At dawn, the footsteps of the patrolling soldiers outside the tent faded away, and a majestic wind blew, and the tent curtain was blown up slightly.

Lin Jinghui, who was sitting on the cushion, opened his eyes, and there was already a man in black standing in the tent, who was the phantom of the secret agent who was sent by him to infiltrate the city two hours ago to investigate the error in the intelligence.

"Plus the Commander!" The phantom clenched his fists and bowed slightly.

Lin Jinghui asked, "Found it?" ”

"Yes, my subordinates sneaked into the city and killed a soldier, disguised as a soldier and mixed into the defenders and touched the vicinity of the East City Gate Tower, touched a few tongues and interrogated them, but they didn't ask for any useful news, and happened to meet a general surnamed Dong, and his subordinates caught him, knocked him unconscious and carried him to an empty house in the city to use a little means, and finally asked the whole story!"

According to his confession, Guo Li was killed by Chen Xian as early as the night before yesterday on charges of colluding with our army, Chen Xian incorporated Guo Li's soldiers and horses, and when Guo Li's mansion was raided, a staff member was greedy for life and afraid of death, and confessed that Guo Li's letter to His Majesty was written by him, and explained that Guo Li's agreement with our army in the letter was made outside the East City Gate last night, and Chen Xian calculated it······

"As for the information that the commander received before, it was released by Chen Xian, and the 385 and 633 details you sent were all caught by Chen Xian's people at the same time, and after some brutal interrogation, the 385 explained the way to deliver the news!"

After hearing this, Lin Jinghui sighed: "Careless, careless!" ”

"There is one more thing, now Chen Xian is in charge of Chengdu City, and even Ye Tongzhang listens to him!"

"What the hell is going on? Those officials in the city have no power? ”

Lin Jinghui was silent for a long time after listening to the phantom's words, "······ Alright, you go down and rest, it's dawn, and I should go to your majesty to get my life!" ”

When Lin Jinghui came to the tent, Zhao Junsheng had already gotten up and was exercising outside the tent, he didn't dare to disturb, he stood in the distance and waited quietly.

For a full hour, Zhao Junsheng had just finished his morning exercise, and Lin Jinghui had stood motionless for an hour.

When Zhao Junsheng finished his morning exercise and was wiping his sweat, the eunuch Kang Yide reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Commander Lin has been waiting for Your Majesty over there for an hour!" ”

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and looked, "Let him come over!" ”

"No!" Consort agreed, and hurriedly walked over.

Lin Jinghui followed Kang Yide and came over to salute: "Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Why are you coming here so early in the morning?" Something to report? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the wrong information has been clarified!"

"Oh? It's been an hour since you came here, and it's only been about three hours since midnight, and it only took you less than two hours to find out the truth of the matter, and the efficiency is still good! Say, what the hell is going on? ”

Lin Jinghui immediately told the phantom what he had found.

After listening to this, Zhao Junsheng was silent for a long time, and only after a while did he say: "This Chen Xian is really good at making trouble!" ”

Lin Jinghui said again: "Your Majesty, there is another matter, according to investigation, some of the main officials in the city were ordered by Chen Xian to be killed, on the grounds that they all intended to surrender to our army!"

Zhao Junsheng's pupils shrank, "This Chen Xian is really ruthless enough, it seems that he really plans to break the kettle!" ”

Lin Jinghui also said: "Yes, the minister also has a hunch, this Chen Xian is afraid that he really has the courage to defend to the end!" ”

Zhao Junsheng got up and walked around with his hands behind his back, stopped after walking for a while and asked, "How did you find out the problem of intelligence errors in such a short period of time?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister sent the phantom, one of the best agents in martial arts among the black-clothed guards, to sneak into the city and capture one of Guo Li's generals, and only after interrogating this person did he learn the truth!"

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a moment and asked: "Since this phantom has the ability to easily infiltrate the city and obtain relevant information, then he should have the ability to infiltrate the city again, I want him to explore and burn the granaries of the defenders in the city, if not all of them, at least half of them will be burned!" ”

Lin Jinghui clenched his fists and bowed and said, "Yes, when the minister goes back, he will give the phantom an order, let him act as soon as possible and act with the camera!" ”

After breakfast, the ministers came to the Shuai tent one after another, and they all had to be present to follow Zhao Junsheng when they were going to march for the departing army later.

At this time, a small colonel walked in quickly and reported to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, the army is ready, General Su asked the colonel to come over and ask Your Majesty and the generals to do a great job for the soldiers!" ”

"Zhuqing, let's go!" Zhao Junsheng said a word to everyone, got up and walked out, and all the ministers, ministers, and generals followed behind in turn to advance towards the assembly place of the army.

Soon, everyone came to the swearing-in platform in front of the army, and the salute shouted: "Your Majesty has arrived—"

The soldiers of the black-pressed army bowed down one by one and shouted: "See Your Majesty-"

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand and shouted: "All the soldiers are flat!" ”

Everyone looked at the oath-taking platform in unison, only to hear Zhao Junsheng say loudly: "Last night, we fell into the plan of the defenders at the East City Gate and lost 2,000 men and horses, I am very heartbroken, they are all born to their parents, they are all good soldiers!" The defenders are stubborn, but it's just their death throes and they won't last long! ”

"This time, I decided to attack other towns first, completely isolate the defenders in Chengdu City, leave them isolated, let them fear, let them lose hope, there is no hope, there is no need to defend this Chengdu City, their morale will inevitably fall, and then it will be the best time for us to attack the city!"

