Chapter Twenty-Seven: Success in Luring the Enemy.
Although Ma Tan's strategy is one link after another, the first step can be said to be quite important to implement. If the first step is not successful, all the rest of the follow-ups will be zero.
Thinking of this, Zhuge Song had to cast his eyes on Zheng Liang again.
Zheng Liang has already run a round trip between Hanshou County and Dongting Port this day, and he can be said to be more fatigue than anyone else. But after listening to Ma Yan's strategy, he saw Zhuge Song turn his eyes to him, and immediately showed a very excited expression, and before Zhuge Song could speak, he raised his hand and said to him eagerly: "My lord, I'll go!" ”
Although sometimes Zhuge Song feels that Zheng Liang's rudimentary form as a famous general is sometimes a little overjoyed, no matter who he is afraid of in the face of opportunities and merits, then he will be broken by others sooner or later.
But now is obviously not the time to discourage his enthusiasm, now the people around Zhuge Song are indeed the best in Zheng Liang, and this task is the most suitable for him.
Zhuge Song came out of Wuling City this time in order to travel lightly, and he didn't bring out many things, but fortunately, Ma Tan, as a guy with a high IQ, had writing utensils with him. Ma Tan found a relatively flat rock, tore off a small strip of relatively large paper in the method of origami, and carefully wrote a line of words with a brush -- General Huang has brought in 10,000 people to rescue, and the time will come, and he hopes to prepare for it.
After writing it, he sealed it in a small bamboo tube he had brought with him, and there was a thin rope on it, and Ma Jian handed it to Zheng Liang, telling him to let it fall when it was time to fall.
Zheng Liang also knew that this matter was of great significance, so he nodded heavily and turned over on his horse, while the rest of the people left both sides of the road according to Ma Tan's strategy, and found a suitable place to monitor Hanshou City in a hidden and clear way, preparing for the next big fight.
Zheng Liang tied the bamboo tube to his body, and then slapped his horse and rushed to the foot of Hanshou City. The unitary time is about 5 to 7 o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still a few hours before the unitary time. Ma Jian explained to Zhuge Song: "The reason why the time for the arrival of the reinforcements was pushed later, one is that this time should be the time when the reinforcements arrived in Wuling City instead of Hanshou City, because theoretically speaking, even if the reinforcements came quickly, it was impossible to know that Zhuge Song was now in Hanshou City, so it must be written in the letter that the time of arrival in Wuling County, so it is more real." Second, if Shamoke knew that the reinforcements from Changsha would be here so soon, he would probably retreat directly, so he should be given some opportunities to venture into Hanshou County. ”
Sure enough, Zheng Liang's sudden appearance almost immediately attracted the attention of the barbarians, because there were not many barbarian sentry in charge of the "siege", so Zheng Liang simply made a full set of acts, and unceremoniously stabbed a barbarian who came to intercept him with a stab of the spear in his hand.
How could a few barbarians in charge of guarding could be Zheng Liang's opponents, they rushed over quickly, and they were stabbed off their horses quickly. By the time Shamoke personally rode his horse and led the people out of the camp, Zheng Liang had already passed through the area under their control and rushed towards Wuling.
His next task was to pretend to drop the bamboo tube for Shamoko to pick up, inducing him to desperately attack the city, and the rest of Zhuge Song's side could suddenly kill them when they were exhausted and defeat them.
It's just that I have to say that although this plan is wonderful, there are also many restrictions in it. The first thing is to choose a strongman who can not only leak a trace of the lost bamboo tube but also not get caught. This strongman is Zheng Liang, because of him, so this can barely be achieved. But the ensuing sequelae is that because the military general who can fight around Zhuge Song is Zheng Liang, Ma Jian is just a strategist, and Zhuge Song's own charging ability at this time can only reach the point where he will not fall off immediately after a long period of study, so if the barbarians fall into the scheme, Zhuge Song's ability to surprise will still be greatly reduced because Zheng Liang is not in the formation. Regarding this, the result of Zhuge Song's discussion with Ma Tan was to let Zheng Liang come back after getting rid of or disposing of the pursuers, and choose the time to attack from behind the barbarians alone, and Zheng Liang's choice of the time of the raid should also be after the time when Zhuge Song's people launched an attack.
