Leading a group of remnants of the defeated army back to Qingyuan County, Qu Li breathed a sigh of relief, but after counting the people, he collapsed on the chair, as if he had been pulled out of the backbone.

Of the nearly 20,000 troops who went out with him, there were only more than 5,000 people who fled back to Qingyuan County!

Nearly eighty percent of the army under his command were all buried in the Tuochuan Valley!

That's nearly 15,000 people!

At the thought of this number, Qu Lidu's eyes turned a little black, and his chest ached faintly!

At this time, the general who was arranged to defend the city asked suspiciously: "Dashuai, why don't you see General Maofu?" ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence in the hall, and all the thieves turned sympathetic eyes to this blind colleague.

Which pot doesn't open which pot, I didn't see that the handsome man was in an anxious mood!

It's really a rat against the bridge of the cat's nose - looking for death!

Qu Li glanced at the other party and said lightly: "The Mao Mansion led the troops into the valley without authorization, was ambushed by the other party, was shot by random arrows, and unfortunately died. ”

Several of Qu Li's henchmen exchanged glances vaguely, and they all saw the slightest hint of horror in each other's eyes.

They could see clearly that when they were ambushed, the other party's target was obviously Dashuai, and Namaofu was just used as a shield by Dashuai, so he died tragically on the spot.

From this incident, they also saw how cold the handsome's heart was.

But their interests have been completely tied to the marshal, one is prosperous, and the other is lost, and now it is impossible to get off this boat.

"You should try your best to pacify your subordinates first, maybe tomorrow the official army will besiege Qingyuan County."

Qu Liqiang breathed a sigh of relief and arranged all the affairs of defending the city.

When the group of subordinates withdrew from the county government hall, Qu Li suddenly sat down on the chair and looked out of the hall in a daze.

Obviously, he has an army of 30,000 in his hands, how can this situation ...... All of a sudden, it's like this?

Clearly...... Am I the advantage?

"Handsome ......"

The guards guarding outside the county office saw that there was no sound in the lobby, and they were puzzled in their hearts, so they hurriedly asked out loud.

"Bring a drink to Ben Shuai!"

Qu Li's voice came.

"Marshal, you have given an order before, it is strictly forbidden to drink ...... in the army"

Before he finished speaking, Qu Li's voice became impatient.

"Go ahead."

The guard was about to say something, but his companion shook his head at him and motioned for him to say no more.

The liquor entered his throat, and Qu Li's gaze began to become foggy.

At this moment, only drunkenness can temporarily withdraw him from reality.

…………

"Handsome, handsome! The officers and troops are besieging the city! ”

A panicked voice came from outside the house.

Qu Liluo's somewhat hungover mind suddenly cleared up, pushed away the woman beside him, jumped up from the bed, put on his clothes and armor, walked out of the room, looked at the panicked guard, and said coldly:

"What a panic! Ben Shuai is not dead yet! Let's go, go up to the city wall with Ben and take a look! ”

Immediately, Qu Li led a group of guards to the city wall.

Holding on to the female wall, Qu Li looked down, only to see the officers and troops rushing from afar to Qingyuan County like a tide, setting up a large camp three miles outside the county seat, forming a formation, and encircling the north and west sides of the county seat.

Seeing the official army arranged like this, Qu Li sneered.

"Although Ben Shuai has not read a few military books, he also knows that when attacking the city, the truth of besieging three ques and one is just the siege method of the official army, but Ben Shuai has never seen it."

Siege three que one, refers to the siege of the city, in order to reduce the defenders of the city to break the net of the decisive heart, whether the besieging side has the ability to annihilate the enemy army or not, will fight around the three directions of the city wall, and deliberately lay a small number of troops on the last side, leaving a gap, for the defender to break through.

However, the gap on this side does not mean that it is left alone, but that it is exquisite. First of all, this road should be rugged enough to be suitable for ambush, and secondly, this road should ensure uniqueness, so that the enemy army cannot be scattered and flee after breaking through the siege, and become a chaotic army that causes trouble to the surrounding area.

Therefore, the lack of one of the three is often called the siege of the master.

When several generals on the side heard this, although they smiled in agreement, the expressions on their faces were still not relaxed.

Qu Li saw it in his eyes, pointed to the official army and said with a smile:

"Don't scare yourselves, you see, the number of officers and soldiers is less than 30,000."

As he spoke, he slapped the women's wall again.

