Returning to the Weicheng Plain from the Northwest Road, it was already dark when the coalition troops left the passage, and Sima Fuqiang was considering whether to rest in place for half a day before returning to the camp in the southeast of Weicheng that had been idle for several days.

Huang Zhi squinted at Tail City, which was miles away, and suddenly had a new idea, "Let's play stealing the city again." ”

Sima Fuqiang and Zhang Wei immediately understood his thoughts when they heard this, the coalition army had just captured hundreds of rebel cavalry in the Northwest Province, and there were just enough military horses and rebel uniforms on hand at this time, so they could arm a "reinforcement army". Moreover, according to the scheduled arrival time of the reinforcements from the Northwest Province, it was only two or three hours late to rush to Weicheng at this time, and there should be a chance to deceive Du Ziteng again.

Liu Yuanzhi also handed over a letter at this time, "This was found on the leading generals, and with this letter, you should be able to win the trust of Du Ziteng." ”

Huang Zhi took the letter, which was nothing more than some words written by the general of the Northwest Provincial Garrison to Du Ziteng, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy. Putting the letter in his arms, he had already decided to gamble again.

Sima Fuqiang immediately asked Li Wei and Wu Qiang to find 400 foot soldiers who could ride horses and change into rebel uniforms to temporarily pretend to be cavalry, and act together with the original 300 cavalry of the coalition army.

After three days of waiting, Du Ziteng no longer had any illusions about the reinforcements. During these three days, he could barely sleep peacefully, and finally fell asleep, and as soon as he fell asleep, he would dream.

The so-called thinking and dreaming at night, he waited for reinforcements in the city tower every day. So almost every hour he would dream that the herald would come to inform him of the arrival of reinforcements, but he would immediately jump out of bed in excitement, only to realize that it was nothing more than his own delusion.

What's even worse is that he will then dream that the tail city is breached because of the disappointment of not waiting for reinforcements, and the fire in the city is everywhere, and the iron hooves of the Eastern Navy trample the ground heavily, rushing everywhere in the city, and trampling on his fragile nerves. Eventually, he dreamed that the city had been breached, and he himself had been tied up and sent to the state capital to await execution.

The picture of the dream has been changing, one moment is the tail city where he is at the moment, the other is the flaming tail Dongguan, and more is the Wanghui City he is most familiar with. In the end, Du Ziteng couldn't tell where he was, so he woke up in a cold sweat and found that Weicheng was still in his hands.

There was not a single movement of the coalition forces for three days, and the entire camp was dead silent, which did not seem at all to be done to attack Tail City. At this moment, he had basically guessed that it was the Eastern Navy that took the opportunity of besieging Tail City to eat all the friendly troops from all over the world.

If Du Ziteng is not mistaken, it seems that he has heard that there is such a rule in the Art of War, pretend to be the end of the city, and then attack the reinforcements. It's just that the rebel generals who were born as bandits are all wild, and no one has learned the art of war at all. The only one who knows the art of war is Liu Yuanzhi, who was thrown in Weinancang and cannot be reused.

"It's a pity that I couldn't get him to my side sooner." It was then that he finally realized what a mistake the rebel leadership had made.

Since taking Tail City two years ago, arrogance has been spreading in the upper echelons of the rebels. They didn't realize that the reason why they were able to succeed was not because of the high military level of these leaders, but because the officials and troops of Weixian were too corrupt.

Because of this, among the middle-level officers, it was not easy for a person like Liu Yuanzhi who had learned some art of war, but he was excluded everywhere and could not be reused, and in the end he could only arrange a city guard in Nancang, which can be described as a pearl cast into the dark.

At this time, the rebels finally ate their own bitter fruits, they don't need Liu Yuanzhi, naturally there are people who know the goods, and that is the dream people of the Eastern Navy. Although Liu Yuanzhi's strategic vision is not as good as Sima Fuqiang's, his tactical literacy is not as good as Zhang Wei's, and his adaptability is not as good as Huang Zhi's, he is a comprehensive military talent who is familiar with the geography and landform of Weixian County and the deployment of the rebels.

Not to mention anything else, even if the rebels paid more attention to Liu Yuanzhi earlier and entrusted him with appropriate heavy tasks, as long as he did not surrender to the Eastern Navy, Du Ziteng would definitely not lose hope in Huicheng, let alone trigger a chain reaction later, until now it is said to be irreparable predicament.

