Gan Ning and others felt that Zhang Liao's move was indeed a great trick. While admiring it, everyone, like Gan Ning, was also a little confused as to why Zhang Liao didn't use this move earlier. Regarding Gan Ning and others' doubts, Zhang Liao laughed and said:
"Don't use this move too early. Don't forget that there are Sun Quan and Zhou Yu in Guangling City. They are not easy to use! If you use it too early, Sun Wu's army still maintains a large number of troops.
If so, maybe Sun Quan and Zhou Yu will take the risk to break out! We may not be able to stop them then! The task assigned to us by the lord is to completely eliminate the remnants of Sun Wu here, and we must not let even one or a half of them escape!
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After Zhang Liao explained this, Gan Ning and others understood it, and naturally they didn't say anything more. Anyway, in the past few days of siege operations, the Western Qin Army actually suffered little losses. If they were to attack Guangling City with all their strength,
, there will definitely be many more dead and injured soldiers than now. Zhou Tai, who was sitting next to Jiang Qin, immediately beat his thigh excitedly and shouted: "Great! In this way, we will definitely be able to break through Guangling City tomorrow.
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"Haha!" Zhang Liao and Gan Ning looked at each other and smiled, and each other's eyes were filled with excitement. Zhang Liao finally said to everyone: "Okay! Although this is the last battle, we can't take it lightly! Xingba! Ming
** led Jiangdong soldiers and horses to besiege the south and east of the city. I ordered the Yangzhou army to attack the north and west of the city. As for the heads of Kuai Yue, when the time comes, we will see Sun Quan and Zhou Yu hiding at the gate of the city. We will watch them in front of them.
Show the head of Kuai Yue!" As soon as Zhang Liao said these words, all the generals laughed, as if they had seen the scene of Guangling City being breached. No one here thought Zhang Liao's plan was so despicable.
After all, we are all veterans who have been fighting for a lifetime, and are not as naive as freshmen.
Gan Ning nodded. Although Gan Ning's military position was higher than Zhang Liao's in terms of position, Gan Ning had no objection to Zhang Liao's arrangements. Zhang Liao also continued: "Old Marquis! You lead the cavalry to guard
In the north of the city! Tonight, beware of Sun Quan and Zhou Yu's breakout, and go north to join Liu Bei! Although it is unlikely that they will succeed in breaking through, it is better to be fully prepared." Hou Cheng is still very convinced of Zhang Liao, and Zhang Liao
Although Hou Cheng was a little unhappy that he could not participate in the final battle, he still had no objection.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Liao made some arrangements for other aspects to ensure that there would be no mistakes in tomorrow's battle. According to Zhang Liao's wishes, he would rather delay the war for a few more days, but also ensure that no one from the Sun family was leaked!
After resting all night, at dawn the next day, Gan Ning and Zhang Liao each led their armies to prepare for the final attack on Guangling City. However, when they finally organized their troops and arrived outside Guangling City, they were stunned.
What a surprise!
I saw raging fires burning on the east, south and west city walls of Guangling City. The rising flames filled the entire city walls. Looking at the flames soaring into the sky, Gan Ning, Zhang Liao and others
Everyone was stunned and didn't know what was happening! Hao Meng said in shock: "This, this, could it be that Sun Quan knew that he could not defend the city and was planning to burn the entire Guangling City to death?"
As soon as Hao Meng said these words, Gan Ning and Zhang Liao's hearts jumped. This is not impossible! Back then, Zhao Yun went on an expedition to Youzhou and defeated the overlord of Youzhou, Gongsun Zan. Didn't Gongsun Zan burn himself to death in front of the city?
Did Sun Quan really dare to do such an unconscionable thing and have all the people in Guangling City come to bury him with him?
"That's not right!" At this time, Cao Xing, who had the best eyesight among the generals, squinted his eyes and looked ahead, and shouted: "The fire was only concentrated at the top of the city, and there seemed to be no fire in the city! Also, it seemed that there was only one place where the fire broke out.
There are no signs of fire burning in the east, south and west directions of the city, but only in the north!"
Cao Xing was not very sure when he said this. After all, the generals were all located in the south of the city. To see the situation clearly, they had to go to the north of the city. After hearing Cao Xing's words, Zhang Liao and others looked gloomy.
Zhang Liao had a face and couldn't figure out what the other party was doing! But just thinking about it like this was no solution. Zhang Liao immediately suggested that everyone go to the north of the city to see the situation. Of course, the east, south and west of the city couldn't just let it go.
Ignoring it, Gan Ning and Zhang Liao combined their forces and left Zhou Tai, Hao Meng and Cao Xing to guard the three directions respectively to see what tricks the defending army could play.
When Gan Ning, Zhang Liao and Jiang Qin arrived in the north of the city, Hou Cheng, who had been guarding here last night, also stepped forward to greet Gan Ning and Zhang Liao. When he saw Gan Ning and Zhang Liao, he immediately stepped forward to salute without waiting for Gan Ning and Zhang Liao.
