After the secret letter was unfolded, more than a dozen heads gathered together, eyes wide open to see what ingenious tips were written on it.
After a while, everyone in the Xue Xue Guards and Xiaoqi Army looked as normal.
Only the old face of City Master Ma suddenly turned as white as paper.
The old guy's eyes were wide open, and his lips trembled as he said, "That's unreasonable! This, this, this, this, isn't this nonsense! Are you sure this is an autographed letter from General Chen Shen?"
I don’t blame him for not believing it. It’s really because the content written in Chen Shen’s letter is too unbelievable——
When I am in seclusion, if I encounter an attack by the Northern Yi army, you should immediately open the city gates on all sides.
All soldiers will cease their flags and drums. No heads are allowed to be exposed above the city, and no tails are allowed to be exposed below the city. They are all hidden in private houses to appease the people. No one or one horse is allowed to run up the city road.
If we follow this plan, the Northern Yi army will not dare to invade! Just wait until I get out of the border and make another plan.
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When the Northern Yi army invaded, Chen Shen refused to let the soldiers actively defend themselves. Instead, he actually advocated opening the city gate wide. Isn't this the only way to welcome thieves into his home?
As the lord of Wancheng, Ma Wu had been dealing with the Beiyi people for more than twenty years. What he always believed in was the tactic of rejecting the city and defending it.
But now, Chen Shen wrote a secret letter, and the so-called strategy actually asked him to open the city gates in all directions.
In this way, it is equivalent to a turtle encountering a wolf of wealth who wants to eat it. Instead of retracting into its hard shell to protect itself, it stretches its head out. This is like a mouse teasing a cat: looking for a cut.
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Unexpectedly, after voicing his doubts, the generals of the Knight Cavalry Army and the senior officials of the Blood Guards all insisted: "This is indeed a letter written by Marshal Chen."
"What? This..." Ma Wu's mind was full of confusion.
If he hadn't seen Chen Shen with his own eyes yesterday, charging into the enemy's formation and annihilating tens of thousands of powerful Northern Yi troops, and even decapitating Commander Tuoba Xi, the old city lord would have doubted that Chen Shen had done such a thing.
Did he surrender to the enemy and commit treason?
After a brief silence, Ma Wu asked again: "In your opinion... what should we do?"
"What else can we do? Didn't Marshal Chen give us some strategies? Just do as he said!" Li Dezhi said with a matter-of-fact expression.
The same was true for everyone else, leaving Ma Wu completely speechless: "Oh! That's all, so what if you open the city gate? What's wrong with luring the wolf into the house? Isn't it just a word for courage?"
"My life, as well as the lives of millions of people in Dawan, were saved by Marshal Chen and all of you. If it fails this time... just treat it as if we gave his life back to him!"
Hearing this, Ling'er, who was wearing a fire mask and had been silent all this time, suddenly smiled calmly: "Haha, the old general said something serious! I believe that Young Master Chen will not let us die in vain!"
Ma Wu just shook his head, and the look in his eyes seemed to be saying a few words of helplessness: I hope so!
As a result, the remaining 60,000 Dawan garrison troops in the city, together with 20,000 brave cavalry troops and 3,000 bloody guards, all followed the plan.
The garrison forces on the city were withdrawn one after another, and the people in the city were ordered to hide in their houses. Soon the streets were deserted.
At the same time, at the Beiyi Army Formation, the orc on the lookout finally noticed something strange: "Strange, why have all the defenders on the city withdrew?"
At this time, half an hour had passed since they arrived here.
Tuoba Xijun was just about to raise his arms and shout, and when he launched an attack on the city, he suddenly heard the man on the observation platform shouting urgently: "General Tuoba, those Daxia ants are behaving strangely, do you want to take a look?"
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"kindness?"
This report made Tuoba Xijun swallow the word "attack" again in his stomach, and jumped up to the observation tower more than ten feet high.
He stared in the direction pointed by the other party and found that there was not a single soldier stationed on top of the city.
"What are these Daxia ants doing?" Tuoba Xijun wondered in his mind. He bent and stretched his legs, and his huge body jumped upright into the sky again, and he had a bird's eye view of the situation in Dawan City from a high position.
This time, he was even more surprised - he saw that the dozens of streets he entered were all clean, and not even a passerby could be seen!
Huh? Wait, there’s no one there!
Tuoba Xijun saw a small team of about ten people running toward the city gate in a hurry.
Ten people? Why are you here?
Before he could think about it carefully, the leaping figure had already fallen due to the influence of gravity.
When he stood on the lookout again, an extremely strange scene appeared——
The east city gate facing the Beiyi army slowly opened!
Seeing this scene, Tuoba Xijun opened his mouth wide and was extremely unbelievable.
The twelve-meter-wide and seven-meter-high city gate was wide open. Not only him, but also the Northern Yi soldiers with slightly higher cultivation levels could see it clearly...
"Facing my army of 100,000 to attack, the opponent actually opened the city gates? But there was hardly a single soldier on the street... What is this situation?"
Tuoba Xijun felt that his brain was not enough.
Others' faces were filled with doubts: This is unreasonable! The Dawan garrison has always defended the city, why did it suddenly happen like this today?
The soldiers and generals were talking a lot.
Finally, a junior general in the army couldn't stand it anymore. He cupped his fists at the general on the observation platform and asked, "General Tuoba, are we just going to wait like this?"
Hearing this, Tuoba Xijun's heart skipped a beat: "Yes! We can't wait any longer. I promised the young barbarian master that I would capture Dawan and rectify the name of my Tuoba clan!"
"Although the Young Barbarian Lord's large army is moving slowly, it will take at least one day and one night at most before they can reach this place. Do you want him to see with his own eyes that I control an army of 100,000 people but have failed to achieve even an inch of success?"
Thinking of this, he finally made up his mind: "Thousands of people in the forward army will obey the order and start attacking..."
"Wait a moment!"
Before he could say the word "city" to start attacking the city, he was suddenly interrupted by a roaring voice.
Tuoba Xijun looked at the guy who dared to interrupt him with a dissatisfied look. He was about to attack, but was stopped by the other person's next words: "General Tuoba, you need to be careful! Human beings are full of tricks. This time, the troops are commanded.
The general named Chen is not simple."
"My subordinates are worried that there is some fraud involved!"
The speaker is none other than the chameleon man.
He was afraid! What he said to Ling Yi before was all lies.
Although he did not see with his own eyes how Commander Tuoba Xi and those Beiyi brothers died in battle, but before that, when Commander Tuoba ordered them to attack Nancheng, there were still 50,000 people left in the formation!
As a result, less than half an hour after he left the formation, all 50,000 troops in the formation were killed. What does this mean? It means that the Chen family army this time is by no means an easy person!
He was afraid that if Tuoba Xijun got excited, he would really get into trouble with the other party, and there would be no place to cry...
"Hmph! I have a hundred thousand barbarian army, why are I so afraid of him?"
Even though he also had doubts in his heart, Tuoba Xijun still had a tough mouth——
Once he softens, the morale of the entire Beiyi Army will be dampened. This is not what he wants to see...