Chapter 464: Soldiers force Runan, Liu Pan deceives the city
Wenpin, who blocked Le Jin's retreat, led his army to leave. Le Jin and his remaining thousands of troops were finally able to escape.
There was a fire ahead, and the way forward was blocked. Le Jin and his soldiers were all injured, so they could only retreat towards Dongwu Pavilion under the protection of Li Dian's army.
At the same time, Bowang is high in the forest.
Zhuge Jin looked at Cao Jun's retreating army and said to the messenger beside him: "General Liu and General Huo have been informed, put on Cao Jun's armor, take Cao Jun's flag, and set off for Runan County immediately."
"Here!" the ordering soldier took the order and left.
"Haha..." Wenpin next to Zhuge Jin chuckled and said, "As long as General Liu and the others can smoothly join forces with the Wu army and capture Runan, then Xuchang will be ours and our meal."
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"Yes, I just hope they can achieve their set goals as soon as possible, otherwise when Cao Cao and Lu Yan react... our army will be at a standstill!" Zhuge Jin said with some worry.
"This move by Military Master Pang is wonderful, but it is not without danger..." Wen Pin also sighed.
"Sigh... There is a huge difference in strength between our Jingzhou and Cao Cao, and the speed of development is even more difficult to match. If we don't take advantage of the situation in the west and north to launch an attack when Cao Cao's strength is dispersed, if we miss it, we may never have another chance in the future."
Wenpin nodded and said: "I know that the military advisor has no choice but to do it... We are also desperate and fighting with our last resort..."
Just when Wenpin and Zhuge Jin were sighing at the boldness and adventure of this strategy, the 10,000 soldiers led by Liu Pan and Huo Jun had collected many soldiers and flags of Cao's army and began to advance towards Runan at full speed.
Only five days later, Liu Pan and Huo Jun led their troops to attack the unsuspecting Zhuoyang, and sent out scouts to cut off the connection between Pingyu and Yingchuan!
At that time, Zhou Yu, who was supposed to join forces with Sun Quan to attack Hefei outside Hefei City, instead used the golden cicada's escape strategy to lead a hundred thousand soldiers and raided Ruyin.
Yu County!
There are only 8,000 defenders in Pingyu County, and there is only one general, Li Tong.
Suddenly, news was received that Zhuoyang and Ruyin had been captured, and there was a big commotion in Pingyu City.
But who is Man Chong? He was the original Xuchang Ling, a notoriously cruel official.
The riot in the city had just begun, and was suppressed by the soldiers sent by Man Chong. The city returned to a completely orderly state, and everything was still under control.
Pingyu City, the governor's mansion.
Man Chong asked Shi Tao: "Guangyuan, is there any news about the messenger sent to Yingchuan?"
Shi Tao and Shi Guangyuan shook their heads and replied solemnly: "There is no news. I'm afraid all the roads going north have been blocked by the enemy."
In other words, news about Runan is now blocked. With no strong troops inside and no strong reinforcements from outside, they can only rely on these 8,000 defenders to defend peace.
"If Pingyu falls, Jiangdong's army can march straight into Xuchang..." Man Chong walked back and forth in the meeting hall. Er, he raised his head and looked at Shi Tao, and said firmly: "No matter what, we must hold on
Get down!"
Shi Tao looked at Man Chong and asked hesitantly: "But how long are we going to defend, and how can we stop the enemy's tens of thousands of troops?"
"With the fortified city, we can defend it until the crisis in Pingyu reaches Xuchang!"
"But didn't you just say that the exchange of information between Xuchang and Pingyu has been completely cut off?"
"It's broken...but if there is no exchange of news for a long time, Xuchang will definitely find out that there is a problem in Runan!"
This depends on the big bosses in Xuchang spontaneously discovering the situation in Runan, then the world is a bit uncertain...
At this moment, a messenger suddenly came to the meeting hall and reported urgently to Man Chong: "Master Fu, a defeated army claiming to be General Le Jin arrived outside the city. He said that he was ambushed by the Jingzhou Army.
