The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 342

The 1000 people under Zhang Yongyu's command were all subordinate to Gan Ning's command, and they were all the elite of Gan Ning's subordinates.

The strength is not to mention the strongest under Liu Zheng's command, but also the most elite part.

Although he was ambushed, Zhang Yongyu still led his people to actively resist, and soon fought inextricably with the enemy. However, there were 2000 troops ambushing Zhang Yongyu, and they were led by Cheng Pu and Han Dang.

Cheng Pu and Han Dang were stronger than Zhang Yongyu. After a fight, Zhang Yongyu's troops suffered heavy casualties, but they still had the strength to fight.

However, Cheng Pu and Han Dang did not intend to fight Zhang Yongyu to the death at all. Their purpose was very simple, just to burn food and grass if they could not get it.

A fire started on the grain truck.

After burning the food and grass, Cheng Pu and Han Dang left without entanglement with Zhang Yongyu.

After Zhang Yongyu's first battle, although he killed more than a thousand men under Cheng Pu's command, he himself was completely lost. Out of a thousand soldiers, more than [-] people were directly killed in battle, and hundreds of people who were transported died, half of them. Months of food and grass were burned.

After telling Liu Zheng about this, Liu Zheng's face gradually became calm from the gloomy face at the beginning.

It seems that he heard Zhang Yongyu's report and was not worried.

"That's it?"

After Zhang Yongyu finished speaking, Liu Zheng saw that he didn't continue to speak, so he took the initiative to ask.

"Well, losing food and grass as a grain supervisor is already a capital crime, and I will die."

Zhang Yongyu's face was gloomy, but this time he was afraid that he might not survive, so he could only admit it.

"It's just half a month's food and grass. If you lose it, you lose it. You can't blame you. After all, Sun Jian's men ambushed in advance, and there are more people than you. You can kill more than a thousand enemies. It's priceless."

Liu Zheng didn't intend to punish Zhang Yongyu.

"Of course, after all, you lost food and grass. This is your dereliction of duty. You have been demoted to a pawn. Report to General Gan Ning. If you make meritorious service in this battle against Sun Jian, you will be reinstated!"

Although Zhang Yongyu's loss of food and grass was a fault, in Liu Zheng's view, this fault can be forgiven, after all, it is not a default caused by subjective factors.

As soon as Zhang Yongyu heard Liu Zheng's words, the originally gloomy expression on his face immediately turned into surprise at this moment.

He thought that he could not escape the death penalty this time, and he just wanted not to hurt his family.But never expected that Liu Zheng not only did not blame him, but only removed him from his official position.If there is a chance to make meritorious deeds again.Maybe he can be reinstated.

Such a result was something he hadn't thought of before.

"Thank you, my lord, for the grace of not killing, the general will definitely swear to die!"

"It looks like you have suffered a lot of injuries, go down and rest first."

Liu Zheng didn't let Zhang Yongyu continue to talk to him here, but let him go down to rest, leaving only Gan Ning, Su Fei and others.

"Sun Jian is really scheming. I didn't expect that he was planning our plan."

Liu Zheng had been wondering what Sun Jian's purpose was before, but now that he heard about Zhang Yongyu, he finally understood Sun Jian's purpose.

"My lord, now our food road has been robbed, and half a month's food has been lost, and the food in our camp is only enough for us to feed for another 5 days. What should we do next?"

Gan Ning glanced at Liu Zheng.

I want to ask Liu Zheng for his opinion. After all, the food road has been destroyed. This is a major event. If the news spreads and is known by Liu Zheng's soldiers, it will definitely cause a shock in the army. The soldiers and horses will panic, and even cause some small rebellions.

This result is not what Liu Zheng wants to see.

"Can we still have 5 days of food?"

Liu Zheng didn't tell Gan Ning how to solve this matter, but asked Gan Ning.The rest of the grain can still be eaten for a few days.

Gan Ning nodded and confirmed that the food and grass were only enough for 5 days.

Then Liu Zheng put away his serious expression.He glanced at Gan Ning.

"If you can still eat for 5 days, then don't panic. You don't have to worry about this matter. Although the food road has been robbed and you can't continue in a short time, you can transport food from here, but don't worry. Will find a way to solve it.”

"What you need to pay attention to is that you must pay close attention to the movements of Sun Jian and those people. Since they are prepared, it is impossible to do nothing next. I guess they have already started to plan secretly, and maybe there will be something in the next day or two. action."

Liu Zheng guessed that Sun Jian and others robbed the food road was only the first step of the plan, and there must be other actions in the follow-up. If he was a little negligent, Liu Zheng worried that his manpower would be counted by Sun Jian, so he needed to score 12 points in the next days Spirit, used to deal with Sun Jian's possible attack at any time.

"Yes, my lord, please rest assured, we will definitely pay close attention to those people."

After Liu Zheng finished his orders.Gan Ning immediately replied.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before Liu Zheng got the news that the Liang Dao had been robbed.

