"Although the Yongwei camp outside the city is far away, you can still see some details through the telescope."
As Sun Chuanting spoke, he handed his telescope to Gao Mingheng. As for Chen Yongfu, he had it himself. Then, he continued: "First of all, the military uniforms of the Yongwei camp outside the city are not neat. If you look carefully, you can find that
In fact, it’s just pieced together. The farther away you are, the more revealing it is, and this is one of them!”
After hearing this, Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng picked up their telescopes and watched carefully.
"Secondly, look at it. Just now, the brave guard camp outside the city attacked the siege bandits outside the city. There were indeed people killed. But now the battle situation has reached a stalemate. That is, the elite bandits resisted the brave guard camp, but they were just acting.
It’s definitely not a real life-and-death fight. This can also be seen through a telescope.”
"If you observe more carefully, you can see that when the bandits and the brave guards were fighting, they all turned their heads to look at the city. One or two, what does that mean?
, they are just waiting for the news in our city."
"There is another one. Look at the reinforcements of the bandits. The same is true. Many of them are turning their heads to look at the movement on our side of Kaifeng City. Originally, they were very fast, but there was no movement on our side. The reinforcements of the bandits were moving faster.
Slow down!"
When Sun Chuanting said this, he sneered and said: "The thieves are so courageous. They don't hesitate to kill and injure so many people. They put on such a show and want me to be fooled. It's just a dream!"
Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng listened to his explanation while observing carefully.
This time, they really discovered the flaws in what Sun Chuanting said, and the more they looked at it, the more they felt that Sun Chuanting was right.
After all, Chen Yongfu had been leading troops for a long time. He was the first to be sure. He put down his telescope and said with great surprise: "Even the general was fooled just now, but I didn't expect that your Excellency has a sharp eye and discovered the conspiracy of the bandits in one fell swoop. Your Excellency is so wise."
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After Gao Mingheng heard this, he also admired Sun Chuanting very much and said sincerely: "I am also convinced. If your Excellency hadn't been in charge of Kaifeng, maybe the bandit's conspiracy might have succeeded!"
Just now, they almost unanimously believed that they were going out of the city to meet the Yongwei camp and it would be best to defeat the bandits. They were almost fooled!
Therefore, the two of them had to admire Sun Chuanting's careful observation. He discovered so many flaws without even noticing it himself.
At this point, both of them were convinced of Sun Chuanting.
In fact, they had some misunderstandings. Sun Chuanting did not observe more than them. There was another reason why the results were different.
From the very beginning, the bandits created noise outside the city. Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng were deceived because they were eager for the arrival of imperial reinforcements. Seeing everything outside the city, they subconsciously believed that the imperial reinforcements had arrived.
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However, Sun Chuanting was completely different from them.
After Sun Chuanting saw the situation outside the city, his first reaction was that the Yongwei camp was fake.
Because when he left Beijing, he already knew that the Yongwei Battalion was expanding its army and it would be impossible to send it to rescue Kaifeng in a short time.
In addition, the plan for the Battle of Kaifeng is to hold on to Kaifeng and wear down the rebels. At least until September or October. The best thing is that the newly trained army can first defeat the Jianyan troops who entered the customs at the end of the year.
After taking the prisoners and making the capital safe, he then sent his troops south to rescue Kaifeng.
It was also the case that Sun Chuanting arrived in Kaifeng according to the order. From the beginning, he had insisted on sticking to Kaifeng. For this reason, he did not hesitate to implement military control, uniformly ration food and grass from the moment he arrived in Kaifeng, and even sent the old and weak in the city to the Yellow River.
to the north.
Strategically, as well as tactically, this allowed Sun Chuanting to discover immediately that the Yongwei camp outside the city was fake.
He has seen the situation in the military battle bureau and knows that if the Yongwei Battalion goes out again, it will definitely be wearing new armor, if not all of it, at least part of it.
However, when he observed through the telescope, he did not find that the Yongwei camp outside the city was equipped with new armor!
Of course, the most eye-catching thing was the troops from the Yongwei camp outside the city, who were fighting with cold weapons, swords, guns, swords and halberds.
However, Sun Chuanting was very clear that the Yongwei camp after the newly expanded army would mainly focus on firearms.
After all this, Sun Chuanting became convinced that the Yongwei camp outside the city was fake.
With this understanding in his mind, when he observed through the telescope, it was easier to find flaws than when Chen Yongfu and others thought that the Yongwei camp outside the city was real.
At this time, Sun Chuanting did not explain these, but only talked about the flaws of the actors outside the city. It was also like this that attracted Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng's admiration.
On the top of the city, the people around Sun Chuanting knew that the thieves were actually acting outside the city, but they did not reveal it and allowed the soldiers guarding the city to continue cheering.
Those who know the inside story are just watching the show.
Outside the city, the bandit leaders were anxiously waiting for rescue in Kaifeng City.
Wait, there is no movement;
After waiting some more, there was still no movement.
