Chapter 274: Battle Yingchuan (4)

"Look-there seems to be a fire in the direction of the Han army camp, can you help take a look?" A soldier in the city suddenly pointed in the direction of the Han army camp and said that there was a fire, but it had just rained, and the firewood and grass were all wet and it was not good to start the fire, and he didn't dare to confirm whether he was wrong.

"It seems to be- but you hear something coming this way, like the sound of water?" There was a sharp-eyed and sharp-eared Yellow Turban soldier who saw the fire, but his ears heard the whistling sound from the west.

"Don't worry about it so much - go and report to General Digong, just say that General Rengong has sent a signal!" The soldiers in the city had already turned around and went down to report to Zhang Bao, and the soldiers at the head of the city were looking at the place outside the city with a feverish face.

After Cao Cao ordered to open the embankment, the river water that broke the embankment roared and rushed down, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahoudun in the downstream hurriedly loosened the rope holding the wooden stake after hearing the sound of the water, and the huge impact of the river rushed directly towards the city gate of Yingchuan County with the wooden stake, due to the low-lying river water in the west and south of Yingchuan County poured directly into it, and the city gate was hit by the wooden stakes one after another, and the city gate in the west of the city was a little crumbling, and the river flowed into it along the gap.

At first, the Yellow Turban Army guarding the city gate thought that it was raining tonight and the rain did not leak clean, how do you know that the more you look at it, the more you feel that something is wrong, the water is flowing more and more, and there are bursts of crashing sound on the city gate, the north gate of the river is blocked, the water level has begun to rise, and it has begun to leak from the middle of the city gate.

"The brothers in the city are out of the way, it's the flood that is coming—it's all starting to spread to the city towers!" Someone still noticed the anomaly, in fact, the river water is not so powerful, but the rising water level and the sound of wooden stakes crashing made them alert, and threw a torch in the air to see the dead river everywhere under the city through the firelight, and the momentum of the river in the distance is still strong.

"Click-clang-" With a loud bang, the city gate finally collapsed under the pressure of the river, and the river began to rage in Yingchuan County—shouts, cries, and screams for a while.

"General Digong - the big thing is not good, the west side of the city has been hit by floods, the city gate has been broken and repaired temporarily, and the city is already in chaos at the moment - what should we do now?" Because it was dark night, everyone only felt that there was water under their feet, and they were in a fear that the flood was coming, and it would continue to take away their lives, but they didn't know how much Cao Cao could not keep the river water even if it was stored for five days, and now it was able to impact the city gate in the west of the city to actually achieve the expected goal, as soon as the river entered the city, it was divided into several small floods, and the impact was slowly weakening, but people's desire to survive would be exaggerated by the fact that there was not much of a big thing. The common people in the city packed their bags and prepared to escape, and most of the Yellow Turban Army under Zhang Bao were ordinary people who had just joined, so reporting to Zhang Bao also made Zhang Bao a little confused.

"Order the whole army to pack up and go to support General Rengong - even if they flood the entire Yingchuan County tonight, we must let them not see the sun this morning!" Zhang Bao was wearing two pieces of better armor found from the treasury of the county town, one was Zhang Liang wearing the other he was wearing, and after he was armed, he ordered all the soldiers and horses and began to go out from the south gate one after another, and the east gate and north gate of the city were surrounded by the common people at this time, and they were all opened - Zhang Bao just asked people to clean up the south gate, and then the army rushed out and began to raid the Han army camp together.

Even if Cao Cao can pinch and calculate, he doesn't know that the power of this river is greatly beyond his expectations, originally he thought that the river flooded the city so that the thief army could take the opportunity to take advantage of the city, how did he know that a heavy rain indirectly helped him, the river rushed into the city smoothly along the way, did not achieve the expected purpose of breaking down the entire Yingchuan County, but did let them scare themselves to open the four gates of the city, the most unexpected thing for him was that Sun Jian's pressure would increase exponentially, and now he was 8,000 men and horses against the 120,000 horses of the thief army, Even if the Yellow Turban Thief Army has no combat effectiveness, it is a good tiger that can't stand the wolves, and one and a half of twelve can always beat it, right?

