In this way, when they attack various large households, they will have less chance of being attacked from behind.

This is a typical method of surrounding three and missing one, which is a tactic in the art of war.

Thirdly, not defending the city gate is actually a way to risk one's life and survive. This is similar to risking one's life and fighting a last-ditch battle.

Because not guarding the city gate means that if the surrounding counties send reinforcements, they will be dead.

At the same time, letting the common people run away is actually a means of motivating the soldiers under their command.

Because only if you capture each big house as quickly as possible can you have the opportunity to recover those who escaped and rob more property and beauties.

Thinking of this, Li Yi couldn't help but become wary of this group of grass-roots soldiers who looked like beggars.

Sure enough, as Master Taijizi said: In this troubled world, no one should be underestimated.

After thinking about this, Li Yi quickly went upstairs and entered his guest room, carried his luggage and quickly came to the street.

At this time, the streets were already full of panicked people.

They carried their belongings in their hands and shoulders, held their children in their arms, supported the old and young, and rushed towards the city gate quickly.

But the strange thing is that none of them dared to make a sound. Even if a child cried, his parents covered his mouth.

Fear and panic appeared on everyone's face. In Li Yi's opinion, they really looked like frightened sheep.

Originally, according to Li Yi's idea, there were at least tens of thousands of people in the city. Even if there were refugees and famine, the number of people left in the entire county would not be less than 20,000 or 30,000.

Facing a grass army ten times smaller than his own, as long as the whole city works together, the grass army of only two to three thousand people basically has no chance of winning.

But this seemingly beggar-like army of two to three thousand grassroots troops easily frightened the two to thirty thousand civilians like a flock of panicked sheep.

Even though they knew that the Cao army was attacking various large households and would not attack them immediately, these people still fled in fear.

This made Li Yi sigh with emotion and helplessness.

It is said that people's hearts move together, and it can be clearly seen from the words of the waiter just now that in Duliang County, the rich and the common people are basically two different kinds of people.

Even if the common people and the wealthy families are not at odds with each other, they are probably not much different from those who are traveling together.

So when the grass-roots army invaded, no common people wanted to help those big households.

Thinking of the luxurious life of the Qiao family, Li Yi could only lament that the reincarnation of heaven would repay his displeasure.

The desire to rescue the Qiao family that originally arose in my heart immediately faded away.

"Why are you still here, sir? Get out of the city and escape for your life."

The waiter and shopkeeper also quietly slipped out of the inn.

After they quickly closed the door, several people hurriedly ran towards the city gate.

Li Yi had no choice but to follow the crowd and run to the city gate.

Not long after, everyone arrived at the city gate and saw the city gate wide open.

Everyone ran towards the city gate without suspecting that he was there.

After passing through the city gate, Li Yi saw more than twenty corpses lying scattered on the ground in the barbican.

When Li Yi came closer, he discovered that all the left ears of these people had been cut off.

When everyone rushed to the Wengcheng, they found that the gate of the Wengcheng was closed. Everyone started to open the gate of the Wengcheng and lowered the suspension bridge in front of the door.

During this period, Li Yi carefully inspected the killed Duliang County officers and soldiers.

First, the three soldiers closest to the barbican all had feather arrows stuck in their necks.

Looking at Yujian, Li Yi couldn't help but frown.

He can use three feather arrows to kill the three soldiers closest to the gate of Wengcheng in a short period of time, and seal their throats with one arrow.

This shows that there is a master of archery among this group of people.

Li Yi recalled carefully that only one of the five skinny monkeys on horseback had a quiver hanging next to his saddle.

Then look at several people lying on the ground not far away from these three people, but there are no injuries on their fronts.

Li Yi took a closer look and found that there was a large pool of blood under these people's bodies, and there was also a lot of blood foam in their mouths.

This shows that these people were killed by piercing the lungs from behind with a sharp instrument.

"It seems that there is a traitor in the Cao Army in the city!" Li Yi muttered quietly.

The corpses of the remaining people were far away from these corpses, and they were scattered, with many corpses facing the ground.

This shows that these people were hacked to death from behind while escaping.

Among the corpses closest to the inner city gate, there was a huge scar on the back that ran from the right shoulder to the left waist and abdomen.

This scar should be the masterpiece of the Xuanhua giant axe.

This is what Li Yi has roughly spliced ​​out the specific situation at that time.

At that time, it was probably the sharp archer in the grass army who fired three arrows in succession and hit the three soldiers guarding the city gate.

At the same time, several grass-roots soldiers mixed in with the people entering and exiting the city gate suddenly showed their weapons to the soldiers defending the city around them.

They gave the defenders a fatal blow from behind.

Seeing this situation, the other city defenders should run to the inner city gate as soon as possible.

It is estimated that they wanted to close the inner city gate as soon as possible to block the grass army from the inner city.

However, their speed was obviously not as fast as that of the Cao army. Before they could get close to the inner city gate, they were killed by the Cao army that rushed in.

The defenders on the city wall should have known that the situation was over as soon as the Cao army captured the inner city gate.
Chapter completed!