Chapter 818: Prisoners Escape

The speaker paused for a moment and continued, "I heard that although Zongheng Tianxia's army also has 50,000 people, it seems that they have only captured Gushi today. To the east are Ruyin and Xiyang. Boss Chaobo is afraid that they can't defeat Li Feng's 10,000 troops, so he wants to unite the two armies to capture Ruyin first."

"Didn't you say that Xincai has 30,000 troops? What if they come to support?"

"What are you afraid of? Xincai is 200 miles away from Ruyin. It takes four or five days for the army to get there. In addition, when Xincai knows that our army is going to attack Ruyin, we may have already started attacking for several days. By then, when his tens of thousands of troops rush over, the opportunity will be cold."

"In addition, there is General Huang's Western Army attacking Ancheng. Although he only has 50,000 troops, if he sets up more tents and flags, Le Jiu will definitely be scared and ask Xincai for help. Ancheng is only a hundred miles away from Xincai. If it were you, where would you send troops to rescue? ”

The man in front whispered, "Then I will definitely save Ancheng first, it must be closer. Hey, Lao Xia, how do you know so much?"

"Hey, a friend of mine brought two thousand soldiers to participate in the war this time, so he is qualified to participate in the military meeting held this afternoon. He told me." At this point, he lowered his voice a few points and said, "Otherwise, why do you think we got the task of guarding the prisoners? You should know that our soldiers are all junior soldiers, and the highest is only intermediate."

"Let me tell you, those elite soldiers will set out tomorrow, rush to Gushi City, join the East Route Army, and then rush to Ruyin. After the army leaves tomorrow, these people will be imprisoned in the dungeon of the county, and our task will become guarding the city."

Then, the two whispered about some other things. Seeing that there was no useful information, Jiang County Lieutenant stopped listening, but was thinking about what use this information would be for him.

After a moment, he suddenly realized that today's situation was just the right time for him and his men to escape. If they were really locked up in the dungeon tomorrow, it would be difficult to escape.

Thinking of this, he stood up gently and walked towards He Quchang's bed. He wanted to wake up He Quchang and the other two, and the three of them could discuss countermeasures.

Unexpectedly, when he walked to He Quchang's bed, he found that he had sat up gently. It turned out that he had heard the conversation outside the door.

Lieutenant Jiang whispered to He Quchang: "General He, our chance has come."

He Quchang nodded and responded in a low voice: "In my opinion, now is indeed the best time to escape from this courtyard, but how can we leave Taiyang? You know, Taiyang City is now full of soldiers and horses from the Andong Army and the Yuzhou Army."

"I have a small courtyard in the south of the city, not far from here," suddenly another voice sounded in their ears, startling the two. When they were about to shout, they suddenly remembered that this was not the voice of County Magistrate Kuang? Turning to the side, he saw that County Magistrate Kuang had also stood up and was looking at the two of them.

Seeing that both of them were looking at him, County Magistrate Kuang said, "That courtyard was secretly set up when I was first sent to Taiyang. Because I was afraid that the Yuzhou army would attack Taiyang, I had people open a secret passage there, leading directly to a small forest by the river three miles outside the city, so..."

The two of them didn't expect that someone would send pillows when they were sleepy, and they were overjoyed. The three of them carefully discussed the details of how to escape. It's a pity that the two strangers seemed tireless.

They kept chatting there, making the three people who were waiting for an opportunity in the room secretly complain in their hearts.

Time finally came to the third quarter of the second day in the bitter waiting of the three people. The two strangers finally got sleepy. The two looked around and saw that the soldiers in charge of defense were all on high alert, so they whispered to each other about going to a room outside to take a break and have a good sleep.

After the two left, the soldiers on duty seemed to be slack. When the fifth watch drum sounded, several soldiers took a nap against the wall. The three looked at each other, and then the two generals gestured to each other, quietly opened the window, and under the cover of the night, they moved behind the guards.

In the past few days, the two had figured out the location of all the sentries, but they had no chance. Now the action was very smooth. In just a quarter of an hour, the two of them had dealt with all the twenty soldiers in the courtyard. You know, they are all high-level warriors, and it is very easy to deal with these ordinary soldiers of level 20.

Then, the two took County Magistrate Kuang with them, and the three walked towards County Magistrate Kuang's courtyard near the south gate.

They didn't notice that when they left the courtyard, a group of people suddenly flashed out from the darkness across the street. One of them said, "Shi, send someone to follow them and make sure they can escape back to Xincai."

"Don't worry, my lord. We have sent people to keep a close eye on them and will make sure everything is safe."

"Very good, let's go and proceed as planned!"

Kuang County Magistrate led the two to the back door of the courtyard. After quietly entering the courtyard, a noisy alarm suddenly sounded in the city. Then, teams of soldiers ran around in the city, and people could be heard shouting "Someone escaped" everywhere.

Seeing this, the three of them couldn't help but secretly rejoice that they finally escaped before the Anton Army found them. However, it was not completely safe now, so the three of them did not stop. County Magistrate Kuang was in front, and the other two followed, heading towards the entrance of the tunnel.

After half an hour, they finally arrived at a forest outside the city. At this time, the city of Taiyang County was already brightly lit and bustling. It seemed that the Anton Army in the city had begun to search for the three of them from house to house.

The three of them did not dare to stay outside the city for long, so they quickly left the entrance of the tunnel and headed west along the Tai River. They had to cross the Tai River before dawn. Only after crossing the river could they be truly safe.

After hurrying and hurrying, the three of them finally crossed the Tai River before dawn. The south bank of the Tai River was still within the influence of Yuan Shu's army, so the three of them quickly found a place to stay, rested there for an hour, and after breakfast, they rode their horses and galloped towards Xincai.

At the same time, in Taiyang City, Huangfu Chaobo's central army began to move out. Except for one thousand Yuzhou soldiers defending Tai County, the rest of the army all rushed to Gushi. After joining the eastern army, they continued the next step of the strategy: attacking Ruyin.