The meeting in the tent continued......

"Give us only 200 men, and you want us to attack such a city? Lord, this is too difficult, isn't it? Zhou Rui thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of a way, and suddenly glared at the boss and muttered unwillingly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Is it difficult? But I'm not done yet! The smile on Li Sheng's face deepened, "I ask you to conquer this city in one day's time." Because if you are late, you will change. ”

"What? Going to lay it in a day? Is this possible? Not to mention Zhou Rui now, even Xu Shu's face couldn't help but show a strange look.

"Why can't it be? If the lord is willing to assign any troops to me, I don't think it will be difficult to win this new breath in one day. At this time, Huang Zhong spoke.

When everyone else was at a loss, Huang Zhong, who had always been regarded as steady, actually took the initiative to ask Li Sheng for his life, which made everyone wonder: "Can you really capture the opponent's city with two hundred soldiers in one day?" "Everyone wants to make another confirmation.

"No problem." Huang Zhong said with an oath, he patted his chest and issued a military order: "If you can't take it, I'll come to see the city." ”

"Good!" Li Sheng showed a satisfied smile on his face: "As long as you can use two hundred people to capture this new breath in one day, you can use any men and horses and equipment you want!" Looking at Huang Zhong's energetic appearance, Li Sheng was naturally very excited and promised to give him all kinds of conveniences within the scope of his conditions.

"Then I need a hundred guards under the lord, fifty archers in my headquarters, and fifty infantry." Huang Zhong said with a smile as he stroked his gray beard that reached his chest. It's been seven years, and he's a little older, but his body is as strong as before, and he's undoubtedly a person who refuses to admit defeat.

"Okay......" Li Sheng agreed, "We will wait here, quietly waiting for your good news, Master." ”

"Don't worry." Huang Zhong's eyes widened, and he strode out of the middle tent to prepare.

The time of the attack on Xinxi was set by Huang Zhong in the middle of the night. Under the cover of the darkness of the surroundings, Huang Zhong took the two hundred people he selected to go into battle lightly. Among the two hundred men were the masters selected from Li Sheng's personal guards, dressed in black cloth, holding a two-foot short sword in their hands, and carrying a bundle of flying grabs with ropes attached to their shoulders. Quietly following them were the archers of Huang Zhong's headquarters, who carried one-handed crossbows with three arrows on their backs and a long sword in their hands. As for Huang Zhong himself, he walked with the last fifty infantrymen, and these fifty people did not bring all the equipment on their bodies, but only took a short gun and wore a leather armor.

In Huang Zhong's words, in tonight's battle, surprise is the key, and the lightness of the body is the key, so you don't have to bring all your equipment, just take the most suitable weapons and equipment for melee and city and lane combat.

When the night patrol bangzi knocked twelve times, Huang Zhong and his party finally came to a place not far from the gate of Xinxi City. Looking at the dilapidated Xinxi City, where even the city gate could only be concealed, Huang Zhong's face showed such a mockery.

"With such a wall, I don't think I can stop you." Huang Zhong lowered his voice and asked Li Yundao, who was called over by Li Sheng to take care of a hundred guards.

"It's only a little over a foot, how can it be stopped." Li Yun shook his head and said in his words with a strong local accent. He is a hunter from Xiyang, and it is said that he has studied martial arts with someone for several years before. He didn't say who someone was, but judging from the level of martial arts he performed, it was quite good. Therefore, he has only been in the army for half a year and sat in the position of deputy captain of Li Sheng's personal guard, which can be regarded as a person that Li Sheng trusts very much.

"The wooden walls we train on are all higher than that." Li Yun rubbed his hands and said.

"Good." Huang Zhong nodded with satisfaction: "Then I will give the order." Now is the hour of the sub-hour, and I hope that you and your brother will clear the walls of the entire Xinxi county town for me before the end of the sub-hour, and find out where the enemy is critical, and be ready to receive us into the city. Can you do that? ”

"No problem." Li Yun nodded heavily, turned around and threw his men and horses into the darkness ahead.

Tonight is a moonless night, and the clouds in the sky are so thick that I have not seen a single one in my heart like dust. It's like ink all around, and you can't see anything a few feet away at all. Huang Zhong stared at Li Yun and the direction in which they had disappeared, and he was slightly worried in his heart. The reason why he dared to make a guarantee ticket was nothing more than that when he watched the training of Li Sheng's personal guards, there was a related project to climb the city wall. With many years of experience in leading soldiers, he naturally understands how important this climbing training is. He knew that this kind of training would allow the soldiers to ignore the existence of the city walls to a certain extent and directly enter the enemy city. If there are a certain number of such soldiers, they can even directly surprise the defenders in the enemy city, which is a very important means of victory. It's like a dagger in itself, inconspicuous, but it can deliver a fatal blow when you're not expecting it.

