Chapter 65: The Final Strategy
Yang Zhai's city gate opened, and the archers on the city tower also withdrew, and the two hundred elites led by Yuan Shang quickly rushed into the city.
As soon as the two hundred people entered the city, they saw a sturdy thief beside Yuan Shang suddenly jumped up from his horse, brandished the long-handled machete in his hand, and slashed at the soldier who was shaking the rope.
Then he heard the soldier's scream of "ah", and his huge head rolled to the dust.
There was a sudden chaos around the city gate!
The corners of Yuan Shang's mouth were raised, and he smiled and said to a guard beside him: "Cut the rope and hold the city gate!" ”
"No!"
Under the city gate, Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses held the city gate, and the Cao army in the city was in a group, and immediately shocked the king on the city tower.
"What's the commotion in the city?" Wang Chang's brows furrowed, and he hurriedly found someone to investigate.
"General Hui, it is those defeated pawns who have just entered the city, and as soon as Fang enters the city, he occupies the gate of the city and cuts the rope drawbridge! Generals, they are in disguise! ”
When Wang Bian heard this, he was immediately shocked, and he wanted to organize soldiers and horses to quell the chaos, but an accident happened.
I only heard a sudden sound of a landslide cracking not far outside the city, and when there was a loud bang, the long horn of the enemy's army marched into a low whimper, echoing in the quiet of the night, full of solemn and murderous aura in the hurry, which made people tremble.
Wang Bian and his subordinates were suddenly shocked by this sudden loud noise, and they didn't even care about Yuan Shang and them under the city for a while, and shouted loudly to the dark front: "What happened? Light the torches! ”
"Enemy attack! Thousands of enemy troops are attacking the city, and I don't know which way the enemy army is! A frightened voice answered quickly in the distance.
The king's eyes widened with rage, and the guards of the city prepared their bows and arrows to meet the enemy.
However, the enemy army had already planned it, and it was too late at this moment.
Lu Lingqi took the lead, and had already rushed to the city, stretched out her bow and arrows, and the bowstring sounded three times, and the three Cao soldiers who were fighting with Yuan Shang under the city gate fell to the ground without saying a word.
Yuan Shang looked back and saw clearly, and couldn't help but be surprised when he saw this, this girl is not small, not counting martial arts alone, she still has such a good archery skill!
Seeing Lu Lingqi's soldiers and horses stepping on the drawbridge, Yuan Shang's eyes narrowed, and he turned his head and shouted at the city: "Enemy attack, enemy attack...... Oh my God, tens of thousands of enemy troops have come to take the city! ”
The soldiers who occupied the city gate with Yuan Shang earlier received Yuan Shang's orders, and at the same time shouted loudly, "Enemy attack, enemy attack...... Oh my God, tens of thousands of enemy troops have come to take the city! ”
The so-called three people become tigers, this group of people roared and said that they became tigers, and even some people believed that they turned their heads in the sky.
The shouts of Yuan Shang and the others exploded in the distance in the city, what is the concept of Yang Zhai, who has tens of thousands of enemies and does not have many troops at this moment? As soon as the other party fought, they were all frightened.
There was a sudden chaos in Yangzhai County.
In particular, some of the people who had just arrived Cao Bing saw shouting were all soldiers in Cao Jun's armor, and they couldn't distinguish between friend and foe at all, and they immediately believed their words.
For a time, there was chaos in the city, those who fled, those who killed, those who were at a loss, those who were at a loss, and even those who indiscriminately killed the soldiers who could threaten them. Everywhere were wolf running rats and rats, Cao Bing in a hurry.
Lu Lingqi rode to Yuan Shang's side, glanced at him with slanted eyes, and said, "Obviously there are only two thousand people, you just shout nonsense when you open your mouth, and your methods are really despicable." ”
Yuan Shang smiled and said: "The struggle between people is a big fool, whoever fools whom, who is a good hand, do you care if I am treacherous or not?" This is called a soldier who does not tire of deceit. ”
"Crooked!" After Lu Lingqi said lightly, Pegasus went towards the city to kill, and the small Fang Tian painting halberd in her hand was danced by her, but she was quite capable, and led the crowd to kill Cao Jun not far away.
Lu Lingqi led his troops to fight with Cao Jun, and a Yuan sergeant ran to Yuan Shang's side and asked him: "Childe, the shouts we are waiting for have disturbed the hearts of Cao soldiers in the city, what do we need to do next?" ”
Yuan Shang wiped his nose lightly and said with a smile: "The city gate has been opened, the enemy army is panicked, and the sharp spirit has been lost, plus the number of Lu Lingqi and others far exceeds them, Yang Zhai Cheng is already nine out of ten, we don't need to mess around here, let's go!" Come with me to the Taishou Mansion to do a big thing. ”
The sergeant Yuan blinked, and suddenly realized: "Gongzi went to Taishou Mansion..... Could it be that he is going to arrest Xiahou Yuan's family! ”
Yuan Shang angrily glanced at the soldier: "Catch the family, catch the family!" Looking at your unproductive virtues, can't you have a higher spiritual pursuit? ”
"Please also ask the son to make it clear, what is the higher pursuit?"
The soldier touched his head stupidly, and was extremely puzzled.
Yuan Shang sneered and said in a low voice, "Let's go and confiscate Xiahou Yuan's family property." ”
When the soldiers heard this, they immediately wiped their sweat.
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The fierce battle ended, it was already the time of the day, the sun in the east was already faintly white, and the faint sunlight pierced the night sky and slowly shone on Yangzhai City.
