After learning that there was a military camp of more than 100,000 enemy troops in the north of the city, Murong Cheng dared not underestimate it. He immediately ordered his spies to intensify their investigations. After all, these more than 100,000 troops rushed over, although they would not directly kill them out of the water pass, but they would definitely not feel good. If the loss here is too great, then the next action will not be completed very well and quickly. This kind of situation is not what he Murong Cheng wants.

"Brother Zhang, is this abnormal situation really as you said? How do I feel that something is wrong? There were 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers in this Bishui Pass, but only more than 10,000 people actually died in this battle. This is not the appearance that the defenders should have for an important place like Bishui Pass. In the midst of the busy green, Zhong Yan frowned and said to Zhang Tu.

Bishui Pass is Yongzhou, and it is an important defense line in the southeast of Luoyang, if it is broken here, it is equivalent to the eastern area of Luoyang is not safe. How could the defenders flee in a hurry with only 17,000 killed? Is it easier to guard in the camp than to guard the Bishui Pass? It's simply impossible. Therefore, this incident made Zhong Yan arrive very strangely.

Zhang Tu also frowned, and said: "I also know the doubts in Brother Zhong's heart, not only you, but also me." I don't believe that this defender was simply defeated by us, as you said, this is Bishui Pass, not any other city. ”

"Just look at the Tiger Prison Pass, how about the onslaught at the Tiger Prison Pass for more than a month, with 150,000 or 600,000 casualties? The Tiger Prison is still unbreakable. We attacked by day, and they repaired by night, and the city was so strong that it was difficult to take it. How could this Bishui Pass, which has the same status as the Tiger Prison Pass, be defeated so lightly and taken by us? If it is, it is possible that we will kill the defenders in a crushing defeat. ”

"In addition, compared to Brother Zhong, he also listened to the words of the former army general Qi Lin, when the army defending the city and fleeing, it was still under the organization of the chief general and officers at all levels, and they were defeated and retreated in an orderly manner. You say, can such an escape be called a rout? This clearly means that the defending generals and officers have made certain preparations for the loss of Bishui Pass. ”

"However, His Royal Highness the King of Qi is now rejoicing at the destruction of the city, can we tell him that it is dangerous here, let's withdraw. Brother Zhong, the situation is unclear now, and we don't dare to make any judgments. If the prince is dissatisfied, you and I will have no good fruit to eat. The most urgent task now is to have a contest with the enemy army ten miles away tomorrow, and the result will be clear at a glance. We can only be cautious about the current situation, and we must think carefully about any decision we make. I'm not afraid of your jokes, I have a very bad feeling right now. It seems that our operation was not so smooth. ”

Zhong Yan opened his mouth and didn't say anything for a long time. Zhang Tu is right, although there are many doubts, but they do not have any clear evidence to express their opinions. Even if he knew that there was something wrong with this Bishui Pass, could he still let the 1450,000 troops who had entered the city evacuate? This is obviously impossible, in order to take this place, troops were dispatched, trebuchets were transported, and countless grains and grass materials were spent. Don't say that Murong has become a city, it's just that he is distressed when he arrives.

Now Murong Cheng is rejoicing that he has broken this water pass, if he goes to Murong Cheng and says that it is very dangerous here, we will still withdraw from the pass, and we will definitely not be treated by Murong Cheng. Not only that, but it also made those generals dissatisfied. You must know that in today's battle, the siege team suffered more than 50,000 casualties. A large part of them died under the trebuchets and crossbows and bows of the defenders. Of course, more than half of the 50,000 wounded soldiers were wounded.

The city that was won at such a great cost ended up withdrawing for an uncertain and strange reason, but I am afraid that no one will be happy.

"Alas...... It seems that this can only be the case, but I don't know what the situation will be tomorrow? Zhong Yan said with a wry smile.

The moon is dark and the wind is high to kill the night, and at the beginning of the month, the night sky is pitch black. In a house not far from the military camp in the north of the city of Bishui Guancheng, where the young men who used to assist in defending the city lived, the large bed in the inner house suddenly moved gently, and after a while, a person had already come out of it. It turns out that there is a tunnel underneath this.

This person was dressed in a black tights, he drilled out of the door, looked around lightly, and after finding no movement, he listened carefully to the movement outside. After a while, after there was no abnormality, he squatted on the ground and stretched out the secret passage under the counter and made a gesture.

Silently, one after another men in black came out of it, and in a short time hundreds of people had gathered in the small house. Several of the leaders who had come up from the tunnel gathered together, took the map and compared it with their hands a few times, and then reconfirmed their goals. Each of them waved at their subordinates behind them, and immediately the men and horses were divided into three parts, like the elves of the night, and they quickly broke the news again in the night. On the map in his hand, the number seven is marked. This shows that they are the members of the seventh team.

