Chapter 27: The Battle of Nanyang
"General Huangfu, there is Nanyang City in front, what should we do next?" In Huangfu Chong's camp, a group of people were discussing here, and they couldn't decide whether to fight directly or wait for the siege, after all, Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army was already a well-known thing. No one wants to give this military exploit to others!
"General, let me lead the troops to attack, the last general is willing to make a military order, if he can't defeat Nanyang City, he is willing to engage in military law!" A warlord asks for battle
"General, let's go, I promise to behead him Zhang Mancheng!" Not to be outdone, another general said, a few people in the camp are fighting with each other!
"Alright, alright, don't fight! Let the soldiers rest first, and wait for General Lu Zhi. Anyway, we have food, so let's lean on it slowly! Huangfu Chong smiled
"Okay!" A few people are still not very happy, after all, this is the fat on the side of the mouth. "General, why don't we attack first? Grabbing the first gong can also make us raise our eyebrows! β
"Hehe, the Yellow Turban Army is now a trapped beast, and whoever fights at this time has to fight desperately! Let's make up for this mold! Starve him for a few more days, and when the time comes, hehe, hehe, you'll be caught! Huangfu Chong said with a smile on his face
"Shogun Takami! It's just that this pioneer Liu Bei is very positive, do you want to tell him? β
"Hmph, young man, you can accumulate experience by hitting more walls!" The other person said with a smile, although the Eastern Han Dynasty Sanjie Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, and Huangfu Chong have a good relationship, but the generals under them are inextricably linked to each other, and the three groups are not monolithic!
"That's it! Wait and see! Liu Xuande, as a protΓ©gΓ© of General Lu Zhi, will not be fooled so easily, this person has lofty ambitions, and now it is estimated that what he wants most is prestige and strength. It's up to him how he chooses! Huangfu Chong smiled
"Big brother, what a good opportunity, I'll take two thousand people to fight a battle first, grab the first credit, and it can be regarded as making our brothers show their faces!" Zhang Fei has been persuading Liu Bei for a long time!
"Yide, I also want to take the lead, but according to common sense, this group of people is now a trapped beast. Attack rashly, the losses are too great! Liu Bei still felt sorry for the little soldier in his hand.
"Big brother, what kind of common sense is it to fight! Maybe the morale of this Yellow Turban Army is low, and if we fight, we may directly annihilate them! Zhang Fei said
"Yes, big brother, what a great opportunity, how can you let it go? The third brother is right! It's time to put our reputation out there! Guan Yu also persuaded that both of them were brave warriors, and they were never afraid to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and they were even eager to fight in their hearts!
"Alas! I know what you're saying, but it's not easy for us thousands! Liu Bei is still hesitating!
"Hehe, big brother, aren't we just two thousand people?" Zhang Fei suddenly laughed
"Huh?" Liu Bei was stunned when he said this, didn't he still have 5,000 elite soldiers?
"Yes, big brother, these 5,000 elite soldiers are borrowed, but they are not our people, don't you think it's our troops after a few days of getting along, right?" Even Guan Yu could see that something was wrong.
"Oh, if you two hadn't said it, I would have really fallen into this misunderstanding!" Liu Bei patted his head and suddenly realized, "However, I still want to win them all over!" What a soldier! β
"Big brother, everyone eats imperial grain, why are you with the three of us? Besides, we are nothing now, we have nothing, we just want people to follow us, don't we have to be qualified! Zhang Fei said
"That makes sense!" Guan Yu agreed
"In this way, my second brother and I will each take 2,000 people to attack the city, and win the first victory first, so as to establish prestige in front of these 5,000 elite soldiers! Let's see if we can take some elite soldiers with you at the end! Zhang Fei said
"Yes, the two of you will take the soldiers to make a feint, after all, now Zhang Mancheng will fight to the death of anyone he sees!" Liu Bei thought about it, but he still made up his mind, fighting, losing the battle was the military horse of the imperial court, and winning the battle was his own fame! Why not!
"Good come!" Guan Zhang and the two happily went to pick up troops!
"General, I am willing to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to break the city and capture Zhang Mancheng!" In Zhu Jun's camp, Sun Jian is asking for his life!
"Wentai's courage is commendable, but we have to find a day off, tomorrow you will lead the elite soldiers to break through the city gate directly, and I will lead the army to press the rear!" Zhu Jun smiled, turned his head and ordered, "Come on, go and tell General Huangfu that you will march after breakfast tomorrow, and we will attack the south gate!" β
"General, are we going to attack a little earlier?" Sun Jian asked
"Why is that?"
