Du Yang's advice provided Yang Rui with a good idea. Originally, Yang Rui could have struggled to take over Pingyang County, but this might reduce many unnecessary casualties. Yang Rui was of course happy to accept Du Yang's suggestion.

"System prompt: Dear player Lieyang, you have triggered the follow-up task of Heyin County Magistrate Du Yang. If you accept Du Yang's advice and then kill Ping County Magistrate, you can get Du Yang's follow-up task. Do you accept Du Yang's advice? Please choose!"

Just when Yang Rui was about to respond directly, he unexpectedly received another system prompt. It turned out that Du Yang actually sent a follow-up task to Yang Rui on the condition of killing the Pingyang County Magistrate. Of course, Yang Rui quickly chose to accept it.

Although it is not clear whether Du Yang and others can be ranked as historical figures, the other party is a talented person after all, and it is good to be able to get one more person to help him. Therefore, Yang Rui accepted it without hesitation, and Yang Rui originally wanted to attack Pingxian.

So Yang Rui then rectified all matters in Heyin County and worked with craftsmen to repair the damaged Dongcheng Gate, he summoned Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Chen Lin, Wu'anguo soldiers, and Duyang County Magistrate discussed in detail the matter of seizing Pingxian County.

"This matter is easy to be anxious but not easy to slow down. I am afraid that everyone will know the inside story of the loss of Heyin County. Now, the four soldiers of Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and Wu'an Guo will take 30,000 Iron Guards and 6,500 Warriors out of the city first, and bring all the siege equipment in Heyin County. They will rush to the forests on the northern foot of Beimang Mountain to ambush and station them. When I arrive later, I will act together.

Chen Lin commanded 10,000 iron guards and all other soldiers, including archers, and assisted the Duyang County Magistrate to protect Heyin County. He just needed to stick to it and not fight easily. He could protect the city and wait for the results of Pingxian County.

The magistrate of Duyang County needs to write a letter to provoke the magistrate of Pingxian County. He explains the matter of changing flags and changing flags, and threatens the other party with words, and advises him to surrender as soon as possible. After the letter is prepared, he immediately ordered the fast horse to pass the letter to Pingxian County. The relationship between Duyang County Magistrate and the other party is in a state of power, which is enough to anger the other party.

All the thieves followed me to investigate the news around Ping County. If the magistrate of Ping County learned the content of the letter, if I send troops, I will go to the northern foot of Beimang Mountain to command the soldiers of Zhang Ning, Gao Shun and other troops. What do you think?"

Based on the results of the discussion, Yang Rui made detailed arrangements for the secret capture of Ping County and gave instructions to everyone present.

"It depends on the general's instructions!"

Everyone, including Du Yang, immediately replied, and went to prepare for the corresponding matters.

However, after Yang Rui entered Heyin County, he did not mention the affairs of the Young Emperor Liu Bian and Empress Dowager He in the army, and only placed them in the inner courtyard for custody. However, the 30 female officials had a relatively large target. However, although Du Yang discovered this, he did not say it. He probably only thought it was Yang Rui's family, servants, etc.

Du Yang's letter was first sent out before dark. As the night fell, Zhang Ning, Gao Shun and other generals also set out to the northern foot of Beimang Mountain. The thieves' leaders had long been sent out by Yang Rui. Everything was arranged. Yang Rui drove the Daofeng Fei Carpet out of Heyin County.

Yang Rui first caught up with the 30,000 troops led by Zhang Ning, Gao Shun and others, and investigated and led the way in front to eliminate the small groups of patrol soldiers of Dong Zhuo's camp they encountered along the way. At the same time, he also avoided the villages and towns along the way. The villages and towns that could not be avoided were directly surrounded by Yang Rui's troops and captured to avoid exposing the traces of the march.

After three hours, Yang Rui led Zhang Ning, Gao Shun and other 30,000 people to successfully arrive at the northern foot of Beim Mountain, and found a relatively empty valley to stay in Xiazhai. He waited for Pingxian County to change and immediately went to attack the city. This place was less than half an hour away from Pingxian County.

After settling down the northern foot of the Mang Mountain, Yang Rui remembered his location and went to the near Pingxian County Town to find the thief leader he sent, and at the same time investigated the situation in Pingxian County. At this time, the letter sent by the Duyang County Magistrate should have been passed to the Pingxian County Magistrate, but it was not clear whether he would really take the bait.

Ping County is also known as Xiaoling County. At this time, the county magistrate's surname was Zhang. According to the Duyang County Magistrate, the Zhang County Magistrate of Ping County had been a feud with Duyang County Magistrate for a long time. The reason for the initial feud seemed to be related to women. Until Zhang County Magistrate mentioned to Dong Zhuo that Duyang's nephew Han Hao was engaged in under the prefect of Wang Kuang, the relationship between the two was as powerful as the same as the fire!

Since Dong Zhuo once told the Zhang County Magistrate to secretly monitor Du Yang, the matter was used by Zhang County Magistrate as a threat to Du Yang, Du Yang learned in advance. According to Du Yang's speculation, with the Zhang County Magistrate's personality, after receiving the provocative letter, he should have led his troops to attack without accident.

But whether the specific result would be as Du Yang guessed, Yang Rui could only wait patiently outside the city with a group of thieves. Even if the other party really sent troops, he might not take action immediately. It is very likely to delay for two or three days.

