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Chapter 176 As expected

Liu Xiu, who was wearing black hair, was walking forward while watching. A door on the roadside suddenly opened. Yao Qi walked out, bowed his hand to Liu Xiu and saluted, saying: "Your Majesty!"

"Yes!" Liu Xiu waved his hand, signaling for Yao Qiping to stand up. He looked into the small room. Although it was pitch dark inside, Liu Xiu could see clearly that it was packed with people.

He stepped over and asked, "Next time, how are you preparing?"

Yao Qi followed Liu Xiu, entered the house, and said seriously: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen and Di Sun have set up an ambush of 20,000 troops in the east city. It's fine if the enemy doesn't come to steal the city. As long as the enemy dares to come and steal the city,

Weichen will make sure they never come back!"

Liu Xiu nodded with satisfaction and said: "It's still early now, so we can let everyone take a short rest and cheer up again after midnight!"

Before Yao Qi could speak, all the Han soldiers in the room whispered: "Your Majesty, I am not tired!" "Your Majesty, don't worry, even if you stay up all night, I can go into battle and kill the enemy!"

Liu Xiu smiled, waved his hand and said, "You don't have to stand, please sit down!"

The soldiers of the Han army looked at each other, and finally followed Liu Xiu's wishes and sat down on the ground one after another.

Liu Xiu, like others, sat directly on the ground and said sternly: "If no one attacks tonight, that's it. If there is an attack by the bandits, everyone must be more careful. These bandits are good at using crossbows, wrists, and behind their backs."

, there may be crossbows hidden in both legs, and if you are not careful, you may be hit by the rebels' crossbow arrows. When fighting with the enemy, you must make good use of your shield and protect yourself as much as possible!"

After hearing Liu Xiu's words, everyone present felt warm in their hearts. An elderly veteran said: "Your Majesty, Sir Wei Wei has reminded us that we all have shields!"

As he spoke, he lifted up a round shield so that Liu Xiu could see it clearly.

The other soldiers also picked up their shields one after another.

Some people don't have shields, so they remove door panels and cut them into pieces to use as shields. The shields in people's hands come in all kinds of shapes, including round ones, square ones, and long ones.

Liu Xiu looked around carefully, with a look of satisfaction on his face. Regardless of whether the shield looked good or not, in short, when fighting against the enemy at Jinu Camp, no matter how ugly the shield was, he could still save his life.

He continued: "Our army has 20,000 ambushes, and the number of enemy troops will not exceed 3,000. In this battle, as long as our army makes no mistakes, we will definitely annihilate all the enemy troops!"

The veteran took the lead and said: "We all listen to your Majesty! Back then, when your Majesty led us to fight in Hebei, we were often outnumbered and outnumbered, but we would win every battle. Today, we are outnumbered and we can't give him anything.

Your Majesty is in disgrace!"

"Yes! We can't embarrass Your Majesty!" All the soldiers said in unison.

Liu Xiu looked at the veteran. He was nearly forty years old and had been following him since Hebei for seven or eight years now. He patted the veteran on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work, brother!"

His words made the veteran tremble with fright. He stood up quickly, knelt on his knees, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, you will break the villain!"

Liu Xiu patted his arm again and said, "Brother, sit down!"

The old soldier tremblingly sat cross-legged again, his eyes flushed unconsciously. Liu Xiu looked at the old soldier, then at everyone else, and all he saw were young and unfamiliar faces.

He said: "When Weihuo and Gongsun Shu are pacified, and the world is settled, everyone can go home and live a peaceful life."

He has never liked fighting, not because he has a weak character, but because the world has been in chaos for too long, too many people have died, and he really can't afford to fight anymore.

Liu Xiu is most often criticized for two reasons. First, his background is not good enough, he is not from the proletariat, but from the landlord class. Liu Xiu cannot be considered a peasant rebel.

This is both right and wrong. Liu Xiu was born a real farmer. There is no doubt about this, but he was also a descendant of the Liu family.

At that time, the Liu family was too large, with various branches, various clans, and relationships one after another. Some of them were doing well and some were doing poorly.

However, there was indeed a group of people in the Liu clan who were in the upper class of society and had a lot of resources in their hands, and this precisely laid a solid foundation for Liu Xiu's success and even his subsequent ascension to the throne.

Secondly, Liu Xiu did not make much achievements in foreign wars and failed to expand territory for the Han Dynasty.

Even though he fought against the Xiongnu and always won, the battles he fought were all passive defensive battles, not proactive battles. Compared with the great Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who had Zhu Yu in front, he was indeed inferior.

Previous section.

But what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty inherited was Emperor Wen, and the peaceful and prosperous era left to him by Emperor Jing (the rule of Wen and Jing) was a powerful and unparalleled Han Empire. He certainly had enough resources in his hands to support his foreign campaigns.

But even so, in the later years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the country was really unable to conquer and its national power was almost exhausted.

But Liu Xiu was not so lucky, and did not have such a huge inheritance left to him by his ancestors. The restoration of the Han Dynasty was achieved by him one county, one county, and one state, bit by bit.

The world that Liu Xiu got was a big mess riddled with warlords and wars everywhere. The society was on the verge of collapse, with corpses everywhere and devastation everywhere.

It is impossible to manage such a big mess and go to war with other countries. To go to war with foreign countries is to resort to militarism. In the end, it is the ordinary people who suffer.

Liu Xiu's temperament was soft and his philosophy of governing the country was Taoist, but he was by no means weak and easy to bully.

If it is necessary to fight a battle, he will take action without hesitation, but if it is not necessary or a battle that must be fought, he will indeed not fight it.

