Now the southern part of Nanyang is controlled by the Jingzhou army, and the north is controlled by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao did not deploy heavy troops in the north of Nanyang, nor did he order the general to defend it, the main reason is that Cao Cao's main energy is to deal with Yuan Shao in the north, and he does not want to stimulate Liu Biao too much.

Therefore, the northern part of Nanyang is also a buffer between Liu Biao and Cao Cao, but both sides are not very honest, there are no major wars, and small frictions are often constant.

Qin Feng brought Lu Sheng over and asked, "How many troops are stationed in Wancheng now?" ”

Lu Sheng said: "About 5,000 people, Nanyang Taishou is Yang Jun, a martial artist in Hanoi, who once served as Cao Cao's Sikong Peng, and later made a county commander, which was well received by the local people, after Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao ordered him to serve as Nanyang Taishou!" ”

Qin Feng pondered, To take Wancheng, and try to avoid too many casualties, and the speed must be fast, you must make a strange plan, otherwise it is impossible to succeed, if you go to attack the city in a decent manner, it is impossible to defeat it without tens of thousands of people, and it will take a long time.

The only way is a surprise attack, as for how to make a surprise attack, Qin Feng has no clue for the time being, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, make a plan at this time, and it may not be able to be used when you get to the ground.

After pondering for half the night, after dawn, Qin Feng sent someone to find Xi Ji, the captain of the engineering battalion, who was the heir of the Mo family.

"Captain Xi, what siege equipment are there in the siege camp today?"

Xi Ji replied: "Back to the general, there are siege ladders, siege rams, well fences, catapults, bed crossbows!" ”

Qin Feng pondered, If you really want to attack the city, it is too time-consuming and laborious to temporarily build siege equipment, and the way of attacking Wancheng by surprise may not be able to use it to capture the city gate by surprise, this method may not be successful, as long as the defenders are shrewd, if you look closely, you will find that the sergeants who have mixed in with the people entering the city, so this method cannot be commonly used, and there must be conditions for its use.

Moreover, when outsiders enter the city, they are easily recognized.

Surprise attack, surprise attack, how to succeed in surprise attack?

Qin Feng thought about it for a long time, but decided to bring all the siege equipment, and he said to Xi Ji: "What is the number of well railings and siege ladders?" ”

"General, it is not difficult to build a siege ladder, as long as there are enough people and materials, hundreds of them can be built in a day! The construction of the well fence is complicated, so far the engineering battalion has only built six, and the assembly and disassembly of this thing are too troublesome, and the difficulty of transportation is also great, if it is disassembled into pieces, transportation is relatively easy! ”

Qin Feng pondered, and quickly made up his mind, and instructed Xi Ji: "Prepare three well fences, disassemble them into parts, find enough cars and horses to transport, and attack the city and crash the car on the ground, as long as the vehicle is loaded, and the wood is cut down when it reaches the ground, there must be enough craftsmen accompanying it this time, and you must be able to assemble the three well fences and the crash car quickly, go and prepare!" ”

"No!" Xi Ji agreed, turned and left.

By night, five thousand well-trained and well-equipped men and horses were assembled, each carrying five days' rations, of which there were a thousand cavalry, and four thousand infantry remained.

"General Gan!" Qin Feng shouted.

Gan Ning stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Here!" ”

"Attack Nanyang, dare to fight the banner of the Jingzhou Army?" Qin Feng asked.

Gan Ning laughed: "The general is outside, and the king's order is not affected!" ”

Qin Feng smiled, "Ordered you to lead the men and horses of the headquarters to set off to attack Wancheng and attack its south gate, and the general will lead the army to arrive later!" ”

"Command!"

Gan Ning took the lead in setting off with his own headquarters, and attacked Wancheng overnight, Wancheng is still some distance from Yang'an City, and it will not be able to catch up overnight, so he chose to set off at night, in order to hide people's eyes.

