Updated: 2012-12-29

Lu Gong pointed to a place: "General Yan, we should be here now." ”

"Oh, then it's almost time to reach Dingtao City." Ling Yan said.

Lu Gong nodded.

Ling Yan suddenly raised his head and looked at Gong Lu with some confusion: "General Lu, do you feel a little strange?" ”

"What does the general mean?"

Ling Yan put away the map and frowned slightly: "General Zuo must have arrived in Dingtao City, so ...... Why is there no movement at all? ”

Lu Gongdao: "Could it be that Colonel Zuo defected to the enemy army?" ”

Ling Yan shook his head.

Lu Gong said again: "That's him...... Have you broken the Dingtao? ”

Ling Yan thought about it, but slowly shook his head: "This ...... Unlikely, right? What I know of Dingtao City, there are at least three or four generals, and there will be no shortage of defenders, no matter how powerful General Zuo is, how can he break through the city so easily? ”

Lu Gong said puzzledly: "What does General Yan mean? ”

Ling Yan said: "I thought that General Zuo would lose the battle and flee back, he should be able to meet us...... However, if he had fled back to Grasshopper City by the other way, that would have made sense. ”

Lu Gong said with some concern: "General Yan, if Colonel Zuo has been defeated and retreated, then if we go to attack the city again, will we also fail to attack the city and retreat?" ”

Ling Yan was very upset in his heart: "I don't know either...... But it's already like this, and I can only take one step at a time......"

Lu Gong didn't reply, but looked at Ling Yan in a daze.

Ling Yan groaned, sighed, and then looked at Gong Lu: "General Lu, do you think...... Think I'm too hasty to join the army this time? ”

Lu Gong hesitated and said, "General Yan's order must be reasonable, and we just have to act according to orders...... It's just that Colonel Zuo led his troops to attack Dingtao, and he led his army to follow, and he was afraid that he would ......"

Lu Gong didn't continue, but Ling Yan also knew what Lu Gong wanted to say, and he also knew that Lu Gong was because of taboo and humility, so he didn't say it so clearly, so he sighed: "What General Lu meant, I also understand, in fact, I also told General Zuo before to postpone the march first, but since General Zuo has broken through Jiyin City and is urgently marching towards Dingtao, if I don't lead the army to assist, isn't it a bit too ...... I'm so sorry for him? Ling Yan wanted to say "It's too uninteresting", but after thinking about it, he changed to a more ancient word.

Lu Gong didn't say anything more, but judging from his face, it didn't seem that he didn't quite agree with Ling Yan's opinion.

Ling Yan also understood that it seemed that few of the generals under his command really supported him in this decision, so he waved his hand in annoyance: "Forget it, no matter what, they have all come here, and they can only focus on attacking Tao." ”

Lu Gong smiled and nodded.

At this time, the meal was ready, and his soldiers called Ling Yan and Lu Gong to eat.

As soon as Ling Yan took a bite of the dish, he saw a ride flying from the direction they had come from.

Ling Yan put down the dishes and chopsticks, stood up, and looked at the man carefully.

The man galloped to Ling Yan, dismounted and knelt on the ground: "Report!" General Yan! ”

Ling Yan saw that this person with a flustered face was his own soldier, so he hurriedly asked, "Tell me quickly, what's wrong?" ”

The soldier hurriedly said, "Your general has sent me to inform the general that there is an enemy army attacking the grasshopper city!" ”

Ling Yan was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Who is here to attack?" ”

The soldier replied: "Your general said that it was Sun Xia who led his troops to attack!" ”

Ling Yan didn't react for a while, and at this time, Lu Gong also came to Ling Yan's side: "General Yan, this must be someone sent by Grasshopper City who told General You!" ”

Ling Yan only panicked a little, and then gradually calmed down, and glanced at Lu Gong: "Well, it should be like this." Then he asked the soldier, "What about your general?" ”

The soldier replied, "Your general is coming this way alone, send me to inform the general first, and let the general stop for a while." ”

"Alright, I see, you go down." After finishing speaking, Ling Yan looked at Duke Lu, and seeing that Duke Lu had an anxious expression, he said, "General Lu, don't worry, I think there shouldn't be much of a matter, and when General Lu comes, we'll discuss it again...... Let's eat first. ”

Lu Gong nodded a little confused, and then went to eat again, but he could see that his mind was completely useless to eat.

