Chapter 3595: The culprit suspected to be dead

『There are fires in the four gates?』

After hearing the news, Man Chong hurriedly climbed the city tower.

In the Dahan who was not polluted by the light, the torches outside the city were particularly obvious against the dark background.

Around the shaking torch, there were some hussars.

Is this going to be a night attack?

Man Chong's heart shrank, but the next moment he did not see a large-scale Hussar soldiers rushing towards him. He then slowly breathed, and more questions surged into his heart.

The first direction Man Chong came up was naturally the west gate of Luoyang City.

Outside the city wall to the west, there are naturally many soldiers and figures of the cavalry. More than ten torches are roughly shaped like characters, distributed outside the land of one arrow.

Here at the West Gate, the Hussars holding torches stood there, without shouting anything, which was quite strange.

Man Chong looked carefully and asked: "How about the other doors?"

As soon as Man Chong finished speaking, he heard a roar in the north gate. Man Chong hurriedly followed the city wall to the north of Luoyang City.

Before he arrived in the north, he heard the guards of the city guarding the north shouting and asking his subordinates to shoot.

Man Chong immediately lay down next to the battlement and looked out, and saw a cavalry roaring around holding torches...

The arrows on the top of the city roared down and pierced on the ground, not hurting the cavalry at all.

『Stop shooting! Stop!』

Man Chong shouted.

But the panicked defenders continued to shoot for a while before gradually stopping.

"Why do you shoot?" Man Chong walked to the North Gate Marquis, frowned, and stared at him suspiciously, "The Hussars and Cavalry are all outside the arrow, what's the use of shooting? And it's a cavalry! Have you seen cavalry fly up the city wall?"

"This..." The Marquis of the North Gate Army was scolded by Man Chong, and he saw sweat on his forehead. "The youngest only saw these...these soldiers rushed towards the city gate..."

Man Chong's guard came over and muttered a few words in Man Chong's ear.

Man Chong nodded, then glared at the North Gate Junhou, "Be careful next time! Take a look before shooting! The arrows in the city are not for you to waste like this!"

"Yes, yes... the smaller ones must pay attention, and be careful..." The Marquis of the North Gate agreed repeatedly.

Man Chong stared at the North Gate Junhou and nodded helplessly.

Under the "cover" of the military marquis of the North Gate, Wang Yun, who was located in the East Gate, also ordered the shooting, which seemed a bit inconspicuous.

After a lot of trouble, the torches outside the city were extinguished.

The defenders on Luoyang City were still in shock.

Man Chong inspected again, but did not find any Hussar soldiers lurking in. He even asked the defenders to throw a few torches under the city wall to confirm it. Only then did he feel relieved and return to the government office in the city.

Maybe it's just a strategy to get tired?

Man Chong quickly denied this idea again.

The first thing to do is to make the soldiers tired. Now, just lifting fire outside the city and running back and forth can the defenders in Luoyang City increase how much fatigue can it increase?

So, Zhang Liao did this specifically, why?

Man Chong thought for a while, but there was no result and fell asleep in a daze.

It was almost dawn, and Man Chong suddenly woke up from his sleep.

In his dream, he saw the arrows shot by the North Gate Junhou again...

Then suddenly realized something, closed his eyes, opened it again, "Comeone!

...

...

Wang Yun's plan was very simple. He did not think of killing everyone in Luoyang City. He just wanted to escape, escape from war, and stay away from death. He himself obviously could not escape, so he had to realize this wish through Zhang Liao and through the Hussar horses.

Wang Yun was at the East Gate, and it was obvious that it was impossible for him to pass through the entire Luoyang City and then run to Luoshui at the South Gate. It was impossible for him to go to the West Gate with more strict control of the soldiers. Therefore, if he wanted to achieve his goal safer and more conveniently, he could only go to the East Gate.

It is another matter whether Man Chong is strong in military affairs, but he has indeed achieved the ultimate in controlling and controlling each other at all levels.

Those who guard the city walls and those who guard the city gates do not belong to each other.

In other words, Wang Yun was only responsible for the city wall, and there was another military marquis who was responsible for the city gate.

It is basically impossible for the military marquis stationed at the city gate to communicate with the outside world.

Even if the military marquis on the city wall has the opportunity to communicate with the outside world, they may not be able to cooperate with the military marquis garrisoned by the city gate.

