Su Qin got up late the next day and found that Chen Xu was no longer in the house, he was bored alone, because of the embarrassment of the previous day, it was inconvenient to go to the music and dance class to join in the fun.

When he was really bored and panicked, he thought that he had entered Quwo City several times, almost always at night, and he had not gone to Quwo City to wander around. If you are free today, why not go for a walk.

Thinking of this, he found the Shen housekeeper in Chen Xu's mansion and explained: If Chen Xu has not come back when he returns to the house, please ask him to tell Chen Xu that he has gone to the city to hang out.

Steward Shen didn't know the details of Su Qin, and wanted to ask him when he would return, but he was worried about offending him. He usually saw that the head of the family, General Chen, treated Su Qin very well, and knew that the relationship between the two was extraordinary, so he casually responded and did not stop him.

Chen Xu's mansion is located in the northeast of Quwo City, Su Qin came out of the mansion and saw an alley extending to the south, the alley is about two zhang wide, and there are many shops on both sides. Su Qin thought to himself: "Quwo City is worthy of being the capital, and the streets are very wide. ”

In the morning, it was a busy time, and the shops were open for business, and the groceries on the North and South Roads were very complete. Su Qin was born into a merchant family and was all too familiar with this kind of scene.

Quwo City is about nine miles long from north to south, Su Qin walked all the way, looked at the items in the market, asked about the price of goods, and inspected the goods, and unconsciously walked to the east gate of Quwo City.

From the east gate to the west gate, there is a wider street, Su Qin visually measured it, it should be three zhang wide, it should be the main road of Quwo City. I saw that this street was full of cars and horses, and people were noisy.

Su Qin walked west along the main road, and stopped at the stalls on the street to take a look. He finally saw some clues: Regardless of the crowds, the market seemed to be prosperous, but there were almost no shops selling grain, and only a few grain stores were closed.

Su Qin understood that Chen Xu was so anxious about what he was doing. With such a shortage of food, it may be difficult for Quwo City to hold out for another month.

Su Qin walked westward and walked about four miles. Suddenly, there was a pot of porridge in the market, and I saw a large number of people pouring from west to east, looking very panicked.

Su Qin didn't understand what was going on, he was almost pushed down by the surging crowd, and he had no choice but to stick to the corner of a cloth shop to avoid the crowd rushing in.

The proprietress of the cloth shop is a half-aged in her forties, with a small round face, peach blossom eyes, and a red and green skirt, which is very bright. I saw that she was putting down the wooden plank of the cloth shop at the door, preparing to close the door.

Su Qin immediately asked the proprietress beside him: "What happened, why did people rush to the east." ”

The proprietress glanced at Su Qin, and saw that he was dressed in a white robe, neat and elegant, and thought that he was a child of a family who did not understand world affairs. He pursed his lips and said, "The people of the Qin State are attacking Quwo Ximen, everyone is afraid that the people of the Qin State will attack them, so hurry up and hide, you don't run quickly." ”

Su Qin was taken aback when he heard this. He thought that the military situation had changed unexpectedly again, and in desperation, he spread his legs and ran from east to west in the direction of the crowd.

When the proprietress saw him running in the opposite direction, she thought he was confused, and shouted a few times: "Hey, hey, boy, you ran in the wrong direction." ”

Seeing Su Qin show his skills, he drilled through the cracks of the people, and disappeared in a few moments. The proprietress shook her head and said, "This person is really useless, I can't even find the direction." ”

Su Qin quickly ran to the west gate, and the farther to the west, the fewer people there were, because the people from the west fled to the east. The people who live in the western half of Quwo City have closed their doors and dare not go out.

When Su Qin came to the west gate, he saw that the city gate was also closed, and there were soldiers with halberds on the head of the city facing the outside of the city to guard. It seems that Quwo City does not seem to be in great danger for a while.

Su Qin thought: "Everyone in the city is panicking, probably thinking that the Qin army is attacking the city again." In fact, this time Chen needs to meet the enemy outside the city, and the battle should be some distance from the city gate. ”

Su Qinxin said: "Wei Wei finally sent Gongsun Yan to attack the city, and Chen Xu also went out of the city to meet the enemy, but he stayed in the city like an idler and waited for news, how could he think of a way to take a look." ”

Su Qin was anxious to understand the situation outside the city, and his heart was on fire, and he searched everywhere near the west gate.

As he was searching, he suddenly found a man hiding in the corner of a house in a north-south alley. Who is it? Could it be a spy? If the residents of the city were afraid that they would have gone home early, why should they hide here?

Su Qin became vigilant. He quietly touched it and grabbed it. Looking closely, it turned out to be a person wearing the uniform of the Wei army, Su Qin interrogated a few words, only to know that Lu Dao said that this was a new soldier who had never been on the battlefield, and he was very scared, and he didn't dare to go home, so he was afraid of being scolded by his family, so he simply hid.

Su Qin scolded him in his heart for not planting, and didn't talk nonsense with him much, and reached out to hit his sleeping hole and fainted him. He took off his armor and put it on himself, and dragged him to the corner, still in his original appearance.

The armor was put on Su Qin's body, which seemed a little short, but Su Qin couldn't care about it so much, and after he put it on, he went straight to the west gate.

When he arrived at the staircase of the West Gate Tower, Su Qin saw that there were two soldiers guarding there. He swaggered up the stairs.

The two soldiers had halberds in their hands and blocked Su Qin. Su Qin explained to the two of them that he was temporarily transferred from the east gate to reinforce the west gate, and he had just gone downstairs to pay tribute, and now he was going back to the city.

"There is a place for the city to be respectful, why do you want to go downstairs privately?" The two soldiers asked suspiciously.

"I came from the east gate, and the first time I came up to the west gate, I didn't know where it was convenient, and it was really tight, so I went to the city wall to solve it. I can't be a compliment. As he spoke, he pretended to be angry, pushed away the halberds, and ascended the stairs.

At that time, the Wei army was defending the city with thousands of troops, and it was impossible for everyone to know the soldiers, so they saw that Su Qin was wearing his own soldier's armor, and he looked right, so they didn't bother with him, and let him go up.

Su Qin climbed to the top of the city and looked to the west, only to see that a mile away, the soldiers and horses of Qin and Wei were pressed on the ground, and there were more than 30,000 people.

The Qin army wearing black armor lined up in a character formation, and the prominent one was Gongsun Yan, Su Qin vaguely saw him riding on a horse, holding a long knife horizontally in his hand, behind him were rows of horses, and on the left and right sides were infantry, and some soldiers were carrying ladders.

It seems that Gongsun Yan's plan today is to set up a cloud ladder to attack the city, and he probably didn't expect Chen Xu to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet him.

The Wei army was dressed in blue-gray armor, and they lined up in a phalanx, more than half of which were cavalry, guarding on all sides; There were more than a dozen rows of infantry in the array, armed with bows and arrows, facing the Qin army. Under the wide banner, the main general Chen Xu held a halberd in his hand and rode on a white horse, which also looked very mighty.