Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 323 Is it bad to live?
Jingzhou has many mountains and rivers. There are no war horses produced here, and there are few horses in the army. The entire Quanling has less than a thousand war horses.

The horses that Lantian let Gao Shun board the ship were the footpowers that the entrapment army deployed for the reconnaissance battalion. The so-called soldiers and horses went first before the food and grass were mobilized, and Lantian gave the highest priority to intelligence.

There are 600 people in the siege army with mounts, of which [-] are in the reconnaissance battalion. Their armor is strong and their weapons are excellent, and everyone has a mount.

Lan Tian asked Gao Shun to train them as "special forces", so the scouts were the first to go out in every battle.

The soldiers in the formation were fully armed and dispatched, which attracted the people near the pier to stop and watch. It is unknown who among the crowd took the lead, and strong cheers and shouts echoed on both sides of the Xiangshui River.

The military-civilian mixed dock in the north of Quanling City has seen soldiers and horses coming in and out since the afternoon, and there are people flowing in all directions from east to west, north, south, and it didn’t calm down until sunset. Among them, the fastest march was the Quanling water army of Commander Gan Ning. , although the scale is only a thousand people, but the combat power is really strong.

There are 500 people in this navy army, which are the trilogy of Gan Ning. They followed him from Berkshire to Jiangling, from Jiangling to Jiangxia, and from Jiangxia to Jingnan.

At night, the starlight in the sky shines on the Xiangshui River, and the waters where the warships pass by are shining with fire.

It was nearly a day's journey from Quanling to Changsha, and Gan Ning ordered the warships to sail in the direction of Linxiang without stopping at night.

The sailors changed shifts and rowed the oars, and they reached twenty miles south of Linxiang before dawn. Gan Ning ordered the fleet to dock to rest and cook, and sent scout boats to inquire about the news.

An hour later, the scouts not only brought back the news, but also brought back the person who surprised Gan Ning, Changsha prefect Liao Li.

Liao Li no longer had the flair of a celebrity in Jingxiang, he was unkempt and dirty, his clothes were covered with mud, and he looked haggard as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Why is Prefect Liao here? Is Linxiang City lost?" Gan Ning asked in surprise.

Liao Li lowered his head and said nothing, his stomach growling.

The scout replied: "Jiangdong warships are docked on the east bank of the Xiangshui River. From a distance, there are probably more than a hundred ships, but there are almost no guards on board."

Gan Ning looked solemn, lifted Liao Li up, and shouted angrily: "My lord entrusts you with an important position, why don't you defend the enemy in Linxiang? Did Ling Tong break the city?"

Liao Li was in a trance, but was woken up by Gan Ning's scolding, and saw him stammering: "Linxiang? Well, like. It doesn't seem to be broken, but I guess it won't last long."

"Why are you here before the city is broken?" Gan Ning felt like he was going crazy.

"We had been holding on for two days. Later, we heard that Sun Quan had an army of 3000 to [-] people. How could Linxiang with only [-] to [-] people stand up? The most terrible thing is that they will definitely not let me go if they break the city, so before dawn I took advantage of the other party's slack and sneaked out of the city, but I didn't know where it was. Fortunately, I met your patrol boat by the river," Liao Li cried.

"Then you just lost Linxiang?"

Faced with Gan Ning's questioning, Liao Li was speechless, Gan Ning couldn't help but shook his head and sneered: "Isn't it just that you told the truth in the Yangtze River News, and the rats in Jiangdong hate you now? You really are the same breed."

Liao Li was suddenly very excited: "The truth is not like this at all. Ling Tong framed General Lan and I for poisoning Zhou Yu, and even used our heads to pay homage to their governor. If I stay in Linxiang, the other party may massacre the city."

"Do you also believe in such a mess of rumors?" Gan Ning looked at him contemptuously.

Liao Li shook his head and said, "This incident seems to be true. There was news from Dongting Lake, and Fu Shiren admitted it in front of General Guan."

Gan Ning asked playfully, "Then you really poisoned Zhou Yu?"

"It's just that I didn't, and I'm wronged." Liao Li shook his head like a rattle, and then reminded very ridiculously: "General Gan quickly send someone to Quanling, and let General Lan immediately take a detour to Yizhou, Jiangdong. With such a big crime, who can bear it?"

