly attack the county seat like this, the strong men of the Gan family manor will not be alarmed, right? If the thieves of the Five Rivers are let go, it will be a big loss. ”

Li Tong said with a smile: "There are fifteen people in the city who are keeping vigil, according to my observation for many days, no one will be on duty until late at night, but all of them will be lazy and sleep, if our army raids quickly, it is easy to control the city gate, and Xiaqiu is downwind, Ganjia Manor is upwind, thirty miles apart, I can't hear the sound, unless we burn the entire Xiaqiu, then the people of the manor may see the fire." ”

Cao Zhang said with a smile: "I see, I think they are thieves themselves, so naturally they will not guard against other thieves, just from this point, it can be seen that the power of the local tyrants in Yuzhou is intertwined, and they are all in the same spirit." ”

Li Tong replied: "That's true, so after this battle, I will check with Captain Manchu where the weapons of these thieves came from, and then rule these powerful people, otherwise not to mention Yuzhou, even Runan has a great hidden danger." ”

At this time, the sergeant had already made five flying ladders, and Li Tong looked at the moonlight and ordered: "Let the sergeant get up!" Let's go to Xiaqiu. ”

Kanglonggou is only twenty miles away from Xiaqiu, at this time the moon is in the sky, it is already the third watch, in this era of no nightlife, this kind of time, everyone should sleep, so when Cao Jun arrived at Xiaqiu three hundred meters away, he saw that half of the torches inserted in the city wall were extinguished, and the other half also had the momentum of extinguishing, as for the defenders, none of them were seen, obviously these soldiers guarding the city went to sleep, and even the torches were not changed, let it go out.

Seeing this, Li Tong immediately made a gesture, and the five flying ladders were lifted by soldiers one after the other, and then the sergeants were divided into five teams, each team of fifty people, followed by the five flying ladders and trotted towards Xiaqiu City, the team was neat, and the steps were the same, which showed that Li Tong governed the army in a good way.

Cao Zhang had already held the ring-headed knife in his hand at this time, and he still had a bow and arrows on his back, but now it was stealing the city, there was no need to bring a bow and arrows, and when the five teams of city-stealing sergeants rushed to a hundred meters away from the city wall, Li Tong pulled out the ring-headed knife and shouted: "Sons! Rush! The five hundred sergeants behind him made a noise, brandishing a short halberd about one and a half meters long, and rushed towards Xia Qiu with Li Tong.

As early as when Li Tong drew his sword, Cao Zhang had already walked forward quickly, rushing towards the city wall, and in a moment all five flying ladders were on the city wall, those soldiers who stole the city were obviously professionally trained, and as soon as the flying ladder caught the group of soldiers, they climbed up like ants, and the soldiers on Xiaqiu City just probed Cao Jun climbed up to the city, and with a wave of his halberd, he beheaded the sleepy-eyed soldiers.

By the time Cao Zhang reached the top of the city, the city gate had already been opened, and Li Tong led 400 people straight to the military camp in the northwest corner where the people were resting, while 300 people were divided into teams of five and shouted through the streets and alleys: "Don't go out!" Then he shuttled back and forth through the streets and alleys to control the people of the county, and the other fifty people were divided into five teams and rushed in five directions, each with a more imposing house.

In the largest house in the northeast of the county, two groups of businessmen dressed as people suddenly rushed out, they held torches and rushed towards the other two magnificent mansions, for a time Li Tong's elite soldiers performed their duties to complete their tasks, except for the northwest corner of the sergeant and the sound of the people killed, the hustle and bustle in all directions gradually decreased, it can be seen that Xiaqiu has been basically controlled by the Cao army.

It seems that when he was sleeping, Li Tong had already explained the direction and task of the attack to his subordinates, which fully showed his deep understanding of Xiaqiu's layout, and twenty of the fifty sergeants who pretended to be merchants led by Lu Bu went to control the other two large families, and the other thirty people directly controlled the Gan family, which was obviously also discussed with Li Tong in advance.

Remembering the first time I saw Li Tong back then, he also occupied Xiping with a very fast speed, and I only knew this person's methods when I saw it with my own eyes today, and it was really extraordinary.