After Li Cheng led the army to attack the Ganning army at night, Xi Zhong was a little uneasy, after all, this was the first time he commanded the army to fight, and it was the first time that the military books he had read before were used on the actual battlefield.

Xi Zhong has been guarding the city, looking at the direction of Gan Ning's camp, but unfortunately, he can't see anything at a distance of thirty miles.

Two hours later, a fast horse galloped in, and the soldiers on the horse were the clothes of the defenders of Yangcheng, and when they came to the outside of the west city, they rode their horses and rushed over, and shouted loudly: "Good news, good news, the enemy camp is defenseless, and our army suddenly enters without hindrance." ”

Xi Zhong listened to the scout's report, his nervous mood couldn't help but relax a little, and he thought to himself, okay, Gan Ning's army was defeated, Yangcheng was not broken, Cao Ju's army was cut off from food and grass, and then it was attacked from front to back, and the army would inevitably be in turmoil, and it would be defeated without a fight.

Almost every quarter of an hour, a scout came to report the battle situation, it was nothing more than that Gan Ning's army was vulnerable, Li Cheng led the army to occupy the enemy camp, the opponent's army was dispersing, and the last battle report turned out to be that the enemy general Gan Ning was killed by Li Cheng.

At the beginning, Xi Zhong's mood became more and more relaxed, and tonight's night attack was definitely a wise decision. However, when the battle report was getting better and better, Xi Zhong's face became solemn, and his eyebrows were frowned together.

"Not good." After receiving the information that Gan Ning was beheaded by Li Cheng, Xi Zhong finally shouted with a pale face, "Our army is defeated, and Yangcheng is not protected." ”

A military marquis beside him immediately asked: "Mr. Xi, there are many good news, our army has won, why did Mr. say this?" ”

Xi Zhong sighed and said: "Cao Ju is a high-ranking disciple of Huangfu Song, and he has the skill of calming and cooling, and he has experienced the battlefield, and he is not Zhao Kuo who talks about soldiers on paper. Moreover, I heard that this person is quite familiar with the method of military training, and the generals under his command are all strong in martial arts, with the ability of General Li Cheng, how can he kill Gan Ningye? ”

The marquis said: "Sir, our army attacked at night, the enemy army was defenseless, and Gan Ning was killed by General Li in a hurry, it may not be impossible. ”

Xi Zhong shook his head and said: "No, since Gan Ning is Cao Juzhi's vanguard general, he must be both civil and military, and his ability to lead the army is definitely very comparable, just imagine how can he be defenseless when he camps at night, and how can his army be defeated at one touch?" ”

Listening to Xi Zhong's words, there is indeed some truth, but this military marquis still doesn't believe that attacking the opponent's 5,000 men and horses at night with 10,000 horses, unless the news is leaked, otherwise, there is no reason for failure.

After thinking about it, Xi Zhong immediately said to this military marquis: "Sun Junhou, please send a few scouts to the direction of the Ganning camp to spy on the situation, if there are scouts coming here on the road, they can all be killed." ”

"Ah......" Xi Zhong's order surprised Sun Junhou, but Li Cheng had told him when he was leaving, everything must be obeyed by Xi Zhong's order, and there must be no disobedience, so Sun Junhou immediately sent ten scouts to the direction of Gan Ning's army.

In Gan Ning's camp, the battle situation has been frozen, and as the defenders of Yangcheng find out that they have been ambushed, and after the leading general Li Cheng was shot, the entire army spirit was completely shattered.

The soldiers in front immediately turned back, but they were faced with a rolling crowd of people, and they were shot by arrows from the large camp, while the people behind them, not knowing the situation in front of them, continued to rush in with a roar.

This situation is similar to the situation of "bombing the camp" often said in the war, their own people trampled on their own people, and then accompanied by the arrows of the Ganning army flying like locusts, and after a while, the defenders of Yangcheng fell no less than 500 corpses.

After paying for 500 lives, the news of Zhong Mu and Li Cheng's killing was finally known by all the Yangcheng defenders, and all of them rushed in the same direction to the outside of the camp together.

When Gan Ning saw that the time had come, he immediately yelled and said, "Brothers, tonight is the opportunity for me to take Yang City and serve the lord, and the brothers will kill with me." ”

"Kill the ......" The earth-shattering shout of killing came from the camp, and the morale of the Ganning army was high, and they rushed out from three directions and killed the defenders of Yang City.

This was a one-sided killing without suspense, the Yuzhou army was originally much worse than Cao Ju's army, in this case, there was no ability to resist at all, either be killed, or put down their weapons and surrender on their knees.

In particular, when the rear army had just rushed out of the Ganning camp, they were faced with a row of Cao troops, and they were still greeted by a rain of arrows like locusts, and a chorus of shouts: "Those who descend will not be killed, and those who descend will not be killed." ”

There was interception in front, and there was pursuit and killing in the back, and the leading general Li Cheng was dead, which made the morale of the Yangcheng defenders completely drop to the extreme, and with a shout of "I am willing to surrender", it soon spread throughout the Yangcheng defenders.

The battle of the night attack of the Yangcheng defenders has completely drawn a successful end, Gan Ning is happy at the same time, he can't help but be secretly afraid for a while, if he hadn't discovered something wrong in time, I don't know what the outcome of tonight's battle would be.

Just when Gan Ning instructed his soldiers to accept the surrendered sergeants, a personal guard came over to tell him, saying that he had captured one of the other party's scouts, and learned from him that the military marquis who stayed in Yangcheng found that something was wrong here, and sent ten scouts to inquire about the situation.

"How can a little military marquis be capable of this?" After Gan Ning heard this, he was secretly surprised in his heart, and then thought of the other party's night attack strategy tonight, nodded and said, "It seems that there must be masters in Yangcheng." ”

Gan Ning immediately ordered: "Immediately take down all the ten scouts of the other party, or kill them, and never let any of them return to Yang City." ”

It's a pity that the ten scouts were only captured, or nine were killed, and finally one of the scouts was injured and fled back to Yangcheng, so that Gan Ning had to give up the plan to take the opportunity to take Yangcheng, immediately leave the book, and send someone to report the situation here to Cao Ju.

It wasn't until after dawn that the results of the battle were counted, and Li Cheng's 10,000 army was killed by 2,000 and surrendered by 8,000, which was more than the soldiers under Gan Ning's command.

As for this battle, the losses on Ganning's side were too few, but there were less than 100 casualties, of which more than 50 were guarded at the gate of the camp to lure the enemy.

Gan Ning was not carried away by the victory, 5,000 people guarded 8,000 prisoners, and it was impossible for any sergeants to move, and at the same time, they had to guard against the counterattack of the defenders of Yangcheng, otherwise, once these 8,000 captives mutinied, what they brought to Gan Ning might be from victory to defeat.

Looking at the direction of Yangcheng, Gan Ning sighed slightly, and muttered to himself: "It's a pity, if it weren't for the mercy of the lord, he ordered that no prisoners should be killed, and tomorrow in a battle, he would definitely be able to capture Yangcheng." ”