Such a fact made Zhuge Song feel how good it should be to be a good general, but it was useless to think about it now, seeing that Zheng Liang got rid of Shamoke's pursuit according to the plan, and saw that Shamoke seemed to be picking up something, Zhuge Song and Ma Tan looked at each other and smiled, knowing that this strategy was half successful.
The other half is the second limitation, and that is the problem of Shamoko's IQ. Originally, this question should not be a problem, not to mention that Shamoke is just a barbarian, and he should not have much IQ, even if he is an ordinary general, in the context of eagerly capturing Zhuge Song, knowing that the enemy's reinforcements are coming, he will definitely be in chaos, and there is a great possibility that he will quickly attack the city.
Sure enough, Shamoke did not disappoint Zhuge Song, and in less than a stick of incense, he did all the soldiers in the village or the camp, and did not even leave a single person to watch, and began to attack Hanshou City.
If you want to attack the city, you must have siege weapons, although Hanshou City is small, the city walls are not tall, but the barbarians obviously don't even have ladders, so their siege weapons, there are only dozens of people left carrying a huge tree cut from nowhere, desperately rushing to the city gate to try to knock it open.
There was almost no cover along the way, and although the garrison of Hanshou City had decreased slightly due to the long period of maintenance, they still responded immediately to the siege of the barbarians.
There weren't many garrisons in a small county town, let alone archers to defend the city. Fortunately, the siege troops under the city were also purely amateur, although the firepower on the city was not up to the standard of arrows raining down at all, but those barbarians who were carrying huge trees and preparing to attack the city still quickly fell to the ground with arrows.
With Shamoko's roar, more brutes began to join the ranks of the giant trees, and shield soldiers began to run ahead to defend them from the arrows.
Finally, at the cost of hundreds of casualties, Shamoko's team of laborers finally carried the giant tree to the city gates. However, the closer these barbarians were to the city gate, the higher the hit rate of the archers in the city, although there were shield soldiers to cover them, but because the barbarians did not have ladders to attack the city, and because there were no archers in the ranks of the army that could be in a hurry, and there were no archers who could shoot at the city to suppress them, the archers in the city were completely as unscrupulous as practicing shooting targets. However, although the other soldiers in the city armed with guns and halberds were also fully armed, they were obviously useless like soy sauce.
As the siege continued, more and more soldiers fell under Hanshou City, but they also slammed the gates with giant logs. If Zhuge Song of Wuling City dares to guarantee that with this level of siege weapons, it will not be able to open the city gate at all, but the gate of Hanshou City is much smaller than that of Wuling City, and it can be seen from the fact that the soldiers in the city except for the archers began to disappear one after another, Xie Xian's old man's opinion is the same as Zhuge Song, and his soldiers must have been assigned to the city to help the top city gate.
Zhuge Song felt that the time was almost up, the brute soldiers had been banging on the door for a while, and in terms of physical strength, whether it was carrying the giant tree or being responsible for covering them, they should be tired. If Zhuge Song's side does not raid again, if the barbarians break open the city gate, their morale will be greatly increased, and it will be counterproductive to attack again.
However, at this time, the soldiers who had disappeared before on Hanshou City suddenly appeared again. Zhuge Song was very strange why they didn't go to the top gate of the city and came back, if they were knocked open by the barbarians, this little force in Hanshou City would definitely not be enough!
But soon Zhuge Song vaguely saw that above the city gate seemed to be transported by these soldiers, it seemed to be a huge iron pot, and before Zhuge Song could figure out the function of the iron pot, the iron pot turned over from the city......
It seemed to be a liquid like oil and smashed down with the big iron pot. The impact of the giant tree immediately stopped, and Zhuge Song guessed that the liquid like oil must be piping hot, because the brute soldiers splashed by it were all rolling on the ground in pain. Not to mention those who were smashed by a big iron pot, they were directly scrapped on the ground and couldn't move.
Of course, this was not the end, and soon there was a second pot and a third pot in the city. By the time the three pots were smashed, the siege troops under the city were already in chaos.
But that wasn't the end of it, the archers in the city began to stop firing, and soon each of them was given a rocket that had already been ignited. Zhuge Song and Ma Tan glanced at each other, and both of them could see the deep shock in each other's eyes from each other's eyes.
Both of them could guess what a different fate these dozens of rockets would have for the oil-stained and non-oil-stained brutes in the city.