Realizing that something was wrong, King Yu Cheng immediately ordered the troops to join forces and enter the city.
Thirty thousand troops poured into the Second Division City in a mighty manner.
only.
When they came in, they were dumbfounded. There was no trace of the Han army in the entire Ershi City.
Most of them are just dummies supported by straw branches.
The only real person is "Huo Guang" who plays the flute on the city gate tower.
King Yu Cheng immediately sent people to arrest "Huo Guang" on the city gate tower, but when the soldiers brought him in front of him, he found that the person in front of him was not the Huo Guang who had confronted him before the formation.
then.
King Yu Cheng grabbed the man's clothes and said, "Who are you? Where is your General Huo?"
I saw that the man was not afraid at all, and said calmly: "I am a guard under General Huo. As for General Huo's current identity? Hum, you will know soon."
See the Han soldiers looking like this.
King Yu Cheng frowned suddenly, feeling that something bad was about to happen.
But he couldn't imagine what Huo Guang was doing with the Han army!
After thinking for a moment.
King Yu Cheng continued to ask: "Tell me, how did your Han army escape when we were surrounded?"
However.
The soldier wearing the armor of a chariot general smiled and said: "Escape? Don't look down on me. You Dawan are not qualified to let us Han people escape!"
"correct."
"King Yu Cheng, our general asked me to leave a message for you. He said that you are too arrogant and don't even understand the principle that a soldier never tires of deceit."
Hear this.
Yu Cheng immediately slapped the Han soldiers in front of him twice, and then told his subordinate soldiers with cold eyes: "Pass this king's order to search the city for me. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must find it for me. "
"I still don't believe it."
"Surrounded by 30,000 of my elite troops, these 4,000 soldiers can still fly!"
then.
Under the order of King Yu Cheng.
Thirty thousand Dawan elites searched frantically in Ershi City, and at the same time interrogated the aborigines who were still alive in Ershi City, that is, the Dawan people living in Ershi City.
from their mouths.
King Yu Cheng learned that the Han people had been digging tunnels during the days they occupied Dawan.
No.
King Yu Cheng led his people to find the tunnel.
And the Dawan nobleman Mocai, who had been trying to persuade them to make peace, was also with him. When he saw this huge tunnel, the ignorant man suddenly realized: "No wonder, when I came to Ershi City last time, the Han people and residents in the city all looked gray and exhausted."
"turn out to be."
"They have already dug an escape tunnel, and they are not afraid of our siege!"
King Yu Cheng heard what Mo Cai said, and he immediately pushed him and said angrily: "You idiot, why don't you tell me about this?"
Mo Cai immediately cried and said: "King Yu Cheng, you are wronged. How could I have thought of these things at the time?"
However.
When King Yu Cheng saw the four thousand Han troops disappearing, it was like a nail was driven into his heart, and he became very angry.
Immediately, he didn't care about Mo Cai's status as a Dawan noble. He directly grabbed Mo Cai's hair and said, "This king is very angry now!"
"If you weren't an idiot who kept trying to persuade me to make peace."
"These four thousand soldiers and horses of the Han people have long been killed by this king's sword."
At this moment, Mo Cai could only cry out and beg to be let go.
King Yu Cheng, on the other hand, took a deep breath and tried hard to calm down his mood and prevent himself from losing his mind.
I saw the blue veins popping up at the corner of my eyebrows like a horned dragon. He gritted his teeth and said, "Go, lead a team of men and horses, escort the Han soldier, and explore where this cave leads to!"
"yes."
So dozens of people led the Han man into the cave and checked the exit at the other end.
At this time, King Yu Cheng still held a trace of expectation in his heart.
He hoped that the cave had not been dug out and that the Han troops had not escaped.
But this expectation is destined to be disappointed.
And this time.
Suddenly a guard hurried over and said, "King Xin Yucheng, something bad has happened. News came from behind our army that the grain and grass stored in the granary on the plank road were burned by the Han army who suddenly appeared."
"What?"
King Yu Cheng suddenly became furious and said: "Didn't I leave five thousand elite soldiers behind? The terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Han people only have four thousand soldiers and horses. How can we burn the food and grass our army has hoarded there?"
Hear the words.
The soldier quickly said: "I heard that the Han army suddenly appeared at midnight last night and caught our army by surprise."
"More than half of the five thousand elite soldiers left behind were killed or wounded."
"The remaining soldiers were prepared to fight to the death with the Han army, but the Han army was not willing to fight. After burning the food and grass our army had hoarded, they fled in the dark."
Hearing the guard's report, King Yu Cheng, who was already furious, became even more furious. He immediately scolded: "I have given orders over and over again. Food and grass are the lifeblood of our army. Yet such a big thing happened. Go and kill the food officer." .”
"yes!"
As the guards left, King Yu Cheng was greatly annoyed.
