Time passed little by little, and it was less than half an hour before the two sides met again. Everything had been discussed, and then the two sides had to implement the plan separately.
Lu Yunyou was busy passing the news about the cooperation with Qincheng to Wang Yihou, while Su Chi wanted to spread the rumors about the dispute between Xingjun and him to the ears of the bandits stationed in the city, and tried his best to use rumors to create a story between them and them. The illusion that the Star Army negotiations have broken down is just waiting time.
The plan has been established, and it cannot be too hasty or too slow in the future. At least the bandits must be given time to understand the situation in Qincheng.
In terms of leading the troops, Lu Yunyou plans to send Wang Yihou, because Wang Yihou has been in Qucheng and has not yet had contact with the people in Qincheng. Asking him to lead the troops to collect food from Qincheng can make the fake show more real. .
In addition, based on his understanding of Wang Yihou's personality, Lu Yunyou felt that Wang Yihou was more suitable to take charge of this matter than Xing Hu.
After Xing Hu returns to Qucheng, he will personally take some people to Orchid Village to hunt. Not only will he create the illusion that the Star Army is seriously short of food, but he will also overturn all his previous good deeds and turn his good deeds towards the refugees into negative consequences. The use of refugees strives to create a situation where their star army is different from what it looks like.
Afterwards, when Wang Yihou leads his troops and leaves, the bandits will definitely think that Lu Yunyou is still staying in the palace of the city lord of Qucheng when they get the news, but in fact, Lu Yunyou is going to continue to stay in Qincheng.
Firstly, he can understand the situation in Qincheng as quickly as possible by staying in Qincheng. Secondly, being under the eyes of Su Chi and others can be regarded as a guarantee for the cooperation between the two parties. Therefore, after Lu Yunyou said that he would continue to stay in Qincheng to observe the situation. At that time, Su Chi and the family heads all agreed, as if they wanted Lu Yunyou to stay.
As for whether Su Chi and the others would breach the contract, after two meetings, Lu Yunyou could only make judgments based on Su Chi's character and the Star Army he was involved with.
Su Chi's practice of always opening the city gates to accept refugees is undoubtedly a benevolent act. Lu Yunyou can use this to infer that Su Chi is not the kind of person who goes back on his words, but there is no way of knowing whether other family heads may secretly conspire with the bandits. Of course, one thing is certain that as long as Su Chi is afraid of the prestige of the Star Army, he will not dare to go against him. Thinking of Yan Nantian and others in Shiyan City, Lu Yunyou feels much more relaxed.
In addition to Li Shuangxi and Yu Tong, the others who wanted to stay with Lu Yunyou had to return to Qucheng. In order to prevent Lu Yunyou and the others from being discovered by the bandits, Su Chi specially found three people with similar figures and Three people close to Lu Yunyou pretended to be Lu Yunyou and the others. In short, the number of people when they returned was the same as when they came. A total of eight people left the city lord's mansion in the evening.
Regarding the matter of confusing the real with the fake, Lu Yunyou and Su Chi have tried their best. Whether it will be effective or not depends on the final result.
After settling in the city lord's mansion, Lu Yunyou had no intention of arranging for Yu Tong to inquire about the news, because Yu Tong's level was too high to pretend to be an ordinary person, but Li Shuangxi was a suitable candidate. Not only was he low in strength, but he was also born in a farmer's family. There must be no problem pretending to be an ordinary person outside, because the responsibility of searching around the city falls on Li Shuangxi.
Faced with the task assigned to him by Lu Yunyou, Li Shuangxi, who had always been grateful to Lu Yunyou, understood what he wanted to do and sneaked into the city dressed as a civilian that night.
As soon as Li Shuangxi left, only Yu Tong was left by Lu Yunyou's side. Since there was nothing else to do for the time being, the two of them could only wait for news in the city lord's mansion with peace of mind.
Time passed little by little. More than an hour later, Xing Hu successfully returned to Qucheng with the news, and relayed everything Lu Yunyou told him to Wang Yihou. The deficiencies were answered by another deputy general and Li Shuangxi pretending to be Complemented by the two heads of the Lu family in Yutong.
At first, Wang Yihou was very surprised that Lu Yunyou could reach a cooperative relationship with Qincheng, but after Xing Hu introduced the identity of the head of the Lu family and stated Lu Yunyou's intention to stay in Qincheng, Wang Yihou gradually became serious from surprise.
Not long after, Wang Yihou learned all the contents of Lu Yunyou's plan from Xing Hu and others. It was very difficult to lure the bandits to the bait. Once they failed, it meant that all their efforts were a waste of time, but if If they succeed, they can solve all the problems in front of them. After some calculations, Wang Yihou increasingly feels the need to try to implement the plan.
