Rumble!

In the middle of the night, there was a strange scream outside Caiyang City, and the soldiers in the city slept in a piece, many people were woken up by the sharp noise, and the dull mind didn't have time to think about what the sound was, and the misty eyes saw a huge black shadow flying overhead, crossing the city and smashing down the houses in the city. The faint bonfire reflected the huge dust that stirred up waves from the city.

"Enemy attack!"

"The enemy is attacking the city!"

"Night Attack!"

Suddenly, the soldiers who slept on the ground in the city got up in a hurry, choking on the sound of swords coming out of the sheath, some people clasped their pockets and some danced and waved their soldiers, few sober and calm soldiers looked at the city, but they saw that the silence was extraordinary, there was no sign of a large-scale attack by the enemy army, and the chaos of the defenders in the city was forced down by the junior officers, and one by one the heralds went down to the city one after another to report.

Immediately after, several flying stones shot out of the darkness, one cobblestone smashed heavily on the top of the city and crushed several defenders, and the rest passed over the city and smashed down the houses. The attack is not powerful, and even like a game, it is only a few flying stones, and even a small pawn with little knowledge in the city can guess that the enemy army only has a few stone cannons. It is unlikely that such an attack would have been relied upon to storm the city at night.

That is to say, the Jingzhou soldiers have never seen the appearance of hundreds of stone cannons bombarding the city wall when Yanbei attacked Yanyu, otherwise even if they saw a stone cannon, they would be uncontrollably frightened.

The morale of the sergeants at the head of the city gradually stabilized, but most of them withdrew from the city, but the defenders under the city were inevitably chaotic.

As soon as the first order was issued, the rest of the soldiers of the battalions in the city hurriedly got up and rushed to the three gates of the east, west, and north, ready to climb to the top of the city to meet the battle; The second order from the city head informed the truth was that all the departments were in chaos, and the resentment was so great that even the soldiers could not suppress it.

At the gate of the camp in the west of the city, the bell rang clearly, Gan Ning came out of the camp with a knife and stood at the gate of the camp and did not walk towards the city, but just looked at the north and clenched his fists.

"Why tonight?"

Gan Ning muttered in his mouth, there were more than 300 horses in the camp behind him, and hundreds of fierce men were as strong as cattle after drinking and eating meat, he was going to go out of the city tonight and attack the Liangzhou soldiers sleeping in the wilderness to strengthen the morale of the defenders, but he didn't expect that the enemy army would also use catapults to intimidate the defenders tonight, and it was earlier than him.

If Gan Ning led the cavalry out of the city half an hour earlier, he would just run into the stone cannon that Jiang Jin had laid out earlier in the field, but now? Gan Ning didn't even have to look back to know that the daring warriors who had just mustered up their hearts and galls were now demoralized by the enemy's stone cannons, and they either led their troops out of the city now, or they didn't have to go out of the city tonight.

Thousands of Liangzhou soldiers and tens of thousands of Sizhou soldiers were stationed outside the city, and those people were veterans who had been in the army for several years, and if his subordinates did not have enough courage, charging into battle would be like seeking death.

It didn't take long for the stone cannons in the north of the city to calm down, and several horses rushed into the camp, and the first general was Su Fei, the former governor of Jiangxia, and saw Gan Ning outside the camp gate, turned over and dismounted and shook his head: "The enemy bombarded the city with stone cannons, and the city tower was smashed down and several houses were overturned. Xingba has a lot of foresight, do you think the enemy army will attack the city tonight, and will it be smashed with stone cannons later? ”

As soon as Su Fei spoke, Gan Ning knew what he was worried about. If it is a strategy to exhaust the troops, Su Fei will transfer the soldiers and horses to a place where the stone artillery attack in the south of the city cannot be disturbed to rest, otherwise it will be difficult to defend against the enemy tomorrow and day; However, if the enemy army is not tired and leads the army to attack the city later, if the troops and horses are transferred to the south of the city, they will not be able to deal with it in time, so they are worried.

"The enemy army will not attack the city, and the general can rest assured that he will transfer troops to the south of the city." Su Fei's face was overjoyed, but he heard Gan Ning then shake his head and said: "Caiyang City can't be defended for a long time, but the general volunteered but picked up the drudgery. The enemy army is large, our army only has a city without danger to defend, Liangzhou is riding outside, the scouts can't be released, and they can't contact Deng County, saying that it is a corner of the situation, but in fact, they are fighting separately, and it is difficult to support, not to mention that the enemy army also has stone cannon......"

Since the beginning of the siege, four groups of scouts have been released in three days to try to go to Deng County to contact Wenpin, in order to resist the enemy army, but the Liangzhou outside the city is really fierce, and the four teams of scouts dispersed and then there is no sound, all of them died outside the city and no one has escaped for three days now, so that Gan Ning even suspects that most of the scouts were killed without even touching the circle of the enemy siege.

Su Fei smiled bitterly, and then reached out and said, "I've counted, the enemy's stone cannons are at most five, don't worry!" ”

"General, the enemy army is in a hurry, the northern soldiers are not good at waterways, it is difficult to carry heavy baggage, the king of Zhao is rich in the north, they are not without stone artillery, as long as they need it, there are five tonight, and there will be fifty tomorrow, do we want to put the hope of victory on the enemy's lack of stone artillery?" Gan Ning and Su Fei are old friends, and they had a relationship long before Gan Ning was still an official in Shudi, and his words were not respectful but he put his heart into his heart, and said: "Today's plan is to lure the enemy to attack the city, kill and wound two or three out of ten enemy soldiers at the head of the city, and do not have to defend the city." On the day when the food and ordnance of the soldiers will always run out, this battle cannot be won unless the enemy is captured in one battle. ”

It stands to reason that Caiyang is located in the land of Jingbei, and with Xiangyang at his back, he is not afraid of having no food to eat and no soldiers to use, but the bad thing is that although they are close to Xiangyang, there is a wide water strip in the middle. Although there is no disadvantage at the moment, Gan Ning is always worried that the Wenpin in Deng County in the west will be broken by the enemy, and once Deng County falls, the enemy army will be able to mobilize light troops to outflank the back and cut off Cai Yang's back road.

This possibility is not low, and there is no need for Cai Yang in Gongxian County, as long as soldiers and horses are sent to drag Wen Ping, they will also lose the support of Jingzhou behind them, and at that time Cai Yang will really become a lonely city, called Heaven and No Gate!

"Capture the enemy in one battle?" Su Fei's face was serious, he had given Liu Biao a military order, asking for orders to garrison Cai Yang to resist the enemy, but now Gan Ning said that Cai Yang couldn't hold it, which made him unhappy, "Where is it?" ”

Gan Ning glanced back, "Shuishui, it's too early to say this, since the general has made an appointment with Duke Liu, he will guard the city first." I want to lead my troops to raid the enemy camp outside the city half an hour later, provoke their anger, and make them storm the city before they are ready, so that the general can kill the enemy on the city, and the enemy army will not be able to attack it, so I will think of another way, whether to retreat or not to retreat, after all, it is a solution. ”

"In addition, I also want to ask the general to send a letter to Liu Gong, asking him to send people to build two water villages on the south bank of the water, in case the situation is not good, we can lead the army to retreat south, and transfer all the grain and grass to the south bank. Gan is not talented, but he has some water skills. If they can fight with the enemy in the water, they will withdraw their troops, if not, Gan will definitely be able to capture his leader and ask Liu Gong for credit! ”