Li Miao walked a few steps quickly, rushed to the front of Xinchen, turned around and asked with a smile: "Is Gongzi joking? Shuofang Fortress is surrounded by cliffs on the left and right, how can people go down and set fire?"

Xinchen knocked on Li Miao's head and said with a smile: "You are so smart, think about it again?"

Li Miao suddenly said, "You mean setting fire to the cliff?"

Xinchen said: "Exactly! People can't go down, can't the fire go down? This season Shuofang is unusually dry, we can climb to the top of the cliff, make grass into balls, soak it in fire oil, and burn down the cliff, isn't it better than sending people down to set fire? You can set up an ambush outside the city gate, and when they temporarily avoid the fire and withdraw, they can be defeated in one fell swoop. ”

Li Miao asked again: "When the fire strikes the camp, they will withdraw temporarily, but how can you guarantee that they will definitely withdraw in the direction of Bingzhou?"

Xinchen said: "With the south wind, the fire is bound to spread quickly in the direction of Youzhou, aren't they rushing to be cremated when they retreat to that side?"

Li Miao was surprised and asked, "How can there be a south wind in such a mid-spring season?"

Xinchen smiled, raised his finger to the sky, and said, "Borrow from him!"

Although he was very relieved of Cheng Qingfeng, Xinchen still left 5,000 people in Dragon City, and if there was a change, he could also hinder one or two. Moreover, although Shuofang is dangerous, it cannot garrison a large number of troops due to the terrain, and it is enough to dispose of 5,000 men and horses.

It was noon, and after a morning's rest, the soldiers had recovered. Xinchen ordered 5,000 men and horses, and found dozens of people who were familiar with the terrain of Shuofang as guides in the army, and hurried to Shuofang.

The march was day and night, and it was already dusk the next day when it reached Shuofang, and it would be very dangerous to climb the cliff later. Xinchen immediately divided the guide into two groups, each leading five hundred elite soldiers to carry fire oil and quietly climb the cliffs on both sides of Shuofang. Li Miao led the remaining 4,000 people to lie outside the city, and Xinchen personally led a team to climb the cliff to choose the opportunity to attack.

When he actually climbed the cliff, Xinchen secretly congratulated himself on hiring a guide, otherwise he was afraid that he would not be able to climb to the top of the cliff until dawn. Although the vegetation in the north is sparse and the mountains are mostly bare, it is not easy to find that inconspicuous trail on the almost vertical cliffs. Under the guidance of the guide, the group trekked hard, and climbed the cliff in the middle of the moon. After resting for a while, they scattered to look for flammable objects, formed half-man-high grass balls, and poured all the fire oil they carried on them.

The moon and stars are scarce, the heart dust stands on the cliff in a plain shirt, and the mountain wind blows the clothes belt, fluttering like a fairy descending into the world. The cliff is thousands of feet high, looking down on the Shuofang fortress, although it is a starry night, it is still brightly lit. Suddenly, the wind changed sharply, and a fierce southerly wind threatened to blow everyone off the cliff. Xinchen was still standing on the edge of the cliff, raising his hand with his back to everyone, and in an instant, more than 100 fireballs were ignited, and everyone on the top of the cliff on the opposite side saw the fire and lit the grass balls.

Xinchen's raised right hand swung down heavily, and the cliffs on both sides of Shuofang suddenly became a waterfall of fire, and countless flowing fires rushed straight to the fortress with a thunderous momentum. The soldiers patrolling the fortress suddenly felt that the sky suddenly brightened, and they all raised their heads to look at the sky, just in time to see this unbelievable scene, they were stunned, and lost the ability to think for a while. In a flash, the waterfall has fallen off the cliff. The wind was raging, the fire spread extremely fast, and the entire camp was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire. There was great chaos in the camp, and the soldiers rushed to the south gate, where the fire was slightly weaker. When the fire plummeted, the guards at the south gate had already opened the city gate to escape from the fire, and at this time, the south gate was wide open, and a group of routs swarmed out. The rout army came out of the south gate less than 100 paces, and under the light of the fire, I saw a rain of arrows pouring down from the sky, and in a few moments, countless casualties were killed. Li Miao gave an order, and the four thousand iron cavalry charged at full speed, killing corpses all over the field like chopping melons and vegetables, and captured the south gate almost without any damage.

At this moment, the fire oil was basically burned out, the fire gradually slowed down, and a group of cavalry stepped on the spark to break into the Shuofang camp. After the fierce impact of the fire waterfall, most of the soldiers in the battalion have been killed and wounded, and there is a slashing outside the south gate, and the Shuofang defenders have no strength to fight, so the Shuofang fortress has fallen into the control of Li Miao's army.

At dawn the next day, Xinchen led the crowd back from the top of the cliff and went straight to Shuofang Fortress. Li Miao waited at the south gate early, and when she saw Xinchen returning, a hanging heart finally let go. With excitement on his face, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Childe is really like a god, everything is as we deduced yesterday, and we took Shuofang Fortress almost unscathed." It's a pity that I came a step too late, and I learned from the Shuofang defenders last night that Mu Tianxia had gone out of the customs to Youzhou. ”

Xinchen did not have any frustration because of this, but said: "It's okay! Last night, we broke the Shuo Fang, and cut off the connection between Youzhou and Bingzhou, and since then Youzhou has been lonely, just waiting to catch turtles in the urn." After entering the Shuofang fortress, Xinchen immediately sent an envoy to Longcheng to inform General Cheng, asking him to send an additional 5,000 men and horses to garrison Shuofang, and then entered the tent with Li Miao.

When he retreated left and right, Xinchen frowned slightly, and said to Li Miao: "Miao'er, although Youzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not many troops to guard it, but the vast wasteland is boundless, and it may be more difficult to find the herding world." For today's plan, the only way to do this is for you and me to visit in private, and as for the military affairs, I will hand it over to General Cheng, what do you think?" Li Miao nodded yes and said: "It is true that there are many people who will inevitably move bigger, and it will only scare him away early, what Gongzi said is indeed the best policy." ”

That night, after the two of them explained their left and right, they quietly left Shuofang and went to the vast wasteland of Youzhou.