The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

How could Zhang Liao let Gan Ning escape like this?

"Where to go!"

Chapter 779 The real purpose

Gan Ning turned his head just now, Zhang Liao followed closely behind and chased up again.

Zhang Liao was naturally unwilling to let Gan Ning leave like this.

He came out with great difficulty and restrained Gan Ning. Zhang Liao's goal was to kill Gan Ning.

So when Gan Ning and his men were about to retreat, Zhang Liao roared angrily.

"The whole army charges, don't let these thieves escape!"

Those dead soldiers who followed Zhang Liao and came out of Hanyang City immediately became excited at this moment, raised their weapons, and rushed towards Gan Ning's soldiers and horses.

Roar!Go!

There were crowds of people, swords and swords, and a great battle outside Hanyang City broke out at this moment.

Gan Ning knew that Zhang Liao had reinforcements, so he didn't intend to continue fighting with Zhang Liao, but Zhang Liao pursued him, and he didn't intend to just let Gan Ning go. This is related to Zhang Liao.

However, Gan Ning also fought and retreated, ordering his troops to evacuate from outside Hanyang City temporarily, and did not plan to stay here for a long time.

More than [-] people maintained their formation and retreated slowly.

As soon as they withdrew to the shore, the enemy's reinforcements were already approaching.

Liu Biao's eldest son, Liu Qi, led an army of [-] from Xiangyang, and came to support him from behind. He followed Ding Yuan's order and hurried to Hanyang, and finally arrived in Hanyang when the war broke out here.

And as soon as he arrived here, Liu Qi discovered that outside Hanyang City, two groups of soldiers were fighting.

These people, Liu Qi soon discovered that it was Zhang Liao who was fighting the enemy. Although Liu Qi didn't know why Zhang Liao had to go out of the city to fight the enemy at this time, but since he knew it was his own, Liu Qi did not hesitate to lead His own army of [-] joined the occupation.

With Liu Qi's joining, Zhang Liao's morale on the battlefield was instantly boosted. Originally, two thousand dead soldiers had blocked Gan Ning's fight, but now the other troops in the city also rushed out at this time.

Immediately, outside the city of Hanyang, most of them were the coalition forces of Zhang Liao and Liu Qi.

Tens of thousands of troops surrounded them from the outside, making it difficult for Gan Ning's tens of thousands of troops to resist.

Fortunately, from the very beginning, Gan Ning did not intend to let his troops fight against Zhang Liao's army here.

Knowing the large number of enemy troops, Gan Ning still gritted his teeth and withdrew from the confrontation with Zhang Liao, and then led his troops to retreat first.

The entire battlefield saw a half-hour, Zhang Liao and Liu Qi's troops did not continue to chase.

Zhang Liao was also worried that something would happen if he was too far away from Hanyang City.

After all, Liu Zheng had quite a few troops under his command. Although Gan Ning was the only one who besieged Hanyang City, there were other men to support him. Therefore, Zhang Liao and Liu Qi were unable to capture Gan Ning's men after chasing them for a while. After being cut off, Zhang Liao still gave up the pursuit, anyway, now Liu Qi's men have arrived.

With an army of nearly [-] stationed there, the city of Hanyang is already an iron barrel, and it is not so easy to break through.

"General Zhang Liao, our army is in an advantageous position, why didn't we pursue it far away?"

Liu Qi approached Zhang Liao at this time, and was a little puzzled when he saw that Zhang Liao didn't lead anyone to pursue him.

"Young Master Liu Qi, don't chase after the poor, and that Gan Ning is not a poor, who knows if there is a trap waiting for us to fall into."

Seeing Liu Qi asking, Zhang Liao didn't want to say more, but Liu Qi still had some status in the army, so Zhang Liao explained to Liu Qi.

"Liu Zheng has stationed tens of thousands of troops in Jingzhou. Right now, he only sees Gan Ning's troops in Hanyang, and when he doesn't know where the enemy army is, he will attack rashly, and there will be no good results."

When Liu Qi saw Zhang Liao say this, although he still had some doubts, he couldn't say much. After all, Liu Qi's experience in war was not as rich as Zhang Liao's.

In this place in Hanyang, everything is still dominated by Zhang Liao.

After withdrawing the soldiers, Zhang Liao began to garrison, and took over some places that had been directly given to Gan Ning before, and then built military buildings on these places to prevent the enemy from attacking again.

Zhang Liao's decision was very correct, because not long after Gan Ning's men ran out of Hanyang City, they met Huang Zhong's army who came from Huarong Road to support Gan Ning.

