Wei Ni

How did Kuangqi City, which was the first line of defense against Wei Guoqing and Xu's troops and was garrisoned with a thousand soldiers, fall?

This has to start after Xia Houhui took the order.

However, after receiving Li Changshi's advice, Xia Houhui hurried back to Shijiabiwu and summoned three thousand men under his command to work together.

Although he already had a rough battle plan in mind.

But when it comes to your own future, it’s good to brainstorm for a safe solution.

After only half an hour of deliberation, nothing came of it. Everyone wanted to go hundreds of miles away to fight for profit. They felt that it was already a big risk to attack Duwu Fort in Wujiang and destroy individual farming sites in Zhongdu River. There are risks, so we dare not seek more profits, lest we be greedy for too much and lose everything.

In this regard, Xia Houhui was not disappointed.

This time, he no longer had the desire to be greedy for success, and he wanted to rather gain a small harvest than cause casualties to his soldiers.

Just when he was about to let everyone go back to restrain the soldiers and prepare to send out troops the next day, he happened to catch sight of Deng Ai from the corner of his eye. Seeing his thoughtful expression, he stopped thinking.

If we just talk about greed for merit and taking risks, Deng Ai is even worse than him.

The reason why there is no mention of any idea of ​​dangerous military moves now is because he had warned him before in the battle in the Wancheng Valley with the words "I won't do it next time".

Therefore, Xia Houhui thought for a while, then looked directly into Deng Ai's eyes and whispered.

"If it is just to attack the enemy's garrison points such as Wujiangdu, it is enough to use the Huainan cavalry to march forward. Now the General of the East Expedition asked me to bring the new army of the Shijia family to go with him, which must have a profound meaning. If Shizai has other thoughts, you can tell me , there is no need to be taboo. It is better to fill in the gaps and share the details with others. "

"only!"

Sure enough, as soon as Xia Houhui finished speaking, Deng Ai immediately responded and stammered out all his thoughts.

He also felt that Man Chong asked Xia Houhui to lead more than a thousand cavalry and three new soldiers of the scholar family to Guangling County. If he only attacked the bandit Wujiang Duwu Fort, it would be killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.

After all, Wang Li and Liu Yu, who served as internal support for the Wei army, could open the camp gate and seal the victory!
And according to the strategy everyone had just discussed, it would be difficult to expand the results by using the new Shijia army to attack Jiangdu Wubao and letting the Huainan cavalry lie dormant on the side to ambush Sun Shao's reinforcements.

Jiangdu Wubao is located on the bank of the river, and Sun Shao's reinforcements also came across the river by boat.

When he sensed that something was wrong or the war was unfavorable, he returned directly to the boat, leaving the ambushing cavalry of the Wei State "sighing with despair", which meant that the gains of the Wei Army this time were not as good as the losses of his own troops.

Military warfare is about seeking profit.

He went hundreds of miles away to conquer but gained very little. Even if he returned from victory unscathed, Xia Houhui would inevitably face the ridicule of others.

Therefore, he felt that he should at least lead Sun Shao to Guangwu Lake where Wang Li was.

Only by allowing the Wu reinforcements to stay away from the river and penetrate deep into Guangling County can the Wei cavalry have a chance to severely damage them, and may even be able to kill them! In order to achieve this goal, Guangwu Lake's rebellion plan was born.

After finishing his thoughts, Deng Ai said this.

"General, my plan is cumbersome and may cause unnecessary trouble. However, our army is calculated with intention but not with intention, and with the power of Mount Tai, it will not be counterproductive. It's just whether the thief will lure Sun Shao into his trap or not. , I’m not sure.”

Yes, Sun Shao may not come on his own.

If there is civil strife at a garrison with only over 700 men stationed there, it is possible that he would send a lieutenant or general under his command to quell the rebellion.

But what does it matter whether he comes or not?

It cannot affect the Wei army's original plan to attack Jiangdu Wubao.

Man proposes, God disposes.

Xia Houhui did not ask for too much. When he approved Deng Ai's plan, he also added the thought of going north to attack Kuangqi City - the thought of using the Guangwu Lake rebellion to lead Sun Shao to leave the Yangtze River could also be used to garrison Kuangqi City!
Three days later.

Braving the light snow, Wei State's 4,500 horsemen sneaked to Gaoshan County in Xiapi County, Xuzhou.

According to the determined strategy, they will divide their forces here and act independently.

