After sneering, Qin Qiong had already turned over and left with his horse.

The five hundred soldiers also put all the war drums on horseback, beat and rushing, following Qin Qiong and disappeared into the night.

The dark clouds cover the moon, and the night is getting deeper.

Outside the west gate of Jicheng, there were five hundred Wei soldiers who touched the outside of Ximen City and hid outside the land of an arrow to see the enemy city from a distance.

The one who led this team was Yuchi Gong.

He took these five hundred soldiers and approached the city without any haste. He just sat down and listened to Qin Qiong beating drums and drums at the east gate, awakening the Han army in the city from its deep sleep until the drums were silent and everything returned to peace.

"Qin Fu has finished beating, it's time for us to make a fuss. Brothers, let's beat the drum for me." Yuchi Gong roared and ordered.

The order was passed down, and the five hundred soldiers hurriedly removed the war drums, and without saying a word, they began to knock on the sky.

Bangbangbang-

The sound of drums soaring into the sky suddenly rang out again, tearing apart the dark night that had just been silent.

Including Ximen, the Han soldiers who had just dozed off and were ready to fall asleep were immediately awakened by the sound of the shocking drums.

The sound of warning gong suddenly sounded.

The soldiers who were confused, reluctantly got up again after being scolded by the general, and their eyes were so tired that they could not open them.

"Get up quickly, the Wei army has attacked again!"

"Pick up the crossbow and prepare to shoot arrows!"

"Hurry, go and report to General Zhang—"

On the top of the city, I fell into panic again, and the screams were heard.

At this time, Zhang Fei had just returned to his big tent. He just sat down and was awakened by the sound of shocking drums before he even heated up his bed.

Without waiting for the scout to report, he hurriedly made a tent, turned over and came straight for the west gate.

Zhang Fei gasped and climbed up to the city, looked outside, but the noisy sound of war drums stopped abruptly and disappeared.

The world returns to peace in an instant.

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, looking at the dark outside the city, with a half-person figure, his face full of inexplicableness.

And the Han soldiers had just woken up from their confusion with difficulty. They finally dispelled their sleepiness and planned to have a bloody battle, but they did not expect that everything would end in an instant.

They looked at me one by one, and they stood there in a daze. Some people even pinched their faces to see if they were still dreaming.

"Tao Thief, you actually--" Zhang Fei's fist hit the city wall hard. He finally understood that this was the shameless method of the pottery merchant to torture him.

The two groups of Wei troops just now were not night attacks at all. They were clearly the harassing troops deliberately sent by the Tao merchants. They hid in the East Siliangmen in advance and beat drums in turn, with the purpose of making them mistakenly think that the Wei army was going to attack, so they had to wake up from their sleep and set up defenses in the city so that they could not be at peace.

Zhang Fei already knew that this was the pottery merchant who wanted to torture him mentally and torture his soldiers' morale that was insufficient.

Unfortunately, even though Zhang Fei saw through the pottery businessman's plan, he was helpless.

All he could do was swallow this anger and to keep the soldiers alert and not to relax.

Zhang Fei had no choice.

He knew that the pottery was too cunning. Maybe the beating of gongs and drums was just a harassment tactic, but maybe it was a confusing tactic. He deliberately wanted to make him think that the Wei army was just harassment, and eventually gave up his vigilance.

At that time, if the Wei army suddenly launched a real night attack and they were completely unprepared, it would be a catastrophic consequence.

Zhang Fei had no choice but to help the tired soldiers, and they could only endure the mental state of being dazed, dozed off, and continued to hold on.

Just when they were about to breathe a sigh of relief and wanted to lift their guard, the sound of the shocking drums outside the city sounded again...

For seven consecutive days, the Tao merchants remained silent. During the day, the army of Taoist commanded the army to line up in front of the city in batches, and showed a gesture of a general siege.

At night, the pottery merchant sent a small group of troops and ordered the generals to continue to beat drums and drums outside the enemy city to create a night attack.

The pottery merchant used this method of constantly feinting attacks day and night to torture Zhang Fei and his defenders, and tore their increasingly declining morale.

...

Day 8.

"I can't stand it anymore, I can't stand it anymore. I want to fight out of the city and fight to the death with the pottery thief!"

In the big tent, Zhang Fei overturned the case to the ground, roared and furious, as if he was almost driven crazy.

The deputy generals in front of the tent were all shocked, and they were all trembling and dared not speak.

Seeing this, Ju Su had to frown and persuade: "General Cheqi and Cavalry should calm down. The Taoist thief used such despicable means to force us to fight. If the General Cheqi and Cavalry would go to fight, he would hit the Taoist thief's bet."

"So what!" Zhang Fei roared at him: "If I don't let go, the spirit of the soldiers will be destroyed by him. When he attacks the city in large numbers, we will be dead. It's better to take advantage of the fact that the soldiers still have the fighting spirit and fight with him."

Ju Su didn't dare to persuade him anymore, knowing that Zhang Fei had such a bad temper. Since he had made a decision, he couldn't pull him back even if he had ten horses.

What's more, what Zhang Fei said is indeed reasonable. Over the past seven days, he has witnessed his soldiers with his own eyes and was tortured by the Wei army's harassment tactics to the point of exhaustion. As Zhang Fei said, even if they don't go to the battle, the spirit of the soldiers will be tortured by the Wei army in a few days.

By that time, they were still dead and Jicheng could not be saved.

After pondering for a while, a trace of light suddenly flashed in Ju Su's dark eyes, and then lowered his voice and bowed: "Even if the General of the Carriage and Cavalry wants to fight, he can't fight so simply..."

...

At night, Weiying.