Although Huang Zhong only brought more than ten thousand people, these people are all powerful shooters. If there is a battle, Zhang Liao's tens of thousands of troops may not be able to gain any benefits from Huang Zhong's shooters.

However, after Huang Zhong and Gan Ning got together, they didn't think about counterattacking.

The combined forces of Huang Zhong and Gan Ning were only more than 2. It was impossible to defeat Zhang Liao and Liu Qi's coalition forces, so the two could only keep a proper distance from Zhang Liao's forces.

There was a temporary truce between the two sides, and there was no direct conflict.

Liu Zheng is not in a hurry. There is no rush for such things as fighting a war. Sometimes, it may take several months, or even a year or two, to destroy a city.

After Liu Qi's troops came to support Hanyang, and after Gan Ning and Huang Zhong joined up, they did not take the initiative to attack for three consecutive days.

This appearance confuses Zhang Liao in Hanyang City.

Zhang Liao didn't know what kind of medicine Gan Ning and Huang Zhong were selling in their gourds, but Zhang Liao could hold his breath. Now that he is sitting in Hanyang City, he is the dominant side. As long as he doesn't attack, he can use Hanyang City as a reliance Otherwise, it would be very difficult for Huang Zhong and Gan Ning's men to break through the city directly.

The enemy didn't attack the city, but Zhang Liao didn't panic, but several days passed, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning still didn't send anyone to call for battle, which made Zhang Liao feel that something was wrong.

Could it be that the goal of Gan Ning and Huang Zhong was not Hanyang City at all, but Ding Yuan on the other side?

Thinking of this, Zhang Liao felt a little improbable, shook his head, and denied his own idea.

And Liu Zheng's goal is of course not Ding Yuan.

At this time, Liu Zheng simply thought about what he wanted to do on the Jingzhou battlefield.

Liu Zheng sent three battalions of Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, and Zu Lang to guard Jingzhou, just to contain the Ding Yuan army who lived here.

And Liu Zheng's real goal is actually Yuzhou.

As early as a few days ago, Liu Zheng had led Sun Jian and Xu Huang's troops directly from Yuzhang, diverted northward to Lujiang, and then went to Chen State and entered Yuzhou.

Don't forget, Liu Zheng has a big prisoner in his hands.

Chen Wang Liu Chong.

With Liu Chong in his hands, Liu Zheng can quickly and effortlessly acquire Chen Guo and the territory around Chen Guo.Then directly surprise Runan and Nanyang.

7 Chapter Eighty

Lujiang County is very big, how big is it? Later, Wei State separated the place where Lujiang River and Jiangxia bordered, and divided it into two new counties.

They are called Yiyang County and Anfeng County.

That's why Lu Kang was able to rely on this county to compete against Yuan Shu for so long.

Later, Lu Kang, caught between the imperial court and Liu Zheng, had everything he could, and lived a very stable life.

On the surface, Lu Kang was loyal to the imperial court, and the imperial court was aware of the confrontation between him and Yuan Shu.

Now that the imperial court is showing weakness, so for prefects like Lu Kang, they are generally wooed, and will not be banned directly.

The main reason is that I am really afraid that if I use a tough attitude, I will not say that the territory is not subdued, and I will push these people to the opposite side of the court.

That is not what the court wants to see.

Therefore, the imperial court's attitude towards people like Lu Kang is generally to win over people, not to ban them.

Because of this, Lu Kang was not banned by the court in the past few years, but because the court and Liu Zheng did not attack him, Lu Kang's Lujiang County developed better and better.

Many surrounding places, such as Jiangxia, have lost a large number of people due to years of fighting, some of them went directly to Liu Zheng's territory, and the other part went to Lujiang.

Liu Zheng led Xu Huang's cavalry and rushed to Lujiang first, followed by Sun Jian and his men.

Because of the cavalry, Liu Zheng arrived in Lujiang in just three days.

Originally, a large number of cavalry crossing the border had attracted Lu Kang's attention, but when he saw that it was the cavalry led by Liu Zheng, Lu Kang felt a little relieved.

Liu Zheng took Xu Huang and Lu Bu's camp and did not leave directly from here.

Since everyone is here, I always want to say hello to Lu Kang.

Shu County.

This is Zhou Yu's hometown.

This time to attack Yuzhou, Zhou Yu's troops were also transferred from Xuyi by Liu Zheng.

At this time Zhou Yu followed Liu Zheng.

Zhou Yu has not been back to his home for many years.

Those who have followed Liu Zheng all these years and fought in the north and south have grown up a lot.

I left home at the age of 12, and now I am back at the age of 16.

The current magistrate of Shu County is Zhou Yu's father.

