At dawn, Chen Zhi and Yang Zheng led 2,000 cavalry to the vicinity of Yongxian.

The morning light lit up on the horizon, and at the end of the horizon appeared the outline of a city, faintly shrouded in a hint of twilight, but as the morning light shone on, the twilight gradually receded.

Chen stopped to look at the Yongcheng city wall in the distance, looked left and right, surrounded by a large field, the field is planted with millet, there are many mountains and hills nearby, and there is no place to hide.

"Brother Yang, in your opinion, where should I hide?"

Yang Zheng said: "Brother Chen, it's better to go north, you can always find a good hiding place, the enemy cavalry can only explore the surrounding area for a maximum of ten miles, and we will look for a place to hide ten miles away!" ”

"The north is in the opposite direction, the enemy general will not expect our army to come from the north, and when the enemy army is attacking the city, our army will suddenly kill from the north, and we will definitely be able to defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop!"

Chen Zhi's eyes wandered, turned his head to look at Yang Zheng, and nodded: "Yes, Brother Yang is thoughtful!" The order was given, and the whole army immediately went north, leaving more than 100 people to continue to clean up horse manure and horse hoof traces along the way! ”

"Obey!" The herald clenched his fists and agreed, and turned around to convey the military order.

The army continued to bypass Yongcheng far to the north, and there were 100 men at the back of the team to clean up the poop of the war horses along the way, covering up the horses' hoof prints, which was a complicated task.

After walking for more than ten miles, the army stopped at the northern foot of a mountain, where the vegetation was luxuriant, and there was a river on the east side, which made it easy to get water.

Yang Zheng nibbled on dry food and carried a water bag to Chen Zhi's side, sat down and asked, "It's only about seventy years from the enemy camp to Yongcheng, when does the general think the enemy army will be able to reach outside Yongcheng?" ”

Chen Zhi silently calculated and said: "The enemy army has more than 10,000 people, carrying siege equipment, and it is difficult to distinguish the direction in the night. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Zhi waved his hand, "I have left the scouts near Yongcheng, but if an enemy outpost appears, the scouts will come to report, which means that the enemy army is not far from Yongcheng!" ”

Yang Zheng said: "Why don't you let the soldiers rest as soon as possible?" Ready to go to war with the enemy? ”

"Good!"

Immediately, Chen Zhi issued a military order, except for the sentry, the others as soon as possible to feed the horses and seize the time to rest.

Chen Zhi's judgment was very accurate, before noon, the enemy's sentinel cavalry appeared outside Yongcheng City, and now the weather is still relatively hot, the enemy army stops and stops along the way, only sixty or seventy miles away, and walked for most of the night and a morning.

At this time, the soldiers had woken up, all of them were eating, drinking, and feeding the horses, and just now the news came from the scouts that the enemy's sentinel cavalry appeared outside Yongcheng City, and Chen Zhi immediately ordered to wake everyone up and prepare to start action at any time.

Yang Zheng noticed that Chen Zhi's face was worried, and asked, "The general is worried that this battle will not succeed?" ”

Chen Zhi shook his head: "Our army is in the north, the enemy general will never expect it, even if he is on guard, he will only guard against the southeast!" Now Chen is worried about Yongcheng? ”

"Yongcheng?" Yang Zheng was stunned for a moment, he immediately realized what Chen Zhi was worried about, Yongcheng is just a county seat, with the garrison of Yongcheng, will the county officials and defenders be so frightened that they will open the door and surrender directly?

If so, this is trouble!

There are already enemy outposts near Yongcheng, and there is no other good way to get in touch with the officials and defenders of Yongcheng, if you send people over, you will not be able to hide the ears and eyes of the enemy sentry, and the hiding place of the army may be exposed at that time.

Yang Zheng sighed: "Now I can only gamble, bet that the bones of Yongcheng officials are harder than other officials!" ”

Chen Zhi was very annoyed that he hadn't thought of this in advance, he should have been able to think of it, why did he forget the protagonist Yongcheng?

Chen Zhi thought about it and said: "If our army wants to get close to Yongcheng and launch an attack on the enemy army at close range, the only way to get rid of the enemy outpost is to get rid of the enemy outpost first!" General Yang, you personally led people over to lure the enemy outposts away and solve them one by one! ”

"Obey!" Yang Zheng hugged his fists and agreed, and immediately selected some elite sentry horses to rush to the direction of Yongcheng.

When he arrived near Yongcheng, Yang Zheng ordered a cavalryman to take off his leather armor, remove all items with cavalry symbols on his body, and disguise himself as a civilian riding a horse to deliberately appear in the sight of the enemy outposts, and then hesitate to stop and go to attract the attention of these enemy sentry posts.

When the enemy sentinels were focused on the man and began to trot in this direction, the man turned around and ran back as if he were panicked and frightened.

In this case, the enemy sentinels did not hesitate to speed up the pursuit, the man in front of him desperately rode his horse and galloped, and several enemy sentinels behind desperately pursued.

"Whoosh" two sharp arrows came from the rear, and the bait immediately lay on the horse's back, dodging the two sharp arrows, which made the enemy sentry even more convinced that there was something wrong with this man, and strengthened their determination to catch up and capture him.

At this moment, a rope suddenly tightened on the ground, and the two enemy detectives who were chasing Huanshi fell down with their horses without noticing, and fell to pieces.

The two enemy sentries that followed closely behind also had no time to react, and the horses under them also tripped and they also flew out of their horses, but the two were in a slightly better condition, and they rolled on the ground and got up, and the three enemy sentry posts that fell behind controlled the horses in time to stop.

At this moment, three sharp arrows suddenly shot from the nearby meadow, "whoosh", the three people on horseback fell off their horses in response, and lifted a piece of lawn from the ground around them, and several Flame Army sergeants jumped out of the dirt pit and aimed their crossbows at the only two left.

"Ahh

"Whoosh" was two more arrows, and the two of them fell to the ground with arrows.

Yang Zheng rode his horse and galloped over, and took a look at the scene, except for the first two who fell from the horse and couldn't get up, the others were all hit by arrows, but they were not dead yet, he waved his hand: "Mend the knife, leave!" ”

The sergeants drew their swords and stabbed each enemy outpost, killing them.

Yang Zheng took these cavalry and galloped to the gate of Yongcheng, Their arrival surprised the defenders on the city tower, which seemed to the defenders to be another group of people.

I saw Yang Zheng shoot a sharp arrow at the city tower with a bow and arrow, and the defending sergeants bowed their heads to dodge.

After shooting this arrow, Yang Zheng took the sergeants and rode away quickly.

It was then that someone on the tower noticed that the arrow was nailed to a pillar on the tower, and a letter was nailed to the shaft.

The prefectural commander had just received news that a large army was coming from the south, and he immediately rushed over with his officials to climb the tower.

"What just happened?" The prefectural magistrate asked.

A tun chief took off the shaft of the arrow and handed it to the county commander: "County Zun, a group of people came from the north and shot an arrow and left!" ”