Chapter 247 The enemy soldiers are attacking the camp again
"Sir, if we attack the enemy camp tonight, Yan Liang will prepare heavy troops and strengthen patrols. Do you want Xingba to attack the enemy camp tomorrow night?"
Liu Bei felt that the enemy generals had been alerted tonight, and they would definitely step up their defenses. If they went again tomorrow night, they would most likely be ambushed by the enemy generals.
Zhou Ping also thought about this problem, but he felt that Gan Ning should go there again.
"My lord, Yan Liang has always been proud of himself. If Xingba succeeded in attacking the camp tonight, he must have thought that we would not dare to attack the camp again. I thought that Yan Liang might not strengthen his defenses. Even if he was prepared, Xingba would not rush into the enemy camp.
, the goal can be achieved by just shouting outside the enemy camp to scare the enemy."
"Brother, sir, let me go tomorrow night!" Zhang Fei begged.
"Yide, let Xingba go. He is familiar with the layout of the enemy camp and can easily retreat even if there are abnormal circumstances." Zhou Ping said.
Zhang Fei wanted to say something more, but Liu Bei was the first to say: "Yide, you still have to escort Mr. to Yecheng. When the time comes, you will have the opportunity to kill the enemy, so why are you anxious!"
"Hey, hey, brother, my hands are itchy, and I also want to bring back the head of an enemy general to show off my power to my brother."
"As long as you safely escort Mr. to Yecheng, you will be showing off to me."
Liu Bei ordered his men to hang the heads of the enemy soldiers they brought back on the east wall, deliberately exposing them to the enemy soldiers outside the city, in order to boost his own power and destroy the enemy's morale.
Zhou Ping and Liu Bei stood on the city gate tower and looked at the enemy camp outside the city for a while. They saw that the three enemy camps were all brightly lit. It seemed that they did not dare to sleep anymore tonight.
When it was almost dawn, Liu Bei and Zhou Ping took everyone back to sleep.
After returning home, Zhou Ping got into Da Qiao's bed and woke Da Qiao up.
The risk of breaking out of the city this time is very high. You may not be able to break out, or you may be detained or killed by Yuan Shao after arriving in Yecheng.
Therefore, Zhou Ping should seize the time to enjoy the beauty again.
After a great battle, it was already bright.
Zhou Ping did not go back to sleep. He got up, dressed, washed, and ate. After eating, he did not ask anyone to wake up Zhang Wu. He only took a dozen guards to the top of the east city gate.
When I arrived at the city gate tower, I saw Liu Bei already standing there, and Guan Yu standing behind him.
Zhang Fei was not here, and neither was Xu Chu. Liu Bei probably wanted them all to have a good rest so that he would have the energy to escort Zhou Ping out of the city.
"My lord, you are here so early."
Zhou Ping walked over and saluted Liu Bei.
"Well, I want to see Yan Liang's reaction."
Liu Bei looked at the enemy camp outside the city and said.
The enemy camp can now be seen in the distance.
"Brother, look, the enemy soldiers are gathering out of camp."
Guan Yu squinted his eyes and pointed at the gate of the enemy camp.
Liu Bei and Zhou Ping looked up, and sure enough they saw Yan Liang wearing armor and holding a broadsword, walking in front, with soldiers and horses following him out of the camp.
It seems that he wants to come and start a fight to avenge what happened last night.
"Let the soldiers guard the city and prepare for war, and then send people to see how the enemy soldiers are on the other three sides." Liu Bei ordered.
The messenger behind him accepted the promise and sent people to deliver the order. He also sent people to check for any movement in the enemy camps outside the city on the other three sides.
"Lord, dozens of people died, they won't attack from all sides because of this," Zhou Ping said.
"This is the best. If they attack from all sides at the same time, the pressure on the city will be great!" Liu Bei responded.
"Neither Cao Cao nor Jushu know how to attack by force. If Yan Liangruo attacks by himself, he will only die on his own."
Liu Bei asked: "Sir, do you know Yan Liang quite well?"
