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At nearly noon, Gan Ning led his eight hundred athletes to the southwest of Chaoyang City.
Gan Ning stood on his horse and looked from a distance, but saw that the flags at the top of Chaoyang City were not in order, and a few soldiers patrolling the city could not be seen.
The west gate of the city was also wide open, and some people were coming and going. There were a few lazy soldiers standing at the gate. Gan Ning could even see the ugly expressions of the gatekeepers blowing yawns.
All signs indicate that this is a poorly defended city.
"People say that Yan Liang is a god in his military skills, but the defense of Chaoyang City is so lax. I think he only has a false reputation..."
Gan Ning felt disdain in his heart, and contempt gradually grew on Ying Wu's face.
After observing for a moment, Gan Ning raised his halberds and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me into the city -"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gan Ning rode out like fire, followed by the eight hundred athletes behind him, shouting for kill.
Eight hundred people, all wearing brocade robes, rushed out like this, as if a burst of earthly fire was sweeping over the sky and covering the earth, and their momentum was very huge.
In an instant, Gan Ning was leading the way to the moat.
The city gate is right in front of him. He only needs to rush across the suspension bridge and seize the city gate, and his 800 troops can rush into Chaoyang City and plunder wantonly.
Gan Ning felt confident and clamped his horse's belly tightly, hoping to cross the suspension bridge.
At this moment, a cannon shot was heard at the top of Chaoyang City, and suddenly countless flags were set up, and countless soldiers appeared in unison.
Immediately afterwards, the suspension bridge was quickly pulled up and the city gates were immediately closed. The originally seemingly defenseless city was put on full alert almost in the blink of an eye.
Gan Ning was taken aback and immediately reined in his horse and stopped in front of the moat.
The troops who were coming from behind could not stop their pace, and many of them were squeezed into the moat. The eight hundred troops were soon huddled together in a chaotic mess.
When Gan Ning looked up again, he was shocked to see hundreds of crossbows pointing at him on top of the city, and the soldiers with full weapons looked down at them like tigers and wolves.
"Could it be that Yan Liang was already unprepared?"
This thought flashed through Gan Ning's mind, and a look of surprise appeared on his brows.
At this time, Wenpin appeared on the top of the city, pointed his sword at the city, and said sternly: "Thieves Gan Ning, you have fallen into the trap of my general Yan, why don't you get off your horse and surrender, otherwise you will die without a place to die."
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Wenpin's contemptuous words immediately angered Gan Ning.
With a ferocious look on his face, he waved his halberds and shouted: "Where is Yan Liang? Do you dare to go down to the city and fight me to the death?"
When Gan Ning shouted like this, the eight hundred chaotic thieves in brocade clothes all started shouting in unison.
Wenpin sneered and said loudly: "If you want to fight against my general Yan, huh, save your life first."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wenpin slashed forward with his broadsword.
At the command, the crossbowmen who had already bent their bows and nocked arrows immediately relaxed their fingers, and hundreds of sharp arrows roared down, hitting the enemy like raindrops.
Gan Ning hurriedly waved his halberds to block the incoming sharp arrows.
He was highly skilled in martial arts, so a few arrows could not do anything to him, but all the people around him were hit by arrows, and only miserable howls could be heard one after another. In the blink of an eye, fifty or sixty people were hit by arrows and fell down.
Seeing that more and more of his men were falling, Gan Ning was furious, but he knew that if he continued like this, his entire army would be annihilated.
In desperation, Gan Ning had no choice but to shout to retreat, turned around and rode away.
Coming in arrogance and leaving in panic, hundreds of thieves in brocade robes fled Chaoyang City in embarrassment under the hail of arrows.
Wenpin, who was on the top of the city, saw that the enemy was forced to retreat, so he immediately led 3,000 infantrymen out of the city, and then pursued them in hot pursuit.
After a round of arrow rain, Gan Ning lost more than half of his Eight Hundred Troops, and his morale sank to the bottom. Seeing Yan Liang's army several times behind him chasing after him, he had no intention of fighting and could only look towards the direction of Biwu and run wildly.
At dusk, Gan Ning and his defeated soldiers finally saw the shadow of Ganjia Biwu.
The dust and fog behind him still lingered, and Wenpin was still chasing after him.
However, Gan Ning felt a lot more at ease at this time. As long as he could successfully escape into the dock, he believed that with the strong dock wall, not to mention Wenpin's mere thousands of soldiers and horses, even if Yan Liang came with a large army, he would never even think about it.
Break through.
"Yan Liang, you have caused me to lose so many brothers. I will avenge this sooner or later!"