"This city is very easy to attack? If you attack earlier, you can take the lead! Sun Jian said
"Hehe, it's important to break the enemy, and the credit doesn't matter! It's better to march as agreed! Zhu Jun smiled,
"Yes, General! In that case, I'm ready to prepare for tomorrow."
"Hmmm! Go ahead! Zhu Jun waved his hand and said, all forces are intriguing with each other to contain each other. At this time, Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang City couldn't sit still, "Hurry up and invite General Han to discuss the matter!" β
After a while, Han Zhong came to discuss with Zhang Mancheng, the Han army had just arrived, and he was tired from afar, and the most important thing he should do was to rob a camp or something, but considering the lack of food and clothing on his side, and the lack of soldiers, he couldn't effectively export! "General Zhang, can we send someone to disturb them, can't we let them have a good rest!" Han Zhongdao
"Having said that, this time it is Huangfu Chong and Zhu Jun among the three heroes who are here, they will not be unguarded, they are both famous generals in a hundred battles! I'm afraid that it will be self-defeating, not to mention the loss of troops, and it will be too big a blow to our morale! Zhang Mancheng smiled bitterly and said, now it is really difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice! There are soldiers without food, and most of my time is spent on pacifying the soldiers!
"General, this city cannot be defended, it is better to abandon the city and leave!" Han Zhong thought for a while and said
"I also know I can't hold it for a few days! But with so many people, how do we go? β
"In this way, while their foothold is not stable, we will arrange for people and horses to rob the camp tonight, and we will lead the elite from the small road to secretly kill to Runan! The Han army of Yingchuan has gathered in Nanyang, and we will do the opposite. Han Zhong's suggestion made Zhang Mancheng's eyes light up.
"Good idea, leave most of the people here that way. If you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will surrender, and you can also contain them for some time! If the Han army didn't care about their life and death, I don't think they would just accept their fate! Zhang Mancheng said with a smile, but he couldn't bear it, after all, they have been suffering together for so long!
"General, without further ado! We'll take our own soldiers with us now, and we can't bring too many, just 20,000 people!" Then send 5,000 people each to disturb the camp of Huangfu Chong and Zhu Jun. Give us as much time as you can delay! "Han Zhong is the kind of person who is anxious, he will do what he says! As soon as you make up your mind, you need to act immediately!
But how do you tell them? After all, there is not much food and grass! Zhang Mancheng asked
"In this way, leave those who are unwilling to go, as well as the injured and weak people, to defend the city, and hold it for as long as you can, and don't fight hard with the Han army! Let the brothers and friends of this group of people go to rob the camp tonight and stay outside the city, the Han army has supplies, so they will try all kinds of ways to disrupt the Han army and rob the Han army of materials. Their task is either to fight or to snatch food from the Han army! As for the rest, we take it away, only for a day's food! You can rob the family along the way! It's just a pity, in a few months you can harvest new wheat! Han Zhong's arrangement was clear, and Zhang Mancheng nodded straight to what he said, "Yes, yes, that's it." Hurry up and pick someone, and we'll leave right away! β
That night, near the camp of Zhu Jun and Huangfu Chongda, there were suddenly various sounds, and the disturbed Han soldiers couldn't sleep at all. This has been tossed back and forth several times, and everyone has no desire to sleep! Originally, I planned to send troops out to have a look, but I was afraid that Zhang Man would die and break the net! I can only endure it. However, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu quietly moved to the vicinity of Nanyang City with people, but what they didn't expect was to see the city gate wide open, the city walls were full of soldiers, and the entire Nanyang City didn't look like it was besieged at all, and the two couldn't help but look at each other, and they couldn't figure it out for a while.
"Second brother, what's going on? Should Zhang Mancheng want to go to the camp to rob the camp, even if he wants to go to the camp to rob the camp, he should go quietly? Zhang Fei wondered
"I don't understand, is it a deployment of troops? That's a bit too big, isn't it? Guan Yu couldn't understand what this operation was, and in their hearts, they never thought that Zhang Mancheng would play this kind of rogue move!
"So what are we going to do?" Zhang Fei looked back at the soldiers he brought, he couldn't just go back like this, if he attacked, and couldn't understand the operation in Nanyang City, it was really a dilemma!
"Third brother, why don't we withdraw!" Guan Yu was a little worried, after all, he was not familiar with this terrain, and if he accidentally made dumplings, it would be a lot of fun!