Zhou Ping replied with a smile: "I know a little bit. This man is brave and reckless, so there is nothing to worry about. However, we still want to persuade Yuan Benchu to retreat. It is not appropriate to have too deep grudges with him at this time. If he comes to ask for a fight, we can take the leader we brought back last night."
Returning the emperor not only shows his power but also shows his lord's benevolence."
Liu Bei felt that Zhou Ping had thought very carefully, so he nodded and said, "It's just as Mr. said."
Yan Liang indeed brought troops to call for war. He brought out 15,000 people, arranged them in formation outside the city, and sent people to the bottom of the city to call for war.
Zhou Ping ordered a soldier beside him: "Go and tell them, just say that we worked hard last night, the soldiers are sleeping peacefully, and have no time to fight. Seeing that they are all languid, it seems that they must not have slept well last night, so let them all go back."
Go to sleep. Also, tell them that the lord is kind and willing to return the head and let them come to the city to get it."
"promise."
The soldier accepted the promise and ran over to the people coming down from the city to shout in response to Zhou Ping's instructions.
"Go, throw all the heads down into the city and let them send someone to get them."
Liu Bei ordered, and there were other soldiers who promised to take care of it.
When Yan Liang heard the reply, he was so angry that he pointed his sword at the city and cursed: "Liu Bei, if you have the guts, lead your troops out to fight me. If you don't dare to fight, you can quickly leave the city and ask for surrender. I can keep you."
A whole corpse. Otherwise, when the city is destroyed, I will cut you into pieces!"
However, after he cursed, he saw that all the heads hanging on the city wall were thrown off the city.
These were the heads of soldiers in the army. He quickly sent a dozen people to the city to pick them up.
At first, these dozen soldiers were afraid that they would be shot to death by the guards on the city when they reached the bottom of the city. They walked forward cautiously one by one until they reached the bottom of the city, picked up the head, then ran away and ran back.
Only when they arrived in front of their own formation did they feel at ease.
The soldiers came to report to Liu Bei, saying that there was no unusual movement in the enemy camps on the other three sides of the city, and everything was as before.
Only then did Liu Bei feel relieved and continued to look at Yan Liang outside the city and curse.
Yan Liang scolded him for a long time, knowing that Liu Bei could not go to war, so he returned to camp with his troops.
In the Jushu camp.
"General Yan was so careless that he let the enemy soldiers break into the camp and killed dozens of soldiers. Fortunately, there were only a few enemy soldiers attacking the camp. If there had been more people, the whole camp would have been in trouble!"
Although Jushu was the governor, Yan Liang had always been favored by Yuan Shao and did not take Jushu seriously. Therefore, although he was dissatisfied, he could not directly rebuke Yan Liang, but could only complain in vain.
Wen Chou and Yan Liang had a good relationship, so they felt quite uncomfortable after hearing what Ju Shou said, but what they said was true. It was a great shame and humiliation for them to let people into the camp and so many people die.
"General Ju, General Yan is careless, but Liu Bei can't do anything, and he doesn't dare to fight. He can only do some secret plots and seek some self-comfort. The death of dozens of people will not allow Liu Bei's troops to win immediately.
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Jushou shook his head secretly. In his opinion, Wen Chou and Yan Liang were both brave and foolhardy.
Killing dozens of people in a camp of 20,000 people may not seem like much, but the impact it brings is immeasurable.
Cao Cao was shocked by this.
"The enemy soldiers in the city dared to pull off their antlers and break into the camp, beheading dozens of them and taking them back? Was it Zhang Fei or Guan Yu who led the army?"
Guo Jia responded: "Yes, in a camp of 20,000 men, more than a hundred people pulled out their antlers and rushed into the camp, killing dozens of patrol soldiers. Haha, how could such a commander win? However, Ming Gong guessed wrong.
, the person leading the army was neither Zhang Fei nor Guan Yu. It is said that he was a man named Gan Ning. When he broke into the camp, he called himself by his name."
