When the fog was at its thickest, even Gao Yun's face loomed under the city.
"Use a rope to lower him up to the city." Li Yue ordered.
"Wei!" The guard threw down two ropes.
Soon, Gao Yun was pulled up. His whole body was covered with blood, and there were still a few arrow clusters stuck in his body. The blood slowly seeped out from the gaps in his armor. When he saw Li Yue, he bowed to Li Yue, and the stone bricks he knocked on made a loud bang. ring.
"Okay, what's the military situation?" Li Yue waved his hand.
The bodyguard beside him held the handle of the knife and stared at Gao Yun intently.
"After the death of Deng Huan in Lukou, Wang Wu succeeded him and led 40,000 elite Zhao troops to surrender to Murong Chui. Now Zhao troops are in front and Yan troops are behind, with more than 100,000 troops heading straight for Gaocheng!"
In this era, the Hutuo River was called Lutuo. During the Three Kingdoms period, Gongsun Yuan rebelled against Cao Wei and established himself as Yan. Sima Yi attacked him and dug the Hutuo River into the Mar River to transport grain, so he built this city.
The place Sima Yi picked was naturally not bad.
Like Fangtou and Jitou, they are important places guarding the throat of water and land transportation.
As long as Lukou is still there, the Murong family cannot go south unscrupulously.
If he were not there, the whole of Hebei would be under the iron heel of the Yan army.
Hearing the news, Li Yue was shocked. As expected, the Murong family swept across both sides of the river as it had in history...
The Murong family was too wealthy, but Ran Min, like himself, started his career too late, had little accumulation, and was still fighting a hundred battles.
Lukou fell, so the Heiyun Army's refusal to defend Gaocheng was meaningless, and they could only rely on the Yellow River to defend the Central Plains.
Not only that, without the threat from the rear, Murong Chui drove his troops south, and whether he could return to Yanzhou alive was a question.
The situation is extremely bad.
Chang Wei narrowed his eyes and said: "Lukou is hundreds of miles away from the Bohai Sea. How do you know?"
This question actually gets to the key point.
Cui Hong on the side also wondered: "Both Deng Huan and Wang Wu were loyal to the Shi family and had been at odds with the Yan people for five or six years. The hatred was as deep as the sea. Ran Min founded the country and Hebei was in chaos. The army at Lukou did not surrender to the Yan people. Why are they today?" Surrender to the Yan people? This must be Murong Ke or Feng Yi's plan!"
When the north was in the most chaos, the Lukou army did not surrender to Yan.
Murong Jun claimed that 200,000 troops besieged the city and attacked for more than 20 days. Lukou resisted resolutely but still did not surrender.
Now that Xiangguo has blocked Ran Min's army, Murong Jun led half of the Yan army south, and he also led the Heiyun army north to resist the Yan army. The pressure in Lukou dropped sharply, and there was no reason for Wang Wu to surrender at this time.
This is not the time to surrender.
Everyone's eyes fell on Gao Yun's face. It was obvious that he had a problem.
Gao Yun's face was covered with blood, and a trace of embarrassment flashed in his eyes, "Yes, it's the news sent by your Excellency. His subordinates took advantage of the heavy fog to fight through the siege..."
Chang Wei took a deep breath, "This must be Murong Ke's plan!"
The plan to deceive the city is easy to see through, but the false and true news from the north is hard to guard against.
Wei Shan took a step forward and kicked Gao Yun in the chest, knocking him to the ground. "The Governor treats you like a nephew, but you are spreading false news, confusing the morale of the army, and you are a wolf-hearted person!"
How Li Yue treated Hei Yunlang was obvious to Chen Liu.
At this moment, Gao Yun had blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, his face was full of shock, his eyes were confused and painful, as if he didn't know that he had become a pawn used by others, "Subordinate, subordinate..."
Gao Kai surrendered, and Murong Ke's vigorous propaganda shocked Hebei, so Duan Qin, Liu Zhun, Zhai Shu and others quickly surrendered.
It is impossible for Hei Yunlang who is wandering outside not to know.
Li Yue felt disappointed.
