Chapter 402: Night Attack on Gutang

"The herald is forbidden to besiege Gutang with all his might! Huo Jun, Liu Pan and Jiang Qin are ready to start besieging Chaisang tomorrow afternoon! The naval army of the headquarters immediately set off to reinforce Guan Yu...... "With Liu Cong's order, hundreds of warships set off in full gear and drove towards Gutang Water Village!" Previously, Guan Yu had attacked Gutang Water Village for three consecutive days, and the defenders of Gutang were already exhausted. The guard Han Dang was also worried after Guan Yu collected his troops!

Guan Yu's previous rapid capture of Hukou made Han Beware feel uncomfortable. As the situation developed, Lu Su gave him 8,000 men to guard Gutang in order to prevent Guan Yu from landing on Poyang Lake. And Guan Yu seems to have decided that the subject wants to capture Gutang, and he won't try elsewhere at all. Han Dang originally planned to lead his subordinates to patrol the shores of Poyang Lake, but now it has become a stick. The two sides fought for several days, and the casualties were also large! Although Han Dang is confident that he will not collapse in an instant like Zhou Tai, he has no bottom on how much time he can support!

"General Han, the land direction Yu Ban led the troops towards Gutang......

"What? Go and tell the Governor! As soon as Han Dang collected his troops and returned to the village, he sent another order to report. Han Dang suddenly felt nervous, originally relying on the fortifications of the water village, he still had a slight advantage in dealing with Guan Yu's sailors, if Yu Ban cooperated with Guan Yu to attack the water village from the land, he would have to divide his troops to deal with it. Originally, there were only more than 7,000 people with combat effectiveness, and if the troops were divided, they would be very passive.

And the most important thing is that now that the sky has darkened, Yu Ban is approaching Gutang at this time, and ninety percent is preparing for a night attack! Yu Ban Night Attack, Han Dang can still bear it, if Guan Yu comes again during the day tomorrow, and then change to Yu Ban at night...... This has been repeated several times, even if all of them are immortals, the defenders of Gutang Water Village can't bear it! Even if Yu Ban didn't attack Gutang, it must be to cut off the connection between Gutang and Chaisang!

Therefore, Han Dang must be the first to show Lu Su. And Han Dang didn't know that Lu Su was also anxious at this time. Liu Cong and Gan Ning have not been seen on Saihu Lake and Bali Lake for several days. Lu Su guessed that he had also entered Poyang Lake, so he urged Han Dang to investigate along the lake every day. And on the way to the ban, Lu Su couldn't send troops to intercept it! According to Lu Su's plan, if Liu Cong appeared in Poyang Lake, he would immediately send the Saihu Water Army to reinforce Han Dang. As for Yu Ban, it is to let him get close to Chaisang.

But now there is no news from Liu Cong, but 10,000 infantry have appeared on the Chiwu side! Lu Su couldn't be sure if these were Liu Cong's division of troops or the new reinforcements from Wuchang! And the biggest headache for Lu Su is Liu Pan who appeared in the south! Originally, using Lu Meng to drag Liu Pan was Lu Su's brilliant stroke, and it was a pair on the chessboard. Nanchang is defended, Gutang is defended, and Jiangdong's reinforcements can also send reinforcements and supplies from Poyang Lake and land. The advantage of the Chaisang Navy is the large lake area outside Chaisang City, these lakes are crisscrossed by waterways, and the water villages are numerous, and the Chaisang Navy is very familiar with the daily training here, although Liu Cong's army exceeds the Chaisang Navy in number but cannot be sent out at one time, and then through ambushes and other methods, Liu Cong's army will be delayed from marching, so that it will be difficult for Liu Cong's army to enter the vicinity of Chaisang in recent days!

Now, it is the formation of three forces by land to gather in Chaisang! Although there are only 10,000 on the Chiwu side and 10,000 on the Yu Ban side, Liu Pan has 30,000 people, if they all gather in Chaisang, and Liu Cong appears again. Chaisan will immediately enter the offensive and defensive battle, and all the sailors will have to turn into ordinary infantry! After receiving Han Dang's letter, Lu Su's first feeling was that Han Dang was going to be the second Zhou Tai! Han Dang is a native of Lingzhi County, Liaoxi County, Youzhou, and Cheng Pu, a native of Youbeiping County, are both from Youzhou. Because he was good at bows and arrows, horsemanship, and strength, Han Dang was appreciated by Sun Jian, and followed him to conquer everywhere, taking several risks and making difficulties, capturing enemies and capturing prisoners. Diligent and hard-working, he has become a Sima of other departments.

