Chapter 480

At that time, at the other end of the city, the army led by Li Keqi had camped two miles outside the west gate.

Li Keqi sent dozens of scouts to investigate the situation outside the city of northern Hebei.

After the scouts left for half an hour, some people came back one after another.

The news that three of them brought back made Li Keqi very happy.

The three scouts found three secret roads in the woods, ponds and at the foot of a small mountain outside the western city of northern Hebei.

There was darkness in the secret road. There was a strong wind pouring out. The scouts walked a distance against the strong wind and found that all the three secret roads could lead into the city.

Li Keqi immediately rewarded the three scouts. After they were cured, he took a few deep breaths, calmed down and rationally analyzed whether there was any deception in the process?

After some thought, Li Keqi decided to send three teams, all composed of 100 soldiers, to take the lead in entering the cave.

If it is certain that there is no crisis in the cave, at night, he will break the whole army into parts and make them enter the northern Hebei city in batches to catch dongfangkuo off guard.

With a final conclusion in mind, Li Keqi immediately summoned a deputy general to inform him of his plan, and ordered him to select the vanguard troops to enter the city immediately.

This deputy general has been with Li Keqi for many years, and his long-term inertia makes him have no doubt of Li Keqi's orders and follow his advice.

He immediately took orders to leave, arranged everything in the future, and reported to Li Keqi.

Li Keqi immediately ordered the vanguard officer to lead 20000 soldiers to feint outside the West City, so as to distract the attention of the garrison in the city and cover the vanguard troops entering the city.

His plan was carried out smoothly, and the vanguard troops entered the tunnel quietly in the sky shaking cry outside the west gate, heading deeper into the tunnel against the wind that made his face ache.

Li Keqi thought that this plan was safe. He didn't know that when the battle happened outside the west gate, the old general Dongfang Kuo was just above the gate. He quietly saw what happened in the woods, ponds and the foot of the mountain outside the city.

The face of the Oriental broad-leaved nation is full of seriousness, and the eyes are slightly narrowed, in which there are countless smart and intelligent sharp dark awns.

Ricky, Ricky, you would never have expected that one day you would fall into the hands of a little girl!

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Under the deliberate arrangement of dongfangkuo, Li Keqi's three hundred person teams all retreated.

After defeating Xiao Yiyuan, who is known as the God of war, and taking Hongdu in front, Li Keqi was still arrogant though he knew that arrogance was inevitable.

At this time, all the three teams sent out came back intact. His remaining doubts were completely dispelled, and he immediately decided to act according to the original plan.

He sent orders to his subordinates to call the golden harvest and prepare to launch a quiet massacre in the northern city of Hebei at night!

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With the gradual attraction of the sun, night quietly appeared, covering the whole city of northern Hebei, quiet and mysterious.

Under the cover of the night, Xichuan camp, two miles outside the west gate of the North Hebei city, is launching a silent military operation.

Li Keqi sent three thousand troops into the secret road. In his expectation, although the number of 3000 troops was small compared with the 200000 garrison in the city, it was surprising.

Once any one of the three teams successfully opens the west gate of the northern Hebei city, he can lead more than 400000 troops in Xichuan to kill the generals and take the whole northern Hebei city into his pocket.

However, when these three thousand people entered the secret passage, what they encountered was quite different from those who entered in the daytime.

There are rat traps, traps with sharp bamboo pieces, poison arrows from nowhere, and unknown weapons that are packed in ceramic cans and suddenly explode after flashing sparks, causing the secret passage to collapse continuously, but they have never seen

All this made them defenseless. In only half an hour, all the 3000 people Li Keqi sent were killed.

Because the war took place in the secret Road, the voice could not be heard, and Ricky was not aware of it.

He led 20000 soldiers to lie in ambush hundreds of miles away from the west gate, dormant for most of the night, but still did not hear any movement in the city, which made him suspicious. But at this time, Li Keqi did not think that he could be calculated and would fail.

He once again sent three thousand troops into the three secret roads.

However, after the team entered, until dawn, there was no news back, and there was no movement in the city.

At this point, with tens of thousands of people squatting in the woods all night, Ricky finally realized that he had been calculated.

He stood up, moved his numb legs, and was about to order the retreat. But the gate of northern Hebei city behind him quickly opened. Dongfangkuo took the lead and led 5000 cavalry to kill the general. His momentum was like a rainbow, sharp and unstoppable, which was in sharp contrast to the army of Xichuan who had been squatting all night.

"Kill"

"Expel Tartars, kill ~

The cry of killing came from the sky, and the army in Xichuan was in chaos. Even though Li Keqi reacted quickly and tried his best to calm the morale of the army, it would not help.

The soldiers were in a mess and rushed to fight. They were killed by the cavalry led by dongfangkuo.

Unwilling to lose, Li Keqi turned over on his horse, took up his gun, and soon fought with Dongfang Kuo.

In peacetime, the two men's fighting power would be equal.

However, dongfangkuo had a good night's sleep, so it can be said that he had a good rest.

Ricky spent the whole night in the wild, and it was the moment of weakness.

After only a few dozen rounds, Li Keqi was beaten down by dongfangkuo, and his right shoulder was stabbed.

If it had not been for the reinforcements from Xichuan camp, the 20000 plus troops would have been completely annihilated by Dongfang Kuo, and Li Keqi would have died here.

With the opening of the west gate slowly closed, the city came out of the Eastern Qing soldiers excited voice.

In the tent of the commander of Xichuan camp, Li Keqi sits on the futon, and the military doctor bandages his right shoulder wound.

His face was cold and his breath was cold. He had fought in the battlefield for many years. In the past wars, he was not without defeat, but it was the first time that he was humiliated like today.

The deputy general watched Li Keqi's face getting worse and worse. After thinking it over and over again, he stepped forward and said:

"Marshal, even though Dongqing has gained the upper hand for the time being, we have more than 400000 troops. However, the number of garrisons in the northern Hebei city, the troops taken by shangsima chuzhao from Hongdu, and the troops brought by Dongfang Kuo Zidi, is less than 200000. Moreover, the northern Hebei city is easy to attack but difficult to defend, and the number of soldiers lost when attacking the city will be greatly reduced. Why not attack the city directly?"

Li Keqi's heart moved when he heard this.

His previous failure made him ponder and weigh again and again, and finally realized that the deputy general's proposal was reasonable.

Although in a siege, the number of troops on the siege side is several times that of the garrison side.

However, compared with the total number of garrisons in the northern Hebei city, the strength he held at the moment did not occupy much advantage.