"Little cousin, big cousin, when you were in the pottery thief camp, did Tao Ying beat you with a whip? Did you hit you with a stick? Did he threaten you with a knife and cut off your nose and ears if you didn't kneel down and surrender? Gouge out your eyes or gouge out your hearts and livers? ”

Chewing on the delicate pastries that Sun Fu brought back, Sun Shangxiang's cute little eyes looked at Sun Fu and Wu Fen with concern, and asked a series of questions with more concern. Sun Fu and Wu Fen, who finally returned to the camp of Sun Wu's army through political censorship, smiled bitterly, and found out for the first time that this little sister was still so vicious, and after smiling bitterly, Sun Fu patted Sun Shangxiang's little head, and said helplessly: "I disappointed you, no, Tao Ying didn't interrogate us at all, and directly released us, and the Xuzhou thieves didn't torture us, they tied us up all night." ”

"Really?" Sun Shangxiang was a little incredulous, looked Sun Fu up and down and said, "Tao Ying will be so good at destroying thieves, and he will release you back without doing anything?" Isn't he afraid that you will go to him for revenge in the future? ”

"yes? Oh, yes? Why did Tao Ying just let you go? Sun Kuang, Sun Lang and other Sun juniors echoed and asked, Sun Fu stopped talking, and Wu Fen on the side said sullenly: "Tao Ying deliberately let us come back in order to divide the relationship between my father, cousin and General Qiao, and let my father and cousin know that General Qiao deliberately sent our team to death." ”

"Fen'er is right, Tao Ying deliberately let you come back, and he didn't have half a good intention, so we don't need to thank him." Wu Jing's voice came from outside the door, and then, Wu Jing, Sun Jing and Sun Ben, the oldest in the Sun Wu family, walked in from outside the door side by side, everyone hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Wu Jing waved his hand to stop, and said, "It's all my own family, don't be so polite." Hey, Xiang'er, how did you eat it? This pastry was given to you by Tao Ying and the thief, what if it is poisonous? ”

"What? This pastry is from Tao Ying's thief? Sun Shangxiang looked down at the pastry in his hand, his little face turned pale all of a sudden, and said, "How is it possible?" This pastry was obviously brought by the little cousin? ”

"It was sent to you by Tao Ying, a thief." Sun Fu said even more helplessly: "You little slander, seeing that the package I brought was full of pastries, you picked it up and ate it without asking a word, and kept saying that it was delicious, I saw that you ate it sweetly, so I didn't tell you who sent this pastry." ”

Before Sun Fu finished speaking, Sun Shangxiang had already thrown the pastries in his hand on the ground, and threw all the remaining pastries in the package on the ground. Over there, Sun Quan, the eldest of the Sun family's juniors, asked Wu Jing with concern: "Uncle, uncle, cousin, you went to discuss the military situation with General Qiao, what happened to the result?" ”

Wu Jing didn't mind letting his nephews know about the military situation, and replied calmly: "Our team is all organized into reserves, first maintain law and order in the city and prevent pottery thieves from annihilating and rioting, and then go to the city wall to participate in the battle at a critical moment, and still accept the direct command of General Qiao, so you children don't have to worry, it is estimated that we will not be in too much danger for a long time." ”

"It's the same as the little nephew's estimate, General Qiao has to give your uncle some compensation, otherwise, don't think about our army giving him his life." Sun Quan nodded with a youthful and old face, as if he knew these intrigues very well. Then Sun Quan asked again: "The little nephew dares to ask my uncle again, I heard the sergeant say that the Huainan army is already starting to block the four gates of Hefei, is it true?" General Qiao Rui really wants to completely block the four gates of Hefei? ”

"No, it's not going to work." Wu Jing sighed, and explained in detail to many sons and nephews: "Yesterday's battle has greatly depressed the morale of our soldiers and Huainan team, and the morale of the army is also a little shaken. Also, the pottery thieves are good at using internal annihilation to attack the city, Shouchun and Quyang are both because of the Xuzhou internal annihilation in the city and fell, blocking the four gates of Hefei, so that the internal annihilation of the Xuzhou thief army can not open the city gate, even if there is a small number of internal annihilation in the city to make trouble, we can also use a small number of troops to quell the rebellion. Do you understand this truth? ”

