After the whole sect traveled to ancient times, I led the rebellion

He was just talking, how come it really happened?

Mu Shengda's expression broke a little, and he forced a smile: "Does everyone have one?"

"Well, everyone gets one."

Mu Shengda retracted his smile and silently ended the topic (definitely not because his defense was broken).

The 30,000 Yin family soldiers in Anping, including cavalry, marched towards Shucheng at the same time. The spies of the migrant army lying in ambush on the official road of Shucheng would naturally notice it.

But Situ Jin and his troops did not stop, and their marching speed increased a lot.

We arrived near Shucheng half a day earlier than expected.

——Shucheng Prison——

"Are you talking back?"

Rao Deng took the iron and kept turning the food over the fire.

The triangular, snake-shaped soldering iron tip was inserted into the fire and burned, and the soldering iron gradually became red as time went on.

Seeing that Xia Yue remained silent, Rao Deng watched as the branding iron on the fire pressed against Xia Yue's skin in just a few seconds.

At this moment, the temperature of the red-hot soldering iron tip had reached eighty or ninety degrees. As soon as the scalding iron touched Xia Yue's chest, a burning smell was emitted.

Xia Yue gritted his teeth and tried hard not to make any sound.

Unfortunately, Rao Deng didn't want to let Xia Yue go just like that.

Usually, a soldering iron can quickly cause deep first to third degree burns at the contact site, and the burned area will appear dark red or charred black.

This kind of deep burn will damage the subcutaneous nerves, and in the later stages you will not feel the pain.

Rao Deng knew this too. Looking at Xia Yue's painful expression, he felt indescribably happy. He moved the branding tool away grimly.

After only a short while of contact with the branding iron, some blisters appeared on Xia Yue's chest.

Xia Yue had his hair down. He looked up again with a look of contempt:

"You are the only one who is qualified to talk to me?

Chen Shui's running dog?"

After Xia Yue finished speaking, he spat out the saliva in his mouth.

His eyes were bloodshot, and it was obvious that he had not had a good night's sleep for a long time, but that did not prevent him from looking at Rao Deng clearly at this moment.

Rao Deng wiped the saliva off his face. He just put down the branding tool and saw such a pair of bloodshot eyes. He stopped breathing and pretended to be calm and said:

"It seems you haven't been beaten enough. Come, give me the caning!"

Rao Deng walked to the side and watched as the migrant soldiers continued to burn Xia Yue's chest with the branding iron, and more and more blisters appeared.

Then another soldier took the whip in his hand.

The long whip kept hitting Xia Yue's body, and the blisters that had just been caused by the burns were constantly burst by the whip.

The chest and ribs are densely packed with nerves and are more sensitive.

Feeling the pain of the blister being torn, Xia Yue finally couldn't help but groan.

Rao Deng sat in the chair, listening to Xia Yue's painful groans. The fear that he had just felt from his eyes gradually dissipated, and he felt happy again.

"If he doesn't tell me, beat him up!"

Rao Deng, who had interrogated Xia Yue for a long time without any results, wanted to beat Xia Yue to death. It was not until he saw Xia Yue fainted that he came to his senses and left the prison.

While Xia Yue was being tortured, the troops coming from Anping were approaching the official road to Shucheng.

Faced with such a team that had never rested, the scouts sent out by the refugee army did not dare to delay and quickly passed the news back to the camp.

"King, there are several teams of silver-armored soldiers heading towards Shucheng."

"How many people exactly?"

"Based on the amount of smoke from the stoves, it's probably around 60,000."

At this moment, Chen Shui was in the tent discussing with his staff how to capture the remaining people in the Xia Yue camp in one fell swoop, but suddenly he heard about the troops coming from Anping.

He remembered that Anping had been sending out troops from several months ago until now, so why did they choose to send out troops now?

Chen Shui stood up from the armchair covered with expensive fur and looked at his staff.

The thought of other aides leaving Shucheng overnight to join Mu Qing, and who knows, it was them who instigated Mu Qing to attack Shucheng.

Chen Shuinian's face became even uglier as he thought of this.

He walked out of the tent with cold eyes:

"Go and call Rao Deng over."

Rao Deng was about to splash water on Xia Yue to wake him up and then continue to torture him when he was summoned out by Chen Shui.

As soon as Rao Deng saw Chen Shui, he put on a flattering smile:

"King, Xia Yue has never revealed the hiding place of those thieves. I will definitely pry the information out tomorrow."

"Don't worry about him. Anping is sending troops to attack us now. Do you have any plan?"

"Anping Silver Armored Soldiers?"

Rao Deng was receiving news from the outside world, and was shocked to find that Anping had actually attacked Shucheng.

Chen Shui not only gathered his staff together, but also called other generals.

Anping's sudden dispatch of troops made Chen Shui uneasy.

Thinking of the thunder thrown by those villains not long ago, Chen Shui was naturally prepared for Anping to send troops.

Situ Jin was leading the silver-armored soldiers, and he didn't know how Chen Shui would respond, but after reading many military books written by Mu Qing, he could guess Chen Shui's next strategy.

This time when he set up camp with his silver-armored soldiers, he set up more tents and stoves than his own number, in order to harass the enemy scouts and make them pass on false information to Chen Shui.

Generally, there are two ways for scouts to judge the number of enemy soldiers. The first is to judge by the number of flags or camps.

One flag and one team have 1000 people.

The number of camps is the size of the camp area.

The military is usually stationed in camps, and each camp has a fixed number of people.

As long as you count the number of tents, you can calculate the approximate number of people.

The second method is to check the number of military stoves.

When marching and fighting, soldiers always need to fill their stomachs.

There is a fixed amount of food that can be cooked in one military pot.

One stove can produce food for ten people, and a thousand stoves can produce ten thousand people, which means there are ten thousand enemies.

So when it was time to cook, one could roughly estimate the enemy's military strength by simply counting the number of stoves or looking at the amount of smoke.

Of course, it is rare to see an army like Mu Qing's army where a small team of people sometimes cook their own food.

Since Situ Jin's side was not following the normal rules, he simply doubled the number of stoves like in the camp.

If the number of silver-armored soldiers is judged based on the tents and stoves, then the original number of 30,000 silver-armored soldiers would be 60,000 silver-armored soldiers in the eyes of the refugee army.

This move was the first strategy discussed by Mu Qing and others, and its purpose was to confuse the enemy's sight.

By doing this, Situ Jin created the illusion that there were many silver-armored soldiers in Anping.

This was enough for Chen Shui to gather as many troops as possible from Shucheng on the city walls.

Xia Yue was captured, but the strength of the "Shadow" he led was almost retained.

When Situ Jin led his troops to attack Shucheng, it was time for Shadow to take action.

Chen Shui's troops were scattered. On one hand, they needed to guard against the silver-armored soldiers outside the city, and on the other hand, they had to deal with the shadows that had repeatedly robbed and harassed the city.

Just as Mu Qing and others guessed, when Chen Shui heard the news that Anping had 70,000 soldiers, the first thing he did was not to doubt but to quickly gather the soldiers in the city.

He placed most of his troops at the two main city gates.