Chapter 087: Success Falls Short

Gao Yi did not shirk, and said confidently: "Spread false news to the thief army, saying that the officers and soldiers were not united because of the removal of generals and commanders, and they retreated one after another, so as to paralyze the thief army, and then took advantage of the night to move the people, so that the thief army would not know, in order to hide people's eyes, they could attack several times." Isn't that enough?"

The words were simple, but Sun Jian quickly understood the gist of it, and he couldn't help but appreciate Gao Yi even more, but he still couldn't help frowning: "Although what Gao Taishou said is right, it is really difficult to do anything with the thousands of people in Sun's hands!"

Gao Yi smiled, pointed to his own troops around Wancheng on the sand table and said: "What I just said that if General Sun Jian commands 20,000 horses, it is not just casual talk, I have already made up my mind to enter the inner city and say that Sun Xia himself, once successful, tens of thousands of horses can put down their swords, at the same time, my 10,000 horses will be under the command of General Sun Jian for the time being, once it is unsuccessful, General Sun Jian will not be too late to attack with water!"

"Sun still doesn't understand, why does Gao Taishou have to enter the city and say surrender? In case something happens, what can be done?" Sun Jian knew that Gao Yi had made up his mind, but he still wanted to persuade Gao Yi.

"If you don't try, how do you know that it won't succeed?" Gao Yi blurted out, just this sentence made Sun Jian irrefutable.

Late at night, the official army really launched a fierce attack on the four gates of the inner city of Wancheng again, Sun Xia has not slept for several months, at this moment he heard that the official army came to attack again, and immediately climbed to the head of the city to watch, and sure enough, he saw countless officers and soldiers on all sides, densely packed, each holding torches, one after another, which was shocking.

"Defend it, you must defend it!" Sun Xia, who was already tired, was so nervous that he broke out in a cold sweat, but because it was late at night, the deputy generals next to him couldn't see his expression, and they responded one after another, and went to supervise the battle on all sides.

Sun Xia didn't know that in fact, the attack of the official army this time was just a thunderstorm and a small rain, and the officers and soldiers under the city were each holding two or three torches, and the drummers were ordered to beat the drums continuously.

"Hurry, don't delay, if you wait until dawn to be seen by the thieves in the city, it will be bad to take precautions!" Qin turned over and shouted the order, while urging his subordinates to assist the people in transporting their belongings, and ordered to go down, if anyone dared to take a penny from the people, once it was true, they would be beheaded immediately.

The situation of the other three gates was the same, but Sun Xia was kept in the dark, ignorant of it, and at the same time, Sun Jian had already divided half of the men, waiting for once it rained heavily, it would block the water and flood Wancheng in the low terrain.

The sky was nearly bright, and it was really cloudy, and when it was completely bright, the raindrops of beans crackled down-

"Wow!"

"Sun Shuai, the officers and soldiers have retired!" Several lieutenant generals were extremely tired at the moment, and seeing that they had been supported all night, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they all came to see Sun Xia one by one, as if surviving one day was a victory.

Sun Xia looked at the rain curtain and suddenly had a bad feeling.

Rainy days are not conducive to siege warfare in the end, so why did the officers and soldiers know this unfavorable factor, but why did they go the other way? If they said that they entered the city in order to break through the city, why did they retreat halfway?

All kinds of indications show that the purpose of the official army this time is not to attack the city, and there are other plans, but what is the other plan, Sun Xia can't think of it for a while.

"Report, Sun Shuai, Nanyang Taishou Gao Yi asks to see, outside the east gate!"

Sun Xia was taken aback: "How many people did you bring?"

The horse scouts reported: "He is the only one, and he has no weapons with him, but only a horse!"

The lieutenant generals were filled with righteous indignation: "There is really no one in sight, is there no one in our army? Brothers, beckon the archers to prepare and shoot this Gao Yi here!"

A few people echoed, raised their voices and were about to go, but were stopped by Sun Xia: "Slow, he is the new Nanyang Taishou, besides, I have heard of his deeds, he is not yet twenty years old, he has defeated Zhang Yan several times, and he performed well in the battle of Jizhou, it is commendable that this person has a benevolent heart, Pei Yuanshao was a general under the command of General Tiangong, and now he also submits to him......"

