Chapter 562: Gucheng blocks

After receiving the military order from Le Ting to withdraw his troops, Ling An has been seeking a good opportunity to break through. As for surrender, Ling An never thought about it. After all, as a native of Zhao, as a powerful country who has always been at the top of the world, he looked down on a nouveau riche like Deng. After all, when Ling An was young, Deng was just struggling to survive in the cracks between the countries. How could he compare to Zhao, which had been dominating for more than a hundred years?

However, it is not so easy to break through. Deng's army blocked the Zhao army's route to break through tightly, and there was no chance at all. Ling An could only wait patiently. Fortunately, the food and supplies in Gucheng were enough to support more than March, and there would be no food and grass crisis for the time being.

Ten days passed like this. During these ten days, the Deng army had no intention of withdrawing the encirclement, and there was a problem with the Zhao army. Because the reinforcements had not arrived for a long time, the Zhao army, which was originally highly morale, was a little disappointed. Ten days ago, the Zhao army's deputy general Zhou Kun still swore that the reinforcements were coming, but ten days passed and they didn't even see the shadow of the reinforcements. This made people wonder about Ling An, Zhou Kun and other senior leaders of the Zhao army. If Ling An had not been suppressed by many years of prestige, they would have changed a long time ago.

But it is not a solution for a long time. Someone will notice the problem one day. By then, it may not be as simple as it will become. It will turn into a mutiny in minutes. This makes Ling An very anxious, but the opportunity never appears, so Ling An can only do it.

On March 17, the 11th day after Ling An received the military order, Murong Ke once again summoned the generals to the Central Army tent, because the time for the closing of the net was already here.

"Everyone, ten days have passed, and the Zhao army's morale must have fluctuated. It's time to close the net." Murong Ke said to everyone with a smile.

"Please give orders by the general!" Everyone stood up and bowed.

"Zhang Liao obeys the order!" Murong Ke said.

"Zhang Liao is here, please give the order!" Zhang Liao, who was sitting beside him, quickly stood up and bowed.

"I will order you to lead the elite Shence Guards to leave the camp tonight and go north. After crossing the mountain road, line up at the mountain pass. After Zhao's army crosses the mountain road, they will have all their strength to block it!" Murong Ke said.

"Here!" Zhang Liao replied.

"Li Cunxiao, Wu Tianxi, Li Dingguo obeyed the order!"

"The last general is here!" Li Cunxiao, Wu Tianxi and Li Dingguo stood up and responded.

"The Zhao army breaks through in the past or two days. From tomorrow, you wait for the three of you to lead the troops to relax the encirclement and wait for the Zhao army to leave the city and block it with all your strength!" Murong Ke said.

"Here!"

"Wenlen, Huan Heng, Deng Han, Deng Yu obeyed the order!"

"The last general is here!" Deng Han and the other two stood up and responded.

"After the Zhao army breaks through, you will lead our troops to enter Gucheng with us. You must control Gucheng as soon as possible and then pursue Zhao army!" Murong Ke said.

"Here!"

"Changsun Wuji, Fa Zheng obeys the order!"

"I'm here!" Changsun Wuji and Fa Zheng stood up and responded.

"I ordered you two to coordinate the army and coordinate all the troops!"

"Here!"

After issuing the military order, Murong Ke stood up, pulled out his sword from his waist, pointed his sword outside the tent, and said loudly: "This battle is related to the overall situation of our army in Pei County. Xu Sheng is not allowed to be defeated. I hope you will do your best to contribute to the hegemony of the Great Deng unifying the world!"

"Please rest assured, General, and the last generals should do their best to wipe out the Zhao army!" Everyone responded.

That night, Zhang Liao led 40,000 Shencewei to quietly leave Gucheng Camp and cross the mountain road to the north. In fact, it was not quiet, because Zhang Liao did nothing to avoid the Zhao army's suspicion. The reason why he chose to move troops at night was just to give Zhao army an unknown illusion.

The next day, Li Cunxiao, Li Dingguo and Wu Tianxi led their troops to withdraw the encirclement and gathered in the Gucheng camp.