"Got it." Sun Kuang, Sun Ling and other Sun juniors nodded one after another, keeping their uncle's careful guidance in mind. Only Sun Quan, who was young and old, did not nod, and asked Wu Jing worriedly: "Uncle, blocking the four gates can reduce the chaos within the thief army - but in this case, what if Hefei City is attacked by the Xuzhou thief army?" Where are we going? ”

"What should I do if the city of Hefei is broken by the Xuzhou thief army?" Wu Jingleng paused, and glanced at Sun Jing and Sun Ben, and then remembered a big problem - Qiao Rui blocked the four gates of Hefei can enhance the defense, but once the city of Hefei is broken, wouldn't the Sun and Wu families, who have a deep blood feud with Tao Ying, be dumplings by the Xuzhou army?

"I'm worried, I really shouldn't be in favor of Qiao Rui blocking the four gates of Hefei." In addition to regretting in his heart, Wu Jing could only smile and said: "Quan'er rest assured, Hefei City is high and deep, the fortifications are perfect and solid, and the garrison is also very sufficient, General Qiao Rui is famous for being good at defending the city, Tao Ying will definitely not be able to break through Hefei City." ”

"But what if? What if it is breached? Sun Quan insisted on asking: "Uncle, you often teach your little nephew to take precautions for a rainy day, and leave a way out of everything now, now the Xuzhou thief army is about to start attacking Hefei City, and General Qiao Rui has blocked all the retreat roads himself, what if the Xuzhou thief army breaks through Hefei?" ”

Wu Jing had nothing to say at all, but Sun Quan continued to entangle, and said: "Uncle, it seems fair that General Qiao does this, but in fact, it is our Sun and Wu families who suffer the most." At that time, once the city of Hefei is broken, the soldiers and civilians in the city have no way out, and everyone, including General Qiao Rui, can surrender to Tao Ying to save his life, because Tao Ying has publicly announced surrender and death under the city of Hefei - but what about our Sun and Wu families? The hatred of killing relatives is not shared, Tao Ying's thief will continue to let us Sun and Wu families go in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots? ”

Wu Jing glanced at Sun Quan and began to look at this usually taciturn nephew, while Sun Jing asked, "Quan'er, what should we do in your opinion?" ”

"According to the little nephew's opinion, it is impossible to persuade General Qiao Rui to reopen the four gates of Hefei, and he can't listen to it." Sun Quan replied calmly: "The best way is to take precautions, use the matter of the little cousin and the eldest cousin to ease the relationship with Tao Ying's thief, and send a cronie to secretly go out of the city to contact Tao Ying's thief, under the pretext of thanking Tao Ying for the thief's life, write off the previous grievances, and also leave a way for our Sun and Wu families to retreat." ”

Before Sun Quan's words were finished, Wu Jing, Sun Ben and Sun Jing and other people in the Sun Wu family were already full of anger, and Sun Shangxiang even rushed to Sun Quan, roaring with his hands on his hips, "Write off? The revenge of killing my brother is written off?! Second brother, are you crazy or stupid? Tao Ying killed our eldest brother first, killed countless of my father's old subordinates, and killed our little cousin yesterday, you actually want to write off Tao Ying's thief? No more revenge? Are you surnamed Sun, are you the descendant of our Sun family?! ”

"Little sister, don't be impulsive, listen to Brother Wei's words." Sun Quan said calmly: "Tao Ying and our Sun family have countless blood feuds, but the gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late, in order to prevent the temporary and false relationship with this thief, leaving us useful, I am afraid that there will be no chance to continue to take revenge in the future?" ”

"I don't listen! I don't listen! I don't have you, the second brother who is greedy for life and afraid of death, I don't have you as the second brother! Sun Shangxiang covered his ears and shouted, and turned his back angrily. Sun Ben and Sun Fu over there also shouted angrily: "Shut up! Our Sun family doesn't have you, a child who is greedy for life and afraid of death! Even if it is death, we will never bow to the pottery thief! ”