Because of the hard battle of the day, and because of the hard fight of tomorrow. Therefore, in addition to increasing the surveillance of the enemy camp dozens of miles away, Murong Cheng did not strengthen anything in this Bishui Pass. Of course, the indispensable patrol guards and sentry guards have always been in place.

In the darkness, people in black appeared from all parts of the city, they knew the layout of the city very well, and everywhere they went, there were some important places. There were occasional patrolling sentinels along the way, but they were easily eliminated.

"Here, take out the fire oil and splash it everywhere at once, quick!" A leader pointed to a ruin and ordered in a muffled voice.

In an instant, dozens of people sprang into action, moving in places that looked like they had been destroyed by the battle. It used to be a private house, but now it looks like half of the walls have been knocked down by something. It looks like a ruined house, and under the actions of these men in black, a lot of sheepskin bags have been made out of it.

"Action, be careful!" The leader took two sheepskin bags and walked towards one place, then cut the bottom with the knife in his hand, and let it be sprinkled everywhere, sometimes on top of the surrounding houses, especially those that were somehow full of waste wood and hay.

......In the end, the leader threw the sheepskin bag in his hand directly into the abandoned house. Like the leader, dozens of black-clothed men moved along the corners, splashing fire oil everywhere.

If you look from the sky above the city, you will definitely find that these thousands of black-clothed people began to sprinkle fire oil around the entire city, not only around, but also in various places in the middle. Especially around the barracks, there was more spilling.

Not far from the camp in the north of the city, more than 100 black-clothed people carried hundreds of sheepskin bags, walked around the barracks, and searched for them from the ground, "here", someone whispered for a while, it turned out that this would be a small trench leading directly to the inside of the barracks, especially the location where the military grain and grass were stored and the camp tents of the soldiers.

"Pour it in, and I'm going to make the whole barracks a spider-web firing oil trench." The man in black in the lead ordered in a muffled voice. This person is none other than Su Yang, the former guard of Bishui. He strongly requested to personally participate in the operation of Bishui Pass. Seeing this, Situ Tai had no choice but to let him participate in it personally.

Bishui Pass, the land north of the city, the former Bishui Pass General's Mansion, and now the place where Murong Cheng, the king of Qi, settled.

"Lord Wang...... The prince ......" With a low cry, there was a knock on the door.

"What's the matter?" After Murong Cheng, who was sleeping in Zhengxiang, was awakened, he said with some dissatisfaction. At night, he drank a lot of wine because of the celebration of taking the Bishui Pass, so he slept very comfortably, so he was a little angry that he was woken up from his sleep. Also, whoever is awakened when he is sleeping soundly, he will not be unhappy.

"Lord Wang, it's not good, the enemy army outside the city has already left the camp, and the army has killed it!" It was none other than his cronies Zhang Tu outside the door. Hearing an echo in the house, Zhang Tu knew that Murong Cheng was awake. Although he understood that Murong Cheng was uncomfortable at the moment, he couldn't care about it, so he had to tell the information directly.

"What?" Murong Cheng was taken aback, shook his head vigorously, and said, "I'll be there right away, gather all the generals, and let the soldiers all prepare for action." However, without military orders, they must not act rashly. ”

"When will the enemy army depart, and how long will it be before the city gates? How many enemy troops are in sorties? Murong Cheng asked loudly while dressing. Although he has confidence in his subordinates when the enemy moves at night, it doesn't mean that he doesn't care. There are no absolutes, and no one dares to guarantee that everything will go the way they think.

Zhang Tu replied: "According to the report of the Tanma, there are about sixty or seventy thousand people. Although it was not really visible in the darkness, our defenders of the northern city had already seen a dense crowd of torches several miles outside the city wall, approaching the city wall. ”

"Sixty or seventy thousand?" Murong Cheng frowned slightly, opened the door, and said in a condensed voice, "Could it be that the other party wants to fight at night?" It's not very reasonable, for them, they should delay time, instead of fighting back directly? We still have 180,000 people in the siege army, and we rely on more than 100,000 of them to succeed in counterattacking. Maybe we will take advantage of the situation to beat back, and even the big camp will be lost. What do they say? ”

Zhong Yan said hurriedly: "Lord Wang, this matter should not be underestimated. Either way, it's weird from the start. The defenders of Bishui Pass left lightly after suffering less than 20,000 casualties, and not even a single officer at all levels stayed behind to carry it to death, which compared with the Tiger Prison Pass, it was simply one in the sky and the other on the ground. At the moment, 100,000 enemy troops suddenly appeared outside the city, which was obviously a huge problem. And we don't know it, it's a weird place......"

