Chapter 403: Conquering Gutang
Han Dang is undoubtedly brave, and there are no weak soldiers under him. Xu Sheng, who also came as a reinforcement, is not a coward! However, there are only less than 8,000 people with combat effectiveness! And Liu Cong has been peeping at Gutang Water Village for a long time, and Yu Ban, Gan Ning, and Guan Yu are not weak either! What's more, the Jingzhou soldiers have an absolute superiority in troops. Xu Sheng could offer Lu Su a large number of wooden fences and simple water villages in the Saihu Lake and Qili Lake areas to cut off the lake area. But it can't be used on Poyang Lake, because Poyang Lake is so big!
The Jiangdong naval army, which was surrounded on all sides, finally couldn't stand it after Xu Sheng rushed into the encirclement for an hour. During the day, they had been fighting intensely with Guan Yu's subordinates for a day. I thought it was just an ordinary night attack, but I found that the enemy had made up his mind to die! One hour, two hours...... When the time came to the second half of the night, there were less than 4,000 people left in the Gutang garrison! There were less than three thousand who could take up arms and fight, and most of them were covered in blood and more or less wounded. This is still the result of Han Dang's strict management of the army, plus it is surrounded on all sides, otherwise there would have been a rout long ago!
"General Han, we have done our best, let's break out of the encirclement as soon as possible. Chaisan still needs you and me. Xu Sheng finally came to Han Dang's side and shouted at Han Dang, who was fighting.
"Ben will not be able to withdraw, Wen Xiang, you withdraw, I will send someone to cover you!" Han Dang glared at Xu Sheng, and then said. After all, Han Dang is the main general of Gutang, Xu Sheng is here to support, and at this time, people are almost fighting, and it is understandable that they want to withdraw.
"General, Sheng is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. It's just that now there is no hope of reversing the situation, leaving Qingshan without worrying about running out of firewood! When the general returns to Chai Ang, the combat effectiveness of the Chai Sang soldiers will definitely rise to a higher level, so why bother to die here in vain! Xu Sheng was also depressed, and two fierce battles met two fighters who were not afraid of death. Zhou Tai was already dead, and Lu Su finally used Liu Shang to exchange himself for Chaisang, but he didn't expect to become a prisoner so soon?
"General, what General Xu said is extremely true! The enemy army is strong, and the general can continue to lead the troops to fight the enemy when he returns to Chaisang, if it is ......" An elderly soldier of Han Dang also couldn't care about Han Dang's anger, and stepped forward to dissuade him.
"Hugh wants to say again, Ben will not leave!"
Seeing Han Dang's resolute attitude, Xu Sheng glanced at several of Han Dang's personal soldiers, and a few bold people immediately threw away their weapons, came up and hugged Han Dang, and then raised them up and prepared to retreat.
"Put me down! Let me down......" Han Dang jumped like thunder, struggling on the shoulders of his own soldiers.
"General Han, let's be careful, you shouted so loudly and alarmed the enemy army, I'm afraid no one will be able to leave." Xu Sheng leaned over to Han Dang and whispered. As he spoke, he urged several pro-soldiers to speed up!
"That's it, that's it, let me down! So how to break through? Of course, Han Dang shouted so loudly, not only would he attract the enemy, but also his own soldiers would collapse instantly. But carrying him like this is definitely not a way, carrying him to break through, and a few personal soldiers will not be able to fight in order to protect him. The real fight to the death, he Han Dang is still the main force.
Xu Shenghu looked at Han Dang suspiciously, and then looked at a few pro-soldiers. The pro-soldiers also glanced at each other before putting Han Dang down, and a clever one immediately handed over Han Dang's weapon: "General, without further ado!" ”
Han Dang said to Xu Sheng and several surrounding soldiers: "Southwest direction, concentrate on breaking through in the southwest direction!" ”
Just when everyone was concentrating on breaking through in the southwest direction, Han Dang found that Xu Sheng was lagging behind, and hurriedly shouted: "Wen Xiang, don't fall in love with war!" ”
"General, you go first, Sheng comes and breaks the back!" Xu Sheng pointed to the dozens of enemies around him, and waved his hand to signal Han Dang to leave!
"Why are you doing that?" Han Dang was stunned, this Xu Sheng asked people to carry himself out, but when it was time to break through, he volunteered to stay behind and break the rear. Han Dang immediately understood that he had misunderstood Xu Sheng before, as Xu Sheng himself said, he was not a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death. But the more Xu Sheng is like this, the more reluctant Han Dang is to leave Xu Sheng alone, because who knows that in this case, the breakthrough may not be alive, and it will definitely be a dead end after it is broken!
"Wen Xiang, let's go!" Finally, Han Dang led someone to kill Xu Sheng again and pulled Xu Sheng up.
"General, there are still two or three thousand soldiers in our army, and these people are the hope to ensure that the general can break through, if there is no one to lead them, they will definitely collapse in an instant. Sheng Qian's ineffective defense of the lake mouth, and tonight's failure to successfully block the forbidden city, caused Gutang to be easily surrounded by the enemy. Sheng felt ashamed in his heart, if he could protect the general to break through, Sheng would die without regrets! General, please give Sheng a chance, you can take people away quickly! ”
"Wen Xiang ......"
"Let's go!" Xu Sheng was just about to continue to persuade Han Dang, but Jingzhou soldiers surrounded him.