In addition, there are soldiers in the city at any time...

As for why there was no resistance under the harsh suppression of the ruthless officials like Man Chong, or did anyone shout...

That's because Man Chong has already figured out the habits of these people in Shandong so clearly.

As long as the children of the gentry have some "good" treatment, they will at least be better than ordinary Cao's soldiers, and they will still be drunk and dreamy. Even if they cannot sing and dance, they will not have much intention to "uphold justice" for the soldiers at the bottom after eating and drinking, because they themselves know how their "good" treatment came from, so they will not say it in order to maintain their lives.

Ordinary soldiers, they don’t know how to say it.

The officials acted in the name of "law", and they never arrested a single group. They only arrested one or two at a time, and only two or three people a day. In this case, most ordinary soldiers from Shandong were kept in mind as long as I was not arrested, then any unlucky person would be arrested. And even if they were fighting, no one would follow the person who fought!

The vast majority of soldiers from Shandong origins are counting on others to rush up, and then they can get the bargain behind.

If someone fights for them, they will shout a few times on the side and then fight for the benefits they get. They have to make a point because they shout twice. But if something goes wrong because of the struggle, they will immediately say that they have just shouted twice and did nothing, so the blame has nothing to do with them.

In Shandong, with so many such smart people, how could Man Chong be afraid of whom to resist?

The less anyone takes the lead in resisting, the less voices there will be.

The less there is, the less people resist.

If you don’t explode in silence, you will naturally die in silence.

Wang Yun did not want to die, but under the patrol of the officials, he could not leave his position too far away, so the hiding channel at the east gate became the only escape route that Wang Yun finally found after thinking about it.

If the Cavalry Army could come in, then he could escape.

If the Cavalry Army could not fight in, then he would not have taken his men to attack the city gate.

A very simple truth is that those who can really follow Wang Yun are just a few people, including the Huotou Military Academy. Everyone else joins in the fun if they have any benefits. Once there is any movement, they will fly immediately.

So, when Wang Yun saw that the position where the torch was lit at night was shot out of the place where he threw the book, his heart jumped up. Taking advantage of the opportunity to give his subordinates a shot, he tied the second letter to the arrow and shot it out...

...

...

Man Chong waved his hand to let the minor official retreat in the lobby of the government office.

After he woke up from his dream, Man Chong summoned several people in a row.

After detailed inquiry, Man Chong gradually had some thoughts in his heart.

He felt that Zhang Liao would not be so bored. It must be because of some reason that he suddenly raised a fire at night. The different number of torches at each city gate was mostly just a trick. It was very likely to be passing messages to someone in the city or some people...

And in this case, who can receive the message?

Could it be the children of the aristocratic tribes in the city who shouted every day to go back to Shandong but were drunk and dreaming of death?

It's possible, but unlikely.

So who could it be?

Man Chong's eyes suddenly fell on the side, and the files of the punishment documents reported by the officials...

Man Chong stood up, took the documents and files into his hands, unfolded them one by one, and looked them one by one.

Suddenly, his eyes fell on a record.

"In the east of the city, the subordinates of the Wang clan, the Marquis of the Guardians, privately storing food and grass..."

...

...

Zhang Liao got a new letter.

The second submission was much more detailed, especially the location of the Dongmen culvert and the location where they passed, and even the iron railings in the culvert were already rusted and decayed, and were re-sealed with short spears and melted iron...

"Go to the army and find soldiers with good water quality to come..."

Zhang Liao ordered the guard to escort.

If you are in Jiangdong, a soldier with good water quality is a basic skill. Even if you don’t know how to water, you will be able to water in just three or five months, and at least you will be able to dig a few times.

After all, Jiangdong's way of training soldiers is very simple. Just kick them off the boat directly. Anyway, when they are about to drown, someone will naturally jump down and pick them up. After two or three times, they will also swim.

As for some people who are usually unwilling to learn how to paddle their weights, they are really just like a weight.

But in Guanzhong, there are not many people who know water.

Zhang Liao needed someone to go into the water to take a look, but since it was a culvert, it meant dirty and closed. Unless the moat was blocked from all the imports of the Luo River, the water in the culvert would not be discharged cleanly...

But it is not so easy to block the outlet of the Luo River to the city.
To be continued...