Chapter 1443 Guan Yu bursts the embankment and traps Ji Ling
Ji Ling sent Yan Xing, and his heart was surprisingly quiet. He led the troops to continue to slowly towards Shunyang. He was not in a hurry. As long as Guan Yu did not discover Yan Xing's movements in time, he would be slower and he would buy Yan Xing time for the surprise attack. All that was left was to wait for news of Yan Xing's victory.
The scouts' reports were constantly sent back, and the scouts on the front were still very strong, which showed that Guan Yu did not leave Shunyang. Ji Ling felt very calm. Soon Shunyang was finally looking at him. Looking at the flags and figures shaking on the head of Shunyang City, Ji Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Guan Yu was in Shunyang, so the one who divided his troops north to attack must be Guan Ping. The two cavalry and Qiao Rui's heavy infantry had a total strength of nearly 100,000, and he would definitely be able to completely annihilate Guan Ping, who was a small number.
As for Guan Yu in front of him, Guan Yu has about 80,000 infantry in his hands and 70,000 to 80,000 people in his hands, which is evenly matched. As long as he is careful, he will not have any problems. When the victory or defeat is decided in the north, Guan Yu will undoubtedly lose.
So Ji Ling slowly set up camp under the city. Guan Yu seemed to be in a hurry, and just closed the city gate and refused to leave, as if he was waiting for Ji Ling to come to attack the city.
Ji Ling was very grateful for Guan Yu's cooperation at first, but Ji Ling felt something was wrong not long after. Guan Yu was too calm, but what was wrong with this? Ji Ling frowned and thought.
"Not good! I'm fooled! I immediately ordered the assembly, stop building a camp, and prepare to attack the city, hurry up!"
"No! Gather, emergency gather!"
Ji Ling finally thought of something wrong. Guan Yu had not noticed Yan Xiang's whereabouts before, and it could be said that it was a mistake caused by the blockade of battlefield information between the two sides. But now that he had arrived at the city, Yan Xing was gone, so how could Guan Yu remain indifferent? The only reason he still remained silent was that he had known Yan Xing's whereabouts long ago!
"Come here, send an urgent letter to Yan Xing, Chen Ji, and Qiao Rui. Be careful of Guan Yu's surprise attack!"
"No! But General, isn't Guan Yu in the city?"
"On the city?"
"Yes, that's not?"
Ji Ling was a little confused. The guy standing on the top of the city was Guan Yu. Could it be fake?
No, attack immediately. Only by using combat tests can you prove everything.
"Send as the order!"
"promise!"
"Occurrence! Attack!!"
The Guan Yu army attacked the city immediately revealed its strength. The defense on the city was too weak. Most of the guys standing behind the battlements of the city wall were scarecrows in clothes. There were also many troops with weak combat power from Yi Ren. Once Ji Ling's troops rushed, the city immediately became in chaos.
However, Ji Ling was sure that the defender in the city was indeed Guan Yu. The elite troops that he was rushing in that direction suffered heavy losses! However, the so-called two fists cannot beat four hands. No matter how hard Guan Yu can fight, it is impossible for him to use such a few people to defend such a long city wall.
Ji Ling's troops rushed to the city wall easily. The defenders immediately turned around and ran away when they saw that the situation was not good. But what was strange was that they all ran north along the city wall, but refused to pass through the city. Ji Ling was wonderingly, suddenly heard a low rumbling sound. The originally hot air suddenly blew a cold wind, which made Ji Ling, who was covered in sweat, shivered.
This is... a flood!
No wonder the river downstream is so shallow, no wonder the defeated troops refused to go down the city wall. Ji Ling turned around suddenly and looked at his troops under the city wall, and couldn't help but see his eyes shattered!
"Go to the city, go to the city walls and throw away the baggage, hurry!"
"promise!"
The flood came very quickly, but the quality of Ji Ling's troops was indeed good. Everyone quickly climbed up the city wall. Even if they could not get up for a while, they would hide at the foot of the city wall. This place would buy more time for themselves. The comrades on the city wall also threw down the ropes and pulled their comrades upwards.
Ji Ling breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Guan Yu again, but saw that they were all on the north wall. The surging flood had rushed in from the wide open north gate. The rumbling flood shocked the earth and swept the buildings in the city. The turbid waves were rolled with wooden branches and debris, and they hit the city wall hard. Ji Ling was terrified to hold the shaking city wall, and his heart was raised to his throat. He didn't know that the water was poured by the turbid waves. Fortunately, the city wall was safe and sound. The soldiers on the city breathed a sigh of relief. Then they looked at the city behind him. Some of the unlucky comrades were swept away by the flood. They were swept away with them, including supplies, food, and camps that were not completed in the distance.
"Okay, good plan! The soldiers, Guan Yu is on the opposite city wall. Who will capture and kill this beast with me?"
"Kill!"
Ji Ling rushed over with murderous soldiers, but Guan Yu and others lowered the ship tied to the wall from the city wall and soon left no one left. Ji Ling was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. Thinking of the situation of Yan Xing and others, Ji Ling really wanted to die.
Since Shunyang is an empty city plan, Guan Yu's army will naturally ambush Yan Xing and Chen Ji. With Guan Yu's troops, Yan Xing, Chen Ji and Qiao Rui will face about 150,000 enemy troops. Including the enemy's preparations, they may have a pre-set battlefield and the assistance of Yi Ren. This... I'm afraid it will be bad!
