King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 84 Fighting Gongsundu (7)

Hou Yu showed great mercy and rescued the people in the surrounding villages and county towns. The 20 shi of grain and grass hoarded in Beifeng were taken away in less than two days.

The nearby city immediately sent troops to suppress it, and robbed the people of food. The people of course protected the food, so they had a dispute with the government. Hou Yu fished in troubled waters and carried out a series of assassinations. I asked the people to return the food, but no one dared to take it seriously......

On Li Lin's side, everyone was overjoyed when they received the news that Hou Yu was in Beifeng City. They immediately handed over the letter to Bing Yuan and the others for crossing, and then played it up in the city.

Li Lin smiled and said to everyone, "It seems that Gongsundu will need a teacher for a while now!"

But in Gongsundu's camp, after Gongsundu's great compassion, his body was very weak, and the counselors and generals kept guarding him.

"Master Hou, there is no hope of us being able to capture the city here, or we should retreat..." The counselor said what he had been thinking about for a long time.

"You can't retreat!" Gongsun Du dragged his weak body and forced out a sentence.

"Master Hou, if we don't retreat, our tens of thousands of troops here will be wasted food and grass!" The counselor persuaded.

"No way, our army's food and grass can still last for a few days now, and everything can be decided in a flash in the war. Now our army and Le Lang's army have forged a big enmity, and Le Lang must be captured, otherwise we will not be relieved I only hate in my heart! Now that the enemy army knows that our army has lost food and grass in the rear, and lost soldiers and generals, they will definitely become arrogant soldiers. Defeat!" Gongsundu thought for a while, and said slowly, he didn't know if he really had a plan, or he just didn't want to lose face by retreating.

"However, our side now has very little chance of winning Lelang City in one fell swoop. If we delay for a long time, the morale of the army may fluctuate, and food and grass will be in a hurry..." The counselor at the side still felt that something was wrong, and he followed Gongsun Du For many years, I still don't know Gongsundu's temper. It must be because of his Liaodong Hou's face, he refused to retreat.

"I plan to come out, you don't want to persuade..." Gongsun Du said angrily.

"Then what is the master plan, can you tell me about it?" the counselor asked doubtfully.

Gongsun Du whispered, but in fact he couldn't speak anymore, "Let's have a cooperation from inside to outside..."

After listening to the counselor, he nodded and said, "Well... Master Hou's plan is indeed good. If it succeeds, Le Lang can be defeated overnight. Master Hou is indeed the famous master of the world..."

In Lelang City, since it was defeated that day, there was news from Beifeng that Gongsundu hadn't attacked for three days, but Li Lin still refused to neglect, and kept watching from the tower every day, muttering in his heart, , that old boy Gongsun Du is like this, and it’s almost time to retreat, why are you still holding on here and not leaving?”

On this day, Li Lin was still thinking about the problem at the top of the city. While eating the dishes that Liu Ying sent for him at home, Xu Liang hurried up and bowed to Li Lin and said, "General, I am very conscious. urgent!"

"Is it urgent?" Li Lin said while picking up vegetables, his face full of doubts.

Xu Liang adjusted his language, and then said, "The emergency is not very urgent, but the firewood in the city is almost exhausted, and it is inconvenient to get fire. The prefect came here to ask General He Liangce."

"..." Li Lin shook his head helplessly. Why do you have to ask me everything? Logically speaking, Bing Yuan should understand this kind of thing better than himself?

Li Lin said, "Are there any common people out looking for firewood?"

"Yes!" Xu Liang nodded when he heard this, "Just now, dozens of other people left the city. When I heard about this, I came here to report to the general. I'm afraid there may be the secret work of Gongsun Du's army. Among them, secretly pass the news."

"Hmm..." Li Lin pondered for a while, and asked Yan Rou and Yan Zhi beside him, "Is there any confusion at night recently?"

Yan Rou and Yan Zhi took advantage of Li Lin, and they were able to eat Liu Ying's dishes with Li Lin every day, and now they are eating with their heads down and "wheezing...".

Li Lin patted the heads of the two of them, and Yan Rou immediately said, "Everything is safe at night, no people stay here, and our brothers will ask you for your password every day, but I think this Gongsun Du's army has lost so much The soldiers, who were burned by General Hou Yu and the food and grass camp in the rear, are still stationed here and will not retreat, I am afraid they are using tricks."

"What do you think?" Li Lin glanced at Xu Liang and said.

Seeing that Li Lin didn't speak, Xu Liang thought he was thinking about his own strategy, so he thought for a while and said, "Gongsun Du must have a secret code to take the city. If we attack at that time, the enemy army will flee in anticipation of the wind, and at that time a certain army will lead an army to attack in the tail, and we will surely win a complete victory!"

Li Lin was speechless for a while. It seemed that this Xu Liang was getting more and more powerful. He nodded and said, "Gongsun Du is probably... arguing with fire?"

Xu Liang's eyes lit up, and he said immediately, "Ninety-nine are inseparable!"

