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At this time, there was already a rumor in Taiyuan City, and the Han army suddenly killed, which made Taiyuan City fall into a state of panic, the shops were closed, the taverns were closed, the houses were closed, and the streets were deserted, and only occasionally a group of soldiers would run in a queue.

Not only were the common people panicked, but the army was also extremely nervous, except for 500 people to maintain order, the rest of the army all went to the city for defense, despite this, it was still a car and water, far from meeting the needs of defending the city, from top to bottom, the officers and soldiers defending the city had little confidence.

In the Taiyuan Assassin Historian's Office, Wang Yan, the Governor of Bingzhou, and Changshi Xinping were urgently discussing countermeasures, and the three of them were in a very heavy mood, and they never thought that the Han army would suddenly kill, which made them extremely passive.

Zhao sighed and said: "I heard that the prime minister confronted the Han army in Runan, and the war in Guanzhong has not subsided, and now the Han army has suddenly killed in Taiyuan, Cao Jun took care of one thing and lost the other, and was led by Liu Jing by the nose, which was too passive." ”

"Pull the Governor!"

Assassin Wang Yan dragged out his voice with some dissatisfaction, "Now is not the time to say such things, now we are discussing countermeasures, how to deal with the sudden attack of the Han army?" ”

"Countermeasures?" Zhao sneered and said: "The battle of Guanzhong transferred most of the troops of Bingzhou, there are only 12,000 people in the entire Bingzhou, 4,000 in Yanmen County, 3,000 in Hedong County, and only 5,000 in Taiyuan City, and the other party has at least 30,000 people, how to fight this battle, I don't understand!" ”

The tone of the Zhao Zhao was full of complaints, at the beginning he strongly opposed the transfer of the Bingzhou army to Guanzhong, but Wang Yan told the prime minister that the merger of the state was not a big problem, and now the consequences are out, but he has to rely on his 5,000 troops to deal with it, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, even if he has the talent to reach the sky, he will not be able to fight with the 30,000 army.

At this time, Xin Ping said cautiously on the side: "Let me propose a plan!" ”

Wang Yan glanced at Zhao coldly and asked Xin, "Tell me, what is the plan?" ”

Xin Ping thought for a while and said, "We can mobilize the people to participate in the defense of the city, and urgently ask for help from Yedu, I estimate that the Han army has traveled a long distance and does not have any siege weapons, even if it takes a few days to make siege weapons temporarily, we will hold on for two or three days, maybe the reinforcements from Yedu will arrive, what do you two think?" ”

"This is the best solution!"

Wang Yan praised: "In this way, we will have time to defend the city, and there is no shortage of money and food in the city, which can be used to recruit people." ”

Speaking of this, his face sank, and he asked again, "What does General Zhao think?" ”

Although his heart was full of resentment, he also knew that now was not the time to complain, and he must go all out to deal with the crisis, he remembered the hundred-man caravan he saw three days ago, and said in a deep voice: "I also support Xin Changshi's suggestion, I am also worried that there are already Han troops in the city, and the city is most afraid of internal and external cooperation, especially since we do not have many troops, once there are more than 100 internal responses, the city will be dangerous." ”

"In that case, search the city!"

Wang Yan immediately said: "All hostels, taverns, green buildings, shops, and all rental mansions must be searched, and no one is allowed to be spared, and the general will be led, I will let the government cooperate with the army and start searching the city from now on." ”

Although the military and the government are separated, they are far inferior to Wang Yan in terms of seniority and official position, and Wang Yan's order has to be carried out, so he immediately got up and said, "I'll arrange it!" ”

Wang Yan commented on Xin again: "It's slow to send pigeon letters, first use beacon fire to show jǐng, and then send pigeon letters for help!" ”

As soon as the sky was dark, the beacon in the north of Taiyuan City was lit, the smoke mixed with the fire rose into the air, and issued a jǐng notice in the direction of Yedu, and went east, and the beacon Sui was ignited immediately, and the beacon on Taihang Mountain also ignited the beacon fire of jǐng.

At the same time, 2,000 troops were mobilized, and with the cooperation of 300 officials, they began to search from house to house in Taiyuan City.

Zhang Qu, the shopkeeper of the Nan'an Hostel, hurried back to his hostel, and as soon as he entered the gate, he ordered: "Close the door and stop business!" ”

He came to the backyard with a heavy heart, and happened to meet Wu Ban head-on, Wu Ban saw that he looked different, so he asked, "Zhang Envoy, what happened?" ”

Zhang Qu was a little nervous and said: "The army has begun to search the city, the streets are full of soldiers, just now the pranky leader Niu Er told me that this time the search of the city is very strict, lead the team in person, it is useless to stuff money, and the strangers who are accompanied by more than ten people will be arrested, and they will be searched for us soon." ”

Zhang Qu was very worried, there were 300 eagle strikers in his hostel, and it was easy to be found, what should I do? He thought for a while and said, "Why don't you let the brothers hide in the secret room first, squeeze it, and be wronged for half an hour, and then there will be nothing to do." ”

Wu Ban pondered for a moment and asked, "Is it a door-to-door search?" Do you want to search your house? ”

"Rented houses should be searched, but ordinary houses should not be searched."