However.
Not waiting for him to calm down.
Suddenly there was a violent explosion in the passage in front of him, which frightened King Yu Cheng.
A burst of smoke dispersed.
suddenly.
There was a coughing sound inside the cave, and a hand stretched out from the cave.
King Yu Cheng quickly said to the surrounding soldiers: "Go and help."
"yes!"
An order was given.
The soldiers stepped forward and pulled out the few people who had escaped from the cave entrance. Before they could rest, King Yu Cheng stepped forward and asked, "What happened? Didn't I send you to see where this cave leads to?" Where are you? Why are you the only ones back, where are the other soldiers?"
Hear the words.
The soldier who had escaped from the collapsed cave just now gasped and said: "Report to King Yu Cheng, the Han people are cunning, they set up an ambush in the cave, ignited a black powder, and detonated the cave. We will wait." I was walking at the back of the team, so I had a chance to escape."
"The rest of the people walking in front."
"I guess, I'm afraid"
After the Dawan soldier said this, he didn't say anything else.
After hearing this, King Yu Cheng naturally knew that his soldiers basically had no chance of coming back alive, and he became even more angry.
The grain and grass were burned, the soldiers were killed, and they were teased by the Han army.
This is Yu Chengwang.
The look on his face was extremely gloomy. At this moment, King Yu Cheng had become a powder keg about to explode.
No one dared to look at him.
At this time, King Yu Cheng was also trying his best to restrain his anger. He found a stone and sat down, then closed his eyes tightly and said, "Meicai, don't you know the Han people very well?"
"Talk about it!"
"Where will these four thousand Han troops go next?"
At this time, Meicai, with messy hair, no longer looked aristocratic.
Hearing King Yu Cheng's call, he had no choice but to step forward and said, "King Yu Cheng, I really don't know whether this is true!"
However, King Yu Cheng suddenly opened his eyes, stared at him and snorted heavily, saying: "Huh?"
A bloodthirsty aura invisibly emanated from King Yu Cheng.
This momentum made Mo Cai's knees weak, and he knelt on the ground involuntarily, saying, "Could it be that they knew they couldn't defeat you, King Yu Cheng, and had already run away?"
However.
King Yu Cheng was very dissatisfied with this answer and directly scolded: "Are you nobles in the capital so stupid? If you want to run away, wouldn't he have run away earlier? Do they still need to wait for me to besiege the city before they can run away again? He also burned all the food and fodder for my thirty thousand elite troops!"
Hear this.
Mocai had no choice but to tremble and say: "My subordinates don't know. You said, this Han army only has four thousand troops. He burned our army's food and grass. Where can he run to hide behind?"
"Our army's food and grass are located beside the plank road, and the plank road is located between Ershi City and Yucheng City."
"Is it possible that he ran away to Yucheng City and hid?"
"You mean Yu Chengcheng?" When King Yu Cheng heard this, he stood up immediately, his eyes lit up, and he murmured to himself: "A soldier never tires of deceit."
"not good!"
"This Han man is going to raid my king, Yu Chengcheng."
Only then did King Yu Cheng realize a terrible thing, and he immediately shouted: "Pass this king's order to march immediately and return to Yu Cheng City!"
"."
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Go back to one day ago.
After having a face-to-face conversation with King Yu Cheng, Huo Guang had already figured out the temperament and character of the only person in Dawan who could fight against the Han army.
This guy.
Too proud!
Thirty thousand versus four thousand already made him feel like he was sure of victory.
However.
Little did he know that even a lion fighting a rabbit requires all his strength, not to mention that he had a total of four thousand troops.
No.
After the conversation, he took off his armor and handed it to the only soldier left behind. He pretended to be himself and confused his opponents at the city gate.
As for himself, he led four thousand soldiers and horses to dig a cave and ran straight out of the city to escape.
After exiting the cave.
Zhao Daniu, who had been following him, asked: "General, aren't we here to fight these barbarians? Why do we have to avoid the edge?"
Huo Guang glanced at Zhao Daniu and said with a smile: "You want to say why you didn't fight, so you just abandoned your armor and ran away, right?"
Zhao Daniu felt Huo Guang's gaze sweeping towards him, and immediately lowered his head and said, "Just because we are small doesn't mean we can't defeat them!"
However.
Huo Guang shook his head and said, "So what if I can beat him?"
"If you can fight, you will win!" Zhao Daniu said immediately.
Huo Guang retorted: "Win? Not to mention the enemy's 30,000 elite troops, and they all came with enough food and drink. Our soldiers are exhausted, how can we win?"
After Zhao Daniu was scolded, he had no choice but to lower his head and say nothing.
Upon seeing this, Huo Guang continued: "King Yu Cheng of Dawan is a man of some ability. Although our army only has four thousand, he still adopts the strategy of surrounding but not attacking, which is a prudent approach."
