Once the agreement is settled, the rest is simple.

Zhao Tuo directly drove the army to the open space around Zhongli City and set up camp.

Several black flags fluttered in the barracks, although the flags were dirty and damaged after thousands of miles of travel, but the appearance of waving in the wind, combined with the thousands of soldiers and armor under Qin's banner, caused huge psychological pressure on the Zhongli people who saw this scene in the city.

Although Zhongli is a big city nearby, there are only more than 10,000 residents, and the number of young and strong people in the city is not even as large as the number of Qin troops outside the city.

This is a show of force by the Qin army, telling Zhongli that if they dare to cheat on the surrender contract, they can only repay it with blood.

Zhongli County Duke was shocked and frightened, and immediately fulfilled the treaty made by the envoy Zhong Liyi and the Qin army.

The county magistrate did not go out of the city, but opened one side of the city gate and asked his subordinates to organize the young men in the city to transport a grain and straw materials to the military camp outside the city and hand them over to the Qin people.

"Waiting for the army, the food Zhongli took out is enough for our army to eat for ten days. There are also hundreds of clothes that can be changed into by the nobles. ”

At dusk, the sunset was slanting westward, and after the time of the time, he counted the materials delivered by Zhong Licheng and came to report to Zhao Tuo.

Zhao Tuo nodded, ten days' food was already the limit they could carry, enough for them to find another city to forage for food after crossing the Huaishui.

"Is the food okay?"

"I picked some and let those Zhongli people eat them, and it seems that there is no problem."

"Hmm."

Zhao Tuo nodded, thinking that Zhongli County Duke would not be stupid enough to do anything in the food, if he was really detected by Qin Jun, it would be more than worth the loss.

He looked sideways in the direction of Huaishui in the distance.

Seeing that under the sunset, more than a dozen boats had been docked on the bank of the river, and from time to time there were Chu people driving small boats from the upper and lower reaches of the Huai River, thinking that they had received an order from Zhongli County Gong to collect boats for the Qin army to cross the river.

After all, the Qin army had nearly 6,000 people, and if they wanted to cross the Huaishui, they needed a lot of boats, and they had to look for boats all night.

According to Zhao Tuo's calculations, the king of Chu in Shouchun City should be frightened by the 30,000 Qin troops and the suspicious soldiers of the wooden people he left behind for a few days, and wait until the returning Chu army arrives in Shouchun, and then be sent by the king of Chu to pursue them, thinking that it will be a few days later than the Qin army.

Therefore, the Qin army still has time, even if it is delayed in Zhongli for a night, the danger is not very great.

Everything seemed to be going well, but Zhao Tuo still had a bad premonition in his heart.

This premonition comes from the Chu man named "Zhong Liyi".

"In the meantime, tonight, you and Zhao Guang alternately keep vigil, and you must send more soldiers to patrol to beware of changes. We have already reached the edge of Huaishui, and at such an important moment, we should pay more attention. ”

Zhao Tuo gave an order, and Shima and Zhao Guang were the two most powerful generals under him, and this time he let the two keep vigil, which shows that he attaches great importance to this matter.

Shima responded, he felt the worry in Zhao Tuo's words, and said with relief: "I think that Zhongli County Duke should surrender sincerely, otherwise with the little strength in his city, it is not enough to pose a threat to our army." Especially when our army is on guard, even if he really dares to go out of the city and attack at night, he will only return with a crushing defeat and be taken by our army to seize the city. ”

"I hope so."

Zhao Tuo nodded, looking at the Zhongli city wall in the distance.

At dusk, there were a few black shadows walking around on the city wall, it should be the Chu people guarding the city.

……

"The Qin army's camps are arranged in an orderly manner, and the sentry patrols are tight, even if we attack at night, we will only fail, and there will be no possibility of success."

Zhong Liyi withdrew his gaze from looking at Qin Ying in the distance, and turned his head to say to Zhongli County Prince, who looked expectant.

After the county prince Zhong was disappointed, he said with concern: "If the night attack fails, then we can only wait for the Qin army to cross the Huai tomorrow?" ”

"Yi, if the Qin people see out and this operation fails, won't my head be cut off by the Qin people in exchange for military merits?"

