Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 203 Tactical Countermeasures
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the defenders in Wankou City were already very tired when it was approaching the beginning of human settlement.

Their total number of soldiers is more than 1000, and the number of enemies outside the city is five times that of their own. In addition, they were beaten to the door of the lair by the enemy, and the morale of the army is actually very low.

Lu Su stood on the top of the city with a very serious face. At this time, Han Dang was summoning the soldiers to give lectures, encourage the soldiers, and strive to improve the morale of the soldiers.

The main reason is that they never expected that the enemy would suddenly appear in Wankou in the rear, which inevitably made them doubtful.

Could it be.

There is a problem with Zhou Yu on the front line?
The matter of Huang Zu's withdrawal of troops was completely a trap?
wrong.

If it was a trap, then it shouldn't be the enemy's small army of thousands of people attacking at this time, but a large-scale attack.

Huang Zu should not be so stupid as to send thousands of people to disturb them before defeating Gongjin.

So it is very likely that there should be a problem with the navy. After all, the troops sent there are only troops to restrain the enemy's navy. If they encounter part of Huang Zu's navy, maybe...

Lu Su thought about it.

He didn't think there was something wrong with Zhou Yu's plan.

Because they had already investigated Huang Zu's movements clearly, the troops were divided into three groups.

So at that time, Jiangdong's strategy was to follow the plan, pretending to send a navy to attract the two naval forces, but in fact the main force attacked by land.

If something really goes wrong, Xunyang is a trap. First of all, the weather doesn’t allow it. It was still stormy yesterday, and today it only rained slightly during the day, but it stopped at night. How could so many troops be mobilized so quickly?
Secondly, what Zhou Yu brought over was the main force of the Jiangdong army. It was the elite Sun Jia army of Sun Jian and Sun Ce. The strength of land warfare was not much worse than that of the northern army. How could Huang Zu's navy be comparable?

The last and most important point is that Lu Su felt that something was wrong. It must not be a mere school with thousands of people who came, but several armies with tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, in general, Lu Su thinks that Zhou Yu's side is fine.

What went wrong should be the Jiangdong navy controlled by Cheng Pu, Ling Cao, Dong Xi and others, who fell into a disadvantage in the fight with Jiangxia navy.

"I hope General Cheng is okay"

Lu Su thought in his heart.

At this time, Han Dang had already encouraged the soldiers, came to the top of the city and said to Lu Su: "Lieutenant Lu, how are you?"

Lu Su told Han Dang the conjecture in his heart, and finally licked his tongue and said: "I expect General Cheng's side will be at most a disadvantage instead of a big defeat, otherwise the enemy should be tens of thousands of navy attacking Wankou. So we just need to persevere a little longer, and we can wait for the good news from Gongjin."

"It would be best if that's the case."

Han Dang sighed and said, "It's just that there are few soldiers in Wankou and the enemy is numerous. I'm afraid they will never give up. What if we attack the city overnight?"

"It's okay."

Lu Su glanced at the mountains of arrows piled up on the surrounding walls and said, "We have plenty of arrows. Just use them, be careful at night, and have a wide view during the day. They can't do anything to us."

"Ah."

Han Dang nodded and walked towards the female wall.

He suddenly remembered something, turned his head and was about to ask the question that Lu Su had arranged for the night, when suddenly he heard the beating of drums, and the sound of horns outside the city.

"Enemy attack!"

The sharp whistle resounded throughout Wankou City, and the officers at all levels who had just arranged for some soldiers to rest hurriedly called the soldiers to come back.

Fortunately, it wasn't long before Han Dang gave his lecture, and the soldiers had just returned to the barracks, and hadn't taken off their armor to sleep.

At this moment, there was movement outside the city, and he quickly raised his weapon and ran out of the barracks to the city gate.

At this time, Lu Su had arranged two or three hundred people on the top of the city. He immediately came to the side of the parapet to look out, nervously looking out of the city.

But until the soldiers rushed to the top of the city under the urging of the officers, he didn't see a single enemy.

It was still dark outside the city, and nothing could be seen.

"A plan to exhaust the enemy!"

Lu Su's face darkened, the sound of drums and horns outside continued, but the enemy had no intention of attacking at all, obviously indicating that the other party had other plans.

There is nothing wrong with people not sleeping all day and night. The problem is that they cannot be in a state of high tension all the time.

Fighting a war is not as simple as singing and eating. If the soldiers continue to maintain a state of tension but cannot wait for the enemy for a long time, their mental state and energy are most likely to be quickly exhausted due to high tension.

Therefore, the strategy of exhausting the enemy often only takes a few days to succeed.

Of course, this kind of situation is generally used when one's own soldiers and horses are several times that of the enemy. Repeated harassment keeps the enemy exhausted. Row.

