Shortly after Xu Cheng left, Sima Shang took two followers to Liyang quietly. As soon as Fu Xin's army set off, Sima Shang entered Liyang City with a swagger.

If Fu Xin knew that his hatred "enemy" had entered Liyang not long after he left, he would probably vomit three liters of blood.

After entering Liyang, Sima Shang left a thousand men and horses to defend the city, and led the remaining three thousand soldiers and horses to quietly follow Fu Xin's army about fifty miles behind.

Ziying thought that Raoyang was backed by the hinterland of Zhao, and the west of Zhao was in a war with Qin, so she had no worries about the safety of her lair in the rear. She left behind nearly a thousand soldiers brought back by Sima Shang to prevent Fu Xin from following the same example and directly giving up Wuyuan's troops. After entering Raoyang, she ordered the three thousand men who participated in "drought relief and disaster relief" before rushing to Wuyuan City.

Wuyuan County is located about 30 to 40 miles northeast of Raoyang, and the two cities are not far apart. The three thousand soldiers and horses who stayed in Raoyang were able to advance nearly a hundred miles in half a day when they were fighting drought. What's more, now they are just carrying some weapons and lightly put on the battlefield.

After breakfast, he arrived at Wuyuan City less than two hours after marching. Because Fu Xin was angry when he went to the war, he was a little confused and wanted to fight to the death without considering the consequences.

Almost all the people and horses in Wuyuan City were taken away, leaving only more than a hundred old and weak men to stay in Wuyuan. When these people saw thousands of troops approaching the city, they immediately made the most correct decision - to open the city and surrender.

Ziying can be said to have taken Wuyuan City without any effort.

Ziying, who was more than a hundred old and weak soldiers, did not treat them as prisoners, but "good intention" to tell them Fu Xin's general location, drove them out of the city and informed Fu Xin's troops.

Wuyuan is located on a plain, but it is late autumn. The other three sides of Wuyuan are not far from the city, and the north is the place where the villages around Wuyuan trade and trade, so the terrain is relatively flat and open.

Since the autumn harvest has just passed, some surrounding farmers have piled up a lot of straw in the open space on the north to facilitate convenience and save trouble.

Ziying looked at the open space on the north side of the Wuyuan city wall and sighed: "This is a good place to set up camp."

After sighing, he turned around and said to the three thousand men around him: "Before the evening, you will immediately send someone to buy all the fat and paste stored in the city, including the people's homes. I will use it."

"Your Majesty, our army has already brought enough fat and cream, and it is useless to buy fat and cream for the people." The speaker was that the commander of the thousand-man Xu Jie Ziying recognized him as the former Lieutenant General of Sima Shangjun.

Although Raoyang soldiers and horses recognized Ziying's leadership with their own status and Sima Shang, Ziying was still young after all and lacked prestige in the army, and the soldiers still had some doubts about some of the decisions they made.

Ziying of several commanders of thousands of men understood the doubts. He looked at the gap in the distance and explained: "The dry things were dry for many days without rain. When Fu Xin arrived, he would choose to set up camp in the north of the city. There was a lot of firewood in the north. He would gather the fat and boil it into oil and sprinkle it on it. Before the sneak attack tomorrow night, he first set fires on all sides. When the soldiers fled in all directions, Fu Xin was the reincarnation of Sun Wu, and it would be difficult for him to rectify the soldiers and horses to fight back."

Before the Han Dynasty, most of the edible oil was animal oil. For those with horns such as cattle and sheep, the oil was called fat, and those without horns were like pigs and dogs, and the oil was called ointment. Most of the animal oil was solid, so it needed to be heated and sprinkled on firewood.

After listening to Ziying's words, the three thousand-man captains looked at each other and were still speechless.

Ziying understood that the three of them felt that this would be too cruel.

To be honest, Ziying felt that this move was a disaster at first, but Ziying had this awareness since this troubled time. Even if war is like this, if you don’t die in this era, I will die.

Looking at the three people, he said, "I understand if you think this is too cruel, but have you ever thought that if they have complete combat effectiveness, the comrades who will die in the sneak attack will be ours. Because of your compassion, the death of soldiers who have been with each other every day. Do you think it is not cruel? Is it not cruel that the 400,000 Zhao soldiers in the Battle of Changping were buried alive? This is the case with war, and kindness to the enemy is cruel to oneself."

"No." After hearing Ziying's words, the three of them immediately changed their minds. If they didn't do this, they would die, especially Ziying's words "My kindness to the enemy is cruelty to themselves." It can be said that it greatly shocked the hearts of the three of them.

By noon the next day, when Fu Xinjun arrived in a blazing manner, the camping place he chose was the north of the city.
Chapter completed!