Murong Cheng frowned and said, "What you said is reasonable, and this king understands it in his heart, but after all, there is no actual evidence, and it has no practical effect. Now, let's go to the city wall first, how to say, oh Mo also made tens of thousands of people busy for an afternoon, and also repaired the north city well. If you want to enter the city, it is impossible without forty or fifty thousand dead and wounded. Besides, more than 300 of our trebuchets and more than 100 crossbows are deployed in the northern city, so what are we afraid of? Let's go, let's see. ”

"By the way, immediately send an order to the camp outside the city, so that the rear army and the Chinese army are ready to meet the battle and support us at any time." After thinking about it, Murong Cheng ordered again. The water is not big, and it will be just in case. Therefore, Murong Cheng let the front army, the left army and the right army enter the city, and the rear army and the middle army were stationed outside the city.

"Well...... Strange, how do I smell a strange smell, you guys? Do you smell anything bad? Except for the General's Mansion in the north of the city, Murong Cheng suddenly said. Except for the mansion gate, there is always a trace of strange smell, which seems to be brought by majesty.

Qi Lin, the general of the former army, said: "General Hui, because when the city was sieged, there were heavy casualties, and when the enemy abandoned the city and fled, it was set on fire. So, the city is full of the strange smell and stench of burning corpses, so ......"

"Forget it, let's go." Murong Cheng didn't continue to dwell on these details. But Zhang Tu always felt that something was wrong. However, at this moment, Murong Cheng was in a hurry to board the North City, so the slightest idea of weirdness in Zhang Tu's heart was also completely disturbed.

Murong Cheng came to the north gate under the escort of his own soldiers, and the group hurriedly climbed the city tower, and saw that under the dark night sky outside the city, there were dense torches. The horses were neighing and terrifying, and the endless army actually occupied the space several miles north of the city, and the momentum was not small.

"Bluffing, if it's a surprise attack, it's reasonable, this head-to-head battle, can they do it?" Murong Cheng looked at the situation outside the city and said coldly.

Outside the northern city of Bishui Pass, Situ Tai came to the battlefield in person. They were five hundred meters away from the northern city of Bishui Pass, but under this straight-line distance, one high and one low, they could see each other very obviously.

"Situ Tai!" Looking at the middle-aged general under the torch, Murong Cheng's face turned to the side, and his brows involuntarily tightened slightly. For Situ Tai, Murong Cheng naturally knows very well. As Situ Lei's parent, he is still one of the five sons with real abilities, and it is impossible for him not to understand.

Situ Taidao is not very unusual, but Situ Tai's 100,000 troops have been waiting dozens of miles away from the northern city for many days before he attacked the city, which is not a good thing.

"Situ Tai, how dare you appear here? Aren't you afraid that this king will defeat you tonight, capture you alive, and let you ascend to the sky one step ahead of your father, Situ Lei, the thief? On the city wall, Murong Cheng shouted victoriously. Speaking of which, Murong Cheng is only more than ten years older than Situ Tai, and between the two, they are both from the heyday of his life.

Situ Tai laughed and said, "Murong Cheng is an old thief, just because you also want to take down this general?" Tonight is the day of your Murong Cheng's burial, and this place is the place where your Murong Cheng is buried. If you want to take down General Ben, General Ben still wants to sacrifice your head to the flag. As long as you are disposed of, your so-called coalition forces, that is, the chickens and dogs, will be vulnerable. ”

Murong Cheng sneered: "Boy, when this king and your father were fighting, you didn't know where to play with the mud, just because you also wanted to fight with this king?" Forget it, let your father come here. By the way, Situ Tai, did you bring troops here this time to fight for the right to inherit the throne? If you win, it's fine, but if you lose, then there's nothing. ”

Situ Tai smiled faintly and said, "Murong Cheng is an old thief, why do you want to test me again?" General Ben told you, I am not here on a whim, nor is it a private transfer of troops. But I know what tricks you Murong Cheng played in the Tiger Prison Pass, think about it, His Royal Highness the King of Qi, who commanded the soldiers to fight hard in the Tiger Prison Pass, is now here. Doesn't that mean that General Ben is here right, how about it? The strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain is not easy to perform. Murong Cheng is an old thief, your plan has been seen through by us, if you are smart, you will surrender the city immediately. For the sake of you, you were once in the same dynasty as my father, and maybe my father will spare your life. ”

Murong Cheng's heart trembled, and he secretly admired this Situ Tai's cleverness. That's right, what he said at the beginning was to test Situ Tai's movement here this time. However, the results obtained now made Murong Cheng frightened. Without him, the other party's words were clearly told to him, and his plan to divert the tiger from the mountain was recognized. In other words, his current actions are under the noses of the other party, and he still thinks that no one knows.