However, Yang Rui's waiting did not last much. Not long after he arrived near Pingxian County, a large number of Dong Zhuo's camp troops began to come out from the west gate of Pingxian County! Unexpectedly, the magistrate Zhang of Pingxian County could not hold back. As soon as he received a letter from Du Yang, he sent troops while he was in the dark. This also shows how deep the two of them had previously hatred.

Yang Rui and several thieves' leaders around him were staring at the Xicheng Gate, counting the number of soldiers out of the city. Only after this statistics did Yang Rui find that the thieves' leaders had not been able to accurately grasp the number of people in the city when they were investigating Ping County, and even Du Yang knew it was not accurate. For more than an hour, Dong Zhuo's troops continued to rush out from the Xicheng Gate of Ping County and never stopped.

Finally, Yang Rui estimated that the number of soldiers sent by Ping County this time would have to be 50,000! This was far beyond the expectations of Yang Rui and others. If the enemy's soldiers were siege head-on, although the ranks of the opponent's soldiers were not as good as those of Yang Rui's troops, it was inevitable that they would have to pay a lot of money, and it was not clear how many soldiers there were in Ping County.

After the attacking troops in Pingxian County were completed, Yang Rui immediately retreated and headed towards the garrison of Zhang Ning, Gao Shun and others on the northern foot of the Mang Mountain, preparing to transfer the troops arranged here in advance and directly attack Pingxian County.

The large group of people marched. When they were all infantrymen, Yang Rui's troops were almost the same as those sent by Ping County. It took about three hours to go from Ping County to Heyin County, and it took less than half an hour to go from the camp on the northern foot of the Mang Mountain to Ping County. Therefore, Yang Rui had enough time to mobilize troops, and could not even be too fast.

Therefore, after nearly an hour, Yang Rui brought Zhang Ning, Gao Shun and other troops to the vicinity of Pingxian County. First, they cleaned up the forces of Dong Zhuo's troops in the villages and towns around Pingxian County, and then surrounded Pingxian County. The whole process was done very carefully, and it took about two hours.

At this time, the time was calculated. The conquest forces sent by Ping County should have all reached the vicinity of Heyin County. Yang Rui urgently ordered the attack on the city. Zhang Ning was responsible for attacking the west city gate, Gao Shun was responsible for attacking the city gate, Zhang Liao was responsible for attacking the north city gate, and Wu Anguo was responsible for attacking the south city gate, each brought enough siege equipment, and it broke out almost at the same time! Yang Rui was driving the road wind flying carpet to patrol the situation around the city.

It was Yin time, and Yang Rui's troops were sieging the city too suddenly. At this time, most of the defending soldiers of Dong Zhuo's camp in Ping County were sleeping, and there were very few troops left on the city wall. Faced with the wooden ladders and hooks that were suddenly mounted on the city wall, these soldiers had almost not made decent resistance. The first group of iron guards responsible for seizing the city head had already roared up to the city wall.

This time, Yang Rui's siege in the four city gates was very consistent. Almost at the same time, soldiers climbed up the city wall and quickly stood up on the city wall. More iron guards rushed up immediately. The entire city wall attack and defense battle immediately showed a one-sided situation, not to mention that the soldiers had already vacated their hands to open the four city gates of Pingxian County.

The confrontation on the city wall was over for a moment. Yang Rui controlled all the city walls and city gate sections with lightning speed, and the situation reappeared the situation in the previous battle in Heyin County.

Yang Rui was well prepared for the siege this time, and there were many soldiers available. Therefore, after taking down the surrounding city walls and city gates, Yang Rui only retained 20 to 30% of the soldiers to guard the outer city, and still ordered the troops to kill from four directions to the inner city of the three prefectures at the same time.

The result of the siege was almost destined. Pingxian County was just a medium-sized city. The defense of the inner cities of the three prefectures was far worse than that of the outer cities. Therefore, the speed of Yang Rui's troops taking down the inner cities of the three prefectures was faster, and in a moment, they completely controlled the inner cities of the three prefectures.

At this point, the entire city in Ping County was completely controlled by Yang Rui. It only took half an hour to complete. It was probably the shortest time Yang Rui had to capture the city!

The next search is naturally inevitable. Yang Rui focused on the treasury, granary, study room of the three mansions, residences, etc. In addition to the harvest during the siege, Yang Rui obtained many of the various types of food, money, skill books, equipment and other items.

Among them, the food exceeds 1 million units, and the amount of money is more than 200,000 gold coins, which is quite rich; the primary and intermediate general skill book equipment is 10 sets of skill books of the general, and nearly 3,000 skill books of the fourth-level soldiers of various types, including more than 300 archer skill books; the remaining equipment and other items are also very numerous.

Yang Rui thought secretly that the reason why the amount of food and money in Pingxian is larger than that in ordinary cities is probably because Dong Zhuo used Pingxian as the base for crossing the Yellow River north!

Yang Rui searched all the inner cities of the three prefectures, but he did not find the figure of Zhang County Magistrate. After asking, he magistrate. The county magistrate had personally led the crowd to attack Duyang, leaving only one county magistrate to guard the Pingxian County. Although the Pingxian tribes could not confirm his identity when they left the city, it was Yang Rui's expectation that the Zhang County Magistrate personally fought against Heyin.
Chapter completed!