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Chapter 67 The long line that was released at the beginning finally caught a big fish

Liu Xiyao entrusted Niu Ziquan, the dog-headed army division, to deal with dispatching secret operations and buying Nei Ying to try to deceive the city gate.

In order to ensure that the strategy is feasible, he gave Niu Ziquan a very large authorization, basically he can mobilize soldiers in the army at will, and he can also burn, kill and loot at will without asking for instructions.

Niu Ziquan was originally a failed scholar. He hated the entire society because he hated the non-return of the imperial examination. Once this kind of person got power, he would naturally not have any scruples to restrain himself from murder and arson.

The people around Qizhou, who were originally on the sidelines and refused to enter the city to avoid the war, soon suffered disaster.

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In the early morning of the next day, Qizhou County Government.

Shen Shuren was very diligent, he got up early in the morning to watch things, and after a hasty breakfast, he planned to go up to the city wall to inspect the four gates immediately to raise some defenses.

However, he had just eaten half of his breakfast when he saw his subordinate Zhao Yunfan rushing in in a hurry.

"My lord! The big thing is not good! I heard that Liu Xiyao, who arrived in the middle of the night yesterday, went berserk because of the pain of losing his son, and because he couldn't attack the city for a while, he spread the word that he was going to slaughter Qi County.

Starting from Huangjiakou Town, along the way, a town and seven or eight villages in two townships have been slaughtered by thieves!These thieves don't even want the hearts of the people at all!

In just a quarter of an hour in the morning, several groups of people who had fled from the lower reaches of the Qishui River had arrived outside the West City Gate.It was dark before, and Shen Lian and Lu Datou, who were on duty at the west gate, did not dare to open the door without authorization, so they urgently asked Zuo Dusi for instructions.Zuo Dusi also felt that this was a serious matter, so he reported it again, please make a decision with your lord! "

Shen Shuren frowned: "How many people are crowded under the city? Where is Liu Xiyao's army? Did our army send scouts out of the city to keep an eye on the enemy's movements in real time? Did the watchmen at the top of the city see the enemy's situation?"

Zhao Yunfan was not familiar with military affairs, so he couldn't answer these details for a while, so he was speechless.

Shen Shuren shook his head resentfully, and then asked: "What about Zuo Zixiong? Why didn't he report himself!"

Zhao Yunfan: "The Zuo Dusi immediately went to the tower to suppress it. He was afraid that Lu Datou and other newly recruited regiment training officers would open the door indiscriminately because of the feelings of the village, so he went to sit in the town in person to prevent accidents."

Shen Shuren could only sigh: "Forget it, I will go to the city myself."

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After half a stick of incense, Shen Shuren rode his horse to the west gate, and saw that the number of expelled people crowded outside the city had exceeded a thousand people.

Shen Shuren found Zuo Zixiong in a hurry, asked the questions just now again, and got an affirmative answer, saying that the army of thieves had not been seen within a radius of more than ten miles, so he immediately gave an order:

"Immediately open the gates of the city, but the people who enter the city are not allowed to wander around, and must be inspected in a concentrated manner. Time is short, and in order to prevent accidents, luggage is not allowed to be brought into the city to avoid entraining weapons, and people pushing carts are not allowed to load any packages on the carts." .

In addition, let the soldiers with loud voices speak out to publicize the government's policies. For all the people who fled into the city today, the government will give them porridge in the follow-up siege stage, and will not ignore them, so don't worry about leaving their parcels and starving to death.After the propaganda, those who dare to resist will be punished as thieves! "

"The last general obeys the order!" Zuo Zixiong received the letter of approval, and immediately carried out the order resolutely, and let the soldiers open the door to let them go while shouting.

But in the time of two cups of tea, all the miserable-looking people crowded at the gate of the city were let in.

During the whole process, the soldiers on the tower were very nervous, fearing that Liu Xiyao's army would suddenly appear in the distance, but they did not appear until the end, and everyone was relieved.

After closing the city gate, it took some time to conduct a rough search of the people to check whether they were carrying weapons.During the period, some civilians were found to have brought kitchen knives and sickles, and some soldiers tried to confiscate the common people's carrying poles and hoes, and there was almost a conflict.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren was at the scene, and immediately announced that the agricultural tools and sickles could not be confiscated, so that the people could consciously report it, and then reluctantly suppressed it.After a lot of tossing, at least a hundred thorns who refused to accept control or were reluctant to part with their property were caught.

At this moment, Shen Shuren's staff and other officials of the county also rushed to the scene. Seeing all this, Gu Yanwu, the staff at first, couldn't bear it, and came over and asked:

"My lord, could it be that these people who brought kitchen knives and sickles and refused to hand them over were the work of Liu Xiyao? Liu Xiyao chose the time to enter the bandits just before the autumn harvest.

These people who were unwilling to flee back to the city before may just be reluctant to part with the crops that are about to be harvested, fearing that they will be ruined and robbed by thieves.Now I have to go to the city to take refuge, and I carry a sickle with me, maybe I want to go back to harvest after the war.Such a short weapon should pose no threat in battle. "

Shen Shuren said calmly: "I know, if Liu Xiyao really sent a secret agent, but didn't take the opportunity to let the army overwhelm him, then his secret agent must be very calm, it wouldn't be the case that our army would argue and resist even with a sickle A stab at two sentences.

But I have to do this, so that after a careful search, the people are allowed to disperse, and they will relax their vigilance.If you let it go at the beginning, if you really have careful work, you will feel that it is too easy to get away with it, maybe it is a fraud. "

Gu Yanwu was convinced: "It's just that I worried too much, it turns out that your lord has already thought about it."

