Although Gan Ning is domineering on the surface, he actually has bitterness in his heart. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The potter had sent him a handwritten letter before, saying that he would only give him 5,000 soldiers and horses, and would not send any more reinforcements, so that he would hold on to Xiakou no matter what, until he led the main force to help.

Gan Ning knew that it was not that the potter did not give him more soldiers and horses, but that there were no more soldiers and horses for him.

At this moment, the four countries are besieging in unison, and the more than 400,000 soldiers and horses of the Great Wei have all been transferred to the four directions to deal with the strong enemy, and even the potter himself is confronting hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in Jizhou.

In this case, Gan Ning would never allow the Xiakou he was guarding to drag down the overall deployment of the potters.

The sound of war drums roared, disrupting Gan Ning's thoughts, and in his field of vision, the vast Wu army had begun to advance towards the south gate of Xiakou.

Gan Ning took a deep breath, raised his knife in his hand, and said sharply: "Prepare to meet the enemy, there will be words first, and those who dare to take a step back will not be forgiven!" ”

Gan Ning governed the army very strictly, his words were by no means alarmist and intimidating, and the soldiers of the Wei army were in a solemn spirit, holding away the fear in their hearts, clenching the swords and guns in their hands, and always preparing for war.

Tom tom!

In the formation of the Wu army, the sound of war drums suddenly accelerated.

More than 400 trebuchets of the Wu army began to launch a wild bombardment.

With the sound of breaking the air one after another, stones the size of a human head roared towards the city, and the soldiers defending the city avoided under the female wall one after another, dodging this powerful attack.

Whoosh –

A piercing scream sounded in his ears, and a stone bullet shot directly from Gan Ning's left side one step away, hitting the city tower with a bang, and shattering the heavy windows.

But Gan Ning did not move, there was no trace of fear in his eyes, and he stood there like an iron tower.

The sound of the roar became denser, and more and more stone bullets flew up to the city like meteors, and the earth and stone walls were hit hard, and the walls were scattered, and cracks loomed.

Although the enemy bombardment is fierce, the power is not as powerful as the Wei army's heavenly thunder cannon, or even the Qin army's rotating trebuchet, and this Xiakou City is carefully built by Huang Zu, which is extremely strong, and how can a few stone bullets destroy it.

In the bombardment of nearly an hour, the Wu army fired about 10,000 stone bullets, but in addition to causing psychological deterrence to the Wei army, it did not cause substantial damage to the Xiakou city wall, and the defenders were less than seventy or eighty injured.

The beat of the war drums shifted, the last stone projectile was fired, and the bombardment finally stopped.

Gan Ning clenched the sword in his hand, he knew that after the bombardment, the attack of the Wu army really began.

Woowoo woo –

The horn of slaughter sounded, and the Wu army was in the array, and the flag shook like the wind.

Sure enough, I saw nearly seven or eight thousand Wu soldiers, and the formation was cracked, and the shield hand held the big tree obliquely in front of the cover, followed by hundreds of toad carts, which were shaped like toads on the ground, filled with soil, and were specially used to fill the moats.

Seeing this, Gan Ning hurriedly ordered the soldiers hiding under the female wall to get up, and the crossbowmen quickly released arrows to block the enemy's advance.

Flying locust-like arrows rained down, although the giant shield of the Wu army was large, but after all, it could not fully seal the arrows, as they approached the city, more and more Wu troops were exposed to the shooting angle of the arrows, and the screams sounded from time to time, some people were falling to the ground, and some people were howling.

After 100 casualties, the Wu army trench filling team finally arrived in front of the trench and pushed the toad carts into the trench.

Under the banner of the king of the word "Wu", Sun Ce made a move with a silver spear and shouted: "Siege team, give this king a flat Xiakou!" ”

The battle flag shook again, and the 7,000 siege soldiers led by the fierce general Zhou Tai rolled out like mocking water, carrying more than 100 hook ladders, and crossed the open ground in front of the city at the speed of charging, and crossed the moat with the arrows shot from the head of the city, and joined the trench team that arrived first.

At the same time, Huang Gai, who followed closely, led nearly 4,000 crossbowmen to shoot endlessly at the Wei army in the city to suppress the arrows on the city.

Under the cover of Huang Gai's crossbowmen, Zhou Tai commanded the Wu army to approach the city, and quickly erected a cloud ladder, and hundreds of Wu soldiers, under Zhou Tai's reprimand, climbed frantically towards Xiakou City.

