370 Conquering Liyang City
Guo Jia looked at Gan Ning's almost unconscious figure, and he pondered in his heart. With his brilliant halo, Gan Ning could already recover most of his internal strength and physical strength in the early morning. His injuries were not very serious. After all, it was just an ordinary soldier. As a battlefield, many of them were Hua Tuo's favorite disciples.
Hua Tuo himself must be in Wancheng to ensure the absolute safety of Zhao Fei. In other battlefields, Chen Da, Xuzhou, and the Wei Yan and Li Yan who were attacking the Southern Barbarians, and finally Huanan County. In these three battlefields, in addition to ordinary military doctors, they will definitely send some of Hua Tuo’s most proud disciples.
These disciples are all accustomed to Qingnang, the most powerful disciple sent by Guo Jia. Qingnang had already practiced to the tenth level, with three skills of generals, herbs, blood circulation, blood stasis, and other skills of generals, as well as living pills, Gan Ning's injuries can also be recovered quickly.
Gan Ning is a very important combat power. His recovery can be of great help to the attack in the early morning.
On the contrary, although Guan Yu was not injured, his internal strength was exhausted. Without the excellent support of the brilliant halo like Guo Jia, he might only recover by one fifth of his time, which means that his physical strength would recover to more than thirty and his internal strength would recover to more than twenty.
At that time, Guan Yu would definitely not be Gan Ning's opponent.
Besides, this is a strong attack. Guo Jia is not ready to attack. He has been preparing for so long, so he naturally has to conquer Liyang City at the lowest cost.
Guan Yu ordered the withdrawal of troops. He looked at the Jiangban and one-third of the troops lying on the ground, and felt extremely regretful.
However, the five thousand infantrymen were killed and scattered, and at most six or seven hundred people could survive. This finally gave Guan Yu some comfort. In this way, only the enemy's navy was there, and he was still very familiar with the situation in Jianye City. He knew that the enemy had no extra troops.
If the navy soldiers turn into infantry to attack the city, Guan Yu would be unlucky. The training of the navy was much stricter than that of the infantry, and it was difficult for infantry to be a navy, but the navy was definitely not inferior to ordinary infantry when it landed.
The conversion of 50,000 navy troops into 50,000 infantry will put huge pressure on Liyang City, but Guan Yu still couldn't find it.
Guan Yu understood very well that Zhao Fei's biggest advantage was the navy. It was precisely because of the existence of the navy that Zhao Fei was invincible. After Cao Cao and Liu Bei joined forces and Dong Zhuo was eyeing Hanzhong, Zhao Fei was confident to counterattack.
Because even if it fails, Zhao Fei can just retreat south of the Yangtze River. With naval troops there, the Yangtze River is a natural danger.
If the 50,000 naval army voluntarily gave up its advantage on the water and turned into ordinary infantry to attack ashore, even if Liyang City is lost, as long as you fight for the 50,000 naval army, Guan Yu would think it would be cost-effective.
Half of the navy army was killed, and Zhao Fei would have a little difficulty in trying to control the entire Yangtze River Basin with the remaining 50,000 naval forces. At that time, Liu Bei would have the opportunity to peek at the south of the Yangtze River.
It was precisely because of this that Guan Yu did not feel much failure in his heart. He brought the remaining Yanyun Iron Cavalry back to the city, arranged a little defense, and Guan Yu went down to rest.
Guan Yu was very confident. He knew that the enemy's five thousand infantry had just arrived ashore and was immediately driven back like a duck in the water. This would have a great blow to the morale of the enemy. Guan Yu believed that the only thing the enemy could do at this moment was to recuperate.
Gan Ning was injured. Guan Yu knew that Gan Ning's injury was not very serious, but he was still unable to use force within at least three days.
Except for Gan Ning, Guan Yu did not take any of the other people in the enemy seriously. Gan Ning has temporarily lost his combat power, so Guan Yu can naturally have a good rest. He also decided in his heart that when his condition recovers, he can counterattack once while Gan Ning is unable to use force.
Guan Yu collected some small boats. Although it was only a matter of minutes to be eliminated by the Jiangdong Navy when the enemy thought that the water was absolutely safe and careless, these small boats could also have a good effect when they attacked them. Maybe they could rob many large ships back then.
Guan Yu also has his own plans and ambitions, but what he didn't know was that all his plans were silently seen by Guo Jia, and he probably wouldn't have the chance to perform them.
The night gradually became deeper, and all the Jiangdong naval troops were withdrawn on the river surface, clean and neat, without any nostalgia.
Guo Jia instructed all the soldiers to have a good rest and prepare for the upcoming sneak attack plan.
Time passed minute by minute, and in the early morning, in Xuzhou, Chen Dao, with 20,000 troops, could already see the walls of Tancheng.
In Jianye, the 50,000 soldiers under Guo Jia also got up quietly.
After having a meal and preparing everything, Guo Jia did not ask the soldiers to cross the river by relying on the big boat, but all took small boats.
The small boat spirit is small and difficult to be discovered. On the head of Liyang City, those soldiers who experienced fighting nerves and patrol night were very tired, and the torches on the city walls were also dim. If a big boat crossed the river, it would definitely be discovered, and the small boat would be hard to say.
