"You are not saying that Shen Gou Guan is just a sour literati! He will only lose his books and never fights! I have been fighting for half a lifetime and actually lost to such a person. In the future, when I meet brothers from other camps, what else can I look up and be a human being!"

After withdrawing from the camp, Liu Xiyao became more and more angry as he thought about it. He felt sad. He couldn't help but drink several pots of wine snatched from nearby wealthy families, and scolded all his subordinates before he could get angry.

After calming down, he couldn't help but insert his fingers into his messy hair, scratching his head, and asked dejectedly: "How many brothers are left in our army?"

A general named Liu Sandao next to him, who was adopted by Liu Xiyao as his adopted son, replied frightenedly: "Father, there are more than 8,000 people, but there are at most 6,000 people who can continue fighting with weapons, and at least more than 1,000 brothers were injured.

Today's battle is really too cunning. If the official army hadn't swayed our appetite several times, our army mistakenly thought that if we had worked harder, we would not have been able to fight for so long, and the casualties would have been so miserable. Alas."

In normal ancient wars, especially thieves, one-tenth of the casualties would definitely withdraw, and the generals could not suppress them.

In today's battle, thousands of people were killed in battle alone, and almost a large number of seriously injured people were unable to retreat, so they could only be left to the official army to clean up the battlefield, resulting in the total permanent losses of the bandits' side exceeding two thousand people.

All of them were caused by Liu Xiyao himself when he could fight for so long and so resolutely. He repeatedly boosted morale and made the soldiers of the army misjudged that "if you hold on, you can be prosperous and wealthy. If you give up now, you will be wasted all your previous efforts."

Just like a gambler who tasted the sweetness first and then slowly lost his eyes, he was gradually seduced and raised by his opponent's exquisite psychological account design, and finally got to this point.

Liu Xiyao's face turned pale, and his tent was terrible silent. No one dared to suggest the next combat plan, for fear that he would be vented again in the future after making a mistake in decision-making, and some were worried about being suspicious of the king.

When the army was retreating today, Shen Gou Guan shouted a lot of disagreements on the top of the city. It would be a good thing if anyone was too active at this time.

Although Liu Xiyao did not read, he still understood the human nature and the art of controlling the underworld, and could also detect strange things from everyone's silence.

He knew that he could not be serious at this time, otherwise the army would have to mutiny in a row. After pondering for a while, Liu Xiyao said with great concern:

"Forget it, victory or defeat is common for military strategists. Today's defeat is mainly due to me, so you don't have to worry. I have also figured it out. Now that there are only more than 6,000 live forces left, it is absolutely impossible to attack the city again.

Now we only have two roads left. We either withdraw our troops in shame or force the enemy to go out of the city to fight! I am not a person who does not care about the love of others, and will not let the men die in vain! So, I have tried to force the enemy out of the city to fight in the past few days. If I can't do it, withdraw my troops!"

"Father, the king is wise!" The generals breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that although the king made a mistake, he was still a little responsible at the last moment.

This level is at least better than those Yuan Shao-type leaders who love face and kill their own people and turn the blame.

"King, how do you force Shen Gou to go out of the city to fight? His troops are only half of our army at most. If there is a city that is not defending, it is unlikely?" A general reminded carefully that he was obviously more inclined to grab one and then evacuate, and he didn't even want to try it.

Liu Xiyao felt quite sad. He realized that after he made such a statement, his subordinates would definitely not work together and take the initiative to find a way to make a living. He could only think of this method himself.

After pulling the subordinates to chat for a long time, and after talking about the experiences of other thieves in previous years, Liu Xiyao finally barely put in a trick:

"It's better to rush to cut food and prepare for plundering. On the other hand, we go deep into the counties in southern Huangzhou, bypass the city, and specifically ask the people to investigate the local officials' families.

Those who are high-ranking officials in the court and their families in Huangzhou, even if they are a little bit related, will be arrested and killed! At least they threaten to kill them! Use this as a hostage and force Shen Shuren to fight! If he really doesn't take this trick, it's fine."