"Don't forget, the city wall of Qingyuan County is made of bluestone, which is much stronger than ordinary rammed earth walls. Think about how much energy we spent a few days ago in order to lay down Qingyuan County? ”

As soon as these words came out, Qu Li saw that the expressions of his generals relaxed a lot, so he continued to say:

"At the beginning, there were more than 20,000 of us, and it was so laborious to attack this Qingyuan County, Ben Shuai didn't believe it, then Zhao Yu'er was able to capture this Qingyuan County in a short time with these 30,000 horses in his hands! This time, Ben Shuai will definitely let him hit his head and break the blood flow under this Qingyuan County to avenge yesterday's revenge! ”

Thinking of yesterday's rout, Qu Li's heart dripped.

But he subconsciously thought that his defeat yesterday was not the credit of the little emperor Zhao Yu, but the greed of the bastard in Maofu, which caused him to fall into the trap of this little boy in order to accept this idiot.

I just underestimated the enemy and suffered a loss, but now that I have learned a lesson, how can I be in the official army again?

As long as they hold the county seat steadily, the officers and soldiers will have nothing to do, and when they hold each other for a long time, the officers and soldiers will not have enough food and grass, so they have to retreat.

At that time, if you wave your army to cover up and kill, you will definitely be able to avenge the defeat of the Tuochuan Valley yesterday!

Sure enough, the officers and troops only tentatively attacked two waves, and when they saw that the rebels were so well defended that they could not even climb the city wall, they had to hurriedly leave a few corpses and withdraw back to the camp.

Qu Li looked at the embarrassed retreat of the officers and soldiers, and sneered in his heart.

After explaining that the generals should not relax and prevent the other party from attacking at night, Qu Li turned around and returned to the temporary house where he lived, and was once again immersed in fine wine and singing.

Don't look at Fang Cai, he pointed out the country in front of his subordinates, scolded Fang Xuan, and threatened to teach the official army a painful lesson, but in fact, he knew very well in his heart that if he couldn't repel this wave of officers and troops and capture Zhao Yu'er, then after losing most of the main force, his prestige would inevitably fall to the bottom among the rebels.

If the big man of the Five Immortals Sect was not satisfied with the current situation, some people wanted to hug that person's lap and sit in their place......

As for Jiang Fangshun, who has always called himself a brother, he will not have any opinion on changing partners.

Businessmen, they all put their interests first, as for what kind of brotherhood, how much money is it worth?

Thinking of this, Qu Li couldn't help but take another sip of wine.

What do you want to do so much, if you have wine today, get drunk today!

It's just that the crows outside the window are calling so often today, it's like a funeral, disturbing people's drinking!

Qu Li's drunken eyes were hazy, looking at the waning moon outside the window, and fell asleep.

The night was dark.

Because of Qu Li's order for a curfew in the whole city, the entire Qingyuan County fell into a dead silence after dark, and the streets and alleys were empty, except for the faint light of the dead wind lamps hanging next to the plaques of several inns.

From time to time, groups of soldiers armed with torches patrol back and forth on the streets.

It's just that these soldiers are demoralized because of yesterday's fiasco, and patrolling the streets is just a routine business.

When a group of soldiers turned the corner, a tall figure with two swords flashed in the alley behind them.

This person is none other than Wu Song.

After the success of the ambush of the rebels in Tuochuan Valley, he was ordered by General Zhao Yu to lead more than 100 people to dress up, quietly blend into the rout, and enter Qingyuan County, preparing to open the city gate and lead the army into the city when the imperial army besieged the city.

Due to the fiasco of the rebels, the entire Qingyuan County was panicked, and they were unable to distinguish the identity of the defeated soldiers, but they just roughly put things together.

This gave Wu Song the opportunity to secretly contact a group of his subordinates as much as possible, ready to wait for an opportunity to act.

Wu Song put two fingers in his mouth and blew on his cheeks.

Suddenly, a low crow crow sounded in the alley.

A few moments later, several more crows chirped near the alley.

Looking at the few figures that appeared at the mouth of the alley, Wu Song put his hand on the hilt of the knife and asked in a low voice:

"Heavenly King Cover the Tiger?"

"River Demon Town Pagoda."

Hearing the other party's answer, Wu Song breathed a sigh of relief.

This is the contact code set by His Majesty for them before leaving, for the purpose of connecting.

Although he admired His Majesty's thoughtfulness very much, Wu Song felt in his heart that the "Heavenly King Covering the Earth Tiger" should not be the "River Demon Town Pagoda", but the "Pagoda Town River Demon".

But the current situation is not the time for me to think about this minutiae.

"Apart from you, are there any other brothers you have contacted?"

Looking at the several officers and soldiers who came to the front, Wu Song asked softly.

