Chapter 341 Yan Gang's doubts
Fertile City is the first gateway between Dahan and Xianbei, and it is also the most important gateway to Bingzhou.
No matter who becomes the Assassin of the Merged Prefecture or the Governor of the Merged Prefecture, he does not dare to relax the defense of Fertile City.
Therefore, this unknown small county town is not weak at all in defense compared to capital-level cities like Luoyang and Chang'an, and it can even compete with Xiongguan such as Tiger Prison Pass.
Looking at the Fertile City in front of him, which was full of dense defensive equipment on the city wall, Zhang Fei's brows couldn't help frowning together.
Although he had been prepared before he came, he didn't expect this city to be so tricky.
Now, after a series of battles, there are less than 4,000 men under his command.
At the cost of more than 1,000 casualties, he won ninety percent of Shuofang County, which is already a miracle.
But if you want to rely on these more than 3,000 people to storm Fertile City, that Zhang Fei is definitely uncomfortable.
If he doesn't have a good plan and just blindly attack, then he won't have many people on his hands if he charges down!
Therefore, it is definitely not a good way to attack the fertile field.
He could only think of other ways to take Woye, but in the face of such a fortress, he couldn't think of any good way for a while.
This morning, he had already gone to fight in person, and at the bottom of Fertile City, he scolded Gongsun Zhan, and wanted to provoke Gongsun Chan to come out and fight him to the death.
But Gongsun Chan acted as if he couldn't hear it at all, and let him scream and curse under the city for most of the hour, during which it was useless even if he asked someone to take out the corpses of Gongsun Chan's men.
Gongsun Zhan was cowering in the fertile city, refusing to come out, and Zhang Fei really had no choice but to reluctantly announce that he would return to the camp temporarily.
A morning's scolding made his mouth dry, but it didn't achieve any results, it seems that Gongsun Zhan, who wants to provoke, came out to die by himself, this road will not work!
However, Zhang Fei was not discouraged, he was ready to continue to fight with Gongsun Lao Thief tomorrow, he didn't believe that Gongsun Chan could not go out of the city for the rest of his life!
Gongsun Zan in the city has always stood at the head of the city alone, and now the only available people under his command are Yan Gang, and the rest of them are either captured or killed by Zhang Fei.
Even his most favored eldest son, Gongsun Xu, died in the battle of Taiyuan.
This made his whole person look extremely cold, and even Yan Gang didn't dare to talk to him easily now.
When Zhang Fei came out to scold this morning, Gongsun Zhan stood at the head of the city and let the puppet scold at will.
No matter how ugly the other party's scolding was, his expression did not change at all.
It wasn't until Zhang Fei ordered someone to carry out the corpses of his generals that the corners of Gongsun Zhan's eyes twitched slightly, and Yan Gang thought that Gongsun Chan was about to lose it!
Just when he was about to stop his lord, he suddenly found that the lord's expression had returned to that eternal cold appearance.
At that time, Yan Gang's leg stepped out involuntarily retracted.
Then the black-faced puppet under the city couldn't stand it and collected his troops and returned to the camp, but his lord still maintained this appearance.
This made Yan Gang's heart feel like fifteen buckets of water were up and down.
Now even he, an old minister who has followed the lord for more than 20 years, doesn't know what attention the lord has in his heart, could it be that they just spend it with Zhang Fei?
Just when Yan Gang was thinking this, suddenly Gongsun Chan turned around and glanced at him out of the corner of his eye.
This made Yan Gang feel cold all over his body, and when Gongsun Chan looked at him just now, it was as if he was looking at a dead person!
Just when Yan Gang wanted to figure out why the lord looked at him so much.
He heard Gongsun Zhan's call, Yan Gang didn't dare to slack off and take a few steps, came to Gongsun Zhan with both hands and saluted with fists, and said:
"Lord, I don't know what the lord ordered the last general to come over!"
"General Yan, the current situation has eroded to the point of no return. You are the only old man left by Ben Hou's side, so you might as well run for your life! ”
"What did the lord say, the minister is a member of the Gongsun family, and death is the ghost of the Gongsun family! As long as there are ministers, the black-faced thief under the city will not want to enter Fertile City for half a step! “
"Good! Since General Yan has such determination, then the two of us will work together to defend the fertile field! Ben Hou believes that with the defense of Fertile City, it is impossible for the other party to fight in a year and a half! Maybe there will be some new changes in the Central Plains! ”
"What the lord said is extremely true, as long as we can withstand the strong pressure of the Jizhou army. Once the other princes come back to their senses, they will definitely not easily let Liu Yuan take this fang and destroy us like this! When the time comes, we will have a chance to turn over! ”
"Hmmm! This is also the case with this in mind. General Yan, during this time, I want you to be ready at any time, we will definitely not be able to defend like this, so that the morale of our army will fall to the bottom sooner or later! You must think of a way to teach Zhang Fei outside the city a good lesson! ”
"If the lord has any orders, even if he says it clearly, he will never give up!"
"Good! Zhang Yide under the city is irritable by nature, although since he was calculated by Ben Hou once last time, I heard that he has changed his ways! However, the nature of the country is easy to change, and I believe that sooner or later he will have a recurrence of his old disease! Then will be your chance to defeat the enemy! ”
"The lord is wise, and the last general believes that this day will definitely not be too far away!" ”
"Okay, let's just wait for this day, I hope this day won't be too late!"
After saying these brainless words, Gongsun Chan threw Yan Gang alone on the city tower and returned to his mansion alone.
And no matter what Yan Gang thought, he didn't understand what his lord meant.
If you want to say that the lord is really preparing to wear down the Jizhou army, then the first thing to do is not to seek an opportunity to defeat the enemy, but to strengthen the defense of Woye City first.
But don't look at the defensive equipment on the Fertile City now, there are a variety of them, but less than thirty percent of them can really be used, and the rest are taken out as decorations.
When the state was in the hands of Ding Yuan before, Ding Yuan attached great importance to the defense of the state, and it was even more important for Fertile City.
However, since Ding Yuan died at the hands of Lu Bu, the defense of Fertile City began to slacken.
Those bold rats even dared to dismantle the bed crossbow and sell it for money, not to mention some of the city-defending equipment that was not very valued.
Since their lord came to Bingzhou, he originally wanted to restore the defense of Woye, but not long after they came, they were involved in a vicious battle with the Jizhou army.
Woye's defense was also thrown aside, and now his biggest concern was that he didn't have enough manpower.
As long as the lord sent him 1,800 men, he was confident that he could repair more than half of the city's defense equipment in a short time.
At that time, don't say that Zhang Fei under the city can't come in, even if Liu Yuan is there in person, the Jizhou army will not easily get close to Woye for half a step.
But now the lord wants to take the initiative, what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd?
In this way, Yan Gang's question has been hovering in his mind for five days.
Whenever he wanted to ask the lord a question, he would be shocked by the cold aura on Gongsun Zhan's body.
Until noon on the sixth day, Gongsun Zhan, who had not spoken to him for five days, suddenly told him that tonight was a good opportunity for them to break the enemy, and asked him to take people to attack Zhang Fei's men outside the city at night tonight!