Qin Dong was about to give the order to attack the city, the heavy rain suddenly fell, which caught him off guard, he saw the situation in the morning the whole way, as long as he strengthened the attack in the afternoon, Odoaser would definitely not be able to hold it, but this sudden heavy rain disrupted all of Qin Dong's plans, attacking the city in the heavy rain? Don't even think about it, the ladder will slip after the rain, the siege tower can't be pushed, and the soldiers can't climb the city wall, so how can they attack the city? Qin Dong could only stand at the door of the big tent and watch the heavy rain in a daze, and a foul word burst out of his mouth: "I'll wipe it!" Order, withdraw to the camp".

Odoaser in the city was overjoyed when he saw the rain, and immediately issued an order for the soldiers to inform all the inhabitants of the city to withdraw outside the south gate, and the army to stay behind the back hall, although he longed for this heavy rain to fall for several days, only in this way he had enough time to wait for the Greek and Macedonian reinforcements to arrive, but he was not sure how long this heavy rain would fall, if the weather cleared before the reinforcements arrived, it would be absolutely devastating for Lazlog, He never thought that Lazlog would choose to retreat if he didn't hold it for even a day, you must know that this is a fortress, not a dirt bag! I can't even hold it for a day, what kind of fortress is it?

Odoaser once thought of taking advantage of the terrain of Yinsongzhai and secretly sent three hundred cavalry from Yinsongzhai to the back of Qindong's army, but the person he sent to investigate came back and reported that there was a Hun cavalry stationed at the foot of Yinsongzhai Mountain, about one hundred horsemen, although the number is not much, but it is basically impossible to send three hundred cavalry from there to go deep behind the enemy, maybe the three hundred cavalry will be attacked as soon as they come down the mountain, and now they can only retreat in the heavy rain. In order to be unaware, although Razlog could not be saved, as long as all the residents and troops in the city could be withdrawn before the Huns reacted. You can save the living force, and if you lose the territory, you can grab it again, if you can't rob the Huns, isn't it easy to rob the Romans? But if all the people of the tribe died, then it was all over, so between man and territory, Odoaser chose to protect people and abandon territory.

"Your Excellency. It seems that this rain will not stop for a while, and this afternoon's siege operation can only be put on hold! Tuo Long walked to Qin Dong's left back and said.

Qin Dong stood at the door of the big tent and looked at the heavy rain outside, and after hearing Tuolong's voice, he said, "Someone is coming." Passing on my order, all the officers and men should rest in the afternoon, and the scout cavalry team must not rest, and must always monitor the movements of the defenders. And the silver pine side. Not a single enemy soldier can be allowed to go down the mountain and go deep behind enemy lines of our army! ”

"Yes, General!" A herald at the door answered, and the cavalry immediately ran out to deliver the order.

After the herald delivered the order, Qin Dong took many officers to the infantry camp tent to check the treatment of the wounded, and arranged for the cremation of the remains of the soldiers killed in the battle, and the ashes were packed in containers. Although the possibility of a plague this season is not very high, you should always be careful, right? Often things like the plague happen in the process of not noticing.

The pouring rain continued to show signs of stopping all afternoon. It wasn't until the next morning that the rain slowly stopped, but there was still a drizzle of rain falling from the sky, and the walls of the fortress of Razlog loomed in the smoke and rain not far away.

After breakfast, all the officers gathered in Qin Dong's big tent and took Qin Dong to arrange today's task and was about to leave, when a sentry rode over on a fast horse and stopped in front of the big tent.

"Report-" The sentry shouted, no one in front of the big tent stopped him, and directly let him enter the big tent, this is a rule, no matter how high the military rank is, other people must be reported by the guards in front of the door before entering the big tent of the Chinese army, but the sentry does not have to, and the guards cannot prevent the sentry from going directly into the big tent of the Chinese army to report the enemy's military situation, otherwise no one can afford to delay the fighter.

"General Qiqi, just now we were patrolling under the city of Razlog as usual, a strange thing happened, the city wall was empty, there was not a single defender, we ventured to send a sentry to sneak under the city gate to listen to the movement in the city, and found that there was no sound in the city at all, like a dead city!"

"What? No one on the walls? Qin Dong was taken aback, stood up and asked.

"Yes, General!"

Qin Dong frowned and said, "What the hell is this Odoasai doing?" Could it be that he wants to play with Lao Tzu in the empty city? ”

Qin Dong knew about the empty city plan, but the others around him didn't know, and Tuo Long asked, "My lord, what is the 'empty city plan'?" ”

"Oh, it's actually that there is no one in the city, but the enemy makes a false impression that people think that there is a large army in ambush in the city and dare not rush into the city!" Qin Dong explained.

After listening to Qin Dong's explanation, the other officers suddenly realized, it turned out that this was an empty city plan! And Toron thought for a moment and said to himself: "It turns out that war can still be used by such means? ”

Qin Dong suddenly remembered something, and his face changed and he immediately said: "Batu, quickly gather the escort team and go with me to the city of Razlog to check the enemy's situation, and the others will also follow me to have a look!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Everyone stood up and saluted.