However, our army has few soldiers.

Lu Su couldn't help sighing.

"Lieutenant, our army is small, and the enemy has been harassing us all night, making us exhausted. If we don't care, we are afraid that it will happen again. What should we do?"

Han Dang followed Sun Jian and Sun Ce to fight in the north and south for many years, so he naturally knew the opponent's plan.

Lu Su looked at the still clamoring momentum outside the city, pondered for a moment, and said: "It's easy to solve it, it depends on whether the general has the guts!"

"Oh?"

Han Dang said displeased: "I have followed Wu Chenghou and Wu Hou across the north and south for many years, and I have even been to Xiliang, why don't I dare?"

Lu Su then said: "In this case, the general can lead 300 people out of the city and lie in ambush on the back mountain. When the enemy comes again to make noise, I will personally lead 500 people to attack, and the general will attack at the same time. "

"Out of town?"

Han Dang was shocked and said: "It is already very reluctant to defend the city, and even go out of the city to fight. If they invade in a big way, wouldn't they want to hand over Wankou?"

The geographical location of Wankou is very important, it can be said that Zhou Yu's retreat was cut off.

Now Zhou Yu's strategy is to take advantage of Huang Zu's retreat, attack Huang Zu, and then take advantage of the opportunity to occupy Chaisang and Xunyang, and even directly enter Jiangxia if he has the opportunity, occupy many cities along the river in Jiangxia County, and wait for the opportunity to attack Jingzhou.

Naturally, Shen Chen's strategic goal was to control Wankou and force Zhou Yu to retreat.In this way, Zhou Yu's retreat was cut off, so he naturally had no way to attack Jiangxia, so he could only retreat back to Wankou.

So the current battle for Wankou will become very important. Once Lu Su and Han Dang defend, or Shen Chen and Liu Qi capture, they will achieve their respective strategic goals, and the other party's strategic goals will fail completely.

Therefore, Han Dang absolutely could not accept Lu Su's suggestion to leave the city.

However, Lu Su persuaded: "Even the general thinks that we will be defeated if we go out of the city. Does the enemy still think that we dare to go out of the city? The so-called victorious soldiers first win and then seek war, and defeated soldiers first fight and then seek victory. Sometimes we want to win , you must first be invincible, otherwise if you continue to defend, the soldiers' morale will not be stable, and they will be destroyed."

"Ah."

Han Dang pondered for a long time, convinced by Lu Su's boldness, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, then I will lead the troops out of the city."

The drum noise outside the city continued.

The two discussed some details, such as sending scouts out to investigate the situation first, and then deploying troops to go out from the north gate, climb to the back mountain near the east gate and lie in ambush, waiting for the people in the city to use fire as a sign to attack together.

The drum noise outside the city lasted for about two quarters of an hour and finally stopped. Lu Su sent people out of the city to check. In the darkness, the scouts found the enemy's harassment troops, and they were retreating to the rear.

Anqing Pavilion is located on the edge of the Yangtze River in the southwest of Wankou. From the perspective of terrain, the back mountain of Wankou, which is the Lion Mountain in Anqing City in later generations, will stretch eastward.

In this way, the northwest direction of Anqing Pavilion is Wankou City, and the north direction is the remnant of Lion Mountain.

Therefore, at this moment, the one thousand harassing army led by Liu Nan is located in the northeast of Wankou.

The scouts from Wankou came back to report and reported the situation there.

Lu Su made the arrangements calmly. He thought that the enemy might set up guard posts around the Lion Mountain to observe the situation in the city at all times, so Han Dang should go a little further, from the north to the east of the Lion Mountain.

Han Dang accepted his suggestion, and quickly led 300 people out of the North City Gate in the dark, heading northwest for seven or eight kilometers, from the south of Lion Mountain to the east.

But Lu Su thought for a moment, and then ordered the soldiers to use wood as a support, tied straw on it, and prepared some fish oil to place on the top of the city.

Time passed by minute by minute.

After another half an hour, the drum noise outside the city sounded again.

Shen Chen personally brought two hundred guards to a small hill in the Lion Mountains to the northeast of the city and watched the city.

Because it was one or two kilometers away, I couldn't see clearly. I could only vaguely see at least nearly a thousand figures shuttling back and forth on the top of the city. I felt a little exhausted from the momentum outside the city.

Apparently his strategy of exhausting the enemy had worked.

"General."

The scout captain on the side said with a smile: "People in the city can't rest all the time, they will be exhausted soon."

Shen Chen nodded slightly and said: "Well, let the soldiers behind have a good rest and prepare to attack before sunrise."

"only."

The scout captain sent someone back to report to Liu Qi and Qu Gan.

Shen Chen continued to observe the city.

