"Scouts, go into the city to investigate." Han Ji ordered a team of scouts to enter Linzi City to investigate the truth.
A team of more than ten scouts received the order and skillfully rode their horses towards Linzi City. The horses were only 500 paces away with a charge. However, facing Linzi City with the city gate wide open, no one dared to ride into the city first. .
This team of more than ten scouts all had doubts in their hearts. They were all afraid that the defenders had ambushed thousands of troops and horses in the city. As long as they entered the city, they would most likely be killed by thousands of arrows piercing their hearts, leaving no bones of either man or horse. !
At this time, a scout in the front row standing on horseback at the city gate was making a decision in his mind: the first one to die and the last one to die one by one, the difference is only an hour and a half!
"Xilulu—" Having made up his mind and determined that he was going to die, the scout whipped the horse hard under his crotch. The horse was in pain and ran wildly towards Linzi City with all its hooves.
The scout on the horse closed his eyes, imagining the rain of arrows and countless swords and swords that would greet him. However, until the horse ran for two quarters of an hour and slowed down, and the scout went deep into the main street of Linzi City for a long time, he still Unscathed, all that was left was the cold wind whistling past my ears, causing my face to ache slightly!
"Nothing happened?" The scout opened his eyes. Not to mention the defenders in the city, he couldn't even see any ordinary civilians in Linzi City. "There's no ambush? Where are all the people going?" The scout turned around. After a few laps and finding no one, he left the city with a smile on his face.
At the gate of the city, under Han Ji's repeated urging, the remaining scouts saw that the first one who entered the city seemed to be fine, and they all had the courage to rush into the city. The scene was the same as what the first scout saw, and it was unexpected. To everyone’s surprise, there was no one in Linzi City!
The scout leader reported back: "Reporting to the Lord, there is no one in Linzi City, and there is no ambush."
"Then where are the people who played the harp in the city and the boys and so on that you mentioned yesterday?" Han Ji asked with doubts.
Yes, yesterday there was clearly a man in a white robe playing the piano at the top of the city. How come that person was nowhere to be seen overnight?
The scout leader was also puzzled. He could only tell the truth, telling what he saw and heard after entering the city just like pouring beans into a bamboo tube. He was afraid of being reprimanded and punished by his own prince, so he did not dare to hide it.
"Master Fu, maybe Wen Zongxu expected that Master Fu would besiege the city again, and it's still not known that he randomly kidnapped the commander and ran away?" Kou Xiuzhi, who was behind Han Ji, urged him forward to analyze.
Han Ji thought about it and couldn't understand it, and finally he could only agree. At this time, apart from Kou Xiuzhi's explanation, there was probably no other situation that was more in line with the current situation.
"Since there is no one in Linzi City, what's the point of leaving a good city unoccupied and blowing wind outside the city for no reason?" Han Ji put down his guard and ordered the vanguard of the county soldiers to enter the city first, with about 2,000 people, to prepare for the follow-up army. Be a guide.
"Brothers, let's go into the city!" The captain who got the first chance to enter the city had a happy smile on his face. He waved the bright big blade in his hand and commanded his men to start heading towards Linzi City not far away. Go ahead.
At this time, Xu Zongwen, who was piled in a private house, was quietly waiting for the large group of county soldiers to enter the city. He originally wanted to sit at the top of Linzi City like yesterday, holding a goose feather fan, burning incense and playing the piano, and also doing Zhuge Kongming and posing. He devised an empty city plan to fool Han Ji.
However, when he thought about that day in order to encourage the soldiers defending the city to resist the attack of the county soldiers, he personally beat the drum to cheer and then was shot by an arrow for so long. Once bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, he did not dare to show his face again. If something unexpected happens, the experience of this time traveling journey may end here! Therefore, Xu Zongwen, who always likes to be in the limelight, chose to retreat strategically this time and strike later!
When he heard the sound of horse hoofs vibrating on the ground getting closer and closer, Xu Zongwen's heart vibrated at a higher and higher frequency. Soon, when the clatter of horse hoofs reached his ears, Xu Zongwen ordered an attack!
"Bang!" The sergeant hiding at the top of the city pulled up the suspension bridge. Huge boulders fell from the sky and blocked the city gate from the inside out. The two thousand county soldiers who had just entered the city didn't know anything. Suddenly they saw countless wooden barrels on the city tower starting to move towards it. An unknown liquid was poured below, followed closely by countless torches thrown from behind nearby houses. When the torches came into close contact with the ground, the originally dry and smooth ground suddenly burst into flames out of thin air!
"Ah, it's tung oil! It's on fire!" When the torch ignited the ground, it also ignited the county soldiers who were soaked in tung oil and turned into drowned rats.
After most of the main street in Linzi City burned, the ground suddenly collapsed downwards. The county soldiers on horseback were beating the flames on their bodies. Before they could react, in an instant, both men and horses fell into the well arranged by Xu Zongwen. In the trap!