Everyone was not angry in their hearts: "Sun Shuai, at this time and that time, he accepted Pei Yuanshao because he felt that Pei Yuanshao had something to use, how could these officers and soldiers be credible if their words and deeds were repeated? It is better to die in battle, or to ascend to the world of the Yellow Sky as soon as the great sage and good teacher said!"

Sun Xia sighed: "But people always want to see each other, I want to see what this Gao Yi can say!"

Gao Yi stood in the rain curtain, watching the city gate slowly open, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

As long as he was allowed to see Sun Xia, he was sure to convince him.

Sun Xia was not polite, so he ordered the two teams of cavalry to open the way, split the two sides, holding weapons in hand, and forming a strict formation, Sun Xia himself rode his horse and stood under the city gate, and shouted at Gao Yi: "Who is coming?"

Gao Yi sneered and shouted: "I have already reported my name and identity just now, why should Sun Shuai ask again, is it suspected that Gao Yi is cheating?"

Sun Xia stiffened his face and remained silent: "The two sides are fighting, so naturally we have to ask a clear question, otherwise wouldn't I, the commander of the Qu Shuai, be very incompetent?"

Gao Yi beat the horse and walked forward a few steps, the two cavalrymen snorted, and immediately blocked the way with weapons, Gao Yi held the blade with his fingers, and shouted inward: "If Gao Yi is not mistaken, Sun Shuai, the Qu Shuai, was elected after Han Shuai died, right?"

Several lieutenants behind Sun Xia shouted fiercely: "Han Zhong's surrender faction, he deserves to be killed by Sun Jian's arrow, our Sun Shuai is a man who stands up to the sky, even if he fights to the point of a soldier, he will not surrender!"

Gao Yi's complexion changed slightly, and he used a slight force in his hand, and when he was about to bounce the two blades in front of him, the two cavalrymen who were blocking the way were also knocked off their horses by this strange force, and before the cavalry behind could react, Gao Yi had already snatched one of the spears with his hand, pointed coldly ahead, and said angrily: "I talk to Sun Shuai in front of the horse, what is the matter with you!"

When the lieutenant generals saw Gao Yi striking first, they were naturally angry, and they went to get the blade with their backhand to rush up, but they were naturally stopped by Sun Xia: "Give me all the retreat, since this is too sincere, why should we lose our manners?"

"Wow!" The lieutenants withdrew their blades, Gao Yi also smiled and threw away the spear in his hand, looking at Sun Xia still more than ten zhang away from him, he couldn't help but say leisurely: "It turns out that Sun Shuai's so-called sincerity and etiquette are that there are guests visiting, but they are rejected from the door, which is really chic!"

"Get out of the way!" Sun Xia is a smart man, he ordered the cavalry to flash to the side, and he was about to go over when he hit his horse, and everyone persuaded him: "Sun Shuai beware of this person's assassination!"

Sun Xia didn't care: "It's okay, according to this person's skills, if he really wants to stab me, it is a few feet away, he can also fly a sword to take my head, but he didn't, it can be seen that he really wants to persuade him to surrender, I can't cut off the last retreat of the 50,000 brothers in the city for my own selfishness!"

Gao Yi naturally heard these words in his ears, Gao Yi actually knew very little about Sun Xia, but he only roughly knew that Han Zhong wanted to surrender and was beheaded after the remaining Yellow Turban Army in Wancheng elected Sun Xia as the new commander, Sun Xia led the Yellow Turban Army in Wancheng to repel the onslaught of the official army including Zhu Jun many times, and finally was killed by Qin Jie's ambush when he fled.

Gao Yi knew that with his own strength, it was impossible to harvest all the slightly more powerful characters from all over the country in the late Eastern Han Dynasty into his own, all he could do was to see one by one as much as possible, naturally, even people like Sun Xia could not be an exception, if it wasn't for not crossing before the Battle of Changshe, Gao Yi really wanted to bring the Bocai, Peng Tuo, and Bu who defeated Zhu Jun into his command.

When Gao Yi entered the city, he immediately revealed his intentions: "Gao Yi is here, not for himself, but for Sun Shuai and tens of thousands of soldiers in the city!"

Sun Xia's vigilance was not completely lifted, he looked at Gao Yi inexplicably and said, "I don't know what Your Excellency meant!"

"Time is pressing!" Gao Yi said bluntly, "The official army wants to flood Wancheng!"

