An arrow nailed the horse in front to death, but the horse behind continued to charge forward. It seemed that it would not let go of the messenger's corpse. However, when it entered the range of the archers on the city wall, it was stopped by a rain of arrows. [
The messenger paced back and forth several times but could not get close. Finally, he gave up and disappeared to the southwest side of Guan County.
After a long while, the guards of Guan County dared to go out of the city and drag the messenger's corpse into the county. At this time, they understood why the cavalryman wanted to get close to Guan County. It turned out that the messenger had a secret letter with him.
The city guards naturally did not dare to delay. They quickly sent the secret letter to the City Lord, Wang Yu. They also truthfully reported to Wang Yu what had happened just now.
For the next half a day, there was not much movement in Guan County. However, just after noon, the West Gate, South Gate, and North Gate of Guan County suddenly opened. Rows of soldiers filed out and finally gathered in the southwest direction of Guan County.
After about two hours, the three gates of Guan County were closed again. If someone who was familiar with military affairs was around, he or she would notice that there were about seventy to eighty thousand soldiers leaving Guan County within two hours.
In other words, there were at most twenty to thirty thousand soldiers in Guan County at this time.
Needless to say, there were two pairs of eyes near Guan County watching what had just happened. They were Yang Rui and Wu Anguo.
In order to avoid being exposed, Yang Rui and Wu Anguo hid in the weeds of a small hill far away. They could only see the outline of Guan County. However, this was enough.
After seeing the situation of Guan County's soldiers. Yang Rui knew that Guo Jia's plan was mostly successful. At the same time, Yang Rui calculated the time and estimated the approximate number of soldiers sent to Guan County, as well as the number of soldiers left behind to guard Guan County. In the end, Yang Rui revealed a determined expression.
Yang Rui looked at the northeast direction of Guan County. After a slight hesitation, he rode the Flying Carpet and Wu Anguo to the southwest.
Although Wu Anguo's size was far from Zhang Ning's light body, the Flying Carpet's flying speed was not affected by the Talisman of Coordination. However, the space on the Flying Carpet was much narrower. Yang Rui could only smile bitterly.
Wu Anguo was riding a horse to accompany Liu Dai's "messenger soldier". His mission was to kill the "messenger soldier" before he entered the city. From this, Yang Rui realized that Wu Anguo's archery was not ordinary.
Of course, the messenger soldier was chosen from Liu Dai's soldiers that Yang Rui had captured. His lines at Guan County's city gate were also prearranged. Guo Jia did not know what method he used to make the soldier easily compromise.
At the same time, the secret letter in the messenger soldier's bosom was forged by Guo Jia based on Liu Dai's handwriting that Gao Shun and the others had intercepted. Whether it was the handwriting in the letter or Liu Dai's official seal, they were all copied and forged by Guo Jia based on the original letter.
Yang Rui thought that it was a skill, but later he found out that it was a small skill that Guo Jia had practiced for a long time. It was completely different from Yuan Shao's forging of official seals and documents.
No matter what, Guo Jia's letter was already effective. In the letter, Guo Jia used Liu Dai's words to inform Guan County that the Qingzhou troops were going to attack Puyang City. Puyang City was now in danger and was about to be broken. Liu Dai's arms were also slightly injured and could not fight. He needed Wang Yu to mobilize all the soldiers in Guan County to assist Puyang City and coordinate with Yang Rui's troops to fight to the death!
Whether it was the calculation of time or the estimation of strength, the contents of the secret letter were very trustworthy. Moreover, some of the agreements and communication marks in the letter were complete, and the understanding of the situation in Guan County could not be forged. Therefore, Wang Yu did not have any doubts about the letter and sent out his troops.
At this time, according to Guo Jia's plan, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, as well as forty thousand Fifth Grade Iron Guards, six thousand Fifth Grade Valiant Warriors, ten thousand Fifth Grade Sword-Shield Soldiers, two thousand Fifth Grade Cavalry, a total of sixty thousand troops, a hundred siege vehicles, and four hundred scaling ladders had been set up in the north of Guan County.
To prevent the guards of Guan County from noticing anything amiss, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao led the troops back into Yang City. When they were retreating, they had left behind the bandit leader and some of the cavalry to stop the scouts in Guan County in order to cover up the movement of the troops.
At the same time, to ensure the secrecy of the operation, Yang Rui and Guo Jia had already agreed with Gao Shun and Zhang Liao on a time to attack Guan County. Now, everything was going according to plan, and the timing was very precise. Yang Rui only glanced towards the northeast before leaving with Wu Anguo. It was likely that Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were already on their way back to attack Guan County.