The most famous folk story of the empty city plan is taken from the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is adapted by the author from the note "Guo Chong's Three Things" by Pei Songzhi of the Three Kingdoms. Later, it was used in the Thirty-six Strategies, which means that the virtual and the real are impermanent and the army is impermanent. The tactic of showing hypocrisy is a kind of psychological warfare in which suspicion arises from suspicion, and is mostly used in situations where the enemy is weak and the enemy is strong.

During the battle of Jieting, Sima Yi was far away in Luoyang, and returned to Wancheng after conquering Mengda, thousands of miles away from the place of occurrence, and Zhuge Liang fought against Zhang He, Kong Ming saw the defeat of Jieting, and quickly withdrew to Hanzhong. So, the event itself is fictional. There are many flaws in the empty city plan in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is Sima Yi really a stupid pig? If he had such an opportunity, he didn't know how many archers he would send over to shoot Zhuge Liang in order to debunk Zhuge Liang's tricks? Or send a small group of soldiers into the city to find out what is true? How could Sima Yi, who has always been scheming, be stupid and timid to the point of turning his head and running, right? The situation in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is nothing more than to highlight the aura of Brother Pig, so that readers think that Brother Pig has a kind of courage that Mount Tai collapses in front of him and his face does not change, and Sima Yi will turn around and run away even if he is dead, so as to show Brother Pig's ability to anticipate the enemy and take the lead.

But it is undeniable that in Chinese history, there are many famous generals who use empty city strategies and successful cases, and there are detailed records in the official history, for example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng State's Shangqing Shu Zhan used the empty city strategy to retreat the Chu army, which is the first successful case of using the empty city strategy in Chinese history, and the famous general Li Guang of the Western Han Dynasty also used the virtual and real strategy when facing the Xiongnu army, so that he was able to lead more than 100 horsemen to return to the camp safely.

It took only a short time for everyone to ride under the escort to the fortress of Razlog, although it rained heavily for an afternoon and a night, but still did not wash away the traces of the great battle that had taken place here, and there were still the remains of the Hun infantry in the siege of the city, damaged weapons and arrows, as well as the stones thrown by the Germanic defenders from the city walls, stone bullets thrown by trebuchets and ballistas everywhere, and there were large and small potholes on the city walls that were smashed by stone bullets, The walls of the city were stained dark red by the blood left behind by the rain.

The men rode to a stop at a stone's throw away, and at a distance they could see the situation on the wall, and the tattered banner of Odoaser hung feebly on the pole.

Qin Dong, who was dressed in silver armor, wearing a silver helmet, leather combat boots, and a treasure knife hanging from his waist, grabbed the reins and looked at the situation on the city wall, and sure enough, as reported by the outpost, there was no figure on the city wall, and it stands to reason that this situation would not generally occur, Odoase's heart would not be so big, and the army outside the city was eyeing him, he definitely did not have the courage not to arrange defensive forces on the city wall, but how to explain this situation now?

"No, my lord, there really doesn't seem to be any sound in the city, could it be that Odoasai ambushed the army inside, and only after we broke through the gates and entered the city, he suddenly killed us, and killed us by surprise?" Faisal, who was a little suspicious, said beside him.

Qin Dong glanced at Faisal, but didn't say anything, he knew that only Faisal would think so, among his subordinate officers, only Faisal was more suspicious, and the object of the empty city plan was to use it on people who were seriously suspicious, and it was completely ineffective for others.

After thinking about it for a while, Qin Dong said: "If there is an ambush in the city, you will know if you try it, Batu, send a few people to use ropes and iron hooks to climb the city wall and enter the city to investigate, and by the way, open the city gate!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Batu agreed and sent a team of men to conduct fire reconnaissance.

In this case, of course Qin Dong has to send someone into the city to inquire about the situation, if there is movement in the city, he may really think that there is an ambush, but there is no movement in the city, there is no figure on the city wall, if you don't send someone in to investigate, wouldn't it be a fool? In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that Zhuge Liang boiled tea and played the piano on the city gate building, Sima Yi led the army to arrive and did not besiege the city, and did not send a small group of men and horses to conduct fire reconnaissance, and after listening to the sound of the piano, he retreated directly with the men and horses, which is completely illogical, if there is movement in the city, there is the hustle and bustle of the people's lives, or there is the sound of the collision and friction of weapons and armor, Sima Yi became suspicious after hearing it, and then retreated with the army, so it makes sense, at least this logic is stronger, But there were only the helpless pig brother and the two boys on the city wall, but Sima Yi retreated without any substantive tentative action, which was also a little too fake.

The fire reconnaissance team quickly opened the gates from the city, and soon sent people to report that after careful searching, the city was empty, not even a single livestock, and the entire fortress was empty.

Qin Dong's face was a little ugly after hearing this, and he couldn't help but scold: "Odoasey, this kid is so cunning, he actually used yesterday afternoon and one night to withdraw the residents and troops in the city cleanly!" Immediately ordered the scout cavalry to pursue through the fortress, find their traces, but not allowed to fight without authorization, ordered all the infantry to enter the city, control the south gate city wall, transfer all the equipment and materials in the city to the south city wall, send two hundred infantry to Yinsong Village to take over the defense, ordered three hundred archers to pass through the fortress, go out of the south gate to find a place to hide, leave a hundred people to guard the camp, and the rest of the horses all enter the city! ”

"Yes, General!" (To be continued......)