In the imperial tent, the Tao merchant was discussing the next strategy with Zhang Liang and Liu Ji, but one of them claimed to be Ju Su's confidant. He sneaked out of Jicheng late at night and sent Ju Su a handwritten letter.

Moreover, it was a surrender letter.

In the letter, Ju Su claimed that he was ruthlessly abandoned in Jicheng by Liu Bei, and had seen through Liu Bei's hypocrisy and ruthlessness, and had enough of Zhang Fei's ruthless humiliation, and was determined to abandon the darkness and turn to the light and surrender to the Great Wei.

This surrender book really made the Taoist merchant's eyes shine, and excitement ignited in the eagle's eyes.

"What do you think of Ju Su's surrender book?" Tao Shang looked excitedly at the two god-level strategists.

Zhang Liang looked at the surrender book yesterday and stroked his beard and said, "If Ju Su really wants to surrender, with him as his inner support, we can indeed capture Jicheng as quickly as possible. This is naturally the best. But for now, there is no way to be sure whether this letter was written by Ju Su."

"It's really not easy to want it." The Taoist merchant immediately brushed his hand and ordered him to send Zhao Yun over.

Zhao Yun is also Liu Bei's "old minister". He has worked with Ju Su for a long time, so he naturally knows his handwriting very well.

A moment later, Zhao Yun entered the tent and bowed to see: "I wonder what instructions did Your Majesty summon me to come?"

"I told Zilong to come late at night because I wanted Zilong to recognize someone's handwriting." Tao Shang said, signaling Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang got up, kissed the surrender book, and handed it to Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun then looked at the letter carefully, and after a while, he said, "Your Majesty, this surrender letter is indeed written by Ju Su."

"Take it seriously?" Tao Shang's eyes became even more excited.

"I have had many correspondences with Ju Su, and I will definitely remember his handwriting incorrectly. This is indeed his handwriting." Zhao Yun nodded with certainty, but suddenly a little suspicion appeared between his eyebrows, and he added: "It's just that Chen Ju..."

Zhao Yun had not said enough, as if something was wrong, he himself didn't quite confirm it.

"Zilong has any questions, but it doesn't matter." Tao Shangfu said.

Zhao Yun paused for a moment and bowed his hands and said seriously: "Report to Your Majesty, I just think that Ju Su's surrender may be a fraud."

Tao Shang's expression moved slightly, and he nodded and said, "Tell me your reasons."

Zhao Yun said: "There is one thing Your Majesty may not know. A few years ago, Liu Bei invaded the Great Wei Dynasty. Ju Su's son Ju Hu was injured by a ravine when he attacked Zhending City. Although he was not killed on the spot, his legs were paralyzed and turned into a useless man. Finally, he hung himself on the ground. In other words, Ju Su and the Great Wei Dynasty had the pain of losing their son, so I felt that he was unlikely to surrender to Your Majesty."

It turns out that there is such a secret matter...

After hearing Zhao Yun's explanation, the Taoist merchant had a slightly condensed eyebrows, and suspicion suddenly emerged from the eagle's eyes.

At this time, Liu Ji also said, "I also heard that this Ju Su was originally a dead-lived Yuan family... a loyal and loyal person. He chose to surrender to Da Er... an ear thief, and the Yuan family was destroyed by Your Majesty. Can Ju Su really let go of his old grudges and surrender to Your Majesty... His Majesty?"

Liu Ji's rhetoric made Tao Shang's heart shock and suddenly remembered many memories of Ju Su.

He vaguely remembered that in the original history, Ju Su was indeed loyal to Yuan Shao. Even when he was punished by Yuan Shao and imprisoned in a prison car, he would rather die than surrender after being captured by Cao Cao, and would rather die than surrender to Yuan Shao's loyalty.

From this we can see that Ju Su is indeed loyal to Yuan Shao. He is afraid that he will surrender to Liu Bei, and he also wants to use Liu Bei's hands to avenge the Yuan family.

In addition, his son was also killed by the Wei Dynasty. Could he really surrender voluntarily?

Bang!

Tao Shang slapped the table and cursed: "What a Ju Su. He was playing tricks on me. He was seeking death!"

He was convinced that Ju Su was indeed a fraudulent surrender.

"It seems that Ju Su really wants to surrender, so what is his real purpose?" Zhao Yun murmured.

"Is this a matter of saying?" Tao Shang sneered and turned the railway firmly: "This must be Zhang Fei's mental breakdown by me these days and he wanted to give it a try, so Ju Su offered him this trick of surrender and wanted to set up a suspicion array."

"Your Majesty is right." Zhang Liang nodded repeatedly, "Zhang Fei is most likely to want to go out of the city to fight. Since we have seen through his intentions, we are just waiting for him to come and die."

In the eyes of Tao Shangying, the murderous intent of sarcastic Lin Lie was already igniting.

...

The plan was decided, so Tao Shang wrote a letter in person, pretending to believe Ju Su's surrender and praised him very much, saying that as long as he could surrender, his wealth would be indispensable.

In the following days, Ju Su sent his confidant several times to secretly sneak out of the city to deliver letters, repeatedly showing his sincerity in return.

Of course, Tao Shang used his magical acting skills to pretend to be suspicious, then gradually believe it, and finally believe it without doubt.

After several letter exchanges, Ju Su claimed that he had gained Zhang Fei's trust and gained control of Ximen. He planned to surrender at night tomorrow, help the Tao merchant army enter the city and capture Jicheng in one fell swoop.

The Tao merchant immediately replied that he would personally lead the army to gather at Ximen tomorrow to respond to his surrender. If he could capture Jicheng, he would be the first hero and would receive a huge reward.
Chapter completed!