It was getting darker and darker, and he was a little tired, so he sat cross-legged under a tree, leaning against the big tree to rest.

After an unknown amount of time, in a daze, the personal guard shook him awake and said, "General, it's dawn."

Shen Chen opened his eyes in a daze, the sky was still dark, but there was already some light, like the gray world around five o'clock in the morning.

The ancients did not have clocks and watches. Although there were clocks and sundials for timekeeping, they were not portable, so they often counted the time by looking at the sky.

At this time, it was almost the beginning of sunrise at the end of Pingdan, Shen Chen stood up and glanced at the distant city.

He saw that the city was still gray, and Liu Nan was still sending soldiers outside the city to beat gongs, drums and horns. The defenders on the top of the city were indeed exhausted. Except for a few who were still observing on the female wall, most of them were on the city wall Sleep soundly.

Although the rain has stopped and it is June, the temperature in the south is not too cold, and even a little hot, but lying on the wet city wall and sleeping for a night like this, the defenders in Wankou probably will not feel good.

If you attack at this time, it is indeed very possible to take down the city.

"Let's go back."

Shen Chen then said: "Lead the army and prepare to attack the city."

"Yes."

The guards got up one after another. They were on duty in three shifts, and they were still a little energetic at this time.

In fact, I was woken up several times by the soldiers led by Zhang Nan in the middle of the night, but during the war, I woke up quickly and fell asleep quickly. As long as you are brave enough, it is not a big deal to fall asleep on the battlefield.

The Anqing Pavilion was not far away, and soon Shen Chen returned to the pavilion. At this moment, Liu Qi and Qu Gan had also woken up and were summoning soldiers.

The soldiers had already prepared planks and a large number of ladders at this time.

These wooden planks were temporarily removed from some ships on the pier last night. Although they are not as convenient as wooden mantles and shields, they can also protect themselves very well when soldiers hold large wooden planks during the advance.

Outside the Anqing Pavilion, Shen Chen assigned a task. According to the plan, Liu Nan harassed the enemy all night. The enemy must have been exhausted, and it was unlikely that they would believe that someone outside the city was really preparing to attack.

So now is a good time to win Wankou.

Now Shen Chen made arrangements, he asked Qu Gan to lead 500 people to continue attacking from the south gate, since the east gate is so lax, the south gate is more likely to be left unguarded, and then personally lead 500 people to lurk towards the east gate first.

Once he is sure that a surprise attack is possible, he will lead the 500 people to rush over and climb to the top of the city to snatch the city, so that the army behind can take advantage of the chaos and kill them in one fell swoop.

This arrangement is very reasonable.

If there are too many people, it is easy to be exposed, and the collective charge of the army cannot be concealed, and it is very likely that the enemy will fight back with bows and arrows.

Therefore, use a small number of troops to reach the bottom of the city and fight to the top of the city to seize the top of the city.

After arranging the tactics, Shen Chen led five hundred rested warriors and carried more than 20 ladders, and began to approach Wankou.

There is a gentle slope to the south of Wankou, the rest of the Lion Mountain to the northeast, and a flat plain to the east.

It is definitely not possible to rush directly from the east. He planned to go around the southeast of the city from the south.

At the beginning of sunrise, the sky was still gray in the dark clouds and dusk. Standing on the top of the city, you could only see the gray city less than [-] meters away.

Shen Chen personally led five hundred soldiers, and slowly approached the south gate, but the south gate was actually nearly half a mile away from the gentle slope, and it was only dark to get to the bottom of the city, so he had to be more careful now.

Liu Nan was still drumming in the direction of the east gate in the distance, and the gongs and drums were beating loudly. Shen Chen climbed to the gentle slope, raised his head and began to look around.

The south gate of Wankou, which was half a mile away from him, was gray and pitch black, and nothing could be seen. There seemed to be no one on the top of the city, except for the towers at the left and right corners, where it seemed that a few walking people could be vaguely seen. silhouette.

And at the foot of the Lion Mountain in the north, about one mile away from the city, Zhang Nan was sending soldiers in a small forest to continuously blow conch and drums, and the huge sound made the city's people indistinct.

"go!"

Shen Chen waved to the back, motioning for everyone to follow.

"Beep beep!"

Almost at this moment, he suddenly heard a piercing whistle.

"General, the city gate is open!"

The soldiers around him quickly reminded him to look towards the east gate.

Shen Chen also immediately glanced over, and saw that there seemed to be countless figures rushing out of the gray morning mist in the direction of the East City Gate, killing towards the small forest.

At the same time, the sound of drumming in the grove stopped abruptly, and then another whining horn sounded.

That was the sound of Jiang Xia's navy when they encountered an enemy attack!

　Starting from today and tomorrow, the condition has improved a lot, and there will be another chapter later

　　
　
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