Gan Ning knew that the real bloody war had just begun.

He took a deep breath, raised the war knife in his hand, and shouted: "It's a man's, give Lao Tzu a bloody nature, fight to the death for the Great Wei, and never let the Wu thief set foot on the city!" ”

In the midst of the loud shouts, Gan Ning raised his knife and fell, swept away the arrows that were shot, and cut an enemy pawn who rushed in front of him into two with one sword.

Inspired by Gan Ning, the Wei soldiers got up one after another, resisted the rain of arrows shot from under the city, and began to fight back.

He used his pole and fork to drop the enemy's hook ladder, and some threw Luo Shi Logs down, smashing them at the enemies who climbed up, never taking half a step back.

Along the front line of the city, I saw countless flying stones, swishing and falling, screams one after another, and those Wu soldiers who were smashed down fell to the ground are all flesh and blood.

In addition to the flying stones, there are also large streams of boiling water, which spilled from the city, and the Wu pawn who was drenched was burned with the skin and flesh, and fell into the city screaming.

There are also those sassal trees, and when they are pushed down, there are three or four Wu pawns, who were smashed into meat patties together.

The Wu people were all brave, braving heavy resistance and fierce attacks, and a few people even climbed to the top of the city, but they were personally led by Gan Ning to rush to the head of the city and be killed at the head of the city

This offensive and defensive battle was unprecedentedly fierce, the battle lasted from early morning to noon, and the front line of the city was already like a mountain of corpses, and the walls were stained with blood.

Xiakou City, but it is still standing.

With the passage of time, the spirit of the Wu army has been frustrated, and the offensive has entered the end of the strong crossbow, which is getting weaker and weaker.

Under the banner of the "Wu" word king, Sun Ce, who had been watching the battle for a long time, had a deep hatred surging on his handsome face, his fists were secretly clenched, and his eyes were burning with deep disgust.

It was both resentment and surprise.

He couldn't believe that this unprecedented onslaught under his own command had once again been stubbornly carried by the enemy.

"I didn't expect that Gan Ning, a Jinfan thief, would be so good, I knew it was like this, and I had to take him under my command no matter what-" Sun Ce secretly gritted his teeth, and his annoyed eyes showed a little remorse.

On the head of the city, the big banner with the word "Gan" flew proudly in the wind, as if it was showing off its might to Sun Ce.

"King, the morale of our army has been frustrated, it seems that we can't capture Xiakou City today, it's better to collect troops and return to the camp first, and it's not too late to attack again in the coming day." Beside him, the strategist Pang Tong finally couldn't help but persuade.

Sun Ce's eyes burst with unwillingness, staring at the city for a long time, but only then did he flick his hand with hatred, turn his horse around, and order the troops to collect their troops and return to the camp.

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Wu Jun collected his troops and returned to the camp, and as soon as he entered the king's tent, Sun Ce smashed his helmet heavily on the case, and scolded hatefully: "This damn Jinfan thief, at the beginning, he miscalculated with a trick and caused my tens of thousands of troops to be burned, and now he is defending Xiakou for the pottery thief, so that this king cannot break the city, it is really hateful!" ”

All the generals were angry and scolded Gan Ning.

Pang Tong stroked his short beard and smiled disapprehantly, "The king is angry, Gan Ning does have some ability to do this, and it is indeed a pity to let him surrender to the pottery thief at the beginning, but the minister has seen that Gan Ning has also reached the end of the strong crossbow, as long as we attack a few more times, Xiakou City will undoubtedly be broken." ”

After these words, Sun Ce's expression softened slightly.

"Shi Yuanjun is right." In front of the tent, a young Confucian general also stood up, "Now the main force of the pottery thieves is in Jizhou, and they are fighting a decisive battle with Liu Bei and Xianbei's hundreds of thousands of troops, and they can't produce results in a year and a half, and the rest of the soldiers and horses of Wei are also contained by the Shu army and the Qin army, and the pottery thieves can't distinguish a soldier to aid Jiangxia, and we have time to break through Xiakou." ”

These words made Sun Ce's spirit even more invigorated, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the person who spoke was Zhou Yu's friend, Lu Su, a Confucian general who had recently been promoted by himself.

"Zi Jing's words are reasonable, this thief is not trivial for me to join forces with the four countries, the pottery thief is already embattled, this king doesn't believe it, with such enough time, he can't capture a small Xiakou!" Sun Ce punched a few times, and immediately regained his confidence and fierceness.

