The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 824

For the Shu Han army, especially Deng Ai, according to his own prediction, this should be an easy battle to win.

But the breakout of Zhu Yi's men and horses was an unexpected time that Deng Ai did not expect.Of course, Deng Ai cannot be blamed for this. It is impossible to control the steps of war in this era with complete precision.He can only be as comprehensive as possible.

But then, another accident happened.Liuzan actually gathered all his own troops he could find to fight extremely tenaciously.In addition, as the time got later and later, the night became darker and darker. Although the Shu Han army had a huge advantage, due to limited conditions, there were still chaotic incidents in many places, so that they were attacked by the enemy. A strong counterattack suffered a lot of losses.

After Deng Ai got the report, he couldn't help being furious.

But Deng Ai is not a person who loses his mind easily, he is not Zhang Bao, he quickly regained his composure, and began to think about whether he should change his fighting method next.

At this time, Guy Meng's people suddenly came.

Deng Ai felt a little strange in his heart, wondering why Gai Meng would suddenly come here at this time.The tasks on his side are actually much more arduous than those on Gai Meng's side. Deng Ai's side is commanding the encirclement in three directions, while Gai Meng is only commanding the northern front.

But Gai Meng was Deng Ai's reinforcements, and it was an away game. Deng Ai owed Gai Meng a favor, so he had to meet Gai Meng's men.

Deng Ai soon met Gai Meng's man, but that man brought Deng Ai a piece of bad news: Although Gai Meng's cavalry launched a fierce attack on the enemy after forming a formation, A great victory was achieved.But the problem is that it is night now, and the actions of the war horses are greatly restricted. It is just that the cavalry can easily perform operations during the day, but they cannot perform them now.In addition, the fighting time has been a little longer at this time, and the mood of the enemy soldiers is gradually calming down.The combat power of the cavalry at this time is actually not much stronger than that of the infantry.

Moreover, the remaining members of the Jiangdong Army are almost all soldiers from big families. They are all elite troops who are not afraid of death, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Gai Meng sent someone over to discuss with Deng Ai the direction of the next battle.

Deng Ai didn't expect that Gai Meng's cavalry fought at night, and they encountered greater difficulties than his cavalry.

After thinking about it for a while, he could only sigh, and said to Gai Meng's men: "Go back and tell General Gai, and ask him not to forcefully attack the enemy again. You can temporarily retreat a distance, but you still have to Just surround the enemy army tightly and prevent the enemy army from breaking out. I will also adopt the same method here. When the light becomes brighter at dawn, our army will continue to carry out the annihilation battle tonight."

Gai Meng's hand left immediately, and soon saw Gai Meng, and told Gai Meng what Deng Ai did.This method is exactly what he wants, and Gai Meng has no reason not to use it.Well, now he only needs to prevent the enemy from breaking out, which he is confident can be done easily.

The transformation from offensive to defensive operations is not very strenuous for the 4000 cavalry team with high mobility on Gaimeng's side.But for the large number of troops on Deng Ai's side, it is definitely a complicated matter, not to mention it is still dark and late at night.

Therefore, it took Deng Ai more than five times the time of Gai Meng's side to finally get the encirclement done again!
Leaving praise is indeed not ordinary people.He saw that all the troops of the Shuhan army had gradually changed from the offensive posture just now to the state of encircling and not fighting. He immediately thought that the enemy might be afraid of too many casualties in the melee because it was too dark today.

Therefore, Liu Zan immediately told Zhang Cheng his opinion.

Zhang Cheng was already in a state of embarrassment at this time, and he was a scribe with no strength to restrain a chicken. After running around just now, he was already exhausted and looked haggard.

But Zhang Cheng still understood the meaning of Liu Zan's words, and said, "Is General Liu going to break out of the encirclement?"

Liu Zan nodded, and said resolutely: "General Zhang, we have suffered such a disastrous defeat. We have nothing to lose. But the enemy is different. They really want to reduce the losses in the battle now, because They are the winning side!"

Zhang Cheng nodded and agreed with Liu Zan.When it comes to winning, what he cares about is not necessarily the result of the battle, but how to reduce unnecessary losses in the future, so Zhang Cheng also admits that Liu Zan has seen the love in Deng Ai and Gai Meng's heart.

Liu Zan continued: "So, we can take advantage of the enemy's mentality to continue to launch counterattacks against the enemy and continue to fight with the enemy. At that time, as long as we find the loopholes in the enemy's encirclement, we can also The breakout was successful."

Zhang Cheng hesitated a little, and said: "But the troops I let go are exhausted now, I'm afraid we don't have the strength to continue fighting. If we just rest for one night, how about we wait until tomorrow morning to fight to the death with the enemy?"

Liu Zan knew that Zhang Cheng was extremely tired now, but no matter how tired he was, now was not the time to rest, because he was definitely waiting to die!

Liu Zan immediately said: "General Zhang can't be like this! If we rest until tomorrow daytime, the enemy's fighting power will definitely become stronger by then, and it is not something that the remaining troops of my family can resist. There is also a cavalry team watching, how will my family break out and escape?"

Zhang Chengchang sighed, and said: "In this case, pass on my order, and the whole army will start to rest for half an hour to recover the lost physical strength. Then, please leave the general to complete the next action. "

Seeing that Zhang Cheng was willing to delegate power to him at this time, Liu Zan couldn't help being moved.After all, it is a great honor to be trusted by superiors.

Liuzan immediately took orders and started to stop the troops.

But Liuzan immediately learned of the death of his second son Liuping.

Liu Zan felt a burst of grief, and almost fell to the ground because of it, but fortunately, Liu Zan helped him up again.

Liu Zan waved his hand, telling Liu slightly to go away, suddenly looked up at the dark sky, there was not a single star appearing on it.Liu Zan was silent and did not express any opinion on the news of Liu Ping's death.

Half an hour later, Liuzan began to lead the troops to break out of the encirclement.

But Deng Ai's side has made sufficient preparations for this. Although there were dangers from time to time, they still repelled Liuzan's six breakthroughs.

In the end, the sky finally became brighter, and the pale eastern sky heralded the arrival of daytime.

Both Deng Ai and Gai Meng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.The next step is to launch a war of annihilation against the enemy.

Especially on Gai Meng's side, his men played a bit useless last night, but this morning it's their turn to regain face and show off their glory!

(End of this chapter)