After resting in Jicheng for a few days, the scab on Feng Yong's buttocks began to peel off, and he could finally try to sit down.

Zhang Bao's illness is a little troublesome.

Although it has not continued to deteriorate, the signs of improvement have been extremely slow.

This made Feng Yong very worried, and Guan Xing was even more anxious.

Guan Xing felt that the conditions in Jicheng were not very good, and wanted to send Zhang Bao back to Jincheng, but Feng Yong refused.

Tetanus can't be stimulated, whether it is sound, light or others, it will cause the onset of the disease, this bumpy way back, I am afraid that before I return to Jincheng, Zhang Bao will die because the body can not bear the onset of the disease.

In this case, Feng Yong had to ask Duanmu Zhe to take his letter to Nanxiang in person, so that Nanxiang could send enough cinnabar and toad crisp as soon as possible, and by the way, take some honey from Siniang's hand, and also let Fan A come to Longyou as soon as possible.

After he finished arranging these things, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, who was far away in Xiangwu, sent another military order, asking Feng Yong and Guan Xing to lead the army westward.

Although the two of them couldn't rest assured that Zhang Bao could not be relieved, they could only tell Fan Qi to take care of Zhang Bao, and then take people to Xiangwu.

As far as Feng Yong knew, Longxi Taishou You Chu behaved like history at the beginning, threatening to surrender as long as the Han could sever the connection between Guanzhong and Longxi for a month.

It's May now, and the old demon Zhuge led the main force forward, but he failed to capture it-You Chu, why is your time in this month different from someone else's?

As the president of Dongfeng Express, Feng Yong has reason to question this.

Because Longxi is the most remote place in Longyou.

Being remote means that the cost of transporting grain increases.

The grain road from Hanzhong to Longyou basically overlaps with the water of the Western Han Dynasty.

Because this can transport grain by water, the cost is greatly reduced.

The upper reaches of the Western Han Dynasty are called Yangshui, and Yangshui is close to Qishan, so Qishanbao is the largest grain base in the Northern Expedition.

Transporting grain from Qishanbao to all parts of Longyou, the largest transportation organization is Dongfeng Express.

Now that the Northern Expedition has dragged on for four months, the pressure of transporting grain has gradually become apparent, and the consumption of grain and grass is not ordinarily large.

If it weren't for the old demon Zhuge who thought of a way to collect a large amount of grain before the Northern Expedition, if it weren't for the fact that the Dian horse of Dongfeng Express was really easy to use, the Northern Expedition army should have been like the original history, and the grain and grass began to be unavailable.

But the old demon Zhuge didn't seem to be worried at all, and was even in the mood to take Feng Yong and Jiang Wei around.

Seeing the prime minister of the Han Dynasty walking in front of him bending down by the Weishui, carefully observing the river, and not knowing what he was doing, Feng Yong was really a little puzzled.

It doesn't make sense! Zhuge Old Demon's approach is not in line with his style at all.

The longer this Xiangwu City drags on, the greater the logistical pressure, in the style of Zhuge Old Demon Yuan's history, he should minimize the impact of the war on the people of the Han Dynasty, there is no reason to drag it out so much!

"The prime minister wants to eat fish?" Feng Yong followed up under the pretext, and through the river, he could already see the riverbed in some places, and even saw some fish swimming around.

"Why don't I go down and touch two? It's not big, but it's still ......."

Prime Minister Dahan glanced at Feng Tuqiu, "You also brought a cook here?" ”

Feng Yong's eyes rolled twice, and he said with a dry smile, "How can there be no cook in the army?" ”

"You know what kind of cook I'm talking about." Zhuge Liang looked at him like this, and he was a little helpless, "When marching and fighting, I don't forget to satisfy your appetite, no wonder you have so much knowledge in your master, you just choose to learn the art of easy teeth." ”

Feng Yong shrunk his neck and stopped talking.

Zhuge Liang didn't want to let him go like this, pointed to Xiangwu City in the west, and asked, "Let me ask you, if it were you, how would you capture this city?" ”

"That's not easy, stone it to death!"

Feng Yong said without thinking, "Prime Minister, this is also a point I don't understand, I have already brought the catapult battalion over, why didn't the Prime Minister directly attack the city?" ”

"Just this small city, I asked my engineer, and he said that as long as it is smashed for five days in a row, he will definitely be able to break the city."

There are also advantages of being in a remote area, that is, the general city is not too tall, and it is built with rammed earth, and it will take four or five days to get back the cannon and smash it, and this city wall will definitely not be able to stop it.

"Engineer?" Zhuge Liang thought for a while, and then realized who he was talking about, "You mean the arithmetic scholar in the catapult camp?" ”

"Yes."

"And then? The city is broken, most of the Cao thieves are horse soldiers, how can we annihilate them all? ”

Zhuge Liang asked.

"Annihilation?"

Feng Yong was stunned.