"The key now is to see if this dagger is really sharp." Huang Zhong muttered to himself. The troops have been dispatched, and success or failure will be revealed in the near future. Although I was a little apprehensive because of the unknown, I really couldn't do more at the moment. Waiting is the only thing you can do. Although this makes me a little irritated, I can't act rashly before the results are known. After all, that's the difference between success and failure.

Li Yun took a hundred of his brothers and ran to the bottom of the city wall of Xinxi County under the cover of the vast night. He looked at the ruined wall, which seemed to be able to climb with his bare hands, estimated the time it took to climb with his bare hands and use the flying catch, and finally gave the order: "First team, second team cover; 3rd team, 4th team assault, on! ”

He took off his back and threw it high above the city wall in a few circles. I only heard a "ding" sound, but the flying grab was to grab the city wall. Li Yun pulled the rope tightly and pulled it hard, seeing that it was tight, he rushed forward quickly, and quickly climbed to the top of the city by taking advantage of the broken unevenness on the city wall. Before and after less than a cup of tea.

Maybe it was because of the lack of troops, or maybe it was because they didn't expect the enemy to attack here, and the enemy was not visible from the top of the city. Maybe only a few people stayed in the glittering gatehouse.

Pulling together his comrades-in-arms who were originally guarding under the corner, Li Yun gathered his manpower and issued a further order: "The first team will follow me to the city gate tower, the second team will inspect the city wall, the third team will control the city gate, and the fourth team will give me to the city to make some chaos." Fishing in mixed waters, this water is not mixed, how can we start it? As he spoke, he lowered his voice and laughed darkly. They had been fighting the enemy in the open, and at this moment, it was the first time for them to engage in such a sinister activity, and they couldn't help but be a little excited.

The procession scattered to their respective destinations, and soon the whole city of New Rest was in chaos: a fire broke out in the city, which spread rapidly under the blowing of the night wind; Shouts of killing rang out all over the city, and for a time countless people woke up from their sleep, dazed, not knowing what had happened; The south gate of Xinxi City was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and several people rushed out of the city gate hole, quickly beckoning Huang Zhong outside the city to lead the team into the city. Everything went smoothly according to the plan. Although it was the first time to do such a battle, the soldiers of the Guards were already familiar with the battle, and they just followed the steps of the training to carry out the current thing. Since they had already been on the battlefield, they didn't have any other unnecessary emotions in their hearts about this first battle.

The battle was in full swing throughout the city, and the terrible howl of the dead piercing the sky brought a bit of horror to the night. Originally, the hands of the city did not think that there would be enemies attacking them. When the first enemy appeared in front of them, their eyes widened in disbelief. They wondered if they were having nightmares at first. However, when the facts told them that it was true, they quickly became confused. Instead of resisting, they fled in all directions, trying to find a place that could be called safe.

Although this kind of scattered chaos aggravated the chaos in the city and made the advance of Li Yun and the others smooth, but at the same time, it also made Li Yun feel a little headache -- in order to destroy as many enemy living forces as possible, they had to work hard to find the enemy's figure, expose them as much as possible, and then annihilate them.

This is a very troublesome and time-consuming thing, but in order to achieve the ultimate goal, Li Yun and the others have to do it. However, although the dispersion of the other party made their actions slow down a little, Li Yun and the others were not worried about this. They had time, because they knew that behind them, there were still Huang Zhong's troops reinforcing them.

If it is said that the personal guards led by Li Yun are like an inconspicuous but sharp dagger, they always stab the enemy when they are inadvertent, and play the role of a surprise soldier in this battle. Then the other hundred soldiers that Huang Zhong led into the city were full soldiers composed entirely of archers and infantry. Under the leadership of the guide guards sent by Li Yun, they strode through the streets of Xinxi County, clearing the enemies that appeared in front of them little by little.

As mentioned earlier, the Yellow Turbans in the city did not even think that there would be enemies to attack them. Under the long-term laxity of guard and the idea that Xinxi County is their own, they have long since taken possession of houses in various parts of Xinxi. Now under this unexpected attack, they ran out of their "homes" all over the city. Although they themselves were already aware that their strength was too scattered, and they consciously gathered together in groups, but under the harassment and sabotage of Li Yun's subordinates, such a gathering was not so easy. At most, they gathered a dozen or twenty people, and then they ran into Huang Zhong's team.

