"Hahaha... Kong Ming, your strategy is indeed effective. Under coercion and inducement, there are indeed people who are willing to surrender!"
The people sent by Zhang Kai met Liu Bei and agreed to enter the city from the west gate tomorrow night, and asked Liu Bei to send troops to guard outside the city gate first. Then they would open the city gate to welcome him.
Zhuge Liang just looked happy and said: "My lord has a reputation of being majestic and benevolent, so this strategy can be effective."
"Is there any fraud in this?" Gao Shun worried.
Zhou Ping shook his head and said: "No, Zhang Kai is afraid of death and greedy for profit, so this matter should be credible."
Zhou Ping, who has a good understanding of people, felt that it was credible and the others said nothing.
Liu Bei asked Gan Ning and Gao Shun to lead 5,000 men. After nightfall, he first hid outside the West City and waited. He then asked Zhang Fei to lead 5,000 men to lurk outside the North City. The rest of the troops were ready in the camp.
According to their plan, after entering the city, Gan Ning and Gao Shun first attacked the North City, opened the North City Gate, let Zhang Fei enter the city, and then attacked Yuan Shu's mansion together.
Guan Yu, who was guarding outside the south city, sent troops to the city after Gan Ning and Gao Shun entered the city, but did not need to enter the city.
If Yuan Shu wants to escape, he must flee from the east city. Then Guan Yu can lead his troops to pursue him from behind.
With Liu Bei's current troops, he certainly cannot block all sides, and must leave one side open for Yuan Shu to escape.
Yuan Shu has 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and it will take at least 10,000 to block him. Guan Yu's 10,000 can only block the south side.
Inside the city, Zhang Kai had already arranged for five hundred soldiers who had followed him from Xuzhou to guard the city gate.
When midnight arrived, Zhang Kai, who was guarding the city, saw several torches raised outside the city as promised, and confirmed that Liu Bei's men were already guarding outside the city, just waiting for him to open the city gate.
He immediately led the rest of the people down the city wall and came to the city gate.
Zhang Kai looked around and saw that almost all of the people guarding the city gate were his own men, with only a few of Yuan Shu's men mixed in.
"Open the door and kill."
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers who had been prepared drew their swords at the same time, cut down Yuan Shu's men, and opened the city gate at the same time.
Gan Ning had already led five hundred people to the city gate more than a hundred steps away. When he saw the city gate opening, he immediately shouted softly: "Enter the city."
In order to prevent fraud, Gan Ning first led 500 people to rush to the city gate and guard the city gate. Gao Shun then led the rest of the people to light torches and rush into the city.
Gao Shun, who was hiding a few hundred steps away, also saw the city gate opening and ordered: "Light the fire."
The guards on the city didn't know that the city gate had been opened at this time. They just saw that the city gate was open.
There were torches lit not far away, and more and more torches were lit. Soon there were hundreds or even thousands of torches lit.
"kill!"
The guards on the city didn't know what was going on, but they heard shouts of killing outside the city, and many enemy soldiers were rushing towards the city gate.
"There are enemy soldiers attacking the city! There are enemy soldiers attacking the city! Go and report to General Zhang quickly."
The guards on the city shouted hurriedly.
In fact, Gan Ning had already led his troops to the city gate at this time and guarded the city gate with Zhang Kai.
"Where is General Zhang? Where is General Zhang?"
"General Zhang opened the city gate and welcomed the enemy soldiers into the city."
"What? Go and report to General Yuan quickly."
The defenders on the city could not find Zhang Kai, so they realized that Zhang Kai had opened the city gate and quickly sent someone to report to Yuan Shu.
At the same time, people raised arrows to shoot at the enemy soldiers outside the city.
A few hundred steps away, Gao Shun quickly led his men to the city gate and shouted to Gan Ning: "Xingba, lead your men to attack the north gate."
"Okay, I'll leave this to you."
Gan Ning took two thousand men and killed them towards the north gate.
Gao Shun, together with Zhang Kai, dealt with the soldiers defending the Xicheng city.
At this time, the shouts of killing at the west city gate were loud, and before the soldiers came to report, Yuan Shu woke up from his sleep.