When Sun Ce crossed the Yangtze River to the east, Han Dang followed the crusade against Danyang County, Wu County, and Huiji County in Yangzhou, and was promoted to the rank of captain first, and Sun Ce awarded 2,000 soldiers and 50 horses. Then he followed Sun Ce's expedition to Liu Xun, the Taishou of Lujiang County, Yangzhou, defeated Huang Zu in Shaxian County, Jiangxia County, Jingzhou, and returned to the division to level Poyang County in Yuzhang County, Yangzhou, and concurrently led the county magistrate of Le'an. Among the generals of Soochow, there are two people who can be described as a golden combination, old partners for many years, and they charge into battle together and have made many achievements. One is Han Dang Han Yigong, and the other is Zhou Tai and Zhou Youping.

Liu Cong attacked Gutang Water Village in two ways, Gutang Water Village was afraid that it would not last long, Lu Su was naturally worried about Han Dang's safety, you must know that Zhou Tai swore an oath at the beginning. Of course, Zhou Tai is not completely only bragging, but he met Guan Yu and Jiang Qin, who is very familiar with the surroundings of Chaisang. And this time Han Dang was not easy, the morale of the troops led by Guan Yu was high, and there was a ban on land to cooperate. Yu Ban's name Lu Su has also heard of it for a long time, and Yu Ban dares to keep the troops shuttling in the lake area, regardless of the fact that Chaisang City may send troops to attack at any time, and he does not care about the landing of the Chaisang Navy on Qili Lake, presumably it must be all relied on!

But what is the reliance on the forbidden? Could it be that Liu Cong's main force has landed to join Yu Ban? Or did you enter the lake area and not confront the Chaisang army? Lu Su pondered for a long time and then ordered all the sailors of Saihu Lake to retreat to the south bank close to Chaisang City, and the Qili Lake Navy's navy completely blocked the road between the lake area and Chaisang to ensure that Chaisang City would not be attacked from all sides. At the same time, Xu Sheng was sent out of the city overnight and led people in the direction of Gutang. The purpose of Xu Sheng's trip was not to directly reinforce Gutang, but to contain the ban, and at the same time lead out Liu Cong's main force!

Soon Xu Sheng completed half of the task, of course, it was not that he succeeded in containing Yu Ban! Just when Han Dang thought that this was an ordinary night attack, he just asked all the soldiers to stand by and stick to their positions. It turned out that as the night deepened, there were more and more warships on the lake, more and more! After the inner and outer three layers surrounded the Gutang Water Village, it seems that it has not stopped, and some of them even began to land at the foot of the mountain north of the Gutang Water Village! So far, idiots know that this is the main force of Liu Cong's water army! The herald sent by Han Dang met Xu Sheng halfway and informed him of the situation, and Xu Sheng was also surprised!

Liu Cong's near and far means that the defense of the Chaisang naval army in the northern lake area is useless, so that the Gutang water village must not be able to support for long, Liu Cong can attack Chaisang from the east from the same after occupying Gutang, and plus the two troops in the northwest and due south directions on the road, although it is impossible to encircle Chaisang, but the Chaisang naval army must be forced to retreat to Chaisang City on the whole line! Jiang Qin can calmly dismantle the obstacles in the lake area! Xu Sheng didn't dare to slack off, and immediately sent someone to escort the herald back to Chaisang to report the news, and at the same time led the men and horses towards Yu Ban's rear!

I have to say that Han Dang is very brave and has a good way of governing the army. Seven or eight thousand sailors faced the Jingzhou navy several times their own, as well as land flanking attacks, and they did not panic. So at the beginning of the night attack, Guan Yu also paid a lot of price. But with Yu Ban in place and Gan Ning joining, the tide of battle began to reverse. In the middle of the night, the wind on the lake began to increase. The Jingzhou Navy began to use rockets! From the lake to the water village, the surrounding area to the land has become a battlefield for several miles! This is far beyond the scope of a night attack, more like a decisive battle that has been prepared for months!

Liu Cong invested nearly 50,000 people in Gutang! And there are only 8,000 guards guarding Gutang. An hour later, Han Dang found that he was surrounded by enemy troops along with the entire water village!

"General, the enemy is strong, retreat!"

"General, it's too late to ......"