As soon as Liu Xiyao finished speaking, several generals looked at each other, but before they could react, only his adopted son Liu Sandao thought it was feasible and quickly flattered:

"It's amazing! The father's move is so skillful to the Eight Kings! When the Eight Kings attacked Hefei, Fengyang was not over. They wanted Chongzhen to kill Governor Anlu and Governor Fengyang. Didn't it just dig Chongzhen's old son's Fengyang ancestral tomb?

Later, the Eight Kings failed many times. Every time they wanted to kill the local garrison but could not capture the city, they would find ways to kill the families of important officials in the surrounding court who had no time to go to the city to take refuge.

In this way, the dog emperor and dog officials who do not distinguish right from wrong will definitely take their anger on the local officials' inability to protect the families of important officials in the court, and they are afraid to fight and avoid war. Maybe they can use the dog emperor's hand to chop the dog officials to question the Shen dog officials!"

Zhang Xianzhong was a bandit. When he forced the official army to fight to the decisive battle, he encountered that one of the official army refused to fight, so he tried to kill the vassal kings, dig graves, and kill the family members of the Pavilion Master in the local area, and then made the local officials have to fight for fear of crime. This trick has been used several times.

In history, Zhang Xianzhong killed the governor of Anlu by this trick in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and then killed Yang Sichang by trapping the vassal in the 14th year of Chongzhen.

Liu Xiyao himself had never used these methods before, but hadn't eaten pork and hadn't seen pigs running? So it was normal for him to imitate Zhang Xianzhong.

The generals suddenly felt hope again in their hearts, and decided to make a final bet and make preparations. They were preparing to skip people while harvesting grain, while fighting.

Anyway, it is impossible to attack the city, and the morale has become so low that it is like a bird. If you attack the city again, you will be looking for death.

...

The thief's plan was decided, and in the next few days, everything would be implemented as planned.

Unfortunately, when it comes to the implementation stage, all kinds of difficulties always arise.

For example, Huangzhou is originally poor and badly watery, and is a remote place in the Dabie Mountains. There is no seed of study at all. I have never seen any court master, Shangshu, and minister of the minister of the court, who is from Huangzhou. I want to kill some important hostages to force Chen Shuren to fight for fear of crimes. The operationality is really not very good.

Unable to find the family members of the important officials in the court, Liu Xiyao had to retreat and find some relatives of the subordinate branches of the important officials in the court.

But in the end, I searched and found only some small characters.

Three days later, Liu Sandao roughly investigated the disaster and came back to report: "Father, the child has searched all three nearby counties and mobilized the poor to identify the children of officials.

Finally, only some relatives of the other branch of Yuan Jixian, the deputy chief of the Huguang military, were found, as well as the family of two concubines Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang on the other side. These two concubines may not be the most favored by Zuo Liangyu, but because Zuo Liangyu moved to Wuchang and then took the newly acquired family members locally.

In addition, the hostages found in the other families are even less valuable. Most of them are the concubines of officials at the level of governor and minister. The situation is the same as the Zuo Liangyu family, and there is no important person to be found."

The wife of a high-ranking official is married to a large family and rarely appears in remote areas. The concubines are not particular, and they may have them anywhere.

Liu Xiyao was helpless: "Forget it, tie all these families up and send them to the west gate of Qizhou County tomorrow morning, and let a few loud voices shout at the city. If the Shengou official refused to leave the city to fight, we would chop these people in public.

He said that these people were killed by the killing of the dog official! Yuan Jixian and Zuo Liangyu hated the dog official to death! He impeached him in front of the dog emperor to avoid the war! He could not protect the place!"

After Liu Sandao obeyed the order, he was still a little afraid and reminded:

"Father, Yuan Jixian is now a toothless tiger, so there is no need to be afraid that he will hate us. Zuo Liangyu is a cruel person. I heard that he is avoiding war now, just because he wants to threaten the court and force the court to reuse his benefactor.

If we destroy all the families of his two concubines this time, he will be more ruthless than the dog official? What if he really makes this King of Hell do to fight us across the river?"

