Wang Ran was happy to take the command. This was his first time to lead the army alone. After a little thought, he asked Huangfu Chaobo for 5000 sets of Yuan Shu army's armor, several Yuan Shu Army prisoners who had been surrendered, and the corpses of Deputy General Chen Jiu and several generals. He was ready to lead the army to Xincai city.

After the night fell, the general of Xincai city got the news that the army had been ambushed, because in the afternoon, some rout soldiers had fled back to Xincai. The general was scared out of his wits, and immediately ordered to close the gate. The army quickly climbed the city, and then sent people to Ancheng and Huainan to report.

At night, the army at the head of Xincai city was ready. As more and more soldiers fled back, the army was defeated, and the news that there was no news from the generals and generals was well known. The garrison in Xincai city was in a panic. In the evening, the defenders at the head of the city stare at the darkness outside the city one by one, for fear that in the blink of an eye, Anton's army will run out of the night.

In such a tense atmosphere, the first half of the night finally passed safely. However, in the middle of the night, a few miles outside the city suddenly rang out the sky shaking cry of killing, which made the garrison in the city all nervous.

The one who stayed in Xincai was a captain named Liu Bo. After receiving the news of the rout, he lived on the East Tower in plain clothes. The movement outside the city soon startled him.

After turning over, Liu Bo picked up his weapon and went to the guardrail of the city building to look to the East. Unfortunately, he could only see a large area of fire, and then he heard the cry of killing. Seeing this, he immediately thought, is it Vice General Chen who broke out?

Thinking of this, he quickly went down the castle and came to the top of the city wall. As soon as he came out of the castle, a village commander on duty on the wall came up and said, "general, you should be the brother who broke through the encirclement. What should we do? Would you like to go out to meet him? "

The taxi drivers nearby also looked at him with expectant eyes. Liu Bo stared and said: "nonsense, now the situation outside is unknown. How can you be sure that you must be the brother who escaped? What if Anton's army pretends to be him? Besides, even if it's really my brothers, do you know how many Antons there are behind them? "

After drinking and scolding, the head of the village was stunned. After a while, he stepped down. The taxi drivers beside him woke up and stopped talking.

Liu Bo pondered and said: "however, we have to make preparations. People will fall down to the city and light all the bonfires outside the city. Then we will order all the taxi soldiers to climb the city. If they are really our brothers, we will let them close to the city. But we should be careful that Anton army takes the opportunity to rob the city."

Soon, several thousand guards left hundreds of people to inspect the city, and all the others climbed the city wall. Because it was at night, Liu Bo didn't know what was going on outside, so he decided to arrange as many troops as possible at the head of the city.

At the same time, dozens of soldiers on each side of the city wall dropped ropes to the city, quickly ran to the distance of tens of steps outside the moat, and lit all the campfires that had already been ready. For a moment, all the campfires outside the city were clearly visible.

After they were all busy, the cry of killing outside the city was getting closer and closer. A moment later, hundreds of soldiers in their own clothes and armor ran towards the city wall with blood stains. They saw their clothes and armor broken one by one, and their faces were covered with blood stains. The leader, dressed in a Duwei's armor, was panting and running, shouting out of breath: "the brothers at the head of the city don't shoot any more arrows. I'm Li Zhe, the Duwei of the C Department of the left school of the rear army of the royal guards. Is general Liu Bo at the head of the city?"

Yuan Shu's imperial army is divided into the front and back, left and right middle and five armies, each army has 20000 troops, and is divided into four schools, each school has five departments. This time, it is the two schools of the former army and the latter army, with a total of 30000 troops. Huang Yi was the commander of the former army, while Chen Jiu, the second general of the latter army, was the Deputy General of Huang Yi.

And this Li Zhe is indeed the Duwei of the C Department of the left school of the rear army. He has been persuaded to surrender by Huangfu Chaobo, so this time Wang Ran sent him to cheat the city.

Liu Bo is a former captain of Huang Yi's army, who belongs to Huang Yi's confidants. Otherwise, it is impossible for him to stay behind.

Of course, in addition to Li Zhe, more than 500 soldiers from Tiebi camp came with them. They had all changed into yuan Shujun's armor. Also, Chen Jiu, who was dead, was carried by soldiers, covered with blood and lying on the stretcher with a pale face.

Seeing the appearance of the soldiers and horses under the city, Liu Bo has already believed more than half of them. Moreover, the Duwei named Li Zhe has some impression that there are only thirty or forty generals with more than one thousand troops in 30000 troops. He is not familiar with them, but has some impression. But there was still some doubt in his heart, and he quickly asked: "Li Duwei, who are you carrying, and how many people have broken through?"

On hearing this, Li Zhe said: "has the general come back? There are less than 2000 of us who broke through the encirclement. The Anton army pursued and killed them all the way. It is estimated that there are only more than 1000 of us now. More than 500 of us here are all the people gathered by the rear army. "

Speaking of this, Li Zhe suddenly said in a loud voice: "General Liu, please open the door quickly. General Chen is seriously injured. If he doesn't get medical treatment soon, he may be worried about his life. Besides, the brothers have been running all day and all night, and Anton's army is in the back. If he doesn't enter the city again, he will have to be folded here.""Is that General Chen behind you?" Liu Bo reconfirmed: "please bring some over and let someone confirm. There's no way. Please forgive me. General Huang gave the city to someone. Someone had to be more careful."

Li Zhe had no choice but to order: "you guys, take the general to the front. Be careful. Don't break the general's wound again. Now it's hard to stop the bleeding."

Several soldiers who were protected in the middle of the group carefully carried the stretcher to the side of the moat. Then Li Zhe raised the torch and went forward to light up the people on the stretcher, and then said to the wall: "general, open the gate quickly, or it will be too late."

Liu Bo took a look down the city, and it turned out that he was Deputy General Chen Jiu. However, his face turned to ashes. Just as Liu Bo was about to take a closer look, a group of soldiers came running behind them. The first one was dressed in a long costume. As they ran wildly, they yelled: "Duwei, hurry up, enter the city, Anton's army is catching up again, only a few miles away 。”

It seems that in order to confirm his words, a few miles away in the night, suddenly appeared a little bit of torches, and then the number of more and more, it seems that there are at least thousands of people.