The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 12 Taking Ye City
After almost sleeping until noon, everyone almost got up and started eating naan bread and stretching their muscles.

Liu Tai was also woken up by Liu Ming, rubbed his eyes and handed over the naan, drinking water and eating at the same time.

To be honest, in this era, the places where we march, fight and set up camps are all close to living water areas, so drinking this water is not a big problem.

In particular, Liu Tai's kettle has been processed, with a layer of satin and a layer of bamboo charcoal placed inside for filtration.

After filtering and drinking from the bottom cup, it can only be said that this is the limit of what Liu Tai can do now.

After Liu Tai finished eating, he came over and gave a few instructions to Gong Shiyu, and then asked the soldiers to dig a small hole with swords, guns and wooden sticks, while he stood beside the hole.

Liu Tai looked at the crowd and said, "Soldiers, take out all the naan cakes and throw them in here!"

Liu Tai said and threw the naan in his hand.

"Young Master?!" Liu Ming couldn't help but was stunned when he saw what Liu Tai did. He gritted his teeth and threw the half-eaten naan in his hand.

With Liu Ming taking the lead, each soldier was very reluctant to give up, but seeing that everyone had lost it, it would be disrespectful to not throw it away, so he also threw the naan cakes in his hands one after another.

After Liu Tai saw someone starting to lose it, he encouraged him, "Yes, just lose it all!"
We are going to attack Yecheng next. Once we conquer Yecheng, we can eat meat and drink wine. What else do we need these naan cakes for?
Others don't know the level of the Jin army. Don't we still know it?
The frontier troops are powerful, but who has seen the county soldiers being powerful? Now that we are here in a surprise attack, it will be easy to defeat them.

We will eat delicious food and drink spicy food in Yecheng then, who will eat this tasteless naan bread! "

Liu Tai watched everyone throw down the naan cakes and continued:
"Okay, everyone come over and shovel the soil and bury these naan cakes. We will take Yecheng today!"

After hearing Liu Tai's words, the soldiers also came over one after another, either with swords or spears, and they all picked up a piece of earth. The hole, which was not big at first, was quickly filled up by everyone.

However, at this moment, after this action, everyone said goodbye to their naan cakes completely. When everyone looked at Yecheng again, their eyes seemed to be able to spit out fire!

Liu Tai continued, "Ge Xin, you dozen or so cavalrymen are waiting here. When you see the fire in Yecheng, come here pretending to be reinforcements!"

"Yes!" Ge Xin agreed after hearing Liu Tai's words.

Then Liu Tai said, "Hide the sword in your hand. We are just a group of refugees. Don't expose us to me before we reach the city gate!"

"Yes!" Everyone agreed in unison, and Liu Tai didn't say much, and set off with everyone in the next second.

Seeing Liu Tai walking away, Gongshi Yu looked at Chu Hui and said, "The captain has already given me orders. Brother Chu, please help yourself!"

"Do you want to help yourself?" Chu Hui looked at Ge Xin and couldn't help but sigh, "This kid is full of lies, but not a single word is true!"

As he spoke, Chu Hui found a place to sit down and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was ready to continue resting.

This scene made Gong Shiyu full of doubts. He looked at Ge Xin and others and said, "I see that Lieutenant Liu is sincere in his treatment of others. I don't think he will deceive you!"

Chu Hui shook his head when he heard Gong Shiyu's words, pointed to the buried naan cake, and said:
"What do you think, that kid finally learned from Xiang Yu and used it to destroy everything!"

"I see that the fighting spirit in the hearts of the soldiers has been aroused. If the Yecheng County Guard underestimates the enemy, I am afraid that Yecheng will really be captured by the captain!"

Gongshi Yu said this with a bit of sadness in his tone.

To be honest, at this time, he actually had the idea that Yecheng would be captured, instead of Liu Tai leading his men there to die.

"This is where he is cunning!" Chu Hui said calmly, "He asked the soldiers to bury the uneaten naan bread to inspire their courage and improve their will. In particular, he asked the soldiers to bury the soil themselves. Go up, it is aggravating this scheming even more.

But in fact, if he really loses, he can just come back here and dig out the naan, and at least he won't have to worry about food.

Even if the soldiers are defeated, as long as those soldiers only think about naan bread, it will be easy for him to gather the soldiers! "

"Can you dig out these naan cakes and eat them again?!" Gongshiyu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Chu Hui's words.

Chu Hui sneered: "They are just refugees to begin with, so how could they not be able to eat the naan bread buried in the soil.

In addition, if you really lose the battle, it would be great to have a bite to eat, and who cares about the dust on it!

