On that day, Liu Qi supported Gan Ning in front of the generals in the city, and hurriedly proposed a plan to raid Baiquan without consulting Liu Hong and Gao Hong.

However, after the generals left, the details of the raid plan were revealed to Liu Honghe, and Liu Hong was fiercely opposed, because Liu Qi's goal was not only to sneak attack and burn the rebels' grain and grass, but also to order the main force of Yongning's reinforcements to go deep behind enemy lines at night, set up an ambush on the road that the rebels must pass after the defeat, and wipe them out.

In fact, Liu Hong was also looking forward to the plan to attack Baiquan, but Liu Qi's appetite was too great, and he wanted to throw the long-awaited reinforcements into it, which made Liu Hong unacceptable.

Although everyone agrees that it is very likely that the rebels are hoarding grain and grass in Baiquan, after all, they are now seriously lacking in intelligence sources, and this judgment is completely based on speculation, and it is not impossible to let a small army of dozens of people try, but if you want to bet more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the whole city on it at once, not everyone has the courage to do so.

Until it is confirmed, speculation is always just speculation, and if the guess is wrong, how long can the defenders who have not seen reinforcements and lack food and grass support? At present, all the units of the defenders are supported by the idea that the rebels will be defeated, but everyone has eyes and ears, and after a long time, everyone can see what the situation is, and once the people's hearts are shaken, it will be an irreparable situation.

Therefore, Liu Hong insisted that Gan Ning could lead his people to continue the raid on Baiquan, but the Yongning reinforcements must not stay away from Qu Ren, once the situation in the city changes, they must immediately storm the ferry to open up the grain route and stabilize the hearts of the army and the people.

This is like gambling at the table, with a lot of chips in his hands, he can play steadily and slowly crush the opponent with strong strength, only a young and impulsive stunned young man like Liu Qi will throw out all the chips as soon as he comes up in order to win or lose in a battle.

But Liu Qi has his own ideas, first of all, he is still full of confidence in Gan Ning's judgment, the facts are there, Baiquan is obviously the most suitable place for transiting grain and grass, and the rebels are not stupid, how can they give up the near and far to give up the easy and the difficult?

Besides, Yongning's reinforcements, everyone is their precious capital, how can they be willing to be lost in the hands of a group of rebels?

Based on his own selfishness, Liu Qi still stubbornly began to implement his plan despite public opinion, but unfortunately there are two sides to everything, and the raid on Baiquan is a right bet, but it is a big miscalculation for the rebels.

From that day on, the rebels changed their unhurried pace and suddenly exerted their strength, sometimes attacking from the east to the west, first attacking one side to attract the defenders to move, and then suddenly attacking from the other side, or starting a feint, taking advantage of the slackness of the defenders to suddenly turn into a strong attack, or constantly beating drums and shouting but not attacking, waiting for the defenders to withstand repeated tossing and exhaustion to sneak attack at night, etc., all kinds of tricks came out one after another to make the defenders unable to defend themselves, and the city walls everywhere were in a hurry several times.

As for the counter-attack on the ferry, after two large-scale sorties were returned from a disastrous defeat due to the unfavorable cooperation of Yongning's reinforcements, no one reported any more hope for this.

On the ninth day, the rebels finally filled a moat north of the city at great cost, and the siege equipment was able to do its job, and the already overstretched defenders were even more exhausted, and the troops had to forcibly recruit the best men from among the civilians to help defend the city.

And the reinforcements have no main force, and they can only occasionally feint in the direction of the ferry to contain the rebels, which makes the defenders lose hope day by day, and even many children of the big clans have become deserters, and their morale has almost sunk to the bottom.

On the eleventh day, the rebels stormed the north of the city with the assistance of three boarding vehicles, and attacked the city again, Liu Qi personally led Gao Hong's troops and more than 1,000 people who had temporarily gathered to take advantage of the fact that the rebels were not familiar with the terrain and did not effectively control the occupied area, and broke into the foot of the city wall, divided the rebels into two, and resisted the rebels outside the city before the rebels in the city were surrounded and annihilated.

Since this day, Liu Qi, who was forced to be calm, could no longer sit still, and his confidence in the raid on Baiquan began to waver, and the generals in the city who did not know the truth no longer gave Liu Qi any good face because of the lack of reinforcements, Liu Hong and Gao Hong also repeatedly asked Liu Qi to revise the book as soon as possible and order the main force of the reinforcements to return immediately to save the situation.

At the foot of Baiquan Mountain, in the dense forest, Gan Ning stared motionlessly at the rebel camp not far away, silently calculating the time in his heart, and behind him were sixteen eager figures, about to act, everyone's hand holding the knife was drenched in sweat, but there was no fear in his eyes, but one by one he revealed desire and excitement.

At the time of the intersection of Chouyin (3 o'clock in the morning), it was the deepest moment of human sleep, and finally, seventeen black shadows moved, and the cold mountain wind completely obscured their footsteps, and they quickly passed through the dense camp under the leadership of Gan Ning, and from time to time someone stopped to get into the sentry, and then quickly carried out a short knife stained with blood and continued to run forward.

In the stacks of grain, in groups of two, they were pouring the oil they were carrying on their backs in a circle, pouring them one by one from south to north, and after pouring the oil, they quickly rushed to the camp on the other side, and dragged out buckets of butter and sheep fat and bundles of dry firewood from several large tents and returned to the middle of the grain stacks......

