The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

"Since you two have no objection, I will ask Lieutenant Li for instructions. Everything will be decided by the Lieutenant."

Tu Si and Zhai Chong were tied up in the house. Zhai Chong stared at Xu Yang with wide eyes, wishing he could eat his flesh alive, but his mouth was tied with cloth tape, so he could only whimper hoarsely.

He thought in frustration: "Hei Fu and his army, we are so incompetent that we were tricked by this army thief."

Zhai Chong admired Hei Fu's words "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger cub?" He believed that Hei Fu resolutely went out of the city to surrender in person in order to make the breakout smoother, to make his side more confident of victory, and to reduce the number of deaths. This matter cannot be done by a person who is not very wise and brave. Xu Yang is completely judging a gentleman by his own mean heart.

But Zhai Chong was helpless now. He and Tu Si's soldiers were stationed on the city wall. Now he was not around. Once Xu Yang got the tiger talisman in Li You's hand and commanded everyone legitimately, it would be all over!

Zhai Chong regretted it so much. Why didn't he realize the vicious heart of this man before?

Hei Fu handed the tiger talisman to Li You, but as soon as he left the city, Li You, who was still awake, had a fever and was half asleep. Xu Yang had just "visited" Li You and found that he was talking nonsense. Then he came up with the idea of taking Li You and the tiger talisman and escaping with a few confidants.

Xu Yang still remembered the defeat of the Qin army in Xiangcheng that night. He was stunned by the scene of the broken army and the scattered Qin soldiers. After that night, he didn't have the courage to fight to the death with the Chu army. He just wanted to escape back quickly.

This man is not good at external wars, but he is good at internal strife speculation. In Xu Yang's opinion, whether he can control Li You is the key to success. When Li You woke up halfway, he made up a lie that Hei Fu surrendered to Chu and led the Chu people to attack the city, and he risked his life to rescue him. Anyway, the people left in the city were dead or captured, and the rest were his confidants, so no one came to expose him.

After making up his mind, Xu Yang no longer paid attention to Zhai Chong and Tu Si, the two dying people. He asked a few confidants to stay here and instructed: "When I leave the city with the captain, burn the people and the house!"

Xu Yang was ruthless and would not stop until he had done it. It was better if they did not cooperate. The fewer people knew about this, the easier it would be to make the fake come true!

Then, Xu Yang walked outside and looked at Man, who was trembling after being controlled by his confidants, and smiled: "It seems that General Man is still aware of the current situation."

Man hurriedly said: "As long as Xu Jun can take me away from here, I am willing to obey Xu Jun's orders."

Man was one of the Nanjun generals they had gathered along the way. Because he knew that he was not a close-armed guard, he had always been a marginal person, taciturn, and polite to Hei Fu and Xu Yang. When Xu Yang had completely controlled the situation, Man wisely chose to cooperate.

"I am willing to be the vanguard of General Xu and disperse the soldiers guarding Li Duwei."

Most of Xu Yang's men were lost during the rout, and now there are only thirty or forty people available. I am afraid that they cannot compete with Hei Fu's men guarding Li You, so he needs a collaborator.

But Xu Yang smiled lightly at Man's request for a fight and did not believe it easily.

Because Man is also from Nanjun, he might be more inclined to Heifu. If he turns against him, Xu Yang can't bear the consequences.

"Man Baijiang, stay with me. Let your people lead the way and take us to the courtyard to welcome Li Duwei out!"

According to Xu Yang's plan, when they are fighting, he will rush into the courtyard with his confidants and rescue Li You who is not yet awake.

In this way, he can retreat without wasting a single soldier, and then leave a big fire to burn Zhai Chong and Tu Si to death, making the situation more chaotic. Let the Chu people slowly clean up this mess!

Just when Xu Yang thought he had a plan and began to prepare for the plan to capture Li You, a shadow quietly shrank back in a corner of the wall in the distance...

...

Heifu divided his men into two, half of whom were led by Huaimu to guard the Chu army on the top of the city; the other half were led by Dongmen Bao to guard Li You and not leave a step.

He also knew that it was okay when Li You was awake, but once Li You was unconscious due to the attack of the wound, whoever controlled Li You would control the power to command everyone!

In the courtyard, Dongmen Bao, Gong Ao, Li Xian and others were a little surprised when they heard Ji Ying's words.

"Are you serious? Zhai Baijiang and Tu Baijiang have not come out."

"Not only did they not come out, I also saw that Xu Yang left people to guard outside the house. I think both Baijiang were detained by him!"

Staring at Xu Yang when he went out of the city to pretend to surrender was the task that Heifu gave to Ji Ying. He did not trust this Baijiang who was not obedient to him and repeatedly raised objections. But was there any reason to kill this person? After all, Xu Yang was Li You's old subordinate and had much more seniority than himself.

As expected, as soon as Heifu left, Xu Yang found an excuse to "visit" Li You. After finding that Li You was not sober, he left in a hurry.

From that time on, Ji Ying followed behind with two nimble men, and then he discovered Xu Yang's plot.

"Now Xu Yang is mobilizing his confidants and the men of Bai Jiangman to come here. There are fifty of them, which is equal to us. They will arrive in half a minute. Ah Bao, you are the head of the garrison. What do you think we should do?"