"Naturally, we want to be annihilated," Zhuge Liang looked to the west and said slowly, "The 20,000 horse army is the elite of Liangzhou, if we can annihilate this army here, when we pacify Liangzhou later, it will be much smoother." ”

"What's more, that Hao Zhao has guarded Hexi for many years and has a long prestige, and the people of Hexi are more convinced of this person, if he is allowed to return to Liangzhou, it will be a big trouble."

When Feng Yong heard this, his heart was suddenly shocked, sure enough!

Zhuge Old Demon is so abnormal, it turns out that he really has another purpose, he actually wants to wipe out all the people in Xiangwu City.

"But Prime Minister, the Cao thief is guarding according to the river, and there is still a way to retreat in the west......"

When Feng Yong said this, he suddenly paused, his eyes involuntarily looked at Weishui, and it was like a thunderbolt in front of him, damn me, I'm a pig!

"Understood?"

Zhuge Liang looked at him meaningfully and asked.

Feng Yongmuran nodded.

Zhuge Liang looked at Jiang Wei, who had been standing behind him without saying a word, "Does Boyo understand?" ”

"Is the prime minister waiting for this Weishui to become a danger for Cao thieves to defend, and then take the opportunity to cross the river to cut off the retreat of the thief army in Xiangwu City?"

Jiang Wei also looked like he had a sudden realization.

Zhuge Liang smiled and pointed at the two, "It's not too stupid after all." ”

Then he shook his head again, "Of course, this is just the last step. As the Weishui waters gradually dried up, the Cao thieves would surely know that if they crossed the river in advance, they might alarm the thieves in the city and let them flee out of the city. ”

"Therefore, our first step should be to find a way to drive the Cao thieves from outside the city into the city, and then besiege them."

In the past, it was naturally impossible for the pure infantry Han army to realize this idea, but Guan Xing with the arrival of the cavalry and the Qianghu coalition army, with the original three-sided encirclement, was naturally no problem.

Feng Yong scratched his head, this is still not right!

The statement of ten encirclements, even if it is an exaggeration, is at least reasonable.

More than 50,000 people went to surround the city guarded by more than 20,000 people, and the other party still had a large number of horses, so it didn't look like it was reliable.

"But Prime Minister, this is not very easy to surround, is it?"

Feng Yong asked again.

Zhuge Liang smiled meaningfully again, "Normally, it's naturally not good." But now, taking advantage of the fact that they didn't notice the situation in Weishui, I asked people to dig deep trenches and build barriers on three sides of Xiangwu. ”

"That Hao Zhao believes that there is a way to retreat in the west, and the horse army in his hand is elite, so it is a big mistake not to stop it."

"As long as this trench barrier is completed, how easy is it for him to break through again? Then we can wait patiently for the Weishui to bottom, and then we can directly cross the river and block the west with heavy troops. ”

Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang smiled confidently again, "Whoever builds a city by the water, the wells in the city must be closely connected with the water flow outside the city." If there is no water outside the city, the wells inside the city will also have little water or even dry up. ”

"More than 20,000 people are crowded into this small city, and there are horses for it, plus the needs of the people, the water in this city is definitely not enough.

"It turns out that the prime minister has long known that Longyou will have a big drought this year?"

Jiang Wei suddenly came to his senses.

Zhuge Liang smiled and looked at the sky, "The so-called heaven and earth win people, isn't it exactly what the handsome must know?" At this time in previous years, it was already rainy. ”

"Transporting grain from Hanzhong to Longyou depends on the water of the Western Han Dynasty, how can I pay attention to this from time to time? According to previous years, the water level of the Western Han Dynasty will rise sharply as early as April and May as late, making it difficult to transport grain by ship. ”

"But this year is very abnormal, from April to now, not even a single rain has fallen, and the drought in Longyou is a foregone conclusion. Xiangwu is also located in the upper reaches of Weishui, and the water will inevitably be cut off first. ”

The more Feng Yong listened, the more cold sweat broke out, and he suddenly remembered something in his heart: A few days ago, Old Pifu Wei failed to attack the city and suffered heavy losses, could it be in Zhuge Old Demon's plan?

made Hao Zhao proud for a while, thinking that the tens of thousands of people in the Han Dynasty would not be able to capture Xiangwu.

Then these three sides are surrounded and make the appearance of a long-term siege, which is actually the paralyzing move of Zhuge Old Demon, and it seems that behind the helpless move, the action of blocking three sides has been quietly completed.

Guan Xing came over with cavalry at this time, which happened to make up for the shortcomings of the Han army's lack of mobility.

Finally, with the help of this year's abnormal weather, Hao Zhao's self-righteous retreat became unsafe.

Feng Yong wiped the sweat from his forehead: I said that the prime minister was not in a hurry at all, and even asked a professional team like the engineering team to dig ditches and build barriers every day, and it turned out that he would have died.