Seeing that the Long Rui cavalry was about to enter the shooting range, the defenders saw the hundreds of cavalry suddenly turning their horses in a circle, making a huge turn, but then turned back.

The garrison officers and soldiers were all surprised, wondering what the cavalry wanted to do?

But the soldiers did not dare to take it lightly.

After a while, they heard the rumble of drums from the enemy formation, and the defenders suddenly became nervous. Under the moonlight, they saw that the enemy's infantry finally began to move. At the front were two rows of shield soldiers, and the troops were in order.

With powerful steps, he was advancing towards the city gate.

Upon seeing this, Huangfu Yunzhao immediately sent an order: "Archers, prepare, wait until the enemy enters the shooting range before taking action!"

Hundreds of archers bent their bows and nocked arrows again.

Seeing the enemy's phalanx advancing slowly, Huangfu Yunzhao personally took a long bow. Seeing that another twenty or so enemy troops were about to enter the shooting range, Huangfu Yunzhao had already fully drawn the bow string, but at this moment

, but the enemy army suddenly stopped.

Huangfu Yunzhao was startled, but he saw that the enemy's phalanx quickly changed formations, facing each other in front and behind. In just a moment, he turned around and retreated, still with strong footwork.

"What are they going to do?"

A general next to Huangfu Yunzhao looked surprised.

Everyone else also looked at each other.

If the enemy cavalry had come over before, it might have been to explore the situation, but now the enemy cavalry had reached halfway and suddenly turned back, leaving people really unclear as to why.

The enemy's movements seemed like they were training soldiers and horses under the city.

After another stick of incense, I saw the enemy began to slowly push the siege vehicle towards the city. This time the speed was even more slow. There were infantry squares on the left and right, and there were still two rows of shields at the front.

The soldiers and the shield soldiers were not followed by archers, but by numerous soldiers carrying ladders and pushing city rams. This time the posture looked like they were really going to attack the city.

Huangfu Yunzhao looked ugly.

Suddenly, a voice was heard: "General, general... there is a situation outside the south city...!" Then he saw a man running over out of breath.

Huangfu Yunzhao immediately asked: "What's wrong?"

"The enemy troops... the enemy troops withdrew, they... they went to the east...!"

Huangfu Yunzhao didn't understand for a while, so he was handed a water bag. The man took the water bag, took a big gulp, and then calmed down, and then said: "Earlier, the enemy troops outside the south city formed a formation.

The captain thought they were going to attack the city, but before they could reach the shooting range, they turned back. We didn't know what the enemy's trick was, so we waited for a while, but saw a large group of their troops suddenly moving eastward, leaving only

A group of cavalry were stationed outside the city."

When Huangfu Yunzhao heard this, he frowned at first, but then he thought of something: "East Gate?"

"Yes." The man said: "Xu Xiaowei said that the troops must have gone to the east gate. He was worried that the troops at the east gate were weak and planned to send people over to reinforce the defense, but he did not dare to move troops without permission, so he sent a small team here

Ask the general for orders!"

Huangfu Yunzhao knew that it would take a long time to get here from the south gate, and the enemy troops might have almost reached the east gate by now.

The east gate was guarded by 800 soldiers and horses led by Captain Cui Bo.

"Can you see that Qin Xiao has siege weapons?" Huangfu Yunzhao asked.

The man immediately said: "They have many cavalry, but they do not have ladders or other siege weapons."

"General, they don't have siege weapons. Even if they have more people, it's useless." A general nearby said: "Colonel Cui has 800 elite soldiers guarding the city gate, which is enough to stop the enemy."

Huangfu Yunzhao naturally understood that without a ladder, the tall and solid city wall would be an insurmountable barrier for the enemy, and the only breakthrough point would be the city gate.

In this way, the area that needs to be defended is very limited. It is not difficult for eight hundred elite soldiers to guard a city gate.

On the contrary, there were too many soldiers and horses to guard the city gate, but it seemed too crowded, and the large number of people could not use the strength.

All the siege weapons were in the hands of Gu Baiyi outside the west city, so Huangfu Yunzhao concluded from the beginning that the west gate was the enemy's main attack direction. Because of this, he personally took charge of this gate.

He knew that the soldiers and horses besieging the other gates did not have siege weapons, so it was all a bluff.

Hearing that Qin Xiao indeed did not have siege weapons, Huangfu Yunzhao felt slightly relieved and said: "Colonel Cui can guard the east gate and Lieutenant Xu can guard the south gate. There is no need...!" At this point, he suddenly

Realized a problem.

Since the enemy troops surrounding the other gates are all bluffing and will not really attack the city, then why should the soldiers outside the south gate go to the east gate?

?

Isn’t this unnecessary migration?

Moreover, mobilizing the troops and horses in this way will only consume the physical energy of the troops and horses, and there will be no benefit.

"East Gate...!" Huangfu Yunzhao suddenly looked towards the bottom of the city and saw that the enemy troops had advanced a lot. He looked unhurried and unhurried, just like he was training on a daily basis. Suddenly his body shook and he lost his voice.

Said: "Not good!"

"General?"

Several subordinates looked at Huangfu Yunzhao.