For the enemy encountered, Huang Zhong's attack was very simple: quickly line up, put the infantry in front, the archers behind, and let the infantry in front attack the enemy under the cover of the archers behind. Because the enemy encountered was so thick and scarce, and often a rain of arrows fell, the infantry in front rushed forward and stabbed the opponent with their sharp short guns into so many holes - there were more monks and less porridge, and the soldiers who had been trained for a long time always seemed to be so impatient at the moment.

Everything went smoothly, and almost no one could stop Huang Zhongde's advance. In front of the soldiers who have undergone special training, the various offensive actions of the Yellow Turban soldiers are as ridiculous as if they were childish children swinging their fists at adults. It didn't take much effort for them to sweep away these pesky flies. This kind of ease made them see their own strength, for such a smooth situation, not only themselves, but even Huang Zhong couldn't help but feel a little fluttering.

However, when the county government was attacked, everything went smoothly was interrupted by a rain of arrows from the darkness.

"Two dead and three wounded." The ten soldiers who rushed to the front of the team retreated and gave Huang Zhong such a result.

"Damn it!" Huang Zhong cursed and frowned tightly. In fact, he is not unacceptable to this result, after all, it is not impossible for such a situation to occur when he is suddenly attacked by surprise. But he clearly knew another point, that is, Li Yun had already sent people to deal with the affairs of the county government. But now there are still such problems in his own attack, doesn't that mean that the team sent is more auspicious?

"What's going on here?" Huang Zhong squinted at the guards who came to lead the team and asked.

"I don't know!" The soldier of the pro-guard team shook his head inexplicably and said, "We haven't received any news from Deputy Captain Li Yun. He also seemed very embarrassed.

It's just that this embarrassment didn't last long before it disappeared. A member of the personal guard came out of the deep alley next to the county government in a timely manner and brought an expected bad news to Mr. Huang and them: "Deputy Captain Li Yun asked me to report to General Huang Zhong: The team sent earlier was in trouble with the county government and could not complete the task on time. Now we will go and reinforce it. In order to make the attack go smoothly, General Huang Zhong was also asked to make some noise at the front gate to attract the enemy's attention and provide cover for our team's work in the rear. ”

"Is it true that there is a problem behind it?" Huang Zhong stroked his beard and nodded. His gaze suddenly became resolute, and he quickly gave the order: "Light up everything that can be burned for me, and I will use the light of the fire to carefully shine a light on what they really look like." ”

And so, the thing was set on fire. For a while, the scorching fire ignited, not only illuminating the figure on his side, but also illuminating the sneak attacker on the wall.

In such a situation where both sides can see, the shooting of bows and arrows becomes inevitable. Huang Zhong's fifty archers, holding three-arrow crossbows, played a great role here. After being trained by Huang Zhong, who was a marksman himself, his shooting level was comparable to that of ordinary people. In the midst of the constant exchange of bows and arrows, it was always the hands of the Yellow Turban Thieves who fell. As for Huang Zhong, no one was injured on his side.

There was such a big commotion at the front door, which had already attracted the attention of the Yellow Turban Thief. They all thought that the front door was the direction of Huang Zhong's attack, but without it, Li Yun had already brought nearly a hundred guards to climb in through the back door of the county government and kill them behind.

It's a good kill. Since the Yellow Turban Thieves had never thought of such a thing, their rear was almost completely unguarded. Li Yun didn't need to set fire to the county government at all, he just held a short sword in one hand and killed it like this. After all, under such a surprise, the Yellow Turban Thieves couldn't even put up a decent resistance.

The battle ended half an hour after the attack on the county government. Huang Zhong entered the county government of Xinxi County at the end of the ugly period. After counting the casualties of his own team, he sent Pegasus to report the news to Li Sheng, and at the same time began to take prisoners into custody.

As for things like writing notices for the people, since it belonged to civil affairs, Huang Zhong didn't go anywhere to touch it. This is because Li Sheng has already issued a death order -- the separation of military and political affairs must be strictly enforced. Except for Li Sheng himself and Xu Shu, a military advisor authorized by Li Sheng, no general is allowed to intervene in political affairs, and mission officials are not allowed to engage in military affairs. Huang Zhong understood that this was a measure to prevent the recurrence of military generals when his power developed in the future. Although Li Sheng's power is very small at the moment, Li Sheng's heart is very big, and his foundation and his rules are all formulated as early as possible at present.

