The carnivores who did not catch their prey in Qu County, Donghai, turned their heads and rushed to Xiapi, intending to find some comfort and compensation after psychological loss from here.

So, it was Tao Qian's turn to greet their eight generations of ancestors.

The key problem is that regardless of whether Tao Qian greets his ancestors or not, the 80,000 troops assembled outside the city of Xiapi are starting to prepare for the project according to the agreed time, and some large-scale siege equipment have been transported to the city one after another.

Tao Qian's subordinates still had a few people to use, such as Chen Qi, Chen Deng's father and son, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang's brothers, but now these people either went to the Jin Kingdom or went to Yuzhou Island, leaving only Cao Bao, Sun Guan, Zhang Min, Zhao Yu and others to follow. If it weren't for Zhao Xing's special entrustment of Chen Deng to help Tao Qian stick to Xiapi, it is estimated that this Taishou of the East China Sea would also follow Mi Zhu to Yuzhou Island to go fishing, play beach barbecue, and be afraid of accompanying Tao Qian in Xiapi.

Chen Deng, who accompanied Tao Qian to inspect the city, carefully observed the movements of the various armies outside the four gates with a telescope. Tao Qian was very surprised when he saw it, so he said, "What kind of mechanism is Yuan Long holding in his hand?

Chen Deng didn't explain, and handed the binoculars to Tao Qian, saying, "Lord Zhou Mu will know it at a glance. ”

Tao Qian then followed Chen Deng's demonstration, put the telescope close to his eye, and then looked curiously at Zhang Xunjun, who was busy making siege equipment under the city. The next moment, Tao Qian almost dropped the telescope in his hand to the ground in shock, and he said with obvious emotion: "This Rausch is really strange, he actually pulled all the people and things thousands of steps away in front of him, it is simply unremarkable, very vivid!"

Chen Deng thought to himself: If you know that such a Rausch is worth 10,000 gold, if you are not a person who trusts you very much, you will not be able to get it at all, I am afraid that you will even stick out your tongue.

After a few idle words, Tao Qian resumed his worried look and said: "Now all the armies under the city are busy making siege equipment, once it is completed, Xiapi City will usher in a rain of swords and blood, and I don't know when the reinforcements of the Jin Kingdom will arrive." ”

Chen Deng pondered for a moment, and then whispered in Tao Qian's ear: "I have a plan, but I can delay the actions of the armies under the city, just like this......"

After listening to Chen Deng's plan, Tao Qian had a surprised expression on his face, and said with some hesitation: "With only Cao Bao, Sun Guan and Zhang Min and others, can they really retreat?"

Chen Deng replied: "It is precisely because Cao Bao and Zhang Min are not famous, and all the generals who are surrounding the city have a very high opinion of themselves, so we must think that we dare not go out of the city to sneak attack, just to take advantage of a loophole!"

Tao Qian felt that Chen Deng's analysis was reasonable, so he ordered someone to summon Cao Bao, the general with the troops, and others to the city, and asked Chen Deng to arrange the plan for the two to sneak attack out of the city at night.

Cao Bao and Sun Guan have been trained in the Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall of the Jin Kingdom, their vision has been very different from before, and they have mastered some tactics and strategies for fighting night battles and sneak attacks, so after listening to Chen Deng's arrangement, not only did they not feel frightened, but they had an eager expression. As for Zhang Min's goods, it turned out to be the remnants of the Yellow Turban, who was secretly taken in by Tao Qian, so he was also a bold man, so he was naturally not afraid of going out of the city and sneaking attack, and it was impossible to put himself in.

There are 20,000 soldiers and horses in Xiapi City, mainly infantry, of which 10,000 soldiers returning from the Jin State have considerable combat strength, and their combat quality is significantly higher than the other 10,000, which has been led by Cao Bao and Sun Guan, and the other 10,000 are led by Zhang Min and Zhao Yu.

