Under the protection of 300 Lian Yong, the old and young women and children advanced into the city, and were immediately escorted to safety by the Lian Yong. As soon as the more than 500 young and middle-aged people who filled the river entered the city gate, they were surrounded by 200 archers, and Wang Rusong, the captain of the school stationed in the city, rode on a horse, holding a bow and arrow, and had a cold smile, "You thieves have fallen for the strategy of our Tong Sect leader! Surrender quickly and there is still a way to live, otherwise you will all be shot into hedgehogs!"

Immediately, someone knelt on the ground and shouted: "Master Jun, you have been wronged! Master Jun, you are mistaken, we are good citizens of Hejia Village and Shijia Village outside the city, not thieves! It was the thieves who caught us to fill the moat, we did not mean to offend the military master, please see the military master, and ask the military master to be merciful!"

"Yes, yes, we are all good citizens, not thieves! A soldier beside Wang Rusong listened to these people's pleas, looked puzzled, and asked softly, "Captain Wang, are we mistaken?"

Wang Rusong sneered, "What a shrewd person the head of the Tong sect is, how could he make a mistake? These people are all people pretending to be thieves! Yesterday, the head of the Tong sect had already asked the people who had been saved, and they all said that the young and middle-aged people in the village had been caught here to fill in the river, and there were no more young people in the village! These more than 500 people must have been carefully selected by the thieves, and they were ready to join forces with the outside to seize our city!"

A kneeling "common people" shouted loudly: "Master Jun, we are all good people, we were kidnapped by thieves and came here to fill the river, and finally got rescued by General Li, so we escaped by luck, Master Jun, why do you want to slander us as thieves?

Wang Rusong laughed, "Okay, you all line up, come out one by one, register your names separately, and someone will escort you separately to the county government hall, after we find out your identity, if it is a good citizen, it will naturally be released on the spot, if it is a thief, then I'm sorry, you must be executed by Ling Chi!"

The "people" who were wronged suddenly jumped up from the ground, raised their arms and shouted: "Brothers, this Qiu Ba slanders us as thieves, and these people refer to the deer as horses and slander the good as thieves, we might as well do the opposite!"

Those people were in an uproar and shouted, "It's the other way! It's the other way around!" They all drew their short knives from their bosoms and pounced on the officers and men. Wang Rusong shot an arrow at the unjust thief, and at the same time shouted: "Let go of the arrow!" The two hundred archers did not hesitate, the arrows rained down, and after a few rounds of arrow rain, they shot down more than three hundred people, and the remaining two hundred people were less than thirty paces away from the archers, and the archers immediately collected their bows and flashed aside.

Hu Chengkui, the commander of the halberd, had already killed with 300 officers and soldiers, the two sides were fighting fiercely, Li Dazhui had already retreated into the city with 200 brothers, and the city sergeants quickly put away the drawbridge, and shot back the thieves who tried to rush in for reinforcements, Li Dazhui took the lead again, and killed more than a dozen of the thieves who entered the city, and the remaining more than 100 thieves saw that the situation was not good, they all threw short knives, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Luozhi County ordered the soldiers to step forward, tied up those thieves, and threw them into the county jail to await interrogation. At the head of the city, Tong Liang looked at Hao Zhengtong, who was being shot back by random arrows not far from the city gate, and said with a sad face, and laughed loudly: "My son, your conspiracy has been exposed!

Do you feel good or uncomfortable? Want to play the trick of fishing in troubled waters with Uncle Tong? You are still a little tender!"

He Chao said in a low voice: "General Hao, our strategy has been discovered, what should we do?

Hao Zhengtong shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Forget it, the walls of this city are not low, I underestimated the enemy before, and I didn't bring so many siege equipment, and hard work will only lose more men and horses." Let's go around to the road in the east of the city tonight, touch it, let's abandon this city and go straight to the hinterland of Jiannan Road, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, just these people in this city can stop our tens of thousands of troops!" Hao Zhengtong was disheartened, and he didn't even have the strength to scold Tong Liang.

Originally, this Tong'an City, only the south gate is an open land, the east and west sides are steep mountains, more than a mile away from the east gate, there is a mountain path, you can bypass Tong'an City to reach the north of the city, but it is rugged and difficult, not suitable for large corps to fight. Previously, Hao Zhengtong had sent 3,000 men and horses to detour through the north gate, but due to the terrain, he could not attack from both sides. Therefore, Hao Zhengtong knew that the east of the city could be bypassed, but he had to give up most of the baggage.

Although Hao Zhengtong was unwilling, there was nothing he could do, and he would not be able to defeat Tong'an City for two more days, and the angry prince would have to cut him down! Hao Zhengtong had no choice but to take a risk, preparing to rush into Jiannan Road with light troops to save Niu Mandi, who had lost the opportunity. As long as he can save Niu Mandi, the prince will naturally not pursue his setbacks under Tong'an City.

As for the more than 500 thieves who fell into Tong'an City, Hao Zhengtong didn't care about their life and death at all, those people were just stepping stones on his way to promotion, and death was death, and it was not a pity to die. Since ancient times, it has been a great thing to achieve success and bones, as long as you can be promoted to an official and make a fortune, what is the great deal about dying some people? If you die in battle, will King Pingxi take yourself seriously? The little people are just pawns in the hands of the big people!