"I once read Sun Wu's Book of War, which states that if there are many soldiers, besiege them, and if there are few soldiers, flee."
"With four thousand to face off against thirty thousand troops, even thirty thousand pigs would be too much to kill."
When Zhao Daniu heard this, he felt even more confused and said: "General, I don't understand the things in this military book. I just want to ask, if we don't fight, why do we come here to guard the Second Division City? Before the 30,000 enemy troops surrounded us, we could just run away with our 4,000 brothers."
Hear this.
Huo Guang smiled slightly and said, "Then I would like to ask you, what is the purpose of our coming to Dawan?"
Zhao Daniu scratched his head again and said, "General, didn't you say that His Majesty's order requires you to fight?"
Huo Guang smiled and nodded, saying: "Yes, since His Majesty asked us to fight, why did we run away earlier? We still have to fight!"
Hear this.
Zhao Daniu was completely stunned by Huo Guang and said, "Huh? Should I fight or not?"
Hear the words.
Huo Guang put away the smile on his face, showed a serious expression, and said slowly: "The so-called soldier is a deceitful person!"
"Fight, of course we have to fight!"
"but."
"We have to hit them in the rear."
"King Yu Cheng led 30,000 elite troops to dispatch, and Yu Chengcheng's defense force will definitely be empty. At this time, we raid Yu Chengcheng, and Yu Chengcheng's strength alone will definitely not be able to defend it."
"Yucheng is not like Ershi City. It is King Yucheng's lair. There is no need to worry about food and drink."
"When our army invades Yucheng, eat and drink enough to recharge your batteries."
"That's when!"
"When King Yu Cheng came to his senses and came back, his soldiers were already exhausted as they were tossing back and forth."
"At that time, it's time to switch between offense and defense."
After Huo Guang explained in detail, although Zhao Daniu was stupid, he understood a little and immediately started laughing.
if only.
He felt that it was fine if he didn't have to fight and run away.
That way.
What a coward in behavior.
After the army marched for a while, Huo Guang suddenly saw many soldiers of King Yu Cheng standing on the edge of the plank road in the distance. He immediately waved his hand to signal the army to hide.
"It's strange, King Yu Cheng has set up a heavy army here, what else is he guarding?" Huo Guang muttered, thinking about the matter.
Suddenly his eyes lit up.
He guessed what it was!
"Could it be food and grass?" Huo Guang hummed softly.
At this time.
Zhao Daniu stepped forward and said, "General, if you don't leave, it will get dark."
"It's dark?" Huo Guang frowned slightly and glanced at the sky. This side belonged to Dawan, which was the farthest distance that the Central Plains army of the Han Dynasty could reach!
Being in a strange place, unfamiliar with the roads, and dark is a very dangerous thing.
After Huo Guang thought for a moment, he immediately ordered: "Zhao Daniu!"
"My subordinate is here," Zhao Daniu replied.
Huo Guang continued: "You lead two thousand soldiers and horses, wait here, and after dark, launch a surprise attack on the enemy over there to see what the opponent's heavy troops are guarding."
"If it's baggage, food and grass, whatever can be burned will be destroyed."
"Remember, don't be wary."
"When the enemy reacts, he will withdraw his troops directly and rush towards Yu Chengcheng. If there are pursuers, I will meet you."
After hearing Huo Guang's words, Zhao Daniu responded quickly and said: "No."
immediately.
Huo Guang took only two thousand troops and went straight to Yucheng City to kill them. By the time they arrived at Yucheng City, the sky had darkened.
This.
It was also the opportunity Huo Guang needed. Under Huo Guang's order, all two thousand men and horses put on black clothes. Even those who did not have black clothes, they all put on inconspicuous clothes.
Yu Chengcheng is the home base of King Yu Cheng, and its strength is not comparable to that of Ershi City.
Last time.
Li Guangli led tens of thousands of Han troops and was defeated by King Yu Cheng here.
If the elite of Dawan defend here, not to mention that Yucheng is impregnable, but with only the two thousand soldiers and horses led by Huo Guang, there may not even be a wave in Yucheng City.
but.
This time, that time.
The garrison in Yucheng City was empty. Not to mention the dispatch of the entire elite army, the garrison strength was such that no one would think of taking a blow from them.
certainly.
Even if it is a night attack, Huo Guang only has two thousand soldiers and horses here, and the city gate is closed. No matter what, it is impossible to attack from the front.
Huo Guang found a soldier who could climb. After climbing up, he asked him to drop the rope.
The soldiers climbed into the city along the rope.
And now.
Huo Guang also issued the order.
"After entering the city, kill the patrols first, change their clothes, blend in and confuse their eyes and ears, use the white sleeves as a number to identify your own people, kill the rest!!!" (End of this chapter)
