Three Kingdoms: Jiangdong is no longer a rat

Chapter 58 Ambush
Zhou Yu stood behind the parapet, looking anxiously at Fan Yi's troops outside the city. Drops of water slid down his cheeks, and he couldn't tell whether they were rain or sweat.

Despite trying to stay calm, his legs couldn't stop shaking.

He couldn't help but be nervous. At this moment, dozens of Danyang soldiers wearing Qian Tong Army uniforms and armor were standing around him, with their hands already grasping the hilts of their swords. Once he raised a warning, or failed to lure Fan Yi's troops into the city, they would be chopped into meat paste immediately.

Yan Yi also promised that as long as he could lure the Yuncheng reinforcements into the city, he would spare his life and ensure the safety of his family.

People in this era attach great importance to trust and integrity. Yan Yi made a promise in front of all the soldiers under his command, so Zhou Yu naturally believed it without a doubt.

Faced with the choice between life and death, he chose the former without hesitation.

How could he bear to leave his wife, children, and concubines in the city? As for the life and death of the Qian Tong army, he had already forgotten about them.

At this time, in the gate tower next to the city wall, Yan Yi, Fan Yan and more than 300 soldiers were hiding behind the wall, making preparations with bated breath.

According to the original strategy, if Qian Tong sent reinforcements, Yan Yi's troops would block them on the south bank of the suspension bridge, set up an ambush, and look for an opportunity to annihilate them.

However, when conquering Qian Gong Lei, the entire army suffered relatively heavy casualties. The soldiers were generally exhausted after a night of marching and fighting.

Under such circumstances, Yan Yi believed that if a field battle was fought with the Yuncheng reinforcements on the south bank of the suspension bridge, there would inevitably be greater casualties. Even if the reinforcements could be annihilated, the remaining troops would not be enough to pose a threat to Yuncheng.

Therefore, he quickly adjusted his battle plan and decided to lure the reinforcements into the city, relying on the geographical advantage to encircle and annihilate them under the south gate wall.

He is a decisive person. Once he makes a decision, he puts it into practice immediately.

First, some Danyang soldiers were ordered to put on the armor of Qian Tong's army, raise the flags of Qian Tong's army, and distribute them to the four gates of Qian Gonglei. Then, the 500 most elite soldiers and 150 cavalrymen were ambushed around the south gate, and 200 cavalrymen were hidden on the river bank outside the city.

Finally, they found more than ten clever soldiers to disguise themselves as defeated soldiers and spread false information outside the city to mislead the reinforcements.

After setting up a tight net, all we had to do was wait for reinforcements to enter the city.

This is also the most critical link. Whether it will succeed really depends on God's will.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for the reaction of the reinforcements outside the city.

There was complete silence inside and outside the South Gate, with only the sound of heavy rain pouring down and faint shouts of killing coming from within the city.

Perhaps it was the torrential downpour that had made the reinforcements impatient, or perhaps it was the sounds of fighting coming from the city that aroused Fan Yi and Han Fu's desire to make a contribution, or perhaps it was because everything before them made it difficult for them to doubt. At Zhou Yu's constant urging, Fan Yi finally raised his arms and shouted, "Enter the city and annihilate the remaining enemy!"

As the military orders were passed on, 1,500 reinforcements lined up and rushed towards the city gate impatiently.

Listening to the dense footsteps passing through the doorway, Yan Yi breathed a sigh of relief, then tensed his nerves again and gestured to the soldiers around him.

More than 200 Danyang soldiers hidden in the gate tower took out arrows from their quivers and put them on the bowstrings.

Under the city gate, Fan Yi and Han Fu rode on their horses, galloping towards the gate while shouting, "Hurry up and get into the city!"

The two men walked through the city gate, one in front and the other behind, and came into the city. They pulled the reins beside the queue and saw that the houses around them were covered with traces of fierce fighting. On the spacious streets, the bodies of soldiers from both sides were lying in a mess. The sound of fighting coming from the front seemed to be getting clearer and clearer.

The fighting spirit in Fan Yi's blood suddenly rose, and he ordered the soldiers who had entered the city to quickly line up.

Zhou Yu stood at the city gate and shouted to Fan Yi below, "Lord Fan, the enemy is near the government office in the city. You must lead your troops there immediately. I will lead my men to hold the city gate to prevent the enemy from escaping."

Fan Yi nodded and ordered the front team to rush to the government office immediately. At this time, the reinforcements had already reached 700 to 800 people and the formation gradually spread out towards the city. The guerrillas on both wings also began to disperse and guard the alleys.

Yan Yi knew that the ambushers would soon be exposed, so he shouted, "Lower the hanging gate!"

click!
Suddenly, a dull sound of a heavy object moving was heard in the doorway, and the hanging door weighing more than two thousand pounds fell down little by little.

The soldiers who were passing by the hanging gate suddenly cried out and dodged in a hurry. The soldiers around them were also stunned by this scene.

What happened? Why did the hanging door suddenly drop down?
Amidst everyone's confusion, the heavy hanging door fell to the ground, separating the reinforcements inside and outside the city.

The riots quickly spread to the surrounding areas.

"What happened?" Fan Yi turned his horse around and asked loudly. He was also shocked when he saw the hanging door falling from the doorway.

Zhou Yu on the city wall had disappeared at some point.

"Oh no, we've fallen into a trap!" Han Fu was the first to react and cried out in panic.

Dangdang Dangdang!
Suddenly, a clear gong sounded from inside the gate tower and spread all around in an instant.

At the same time, dense crowds of figures emerged from the streets and alleys with deafening roars. Sword and shield soldiers and spearmen advanced in front, while cavalrymen looked for weak points in the enemy formation and drove people towards the city gate.

"Kill the thief!"

Chen Gan and Xu Sheng shouted together, each leading their most elite infantry and cavalry to charge forward.

The seven or eight hundred Qian Tong soldiers in the city never expected to be ambushed. Caught off guard, they were pushed back dozens of steps in an instant, and their formation was in chaos.

What made them even more frightened was that more than 300 archers suddenly rushed out from the South Gate Tower, and together with the more than 100 soldiers wearing Qiantong military uniforms on the city walls on both sides, they shot arrows towards the city.

For a moment, arrows poured down like locusts from the arrow windows of the gatehouse, arrow towers and battlements, piercing through clothes and piercing into bodies. The splattered blood instantly dyed the streets red.

The Qian Tong army that entered the city was mostly composed of spearmen, with no cover and crowded together. Under the rain of arrows, they fell down one after another like weeds.

The scene was horrific, like a massacre, and it was unbearable to watch.

The deafening wails reached outside the city and reached the ears of more than 700 Qian Tong soldiers who had not yet entered the city, causing a huge riot.

Fan Yi and Han Fu had already entered the city, and only four military commanders were left leading the troops outside the city. Faced with the sudden change, their minds were blank.

What should we do now? Enter the city to rescue or retreat?

The hanging gate has already fallen, and our army has no siege equipment. How can we climb up the five or six meter high city wall?

If they retreated, what would happen to the more than 800 comrades who were ambushed in the city? How would they explain to Qian Tong when they returned?

The four military marquises looked at each other, caught in a fierce ideological struggle, and no one dared or was willing to be the first to speak out.

For a moment, the more than 700 Qian Tong soldiers were like 700 stupid geese, scattered in the wind and rain.

(End of this chapter)