This time, Chen Deng's plan was to dispatch 10,000 troops, of which 6,000 were with higher combat strength, and Cao Bao and Sun Guan led 3,000 people respectively, and the targets of the sneak attack were Zhang Xun outside the east gate and Pan Feng outside the south gate. The other 4,000 troops with weaker combat strength were also divided into two routes, led by Zhang Min and Zhao Yu respectively, mainly to the north gate and the west gate to make a feint posture, and did not go deep into the enemy camp to carry out a real sneak attack.

Chen Deng's arrangement of troops like this has the taste of Tianji horse racing in it. Judging by his analysis, Yuan Shaojun's Wen Chou Jia Feng Ji, and Cao Caojun's Xiahou Yuan and Xi Zhicai are all very powerful characters, and it is difficult to succeed in a sneak attack. And Pan Feng under Liu Yan and Zhang Xun under Yuan Shu, although they are also known as generals, they are still several grades behind Wen Chou and Xiahou Yuan. Therefore, Cao Bao and Sun Guanhe, who had been trained in the Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall, were allowed to deal with Zhang Xun and Pan Feng, and Zhang Min, who was born in mud legs, and Zhao Yu, who was born in literati, were used as feints to interfere with the sight of Yuan Cao's army.

A few third-rate miscellaneous fish in Xiapi City went out separately with thousands of troops at the third watch in the middle of the night.

The soldiers Cao Bao and Sun Guan brought out of the city mainly carried longbow weapons and some "flammable and explosive" things, and their goal was very clear, that is, to stab Zhang Xun and Pan Feng's Chinese army camp fiercely, and pierce wherever it goes. In case Zhang Xun or Pan Feng died in the chaos, it would be equivalent to stabbing the enemy in the heart.

The soldiers brought out of the city by Zhang Min and Zhao Yu were mainly defensive and running, in addition to carrying basic weapons, there were also some objects that could make loud noises, and their goal was to scare and disturb Wen Chou and Xiahou Yuan's troops.

Half an hour later, all the troops that had split up were in place, and a night attack began, both real and false.

In the dark night, the prepared Xuzhou soldiers set up their bows and arrows at a distance of 400 steps from Zhang Xun and Pan Feng's camp, and ruthlessly shot the rapid rain of arrows into the camp tents of Zhang and Pan Zhong. A moment later, the arrows thrown from the air pierced through the already thin tent of the summer night, wounding and killing many Yangzhou and Yuzhou soldiers.

"Enemy attack! enemy attack!" The terrible siren finally sounded in the camp of Zhang Xun and Pan Feng, and the soldiers who woke up from their dreams hurriedly got out of the camp tent and took their weapons to look for the enemy, only to usher in the next round of ruthless arrow rain.

As soon as Zhang Xun and Pan Feng heard the alarm, they immediately rushed out of the camp to order their soldiers to remain calm, and then found the direction where the arrows came from to determine the enemy's position.

Unfortunately, Cao Bao and Sun Guan did not give them this opportunity, and ordered their soldiers to shoot the last batch of arrows wrapped in fire oil, and immediately led the troops to retreat into the city.

Seeing the rain of fire falling from the sky, Zhang Xun and Pan Feng decisively gave up the pursuit of the enemy, but hurriedly organized the soldiers to start rescuing the wounded and organizing the extinguishing of the fire.

There was a lot of bustling outside the east and south gates, and there was even more commotion at the north and west gates.

After Zhang Kai and Zhao Yu went out of the city gate, they kept in mind Chen Deng's explanation, and when they were still more than a mile away from Yuan Jun and Cao Jun, they stopped, and adjusted the formation of the troops to turn around and retreat, and then ordered their subordinates to beat gongs and drums and make noise, and for a while, it sounded like tens of thousands of horses were charging and roaring.

Wen Chou, Xiahou Yuan and others, who were awakened by the loud noise, immediately calmly organized their troops to prepare for a defensive counterattack, but found that it was actually a false alarm, so they were very annoyed and organized soldiers to pounce on the Xuzhou soldiers who were beating gongs and drums under the city.

However, what annoyed Yuan Jun and Cao Jun was that this group of Xuzhou soldiers seemed to have changed from rabbits, and they fled into Xiapi City in a hurry without waiting for their own army to surround them.