Chapter five hundred and seventh Guan Er brother's nemesis
Guan Yu was angry. He was really angered by Yan Liang's arrogant provocation.
Furious, Guan Yu immediately decided to lead an army of 15,000 men to Huainan to join forces with Zhou Yu to deal with Yan Liang.
Zhou Yu was happy, because the enraged Guan Yu only wanted to avenge the blood feud. In order to send troops immediately, he gave up the fight with Zhou Yu for the command of the coalition forces.
Of course Zhou Yu was eager for this, and the two sides hit it off immediately. When they finally reached an agreement, Guan Yu and Zhou Yu had equal status. Each commanded their own armies and negotiated with each other to carry out operations together.
Just when Zhou Yu was breathing a sigh of relief, a worrying emergency report came from Hefei, the gateway to the south.
Yan Liang's 60,000-strong army suddenly marched north from Ruxukou before the end of the autumn harvest, and drove straight into the city of Hefei with great force.
Huang Zhong, the vanguard of the Yan family, was even more unstoppable. He defeated all the counties along the river and advanced towards Hefei.
Ling Tong's navy was also unstoppable on land and water. After defeating Zhou's navy on Chao Lake, they marched all the way up the Feishui River and crossed the Hefei waters for dozens of miles, cutting off the waterway from Hefei to Shouchun.
Hefei guard Pan Zhang saw Yan Liang's menacing attack and did not dare to meet the enemy. He had to retreat to Hefei and urgently asked Shouchun for help.
Taishi Ci, who was originally sent to assist Pan Zhang, was afraid of the outnumbered enemy and did not dare to enter Hefei City. He was afraid that he and Pan Zhang would be trapped in the city and die, so he had to retreat quickly towards Shouchun.
Faced with Yan Liang's massive attack in advance, Zhou Yu was naturally very surprised. Although Pan Zhang sent three letters of distress to Shouchun in one day, Zhou Yu could only choose to stand still.
Zhou Yu is very aware of his own strength. The troops and horses he can use at the moment are only more than 10,000 people. Facing Yan Liang's 60,000 troops, this number of troops is not even enough to fill the gap between his teeth.
So, in desperation, Zhou Yu could only order Pan Zhang to defend the city and at the same time send people to Xuzhou to urge Guan Yu to speed up his move south.
While Zhou Yu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, Yan Liang, hundreds of miles away in Hefei, was calm and nervous.
On this day, the Chinese army led by him also arrived in the Hefei area and docked at Xiaoyaojin.
More than 20,000 troops marched to the west and north of Hefei, completing the iron barrel formation surrounding Hefei.
According to the pre-planned strategy of encirclement and reinforcements, Yan Liangsui, at Pang Tong's suggestion, first implemented a comprehensive blockade of Hefei City.
In order to achieve a watertight siege, Yan Liangfa's troops went out in full force and built a two-foot-high wall of earth and stone more than a hundred steps away from Hefei City. On the inside of the wall, three more trenches were dug as deep as one foot.
It is a trench two feet wide, with barbs inserted all over it.
Sixty thousand troops built this wall in just two days.
Every fifty steps along the wall, Yan Liang used earth and rocks to pile up earth platforms that were five to six feet high. The entire earth platform was several feet higher than the Hefei city wall, allowing him to overlook all the movements in the city.
In addition to using the earth platform as a sentinel, Yan Liang also ordered the Pili Chariots to be dismantled and transported to the earth platform for reassembly. Three Pili Chariots were installed on each earth platform to bombard Hefei City day and night.
So, in less than seven days, Yan Liang turned the city of Hefei into a caged beast that could be ravaged by him.
While Yan Liang was building the wall in an orderly and unscrupulous manner, Pan Zhang in the city kept shrinking and did not dare to send a single soldier out of the city to harass, destroy or delay Yan's army in building the wall.
It's no wonder that in the past, Sun Quan often attacked Hefei with an army of more than 100,000 people. Facing Zhang Liao and his 10,000-number Wei army, sometimes he didn't even dare to land, let alone calmly siege the city.
There is no other reason than that the Wei army at that time had powerful cavalry.
If Sun Quan wanted to send his troops to build a wall, his army would inevitably be dispersed. Once dispersed, the Wei army could launch a cavalry assault, severely damaging the dispersed Wu army with lightning speed, and then calmly defeat the Wu army before the Wu army's reinforcements arrived.
Withdraw to Hefei.
Now the situation is different. Pan Zhang, who was trapped in Hefei, only had 5,000 infantry, while Yan Liang had more than 4,000 cavalry.
If Pan Zhang dares to attack the city and destroy the siege he built, Yan Liang can send cavalry to attack like the wind at any time and annihilate the attacking enemy troops in one fell swoop.
It was precisely because of the superiority of the cavalry that Yan Liang dared to build the wall with confidence.
The day the wall was repaired was also the time when the city of Hefei was completely restored and connected with the outside world.
If Zhou Jun's craftsmen or messengers want to pass through the siege, they not only have to cross three wide trenches and climb an earth wall as high as the city wall, but also have to dodge the sentries on various earth platforms, and then pass through Yan Jun's army behind the wall.
Camps.
If you can sneak out this way, it will be a miracle.
For several days, Pan Zhang sent more than ten messengers, trying to use the cover of night to risk crossing the defense line to Shouchun for help.
But these dozen brave messengers either fell into the ditch and were stabbed to death, or they fell to death while climbing an earth wall several feet high, or they were discovered by sentries on the high platform and shot to death by random arrows.
A few lucky ones managed to get through the defensive line of the wall, but were captured alive by the patrols between the camps.
