Chapter 241 Empty City Strategy

Xie Yuan suddenly turned around and asked, "Have you ever heard of the Empty City Strategy?"

Xiao Erdan was stunned and said nothing.

Sun Tian thought for a while and said:

"I seem to have heard of such a story. It's about Zhuge Liang, right? ... But I think that story is a bit unreasonable. Why wouldn't Sima Yi dare to bring an army of 200,000 people when he saw Zhuge Liang opening the city gate and waiting for him?

Fighting? Even if the city gates are not opened, an army of 200,000 people can attack a city, let alone open the city gates."

Xie Yuan thought for a while and said, "We can change it."

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Shi Yuhengjia had a huge quarrel with Prince Mu He's group.

He originally wanted to unite the governors of other military towns, change the deployment, and replace the main force of this battle. In this way, Prince Muhe and his forces would not be able to get the credit for this time, which would definitely be another big blow. In the future,

It's definitely hard to get up again.

But who asked for help first, and they arrived later... Coupled with the absurd death of Prince Mu He, their group was full of injustice and sorrow.

Emotion and reason could not be separated at once. The governors of several military towns were not so firm.

Shi Yuhengjia saw that his plan was not going to work. For the sake of the overall situation of the Wei Dynasty, he thought that he would suffer some losses. The key was to cripple the Song army.

Don't delay the fight because of disagreements, and let the Song army overturn the situation in the end. That will be a real regret.

So in the end, Shi Yu Hengjia compromised and still followed Prince Mu He's plan before his death and took his people to the place where it was not painful or painful. The victory was not due to him, and the loss was definitely inseparable from him.

City, reinforcements have been deployed.

He was holding back his anger when he met a group of soldiers from the Song Dynasty who were out for reconnaissance and patrolling. He chased them and beat them up, cut off their heads and tied them to the horses' buttocks.

When he arrived at his destination, he hung it directly above the city gate to show off his military power. At the same time, he also warned the nearby group of Song infantry who were hiding on the mountain path and let them eat the deflated Song infantry to relieve their hatred.

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What he didn't know was that Xie Yuan, the captain of the infantry group, had already taken his destination one step ahead of him and was waiting for him to come.

The snowflakes have become smaller and are falling sporadically. The sun is shining in the sky again, making the snow on the ground reflect so brightly that it seems to blind people's eyes.

Shi Yu Hengjia led the cavalry to the city aggressively. He saw the Wei soldiers standing on the wall from a distance, and cursed from a distance:

"Where is your captain! He won't go out to patrol the city after heavy snow? Didn't I tell you to find a way to intercept the Song Army's food and grass?!"

Why does he scold people as soon as he comes up? Actually, it’s not because he’s in a bad mood and deliberately picks on people.

In fact, there was not even a horse hoof mark on the fresh snow outside the city, it was brand new.

The sun is getting stronger, but the snow outside the city gate is still so fresh. It’s obvious that the city gate has not been opened!

Isn't this just laziness and dereliction of duty?

Where did he think that people in the city didn't come out because they were being served in a pot in the middle of the night when the snow was falling?

At this time, on the city wall, the Southwest soldier who had been kicked awake by Xie Yuan was squatting on the ground with difficulty, holding the legs of a Wei army corpse in his arms, letting the corpse stand on the ground, pretending to be a soldier on guard.

Thanks to the cold weather, the man's body had long been frozen solid. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult to keep a dead body standing.

The southwestern soldier's name was Alai. He wiped the sweat from his head...

In fact, when he saw the shadow of Wei's reinforcements, he had already started to resist. He has been resisting until now, which is too tiring.

He looked up at the top of his head. The dead body had its head lowered, its face was hard and purple, and its eyes were wide and unyielding.

He trembled in his heart and felt so scared. He turned to look at Xie Yuan who was standing behind him and said:

"Colonel Lieutenant... if you look closer, you must be wearing a gang. How does this look like a living person standing guard?"

Xie Yuan looked at the person approaching Wu Yangyang in front of him, moved his lips slightly, and said: "...it would be nice if you can see it. Hug me! You can move again after I let you move, you know?"

"yes……"

Suddenly, I heard a Wei army general shouting something in Xianbei dialect in the distance.

Sun Tian asked nervously: "What should I do to the captain?...What did he say? Don't you understand?"

Xie Yuan said very confidently: "What else can I say? Let's get out of the way of the city gate." Then he calmly ordered to the messenger:

"Open the city gate!"

Sun Tian's lips moved, and he thought: What that person just said was not like opening a city gate, his tone was so aggressive, and he spoke for such a long time...

Forget it, no one understands it anyway.

Just think that they shouted to open the city gate. So he swallowed the words and said nothing.

The Wei army was getting closer and closer. Xiao Erdan, a soldier standing behind Xie Yuan, began to sweat on his head and said in fear:

"Captain... We only have 200 people at our disposal, and there are 10,000 of them. What if they rush in directly? Either... or..."

Why don't you open the city gate...

Xie Yuan heard his verbosity and turned his head to look at him with disgust. Xiao Erdan felt that he was disgusted by his admirer and couldn't stand it. He curled his lips in grievance and never said the next words.

Xiao Erdan shouted in his heart: They say that their captain has the body of a leopard but the courage of a tiger. Oh dear, this is not the courage of a tiger... This courageous person can be awesome!

Would anyone dare to open the city gate with 200 people and wait for 10,000 people to come in and kill them?

Shi Yu Hengjia was riding on a horse and cursed from a distance. No one responded and he ignored it. No one was seen walking on the city wall. Then the huge wooden door of the city wall opened from the inside with a creaking sound.

The door was open, and the road was empty, not even a human figure...

He only thought the scene was a little strange. But after looking at the city wall, there were indeed people from the Wei army in black military uniforms standing guard on the city wall, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

The heavy snow reflected the sun's rays, making everything sparkle white. The more he tried to see clearly what was happening on the city wall, the harder it became to see clearly.

But because of hesitation, he subconsciously slowed down his horse's movement into the city and walked inside while staring at everything.

When he was about to reach the bottom of the city, the soldier beside him suddenly pointed to the guard standing guard above and said:

"General, why don't those people have weapons? Why are they just standing there?"

When Shi Yuhengjia heard this, he raised his hand to signal everyone to slow down. He squinted and looked carefully at the top of the city wall.

I saw that all the people above me were either downcast or had their necks crooked, and no one was standing straight.

My heart is feeling cold.

At this time, Xie Yuan whispered to Alai from the southwest:

"Don't get up, let go and push the body down."

Suddenly, everyone in the Wei army watched helplessly as a soldier on guard fell down from the city wall...

The whole person was like a stick, turning over from the city wall and hitting the snow, stirring up a snowflake, which landed right in front of everyone's eyes.

The world suddenly became quiet...
Chapter completed!