At noon, the armies of Luo Hu and Gu Kecheng arrived at Zhendingfu City and were about five miles away. They immediately ordered them to stop and rest on the spot, and only sent a few detective horses to circle the city for reconnaissance.
At the top of Beicheng City, Chang Yu was holding a bowl of noodle soup and eating deliciously. He touched his mouth and looked at the rebel army formation in the distance. Then he looked at the spies outside the city and asked in confusion: "Why do you always have to eat?"
When is the time to fight?"
After saying that, he took the strong bow from Kuang Ren's hand, opened the bow and nocked an arrow, and the sharp arrow shot through the air. The horse was galloping under the city, and one of the first people was pierced through the head. The other thieves scattered in panic, wondering how they could shoot from such a long distance.
"My archery skills have deteriorated. I wanted to shoot the mole three inches from his right ear." Chang Yu said to Li Guo next to him with a serious face. Li Guo rolled his eyes and ignored him. Wu Zhong next to him suppressed a smile.
He muttered to Li Muchian: "Did you learn to brag from the governor, or did he learn from you?"
Li Muxian looked at his nose and heart with his eyes, and said silently in his heart, I won't listen, I won't listen, the bastard is chanting sutras...
It is disrespectful to come and go without reciprocating. Not long after Chang Yu shot the thief Tan Liwei, the thief army immediately responded with a sharp arrow whizzing through the air and piercing the heart of a soldier under Ma Shiyao. There was a letter hanging on it.
A few words: Let Li Guo go, or the city will be massacred!
It was Chi Qingshi again. Chang Yu had just seen the archer two miles away. At that time, he thought he was just an ordinary soldier. Who else could shoot from below but him from such a long distance?
He was horrified in his heart and shouted: "I'm so scared, I'm so scared. Someone come and send General Li out of the city quickly."
Li Guo was very surprised. Was the man in front of him really the fearsome boss of Dongchang? He was obviously a scumbag!
"Isn't it too early, Lord Governor, to let me out of the city now?" Li Guo chuckled. Chang Yu hummed, with a serious look on his face: "What you said is absolutely true. It won't be too late for your uncle to leave when he gets there, otherwise he will
I let you out as soon as I sent the letter. I thought the governor was really scared."
"Coming, coming, Lord Governor, look at the northeast side..." Chen Suole shouted in a low voice beside him. Chang Yu raised his eyes and couldn't see clearly. He took out a telescope and looked at it, and he could vaguely see the dark crowd.
Come in, and visually estimate that it is at least thirty to fifty miles away.
"You're walking slowly enough..." Chang Yu had just finished his words when he suddenly saw the bandit army moving in the north of the city. They were divided into two groups and surrounded from the east and west. In just one stick of incense, they surrounded the four gates of Zhending City tightly.
But it didn't get close, it was two miles away from the city.
Chang Yu sneered as he watched the movements of the bandits under the city. Li Guo turned his head and stared at him, trying to see something from his face. When their eyes met, Chang Yu glanced at the corner of his mouth and said, "You're just pretending to be bluffing."
Li Guo said, "We have been invincible all the way east and north, even though the officers and soldiers did not resist, but it will not be dismissed by the Lord Governor as an empty show. If it were true, we would not have laid the foundation we have today."
Humph, Chang Yu had a look of disdain on his face: "It's not just a pretentious thing to collapse at the first touch. If it were true, why would he be running away in such embarrassment now?" Everyone around him burst into laughter, and Li Guo looked embarrassed.
"The thieves outside the city have many cavalry and infantry but no baggage. They are not here to attack the city, but to besiege it!" Wuzhong said suddenly. Li Muchian chuckled and pointed at Li Guo: "These men and horses are his defeated troops, guys.
Everything was lost even yesterday. As expected, I was ordered by the intruders to besiege the city first. The real siegemen are behind."
Everyone looked toward the northeast, and saw the darkness covering the sky and the sun. They couldn't count how many people and horses there were, and they couldn't tell the difference between the rebel army and the refugees.
"The governor wants to know what's going on. I would like to ask you out of curiosity. Based on what you see, will we fight today? What about the outcome?" Li Guo suddenly asked.
Chang Yu was startled, then smiled: "Whether we fight or not depends on what I want. The outcome is already clear, so why should Brother Li bring humiliation to himself?"
Li Guo's face turned dark immediately, and Li Muxian next to him couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle. However, several people in Wuzhong were confused and whispered what the little governor meant.
With a proud look on his face, Li Muxian gave them some explanations: The intruders were indeed very powerful in strength and momentum, but there were wolves in front of them and tigers in the back, and they could be beaten at any time, so even if Li Guo was captured, he was eager to rescue him.
, even though he was dissatisfied and wanted to have a fight with the young eunuch, it was more important that he did not quickly jump out of the encirclement.
So he doesn't have time at all and won't waste too much time here. Even if he wants to kill it quickly, the little eunuch won't accept the move and just shrinks in the city. You can attack such a big city. You want to destroy it in one go.
