Chapter 792: Zhang Liao's Choice
"That Ganning's soldiers and horses were all transferred by Liu Zheng to attack Yuzhou, near this Jiangxia, Liu Zheng didn't have many men and horses stationed at all, so they were not sure to take down our Hanyang City!"
Zhang Liao quickly figured out the story.
Liu Qi, who was standing beside Zhang Liao, also frowned when he heard this, as if he didn't understand what Zhang Liao meant by this.
"General Wenyuan? If we don't go back to Xiangyang, then we ......."
"We're going all out to attack Ganning!"
"What! We're going all out to attack Ganning? ”
Liu Qi was immediately shocked when he heard Zhang Liao's words, and he was completely puzzled what Zhang Liao was doing?
Zhang Liao immediately explained to Liu Qi again.
"Brother Liu, now that we have returned to Xiangyang, can we help Xiangyang? I'm afraid that even if we return, it will be impossible to repel Liu Zheng's army in Xiangyang, but because of our withdrawal, we won't even be able to keep this Hanyang City! ”
Zhang Liao had already analyzed it from Liu Qi's words, and at this time Liu Zheng was already determined to win, and his goal was to attack Xiangyang. On the surface, he had already told Liu Qi and the others that he was waiting for the men and horses on Ding Yuan and Zhang Liao's side to support.
Once Liu Qi really returns to support, although Xiangyang can be saved, Jiangling and Hanyang will definitely be greeted by Liu Zheng.
So in the end, even if they were able to keep Xiangyang, but they lost Hanyang and Jiangling, and only one Xiangyang remained, and they would definitely not be able to continue to stop the attack of Liu Zheng's army.
Instead of this, it is better to fight to the death here and defeat the army here in Jiangxia.
Give Liu Zheng a heavy setback.
Anyway, Liu Zheng didn't have many soldiers and horses on Jiangxia's side, and Zhang Liao still had some certainty.
Before, it was because he was afraid of Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses distributed around Jiangxia, and he didn't dare to move. Now that he knows that there are no soldiers and horses around, and they are all sent by Liu Zheng to attack Yuzhou, then Zhang Liao has an idea.
Zhang Liao was very sure that he could lead his soldiers and horses to defeat Gan Ning's army in Jiangxia.
Once his soldiers and horses defeated the enemy army in Jiangxia, it would inevitably attract Liu Zheng's attention, and the siege of Xiangyang would be solved.
After such an explanation, Liu Qi finally understood.
Although he had a slight doubt about Zhang Liao's decision, as far as the current situation was concerned, it was true that the method Zhang Liao said was a better one.
After all, if they really return to Xiangyang City, then Hanyang City will definitely not be able to hold it, and once Hanyang City can't hold it, there will only be one Xiangyang City left. Sooner or later, it will be besieged by Liu Zheng's army and eventually perish.
And although what Zhang Liao said is a bit dangerous, as long as he can defeat the enemy army in Jiangxia. Both Yangyang City and Hanyang City were able to hold on, and even they were able to occupy an advantageous position as a result, moving from passive defense to active attack.
"General Wenyuan, this method you said will take a lot of risks, how sure are you?"
"Of course, there is danger, after all, nothing is smooth sailing, soldiers, tricks, we have to be surprised to achieve victory, if we blindly follow the enemy's plan, then we will only fall into the trap set by the other party step by step."
"Not to mention ten percent certainty, I am at least seventy percent sure that I can defeat Gan Ning's men and horses in Jiangxia, so that we can occupy a dominant position in Jiangxia, and cause Liu Zheng's army in Xiangyang City to have to retreat, and Jiangxia will come to support, so that although our army will be in a situation of being attacked on both sides, as long as Xiangyang City can still be kept, we will not worry!"
Zhang Liao said a word to Liu Qi again, so that Liu Qi also had some decisions in his heart at this time.
"Okay, then according to what General Wenyuan said, we won't go back to Xiangyang to improve the attack on Jiangxia!"
Liu Qi seemed to have made a decision, gritted his teeth and agreed to Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao was originally just an idea, after all, he would never be able to defeat Gan Ning by relying on his own soldiers and horses in this Hanyang City.
He also wants to unite these centaurs under Liu Qi.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered to explain anything to Liu Qi here.
Now after hearing Liu Qi's promise to attack Gan Ning's soldiers and horses with him, a smile immediately appeared on his face.
"Okay, I know that Brother Liu, you won't be without vision, just like that, you and I will definitely be able to break through this Jiangxia Ganning army, as long as Liu Zheng's tens of thousands of troops here are destroyed, Liu Zheng will definitely suffer a heavy setback!"
After Zhang Liao and Liu Qi discussed it in Hanyang City, they didn't stop at all, they just didn't have much time, but now after learning that Gan Ning didn't have many soldiers and horses here, they didn't hesitate and immediately began to gather soldiers and horses.
Zhang Liao's nearly 30,000 troops in Hanyang City cooperated with Liu Qi's nearly 30,000 troops.
Immediately assembled, this time, Zhang Liao took the lead, he led his 20,000 vanguard army, directly to Wulin to fight against Gan Ning.
Gan Ning, Zulang's army, on the side of Wulin, gradually took some defensive measures along the water, but these days, because they did not receive Liu Zheng's order, Gan Ning and Zulang did not take the initiative to attack, but only sent people to temporarily go to Hanyang every day to call for battle, but did not fight.
In this way, because it was not a war in the first place, Gan Ning and Zu Lang themselves did not go out in person, but just let the two deputy generals around them lead the soldiers and horses to call for battle.
On Gan Ning's side, the person in charge is naturally Su Fei, and the person in charge on Zulang's side is Pan Lin, who later took refuge in Liu Zheng.
These two people are the supreme commanders except for Gan Ning and Zu Lang.
The two of them, each with 10,000 soldiers and horses, combined with 20,000 troops, rushed to Hanyang City to call for battle according to the usual plan, wanting to call a few words according to the usual plan, and scold each other casually, so they withdrew like this, and they would not fight anyway.
But today, the atmosphere is obviously different.
Su Fei led the soldiers and horses, and when he didn't get close to Hanyang City, he realized that the people here didn't seem to be quite right, in the past, outside Hanyang City, although there were some soldiers and horses, but today, there were more of these soldiers and horses than usual, and they were ready to go.
As soon as he saw Su Fei's soldiers and horses, without waiting for Su Fei and them to step forward, they directly sounded the golden gong for attack.
The drums shook the sky, and those armies under Zhang Liao rushed up in the front, so that Su Fei's army, which had just arrived here, and some did not react.
"Oh no, the enemy is attacking us, formation!"
"Formation! The front row is up, and the shooter behind is ready to shoot! ”
Su Fei still had some experience, and after facing such a situation, he didn't think of retreating and escaping for the first time, but decided to fight with Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses here.