Chapter 45 Fraud to open the city gate
"General Cai Mao can only let you go with us!"
Cai Mao was brought to Liu Zheng by his subordinates. Liu Zheng actually had no need to tell Cai Mao. Anyway, the plan I took on was just to use Cai Mao's appearance. As for whether Cai Mao cooperated or not, it didn't matter. If he didn't cooperate, then he would have another fierce battle.
Then he will kill Cai Mao directly and let him have a memory.
The reason why Liu Zheng wanted to capture Cai Mao alive was because he was considering the next step in dealing with Qin Jie.
He brought Cai Mao over and briefly described his plan to Cai Mao, asking Cai Mao to cooperate with him. If he did not cooperate, he would kill Cai Mao.
Cai Mao was so angry that his whole body was trembling, but he had no choice. For his own life, he snorted coldly and did not speak again.
After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he quickly led his people and continued to approach Cai Yangcheng, and at the same time peeled off the clothes on the bodies of the dead officers who had fought with the officers before.
He ordered his Yellow Turban Army to change into the clothes of these officials. Then, Cai Mao was led to disguise himself and rushed to Caiyang City to report his life.
If you want to deal with Qin Jie, you will definitely not be able to attack, you can only take your wits.
Although Liu Zheng was sure to win when attacking Caiyang City, Qin Jie still had thousands of soldiers and horses in Caiyang City. If he relied on the city wall to confront Liu Zheng, if Liu Zheng wanted to conquer Caiyang City, he would inevitably lose thousands of soldiers and horses under his command.
Even if Qin Jie can be captured alive, the lost troops will not be restored. If Qin Jie can be captured at a very small price without any effort, it will naturally be of great benefit.
So Liu Zheng would want to use Cai Mao to use Cai Mao’s identity to deceive the soldiers guarding the city, open the city gate, and then enter the city and control the entire Caiyang City for a short time. At that time, Sun Zhong’s 30,000 troops can surround the entire Caiyang City.
In this way, Qin Jie could not escape even if he had wings, so he could only surrender.
Liu Zheng and Cai Mao soon returned to Caiyang City, and used the officials and troops who had surrendered before to mix some of the Yellow Turban Army into it, wearing the clothes of the officials.
With such a high distance from the city wall, even if the official troops on the city tower can observe it, they may not be able to see clearly whether these people are Yellow Turban thieves in a short time.
In addition, there is Cai Mao. Regardless of whether Cai Mao will cooperate actively, for the sake of his life, Liu Zheng just needs to let him not speak and stand beside him and let someone recognize his face.
Anyway, Liu Zheng had taken away his weapons, and then asked Zhou Cang to stay by his side and threaten him with a knife at any time. If he was disobedient, he would kill him on the spot. See how he would resist.
In this way, the official army pretended to be a 3,000 Yellow Turban Army appeared outside Caiyang City, easily tricked the soldiers guarding the city, and allowed the 3,000 Yellow Turban Army to enter the city.
Quickly control all levels and put 30,000 Yellow Turban troops outside the city into the city.
Qin Jie was still leisurely waiting for Cai Mao and Huang Zhong to send him good news.
But he never expected that tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army would change the flag of Caiyang City.
Liu Zheng easily tricked the door and rushed into the city. When he brought his men to the county government office in Caiyang City.
At this time, Qin Jie had no idea that the Caiyang City had already changed its owner.
"Come!"
Qin Jie shouted leisurely, and the guards beside him.
But no one responded to him.
Qin Jie shouted again, but no one responded to him. He couldn't sit still and pushed open the door and walked out of the room.
But unexpectedly, Liu Zheng led Zhou Cang and Xu Huang and the others into the outside.
The plot immediately became alert and questioned Liu Zheng loudly.
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
"Is this the new prefect of Nanyang County, Lord Qin Jie?"
"It turns out that he is a good person who is well-educated."
Liu Zheng looked at Qin Jie. At the beginning, in his impression, Qin Jie should be a powerful general who is good at fighting.
But when I looked up close, I found that this guy was wearing a Confucian robe, which was a little less powerful and heroic, but a little more scholarly spirit.
Qin Jie was very smart. After realizing something was wrong at the first time, he immediately realized from the costumes of Liu Zheng and others that the people in front of him should be the Yellow Turban Party.
"You are Yellow Turban Thief!"
Qin Jie said in surprise, with incredible expression on his face.
"I am worthy of being the prefect, I am just smart, and I can see through our identities at a glance."
"Come! There are bandits! Come quickly!"
As soon as Liu Zheng admitted his identity, Qin Jie immediately shouted at the outside of the yard, wanting someone to arrest Liu Zheng and others.
"Don't shout, Lord Qin Jie, everyone outside is no longer there."
"I just praised you for being smart. Why did you suddenly become stupid? If there were people outside, how could we show up here?"
Liu Zheng simply explained to Qin Jie.
Qin Jie was not stupid. After Liu Zheng reminded him, his face immediately changed, but he still had a trace of fantasy and immediately refuted Liu Zheng's words.
"Impossible, I still have three thousand soldiers here, how could you quietly capture my Caiyang City!"
"Hahaha, why is this difficult? I just use a trick to open the city gate, then sneak in and seize Caiyang City quietly. Why do I need to use one soldier or another?"
"Use tricks to open the city gate?"
When Qin Jie heard Liu Zheng's words, his expression changed, and then suddenly remembered something, and looked even more surprised.
"Impossible, how could you fool the city gate, unless it was Cai Mao and Huang Zhong!"
Qin Jie could think of what strategy Liu Zheng used, but why did he think that it was Huang Zhong and Cai Mao?
After all, Huang Zhong and Cai Mao transferred 70% of his troops. If they were defeated and lost to the Yellow Turban Army, it would be a huge blow and he was unwilling to believe it.
Liu Zheng showed a smile on his lips.
"Then guess, is it Huang Zhong or Cai Mao?"
"It's impossible that it's Huang Zhong, his son is still in my hands. Only I can save his son. It must be Cai Mao, that bastard Cai Mao, right?"
Liu Zheng smiled and spoke at Qin Jie, directly asking Qin Jie to bring in who betrayed him. He immediately started thinking about it and said that Cai Mao betrayed him.
Cai Mao is the eldest son of the Cai family of Jingzhou. He has always coveted his position as the prefect of Jiangxia. He is not very harmonious with him. In addition, he was defeated by the Yellow Turban Army before, so Qin Jie blamed him.
Qin Jie inevitably thought that Cai Mao betrayed him.
But after listening to Qin Jie's words, Liu Zheng not only did not mock Qin Jie, but instead heard some interesting things from Qin Jie's words.
"Huang Zhong's son is in your hands, can you still save him?"
Liu Zheng muttered what Qin Jie had just said and immediately fell into deep thought.
Chapter completed!