Because Yan Xing's guess that the enemy Yu Xian successfully repelled the enemy's light troops' surprise attack, the mountain people, who had some excitement and enthusiasm for the victor, had already changed from the state of being disgusted by the enemy's fear of being unruly, and had become a feeling of looking forward to the next battle and eager to try it out.

Yan Xing successfully led them to repel the enemy's attacks twice. Although he didn't know why he could easily defeat the enemy he had never dared to defeat in the past as long as he followed Yan Xing's command, this did not prevent the inexplicable respect and trust of Yan Xing from forming among the mountain people. Some mountain people even arrogantly felt that as long as they rushed out to fight, they could defeat the group of people who were gathered outside.

However, Yan Xing, who was trapped in the situation, knew better than anyone else that the small-scale empty city plan he had set up would not last long, and even the time for the group of people outside to launch a general attack was about to come.

The empty city strategy is a strategy that uses emptiness to conceal the emptiness and deceives the other party in a critical situation. In an unknown situation, the enemy can easily fall into a hesitant trap, or be afraid of being in a hurry to retreat, or be defeated by the opponent in the chaos. Shu Zhan of Zheng State in the Spring and Autumn Period and Li Guang of the former Han Dynasty have used this strategy. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Wen Pin, and Zhao Yun also flexibly used the empty city strategy under different critical circumstances.

However, the strategy of the empty city strategy is only a temporary measure after all. If the enemy cannot be scared away in time and there are strong support to rescue, or take advantage of the chaos to defeat the enemy, the empty city strategy will soon not see through the opponent. After all, most opponents will definitely not be idiots. Even if they are worried about ambush, the opponent can take action step by step and reduce ten times with one force. And the arrangement of one side will only continue to reveal clues over time until the opponent finds a fatal flaw and breaks it in one fell swoop.

Yan Xing has already experienced the combat power of the mountain people. Although the group of people and horses in Juwai were hit by surprise, they were mainly tactical mistakes. It was not that the soldiers at the bottom were weak and unbearable to fight. On the contrary, the cavalrymen who fought with Yan Xing were flying and accurate in the army.

It is useless to use a group of mountain people with untrained and poor equipment to attack a group of soldiers with many powerful forces and strong armored soldiers, even if Yan Xing has the courage of ten thousand men, he may be able to kill dozens of people, but he himself is also a human being, and he will be injured and tired. Often, a cold arrow from the enemy can take the lives of the warriors. As brave as King Xiang was also forced to commit suicide by Han Xin's ambush on all sides. Yan Xing naturally did not dare to be so arrogant that he wanted to take a group of mountain people to defeat a group of elite soldiers.

Therefore, Yan Xing had no way to take advantage of the enemy outside the settlement when he was in a panic, and the group of soldiers outside had already stood invincible. As long as he was taking steps forward, he would not make any big mistakes. It was just a matter of speed of time to flatten the fort and capture the settlement.

Yan Xing understood this very well in his heart, so he had to speed up the time to arrange the retreat.

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Outside the settlement, after arranging the troops to monitor the movements of the settlement, Xu Kun dismounted into the forest to rest. At this time, he felt that his side was invincible. However, the strange responses in the settlement made him feel a little afraid and did not dare to act rashly anymore. He must wait until the troops have rested and the siege hammer is completed, and the horses are pushed up all over, flattening the fort and breaking the settlement.

He leaned under a tree, thinking about the past few days after he led the army alone. At first, he was very careful and walking on thin ice, afraid of the consequences of defeating the army and killing the generals because of some small mistakes he made. However, after successfully killing several rebel soldiers who fled everywhere, Xu Kun became more and more proud. In the past, in Liangzhou, the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry, who had been rampant in Liangzhou, had not lost his armor and ran away under his pursuit. Just imagine that his elite soldiers attacked with the power of victory. Who else could stop these three auxiliary?

Xu Kun maintained this strong confidence and advanced all the way, chasing the north until he chased the mountain. Since Xu Kun decided to send troops to sweep the oxtail gathering, he has made many strange plans, but the results of the results are always completely different from what he thinks.

Xu Kun wanted to alarm the enemy, which made the people in the settlement panic, but he saw a quiet, alert oxtail gathering. Xu Kun wanted to attack the east and west, and broke through the village in one fell swoop. As a result, the mountain people in the settlement gave him a blow and the surprise soldier who regarded him as the winner and defeated him in an instant.

What I experienced today consumed Xu Kun's energy far more than the previous few days. The root cause was this oxtail gathering. Every time Xu Kun felt that his plan could win by surprise, but the people in the settlement planned and dealt with him again and again, disintegrating his offensive one by one.

This feeling of trying every means but unable to break through made Xu Kun feel strong frustration for the first time since he was in charge of the army alone, so he was eager to complete the siege hammer as soon as possible. He wanted to break through this settlement not far away immediately and see what was strange about this settlement that could withstand him for so long.