"Is the rebel army at the end of its rope?" Du Ziteng has never been so depressed.

Du Ziteng knew that if he lost the tail city again, then the rebels in the three border cities would become rootless duckweed, and it would not be long before they would be eaten by the Lizhou army and the Eastern Navy. On the contrary, as long as the city is kept intact, with the large amount of wealth and grain and grass hoarded in the city, as long as he is given some time, he can revive the rebels.

"General, reinforcements are coming! Reinforcements from the Northwest Province are coming! A herald stumbled into the command post.

Du Ziteng glanced at the herald, ignored it, and muttered, "I'm dreaming again......"

Seeing that his commander was unmoved, the herald had to remind again, "General, a team of people claiming to be reinforcements from the Northwest Province are here, and they are waiting under the north gate at the moment. The captain on duty at the city gate suspected fraud and did not let them enter the city, and asked the general to go over and make a decision in person. ”

In these two dreams, I have never heard the herald speak so clearly, usually just a simple sentence "reinforcements are coming". At this time, Du Ziteng also woke up, this is not a dream!

Hurriedly followed the herald straight to the north gate, and immediately went to the command platform of the city tower, Du Ziteng saw a team of 700 cavalry outside the north gate waiting to open the door and let go.

When the captain of the city gate on duty saw him coming, he hurriedly came over to report, "General, my subordinates think that these people are a little suspicious. ”

This lieutenant escaped from Wanghui City overnight with Du Ziteng, and the so-called once he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, it was inevitable that he would be suspicious.

Du Ziteng was still full of joy and wanted to let people open the door and let them go, but when he heard this, he immediately became vigilant and hurriedly asked, "What suspicious did you find?" ”

"This, there is no conclusive evidence from the subordinates, but I just have an intuition that there is something wrong with these people."

If it was in the past, if his subordinates dared to answer like this, Du Ziteng would definitely whip it over, but at this moment, he was already a little nervous from insomnia, and he didn't believe the judgment of his subordinates. He immediately had a team of archers called, with bows open to the "reinforcements" under the city.

"It's General Du?" Seeing that the other party had entered a state of tension without saying anything, Huang Zhi was depressed under the city tower, but he still did not give up and shouted.

"Dog thieves of the Eastern Navy, don't think that if you put on the uniform of the rebels, I won't recognize you!" Du Ziteng didn't give him a chance to explain at all, and cursed directly.

"General Du, we are really reinforcements!" Huang Zhi didn't know what the other party's reason for seeing through him was, so he could only argue weakly.

Du Ziteng really didn't see any flaws in the "reinforcements", but thinking that three days had passed, and the other two reinforcements were nowhere to be seen, but the farthest northwest road came first, and he couldn't believe anything. In his opinion, this is obviously a conspiracy of the Eastern Navy.

"General Du, how do we say that you are willing to believe it? The last general has a handwritten letter from General Liu, and the general can read it. Huang Zhi saw that the other party was unmoved, so he could only come up with evidence to prove that the troops he brought were indeed "reinforcements".

Du Ziteng's eyes rolled, and he thought of a way in his heart, "If I believe that you can, put down all the weapons and dismount all the personnel." ”

"Disarming ......" The three stinkers were stunned. Du Ziteng's move is ruthless enough, if he disarms and enters the city, it will not be the Eastern Navy stealing the city, but in turn, he will enter the city and be killed. They didn't think that the personal weapons of the nine Dream Men hidden in their weapons bags would be able to withstand the tense rebel soldiers at the top of the city.

"That's not good, the Eastern Navy and the officers and troops leaving the state capital may attack at any time, if we abandon our weapons and dismount, won't we let others slaughter them?" Huang Zhi was still trying his best to persuade Du Ziteng at the head of the city.

"Don't talk nonsense, if you don't abandon your weapons and dismount, I'll give the order to shoot arrows!" Du Ziteng didn't believe these people at this time, "I'll count from one to ten, and when the time comes, shoot arrows immediately!" ”

Listening to Du Ziteng at the head of the city began to count, the three stinkers knew that this time they couldn't get around, and this kind of unreasonable opponent was the most troublesome opponent, because the other party didn't act according to the cards at all.

"Withdraw!" Sima Fuqiang knew that any further delay would only cause unnecessary losses, so he could only evacuate the north gate with "reinforcements".