"What's going on? What's going on? Liu Bei has entered the city?"
The concubine lying next to him had also woken up and was looking at Yuan Shu shivering.
The soldier outside the door replied: "I don't know, it's the sound coming from the West City."
"Go and have a look."
Yuan Shu said and quickly stood up and put on his clothes.
"promise."
The soldiers outside the door accepted the promise and ran away.
As soon as Yuan Shu put on his clothes, a soldier came to report: "General Yuan and General Zhang Kai have opened the city gate to welcome Liu Bei's troops into the city."
"What? How many enemy soldiers have entered the city?"
Yuan Shu regretted that he should have thought that Zhang Kai was unreliable. He was from Xuzhou.
"There are many enemy soldiers, perhaps tens of thousands of troops."
How could one know how many enemy soldiers there were? The soldiers who came to report could only answer based on their own guesses.
Yuan Shu was stunned. Tens of thousands of enemy soldiers entered the city. How could they withstand it?
"Quickly, get someone to resist and drive the enemy soldiers out of the city."
Although I know I can't withstand it, I still have to send troops to resist. Even if I can't block it, I still have to buy time for myself to leave.
There are 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and 5,000 soldiers in each of the surrounding cities. They are divided into two squads, which rotate day and night. Each squad has more than 2,000 troops. There are also 10,000 troops as maneuvers, which can be mobilized at any time.
Reinforcements from all sides.
Now, in addition to 10,000 people guarding the city, there are 20,000 people sleeping in the camp.
Originally, generals like Liu Xun and Zhang Xun who were guarding the city did not need to guard the city in person at night, but Zhang Kai personally guarded the city in order to support Liu Bei's troops.
"General, general, Liu Bei has led his troops into the city!"
Zhang Xun ran over wearing a battle armor and carrying a sword, followed shortly by Chen Lan, Yan Xiang and others.
"Where's Liu Zitai?"
Yuan Shu couldn't see Liu Xun and asked quickly.
He was afraid that Liu Xun would also betray Liu Bei.
"The enemy troops attacked the north city and wanted to open the north gate, but Governor Liu led his troops to resist." Yan Xiang replied.
"This...how is this good?!"
Yuan Shu suddenly ran out of ideas.
He was still happy during the day, thinking that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were going to bring troops to help him, and Liu Bei would soon retreat. Unexpectedly, Zhang Kai betrayed him and went to Liu Bei.
"General, Wancheng cannot be defended anymore, leave quickly!"
Yan Xiang said quickly.
"Let's go? There are still Guan Yu's soldiers and horses guarding the outside of Nancheng. Where else can I go?"
"Go to Yuzhang. There are no enemy soldiers to the east. We can leave the city from the east."
"General Zhang, General Chen, hurry up and bring the troops. We will leave the city from the east."
Yuan Shu quickly gave instructions to Zhang Xun and Chen Lan.
The two of them agreed to lead troops to protect Yuan Shu from leaving.
Soon after, Zhang Xun and Chen Lan arrived with troops.
The incident happened so suddenly that Yuan Shu was unprepared. He just took his son and a few close relatives with him and left the city from the east under the protection of Zhang Xun and Chen Lan's troops.
He had no time to take away his concubines and the many gold, wealth and jewels he had collected.
It is said that Gan Ning led his troops to kill Beicheng. On the way, he encountered some resistance from soldiers and horses, and was quickly killed and retreated.
When he was about to reach the gate of Beicheng, he met Liu Xun who personally led his troops to resist.
Liu Xun was the prefect of Lujiang, and many of the soldiers and horses guarding the city were favored by him, so they followed him and behaved somewhat bravely.
But unfortunately they met Gan Ning.
Liu Xun himself did not have strong military strength, so he was stabbed to death with a random spear soon after in the chaos of the dark night.
When his troops saw Liu Xun died in battle and saw that Gan Ning was very fierce, they did not dare to fight anymore and retreated towards the east city.
Gan Ning led his troops to the city gate and opened the city gate.
Outside the city gate, Zhang Fei was already waiting with a Zhangba snake spear. As soon as the city gate opened, he immediately led his troops and rushed in.