Chapter 2456 Burning Quyou City?
Chapter 2453: Burning Quyou City?
Quyou is just a small city, with few defenders and complete equipment for defending the city. The threat to the Qin army is very low and can be captured at any time.
In contrast, Baling is a big city with all kinds of guardians. If there are enough defenders, it will be a big trouble for the Qin army.
During the First Guanzhong War, Sima Yi was responsible for guarding Baling, and the Qin army failed to defeat him at that time.
So, after learning that Li Mu entered Baling, in order to prevent Li Mu from taking control of Baling completely, Wu Qi immediately abandoned Quyou and came to compete with Li Mu for Baling City.
Unfortunately, Wu Qi was still one step late. By the time he led his army to arrive, Li Mu had completely controlled Baling.
"Before meeting with the other two armies, we should conquer Quyou first."
Wu Qi said, then ordered three thousand troops to head straight for Quyou City.
Quyou has only more than a thousand defenders, and the strength of the three thousand Qin troops is enough.
As soon as Wu Qi''s army arrived at Quyou City, he received news that the garrison general Li Li wanted to surrender in the city.
"This Li Li is from the Li family. When he sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender, he said he would rather die than surrender. Why is he suddenly surrender now?" Yang Hu said inexplicably.
Zhang Xiuze said: "I will not be surprised by the current situation in Guanzhong, no matter who surrenders."
After hearing the two of them, Wu Qi raised the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and looked at Li Li at the city gate and the surrendered army standing behind him.
Li Li held the roster and seal in his hand, with a expressionless face on his face, and could not see any breath.
Behind him were more than a thousand defenders, who had all left the city at this time, which also made Quyou City an empty city, so naturally he could not resist the Qin army.
Judging from Li Li''s performance alone, the possibility of fraudulent surrender is very low, but Wu Qi is used to being cautious, and he will not relax his vigilance even at the last moment.
Seeing Wu Qi looking thoughtful, Yang Hu asked, "Sir, is there anything wrong with it?"
Wu Qi shook his head and said, "Yang Hu, you can accept the roster and seal on my behalf, and then test it out to see if this person is really surrendering or deceiving, and whether he is cheating."
"No."
After saying that, Yang Hu rode his horse to the city gate and went to talk to Li Li.
A long time later, Yang Hu returned with the roster and seal and said to Wu Qi: "Mr. Governor, I have tested my humble position. It should be impossible for fraud. If there is a fraud, Li Li would not allow all the defenders to leave the city."
Wu Qi stared at the wide open city gate and said, "Send someone to the city to check to see if there are still Tang troops hidden in the city."
"No."
Yang Hu received the order and then sent hundreds of soldiers to the city for inspection
"Hey, are you too cautious about our governor?"
"Yes, the Tang army has all left the city. It is obvious that it is surrender. What''s there to investigate?"
"It''s no big mistake to be cautious, otherwise do you think the governor is the governor, and you are just a big soldier?"
"that is…"
Standing in the scorching sun for a long time, some Qin soldiers began to get anxious and whispered to each other.
Wu Qi heard all these words, but he ignored them. He never influenced his judgment because of the soldiers'' opinions.
A long time later, the soldiers who entered the city to inspect returned and did not find any other troops at the city gate.
“Are I really thinking too much?”
Wu Qi thought to himself, and after a long time he said to Zhang Xiu, "General Zhang Xiu, you bring a thousand soldiers to disarm Li Li''s surrendered army and take care of it."
"This... Governor, since the Tang army has surrendered, if it still disarms, would it be too much? too..."
Zhang Xiu didn''t say the following words, but the meaning was self-evident.
Only the defeated prisoners of war need to be disarmed, and if they surrendered to the army, not prisoners of war, they surrendered voluntarily but were asked to hand over their weapons, this is a bit too far. Wu Qi naturally knew this, but he still insisted on disarming.
"If he truly surrenders, he will naturally not care about these things. If he refuses to surrender, he will definitely be ill-behaved."
"This... I obey the order."
Zhang Xiu took the order and left, went to discuss with the surrendered general Li Li, and asked the surrendered Tang army to surrender.
When Tang general Li Li heard Zhang Xiu say that when he asked the surrendered army to hand over the weapons, his face changed instantly and he began to fight with Zhang Xiu in an emotional state.
But Wu Qi and Zhang Xiu were just executors who gave the order, so naturally they did not have the authority to take back the general.
After Li Li fought for it, he knew that the Qin army could not be retracted and became famous. After a long time of struggle, he still ordered the surrendered army to put down their weapons.
"Mr. Governor, Li Li asked the surrendered army to put down his weapons. This Xi can''t be a fraudulent surrender, right?"
Zhang Xiu said to Wu Qi helplessly, obviously not understanding why the other party was so cautious.
This time Wu Qi was not looking for trouble and said to Zhang Xiu: "General Zhang Xiu, you lead a thousand soldiers to take care of these surrendered troops, and the rest of the troops were the governors to enter the city."
"No."
Under Wu Qi''s repeated temptations, the Qin army stood outside the city for two hours, and fighting the military posture was also a very tiring thing.
Now that we are finally going to enter the city to rest, the tired Qin soldiers immediately cheered and ran quickly into the city.
Wu Qi was still a little worried. He always felt something was wrong, but some people couldn''t say it, so he took Yang Hu to the forefront of the team and was the first to enter the city.
Although Yang Hu has not served under Wu Qi for a long time, when he saw Wu Qi frowning, he knew that he was still worried. So he smiled and said, "Sir, it''s a good thing to successfully take down Quyou City, but why do you have such an expression?"
"But all this went too smoothly, which made me feel that this was something that someone intended to arrange."
As he spoke, Wu Qi glanced at the edge of his eyes and saw the gray-black stones paved on the ground, his brows frowned even tighter.
"Send the order immediately and the entire army withdraws from Quyou City." Wu Qi ordered coldly.
Yang Hu was stunned and asked in confusion: "But Master Governor, why is this? We have just entered the city."
Wu Qi went to dismount, deducted the stones from the ground, and said, "Did you see what this is?"
"Stone."
“This is carbon.”
"Carbonite?"
Yang Hu exclaimed, and after careful observation, he said solemnly: "It''s really charcoal."
When I looked at the city, there were such charcoal everywhere, and I felt the cool breeze coming from behind.
This is not only a trap, but also a trap specially designed for the Qin army after a long period of careful planning.
The carbonite that is everywhere alone cannot be laid in a short time.
The Tang army had planned it for a long time. The fraudulent surrender, leaving the city, and disarming the army were just to make the Qin army careless.
Once all the Qin troops enter the city and are not prepared, Quyou will immediately turn into a fire city and swallow up all the Qin troops at the city gate.
"So cruel."
Yang Hu said in a trembling voice, feeling very afraid of this later.
If Wu Qi hadn''t been cautious enough and meticulous enough, he would have been one of the burned members.
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(This chapter ends)