Du Ziteng, the head of the city, laughed proudly, "I knew that you cunning Eastern Navy wanted to deceive my city again, tell you, no way!" Give me arrows! ”

Due to the early opportunity in the dream, the 700 men and horses of the coalition army did not lose anything, but the seamless plan to steal the city failed so inexplicably, which made them depressed.

In the blink of an eye, he ran out of a safe distance, knowing that the other party would never dare to go out of the city to pursue, Huang Zhi stopped a little unwillingly.

Seeing this, Sima Fuqiang ordered the whole army to wait in place, turned around and asked Huang Zhi, "What's wrong?" Aren't you giving up? Now they won't be fooled anymore. ”

"I want to talk to Du Ziteng." Huang Zhi said his plan.

"You want to persuade him?" Sima Fuqiang immediately understood his thoughts, "This is also a way." ”

The two discussed for a while, and then decided that all the people in the dream would accompany Huang Zhi to negotiate with Du Ziteng, mainly to protect his safety.

Du Ziteng watched on the city wall as the other party stopped a mile away, but the leaders turned back, and they were quite puzzled in their hearts, "Are these people idiots to me?" ”

All members of the Donghai team dismounted and walked within the range of the opponent's bow and arrow, but it was a position with limited power. In this way, even if Huang Zhi and Du Ziteng's conversation collapsed, the other party's archery attack would not cause them any damage.

"General Du, since you have seen our identity, I want to talk to you." Huang Zhi took a tin cylinder for shouting, and activated the "social" skill to tear his voice away.

"What is there to talk about? Don't you just want to persuade me to open the door and surrender, I won't do it! Give me arrows! Du Ziteng didn't give Huang Zhi a chance to say more at all.

Seeing a large array of arrows shooting at him overwhelmingly, people in the dream could only quickly hide behind Sima Fuqiang's tower shield in embarrassment, and waited until this wave of attacks was over, and then hurriedly withdrew out of range.

"Hehe, Shixin, your 'social' also doesn't work!" Xiaofeng gloated and rejoiced, "I think you can stage a 'straw boat borrowing arrows'." ”

Huang Zhi and Sima Fuqiang glared at him in annoyance at the same time, this kid is joking and doesn't look at the timing, what is there to be happy about.

Huang Zhi's C-rank "social" skill can only have an effect on friendly and non-hostile forces, and currently has no effect on enemy forces, and it is expected that it will not affect Du Ziteng. His charm is not as powerful as he imagined, and the reason why he can be like a fish in water in the dream of war is because of the power of "socialization" in the final analysis.

"Captain, I'm going back to Donghai Town." Returning to the coalition camp that had been separated for several days, the more Huang Zhi thought about it, the more unwilling he became.

Sima Fuqiang couldn't guess his mind this time, "Why did you go back again?" Didn't we just go back on Thursday night? ”

"It's time for 'social' to upgrade." Huang Zhi explained why.

"B-rank!" Sima Fuqiang was excited, this will be the first B-rank exclusive skill of the Donghai team, I don't know how far the "social" he has always been optimistic about can be further enhanced.

"When is the accumulation of enough proficiency?" He asked.

"Just now." Huang Zhi turned his head and pointed to the hundreds of rebel cavalry who were being recruited by Wu Qiang not far away.

In fact, with the ease of Huang Zhi's "social" accumulation of proficiency, as long as he uses a little dim sum, he should be able to meet the requirements for promotion last weekend or early this week. However, considering that the points required to improve a B-rank skill were as high as eight thousand, and the Donghai team was always in a financial crisis some time ago, Huang Zhi deliberately slowed down the improvement of proficiency.

However, after the East China Sea team was promoted to the C rank, because of the extension of the stay time and the linear increase in the number of residents in the East China Sea territory, the East China Sea team was able to guarantee an income of at least 40,000 points per week. The 8,000 points required to "socialize" to improve the B rank is no longer a problem, so Huang Zhi decided to rush back to Donghai Town to improve his skills.

Now he only has one scruple left, that is, the overall combat effectiveness rank of the East China Sea team was originally Zhang Wei's 1B, if the "social" also reaches the B rank, then next Monday when they enter the war dream, they will face the combat effectiveness evaluation of the 2b rank, which will inevitably affect the difficulty of the war dream.

