Guangning County, city tower.

Seeing the scattered people gathered over, Yuan Xi moved his neck a little tiredly.

"Lord, ask clearly." Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu came to Yuan Xi and said to Yuan Xi: "After Chen Gong entered the city, he would disperse all the captured prisoners."

"Huh?" Yuan Xi frowned and said, "Why did Chen Gong do this?"

"I don't know."

"In order to avoid any careful confusion, let these people go to Ning County first." Yuan Xi thought for a while.

"Here!" Zhang Nan nodded. This was the safest way. He immediately sent someone to pass the orders and asked the soldiers who were released to go to Ning County to guard.

Outside the city, Ma Chao, who was mixed in the crowd, frowned slightly when he heard the other party's message. If he went to Ning County, how could he break the city?

"General, what should I do?" a accompanying soldier asked in a low voice.

what to do?

Ma Chao looked at the restless crowd around him, thought for a while, and whispered: "You brought a few people into the crowd, and then said that Ning County had no food, Yuan Xi's move was to force us to death! How could you say, you think about it yourself, anyway, mess up the situation and not let everyone leave so easily."

In short, you have to find a way to open the city gate.

"Here!" the soldier agreed and turned around and joined the crowd.

"How much food can there be in the small town of Ning County? Isn't it going to force us to death if the young master did this?" After a while, dissatisfaction began to come from the crowd, and the soldiers who were already preparing to leave stopped one after another.

Yes, where is Ning County? It is said to be a county town, but in fact there are not even a thousand households, let alone stored grain. What did they eat in the past?

Isn’t it just to be a soldier to have a bite of food?

"Don't worry, all the soldiers. Although there is no food or grass in Ning County, the young master has ordered people to prepare enough food and grass, and then it will be sent to Ning County. Everyone will go to Ning County first, and the food and grass will arrive later!" Seeing the crowd stirring, the generals who secretly cursed the idiot and said this. How could Yuan Xi ignore so many people?

But as people come together, the crowd is often no longer rational but emotional. Especially since these surrendered soldiers have just been released, their hearts are filled with uneasiness, fearing that they will not be executed by Chen Gong, but they will be given up. Ma Chao is a little encouraged, and there is no need for them to exert any more effort. The uneasiness of the crowd is immediately ignited.

"To put it nicely, if the young master doesn't fulfill it, where can I go to make the case?"

"We waited to fight with the young master for a day. After being captured, the rice water was not in. We were hungry for a day. Now we have finally come back, but the young master asked me to leave by myself. What is the reason?"

On the city tower, Yuan Xi looked at this scene, listened to the dirty words coming from the city from time to time, his face looked a little ugly, and he slapped the female wall hard and scolded: "These bastards have a right to lose the battle!"

"Lord, if this continues, let alone the people's hearts, the morale of the army will be shaken!" Zhang Nan looked outside the city and frowned.

The soldiers outside the city are all their own soldiers and have friendships with the defenders in the city, some are from fellow townsmen, and even have blood relationships. If one of them is not handled properly, it is easy to shake the morale of the defenders in the city.

"What should I do?" Yuan Xi said dissatisfied: "Then Chen Gong and Ma Chao are all insidious people. If they secretly interfere with these people and take the opportunity to seize the city, Guangning will be in danger!"

"Young master, I have a plan!" A middle-aged man in Confucian robe came over.

"Mr. Jinyuan!" Yuan Xi saw the visitor and hurriedly bowed. The visitor was a famous scholar in Youzhou, Zhang Yu and Zhang Jinyuan of Yuyang. He was quite famous in Youzhou. Even if Yuan Xi saw this person, he would not dare to be arrogant.

Zhang Yu clasped his fists and said: "The people who are complaining about the soldiers outside the city are because they have no food to call. They can allocate some food and grass from the city to the city, and let the generals leave the city to rectify these men and women to Ning County. First, they can calm the morale of the army, and second, they can also slowly check whether there are any thieves invading. Just let them sign up according to the previous assignment and formation. If there are really enemies who hide in it, they can be found out."

The method is actually not difficult, but there are too many people now, so I can't check it for a while. By the time the investigation is completed, the enemy will have already come!

"I will follow the plan of Mr.!" Yuan Xi thought about it and felt that this method was good. He immediately ordered someone to go down to the city to pass an order. As for who is responsible for this matter, he looked at Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu, two capable generals, and Yuan Xi naturally did not want these two confidants to leave: "Send Xia Zhao and let him take charge of this matter."

Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng were the confidants of the high-ranking officials, and Yuan Xi was not favored by Yuan Shao. The high-ranking officials had no respect for his cousin. The high-ranking officials were the governor of Bingzhou and Yuan Xi was the governor of Youzhou. The two sides were adjacent, but they had almost no movement. Occasionally, they were also for business.

Now that Gao Gan died, although Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng were incorporated, it was difficult for Yuan Xi to regard these two people as important confidants. Deng Sheng died in Ma Cheng and was killed by Ma Chao in one meeting. Xia Zhao was left, so he simply sent him to deal with the matter. After the war was over, he would see if he was taken in. If he performed poorly, he would send him back to his father. As for making contributions... If he really made great contributions, Yuan Xi would naturally be more inclined to Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu.