Yan Liang then ordered that the captured enemy messengers be beheaded, as well as the heads of the Wu soldiers who died under the wall, and be shot into Hefei City with thunderbolt chariots to frighten the enemies defending the city.
Seeing the head of his courier, Pan Zhang despaired and gave up all hope of contacting Shouchun.
At this time, he could only rely on his own strength and stubbornly hold on without knowing the external situation.
Pan Zhang could only hope that the governor of Zhou, whom he trusted and respected, could come to rescue him before his soldiers' fighting spirit collapsed and the city's food and grass ran out.
What Pan Zhang was waiting for was not Zhou Yu's reinforcements, but fear.
The section where the wall was built was also the beginning of the violent bombardment.
More than four hundred Thunderbolt Chariots, taking advantage of the high platform, carried out crazy bombardments day and night. The huge stone bullets could even cross the city wall and shoot directly into the city dozens of steps away.
In just a few days, a large number of houses along the inner wall of the city were reduced to rubble by stone bullets.
This is the case inside the city, not to mention the front line of the city wall. The thick Hefei city wall has become full of pits and cracks under the bombardment of stone bullets. The four gate towers have been blown into a hornet's nest.
Although the city of Hefei still stands strong thanks to the strong foundation left by Cao Cao, the stone bombardment had a huge mental impact on the soldiers and civilians in the city.
The soldiers and civilians fighting alone in the city were panicked and their morale was low. The entire city of Hefei was shrouded in a shadow of terror.
After bombarding the city for three days, Yan Liang drank small wine in his tent for three days.
In the afternoon of the fourth day, Jiang Qin, the surrendered general, was brought into the tent.
"The general will pay homage to the lord." Jiang Qin bowed respectfully, his tone and demeanor seemed a little tense.
As a newly appointed general, Jiang Qin had very few opportunities to contact Yan Liang before. Today, he was suddenly summoned by Yan Liang, so he was a little nervous.
"Gongyi is here, sit down quickly." Yan Liang was very friendly.
Jiang Qin sat down anxiously and asked hurriedly: "The unknown lord summoned the last general to come here. What are your orders?"
"Gu Jin called you here just to get to know you better. What is Pan Zhang like?"
Jiang Qin, like Pan Zhang, was promoted by Zhou Yu. It seems that he knew Pan Zhang very well. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.
Jiang Qin paused and replied: "Although Pan Zhang is young, his martial arts and ability to command troops are superior to those of junior generals."
"Gu naturally knows how much Pan Zhang is capable of. What I want to ask is whether Pan Zhang is Zhou Yu's true loyalist as rumored by the outside world." Yan Liang asked again.
Jiang Qin looked startled, and suddenly seemed to understand what Yan Liang meant, and couldn't help but fall into silence.
After a while, Jiang Qin sighed: "Actually, Pan Zhang, like the last general, followed General Bofu in his early years. It was just because General Bofu and Zhou Gongjin were like brothers at that time, and they shared military power with them, so the last general and so on have been together for many years.
I was at the mercy of Zhou Gongjin, and General Bofu died early, so in the eyes of outsiders, I was Zhou Gongjin's confidant. In fact, General Bofu was the one who had the kindness to meet us.
"
I see……
Yan Liang nodded slightly, with a smile on his lips, and he already had an idea in his mind.
After pondering for a moment, he said: "In that case, Nagu plans to send you Gongyi to Hefei City to surrender Pan Zhang for Guzhao. Are you willing?"
Jiang Qin's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly looked embarrassed.
Obviously, for a "rebellious general" like him, it would be a bit embarrassing to persuade his former colleagues to surrender.
After hesitating for a long time, Jiang Qin still handed over his hand and said: "Since my lord has a destiny, then the general must obey it, but I can't guarantee whether the persuasion can be successful."
"It doesn't matter. Whether it succeeds or fails, Gong Yi has contributed to Gu, so just go ahead."
Pan Zhang was an outstanding young general in Soochow. In the novel, he even captured Guan Yu alive and seized his Green Dragon Sword and Red Rabbit Horse.
From this point of view, Pan Zhang is actually Guan Yu's nemesis.
Yan Liang wanted to recruit Pan Zhang to surrender, not only because he admired his talent, but also because he had a sudden idea and wanted to see if he could use Pan Zhang, the "nemesis of Guan Yu", to repeat history.
Of course, Yan Liang also admitted that his idea was a bit "superstitious".
After Jiang Qin received Yan Liang's general order, he removed his weapons, left the camp alone, and headed straight for Hefei City.
As soon as Jiang Qin left, Gan Ning, who was patrolling the camp, was shocked when he saw Jiang Qin leaving. He hurriedly rode over to see Yan Liang.
"My lord, Jiang Qin was Zhou Yu's confidant. He has no family in Jiangdong. My lord is letting him go to recruit Pan Zhang to surrender. What should I do if he takes the opportunity to defect?" Gan Ning said to Jiang Qin, who had just surrendered.
, still retaining distrust.
Yan Liang, however, looked confident and said calmly: "Zhou Yu must have deeply hated Jiang Qin's previous surrender, which caused his beloved concubine to fall into the hands of the orphan. Moreover, the danger in Hefei today is no less than the siege of Wan County back then.
, Jiang Qin is a man who knows current affairs, I believe he will never make such a stupid mistake."
Yan Liang's strong self-confidence infected Gan Ning, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt relieved.
"Guan Yu, Guan Yu, come if you are brave. I have prepared several great gifts for you, just waiting for you to receive them."
A mysterious sneer quietly appeared on the corner of Yan Liang's mouth. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
