Chapter 342: Suffering
The 1,000 people under Zhang Yongyu's command are all subordinate to Gan Ning, and they are all the elite under Gan Ning.
Not to mention the strength is the strongest under Liu Zheng, it is also the most elite part.
Although he was ambushed, Zhang Yongyu still led people to actively resist, and soon fought with the enemy, but after all, there were 2,000 soldiers and horses who ambushed Zhang Yongyu, and they were led by Cheng Pu and Han Dang.
The strength of Cheng Pu and Han Dang is still more powerful than Zhang Yongyu, and after a fight, the soldiers and horses under Zhang Yongyu suffered huge casualties, but they still have the strength to fight.
No, Cheng Pu and Han Dang, they are not fighting to the death with Zhang Yongyu at all, their purpose is very simple, that is, grain and grass, if they can't grab it, just burn it.
A fire burned on the grain wagon.
After burning the grain and grass, Cheng Pu and Han Dang did not entangle with Zhang Yongyu and left directly.
Zhang Yongyu fought a battle, although he killed more than 1,000 people under Cheng Pu's command, but he also lost everything, 1,000 soldiers, directly killed more than 700 people, and the number of people who transported hundreds of people died, and half a month's grain and grass were burned.
After telling Liu Zheng about this, Liu Zheng's face was gloomy at the beginning, and his current expression gradually turned calm.
It seems that he heard Zhang Yongyu's report and is not worried.
"That's it?"
After Zhang Yongyu finished speaking, Liu Zheng saw that he didn't continue to speak, so he took the initiative to ask.
"Well, it is a capital crime for the last general to lose grain and grass as a grain overseer, and he will never give up."
Zhang Yongyu's face was gloomy, but this time he was afraid that it would be difficult to survive, so he could only admit it.
"It's just half a month's worth of grain and grass, if you lose it, you can't blame it, after all, it was Sun Jian's men who ambushed in advance, and there are more people than you, you can kill more than 1,000 enemies, which is already commendable."
Liu Zheng did not want to punish Zhang Yongyu.
"Of course, after all, you lost grain and grass, this is your dereliction of duty, demoted to a pawn, go to General Gan Ning to report, this time in the battle against Sun Jian, if you make meritorious service, you will be reinstated as an official!"
Although Zhang Yongyu's loss of grain and grass is a fault, in Liu Zheng's view, this fault can be forgiven, after all, it is not a breach of responsibility caused by subjective factors.
As soon as Zhang Yongyu heard Liu Zheng's words, the originally gloomy look on his face immediately turned into surprise at this time.
He thought that he would not escape the death penalty this time, and he just wanted not to affect his family. But he never expected that Liu Zheng not only did not blame him, but only removed him from his official position. If there is a chance to make meritorious service again. Maybe he can be reinstated.
Such a result was something he had not expected before.
"Thank you lord, for the grace of not killing, the last general will definitely swear to the death!"
"You look like you've got a lot of injuries, so let's go down and rest first."
Liu Zheng did not let Zhang Yongyu continue to talk to him here, but let him go down to rest, leaving only Gan Ning, Su Fei and others.
"Sun Jian, this guy is really scheming. I didn't expect him to actually fight the idea of our grain road. ”
Liu Zheng had been wondering what Sun Jian's purpose was before, but now after hearing Zhang Yongyu's news, he finally understood Sun Jian's purpose.
"Lord, now that our grain supply has been robbed, half a month's food has been lost, and the food in our camp is only enough for us to eat for another 5 days, what should we do next?"
Gan Ning glanced at Liu Zheng.
If this news spreads and is known by the soldiers under Liu Zheng's command, it will definitely cause a shock in the hearts of the army, and when the time comes, it will not only make the soldiers and horses under his command panic, but also cause some small rebellions.
This result is not what Liu Zheng wants to see.
"Can we still eat our grain and grass for five days?"
Liu Zheng did not tell Gan Ning how to solve this matter, but asked Gan Ning. The rest of the grain can be eaten for a few days.
Gan Ning nodded and confirmed that the grain and grass were only enough to eat for 5 days.
Then Liu Zheng put away his serious expression. glanced at Gan Ning.
"If you can still eat for 5 days, then you don't have to panic, you don't have to worry about this matter, although the grain road was robbed, it can't continue in a short time, and then transport grain from here, but you can rest assured, I will find a way to solve the matter of grain and grass."
"What you need to pay attention to is that you must pay close attention to Sun Jian's movements next, since they are prepared, it is impossible, and there will be no action next, I guess they have begun to plan secretly, maybe they will take action in the next day or two."
Liu Zheng guessed that Sun Jian and others robbing the grain road was only the first step of the plan, and there must be other actions in the follow-up, if he was a little negligent, Liu Zheng was worried that his manpower would be calculated by Sun Jian, so he needed to fight up 120,000 points of spirit in the next few days to deal with Sun Jian's attack that might come at any time.
"Yes, my lord, rest assured, we will definitely keep an eye on those people."
After Liu Zheng finished speaking. Gan Ning replied immediately.
Sure enough, not long after Liu Zheng got the news that the grain road had been robbed.
Sun Jianjun, who was outside the camp, launched a new operation.
Originally, it was just a confrontation with Liu Zheng's army, but the 20,000 soldiers and horses under Sun Jian's command suddenly formed a dense battle formation, surrounding Liu Zheng's camp on three sides.
The boxy camp was surrounded by Sun Jian's army of 20,000, and only one was left on three sides.
This is the siege of three in the ancient siege battle.
The reason why the four walls were not enclosed, but a gap was left was to deliberately give the besieged people some hope of breaking through.
Because they don't fight to the death if they give people hope. No one wants to die, even if they are trying to survive, they will find a way to break through from the side that is not surrounded.
In this way, the combat ability will be greatly weakened.
And if the four walls are surrounded and blocked, the besieged people will have no hope of escaping and will burst out with the determination to die, and the lethality of the fearless death will increase their combat ability several times, so that the besieged people will also increase their losses, and the gains outweigh the losses.
On the other hand, if some of them can be let go, and the rest of them can only be used for annihilation, the battle will be much easier.
After Sun Jian had his 20,000 men and horses block the three walls, he began to cut down trees and throw firewood under the city.
Even if Sun Jian hadn't started to implement his plan, Liu Zheng, who was in the camp, had already guessed that Sun Jian was planning to attack with fire and use the fire to burn down the wall outside the camp. forced Liu Zheng to come out of the camp to fight.
"Sun Jian, this guy really has some means, so we have to fight him!"