The scouts sent by Gao Chibang had already detected all the actions of the Xiangyang Ya Army, and the sergeants of the Xiangyang Ya Army drove out of the barracks and marched towards the city, and all the arrangements and deployments were in the information of the scouts, and Li Rupei and Gao Chibang and others in the process of marching continued to get these information.

The soldiers of the 100 special forces have long been deployed on the periphery of Xiangyang City, and their main task is to prevent Liu Ziheng from fleeing in a hurry after learning the news, because Li Rupei's request is very clear, Liu Ziheng will never be allowed to escape, either capture alive or be killed.

It was precisely because of a series of deployments of the Xiangyang Ya Army that Li Rupei, who was a little hesitant, made up his mind, and launched an attack on the night of the arrival of the army, taking Liu Ziheng by surprise.

The messenger sent by Liu Ziheng, escorted by more than a dozen scouts, headed for the outside of the city.

This group of people quickly attracted the attention of the special forces, the city gate has long been closed, ordinary people are not allowed to enter and exit at all, and a long time has passed, no one in the city has come out, why can these people leave calmly, and their movements are very hurried, and the officers guarding the city gate are also very respectful to them.

There is no need to speculate too much, this is very likely to be a messenger sent by Liu Ziheng to deliver the news outside, but I don't know if it is to the capital, this group of people must be intercepted, and no one can be let go.

Fifty special forces quickly followed, and the rest of the special forces were ambushed in place, closely monitoring the surrounding situation, and they didn't have to bother too much, the south gate of Xiangyang City was brightly lit, and a large number of tooth army sergeants were still entering the city in a steady stream.

When the special forces soldiers pounced, these dozen or so people resisted desperately, and the combat effectiveness was still good, which made many special forces officers and soldiers more aware that these people must be undertaking extraordinary tasks, and many special forces occupied the advantage in numbers. There was no mercy in the attack, except for the middle-aged man in a cloth coat who was guarded, the rest of the sergeants were killed in a short time.

The middle-aged man was captured by the special forces and quickly sent to Gao Chibang.

After Gao Chibang briefly asked a few words, he felt that the situation was serious, and quickly sent someone to send the middle-aged man to Li Rupei.

When the middle-aged man was escorted over, Li Rupei was carefully looking at the city defense map of Xiangyang City.

The time when it was decided to attack was ugly, and the army was marching forward, and did not stop, but at this time it was on the march. The action is a lot more cautious, countless scouts have been dispatched around, to investigate the situation, Liu Ziheng has made a lot of arrangements, the Xiangyang Tooth Army is constantly entering the city, if you can take advantage of the troubled waters at this time to fish and suddenly attack Xiangyang City, the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army can reduce a lot of casualties and obtain the greatest victory at the minimum cost.

This is what Li Rupei hopes to achieve. And he had a feeling that the battle of the Iron Blood Army to capture the city of Xiangyang would not last long, and the Iron Blood Army would not fall into the bitter battle of attacking the city.

Qin Erhei entered the Chinese military tent. General Gao Chibang sent prisoners who had been captured by the special forces.

Li Rupei was very sensitive, quickly stood up, and demanded that the prisoner be taken to the Chinese military tent immediately, if it was an ordinary prisoner. Gao Chibang will deal with it himself, and there is no need to escort it to the Chinese military tent.

After the captives were brought in, Li Rupei had a sneer on his face. He instructed his soldiers to strip off all the clothes of the captives, searched carefully, and finally found a letter sealed with fire paint in the middle of his underwear.

At this moment, the middle-aged man was already paralyzed, crawling on the ground and trembling, the middle-aged man was going to destroy the letter, but unfortunately he didn't have a chance to do it, the movements of the special forces soldiers were too fast, so that he could not make superfluous movements, after being captured, he could only look forward to passing the pass, in front of Gao Chibang, he said that he was a businessman, because Xiangyang City was immediately facing the attack of the iron-blooded army, so he wanted to avoid this battle, spent a lot of money, and asked the sergeant to escort him away.

His statement of adding to the snake was quickly recognized by Gao Chibang, ordinary people did not know the news of the attack on Xiangyang City by the Iron and Blood Army, how could this middle-aged man know, and was escorted by more than ten strong scouts, there must be a big secret on his body.

was escorted to Li Rupei, and the middle-aged man still had the psychology of luck, but unfortunately he didn't say anything and didn't ask, so he first searched out the letter.

The letter was opened, and Li Rupei took out the letter inside and looked at it carefully.

After receiving the letter, Li Rupei smiled and spoke to the middle-aged man.

"It seems that you are Liu Ziheng's confidant, you know everything, a certain is Li Rupei, a certain does not want to talk to you, two questions, you are willing to answer, a certain can guarantee that you will not die, you are unwilling to answer, a certain can guarantee that you died a miserable death, and your family will not be spared."

The middle-aged man learned that the young man in front of him was the famous King of Yi and Li Rupei, the envoy of Shannan West Dao, and he had long lost the courage to resist.

"The little ones say everything, they say everything."

"The first question is, whether Liu Ziheng is still in Xiangyang City."

