Chapter 125: The Fire Begins
"Squeak-squeak-squeew-" It was getting dark, and the little bugs in the grass began to chirp.
"Step, step, step" A rush of footsteps sounded, and it was dark that it was impossible to see which part of the army in a hurry was, and they looked in the direction of Yangzhou City, although the sky was dark, but no one lit the torch when they went.
"Stop coming! Password—" Hearing a figure approaching in front of them, the group suddenly stopped and shouted in a low voice.
"Dongting - return order!" Three black shadows appeared in front of them, and they also replied in a low voice.
"Rescue—what's going on?" The voice sounded a little familiar, it was the person who went back to Dongting to gather people and horses and hurried to Gan Ning in Changsha County, he and Ding Feng took the appointment documents and tokens issued by Cheng Yu, and returned to Dongting Lake for three days, and after three days, they changed to the flag of the Yangzhou Army and went straight down the river to Changsha County, but they were strange that when they came to Changsha County, although the four gates were closed, they did not find any trace of the Yellow Turban Army. After they revealed their identities, the county guard of Changsha County put down a bamboo basket from the city tower for safety reasons, and hung the seal letter forward, and saw that it was indeed Yangzhou City, and the two in front of him were the new Yangzhou Navy Governor and Deputy Governor, but Gan Ning asked about the whereabouts of the Yellow Turban Army and took about a thousand of his minions to Yangzhou.
Changsha County has the responsibility of defending the land and can not easily leave the county town, so he asked the Changsha guard to send men and horses to gallop together to aid Yangzhou City, Huang Zhong, who performed more brilliantly in the last time, led a thousand defenders of Changsha and Gan Ning to merge one and rushed to Yangzhou day and night.
"General-there are camps outside Yangzhou City in front, looking at the situation, Yangzhou City is temporarily fine! However, the enemy camp is brightly lit at the moment, and the little ones feel that they are not resting at this time, and it seems that they are estimated to take advantage of the siege. Another point that is more acceptable is that the West Gate is the main camp, but there are traces of army gathering outside the South Gate, but their goal is not Yangzhou City, but towards a forest not far away, the number of about 5,000 people. What do we do next? After Gan Ning's scouts probed the news, they found that the Yellow Turban Army had traces of maneuvering.
"Oh—isn't there any other movement in the city?" Gan Ning was a little unclear about the intentions of the Yellow Turban Army, he was a military general, and he was not very good at these things that used his brain.
"General Hui - the city is very quiet and there is no movement!"
"Governor, the last general thinks that this matter is a little strange, the enemy sent 5,000 men and horses to an inconspicuous grove, and the enemy camp is brightly lit, presumably the key to their siege tonight is not the four city gates, but the grove!" It was Huang Zhong who was talking on one side, although he had a body of martial arts, but there was no place for him, Huang Zhong, who had been in the army for many years, was thirty-five years old and was still a lieutenant of a county. In addition to Gan Ning and Ding Feng, who have the highest positions, the rest of them are Huang Zhong, the captain of the soldiers and horses, and in history, Huang Zhong's armed forces are not only equal in force, but also very high in intelligence! He could see at a glance the unreasonable place of the Yellow Turban Army, what the army needed to attack the city was the strength of the whole army, how could he have time to send troops to run to a forest outside the south gate, indicating that there must be a secret passage into the city, a hole in the ground and something like that in this wood.
"General Huang, do you mean the secret passage?" Ding Feng said thoughtfully, he felt that only this explanation was more reasonable.
The last general also felt that it was only possible that the Yellow Turban Army had dug a secret passage to the city in the past few days since the siege of the city, but there was a moat outside Yangzhou City, how could it be dug through? Is there something in it? If that's the case, Yangzhou City is in danger-" Huang Zhong suddenly had a terrible thought, he felt that the person who could dig through the secret passage must have an internal response in Yangzhou City, so that he could bypass the moat without knowing it, if this was the case, Yangzhou City would definitely be broken tonight.
"The Secret Passage—you can't be wrong, are you? The last time we passed by the moat, the moat was about three feet deep, how could it be dug just right? I don't know what happened to my lord now? General Huang, I don't know if you have any good suggestions? Gan Ning couldn't believe that such a rabble of the Yellow Turban Army had such a ability, but looking at the large number of Yellow Turban Army, he only had about 2,000 men under him, and he really couldn't decide where to attack.