"Someone, bring wine!"

Jar after jar of wine was brought over, and soon every soldier poured a bowl.

Zhao Junsheng took a bowl of wine brought by a royal guard next to him, he raised the wine bowl and said loudly: "Soldiers, dry this bowl of wine, I wish you and the others a victorious and triumphant return, do it!" ”

"!" Everyone got up and shouted, and drank it all.

Zhao Junsheng raised the corner of his mouth next door and wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, raised his hand and waved to the right: "All the armies set off in turn!" ”

One by one, the soldiers and horses left the camp one by one.

This time, a total of five troops were sent out, each with 3,000 men and horses, who would attack in different directions, and they also took with them a lot of siege equipment and craftsmen when they set out.

In addition to these five troops, there are also three cavalry teams of 1,000 people, who will go to the predetermined position and station, once these five troops and horses attack the city and have the defenders of the neighboring towns to come to the rescue, the role of these three thousand cavalry teams is to block the enemy's rescue force.

Su Ji, who was in charge of the battle command of this matter, stayed in the camp outside the city, and he was fully responsible for the battle and set up a separate commander's account.

The Song generals Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang, who were defending the city of Chengdu, thought that the Qianjun had suffered such a big loss at the East City Gate and would definitely launch an attack the next day, but they were wrong, and Zhao Junsheng suppressed the anger in his heart and did not attack the city.

The casual appearance of the cadres made Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang have a very bad premonition, and the calmer the cadres outside the city, the more uneasy they became.

On the night of the third day after the departure of the Fifth Route Army, a fire suddenly broke out in the city, and there was more than one fire, and three locations were on fire one after another, only two moments apart.

After the fire ignited, Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang's faces changed greatly, and they immediately sent people to put out the fire, and they also realized that there were still cadres in the city, and now they were burning their granaries.

Chen Xian also took precautions in advance, divided all the grain and grass into five places to hoard, and sent heavy troops to guard them, but no matter how fierce the tiger was, there was a time when he was napping, and the Phantom of the Qianjun spy easily sneaked into the city again and found three places where the grain was stored, and set the three granaries on fire in turn at the first time.

After realizing the purpose of the problematic cadre army, Chen Xian immediately ordered additional troops to be sent to strengthen the protection and vigilance of the other two granaries, and at the same time sent troops to search the whole city again.

After setting fire to three granaries, the Phantom of the Cadre Army temporarily lost the opportunity to continue his crimes, and as the defenders searched more and more strictly, he could no longer stay in the city, so he could only leave the city at night.

The three granaries that were set on fire could not be saved, and the phantom burned them clean with a fire, this loss made Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang feel heartbroken, the food hoarded in the city was enough for the defenders to eat for half a year, but with the three granaries being burned down, the remaining two granaries were not enough to make everyone eat for two months.

Chen Xian had to appease his soldiers on the one hand and conceal the fact that there was only enough food for two months, and on the other hand, he hoped that the imperial court and other places in Sichuan and Shu would send reinforcements.

On July 6, the day after the three granaries in the city were burned down, Zhao Junsheng remembered something and called Li Bao to ask: "We fought all the way from Hanzhong, and captured some city officials and generals in those cities captured on the way, and how many people were unwilling to surrender?" ”

Li Bao replied: "There are still half of them who are unwilling to surrender, there are thirteen!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a moment and ordered: "Early tomorrow morning, gather troops and horses and drive outside the East City Gate, and escort those Song State officials and generals who are unwilling to surrender!" ”

"No!"

On the morning of the next day, thousands of cavalry of the cadre army gathered and came to the east city gate, and the cavalry phalanx was set up one after another, hunting with flags, war drums rumbling, and horns desolate.

The defenders at the head of the city were like facing a great enemy, and a large number of soldiers poured onto the city wall, nervously preparing to defend the city one by one.

Chen Xian climbed the city tower and looked down, his expression was much more relaxed, and he waved his hand and said: "Don't be nervous, they are all cavalry, and they don't bring siege equipment, they just scare people!" ”

At this time, a group of cadres and cavalry escorted a dozen people with wooden flail to a stone's throw away from the city wall.

On the city tower, Ye Tongzhang's eyes suddenly lit up: "Wait, those people seem to be Mianzhu County Order, Fu County Order, Luo County Order, Fushui Pass Guard, Xindu County Order······ What are you doing here? ”

I saw that the cavalry of the cadre army forcibly ordered these prisoners to kneel in the direction of the city tower, and the cavalry of the cadre army was behind them.

A cavalry master of the cadre army looked up at the city tower and shouted, "Do you know them?" Someone must know him! Everybody obey the order, kill—"

Spears were stabbed out, and the Song officers and colonels kneeling in a row fell in a pool of blood one after another, and the defenders on the city tower looked angry and scolded one by one.

The Qianjun Ya Lord shouted to the city tower again: "This is the fate of the officials and generals of the Song State who are against my big cadres and are unwilling to surrender, and it will be your turn soon!" ”