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In the early morning of March 15th, Chen Si, the general of the Beibo Army, appeared on the gate tower of the west city gate early in the morning.

Because he knew that the Wei army would launch an offensive against Changyi today.

However, his mission is not to defend the city, his mission is to... defeat.

Yes, pretending to be defeated and handing over Changyi County to the Wei army was an order personally given to Chen Si by Song Yun, the leader of the Beibo Army, after discussing with Chang Xi, the old head of the Chang clan.

Although Chen Si could understand the helplessness behind this order, he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Standing next to the wall, looking to the west, in fact, from the corner of his eye, Chen Si could notice the puzzled and confused expressions on the faces of the Beibo soldiers next to him. The expressions of those people seemed to be wondering about him. Chen Si ran there so early in the morning.

What is the gate tower for?

In this regard, Chen Si could only pretend not to see it, because he could not explain to these loyal Beibo soldiers: Today we will fight the Wei army, and our army must be defeated.

He couldn't explain it.

"General, the young master of the Chang family is here."

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Si's personal soldiers whispered in the former's ear.

Chen Si looked back and saw the young master of the Chang clan in the city, Chang Man, the son of Chang She, walking towards this side.

After waving his hand to signal the guards to retreat a little to both sides, Chen Si hugged Chang Man and said hello: "Mr. Chang."

"General Chen, please don't call me that."

Changman waved his hands repeatedly and said as if he was flattered.

But to be honest, Changman, as the young master of the Chang clan and a descendant of the royal branch of the Song Dynasty, can actually bear the honorific title of "gongzi" - but it is just a polite title used here.

Chen Si smiled, invited Changman to the city gate tower, and ordered his soldiers to guard outside the building.

At this time, Changman cupped his hands and whispered: "General, I came here this time to inform the general that "we" are ready..."

Chen Si nodded silently. Of course he understood what Chang Man meant. He even knew what Chang Man was going to do next. When the Wei army attacked the city, several prominent families in the city headed by the Chang family

Noble families will gather their servants, open the city gates, and assist the Wei army in conquering the county.

Of course, this does not mean that the Chang clan betrayed the Beibo Army. To put it bluntly, this is just a show.

A few days ago, Wei envoy Cui Yong had reached an agreement with the old head of the Chang family, Chang Yi. Chang Yi would serve as the actual leader of Changyi County after the "Song County Autonomy" - and then the court would also confer Chang Yi on a county similar to Chang Yi.

The honorary official position of "Gong" and "County Elder" facilitated Chang's administration of Changyi County.

On the contrary, the Chang clan must draw a clear line between them and the Beibo Army.

Regarding this matter, Changyi discussed this matter privately with Song Yun, the leader of the Beibo Army. Song Yun believed that if the Wei court really issued an edict to hand over Changyi to Changyi for governance, Changyi would become the first "autonomous" state.

county seat, then even if the Beibo Army withdraws from Changyi, there will be no problem.

After all, Chang Xi was one of the supporters behind the Bei Bo Army, and Song Yun would not worry about Chang Xi betraying them at all. On the other hand, if Chang Xi became the "Manager of Changyi" appointed by the Wei court, this would

For the Beibo Army, it is beneficial and harmless.

It is precisely because of this that the three parties, the Wei envoy, the Chang family, and the Beibo army, will join forces to stage the upcoming "Battle of Changyi" - this may sound ridiculous, but it is essentially like this.

"It's just that if this happens, Duke Chang and Young Master will probably get a lot of infamy." Chen Si said with emotion on his face.

Think about it, although the matter of "presenting the city to surrender to Wei" was the result of discussions between the Chang family and Song Yun, the leader of the Beibo Army, it is destined to be a secret that can only be kept in the heart, and this means

, those Song people who knew nothing about the inside story would be hostile to the Chang family, thinking that the Chang family surrendered to the Wei court for the sake of glory and wealth.

It is very likely that the Chang family will become traitors who are hated by many people in Song County after Nangong Yao.

After hearing Chen Si's words, Changman smiled bitterly.

Who wants to be pointed down the spine and scolded as a sinner who betrayed his fellow countrymen?

But today, the Beibo Army needs several allies who can obtain legal recognition of political status in Wei State to assist the Beibo Army in achieving true "autonomy" for Song County.

The two were chatting when suddenly, Chen Si's soldiers outside the city gate tower urgently interrupted: "General, there are traces of Wei troops outside the city!"

Because the inside story was so important, Chen Si did not even disclose it to his own soldier. Therefore, the soldier's tone was very anxious and uneasy.

"Coming..."

Chen Si and Chang Man looked at each other, then they stood up and walked towards the city wall.

Standing on the city wall, Chen Si and Chang Man looked at the Wei army in the distance to the west with solemn expressions.

After all, they had already found out the numbers of the Wei armies on the opposite side - Junshui Army, Chenggao Army, Fenxing Army, the Sixth Battalion of the Wei State's former garrison. It is no exaggeration to say that ten years ago, the entire Wei State was

Rely on these six garrisons to deal with every foreign war.