"Hugh will talk nonsense again, but anyone who shakes the heart of the army will not be spared!" Han Dang naturally knew that it was too late. Now he finally understood that Zhou Tai would rather die in battle than retreat. The importance of the mouth of the lake is indeed worth defending by Zhou Tai. And now Handang is also facing the same problem! The herald has already gone out, and at this time, Han Dang's problem is not whether he can hold it, but how long he can drag Liu Cong's main force in Gutang. In an hour, then Liu Cong will definitely take advantage of the victory to launch an attack on Chaisang! In two or three hours, it is possible to let Liu Cong pause in Gutang, but if you can wait for the rescue army on the side of Chaisang, maybe the situation will be different!

Liu Cong chose Gutang as a breakthrough point to tear apart the defensive position arranged by Chaisang in the lake area. Han Dang is in charge of guarding the east, so naturally he can't be defeated in a fight! So even though he watched the people around him fall one by one, and the enemy pounced closer and closer, Han Dang was still standing in front of the water village, bending his bow and arrows from time to time, and sometimes swinging his sword and slashing...... Time passed little by little, and with the passage of time, there was also the blood on the bodies of Han Dang and the soldiers around him! After an hour, both sides no longer use bows and crossbows, but hand-to-hand combat!

The fire that ignited in the water village has lit up the surrounding lake and ground for several miles, and tens of thousands of soldiers are fighting as if they were fighting in the daytime, and everyone is red-eyed! The defenders were instructed by Han Dang not to take half a step back until reinforcements arrived! And the attackers, especially the Ganning Department, have been holding back for several days, and their task is to take Gutang Water Village, and rush to Chaisang tomorrow to join up with several other roads! If Zhou Tai is alive, he will definitely sigh that tonight's battle is no less than the bloody battle at the beginning. And Han Dang's performance is only afraid that he will surpass himself!

Of course, Zhou Tai can't see it, but someone can see it, and that is Xu Sheng! He has been following Yu Ban to Gutang Water Village. Seeing that Yu Ban was unmoved, and the enemy was already dissatisfied with the surroundings of the water village, he had no choice but to rush into the battle circle with five thousand people, trying to make one with the defenders of Gutang Water Village. Several charges were blocked by Yu Ban. And then there is a constant back and forth! The battle on land is even fiercer than the water village! There is little to stop here, and as soon as the two sides meet, it will be hand-to-hand combat! The sound of fighting on the shore also alarmed Han Dang and Gan Ning, who were fighting fiercely on the water!

"General, it's reinforcements! We should join them as soon as possible to avoid being surrounded! ”

"General, now that the enemy has surrounded the lake, it is still possible to fight if it retreats to land......"

"Don't retreat, send a few hundred dead soldiers to welcome reinforcements in!" Handang is still the same! He knew that it was impossible for Chaisang to send a large number of reinforcements. There are at least 40,000 or 50,000 people besieging him now, and it is impossible for him to easily get rid of the enemy's encirclement. Once you retreat, it will definitely cause great confusion in your ranks, and then the enemy will kill the remaining soldiers and reinforcements as easily as harvesting firewood. is also dead, Han Dang naturally wants to kill more enemies!

Several lieutenants who received Han Dang's order did not dare to slack off, and one of them was ordered to kill Xu Sheng to the west, ready to meet the rescue! Under the attack inside, the forbidden department finally began to loosen. At this time, Xu Sheng seized the opportunity to enter the water village in one go! But then he regretted it...... Because he soon found out that the main general Han Dang was already covered in blood, and there were only three or four thousand people in the water village who insisted on fighting, and there would be no more than eight thousand people plus his own men and horses!

And the enemy army ...... There seems to be no end in sight! The most important thing is that after Yu Ban rushed into the water village, he immediately blocked the gap! That is, all the people were surrounded again. What awaits him is even worse than the bloody battle at Hukou!

"Wen Xiang, thank you for your hard work! It's just the situation tonight, I'm afraid it's going to affect you and me to be buried together......" Han Dang glanced at Xu Sheng and said with a slight apology.

"Sheng is a person who has died once, why should the general be like this!" In front of Han Dang, Xu Sheng is a complete junior, plus he has the experience of being defeated and captured in Hukou, Xu Sheng naturally does not dare to complain about Han Dang at this time.

"Don't say hello, there are too many enemies, you must kill enough tonight!" After a short period of Han Xuan, Han Dang charged forward again, slashing at a Jingzhou soldier who had just rushed over with a sword.

"Well, take care, General!" Xu Sheng, who had just entered the battle circle, also found that there seemed to be no safe place in the entire water village, only a battle!