"Fire arrows!" Countless screams came one after another, and flames shot into the sky near the city gate in Linzi City. Xu Zongwen rushed out of the house and gave orders to the Linzi defenders who were ambushing them.
"Boom, boom, boom..." A heavy rain of crossbow arrows from the defenders of Linzi City sealed the air above the two thousand county soldiers who entered Linzi. When the rain of arrows began to fall downwards, after several rounds of harvesting, the county soldiers They suffered heavy losses again!
The battle in Linzi City was in full swing. Han Ji, who was standing outside the city on horseback, saw the flames soaring into the sky and the heart-rending shouts from time to time in the city. Han Ji was heartbroken!
Han Ji pulled out his riding crop and pointed it at the city head and scolded Xu Zongwen: "Wen Zongxu, the cunning fox, you are a mouse with no way to escape being chased by the wolf god, I will cut you into pieces!"
"Beat the drum, give me the order to attack the city!" Han Ji drew his sword and shouted angrily.
He could only watch his soldiers being slaughtered and listen to the roars and cries before they died. As an army general, it was really unbearable.
Especially Han Ji, who has always been arrogant and could not bear humiliation, and claimed to be the successor governor of Qingzhou. Such a shameful humiliation not only made him humiliated, but also caused him to lose a large part of his military morale and the majesty of the prince. Linzi City is located In front of him, the strategist general Wen Zongxu who opposed him was in Linzi City. He had to say this!
"Master Fu, how is Wen Zongxu's empty city plan? This is clearly a pocket array. No matter how many people you send, you are afraid that they will die. Master Fu, think twice!" Kou Xiu dismounted and grabbed Han Ji's reins, urging him hard.
Han Ji made an empty fist and punched it in the air. His eyes were about to burst, and he gritted his teeth and asked in a deep voice: "Are we going to let those two thousand brothers die in vain and we just ignore them?"
Kou Xiuzhi also glared at Linzi City and slowly explained: "The losses at this time are two thousand brothers, but if once the city is attacked, there will be countless casualties and it is impossible to win, then the losses will be more than two thousand!"
yes! Since this empty city plan is fake and the pocket array is real, we must not be fooled again.
Normal people would think this way, and then turn around, go back to where they came from, and do whatever they should do.
But Han Ji thought about it and was still unwilling to accept it. No matter how hard Kou Xiuzhi tried to make suggestions and said all his good things, Han Ji just didn't want to go back home. He just wanted to bite the hard nut of Linzi City.
"Today, we will capture Linzi City and plunder the entire army for three days!" Han Ji said loudly. After hearing this, all the county soldiers were allowed to plunder, and a hot fire was ignited in their hearts. The military morale that had been watered down was At this moment, they were inspired again, the county soldiers were high-spirited, and their fighting spirit was ignited again!
"Oh..." The county soldiers shouted happily, pulling out the steel knives from their waists, holding on to the bow strings in their hands, and grasping the reins in their hands. Everything was ready, and all they needed was the east wind. As long as Han gave the order, thirty thousand counties The soldiers will rush towards Linzi City ahead!
"What are you waiting for, Lord?" Jiang Guowu, the prefect of Changguang, couldn't wait to hold the Changshan in his hand. Every time he listened to Kou Xiuzhi and Han Ji talking so hard, he couldn't help but want to sleep. He just listened and couldn't get a word in. It feels so uncomfortable!
Han Ji waved, and Che Huang, the eunuch of Le'an behind him, escorted a group of women, children, old and young people forward. There was no end in sight, at least thousands of them. This time Jiang Guo really opened his eyes.
"Master Fu, are you asking these unarmed people to attack the city?" Jiang Guo said with a smile.
If we could attack the city, pigs would be able to climb trees...
Who would have thought that what Jiang Guo said turned out to be a prophecy.
Han Ji smiled evilly and said: "That's right! I just want these unarmed people to attack the city on our behalf. I don't believe that so many people can't attack a small Linzi city!"
"Hiss—" Not only Jiang Guo, but Bai Shu, the governor of Beihai, and Gou Rong, the governor of Jinan, were all shocked this time. Is there such an operation?
The reason why Kou Xiu repeatedly dissuaded Han Ji from attacking Linzi was because he was afraid that Han Ji would use this trick to drive the people to attack the city. This would not only be an act of unscrupulousness and lose the hearts of the people, but would also attract countless enemies and lead to divine punishment!
This is the worst of the worst!
Why fight to the death?
As long as he goes to Chang'an according to the imperial edict and makes great achievements in front of the emperor, are he afraid that the position of governor of Qingzhou will be lost?
The hardest thing in the world is to put other people's money into your own bag and put your own thoughts into other people's heads.
Kou Xiuzhi understood this. He looked at the gloomy sky, his heart became more and more depressed, and the anxious look on his face could no longer go away.
"Do evil, do evil!"