Ji Ling now has superior troops, but his baggage is lost, and the water cannot retreat for a while. In one day and a half, the battle there may be over. Ji Ling can only watch it! It's such a good plan, a good plan!
Ji Ling figured it out. Even if Yan Xing didn't help Chen Ji, it was probably the same arrangement. Yan Xing would either be flooded or fell into the enemy's ambush trap. Speaking of which, it would be much more depressed to be flooded!
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Besides, Chen Ji and Guan Ping's troops ran into each other slightly. Chen Ji immediately retreated cautiously, and then slowly advanced forward after a round with Qiao Rui. Then he fought head-on with Guan Ping, who had arranged the positions. Both sides could be said to be evenly matched.
The two sides had similar forces, and Guan Ping occupied the geographical advantage and fully utilized the preset positions to block Cao's army. The Cao's army had the mobile power of cavalry. When Chen Ji was in a stalemate, he would bypass the mountain position from the side at any time and penetrate behind Guan Ping, so that Guan Ping could not fight the enemy in front with all his strength.
The two sides were entangled. Suddenly, another cavalry arrived in the south, and Cao's morale was suddenly boosted.
However, before Cao's army could cheer for Yan Xing's arrival, a sound of trumpets sounded, and countless echoes seemed to sound in the mountains, and the sound of trumpets continued. Then, in Cao's army's horrified gaze, countless Liu Bei's army's flags appeared on the hills around. The stone-capping machine that had already adjusted the shooting circle immediately threw down the overwhelming stones and stinging horses on the heads of Chen Ji and Yan Xing's troops.
Then, the figure of aliens appeared on the roads everywhere, and countless skill lights flashed on the roads. Needless to say, they were all trap skills!
Being trapped!
At this time, everyone understood. Looking at the waving flags on their heads, Liu Bei's army in Nanxiang may have the coefficients here, and the terrain...
There were shouts of killing everywhere in the mountains and fields. Crossbow arrows like flying locusts shot from behind the rocks. The skills and paper talismans fell from the sky from time to time. They greeted each other hard in crowded places. Cao's army was caught off guard and was under extremely unfavorable terrain, so they could not get a counterattack.
This melee continued until dark. Even though it was dark, Liu Bei's army and the strangers were still searching the surrounding hills with torches. It seemed that they did not want to let go of any fish that missed the net.
In fact, this is all illusion. The alien troops and auxiliary soldiers are active on the mountain. After the main battle ended, Guan Ping immediately led the infantry to go south quickly, trying to deal with Ji Ling, who was trapped by the flood. However, Ji Ling is not Yi and others. Although he was defeated, he is not in chaos. After the flood in Shunyang slightly retreated, Ji Ling led his army to retreat, and headed straight for the championship without stopping!
When Guan Ping arrived south of Shunyang, he saw only a shadow of Ji Ling's troops from afar. Seeing that his troops were exhausted, Guan Ping did not dare to continue chasing him. If he had a bad fight, he would be wronged. Guan Ping turned around and joined Guan Yu in the highlands north of Shunyang.
In the battle between Shunyang and Neixiang, Guan Yu annihilated two cavalry of Chen Ji and Yan Xing and severely damaged Qiao Rui's heavy infantry. Ji Ling escaped smoothly, but his supplies were lost. He could only guard the champion with concern for a while, for fear that Guan Yu would come to the door.
Guan Yu, who had achieved complete victory, was embarrassed to find that he had no ability to attack. Unless Liu Bei continued to send a large number of reinforcements, it would be nice to be able to defend Nanxiang with Guan Yu's current troops. It was obviously unrealistic to counterattack.
So the defeated Ji Ling stayed at the Champions League City and licked the wounds. The victory Guan Yu could only build Shunyang, which was destroyed by his own water, waiting for Cao's army to arrive again.
Cao Cao, who was returning to Xiangyang from Jiangling, saw Ji Ling's battle report and just frowned and shook his head. He was not particularly angry. Seeing this, Yan Xiang couldn't help but feel curious.
"Lord, Ji Ling's defeat in the battle is a rash mistake. Why didn't he scold him?"
"Well? Risky? That's not. In that case, Ji Ling's choice was right. I just didn't expect that Guan Yu had such a bold plan to build an empty city plan and flooded Shunyang to trap Ji Ling. It can only be said that Guan Yu's plan was clever, but Ji Ling could not be said to be appropriate in response. On the contrary, Ji Ling's handling afterwards was very appropriate."
"But if General Ji Ling didn't send Yan Xing north, the result might be different."
"Nothing is different. Yan Xing's cavalry will be swept by the flood, and Qiao Rui, like Chen Ji, will be surrounded and killed by Guan Yu's army with all his strength."
"This... there is always someone responsible for defeat."
Cao Cao glanced at Yan Xiang, his eyes flashed, and he waved his hand with a smile:
"If you really want to say that it is the responsibility, then the responsibility lies with the original person. If the original person is not so anxious, it would be great to wait until the subsequent troops arrive and attack Nanxiang. It was Guan Yu's continuous failures, which made the original person underestimate Guan Yu's strength! Guan Yu, you can't insult! Okay, there is no need to pursue this matter anymore, and send an order!"
When Yan Xiang heard this, he quickly lowered his head and replied in a stern voice: "I am here!"
"The order to Xiangyang and Wanxian will each dispatch 50,000 troops to supplement Ji Ling's troops, so that Ji Ling can immediately regain combat power. The prime minister will go north soon and join forces with Ji Ling to attack Nanxiang!"
"No!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!