Ling Yan sat down and ate too, but he also felt that it was unpleasant, he was thinking about the information brought by the soldier, and speculated about what had happened.

After a short time, You Heng arrived.

As soon as he got off the horse, he immediately came to Ling Yan's face: "Brother Xian, can you get a message?" ”

Ling Yan hurriedly stood up, called Lu Gong, pulled them aside, and nodded: "Well, the soldier already told me just now...... Mayfly City under attack? ”

You Heng nodded, looking a little flustered: "Yes!" According to the scout who came to inform me, Sun Xia and the others are leading troops to attack Grasshopper City! ”

"Was that person sent by Grasshopper City?" Ling Yan was a little suspicious.

You Heng nodded again: "Yes...... I know that person, and he must be one of ours, but the scout said that he was sent by General Zhang Yi, and said that General Zhang Yi was leading his troops towards Jiyin City, but on the way, he learned that the city of Grasshopper had been robbed, so he sent someone to tell us. ”

"What about General Zhang?" Ling Yan hurriedly asked.

You Heng said: "The scout said that General Zhang Yi thought that Zhang Min and Guo Yan were guarding the city in Grasshopper City, and General Kuai and others were also about to arrive in Grasshopper City, so they did not go back to rescue, but stationed in Jiyin City. ”

"Hmm......" Ling Yan nodded slowly, "That's fine......"

"Why did the general say this is good?" Lu Gong asked puzzled.

Ling Yan smiled slightly: "I guess that Sun Xia was kicked out of Dingtao City by General Zuo, maybe he was messed up for a while, and he actually fled towards the road of Grasshopper City, so there was no way, he had to go to attack the city." ”

"That'...... Did Colonel Zuo really break through Dingtao City so quickly? Lu Gong was taken aback, but still didn't believe it.

Ling Yan said excitedly: "It should be like this!" Otherwise, how could Sun Xia go around in a circle and flee towards the Grasshopper City? ”

You Heng was not as excited as Ling Yan, and said slowly: "According to calculations, the time of Sun Xia's siege of the city should be five or six days ago, so calculated, then ......"

"What's wrong?" Ling Yan hurriedly asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

You Heng thought for a moment before he said, "Actually, it makes sense...... However, if this is the case, then General Zuo will travel from Jiyin City, but the starry night will be fast, and after arriving at Dingtao City, he will take the city in one fell swoop, so it is reasonable. ”

The two conditions that You Heng said sounded difficult to achieve at the same time in the ancient siege of the city, but Ling Yan didn't think seriously about You Heng's analysis, but immediately agreed: "General You's analysis is reasonable, although these two points are not easy for ordinary people to do, but I believe that General Zuo will definitely be able to do it, haha......" After speaking, Ling Yan himself laughed unconsciously.

Although You Heng and Lu Gong also smiled, they were not as optimistic as Ling Yan when they looked at them, or they still had doubts about Colonel Zuo's strength.

After Ling Yan finished laughing, he said to them excitedly, "Brother You, General Lu, the only thing we have to do now is to get to Dingtao City as soon as possible!" Occupy Dingtao City first, even if it is to seal Sun Xia's back road! They have no other way out! As long as the Grasshopper City is not breached by them, then they will be the turtle in the urn! Ha ha! ”

Ling Yan's excitement could be described as overflowing, but You Heng reminded him as if pouring a basin of cold water: "Brother Xian, wait first, if General Zuo is defeated and captured by the enemy, this kind of result will also occur." ”

Ling Yan smiled and waved his hand: "Brother You, I don't think this is possible, General Zuo, as the 'Western God General' of the Yellow Turban Army, naturally he will not be captured so easily, even if he loses the battle, he will escape...... If this was the case, then Sun Xia would not have attacked Grasshopper City. ”

"Why?" You Heng and Lu Gong asked at the same time.

Ling Yan said with a smile: "General Zuo once told me that if you want to march from Grasshopper City, it is not appropriate to directly attack Dingtao from the main road, firstly, the road is far away, and secondly, there is such a passage as Jiyin City next to it, if the enemy army attacks from the side road, it will be difficult to do...... The current situation, and vice versa, if they win, they will definitely attack the city from the road we have taken, at least we must first regain the lost territory. Besides, it is very likely that they will guess or know that we are attacking them from this road, so there is no reason for them to attack Grasshopper City from the main road at all. ”

Lu Gong was a little confused when he heard it, and after You Heng listened, he nodded: "What General Zuo said also has some truth, but it is better for us to be careful to avoid accidents." ”

Ling Yan nodded extremely happily, and then said to Lu Gong: "General Lu, give the order, enter the army immediately after eating, and no longer rest halfway, and when you arrive at Dingtao City, take a good rest!" After finishing speaking, Ling Yan couldn't help but laugh a few more times for a while.