"I hope you will do what you say." Sun Quan quietly muttered in his heart, and turned his gaze to his uncle Wu Jing and uncle Sun Jing, but unfortunately Wu Jing and Sun Jing, who were pinned on by Sun Quan, were also full of anger, and Sun Jing also scolded: "Quan'er, have you forgotten the oath you made in front of your father and brother's spirit?" Now that your father and your brother's great vengeance has not yet been avenged, you want to bow your head to your enemies and beg for mercy? Are you worthy of your parents and brother?! ”

Sun Quan, who is still soft-spoken, lowered his head helplessly, and muttered in his heart I finally understand why Tao Ying's thief put the little cousin and the eldest cousin back-in the eyes of a thief like Tao Ying, the little cousin and the eldest cousin are not even as good as fart! It doesn't matter if you kill them or not, instead of killing them and wasting your strength in vain, it's better to use them and put them back to disgust the bridge puppeteer!

Quietly muttering, Sun Quan's eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the exquisite pastries scattered all over the place, and he began to be suspicious in his heart, and said secretly: "Why did Tao Ying let the little cousin bring snacks to the little sister, there is no point in doing this?" My little sister is so small...... Hey?! Could it be that Tao Ying has a special hobby, which is a little interesting to me, a cute little girl? If that's the case, should I think about ............? ”

……………………

In order to make it more convenient to cheat and deceive, Deputy Director Tao, who likes to deceive the world and steal his name, has always been a man of his word and a man of his word, so in the early morning of the next day, the Xuzhou army that once again killed the camp under Hefei City also faithfully fulfilled the promise made by Deputy Director Tao in public - to re-launch the siege war! Sixty Xiangyang artillery continued to take the lead, taking turns to bombard the Hefei gates where the buildings on the city were still preserved, and the infantry continued to fill the river under the cover of crossbowmen, and at the same time, Tao Ying also gave up the usual siege tactics of besieging the city for the first time, and also arranged an army outside the south gate of Hefei on the south bank of Shishui, ready to intercept the Hefei defenders who abandoned the city to the south, in order to further create psychological pressure on the enemy.

The biggest disadvantage of the orthodox siege tactics without any tricks is that it takes a long time, and the fortifications of Hefei city are quite complete and solid, and it took the Xuzhou army three days to basically destroy the buildings on the three gates of Hefei, the east and west, and the north and west gates, fill in a moat that is not too long, and open a siege road that reaches the city directly. But fortunately, the Xuzhou army has enough time, the little Yuan Sangong, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, is hiding in Shu County and does not dare to send troops to contain support, Zhang Xun and Chen Fen of Liyang are also firmly contained by Liu Miao on the edge of the Yangtze River, and the Xuzhou army is carefree, so Tao Ying is not in a hurry to immediately launch an attack on the city, and chooses to continue to fill the moat, holding the idea of sharpening the knife and not cutting wood, and patiently attacking the city.

During this period, Deputy Director Tao, who has always liked to use the tactics of attacking the heart, naturally had to play a lot of tricks to attack the heart, and the Xiangyang cannon, which was thousands of years ahead of the times, naturally bombarded the city of Hefei at night, not to mention, but also tried to use incendiary bombs made of fire oil and firewood bundles to bombard the city of Hefei, and successfully created several fires in the city of Hefei, creating a lot of panic for the enemies defending the city and the residents in the city. In addition, Deputy Director Tao also had to send the Huainan soldiers and Sun Wu army soldiers who had been captured before to Hefei City, let them shout and surrender their companions, and publicize the preferential treatment of prisoners by Deputy Director Tao of the Good Lord of the Three Kingdoms Era, so as to weaken the enemy's will to fight and shake the enemy's determination to defend the city.

Deputy Director Tao's heart-attacking tactics have always had some effect, at least after a few days of attacking, more than a dozen defender soldiers slipped down the city wall at night to surrender to the Xuzhou army, which not only set a new example for Deputy Director Tao to surrender, but also brought three crucial key information to Deputy Director Tao, one is that Qiao Rui has completely blocked the four gates of Hefei, the second is that Sun Wu's team was arranged by Qiao Rui as a reserve team to be arranged in Hefei City, and the third is that more than a dozen Xuzhou Danyang soldiers who took the opportunity to sneak into Hefei City were not exposed. It is still hidden in the city of Hefei!

