Chapter 62: Impulsive Punishment
"Gan Ning Xiao'er, quickly climb out of the city and fight with your Grandpa Ling Tong for a hundred rounds!" Under Cangwu City, Ling Tong shouted and cursed, and the foul language was unbearable. Behind him, the 10,000 Jiaozhou army is also a fox and a fake tiger, and they are all three and four to show off their might.
"Ling Tong Xiao'er, your father is already a headless ghost, and now you are here to send him to death?" The gate of Cangwu City creaked open, and Gan Ning led thousands of elite soldiers to line up. To be honest, Gan Ning really didn't expect Ling Tong to take the initiative to attack Cangwu, you must know that there are more than 20,000 people in Cangwu, and the South China Sea adds up to only 10,000 people, and now Ling Tong, who has fewer troops, actually took the initiative to attack, which also surprised Gan Ning. He didn't know that Ling Tongyi wanted to recapture the four counties, and the second wanted to avenge his father's death. I only want the fighting generals to defeat Gan Ning first, and then they can recover the four counties in one go. For Ling Tong's calculations, it can only be said that the idea is indeed very beautiful.
"Ganning dog thief, take your life!" Seeing Gan Ning coming out of the battle, Ling Tong didn't want to say anything more, so he scolded again, and immediately slapped his horse and danced his gun to fight with him. Gan Ning was naturally not afraid of him, and picked up the Hengjiang Ghost Head Knife in his hand and fought together.
"Hey!" Gan Ning dodged Ling Tong's shot in the chest, and when the other party was about to shrink, he stretched out a gun with his left hand and grabbed him, and the ghost head knife in his right hand slashed directly down the barrel. Ling Tong knew that if he didn't let go of his weapon, he would end up with ten fingers broken. But once the weapon is lost, he will undoubtedly be defeated, and it is also a dangerous move at the moment, the left hand lifts the gun hard, but the right hand pulls out the waist knife and slashes at Gan Ning's left hand that grabbed the gun. Gan Ning's ghost head knife was changed from straight to upward, so that he raised his arm straight, and before he could cut Ling Tong's right hand, he was about to be slashed by his waist knife in his left hand. Gan Ning saw the opportunity and was also extremely fast, so he directly let go of Ling Tong's gun and swung his knife to block him.
In the first round of the fight, Huo Jun on the city tower was already shocked. If Ling Tong lifted it a little slower, he would already have his fingers broken; If Gan Ning collects it a little slowly, he will not be able to protect one of his arms. At this moment, Gan Ning knew that today's opponent was only on par with him.
When encountering an opponent of equal strength, Gan Ning's fighting spirit was also burning, and the ghost head knife attacked Ling Tong like a groundbreak. Although Ling Tong was eager to take revenge, he also knew that today's opponent's martial arts were by no means below him, and if he was not careful, he would die.
This protracted battle between the two sides immediately opened the eyes of the officers and men of the two armies who watched the battle. Gan Ning's ghost-headed knife is no more than half a zhang long, and it can be used with one or both hands, and the moves are uncanny, but the moves are directly aimed at the vital point, which is really as strange and unpredictable as the Nine Ghost Dragons; Ling Tong's marksmanship is wide open and closed, dignified and upright, and every move and style is clear, but it is also often the enemy must be saved. The two are equal, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.
"This kid's martial arts have made a lot of progress!" struggling to shoot Ling Tong, Gan Ning was also secretly shocked. Four years ago, Ling Tong was defeated by Zhao Feng in less than twenty rounds, and now he has fought with him for more than fifty rounds, but he still hasn't gained the upper hand, it seems that this Ling Tong has been practicing hard for four years.
Gan Ning was not bad, although Ling Tong was in the Southern Wilderness for four years, he never forgot to avenge his father, and he never stopped practicing his martial arts. Now he is far above Ding Feng and Lu Meng in terms of martial arts. It's just that because the surname is impatient, he is not a general. It was not particularly suitable to send him to guard the South China Sea this time, but Sun Quan really had no one available, so he had to be sent here. If Sun Quan knew that Ling Tong acted without authorization and brought people to Cangwu to find Gan Ning to fight alone, it was estimated that he would vomit blood again.
The two of them tumbled and fought for more than 100 rounds and still did not know the winner, Huo Jun in the city saw that it was getting late, and Mingjin withdrew his troops at the moment. "General Gan, this guy is very good at martial arts!" Huo Jun saw that Gan Ning was panting, and asked in some surprise.
"Exactly, but this guy is too impatient, and he doesn't even care about the important places in the South China Sea in order to take revenge. General Huo, I think he brought more than 10,000 men and horses today, and the defenders of the South China Sea will not exceed two or three thousand at most, why not send someone to tell General Ji Ling of Luling overnight and ask him to send troops to copy this kid's back road? Gan Ning suddenly said.
"Brilliant plan, brilliant plan!" Huo Jun immediately praised when he heard this, and immediately wrote a letter to send someone to inform Ji Ling quickly, while Gan Ning was ready to continue to fight Ling Tong alone in the next few days and drag him here.
In the next few days, Ling Tong would come over every day to scold and seek revenge on Gan Ning. Gan Ning is also very simple, as long as you call the formation, I will come out to fight, and I promise to be on call. After three days like this, Ling Tong gradually realized that something was wrong. But seeing that the enemy who killed his father was close at hand, Ling Tong was unwilling to leave no matter what. At this time, Ji Ling of Luling had already led 20,000 Jingzhou troops to kill the South China Sea and attack Panyu City, where the Nanhai County Administration was located.
There are still more than 2,000 defenders in the South China Sea, and the city walls are quite dangerous. However, in the face of an enemy force ten times larger than oneself, such a defense is not impregnable after all. In addition, when the Jiaozhou army broke the city, it had been looted, and the former Nanhai Taishou Gongzhi was in the wilderness, so the people's hearts were not to it. Ji Ling led the army to attack a few times, and the people in the city spontaneously rioted to respond to the Jingzhou army, and the Jiaozhou army had no generals who could suppress the field, so the city was broken after a long time. Of the more than 2,000 defenders, except for those who died in battle and those who surrendered and were captured, there were only a dozen who escaped by taking advantage of the chaos.
By the time the more than ten people fled to Cangwu City to report to Ling Tong, this young general, who was still carried away by anger, had been competing with Gan Ning for ten days. Hearing the news of the fall of the South China Sea, Ling Tong was like being poured down by a basin of cold water in the cold winter, and the whole person felt a chill to the bone.
"In other words, the first county of the South China Sea has now been lost?" Looking at the kneeling soldiers in front of him, after being silent for a long time, Ling Tong asked abruptly, his voice hoarse and harsh.
"Yes." The two men bowed their heads and replied. Everyone was silent, as soon as the South China Sea was lost, it was equivalent to that their road from the land to Jiangdong had been cut off, and their 10,000 horses had been completely reduced to a lonely army.
Ling Tong gradually understood that Gan Ning had been fighting with him every day these days, and he was still putting on a defensive posture, not because he was strong in martial arts, so he could fight him without the strength to fight back, but probably more because he wanted to trap himself here, so that Ji Ling could take the South China Sea. It's only now that I realize that it's too late, and I have blinded my mind because of hatred, and the price I have paid is too heavy.
"General, what can I do like this?" When the generals heard the news of the fall of the South China Sea, they were already a little at a loss. Ling Tong looked up at everyone, but saw that there were those with confused eyes, some who were determined, and even some people with flickering eyes, most likely thinking about surrender. Ling Tong knew that the surplus food in the army was only enough to support more than half a month. If he gets stuck here, not to mention Gan Ning and them coming to attack, he will be starved to death directly.
"Can't be trapped here!" After making up his mind, Ling Tong also decisively gave up the opportunity for revenge, and turned to everyone: "Pass my order, go south to the nearest port with all your might, go to Zhuya County by boat, and save your strength, if you can't do it, you will go to Yizhou again!" ”
When the generals under Ling Tong's command heard this, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After all, their general has not completely broken out of the small universe, and chooses to fight to the death with the Jingzhou army, otherwise I am afraid that it will be completely stopped. Although it is not good to go away to Zhuya County and Yizhou, it is better than taking a surname.
"General, but our nearest port probably doesn't have enough ships for the army to cross the sea to Zhuya County!" One of the staff members cautiously admonished. Although Zhuya County is not too far from the mainland, 10,000 troops want to cross it, and this transportation volume is indeed not small in the Three Kingdoms Navigation Age.
"Leave hundreds of weak soldiers, set up camp to confuse the enemy, and then the army will march at full speed at night!" Ling Tong said in a deep voice. This is a typical loss of pawn and handsome, if you don't take advantage of the fact that the enemy has not completely occupied Jiaozhou and flee, and wait until Ji Ling and Zhang Nan surround them, then Ling Tong will really not be able to eat and go around. At that moment, the crowd listened to his words, bluffed and retreated overnight. That night, Gan Ning and Huo Jun got the news from Ji Ling, and then sent people to Ling Tong's Dazhai to take a look, but found that there were only a few hundred old and weak soldiers who were regarded as outcasts, and Ling Tong had already led most of them to escape.
"Ling Tong can't go to the east, west and north now, so he can only go to the south and go to the sea to Zhuya County. Today, there are still people in Dazhai during the day, I think he also left after nightfall, it should not be long to go, at most two hours, plus it takes him to find a boat to go to sea, if I catch up, I should be able to catch up! Gan Ning keenly sniffed the fighter plane.
"This is very good, we should take this opportunity to annihilate it in one fell swoop to prevent future troubles!" Huo Jun also agreed with him, and at that moment, the two of them organized 20,000 horses to pursue Ling Tong.
As it turned out, Gan Ning's judgment was not wrong, at least not completely wrong. After about a day of pursuit, Gan Ning's pursuers finally caught up with Ling Tong in a small fishing boat on the seaside, and at this time Ling Tong was using all the boats he had caught to escort his men to Zhuya County as much as possible. Seeing Gan Ning leading three times as many chasing troops as he did, Ling Tong did not dare to fight hard, but chose to squeeze into the small fishing boat with the first batch of about 2,000 soldiers and drove towards Zhuya County. The remaining seven or eight thousand soldiers were again forced to become outcasts. They were completely abandoned by Ling Tong, and they chose to surrender one after another in desperation.
"Damn, let this kid run!" Standing on the seashore and looking at the ships that were getting farther and farther away, Gan Ning waved the ghost head knife in his hand hatefully, quite unwillingly. Huo Jun, who was chasing with him, was more open-minded, and immediately opened his mouth to comfort: "It's already very good to be able to leave Ling Tong with nearly 8,000 people." Even if he fled to Zhuya County, what could he do with his thousands of men? At most, it can only hide for a while. When the Jingxiang Sailor is familiar with the water conditions here, General Gan can naturally lead the army to kill the island and cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Maybe if this kid is unlucky, he will feed the shark directly! ”
"That's right!" Gan Ning listened to Huo Jun's explanation, and he also thought about it a lot. When the two returned to Cangwu, Gan Ning ordered the Jingxiang Sailor to go into the offshore sea to familiarize himself with the water conditions and prepare for the attack on Zhuya County in the future; At the same time, Sun Jing's father and son sent people to escort to Shouchun, handed over to Liu Bei, and reported the military situation here to Liu Bei and Zhao Feng in Jiangdong.
"Gan Xingba has pacified the six counties of Jiaozhou, captured Sun Jing's father and son, and Ling Tong led thousands of remnants to flee to Zhuya County?" When he saw this battle report, Zhao Feng was also taken aback.
(To be continued)