"Second brother, I'm here, how can I go back empty-handed? In this way, I will lead people to attack first in a while, and you will go back later! Zhang Fei thought for a while and said
"It's okay, but if things don't go well, let's evacuate quickly!" Guan Yu nodded
Just when the two of them were discussing, they saw that many people came out of the city one after another, Guan Yu roughly estimated, there were about twenty or thirty thousand people, "This won't really go to rob the camp, right?" Guan Yu said to Zhang Fei, "If you go to rob the camp, maybe you can really make him successful, and then the situation will change!" β
"Then what should I do, or let's kill it directly!" Zhang Fei said
"No, I'm afraid that these soldiers won't use their strength! In this way, send someone back to tell the eldest brother to prepare for the camp, and we will ambush at this city gate, no matter what, when they come back, we will raid again! If they don't come back, when the day comes, we'll attack the city and take the gates!" Guan Yu said
"Good! It's still the second brother who has arranged it! Zhang Feidao, the two of them watched Zhang Mancheng and Han Zhong take the people out of the city, and they didn't dare to show it anymore, so they stared outside the city!
"Go full speed, go out of Nanyang County first, and remember to kill all the people you meet on the road! Leave no one alive! Zhang Mancheng shouted
"It's handsome!" This group of people was like a wild horse that had escaped stiffness, and they were moving forward at a high speed, and when the sky was just slightly bright, they were already about to run out of Nanyang, and they didn't rest along the way, and they didn't even drink a sip of water.
"Kill!" The people sent out by Han Zhong were really dedicated, every once in a while, they shouted a few times, and they didn't let the Han army sleep well all night, Liu Bei got the news of Zhang Fei, and he didn't tell anyone, but he led two thousand cronies, ambushed in a narrow section, and planned to fight a sniper battle, but unfortunately this news came from Zhang Fei Guan Yu, so Liu Bei waited in vain all night, although there were shouts and killings from time to time, but there was no battle!
Zhu Jun and Huangfu Chong still have good psychological quality, the two of them knew that it was a plan to disturb the troops as soon as they saw this posture, and directly arranged for people to take turns to defend, and the others just slept as usual. As for how many people can actually fall asleep, I don't know. Anyway, when it gets dawn, most people are angry, their eyes are blank, and they have no energy at all!
"General, what should I do?" Sun Jian said to Zhu Jun helplessly, looking at the group of soldiers who couldn't wake up, they were really powerless!
"Hehe, it's okay, since Zhang Mancheng wants to drag it, then we'll just drag it! As long as the grain and grass are taken care of, you are not afraid of him dragging it back! Zhu Jun said with a smile
"Yes, General" Sun Jian reluctantly retreated.
For several days, every day was like this, and finally this group of Han soldiers got used to it, no matter how they shouted, they did whatever they had to do! However, during this period, the Yellow Turban Army really came to rob the battalion several times, and stole a lot of baggage and horses. It can also be regarded as alleviating part of the grain and grass problem! Liu Guan and Zhang and the three of them have ambushed back and forth many times, but they have not found Zhang Mancheng's troops in the robbery camp, and the state of the large army has not been adjusted well, so they have not attacked the city!
"Big brother, where do you say Zhang Mancheng is hiding? It's time to run away! Zhang Fei said dissatisfied
"Probably not, this is his foundation, if he does run away. That's a tree without roots, a floating water! Guan Yu said
"Yes, if he really leaves Nanyang, it will be his death! The only problem now is that I don't know where he's hiding! Liu Bei said
"Why don't you report to Lord Zhu Jun and Lord Huangfu Chong?" Zhang Fei said
"In fact, it doesn't matter where Zhang Mancheng is hiding. As long as you can knock Nanyang City down, it's fine! Guan Yu said
"Yes, if you take Nanyang, you can pacify the Yellow Turban in Nanjun" Liu Bei said, as long as a gap can be opened, the Yellow Turban Army can be annihilated!
"Big brother, we are pioneers, this work must be ours, last time I stayed with my second brother for nothing, this time we will follow the last time, sneak attack the city gate, and then the army is pressing!" Zhang Fei said
"Yes!" Liu Bei Guan Yu nodded in unison
Coincidentally, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Chong decided to attack at the same time! "Kill" Sun Jian roared, leading his four generals forward together! The people sent out by Nanyang City to block retreated one after another, Sun Jian's legs were fast, and the long knife slashed several people, and finally he was lucky, he met a general of the Yellow Turban Army on horseback, Sun Jian was lucky with his legs, jumped up, and actually jumped over the horse's head and slashed over, took the horse, and went straight to the city gate.
"Quick! Keep up with the general and take the gates! Huang Gai screamed and rushed forward! The Han army behind was even more excited, and the Yellow Turban Army that had been killed directly retreated again and again.
