Chapter 900: Four Monsters Descending from the Sky
When Gan Ning and Wang Lu were idle. Suddenly, a member of the Shadow Squad came to report in a low voice: "General Qiyu Gan, General Wang, ten miles ahead, I found a large group of soldiers coming towards the exit of Lagu!"
Gan Ning turned over and stood up, carefully pinned the jacket cowhide specially made for senior generals, the middle-clad steel, and the silver-inlaid military wine jug behind his waist, and then stretched his waist and roared loudly: "Brothers, copy the guys for me, get ready, the big fish is about to swim over!"
The soldiers, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, responded to the order, and Ding Ling began to prepare with a bang.
The position of the ambush of the Yizhou army was carefully selected by Gan Ning and Wang Lu a few days earlier, and there were several places with high ground and hard bottom, and there were even a row of strange boxes, and I don't know what they were used for.
At the beginning, the Jiaozhi soldiers carried these large boxes from Fengxi to Buwei, and then transported them from Buwei to Mumi, but they did not sweat less. Everyone was privately speculating about what was in the box, which made Commander Gan, who has always regarded money as dung, like a careful liver.
In a formation that had been practiced many times, the soldiers in charge of hand-to-hand combat were at the front of the formation, the pikemen in charge of supporting melee were in the second tier, and the crossbowmen in charge of attack support were in the third tier. As for the longbowmen, who are specially used for long-range killing, they are arranged on both sides of the higher valley, which can form a cross in the air with a rain of arrows.
With the help of their own soldiers, Gan Ning and Wang Lu had already put on the bright light armor that could protect the whole body and the tiger helmet that covered the whole body, and each picked up the most convenient weapon and stood in front of the large army array, waiting for Yan Yan to lead the army to come to battle.
Yan Yan, who was leading the troops on a rapid march, was still five miles away from the Gan Ning formation, and finally received the news brought back by the former pathfinder sentry. The sentry told Yan Yan very nervously that the position of the front out of Lagu was blocked by tens of thousands of situations, and the other party was waiting for him, and it seemed that he had already calculated the whereabouts of his army!
Yan Yan listened to the sentry's words, and sighed in his heart, he felt as if he had fallen into someone else's trap. Yan Yan immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, and then sent sentries to continue to reconnoitre, and this time, he also sent sentries to reconnoiter backwards.
After a while, the front and rear sentry agents came to report in a panic at the same time. Yan Yan, who had made a detailed report on the investigation, had a clear Han army banner embroidered with the characters "Gan" and "Wang" on it; Yan Yan, who had successively probed into the detailed report, also found tens of thousands of troops five miles behind his own army, and the other side had the words "Taishi" and "Guan" written on the banners!
Yan Yan's heart was very shocked, he really couldn't think of what was going on with the Han army banners that suddenly appeared all over the mountains. Yan Yan then hurriedly came to the exit of Lagu, he wanted to see who would be blocking his way.
"Dare to ask who is the general who is blocking the way of our army!" Coming to a place a few arrows away from Gan Ning and Wang Lu, Yan Yan stopped and asked loudly.
"Old Yan, after a few years, I didn't expect your mid-air to be so full!" Gan Ning lifted his visor and waved at Yan Yan and shouted.
"Are you Gan Ning, Gan Xingba?!" Yan Yan looked at Gan Ning in disbelief and asked with some hesitation.
Gan Ning clasped his fists and saluted Yan Yan and said, "Thanks to General Yan for remembering me Gan Ning!
Yan Yan looked at the large number of longbowmen pouring out from both sides of the valley, as well as the army that was in front of him, and had already figured out many questions. He looked at Gan Ning with disdain, and then scolded angrily: "Gan Ning, you are so shameless! The lord treats you well, why do you want to take refuge in the Jin Kingdom and be that disloyal and unrighteous villain!"
Gan Ning seemed to have expected Yan Yan to scold, he was not angry at all, but persuaded Yan Yan: "Old Yan, I respect you as a loyal person, but you don't have to scold me for being a shameless villain." For their own benefit, the Yizhou Sima family can do things that hurt the heavens and reason, such as rushing Wudu Dao and spreading plague, and I was captured by General Ma Mengqi in Hanzhong, which was also the blessing of dragging Sima Yi's abandonment. For such a lord, let me still have the foolish and loyal, but you are old and strict, and at this time you still don't know how to repent, do you have to fight to defeat both?"
"Hmph, let you keep your word, but I don't argue with you about words, I want to see who can keep Yan today!" Yan Yan was a little upset by what Gan Ning said, so he hurriedly interrupted Gan Ning's "psychological offensive".
Gan Ning knew that Yan Yan still had several times the army under his command at this time, and if he didn't let him appreciate the strength of his side, he was afraid that he would not surrender if he said anything, so he ordered the troops to prepare for a decisive battle.
Tai Shi Ci and Guan Ping, who were approaching from the rear, did not have so many worries, they led an army of 30,000 to press over step by step, seeing that they were only less than three miles away from Yan Yan's army.
"Brothers, rush with me, don't be frightened by the small force in front of you, break out of the blockade, and go straight to Chengdu!" Yan Yan finally stopped waiting, and rushed towards Gan Ning with his own soldiers with a loud roar.
Now that he saw Gan Ning, Yan Yan knew who the banner embroidered with the word "Taishi" behind him represented who came. As far as Yan Yan knew, among the Jin troops who were old opponents, there was only one person with the surname "Taishi", and that was the now famous Admiral Tai Shici. What makes Yan Yan even more chilling is that next to the banner embroidered with the word "Taishi", there is also a banner embroidered with the word "Guan"!
Tai Shi Ci has been famous for a long time, and when he fought in the Great War of Bingzhou, it was because of his "anti-water" that the East Road Coalition Army suffered a big loss under Huguan. Later, he replaced Xu Huang to guard the Kei Pass, and even stood on the Kei Pass and shot Chen Lan, the general of the Yuan Shu Department, with an arrow from afar, which can be described as superb archery.
Although Yan Yan himself was superb in martial arts and archery, he also personally participated in the Battle of Bingzhou back then, and had learned the terrifying combat power of the regular troops of the Jin State. For the red-faced man surnamed "Guan", Yan Yan really couldn't raise the courage to fight. It's not that Yan Yan doesn't have guts, it's really Guan Yu who is too powerful, so powerful that people fall directly from hope to despair.
Yan Yan didn't know now that the banner embroidered with the word "Guan" at the back represented Guan Yu's eldest son, Guan Ping, not Guan Yunchang himself. In his opinion, since Tai Shici and Gan Ning, the two generals of the Jin State Navy, could suddenly fall from the sky, it was not so strange that the "red-faced tiger" Guan Boss who guarded the Western Regions appeared in Yizhou.
Yan Yan, who is ready to fight to the death, now has a very simple idea. Instead of waiting for Tai Shi Ci and "Guan Yu" to lead the army to kill from behind, it was better to lead the army to rush desperately towards Gan Ning and the general surnamed "Wang". The opponent's troops are less than their own, as long as they break through the blockade, except for the southern Lagukou, at least half of the army can be retained. If he was picked up by Guan Yu and Tai Shici, it would really be impossible to escape.