"Dudu, the last general thinks that the best way to use our current men is to sneak close to this wave of yellow turban thieves outside the south gate first, and wait for most of them to enter the secret passage, and then we will take the opportunity to kill the yellow turban thieves outside and block the entrance of the cave, and come out to kill one by one! Wait for work - however, we also need to prevent the Yellow Turbans from coming to the rescue of the tunnel crossing, and this depends on how the Governor arranges it! "Huang Zhong's idea is very simple, these soldiers are not much stronger than the Yellow Turban Army, they can only secretly touch the dark and fight the sticks to preserve their strength, and now the only people present are Gan Ning's biggest official, how to fight can only be Gan Ning's final say, otherwise it will be chaotic and humble, and there will be no royal law.
What General Huang said was very true, Ding Feng listened to the order and led a thousand men and horses to lie in ambush outside the south gate in front, as long as none of the Yellow Turban troops who came to reinforce the grove were allowed to let go. General Huang followed me to exterminate the thieves at the entrance of the tunnel, and followed the secret passage into the city to rescue Yangzhou City. Set off immediately-" Gan Ning didn't know what Huang Zhong's men's efforts were, and felt that it would be more appropriate to arrange Ding Feng to stop the enemy's reinforcements, at least Ding Feng's men's efforts were not weak.
"The last general obeys the order-" Ding Feng and Huang Zhong led the order to follow Gan Ning to set up an ambush outside the south gate.
"What time is it?" Zhou Yu and Jiang Qin, who galloped all the way, galloped all the way with 4,000 men and horses, and finally the distance was almost to Yangzhou City, and some of the people and horses behind them were sleepy and lacking.
"My lord, it's time now, and I haven't heard the drums of war for the time being!" Jiang Qin hurriedly replied to Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu didn't mean to ask about this hour, he was used to the twenty-four-hour counting method, and he was not used to counting at this twelve-hour hour. Hearing that there were no war drums and shouts of killing, my heart finally fell into my stomach, at least it proved that they were not too late.
"Order, let the soldiers rest on the spot - quickly send out scouts to contact where General Dian Wei is now!" After Zhou Yu finished speaking, he suddenly remembered the two bags that Guo Jia gave him before leaving, and Guo Jia liked this tone Zhou Yu liked very much. When I first watched the Three Kingdoms, the wise and demonic Zhuge Liang Lupine always liked to give his generals some tips and tricks before fighting, which could have a surprise effect when they were confused.
Guo Jia told Zhou Yu that if the enemy had not yet launched an attack outside Yangzhou City, then open the first bag to see, Zhou Yu sat down and opened the first bag by the light of the torch, which read: "Hehe-lord, when you open the first bag, then congratulations on your anti-late." Let's talk to you first, if the yellow turban doesn't do it, then you go to the east gate and kick their camp first, as long as you rush in, you will burn their tent grain and grass first, as long as you can burn anything, as long as you light a fire, you will immediately kill a wooden bridge five miles to the east, send someone to break the wooden bridge, remember not to fight! After the burning, there is a waterway five miles to the north, and the boats crossing the river there are burned; Finally, rush to Ximen and General Dian Wei round. The next thing to do is to capture the golden thief. Lord, you're destined to be on the run this night, haha-"
After reading this tip, Zhou Yu's nose was almost crooked, and he thought of Guo Jia's cheap smile - but how could he be teased by Guo Jia, but he Zhou Yu was also too guarded, he beckoned Jiang Qin to come over and said: "You can send someone to cut off the wooden bridge at the east gate and the boat crossing the river at the north gate, and then go with me to burn the camp, since they don't do it first, then we will do it first!" ”
"Newspaper - the east gate was raided by unknown people and burned the camp!"
"Newspaper - the camp at the south gate was raided by unknown people, and the camp was set on fire and ran away-"
"Bang - how can this be justified - herald! Immediately attack the city with the whole army-" Chen Wei, who received the news, was immediately furious, and immediately ordered a full-scale siege of the city, and the sound of war drums and shouts of killing became one after another.