Chapter 899: Preparing to Defraud the City

In the astonishment of the soldiers of Yuan Shu, with the sound of several bangs, the Thousand Yuan Crossbowmen suddenly stood up from the woods on the mountain next to them, raised their crossbows and fired fiercely at the soldiers of Yuan Shu down the mountain. Arrows were like a dense rain, and more than a hundred Yuan Shu's troops who were caught off guard were shot and fell to the ground. At the same time, nearly a thousand soldiers appeared on both sides of Yuan Shu's army, blocking the way forward and retreating. Unable to advance or retreat.

After five rounds of arrow rain, a thousand crossbowmen were drawn but did not fire. A thousand crossbows were cocked and pointed at Yuan Shujun. Once someone was found trying to get up and escape, dozens of arrows were shot at him, killing those Yuan Shujun who tried to escape. The child shot into a hedgehog. Nearly half of a thousand Yuan Shu's troops had fallen to the ground, and screams were heard all over the road. The rest of Yuan Shu's soldiers were huddled together to protect themselves with shields.

At this time, the remaining two thousand or so Euphorbia warriors hiding in the woods rushed out of the woods and surrounded Yuan Shu's army dozens of steps away. At the same time, the Euphorbia warriors at the two ends also began to approach the center. As the five thousand troops slowly approached, they shouted in unison: "Those who kneel down and surrender will not be killed, and those who dare to resist will not be killed!"

"Those who kneel down and surrender will not be killed!"

"Those who kneel down and surrender will not be killed!"

. . .

"Clang!"

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As a soldier threw down his weapon, raised his hands and gave up resistance, more and more soldiers soon joined the surrendering team. Although some soldiers tried to resist, they were mercilessly shot by crossbow arrows, and then , all the soldiers gave up resistance.

The Euphorbia soldiers did not step forward rashly to surrender the prisoners, but ordered them to drop their weapons one by one, put their heads in their hands and walked out. Every ten soldiers who came out were tied up in a row and taken to the side for supervision.

Soon all Yuan Shu's soldiers who could move were captured, leaving only the injured soldiers hiding in the road. At this time, Zhang He ordered the Euphorbia soldiers to unite as units to check out the injured Yuan Shu's soldiers, and all those who could Those who were being treated were all carried out individually, and those who were dead were carried out individually and put aside.

At this point, all one thousand Yuan Shu's troops had been eliminated. The whole process only took half an hour. Except for dozens of soldiers who tried to escape by jumping into the river and were shot dead, the rest of the soldiers were already on the road. No one could Escaped without any casualties from the Anton army.

Zhang He stood on the hill, quietly waiting for his generals to tally up the results, and then prepared for the next step. Soon, a captain came forward and reported: "General, we have calculated all the statistics. Yuan Shu's army of one thousand soldiers killed 385 people on the spot, injured 216 people, and the remaining 399 people." They were all captured, and the captain who led the army was shot dead on the spot. Four of the Guo family members shot and killed two of them, and two of them were captured. The eldest son of the Guo family was slightly injured. "

"Bring the captured Qu Chang and Tuen Chang here." Zhang He said;

After a while, the two captured Qu commanders and several camp commanders were brought to Zhang He. Before Zhang He could speak, several people said: "General, please spare your life. I will surrender my crime."

Zhang He didn't say much and said, "You know what I'm going to do, right?"

"The guilty generals are willing to cooperate with the general to deceive the city!" Several generals looked at each other and said consciously;

"Very good," Zhang He looked at the sky and then ordered: "Take all the prisoners and wounded soldiers and we will go to Guojia Fort. By the way, bring the boss of the Guo family."

At this time, the boss of the Guo family didn't understand what was going on. What kind of rout was this? They were obviously the elite troops of the Anton Army. It seemed that the Guo family was being used by the Anton Army.

Looking at the dejected boss of the Guo family in front of him, Zhang He said: "Give your Guo family a chance to surrender and help me seize the city of Yulou County. Your Guo family will still be the Guo family, otherwise, huh..."

Looking at the thousands of troops in front of him, the boss of the Guo family dared not resist, and said quickly: "Don't worry, general, I will definitely persuade my father to surrender to the general and help the army capture Hulou City."

"Okay, you go back first, my army will arrive soon.

"Zhang He nodded towards Guo and said;

Guo Da led his remaining family members and hurried away under the escort of several Anton soldiers. He had to rush back to convince his father, otherwise, thousands of Anton troops would return to his family. Turn into ashes.

Fortunately, Mrs. Guo is a sensible person and has already known that this matter is not simple. Now that he saw his son coming back, after listening to his son's words, he immediately agreed to Antonjun's request. If you agree now, if the Andong Army fails to occupy Yulou in the future, your Guo family may be killed and exterminated. But if you don't agree, the Guo family will be killed and exterminated immediately.

One is possible, the other is inevitable. The old Guo family has not yet thought of swearing allegiance to Yuan Shu, the pseudo-emperor.

After a while, Zhang He led the army to Guo's Fort. Without saying a word, Mrs. Guo asked people to open the gate of the fort and invited the army to enter the fort. Zhang He didn't say much, and immediately ordered the army to enter the fort to rest. While controlling the entire fort wall and gate, he also ordered the Guo family to prepare dinner for everyone, and also asked them to free up several courtyards to accommodate the injured Yuan Shu. Soldiers and prisoners.

On the way back to Guojiapu, Zhang He had already surrendered more than a hundred Yuan Shu's soldiers. The reason why the army had to return to Guojiapu was because if they rushed to Yulou County now, the time would seem to be too fast. I'm afraid This will arouse the vigilance of the defenders; secondly, the soldiers have not had hot meals or dishes for several days, because there may be a battle for several hours later, and Guojia Fort is used to allow the soldiers to rest and eat.

Guojiabao quickly prepared dinner for nearly 7,000 people. After resting for an hour in Guojiabao, the army started to set off, leaving only 200 people to guard the prisoners and the wounded.

At this time, the sky had completely darkened, and it was already three quarters of the night, which was about 8 o'clock in the evening. After the army was ready, it set off for Yulou County.

The leader was Zhang Yang, Zhang He's cousin, who led a hundred soldiers of the Yulou City garrison and four hundred elite halberd soldiers. Of course, the dead captain would be used once, and their 500 people would enter the city as soldiers to escort the seriously injured captain back to the city. The remaining soldiers were left in Guojiabao and would escort the injured soldiers back tomorrow.

Two miles behind Zhang Yang's troops, there were a thousand cavalrymen. They would quickly support Zhang Yang's troops after they captured the city gate, while Zhang He led the army to follow quickly behind.

After more than half an hour of rapid march, the army finally arrived outside Yulou City at the beginning of the second watch.