For example, Jiao Yi and Gou Quan will lead the way south to attack Jiangdu Wubao under the leadership of Zhai Dan who comes with the army.

Regardless of whether Sun Shao is on the hook or not, they will destroy and burn the garrison and ships of the bandit Wu in Jiangdu, and bring back Wang Li and Liu Yu's private soldiers and their children.

This is the most important part of this attack, and it is also the basic guarantee for the military to seek profit.

Therefore, out of safety considerations, Xia Houhui also asked Leliang to lead a thousand cavalry to go with them.

In order to prevent the reinforcements from the south bank of the Yangtze River from arriving, only a small number of troops stationed in Jiangdu were sent to Guangwu Lake, leaving Jiao Yi and others outnumbered.

Deng Ai's troops went directly east to Guangwu Lake in Gaoyou County.

The plan was proposed by him, and naturally it was executed by his headquarters.

Whether he wanted to successfully attack Kuangqi City and ambush Sun Shao and achieve great success; or whether he just attacked the inconsequential Guangwu Lake garrison point of Thief Wu and reaped the rewards for his hard work, it depends on his luck. Let others plan for him and bear the responsibility for the failure of his troops.

Xia Houhui himself led five hundred cavalry northward to lie dormant outside Kuangqi City, waiting for the opportunity to break the city and whether Sun Shao would get there.

Anyway, he is the commander, and there is no need to pursue the merit of beheading with hand-to-hand combat.

And he doesn't need to go to Jiangdu to personally direct the war.

The reason why Man Chong dared to claim to give him a piece of credit was because the success of this attack was almost certain.

Because of inertial thinking.

There is no war in Xuzhou, which is the consensus between Wei and Wu.

Even before the Battle of Shiting, the Wei State, which was on the offensive, sent troops from Qingxu and Xuzhou to Huainan to attack Hengjiangpu or Ruxuwu, hoping to use Zhongzhou on Jiangxin Island as a transit point to successfully cross the river and march to Jiangdong.

Furthermore, Sun Shao had been stationed at Dantu Jingkou for nearly twenty years.

With his caution, Wei Jun could not find an opportunity to cross the river from Guangling County.

Therefore, no one in the Wei or Wu states would think that the Wei army would use troops against Guangling County, which had no common people and had long been a waste of land.

It makes no sense, right?
It can't influence the situation between Wei and Wu, right?
Jin Manchong decided to use troops against Guangling. His initial consideration was to gain the leadership of the Five Hundred Cavalry, but his later plan was to comply with Emperor Cao Rui's desire to reserve talents for the country.

I never expected that this war would bring any benefit to Huainan's defense.

Therefore, the chance of success of Xiahou Hui's attack lies in the fact that the Wei army broke the common understanding of both sides and made a move that both Wei and Wu generals thought was useless.

In this way, he certainly does not need to worry about his own failure.

It was noon on the fifth day after the troops were sent out.

Deng Ai's troops rushed to the Guangwu Lake garrison point in Jiangdong and successfully found the two private soldiers Wang Li had sent waiting outside at the agreed location. After verifying that the code words were correct and Wang Li arrived after hearing the news, a drama about Sun Shao began to be staged.

First, Wang Li led dozens of private soldiers into the fields opened by Zhang Peng, and randomly found any reason to beat his private soldiers.

Zhang Peng, who learned the news, was naturally furious.

Dang Ji invited more than a hundred people to come to ask for an explanation, and vowed to make Wang Li pay the price for condoning the private soldiers.

So, he died.

As soon as he walked out of the garrison and rushed to the private field, he was surrounded by Deng Ai's troops who had been ambushing here for a long time.

Under the pouring arrows from two hundred powerful crossbows, he and more than a hundred private soldiers did not even have a chance to resist, so they all fell to the ground and dyed the snow red.

Afterwards, Wang Li went back to the garrison point to gather private soldiers.

Deng Ai, on the other hand, asked his soldiers to take off Zhang Peng's private soldier uniforms and put them on. When night fell to cover his appearance, he successfully entered the garrison point with Wang Li's support and killed Zhang Peng's other private soldiers, General Li Rong and others in one fell swoop. All the troops were killed.

The sudden sound of fighting also alarmed the Shanyue prison camp not far away.