After taking the initiative to ask Xing Hu a few questions, Wang Yihou fully understood the key points of executing the plan. Next, they had to follow Lu Yunyou's instructions step by step.
First of all, if the bandits are well aware of the situation in Qucheng, then the Xingjun must try their best to create the illusion of insufficient food and grass. According to Lu Yunyou's explanation, firstly, Xing Hu will personally take 300 soldiers to hunt outside the city tomorrow; secondly, Second, the Star Army who stayed in the city will go to every household tomorrow to collect food, and try to arouse public resentment; third, early tomorrow morning, he will first take five hundred Star Army to Qincheng to collect food.
The above three points are all key, especially when he leads his troops to Qin City tomorrow and asks for an explanation from the Lord of Qin City. At that time, he will face a premeditated attack by Qin City, because there are few star soldiers. , in the end he had to pretend to be defeated and retreat while fighting.
After returning to the camp, he sent a letter to Qucheng to ask for reinforcements. Then Lu Yunyou gave him one thousand more troops according to the plan. When the reinforcements arrived, that night he led another fifteen hundred star troops to raid Qincheng. After entering the city, he returned You need to loot all over the city until you finally exit Qin City.
After returning from plundering Qin City, the Star Army celebrated directly in the temporary camp and tried to do some undisciplined behavior for two days.
On the other side, Su Chi secretly sent people to Xiaoyin Mountain for help immediately after attacking the Star Army the previous day, and requested to temporarily establish a cooperative relationship with the bandits in the form of jointly resisting foreign enemies and then receiving heavy rewards.
Once those bandits are fooled, they will definitely pay close attention to the situation of the Star Army while they are considering whether to cooperate with Qincheng. After they determine the situation of the Star Army on their own, the possibility of cooperation with Qincheng will naturally increase. They decided to cooperate with Qincheng, so Lu Yunyou's plan can be implemented smoothly.
If everything goes well, Lu Yunyou's plan will be completed in less than three days, and all the difficulties that the Star Army will face after that will be easily solved.
After receiving all the news from Xing Hu, Wang Yihou directly set about arranging what they would do tomorrow. When he and Xing Hu leave tomorrow, Qucheng can only be controlled by the deputy general below. Speaking of which, he will forcefully collect grain in Qucheng. It's not an easy task, and Wang Yihou is really worried.
It took Wang Yihou a full hour to arrange everything properly. At the same time, the breakdown of negotiations between Qincheng and the Star Army had spread through the city through gossip. Those civilians who did not know the specific situation After learning that the Star Army was going to the city to collect food, everyone was naturally afraid. At the same time, they actively responded to Su Chi's call to unite and prepare to jointly resist the invasion of foreign enemies.
After the spread of the news expanded, the bandits noticed the matter and directly reported the situation in Qincheng to the bandit village.
After learning that Qincheng wanted to unite its forces to resist the Star Army, the first thing those bandit leaders thought of was how to reap the benefits. In their opinion, the overall strength of the Star Army and Qincheng was not much different. When the two sides fought, At the critical moment, they can come forward in time to eliminate the Star Army and the resistance forces in Qin City in one fell swoop.
The bandit leaders quickly reached an agreement. Everyone was thinking about the plan of the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind. Then they quickly ordered the people below to keep an eye on the situation in Qincheng and report as soon as there is news. Then in a few days After the leaders continued to discuss for a while, they sent more people to Qucheng to check the situation, because collecting information from multiple aspects would be more helpful for them to make some decisions.
In fact, from the time Yu Tong and others entered the City Lord's Mansion yesterday until Lu Yunyou went to the City Lord's Mansion today, the bandit leaders have known about it. However, they did not know the specific situation in the City Lord's Mansion and could only further confirm the news.
It is worth mentioning that not long after the meeting between the bandit leaders, the following bandits got the news that they might want to commit a big fight. They all cheered and celebrated. Before they were sure whether they were really going to go out, they were already celebrating. It seemed that those bandits were planning the robbery. It is a habit of bandits, but this way of wishing success of their actions can indeed increase the possibility of their actions being successful.
Nothing happened all night. Early the next morning, Wang Yihou set out from Qucheng with five hundred star troops according to plan. Counting the rest time, the journey was fifteen miles in one hour. More than three hours later, Wang Yihou took five hundred star troops. The Hundred Star Army arrived at the north gate of Qucheng.
After arriving there, Wang Yihou immediately asked the guards to find Su Chi. After Su Chi arrived, he asked Su Chi to collect a certain amount of rations from each household according to the food collection standards, load them into trucks at the specified time, and deliver them to the city. Leave diplomacy to them. If Su Chi disagrees, the Star Army will attack Qincheng. Although Wang Yihou only brought 500 Star Army troops, they are many times stronger than those city guards in terms of momentum.