Li Zicheng, who was hiding in the crowd, was a little anxious because he knew that the longer he acted, the easier it would be to be exposed.
Therefore, he immediately sent an order to let the Yongwei camp have more "casualties" and make the fighting more "intense".
The military order was passed down, and the fighting at the Yongwei Camp began. The shouts of killing shook the sky and became louder and louder.
So much so that even the King of Zhou was alarmed. He came to the city with excitement and was still far away from Sun Chuanting. He asked loudly: "Are reinforcements really coming to rescue Kaifeng?"
If any other vassal king dared to come to the city, Sun Chuanting would definitely not give him a good look.
However, King Zhou's generosity impressed him very much, so he didn't care about King Zhou leaving the King's Mansion, and said calmly: "It doesn't matter!"
After hearing this, Chen Yongfu quickly explained: "Superintendent Sun discovered that the Yongwei camp outside the city is actually a bandit pretending to be a bandit, just to lure the city to send troops out!"
When King Zhou heard this, he couldn't help but feel disappointed, but at the same time he was lucky that the famous Sun Chuanting was in charge, so he praised Sun Chuanting a few words and went back.
As soon as he left, the people on the top of the city naturally paid attention to the situation outside the city again.
"Sir, it seems that I can't play the role of the bandit anymore!" Gao Mingheng looked outside the city and quickly reminded Sun Chuanting.
This time dragged on for a long time. Seeing that there was no movement at the top of Kaifeng City, the bandit's performance began to be perfunctory.
Seeing this, Sun Chuanting smiled casually.
Suddenly, several riders seemed to rush out from the Yongwei camp and run towards the city.
When Chen Yongfu saw it, he smiled and said: "Sir, it seems that you have come to ask for help and want us to send troops!"
Sure enough, those riders were being chased by a group of bandits and came to ask for help from Kaifeng City.
Seeing this scene, many generals on the city came to Sun Chuanting to ask for a fight and asked for troops to be rescued. This opportunity was too late to come back!
Naturally, they then felt lucky that it turned out that the bandit was acting, it was really dangerous!
Half an hour later, Li Zicheng, with a gloomy look on his face, gave the order angrily: Stop working.
He can already be convinced that the strategy of luring the defenders has failed!
Many people were puzzled by the garrison at the top of Kaifeng City. Why didn't they send troops out of the city to respond?
Many people even thought privately that Sun Chuanting, the commander-in-chief, was just in name only. Although he had led troops to fight for many years, he was actually afraid of death!
Unexpectedly, after fighting, the soldiers of the Yongwei camp actually shook hands with the bandits and made peace, and the two sides headed to the bandit camp side by side.
This scene left them stunned!
Of course, after they reacted, they immediately understood that the Yongwei camp outside the city was fake!
After understanding this, they immediately felt scared. If they had just left the city for rescue, they would have fallen into the rogue bandit's scheme.
Once the troops leaving the city are annihilated, their morale is hit, and there are not enough troops, Kaifeng will be in danger!
Thinking of this, almost everyone in Kaifeng City got to know Sun Chuanting again. Their confidence in being able to defend Kaifeng City under the leadership of Sun Chuanting once again skyrocketed.
Compared with the morale in Kaifeng city, it goes without saying that the bandits are here.
Not to mention how low the morale of the bandit team that was arranged as cannon fodder was at the hands of our own people was. Not to mention how low their morale was. Even the elite bandits were also demoralized.
No, in the Chinese military tent, all the bandit leaders looked unhappy.
They paid a lot for this trick to lure the enemy, but in the end they were watched like a monkey show by Sun Gouguan at the top of Kaifeng City!
Such a high price was paid, but the outcome was so embarrassing. Naturally, shirking responsibility became the main theme in the Chinese military tent.
Either A accuses B of revealing his secret, or B accuses C of acting inappropriately, or maybe it’s D’s responsibility...
In short, it was noisy and lively inside the Chinese military tent!
"That's enough!" Finally, Li Zicheng got mad and shouted, "What's the use of such accusations now? Can Sun Chuanting be allowed to die?"
After hearing his words, the Zhongjun tent suddenly became quiet.
Luo Rucai took a look at the people in the Zhongjun tent, then turned to look at Li Zicheng and said: "Sun Gouguan is not that easy to deal with. He is hiding in Kaifeng City and won't come out. We have no way at all!"
When Li Zicheng heard this, he immediately stared at Luo Rucai with cold eyes.
He understood what Luo Rucai meant, which was to bring up old matters again, and he probably didn't want to open the envelope again.
He must win the city of Kaifeng. But Luo Rucai kept dragging his feet like this, which made him very angry.
Just when he was about to have an attack, suddenly there were rapid footsteps outside the Zhongjun tent, and then Gao Yigong broke in.
He looked excited and reported to Li Zicheng: "General, there is good news!"
Although he was not punished because of the defeat of the forward, he was eventually sent to the outer perimeter by Li Zicheng to patrol the perimeter.
At this time, when Li Zicheng heard what he said, he was suddenly curious. Is there any good news at this time?