funbook-pk Chapter 150: Fake Surrender Turns into Real Surrender? The City Opens Without a Bloodshed!
Chapter 150: Fake Surrender Turns into Real Surrender? The City Opens Without a Bloodshed!
South of the border between Yanzhou and Yuzhou
Chen County, Yuzhou
Xiahou Yuan, like a rogue soldier, led his troops back and forth on the outskirts of a city.
Outside the city were Xiahou Yuan and 50,000 Cao troops.
Inside the city were Liang Gang, a general under Yuan Shu, and 20,000 garrison troops.
"General Xiahou, aren't you tired from walking back and forth like this?"
"Would you like to rest for a while and have some water?"
Xi Zhicai, who was standing nearby, thoughtfully handed Xiahou Yuan a water bottle.
After the New Year, Xiahou Yuan and Xi Zhicai were delighted to receive a team mission, and Cao Cao sent them to lead 50,000 Cao troops to stroll around near Chen County.
Unlike Cao Ren, who was already capable of handling things independently.
Although Xiahou Yuan was also brave in battle and his arrows never missed, he was too impulsive.
With Xi Zhicai assisting him, Cao Cao was able to release him with peace of mind.
"Mr. Xi, do you think those guards are cowards?"
“My provocation is already so obvious, yet they still only dare to watch from the city walls, but dare not go out to fight.”
Xiahou Yuan looked dejectedly at the Yuan army on the other side of the border.
Xi Zhicai patted Xiahou Yuan on the shoulder and magically produced the megaphone that Su Yu had given him earlier.
"General Xiahou, your provocation technique is absolutely terrible!"
"Didn't Ziyi demonstrate this to you before? Use this amplifying device to reopen the enemy's wounds and enrage them!"
Xiahou Yuan suddenly realized what was going on when he took the megaphone from Xi Zhicai.
Immediately afterwards, the Yuan army on the other side of the border suffered a complete disaster.
Xiahou Yuan has no manners whatsoever.
When they swear, they always choose words that easily break a person's defenses.
The soldiers on the opposite city wall glared angrily at Xiahou Yuan, wishing they could rush out of the city and tear him to pieces.
But... Liang Gang, the Yuan army general defending the city, was no fool.
That's because Xiahou Yuan was followed by tens of thousands of Cao Cao's troops!
If we rush out of the city now, wouldn't that be like handing Cao Cao's army free food?
Is this "powered by love" scheme, primarily focused on sending people to their deaths and offering warmth?
Seeing that Yuan Jun dared not leave the city to fight, Xiahou Yuan simply handed the megaphone to his personal guards, instructing them to take turns using the megaphone to insult the enemy.
"Damn it!!!"
Liang Gang bit his lip.
This feeling of being extremely annoyed by Xiahou Yuan, yet unable to get rid of him, undoubtedly filled him with immense grief and indignation.
but.
Liang Gang does have some brains.
He had already sent someone to report the situation at the border to Runan.
It should be no more than a few days before a large number of reinforcements arrive on the battlefield.
In addition, there are still 20,000 garrison troops remaining in the city.
Even if Cao Cao's 50,000 troops were desperate and tried to force an attack on the city, they certainly wouldn't be able to take it down in a few days.
And just as the garrison commander had predicted.
Time slips away quietly.
But even after ten days, no news of reinforcements had arrived.
Liang Gang panicked a little.
When he sent out the message, he dispatched over a hundred sentries.
Surely we can't all arrest these hundreds of people?
So, does Runan know anything about the enemy situation in Chenjun?
And what about Cao Cao's 50,000 troops on the other side? Why are they neither besieging nor attacking the city? Are they plotting something?
If even Liang Gang, the defending general, was in such a panic, what about the other soldiers!
For the next few days, Xiahou Yuan continued not to besiege or attack the city, but instead spent his time strolling around the city and exercising.
Liang Gang completely broke down!
What the hell is going on outside right now?
Why are there no reinforcements on our side?
That evening, rumors suddenly spread throughout the city that Yuan Shu had abandoned Chen Commandery, which was why he had not sent a single soldier to provide support.
Liang Gang immediately summoned the mid- to high-ranking military officers in the city for a meeting, telling them that the rumor was completely unfounded and that their lord Yuan Shu would never abandon Chen Commandery!
but……
That very night, a soldier defected!
Although small in scale, it cast a shadow over all the garrison troops in the city.
Even Liang Gang himself wasn't sure whether the rumor was true or false.
next morning
Xiahou Yuan launched his first siege of Chen County in nearly twenty days since arriving there!
However, Cao Cao's soldiers were not particularly enthusiastic about attacking the city.
They fired a couple of token shots, and then hastily withdrew without even bringing any proper siege equipment.
Liang Gang didn't have the guts to pursue them at all.
The enemy's military situation is unclear, as is the situation of our own reinforcements.
The 20,000 Yuan troops in Chen Commandery seemed to have become abandoned dogs forgotten in a corner.
Xiahou Yuan's indifferent attitude left Liang Gang feeling physically and mentally exhausted.
He strongly suspected that Xiahou Yuan definitely knew some information that he did not, which was why he was so fearless.
There is a saying that goes well.
Once a person starts automatically filling in the blanks in their mind, they're doomed.
Liang Gang is currently in a predicament where he is thinking about this and that and constantly imagining things.
Another day passed.
Xiahou Yuan once again led his army to the city.
Xiahou Yuan raised a megaphone and addressed Liang Gang on the city wall:
"Liang Gang! Surrender now!"
"Your lord has completely given up on you!"
"Oh, by the way, I heard he's also taken a fancy to your wife and wants her to be his concubine!"
"What!?"
The soldiers guarding the city wall all wore expressions of terror.
Was Yuan Shu a womanizer? That's not an important question.
However, Liang Gang's wife was actually his second wife, who was not yet twenty years old and was in the prime of her life.
The thought that Liang Gang might be captured by Yuan Shu...
The guards looked at Liang Gang with a mixture of sympathy and helplessness.
"General, why don't you take us with you..."
Even Liang Gang's deputy general couldn't stand it anymore. He pointed to Xiahou Yuan below the city and then to the direction of Runan.
Liang Gang was exhausted.
Again.
Once a person starts to fill in the blanks in their mind, they're doomed.
Whether Yuan Shu and Liang Gang's second wife had an affair is no longer the key issue.
Instead, whether Liang Gang opened his eyes or closed them, all he could see was Yuan Shu and his wife together...
"Boom!" a sound.
The gates of Chen County's main city were opened.
The 20,000-strong garrison surrendered without bloodshed.
As for Runan, did they actually abandon Chenjun?
On the very day that Yuan Shu planned to send reinforcements.
He received multiple intelligence reports from the front lines.
Some of these were requests for reinforcements from Liang Gang.
Others were generals from other cities who claimed that Liang Gang had defected to the enemy and wanted to trick Yuan Shu into sending troops to support Chen Commandery, so that they could cooperate with Xiahou Yuan to besiege the city and attack the reinforcements!
Yuan Shu gasped.
After careful consideration, he decided to postpone the support efforts.
Losing Chen Commandery is no big deal, since Yuan Shu has more troops anyway, we can just fight our way back!
But if Liang Gang really defected to the enemy, wouldn't sending reinforcements at this moment be exactly what Liang Gang and Xiahou Yuan had planned to do?
Hesitation leads to defeat, and Yuan Shu was clearly not a resolute person.
The reason why the garrison commanders of other cities said that Liang Gang had already defected to the enemy was thanks to Xi Zhicai's strategy and the role of the Yanzhou Daily!
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