"My lord, your crime is unforgivable. This is... a letter sent by someone from your lordship. Please read it over. If you want to kill me or scrape me, I will never complain." Gao Yun coughed out a mouthful of blood, tears welling up in his eyes, and he cried out from his arms. He took out a piece of silk stained with blood and sweat.
The personal guard took it and handed it to Li Yue.
"My son: Ran Min is like a stone tiger. He killed Duke Li and his whole family. Later, Wei Jian's family was cruel and cruel. His defeat is not far away. Now that I have been defeated, General Murong treated him as a distinguished guest. I am grateful for his kindness and righteousness. I cannot If you don't surrender, Murong's benevolence is unparalleled. Wang Wu, Zhai Shu, Duan Qin, and Liu Zhun all surrendered in the hope of the wind. This is where they are destined to return. Now Lukou's tens of thousands of surrendered troops are the vanguard. Murong Chui is behind and they are heading towards Gaocheng. Come here, my son, after hearing this, must quickly flee to Changshan to fulfill the righteousness between father and son!"
The letter was stained with sweat and blood, but there were no signs of alteration.
Li Yue handed the letter to Chang Wei, Cui Hong, and Wei Shan for reading.
"So this is a misunderstanding?" Wei Shan rubbed his head.
Chang Wei stared at Gao Yun and said: "No, Gao Kai has adopted this son for more than ten years, so he must know his nature well. This is a plan for death."
Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that there are five intermediate factors: cause, internal, counterattack, death, and life.
Gao Kai deliberately took advantage of Gao Yun's upright nature and sent this letter into Gao City to undermine the morale and morale of the Heiyun Army.
From a military perspective, if Lukou failed, there would be no point in defending Gaocheng. If the Black Cloud Army did not want to surrender, the only way to survive was to abandon the city and break out...
In other words, Gao Kai deceived his adopted son and let Gao Yun act as a dead ringer for the sake of his own future. He was indeed ruthless.
"In addition to damaging the morale of the army, this letter is also Murong Ke's attempt to persuade the governor to surrender!" Cui Hong expressed a different view.
Indeed, the whole article is belittling Ran Min and saying good things about the Murong family. They are both benevolent and virtuous, and they are destined by fate. Obviously, they are not words spoken by a father to his adopted son.
"Damn, this Murong Ke is too thoughtful..." Wei Shan took a breath.
Murong Ke's tricks followed one after another.
Originally, Murong Jun's dispatch of troops did not go smoothly. He was blocked by Lukou first, then failed in his attack in Zhongshan, and now he was blocked in Gaocheng. However, Murong Ke captured Gao Kai in one battle and successfully defeated Jizhou. All the lands surrendered.
Then, relying on this general trend, he suppressed the Heiyun Army trapped in Gaocheng, and then took a different approach and used Gao Yun to persuade him to surrender...
Murong Ke's people didn't come, and his psychology, righteousness, and momentum were all played to the extreme. The art of war says that defeating the enemy without fighting is nothing more than this.
At this point, ordinary forces would either break through or surrender.
No wonder he was hailed as the first general of the Sixteen Kingdoms by later generations.
In the Battle of Thorn City, Shi Hu's hundreds of thousands of troops attacked fiercely, and Murong Kai was ready to run away. It was Murong Ke who overcame all opinions and advocated a decisive battle, leading two thousand elite cavalry to sweep across the hundreds of thousands of troops.
Later, in Miyun Mountain, eight thousand elite cavalry defeated Ma Qiu's 30,000 army, but Ma Qiu was able to escape on foot...
To the east, Goguryeo did not dare to look west.
Historically, almost all Qian Yan's empire was conquered by this person.
If Chang Wei and Cui Hong were not around, Li Yue felt that there was a high probability that he would fall into the trap.
Li Yue helped Gao Yun up, "You have been wronged."
His loyalty to the Black Cloud Army was also exploited by Gao Kai and Murong Ke.
Tears welled up in Gao Yun's eyes again, "My subordinate was born as a black cloud man and died as a black cloud ghost. How could he betray the governor?"
Li Yue felt a burst of emotion in his heart and stroked his back. Seeing that the wound was still bleeding, he ordered him to remove his armor and treated him with his own hands.
(End of chapter)