The rest of Yang Rui's army did not actually attack Puyang City. Instead, they took control of the towns and villages within fifty kilometers of Guan County, stationing two to three hundred thousand soldiers there. They also strictly controlled the flow of information between Puyang and Guan County to ensure the smooth progress of the plan.
Controlling the flow of information was an important part of the plan. While Yang Rui's army was intercepting the flow of information, he had also sent all the bandit leaders and five hundred Fifth Grade knights as scouts to guard the surroundings of Guan County. This was to prevent any information from reaching the outside world.
In fact, the scouts had seen all the soldiers sent out from Guan County. It was just that they didn't make a move on them after that. As for the messenger horses sent from the outside world to Guan County, they were all intercepted by Yang Rui's troops.
Therefore, even though Guan County knew that there were no more Yang Rui's army within fifty kilometers of Guan County, the information they received was still unequal. They could not find out the exact location of Yang Rui's army. They could only guess that they had surrounded Puyang City. That was the only way news from Puyang City could be completely sealed off!
About four hours after the 80,000 soldiers of Guan County left the city, the soldiers who were scouting ahead suddenly stopped relaying information to the back! Wang Yu, who was in charge of the army, immediately realized something. He temporarily stopped the army at a high-class town and prepared to send more scouts.
However, it was no longer necessary.
* Dong dong dong … *
"Kill! Kill! Kill! "
* Dong dong dong … *
"… …"
At this moment, the faint sound of war drums came from all around Wang Yu's army. He looked up and saw banners of various colors in the distance. Soldiers surged forward, completely surrounding Wang Yu's eighty thousand soldiers!
Wang Yu's 80,000 troops had already plunged headfirst into the encirclement of Yang Rui's 240,000 troops. At this moment, if one were to look out from the walls of the town where Wang Yu was located, they would see a sea of people moving about, seemingly endless. Anyone would know that they had fallen into the enemy's ambush.
"Get into formation and prepare for battle!"
As Liu Dai's loyal subordinate, Wang Yu immediately felt a chill run down his spine. He roughly understood that everything that had happened was probably just a ploy by the enemy! However, Wang Yu could only grit his teeth and charge forward. He forced himself to calm down and started to gather his men and form a defensive formation to defend against the enemy.
"Liu Dai is dead! Those who surrender will be spared! "
"Liu Dai is dead! Those who surrender will be spared! "
"… …"
However, Yang Rui's men didn't seem to have any intention of attacking immediately. After surrounding the enemy, they didn't charge forward immediately. Instead, they waved their banners from afar and shouted all sorts of slogans to persuade the enemy to surrender.
This continued all the way until the evening of the second day.
During this time, Yang Rui's men of Green Province didn't make any moves to attack. Wang Yu's eighty thousand men also didn't dare to make any moves to break out of the encirclement. Both sides remained in this stalemate.
It wasn't that Wang Yu didn't want to break out of the encirclement. However, more than half of these eighty thousand soldiers were new recruits. To save Liu Dai in Puyang City, Wang Yu had brought all the soldiers above Second Grade. Among them, there were over fifty thousand Third Grade soldiers. There were even close to twenty thousand Second Grade soldiers. Only ten thousand soldiers could actually fight.
Breaking out of the encirclement with these soldiers was too much to ask of them.
Fortunately, Yang Rui's men seemed to have made a move after the evening. They actually opened up a large gap in the northeast direction towards Guan County! Could it be that they were facing some sort of pressure in Puyang City? Or perhaps they wanted to open up a path to kill them?
General Wang Yu thought about it for a long time. In the end, he was urged to retreat towards Guan County by his lieutenants. As expected, Yang Rui's men of Green Province took advantage of their retreat and began to chase after the enemy!
Taking advantage of the enemy's retreat to pursue them from behind would certainly result in fewer losses than a frontal confrontation. This was a well-known fact. Despite knowing this, Wang Yu had no choice but to lead his men to retreat in the direction of Guan County. Perhaps this was the only way to survive.
"Open the gates! Open the gates! "
"General Wang Yu has returned! Open the gates! "
"… …"
Wang Yu's ten thousand most elite soldiers fled at the very front. They were originally four hours away from Guan County, but they had returned in just two hours. Even though they had lost over half of their men, they still had a chance to turn the situation around if they relied on the sturdy walls of Guan County to hold out for a while.
The remaining soldiers all felt as if they had escaped with their lives. They had already started shouting for the gates to open before they even reached the walls of Guan County.
Night had already fallen by now. It was too dark to see what was happening on the walls. When Wang Yu's soldiers reached the gates, they were greeted by rolling stones, black logs, and boiling oil!
"Ugh!"
"Ah!"
"Bastard!"
"… …"
A series of screams rang out near the city gate. The sudden attack caught the soldiers below the city off guard. Then, there were shouts of anger.
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