Shangguan Xiu said seriously: "When two armies are fighting, the most fearful thing is to underestimate the enemy.
Even if the opponent is a weak brigade, we must regard it as a strong enemy.
If the opponent is really a powerful enemy, we should despise it."
Duan Qiyue didn't quite understand what he said.
At this time, a fast horse galloped over from the direction of Xingzhou.
Not long after, a Shadow Banner officer came to Shangguan Xiu, stepped on the horse and saluted, and said: "Brother Xiu, An Yifu has withdrawn his troops."
"What?"
Zhan Xiong, Duan Qiyue and others all frowned.
Shangguan Xiu also looked puzzled.
The Shadow Banner officer said seriously: "The rebels just burned the bodies of the dead in the camp, and now they are dismantling the tents in the camp.
It seems that they really intend to withdraw their troops and stop fighting."
"Brother Xiu, does An Yifu think that Xingzhou city defense is strong and plans to withdraw his troops and attack other cities instead?"
Zhan Xiong asked with confusion on his face.
Shangguan Xiu slowly shook his head thoughtfully, "It shouldn't be.
An Yifu has been fighting for ten days.
If he wanted to attack elsewhere, he should have withdrawn his troops long ago, so why wait until now?"
After ten days, both sides have suffered a lot of casualties.
Now that the troops are withdrawing, An Yifu's previous efforts have been in vain, and it is equivalent to making wedding clothes for the other three rebels.
Could he be so stupid?
After pondering for a moment, Shangguanxiu smiled calmly and asserted: "There must be a fraud in it."
"Brother Xiu, do you think this is An Yisuke's plan?"
"In ten cases, we should not act rashly and wait and see what happens.
If An Yifu really withdraws his troops, we won't have to fight this war.
If An Yifu's withdrawal is false, I'm afraid there will inevitably be a fierce battle tonight.
"Shangguan Xiu said with deep eyes.
The spies from Yingqi saw signs that the rebels were about to retreat, and the spies from Xingzhou City naturally saw it too.
The Xingzhou spies who went to investigate saw the rebel camp in a mess.
People were dismantling tents and packing things.
The Xingzhou spies immediately withdrew to Xingzhou City.
When they arrived at the bottom of the city, soldiers at the top of the city threw down a rope.
The spies tied the rope around their waists and were pulled up to the wall by the soldiers at the top of the city.
Then, the spy hurried down the city wall, mounted a war horse, and went straight to the county captain's mansion.
Beiqiu County Lieutenant Fan Hong was injured in a previous battle with the rebels, but the injury was not serious.
He just injured his arm.
He is no longer in serious trouble.
At this time, he was sitting in the hall of the county lieutenant, discussing with his lieutenants and battalion lieutenants how to resist the rebels' attack on the city.
While they were talking, spies hurried in from outside.
"Report to the county captain, the rebels outside the city are withdrawing."
"Ah" After hearing this, Fan Hong and everyone around him stood up in unison.
People were surprised and happy, and asked: "Is this true?"
"It's absolutely true.
I saw it with my own eyes.
The rebels were dismantling tents and cleaning up the stoves in the camp.
They also burned the bodies of the fallen rebels.
Now the entire enemy camp is in a mess."
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After the spies finished speaking, Fan Hong stood there for a long time, and suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed: "God helps me, and the sky has eyes to protect me from death, haha."
As he spoke, he looked up and laughed.
The surrounding generals also grinned excitedly.
Fan Hong laughed for a long time, then he suddenly stopped laughing and said seriously: "Xingzhou is the county seat of Beiqiu County.
How can we allow the rebels to come and leave when they want?
Everyone, gather all our brothers together." , we are going to strike back at the rebels this time.”
After hearing Fan Hong's order, everyone's faces were full of excitement.
For the past few days, they had been huddled in the city, being suppressed and beaten by the rebels.
They had long been fed up with their cowardice, and today they could finally express their anger.
The generals all said loudly: "Your Excellency is right, now is a good opportunity for us to beat up the drowned dog."
"If the rebels had not been able to attack for a long time and suffered heavy casualties, they would not have been able to withdraw.
The rebel camp was in a mess.
I have already said that we should attack the camp at night, but it is not too late now.
It is a good time to attack the camp.
Timing."
A broad-shouldered general said proudly with a big grin on his face.
An Yifu's rebels suddenly abandoned their camp and withdrew.
Shangguan Xiu and Fan Hong both received the same intelligence report, but their reactions were completely opposite.
The former stayed put while the latter decided to take the initiative.
Of course, the reason for this is also related to the positions of the two of them.
Shangguanxiu came to Beiqiu County for rescue.
He only needed to ensure that Beiqiu County would not be annexed by the rebels.
He did not necessarily have to fight to the death with the rebels.
If fighting could be avoided, he did not want to cause unnecessary casualties to his own side.
If the rebels could take the initiative Retreat, that would be a good outcome.
Fan Hong is the county captain of Beiqiu County and the supreme commander of the county's army.
The rebels invaded Beiqiu County in large numbers.
He has the responsibility to defend the enemy.
Now there is a rare opportunity to turn defeat into victory.
How could he miss it?
When the rebels were preparing to withdraw at night, Fan Hong came up with a trick and launched a sneak attack at night.
