Chapter 602 Execution Plan
Chapter 602 Execution Plan
Time passed little by little, less than half an hour before the two sides met again, everything had been agreed, and the two sides were to separate themselves to prepare for the execution of the plan.
Lin Xuanzhong was busy spreading the news of his cooperation with Qincheng to Wang Yiyao, while Su Chi wanted to spread the rumors that the night army had a dispute with him, and let those bandits plant in the city to listen, and try his best to use the rumors to create the illusion that there was a contradiction with the night army, and then wait for time.
Now that the plan has been established, it must not be too hasty or too slow in the future, at least give those bandits time to understand the situation in Qincheng.
In terms of leading the troops, Lin Xuanzhong planned to send Wang Yiyao to come, because Wang Yiyao had been in Qucheng and had not yet been in contact with the people in Qincheng, so letting him lead the troops to Qincheng to collect grain could make the fake show more realistic. In addition, based on the understanding of Wang Yiyao's own personality, Wang Yiyao is still more suitable for doing this than Xing Hu.
After Xing Hu returns to Qincheng, he will personally bring some people to Orchid Village to hunt, so as to create the illusion that the night army is short of food. Then, when the king roared and left, those bandits would inevitably think that Lin Xuanzhong would continue to stay in the Qucheng City Lord's Mansion when they got the news. But in fact, Lin Xuanzhong wanted to stay in the general's mansion in Qincheng.
Lin Xuanzhong wanted to stay in Qincheng to understand the situation in Qincheng as soon as possible, and secondly, under Su Chi's noses, it was a guarantee for the cooperation between the two sides. When Lin Xuanzhong said that he would continue to stay in Qincheng to observe the situation, Su Chi and the other family heads agreed one by one, of course, Lin Xuanzhong stayed in the city lord's mansion as a VIP.
In terms of whether Su Chi and them will breach the contract, after the two meetings, Lin Xuanzhong can only judge based on Su Chi's character. Su Chi has always opened the city gate to accept refugees, which is undoubtedly a benevolent and righteous act, Lin Xuanzhong can use this to speculate that Su Chi will not be the kind of person who goes back on his word, but it is impossible to know whether other family heads will conspire with the bandits in private.
Now with Lin Xuanzhong, in addition to Li Shuangxi, there is also Yu Tong, and everyone else is arranged by Lin Xuanzhong to go back from the original way. In order to prevent Lin Xuanzhong and the bandits from discovering it when they arrived in Qincheng, Su Chi also deliberately found a person with a similar figure to Lin Xuanzhong to put on a black cloak and pretend to be Lin Xuanzhong. In addition, the head of the Lu family pretended to be Yu Tong, and Li Shuangxi casually found a martial artist to pretend. In short, the number of people is exactly the same as when they came, but they all went with luggage.
In terms of identity secrecy, Lin Xuanzhong and Su Chi have done their best, and whether it can be effective or not depends on the final result.
After living in the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Xuanzhong did not plan to arrange for Yu Tong to inquire about the news, because Yu Tong's realm was too high to pretend to be an ordinary person, but Li Shuangxi was a suitable person. Not only is his strength low, but he also has a civilian identity, so there should be no problem pretending to be an ordinary person outside, so Lin Xuanzhong specially asked Su Chi for Li Shuangxi for an identity that can enter and exit the back door of the City Lord's Mansion at will. Immediately afterwards, the responsibility of searching around the city for news fell on Li Shuangxi.
After receiving Lin Xuanzhong's instructions, Li Shuangxi, who had always been grateful to Lin Xuanzhong, understood what he was going to do, and after agreeing to Lin Xuanzhong on the spot, Li Shuangxi directly mixed into the city as a civilian.
As soon as Li Shuangxi left, there was only one Yu Tong left by Lin Xuanzhong's side, because there was nothing else to do for the time being, so the two of them could only stay in the city lord's mansion and wait for news.
Time passed little by little, and two hours later, Xing Hu smoothly returned to Qucheng with the news, and relayed the things Lin Xuanzhong explained to Wang Yiyi one by one, and the deficiencies were supplemented by another deputy general and the head of the Lu family.
At first, Wang Yiyi was very surprised that Lin Xuanzhong was able to reach a cooperative relationship with Qincheng, but after Xing Hu introduced the identity of the head of the Lu family and explained Lin Xuanzhong's intention to stay in Qincheng at the moment, Wang Yiyao gradually became serious from surprise.
Not long after, Wang Yiyi learned all of Lin Xuanzhong's plans from Xing Hu's mouth. It is very difficult to lure those bandits into the bait, and if they fail, it means that all their efforts are wasted time, but if they succeed, they can solve all the problems in front of them. After careful consideration, Wang Yiyao only felt that Lin Xuanzhong's plan was very necessary to try.
Then, after taking the initiative to ask Xing Hu a few questions, Wang Yiyao had fully understood several key points in the implementation of the plan. Next, they had to do it step by step according to Lin Xuanzhong's instructions.
First of all, if the bandits were well aware of the situation in Qucheng, then the night army should try to create the illusion that there is not enough food and grass. First, according to Lin Xuanzhong's explanation, tomorrow Xing Hu will personally take 300 soldiers to hunt outside the city; second, the night army left behind in the city will go to every household tomorrow to collect grain, so as to arouse the people's resentment as much as possible; third, early tomorrow morning, Wang Yiyao will only take 500 soldiers to Qincheng to collect grain.
Among the above three points, it is the task that Wang Yiyao wants to complete is the most critical. Tomorrow, after Wang Yiyao arrives in Qincheng with his troops, he must first announce his intention to the people in Qincheng, and then meet with Su Chi, and after some exchanges, the two sides reach a temporary agreement.