Of course, Murong Cheng was not good at stubble, and said lightly: "Really? Do you see through it? But this is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is also one of the eastern gateways of Luoyang, is Bishui Pass not finally captured by this king? Why, could it be that you can stop us with tens of thousands of horses in your hands? Wish for the moon! ”

Situ Tai raised his arms and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Murong Cheng is an old thief, do you have the courage to send someone out to fight with General Ben?" Hiding on the city wall and being a turtle with a shrunken head is not what His Royal Highness King Qi should do. ”

Murong Cheng sneered: "The defenders of Bishui Pass and Tiger Prison Pass, aren't they also hiding behind the city wall as shrunken turtles? When will they dare to go out of the city to fight? Boy, the agitation method doesn't work. If it's all right, you can stand outside the city for the night, and the king won't have time to accompany you. Of course, if you want to attack the city, this king is also very welcome. Hahaha......"

"The order goes down, no matter what tricks the enemy troops outside the city are playing, the whole army must not leave the city without authorization, so as not to be taken advantage of by the enemy, and wait for dawn to talk about it." Murong Cheng ordered lightly, speaking of which, he was still surprised and pressured by the news revealed by Situ Tai, and he didn't dare to act rashly.

Situ Tai laughed and said, "Murong Cheng is an old thief, you are afraid!" Sue you, no matter what, tonight is your time of death. Come on, put a rocket signal. ”

"Chirp Chirp ......" A series of flaming arrows rose into the air and flew into the sky. In this dark night, it is so obvious, so dazzling.

Seeing this, Zhang Tu and Zhong Yan looked at each other, and both of them felt that things had exceeded their expectations, and it seemed that something bad had happened. After all, this signal arrow is not fired at random, it has no special significance, so what is the point of shooting this rocket? However, they still don't understand what the opponent's dark chess is. What exactly gives the other party the guts.

At the head of Beicheng City, even Murong Cheng, who was about to leave, was shocked by Situ Tai's actions, and he also wanted to know what the other party's next move was. But the other party's rocket signal arrow made him have a very bad feeling in his heart.

"Report ...... Enlighten the prince, the big event...... Big things are not good. In the sound of hurried footsteps, a general hurriedly climbed the city tower and said quickly, "Fire, fire, fire suddenly broke out in the city!" ”

"!" Qi Lin, the former army general, reprimanded, "Bishui Pass City is a military city, and now there are no civilians living in it during the war, and even the young and strong people have been evacuated by the enemy, how can there be a fire?" Who is going to catch fire? Besides, although there are many wooden huts and straw huts built by the former people and young people in the city, but now they are all in ruins, and no one will go there at all, how can a fire start? To be clear, lying about military intelligence is a capital offense. "Qi Lin is in charge of patrolling the sentry in the first half of the night, this Wu Benlang is his subordinate, if he lies about the military situation, he will not be able to get out.

"It's really on fire, and my subordinates don't dare to lie!" General Wu Benlang said urgently, and then pointed and said, "Lord Wang, general, please look, there!" ”

Murong Cheng, Zhang Tu and the others looked in the direction of Wu Benlang's finger, and sure enough, they saw several fires in the city. Smoke rose into the sky, and many soldiers ran out of the house in disheveled armor and stood in the street shouting, and more soldiers gathered around and shouted, and the situation was extremely chaotic.

Murong Cheng's eyes darkened, his heart moved, and he said angrily: "This is the other party's hole card? Qi Lin, what are you still doing in a daze, you are the sentry officer, why don't you go and put out the fire! If something goes wrong, you're all responsible. ”

"Yes!" Qi Lin immediately responded to the order, and then left in a hurry, preparing to organize people to put out the fire.

"Is this the opponent's hole card? But how can a thirteen thousand men in my city be afraid of these flames? Murong Cheng thought secretly. If Situ Tai's secret chess is at this time, then I don't know how terrifying it is.

Murong Cheng didn't take the fire in the city to heart, after all, even if there were fires in a few places, it would be difficult for the fire to spread. What he was worried about was that this Situ Tai had other hidden chess, and he didn't know what tricks he would play. After all, it was impossible for this Situ Tai to use such a low-level method.

"Situ Tai, you just use such a method? With a little spark, I regret not moving my Qi army at all. The king still advises you to go back to your camp cleanly, otherwise the general will lead the army to rush out. When the time comes, it will be too late to regret it. Murong Cheng shouted coldly.

Situ Tai laughed and said, "Murong Cheng is an old thief, do you really think so?" Since you want to fight with General Ben, let's let the horses come. However, General Ben still advises you, if you want to live, it is better to surrender the city as soon as possible. Otherwise, there will be no bones left. ”