Chapter 245: Montenegrin Reinforcements 1
The battle to defend Changshan County came to an end temporarily, although Yuan Lang's army was victorious, but it can be said that although the victory was still defeated, Yuan Lang painstakingly managed for two years to obtain nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, in this battle lost nearly one-third, and the remaining number of troops was less than 10,000.
10,000 people is a large number of troops, but under Yuan Shao's covetousness, this amount of troops is not enough to protect himself.
What's more, although Yan Liang was defeated and captured, there were still about 10,000 garrisons in his base camp, plus Pei Guangji's subordinates who escaped from the battle and Zhang He, who guarded the secret plank road, the total number of his troops reached at least 30,000.
In other words, the crisis in Changshan County was not resolved because of Yan Liang's capture, but on the contrary, Changshan County was exposed to the enemy army with 30,000 troops under the unfavorable conditions of great loss of troops and almost all damage to the city fortifications.
To put it bluntly, as long as the enemy army rests and moves forward, Yuan Lang's army has no geographical advantage except for hand-to-hand combat in exchange for life, and even in terms of the number of troops.
But what puzzled Yuan Lang now was that the remaining forces of Yan Liang's army did not take any action after the dawn began on the second day, and Yuan Lang was standing on the top of the southern city with Zhao Yun and other generals at this time, staring into the distance, unable to believe what he saw in front of him for a long time.
It was so silent, only the chirping of geese flying in flocks, and nothing else.
"Lord, no, it stands to reason that Yan Liang's army still has more than 30,000 troops, even if it is reduced by more than half compared to before, but it won't be scared, right?"
As a survivor of yesterday's battle, he said incredulously behind Yuan Lang.
"That's right, Yan Liang was captured, don't they want to come to the rescue? Besides, today's Changshan, to put it mildly, there is no advantage of the city, although we have been rushing to repair since last night, but if they attack, we may not be able to hold it! ”
Zhang Leigong supported his seriously injured body and insisted on guarding the city with everyone, and at this moment, he muttered in his heart, just like Zheng Gu.
"Lord, have they come up with some shady tricks, we have to guard against it!"
Tong Gui looked like a mummy wearing a bandage, but even so, he hadn't left the city since last night, and had been waiting here, just waiting for the enemy's counterattack, but it turned out that the enemy had not seen a ghost until now.
Yu Yigen sighed lightly and said: "Wouldn't it be better not to fight, how can you be brave and ruthless!" …… However, what Yan Liangjun did was really strange, generally speaking, victory was in sight, they would not give up, could it be that they encountered some internal problems? ”
The four generals under Yuan Lang expressed their opinions separately, but Yuan Lang had been listening to what they had to say, and he himself had not spoken a word so far.
"Lord!"
"Lord!"
Seeing that Yuan Lang didn't say a word, the four generals couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"You don't have to be anxious first, Zilong has already gone out of the city to find out about the military situation in person, and he will definitely come back soon, we might as well wait first!"
Yuan Lang's words prevaricated, it was not that he didn't want to say it, but because he himself still didn't know what the enemy army thought, didn't they just want to seize their own Changshan County, but why haven't there been any traces of the enemy until now, is it really that there is a disagreement within them, or is it that they are secretly planning a bigger conspiracy.
In addition, Yuan Lang is still more worried about Zhang Ning's safety, listening to what Yan Liang said before, Yuan Shao expected that Yuan Lang would move rescue troops from Montenegro after the mountains and rivers were exhausted, that is to say, Zhang Ning may have fallen into the trap arranged by Yuan Shao in advance.
Yuan Lang's current mood is ambivalent, he hopes that the messenger who went to move the rescue troops can inform Zhang Ning of Montenegro of the news of his trapping, so that he Changshan County will at least have the capital to compete with the current enemy army. However, Yuan Lang hoped that the messenger's letter would not be delivered, because only in this way would Zhang Ning not fall into the trap set by Yuan Shao.
But no matter what, Yuan Lang can't control the occurrence of this matter now, and the only thing he can do now is to send a number of scouts to control the way from Montenegro, hoping to get the news of Zhang Ning and others as soon as possible.
Of course, the situation may not be so bad, because Montenegro is not without capable people. For example, Zhang Baiqi, who is a battle-hardened strategist, hopes that his old Cheng Zheng can help Zhang Ning tide over the current crisis.
In addition, there is also Zhou Cang among the generals, this is a fierce general who has been hidden by himself, if Zhang Ning rushes to save himself, he must be the main force to go out, presumably this Zhou Cang must also arrive.
With the cooperation of this Wen Yiwu, unless Yuan Shao sends several times the force to intercept it, it is not so easy to contain or even crush the two or thirty thousand horses coming down from Montenegro.
Just when everyone was talking about it, suddenly a sentry from the city tower shouted, "Yun Shuai is back", and then Yuan Lang and others looked at the repertoire, and really saw a few fast horses coming a mile outside the south city, and the leader was in white robe and silver armor, which was Zhao Yun who Yuan Lang was familiar with and could no longer be familiar with.
After a while, Zhao Yun led the team into the city, and after a while, Zhao Yun had already appeared above the city, and it seemed that he knew that Yuan Lang and others were already waiting for him here.
"Lord!"
When Zhao Yun saw Yuan Lang, he immediately stepped forward and saluted.
Yuan Lang picked up his general, and Wen Yan said: "Zilong has worked this trip!" Can you hear the movement of the enemy? ”
Zhao Yun got up and replied: "Fortunately, Yun has gained a lot from this trip!" ”
"O~! Zilong asks the city tower to speak! ”
Yuan Lang saw that Zhao Yun's words were cautious, and he knew that he was afraid that the enemy army would infiltrate here, so it was inconvenient to say it clearly.
Subsequently, Zhao Yun and other henchmen followed Yuan Lang to the Nancheng City Tower, and sat down around a table, just when Zhao Yun was about to speak, suddenly Zang Hong and Bai Bo also arrived, it seems that their timing is very good, knowing that Zhao Yun is almost back, they also rushed over from the county guard's mansion.
"Zilong, you can say it!"
Yuan Lang saw that everyone had arrived, so he spoke.
"No!" Zhao Yun got up and continued, "Although Yan Liang was captured, the enemy has no intention of continuing the attack, and of course, there is no intention of retreating!" Yun didn't dare to speculate, so he caught one of the enemy scouts, and learned from his mouth that Yuan Shao had sent reinforcements to the boundary of Changshan County, which would be three days as fast as three days and five days as slow! ”
Everyone gasped, if it was like what the information obtained by Zhao Yun said, then Changshan County would not be able to resist at all, and the day of its demise would be within three or five days.