Although in recent years, with the Yanling Army, Shangshui Army, Suppression Army, Wei Wu Army, Beiyi Army, Shanyang Army and other Wei armies gradually emerging, it cannot be denied that the Sixth Battalion of the Garrison is still an "elite" level Wei army.

, is not an opponent that the Beibo Army can confront head-on.

At the same time, three Wei armies outside the city had arrived about two arrows away from Changyi County.

At the front of the team, three Wei generals, Li Qian, Zhou Kui and Cai Qinhu, stood side by side. Compared to Li Qian and Zhou Kui, who were more stable, Cai Qinhu was gearing up and was very excited, as if he wanted to fight at any time.

Have a fight.

Seeing Cai Qinhu's appearance, behind the three generals, the envoy Cui Yong, who came purely to watch the battle and watch the fun, had a strange expression.

He didn't think that a show-like siege would make a strong general like Cai Qinhu feel so excited.

So, he asked Zhang Qigong in a low voice: "Master Zhang, didn't you tell the three generals the inside story?"

Zhang Qigong glanced at Li Qi, Zhou Kui, and Cai Qinhu, and said expressionlessly: "The three generals are only responsible for defeating the Bei Bo Army and expelling them from Changyi. They do not need to know the inside story."

Cui Yong glanced at Zhang Qigong in shock, shook his head and said: "Master Zhang is still so... hard to get close to." At this point, he said half-jokingly: "I bet that Master Zhang will be captured by General Cai Hu afterward.

Beat him up."

Zhang Qigong glanced at Cui Yong, his face still expressionless. This made Cui Yong feel speechless and simply shut his mouth and stopped talking.

During this period, Gao Kuo looked at Zhang Qigong and Cui Yong with a half-smile.

He knew very well that in fact, Zhang Qigong not only concealed a lot of inside information from Li Qi, Zhou Kui, and Cai Qinhu, but even Cui Yong did not know all of Zhang Qigong's plans - Gao Kuo even suspected that Zhang Qigong was interested in him.

There is also something hidden.

Of course, Gao Kuo didn't care about this, because he knew very well what role this poisonous man would play next to His Highness in the future. As long as Zhang Qigong was loyal to His Highness, Gao Kuo could pretend not to know anything.

As Crown Prince Zhao Run's Zongwei, and long-term responsible for the collection of intelligence, Gao Kuo has reserved a position similar to the chief of intelligence, and is preparing to join hands with the Green Crows to build an intelligence network that monitors the entire Wei State - regardless of Zhang Qigong's future prospects

He took over the Black Crows, but in fact, there was no conflict of interest between the two.

After a while, Li Ji, Zhou Kui, and Cai Qinhu reached a tacit agreement, and the Junshui Army attacked the west gate, while the other two were responsible for attacking the north and south gates respectively.

After about half an hour, Li Wei estimated that the time was almost up, so he ordered: "Get ready to attack the city!"

Immediately, the "Woo-Woo" bugle sounded from the ranks of the dredging navy, which made Chen Si and Chang Man, who were looking at the west wall of Changyi, feel nervous.

"Let Chen, the elite teacher of the Wei State, learn from you!"

Chen Si secretly murmured something in his heart and secretly clenched his fists.

Although he knew that he must retreat in the end to ensure that Changyi fell into the hands of the Wei army, he would certainly not be reconciled if the city was easily captured by the Wei army.

He thought that no matter what, he must severely demoralize the Wei army in order to calm the nameless resentment in his heart.

Just when he secretly made up his mind, the commander-in-chief of the Jun Shui Army, Li Qi, had ordered the ballistae to launch an attack on Changyi.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

The ten ballistae were launched at the same time, and ten stone bullets the size of millstones were accompanied by a roar, and they hit the west city wall of Changyi County. For a moment, the Beibo army soldiers standing on the city wall felt that the ground was shaking.

, as if the sky was falling apart.

During this period, several unlucky Beibo soldiers were killed on the spot by a huge boulder, their flesh and blood being crushed to pieces.

"hiss--"

Changman took a breath of air and said in horror: "Wei State actually has such a sharp weapon?!"

He could finally understand why Song Yun, the leader of the Beibo Army, decided that the Beibo Army would withdraw from Changyi and hand over Changyi to the Wei Army, because even if the Beibo Army did not release the water, the Wei Army could still capture the city!

Beside him, Chen Si clenched his fists and stared at the ten ballistas in the Wei army, with a look of surprise and envy in his eyes.

Although he didn't know what that thing was, he understood that those siege weapons were better than trebuchets and catapults. In front of these things, the city wall was almost useless.

At this time, Li Ji, the commander-in-chief of the Jun Shui Army, was also very satisfied with the ballistae.

In his opinion, the power of the ballista may not be greater than that of the trebuchet, and even the improved trebuchet built by the Smelting Bureau is not comparable, but the accuracy and the difficulty of ordinary soldiers operating these sieges are.

Trebuchets and trebuchets are far from comparable.

However, Gao Kuo was not very satisfied and couldn't help but ride his horse to Li Wei and reminded: "General Li Wei, you might as well let the soldiers try to bomb these ballistas towards the same area of ​​the city wall... This

Far simpler than a catapult."
To be continued...