In the battle, Lu Lingqi's 2,000 thieves plus Yuan Shang's 100 elite soldiers, a total of more than 70 thieves were killed in the battle, Yuan Shang's 100 people did not have a single casualty, and the 800 Cao army defending the city suffered more than 600 casualties, and almost all the troops were wiped out. The general defending the city, Wang Bian, was killed by Lu Lingqi himself. A total of 43 officials in the city were captured, more than 200 Cao soldiers were taken prisoner, and more than 40 horses and more than 50 chariots were also captured.
"Whew...... Oh...... "On ......the official offices and streets of Yangzhai City, you can hear the roars of thieves excited by victory everywhere.
Strangely, when the whole army was cheering, there was only one man with a gloomy face, silver teeth crushed, and a stomach full of deep anger.
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Lu Lingqi blocked in front of Xiahou Yuan's Taishou Mansion, looking at Yuan Shang who was full of treasures and was ordering someone to count and carry the valuables in the Taishou Mansion, and the monstrous anger rushed straight to his head.
"You're here?" Yuan Shang saw Lu Lingqi, smiled awkwardly, and said, "I've been busy all night, are you hungry?" I asked the cook of the Taishou Mansion to prepare something to eat for you? ”
"I don't need to!"
Lu Lingqi gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Grandma led the troops to fight back and forth in the city to seize the city, but you ran to Xiahou Yuan's mansion to steal!" The surname Yuan, I was blind at the beginning, why did I ally with you, you are a bastard who is not scrupling. ”
Yuan Shang smiled innocently, touched his head and said, "What is theft?" It's ugly, I'm called a raider! Enforce the law impartially and support the righteous raiders! ”
Lu Lingqi's silver teeth were rattling, and she couldn't swallow Yuan Shang.
Seeing that Lu Lingqi's face was displeased, Yuan Shang hurriedly took out a treasure and said kindly: "Okay, don't be angry, fighting is your specialty, cleaning is my old job, didn't I stay there for fear of causing trouble for you?" Oh, this is for you! ”
Lu Lingqi glanced at it coldly, but it was a pearl that had just been collected by Yuan Shang, with crystal translucent and huge and full pearls.
In this Eastern Han Dynasty, where the art of fishing and navigation is still relatively backward, such a large pearl can be regarded as an extremely precious thing.
Lu Lingqi waved her head away disdainfully and said, "This girl is not rare. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, fortunately you can't look down on it, otherwise I'm really a little reluctant." Yuan Shang wiped the sweat on his head, not polite at all, and immediately stuffed the pearl into his arms.
"Bring it!" Lu Lingqi's apricot eyes widened, snatched the pearl, and put it directly into her sleeve, she now hated Yuan Shang so much.
"Aren't you rare?" Yuan Shang said with a sad face.
"It's not uncommon, it's not uncommon, I've been busy all night, I'm tired, how can I let you take advantage of it...... Say! What have you found here? This girl wants to get half of it! ”
Yuan Shang smiled when he heard this, and said, "Naturally, I have collected a lot of things, and I will show you the list later, but before that, you have to take a look at this first...... Come on, invite those guys! ”
When I was young, I saw a group of men and women coming, and the people walking in front were two young men with good looks.
"Who is this?" Lu Lingqi couldn't help but wonder in her heart.
Yuan Shang smiled and said, "They are all Xiahou Yuan's family members!" The two teenagers who are the leader, with a good identity and a slightly higher figure, are his eldest son Xiahou Heng; The one in the back who is a little shorter, full of arrogance, and full of unbeaten faces, is Xiahou Ba, the second son of Xiahou Yuan! ”
"Xiahou Yuan's son!" When Lu Lingqi heard this, a fierce light suddenly flashed in her eyes, and she pulled out her sword with a "Teng" sound: "Let me kill them!" ”
"Don't!" Yuan Shang hurriedly raised his hand to stop it, and said: "There is no point in killing them, but it will stir up the raging flames of revenge in Xiahou Yuan. ”
Lu Lingqi heard this: "Then what are you going to do?" Imprisoned them to threaten Xiahou Yuan? ”
Yuan Shang shook his head and said with a smile: "That's no need, let them go out of the city and let them go to Xiahou Yuan, so as to show our magnanimity, by the way, let's make another plan, but immediately make Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren's military morale slacken, and this entry point is on them!" ”
Thinking of this, he saw Yuan Shang walking in front of the Xiahou clan's family members and said in a loud voice: "Listen, the people of the Xiahou clan will lead an army of 20,000 on the order of Liu Yuzhou today!" Come to recover Yingchuan, the soldiers and horses will arrive, the city will be broken overnight, and the destiny of heaven will be unstoppable! Today, I caught you and others, and they should have all beheaded the sacrifice flag, but the benevolent ones do not harm other people's relatives, and have mercy on you and other innocents, and let you go back today! Haosheng persuaded Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren not to do more injustice and fight against the heavenly soldiers, otherwise they would be crowned in the future, and it would be too late to regret it! ”
The family members of the Xiahou clan were immediately surprised when they heard this, they thought that they would definitely die, and they didn't want the other party not only not to kill them, but to release them.
Lu Lingqi walked behind Yuan Shang and said in a low voice: "You just said that we have 20,000 soldiers and horses?" But in reality, it's only 2,000 ......."
"As much as I say, that's how much!"
The corners of Yuan Shang's mouth twitched slightly, and a wicked smile lingered on his lips: "The so-called three people become tigers, just imagine, Yangzhai City is broken, so many people have run to the Cao army camp, and they all say that there are 20,000 soldiers and horses in our army who sneak attack the city!" How much impact will this have on Cao Jun? What's more, the people who said this were all people from the Xiahou clan, which increased the credibility of three points, and the fall of Yangzhai City was to cut off the back road of the Cao army and greatly damage the morale of Xiahou Yuan. ”
Lu Lingqi's eyes narrowed, stared at Yuan Shang for a long time, nodded secretly, and couldn't help but feel admiration in her heart.