Some clever field sergeants ran out of the camp immediately and hid in hidden places such as among the withered grass by the water or behind small hills and rocks. They first reported that they were safe and then stretched their necks to watch, trying to figure out what was going on. .

The Shanyue prisoners directly blew up the camp.

Some were huddled in the corner of the camp in panic, some took the opportunity to rise up and beat up the guarding Wu soldiers, and more people quickly climbed out of the camp and disappeared into the night. But soon, the prison camp became quiet.

As the fighting in the garrison camp stopped, more than two hundred soldiers blocked the exit of the prisoner camp, shouting loudly that General Li Rong was dead, that Zhang Peng would take them to surrender to Wei, and that those who dared to make noise or leave the camp would die. Wait for the words.

The Tuntian sergeant hiding outside also heard it.

But they couldn't believe it.

All in all, why did Zhang Peng kill General Li Rong and want to defect to Wei?

And what is Wang Li doing?

Considering the conflict between Zhang Peng and Wang Li, they will never abandon their past feud and work together!

Some of the field sergeants fled back to Jiangdu with such doubts. Others felt that there was no danger in staying here, so they wanted to find out the situation before returning to report.

Huang Tian deserves a caring person.

As the sky dimmed, these thoughtful people also received “answers” ​​to their doubts.

They saw Zhang Peng's private soldiers plundering the grain reserves of the garrison, setting fire to the military camp, and carrying Shanyue prisoners to the north; they also saw Wang Li and some of his private soldiers being tied up, and Wang Li's soldiers in custody were cursing at them. , and from time to time he would raise his whip and give it a lash.

But what they didn't see was that after "Zhang Peng" walked about ten miles north, all the people who were tied up were loosened.

From time to time, he whipped Wang Li's soldiers and solemnly bowed and apologized, "In order to confuse the Wu soldiers' ears and eyes, I had no choice but to let Commander Wang suffer. Please forgive me."

He stumbled over his words, which sounded a little funny.

But Wang Li didn't dare to show any hint of sneer, and he returned the favor respectfully, "I don't dare take it seriously. I'm wearing very thick clothes, and General Deng didn't really whip him, so how can I say he's guilty? Besides, I just surrendered. And General Deng spared no effort in planning for me. I can’t thank him enough. How dare I complain!”

"So good."

Deng Ai, who was just polite at first, nodded directly, "Also, I am the Governor of Thousands of People, not a general. Don't call me random names. Well, General Xiahou is already waiting at Kuangqi City. I'd better wait faster." Get ready."

"only."

Wang Li cupped his hands and responded.

Then, while moving his arms to relieve the discomfort of being tied for a long time, he called on the private soldiers to quickly take off the outermost layer of military uniforms and hand them over to Deng Ai's soldiers. Because after arriving here, Wang Li's private soldiers would escort the Shanyue prisoners and stored grain, and return to Huainan under the guidance of the Wei army guide, while he himself would continue to follow Deng Ai to Kuangqi City.

This is a necessary prerequisite for Xiahou Hui to defraud Kuangqi City.

Faced with a military city that would allow Sun Ce to suffer the worst defeat in his life, Xiahou Hui had no intention of attacking by force.

He just wanted to let the other party take the initiative to open the city gate.

Speechless all the way.

Towards the afternoon, a team of about a thousand people arrived outside the south gate of Kuangqi City.

It seemed that they were escorting Shanyue prisoners here.

I saw the Wu soldiers on both sides holding swords and spears in their hands, vigilantly trapping several rows of prisoners with disheveled hair and ragged clothes in the middle, and they were slowly looking at the city.

And it’s quite interesting.

They stopped about two hundred steps away from the city gate, and only the leader strode over.

When he got closer, Chen Jiangzuo, who was on duty at the top of the city, recognized this person.

It was Wang Li from the Guangwu Lake garrison point.

Due to the fact that Kuangqi City was on the front line against the Wei State, the garrison soldiers did not have to work in the fields. All grain, fodder and baggage had to be transported from Guangwu Lake at the rear, and this was not the first time that Wang Li had been the grain inspector.

"Colonel Chen, I was ordered to escort the prisoners of Shanyue over."

At this time, Wang Li also recognized him on the top of the city and waved and greeted him loudly from a distance.

There is no farming here, so why send Shanyue prisoners here?
Colonel Chen, who had already asked his soldiers to go down to the top of the city to invite General Gan, the chief officer here, was puzzled, but he did not care. Instead, he responded loudly, "Captain Wang, I will wait until General Gan has not arrived. Please forgive me for not being able to open the door." city ​​gate."

