Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 165 Chen Gong's Speculation, Soldiers Coming to Hongnong
At this time, apart from Liu Biao who wanted to leave Luoyang City, there was another person who was also thinking about how to leave Luoyang, and this person was Lu Bu.

Lu Bu was thinking every day how to lead the Bingzhou army away from Luoyang's control without being suspected by Dong Zhuo.

In the evening of that day, after he heard the good news of the bandit suppressing army, he immediately called Chen Gong and Wei Xu to the mansion.

"Guo Bang's army went down four cities in a row, and it won't take long for them to reach Hongnong City. However, if he wins again, our Bingzhou Army will have no reasonable excuse to go out of the city to rescue."

Before that, both Lu Bu and Chen Gong hoped that Guo Si would be defeated, so that they would have the opportunity to lead the Bingzhou army to leave Luoyang as a rescuer.

So Lu Bu was very anxious at this time, and after thinking for a while, he said again: "Gongtai thought we were doing something secretly... how about cutting off Guo Bang's back?"

After Lu Bu finished speaking, he pointed to Yiyang County on the map. Yesterday, he sent Wei Xu to find out that it was the rear granary of the bandit army.

Chen Gong shook his head after hearing this, and replied: "Since Yiyang City is a land of grain and grass, it must be well-defended, and the people of our Bingzhou Legion cannot leave the city in large numbers. It is almost impossible to destroy the grain warehouse."

Then Wei Xu also quickly added that there are [-] elite Guo Zhen in Yiyang City, and there is no way to attack without several times the strength.

After hearing this, Lu Bu became anxious again, "Aren't we just watching Guo Bang continue to win? After the Baibo bandit is wiped out, there will be no more battles near Luoyang, and it will be even more difficult for our Bingzhou army to go out of the city alone!"

"...Didn't the military adviser say that the Royalist faction would not watch Guo Bang open the grain road? Why is it so late and I haven't seen Wang Yun and the others have any plans!"

Lu Bu kept asking anxiously, but Chen Gong still kept his brows tightly furrowed. He had kept this expression ever since he entered the mansion, so much so that both Lu Bu and Wei Xu thought he was thinking about a plan to deal with Guo Si's army.

But in fact, Chen Gong didn't think of any plan, he just kept speculating about a person's whereabouts.

"...Liu Yu hasn't been to the front hall of Nangong for several days!"

Chen Gong's words were somewhat irrelevant, Lu Bu looked at him suspiciously, and said, "I haven't seen him for several days, Wang Yun said that he went out of the city on business, but does he have anything to do with dealing with Guo Si's army?"

"Maybe there is!" Chen Gong's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said, "If I remember correctly, the day when Guo Si's army went out to fight was the time when Liu Yu left the city!"

"What is the military adviser suspicious of? Could it be that Liu Yu also went to the west? But Liu Yu's true identity is Dong Zhuo's undercover agent. How could he destroy the march of Guo Si's army?" Lu Bu still didn't understand the deep meaning in Chen Gong's words.

Wei Xu hesitated and said: "Then Liu Yu may not be sincerely loyal to the Grand Master, otherwise how dare he rob Dong Zhuo's woman?"

"That's right!" Then Chen Gong pointed out another suspicious point, "Guo Si was accurately ambushed by Baibo bandits when he attacked Yiyang and Strider, and Liu Yu may be behind this!"

"Is that true?" Lu Bu asked back, but he also felt that it was a bit strange for Liu Yu to leave on the day of the army's expedition.

I thought that if Liu Yu was really dealing with Guo Si secretly, then this ally might really be able to help him escape from Dong Zhuo's control!

Chen Gong was not 100% sure, but he told Lu Bu that if he wanted to verify whether Liu Yu was dealing with Guo Si's army in secret, he only had to wait a few days near Yiyang City to see the result.

When Lu Bu thought about it, he could see the importance of food and grass in Yiyang, so if Liu Yu really planned to deal with Guo Si's army, he would definitely go there to sabotage it.

But even if the Royalists Wang Yun and the others prepared 5 to [-] people for Liu Yu, there are still [-] Xiliang elites in Yiyang City, who are fully able to hold out until reinforcements arrive.

Does Liu Yu have the ability to cut off Guo Bang's back?