"Quick! Close the door, close the door! Pull the bridge up! Fast! The people on the city tower shouted, and at this moment, Sun Jian clamped his legs hard, and the war horse was forced, and he jumped hard, and just landed on the suspension bridge! Sun Jian took advantage of the situation and slashed the horse, the horse was in pain, and jumped again, and jumped onto the city wall in the surprised eyes of everyone. When the Yellow Turban Army didn't react, Sun Jian hurriedly cut the rope of the suspension bridge, drew a circle with a long knife along the way, and cleared a place to stand!
"Kill him for me! Hurry up! The Yellow Turban Army shouted, swarming upwards, it's really time to fight hard, otherwise the result will be death! This time, Sun Jian felt that the pressure increased dramatically, but he finally killed the city wall, so he couldn't continue to jump! To say that Cheng Pu still has a strong consciousness, when he saw that Sun Jian was alone, he yelled, "Release the arrows, release the arrows quickly, and release the arrows at General Sun, front and back, left and right!" As soon as the words fell, the deployment led by Sun Jian was to directly open the bow and release the arrows, brush and brush three waves of sword rain past, and Sun Jian was lying on the ground around him. Sun Jian has a strong sense of fighting, and when he saw that there was no one around him, he hurriedly chased and killed the Yellow Turban Army, in case the Yellow Turban Army gave him a few waves of arrow rain, then he would die young! As a result, there was a magical scene on the city wall, Sun Jian chased a group of people by himself!
"Quick! General Sun has already landed in the city! Everyone, rush with me! Huang Gai shouted loudly with his double whips, and Han Dangzu Mao Chengpu exerted his strength together, and led the Han army all the way over. Zhu Jun's army was pressing forward step by step, the Han army was camping step by step, the Nanyang defenders closed the gate and went all out to deal with Sun Jian alone, as for the Yellow Turban Army outside the city, they could only give up! "Speed up the battlefield and attack the city with all your might!" Zhu Jun laughed, the more he looked at Sun Jian, the more pleasing he became, and he sincerely admired, "Jiangdong Tiger, the name is well deserved!" β
"Defend the city, brothers downstairs, don't fight hard, attack the Han army more!" The Yellow Turban Army upstairs shouted, and at the same time increased the intensity of Sun Jian, forcing Sun Jian off the city wall, what kind of personal bravery, when you are besieged in a narrow area, it is nothing, there are still many people and great strength! Sun Jian originally wanted to kill from the city wall to the city, but there were too many people, and it was not easy to fight at all. In the end, he had no choice but to jump from the city wall to the outside of the city again, which made Zhu Jun feel a pity!
Zhu Jun attacked for a long time but had no effect, wasted a lot of soldiers in vain, threw down the corpses all over the ground, and finally had to suspend the attack, and wanted to discuss with Sun Jian and them how to fight next. As for the battle situation on Huangfu Chong's side, Zhu Jun and the others still don't know!
"Kill!" In fact, when Sun Jian launched an attack, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu also launched a surprise attack together, Zhang Fei had a loud voice and roared on the ground, almost scaring the defenders on the city wall to death!
"Uncle, what the hell, scare Lao Tzu!" Many people on the city wall cursed separately, last time they went out to rob the camp and got a lot of things back, but now this defender has something to eat, and the spirit is different!
"What are you doing, you look like a bad seed, you have the ability to come up!" A group of people coaxed, and the angry Zhang Fei jumped like thunder, this group of Yellow Turban soldiers just didn't come out, the city gate was closed, the drawbridge was pulled up, and they stood on the wall and scolded, using rolling wood and stones to defend. Guan Yu Zhang Fei's raid was completely useless, the most terrifying thing was not the combat skills of the Yellow Turban Army, but their approach, everyone was not afraid of death, after many people were injured, they jumped down from the wall holding the Han army, and a group of people were stunned and repelled Huangfu Chong several charges, this standard siege battle was too difficult for Liu Bei and a few people, without any experience, all with a lot of strength. I can play a few more times at the beginning. After a few times, the morale was low, and the foul language on the city continued to make this group of officers and soldiers angry.
"When I break the city, I must slaughter it!" Zhang Fei said hatefully, although Guan Yu didn't speak, Danfeng's eyes narrowed, and he was also murderous. As for Huangfu Chong's gloomy face, it is estimated that he is regretting it, it is better to attack as soon as he comes, then maybe he will have already knocked down the city. Until now, the most worrying thing is where Zhang Mancheng and Han Zhong are, they all know that the two of them came out with troops and did not return to the city, and someone came to rob the camp every night, but no one could be found during the day. This is the problem in my heart, if it is not solved, I am afraid that the situation will be reversed. When you encounter this kind of scoundrel play, it's not easy to do anything!