Huangfu Yunzhao had no time to explain, so he said to the person who came to report: "Go back immediately and convey this general's order, asking Xu Shen to personally lead a thousand people to reinforce the east gate as quickly as possible." He then said to one of his subordinates: "Zhang

If you lead people to stay at this gate, you will lead a thousand people to the east gate for reinforcements."

"General, there is Captain Cui at the east gate...!"

"Gu Baiyi acted deliberately outside the west city. He didn't really want to attack the city, but to contain us and drag us here deliberately." Huangfu Yunzhao's face was extremely ugly. He clenched his fist and said: "This is a tactic of attacking from the east to the west. The east gate is

There must be something wrong with the border...!" Without any time to explain, he quickly sent troops to reinforce the east gate.

At this time, on the city head of the east gate, three lampposts were erected on the city head, and the flames on the lampposts were dazzling.

There were nearly a thousand soldiers and horses under the command of Yu Wenchengchao outside the city. However, after arriving outside the city during the day, they did not get even half a step closer to the city gate. They lit a bonfire outside the city, chatting and laughing. There was actually not much of anything inside or outside the city gate.

Tension.

It was only when the sound of horse hooves sounded in the night and the defenders saw countless soldiers and horses appearing outside the city that some people began to become nervous.

Captain Cui Bo was at the top of the city at this time. When he saw the enemy troops arriving, he calmly took out a white cloth strip from his arms and slowly wrapped it around his left arm.

Around him, dozens of people soon had white cloth wrapped around their left arms.

Some soldiers looked at this with confusion, wondering why Cui Bo wrapped the white cloth strip around his arm.

"Listen up!" Cui Bo pressed his hand on the hilt of his knife, glanced at the people around him, and said, "I have been ordered by General Champion to assist Long Rui's army in suppressing the rebellion. Now that General Qin has arrived at the city, I want to welcome him into the city.

, what do you think?"

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers with white cloth strips on their arms were all calm and composed, but the others' expressions changed in shock.

"Captain Cui, are you going to surrender to the enemy and rebel?" One person stared at Cui Bo and said sternly: "It turns out...it turns out you are a spy!"

Cui Bo sneered and said: "The Wang Xing Dynasty supported its own troops and wanted to divide the territory. We are guarding the northeast for the imperial court, not for Wang Xing Dynasty. Now the imperial court has appointed General Qin to put down Wang Xing Dynasty's rebellion. We are soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and we should be loyal to you."

Yu Datang." He stared at the man and asked: "Are you going to follow General Qin to suppress the rebellion, or are you going to rebel against the imperial court?"

The man held down the hilt of the saber on his waist and backed away slowly. When Cui Bo saw this, he sneered and winked. Two soldiers behind the man with their hands wrapped in white cloth took out their swords at the same time and slashed the man.

He screamed and was immediately hacked to the ground.

Others were shocked, some drew their swords, and there was a sound of staggering.

"Whoever wants to follow Wang Xingchao to rebel must be killed." Cui Bo also drew his sword out of its sheath and said sternly: "The general enters the city and accompanies those who suppress the rebellion. There will be heavy rewards." He ordered: "Take the armband!"

Then he saw four or five people carrying a few boxes. Cui Bo opened the box and said: "After the general enters the city, he will naturally kill the rebels. Who is willing to follow General Qin??????????

???Suppress the rebellion, wear the armband, and the general's soldiers will be treated as one of their own." He glanced at the crowd and said coldly: "Life or death is yours to decide."

He didn't waste any time, took a bow, and then took an arrow from his quiver. The arrow cluster lit the fire on the torch, and in front of everyone, he shot an arrow into the air.

Even those sergeants who had not participated in the plan in advance understood at this moment that Cui Bo had sent a signal to the enemy troops outside the city.

Cui Bo fired three rockets in succession, but no one dared to act rashly.

But soon everyone saw that the soldiers and horses outside the city had formed up and were quickly approaching the city gate.

Someone came to the inner wall, looked down from a high position, and saw that almost all the soldiers at the city gate had wrapped their white armbands.

In fact, this is also expected.

Cui Bo led eight hundred soldiers to guard the east gate. Most of the soldiers were deployed at the top of the city. Only thirty or forty soldiers were deployed at the city gate. Those people had naturally followed Cui Bo in advance as internal agents.

"Open the city gate!"

Cui Bo didn't care about the others and shouted directly below.

Most of the soldiers at the top of the city who had not yet put on their white armbands had a blank mind.

Cui Bo is actually an enemy spy?

He has now blatantly asked people to open the city gates. Even a few unwilling Liaodong soldiers now know that the situation is over.

Cui Bo simply had his opponents killed, which shows that this person has already firmed up his position.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the city gate were opening the city gate, and it was too late to stop them.

Long Rui's army will soon rush in in large numbers. At this time, becoming an enemy of Cui Bo is tantamount to asking for death.

Finally, someone went over and took a strip of white cloth from the box, and quickly wrapped it around his arm. Seeing that someone was the first to take the armband, everyone else could only do the same.

Although many people were still hesitating, after a moment of silence, they saw that the cavalry of Long Ruijun was already very close to the city gate and were about to enter the city. Knowing the consequences of not having armbands, they had no choice but to go over and get the armbands and wrap them around them.
Chapter completed!