Ling Yan's smile was genuinely happy from the bottom of his heart, and his laughter was also transmitted to You Heng and Lu Gong, making them laugh unconsciously in a somewhat hesitant mood.

After the soldiers had eaten, they immediately marched to the front again, and Lu Gong said a lot of morale-boosting words to these soldiers, such as "When you arrive at Dingtao City, you will have a good rest", so the morale was suddenly uplifted, and the speed of the march was unconsciously increased a lot.

You Heng also marched with Ling Yan in the front army, and the rear army naturally let Yang Feng lead it alone.

Due to the increased speed of the march, in the early morning of the next day, Ling Yan's soldiers and horses came not far from Dingtao City.

Before this, You Heng had come to Ling Yan's side and whispered something to Ling Yan.

"Brother Xian, I think something is wrong." You Heng said in a low voice, "I don't know if I'm overthinking." ”

"Huh? What's the matter? Ling Yan was in a good mood, and when he thought that he would soon be able to occupy Dingtao City without bloodshed, he was excited from the bottom of his heart.

You Heng said in a low voice: "Brother Xian, I said before that General Zuo was traveling to Dingtao City on a fast horse, and then immediately broke the city, and Sun Xia had no choice but to flee. ”

"Hmm." Ling Yan responded with a smile, although he didn't know what You Heng was going to say, he felt that You Heng must have been too worried.

You Heng frowned slightly and said, "If that's the case, I didn't calculate it very rigorously at that time, but now that I think about it, it is impossible for Sun Xia to attack Grasshopper City." ”

"Oh?" Ling Yanyi raised his eyebrows, "Why?" ”

You Heng's expression was a little guilty: "At that time, I didn't count the journey into it...... Brother Xian, if you think about it carefully, General Zuo immediately broke the city, so Sun Xia must need more than half a moon to travel from Dingtao City to Grasshopper City, how could it be that before we arrived at Dingtao, he attacked Grasshopper City first? ”

Ling Yan listened to You Heng's analysis, and then thought about it seriously, he may have been too happy before, so he didn't think about these inferences carefully, so at that time, You Heng miscalculated, and Ling Yan didn't notice it, but now that he thinks about it so carefully, he does feel that something is wrong.

"yes!" Ling Yan suddenly realized, "Then how could Sun Xia be so fast?" One step ahead of us, we arrived in Mayfly City? ”

You Heng pondered for a moment, and then said, "Maybe General Zuo has misremembered this terrain, maybe in fact, Dingtao City is not far from Grasshopper City." ”

Ling Yan felt that what You Heng said also made some sense, he was completely unfamiliar with the terrain of this place, so it was okay for Colonel Zuo to say it, but he suddenly remembered a question: Colonel Zuo may be able to remember wrong, but the map can always be wrong, right?

Thinking of this, Ling Yan took out the map and showed it to You Heng: "Brother You, look at this map, from Grasshopper City to Dingtao City, even if you look at it from above, it's not close!" ”

You Heng looked at the map, then nodded and said: "This map, although it is not accurate, but it may not be too wrong. ”

"Really?" Ling Yan said, "What General Zuo said should be right. ”

You Heng nodded a little reluctantly: "Maybe that's the case...... Then Sun Xia's siege of the city is also a fact, how could he be so fast? Don't...... Could it be that the information is wrong? ”

Ling Yan shook his head firmly: he believed in Colonel Zuo, but he believed in Zhang Yi, a general who had a lifelong friendship, and they would not lie about the military situation. But if it is really a false positive, it is even more impossible, other information may have errors, but how can there be false positives in such a thing as a siege?

You Heng couldn't figure it out: "Brother Xian, although this matter is not a big deal, I still think there are some problems. ”

Ling Yan also nodded, he had to admit You Heng's thoughts: "Brother You, this matter does have some doubts, but now this is about to arrive in Dingtao City, let's go to the city first." ”

Although this episode made Ling Yan feel a little less comfortable, he still didn't feel too relieved, he almost decided that Dingtao had been taken, and Sun Xia and they fled to Grasshopper City and were forced to attack. He felt that only such speculation was reasonable, perhaps because he was subconsciously only willing to believe this speculation.