"Or else...... We're really going to come down, right? ”

Hearing this, Zhong Liyi rolled his eyes, this county prince was already frightened by those thousands of Qin soldiers, and he actually wanted to turn the fake surrender into a real surrender.

Zhong Liyi explained: "County Prince, have you thought about what will happen to you if you really help the Qin army cross the Huaishui this time without making any moves, when the king sends an army to come?" ”

Zhong Liran's body trembled, he naturally knew that the monarch in Shouchun City was not a good person.

In order to be able to kill his own brother for power, he killed many aristocratic families who opposed him in a year, and his usurpation road can be said to have been stained red with blood.

Zhong Liyi said lightly: "At the beginning, the Qu traitor led the troops to defraud the city, the reason why I asked the county prince to surrender and help the Qin army cross the Huai was to avoid the misfortune at that time. ”

"But this surrender can't really surrender, otherwise when the time comes, the king will be investigated, and the county prince will be guilty of treason, and it will also be difficult to escape death."

"Therefore, if the county prince wants to live, the only thing he can do is to find an opportunity to attack the Qin army after surrendering, and make a gesture of attacking the Qin army while preserving himself."

"Even if this matter fails, let Qin Jun escape. But when the king wants to punish afterwards, the county prince also has something to say, and when the time comes, the county prince will use the wealth and goods to bribe the favored ministers in front of the king. ”

Zhong Liran's face was full of bitterness when he heard this, and he felt that he was really unlucky.

The Qin army is approaching the city, and if you don't surrender, you will die.

If you really surrender, you will die afterwards.

If you want to survive, I'm afraid you can only do what Zhong Liyi said, and come to a deception.

Of course, this deception is also dangerous, if Qin Jun sees the clues, I'm afraid he will also be a dead word.

This Huai Shui is so long, how can the heaven-killing Qin army come to him.

Although he was sad in his heart, Zhong Liran knew that if he wanted to live, he had to do what Zhong Liyi said.

Take a gamble on this scheme.

"For the sake of now, that's all it takes."

"O O your father is right, if you are really wise, you will be a hero in the future. If you hadn't been in the city for me, I wouldn't have known what to do in this situation, and you should have accepted my salute. ”

Saying that, Zhong Liran actually bowed to the young man in front of him, looking very sincere.

Zhong Liyi hurriedly avoided himself, and said in his mouth: "Don't be like this to the county prince, although the county prince is a side branch of the Zhongli clan, but it is also connected by blood, and the county prince and my father are friends." With such affection, in the face of this crisis, Yizi should do his best to dare to accept such a great gift from the county magistrate, which is really undeserved. ”

Although he didn't dare to accept Zhongli's gift from the county magistrate, Zhong Liyi was still young after all, and when he saw a county magistrate actually thanking him, he couldn't help but feel complacent.

He smiled and said, "County Lord, you can watch it tomorrow." If the Qin army wants to cross the Huaishui, it must first let a group of people go over to explore the road, and there will be at least one or two thousand people. ”

"Its main general, Xin Wu, will only board the ship after the vanguard troops cross the Huaishui, so that they have troops on both sides of the strait to ensure the safety of the head and tail."

"And this is our chance!"

"When the Qin general Xin Wu crosses the Huai, the beacon smoke in the city is lit, and the good boat riders who are ambushed upstream when we send people to collect the ships during the day will receive the signal, go down the river, and drive the boat directly to the chief general of the Qin army."

"I have seen that most of these thousands of Qin troops are land landlubbers who can't water, and on the shore, I, Zhongli Erlang, am not their opponent."

"But as long as they enter the Huaishui in a boat, they are fish and turtles in our nets, and no one can escape! In this way, Qin General Xin Wu will be captured! ”

"When the main general of the Qin army is captured, the remnants of the Qin army left on the south bank will definitely be leaderless and in a panic, and then the county prince may be able to recruit young men and send troops to raid and catch them off guard. Or they can close the gates of the city, defend them tightly, threaten their generals, delay time, and wait for reinforcements. ”

"At that time, half of the Qin army will be in Huaibei and half in Huainan, and their main general will be in our hands again, hehehe......"

As he spoke, Zhong Liyi smirked.

(End of chapter)