Xiao Ruxun nodded and said, "This should not be wrong. However, the speed of the cavalry and the main force of the infantry is different. The main force of the infantry will take two days, and the cavalry can arrive in less than one day. He is extremely cunning and cannot be treated by the mob. The bandit army must not know that our army is ready and closes the city gates. If the cavalry and cavalry teams are sent to raid suddenly and attack at night, even if there are not many people, if our army is not prepared and the firearms are not enough to be launched, and if they succeed in the raid, there may be danger of breaking the city."

"General is saying that the large army is a cover, the real killer weapon..." Zhao Hu showed surprise: "I have already set out and will launch an attack soon?"

"I heard that I was good at riding. At that time, Wang Chonggu believed that he had two thousand horses in person, and the marching speed was extremely fast, and could travel 400 miles a day and night. They placed the main infantry on the west side, deliberately being discovered by the whistle and cavalry to attract the attention of our army, and made our army gather the main force in the west city, but secretly sent an elite force to attack one of the other three gates. No matter which gate was broken, it would be a dead end to me."

Zhao Hu was not very sure, but he felt a little worried: "What the general said may not be unreasonable. The bandit army is fighting on two fronts at this moment. He must think of taking down Pinglu City as soon as possible and crossing the Yellow River south with all his might. We will hold on here for one more day, which is a threat to the rebels' nest. So, what should we do?"

Xiao Ruxun said slowly, "I am not worried during the day. I am only worried that in the evening, some of them will lurk in the city and try to attack the city at night. That's bad. Let's do it. Bo Wei, you go and rest first, hand over the defense to the few officers of your subordinates, and arrange for soldiers to take turns to rest and watch. The same goes for the same sentence: each city gate must not be less than 200 soldiers, and the Franchise gun must not be less than five gates. Then when you get up to patrol the night, you have to patrol the four gates. Once there is a policeman, you will immediately inform the whole city! We will not be able to slack off in the current situation."

Zhao Hu nodded and clasped his fists to take the order: "The last general will obey the order!"

Xiao Ruxun nodded and was about to leave, when he saw the night torches piled up in the corner of the city wall, he suddenly thought of something: "Bowei, please be careful about these torches. Don't make torches when you take people to patrol at night. Do not place more than one soldier on the torches on the city walls around where the torches can be seen clearly, so that the main night watchmen stays in the darkness in the corner. If the thief army really attacks at night, it must first observe how many night watchmen there are on the front of my city, and then attack the night watchmen. The enemy is in the dark and I am in the bright. At this time, the secret whistle is very important.

You should tell the soldiers who are staying in the dark that if they find someone attacking at night, don’t make a sound, but wait for the situation. When the enemy appears, they suddenly light up a torch and put a sergeant arrow. This will greatly shock the enemy’s attack at night, so that they think we have been on guard. This is a trap we set up to cause chaos in the enemy’s morale and only know how to retreat and escape instead of resisting. At this time, we will rush out to kill the enemy’s attack at night, and we will definitely break it in one go, so that the enemy will not dare to attack at night again."

Zhao Hu nodded as if he suddenly realized: "The general understands it, please don't worry, General."

Xiao Ruxun inspected again and explained some key points to Zhao Hu in detail before leaving with confidence. Zhao Hu and Chen Xie discussed and arranged a night shift, so he found a shop to lie down to rest. When he woke up, it was already setting sun.

In March, the day is not long, not as long as the summer day. Not long after the sunset sets, it is necessary to use torches to light them. Zhao Hu, as Xiao Ruxun ordered, reduced the torches to light them. Most of the torches were in the hands of the soldiers who were patrolling the night. Only one soldier was arranged around the torches, and the rest of the soldiers stayed in places where the gap between the torches could not be illuminated, and secretly watched everything.

Zhao Hu led a team of guards to patrol the city wall slowly. After Xiao Ruxun's reminder during the day, Zhao Hu also became very energetic and carefully watched the movements of the city wall.

The night gradually became deeper, and a bright moon hung in the sky, staring at the entire earth silently. Occasionally, a few clouds floated by, blocking a trace of moonlight. On the earth, it seemed that only the burning torches on the top of Pinglu City were burning brightly.

Zhao Hu took his troops to inspect the East City Gate. There was a tributary of the Yellow River to the east of Pinglu City. The land in Hedong was still under the control of the Ming army. The rebels of the Hubai City did not dare to bypass Pinglu City and cross the Yellow River east of the Yellow River, for fear that the Ming army in Pinglu City would cut off the retreat route. Therefore, when Zhao Hu sent out a sentry cavalry, he did not send it to the east. However, Zhao Hu still arranged a hundred soldiers to watch the night even in the East City. Even if they were in the East City, they would place fifteen soldiers in the light and eighty-five in the dark.