Sun Jian's army outside the camp launched a new operation.

Originally, it was just a confrontation with Liu Zheng's army, but Sun Jian's [-] troops suddenly formed a dense battle formation, surrounding Liu Zheng's camp on three sides.

The square camp was surrounded by Sun Jian's [-] troops, with only one gap left on three sides.

This is the siege three release one in the ancient siege battle.

The reason why the four walls are not enclosed, but a gap is left, is to deliberately give the besieged some hope of breaking through.

Because if you give hope, they won't fight to the death.No one wants to die, even if they are trying to survive, they will find a way to break out from the side that is not surrounded.

In this way, the combat ability will be greatly weakened.

However, if all four walls are surrounded and blocked, the besieged people will burst out with the determination to die if they have no hope of escaping. It will also increase losses, and the gains outweigh the losses.

On the contrary, if some of them can be allowed to leave, and the remaining part can only be used for annihilation battle, the battle will become much easier.

After Sun Jian ordered 2 men under his command to seal off the three city walls, he began to cut down trees everywhere and discard firewood under the city.

Even if Sun Jian hadn't started to implement his plan, Liu Zheng in the camp had guessed that Sun Jian was planning to use fire to attack and use the fire to burn down the wall outside the camp.Force Liu Zheng to come out of the camp and fight.

"Sun Jian really has some tricks, so we have to fight him!"

Chapter 343 It's the first move

After Liu Zheng listened to the reports from his subordinates, he already understood what Sun Jian wanted to do.

"Gan Ning, order me down immediately, let our people pull out the trebuchet we made a few days ago!"

It has been several days since Liu Zheng's men arrived here to set up camp.

They have not been idle for the past few days. Naturally, they have been preparing to make trebuchets and other weapons to attack Kuaiji City.

Their original purpose was also to attack Kuaiji City, but it is a pity that the trebuchet that was originally intended to attack Kuaiji City may have to be pulled out in advance to deal with people like Sun Jian.

Sun Jian has now surrounded his camp. Although he has not done anything yet, Liu Zheng guesses that Sun Jian should be waiting for reinforcements. As soon as the reinforcements from Kuaiji City arrive and Sun Jian's men are more manned than Liu Zheng's, Sun Jian will He will definitely do it, and Liu Zheng's plan at this time is to attack Sun Jian before he does it.

He wanted to catch Sun Jian by surprise and consume part of Sun Jian's strength first.When the time comes, even if Sun Jian has reinforcements, he will not dare to act rashly.

After Liu Zheng's order, more than a dozen trebuchets that had been prepared long ago were pulled out by Gan Ning's men at this time.

Because there was a fence outside the camp, Sun Jian and the others outside did not know at this time.There are more than a dozen trebuchets here at this time, surrounding them positively and negatively.

Liu Zheng led people to start debugging, aiming at the angle, and confirming that a shell can hit more enemies.

After these things were almost done, Liu Zheng led the people to the entrance of the camp.

When Liu Zheng appeared at the gate of the camp, Sun Jian and others outside naturally discovered it very quickly.

However, before Sun Jian could speak, he was already attracted by Liu Zhengxian.

"Sun Jian, I said that you suddenly sent people to surround my camp. Presumably the people you sent to cut off my food road have returned."

Liu Zheng opened his mouth, causing Sun Jian to immediately focus on Liu Zheng.

"It seems that you already know that your food road has been robbed. Since you know it, there is nothing to hide. Surrender Liu Zheng. For your sake of surrendering to me, I can leave you alone." corpse."

Sun Jian is a little proud at this time, because he has always been at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Liu Zheng. Only this time, he cut off Liu Zheng's food, although he still doesn't know how many days Liu Zheng has in his hands. However, according to the normal marching route, Liu Zheng has been out of Jiaozhou for more than two months, even if Liu Zheng brought more food.

But there was definitely not much left to eat in two months, and the remaining food was at most enough for Liu Zheng's [-] troops to eat for a few more days.

As long as Liu Zheng is surrounded here for a few days, even if he doesn't take the initiative to fight, Liu Zheng's people will definitely start a mutiny due to lack of food.

Maybe Sun Jian could defeat Liu Zheng without a single soldier.

After listening to Sun Jian's words, Liu Zheng was not angry.

Instead, he continued to respond to Sun Jian calmly.

"Okay, brother Sun Jian, I miscalculated this time. It's the first time I've encountered such a thing as being robbed of food, but you can be regarded as a reminder to me. Next time, I must be careful." Pay attention to the food road."

"Hmph, why are you still pretending here? Your food must be insufficient. In my opinion, your soldiers and horses will run out of food in seven days at most. Now you can either run away or go out of the city to fight. You can choose for yourself." .”

Out of the city for a battle, Sun Jian's soldiers and horses were similar to Liu Zheng's. Although they were similar, Sun Jian's side had 2 people, while Liu Zheng's side originally had 8000 people. However, in the past two months, in the south of Kuaiji County Fighting against those Shanyue tribes caused some losses to Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses.