Back to the main story. Liu Xiu, Yao Qi and others stayed in the small dark room, quietly waiting for the enemy to attack.

Whether Du Ling would send the Jinu battalion to steal the city, Liu Xiu was not a god, so naturally he could not predict the unknown, but he was good at guessing human nature, and from a human perspective, he believed that Du Ling would send troops.

Time passed by minute by minute, and I don’t know how long I waited. It was already past midnight.

Just when Liu Xiu was sitting cross-legged, closing his eyes and concentrating, the door opened a crack, and Long Yuan flashed in from the outside. He passed through the crowd, came to Liu Xiu, and whispered: "Your Majesty, there is something going on outside the city!

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Hearing this, everyone present widened their eyes in unison, and subconsciously clenched their weapons and shields. Liu Xiu raised his eyes, looked at Long Yuan, and asked, "Have you seen clearly how many enemy troops are coming outside the city?"

"Your Majesty, it's too dark outside the city to see clearly. I judge that the number of people must be quite large!" Long Yuan said seriously.

"We will investigate again and report again!" Liu Xiu said.

"Here!" Long Yuan agreed, turned around and walked out.

Outside Lueyang City, a group of men in black did appear, but the number was not large, only about a dozen. They quietly approached under the city wall, and one of them took off the rope and swung the iron hook on the rope.

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Then, he threw it upwards with all his strength, and the iron hook flew out, hanging on the arrow stack without any bias.

The man in black pulled the rope hard under the city, and it felt that it was firmly fixed. He grabbed the rope with both hands, stepped on the city wall with his feet, and climbed up quickly.

After a short time, he climbed to the top of the city wall. He did not climb over the arrow pile immediately, but first stuck out his little head and quietly observed the movement at the top of the city.

Not far away from him, a Han soldier was sitting on the ground and taking a nap. At such a close distance, he didn't even hear the sound of the iron hook catching the arrow stack, and he was indeed sleeping hard.

The man in black broke into a cold sweat when he saw a guard so close, but when he heard the man's snoring, he couldn't help but sneer.

The Han army was really at ease, thinking that if they won the battle during the day, they would be able to neglect their defense at night!

How did he know that the man sitting on the ground and sleeping was not a Han soldier at all, but a thief who was taken out of the prison by Yao Qi to make up for his crimes.

At first, they promised Yaoqi very well, saying that they would be responsible for guarding the city wall. The first half of the night was fine, but in the second half of the night, these people couldn't stand it any longer. Some sat on the ground and took a nap, while others lay down on the ground to sleep.

Great awakening.

After observing for a while, the man in black jumped over the arrow stack and jumped onto the city wall. He did not deliberately slow down his steps, but walked directly to the guard, drew out his dagger, and stabbed the guard in the neck.

The guard didn't say a word and died in his sleep. After getting rid of the guard, the man in black picked up a torch stuck on the arrow stack and shook it a few times towards the bottom of the city.

Snap, snap, snap——

Iron claws flew up from the bottom of the city to the top of the city and were hung on the arrow stacks. Then, dozens of men in black followed the ropes and climbed up the city wall.

A dozen men in black were scattered on the city wall. When they saw a guard taking a nap, they immediately stepped forward and killed him with a clean blow.

In just a short while, there was no longer a living Han soldier guard on this section of the city wall within a hundred meters. After all the 'Han soldiers' on the city wall were dealt with, the man in black picked up the torch and charged towards the city again.

There was shaking outside the city.

From the shady scene outside the city, thousands of Long troops rumbled out. The speed of these Long troops was very fast. In the blink of an eye, people ran to the city wall. Following the ropes left by the men in black, people quickly climbed up.

climb.

It can be seen that this Long army is well-trained and agile. There are about two thousand people in total. In less than a quarter of an hour, they all climbed to the top of the city.

Tonight's night attack was much smoother than they expected. They did not encounter any resistance at all. All two thousand of our own people attacked the city wall. People walked down the nearby steps little by little.

Looking at the city gate not far away, there were only two guards guarding it. The dozen or so men in black walking at the front picked up their crossbows, pointed them at the two guards, and moved the triggers continuously.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The crossbow ejected continuously, and the crossbow arrows kept flying towards the two guards. Puff, puff, puff, in a series of muffled sounds, the two guards were instantly nailed into hedgehogs by the crossbow arrows.

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There was no cry, and both guards were killed on the spot.

More than a dozen men in black ran down the steps, past the bodies of the two guards, and arrived at the city gate.

Looking up, the dozen or so men in black were a little dumbfounded. It turned out that there were many huge stones piled up in the city gate. These huge stones were beyond the ability of the dozen or so of them to move.

They waved to the Long army behind them. The Long soldiers ran down the steps one after another, and when they got to the city gate, they were shocked by the huge rocks piled inside. The Han army wanted to completely block the east city gate!

Two thousand Long troops all descended from the city wall, and people gathered in front of the city gate, thinking about how to move these huge rocks. Just when they were at a loss what to do, suddenly, deafening shouts of killing came from behind them.

With the shouts of killing, torches were lit one after another, and countless Han soldiers were seen pouring out of the houses near the city wall.

These Han soldiers came out of the house and immediately formed a neat square formation in front of the city wall, with shield soldiers in the front row and crossbowmen in the back row.

In addition, there were countless Han troops standing densely on the roof, each with their bows and arrows pointed at these Long troops.

Among the Han troops, one of the leading generals was none other than Yao Qi. Yao Qi held an iron-pointed steel spear in his hand, took two steps forward, and shouted loudly: "Chao Qi is here, he has been waiting for a long time!"


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