When Zhao Hu was patrolling people, he passed by Dongcheng. Because the walls of Dongcheng were the most broken and several sections were relatively low, he paid more attention and happened to find that many soldiers guarding the darkness were dozing off. Zhao Hu was furious and knocked on the dozing off soldiers one by one, but he just knocked on them and did not scold them. After they were fully restored, Zhao Hu followed the steps to the south wall with satisfaction.

As soon as he led the people to turn the stairs, Zhao Hu seemed to hear something, frowned, waved his hand to let the followers stop, squat down, and quietly touched the corner of the city wall, revealing a head to observe, and then he was shocked when he saw it. The fifteen soldiers standing under the torch were all lying on the ground and their lives were unknown, and a whole row of flying claws appeared on the battlements of the city wall.

He was actually called by the general! The thief army really dared to attack at night!! It only took three days!!

Zhao Hu noticed that all the soldiers guarding the dark had squatted down on the ground as instructed to start to be alert. He felt relieved and greeted the guards behind him, unsheathed the knife, put on the bow, prepared the torch, and prepared the whistle arrow!

A row of figures of about twenty men in black have appeared in Zhao Hu's eyes, and I'm not waiting for it!

"Light up! Launch the arrow! Brothers! Kill the thief!!!"

Zhao Hu suddenly stood up and shouted loudly. At the same time, the torch suddenly lit up, and dozens of arrows roared into the sky, and the "boom" exploded. The night watchmen hidden in the shadow were fully prepared, shouting and rushing to kill, Shaoqing, and the arrows of the other three city gates rang into the sky, and dozens of torches suddenly lit up, and the fire was shining brightly!

Zhao Hu led the way to rush towards the black-clad thief soldiers, and killed a panicked thief army with one knife. One of the thief soldiers seemed to react quickly and immediately shouted: "There is an ambush! Go quickly...ah..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Hu rushed forward and took action. The remaining ten people were rushed up by the soldiers and chopped into broken corpses. Zhao Hu shouted again: "Cut off the flying claw rope!!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers rushed forward with their swords and cut off all the flying claw ropes. Then Zhao Hu immediately ordered: "The crossbowman is ready, shoot down! No matter how you can see it, shoot!!"

The moonlight was bright, and the world was not dark, but the light was dark. The soldiers could not see how many thieves were below. Anyway, even firing crossbows at the city, they could hear some screams and the sound of "retreat". Zhao Hu looked down at the city with a torch, but in the end he could not see too many enemy troops.

He listened with his ears, and the battle situation of the other three gates was not fierce, Zhao Hu breathed a little relieved.

Xiao Ruxun said that the thief army really came. This situation cannot be explained. It can only be said that the thief army is quite confident in its combat effectiveness. It uses the horse team to rush to Pinglu City with light equipment and lurks under Pinglu City until night, using sharp weapons such as flying claws as tools to climb the city to try to capture the city wall.

This is not an unusual attack and siege routine. If it were separated, there would be nothing. But what Zhao Hu could not have imagined was that their reaction was so violent that almost as soon as the defeated soldiers came back, the light cavalry would attack there. If it weren't for Xiao Ruxun's "heartfeltness", he might have been able to be successfully attacked by the thief army at night.

The thief army is indeed extremely cunning, not just those who know brute force.

In the city, after the sudden sound of arrows, the battle bell rang, and the whole city woke up from the dream and was frightened. Xiao Ruxun opened his eyes and stood up immediately, comforted Yang Caiyun, and then put it on as fast as possible. After walking out of the mansion, he saw the personal soldiers coming to report: "General, Dongcheng is Dongcheng, the first arrow appeared in Dongcheng, and then the four city gates flew together. The battle bell was ringing, and everyone in the city should know!"

Xiao Ruxun nodded, and then ordered: "You divided into several groups, and rode horses back and forth on the main roads in the city, loudly informing the residents in the city that the thief army had been repelled when they attacked. From now on, the residents in the city did not have orders to step outside the house. Violators were punished for collusion with the enemy!"

The personal soldier nodded: "No!"

Xiao Ruxun looked at the East City intently.

If you guessed it right, these rebels are not brainless people. If you worship father and son for a long time, even if you are stupid, you will definitely be wise and foolish. Those who can survive on the battlefield are not stupid people. This must be kept in mind.

The number of rebels is uncertain now, but it will never be too many. When they come here at this speed, they will definitely need horses. The main force of the cavalry must be used to deal with Wei Xuezeng. There will definitely be no more cavalry to distribute to Pinglu City. Such night attacks are only once. After this failure, the rebels were afraid to attack again. After knowing that this city is as solid as a god, the leader of the cavalry may not dare to use troops again. It is not easy to train cavalry. If the cavalry is damaged too much, the rebels will not be able to withstand it.

The next attack will probably be the main force of the rebels siege the city, which will be within one or two days.

The personal soldiers led the horses to help Xiao Ruxun sit on him. Xiao Ruxun climbed the horse and slowly rode towards the gate of Dongcheng.

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