So although it is claimed to be close to 2 horses, there are actually only 5000 people.

There is still a small gap between Bing Ma and Sun Jian, and Sun Jian is outside the camp, and he has arranged a lot of defensive measures. If he goes out to fight Sun Jian, Liu Zheng's manpower must be at a disadvantage.

And Sun Jian also knew that Liu Zheng had always been a cautious person, and would not attack lightly in such uncertain battles.

In Sun Jian's heart, he believed that Liu Zheng must be trying to retreat.

After all, Sun Jian only surrounded the camp on three sides, leaving one camp, which was in the south. If Liu Zheng escaped from the entrance of the camp, he would definitely go to the south, and the chance of escape was very high.

But Sun Jian was wrong. Liu Zheng hadn't thought about running away at all at this time. He came out just to chat with Sun Jian, make sure that Sun Jian was outside, and then let the soldiers who operated the trebuchet understand clearly. He knew where Sun Jian was, and then launched an attack.

"Escape? It is impossible to escape. It is impossible to escape in this life. I came out to chat with you, but I just want to tell you that I will start attacking soon."

Liu Zheng directly told Sun Jian his plan.

Sun Jian sneered, treating Liu Zheng's words as if he was talking big and trying to force himself to calm down.

A few days ago, after Sun Jian got the news that Cheng Pu and Han Dang had robbed Liu Zheng's grain road, he immediately sent soldiers and horses to Kuaiji County for help.

According to the time, I am afraid that Liu Yao has already prepared the reinforcements at this time and is on his way here.

After all, this place is only two hours away from Kuaiji County.

They can only delay here for an hour or two, and when the reinforcements from Kuaiji County arrive, at that time, [-] troops will attack with all their strength, and even if Liu Zheng wants to escape, he will have no chance.

"It seems that you don't believe that I am going to fight you?"

Seeing that Sun Jian didn't take any action, Liu Zheng looked at him with disdain instead, and didn't say anything more to Sun Jian.

He turned around, glanced at Gan Ning who was in the camp, and then waved at Gan Ning.

Indicating Gan Ning to do something.

Gan Ning, who had already received Liu Zheng's order and was waiting for Liu Zheng's signal, saw that Liu Zheng had finally sent him a signal, so there was no hesitation, and he went directly into battle and began to swing these things The trebuchet was off.

Gan Ning was very curious about the power of the trebuchet, because this thing was created by Liu Zheng when he attacked Lin Yiguo. Gan Ning was not there at that time, but he heard that the trebuchet was powerful, but he didn't I have seen it with my own eyes.

Now that he finally had the opportunity to see the power of the trebuchet, how could he not be excited.

Following Gan Ning's launch order, more than a dozen trebuchets immediately began to project unscrupulously at this time.

Chapter 344 Reinforcement Arrives

Outside the camp, Sun Jian's men still had no idea what Liu Zhengjun was doing inside.

But suddenly, more than a dozen black shadows shot out from Liu Zhengjun's camp. Sun Jian didn't know what these shadows were at first.

It was only when those stones gradually enlarged from the sky, fell down, hit the ground, made a rumbling sound, and turned his men and horses on their backs, breaking the battle formation, Sun Jian understood this What is it.

"stone?"

Sun Jian was startled at first, but then he understood.

"It's a trebuchet!"

He followed Zhu Jun in the South and North Wars, and he also followed Huangfu Song for a while. Naturally, he had seen such things as trebuchets.However, the trebuchets he had seen could only project stones that were not very far away, and the size of the projected stones was far less than that projected by Liu Zheng.

"Not good! That guy Liu Zheng has trebuchets under his command, everyone hurry back!"

After the first round of catapults made some projections, more than a dozen stones fell into Sun Jian's encirclement, causing Sun Jian's soldiers and horses to immediately lose a lot.

And Sun Jian also understood the horror of the trebuchet, so he didn't hesitate to let the soldiers under his command retreat.

Although the first projection did not completely inflict a lot of losses on Sun Jian's soldiers, but at least there were hundreds of them. Because they were in the core area of ​​the stone, they were directly knocked unconscious by the stone and lost their fighting ability.

When Sun Jian called for everyone to retreat, the second round of ten shots came again.

In the blink of an eye, as Sun Jian was retreating, he suffered another round of shooting.

Sun Jian's men did not dodge the two shots, but the second round of throwing, because Sun Jian's men had already dispersed, caused limited damage to Sun Jian's side, but it also made Sun Jian just now majestic and brewing. The aura of charge that got up was completely wiped out.

Sun Jianjun, who was waiting in full battle, retreated in a panic at this time, without the momentum he had at the beginning.

On Sun Jian's side, after finally retreating from the camp, he also had a gloomy face at this time. He never expected that there were trebuchets, such sharp siege weapons, in Liu Zheng's camp.