Chapter 779: True Purpose
Gan Ning just turned his head, and Zhang Liao followed closely behind and pursued again.
Zhang Liao was naturally unwilling to let Gan Ning leave like this.
finally came out and restrained Gan Ning, Zhang Liao's purpose was to kill Gan Ning.
So when Gan Ning led his subordinates and planned to retreat, Zhang Liao instantly roared.
"Charge the whole army, don't let these thieves escape!"
Those dead soldiers who followed Zhang Liao and came out of Hanyang City, at this time, immediately became excited, held their weapons, and took the initiative to rush towards Gan Ning's soldiers and horses.
Roar! Come on!
The figures were crowded, and between the swords and swords, a big battle that took place outside Hanyang City broke out at this moment.
At this time, because Gan Ning knew that Zhang Liao had reinforcements, he didn't plan to continue to fight with Zhang Liao here, but Zhang Liao chased after him and didn't plan to let Gan Ning go like this, Gan Ning's face was ugly, and he couldn't escape, so he could only continue to be involved with Zhang Liao here.
However, Gan Ning also fought and retreated, and ordered his men and horses to temporarily evacuate directly from outside Hanyang City, and did not plan to stay here for a long time.
More than 10,000 men and horses, maintaining a formation, slowly retreated.
As soon as they withdrew to the shore, the reinforcements of the enemy army were already approaching.
Liu Biao's eldest son, Liu Qi, led an army of 30,000 brought from Xiangyang to support him from the back, and he was ordered by Ding Yuan to hurry up and hurry, and finally rushed to Hanyang when the great war here in Hanyang arose.
And as soon as he arrived, Liu Qi discovered that outside Hanyang City, two groups of soldiers and horses were fighting.
These people, Liu Qi soon found out, it was Zhang Liao who was fighting with the enemy, although Liu Qi did not know why Zhang Liao wanted to go out of the city to fight the enemy army at this time, but since he knew that it was his own people, Liu Qi did not hesitate, led his army of 30,000, and joined the occupation.
With Liu Qi's joining, Zhang Liao's morale on this battlefield rose sharply for a while, and the two thousand dead soldiers had already blocked Gan Ning's fight, and now the other horses in the city also rushed out at this time.
Suddenly, outside the city of Hanyang, most of them were the combined forces of Zhang Liao and Liu Qi.
Tens of thousands of troops surrounded from the periphery, making it difficult for Gan Ning's more than 10,000 men and horses to resist.
Fortunately, from the very beginning, Gan Ning did not plan to let his men fight with Zhang Liao's army here.
After Gan Ning knew that the enemy army was numerous, he still gritted his teeth and retreated from the battle with Zhang Liao, and then led his men and horses to retreat first and backward.
The entire battlefield was tug-of-war for half an hour, and Zhang Liao and Liu Qi's men and horses did not continue to chase forward.
If he was too far away from Hanyang City, Zhang Liao was also worried that something would happen.
After all, there are a lot of soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng, although the men and horses besieging Hanyang City are only Gan Ning, but there are other people who are responding to it, so after chasing for a while, Zhang Liao and Liu Qi have not been able to cut off Gan Ning's men and horses, so Zhang Liao still gave up the pursuit, anyway, now Liu Qi's men and horses have arrived.
With an army of nearly 60,000 garrisons, this Hanyang City is already an iron barrel, and it is not so easy to attack.
"General Zhang Liao, our army is in an advantageous position, why don't you pursue it far away?"
Liu Qi approached Zhang Liao at this time, and after seeing that Zhang Liao did not lead people to pursue, he was a little puzzled.
"Young Master Liu Qi, don't chase after the poor, besides, that Gan Ning is not a poor man, who knows if the trap that led us to the trick is waiting for us."
Seeing Liu Qi asking, Zhang Liao didn't want to say more, but Liu Qi still had some status in the army, and Zhang Liao still explained to Liu Qi.
"This Liu Zheng has stationed tens of thousands of troops in Jingzhou, and at the moment, he only sees this group of Gan Ning in Hanyang, and when he doesn't understand where the enemy army is, he rashly attacked, and nothing good will come of it."
When Liu Qi saw Zhang Liao say this, although he still had some questions, he didn't want to say much, after all, Liu Qi's experience in fighting a war was not as rich as Zhang Liao's.
In this part of Hanyang, everything is still dominated by Zhang Liao.
After collecting the troops, Zhang Liao began to garrison, and subdued some places that had been directly given to Ganning before, and then built military buildings on these places to prevent the enemy from attacking again.
Zhang Liao's decision was very correct, because not long after Gan Ning's men and horses ran out of Hanyang City, they encountered Huang Zhong's army that came from Huarong Road to support Gan Ning.
Although Huang Zhong only brought more than 10,000 people, these people are all powerful marksmen, if they really fight, Zhang Liao's tens of thousands of troops may not be able to get any benefits in front of Huang Zhong's shooters.
However, after Huang Zhong and Gan Ning got together, they didn't think about counterattacking anymore.
Huang Zhong and Gan Ning's men and horses together are only more than 20,000 people, and it is impossible to defeat the combined forces of Zhang Liao and Liu Qi, so the two can only keep a proper distance from Zhang Liao's men.
There was a temporary truce between the two sides and no direct clashes.
Liu Zheng is not in a hurry, this kind of thing is not in a hurry, and sometimes, in order to break a city, it may take several months, or even a year or two.
After Liu Qi's men came to support in Hanyang, after Gan Ning and Huang Zhong converged, they did not take the initiative to attack for three days.
This kind of appearance can confuse Zhang Liao in Hanyang City.
Zhang Liao didn't know what kind of medicine Gan Ning and Huang Zhong were selling in their gourds, but Zhang Liao was able to calm down, now he was sitting on Hanyang City, and he was the dominant party, as long as he didn't attack and used Hanyang City as a support, it would be difficult for Huang Zhong and Gan Ning's men and horses to break through the city directly.
The enemy did not attack the city, but Zhang Liao did not panic, but several days passed, and Huang Zhong and Gan Ning never sent people to call for battle, which made Zhang Liao feel that something was wrong.
Could it be that the purpose of Gan Ning and Huang Zhong was not Hanyang City at all, but Ding Yuan on the other side?
Thinking of this, Zhang Liao felt that it was a little unlikely, shook his head, and denied his idea.
And Liu Zheng's target, of course, is not Ding Yuan.
At this time, Liu Zheng had never thought about what he wanted to do on the battlefield in Jingzhou.
Liu Zheng sent three battalions of Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, and Zulang to guard Jingzhou, just to contain the Ding Yuan army that lived here.
And Liu Zheng's real purpose is actually Yuzhou.
As early as a few days ago, Liu Zheng had already led Sun Jian and Xu Huang's men and horses, directly from Yuzhang, to the north to Lujiang, and then to Chen Guo and Yuzhou.
Don't forget, Liu Zheng has a big captive in his hands.
Chen Wang Liu Pet.
With Liu Pet in hand, Liu Zheng can quickly and effortlessly take Chen Guo and the territory around Chen Guo into his pocket. and then directly attacked Runan and Nanyang.