They were hunted and came here, begging us to open the door and let them enter the city."
Man Chong and Shi Tao were both stunned. Man Chong subconsciously asked: "General Le Jin's defeated army??"
"How could he retreat to Runan County?" Shi Tao also had doubts on his face.
"But they are indeed wearing our army's standard armor, and they also have the flag of General Le Jin."
The armor of Cao Cao's soldiers cannot be imitated by other princes.
Although there was something fishy, it could not be completely ruled out that it was his own friendly army, so Man Chong said to Shi Tao: "I'll go take a look. I'll leave the government affairs in the city to you, Guangyuan."
"Please rest assured, Lord, my subordinates will do their best to maintain the operation of the government."
"Okay, I'm relieved." Man Chong nodded, and then said to the messenger: "Take me to see that army!"
"Here!"
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It was approaching dusk.
Man Chong followed the messenger up to the city wall, and looking from a distance, he saw an army of more than a thousand men resting two hundred steps outside the south city gate.
Looking carefully, the soldiers were indeed wearing Cao Jun's standard armor, and the flag in the hand of the flag bearer was embroidered with the Chinese character "乐".
This group of people staggered here and there, with incomplete armor, lack of energy, and no fighting spirit... They were indeed a group of defeated generals.
Man Chong thought to himself, "Could it be that General Le Jin's army was really defeated?"
At this moment, someone from the group of soldiers outside the city came towards the city gate and shouted: "Open the door! Open the door quickly! General Le is seriously injured and needs emergency treatment from a doctor!"
When Li Tong learned that Man Chong was coming, he immediately found Man Chong and said, "Master Fu, do we want to open the door?"
Man Chong's face was serious, his eyes were sharply staring at the group of "Cao Jun" below the city, and he said softly: "Go and lay down the archers. When my signal is sent, you will order the archers to shoot at them!"
"Ah?" Li Tong was a little confused, "Shoot them? Why?"
Man Chong turned to look at Li Tong and said, "I'm afraid these people are not General Yue Jin's soldiers."
"You mean...they are enemies pretending to be enemies?!" Li Tong finally came back to his senses, "But how did you know?"
Man Chong smiled and asked, "If you were injured, who would you go to for treatment?"
"Of course he's a doctor!"
"Isn't this the end..."
"???"
Li Tong looked confused, where on earth is this?
"Oh... the person below just shouted to seek medical treatment!"
"Doctor..." Li Tong suddenly realized, "Oh, yes! We all call doctors now, and basically no one calls doctors anymore!"
Man Chong continued to explain: "Not only that... Our Runan County has just been cut off from contact with Xuchang, and our defeated army immediately came to call the city. This is too much of a coincidence."
"It makes sense!" Li Tong nodded suddenly and said, "I will set up an ambush right now. I will shoot these thieves down as soon as I receive the order from the Lord!"
After Li Tong took the order and left, Man Chong walked to the female wall and shouted towards the city: "Since General Le's army has arrived, please go into the city to rest for a while!"
The person who called out suddenly became happy, cupped his fists and said, "Thank you very much!"
The city gate slowly opened,
When this "Cao Army" of more than a thousand people approached the city gate, a voice suddenly came from the top of the city: "Fire arrows!!"
"call out!"
"Boohoo!"
Countless arrows poured down from the city walls and city tops. This group of Jingzhou troops pretending to be Cao Jun suffered heavy losses!
"Huh!" Liu Pan, who was walking at the front of the crowd, let out a muffled groan when he was hit in the arm by an arrow.
Huo Jun saw that while covering the injured Liu Pan, he ordered: "Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
"Hahaha!" Seeing the Jingzhou army fleeing in embarrassment, Li Tong on the top of the city laughed wildly:
"How dare a group of rats come to deceive the city?
madness!!
Hahaha!"
Those extremely arrogant words, that arrogant and wanton laughter...
It's really not very harmful, but extremely insulting!