Chapter 509 Liang Gang, come here!
Perhaps in the eyes of people with an IQ of human average, since Li Sudu accidentally learned that "the value of the head of Leji is worth many times by himself", he will definitely spread this news throughout the army, boost morale, and announce rewards, so that everyone will be more warlike when attacking Jingyang City.
Unfortunately, the style of Li Su and Zhuge Liang, the old Yinbi master and apprentice, cannot be understood by common sense.
Just now, for five days after learning about the value of Leju's head, Gao Shun was still in the dark. He was step-by-step every day to preserve his strength and acted as a tentative attack, with a long-term siege and consumption. He cherished the lives of his soldiers and reduced casualties in the attack.
The siege of the city was slowly consumed until March 19th. After the troops were withdrawn that day, Gao Shun, who had not talked much, couldn't help but come to Li Su and confirm something to him.
"The Right General, I was supervising the battle today and got a news from General Zhao's scout, saying that Le was the regicide in the battle at Yique Pass. For this, you have already given a reward for the king?
Those who say that the Duwei and the Duwei are at the head level will be granted the title of the Chief of the original official rank, and the title of the Chief of the Central Army or the General of the Central Army. Those who are given the original official position of the Duwei and the above, the title of the General of the Miscellaneous Title will be granted the title of the General, and the title of the Township Marquis is such a matter? I... I am either greedy for rewards or ask questions."
Li Su was having dinner at the time and ate with Zhuge Liang. While eating, the master and apprentice were chatting and laughing. He heard Gao Shun come to verify, and he also admitted casually: "You actually know that this is true."
Gao Shun's face changed: "Is the Right General deliberately hiding it from his subordinates? The subordinates are responsible for supervising the battle and siege the city. He actually knows that this reward is later than General Zhao's scout. If the Right General doesn't trust me, just let others be responsible for siege the city! Don't doubt people, why not do this!"
Gao Shun was not completely greedy for promotion and reward. He felt that his trustworthiness had been insulted to a certain extent, and the leader did not tell him the situation.
Li Su smiled slightly when she heard this, spread her folding fan and suffused her twice, pressing Gao Shun's shoulder with the fan, and signaling the other party to sit down and eat and drink: "Envoy Gao is a little restless. It is not surprising that the scout sent by Zilong got this news first, because this reward is only brewing in my heart. Not only did I not tell you, but also Zilong Xingba, how could I say that I don't trust anyone in particular?"
(Note: Gao Shun's current highest official position is Dianzhou Defense Envoy, which is more valuable than the military captain, so Li Su called him the envoy)
Gao Shun heard that Li Su didn't tell anyone, so he was a little embarrassed and asked sincerely with the attitude of admitting his mistake:
"So that's it. General Right has never said anything to his own people. How dare he not believe it? But since no one has ever said it, where did these news come from? I can hear it with confidence."
Zhuge Liang next to him saw that Li Shi was insidious and felt a little sympathetic to Gao Shun, so he directly revealed the mystery: "This is part of the plan. We deliberately spread it to the enemy first, so that the enemy mistakenly thought that after we learned that Leji's head was valuable, we would attack Qingyang wildly, take it down within a few days, and wipe out the enemy completely.
Therefore, the reward has not been announced to his own people. The news received by General Zilong should have been tortured by the scout Liang Gangjun whom he had recently captured.
Our news is to spread to Liang Gang and other Yuan Shu army generals on the Western Front, so that they can get better and come faster, don’t hesitate to wait and see, and wait for our army to "stay under the strong city for a long time and bear the loss."
After Liang Gang knew about it, he would definitely increase the intensity of reconnaissance, but as a result, all scouts who investigated the situation of Jingyang were intercepted and killed by General Zilong. Wouldn't his main force come to let us surround and fight for help?"
After listening, Gao Shun completely untie his heart, and at the same time, he felt a little chilled:
It seems that Zhuge Lingshi is not bad. He was originally told that he was a scholar-general, historical, and diplomat in the court, and had great achievements in making brilliant plans.
Unexpectedly, when the first battle formation was in front of the battle formation, the staff commander had such talent. If it were time, I was afraid that another genius like a right general would not be, so no wonder the right general valued him so much.
(Note: The "historical officer" here is added to the middle of the "historical officer" because the calendar and the historian are two types of officials. The Lingtai Order, who is in charge of calendar astrology and astronomy, is the calendar official, and the Taishi Order is the historian.)
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Even Gao Shun, his own people were deceived by Li Su and Zhuge Liang, and Liang Gangle, who were outsiders, was undoubtedly even more trapped.
After all, if you compare the data of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14", these two guys have an intelligence value of only fifty or sixty. Even Zhuge Liang, who had never commanded a war at the age of seventeen, would be easy to deceive.
Liang Gang watched in Rangcheng for five days and heard that the situation in Jingyang was getting more and more critical. In addition, even some of the strategists in Wancheng behind were deceived by the "Fierce Battle of Jingyang", and he mistakenly thought that Jingyang was already extremely critical. If he didn't rescue him, he might be wiped out and could not even break through.
Wancheng sent people to urge Liang Gang to fight one after another, at least to cut off Li Sujun's clean water and grain road, which forced Liang Gang to fight.
Fortunately, after the five days of waiting and planning, Liang Gang naturally thought about how to cut off the clean water and grain channels when the warship was worse than Gan Ning, and he chose the fire attack as Gan Ning had expected.