"Miaocai—is the city gate broken?" Cao Cao rushed back from the upper reaches with his men and horses, and happened to meet the Xiahou Yuan brothers who were waiting for him, and he wanted to know if this strategy had succeeded?

"Big brother - the city gate was broken after the flood rushed over, but it is impossible for us to attack from the west gate now, the water broke through the city gate to make the enemy lose a defense, but it also set up a difficult barrier for us, the place where we passed was muddy and could not march at all, but the scout came to report that there was a fire outside our camp? Could it be that someone sneaked up on it? Xiahou Yuan reported the real situation to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was not an immortal, so he could only give up and prepare to join Sun Jian.

After Sun Jian sent Cao Cao away, he immediately mobilized men and horses to hide all the baggage inside and outside the camp, which is the most common and safest approach, tonight their whole army attacked and left the men and horses guarding the camp is equivalent to waiting for death, no one knows if the Yellow Turban Army will go crazy to take the initiative to attack them, now take advantage of the night to hide all the baggage, the torch of the camp Sun Jian did not let people extinguish, but burned the fire in the camp more vigorously, he arranged for Huang Gai to lead a thousand men and horses to ambush the left side of the camp, Han Dang led a thousand men and horses to ambush on the right side of the camp, Zu Mao led a thousand men and horses to ambush in the rear of the camp and waited for an opportunity to release arrows, and Cheng Pu led a thousand swords and axes to guard the gate of the camp. The rest of the men and horses were led by Sun Jian alone, once Cao Cao sent a signal from his side, he could immediately lead his troops to attack the local camp, and then he would come back to the camp with a deception and feign, wait for the thief army to chase after him, and then fight back, so that the thief army would be caught off guard and slaughter them cleanly.

His idea was good, just when he had just arranged everything to get ready to rest, Zhang Liang had already led people to touch the outside of Sun Jian's camp, relying on his own strength Zhang Liang did not follow the routine at all, and ordered the archers to shoot three rounds in the camp of the Han army, and all the arrows shot out were rockets stained with fire oil.

"Beat the drums - attack! Knock knock knock-" When Sun Jian was still a little confused by the sudden appearance of the rocket, the war drums sounded immediately outside the camp, listening to the shouts of killing outside, he knew that the thief army was the first to attack them, in this case, this can be to defend the camp. He ordered 1,000 men and horses to extinguish the fire in the camp first, and the rest of the men and horses followed him to the gate of the fortress to meet the enemy.

"The dog thief Zhang Liang came just in time - eat your grandfather's grandfather with a knife! The brothers rushed with me to break the banner first-" Sun Nut is a tiger-like figure, he signaled Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Zu Mao not to do anything, but he and Cheng Pu led three thousand men and horses to charge the battle first, through the firelight Sun Jian saw at a glance the banner of the general of Rengong, he knew that the person who attacked him tonight turned out to be Zhang Liang, and he didn't care about Zhang Liang's people and horses clamoring to cut off Zhang Liang's head, Sun Menghu really did not have the courage of a tiger, and also had the majestic posture of a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests.

"The little ones - kill General Ben! There is no one left in the camp, and our follow-up reinforcements will arrive soon - then they will be the meat on the board, and after this battle is fought, return to the city, and the general will allow you to enjoy it for three days! "Zhang Liang is also a bandit, although he followed Zhang Jiao's cultivation, but he did not have some consciousness of escaping into the empty door at all, but felt that indulging the soldiers could improve their combat effectiveness.

"The general is mighty - kill!" As soon as Zhang Liang's order was issued, a frenzy of meaning suddenly erupted inside and outside the Yellow Turban Army, because what Zhang Liang said about the three days of joy was to let them indulge casually in the city without consequences, as long as their brothers did not pick up and kill each other, then there would be no problem, and after three days, they would have to abide by the rules of the canon.

After being indulged once, the Yellow Turban Army was like taking drugs, waiting for the general to let them indulge again, and finally waited for such an opportunity, how could they not attack with all their strength, and taking the head of the Han army was the best military merit medal-

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