"Gan Ning?" Cao Cao thought for a moment and seemed to remember something about Gan Ning. He couldn't help but sigh, "I didn't expect Liu Bei to have so many talents to help him. If such a brave and courageous man was used by a lonely man, wouldn't the world be in trouble?
Pingye!"
"Ming Gong, I heard that Gan Ning was originally in Jingzhou and was invited by Zhou Ping to assist Liu Bei when he came to Jingzhou. Xu Chu and Tai Shici were also recruited by Zhou Ping for Liu Bei."
"Zhou Ping, Zhou Wen'an, this person and Gu are both Pei people, but they don't help Gu but help Liu Bei. Now they are even more enemies with Gu! If Gu had gone to see him in person in the past, there might be no war in the world today, and Gu wouldn't have to be here.
It’s such a hard work, what a pity!” Cao Cao sighed again.
Guo Jia said: "Liu Bei's successful attack on the camp will definitely boost the morale of the city. It will be even more difficult to besiege the city and cause it to collapse!"
"Once Liu Bei succeeds, I'm afraid he will repeat his trick and order the camp to strengthen sentries and double the number of patrol soldiers. Also, send someone to tell Zixiao that he will also strengthen patrols and not let the enemy in the city
The soldiers came out and attacked the camp, this Gan Ning is a man who is not afraid of death!"
Cao Cao ordered to go down and ask his camp to the west and Cao Ren's camp to the north to increase manpower for patrolling. In particular, they should pay more attention to the secret posts outside the camp to prevent enemy soldiers from getting close to the camp.
Unlike Cao Cao, Yan Liang did not take it seriously when he returned to the camp. He did not arrange for more manpower to patrol or set up hidden sentries, but went back to his tent to sleep.
It was so noisy last night that he didn't sleep all night. He went out to challenge Liu Bei but didn't dare to fight. What could he do if he didn't sleep when he came back?
A school captain came to persuade him, saying that he should be on guard against enemy troops attacking the camp again.
Yan Liang laughed and said: "Are you stupid or am I stupid? The enemy soldiers attacked the camp once last night. Do they dare to come again tonight? There is no need to increase patrols. Just keep everything as usual. Otherwise, if people find out, they will think I am
I am afraid of Liu Bei."
The captain did not dare to say anything more, so he had no choice but to keep everything as before, except that he had people replace the dozens of people who were killed.
Zhou Ping followed Liu Bei back to the Prefectural Shepherd's Mansion, asked Liu Bei to write a handwritten letter to Yuan Shao, and discussed some specific matters. When the sun was tilted, he went home to catch up on his sleep.
He would go to the city to watch the battle again in the evening.
I slept until nightfall, and when I woke up, the lights were on in the room.
After eating, I played with my daughter for a while, and chatted with Gan Qian for a while. Then I took Zhang Wu to the Prefecture Mufu, planning to go to the East City with Liu Bei to watch the enemy later.
It's midnight, almost midnight.
Liu Bei, Zhou Ping and others stood on the east city gate tower and looked outside the city. It was still dark and they could only see scattered light spots in the distance.
All the soldiers in the enemy camp were already asleep.
"Sir, the enemy camp is still the same as before. Could they be prepared?"
Liu Bei was a little worried. A strong general like Gan Ning was rare and he didn't want to be ruined like this.
Zhou Ping smiled and said: "Lord, don't worry, I have told Xingba to retreat immediately if the situation is found to be different. However, based on my understanding of Yan Liang, this person may think that if we attack the camp once, he will give up and will not attack again. We
Returning the heads of the enemy soldiers during the day is just to reassure them, and Xingba and others should be able to break into the enemy camp tonight."
"If we succeed two nights in a row, Yan Liang will definitely send more troops to guard. Wouldn't it be more difficult, sir, to break out of the city tomorrow night?"
"I have thought about this. The two nights of Xingba will attack the camp at Zi time, and I will leave the city an hour later and leave the city at Yin time. At this time, the enemy soldiers will definitely think that the night is safe. Moreover, the enemy soldiers are guarding
Inside the camp, the place we need to pass is the passage between the two camps. When the time comes, they will set up defenses inside the camp, but they will not set up more troops outside the camp."