On March 20, Liang Gang found a subordinate named Huiqu, a man from Langya, and explained the tactics:
He asked Huiqu to take the waterway fire boat to the fork of Qingshui north of Xinye. While Ganning's fleet had just passed the fork, halfway through, Huiqu's fire boat suddenly rushed down the river, burned the Ganning grain team, and cut it off.
Liang Gang himself led the main force of the Rangcheng army. When the Ganning fleet became in chaos after the fire broke out, they abandoned their ships and landed to escape, and rushed to the Ganning army, which had not yet stood firm on the shore, and attacked the land and water to wipe out Li Sujun's grain transport troops.
A nameless general like Hui Qu is not smart either. He just knows how to execute the order. After listening to Liang Gang's instructions, he just asked some details about how to execute it: "General, do you have anything to explain the timing and details of the arson?"
Liang Gang's tone was quite regretful, and he scolded him with a tone of "I am a person with an intelligence of over 50 years, but you are a garbage of over 30 years of intelligence of over 30 years":
"I have to ask this? Isn't you thinking about it yourself? Of course, when Gan Ning's fleet was halfway through and there were escort ships of the tower ship level escort ships passing by, the fireboats rushed forward!
You should know that the deep water channel of the Qingshui River is not wide, and if a large ship comes in, there will be no place to dodge. Moreover, the Baihe River and Qingshui forked the estuary, and slightly to the upstream of the Qingshui River, the amount of water will be even smaller. You just happened to burn several large enemy ships at the estuary of the tributary river on the side of the Qingshui River, which may block the channel.
Even if Qingyang will still be lost, Wancheng, Jiyang, will be much safer. Li Sujun cannot transport grain through the Qingshui River, so how can he attack Wancheng, which is two hundred miles away? He can still transport grain to two hundred miles away by ox carts, and continue to besiege Wancheng for several months? Just the loss of the ox cart on land can kill Li Su!"
Liang Gang actually didn't care about Leji's life or death. The nobles of Wancheng didn't care. What they were worried about was that Leji's entire army was wiped out too thoroughly, which would lead to insufficient troops to defend Wancheng in the future. Li Sujun's morale was greatly boosted to attack Wancheng by taking advantage of the victory.
As long as Liang Gang can ensure that Li Su is unable to trap Wancheng for a long time, even if Le is dead, Liang Gang will not be punished.
Hui Qu seemed to understand but not understand, and took the water armed fireboat and took the order.
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The sixty-mile road can actually be reached in one day, but for the best effect of the attack, Liang Gang chose to let the soldiers sleep first during the day, and then start to go downstream in the middle of the night, striving to arrive at the jingshui fork in the northern suburbs of Xinye at dawn, and then take advantage of Fo Xiao to launch an attack.
The reason for choosing this is also thanks to Liang Gang's observation of Li Sujun's work and rest rules a few days ago. After Liang Gang died more than a hundred scouts and cavalrymen, he at least found an important piece of information:
Because Gan Ning and Zhou Tai were too generous, whenever they encountered a food team, they would listen to the bar fleet on the clean water wharf in the west of Xinye City one night in advance, and then take advantage of the clear vision of Fo Xiao, and then sail northward against the current. Because Gan Ning had discovered that after passing Xinye, after passing Xinye, the water volume of the water flow in the waterway must be diversion carefully, and the boat would easily be stranded at night.
Since we have touched the rules of the Han army's ration team, how can we not make more use of it? The time point of the fire ship's ration team was chosen at the time when the enemy had just set sail and could block the waterway! This can also prevent the enemy from discovering Liang Gang's approach in advance and obtaining the greatest suddenness!
When he thought of Gan Ning slept all night, he was a little confused. He had just driven the fleet to the mouth of Sancha River through the morning light. Liang Gang hid in the fire fleet on the side of the Baihe River, the upper tributary, and suddenly rushed out of the reed marshal, rushing downstream, and suddenly pierced Gan Ning's waist and eyes, making Gan Ning unable to look after each other. Liang Gang felt a little happy inside.
On March 22, the Buddha's dawn, and the time to determine destiny has finally come.
Gan Ning indeed brought an 800-man tower ship as the flagship, and four 500-man-class fighting ships. The rest were melee-type ships, with a total of three to four thousand sailors, protecting a grain transport team of two thousand people set sail from Xinye Wharf.
After a while, the Pioneer's Trail passed through the mouth of the Sancha River in the Qingshui River. Soon a fighting ship passed, and it was Gan Ning's flagship and the three largest fighting ships left to pass.
At this time, Huiqu, who had already remembered the combat plan that Liang Gang had already explained, broke out from the reed marsh on the bank from the Baihe River at the mouth of Sancha River, and more than a hundred small boats flocked down the river. Relying on the speed advantage brought by the water, they quickly approached Gan Ning.
At the same time, the fire was lit with water, and the dry firewood and straw on the ship ignited one after another, turning into fireboats.
Gan Ning narrowed his eyes and immediately ordered: "All crossbowmen suppress the port side! All long pole hands also support them on the port side!"
Each ship of the tower ship was at least two or three hundred people rushed to the port side, with a few dozen or hundreds of long pole hands, and the rest were crossbowmen, all of whom were prepared to come and face up to the front.
"Kala" waves of sour iron-wrapped bamboo poles hold the wooden hull, either breaking or piercing through, and all the fire boats were pressed by the poles, and then they rolled downwards like Tai Chi, some of them were staggered, and some were directly stranded by the bamboo poles to the shallow water area and stranded.
"No, Gan Ning is prepared!" Hui Qu was confused. General Liang had never taught him how to deal with such an unexpected situation. He could only continue to follow the steps and let all the fireboats rush up, regardless of whether it was effective or not.
Chapter completed!