At the fourth watch, the Xirong army approached Dayan's camp.

The entire camp was silent and dark, with no lights, no bonfires, and not even a patrolling soldier. Only tents vaguely visible in the night looked like lonely graves.

"Second Prince, what's going on?" The attendant reined in the reins and asked in a low voice, "Why is this camp so deserted and deserted?"

The second prince was not sure what was going on, and he was afraid of alarming the other party, so he did not dare to light the torch or attack rashly.

Another follower speculated: "Could it be another empty city trick? The prince and the others fell into this trick the day before yesterday when they were in Liangzhou City."

"Why are there so many empty city schemes? Is it possible that all of Dayan are Zhuge Liang?" The second prince said displeased, "Don't compare yourself with a fool like the eldest brother, please send someone quickly to find out the truth. "

"Yes."

He personally followed the order and ordered a few agile soldiers to go check it out.

The rest of the people were all on standby.

The waiting time was the most difficult. The soldiers stayed up all night and inevitably became mentally exhausted. After a while, they fell asleep while standing.

After waiting for a long time, the soldiers never came back, and there was still no movement from the camp.

The second prince vaguely felt something was wrong, so he sent a few more people to check.

However, this time, just like last time, after waiting for a long time, no one came back.

Such a strange situation made the soldiers a little uneasy.

The second prince did not want to waste any more time, and was afraid that if this situation continued, the morale of the army would be weakened, so he simply ordered the entire army to surround Dayan's camp from all directions.

In this case, even if their whereabouts are exposed, even if Dayan is cheating, they can still surround Dayan's legions with an absolute advantage in numbers and prevent any fish from slipping through the net.

After arriving at the camp, and making sure that it was surrounded in every direction, the second prince ordered the torches to be lit.

Hundreds of torches lit up one after another, illuminating the camp like daylight.

Immediately, everyone was dumbfounded.

The camp was empty, except for a dozen Xirong soldiers who had been killed by various mechanisms. There were only cold pots and stoves, and empty tents. Thousands of troops disappeared without a trace, not even a single sick horse. No horses were left.

"Where are the people? Where have all the people gone?" The second prince finally lost his composure and shouted with his sword in his hand, but he did not dare to step into the camp because of the hidden weapons.

The soldiers behind him were as confused as he was, not knowing what was going on.

Didn't General Xiao want to cooperate with the prisoners of war in Xining to raid them? Why did they escape so cleanly before the operation started?

Could it be that they already knew that Zhang Xingzhou was captured and their plan was exposed, so they retreated early?

It's impossible, isn't that General Xiao in your heart very brave? How could he retreat without even fighting?

"not good!"

The second prince thought of a possibility in the flash of lightning, shouted, and immediately ordered to return to the city.

Before his order could be issued, flames erupted in the direction of Xining City, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

The soldiers all turned around when they heard the sound, all panicked.

"Oops, we've been fooled!"

"We fell into Dayan's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain!"

"They must have taken a detour to Xining City long ago. They only waited for our army to leave the city and go far away before launching an attack on the city gate."

"Oh my god, there are only a few thousand people left to defend the city. What should we do?"

The two followers were also panicking at this time, and they hurriedly asked the second prince for advice: "Second prince, we have fallen into a trap, what should we do next?"

The second prince's face was livid, his eyes were spitting fire, he swore a curse word hatefully, and shouted angrily at his relatives: "What else can we do? Naturally, we will return to the city at full speed for rescue! If they open the city gate and exchange offense and defense, we will still Can we succeed again?"

He followed the order personally and did not dare to neglect. He immediately conveyed the order of the second prince, and the whole army turned around and rushed back to Xining City.

After receiving the order, all the soldiers galloped towards Xining City on horseback. Under the light of hundreds of torches, the smoke and dust raised by the horses' hooves covered the sky and blocked the sun.

The second prince whipped the horse's buttocks hard with his riding crop, anger welling up in his heart.

By this time, he had roughly figured out what was going on.

Those damn Xining prisoners of war did not really surrender to him at all, but deliberately confessed Zhang Xingzhou and deliberately induced him to set up an ambush to capture Zhang Xingzhou and his brothers alive.

They also told him that Zhang Xingzhou was a tough guy and that it would be useless to torture him, but that he would have to deal with his brother.

In this way, Zhang Xingzhou had no choice but to confess because he felt sorry for his brother, and his confession became particularly credible.

And I just listened to his words and decided to attack Dayan's army first before Dayan's army came to attack them.

As everyone knows, Dayan's army had already set off to Xining City from another road before they set off.

In order to delay as much time as possible, they made secrets in the camp to prevent him from approaching rashly. They sent troops to investigate first.

After the two groups of people died under their mechanisms, the time wasted was enough for them to launch an attack on Xining City.

There are only 5000 people left in Xining City, and they have to defend the four city gates. The opponent can not only incite the prisoners of war, but also incite the people in the city to cooperate with them inside and outside.

The people couldn't bear the bullying of the Xirong soldiers, so they must have risked their lives to help the Yan army enter the city. In this case, how could 5000 people be their opponents?

After thinking about this, the second prince was so angry that he gritted his teeth and wished he could fly back to Xining immediately to defend the city he had finally won.

When his father heard that he had captured Xining City, he sent a special letter to praise him.

The letter was received yesterday. If he lost Xining City tonight, he could imagine what would be waiting for him later.

"Speed ​​up! Speed ​​up! If you lose Xining City, I can't spare you!" The second prince shouted angrily.

The attendant couldn't help but sigh.

The second prince is good at everything, but he is bad at being overjoyed. He refused to listen to his previous advice to be careful. Now that he saw that Xining was about to lose, he shifted the responsibility to the soldiers.

If this continues, how can you compete with the eldest prince for the throne?

Just when I thought of this, I suddenly heard the neighing of the war horses. The dozens of horses running at the front tripped over something and fell to the ground.

The soldiers on horseback fell down, and before they had time to get up, the men and horses behind them who could not stop them had already trampled on them, crushing them to pieces in an instant.

The sudden change greatly frightened the soldiers and horses. Under the continuous collision, hundreds of people and horses in front fell to the ground, and the horses in the back that were finally reined in were also restless and scattered in all directions.

For safety reasons, the second prince walked in the middle of the team and narrowly escaped death. However, he was so frightened that he was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat.

"Damn it!" He jumped off his horse in embarrassment and cursed loudly, "Damn General Xiao, he is more cunning than a fox. I must catch him and cut him into pieces..."

"Hahahaha..." In the woods beside the road, a voice laughed wildly, "Xirong boy, I want to capture your grandpa in the next life!"

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