"The opponent is skilled in bow and horse, much better than us, and they have at least one person and two horses. It's okay to fight in a short period of time. If it takes more than half an hour, we will start to suffer losses."
Li Wuwei's words made several people nodded in agreement. They were not afraid of not knowing themselves, but were afraid of being blindly confident.
Zhao Jian said with a bit of a headache: "The current situation is that we have to fight each other, at least two against one, and we may not be able to beat each other."
"After all, not all the people in Shanhaiguan are cavalry."
Qi Chang said: "So what should we do now?"
Li Xiuzhu heard this and looked at Qi Shaoshang.
"What did Mr. Qi say?"
After hearing this, Qi Shaoshang thought for a moment, rubbed his nose with his fingers, and then said after a long time: "It is difficult to eat this nail now."
As he spoke, Qi Shaoshang looked at Li Xiuzhu.
"But we are quite sure of the original intention of coming to us."
"We will attack Juyongguan at night and seize the gate. I am 80% sure."
"I just don't know if the general's men can conquer Juyong Pass."
"If we capture Juyong Pass, the Silla soldiers in our hinterland will become an old turtle."
"The turtle caught in the urn."
"When the time comes, as long as our three cities can defend the city, this army will be destroyed without attack."
Li Xiuzhu nodded when he heard this and said, "I think so too."
"We only have an army of nearly 50,000 people. If we force ourselves to fight, even if we have the Shanhaiguan garrison to cooperate and manage to capture this Silla army, we will not be able to defend Shanhaiguan anymore."
"At that time, we will be equivalent to losing two cities. This will be a huge loss for us and the Zhou Dynasty."
"So I decided to attack Juyongguan tonight."
As soon as Li Xiuzhu's words came out, several others were stunned, even Qi Shaoshang frowned.
"No sir, we have been harassing the other side for a whole day and we are exhausted. We will definitely fail if we set off at this time."
Qi Shaoshang didn't say anything, but he had already made up his mind to run away as soon as the army that captured the city entered the city.
With such a brainless general, he couldn't let the people of Lianyun Village die in Yongguan.
"Yes, sir, you really can't fight at this time."
"grown ups……"
Before the others could finish speaking, Li Xiuzhu interrupted with a smile: "Okay, even though you want to beat me tonight, I didn't say you would beat me now."
"It's an autumn night, right before dawn, when I'm most tired and sleepy. At this time, the other party must be unprepared and even have no energy."
"So you can order the army to eat and rest now."
"We got up at Yinshi, cooked, ate seventy percent full, then went straight to Juyongguan, and attacked the city at Shenshi."
As he spoke, Li Xiuzhu looked at Qi Shaoshang.
"Master Qi, please set out an hour early to observe my opponent's defense, and attack the city as soon as Shen Shi arrives."
"I will order the army to wrap the horses' hooves with cloth, saddle the horses with bits, and arrive at the location one mile outside Juyong Pass before the sixth quarter of Yinshi."
Qi Shaoshang did not expect that Li Xiuzhu thought so carefully. Except for the tight arrival time, everything else was almost perfect.
In this way, if the opponent is sleepy and hungry, plus he has not eaten breakfast, and the army is in chaos, the probability of seizing the city will be 90%.
Qi Shaoshang was silent for three seconds and then said seriously: "Okay, my brother will definitely open the city gate at Mao hour. Please don't miss the time."
"The lives of my brothers depend on you, sir."
Li Xiuzhu also said with the same serious look: "Don't worry, I will personally lead the army to set off at two o'clock in the morning. I will arrive early and not late."
Qi Shaoshang didn't speak anymore, but cupped his hands. Li Xiuzhu smiled when he saw this.
"Okay, let's break up. Let's go down and make arrangements."
"Sun Ci, please stay for a while."
Several generals clasped their fists at the same time.
"promise!"
At this time, the army was having a meal, and it was only 7 pm. There were still three or four hours of sleep before 3 pm, which was enough for the soldiers and horses to recover their strength.
After several generals left, Sun Ci looked at Li Xiuzhu, waiting for instructions.
If you are left alone at this time, it is probably because you have important arrangements.
This was indeed the case. Li Xiuzhu asked directly: "Sun Ci, how many soldiers do you have available now?"
Among their teams, Sun Ci had the fewest soldiers, because all the soldiers left behind in Lian Yunzhai were his soldiers.
Including the losses in the previous bandit suppression, his team only has about 4,500 people left.
Excluding the 2,000 logistics troops, this team still has 2,500 people.
"Sir, excluding the soldiers who protect the logistics, we still have 2,500 people to fight."
Li Xiuzhu nodded when he heard this, it was pretty much what he thought.
"You don't want to fight this battle."
"I'll give you two tasks. The first one is to keep the door closed at Juyong Pass, especially at night."
Sun Ci was startled.
"Sir, do you think Silla will attack the city overnight? But why don't they attack outside, or go south?"
Li Xiuzhu stood up, looked at Yuan Yue who was covered outside the hall, and explained: "Because I entered Juyong Pass, I will kill all the local nobles."
"Without the gentry's troublemakers, Juyong Pass will be easier to defend and harder to attack."
"General Luo Shicheng of Shanhaiguan Pass will definitely strengthen his guard because of the incident at Juyongguan Pass."
"The only thing I'm worried about is Yanmen Pass. Although Zhu Zhinuo has not lost Yanmen Pass, no one knows whether the nobles here and himself have betrayed..."
Sun Ci was stunned. He didn't expect that Li Xiuzhu would be so bold and wanted to massacre all the nobles in Juyongguan. It must be known that among those nobles there were two families with ministers in the court.
Aren't you afraid of something happening?
Sun Ci thought for a moment, then said after silence: "Sir, is it too..." to kill the nobles?
Li Xiuzhu didn't wait for Sun Ci to finish speaking, glanced at Sun Ci, and asked, "Do you have a family?"
Sun Ci quickly shook his head when he heard this.
"No, no, if we do this, I'm afraid there will be a lot of controversy between the DPRK and China."
"I remember that there were three or five noble families of ministers who had branch families in Juyongguan."
Li Xiuzhu shook his head when he heard this.
"Don't talk about dividing the family, even the Zong family I will kill them."
"Today I asked someone to investigate and found that as many as 30% of the Juyongguan families rebelled."
"The battle at Juyongguan City Gate lasted three quarters of an hour before it was opened."
"None of the remaining aristocratic families came to help."
"If someone hadn't rebelled, if they hadn't stood by and watched, Juyongguan would never have been lost."
"And if we do it again, we might also suffer a loss."
"There are probably tens of thousands of servants of these moths."
"We cannot afford to lose Juyongguan again, so they must die."
Sun Ci stopped talking this time. He didn't know how to persuade him.
And if they lose Juyongguan and fail to help Shanhaiguan rescue the siege, then it will be a death penalty to go back.
A dead Taoist friend will not die a poor Taoist.
Sun Ci also understood the reason why Li Xiuzhu kept him here.
"Sir, if there are aristocratic families in our city who rebel against the officials, what should we do? Also kill them all?"