In fact, Liu Zheng had mentioned to Zhou Yu that Zhou Yu's father should come under his command to be Liu Zheng's establishment order.

After all, Zhou Yu's father, Zhou Yi, had done Luoyang Order before, and it was nothing to make a Jianye Order for Liu Zheng.

After all, on Liu Zheng's side, it's better to have Zhou Yu in his pocket than to be a small magistrate of Shu County in Lujiang County.

However, Zhou Yi, a member of such a powerful family, even though he intends to join Liu Zheng at this time, but after all, it is a matter of a big family, and Zhou Yi is not the only one who has the final say.

Zhou Yu's grandfather went to Sikong, Taiwei, and also had a title of title. Naturally, it is better to continue to maintain a good relationship with the court.

And Zhou Yu's father is not the head of the Zhou family, but just a bastard. Although relying on the afterglow of the family, he was able to become the Luoyang order, but many things are decided by the head of the Zhou family.

It was also difficult for Zhou Yi's father to fight against the family.In addition, Zhou Yi felt that his son Zhou Yu was in Liu Zheng's camp. No matter who wins or loses in the end, their Zhou family will be able to keep them safe. They believe in this golden mean, which made the Zhou family not defect to Liu Zheng.

For this, Liu Zheng didn't care at all. After all, Zhou Yi and the Zhou family members, he didn't care whether they took refuge in him or not.

He himself didn't care too much about the members of the Zhou family, as long as Zhou Yu defected to him, then Liu Zheng would have no objections.

Although Shu County is on the border of Lujiang River, after Liu Zheng's arrival, there is a sense of familiarity.

As the county magistrate, Zhou Yi hosted Liu Zheng for a meal in Shu County, and invited Lu Kang over in advance. Both Zhou Yi and Lu Kang knew Liu Zheng.

In addition, now Liu Zheng has established himself as the emperor, and his status is different from them, but they still admire Liu Zheng.

The Lu family represented by Lu Kang actually had the same abacus as the Zhou family.

Now that the world is in chaos, no one can say for sure who will rule the world and become the next emperor. These local forces dare not choose easily. If the choice is wrong, the whole family will follow this force and suffer together. destroy.

The most suitable way is to disperse the children of the family and put some in each force, which is the so-called egg can not be put in one basket.

In this way, no matter which force dominates the world in the end, the flame of the family will not be extinguished because of this. There are many families who have done this in history, and of course the most famous is the Zhuge family.

Zhuge Liang was in Shu, his elder brother Zhuge Jin was in Wu, and his cousin Zhuge was born in Wei.

There are people from their families in the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu.

Regardless of who wins the world in the end, the Zhuge family will have the last laugh.

Unfortunately, I never expected a Sima family to come out and steal the artifact.

As a result, Zhuge's family lost everything.

At this time, the Zhou family and the Lu family had the same calculations as the Zhuge family.

They all asked the children of their own families to join Liu Zheng, but they did not use the power of the whole family to belong to Liu Zheng.What he thinks in his heart is nothing more than that the current big man has not completely lost the power of resistance.

Of course Liu Zheng understood what they were thinking.

It's just that Liu Zheng wasn't surprised by this, and didn't even have any objection.

After all, although the Zhou family and the Lu family did not rely on him with all their strength, in many matters, the Zhou family and the Lu family maintained absolute neutrality and did not favor the court.

Just like now that Liu Zheng is leading an army to Runan, passing through the Lujiang River, the Lu family and the Zhou family will not send troops to stop them, but will also welcome them and set up a banquet.

As long as they don't interfere with Liu Zheng's affairs, Liu Zheng won't mind even if they don't join him.

Anyway, Liu Zheng knows that when the time is right, they will naturally gradually fall to Liu Zheng's side.

As long as Liu Zheng can defeat the imperial court, Liu Zheng is not afraid that they will fight against him.

During the banquet, Liu Zheng didn't even propose to seek refuge with the Zhou family and the Lu family, but talked to them about the old days.

At the same time, let Lu Jun, Zhou Yu and others talk to their elders about their experiences under Liu Zheng's command, and they are now holding any positions.

Liu Zheng didn't stay in Lujiang for a long time. He planned to attack Yuzhou by surprise this time, so he couldn't stay here for too long.

If it is delayed for too long, it will not be effective as a surprise attack. If the news leaks out and the enemy is prepared, it will not be very good.

Fortunately, Liu Zheng led Xu Huang's cavalry this time. They were highly mobile and able to attack quickly. There was nothing wrong with the surprise attack on Yuzhou.

After bidding farewell to the Zhou family and the Lu family, Liu Zheng went north to Runan County.

Chapter 781 Siege of Runan City