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Qin Feng said to Juniper and Lü Meng: "After I led the army to leave, you and the two led the remaining soldiers and horses to the north, and the city should be broken quickly, but the advance speed should not be too fast, otherwise when you lead the army to catch up with Liu Bei, won't he use it to consume troops?" ”

Both of them understood what Qin Feng meant, and agreed: "Subordinates obey orders!" ”

Qin Feng set off with 5,000 men and horses, accompanied by more than a dozen carts, each cart used several horses to pull the cart, the carts were all parts of siege equipment, and the accompanying craftsmen followed the vehicles.

For the next three days, Qin Feng led his army to march day and night, which was completely opposite to the 5,000 men and horses led by Gan Ning, who was in the open and responsible for attracting the attention of all parties, while his 5,000 men and horses were hidden in the dark and hurried quickly.

When he led the army to Wancheng, Qin Feng arrived only half a day apart, but he did not show up, but hid in the shadows and secretly assembled siege equipment.

Gan Ning's 5,000-strong army made the defenders of Wancheng feel like they were facing a great enemy, and most of the troops were attracted to the southern city wall.

"General, I'm going to fight under the city, kill a few of them first, and make our army stronger?" Su Fei asked Gan Ning for his life.

Gan Ning thought about it for a while and promised: "Be careful, if you are not defeated, you can withdraw, you don't have to be strong!" ”

"Hahaha, don't worry, general!" Su Fei laughed and patted his horse and galloped towards the city wall with a gun.

He rode his horse to the place under the city, raised his head and shouted: "Jingzhou general Su Fei is here, who in the city of Cao Jun dares to go out of the city to fight to the death with me?" ”

A young general at the head of the city was furious, smashed his fist on the battlement, and said angrily: "It's really rampant, the imperial court did not send troops to conquer Jingzhou, but now he sent troops to provoke the majesty of the imperial court, which is unbearable!" When I go out of the city and kill him, the generals will go with me and plunder for me! ”

The generals immediately agreed: "Obey!" ”

Taishou Yang Jun immediately stopped: "General, don't be impulsive, the opponent's soldiers and horses are only 5,000, if you really want to attack the city, he may not be able to capture it even if he has ten times more, this time he came to fight, it is nothing more than to hit our morale, if our army loses in the fight, it will be a plan!" ”

The young general was furious: "Do you know that my Xiahou Shang will definitely be defeated? ”

Yang Jun was very helpless, he really had no good way to meet such an unreasonable general, and this person was also Xiahou Yuan's cousin.

"In this case, the general can take a thousand soldiers and horses out of the city to meet the enemy, and remember not to pursue!"

Where did Xiahou Shang listen to him, and immediately ordered a thousand men and horses to go out of the city to meet Su Fei.

The team went out of the city under the command of Xiahou Shang and plundered the formation, and he single-handedly faced Su Fei.

When Su Fei saw it, he was overjoyed, didn't he give him a head, he immediately slapped his horse and rushed up with a gun to stab, Xiahou Shang was not easy to provoke, and the two fought fiercely.

After more than ten rounds of fighting, Su Fei turned his horse's head again, looked at Xiahou Shang and said, "The kid also has some ability, eat grandpa again!" ”

"What about ten shots, the soft ones don't have much strength!" Xiahou Shang replied and fought together again.

After another fifty rounds of fighting, he still couldn't see whether he won or lost, and Yang Jun on the city tower was worried that Xiahou was still missing, and he couldn't explain to Cao Cao, so he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Hearing the sound of gold, Xiahou was still unwilling, but he couldn't disobey the order to withdraw, so he had to force Su Fei back, beat the horse and lead the troops to retreat to the city, Su Fei chased after him, but was shot down by Yang Jun on the city tower commanding the archers, Su Fei could only return angrily.

"General, his subordinates are incompetent, and they failed to kill Xiahou Shang!" After withdrawing from the camp, Su Fei asked Gan Ning for his guilt.