After reaching an agreement with Su Chi, Wang Yiyao led his troops to camp, and then because Su Chi missed the appointment that day, he went to Qincheng the next day to ask for an explanation, but he faced a premeditated attack on Qincheng, because there were few people, Wang Yiyao wanted to pretend to be invincible, and retreated while fighting.
After returning to the camp, Wang Yiyao sent a letter directly to Qucheng to ask for help, and then increased his troops by 1,000 according to the plan. When the reinforcements arrived, Wang Yiyi would raid Qincheng with 1,500 soldiers that night, and enter the city according to the plan of feint. Loot around the city until you finally exit the city.
After the sacking of Qincheng, the night army would celebrate in a big way that night, according to Lin Xuanzhong's explanation, they drank and talked happily, and did not abide by military discipline, and this continued until the evening of the third day.
On the other hand, after Su Chi attacked the night army on the first day, he immediately sent someone to Xiaoyin Mountain secretly to ask for help, and asked for a temporary cooperative relationship with the gang of bandits in the form of jointly resisting foreign enemies and then giving them heavy rewards.
Once those bandits are fooled, they will inevitably pay attention to the movements of the night army before agreeing to cooperate with Qincheng, and then the next night, they will learn about some undisciplined behavior of the night army based on their own observations.
After they determined the situation of the night army by themselves, the possibility of cooperating with Qincheng would naturally increase, and once they decided to cooperate with Qincheng, Lin Xuanzhong's plan would be implemented normally on the third day.
If everything goes well, in less than three days, Lin Xuanzhong's plan can be completed, and then all the difficulties that the original night army will face will be solved.
After getting all the news from Xing Hu, Wang Yiyao directly set about arranging what they were going to do tomorrow. Tomorrow, as soon as he and Xing Hu leave, Qucheng can only be led by the deputy general below, speaking of which, it is not easy to forcibly requisition grain, and Wang Yiyao is really a little uneasy.
It took a full hour for Wang Yiyi to arrange everything properly. At the same time, the fact that Qincheng wanted to resist the arrival of the night army and the refusal to pay the grain had spread in the city in the form of gossip, and those who did not know the specific situation of the city were afraid of it after learning that the night army was going to the city to collect food, and at the same time they also actively responded to Su Chi's call to unite together to resist the invasion of foreign enemies.
After the spread of the news expanded, the eyes of those bandits naturally noticed the matter, and immediately spread the situation in Qincheng to the bandits.
After learning that Qincheng was going to unite his forces to resist the night army, the first thing that came to the mind of those bandit leaders was how to reap the benefits of the fisherman. In their opinion, there is not much difference in the overall strength of the two sides, and when the battle reaches a critical moment, they can just come forward in time to eliminate the night army and the resistance forces in Qincheng in one fell swoop.
When the leaders of the bandits reached an agreement, and they all thought that the mantis was catching cicadas and yellow sparrows, one of the leaders hurriedly ordered the people below to keep an eye on the situation in Qincheng at all times, and report it as soon as there was news. Then, after several leaders continued to negotiate for a while, they sent more people to Qucheng to check on the situation, because it was more beneficial for them to make some decisions by gathering information from various sources.
In fact, at the beginning, Yu Tong and the others were stopped by the city guards in disguise, and then they entered the city lord's mansion, and the bandit leaders already knew about it, but they didn't understand the intention of Yu Tong and the others to dress up in disguise.
If the night army asked Qincheng to pay for food, Yu Tong and the others could meet the city lord of Qincheng head-on, and they didn't have to change their clothes, which was really unpredictable for them. Fortunately, not long after, Yu Tong and the others were personally sent out by Su Chi, so it was like a head-on meeting, and in the end, the bandit leaders did not discuss the matter again.
Today, when Lin Xuanzhong and the others entered the city, they were unexpectedly discovered by the ears and eyes of those bandits, but those people could only judge that Lin Xuanzhong and the others were coming from the direction of Qucheng, and they didn't know Lin Xuanzhong's identity. After losing Lin Xuanzhong's traces, when they saw a group of people on horseback, they only thought they were businessmen coming and going, because Xing Hu and they all took things with them when they left.
Regarding this matter, the bandit leaders also considered it, but unfortunately in the end, because they couldn't find the whereabouts of the dozen or so people, they didn't discuss the result. In Qincheng, the bandits had the above two problems, but in any case, after discussing with several leaders, they still decided to pay close attention to the situation in Qincheng and Qucheng first.
Not long after the leaders discussed, the bandits below got the news that they might have to do a big job, and they cheered one by one, and before they were sure whether they were going to do a big job, they had already celebrated. Premeditated looting seems to be a habit of bandits, but this way of wishing success does increase the likelihood that they will succeed.
There was nothing to do all night, and early the next morning, Wang Yihe set off from Qucheng with five hundred night troops, counting the rest time, an hour and fifteen miles of travel, and more than three hours later, Wang Yiyao arrived at the north gate of Qucheng with five hundred night troops.
There are city guards up and down the city pass, and after arriving here, according to the plan, Wang Yiyi asked the city guards to call Su Chi as soon as possible. After Su Chi arrived, Wang Yiyao asked Su Chi to collect rations from each family according to the grain collection standard, load them at the specified time and send them to the outside of the city. If Su Chi does not agree, the Night Army will attack Qincheng. Although Wang Yiyi only led five hundred night troops, in terms of momentum, I don't know how many times stronger than those city guards.