After Gu Yanwu shut up, Zhang Huangyan on the other side said again: "However, if Liu Xiyao's secret agents didn't bring weapons and didn't take advantage of the chaos to snatch the door, even if they sneaked into the city, how would they attack them later?"

Shen Shuren stroked his beard and pondered: "I don't know for now, but if the enemy does not move, I will not move. As long as the city gate is guarded and vigilant at all times, you can respond to all changes with the same.

Last night, I gave orders that in order to prevent the enemy from deceiving the gates, a semi-circular trench was temporarily dug inside the north gate and east gate, and the soil dug out of the trench was piled up inside the trench.Although this is not comparable to the defensive power of Urn City, it is not something that the enemy can rush through at once, which is equivalent to another protection. "

Qizhou County is not an important city, and it barely ranks among the top three counties in Huangzhou in size and defense, second only to Huanggang County and Huangmei County at the mouth of Poyang Lake.

Such a county town, of course, only has simple rammed earth walls, it is impossible to have stone cladding, let alone an urn city.Under normal circumstances, after the city gate is breached, the enemy can directly fight along the main street to the center of the city.

Shen Shuren didn't have the ability to temporarily build the outer urn city, but he was able to temporarily dig a long wall inside the city gate to serve as a simple inner urn city without alerting the enemy.

This matter was arranged by Shen Shu after Zuo Zixiong returned to the teacher last night, and no one else knew about it.

Zhang Huangyan heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and then he became curious: "It turns out that the other two gates have already built trenches and soil enclosures, so there is no need to be afraid-but why did they do this at the east and north gates? The west gate faces Qishui. The estuary is the main direction of the enemy's advance along the Yangtze River, right?"

Shen Shuren Zhizhu clasped the ground and smiled: "The bandits don't have heavy siege weapons. If they want to break through the city in a hurry, they can only rely on deception. We are not afraid of a strong attack. I stationed a heavy army at the west gate. He must also think of this, so he will definitely not choose the city gate that is most convenient for him to enter to steal."

After Shen Shuren announced that the fleeing people in the city would be disbanded, they still maintained a state of loosening outside and tightening inside, and placed these people in groups, and assigned soldiers to guard them for a long time.

After working hard for a long time, around the afternoon of this day, when Shen Shuren was conducting a thorough investigation and was about to find out the flaws of the bandit army's secret operations, the turning point finally came.

Several secret works seemed to have been exposed. Shen Shuren had issued an order in advance to let his subordinates report the secret work when they found out, so Zuo Zixiong immediately sent people to him for interrogation.

Shen Shuren was quite surprised when he saw the secret work, among them was Liu San who was put back by him a month and a half ago.

"My lord, I was forced. I was not caught by the officers and soldiers today. I found out that your lord is heavily guarded and will surely defeat Liu Xiyao, so I took the initiative to surrender!" Liu Sanyi kowtowed when he saw him. , immediately expressed his heart.

Shen Shuren couldn't help being amused: "It's been a month and a half, and you haven't managed to run away? Are you still working hard for Liu Xiyao?"

Liu San cried with a bitter face: "After the little one went back, because he followed your orders, Liu Xiyao valued him and kept a close eye on him, so he had no chance to be a deserter in the camp.

I wanted to take advantage of this time when Liu Xiyao sent his troops out to burn, kill and loot, and escaped in the chaos, but Liu Xiyao was so angry that he insisted on breaking down the city, making people try every means to defraud the door, and also wanted to contact the non-existent internal agent, But it hurt me.

I saw that Your Excellency was able to behead Liu Xiong and wipe out Liu Xiyao's cavalry with his ingenious calculations. This guarding method is so strict. I know that Liu Xiyao will definitely not be able to accomplish this. "

Liu San said everything like pouring beans into a bamboo tube. As long as a person has been a traitor once, he will not have so many psychological barriers if he wants to become a traitor in the second palace.

It is impossible for Shen Shuren to reuse this kind of capricious villain who is wise and safe in the future, but this time he can use it temporarily as toilet paper when dealing with Liu Xiyao.

"You are so honest, you actually admitted directly that you came to vote because of my strict defense. Tell me, what Liu Xiyao asked you to do." Shen Shuren said disdainfully.

Liu San continued to kowtow to clarify: "The little ones just dare not lie to the adults, just tell the truth. If the adults are not strict in guarding the law, the young ones will not dare to be enemies with the adults. They will only find ways to be deserters directly, and they will not help Liu Xiyao Scrambler.

Liu Xiyao seemed to have asked the generals to make another detour across the mountain to attack the east gate. He also told us to follow the victims into the city from the west gate. Don't bring any weapons, so as not to arouse suspicion.And contact the gentry family in the city who has enmity with the adults--

But you know, my lord, those rich and gentry concubines were fabricated by the little ones last time according to your order to coax and beg for mercy, they don't exist at all!How could the little one do such a narrow escape for Liu Xiyao.

According to Liu Xiyao, in the evening, there will be some civilians who have been killed and driven outside the east gate, and they will flock to ask to enter the city. At that time, let us take weapons, sneak into the crowd while the gate is open, and kill the gatekeepers from behind. Set fire to the city.The troops that made a detour to the east of the city would suddenly rush out from a distance, taking advantage of the chaos to grab the door. "

Shen Shuren nodded, and turned to Zuo Zixiong who was waiting next to him: "Did you hear that? In the evening, if the east gate opens, let our own people set a fire inside the gate. But remember, we must communicate with each gate in advance. The officer made it clear that they should not be afraid when they see the east gate on fire."

Zuo Zixiong clasped his fists: "The last general will obey the order."

(End of this chapter)