Just as Xu Kun was waiting anxiously, a military officer came over. Xu Kun looked up and saw that the person who came was his uncle's deputy general, and the commander of the 800 troops Xu Kun actually brought. Xu Kun was only able to control the army as soon as he was in his early twenties, but most of the people were his uncle's subordinates. During the process of taking power, he was naturally constrained by these old men in the army. However, although Xu Kun was a little dissatisfied with these old men in the army who had been through the Rong formation for a long time, he did not dare to show disrespectful words and deeds in person.

The deputy general came over to report that it was because the scout he sent caught a mountain citizen who had no time to escape back to the settlement. The mountain citizen was slower to escape back to the settlement. When he arrived at the settlement, the periphery was surrounded by Xu Kun and he had no way to enter. He could only wander around nearby, but unexpectedly, he was caught by the scout who sent.

When the deputy general saw that he had captured a prisoner in a settlement, he immediately sentenced himself. After torture, he received some important information about the gathering of oxtails. He knew it was of great significance and immediately came to Xu Kun, the nominal commander of the entire army.

"What, you said there is an authentic tunnel in the settlement?"

When Xu Kun learned this important information from the deputy general's mouth, he jumped up from the ground instantly. Seeing that the deputy general's face was unpleasant, he immediately realized that he had just lost his composure. He hurriedly covered up his expression and said hurriedly:

"Take that prisoner up quickly, I'm going to interrogate myself!"

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After the captured prisoner once again confirmed that there was a tunnel in the settlement, Xu Kun's face suddenly became dark and he held his hands tightly. He felt that he had been deceived by the people in the settlement from beginning to end. There was no one in the settlement. It was not that those people were ambushing and waiting for him to attack, but that most of them had already escaped early in the process of using the tunnel.

But if most people escaped, why could the archer on the corner tower be so sure? And how could the other party determine that he would attack from the east?

Xu Kun, who was carrying a bunch of doubts, then asked the prisoner about the authentic exit, but the mountain captain really didn't know that Xu Kun's interception plan could not be realized. In anger, Xu Kun drew his sword and killed the prisoner with one knife. He held the ring knife still dripping blood and said loudly:

"The whole army attacks, let me kill you!"

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Yan Xing did not expect that the other party would see through the empty city plan he had set up so quickly. He originally thought that the other party would take at least half an hour to make siege equipment such as siege hammers, but he miscalculated.

Yan Xing did not expect that the other party accidentally captured a prisoner and learned the existence of the fact that the tunnel was from the prisoner. He had already sent most of the mountain citizens back in batches, leaving a clear space for escape for the tunnel. He took the tiger head and big bull and other voluntarily to do the last thing to resist the enemy's pursuit.

They were preparing fire-driven objects in full swing, preparing to burn them when retreating, and use the fire to block the enemy's pursuit for them and eliminate all traces of clues.

Unfortunately, for the mountain Jiuren, the effort was squandered. At this last step, something went wrong. Yan Xing and others had just arranged hay and other things to attract fire. They were about to call back the guards and then ignite the fire and retreat. Unexpectedly, before they could take action, the settlement was already captured.

There was only a few rapid anvil ramming sounds at the corner tower, and the guards on the mountain people were shot through their throats by the enemy's archers. The enemy's troops turned over from all sides of the villages, and dense heads were revealed from the outside.

Soon, the village gate was also knocked open, swept into the enemy and rushed in with loud shouts.

Yan Xing, who was secretly yelling, also changed his face at this time. After he hurriedly ordered the fire to ignite, he fled behind the settlement with the twelve mountain people who stayed there. Now it is useless to hide in the tunnel. The enemy can choke the person who has no time to escape from the tunnel by just a fire and smoke.

Now we can only rely on the houses behind the settlement and fight against the enemy troops.

In a hurry to ignite the fire, the fire was soon discovered by the enemy troops who rushed into the settlement and extinguished in time. After discovering that there were still people in the settlement who had no time to escape, the enemy troops were greatly motivated and they all carried their knives and bows toward the periphery of the residential houses behind the settlement.

Yan Xing held a bow and arrow in his hand, and looked at the panicked mountain people beside him, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"A man who is good at wandering drowning, and a man who is good at riding falls. He each has his own preferences and causes disaster." The enemy's commander likes to send out surprise troops, but he was deceived by himself with false and falsehood. He hoped to use the empty city strategy to save everyone's lives, but he ended up taking himself in.

His father told him to "destroy his hardness and become softer", and the strict teacher also warned him not to "force it", but Yan Xing was never willing to surrender to the fate of the chaotic world. He wanted to strangle the throat of fate and tell this chaotic world loudly.

"My destiny is up to me, not to God!"

At this moment, the people surrounding him were divided into two rows outside the fence, and a young player walked out of the middle. Yan Xing, who was in danger, felt aroused in his heart.

So, this time, will you die here if you don’t believe in your life?
Chapter completed!