Zhou Kun, who was responsible for monitoring Deng Jun's every move on the city wall, saw all this and hurriedly reported to Ling An.

"General, the Deng army suddenly withdrew from the encirclement, and the entire army hurried into the camp. There were tens of thousands of elite troops missing from the Deng army, and they were missing their whereabouts." Zhou Kun said to Ling An.

"The tens of thousands of elite Deng troops who disappeared out of thin air outside the city have already gone north last night, and the purpose is unknown." Ling An explained to Zhou Kun the whereabouts of tens of thousands of elite Deng troops who suddenly disappeared outside the city, and murmured: "For more than ten days, the Deng army suddenly withdrew from the encirclement without any warning, and tens of thousands of elite troops crossed Gucheng to the north. What are they trying to do?"

"General, now the Deng army's siege of Gucheng has been withdrawn. I wonder when our army will break through the siege and head north?" Zhou Kun did not hear Ling An's words clearly, but asked Ling An when he asked Ling An what he had left the encirclement since Deng's army withdrew from the encirclement?

Ling An ignored Zhou Kun's, but kept thinking about Deng Jun's intentions. Suddenly, he had an idea and exclaimed: "Yes, this must be the case!"

"What's wrong with the general?" Zhou Kun asked hurriedly when he saw this.

Ling An said: "The Deng army has been besieging Gucheng for only ten days, and there will be no food and grass crisis at all. The Deng army has tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of elite troops on all fronts, and there is no need for Murong Ke's army to support it. Now, there are only two possible opportunities for suddenly withdrawing the encirclement."

"Which two?" Zhou Kun asked.

"First, Murong Ke planned to give up Gucheng and go north to pursue General Leting. After all, General Leting is the chief general of my Great Zhao in Pei County. If something happens to General Leting, the entire Pei County battle situation will collapse. Even if we have 30,000 elite troops in Gucheng, we are definitely not the opponent of Deng's army. In the end, we can only hate the battlefield. Second, Deng's army has been besieging the city for a long time, but still has no way to deal with Gucheng. He intends to pretend to go north and lure our army out of the city so as to annihilate our army in one fell swoop." Ling An analyzed.

"General, what should we do? Do we still need to continue to break through?" Zhou Kun asked with a frown. Although he knew Deng's intentions, Zhao's army was still very passive, because if he broke through, he would fall into the trap of Deng's army. He would not be an opponent at all when fighting with Deng's army outside the city. However, if there was no action, the Deng army might go north to attack Zhuyi where Leting is located. With Leting's current strength, it would be difficult to stop it, so it would be a dilemma no matter how you choose.

Ling An smiled bitterly and said, "Do we still have to choose? Deng's army is an open conspiracy. Even if we see through Deng's intentions, we can only follow us. Besides, rumors are everywhere in the army. If we don't break through, we will collapse ourselves. Therefore, breaking through is imperative. However, before this, we need to arouse the morale of the soldiers in the army. After you go down, you will tell the soldiers that General Le Ting's reinforcements are blocked and that they will not come to Gucheng for a while. However, General Le Ting is ready. He will be able to accept our army fifty miles away. As long as we meet with General Le Ting, we will be safe."

Fifty miles, this is the distance Ling An has carefully considered. As long as the Zhao army maintains morale and breaks through with all its strength to 50 miles away from Gucheng, the Deng army will no longer be able to encircle and suppress its own side. By then, even though 30,000 troops cannot be taken away, at least half of them can be taken away, which is the biggest loss that Ling An can accept.

"Here!" Zhou Kun replied.

After Zhou Kun left, he went to each battalion to explain the situation. Although the soldiers were half-believing and half-doubting about what Zhou Kun said, they could only choose to obey.

After stabilizing the morale of the army, Zhou Kun sent people to make dry food in the city, each of which was equipped with seven days of dry food for breaking through. With seven days of food and grass, the Zhao army would not have a crisis of food outage during the fierce battle. If it goes well, seven days later, he and others believed that they had returned to Zhuyi.