When asked, Hou Chengcheng immediately said: "Captain Gan! General! The defenders in the city just launched a surprise attack. Fortunately, I was careful and repelled them!"
"A raid?" Gan Ning and Zhang Liao both frowned and turned their heads to look at Guangling City. Cao Xing was indeed right. Unlike the other three city walls, there was no spark on the city wall in the north.
However, on the top of the city in the north of the city, there were densely packed garrison soldiers standing there, looking like they were ready. Jiang Qin, who was standing by, seemed to have thought of something. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, and immediately exclaimed.
Hearing Jiang Qin's exclamation, Gan Ning and Zhang Liao both turned their heads. Gan Ning also knew that his old subordinate would never do such a thing for no reason, so he quickly asked: "Gong Yi! What's wrong? Is it possible?
Do you know what's going on?"
Jiang Qin nodded solemnly, and said to Gan Ning and Zhang Liao: "Commander! General Zhang! I think I guess what Sun Quan is up to! I'm afraid they are going to fight us desperately now! Sun Quan has obviously given up on other things.
The defense of the three city gates concentrated the defenders in the north of the city! Of course, they would not really let us attack the other three city gates, so they set fire to the city head! There was a raging fire there, and the army simply could not
Attack from the three gates!"
Jiang Qin's analysis, Gan Ning and Zhang Liao were both lost in thought, but Hou Cheng, who had been staying aside, asked with some disbelief: "How is this possible? Just a fire wants to stop our army.
?Sun Quan is too fanciful! Even if we don’t attack from the top of the city, if no one is blocking us, we can break through the city gate and attack the city!"
"No!" There was no need for Jiang Qin to answer this time. Zhang Liao also figured out the reason, shook his head and said: "General Jiang is right! I'm afraid Sun Quan really has this idea! As for the city gate,
It's easy to solve. As long as we seal the city gate with huge rocks, we can't attack the city even if we smash the city gate!" This move of sealing the city gate was used by Zhou Cang when he was guarding Langcheng.
At that time, it was this move that blocked Shangoe's army.
"But, if that's the case, why didn't Sun Quan just use this trick in the north of the city?" Gan Ning was obviously still confused and asked: "If he left the north of the city unburned, didn't he keep it for himself?
A flaw? As long as we can break through the north of the city, wouldn't everything he did on the other three gates be in vain? Besides, using this method, wouldn't it buy them time to defend Guangling City?"
After thinking about the problem clearly, Zhang Liao's expression became much calmer and he explained to Gan Ning: "It's not that they don't want to do it, but they can't do it! This method can only buy them a day or two at most.
Setting fire to the city from morning to night every day will consume a lot of fuel. No matter how rich the materials in Guangling City are, they cannot sustain it for long! If there is nothing left to burn, then they will
They can only sit and wait to die! So they dare not seal all the gates on all sides, and must leave one gate for their final breakout!"
Jiang Qin sighed and said: "So, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu must be desperate this time! Otherwise, they will never take such a dangerous move! I just remembered what General Zhang said last night, and I guessed what they were doing.
I believe that Sun Quan and Zhou Yu are making a desperate move, betting that Liu Bei's reinforcements will arrive within a day or two!"
Gan Ning and Zhang Liao both nodded and agreed with Jiang Qin's statement, but after all, this was just a guess. Gan Ning immediately asked his soldiers to pass on the order and asked Zhou Tai and others to lead an army to attack and directly attack the city gate. See
Is the city gate really sealed? At this time, Zhang Liao looked at the head of Guangling City in the distance, suddenly raised the corner of his mouth, and said to Gan Ning: "Xingba! They are putting all their hopes in such a desperate move.
If we take out the head of Kuai Yue at this time, what do you think the reaction of the defenders on the city will be?"
"Yes!" Gan Ning also remembered what Zhang Liao said yesterday at this time. His eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Haha! Now is a good time to use your strategy! Come on! Give me that head.
Hang it on the flagpole! Let me carry the flagpole and walk back and forth outside the city wall!"
"Here!" The soldiers behind him immediately clasped their fists and shouted at Gan Ning. Gan Ning and Zhang Liao had already prepared them, and Kuai Yue's head was also well preserved. They even specially asked people to remove Kuai Yue's head.
The dead man's face was washed clean so that the defenders on the city could see Kuai Yue's appearance clearly. Immediately, a tall soldier came out on a tall horse and carried a thick flagpole.
At the top of the flagpole, a human head hangs on it. It is the head of Kuai Yue!
For this operation, when Zhang Liao had just found Kuai Yue's body and beheaded him, he ordered people to embalm Kuai Yue's head, so to this day, Kuai Yue's head still remains freshly dead.
At that time, his eyes were wide open, and his face was full of shock and fear, but his face had turned blue, and even had a dark color.