That night, at Haishi, Fan Hong personally led three thousand county troops, taking advantage of the cover of night, to quietly leave Xingzhou and go straight to the rebel camp five miles away.
Fan Hong was still cautious and did not bring out all the more than 5,000 troops in Xingzhou City, leaving more than 2,000 people to guard Xingzhou.
When they approached the rebel camp, the camp was brightly lit, but no one could be seen.
Even at the camp gate, there were only two rebels standing guard.
Fan Hong looked around for a while and whispered to the generals around him: "Send brothers over and kill those two guards for me."
Two county soldiers with accurate archery skills followed the order.
The two men were crawling on the ground.
When they were only ten meters away from the two rebels, they looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
Then, they both raised their crossbows and each Fires a crossbow bolt.
The two crossbow arrows of Pu and Pu hit the two rebels in the neck at the same time, but strangely, the two rebels stood still and did not move, let alone fall down.
The two county soldiers were startled, and immediately fired three more crossbow arrows. flutter, flutter The crossbows they fired continuously hit each other's vital parts, but the two rebels refused to fall.
At this time, the two county soldiers realized that something was wrong.
They stood up in unison and walked to the main entrance of the camp.
In front of the door, I took a closer look and saw that there were no rebels there, but two scarecrows wearing rebel uniforms and armor.
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When they saw that the guards were fake, their expressions suddenly changed and they hurried back to their own camp.
When they saw Fan Hong, they said in a hurry: "Sir, those two rebels are just straw men."
"Oops!"
When Fan Hong heard this, he stood up suddenly and exclaimed in shock: "The rebels have already run away.
Go into the camp to check."
As he spoke, he took the lead and rushed towards the rebel camp.
The rebel camp didn't even have a camp gate.
The county army commander headed by Fan Hong drove straight in and rushed directly into the camp.
Looking around, there are no traces of rebel soldiers anywhere.
The ground is covered with straw, which is spread out on a layer.
Some of the straw is scattered, and some of the straw is tied into half-shaped scarecrows.
It can be seen that the rebels are The army was also worried that the Xingzhou Army would come after them when they retreated, and planned to build thousands of scarecrows in the military camp to daunt them and cover their withdrawal.
However, the rebels retreated in a hurry and did not have time to make so many stabbings. scarecrow as cover.
"Sir, look, the rebel camp is full of these things."
A deputy general grabbed a half-pierced scarecrow and handed it to Fan Hong.
The latter took it, looked down, threw it to the ground, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "The rebels can't run very far now, brothers, follow me to chase the rebels."
Fan Hong planned to lead his soldiers through the camp to hunt down the rebels.
However, when they rushed to the center of the camp, where the Chinese military tent was, they suddenly heard shouts of killing and loud gongs and drums from all around the camp.
God, it's deafening.
The county soldiers were frightened by this sudden turn of events.
Their faces changed as well.
They subconsciously raised their eyes and looked around.
They saw outside the rebel camp, with lamps, torches, and pitch pines, all filled with huge crowds of rebels.
"No, sir, we are ambushed," a general shouted in shock.
Fan Hong was not a fool.
Of course he saw that he had fallen into someone else's trick.
He hurriedly ordered: "The rear team will become the front team, and the entire army will retreat to Xingzhou."
But now it was too late for them to retreat.
Outside the gate of the camp, there were all the rebels in full formation.
When they saw the county soldiers running towards them, some generals shouted, and the rebels formed a square formation, twisting their bows and setting arrows, and fired arrows.
If they were just shooting arrows, it wouldn't be a big deal.
The most terrible thing was that what they shot were not ordinary arrows, but rockets wrapped in oilcloth strips.
In response to the enemy's arrows, the Xingzhou Army could also form a shield array to defend, but after the arrows hit the ground, the dry straw on the ground would catch fire.
In the rebel camp, under the feet of the Xingzhou Army, there was a thick layer of straw.
Fan Hong and others thought it was the material the rebels wanted to use to make a scarecrow, but now they all understood that it was The rebels deliberately placed them in the camp, and they used fire attack tactics.
However, it was too late for them to understand this now.
As the rebels fired more and more rockets, the Xingzhou Army's feet burst into flames, thick black smoke came out, and the dry straw burned.
Many county soldiers had no time to react, and their trouser legs were already flying on the ground.
The fire was lit.
Their legs were on fire, and people screamed and fell to the ground.
It would have been better not to fall down.
When they fell down, it was not just their trouser legs that were on fire, but their whole bodies were on fire.
For a while, screams and cries filled the camp.
For days.
Groups of county soldiers were covered in flames, roaring and running out of the flames, trying to escape outside the camp to avoid the burning flames.
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But as soon as they reached the edge of the camp, arrows like raindrops flew from outside, and they were killed.
The soldiers who were unable to resist fell to the ground one after another.
Listening to the screams in the camp and watching groups of soldiers being burned to death and shot to death, the rebel generals all showed cruel and proud smiles on their faces, and everyone looked at one of them wearing silver.
The middle-aged man in silver armor raised his hands and said: "The general has a clever plan.
This plan to lure you into the urn and catch the turtle in the urn is really very satisfying, haha":