The head of the garrison, Dongmen Bao, was a rough guy. Without saying a word, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Dare to plot against the law? Follow me and kill them all!"

"Yes!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was eager to fight. Not only were their order and morale well cultivated by Hei Fu, but in terms of ferocity, no one in the Nanjun soldiers could compare with them. Even Hei Fu praised them as "talented men", meaning brave men.

Li Xian, the sergeant on the side, said, "It's not good. What if Xu Yang sends someone to kidnap the captain when we all come out? Wouldn't that be bad? Besides, the generals plan to pretend to surrender and then lead the army out of the city to fight the Chu people. If the generals don't return and the city starts a fight, giving the Chu people outside the city an opportunity to take advantage of it, wouldn't the generals' plan fail? I'm afraid we will all be captured by the Chu people."

Everyone looked at each other, "What should we do?"

Li Xian touched his chin, pondered for a moment and said, "I have an idea."

Everyone also knew that although Li Xian was only a sergeant due to his title, he was highly regarded by Hei Fu and often discussed things with him. In the eyes of everyone, Li Xian had some strategies, so they asked him to speak quickly.

"First, the generals had long told us to be careful of this man, so we knew Xu Yang was up to no good, but he didn't know that we were prepared and had noticed his plot. This was a covert counter-intuitive move."

"Second, Xu Yang brought people here for two things. One was the tiger talisman. With the tiger talisman, he could command everyone legitimately. The other was Li Duwei. Bu Cheng said that the Duwei was now unconscious. Xu Yang might want to snatch the Duwei from us and then command everyone with the tiger talisman. Although we don't know what he wants to do, surrender? Or escape? But it's not good for the generals' strategy, so we must stop him!"

Everyone nodded in agreement, waiting for Li Xian's plan to break the deadlock.

Li Xian smiled and said, "Think about it, what if Li Duwei was awake at this time? No matter what Xu Yang planned to do, he would fail to hold several generals hostage!"

"But the Duwei didn't wake up." Ji Ying muttered.

Gong Ao, who was also a sergeant, said: "Yes, Bu Cheng said that the captain has started talking nonsense and can't be woken up at all."

"Whether the captain is awake or not, only we know, how can outsiders know?"

Li Xian said: "My idea is to send someone with a fake military order to inform Xu Yang that the captain has woken up and will summon him immediately and ask him to come quickly!"

"In this way, Xu Yang's plan can be disrupted and he dare not act rashly!"

Li Xian gestured: "If he comes, we will shut the door and beat the dog! If he doesn't come, he is disobeying orders. We can pretend to be the captain's order, hold the tiger talisman, and let Zhai Baijiang and Tu Baijiang's subordinates divide half of them to guard the city wall, and the other half will follow us to kill the rebel Xu Yang. It is better than fighting with these fifty people. With more people against fewer people, we can quickly annihilate them, and it will not cause chaos in the city and ruin the generals' plan."

"Good idea!" Everyone praised, and then decided that Ji Ying would notify the others on the wall to come quickly.

But then the question came again.

"Who will tell Xu Yang about this?"

Everyone was silent for a while. After a while, Dongmen Bao was about to pat his chest to agree, but was stopped by Gong Ao next to him.

"A Bao, what did the hundred generals say when they left the city? As the head of the garrison, you should stay here, how can you leave without permission?"

Gong Ao's words were still unpleasant. He, as a platoon leader, actually scolded his immediate superior in public. You know, the platoon leader has the right to execute the platoon leader...

Dongmen Bao was immediately furious, staring at Li Xian and Gong Ao, and shouted: "This platoon leader is too boring. One platoon leader is smarter than me, and the other platoon leader wants to compete with me in bravery. It really makes me angry. Do you know that I owe my life to the captain? If I don't pay it back now, when will I?"

Hearing this, Gong Ao laughed.

"Abao, Abao, you only owe one life to the generals, but I owe two! Who owes more?"

Dongmen Bao was speechless for a moment, so everyone decided that Gong Ao would go to fake the order of the captain.

Time was pressing, and Li Xian hurriedly wrote a sentence on the letter according to the format of Hei Fu's order that he had seen before, and stuffed it into a bamboo tube, but when he handed it to Gong Ao, he hesitated.

He had always disliked Gong Ao, thinking that this person was causing trouble everywhere and was not sociable, and sometimes even hoped that he would die in battle.

But now it seems that this person is not useless.

Li Xian was not very sure whether Xu Yang would be fooled and fall into the trap obediently, so most of those who went there would be in danger of death, and the risk was greater than Hei Fu's false surrender.

"Gong Ao, if it doesn't work... you..."

In that case, Gong Ao would definitely die!

"If it works, everything will be fine."

Gong Ao, a young man from Yancheng who is younger than Heifu, seems to have no idea what fear is. He took the sealed bamboo tube and refused the armor handed over by his comrades. He just hung the sword on his waist and stuffed a dagger into the side of his boots, then smiled with ease:

"General Bai said it well, if you don't venture into the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger cub! If it doesn't work, I will do what Zhuan Zhu did!"