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Chapter 149: The Clown is Actually Me? Liu Bei: Can You Escape the Five Finger Mountain of My Military Advisor Bo Wen?
It was late at night, on the city wall of the south gate of Nanling.

He Qi was staring with wide eyes in confusion in the direction of Liu Ying outside the city.

According to past practice, Liu Jun should have started beating and hammering outside the city at this moment, with the gongs and drums making a loud noise.

After all, Liu Bei repeated the same routine for three consecutive days.

But tonight is different.

It was already the middle of the night, and there was no movement from Liu Jun outside the city, not even a single noise.

The quiet atmosphere made him feel a little weird.

"Could it be that the big-eared thief knew his plot had been exposed, and General Huang had already devised a plan to counter it? If he continued to stir up trouble, he would become a clown, so he wisely withdrew and called it a day?"

He Qi lightly hit the battlement with his fist and came to this conclusion in his mind.

Then the doubts in his eyes faded, and he couldn't help but sigh inwardly:
"Old ginger is still wise. Now it seems that General Huang is much stronger than Governor Zhou."

"If the lord had appointed General Huang as the commander-in-chief to lead our Jiangdong army, I'm afraid we wouldn't have ended up in this situation today..."

After sighing for a while, He Qi relaxed and dozed off several times before feeling sleepy.

So he went down from the city wall, planning to find a nearby tent and hide in it to take a few naps.

Just as I walked down the stairs yawning, I suddenly glanced at the main street and saw a group of figures approaching.

Looking closely, I saw a group of people coming towards the south gate along the main street in the night.

He Qi immediately became alert.

Five thousand soldiers have already taken root at various gates, and the people in the city, regardless of age, have been driven to the city walls to act as human shields. It can be said that the city is empty.

Where did this team come from?

Could it be the enemy troops that sneaked into the city?
This thought suddenly popped up in He Qi's mind, and he couldn't help but shudder.

"My four city walls are impenetrable, and Liu Jun doesn't have wings, so how could he possibly sneak into the city?"

He Qi immediately realized that his guess was absurd, so he speculated again that this was probably Huang Gai's arrangement, transferring troops from other gates to strengthen the security of the South Gate.

"Which battalion are you from? General Huang has been dispatched to the South Gate. What's the password?"

He Qi then relaxed his guard a little, walked up to him leisurely, and asked three questions in a row.

No one from that group of people answered, they just kept heading towards the south gate.

The leading general walking in the front even moved as fast as an arrow and rushed to He Qi in the blink of an eye.

He Qi frowned slightly, and couldn't help but be alert again. He held the hilt of the knife with one hand and moved forward with the other hand to block, shouting:
"Which battalion are you from? Stop advancing immediately and give the command first!"

The leader was unmoved and leaped forward to stand in front of He Qi.

With the help of the firelight, He Qi finally saw the man's face clearly, and his face turned pale with horror.

"Gan...Gan Ning?"

He let out a cry of surprise, his eyes widening as if he had seen a ghost.

The person standing in front of him was actually the Jinfan thief who betrayed Jiangdong!

But how did the other party sneak into Nanling City and appear in front of him like a god descending from the sky?

Did it grow wings and fly in?
At this moment, He Qi was in a trance and thought that he was too sleepy and was dazzled.

"He Qi, die!"

Gan Ning roared, and the ring-handed knife in his hand flew out of the air, slashing towards him.

It was not until this moment that He Qi suddenly woke up and hurriedly drew his sword to resist.

too late.

Based on his original martial arts skills, although he was no match for Gan Ning, he could still easily defeat him in a head-on confrontation.

But Gan Ning's appearance was too strange and sudden, and this move was faster than lightning, so fast that he had no time to react.

"not good!"

He Qi's heart skipped a beat, and he realized something was wrong.

"Crack!"

The knife was as fast as lightning, and it came out of nowhere before he could draw his sword.

He Qi's head flew into the air in response.

The bloody head fell to the ground and the bleeding body collapsed with a loud bang.

The Jiangdong defenders around were stunned and looked at this sudden change in shock and horror, and they were all stunned.

The scene before my eyes was too sudden and too unbelievable.

Gan Ning, the rebel general who surrendered to Liu Bei, suddenly appeared before their eyes like a ghost and cut off the head of their General He with one stroke!

The soldiers present thought that they were so sleepy that they had already fallen asleep and everything they saw was just a dream.

Gan Ning stepped over He Qi's corpse and swung his bloody knife backwards:
"What are you waiting for? Seize the city gate, lower the drawbridge, and light the beacon fire!"

The two hundred brocade sail soldiers following closely behind him rushed forward with roars like ghosts from the underworld and pounced on the Jiangdong soldiers guarding the gate.

Hand up, knife down, hand up, knife down...

The Jiangdong soldiers were in shock and were chopped to the ground in large numbers before they could even recover.

It was not until screams were heard that the Jiangdong soldiers suddenly came to their senses and realized what had happened.

"It was Gan Ning, he killed our General He!"

"The enemy has sneaked into the city and is trying to seize the South Gate!"

"Hurry and report to General Huang!"

"It's too late. General He is dead. Let's all run for our lives!"

All kinds of screams were heard everywhere, and the Jiangdong defenders above and below the South Gate were instantly thrown into panic and chaos.

The Jiangdong soldiers stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

Some of He Qi's personal guards mustered up their courage and rushed forward, wanting to fight for their lives.

Gan Ning raised his sword and killed the two men, shouting:
"Lord Xuande, please only kill Huang Gai. Anyone who gives up resistance will be pardoned!" The psychological warfare tactic worked.

The Jiangdong soldiers, whose morale was already shaken and who were unwilling to fight for the Sun family, immediately had their remaining fighting spirit shattered by Gan Ning's shouts.