"Alas...... I didn't expect that I had been stationed in Gutang for as long as Zhou Youping, and now I have to ......" Han Dang shook his head, picked up his weapon, and gathered his own soldiers to sand in one direction.
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"General, this battle has gained a lot, and it is not in vain that we have traveled forty miles!" In the outermost part of Gutang Water Village, a pro-soldier said to the panting Yu Ban.
"The lord is properly deployed, and Chaisang does not dare to rescue on a large scale, which is doomed to the outcome of the Battle of Gutang." Yu Ban is also tired enough tonight, although he has 10,000 people, but he is always on guard against Chaisang, although he has long found out that Xu Sheng has brought people over to reinforce, Yu Ban did not stop his footsteps to encircle Gutang, and it is precisely because the battle line is too long, and Han Dang sent people to cooperate from the water village, so that Xu Sheng has the opportunity to break in.
However, then Yu Ban held the shore to the death, which also led to the fact that the Gutang Navy had basically only died in battle so far, and had not succeeded in breaking through. As more and more of Gan Ning's subordinates successfully logged in, Yu Ban had the opportunity to come to the rear of the battlefield to take a breath.
"General, general, there is an abnormality in the southwest direction of Shuizhai!" As soon as Yu Ban sat down, a military marquis hurried over.
"Anomalies? What do you do, and what do you do? "Yu Ban is also tired, there are four or five hundred people under this military marquis, and now there are only two or three thousand enemies on the battlefield, so panicked, Cheng Cheng will not let people rest.
"General, the enemy army seems to have concentrated thousands of people in one direction, so the small one will come and tell you......" The marquis was obviously very afraid of Yu Ban, and was about to turn around and return to the battlefield after speaking.
"Come back!" As soon as Yu Ban heard the words of the military marquis, he also knew that this person was not trying to be lazy or reckless, but he was very careful. So the general hurriedly called back.
"General......
"You said the enemy organized more than a thousand people?"
"Yes."
"How many men do you have now?"
"Less than four hundred."
"The enemy is preparing to break through, so you quickly gather your men, and General Ben will give you another five hundred men, and you will withdraw from the battle first, and go to Chaisang's road to ambush...... If you can capture the enemy general, Ben will promote you to Sima! But if you let the enemy run, you don't have to come back. ”
"Thank you, General!" This military marquis was overjoyed, now the enemy is only two or three thousand people left, and they are scattered in every corner of the battlefield, the enemy will be able to organize a thousand people to break through, which is already a limit, and this thousand people will definitely be violently blocked, and he only needs to ambush on the way, and hit the enemy by surprise, of course he doesn't want to miss such a good opportunity!
At that moment, the herald next to Yu Ban went out and shouted a few times at the top of his voice, and immediately gathered four or five hundred people,
"Go ahead! Be sure to hit the right shot! ”
"Hmm!"
When the military marquis led people to withdraw quietly, Yu Ban hurriedly raised his weapon and shouted to the cavalry beside him: "There is something to do, I hope that if we don't need him, we can wipe out all the enemies here!" "This time, the pertinence of the ban is very strong, after getting the news from the military marquis, it is to close the battle line and start to assemble in the southwest direction of Shuizhai! A smaller, more tragic battle ensued!
One side is led by Han Dang, and Xu Sheng is broken. And the other side is Yu Ban, who has just taken a breath! And with it was the entire battlefield, with the breakthrough of Han Dang and others, the other scattered Jiangdong naval forces on the battlefield began to fall into chaos!
"General, it's not good! The enemy seems to be coming around! ”
"General, don't fight, rush out!"
"General......
Several pro-soldiers almost dragged Han Dang together and rushed out. Han Dang couldn't help but sigh when he saw Xu Sheng, who was gradually submerged in the enemy army. Now that I am afraid that I will not be able to run out of this situation, I hope Xu Sheng can stay alive!
"Kill!" Seeing that the enemy was protecting one person in the middle, he knew at a glance that it was the main general, and Yu Ban no longer politely commanded his subordinates to rush towards Han Dang's location.
Another bloody rain! Torches are jumping, blood is flying! And almost all the remnants of Gutang Water Village understood when they saw Xu Sheng and others forming a force to attack in the southwest direction. No matter how many enemies there were around, or even if they could take down an enemy army with just a stab, they all gave up as soon as possible and gathered towards Xu Sheng's position! Even the remnants of the soldiers who had been beaten to the ground and were lying on the ground panting for breath didn't know where they got the strength and rushed towards the southwest corner.
Of course, the vast majority of people couldn't get in front of Xu Sheng, and they all fell on the way without exception, or lost, or spears shot them one after another! Looking at the desperate eyes of the soldiers, Xu Sheng also sighed sadly again. It's only been a few days, and what a similar situation! In order to let himself escape, Zhou Tai and hundreds of soldiers fought to the death! He is not short to encourage himself in his heart, he can't fall, he can't fall!
However, it is difficult to stand alone! After the enemy gave up resistance, Guan Yu and Gan Ning landed one after another. Tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers flocked to the narrow land west of Gutang Water Village!
"General, the enemy has a large number of people running in the southwest direction, our people have already gone to chase it, but it is dark and the road is not good, I'm afraid it will be ......" A personal soldier reported to Yu Banlai after a simple sweep of the battlefield.
"Well, send some people to pursue, but pay attention to safety, don't fall into the ambush of the Chaisang army. The rest of the people continue to clean up the battlefield and greet the lord! ”
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