"It's ridiculous, what kind of person is Mr. Jiangdong? These idiots in Jiangdong can let him escape?" Gan Ning sneered.

"How many troops are there in Jingzhou now? Jiangdong has sent [-] to [-] troops." Liao Li swallowed his saliva.

Gan Ning spread five fingers and asked, "How many Jiangdong soldiers are there outside Linxiang City? Are there five thousand soldiers?"

"There should be so many at first, but they don't have siege equipment. They have consumed a lot in the past two days. There should be about 4000 people left, and the defenders in the city have also lost a lot." Liao Li replied with his head down.

Gan Ning leaned down and whispered, "I only have 1000 people here, do you want to see how I can defeat Ling Tong?"

Liao Li raised his head and stared at his big eyes, and asked incredulously, "How is that possible? Isn't it good to be alive?"

Gan Ning stood up and shouted, "Weigh the anchor and set off."

"General Gan, are you serious?" Liao Li panicked and grabbed the side of the boat.

"There is no joke in the army." When Gan Ning spoke, the warship beside him slowly pushed away from the shore.

"Can you?" Liao Li hesitated to speak. He wanted to escape from the warship at this time, but he felt very shameless.

Gan Ning reached out and grabbed the rope on the big boat, turned to the scouts and said, "You sent Taishou Liao to Yinshan County, and handed it over to the master."

"Wei." The scout received the order and steered the boat alone.

Liao Li looked back at the boat going north, Gan Ning at the bow was illuminated by the warm sun, like a golden sculpture, although it looked pretty enough, but why did these reckless people seek death?
The moment the ship missed the boat, a cloth bag was thrown from the big boat. Liao Li opened it and found that it was dry food, just in time for his stomach to growl.

Standing on the bow of the boat facing the wind, Gan Ning was still guessing what Lan Tian had left behind in Changsha. If he had been prepared, why would Liao Li have abandoned the city and fled?

More than 20 warships of the Quanling Water Army sailed at high speed, rushing into Lingtong's warships with lightning speed, and then the sailors on the warships, wearing soft armor and holding steel knives, jumped up to the enemy like agile apes. ferry.

Based on the intelligence analysis of the scouts, Gan Ning guessed that Ling Tong would attack the city during the day and return to the ship to rest at night, so he took the ship without stopping.

There were less than [-] miscellaneous soldiers on the Jiangdong warship, and the battle was over in less than half an hour like chickens and ducks waiting to be slaughtered in front of the Quanling water army.

Not far from Linxiang, there was constant shouting and fighting. Jiangdong soldiers were not good at attacking cities and they had no equipment. It was not easy to storm a city. Fortunately, there were few defenders in Linxiang City and their combat effectiveness was not strong.

On the one hand, Ling Tongyi put up a posture and set up a ladder to climb the city wall. On the other hand, he used arrows and books to shoot rumors and threats into the city, which greatly disintegrated the fighting will of the defenders in the city.

After Liao Li, the prefect, escaped, Dong Dang, the Changshi of Changsha, wanted to open the city and surrender, but was killed by the city defense school captain Liwei.

Seeing Dong Dang's head fall, Ling Tong knew that he had lost a chance to break the city. He pointed at the man at the top of the city to persuade him to surrender: "You, a small captain, dared to attack and kill the superior. How can Japan Liu Bei tolerate you? Why not leave yourself a way out and follow Fu Shiren's surrender to Jiangdong."

Chengtou Xiaowei sneered: "I want Linxiang to take it with his own ability, but you have no way out, so what face do you have to persuade me?"

"I'm trying to persuade you, but you are acting strangely." Ling Tong frowned.

The captain pointed to the southwest and said, "Take a look back yourself, your boats have all run away."

Because the distance was only two miles, Ling Tong turned his head and saw the warship moving westward. He didn't understand why the boatmen moved the boat without permission.So immediately send someone to run over to check the situation.

Ling Tong felt that the person in the city was unusual, so he asked curiously: "Do you dare to leave your name? I will keep your whole body after the city is broken."

"Xiangyang Xizhen."

(End of this chapter)