After figuring out these three important situations, Deputy Director Tao's confidence in winning Hefei City naturally increased, and the generals of Xuzhou also repeatedly urged Tao Ying to attack the city as soon as possible, so as not to expose the internal response in the city during the long night, Deputy Director Tao laughed and said: "Don't worry, our internal should never be exposed, Danyang soldiers like to huddle together for warmth, you haven't been taught, your team has not been disturbed by the Danyang soldiers who gang up?" So even if they were found out by the Danyang soldiers in Sun Ben and Wu Jing's team, as long as the accent was right and the location of their hometown was right, the Danyang soldiers in Sun Ben and Wu Jing's team would not betray them. ”

"Besides, it's okay if it's exposed." Speaking of this, Tao Ying was even more proud, and said: "If our Danyang soldiers should be exposed, whether it is Qiao Rui or Sun Ben and Wu Jing, they will definitely carry out a large-scale investigation and purge of the Danyang soldiers in Hefei City. If you have a chance, you can't lift the city of Hefei? ”

"The Lord is right." Jia Xu flattered: "If our internal should be exposed, Qiao Rui, Wu Jing and Sun Ben and others will definitely conduct a thorough investigation of the Danyang soldiers in Hefei City, such a big move, it is impossible to hide the eyes of those surrendered soldiers, so our internal should definitely be very safe to hide in Sun Ben and Wu Jingjun, and promote our benevolent government in Xuzhou for the lord." After hearing this, the generals of Xuzhou were convinced, and continued to wait patiently for the preparations for the siege to be perfected.

After another seven days, when the moat of the north gate of Hefei was basically filled in the main battlefield, and the moat of the east and west gates of the auxiliary battlefield was also filled in part, Deputy Director Tao, who was anxious to catch a certain Luo Li back and train carefully, finally made up his mind to start the siege, and also dispatched more than 36,000 troops to the siege battle, of which 8,000 troops were arranged at the east and west gates, which were handed over to Chen Zhi and Hou Cheng to command, so as to contain and disperse the defenders, and the remaining more than 20,000 elite soldiers and strong generals were all arranged outside the north gate of Hefei. Sixty Xiangyang cannons were also arranged outside the north gate of Hefei, and Tao Ying personally commanded the siege!

Considering the solidity of the city of Hefei and the expertise of the bridge, for this siege battle, Tao Ying was not only prepared to be protracted and pay a considerable price for casualties, but also made a mobilization speech in front of the soldiers of the whole army when the siege battle was about to begin, "Soldiers! Soldiers of Xuzhou! Did you see that? Our goal this time is this Hefei City! According to the information obtained by our army, the enemy in Hefei City has blocked the four gates, and has made up its mind to defend the city with people and people in the city! In vain, they tried to drag the war in Hefei into a war of attrition, drag it to our rear to make changes, drag it until our grain and grass run out, and we are forced to retreat! But---! ”

Speaking of this, Deputy Director Tao waved his hand suddenly, as if returning to the scene of the demolition of nail households in the 21st century, and shouted loudly: "They want to be beautiful!" Who are we? What kind of team are we? We are upright officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty! We are invincible and invincible Xuzhou heroes! Yuan Shu Pifu stole the jade seal of the Han Dynasty, took advantage of the fire several times to rob and invade my Xuzhou land, killed my Xuzhou soldiers and civilians, plundered my Xuzhou city money and grain, and the sins were monstrous! If this revenge is not avenged, how can it be human? We are going to use our swords and guns to cleanse the blood and shame that Yuan Shupifu brought us several times before! We will burn all our enemies to ashes with our hatred and rage! Xuzhou will win! Our army will win! ”

"Xuzhou will win! Our army will win! ”

In the neat thunder and shouts, in the earth-shattering war drums, the first vanguard team composed of more than 2,000 people, pushing and carrying a variety of siege weapons, murderous and slowly approaching the Hefei city wall, more than 2,000 people are not the Xuzhou team that was unified before, but the dare to die cannon fodder temporarily recruited from the battalions and teams in Xuzhou last night, if they can kill the Hefei city wall in the first siege and get away with it, support the follow-up army to rush to the city wall to take the city, Then each of them can get a half-year reward of 12 Hu, as well as an absolute reward of 20,000 yuan per person!