They threw away their weapons and quietly retreated to the side, allowing the Jinfan soldiers to seize the door.

The tightly closed South Gate suddenly opened and the drawbridge slowly descended.

Three beacons were lit on the top of the South Gate, illuminating the night sky.

outside the city.

The Liu army, which had been preparing for a long time, rushed in like a tide and poured into Nanling City...

County government.

At this time, Huang Gai was still sleeping soundly, dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Faintly outside the window, shouts and screams were heard again.

This time, Huang Gai opened his eyes in a daze, then turned over and continued to sleep soundly.

Liu's army had been struggling for three whole nights, and he had long been accustomed to it. He subconsciously thought that the shouts and cries of killing outside were nothing more than Liu Bei's harassment tactics.

The shifts have been arranged properly. If Liu Bei really launches a night attack, someone will naturally come to report it. Now all we have to do is sleep soundly.

Just when Huang Gai was about to fall asleep again, the door was knocked open by his personal guards.

"Old General, something terrible has happened! The South Gate has been breached by the enemy. Liu Bei is marching into Nanling!"

Huang Gai woke up instantly and jumped up and jumped off the bed. His sleepiness was completely gone and his face was replaced by horror.

"What did you say, say it again?"

Huang Gai grabbed the guard and asked excitedly.

The guard cried out in a trembling voice with a mournful look on his face:

"Old General, soldiers who escaped from the south have reported that the rebel general Gan Ning sneaked into the city, attacked the south gate, killed General He, and opened the gate."

"Tens of thousands of Liu's troops outside the city rushed in and stormed into our Nanling City!"

Huang Gai's hand trembled, and he let go of the guard, took two steps back and fell onto the couch.

"Did that traitor Gan Ning sneak into the city?"

"That's impossible. My four gates are heavily guarded. How could that Jinfan thief sneak in?"

"Could it be that the big-eared thief dug a tunnel?"

"But I have already buried water tanks under the city walls to monitor the situation. The Big Eared Thief is digging a tunnel secretly. There is no way there would be no signs at all, right?"

Huang Gai's head was buzzing, countless questions flashed before his eyes, and he was so confused and shocked as if he had seen a ghost.

Just as he was lost in thought, another guard stumbled in and shouted:

"General Huang, the enemy is about to reach the county government. General, what should we do?"

Huang Gai suddenly woke up, and without even bothering to put on his armor, he rushed out with his sword in hand.

When he rode out of the county government gate, he saw beacon fires rising from the sky above the south gate. The main street was full of fleeing soldiers, and behind them was the endless tide of Liu's army pursuing him.

Huang Gai froze on his horse, his old face twisted with grief, anger and despair.

He was originally arrogant and confident that he could defend Nanling City with 5,000 soldiers and horses and make it impregnable, and could at least hold off Liu Bei for two months.

Who would have thought that Nanling would fall in just three days.

Or he fell in a strange way that he couldn't figure out at all.

Huang Gai was filled with indignation and desolation, and he raised his head to the sky and cursed:
"You blind thief, what crime have the Sun family committed? What crime have I, Huang Gai, committed? Why do you treat us like this—"

He was cursing the sky angrily, but his guards were as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

"Old General, the situation is hopeless. We can no longer defend Nanling City. We must find a way to break out."

"Jiangdong can't do without you, old general, and neither can the Marquis of Wu!"

Huang Gai regained some consciousness from his grief and anger, and a look of faith rekindled on his face. He gritted his teeth and said:
"You are right. People like Zhou Yu and Lu Su are not up to the task. Zhongmou cannot do without me!"

After saying this, Huang Gai raised his head and glanced around, pointing his blade eastward:
"The Big Eared Bandits broke in from the South Gate. Their main force must have gathered outside the South Gate. The East Gate garrison must have been completely evacuated. We must break out from the east and carve out a bloody path!"

Huang Gai immediately rode his horse, sword in hand, and headed straight for the east gate with more than a hundred personal guards.

At this time, the more than a thousand defenders at the East Gate were still in a panic, not knowing what had happened in the city.

Huang Gai arrived and without saying a word, he led the thousand men out of the east gate.

Under the cover of night, the remaining Jiangdong army headed straight for Liu's encircled camp to the east.

Looking into the distance, he saw that the lights in Liu's camp were dim, and apart from the soldiers on duty, there was no sign of heavy troops gathering.

Huang Gai secretly breathed a sigh of relief and snorted coldly:

"As expected, Liu Bei has withdrawn all his troops to the South Gate, leaving the East Gate empty."

"That demon Xiao He is nothing special. If he really had a plan, he should have anticipated that I would abandon the city and break out to the east, and then he should have set up a heavy camp in the east!"

Huang Gai raised a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, and the despair on his face began to fade away.

Sudden.

Countless torches suddenly lit up in the originally dim Liu Camp, illuminating the inside and outside of the camp walls like daylight.

Tens of thousands of Liu's soldiers appeared in the East Camp like divine soldiers descended from the sky.

Huang Gai was horrified and suddenly reined in his horse.

The thousand Jiangdong soldiers behind him also stopped and huddled together in fear.

The camp gate slowly opened, and Liu's army was split like waves.

Liu Bei, surrounded by his Baibi guards, rode out slowly, pointed his whip at the distance, and said loudly:
"Old thief Huang Gai, my uncle, Military Advisor Wen, is a brilliant man. He predicted long ago that you would abandon the city and flee eastward!"

"I have been waiting for you here for a long time!"

Huang Gai felt as if struck by thunder. His legs suddenly became weak as if they had collapsed. He could barely hold on to the horse's belly and almost slipped off the horse's back.

(End of this chapter)