Near noon, the sergeants in charge of exploring intelligence returned one after another, and reported back to Gan Ning: "General Gan, yesterday our army went to the land of Rencheng to explore the military situation until now, and has never been able to find the movement of the Cao army, it seems that the Cao army has no signs of planning to send troops to attack today, as if it is repairing, in order not to arouse the detection of the Cao army, we did not dare to go to the land of the Cao army to explore. ”After hearing this, Gan Ning couldn't help but nodded, and then said: "These Cao troops are really cunning, and sending troops to attack the city is completely unconventional.You're doing a good job, go down and take a break, and get a second team to get on your toes, so that everyone is on their toes. ”"Yes, General."
When the sentry sergeant went down, he took another team and went out to investigate.This war is urgent, and Gan Ning will not allow himself to make any mistakes.But after a day of investigation, not to mention Xiahoudun's army, there was not a single Cao soldier at all.At this moment, Gan Ning couldn't sit still, since the expedition, the main force of the Cao army has not heard from him for two consecutive days, which is a little too unreasonable.But now, Gan Ning has no other way, first, he can't just go back to his home, and second, he can't just enter Rencheng like this, in that case, the plan to flank Xiahoudun's army will be in vain.The day passed like this, and Gan Ning was always restless tonight, and the commotion was constantly swaying up and down in his body.In the end, Gan Ning had no choice but to make the last military order: "Come on, give me an order to all the sergeants, all of them sleep tonight and never leave their bodies, and if there is a disobedience, the military law will order it." ”When everything was arranged, Gan Ning began to sleep.In Jiyin City, Yanzhou, in the military division's mansion, several people in special costumes were reporting to Cheng Yu and said: "Report, military division, the two armies have observed that the enemy army has found outposts, but we did not do it in accordance with the will of the military division." ”"Hmph, I saw that the reinforcements of the Zhao army are finally here."
It was Cao Jun's ghost plot Cheng Yu who spoke, and after seeing him finish speaking, he said to Xiahou on the side: "General Xiahou, that day you led the army to attack the city and Rencheng finally succeeded in luring the enemy's reinforcements to come."
If Cheng Yu's guess is correct, the next time you attack Rencheng, this army will launch a surprise attack on you from behind like a sharp sword.At that time, no matter how elite the troops and horses led by General Xiahoudun were, it would be difficult to resist the front and rear attacks of the Zhao army, and the whole army would be wiped out. ”"I really didn't expect the enemy army to be so treacherous."
After Xiahoudun finished speaking, he couldn't help but smile at Cheng Yu and said, "However, this time, fortunately, Mr.
Cheng Yu saw through Zhao Jun's tricks.No, it shouldn't be said that, but Mr. set up this strategy and succeeded in luring the enemy to take the bait.There is a gentleman sitting in Yanzhou, whether it is him Lu Bu or Zhao Yu, he will definitely have no return. ”"These are not Cheng Yu's own credits, if it weren't for the general's courage to block the counterattack of the Rencheng army, I'm afraid Cheng Yu's strategy would not have succeeded in luring Dongping City reinforcements to come.Moreover, although Cheng Yu's plan successfully lured the reinforcements of Dongping City, he still needed to rely on the general to snipe this enemy reinforcement. ”After Cheng Yu finished speaking, he couldn't help but show a trace of joy of victory at Xiahoudun.As a general of the Cao army, Xiahoudun knew that there was another war when he heard Cheng Yu's meaning, and immediately couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Xiahoudun only needs to wait for Mr. to give an order, and he will personally lead the army to kill the enemy, and he will never let Mr. down." ”Cheng Yu couldn't help but smile and said: "Haha, then the general will once again lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to encircle and annihilate this support army sent by Dongping City, according to reliable sources, this support army is only about 10,000 horses, and the general flag led by the general is Ganzi Banner, which should be the fierce general Gan Ning Gan Xingba under the command of Zhao Yu at that time."
It is rumored that this general was in Jingzhou back then, but he fought to a draw with Guan Yunchang under Liu Bei, and the general should be careful anyway.If in this battle, the general can kill Naganning in one battle, he will be able to inflict heavy losses on the enemy army in one fell swoop, and thus become famous in one battle.However, before setting out on the expedition, Cheng Yu gave the general a strategy, and when the enemy army was surrounded by the starry night, he attacked the enemy army with fire, and took the opportunity to send troops to kill the enemy soldiers who escaped from the chaos. ”"Rest assured, Xiahou is determined to take down Na Ganning's head to see Mr."
Xiahoudun said confidently.Cheng Yu continued: "The enemy has not seen any trace of our army for two consecutive days, and he will definitely be impetuous, and the general will lead the soldiers and horses to carry out a surprise attack tonight, and he will definitely be able to eliminate them in one fell swoop." ”"Xiahoudun takes the order."