I saw it with my own eyes in Xuchang. In order to save food, he actually killed people in the rebel army! "

Gongshiyu was slightly startled when he heard this. He came back to his senses and looked at Chu Hui, with a bit of melancholy in his eyes, and said:

"So, Lieutenant Liu asked you to stay at such a crucial point, but he wanted to take a gamble on you!"

Chu Hui didn't say much, just leaned against the tree trunk and rested without hearing anything.

I don’t know how much time passed before Ge Xin said, “It’s on fire. Yecheng is on fire!”

Chu Hui raised his head and saw thick smoke rising from Yecheng. He couldn't help shouting, "The governor of Yecheng is really a waste!"

Chu Hui knew that since the flames were burning in Ye City, it meant that Liu Tai had entered Ye City.

Next, what is left is a head-on battle between general and king. Liu Tai has at least done what he can to the extreme.

When Ge Xin and other cavalrymen saw this scene, they ran directly towards Yecheng. Although there were only a dozen cavalry, they charged towards Yecheng at this moment, as if they had thousands of troops.

If Liu Tai's plan was flawless, it wasn't true.

As long as a person with farsightedness can immediately become alert after seeing Liu Tai and others, it is enough.

Because if they are refugees, no matter how small the number is, there will be more or less children and women among them. After all, it will be more or less weird for a group of bachelors to all escape together.

This is the reason why Liu Tai chose Yecheng instead of Lin Li. For the guards stationed near Taihang Mountain Pass who are always vigilant, this trick might close the city gate at the first sight.

But here in Yecheng, peace has lasted for a long time, and people don't know about soldiers.

When they saw a large number of refugees coming from the direction of Linli, their first reaction was that Linli had been attacked, not that someone was pretending to be a refugee!

This difference alone allowed Liu Tai to lead everyone to the city gate smoothly. Arriving at the city gate was enough for Liu Tai.

Liu Tai directly killed the guards, led the soldiers and rushed directly to the prefect's mansion. While setting fire to disrupt the order of Ye City, he went directly to the prefect's mansion. It would be best if he killed the prefect. Secondly, he also needed to go through the people of the prefect's mansion. Look for weapons depots and granaries.

For Liu Tai, if he at least controls these two places, he can at least control Yecheng in a short time!
After all, he was born in the rebel army, and Liu Tai has quite a lot of experience in rebellion!

However, what Liu Tai did not expect was that he led his men into the city. General Zhengbei and Yu who were stationed in Yecheng heard that the Han army was coming to attack, and immediately ran away with their own followers.The speed was almost as fast as his front heel left the prefect's mansion, and Liu Tai's back heel arrived at the same time. This relationship between the front and back feet, Liu Tai could not even see the dust raised by his footsteps.

To be honest, the loss of Yecheng would not have much impact on He Yu, because his brother was a famous official in the Western Jin Dynasty. Even if he died relying on his brother's legacy, he would never die.

At the same time, he himself was one of the 24 Jingu Friends who monopolized all the "leading level" organizations in the Western Jin Dynasty's literary world. The people in it were complicated, but there must be someone who could win over him, so he could not be blamed for abandoning Yecheng.

The worst he can do is to live in seclusion for a few years, wait until people forget about Yecheng, and then come out to serve as an official.

After all, as long as life is still alive, it is easy for a famous family to become an official.

But He Yu did not expect that his escape would directly lead to the complete paralysis of the entire Yecheng military dispatch.

The troops in Yecheng could not find anyone who could really take charge. Even so, Liu Tai was not without resistance.

Although it came suddenly and He Yu fled, unable to organize the local county soldiers, Wang Cui organized his own servants and met the commander of the begging army Tian Tian who was borrowing food to survive in Yecheng on the way. Wang Cui directly gathered his soldiers. But to suppress the rebellion.

Liu Tai was not surprised at all when he encountered resistance. After all, in Liu Tai's opinion, the lack of resistance was a strange thing.

Both sides met at the door of the arsenal, because both sides thought about the armor in the arsenal and both needed the armor in it!

For the soldiers, there are really two armies, whether they have armor or not, even the regular army and the ordinary refugee army.

Generally speaking, on the battlefield, those veterans who have armor die relatively late, not because of their rich experience. The most important thing is that they have already obtained leather armor.

Even though this kind of armor is almost the lowest, the probability of survival on the battlefield is ten times higher than that without armor.

At this moment, both the servants organized by Wang Cui and Tian Zhen's beggar army were more numerous than Liu Tai in terms of number and familiarity with the environment.

But because of He Yu's rout, the regular county soldiers didn't even wear armor at this moment, let alone them.

Therefore, when Liu Tai saw this scene, he immediately asked the bodyguards wearing armor around him to form a cone on the street and said, "I want this arsenal today, and our Han army also wants this Yecheng!"

"The hypocritical traitors are so rampant!" Wang Cui looked at him and shouted loudly, "Soldiers, follow me to kill!"

Both sides have no reason to retreat at this moment.

Liu Tai even knew that as long as he took down the weapons warehouse and the armor inside, even if there were still resistance forces in the city, he could use the armor's protection and slowly clean up the city.

The soldiers, especially the personal soldiers under Liu Ming's command, formed a triangular pyramid with tacit understanding under Liu Ming's command.

Liu Tai stepped forward quickly and stared directly at Wang Cui, who seemed to be in charge, and rushed forward without hesitation, using himself as a sharp knife!

To be honest, Wang Cui's servants and Tian Huang's beggar army cannot be said to be brave.

But they need to face two problems at this moment. One is the armor on Liu Tai and Liu Tai's personal guards. Even the worst leather armor is still armor.

This would make them more qualified to confront each other head-on. When a knife fell, there would be knife marks on the leather armor, and some would even bleed, but that was the end of it, at least it would not be fatal.

But Liu Tai's bodyguard stabbed him with a backhand, and the soldiers on the opposite side were either killed or wounded!

But this is easy to say. It was Liu Tai who really made Wang Cui's army feel desperate!

Even though the talent of innate divine power seems inconspicuous, in this encounter that broke out in a battlefield that was not a spacious place, Liu Tai's innate divine power made the soldiers responsible for intercepting Liu Tai feel extremely desperate!
Almost all those who came up to intercept Liu Tai's halberd could not catch Liu Tai's sword. Even if Tian Tian took the lead, if it were not for the protection of his personal guards, he might not be able to get off the battlefield.

It can only be said that in such an encounter, it is very suitable for Liu Tai to perform.

Although the two sides were in a stalemate, Liu Tai led his personal guards and killed Wang Cui directly.

Wang Cui ordered his soldiers to retreat step by step, but he could only barely maintain the situation. If he wanted to win, he had to defeat Liu Tai!
But there was not much time left for him. Ge Xin came out from behind with more than a dozen riders and shouted, "Colonel Lieutenant, I'm here to help you!"

"And there are reinforcements?!"

Almost as soon as Ge Xin appeared with a dozen cavalrymen and attacked from both front and back, the situation that Wang Cui had managed to maintain completely collapsed.

Not to mention that the current situation is a flanking attack, but more importantly, because they don't know that Liu Tai's reinforcements only have these dozen riders!

In the opinion of these people, the appearance of these dozen cavalrymen meant that the main force of the Han army had entered the city.

Then what else were they fighting for? For a time, their morale was almost low. Wang Cui's men were not regular soldiers but servants and beggars. Seeing that the situation was completely irreversible, they immediately dispersed like birds and beasts!
"You thief, you're going to die!" Even so, Wang Cui still refused to give in. When he saw his servants scattered, he even drew his sword and rushed towards Liu Ming on horseback!
Because in Wang Cui's field of vision, he naturally did not think of Liu Tai as the commander. On the contrary, he was always following Liu Tai, and Liu Ming, who was responsible for commanding the personal guards, was the real commander.

So he rode his horse and rushed towards Liu Ming!
When Liu Tai saw this scene, he slapped the crazy horse with his halberd. The horse couldn't bear the strength and fell to the ground.

Wang Cui's whole body flew out, and he threw the sharp sword in his hand in the air, piercing Liu Ming's leather armor!
"Keep alive!" Liu Tai thought that he was the highest person in charge of Yecheng and felt that life was more important than death, so he issued such an order.

Wang Cui fell to the ground and was directly hung by seven or eight sharp knives around his neck, making him unable to move.

Then Liu Tai quickly came to Liu Ming's side and said, "How is it?!"

At this moment, Liu Tai saw that although the cowhide had been cut open, there were some crumbs inside.

"Young Master, I hid one, I...I...!" Liu Ming was a little embarrassed, but I didn't say anything.

"I know! You are blessed with good intentions!" Liu Tai patted Liu Ming on the shoulder and said nothing.

Because Liu Tai understood that Liu Ming hid this cake for himself.

After his father died, he was able to survive not only because of Wang Mi's care, but also because Liu Ming kept giving him his noodles.

Liu Tai took a deep breath and said: "The enemy general has been captured. Put down your weapons and surrender without killing him!"

On the battlefield where they were still fighting, they saw Wang Cui being captured. At this moment, weapons were thrown down in the streets!

Liu Tai knew that his first step was finally completed.

But Liu Tai knew that it would be difficult to capture the city, but it was even more difficult to control Yecheng until the army took over!
　"History of the Two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties" - In September of the second year of Yongjia, Mi Yule attacked and Yu Ben defended the country.

　　"Book of Jin·Emperor Chronicle" - Jiyou, Shi Lekou Ye, Wang Cui, the prefect of Wei County, was defeated and died.

　　
　
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