So in order to verify Chen Gong's conjecture, and to find out how Liu Yu attacked Yiyang City, Lu Bu decided to go there himself.

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In the morning of the two days, Guo Bang rewarded the three armies in Hu County, and at noon he led 3 horses to Hongnong City.

In the past two days, Mengxin led people to clean up the outside of Hongnong City, and Guo Bang's army had just arrived fifty miles away, and immediately came back to the city to report.

So the city wall immediately became tense, and Qu Shuai Han Xian also went up to the tower to direct the defense.

The rolling stones and trees in the city were constantly being moved to the city wall, and even the only five hundred archers were ready to fight.

Han Siam summoned 3 people for defense, but among these people, there were less than [-] thieves with sophisticated weapons.

The five hundred archers are the only long-range attack force that the bandit general Guo Tai can use, but what is even more shabby is that each of these 500 people is equipped with less than ten arrows.Almost everyone knew that this amount of firepower would not be able to achieve long-range suppression at all.

Therefore, the leaders of the white wave thieves believed that the upcoming offensive and defensive battle would definitely be a hand-to-hand combat.

Contrary to the tense atmosphere in the city, Guo Bang's army did not launch an offensive immediately after approaching the city.

Instead, first deploy manpower to prevent the city from rushing out of a sneak attack, and then the rest of the people began to set up camp on the spot.

Two hours later, a strong enough camp was built outside the east gate of Hongnong City, but what surprised the bandits was that the other party was still constantly transporting wood to the built camp.

Could it be that Guo Si thinks that the camp is not strong enough?
Of course not, Han Xian, who was standing on the tower at this time, showed a dignified expression.

Because he knew that the timber transported into Guo Bang's camp was not for strengthening the camp, but for building siege equipment.

A long ladder is enough to attack an ordinary small town, but to attack a big city like Hongnong City, which is about four or five feet high, it may lose a lot of soldiers just by carrying a long ladder. (Note: At this time, one foot is about 2.3 meters.)
Guo Bang's troops are not too many, so he will not choose to attack by force, but is going to build more siege weapons.

There are many kinds of large-scale siege equipment, such as a charging chariot that can be built higher than the city wall.

Dozens of people can stand on the large Linchong. Not only can they shoot arrows into the city, but they can also jump directly onto the city wall to fight when they get close to the city wall.

Of course, the best tool to climb the city wall is the ladder.

The cloud ladder is different from ordinary long ladders, and it has wheels under it to drive.

When the army is attacking the city, they only need to park the main ladder under the city, and then put up the auxiliary ladder on the main ladder, so that they can "go up the city".

Thereby reducing the danger and difficulty of building ladders in front of the enemy. In addition, because the ladders do not touch the edge of the city early before climbing the city, the damage of the defenders can also be avoided.

In addition, there are commonly used crash cars, which are specially used to smash open city gates.

Since Guo Bang had known for a long time that the Baibo bandits did not have many long-range suppression weapons, the trenches and moats outside the city could be easily filled, so he did not ask his men to build trench crossing equipment.

For two days in a row, Guo Bang's army was building siege equipment in the camp. Mrs. Guo, the thief commander, wanted to lead troops out of the city to steal the camp several times, but when she saw the pikemen deployed outside the camp, she had no choice but to give up this plan. .

The gap in equipment between the two armies was too great. Back then, Huangfusong, Lu Zhi, and Zhu Jun each led 3 to [-] people and dared to fight several times or even ten times as many Yellow Turban Bandits as they did because of their excellent weapons.

In addition, most of the thieves are ordinary people who can't eat enough to eat, and compared with professionally trained soldiers, their combat power is also very different.

So even if there are nearly [-] bandits in Hongnong City, it is only a matter of time before the Xiliang Army wants to break through the city defenses.

Of course, it is impossible for Guo Bang to kill [-] bandit soldiers in one battle, but as soon as Hongnong City is broken, the bandit soldiers will flee in all directions, and they will no longer be able to block the grain carts in Chang'an City.

In the evening of this day, Guo Bang checked and accepted the results of the two days in the camp. Looking at the tall Linchong chariot, Guo Bang felt that tomorrow's battle would definitely kill the Quartet.

And just when Guo Bang was full of confidence, Liu Yu was leading the coalition forces from Xin'an County to Yiyang County.

(End of this chapter)