At the moment, at Cheng Yu's suggestion, Xiahoudun only led 10,000 soldiers and horses into battle lightly in order to march secretly.The horse's mouth was put on the horse's sleeve, and the horse's hooves wrapped around its face, and it ran straight towards the camp where Ganning was stationed.Along the way, Xiahoudun can be described as marching in a hurry, without a pause in between.It wasn't until he was about to approach Ganning's garrison that Xiahoudun ordered everyone to stop, and then began to issue military orders: "The army will spread out its position, stand on the upper hand, and attack and burn the enemy camp." ”With Xiahoudun's order, more than 100 sergeants lit rockets and bows and fired them towards the military camp in Naganning.It was just an instant, and more than 100 rockets and arrows were shot out at the same time, which can be said to be shot by random arrows along with the guards outside the Gan Ning camp.The already dry weather ignited a raging flame under the agitation of the fire arrows."
Come on, it's on fire, the enemy is coming."
The fire set the tent on fire, and it was out of control, waking up the other sergeants."
What's going on" At the moment when the shout sounded, Gan Ning had already rushed out of the tent, holding a big knife in his hand, and pulled a sergeant to ask.The sergeant hurriedly said, "General Hui, the enemy is attacking and setting fire to our tent, and the brothers are ready to go and put out the fire." ”After Gan Ning heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and finally understood the reason for the uneasiness in his heart, and hurriedly said to the sergeant beside him: "Quick, stop fighting the fire, quickly gather all the horses and horses to take the water source, and gather me in the opposite direction." ”Although I don't know what Gan Ning's intentions are, but now that the enemy army is attacking and the fire is raging, these soldiers have no idea, so they have to obey Gan Ning's orders, give up fighting the fire, gather their own soldiers and horses, and follow Gan Ning to gather in the opposite direction, but they see that there is fire and black smoke all around.Seeing the fire in front of him, a sergeant couldn't help but propose: "General, the fire here is too big, we might as well go back and rush out to a place where there is no fire." ”"The enemy must have been prepared for this sneak attack on our camp and burning our tents.If we were to rush towards a place where the fire was weak, we would surely be ambushed by the enemy again, and I am sure that there must be a large number of enemy troops in ambush there at this moment.At the moment, we can only go against the trend, and rush out of here while the enemy army is not aware of it. ”After Gan Ning finished speaking, he took off a wrap on his body and rushed in and said again: "Everyone takes out a strip of cloth and dips it in water to cover their mouths and noses, and rushes forward directly, as long as they breathe and don't mess up, they can escape." ”Gan Ning said that is, in front of everyone, the strip of cloth invaded into the bucket and then covered his mouth and nose, and all the soldiers followed suit.Immediately, Gan Ning took the lead, leading the soldiers to rush out directly towards the wall of fire, and ran out without any stop, until he rushed out of the fire, and then checked whether there was a place on his body that was ignited by the fire source, and once there was, he would immediately extinguish it.Except for a few people who ran slowly and were burned, the rest of them were more or less just a little hung up, but they were fine, and they were not worth mentioning compared to losing their lives."
Did the brothers all run out" Until he broke out of the fire array and was safe for the time being, Gan Ning couldn't help but ask the deputy generals around him.The adjutant general counted their men and horses a little and then responded: "General Hui, except for the more than ten soldiers who were shot and killed by the enemy before, as well as the soldiers who were lost in the fire and did not escape, the rest of the men and horses all escaped safely, and lost nearly 100 people in total. ”"Damn Cao Jun, it turned out to be so insidious, plotting against our army camp tent, now the camp is destroyed, our army's morale is low, it is not convenient for the enemy army to fight hard, we need to go as the best policy, the brothers continue to retreat, go to Rencheng, and after our army eases up in the future, we are looking for these Cao troops to take revenge."
After speaking, Gan Ning led everyone to move forward quickly, for fear that the enemy would notice it and lead troops to chase after him, and with the morale of the army at the moment, it may be difficult to clash with the enemy head-on.Let's say that Xiahoudun led his men and horses to guard the main room of the Ganning military tent, and then asked people to take fire arrows to detour to the back of the camp tent to release fire arrows.Originally, Xiahoudun wanted to use the fire to force Gan Ning and the others to find a place where there was no fire and rush out, and then come to an encirclement and hunt.But after waiting for a long time, no one rushed out, Xiahoudun couldn't help but ask anxiously: "Why is this fire so big, I haven't seen a single enemy run out so far, what the hell is going on, show me where these enemy troops are running, could it be that they are all burned to death." ”With Xiahou Dun's angry rebuke, a team of men and horses immediately broke into Gan Ning's military camp tent, and after some searching, except for those unfortunate and unfortunate sergeants who were hung up, no other figures were found.Following those footprints in pursuit, everyone realized that the enemy army was going against the trend, retreating and running out towards the place where the fire was strong.Seeing this, the sergeant hurriedly returned to Xiahoudun and reported: "General, something is wrong, except for a few enemy corpses found in the camp, no enemy army has been found.Judging by the marks, it seemed that the enemy troops were rushing towards the place where the fire was high. ”"What enemy army escaped" After hearing the report of the sergeant under his command, Xiahoudun couldn't help but be angry after being slightly stunned, and raised the weapon in his hand and shouted at the soldiers behind him: "This time, I finally seized the opportunity to encircle and suppress the enemy army, but I didn't want to be escaped by the enemy army. ”: