On the third day, at the head of Hezhou City.
Huang Daochun, the first wise man in Beidi, looked very bad. After doing some calculations, he discovered something terrible.
Even the camps not far away have not decreased at all. But in fact, the number of stoves is less than 10,000.
"Something is not good." Huang Daochun frowned.
"Huang Daochun, didn't you say you have a good plan?"
"I just didn't expect that the young boss would be so bold. He said he would capture Hezhou in three days and then camp in front of Hezhou City. It was a big cover!"
"I did the math, and suddenly the number was wrong... If I guessed correctly, there are only the last ten thousand people left. He is not trying to hide the truth, but he really wants to secretly seize the army and go west to the hinterland of Wangzhou!"
"You've been making a fuss for a long time, but your plan is in vain." Zhao Qingyun was furious.
"You don't understand, my little boss is a master. General Zhao, why don't you send some light cavalry out to find out the truth."
Zhao Qingyun hesitated for a while, but was still worried after all, and hurriedly walked under the city wall.
After observing for a long time, the city gate was slightly opened. About three thousand Qingqi quickly left Hezhou and rushed towards the camp not far ahead.
Not daring to get too close, the three thousand Qingqi made several rounds of detours before slowly approaching the camp. It was obvious that these three thousand people were qualified as sentinels.
Unfortunately, many tent curtains were opened, and there was no one inside.
"Everyone, no one! No one!"
There was not a single soul in the large tent.
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Hidden in the woods.
"Don't move." Lowering his voice, Xu Mu looked coldly at the Hezhou City sentry who was running back and forth in the camp ahead.
Now is not the time to fight out.
There were too few people leaving the city. If they were to alert the enemy, these three days would be in vain.
If they guessed correctly, Zhao Qingyun and the most intelligent man in Beidi must have thought that he had led people into the hinterland of Hezhou and wanted to block it.
"Report to the general, no one is there! The entire camp is empty!"
The scout sentry with three thousand riders returned to the front of Hezhou City.
Zhao Qingyun's face suddenly turned black on the city wall. He turned his head and looked at the first wise man in Beidi in front of him.
"Sir's skill in calculating stoves is truly unparalleled in the world."
"My little boss... even if he saves Wangzhou, he will still be dead. When the time comes, General Zhao will send troops from Hezhou and attack with our army north of Wangzhou -"
"Do you think the King of Yuzhou over at Laoguan is a fool?" Zhao Qingyun gritted his teeth, "If he brings troops here, the Xiaofeng Camp in Hezhou will be crushed and bloody!"
Huang Daochun's face turned pale.
"The art of calculating the stove? The art of calculating the stove! You are just an egg!"
Zhao Qingyun hurriedly got off the city, mobilized an army of 20,000 cavalry, opened the north gate, and got off his horse angrily.
After thinking about it, he was afraid that the 20,000 light cavalry were no match, so he hurriedly ordered 10,000 more infantry and followed behind.
Huang Daochun slapped himself twice, then hurriedly followed him down the city wall, and ran forward together in the night.
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"General, there are fewer defenders at the city gate."
About an hour later, in the woods, Yu Wencai spoke in a solemn voice.
"There are less than a thousand people at the south city gate."
Xu Mu frowned. With Zhao Qingyun's temperament, he would definitely lead the army out. It would take at least several hours to go back and forth.
In the entire Hezhou, apart from those who went out on patrol, there were probably not many people left.
"Yu Wen, are the knocking posts and city ladders ready?"
"Don't worry, General Xu."
"Passing through the woods, approaching Hezhou."
In Hezhou City at night, the Xiaofeng Camp on duty at the south gate thought that the camp not far away was really empty. For a time, even the patrol guards became a little lazy.
Xu Mu raised his hand, and the slowly moving army of 40,000 people stopped for a moment.
"Si Hu, put on your armor."
Not only Si Hu, but also the hundreds of soldiers who were hugging the knocking posts all put on the few iron armors.
"Yu Wen, I will leave the matter of climbing to the city to you."
Yu Wen's face showed determination and he nodded solemnly.
Xu Mu grimaced and slowly drew out his long sword.
Zhao Qingyun, that bitch, has long lost the courage he used to have. He is like a rat in a barn, cautious in every step.
This attempt to conceal the truth is actually to divert the tiger away from the mountain.
"Heaven and earth are unkind, the court does not fight, and dog officials and fat generals have never spared our mountains and rivers. Xu Mu only asked if the 40,000-strong Northern Expeditionary Army dared to fight!"
"General Xu, there are only beheaded men, not dead dogs!"
"The sword has been sharpened and the bow has been polished, why not dare to fight!"
Xu Mu stood up, pointed his sword forward angrily, and swung it forward heavily.
"Camp Flag——"
Wei Xiaowu and Chen Baishan, one old and one young, led hundreds of new troops, climbed to the high ground, and waved the camp flag angrily in the night.
On the camp flag, the tiger emerging from the forest seems to be lifelike, as if it is roaring into the forest.
"kill!"
Chang Wei took the ten-thousand-step bow and leaned out from the hiding place. The war bow raised in his hand fired a wave of flying arrows that covered the sky and the moon, and shot towards the top of the city.
Si Hu took the lead, and together with the hundreds of people behind him, wearing iron armor and holding the knocking posts, he also ran out quickly and rushed to the south city gate.
"Move the city ladder, whoever climbs it first, I will make the decision for General Xu and be named the general!"
"Do you know that at the top of Wangzhou City, there are 20,000 old soldiers with gray hair, holding up rusty knives and rejecting Beidi!"
Group after group of soldiers, carrying simple city ladders, followed Yu Wen's command and roared towards Hezhou City Gate to kill.
"Raise your shield!"
As the shield troops rushed forward, they raised various large shields in their hands to cover the flying arrows falling from the city head for the friendly troops.
After all, there were many defective armors. After the wooden shield was punctured and cracked, there were both white armor and black armor, and corpses were spread all over the place.
On top of Hezhou City.
A general with a frightened face almost couldn't stand upright as he looked at the rushing army below.
"I've fallen into a trap!"
"Go and inform General Zhao quickly, and return to defense quickly——"
Click.
General Pi was pierced by an arrow in the face and could no longer scream. His body fell from the high city wall.
Chang Wei put away his iron bow, took off his pear-wood iron spear without hesitation, followed the soldiers who climbed up the wall, and climbed up with all his strength.
A Hezhou captain was thinking of throwing down the fire barrel, but just as he raised his head, Chang Wei roared, lifted the pear-wood iron spear, and threw it directly upwards.
The captain's entire face was pierced, and he was shot far away by the iron spear until he was stuck on the wall.
The soldiers at the top of the city were stunned for a while.
"Ascend the city!" Chang Wei drew out the long knife from his waist and his face turned red.
Listening to Chang Wei's roar, the soldiers around him also gained courage and climbed up the city ladder with knives in their mouths without fear of life or death.
"Collide--"
Under the cover of the shield, Si Hu held the beating pole and rushed towards the two city gates of Hezhou South City.
The whole Hezhou seemed to be trembling.
In the sky above Hezhou City, under the glow of night and moonlight, for a while, there was billowing gray smoke everywhere.
