Chapter 66: Evacuation
"And don't cheat, what you said just now makes people laugh off their big teeth, there are indeed 100,000 soldiers and horses coming to the source of the river from a hundred miles away, that is the soldiers and horses explained by Uncle Su, how can they help you." Cai Heng laughed at Wei Li.
Wei Li was afraid that Cai Heng would deceive himself and disbelieve it, so he even laughed:
"Hmph, Cai Heng, you don't do a good job of intelligence, explain that half a month ago you led troops to support the northwest war, this is an order from Duke Su. I also have information that I was still in Northwest Qizhou yesterday. ”
"Your information is true, it is indeed in Qizhou, but his army did not go to Qizhou. Instead, they set up camp two hundred miles northwest of Jiangyuan, just waiting for an unscrupulous rebellion. ”
Wei Li only believed his own report, and Cai Heng's remarks seemed to him to be nothing more than an attempt to cover up. But Wei Li has no backup, Cai Heng's promised surrender conditions are afraid of being a fraud, if there is no surrender, no backup, no food and grass, how can tens of thousands of soldiers and horses support it, so the best strategy is to break through, and the next strategy is to hold the ministers hostage and Su Gong to negotiate conditions.
"Don't say more, if you want to attack the city, just come!" Wei Li set a strategy of depleting Cai Heng's troops and waiting for the opportunity to break through, and began to anger Cai Heng.
Cai Heng didn't plan to really attack the city, and according to the plan, he only needed to consume Wei Li for half a day. He looked up and saw that it was almost noon, so he shouted to Wei Li on the city tower: "I'm not in a hurry, the army will rush to help before dark, and you will surrender." ”
Wei Li saw that Cai Heng was not fooled, and he also rounded up the deception that he thought was just now, which made Wei Li no longer arbitrarily reinforce the reinforcements, and just when Wei Li hesitated, a scout hurriedly rushed over.
"General, the northwest flying pigeons are sending a message, and a large army is attacking Jiangyuan."
"Can you compare letterprints and paper?" Wei Li was worried that the flying pigeon was done by Su Gong.
"Back to the general, the letter seal is not bad at all, the paper has a sandwich, and there is silk in the sandwich." Scouts should arrive.
In order to prevent the enemy from spreading false news, the Jiangyuan defenders set up a strict information transmission system, all information must be written on special paper, and the signature must be stamped with a letter seal, which is a randomly broken square engraved seal, and each end of the information transmission is half of it.
Wei Li completely believed the reinforcements Cai Heng said, but he still didn't dare to believe the conditions for surrendering, so he had no intention of surrendering, and he had no idea how to break through, so he hurriedly recruited to join the army to discuss.
Cai Heng, who had no intention of attacking the city, saw that Wei Li did not know where to go, for fear that something would change, so he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to set up a ladder and pretend to attack the city. Another wave of fighting, although there were no major casualties on both sides, it could make Wei Li uneasy.
Just as Cai Heng ordered the withdrawal of the siege, the gate of the inner city was opened, and a group of ministers who were tied up and sturdy, several noble ladies and young children walked in front of a column of military horses.
Hiding behind the minister, parents and children, on top of the war horse is Wei Li.
Cai Heng recognized several ministers, and also recognized Wei Li, as for the number of replies, although they did not recognize it, they must not have any mistakes, seeing this formation, Cai Heng understood Wei Li's intentions.
"Wei Li, you don't have to go to the road of life, but you have to go to the road of death! Even if you succeed in breaking through, where can you escape? ”
Regardless of Cai Heng's dissuasion, Wei Li did not speak, and followed closely behind the ministers, women and children who were urged to move quickly. Cai Heng reluctantly shouted again: "Our department has withdrawn all defenses, and when you leave the city, you need to release all the hostages." ”
"As long as I can get out of the city smoothly, I will release the hostages, and I will release a batch of them every hundred miles on the official road to Culai until I escape from Dongsheng and enter the border of Culai." Wei Li saw that Cai Heng was no longer obstructing, and this was the time to arrive.
Cai Heng had no better way, so he had to rely on Wei Li, withdraw all defenses, and order his subordinates to withdraw to the outer city, so that Wei Li could escape smoothly.
I'm sorry I couldn't finish the 2,000 words today, but I'll be ready tomorrow.