Huang Zhong has no opinion on this point. As an elder, he would even like to see Li Sheng have such a vision. Even this foresight is now limiting the strength of their generals.

The news that Huang Zhongzhen had conquered Xinxi County with a force of 200 people in one day reached Li Shengjun's camp, and everyone other than Li Sheng was shocked or shocked. They couldn't have imagined that this thing, which was considered impossible by ordinary people, was completed by Huang Zhong.

"How the hell did he do that?" The crowd was eager to know this.

"Master Huang Zhong, I guess I used my hundred personal guards to directly climb over the city wall and kill the enemy." Regarding everyone's doubts, before the soldiers who came to report the news could answer, Li Sheng first solved the mystery.

"What, a hundred guards are so powerful that they can directly climb over the city wall and enter the interior of the city?" Hearing Li Sheng say this, everyone couldn't help but be a little puzzled while being surprised, and they looked at the soldier who came to report the news in a daze, quietly waiting for his final confirmation.

"Yes!" The soldiers who came to report the news looked at Li Sheng with admiration, and respected the lord of such a "perverted" team in his heart. Having lived through the battle they had just seen, they saw with their own eyes how skilled the guards were—they could often face ten times their own enemies without changing their faces, and rush straight to the enemy for such a hard-fought battle, and finally destroy them. This is really incredible, and it really arouses his envy. After all, being able to have such a strong strength can largely give you some more protection for your own life.

Not only did he understand this, but which of these officials and generals in the tent was not an ordinary person, and when they heard that Li Sheng's personal guards had become so unique and so strong under Li Sheng's own training, their eyes couldn't help but light up: "Can this kind of training method be promoted?" They quickly asked.

"If you have money and time, you will naturally be able to promote it." Li Sheng smiled strangely and said, "Now these people have only completed the halfway of the training. ”

"I wonder what this money and time mean?" Seeing Li Sheng laughing so strangely, Wei Yan's heart couldn't help but chuckle, and he asked Li Sheng cautiously.

"It takes more than two years of hard work to train them, and each soldier consumes at least 1,000 yuan of supplies every month." Li Sheng still smiled very calmly.

"1000 money? Two more years of training? Oh my god. Isn't this army piled up with money? Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard it. They shook their heads one after another, believing that under such conditions, it was impossible to train soldiers according to the training method Li Sheng had mentioned. They had no choice but to let things go.

When the morning light in the east illuminated the heavens and the earth, the gates of Xinxi County were opened. Li Sheng took his more than 2,000 people into Xinxi City. Li Sheng rode his horse and led the civil and military officials who accompanied the army at the head of the procession. Gazing at the obvious traces of battles everywhere in the city, and glancing slightly at the numb expressions on the faces of the people standing on both sides of the avenue in the city to welcome, Li Sheng sighed slightly in his heart: "I have chosen a poor and white city again." ”

Being poor and white means that Li Sheng's side spent a lot of money to repair the city and strive to make the people in the city get a better life. Li Sheng can't do anything about fighting the city and not caring about the life or death of the people. His heart was not to that extent, so the first thing he did after capturing Xinxi City was to find Xu Shu, Liao Li, and Luo Zhao and start to discuss and solve this problem.

"The people in the city have become like that, do you have any solutions?" Li Sheng asked them bluntly.

"This ......" Suddenly hearing Li Sheng ask about this, the three people who were found were involuntarily stunned for a moment, but they couldn't answer. They didn't think about this problem at all, because they knew that their side was only sending troops to eliminate the Yellow Turban Army that invaded Xiyang, and they didn't dare to ask for these cities in Runan, which were entrenched by the Yellow Turban Army.

For one thing, these cities are so dilapidated and dilapidated that one wonders if they are still worth existing; Second, his own forces are still under Lord Liu Biao at the moment, no matter what kind of action he makes, he must take into account Liu Biao's reaction, if he suspects that he wants to rebel by developing his own private forces, it will be bad; Third, the funds needed for the development of Li Sheng's forces are all supplied by Surabaya, the largest restaurant entity in Xiangyang, and it is already very difficult to supply the development of the two counties with the current strength of Surabaya, if he is increasing his territory, the future of development is naturally bright and unlimited, but he will never see that day - that will make the entire economy of Surabayaju bankrupt. It's not going to work.

So none of them thought about developing here. In their opinion, it would be good if they had fought themselves, so why bother with so many things here. That's definitely a nuisance. Well, none of them thought of it.

"I wonder what is the purpose of my lord's question?" Stunned for a while, Xu Shu asked.

