"Report!" the scout said immediately after standing firm, without being forced by the laughter next to him, "Li Xiao's men outside the city have already intended to retreat!"
Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "General Song and I made an appointment at about this time. As soon as Li Xiao retreats, we will order General Gao Zhoulang to immediately control Lin Yao's remaining troops and open the city gate."
"yes!"
The scout got on his horse and left.
Xia Zhaoyi turned around: "Vice General Xia Zhi."
"Second Miss!"
"Rate two hundred troops and horses to Nancheng to assist General Gao Zhoulang."
"yes!"
Xia Zhi immediately went to mobilize troops.
All the officers and soldiers of Xia Family Army were suddenly overjoyed.
"Second Miss," Xia Xingming came forward excitedly, with tears in his eyes, "Li Xiao actually retreated! The Second Miss is clever, strategizing, and using troops like a god!"
Xia Chuan also stepped forward: "We only have more than 1,300 people, but the second lady was able to capture this city and get all this food and grass!!"
Xia Zhaoyi smiled lightly: "No, I didn't calculate everything accurately."
For example, she expected that Li Xiao would not retreat and leave Peifeng, but she did not expect that Li Xiao would directly launch a fierce attack.
Li Xiao's level of recklessness exceeded her expectation.
Also, she just wanted to rob food and leave, after all, they did only have 1,300 people, and no matter how poor Lin Yao was, Peifeng City still had 20,000 troops.
The original plan was to scare people and rob them as much as they could, but when the defenders at the south gate came to support the north gate, they had already left.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiao launched an siege.
It was precisely because Li Xiao was consuming Peifeng City's troops in front that the snipe and the clam were fighting, and the fisherman benefited.
And... she just wanted to make a robbery, and now she had to find a future for Peifeng City.
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Song Qingtang actually didn't have many soldiers and horses, only 500 people in total.
But the night was so dark that it was not difficult for five hundred people to create the momentum of a thousand people.
The troops and horses transferred from the north city gate made Li Xiao very angry. At the same time, there was news from behind that thousands of cavalry from the northeast were heading south.
Li Xiao knew that it was the men led by Ah Li that Mr. Cai He said.
Ah Li, Ah Li, Ah Li.
These two words were completely the obstacle in Li Xiao's heart.
The city gate has actually been broken down.
The outer city gate is damaged and the inner city gate will be destroyed.
I wanted to conquer the city in one go and win the title first, leaving Ah Li to suffer outside.
In the end, it was he who rushed forward with enthusiasm and underestimated the copper wall that sealed the city.
And continue to attack, or retreat?
Attack and seize the title, but it's just a matter of time.
If he retreats, he will be unable to follow up, and Ali's troops are behind him.
No matter how impulsive or reckless Li Xiao was, he still had to make plans for his future and his subordinates.
He can only retreat, he has no choice but to retreat.
The Nancheng garrison in Peifeng City looked at them retreating, and even lost the energy to cheer.
There were corpses all over the ground and there were countless casualties. They were not happy at all, only desperate.
Lu Bin, one of Lin Yao's five personal generals, collapsed on the ground and looked at the mess on the ground: "This wave is over, what about next time?"
They had no soldiers and horses, and had lost more than half of their losses in this battle. The corpses buried under the rubble and wood were still alive and kicking in the morning.
"Next time?" A male voice came from the inner city, "Isn't it coming soon?"
Lu Bin was startled and quickly stood up.
Gao Zhou came with his men on horseback.
Although Lin Yao's soldiers and horses didn't even have a few pieces of cloth armor, as a general, he still had some decent armor.
Gao Zhou frowned when he saw the armor on Lu Bin.
Lu Bin was shocked: "You are..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Zhou took out his sharp blade from its sheath. When he raised the knife and dropped it, Lu Bin's head fell to the ground.
Everyone around him was dumbfounded. Not long after he stopped, he hurriedly got up from the ground and picked up the weapon again.
"Abandon your weapons and surrender without killing!" Gao Zhou shouted, "I will count to ten, and those who surrender will come behind me. If no one comes, I will kill them without mercy!"
When Song Qingtang led troops and horses into the city, the city gate had been cleared by Gao Zhou.
None of the resisters survived, and those who surrendered knelt down and held their heads.
The people of Peifeng City were all in the market to the east of the inner city. Tens of thousands of them stared with open eyes at the Xia army riding into the city. There were almost no old people, they were all middle-aged. Their eyes were filled with fear, suspicion, numbness and confusion.
Three cavalrymen ran quickly from the city. Song Qingtang and Xia Zhigaozhou pulled the reins to stop.
"Vice General Xia Zhi, General Gao Zhoulang!" the leading cavalryman said with his hands raised, "Second Miss has an order, asking the people in the city to elect one person from every ten households to be their representative, and follow us to Tianbu Mansion immediately!"
"Choose one person from ten households?" Xia Zhi nodded, "Okay."
He lightly shook the horse's reins and looked eastward.
The crowd who had been frightened all night looked up at him, and some people standing in the front row even took a step back.
Song Qingtang took a deep breath and said to Gao Zhou, "I'm going to see Ah Li first."
"good."
Song Qingtang grabbed the horse's belly and left with six of his followers.
Lin Yao had about sixteen beautiful concubines.
Yan Haiqi, another lieutenant of Xia Xingming, brought them all out. At the same time, soldiers and horses went to bring Ma Wenze, Fang Genghou and others' beautiful concubines.
Before and after, nearly three hundred young women were kneeling in the courtyard outside the hall, many of them pregnant.
After Xia Xingming was busy with the food and grass, he went up the steps. When he saw people kneeling in the open space, he shouted to Yan Haiqi: "What do you want them to do kneeling down?"
Yan Haiqi hurriedly walked over and said, "It wasn't me who shouted, it was them who knelt down!"
"Then let them kneel down?"
"Can……"
"Everyone get up!" Xia Xingming shouted loudly to the girl in the open space.
The women lowered their heads, trembled all over, and did not dare to move.
"Where is the second young lady?" Xia Xingming asked Yan Haiqi.
"Fell asleep!"
"Ah?" Xia Xingming was stunned.
Xia Zhaoyi didn't sleep well in the lakeside house last night. She woke up repeatedly. She went to Wanshan Pass early this morning and couldn't sleep a wink until she came back after meeting her father's old subordinates.
After she told Yan Haiqi to call all the women, she was too sleepy and wanted to lie down for a while, but instead fell asleep directly in front of the case.
The sound of horse hooves and the sound of carriages were heard at the bottom of the steps.
Xia Xingming walked up the stone steps. The sound of carriages came from the north, and the sound of horse hooves came from the south.
The carriage drivers were Li Man and Su Heng.
On the other side was Song Qingtang and six of his followers.
"Just right!" Xia Xingming said happily, "Zhengchou doesn't know how to deal with these three hundred women. They are all people next to the second young lady."
"Yes." Yan Haiqi said.
Su Yumei and Su Heng helped Yang Fugui, who had been sneezing, down. Li Man stepped up the stone steps, raised his hands and asked, "Two generals, where is my boss?"
"Asleep." Xia Xingming said.
"It seems that my boss is tired..." Li Man said, "Well, is there a room for us to sleep in tonight?"
"They are everywhere. If you like it, just pick one and clean it up yourself." Yan Haiqi said.
"Okay, thank you General!"
Xia Xingming looked at Song Qingtang, who had already come up and was waiting aside, and said gently: "The second lady is sleeping. She asked us to call these women over before going to bed, but she is very sleepy now. What should we do with these women?"
