Chapter 672

Cao Ren, Su Puyan, Yan Rou, and others behind Ju Shou all showed expressions of shock.

Actually, Cao Ren felt a bit uneasy in his heart.

He couldn't understand why, with Gu Yi's caution, he would make such a low-level mistake?

This clearly was not the level a "person who knows military strategy" should have!

But at this moment,

facts speak louder than words.

These camps on the outskirts of Ye City were enough to explain the problem.

If Gu Yi were truly that cautious, he shouldn't have built these camps relying on the forest.

This is the path to death!

Soon,

the fire-attack troops were in position under Ju Shou's arrangement.

Looking at the raging flames about to ignite, Ju Shou felt as satisfied as he could possibly be.

Finally,

he was going to defeat Gu Yi!

And once Gu Yi died, the Dong Zhuo faction would inevitably decline rapidly.

By then,

this world would still belong to the aristocratic families,

and he, Ju Gongyu, would also become a supreme power-wielding minister,

and even lead the Ju family to go further!

Countless torches fell.

The trees rustled.

The sky-high flames ignited rapidly.

Ju Shou even saw the soldiers under Gu Yi's command fleeing in all directions within the camps.

Thinking of this, Ju Shou ordered all armies to prepare for the counter-attack.

His goal was to catch turtles in a jar and strive to annihilate Gu Yi completely!

"Plop!"

"Plop!"

Any soldier who escaped from the camp was immediately ordered by Ju Shou to be strangled.

But soon, Ju Shou realized something was wrong.

Although these dead soldiers were wearing the armor of the Xiliang Army,

they looked very strange no matter how he looked at them.

It was as if they were empty shells, having only the appearance but being extremely hollow inside.

"Ju Gu, did you see the civil and military officials under Gu Yi?"

Ju Shou asked his son, Ju Gu, who was at the very front.

Ju Gu shook his head blankly.

Ju Gu, as Ju Shou's eldest son, had impeccable loyalty to his father.

He had been staring intently at the group of soldiers fleeing from the camp.

But until now, he hadn't even seen a single high-ranking civil or military official under Gu Yi.

This meant that these people were either still holed up inside or simply not here at all.

But… at this moment, Ju Shou thought of an extremely terrifying possibility!

If the people burned to death in the camp were not Gu Yi's army at all,

then…

who could they be?

"Gulp…"

Once this thought appeared, it quickly occupied Ju Shou's ideological high ground.

He hurriedly ordered his personal guards to strip off the clothes of the soldiers who had fled from the camp.

It didn't matter if he didn't look, but he was shocked when he did.

Have you seen nesting dolls?

Inside the clothes of these already dead soldiers, there was actually another layer of clothing wrapped!

And those clothes were precisely the uniforms of the domestic servants of the major Jizhou aristocratic families.

To be precise, the high-level domestic servants of the major aristocratic families of this era were equipped with special clothing.

And for the wealthy aristocratic families, this didn't cost much money.

But the effect was enormous.

As the saying goes,

"People rely on clothes, horses rely on saddles."

Domestic servants, in a sense, also reflected the face of the aristocratic family when they were out.

Not to mention how good they looked, at least they needed to be dressed appropriately and uniformly.

Of course, those who could wear these clothes were generally the middle-level and high-level domestic servants under the aristocratic families.

In other words, the portion of people under the aristocratic families who were relatively loyal.

As for the lowest-level servants,

I'm sorry, they had absolutely no human rights to speak of.

Living worse than dogs, and still wanting to have a uniform?

Go dream!

Aristocratic families never do losing business that serves no purpose.

And nowadays,

the soldiers burned to death by Ju Shou were precisely those middle-level and high-level domestic servants under the Jizhou aristocratic families.

In an instant,

Ju Shou's face turned deathly pale.

With his wisdom, upon seeing these domestic servant uniforms, he naturally couldn't fail to guess everything.

But at this moment, the truth of the matter still made him feel like collapsing.

The domestic servants of the Jizhou aristocratic families appeared here.

Then where was Gu Yi?

And what about the group of soldiers under his command? Where were they?

The only possibility was that Gu Yi had already captured Jizhou and taken all those Jizhou aristocratic families captive!

Otherwise, Gu Yi could never have put these domestic servants of the Jizhou aristocratic families into the camps on the outskirts to pretend to be soldiers.

The moment he figured this out, Ju Shou hurriedly shouted:

"Retreat! Retreat!"

"Everyone, retreat immediately!"

It must be said that Ju Shou's reaction was indeed fast.

But the moment he stepped onto the outskirts of Ye City,

everything was already destined to be in vain.

Bursts of hoofbeats rang out thunderously.

Large swaths of footsteps shook the mountains and collapsed the earth!

From all directions, Gu Yi's army formed an encirclement of Ju Shou and the others.

Many generals including Lu Bu, Hua Xiong, Huang Zhong, Fan Chou, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Ren, Wu Yi, Lei Tong, Hao Zhao, and Yan Xing appeared together.

In the due north direction, Gu Yi stood at the head of the formation with Fa Zheng, Chen Gong, Jia Xu, Xu You, Xin Ping, Guo Tu, and others.

Looking at these enemies, a trace of despair appeared in Ju Shou's eyes.

He had lost.

And this time, it was likely impossible to have any chance of escape.

"Ten-sided ambush" was nothing more than this.