When Liu Xiyao heard this, he felt a chill on the back of his neck. Indeed, Shen Gou Guan was just a civil servant, and he could afford to offend him, and Zuo Liangyu was not easy to mess with. His arrogance and bravery were not controlled by the emperor at all. He had a vague tendency to raise enemies and become warlords.

In such an end of the world, the emperor is so good at offending, but the warlords cannot afford to offend them.

"Then at that time, we will only tie Zuo Liangyu's concubine's tribe members to the city gate to scare Chen Gouguan! If Chen Gouguan agrees to our appointment, we will release the people. If he does not agree... Then we will only kill all the people of Yuan Jixian's side tribes and leave Zuo Liangyu's!"

If you only kill the family members of civil servants and not warlords, you will not cause hatred.

The civil servant is useless to offend him. No matter how much he offends, he is not afraid of revenge. Even if he offends him, he will offend him!

...

The next day was the third day of October, and it had been five days since the Qizhou siege that day.

Chen Shuren was in the city, and he saw that Liu Xiyao had been holding his troops all the time, and he thought he was just continuing to build heavy siege equipment to treat wounded soldiers and accumulate strength to hold back his ultimate moves.

On that day, I finally saw Liu Xiyao's troops coming out to the city, and pretended to prepare some siege weapons, then tied up a group of people and knelt two hundred steps under the city wall one by one.

Then, Liu Xiyao's army's scolding began to shout: "Listen to the dog official in the city! These are the families of Yuan Jixian and Yuan Daotai captured from Huangmei County! These are the families of Mrs. Zuo Liangyu captured from Qishui County!

Shen Shuren! If you have a seed, go out of the city to fight to the death with my king! If you don’t have a seed, you will kill these people! Then let Yuan Daotai and Zuo Liangyu hate you to the core! Let Yao Shishu Cheng impeach you in front of the Dog Emperor! If I don’t need to kill you at that time, the Dog Emperor will kill you!"

The moment Liu Xiyao appeared, the city was already facing a great enemy. Zuo Zixiong personally led his troops to supervise the battle on the city tower. Several other officers who had performed well recently, even Zhang Huangyan, were also present.

After hearing such shameless words, Zuo Zixiong was furious: "Despicable! So shameless! Liu Xiyao, you can use this despicable method!"

Unfortunately, Zuo Zixiong had no decision-making power, so he could only rush to ask someone to invite Chen Shuren to come.

After about half a quarter of an hour, Chen Shu rushed from the county government to the city tower, got a rough idea of ​​the situation, and then asked his subordinates to hand him a paper tube loudspeaker that he had just prepared (not plugged in, but just gathered the sound by shape)

"Liu Xiyao, if you are a man, don't hide your head and tail. If you dare to shout, stand up - I am Shen Shuren. If you dare not come out to answer me, you are the eunuch!"

Even with the blessing, the voice of Chen Shuren was not enough. There were several scolding soldiers on the Ming army who helped to shout with the paper tube loudspeaker.

The thieves' army on the opposite side started to make a fuss. It was obvious that they had never heard the civil servant talk to the thieves' king so vulgar.

Liu Xiyao was here to challenge today, of course he couldn't be timid. At that moment, he also rode his horse out, but he didn't dare to enter the effective range of muskets and crossbows on the city. He was about two or three hundred steps away, and he passed by a group of swearing players to tell and talk:

"Officer Shen Dog! If you don't want to be punished by your dog court, go out of the city to fight with me! If you are not prepared, we can make an appointment! If you kill my son, I will settle the account with you!"

Chen Shuren laughed: "Your move is only used to deal with those corrupt scholars, and it is useless to me. Xiang Yu asked Liu Bang to fight alone and put Taigong Lu Zhi on the pot. He couldn't let Liu Bang show his head. You're nothing!

Whether Yuan Jixian or Zuo Liangyu's family dies or not depends on me! I am not against them at all. My backer in the court is very strong. With Yang Ge Lao protecting me, I am still afraid that they will impeach me? I will definitely want to cook Erweng, but I am lucky to get a share of my pie!"

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