Half an hour later.

Zhang Liao led several generals back to the military tent, and there was already a smile on his face.

"Taishou, how's that?"

Several accompanying generals finally came over and asked at this time.

"In the face of our army's call, the enemy could not hold out, and did not respond, and even the main general never even showed his face."

Zhang Liao smiled and said, "However, according to the recently collected information, it can be judged that ninety percent of the soldiers and horses guarding the valley city are Cao Yu and Cheng Yu's subordinates, if it is someone else, it is not contrary to the position of our army, even if they refuse to open the city gate to meet us, the guards in the city will definitely come out to meet with me, make clear their neutral position, and teach our army to leave as soon as possible to avoid conflict." ”

"If it is Cao Yu and Cheng Yu's people in the city, Taishou only needs to exterminate them all, then Xiahoudun and Xun Yu stationed in Puyang and Juancheng will have no rear, and then Taishou will go south to form an encirclement with General Lu, and Yanzhou will be in the bag of General Lu and Taishou!"

Several generals were all overjoyed, and their faces were full of red light.

"Taishou, immediately order the siege of the city, destroy Cao Yu and Cheng Yu's troops as soon as possible, and then we can take Yanzhou one day earlier, and then we will finally have a place to live."

Someone immediately stepped forward, clenched his fists and said loudly, "The last general is willing to be a pioneer and asks to fight!" ”

"The last general also asks for battle!"

The rest of the people also responded, unwilling to miss this opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

"There's no hurry."

Zhang Liao shook his head slightly, and then said, "Our army only has 3,000 soldiers and horses in the north this time, and it is reported that Cao Yu and Cheng Yu's troops also have a few thousand, which may not be less than us. ”

"Since Cao Yu and Cheng Yu have a lot of soldiers and horses, why don't they dare to go out of the city to face the battle?"

A military general asked in surprise.

"When I called for the battle, I saw that the officers and soldiers in the city were strictly disciplined, no one responded privately, and there was no panic, and Cao Yu and Cheng Yu just didn't show up, so they were so tricky, I'm afraid it was a delaying tactic."

Zhang Liao stroked his beard and continued, "As far as I can see, these two must know that they are equal in strength to our army, and they may not be able to win a frontal battle, so they want to save their strength and make another plan. ”

"This ...... What can they do? ”

The crowd was even more puzzled.

"Reinforcements."

Zhang Liao said two words concisely, and seeing that everyone still didn't quite understand, he explained, "If there are reinforcements to rescue, the enemy will be twice or even several times the strength of our army, and the inside and outside will be combined, and we can inflict heavy losses on our army with very small losses, so that there will be no opponent in the north of Yanzhou to compete with these two people, as stable as an iron bucket!" ”

One of them listened and said: "But as far as I know, their closest reinforcements to here are also in Juancheng, Juancheng is nearly 300 miles away from here, if Cao Yu and Cheng Yu send people to ask for help at this moment, so that once and again, it will be a rapid march, and it will take at least 3 days to wait for reinforcements." ”

"Not bad."

Zhang Liao nodded and said, "So we will wait here for Lao Xian to surround him for three days, if Cao Yu and Cheng Yu have already sent people to ask for help, when the reinforcements arrive three days later, we will immediately withdraw our troops to avoid his edge." ”

"If Cao Yu and Cheng Yu have not sent messengers, there are only two gates in this valley city, we only need to send heavy troops to ambush outside these two gates, and once someone comes out, we will shoot them immediately, and never give them a chance to send news, so that after three days, the officers and soldiers in the city will never wait for reinforcements and will be impetuous."

"At that time, Cao Yu and Cheng Yu understood that it was too late to ask for help, and if they wanted to break through the city again, their morale was very different from what they are now."

"And our army can intercept it layer by layer with one blow, take advantage of the victory to pursue, although it may not be able to annihilate it completely, but it can also inflict heavy damage on it."

"From now on, there is no place for Cao Yu and Cheng Yu in the north of Yanzhou, and those city guards who are still waiting will choose to support us instead, and our army can grow rapidly, and then gather troops and horses to the south to form a siege with General Lu to attack Juancheng and Puyang, and Yanzhou will be safe!"

Zhang Liao said the best of both worlds in his heart.

Everyone who heard it thought that this strategy could be attacked, retreated, and defended, and it was almost invulnerable, so they immediately bowed their hands and said: "Too wise, our army will win this battle!" ”

"Go to the order, nothing will happen within three days, just arrange a heavy ambush at the front and rear city gates, and then send some scouts to patrol outside, and the rest of the soldiers will take turns to rest, raise enough spirit and morale, and be able to cope with the changes after three days."

Zhang Liao waved his hand and said confidently.

"Yes!"

The soldiers bowed their hands and withdrew.

……

Day 1.

Sure enough, nothing happened.

"Report! Today, the city sent messengers out of the city three times, except for the first time when they were all shot by our army, and the letter for help sent to Xun Yu in Juancheng was found on the body, the other two times were all tested and retreated to the city, not daring to come again! ”

"Sure enough, as I expected, it seems that Cao Yu and Cheng Yu have not sent messengers yet, so I am afraid that the officers and soldiers in the city have begun to be anxious, and this victory is decided!"

Zhang Liao is full of confidence and does not suspect fraud.

What's more, even if there is fraud, he has already made two preparations, everything depends on the changes after three days, and he will act according to the opportunity.

……

At the same time, inside the castle of Valley City.

"Hahaha, the flying slave has already been released, and Cheng County's order has to constantly send messengers to paralyze Zhang Liao, but it's really a scheming, An Min is ashamed of himself, and he is ashamed."

Cao Yu smiled lightly.

"I heard that Zhang Liao is very good, for such a person, he naturally has to do a full set of acts, otherwise it will be difficult to deceive him."

Cheng Yu's spirit is also good, and his face, which has grown a lot of wrinkles, smiled into a chrysanthemum, "According to my calculations, if Feinu successfully delivers the news, the Juancheng reinforcements will rush to the outskirts of Yuancheng tomorrow night at the latest, and no matter whether Zhang Liao is prepared or not, he definitely can't imagine that our army's letter has grown wings, and the speed of reinforcement support can be so fast!" ”

"After all, according to common sense, even if we send a messenger in advance, the letter asking for help will only be delivered to Juancheng tomorrow night, not to mention that the reinforcements can arrive at that time, this is simply a miracle from heaven."

"Tomorrow night, our army needs to be ready at all times, once there is a fight in Zhang Liao's camp outside the city, our army will immediately open the city gate, rush into Zhang Liao's camp and join forces with the reinforcements, and it will definitely hit Zhang Liao's department hard!"

Cao Yu nodded and praised with a smile: "This is natural, thanks to the Cheng County Order for his advice recently, otherwise how could our army be so smooth?" ”

"No, no, thanks to Captain Cao's bravery, the enemy generals are all frightened, this is the key to our army's capture of the city."

Cheng Yu hurriedly smiled modestly.

"No, no, Cheng County's order is a unique strategist!"

"No, no, no, Captain Cao has the talent of a general!"

"No, no, Cheng County's order should be the first credit!"

"No, no, no, this credit is Captain Cao!"

“……”

As the two talked, their faces finally couldn't hold on, and they looked at each other and smiled in unison: "Speaking of which, thanks to Wu Youcai's (Wu Sima)'s flying slave, this is really a good thing." ”