"Liu Gong, no, Liu Ziheng is still in Xiangyang City, the 20,000 Tooth Army sergeants plan to enter the city within today, and start to deploy tomorrow, and the remaining 8,000 Tooth Army sergeants are deployed around the barracks outside Xiangyang City to resist the attack of the Iron Blood Army, Liu Ziheng expects that the time for the Iron Blood Army to start attacking is the day after tomorrow, so he will personally arrange the deployment of Xiangyang City's defense tomorrow."

Li Rupei nodded slightly, it seems that this middle-aged man is very smart and very knowledgeable, and in just a few words, he will tell many of the situations arranged by Liu Ziheng.

"The second question is what is the specific deployment of the Xiangyang Tooth Army."

"20,000 Tooth Army sergeants guard the city, the focus of defense is the South Gate, the North Gate is close to the Yangtze River, there is no need for too much defense, there are not many Tooth Army sergeants guarding the East Gate and West Gate, the specific deployment that the small one knows is that the South Gate 10,000 Tooth Army Sergeants are waiting, the East Gate is 5,000 Tooth Army Sergeants waiting, the West Gate 4,000 Tooth Army Sergeants are waiting, the North Gate is waiting for 1,000 Tooth Army Sergeants, and the 8,000 Tooth Army Sergeants outside the city are mainly waiting near the barracks, once the Iron Blood Army launches an attack, they will not defend too much, The ...... that will enter the city in the fastest time"

"The Xiangyang Tooth Army originally had 40,000 soldiers, but there were still more than 10,000 soldiers scattered in the rest of the state capitals to collect taxes, and the total number of soldiers left in Xiangyang City was 28,000 people......

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, Li Rupei still had a smile on his face.

"Very good, you are very knowledgeable, in terms of what you just said, I have thought of a point, that is, the Tooth Army will not deploy relevant defense matters tonight, including the 20,000 Tooth Army sergeants who entered the city and the 8,000 Tooth Army sergeants stationed outside the city, will not carry out the deployment of defense, and will really start defense tomorrow, is this the case."

"What the prince said is completely right, Liu Ziheng knows that the sergeant of the Tooth Army cannot resist the Iron Army, and the point is to hope to get the support of Huang Chao, so the sergeant of the Tooth Army will not resist desperately."

After the middle-aged man was escorted out of the Chinese military tent, Li Rupei's face showed a comfortable smile, he finally knew why he had those premonitions, and Huang Biao beside him also showed a long-lost smile on his face.

"Qin Erhei, arrange a team of personal soldiers to send this letter to Liangzhou as soon as possible, and hand it over to Liu Yunzhang in person, without the slightest delay, Liu Gong saw this letter and knew what to do."

Qin Erhei walked out of the Chinese military tent with the letter.

Huang Biao spoke.

"Lord Wang, the soldiers launched an attack tonight and took Xiangyang City in one fell swoop, and Liu Ziheng couldn't escape even if he had wings."

"What you said is right, Liu Ziheng is too careless, he thinks that the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army need to make a lot of preparations, and it will be difficult to attack in a short period of time, so he will start to deploy specific defense matters tomorrow, but speaking of this, Liu Ziheng still has some brains, and knows that if he asks for help from Huang Chao in Huainan, if his plan really succeeds, the Iron Blood Army will encounter huge trouble."

Huang Biao showed a look of indifference on his face.

Li Rupei looked at Huang Biao with a slightly more serious expression.

"General Huang, don't underestimate Huang Chao, if you wait until Liu Ziheng has made a good defensive deployment, it will be difficult for the Iron Blood Army to take Xiangyang City in a short period of time, in the process of the Iron Blood Army's attack, Huang Chao led the army to kill from behind, and there are more than 10,000 Xiangyang Tooth Army scattered in other places, this is a force that is difficult to deal with, if it is attacked on both sides, although the Iron Blood Army can resist desperately and avoid the fate of being wiped out, it is impossible to take Xiangyang."

"What the prince said is that his subordinates are careless, and his subordinates are thinking of the matter of time, even if Liu Ziheng sends a messenger to see Huang Chao, Huang Chao may not dare to send troops, even if he sends troops, it will take a long time to set off from Huainan Road to Xiangyang, and between this back and forth, the soldiers of the Iron and Blood Army can take Xiangyang City."

Li Rupei shook his head.

"Don't underestimate Liu Ziheng, Huang Chao will definitely send troops when he sees the letter, Liu Ziheng knows that there is a backup, and he will definitely resist desperately, and the more than 10,000 Xiangyang Ya troops scattered in other places will also harass from time to time, which makes the battle of the iron-blooded army to attack the city encounter many obstacles, and it is difficult to break the city in a short period of time."

After saying this, Li Rupei showed a resolute look on his face.

"The army of 50,000 is divided into two roads, you lead 10,000 soldiers to attack the Xiangyang Ya Army stationed near the military camp, be sure to let them escape towards Xiangyang City, General Gao led 30,000 people, closely followed, and took advantage of these Ya Army sergeants to enter the city, launch a surprise attack, and take the south gate in one fell swoop, as long as the iron-blooded soldiers can enter the city at night, the battle to attack Xiangyang City can end in the shortest possible time." (To be continued......)