"Haha, it's okay."

Wang Li responded and sat on the ground outside the city, seemingly exhausted from the long journey.

After a while, General Gan arrived.

But he did not stand on the top of the city, but walked directly out of the city gate, and politely took the lead in handing over, "I haven't seen Captain Wang for several months, and I miss him very much. But why did the Captain send the Shanyue prisoners here?"

"Hey! General, why do you ask this?"

Unexpectedly, Wang Li showed an even more surprised expression when he heard the question, "General Li Rong claimed this morning that General Zhengbei had ordered me to capture Shanyue captives. As for the purpose, I don't know. Could it be that General Zhengbei didn't send him The messenger informed General Gan?”

Well.
Being asked this question, General Gan couldn't help but become speechless.

Of course he knew that with Wang Li's official position, he could only obey orders; but he really didn't know that Sun Shao actually asked Wang Li to send prisoners~
And Wang Li didn't wait for his answer.

He looked back and pointed at the troops behind him, and continued to ask with some embarrassment, "Then, in General Yigan's opinion, should I take these prisoners back, or..."

Enough said.

But he made it clear that he didn't want to make another round trip.

General Gan certainly understood.

If he refuses to let Wang Li enter the city or sends him back to Guangwu Lake on the grounds that he has not received orders from General Sun Shao, then it will be difficult to live in harmony in the future.

After all, by doing this, you are clearly saying that you don’t trust Wang Li~
Moreover, Wang Li has been working in Guangwu Lake for many years, and has sent him food and crops more than once. If he really doesn't care about human feelings at all, then other young Jiangdong tyrants like Wang Li who are stationed in Guangling County will still Don't hesitate to slander and criticize him!
“I don’t believe in anything evil as Colonel Wang!”

After pondering for a while, General Gan, who originally wanted Wang Li to issue an order, gave up and said with a smile, "The messenger must have been delayed on the way. But it doesn't matter, Lieutenant Wang asked his subordinates to lead the prisoners into the city."

"Thank you for your understanding, General!"

Hearing this, Wang Li smiled happily and immediately bowed to express his thanks.

He really should be thankful.

Because the Wei army, pretending to be prisoners of Shanyue, immediately launched an attack after entering the city gate. They firmly occupied the city gate and allowed Xiahou Hui to introduce his cavalry to seal the victory. General Gan was unprepared and was stabbed to death by Wang Li from behind with a sword. His life added to Wang Li's contribution to Wei.

They were attacked suddenly and the general died first, but the war did not end quickly.

Because among the thousand Wu soldiers stationed in the city, only a hundred people asked to surrender.

Obviously, their generals were dead and the outcome was already clear, but many Wu soldiers still stubbornly resisted and did not care about life or death.

How could Sun Shao's private army be so loyal? !
With this thought in mind, Xia Houhui, who was quite surprised, thought about it and felt that it was inappropriate to stay here and wait for Sun Shao.

Immediately, Wang Li and 500 people under Deng Ai were left to supervise the search for Wu soldiers' armor and equipment, and to escort the prisoners back to Huainan; then they asked Deng Ai to select 300 elite soldiers, and followed him to look at Guangwu Lake and the Go to Fanliang Lake in the middle of Kuangqi City.

In fact, he has a keen sense of battlefield.

Because just less than half an hour later, Sun Shao, who was pursuing with hundreds of small and light walking boats, arrived at the waterway near Fanliang Lake. When he saw no one on both sides of the waterway and no boats of his own on the lake, he seemed to have noticed something, and immediately ordered his men to suspend the pursuit.

This order caught all Wu soldiers off guard.

Even Wu Can, who was standing next to him, didn't know what was going on. After imitating him and looking around, he asked with doubts, "This is a public ceremony. Do you think the thief Zhang Peng didn't escape to Kuangqi City?"

Sun Shao did not answer immediately.

Instead, he forced an apologetic smile on his solemn face, and after sending dozens of people ashore and more than a dozen walking boats to continue moving forward, he whispered, "Brother Kong Xiu, maybe the Guangwu Lake rebels are not Zhang Peng.”

Who is it if it’s not Zhang Peng? !
Is it
Wu Can, who also knows soldiers, was immediately stunned after hearing this.

Immediately, his face became horrified. (End of chapter)