After Gao Fei returned to the military camp, he personally inspected the situation of the soldiers. After running around for a day and night, the men and horses were exhausted. As soon as the soldiers had a full meal, they returned to the military camp to rest. The thousand horses under them were under the influence of Gongsun Du.
The soldiers under his command took care of them and provided them with good fodder.
He called Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, Pang De, Zhou Cang, and Bian Xi to his barracks. For him, Gongsun Du was like a stumbling block that hindered him. The strategy he suggested to Gongsun Du was not adopted.
, this will help defeat the thieves
This brought certain difficulties. He had witnessed the power of food with his own eyes. In front of food, he easily defeated more than 500 hungry bandits. He firmly believed that this method could be used to deal with bandits outside the city.
, and it will certainly be able to disintegrate it.
"Now the enemy is facing us, and there are 20,000 hungry people outside the city. I offered Gongsun Du a suggestion to open a warehouse to release grain to quell the hungry people outside the city, but he was rejected. If this continues, those hungry people who are crazy from hunger will start fighting.
We will be even more desperate when we come. We have few soldiers. Even if we can defeat their main force, we will suffer some damage." Gao Fei expressed his worries to everyone.
Zhao Yun said: "My lord, the art of war has something to say, so I turned in the plan. I asked about it in the city. I found that Chu Yan was from Zhending in Changshan, and he was from the same hometown as me. I wanted to use this relationship to persuade him to change his ways and return to the right way."
Please grant your permission, my lord."
Gao Fei shook his head and said, "No! It's too dangerous to do this. We don't know Chu Yan very well, and the current situation is favorable to the rebels, so we probably won't surrender."
Pang De said loudly: "My lord, although there are many thieves, they are still ordinary people without training. As long as the lord leads us and a thousand cavalry to attack tomorrow, we will definitely be able to scare the thieves. As long as we defeat the three thousand that the lord mentioned
The main force, the rest will definitely retreat without a fight!"
Hua Xiong answered: "Yes, Feiyu is a well-trained force under the lord's command. In a battle, one can equal ten. We can all defeat the Qiang and Hu rebels, let alone these little bandits."
"
"Don't underestimate the group of thieves outside the city. Gongsundu's 5,000 regular troops were defeated in their hands, which shows their combat strength. Although Feiyu is a sophisticated army, we
We don’t want to go head-on. After all, Feiyu is our family. If we lose it, it will be a big loss for us.
A huge loss. We killed 10,000 enemies and lost 3,000 ourselves. If we fight hard, the Feiyu troops will definitely be traumatized. What we have to do now is to preserve our strength and minimize casualties." Gao Fei was unwilling to let his Feiyu troops suffer.
The troops were traumatized and shook their heads again, rejecting Pang De and Hua Xiong's proposal.
"Lord, this won't work, that won't work either. Should we just sit back and wait for death?" Zhou Cang didn't say anything. When he heard Gao Fei rejecting two different opinions, he couldn't hold it in any longer and finally spoke.
.
Bian Xi consoled him: "Brother Zhou, the lord called us here, and he must have a strategy to defeat the enemy. We might as well listen to the lord's strategy. Maybe we can deal with the traitors outside without fighting?"
"Yes, everyone has been following the lord for a long time. The lord must win every battle. We should listen to the lord's strategy. Subduing the enemy's troops without fighting is the highest strategy to defeat the enemy. Lord, what do you need from us?
If you want to do it, please give me your orders, and my subordinates will do their best to fulfill the Lord's orders." Zhao Yun immediately said with his hands.
Gao Fei chuckled and said: "It's very simple, just kill one person."
"Who to kill?" Zhao Yun and others asked curiously, looking at Gao Fei with wide eyes, anticipating Gao Fei's words.
"Gongsun Du!" Gao Fei said calmly.
Zhao Yun thought for a moment and asked hurriedly: "My lord wants to kill Gongsun Du, take the opportunity to control the situation in the entire Yitao City, and then open the warehouse to release grain to induce the traitors to surrender?"
Gao Fei nodded and said slowly: "Yes, there are a group of people outside the city who are going crazy from hunger. Instead of sticking to the city and fighting them, it is better to adopt a gentle strategy and give them food as long as they surrender. In this way,
The traitor soldiers can be disintegrated from the morale and spirit. The traitor soldiers rebel just to have food to eat and a job.
It's just a road. As long as we give them a chance of survival, who is willing to rebel? Gongsun Du doesn't understand the reason. As the governor of Jizhou, he doesn't care about the people. Keeping such people is a scourge. It's better to eradicate them as soon as possible. As for the cause of death,
, we can completely blame it on the thieves, and we can get rid of the relationship."
Zhao Yun's face was filled with joy, and he immediately clasped his fists and said: "Lord, please let me do it. I promise not to let anyone know about this, and I will kill him like I killed Zhou Shen last time."