Wu Ban looked at Ye Sè and said with a smile: "This is not a big problem, I have a way to deal with it, so that Jun can just remove the traces of our residence, and then face it calmly." ”

Zhang Qu was suspicious in his heart, what was he going to do? “

Half an hour later, hundreds of Cao soldiers finally searched the slum in the southwest corner, countless torches illuminated the streets like day, led to ride on war horses, their faces were heavy, searched for more than an hour, and captured hundreds of people, but he felt that he had not found the real Han army, especially when he saw a caravan of 100 people three days ago, he had not found it so far, and there was no record of them leaving the city.

His instincts told him that there must be something wrong with those people, and that they were in the middle of the city, "Search carefully, and the cellars will be searched!" He commanded loudly.

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers smashed open the Nan'an hostel, the soldiers did not explain, more than 100 people rushed in like wolves, searched the world, and led the way into the hostel, he looked at this hostel, it covers a large area, there are many houses, obviously can hide a lot of people, he was suspicious in his heart, so he instructed the search general: "This hostel should be searched carefully for me, especially to see if there is a cellar, a secret room and the like." ”

"Obey!"

General Ya led the soldiers to start a careful search, and walked around the hostel, he found that there were no guests in the inn, which made him even more suspicious, and at this moment, a soldier rushed to report: "General, we have found a secret room." ”

At this time, hundreds of soldiers were concentrated inside and outside the study, sword rattling, waiting for the battle, the frame was also removed, and the tooth general was drinking to order Zhang Qu to open the door, Zhang Qu repeatedly explained: "This secret room is used by the original owner to take refuge, it has nothing to do with me, and it is full of sundries." ”

At this time, the soldiers dodged into the study one after another, and the soldiers flashed away, glanced at the door of the secret room, and said coldly: "Crash into it!" ”

The three soldiers stepped forward and kicked the door in unison, 'Bang! With a loud bang, the door of the secret room was kicked open, and there was a black hole inside, dozens of soldiers fired arrows into the secret room at the same time, and after a while, only a few soldiers walked in with torches, and they also walked into the secret room, the secret room was quite large, and it was full of all kinds of broken boxes and beds, without any prohibited items, and no one hid inside.

Zhang Qu explained: "I said it, it's really all sundries, you don't believe it. ”

He turned around and grabbed his shirt, and said viciously: "Let me ask you, why don't you have a guest in your hostel?" ”

Zhang Qu pretended to be frightened and said: "Originally, there were a few guests from the Central Plains, but when they heard that the Han army was coming, they were all scared away. ”

At this time, the soldiers had searched everywhere and came back to report: "General Qiyu, no suspicious characters have been found. ”

Only then did he let go of his clothes, and said hatefully: "Spare you first, and if there is any situation, report to the army immediately!" ”

"Definitely! Certain! ”

With a wave of his hand, "Go to the next one!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers left the hostel, and smashed open the door of a low-level jì hall not far away, Zhang Qu Chang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately Wu Ban refused to hide in the secret room, or it would be over, in fact, he didn't know what to do, even if he was found, the three hundred eagle strike soldiers were more than enough to deal with these Cao troops, but Wu Ban didn't want to startle the snake.

In the private house next door, Wu Ban and dozens of soldiers hid in the room, the owner of the house squatted in the corner, trembling with fright, Wu Ban saw that Cao Jun had left, so he said to the master: "I don't kill you, but you dare to report it, I will kill your whole family!" ”

The man trembled with fright and said, "We don't dare to say it, just act as if nothing happened." ”

"That's right!"

He opened the door and led the soldiers back to the hostel, but Wu Ban was still more cautious, leaving a few soldiers to guard the family, and they started at two o'clock, and they arrived in two hours

The search continued until one watch, when a military situation suddenly came from outside the city, and the Han army was found outside the eastern city filling the moat with sandbags.

The sudden situation made the army have to stop the army to search the city, led the army to the east city, the city, more than a thousand Cao soldiers are intensively releasing arrows to the Luxia, but the night is dark, can not see the situation below, the soldiers can only release arrows at will, almost no effect.

At this moment, the five thousand crossbowmen of the Han army arrived, and they lined up to the head of the city.

Led the move quickly to the head of the city, under the cover of a dozen soldiers holding shields, cautiously probed to look down, in the dark, only to see countless black shadows rushing towards the moat.

The moat itself has frozen, but because the water surface is too shallow and there is a certain gap between the two banks, it is not convenient for large siege equipment such as nest carts and battering rams to move, so it is necessary to fill in the river surface with sandbags, at least a smooth road.

Zhao was very worried in his heart, did the Han army bring a large siege weapon? It is very likely that during the attack on Chencang, the Han army was a temporary assembly of heavy siege engines such as nest cars, and perhaps the Han army would have assembled them overnight, otherwise they would not be in such a hurry to fill the river.

What to do? Tomorrow the Han army will attack the city.