When he saw Dingtao City from a distance, because it was early morning, there was some mist on the tree-lined road in the mountains, and the sky was also gray, so Ling Yan only saw a rough outline of Dingtao City.

The terrain where Ling Yanjun was located at this time was slightly higher than the horizontal height of Dingtao City, so Ling Yan looked at the direction of Dingtao City Gate, which was a slightly downward inclined perspective, so as long as Ling Yan looked directly, he could just see the scene on the head of the city.

And the scene on the head of the city at this time also made Ling Yan stunned for a moment.

In the morning mist, Ling Yan could still vaguely see the situation outside Dingtao City—in the mild morning breeze, Dingtao City seemed to be asleep, quiet.

And the reason why Ling Yan was stunned was that Dingtao City was not like the previous Jiyin City and Grasshopper City, but a truly majestic city, and there was an extremely wide moat, that is, he saw that the city was empty.

When Ling Yan was stunned, You Heng and Lu Gong naturally saw the situation in Dingtao City, so Lu Gong first asked, "Huh?" Why is there no one guarding the city of Dingtao? ”

After Ling Yan was stunned for a short time, his face gradually showed excitement: "I know! ”

You Heng and Lu Gong were both taken aback, and You Heng asked, "Brother Xian, do you know why?" ”

Ling Yan nodded and said excitedly, "Hmm! This must be exactly the same as the situation in Jiyin City before! ”

After hearing this, Lu Gong and You Heng had different expressions on their faces.

Ling Yan pointed to the city gate excitedly and said loudly, "Look! The gates seem to be wide open, too! ”

Lu Gong and You Heng looked in the direction Ling Yan pointed out, but they didn't respond immediately.

For in the fog, it is easier to tell whether there is a person on the head of the city, but it is not clear whether the gate is open or not.

But one thing is certain, that is, the suspension bridge over the moat is built on the river.

In fact, Ling Yan didn't see the situation of the city gate too clearly, but he judged the situation of the city gate by feeling, and under the influence of this kind of thinking, he seemed to really see that the city gate seemed to be slightly open.

"Brother Xian, then do we want to divide the army and move forward?" You Heng asked with some concern.

Lu Gong immediately picked up: "General Yan! The last general is willing to go and investigate first! ”

Ling Yan smiled: "No need, let's go together!" Let's share the joy of Champa! Ha! ”

You Heng and Lu Gong looked at each other, they didn't seem to particularly agree with Ling Yan's proposal, but seeing that Ling Yan was in high spirits, they didn't say anything.

So, Ling Yan ordered the military horses to trot all the way forward.

Half an hour later, Ling Yan and the others came to Dingtao City.

Looking at Dingtao City from a distance just now, I still couldn't see it very clearly, but now when I look in front of me, it is completely clear - not only is the city gate ajar, there is not a single soldier guarding the city or the city gate, but the drawbridge is really across the moat, as if there is no one to manage it at all, so that people entering and leaving Dingtao City can be unimpeded.

Ling Yan saw these in his eyes, which naturally made him very happy, but what made him even more excited was the corpses of soldiers and a few mutilated flags everywhere outside the city.

Ling Yan excitedly pointed quickly with his hand, and said to You Heng and Lu Gong: "Look! The gates were really wide open! The corpses on the ground are not General Zuo's soldiers, they must be the defenders of this Dingtao City! ”

Ling Yan desperately asked You Heng and Lu Gong for evidence to prove that his inference was correct, and You Heng and Lu Gong naturally knew this.

You Heng looked carefully at the place Ling Yan said, and unconsciously believed Ling Yan's inference: "Hmm...... As expected by the virtuous brother, it was indeed true, it seems that this Dingtao City was indeed broken by General Zuo. ”

Lu Gong also nodded: "And there are so many corpses at the main gate of this city, which proves that a battle was fought here, but it should be that the enemy army has been defeated." ”

Seeing that You Heng and Lu Gong both believed in his calculations, Ling Yan was very happy, nodded desperately, and continued to reason: "Hmm! Well! Moreover, if General Zuo attacked the city, the enemy soldiers would not have died here...... You see, their bodies have crossed this moat! It must have been when the enemy abandoned the city and fled, and was covered up by General Zuo out of the city! ”

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