In the second hall of the Ya Er Hall of Tong'an County, Luo Zhengyong interrogated those thieves who had been caught, and the answers of those people were unexpectedly unanimous, that is, a few days ago, their Mingwei general Hao Zhengtong took them to defect from Yin Quan and became Liukou! In the first battle, they wanted to defeat Tong'an, enter Jiannan Road, and go to Jiannan Road to commit crimes.

Tong Liang naturally didn't believe such nonsense, it must be the officers who fooled them, these low-level soldiers, if someone took away 15,000 men and horses under the command of King Pingxi, Yin Quan would sit idly by? What are you kidding! The total strength of King Pingxi is only 60,000 or 70,000 horses, and he loses 15,000 people at once, and he doesn't even bring people to rush to catch up, is that still King Pingxi?

It's just that Tong Liang saw through it but didn't say it, he wanted to see what spells Hao Zhengtong had outside the city. As a result, an afternoon passed, and until the evening, Hao Zhengtong did not come to attack the city again, but only sent people to the west of the city to harass him, apparently to test the terrain in the west of the city. Luo Zhixian saw that they did not come to attack the city, so he breathed a sigh of relief and put his heart back in his stomach.

On the third watch of the same night, a soldier came to report to Tong Liang and Luozhi County, saying that in the mountains east of the city, there were torches and stars, just as many as stars in the sky. Tong Liang knew that these people were taking a detour to the small road in the East Mountain, and they were going to bypass Tong'an County and go straight to the hinterland of Jiannan Road. Only then did Tong Liang let go of another carrier pigeon and informed the county guard Jin Dazhong and told him to be careful.

The original plan was to wait for these people to attack the city, and ask the county guard to come from Jiangzhou City

3,000 soldiers and horses, a few fierce generals, attacked the flanks of these thieves, and now it seems that there is no need, these thieves have even given up their baggage, ready to gamble, the original plan failed to catch up with the change.

After dawn the next morning, Tong Liang and Luo Zhixian went up to the city to watch, and sure enough, those thieves had already collected their tents, and there was no shadow of a thief outside the city, and the thieves had indeed made a detour to leave Tong'an.

Here, when Yin Quan, the king of Pingxi, heard that General Hao Zhengtong led people to surround Tong'an County for two days, but failed to defeat Tong'an County, a lonely city, he was angry like thunder, and he was just about to send someone to supervise the battle, but he got the news sent by the dead soldiers of the Blood Shadow Hall, saying that Hao Zhengtong had led people to bypass Tong'an and go straight into the hinterland of Jiannan Province to stir up the situation!

When Yin Quan heard that Hao Zhengtong had already passed through Tong'an County, he immediately raised his troops and killed the county town of Youtong in the south of Jiangzhou, where the city wall of Youtong County was low and there was no danger to defend, how could he resist the army of more than 10,000 people who were holding Yin Quan?

Yin Quan said angrily: "Bao Deheng, there is a Mingwei general Hao Zhengtong under the widow who rebelled, and took away the tens of thousands of troops under the widow, and now he has bypassed Tong'an and entered Jiannan Road, the widow is about to chase him, you quickly open the city gate, let the widow pass, don't delay the widow's big event!"

Bao Deheng was hesitating, Yin Quan flashed beside the guard leader Wang Xihua, Wang Xihua bent his bow and arrow, and the arrow hit Bao Deheng's gauze hat, and Bao Deheng's frightened soul flew out of the sky. Wang Xihua shouted under the city: "The surname is Bao, you quickly open the city gate, don't miss the prince's plan to suppress bandits, otherwise I will shoot you to death with the next arrow, no wonder you are unpredictable!"

Bao Deheng held the carved arrows on the gauze hat, his soul was not possessed, his body was like a sieve, and he trembled and said: "Rank, hurry up, open the city gate and let the prince enter the city!"

Ma Hesheng, the master next to him, said softly: "My lord, this matter is not appropriate! King Pingxi is already guilty of leaving the fief without permission, not to mention that he is still bringing tens of thousands of troops to enter Jiannan Dao! This is almost equivalent to rebellion, how can the court ignore it! My lord, one misstep will become a thousand hatreds, we might as well close the city gate, go home and sleep, just pretend to be deaf and dumb and ignore it, even if he scolds outside the city, even if we are impeached, we are not afraid, we are just acting in accordance with the law of the country!"

Seeing King Pingxi scolding under the city, Bao Deheng's bitter courage was frightened, for fear that King Pingxi would bring people into the city, and there was no national law in his heart, and life was the first priority. Therefore, Bao Deheng did not listen to the advice of his master Ma Hesheng, and insisted on letting people open the city gate and put in the tens of thousands of troops brought by King Pingxi.

Yin Quan did not break his promise, and sure enough, he led tens of thousands of troops through the city and went straight to Jiangzhou City, without stopping on the way. Only then did Bao Deheng say to Ma Hesheng: "Master Ma, you see, King Pingxi is really a trustworthy person!

Ma Hesheng couldn't say a word, his heart was very depressed, and at night, he quietly left a letter for Bao Deheng, and when the city gate was just opened at dawn, Ma Hesheng had already ridden an inferior horse out of Youtong County, and he was nowhere to be found.

Outside the south gate of Jiangzhou City, Yin Quan raised his horsewhip and asked the captain of the city to call the county guard Jin Dazhong.

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