Liu Bei laughed and said: "Haha, sir, it turns out that sir has a long-term plan. When sir leaves the city tomorrow night, Xingba can follow behind to attract enemy soldiers."
Zhou Ping smiled slightly and said, "That's what I meant."
Zhang Fei, Xu Chu and Zhang Wu stood behind them, while Guan Yu still led his troops to respond outside the city gate.
At this time, Xu Chu pointed to the bottom of the city and asked Liu Bei and Zhou Ping to look at it. He could vaguely see a figure moving outside the city. It seemed that the time had come and Gan Ning was leading people out of the city.
At the bottom of the city, Gan Ning gained the victory after breaking into the camp last night. He became more courageous and did not take the enemy soldiers seriously.
However, the enemy soldiers were alerted last night, and tonight they may strengthen their defenses. Not only will there be more patrols in the city, but there may also be hidden sentries outside the camp.
Therefore, Gan Ning led everyone to be more careful, squatting and moving forward carefully step by step, for fear that a group of enemy soldiers would suddenly appear in front of them.
However, after traveling more than three miles, we did not encounter a single enemy sentry.
Gan Ning felt a little strange and began to feel worried.
If the enemy soldiers have hidden sentries, it can make people feel at ease, but this situation makes people feel uneasy.
Although he was not afraid of enemy soldiers, he was also afraid of being ambushed by enemy soldiers. If that happened, even Guan Yu's soldiers and horses would not be able to save him.
He continued to move forward carefully, until he reached the edge of the camp, but saw no enemy sentry.
"Captain Gan, why didn't any of the enemy soldiers notice us?" the soldier beside him asked in a low voice.
"Shhh, don't make a sound and go pull the antlers."
Gan Ning brought out ninety-five people this time. Five people were injured last night and could not come again.
He left a few people scattered behind to guard. If they saw an ambush of enemy soldiers, they could shout immediately and he would lead them to retreat.
Still fifty soldiers came forward to pull out the antlers.
The place Gan Ning came to was the same place last night. The antlers had been pulled out last night, but they were taken away by the enemy soldiers today.
Relatively speaking, it was easier to pull out the antlers tonight. It was not until all the antlers were pulled out that the soldiers on the watchtower heard the sound and shouted: "Who is there?"
Gan Ning could clearly feel that the voice of the person asking the question was slightly trembling, and it seemed that he was frightened.
"Stop it all."
Gan Ning ordered in a low voice.
Everyone crouched down and remained motionless, and no one responded.
At this time, someone on the watchtower said: "You are too suspicious. How come the enemy soldiers dare to come here tonight? Even if they dare to come, they will never come to the same place again! Don't frighten yourself by letting the enemy soldiers attack you!"
"I clearly heard a sound over there just now..."
"There is no sound. Listen, is there any sound besides the wind?"
"How about sending a team of people to take a look."
"Forget it, do you think the enemy soldiers are all people who are not afraid of death? They dare not come again after eating the leopard, so don't be paranoid. If they were really brave, they would go out of the city to fight General Yan today."
"Haha, that's true. Our General Yan is invincible in the world. If Liu Bei dares to fight, we can follow him into the city and enjoy the blessings. There is no need to blow the cold wind here."
Gan Ning heard the shouts and asked, and since he had been crouching for so long without seeing any enemy soldiers appear, he was sure that there would be no ambush.
"Enter camp."
Gan Ning whispered again, and he was the first to cross the trench, climb over the camp, and jump into the enemy camp, followed by the soldiers behind him.
"Did you hear it? There is really a sound over there."
The person upstairs heard the sound again and said to another person.
The other person listened for a moment and confirmed that he also heard the sound, and quickly shouted loudly: "Who is it? Who is there?"
But no one responded to him, and the constant sound of people climbing over the base and jumping into the camp convinced him that enemy soldiers were attacking the camp again.
"Attack the camp, the enemy soldiers are attacking the camp again!"