"The people in the city are in distress, and I can't bear it." Li Sheng sighed and said leisurely.

"Then the lord wants to develop here?" Xu Shu asked again.

"No, we don't have the money and energy to get here right now. It is absolutely not suitable to continue to expand our territory at this stage. I know that. I was just wondering if there was any other way to help them. Li Sheng shook his head and said.

Saying this, the three of them fell silent again, and they didn't feel good about the people in the city. Since Li Sheng asked himself to think of some ways to help them other than development, they quickly started to use their brains.

"There is a way!" After a long time, Liao Li first broke the silence: "There are not many people in the city, we can move them all to Xiyang." ”

"It's not that easy!" Xu Shu smiled bitterly: "The homeland is hard to leave. Although they have reached such a difficult point, unless they are willing, if we force them to relocate, we are afraid that it will provoke a popular uprising. ”

"So what's the solution? Are we like almsgivers, always providing for them? It's April now, and most of the spring plowing has been completed, so it's time for them to be green. If you do, I'm afraid you'll have to make offerings for several months. That's a big problem for us in terms of grain and grass transportation. Liao Li frowned and said unhappily. He was also a little unhappy that his proposal was rejected.

"In fact, at such a time, we can learn from Xiyang's original method, and let the farmers who have nothing to do now help me make some military supplies. I heard that in this battle, General Huang Zhong brought a lot of arrows. If all of them were to be mobilized from the rear, it would also be a pressure on logistics. If we leave the task of making arrows to the people here, and let them exchange the arrows for food with us, then we will only need to transport food and not worry about anything more. Xu Shu proposed his own method -- "work for relief".

"Well, that's pretty good, too." Listening to Xu Shu's method is indeed more feasible than he thought, and the arrogant Liao Lizhi couldn't help but nod in agreement: "Actually, we shouldn't be limited to letting them make arrows for us and the like." Runan is mountainous, so there are many hunters among them, which is also our powerful source of soldiers. With our current strength in Xiyang, it is still feasible to expand the regular army by about 1,000. It's also a way out for the people of the mountains here. As soon as his mind was opened, Liao Li also had an updated idea.

"Yes! The inhabitants of the mountains can also catch some fur and game or something, as long as we buy them and process them a little, it will be another sale. As soon as Xu Shu heard Liao Li talk about it, such a thought flashed in his mind, and he immediately smiled happily.

"Buying and selling...... Buy and sell ......! Yuanzhi, you are really becoming more and more like a businessman. Liao Li heard Xu Shu say this, and felt a little inappropriate in his heart, as if it was insulting Sven, and immediately mocked him slightly.

"Whoever talks about poetry, I naturally want to be sven. But now it's helping the boss to do things, so I naturally have to think about every bit of it. Our finances are not very good at the moment, and the money is constantly being put in, but there is still some time before the harvest. If you don't think about it more, I'm afraid that we will drag the money to death. We are not like Cao Cao, the family is all rich. Regarding Liao Li's mocking accusation, Xu Shu pursed his lips and said. He knew that Liao Li admired a strong man with a strong personality like Cao Cao, so he pointed out that Sang scolded Huai and talked about him.

"You ......" The accusation of worshipping Cao Cao in Xu Shu's words, how could Liao Li not hear it, his eyes widened for a while, and his face turned red, but he couldn't find a refutation of Xu Shu's words in a hurry. Because what Xu Shu said is the truth: when he made his fortune, if Cao Cao himself had already had deep financial resources, he would not have been able to raise a regular army of 5,000 people, and later he would not have been able to take over a county at once.

Money is so important that these "people of insight", although they try to set off their own nobility by treating money as dung, have to look at them in secret. What Xu Shu just said was just superficializing these secret things.

For such a thing, Li Sheng naturally understands it. In fact, since modern times, he has not been very averse to the love of money and business, and he thinks that it is a natural thing. Although it seems that most of the thoughts of people in this era should be taken into account at the moment, Li Sheng believes that Xu Shu cannot be subjected to more "grievances" because of this.

"Stop! That's the end of it. Yuan Zhi is also for the good of all of us. If the power wants to develop, it really can't be done without money. Li Sheng opened his mouth and comforted: "These things for the people here will be done as you say." It's better to let ourselves lose a little bit, but we must make the people here live better. This is not only a matter of conscience, but also the key to winning the hearts and minds of the people. After all, we can't stay here for long, and the main key to how to get these people to follow us when we leave is to see how we behave today. Therefore, please take a lot of care about this matter. ”

"Understood!" The three of them nodded heavily.