On March 19, the north gate of Gucheng slowly opened. After Ling An's mobilization, 30,000 Zhao troops came out one after another and retreated to the north. At this time, the Zhao army's every move was also known by Deng army.

After learning that Zhao's army had left the city, Murong Ke immediately ordered Li Cunxiao, Wu Tianxi and Li Dingguo to lead their troops to block the attack, and he immediately led his army to control Gucheng.

"Report! Report to the general, the Zhao army successfully broke through the blockade of General Li Cunxiao, General Wu Tianxi, and General Li Dingguo, and headed north." Two hours later, the spy came to report that the Zhao army had successfully broken through the blockade.

Although Li Cunxiao and others tried their best to block the attack, the Zhao army was not willing to fight, but headed straight to the north without looking back. The two armies were equally strong, and the Zhao army was determined to leave, and it was difficult for Li Cunxiao and others to keep it. However, this time the blocking attack killed at least thousands of Zhao troops, which was considered a result of some results.

Murong Ke nodded, and then said, "The three of them were ordered to follow and pursue the Zhao army, and let the general bite the Zhao army tightly, so that he would not let him run away. In addition, he ordered General Zhang Liao to say that the Zhao army was coming and let him be prepared."

Murong Ke was not surprised at all that Zhao army could break through the blockade of Li Cunxiao and others. In fact, Murong Ke did not expect that Li Cunxiao and others would be able to keep all the elite troops of 30,000 Zhao troops alone, and it would be very good to be able to kill some of them.

"Here!" the spy responded, then left to pass the order.

After the spy left, Murong Ke said to Wenling again, Huan Heng: "Wenling, Huan Heng, please leave three thousand soldiers and horses to stay in Gucheng, and lead the rest of the troops to pursue Zhao's army."

"Here!" Wen Ling and Huan Heng responded. There were 20,000 elite soldiers in their hands. After leaving 3,000 people, there were more than 10,000 people. In addition, the soldiers and horses in Li Cunxiao and others could have more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000. In addition, the 40,000 Shence Guards outside the mountain road were more than enough to deal with the Zhao army with less than 30,000 people.

"General, the last general asks for battle!" Just as Wen Ling and his two were about to leave, Deng Han and Deng Yu and his brothers left the line to ask for battle.

I think that since his brothers came to the Spirit Snake Guard, they have never participated in any war except to lead the army north. How can they miss such a war now?

Seeing Deng Han and his brothers, Murong Ke had a headache. These two were really a time bomb among the Spirit Snake Guard. Indeed, Murong Ke also admitted that the Deng Han and his brothers had very good abilities, but they were limited to military command. In terms of martial arts, they were not even as good as the General of the Army. Deng Yu was a little better. He barely had the strength of the General of the Army. At the very least, he could have the force of a general of the army. However, Deng Han could not do it. Even the general of the army was better than him. If he was commanding the army to fight, it would be fine, but now he was fighting with the Deng army. This little force was easy to give away the heads.

"The two high men, this time, blocking the Zhao army was a close-killing battle, which was extremely dangerous. Both high men are all wealthy, so it is not advisable to take risks. It is better to stay in the army and coordinate the overall situation with the ministers." Murong Ke refused politely.

But the Deng Han and his brothers did not think so. Deng Han said, "General, although my brothers are not very good at martial arts, someone needs to coordinate the army to block the Zhao army. In this regard, my brothers and brothers ask themselves what they can do, so please rest assured General!"

Deng Yu also nodded repeatedly to assure him.

Upon hearing this, Murong Ke looked at Fa Zheng and Changsun Wuji helplessly.

The two were helpless, but Deng Han said it very well. Although the martial arts skills of the Deng Han brothers were not good, they were no less than Murong Ke when it comes to commanding troops. If they could coordinate the overall situation, they would be fine, so they nodded secretly.

Seeing that the two military advisors in the army agreed, Murong Ke had no choice but to say, "Well, since the two high men insisted on going to fight, the two high men should go with Wenling and the two generals Huan Heng." After that, he signaled to Wenling and Huan Heng, asking them to ensure the safety of the Deng Han brothers no matter what.
Chapter completed!