"Ah?" Sun Xia and the other generals were suddenly surprised, but they didn't believe it, "How can the flood be flooded? At this time, the flood season has passed, unless it is a rainstorm, but the place where the water flows out of Nanyang County is wide and gentle, so don't worry about accidents!"

Gao Yi couldn't help but be speechless that the generals of the Yellow Turban Army would not change their perspective when they saw the problem: "What if the officers and soldiers send people to block the river in advance?"

Sun Xia still didn't believe it: "There are still tens of thousands of people in the outer city, once Wancheng is flooded, what will happen to these Wancheng people, the officials and soldiers are not afraid of bearing the infamy of the previous life?"

Gao Yi said amazingly: "I'm afraid Sun Shuai has already guessed that the purpose of the onslaught of the official army at night is actually to cover the people outside the city to move to high places, but Sun Shuai didn't see it!"

"What?" Sun Xia was even more surprised, and at this time, a member happened to report to Malay: "Sun Shuai, the people outside the city have all moved away, and now they are all empty houses!"

"......" Sun Xia was surprised, he still didn't believe it, braved the torrential rain to climb the city wall, only to see that the heavy rain washed down many simple huts outside the city, but no one came out, and his heart was secretly cold, "When did this happen, why don't I know about it at all?"

Gao Yi said with a smile: "From this alone, it is enough to see that Sun Shuai is not a qualified Qu Shuai!"

Sun Xia looked at Gao Yi suddenly, and there was a faint fear of Gao Yi in his eyes.

Gao Yi continued: "Don't hide it from Sun Shuai, now I have a brother guarding the embankment where the water flows out of Wancheng in the east, as long as I don't go back safely within half an hour, the water will be blocked and drained into Wancheng, and then the result will not be what you and I want to see!"

Even if he was mentally prepared, Sun Xia still didn't expect that Gao Yi's prepared move would be this, he looked at the nearby mountains a few times, although through the continuous rain curtain, it seemed that hundreds of people were throwing the prepared sandbags into the water.

"What should I do if I come down today and die tomorrow?" Sun Xia said what he was most worried about.

Gao Yi didn't say anything, and took out the letter that Zhang Jiaotuo Pei Yuanshao handed over to him and showed it to Sun Xia.

"Subordinate Sun Xia is willing to surrender! Meet the new lord!" Sun Xia read the letter and knelt in front of Gao Yi with a puff.

The others didn't understand, and muttered, "Sun Shuai, what's wrong with you, why did you kneel in front of this guy?"

This letter is a bloody letter written by General Tiangong when he was dying, clearly saying that we sect members will listen to General Gao's orders in the future and not kneel!" Sun Xia reprimanded these boring people who could only chew the root of their tongues.

"Wow!" followed by another mountain call.

Gao Yi smiled, sure enough, Zhang Jiao's blood letter played a key role at this time, fortunately he didn't burn it, he helped Sun Xia up and said: "Why is Sun Shuai like this? It's Gao Yi who is late, otherwise Zhang Mancheng, Zhao Hong and other Qu Shuai would not have died!"

At this moment, on the bank of the river in the east, Sun Jian's soldiers were about to throw the sandbags by the river into the river, when suddenly a member of the horse galloped and shouted: "Spread the order of Nanyang Taishou, saying that Sun Xia has descended, and the water attack is meaningless, so there must be no mistake in ordering Er and others to return to the army immediately!"

Watching Tanma leave, these soldiers were all filled with righteous indignation, and one of them said hatefully: "Those thieves have killed many of our brothers, and it will be okay if you surrender?"

"Big brother, do you want to disobey Taishou's orders?" the others exclaimed.

"Hmph, bullshit is too guarded, a hairy boy who is not as big as my son, knows what kind of fart, according to me, this sandbag is still filling the river, and this bullshit hairy boy and those thieves are drowned together! Our brothers will not go back to General Sun Jian, so they will go back to their hometown, right?" said the soldier who led the coaxing.

"Is that really good?" the crowd hesitated.

"What are you afraid of, you don't do what I do!" the man said, and threw the sandbags one after another into the river, and after a while, the others were also agitated, and they grabbed the sandbags and threw them into the river, blocking the water in a moment.

The sky was overcast, the torrential rain was like a pour, and the water gradually overflowed the riverbank, pouring down the hillside into the boundary of Wancheng, like a torrent that swept everything, rushing and roaring.