It was undoubtedly a dream, so Li Zicheng could only lay siege to the city, try to scare him, and then take advantage of the situation to escape in the direction of the Hutuo River.
In short, the siege was most likely just a cover.
Although Li Muxian's voice was not loud, Li Guo heard it. He was very surprised and couldn't help but ask: "What do you call the Taoist Priest?"
"On the poor side, people in the world call the lonely side, has Li Zhuangshi ever heard of it?"
Li Guo said "oh" and smiled slightly awkwardly: "You and I are different in the world, so we have never heard of the name. Is the Taoist a member of the government or does it just happen at the right time?"
"The poor Taoist is obeying the command of the governor," Li Muchian said. Li Guo nodded slightly and said no more.
Time passed slowly. The bandits below the city were besieging the city and were still. Dark clouds covered the sky in the northeast and suddenly stopped five miles away. Chang Yu and others on the city were puzzled.
Huang Degong, who was on the south side of the Hutuo River, had been paying close attention to the situation. Previously, he had dismissed reports that the bandits were sieging the city. What he had scouted earlier was Li Guo's defeated troops. Although there were nearly 20,000 people and Luo Hu's Zhenshan camp among them, after yesterday's
A disastrous defeat, low morale, exhausted troops and horses, maybe even hungry and cold. In this case, unless the little eunuch doesn't want to fight, if he wants to fight, he can break it with a single attack out of the city.
But why didn't Chang Yu go out of the city to defeat the enemy? Huang Degong's psychology is also clear. First of all, he may have to negotiate with the intruders to surrender. Secondly, the army and horses in the city are Ma Shiyao's men. They are not easy to use after the initial surrender, so he might as well not use them.
, besides, we don’t know if a fight will break out. Who knows if Li Zicheng will surrender.
It wasn't until Tan Ma urgently reported that dark clouds were approaching in the northeast that Huang Degong's expression became solemn. He ordered all his troops to prepare for war, and secretly told Weng Zhiqi and several other generals that if the bandit army crossed the river and failed to support the strong attack, they would immediately head toward Zhaozhou in the southeast.
retreat.
After some warnings, the black clouds were already several miles away. Huang Degong stood on a high hill on the shore and looked at the boundless black clouds with a telescope. He was horrified. It would take more than ten years to say such a thing.
Thousands of people, it seems like a large number of intruders have arrived.
The spies reported again that the thief soldiers were intercepting them everywhere, but they could not get closer to investigate. Huang Degong cursed: "You can't even look for an egg when you are right in front of your eyes." He also ordered the artillery to set up and run. Once the thief troops started to attack, they would immediately bombard them.
Withdraw, and the province will fall into the hands of thieves.
The intruders arrived but stood still for nearly half an hour. This made Chang Yu puzzled. He turned to ask Li Guo: "What tricks is your uncle playing?"
Li Guo shrugged and said he didn't know either.
What good would it do him to sit still and wait here? Chang Yu couldn't find Li Zicheng's pulse for a while. He looked at the sun and it was already afternoon. When he was about to figure out whether to let Li Guo out, he saw "thief" in the northeast.
The army is on the move.
There was a huge crowd, and Chang Yu looked at it intently, but saw that the people rushing over were just refugees. Damn, he was using this old trick again!
The number of refugees was increasing, and there were tens of thousands of them. In the blink of an eye, the city of Zhending was completely surrounded, but Luo Hu's men withdrew to the outside.
Chang Yu frowned, the intruder was indeed trying to retaliate with others. Regardless of whether he attacked the city this time, he first trapped himself in the city, and then took the opportunity to break through Huang's defense line and sneak away.
"Lord Governor, the intruder is trying to escape!" Li Muxian also saw through his intention and looked up to the northeast. Sure enough, another large wave of refugees was running towards the Hutuo River.
Chang Yu hummed: "Do you have a way to solve it?".
Li Muxian lowered his head and was silent for a moment: "This is simply a desperate plan. Either we fight out, or let Li Zhuangshi leave the city to clear the way. However, after Li Zhuangshi leaves the city, he may never return, or he may return without success. The intruders are determined not to surrender.
Crossing the river and heading south, we still have to fight our way out."
"If you want to kill a lot of people, you need to sharpen the edge of the knife." Chang Yu sneered and turned to look at Li Guo: "Please, what needs to be said has been said. There is no need to elaborate on where you are going."
Li Guo smiled slightly: "As I said before, I will just take the words here. Where to go depends on my uncle's decision. Maybe I will go here..." He handed over to Chang Yu and said, "Goodbye in the world."
Chang Yu laughed loudly: "It doesn't matter where we meet, as long as we can see each other again."
Li Guo's face darkened and he turned to leave.
After walking down the city to the north gate, Tu Yuan glanced at him and said sternly: "You'd better not come back, otherwise I'll chop you up if I meet you again." After that, he was asked to open the door and let him go.
Li Guo walked out of the city gate and looked back at him, then looked up at Chang Yu on the top of the city, turned and left with an expressionless face. (To be continued)