Gao Fei saw a trace of excitement on Zhao Yun's face and asked, "Why did you take the initiative to do such a thing this time? Are you addicted to killing imperial officials?"
Zhao Yun chuckled and said: "Killing Gongsun Du can save the lives of tens of thousands of people. This is saving people, and of course I have a duty. Besides, I am also from Jizhou, so I can make the people of Jizhou live a good life."
This is what my subordinates should do. My lord, please give me the order."
Before Gao Fei could speak, he heard Hua Xiong say, "Zilong, you can't do such a good thing alone. I haven't done such a thing before. Let me do it this time."
"You all, stop arguing, let me go." Pang De also regained his energy and said.
Gao Fei saw that Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, and Pang De were very brave, so he just smiled softly and said: "Don't argue anymore, the three of you will go together this time. However, this time is not an assassination, I want to
If you make things big, everyone in the city will know about it. Zhou Cang, Bian Xi, I, and I will take care of you."
Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, and Pang De all nodded and said in unison: "Master, please give me your instructions."
After the discussion, Gao Fei told the whole plan. Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, and Pang De all silently remembered it in their hearts. However, it was still daytime, and of course such things as assassination had to be done at night.
After the discussion, everyone went back to camp to rest and recharge for the night's action.
Gao Fei climbed onto the tower of Yitao City and saw the exhausted soldiers guarding the city wall. He thought to himself silently: "After tonight, you won't have to work so hard."
He looked at the pile of unfinished earth beside the city wall again, and suddenly found that there were many corpses buried in the loess. The moat padded by the loess was also filled with mountains of dead bodies. No wonder he didn't find it when he entered Yitao City.
A corpse was used by the thieves as material to fill the moat. In the moat, the river water mixed with blood and soil had become turbid, and not far from the moat, there was a simple structure built by the thieves.
Camp.
The setting sun had already disappeared into the dark clouds in the western sky, and night slowly shrouded the earth. In the bandit camp near the Yitao City Wall, some bandits carrying wild vegetables came back from all directions. They were there.
A bonfire was set up outside the city, and wild vegetables collected from everywhere were mixed with fresh bark and poured into the boiling pot.
In the pot, his eyes were full of hunger and thirst for food. On the outskirts of the Yingtao City, the bonfires raised by the bandits lit up the night sky, making the Yingtao City gradually become hazy and blurry in the night. The air was filled with
The smell of burning thatch mixed with the smell of corpses emanating from the moat made the people in the city feel even more tormented.
After the night completely fell, Gao Fei, who was standing on the top of the city, did not feel sleepy at all. He witnessed the difference between the officials and the people. The thieves outside the city ate wild vegetables and tree bark, but the thieves inside the city ate so much.
The coveted food, wine, and fresh meat
In any case, it is not something ordinary people can ask for. He sighed softly, turned around and walked down the tower, saying to himself: "After tonight, everything will be over. I hope that by doing this I can prevent the Montenegrin Army from attacking in the future."
Rise up.”
After returning to the barracks again, Gao Fei lay on the bed and took a short rest. When he closed his eyes, he saw the poor people looking at him eagerly because of hunger, and the kindness in his heart was completely aroused.
He woke up and kept chanting in his sleep: "He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world!"
He didn't know how long he had slept, but Gao Fei heard a rapid knock on the door, which woke him up from his sleep. When he woke up, he found that his head felt dizzy, and he could hardly open his eyes, and there were signs on his eyeballs.
It was covered with bloodshot eyes, all due to lack of sleep.
Resisting the dizziness, I sat up from the bed, tried my best to open my eyes, and adapted to the darkness in the room. Then I jumped out of bed, walked straight to the door, opened the door, and saw Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong,
The three Pounds were all wrapped in yellow scarves, wearing ordinary clothes, and carrying a long knife in their hands. At first glance, their clothes were no different from those of the bandit soldiers outside the city.
"I see you, my lord!" Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, and Pang De all paid their respects together.
Zhao Yun had a wrinkled scar on his cheek for some reason, and his face was smeared black. He also had a beard, which made him look a bit ferocious. Hua Xiong and Pang De both had disheveled hair.
One is wearing an eyepatch and the other has a crooked mouth.
When Gao Fei saw the three of them looking like this, if he hadn't known in advance that it was arranged by him, he would have been shocked. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's hard for others to recognize you three with your outfits. Now,
When is it?"
"At three o'clock in the morning, almost all the soldiers in the city have rested. Even the lights in the prefect's mansion have been extinguished. Gongsun Du has gone to bed long ago," Zhao Yundao said.
Gao Fei said "Yeah", rubbed his slightly sore eyes, and shouted to Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, and Pang De: "Let's start taking action!"