Chapter 235: The Offensive Begins

Seeing that Sun Guan was actually cut off by Gan Ning in a few rounds, Tao Qian and Zang Ba on the city wall couldn't help but change their faces, Zang Ba knew that even if he wanted to take Sun Guan down, he couldn't do it without a hundred rounds, but he didn't expect that Sun Guan couldn't even support three rounds in the hands of the opponent's generals, which couldn't help but make Zang Ba think, even if he went down by himself, he was afraid that the ending with Sun Guan would be similar!

As for Tao Qian, his face was gloomy, he knew that he still underestimated Lu Rui's strength, just in the battle just now, the quality of Lu Rui's generals was more than one grade higher than his own, at this time Tao Qian finally knew why Lu Rui didn't take himself seriously, with such strength is indeed qualified not to put himself in his eyes.

"Xuan Gao, immediately call back the soldiers outside, there must be no mistake." Tao Qian said to Zang Ba.

Zang Ba also knew that leaving those soldiers outside now could only be a situation of death, so he immediately withdrew his troops.

After the soldiers below heard the signal to collect the troops, they immediately retreated, the bravery shown by Gan Ning just now had made them lose their will to fight, at this time they didn't want to stay here for a long time, they couldn't wait to escape back.

Hearing that the other party actually wanted to retreat, Gan Ning would not let them succeed so easily. So he laughed and said: "Haha, it seems that Tao Qian's subordinates can only be some guts rats, okay, let your grandfather Xingba come and loosen your muscles and bones today, soldiers, follow me, kill!" As he spoke, he took the lead and slashed forward.

"Kill!" The morale of the soldiers behind Gan Ning was now high, and after hearing Gan Ning's words, they immediately went forward and killed.

"Shoot the arrows and stop them!" Seeing this, Zang Ba's face couldn't help but change greatly, and he said loudly to the archers on the city wall.

"Whoosh......" After hearing Zang Ba's order, the archers on the city wall did not dare to slack off, and countless bows and arrows poured towards Gan Ning and the others like a tide.

Seeing countless bows and arrows flying towards him and others, Gan Ning couldn't help but wave his sword to resist, with Gan Ning's martial arts, it was naturally not very difficult to resist these bows and arrows, but those soldiers behind Gan Ning were not so lucky, and after a while, there were already casualties.

Gan Ning naturally remembered Lu Rui's explanation to himself before the charge, trying not to have large-scale casualties, but he had no choice but to watch Tao Qian's men and horses retreat backwards, and he also led his own soldiers to retreat to the rear.

After seeing Gan Ning retreat with the centaurs, Tao Qian and Zang Ba were both relieved, and immediately closed the door without saying a word, as if they wanted to come to a retreat.

"My lord, the last general is incompetent, let them flee back." Gan Ning came to Lu Rui and said to Lu Rui.

"Hehe, General Xingba doesn't have to blame himself, thank you General Xingba, this time we have caught Tao Qian's weakness, don't worry! At this moment, Tao Qian couldn't escape from the palm of our hand. Lu Rui said to Gan Ning.

"Huh? Lord, I don't know how to hit them? Hearing this, Gan Ning subconsciously asked Lu Rui.

"Hehe, the general that General Xingba beheaded before is named Sun Guan, right?" Lu Rui asked Gan Ning.

"Yes, but what does that mean?" Gan Ning asked a little puzzled.

"As far as I know, this Sun Guan should be guarding Kaiyang with Zang Ba, but now they are here, these two are the strongest combat power under Tao Qian's hands, and now they actually appear here, which shows that Tao Qian has concentrated most of Xuzhou's combat power in Pengcheng in order to deal with me, which can be known from Sun Guan and Zang Ba are here, by the way, I forgot to tell you that the person who stood on the city wall with Tao Qian before was Zang Ba." Lu Rui said to Gan Ning.

"What does the lord mean......" Gan Ning seemed to understand something when he heard this, so he asked Lu Rui.

