Chapter 327: The Empty City Scheme (Part 1)

Sang Gui smiled and welcomed Dong Zunhui's troops into the city gate, and respectfully stepped forward to pay respect to him: "The last general, Sang Gui, the defense envoy of Daizhou, pay homage to General Jay Chou!"

Dong Zunhui was slightly stunned, but did not scream immediately, but said with a sneer: "I heard that the defensive envoy of Daizhou is Zheng Chuqian. When will it be replaced by you? What about Zheng Chuqian?"

Sang Gui smiled wryly and said, "Report to General, Zheng Chuqian had acquainted with the Liao army and attempted to betray the Great Zhou Dynasty. The righteous men and I didn't like him, so they worked together to rise up. After paying a heavy price, they finally killed Zheng Chuqian. The last general was not talented, and was just promoted to the defensive envoy by the fathers of Daizhou yesterday!"

Dong Zunhui was so wise. If Zheng Chuqian surrendered to the Liao army, he could only get the word "death". How could he make such a low-level mistake? The so-called Zheng Chuqian's surrender to Liao must be just a cover. Sang Gui and others must have been in trouble when they saw the profit and were forgot about their righteousness. If it weren't for leading the army to Daizhou first, Daizhou must have had the Liao Dynasty's battle flag now. Now, even if Sang Gui is held accountable, it would be useless. If civil strife is caused, the Liao army will be in vain!

Dong Zunhui then smiled slightly and said to Sang Gui: "Mr. Sang abandoned the darkness and turned to the light...not...staying up to his position is very admirable. Our Great Zhou will never forget Lord. Sang's loyalty!"

Sang Gui was shocked. He heard the warning in Dong Zunhui's words. Dong Zunhui was not saying it wrong unintentionally, but pointed out the situation specifically. Don't think you can hide it from me!

Sang Gui kowtowed repeatedly: "The last general and others will be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, guard the border for the Great Zhou Dynasty, and guard Daizhou for Your Majesty."

"It's so good!" Dong Zunhui then helped Sang Gui up and asked with a smile: "I heard that the Liao army's troops were about to arrive in Daizhou. I wonder if General Sang had any connection with the Liao army. Can you know their exact marching route?"

Sang Gui didn't care about slapping the dust on his knees, and shook his head quickly and said in an extremely sincere tone: "I am incompatible with the Han thieves in the Liao army, how can I... how can I..."

He looked at Dong Zunhui's face, and couldn't help but sigh and whisper: "The Liao army has less than 30 miles from here, with about 5,000 people. This is just the vanguard of the Liao army, and it is said that there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers behind it. There are rumors that Emperor Yelu Shulu personally led a large army to attack the two states of Youyan last month. Unexpectedly, the action plan was discovered by Wang Jun, and the Liao emperor suffered a great loss! The Liao emperor is only twenty-four years old now, and he is at the age of competing for strength and competition. He did not get any benefits in Youyan, so he wanted to get some benefits in the Northern Han-No, the pseudo-Han, so he personally led his army!"

Dong Zunhui gently patted Sang Gui's shoulder and said with a smile: "That's right. After all, you are a local and have a lot of information. Besides, you are responsible for defending the territory. If you know nothing about the Liao army's dynamics, then what else can you do to defend the defensive commander?! I went to read the newspaper and saw your Sang Gui's name there. I knew that you had also killed more than ten bandits with horses. Don't be looked down upon by me!"

After Dong Zunhui said this, Sang Gui's bent backbone couldn't help but straighten three points. He sighed and said nothing.

Dong Zunhui understood him very well and said solemnly: "Now that Your Majesty has led his army to break through the outer city of Jinyang, and is catching up with the time to transport the seized materials to the south and the people who depended on our army. Now even if the Liao army rescued in time and saved the inner city of Liu's father and son, can Liu Chong still regain his mighty power? Don't dream! Fighting war is about comprehensive national strength, and what is the basis for the prosperity of a country? People! Liu

Even if Chong saved the empty small Northern Han country, what else can he do in the future? He either sighed every day or was always sad! The Northern Han Dynasty is over, as long as he doesn't want to be buried with the Northern Han, you have to give up on our Great Zhou! Don't talk about the stupid words of seeking the Liao Kingdom, you don't know that the Liao army is cruel, and aren't you afraid that others will poke your backbone?! Even if you pretend not to hear it, you ask yourself at midnight, do you dare to say that you are worthy of your ancestors?!"

Sang Gui couldn't help asking, "Then what should I do? General Dong, I will tell you the truth. Although we Daizhou people are unwilling to let the Liao army be arrogant, they will not shed blood and sacrifice for outsiders. We just want to protect our own Daizhou!"

Dong Zunhui sneered, "Do you think it's possible? I tell you the truth, you know the military discipline of the Liao army. If they really enter Daizhou, burning, killing, looting will definitely be inevitable. In the future, the herdsmen will be able to herd horses and herd sheep in Daizhou city! Our Great Zhou army discipline is strict. Although we cannot stick to this Daizhou, we are willing to cooperate with you to evacuate Daizhou and leave an empty city for the Liao army. The trees are moved to die and people live. Should we stay here to beg for forgiveness from the Liao army, or follow us to a new future, you can choose yourself!"