Under the city, with Yuan Xi's order issued, the soldiers outside the city gradually became quiet. The reason why they were provoked was that they were afraid that Yuan Xi would ignore them, and that they did not eat for a day. Now that Yuan Xi has given a solution, there is food to eat and someone to take care of them, he naturally settled down.

In the crowd, Ma Chao frowned slightly.

The soldiers beside him came over and whispered, "General, what should I do?"

Ma Chao looked up at the direction of the city, thought for a while and said, "Now I have to take a risk. It will take some time to allocate the food and grass here. Send someone to inform Dong Chao quickly and ask him to come as fast as possible. Later, the food and grass will leave the city gate. I will take people to seize the city gate. After Dong Chao leads his army here, as long as he starts fighting here, enter the city immediately!"

Dong Chao is Ma Chao's deputy general, not the general of Guanzhong, but the general of Xiliang left to him by Ma Teng. He is quite brave. After Ma Chao had his own army here, Dong Chao has always been Ma Chao's deputy general.

"Here!" the soldiers agreed, carefully exited the crowd and headed straight for the direction of Macheng.

Macheng is about 80 miles away from Guangning. Dong Chao is the city that went out with Ma Chao. Ma Chao mixed in the surrendered army and rushed to Guangning. Dong Chao led Ma Chao's troops to follow him far away. The distance between the two sides was not far. If you count the time to notify Dong Cheng and gather the troops, you should be able to come back in one hour.

Ma Chao gathered the more than a hundred elite soldiers he brought around. These people were elite soldiers selected after Ma Chao commanded the troops. Although they had not been together for a long time, their treatment was the treatment of personal guards. They were close to each other than ordinary soldiers. In addition, Ma Chao was extremely brave and powerful, so he was still very appealing in a place where martial arts were respected in the army.

He asked everyone to follow him and was ready to form a formation and rush to fight at any time.

Half an hour later, the city gate opened, and Xia Zhao brought people out to drink and retreat the soldiers around him. One by one, the food trucks were sent out from the city. The soldiers around him consciously separated to both sides, but Ma Chao took people to the city gate.

"You are deaf!" Xia Zhao looked at the group of people not only not retreating, but also looked at the city gate. He couldn't help but be furious and rode his horse to Ma Chao in the front. He waved his hand and whipped Ma Chao.

Ma Chao reached out, grabbed the whip, and looked up at Xia Zhao.

Xia Zhao raised his eyebrows. An ordinary soldier could easily catch the whip of him, the general, which was already a bit strange. He looked at Ma Chaoshi, but saw the young soldier's eyes falling on his face like a knife. His heart jumped for no reason, and he felt like he was facing the ferocious monsters in the mountains.

"Let go!" Xia Zhao suppressed the panic in his heart and wanted to pull the whip back in anger, but the whip was held in Ma Chao's hand and did not move at all.

Seeing that the soldiers around began to gather here, Ma Chao grinned and in Xia Zhao's incredible gaze, he raised his foot and kicked the war horse in the neck.

"Xilulu~"

Amid the tragic neighing of the war horse, the horse's neck was broken and hit Xia Zhao's chest, and the people and horses flew backwards towards the city gate.

"Kill!" Ma Chao picked up the spear and snatched in, catching up with Xia Zhao's body flying backwards, kicked out again, and his already-out body flew up again.

When the soldiers at the city gate saw something strange about this place and were about to close the city gate, they suddenly became dark. Xia Zhao and his men and horses came in, directly overwhelmed the three soldiers and crushed a grain truck.

Before everyone could react in the city gate, Ma Chao explored his spear and pointed out tens of thousands of cold stars. The soldiers around Youzhou fell in an instant.

Ma Chao stepped into the city gate and kicked the city gate. Two soldiers were struggling to close the city gate. Suddenly, a huge force surged in. The city gate led them to swing directly and hit the wall. The city gate slowly bounced back. The soldiers who wanted to close the city gate were directly slapped to death by the huge force of the city gate.

"Release the wolf smoke!" Ma Chao was guarding the city gate alone. The soldiers behind rushed in and quickly occupied the city gate hole. Someone started to set off the wolf smoke at the city gate.

On the city tower, Yuan Xi and others were quickly attracted by the riot. Seeing the city gate being occupied by a man wearing his own soldiers, Yuan Xi didn't know that Yuan Xi's concern had happened. Seeing the wolf smoke rising, Yuan Xi knew something was wrong. Seeing that there were few people on the other side, he shouted: "Hurry up, kill these thieves!"

"Here!" Jiao Chu immediately went down the city, took a group of people and rushed towards the city gate.

However, before getting close, several soldiers were shot and killed by dozens of sharp arrows. In the city gate, there seemed to be a white tiger crawling. More than a hundred soldiers quickly formed a formation under the command of Ma Chao. In order to prevent the enemy from seizing the gate, they closed the city gate again, Ma Chao even directly removed the city gate and used it as a shield.

Jiao Chu quickly organized a formation to charge into the city gate, but several charges were killed by the opponent. Although the opponent had a small number of people, it occupied favorable terrain. Although Jiao Chu had many people, it was difficult to use them at the same time. For a moment, he could not get the more than a hundred people in the city gate!

On the city tower, Yuan Xi saw this and quickly shouted to the helpless soldiers outside the city: "I won't attack together and kill the rebels!"
Chapter completed!