Gan Ning appeared with a human head that was still dripping blood, and ordered in a low voice: "Ignite the fire!" ”

The two team members immediately lit torches and lit the grain stacks in one direction in turn, and the other team members quickly lit all the grain stacks according to the prior arrangement when they saw the fire.

The fire began to spread unpleasantly, but the rebels all fell asleep in their tents, and no one realized that the catastrophe was coming, and the camp was built on the windward side of the mountain, and the wind was very strong at night, and there was no rain for many days.

It wasn't until the soldiers in a tent near the grain stack were awakened by the boiling heat that the other rebels were gradually awakened, and when they reacted to find the leader, they found that their backbone, Yan Feng, was already a headless corpse.

In the confusion, some rebel generals gathered their men and horses to carry water to extinguish the fire, pursued the enemy, and saw someone in the camp brandishing torches to send a signal to the hillside to ask, and Wang Man, who was untied from the rope, quickly raised the torch and shook it vigorously.

The rebels rushed out of the camp gate in a swren, chasing in the direction of Wang Man's signal.

The best time to extinguish the fire has long been missed, and now the fire is beyond the control of manpower, dozens of buckets of water poured on the fire but there is no sign of weakness, the non-commissioned officers in the battalion saw the brigade out of the camp, their hearts were even more panicked, more and more people fled despite the officers' scolding, and finally those officers also understood that the general trend had gone, and began to think about their own way out.

Everyone understands that the army attacking the Qu Ren is over, there is almost no grain in the front-line army, and it is barely maintained by the constant transportation between the two places by fewer and fewer people, and now the grain and grass are all destroyed, and it will not take a few days, and the tens of thousands of troops without supplies will collapse without a fight!

And they, if they escape back to Yufu, they will definitely die, it is better to hide in the mountains to avoid the limelight, if they can't do it, the officers and soldiers may be able to survive, these officers gave up their futile actions and joined the crowd fleeing for their lives.

And on the hillside in the distance, in the firelight, seventeen tall figures were admiring the flames of the burning sky at the foot of the mountain.

"Captain Gan, we've succeeded!"

Looking at his subordinates with a happy face, Gan Ning was also infected, showing a smile that he hadn't seen for many days.

The fire quickly spread to the hillside with the wind approaching everyone, Gan Ning then ordered to return the same way, and Zhang Man and the other four people were also luckily released, if Gan Ning's usual practice would have resulted in four people, but the four of them cooperated positively, and Gan Ning rarely let them live when they were in a good mood.

As for the fact that after the four escaped and more fleeing rebels explained the truth, the rebel army collapsed and accelerated, which was a surprise.

This way back and the way to come are still the same road, but at this time in the eyes of Gan Ning and others are very different, when they come, they are extremely depressing, and now when they step on their feet and look at them again, they look extremely majestic and magnificent, and everyone's hearts are full of fighting spirit.

It's a pity that in this era, there are no mobile phones, no telephones, and no radios, and the fastest means of communication is horses or fast boats, and it takes at least one day and one night to report the news from Baiquan to Qu Ren with fast horses, so Liu Qi can't immediately share the joy of Gan Ning and others, and the rebels who are constantly attacking outside the city of Qu Ren don't know this fateful news.

Liu Qi couldn't hold on, so he had to give up the idea of annihilating the rebels, and successively sent five messengers from different directions to sneak out of the city at night to contact the main force of the Yongning reinforcements to come back for reinforcements.

There is a way is a blessing to the misfortune is not a single line, that night outside the northwest direction of the city do not know which way people and horses fought all night, the sound shook the sky, the next morning the rebels raised these heads to the city shouted to know that the reinforcements of Brazil County finally arrived, but unfortunately the rebels had already prepared, to wait for work to ambush the reinforcements who had just set up camp, the reinforcements were defeated, and retreated a full fifty miles.

At this time, the generals were completely desperate, and Liu Qi also secretly said that something was wrong, two days passed, and the only hope - the five messengers who contacted Yongning's reinforcements did not hear back, I don't know whether they could not reply through the siege, or they had never been out of the encirclement at all.

Climbing the city wall, Liu Qi looked at the northeast direction, this is already the fifteenth day, it is impossible to have a miracle, Liu Qi only hopes that Gan Ning can retreat, and then laughs bitterly at himself, with Gan Ning's skills, even if the sneak attack fails, he will be able to protect himself, or think about himself!

"General Liu! Gao Sima! ......" The defenders leaning on the battlement saw Liu Qi and Gao Hong get up and salute, these days when the two of them took the lead in the battle, after the battle to comfort the wounded soldiers, and ordinary soldiers drank the same cold water and ate the same dry rice, especially Liu Qi helped the military medical officers to treat the wounded soldiers, I don't know how many seriously injured people who were given up by the medical officers were rescued.

Compared with those officers at all levels who are high on weekdays and shrink behind them during battles, all this moves the simple ordinary soldiers, and Liu Qi is like a shot in the arm everywhere he goes to reactivate the morale that is on the verge of collapse.

Liu Qi hadn't closed his eyes much for two days and two nights, but despite the dissuasion of Gao Hong and others, he dragged his tired body around to boost the morale of the defenders.