Gan Ning, Ling Cao and Zhu Heng led a team respectively. After arguing the time, they would attack the three city gates of Liyang together.
They all crossed the river two thousand meters away from Liyang City, trying to avoid the enemy's suspicion, each of whom brought 10,000 troops. Gan Ning had the heaviest task, and he wanted to go around the north side of Liyang and attack the north gate.
Gan Ning's state has recovered most of his strength, his physical strength has recovered to more than 80 points, and his internal strength has recovered to 100 points, and most of his combat power has been achieved. It has to be said that Guo Jia's brilliant halo is still very powerful in some aspects.
Teams of people, under the cover of the night, quietly arrived at the place they had made their appointment, and then waited for Guo Jia's order.
Guo Jia waited for about one stick of incense. After everyone was preparing, he ordered Zhu Zhi to take 20,000 troops and drive a large ship to attack the south of Liyang City.
It is impossible to attack from the water, only shooting arrows, but it is impossible to attack Liyang City. Guo Jia did this just to attract the attention of the enemy.
This huge movement not only attracted the enemy, but also sent the signal of attack to Gan Ning and others.
The four gates attacked together, and Guan Yu was still resting, but he was shouted by the nervous soldiers, but at this moment, it was already a little late.
Chen Deng was not very tired, so he tried his best to arrange his soldiers to defend the city. He did not expect that Guo Jia would attack the city again after several hours after being defeated.
Most of the soldiers were sleeping. After all, it was impossible for them to all defend the city during the confrontation. So what should I do during the day tomorrow?
A few soldiers guarding the city might have to resist the attack from all sides. Among them, Gan Ning's offensive was the most fierce. He seemed to have climbed the city wall in a few seconds to exude anger in his heart, and then killed all the way. When the number of enemy soldiers was small and most of them were still in the city, he had already killed off the city tower and opened the city gate.
A large number of soldiers rushed into the city. Guo Jia felt relieved as he heard the loudest whistling in the north. Although Gan Ning did not act according to the plan, Liyang City's defense was not tight, and Guan Yu did not take any more precautions.
After Guan Yu was dressed neatly and left the mansion, he was calmly preparing to command the city, but he bumped into Gan Ning's army head-on.
When the enemy meets, they are extremely jealous.
At least Gan Ning thought so. He was very excited when he saw Guan Yu. He had some flaws that would be repaid. Guan Yu kept suppressing him. He thought that he had no chance to trick Guan Yu into the boat to fight. He was indeed not opposite Guan Yu on the land, so it was difficult to find this scene.
Now that Guan Yu has not recovered, Gan Ning knows that his chance has come. As for fairness or not, Gan Ning will not think so much. If he really pursues fairness, why didn’t Guan Yu fight him on the boat? Why did Yanyun’s Iron Cavalry chase him and fight before?
It was just when he was hitting the dog in the water that Gan Ning was very excited. He howled fiercely and then rushed towards Guan Yu.
Guan Yu's expression changed, "Aren't you injured? How could he recover so quickly?"
"Hmph!" Gan Ning snorted coldly, without explaining, but rushed towards Guan Yu.
Tattata!
The sound of horse hooves came from behind the street, and Guan Yu was delighted. He was worthy of being the Yanyun Iron Cavalry, and he came very quickly.
With more than 1,700 cavalry, and with the help of infantry, the enemy should be able to repel them.
Gan Ning listened to the sound of horse hooves and sneered. This was not the spacious plain outside the city, but the streets, which greatly restricted the performance of the cavalry.
"Iron caltrop," Gan Ning shouted to the soldiers behind him. If he hadn't prepared enough before and hadn't brought this thing with him, perhaps he could have left more Yanyun Iron Cavalry.
Guo Jia actually thought of it, but his plan was to make Guan Yu give up his vigilance, so he did not mention the caltrops at all, and Gan Ning really forgot it.
Now that this time, Guo Jia has naturally brought some of each unit.
Even if horseshoes are invented, well-made caltrops will still cause strong lethality to horses, let alone this time.
The streets are so narrow that it is the most suitable place to use caltrops. If it is on the plains, the cavalry has extra terrain to bypass caltrops, but here, unless it retreats, you can only go to it with your teeth.
Guan Yu could see the caltrops, his face changed and he quickly shouted: "Get back."
But it was too late at this time. The cavalry charged forward and it was unstoppable, and it was difficult to stop. Even when they heard Guan Yu's order, the cavalry in front saw the caltrops with cold light on the ground. Under the continuous impact of the cavalry behind, the cavalry in front who tried to stop, involuntarily attacked the caltrop formation.
The caltrop is roughly formed by four iron spikes, which is triangular cone. This means that when scattered on the ground, it must be a triangle fixed as the base, and then another iron spike will be perpendicular to the ground.
This is not so much an iron spike, but an iron nail. It is about ten centimeters long. If a horse is stepped on with one hoof, it will definitely be useless.
There are so many caltrops on the ground, but the horse has four horse hooves. As long as one step is hit, the cavalry will be ruined. (To be continued. Please search for Piaotianyi, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
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