Chapter 427 Burning the sky and boiling the sea, the Shu army is in danger!
While the Shu army was marching towards Hangu Pass, Dong Ping, the 'double-gun general', led the remnants of Qingni Pass to settle in Wuguan Pass ahead of the Shu army, and successfully replaced the dead Wang Huan and Wang Wende.
The two generals became the new guards of Wuguan!
"Where is Yang Ding? How many troops are left in Guanzhong?"
"Tell me, General, if we include the soldiers we brought from Qingni Pass, there will be a total of four thousand people in the entire Wuguan Pass."
Listening to the words of his confidant Yang Ding, Dong Ping's face instantly turned pale. It is undoubtedly a fool's dream to rely on four thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people to defend such a huge Wuguan!
As the saying goes, if you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood.
At this moment, Dong Ping once again had the idea of abandoning Guandong and escaping, but what Yang Ding said next made him completely confirm his inner thoughts!
"The fall of Wuguan is the general trend, and we can't change it for a while. However, before leaving, the grain and grass in the granary in the pass and the weapons and baggage in the armory cannot be left to them. We cannot take it away. Instead of
If you stay here to support the enemy, you might as well set them all on fire.
Leave an empty Wuguan for the Shu army, and problems will inevitably arise in their food and grass transportation (going deep into the enemy's hinterland, the pressure of transporting food and grass will rise sharply). Once problems are exposed in this area, we will have the opportunity to make up for our mistakes.
Aren’t you coming soon?”
Listening to Yang Ding's words, Dong Ping suddenly realized that instead of continuing to defend Wuguan, and then the city would be destroyed and the people would die, it would be better to abandon the pass as soon as possible to retain strength, and when the opportunity comes to destroy the enemy, he would go all out and kill the Shu army without leaving any trace.
Isn’t it wonderful!
While Dong Ping was implementing this plan and sending soldiers to execute it, the Guanying troops of the Shu army had already arrived at an area about fifty miles away from Wuguan. They only needed two or three more days to reach the city.
"General Dong Ping, the scouts just came to report that there were traces of the Shu army thirty miles outside Wuguan."
Yang Ding, who was responsible for transporting grain and grass to the outside world, hurriedly informed Dong Ping of the intelligence about the Shu army. After Dong Ping learned the news, he immediately summoned all the soldiers and ordered them to hide in the granary, armory and the inner gate of the city.
, lay out a large amount of firewood, kerosene and charcoal.
After the general deployment was completed, Dong Ping accidentally discovered that the bodies of the soldiers coming and going were stained with pitch-black charcoal ash, black charcoal, and firewood mixed with kerosene. Once these flammable materials encountered a flame, even a tiny spark
, it will burn in an instant, become more intense, and eventually spread into a raging sea of fire.
"The Shu army has fought successively with great arrogance. Now that the fall of Wuguan is imminent, they will inevitably lose their temper and can't wait to speed up the siege.
Once Wuguan is breached, the Shu army will definitely enter it directly, and this will be the key to us turning defeat into victory!"
Dong Ping was so excited that he was breathing heavily, causing his strong chest to rise and fall. After he stabilized his mood, he hurriedly called his beloved general Yang Ding over and told him all his thoughts just now.
After Yang Ding learned Dong Ping's idea, he was also overjoyed. He then saw him taking the initiative to bow and salute, and then replied: "Once this plan comes out, why should we fear the strong attack of the Shu army?"
After saying this, they saw that Dong Ping and Yang Ding had a clear division of labor and began to organize their soldiers to arrange kerosene and other flammable materials near the inner gate of the city and in the hidden places on both sides of the road after entering the city.
After the trap was laid, Dong Ping, the "double-gun general", ordered Yang Ding, a powerful general, to take a thousand soldiers selected from the four thousand old, weak, sick and disabled (the shorter ones were taller) to stay in Wuguan to ambush the Shu army.
When the Shu army was trapped and the fire started, they immediately led the team out of the city through a secret passage and rushed eastward to Lushi County.
"I will obey my orders!"
Yang Ding immediately accepted the order and went to the military camp to order troops. At the same time, Dong Ping looked at Yang Ding's leaving back with a trace of guilt in his eyes.
The Shu army is so powerful that it would be extremely difficult to keep them all in Wuguan. If Yang Ding is a little careless, this fire attack plan will be ruined and everything will be lost!
"Yang Ding will succeed and Yang Ding will fail. Whether he can annihilate all the Shu army in this battle depends on him."
Dong Ping sighed sadly, then picked up Lu Shen's twin guns, rode his horse to the military camp, took the remaining three thousand soldiers with him, left Wuguan through the secret road, and rushed towards Lushi County in the east.
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Two days later, the Shu army came to the city!
General Guan Ying of Shu raised his head and looked at the high wall of Wuguan. He couldn't help but feel heroic in his heart. When he saw him shouting to his deputy general Lei Tong, he ordered Lei Tong to lead 500 elite soldiers to go to Guanxia to scold the formation.
Lei Tong immediately accepted the order, and then he saw him holding weapons and rushing out on horseback. He personally led 500 warriors to scold the formation at the foot of the pass. The content of the scolding at first was as follows: Rats, don't dare to go out to the formation, insert a tag to sell Seoul.
No one responded at Wuguan. Lei Tong was furious when he saw it. He led his soldiers to curse more and more filthy, and directly began to greet the eighteen generations of ancestors and all women of the enemy on the opposite side...
"Brother Lei Tong, let me help you!"
Peng Yue and Lu Wan led their troops to help, and saw three generals of the Shu army arrayed in front of the formation, shouting curses at the high wall of Wuguan, but there was no one in the pass, and their shouts made their throats hoarse and painful, but it was in vain.
"Is there no one in the pass? How about we attack the city directly?"
Guan Ying, the majestic and armor-clad general, had a gloomy light flash in his eyes. He looked up to the sky and shouted loudly. He then pulled out a long sword from his waist, pointed it at Wuguan, and directly led the 10,000 Shu troops under his command.
The soldiers launched an offensive against Wuguan!
All the siege equipment was moved forward, with shields in front, spearmen in the middle, and swordsmen on both wings for assistance. They formed a circular formation and moved forward slowly with ladders on their backs, for fear that the enemies inside the pass would take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
The Shu army vigilantly launched an offensive, steadily preparing for a sudden attack by the Xiliang army. However, until several ladders were set up and the soldiers continued to climb up the ladders, there were no Xiliang soldiers on the high wall!
"It seems that the Xiliang rats have abandoned the gate and fled. Let's just order the soldiers to open the city gate."
The Shu soldiers successfully climbed onto the city wall, and not long after, they heard the creaking sound at the city gate, and the city gate wrapped in iron sheets was slowly opened.
When Shu general Yang Huai saw that he had opened the gate of Wuguan without any effort, he couldn't help but feel ecstatic. He even took the initiative to ask Guan Ying for help, wanting to lead his army into Wuguan one step ahead of others and find out what was true!
"I'm afraid the enemy may have an ambush, and I hope General Yang Huai will be careful."
Guan Ying always felt that there was something wrong inside Wuguan, but he didn't know exactly where the problem was. When he saw that his deputy general Yang Huai took the initiative to ask Ying to go to find out the news, he couldn't stop him, so he had to repeatedly remind him not to be careless.