Not counting Lu rice, the death squad of 2,000 people will reward 20,000 yuan each, so the total is more than 40 million yuan, although Xuzhou is rich, it is still quite painful to come up with such a huge sum of money. But whether it is Deputy Director Tao of the Iron Rooster, or Lu Su, who is surnamed Frugal, or even Yang Hong, who loves money as much as his life, he has never worried much about this huge reward - with Qiao Rui's ability to defend the city, there is almost no possibility that more than 2,000 people want to get this heavy reward - so Deputy Director Tao, who originally planned to promise a reward of 10,000 yuan, changed it to 20,000 yuan with a wave of his hand when he gave a speech to the death squad.

The defenders on the city wall carefully dodged the whistling stone bullets, while pulling the bow and arrows and holding the swords and guns, waiting with bated breath for the Xuzhou siege team to enter the firing range. On the side of the Xuzhou army, soldiers with long shields covered the crossbowmen trotting forward, preparing to form temporary fortifications on the edge of the moat to release arrows to cover; More than 2,000 Xuzhou soldiers who were red-eyed by the huge amount of money and food slowly accelerated, from broken steps to fast steps, and then from fast steps to trots, gradually accelerating, ready to rush through the bows and arrows of the defenders to cover the land as fast as possible, gambling their lives to see if they could get lucky and rush to the city wall. Qiao Rui, the main general of the defenders, and Tao Ying, the main general of the attacking side, also clenched their fists at the same time, and their palms were full of sweat............ "I hope to inflict heavy losses on the Xuzhou thief army, so that the Xuzhou thief army will suffer heavy casualties, and reduce the pressure of defending the city in the future." Qiao Rui prayed secretly.

"Wealth fans, don't die, if the situation is not right, you can go back, Hefei City can be pulled down slowly, but if all of you more than 2,000 wealth fans die all at once, I will be distressed." Tao Ying also prayed secretly, but at this time............ "It's on fire!" It's on fire! There is a fire in the city of Hefei! ”

I don't know if it was the Xuzhou general who suddenly shouted, Tao Ying and the Xuzhou soldiers hurriedly looked up to see the distance behind the city wall, but saw that several fires suddenly rose in Hefei City, and the smoke rolled straight into the sky, obviously the fire was quite small, and then there were more and more such fires, and in an instant, more than a dozen puffs of smoke rose, and there was a rapid increase, and the noise and shouting could be faintly heard.

Seeing such a scene, of course, the faces of the defenders at the head of Hefei changed greatly, and Qiao Rui and Liu Ye screamed in disbelief, "How is it possible?" How can it be? Even if there is Xuzhou in Hefei City, it is impossible to have so many annihilations, right? It's too exaggerated to light so many fires in one go?!! ”

Still see such a scene, of course, the ranks of Xuzhou soldiers are thunderous, the warriors of the more than 2,000 death squads are even more ecstatic, the cheers of more than 2,000 people almost cover the cheers of more than 30,000 Xuzhou soldiers, and they are galloping up like chicken blood, the heavy and slow ladders and crashing cars are advancing at an incredible speed, hundreds of light ladders are scrambling to take the city wall, countless death squad warriors step on the ladder to the city, wield knives and guns to kill the frightened defender soldiers, The first wave of charges rushed to the city wall of Hefei.

Seeing such a scene again, our Deputy Director Tao was stunned for a long time, and then suddenly sat on the ground, first slapped himself hard, and then screamed like a pig, "I'm cheap!" Why not say ten thousand? Why don't you say 10,000 dollars?! Fellows, you cheat! I knew that you would do it so quickly, and you would make such a big move to respond so awesomely, and I would have formed a fart death squad?! Twenty thousand dollars! My 20,000 dollars!! ”

(To be continued)