Li Lin was amused, why did the fraudulent city of the Three Kingdoms always use fire as a sign?Are you afraid of being seen by others?

Xu Liang frowned and said, "What I'm worried about right now is not knowing where Gongsun Duxizuo is and how many are there. It's not good if you startle the snake..."

"One more thing..." Yan Rou didn't know when she would come to listen carefully to what Li Lin and Xu Liang were saying, and interrupted, "It's the password issued by Yuan Jie. Can you issue two passwords, one inside and one outside, and the outside says Talk to the people in the city, the insiders talk to the soldiers guarding the city, in this way, even Gongsun Du's bandit pretending to be a soldier of Le Lang can't do it!"

"Huh?" Li Lin was a little surprised this time, this Yan Rou's knowledge is really extraordinary, it seems that I underestimated him!

Li Lin smiled and said, "You kid has a lot of tricks, so that's great!"

In Gongsundu's camp, a man wearing civilian clothes knelt in front of Gongsundu. After two days of recuperation, Gongsundu finally improved a bit, but his face was still extremely pale.

"Why did you come?" Gongsun Du felt a little angry, this little worker was so ignorant of the rules, he came here on his own without being summoned?

"Please forgive me, Lord Hou, I have something important to report!" Na Xizuo said.

"Let's not talk about this!" Gongsun Du said in a deep voice, "Is there anyone to follow you?"

"This subordinate made a few rounds to get here!" Na Xizuo said, "This is what this subordinate wants to report, Lelang City has run out of firewood!"

"Oh?" Gongsun Du's face was a little joyful, and then he frowned and said, "But old man Bing Yuan's trick?"

"Otherwise!" Na Xizuo shook his head and said, "Le Lang gathers tens of thousands of people from all over the world. He spends a lot of firewood for cooking every day. The people who live temporarily have no firewood to cook. So he united dozens of brothers. I came out on the pretext of going out to find firewood."

"The firewood is exhausted..." Gongsun Du pondered for a moment, and asked, "What about the food?" Then he laughed at himself, "As an important granary, Le Lang is short of food, how can he be so lonely and confused!" He rubbed his head that had been aching for days.

That Xizuo didn't answer, just said, "This subordinate can't stay for a long time..."

"Hmm..." Gongsun Du nodded and said, "This matter has to be carefully considered, you go back, don't show your flaws!"

"Yes!" The fine man stepped out.

"Firewood?" Gongsun Du smiled and said, "Gu has been for Le Lang City for almost a month. If Gu has some compassion, wouldn't Le Lang want to tear down the house to get wood?"

Shaking his head, Gongsundu barely stood up in the tent and stomped a few steps, then said inwardly, "Surround him for a day or two, and then...huh!"

Here Gongsun Du is making plans in the account, and Li Lin is also constantly scheming over there...

On the second day, the Gongsundu army still did not appear at Lelang West Gate, but the people who went out to look for firewood saw many Gongsundu logging in the forest one after another. When Xu Liang heard it, he immediately understood that Gongsundu must be building some siege equipment again , secretly beware.

In addition, after Gongsundu's retreat that day, the Gongsundu army at the north gate and east gate of Lelang retreated one after another, but they couldn't hold back. The corpse retreated.

"This doesn't mean that Gongsundu doesn't want to attack the city for the time being..." Li Lin said silently, watching the smoke rising from the Gongsundu camp in the distance.

Gongsun Du's camp, Gongsun Du saw that the soldiers had recovered after a few days of rest, and his body was almost healed. Since he had a plan in his mind, Gongsun Duying recovered his former spirit, and now he is talking to the soldiers , Discuss countermeasures with counselors.

"Since the defeat the day before yesterday..." Gongsundu was a little embarrassed, "In the past few days, I have sent more than a thousand soldiers to cut wood and pretend to make siege equipment, so that Le Lang's west gate guards can relax, and they have secretly contacted their own soldiers in the city. When the time comes, the inside should be combined with the outside, how can Le Lang not be broken?"

"Excellent!" The generals at the side all praised and echoed.

Gongsun Du looked at the crowd and nodded, "I've already made up my mind. If that's the case, at midnight tomorrow, I'll use fire as an excuse to break Le Lang!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at the two generals around him and said, "Yang Yi, Yang Zuo! Tomorrow night, you will be the first to enter as the left and right vanguards, and I will be the commander of the Chinese army to follow behind!"

"This...Master Hou, you are in good health, isn't it right..." the counselor beside him persuaded.

Gongsun Du's eyes widened, "I've made up my mind, don't try to dissuade me, I will cut off the dog's head of old Bing Yuan myself! The whole army is on guard, don't show any weakness!"

Everyone look at me, I look at you, there is no other way, they all get up, and bow to Gongsun Du, "Take orders!"

The counselor on the side asked, "Hou Yu doesn't know where to attack?"

Gongsun Du sneered, and spat out two words, "South Gate!" The other generals applauded when they heard this!

(End of this chapter)