For three days.

Liu Zheng kept sending people to call for battle, trying to lure Zhu Fu's people out of the city to fight him, but Zhu Fu was not fooled at all.

The city gate was closed and he didn't pay attention to Liu Zheng's call, which made Liu Zheng more and more anxious.

"It's not in our best interest to drag on for time."

Although the Han court is now in crisis, internal and external troubles. And Jiaozhou is located in a remote area, Liu Zheng attacked the city here, and the news will definitely not reach the imperial court for a while.

But if the time drags on for a long time, the news of Liu Zheng's tossing in Jiaozhou will definitely not be able to be concealed, and it will inevitably be known by the imperial court, and the imperial court will definitely send people to suppress him at that time.

Although the imperial court has attracted the attention of the rebellion of Wang Fen of Jizhou and Han Sui of Liangzhou, the implementation of the state pastoral system has been less than half a year, and after those state pastors take office, they will definitely be able to solve the rebellions in various places in the fastest time.

When the time comes, it is not impossible for the imperial court to free up its hands to clean him up.

Of course, this will take a few months at the earliest, and the time left for Liu Zheng is just these few months.

Although a few months is not a short time, if Zhu Fu has been closed without a fight, hiding in Hepu City and not coming out, Liu Zheng can only storm Hepu City.

"Lord, I have a plan!"

Xu Huang saw that Liu Zheng was embarrassed, and immediately opened his mouth to propose a sentence to Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng's face was pondering how to deal with Zhu Fu, and he immediately raised his head and looked at Xu Huang.

"Brother Xu Huang, if there is any way, just say it."

"Lord, since Zhu Fu is trapped in Hepu City, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have been dispatched in a short period of time, the soldiers and horses in his surrounding counties must be empty, why don't we transfer the target and put the target in other counties outside Hepu City?"

As soon as Xu Huang's words spoke, Liu Zheng immediately slapped his head.

"yes, I didn't think of that."

Liu Zheng was so bent on dealing with Zhu Fu and how to attract Zhu Fu's attention in the siege battle, completely forgetting that he could ignore Zhu Fu at all and instead target other counties.

Zhu Fu's reliance is on the soldiers and horses in these counties, if Liu Zheng defeats Hepu and even other counties in Jiaozhou, when the time comes, he will lose the control of those counties, even if Zhu Fu plays the role of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Hepu City.

He had no way to fight against Liu Zheng.

In that way, the longer the time is delayed, the more beneficial it will be for Liu Zheng.

"Okay, clever plan, start preparing immediately, start with Hepu County, Gan Ning, order you and Zhou Cang to lead five thousand soldiers and horses each, and start attacking the city under Hepu County, remember, if the county orders Kaicheng to surrender, then show mercy, if it is a stubborn resistance, kill the officials, release the prisoners in the city, and then do not need to manage the county seat, and then go to attack the next county seat."

"Our goal is not to occupy, but to get these places out of control, so that Zhu Fu can't control them."

Liu Zheng issued an order to Gan Ning and Zhou Cang, asking them to each lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack the city in other counties of Hepu County.

But Liu Zheng's order to them was not to occupy, but to break the city and leave, and continue to the next county seat.

It's not that Liu Zheng doesn't want to occupy these cities, he lacks soldiers and horses and territory at this time, and it is the time to occupy the city, but Liu Zheng has insufficient soldiers and horses, and if he wants to occupy these cities, the troops will definitely not be enough.

Three or five cities may still be possible, but Liu Zheng is now only 20,000 soldiers and horses, and he also has to take care of the defense of Hepu City, and the troops that can be sent out to attack other counties are no more than 10,000.

These 10,000 people, if they want to occupy a few cities, they still think too much, instead of occupying those cities, it is better to liberate the people in those cities, as long as Zhu Fu can't govern those cities, the people in those cities will riot, and when the time comes, the entire Jiaozhou will be at war everywhere.

Zhu Fu was unable to govern, so Liu Zheng could recruit those rebellious rebels while dealing with Zhu Fu.

After a long time, it will only make Liu Zheng's power stronger and stronger.

Liu Zheng's order was spoken, and Gan Ning and Zhou Cang immediately took the order and left. At the same time, in order to get these county towns in Hepu County as soon as possible, Liu Zheng also sent an order to Huang Zhongjun in Cangwu County to also send a team to sweep the county seat of Hepu County.

There are three armies of 5,000 soldiers and horses sweeping all the counties, or in less than half a month, the city of Hepu County will be swept away by Liu Zheng's horses. 、

At that time, without the support of the surrounding counties, there will be only one Hepu county town, and Zhu Fu will not be able to make any big waves.

Outside Hepu City, Liu Zheng's troops decreased, but Zhu Fu in the city was closed, and the news was not well-informed, and even if he knew that Liu Zheng's troops stationed outside the city had decreased, he did not dare to come out to fight Liu Zheng, and would only think that this was Liu Zheng's suspicious strategy.

In addition, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses attacked other counties in Hepu County, and this news could not be spread to Hepu City, so half a month has passed, and the entire city of Hepu County has been liberated by Liu Zheng's men and horses, and after that, Zhu Fu in Hepu City is still unclear.

He has been waiting, waiting for the envoy he sent to Yangzhou to find reinforcements from Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, so that Liu Xiang can deal with Liu Zheng with him.

But what he was waiting for was the news that his cronies had broken through the siege and entered the city at the risk of death.

After all, Zhu Fu is a assassin, there are still some cronies under his command, in the entire Jiaozhou, there are several county soldiers and horses, or loyal to Zhu Fu, when Liu Zheng's army swept the entire Hepu County, there were several counties gave up resistance, these people gave up resistance, it does not mean that they are willing to take refuge in Liu Zheng.

After Liu Zheng's army left, these people immediately organized a group of 3,000 soldiers and horses and came to the outside of Hepu City, wanting to meet Zhu Fu and report the news.

Who knew that Hepu City had been surrounded by Liu Zheng's people, although Liu Zheng only had 10,000 people, and he also distributed four directions to surround Hepu City, and there were only two or three thousand soldiers and horses stationed at one city gate.

These people seemed to be in a surprise attack, and fought with Liu Zheng's army in one of the weaker places, attracting the attention of Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses in Hepu City.

Zhu Fu passed through the city tower and saw that the people fighting under the city were his cronies, so he sent people out of the city to answer.

Liu Zheng was short of soldiers and horses, and he was powerless to resist, so he could only temporarily avoid the edge, so that Zhu Fu in the city, after half a month, finally learned that Liu Zheng thought that he would besiege the city for half a month.

At this time, Zhu Fucai's expression changed greatly, and he understood that he had fallen for the trick again.

lost a Cangwu County, and this time even Hepu County was lost.