After expressing his worries, Huang Zhi still wanted to hear the captain's opinion.

"2b, don't you say that I forgot to have this stubble." Sima Fuqiang slapped his head, obviously he had never thought about this question at all. "Speaking of which, since Ren Wei joined the East China Sea team, our war dream has always started with the combat effectiveness of the B rank, no wonder the South China Sea team can say that Huang Zhong, the great god, will deal with us."

"Eh, I can't blame it." Zhang Wei happened to come over, and when he heard this, he hurriedly protested. "If you want to complain, you can only complain about the heart of the soldier, you yourself pulled me into this world, hehe!"

Sima Fuqiang waved his hand, he obviously didn't mean to complain about Zhang Wei, "Think about it, is the difference between 1b and 2b really big?" And do you think that with the current strength of our team, we can't challenge the 2B difficulty war dream? ”

"Captain, you mean to approve of me going back to town to improve the 'social' rank." Huang Zhi thought about it, not to mention the others, Wanyue alone now has the strength close to the B rank. As long as there are Zhang Wei and Wanyue here, if the war dream is raised to 2b difficulty in the future, it is really not a difficult thing.

Only then did Zhang Wei understand what the two of them were talking about, and hurriedly said, "It just so happens that my 'claws' have also accumulated enough proficiency, and I will accompany you back." ”

Sima Fuqiang suddenly thought of something, and reminded the two of them with a sad face, "Each of you only has more than two thousand points on each of you now, right?" It doesn't add up enough for one person. ”

"yes, then we have to go back with the whole team and sum up everyone's points." Huang Zhi then remembered that he had forgotten such an important matter.

Sima Fuqiang shook his head, "It's seven hundred miles away from here back to Donghai Town, and you definitely can't run back to Donghai Town like last time." Counting the rest time on the road, it will take at least six days to go back and forth. That's not going to work! ”

Huang Zhi also nodded, "Yes, if we are not here, Wu Qiang can't control that kid Li Wei." If Li Wei takes advantage of our absence, then the losses of the Eastern Navy will be great. ”

Zhang Wei also added, "Even if Li Wei doesn't mess around, it's not a good thing to leave the army here for six days." In case of another reinforcement from the rebels, I think Wu Qiang and the others will not be able to cope with it for the time being. It's really not appropriate, let's wait for the battle in Tail City to end before going back. ”

"Alas, but if I don't go back and improve the rank of 'social', I'm afraid that Tail City will not be able to win it so easily." Huang Zhi became more and more entangled, "Stealing the city has failed, and the Weicheng Plain has been cleared by Du Ziteng's strong wall, and there is no point in wanting to play a night attack, so the only way left is to storm the way." ”

"Yes, if you attack strongly, the losses are not ordinarily large, and I don't want the strength of the Eastern Navy, which has been developed with great difficulty, to suffer too much damage." Sima Fuqiang also agreed with this statement, and he immediately thought of something in Huang Zhi's words, "Do you mean that after the 'social' reaches the B rank, it can also be effective against the enemy army?" ”

Huang Zhi turned his head to look in the direction of Tail City, "Yes, I have a strong feeling that after 'cordial' reaches the B rank, it should have an effect on the enemy army." ”

"Any evidence?" Sima Fuqiang doesn't believe in such a thing as intuition, so it's better to have a solid foundation.

"Yes." Huang Zhi organized the language for a while before he said, "The 'cordial' effect of the C rank can make strangers close, but what about the B rank? Can I make a stranger swear allegiance to me with just one word? Then can I let Cao Pi or Tuoba Jue give me the power in their hands? Apparently impossible. ”

Sima Fuqiang and Zhang Wei couldn't stop nodding, if the "socialization" of the B rank is so powerful, then the dream world will become the back garden of Huang Zhi's family, and it is obviously unreasonable to go shopping as much as you like.

"Since the 'Kindness' effect has reached its upper limit on one's own people at the C-rank, the next B-rank can only develop on the enemy's side. So my judgment is that the B effect of 'Kindness' should be able to reduce the hostility of the enemy by one level. Huang Zhi said his conclusion.

"Apparently so." Sima Fuqiang nodded, "If that's the case, then it's obviously worth using this thing." ”

He took out something from his arms, and Zhang Wei and Huang Zhi's eyes lit up.

(To be continued)