In the big tent, the fighting spirit of the monarchs and ministers of Wu was immediately mobilized again, and everyone swept away the haze of today's siege defeat and began to discuss how to attack the city in the next round.

At this moment, the scout hurriedly entered and sent an urgent piece of information from the north to Sun Ce's hands.

Sun Ce was still drinking a little wine, chatting and laughing confidently with the generals, and he didn't care too much, he just opened the silk book information on the desk casually.

Poof-

Sun Ce had just poured the wine in his mouth, and he squirted out in one sip, and the confidence on Yingwu's face was instantly gone, and it was replaced by shock and astonishment.

"King, what's going on?" Pang Tong saw this clue and asked anxiously.

"How can this be, it's incredible, it's incredible......"

Sun Ce muttered to himself, gritted his teeth and gnashed his teeth, his eyes were full of amazement, and he threw the silk book in his hand weakly to everyone.

Everyone was amazed, and they stepped forward to take a look, and there was an uproar in an instant.

Liu Bei has been defeated, Cao Cao's troops have retreated from Wuguan, and the iron cavalry army led by Tao Shang has advanced to the front line of Xiangyang!

In terms of intelligence, the defeat of Liu Bei's army was also clearly written.

When all the generals of Wu State saw that Liu Bei was defeated by a sudden earthquake, they were all stunned, as if they had heard the most incredible thing in the world.

"I didn't expect it, the luck of the pottery thief is so good, this damn thief God, an earthquake helped the pottery thief, but destroyed the overall layout of this king!" Sun Ce hit the desk with a hateful punch, angry and amazed.

In the big tent, the generals of Wu fell into an uproar.

After a while, Ling Tong arched his hand and said: "King, this is the case now, the army of pottery thieves is coming to Benxiakou, should we withdraw our troops." ”

Sun Ce's body was shocked, and he hesitated for a moment.

"Can't withdraw, can't withdraw!" In the big tent, Pang Tong and Lu Su drank at the same time.

Pang Tong's eyes showed surprise, and he motioned for Lu Su to speak first.

Lu Su arched his hand and said: "The pottery thief's previous strategy must be to annex my Great Wu first, and then concentrate all his forces and go north to compete with Liu Bei. ”

As he spoke, Lu Su pointed to the map, "King, please see, Le Yi is in the direction of Huainan, and has restrained the soldiers of the Zhou Dudu, and the pottery thief will use a land and water army to go east from Jingzhou along the river, first break my Chaisang, and then attack my Jianye, if we retreat from the army, the pottery thief can calmly send troops from Xiakou, all the way east, and the situation in my Dawu will be critical." ”

Sun Ce's heart was beating with shock, and his spirit immediately tensed, signaling him to continue.

Lu Su then said: "But if our army can break through Xiakou, it will be equivalent to taking the springboard for the pottery thieves to invade my Dawu, and then attack with the Shu army on both sides, we can cut off the Yangtze River, capture the four counties of Jingnan, and drive the power of the pottery thieves out of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop. ”

After saying this, Sun Ce nodded again and again, and even Pang Tong nodded secretly, appreciating Lu Su's judgment.

At this time, Ling Tong said again: "However, the army of pottery thieves has arrived in Xiangyang, and they can be killed to Xiakou in the past, how can we calmly break the city?" ”

At this time, Pang Tong spoke, and smiled faintly: "The main army of the pottery thieves can't rush to Xiangyang so quickly, I expect that the troops he brings are nothing more than light horses, it can't be too much, as long as General Cheng can resist the Hanjin camp upstream and drag him for ten days and a half, we will have enough time to capture Xiakou, at that time, even if the main force of the pottery thief army arrives, it will be useless." ”

The two conspirators and Confucian generals, after a succession, dispelled Sun Ce's concerns and once again strengthened his confidence in capturing Xiakou.

Sun Ce gave the order to gather all the troops again and continue to attack Xiakou tomorrow.

At the same time, in order to hold the upper Hanjin ferry and prevent the pottery merchants from going south, he specially sent Lu Su to Hanjin to assist Cheng Pu.

Orders were issued one after another, Sun Ce's eyes stared at the word "Xiakou", and he said coldly: "Tao thief, let's take a gamble, I don't believe that your luck has always been so good, let's see, whether I attack Xiakou first, or you kill first!" ”