Gan Ning gritted his teeth and felt unbearable hatred, but he did not dare to stay for a long time and called on his defeated soldiers to withdraw into the wall as soon as possible.
One hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps——
The dock is right in front of you.
"Why don't you open the door quickly and move the bows and crossbows up on the wall to prepare to meet the enemy."
Gan Ning shouted orders, but to his surprise, there was no movement inside the dock.
In a moment, Gan Ning and other defeated troops had arrived in front of the gate.
All the thieves in brocade clothes were in panic and made a lot of noise, calling on their companions inside to open the door quickly and let them in.
Gan Ning raised his head and looked at the empty wall, but an ominous premonition gradually filled his heart.
"Could it be——"
Just as he was doubting himself, he heard shouts of killing like thunder, and suddenly countless heavily armed enemies appeared on the originally empty wall.
On that big flag flying high, there was a big Chinese character "Yan" embroidered on it.
"Yan Liang! Why is he here?"
Gan Ning was extremely horrified, and his original ferocious expression was instantly replaced by shock.
At this time, Yan Liang appeared at the top of the city, looked down at the city, and sneered: "Gan Xingba, I have been waiting for you here for a long time."
When he was in Xinye, Yan Liang expected that Gan Ning would attack Chaoyang, so he decided to take advantage of the situation.
While Wenpin led the infantry to defend the city, Yan Liang had already led the light cavalry of Shenxingqi to attack Ganjiabiwu via the trail.
In order to attack Chaoyang, Gan Ning took away most of the troops in Biwu, leaving only a hundred old and weak people behind. How could these people be the opponents of Yan Liang's elite soldiers in hundreds of battles.
So Yan Liang easily broke through the Ganjia Piwu without any effort, and then sat and drank tea, waiting for Gan Ning to return in defeat.
Now, just as he expected, Gan Ning was defeated by Wenpin and fled back to Biwu in a hurry. However, he never expected that his old nest had already been occupied by Yan Liang.
Gan Ning, who was outside the wall, was frightened and furious, and roared at Yan Liang: "Yan Liang, how dare you seize my dock!"
"People say that Gan Ning has a violent temper, and he certainly lives up to his reputation..."
Yan Liang sighed inwardly, but said coldly: "You robbed me of my food and grass for no reason, and you also wanted to attack my Chaoyang City. I am just giving you a lesson now, so why not?"
Yan Liang's words were like hidden spears, seemingly plain but extremely sharp.
Although Gan Ning's face was full of anger, he didn't know how to respond.
His angry expression shone with surprise, as if he couldn't believe that Yan Liang had seen through his intentions and that his military skills had reached such a powerful level.
At this time, there was a huge cloud of dust and smoke behind them, and three thousand infantry led by Wenpin arrived.
Gan Ning and his hundreds of remnants were trapped in front of Biwu, with nowhere to escape and a dilemma.
Yan Liang, who was on the dock, saw Wen Pin's troops arriving, so he asked the gate to be opened and led his troops out.
Gan Ning also said that Yan Liang planned to take advantage of the situation and attack him, and he was defeated by two enemies. He hurriedly ordered his troops to retreat and form a formation. However, just after retreating a few dozen steps, Wenpin's army was already surrounding him.
Already in dire straits.
At this point, Gan Ning thought that he could only risk his life and fight in a bloody battle, but what surprised him was that Yan Liang did not take action.
Of course Yan Liang would not take Gan Ning's life. He planned a surprise attack on Biwu just to show Gan Ning his superiority.
He knew very well that a military commander with great talent like Gan Ning must be arrogant and arrogant, and the most despised thing was that kind of incompetent master.
If you want to conquer this kind of person, you must overwhelm the opponent in terms of strength and convince him.
Four thousand cavalrymen surrounded several hundred remnants of Gan Ning.
A pair of bloodshot eyes stared at the thief trapped in the siege, wanting to rush down and tear the prey into pieces.
No orders were given, but no one took action.
Gan Ning formed a circular formation and looked around at the enemies with frowning eyebrows, but he did not dare to launch an attack without permission. He became more and more suspicious, wondering what Yan Liang's intention was to besiege and not attack.
In doubt, a road separated in the tight siege, and Yan Liang rode his horse in slowly.
Gan Ning's body trembled slightly. Even though he was as arrogant as he was, he was frightened by the power emanating from Yan Liang for a moment.
Yan Liang dragged his sword forward, raised his head, glanced at the frightened enemies, and said loudly: "Gan Xingba, if you don't accept it, you can dare to come forward and fight with me."