Hearing that it was Wu Song's voice, several people also breathed a sigh of relief, and replied in a low voice:

"General Wu, in addition to our group B, we have also contacted the brothers of groups A and D, but the brothers of groups C and E have not been seen."

Wu Song frowned slightly when he heard this.

His Majesty's original intention was for him to assemble all the officers and soldiers of the five groups of A, B, C, D, and E who had infiltrated the city after entering the city, and set out to seize the city gate tonight.

But now there are only these three groups of sixty people, even if they can capture the city gate, I am afraid they will not be able to insist on the arrival of reinforcements.

Ways must be found to keep the rebels in chaos and left themselves to bother in order to gain more time.

Thinking of this, Wu Song gritted his teeth and made a decision in his heart.

"Your Majesty asked you to take the city gate tonight, without further ado, I will go to the county office alone to see if I can find an opportunity to kill Naquli, and the three of you will go to seize the east city gate and lead General Zhang's Flying Bear Army into the city. As long as they hold out for a moment, these rebels will collapse without a fight. The general also asked your brothers, do you have the courage to guard the city gate with sixty men? ”

Wu Song stared at everyone with a pair of tiger eyes and asked in a deep voice.

Excited by Wu Song's pride, these soldiers glanced at each other and arched their hands:

"General Wu dared to assassinate the thief chief alone, although I don't read poetry and books, I don't know etiquette, but I also know the word loyalty! Please rest assured that before General Zhang arrives, as long as I don't die, I will protect the city gate! ”

"Good! Thank you brothers for your righteousness, after this battle, Wu will ask for credit for you in front of Your Majesty! Without further ado, I'll split up! ”

After that, he clasped his fists and saluted several soldiers, tiptoed a little, and flew in the direction of the county office.

The soldiers glanced at each other, nodded, and hurried towards the east gate.

General Wu Song did not hesitate to go into danger alone for himself, they must not let down the general's hard work, they must take the east city gate, defend it, and guard it until the army comes to help!

After a short time, Wu Song came to an alley not far from the county office, looked in the direction of the county government by the moonlight, and saw two rebels guarding the gate of the county government with guns, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

God has eyes!

On the way, he met Group C who had been sent to patrol the city, and learned from them that the twenty people from Group E had been sent to the horse farm in the south of the county to take care of the dozens of precious war horses.

Jiangnan lacks horse farms to breed horses, and there is a huge shortage of horses, especially war horses that can fight.

The Miaojiang region is located in the southwest, although it is rich in Yunnan horses that can carry goods, but the Yunnan horses have short legs, can not run fast, and cannot use combat horses, so in Miaojiang, tall war horses are particularly precious.

These dozens of war horses were purchased by Miao Li from Qi State at a great price through Jiang Fangshun's channels and smuggled to Miao Jiang, which can be called Qu Li's heart and soul treasures.

After learning the news, Wu Song immediately made a decision and asked Group C to send someone to inform Group E, and when his side succeeded, he asked Group E to set fire to the horse farm, drive out the frightened war horses to create chaos, and let the soldiers of Group C spread the news of the official army attacking the city everywhere at the same time, increasing the degree of chaos.

Now that everything is arranged, the rest is up to you!

Wu Song exhaled lightly, came out of the alley, and walked in the direction of the county office.

"Don't you know what kind of place this is?"

Seeing someone walking towards the county office, the two guards looked at the tall man who came out of the darkness with sharp eyes, and said coldly.

Wu Song raised his hands high, signaling that he was not hostile, and said with a wry smile:

"Your own people, your own people, the two big brothers are not strange. The younger brother has an urgent military situation, so he has come to report to the marshal. ”

"Who are you bluffing, what an emergency military situation. The handsome are asleep! ”

One of the guards glared impatiently.

"How dare the villain expect to hide from the handsome?" Wu Song lowered his voice and said, "It's a traitor in the army." ”

"What did you say?" Hearing this, the two guards looked at each other, and said urgently, "If you kid dares to lie about the military situation, we will not be happy, and you will not be happy!" Lao Zhang, look at this kid, I'll go in and report to the handsome! ”

After one person dropped a sentence, he hurriedly entered the county office.

Being woken up in his sleep, Qu Li's mood can be imagined, coupled with yesterday's drunkenness and dizziness, his face at this time can almost be hung on ice.

"It's you, saying that there are moles in the city?"

Looking at the big man in front of him, Qu Li frowned and asked.

To be honest, a man of this shape is also rare in his army.

In order to win the trust of Qu Li, Wu Song deliberately showed a cringe, like a soldier who met the main general for the first time, but under the lowered head, his eyes were as calm as ice.

(End of chapter)