Sang Gui was a little moved, but still a little worried. He asked in a low voice: "Will the Liao army give the people time to go south?"

Dong Zunhui felt very happy and finally convinced Sang Gui. It was really hard to work. Dong Zunhui said sincerely: "We need to work together to fight for this opportunity for survival for the people!"

Sang Gui looked at Dong Zunhui with a sincere face, sighed and finally agreed. In fact, Sang Gui didn't want to surrender to the Liao army, after all, his grandparents died when the Liao army headed south. Most people in Daizhou City had a deep feud with the Liao army, which is why the people responded when Zheng Chuqian resisted the Liao army that day.

Sang Gui immediately announced the movement of the south to the people and told everyone that the Liao army was coming. Most of the people sighed and packed up their parcels, and followed the soldiers to retreat weakly. Everyone was cursing the soldiers of Daizhou in their hearts and cursing the Daizhou defense envoy: Is it easy to leave their hometown? You collect so many taxes from us every year, and when it comes time to use you, why are you so incompetent?! Bah!

While cursing, everyone walked towards the south gate. When everyone reached the south gate, they found that the battle flags of Dong Zunhui and Sang Gui were still standing on the south gate tower. A familiar soldier said proudly: "My general and General Dong guard Daizhou together to protect everyone from retreating!"

When the people heard this, they were very moved and stuffed the dried dates and apricots that they wouldn't bear to eat on weekdays into the hands of the soldiers guarding the city.

The soldiers were very embarrassed. Everyone was a little used to eating a king meal on weekdays. Suddenly, they met a commoner who didn't want money and didn't scold others. They always felt strange in their hearts. Many soldiers felt a little ashamed and determined to do their best, never surrender easily, let alone retreat easily.

Just as everyone was affectionately interpreting the military and civilian family, a scout came quickly and hurriedly reported: "The Liao army scout is still ten miles away!"

Sang Gui looked at each other with his close friends, and hurriedly asked Dong Zunhui for instructions: "General Dong, do you think we should act?"

When the matter was about to come, Dong Zunhui was not polite and immediately ordered loudly: "Spread out all the scouts to find out the scale and speed of the Liao army, and at the same time, killing the scouts of the Liao army in the south of Daizhou City, so that they can't figure out the details of our Daizhou, and even less know that the people of our Daizhou are evacuating!"

The scouts in Daizhou were not willing to ask Sang Gui for instructions and quickly took the order to attack. Dong Zunhui said to Sang Gui again: "Do you have anyone under your command who is proficient in Liao dialect? You should immediately write a surrender letter and send someone to the Liao army camp. If you can delay a little time, it will be a little longer. Of course, it would be great if you can bewitch the leader of the Liao army into the city and speak!"

Sang Gui nodded, immediately ordered someone to get a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and hurriedly wrote a letter. He called his brother-in-law and asked him to take the letter to the Liao military camp.

Dong Zunhui said to Sang Gui again: "Close the east and west gates. After the people evacuated, close the south gate and wait for the Liao army. At the same time, all the crossbows and archers in the army were concentrated to ambush the north gate and wait for the arrival of the Liao army."

Sang Gui hurriedly led people to the north gate to prepare. Dong Zunhui called Zhang Yi over again, quietly ordered him to lead more than a hundred soldiers out of the city immediately and prepare for what he had arranged. As for Ma Dehai, Cao Quan and others, they wiped their weapons and prepared to fight the Liao army.

Soon, the scout sent news that there were about 4,000 enemies in front of him, but did not drive away too many cattle and sheep. It was obvious that he had decided to eat Daizhou.

When everyone heard this news, they were very indignant, especially Sang Gui, who had secretly contacted the Liao army, scolded the Liao army for being untrustworthy. Some time ago, although Sang Gui and others had made up their minds to surrender, they repeatedly begged the Liao army envoy, hoping that they would not enter Daizhou and not harass the people. At that time, the envoy agreed very readily, saying that as long as Daizhou surrendered to the Liao Kingdom, the Liao army would bring its own food and would never enter the city at will. Now it seems that the envoy was really untrustworthy.

About an hour later, the Liao soldiers tied Sang Gui's brother-in-law and escorted him to Daizhou. When the Liao army walked to the northern gate of Daizhou, they were very surprised. They saw that the northern gate of Daizhou was wide open. There was no defender on the city, but there were flags everywhere on the city tower! What was going on?!

It’s a pity that Luo Guanzhong will be born many years before he will be born. The most important military textbook for ethnic minorities has not been born yet. The Liao army must not know that this is an empty city plan. Look at me, and I look at you, and you are all frightened by this strange situation, and no one is willing to enter the city first.

When the Liao soldiers waited for about half a quarter of an hour, a commander came over with a proud horse, swung the whip at these timid cowards and started to slap them. The Liao soldiers did not dare to resist, so they could only hold their heads and hit them hard.

After a while, the commander was exhausted and was riding a horse into the city. His guards were also very proud, and raised their chins to the sky about thirty degrees, entering the city as if no one was around. So, they walked into the ambush circle of the Daizhou defenders in a big way, and listened to the rolling stones flying together, crossbows, arrows, bows and arrows, and in a short while, the commander's head hung on the city tower! But the south gate was silent again, like a giant beast with a big mouth...

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Chapter completed!