"That's right, we just need to surround Pengcheng, don't they want to retreat? We will consume with them and block Pengcheng in all directions, unless this Tao Qian has wings, he will not be able to escape from our encirclement at all. Lu Rui said to Gan Ning.

"My lord has such a clever plan!" Gan Ning said to Lu Rui.

"Well, the virtuous nephew's plan is feasible, since this is the case, the virtuous nephew will immediately send someone to surround Pengcheng, and never give Tao Qian any chance, but just surround Pengcheng but it is not enough, this is too delayed, so my suggestion is that the virtuous nephew will send another army to those other cities in Xuzhou when besieging Pengcheng, so that when besieging Pengcheng, he can also do it without delaying the process of controlling Xuzhou." Liu Bowen came to Lu Rui and said to Lu Rui.

"Well, what my uncle said is reasonable, so in that case, I will arrange it immediately." After Lu Rui said this, he immediately gathered everyone under his command, and after careful discussion for a while, he finally came up with an answer.

"Next, we are divided into five waves of people, our army now has 40,000 troops, since this is the case, it will be arranged like this, first of all, General Ziyun's white-robed army, a total of 7,000 people, General Ziyun as the main general, Gao Zhong and General Wenyuan as the deputy general, your purpose is to block the north gate of Pengcheng, remember that there is no absolute certainty that you must not attack the city, as long as they are besieged." Lu Rui looked at Chen Qingzhi and the three of them and said to the three of them.

"The last general understands that he will certainly not disappoint the general's expectations." Chen Qingzhi, Gao Chong, and Zhang Liao said to Lu Rui.

"Okay, next is General Shubao, you lead 5,000 men and horses, responsible for blocking the south, with General Shubao as the main general, and General Yun Chang and General Guan Sheng follow. Then General Xue led Gan Ning, Zhuge Liang and 5,000 soldiers to the east to intercept, as well as, General Jing Si and Yang Zaixing, Yang Miaozhen two generals, by the way, and General Pei, the four of you led 10,000 horses to set off immediately, taking advantage of the absence of the main general, the remaining cities in Xuzhou were the first to occupy, in addition, Fengxiao also walked with you, especially Kaiyang, taking advantage of Zang Ba's absence, quickly take down these cities, as for the west, it will be up to me and General Fengxian, General Puyu, General Dian Wei and the Berwyn army took the rest of the men and horses to defend the town. Lu Rui told everyone about his arrangement.

"See, we see!" Everyone said to Lu Rui.

"Okay, without further ado, set off immediately, don't be discovered by the other party, as for the logistics work, Pengcheng's side will trouble Pei Ju, in addition, Li Deyu is also accompanied by General Jing Si, temporarily serving as their logistics management and joining the army, by the way, I will also familiarize myself with the situation in Xuzhou first, so that I can have a clear understanding when managing in the future." Lu Rui said to Pei Ju and Li Deyu.

"We understand!" When Li Deyu and Pei Ju heard this, they both said to Lu Rui.

"Alright, get ready, and we'll be on the move in half an hour." After Lu Rui gave the last order, everyone went down to prepare.

Among them, there is a person who only smiles helplessly, this person is none other than Yue Yun, the son of Yue Fei who joined Lu Rui's command before, Yue Yun obviously feels that no matter who he is, he is keeping a certain distance from himself, even if it is not an exaggeration to say that he is respectful of himself, and Lu Rui seems to have a lot of opinions about himself, so Yue Yun has not been much reused under Lu Rui's account, but he takes himself with him every time he discusses, but his own suggestions are not to mention Lu Rui, Others don't listen very much, so it's always been a very embarrassing existence.

It's just that Yue Yun can't do anything about this situation, after all, he also knows what Yue Fei did to everyone before, and now if someone will treat him, then there will be a ghost, so Yue Yun has no way, only has been looking for opportunities, hoping to make a great achievement, so that everyone can look at him with admiration, so that he can have a chance to solve his current extremely embarrassing situation. (To be continued.) )