The morning sun slowly rose, and the camp outside Xuzhou City was already in a mess at this time.

After a night of fighting, 50,000 Xuzhou troops were inexplicably broken, the main general Di Rong, deputy generals Mi Fang and Cao Bao were captured, tens of thousands of Xuzhou troops surrendered, and the rest fled, leaving countless baggage and grass.

The news came to Xuzhou City, the whole city was shocked, Tao Qiangang sent 50,000 troops were wiped out in just one night, the main general was captured alive, and the tiger and leopard cavalry that broke the Xuzhou army is now less than 20 miles away from Xuzhou City, for a while, up to the officials, down to the people, are all frightened, the whole Xuzhou City is in chaos.

Guo Jia came slowly on horseback, and everyone was already waiting for his arrival there.

"The military advisor is clever, the Xuzhou army is really camped here, and there is no defense at all, we were caught off guard by killing one at night, and there is not even a decent resistance!"

The person who spoke was Xiahou Yuan, originally he thought that after the tiger and leopard rode deep into Xuzhou, sooner or later he would be surrounded, and a tragic bloody battle was inevitable, but he didn't expect that now in the face of the 50,000 army of Xuzhou's main force, they only used 8,000 people, and they defeated them in half a night, and captured several generals alive, the results of this battle were huge, which he Xiahou Yuan never dreamed of.

"Are there any casualties?" Guo Jia asked.

"There were no soldiers killed in battle, but in the chaos, some people were hit and slightly injured." Yu Ban reported the post-war intelligence to Guo Jia.

After Yu Ban finished speaking, everyone involuntarily glanced at Cao Hong, and saw that among all the people, he was colored, and he had a cut on his face, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to.

Cao Hong was ashamed, angry, and shouted: "What are you all watching me do? I was just accidentally hung by the flag, it was an accident, what's all the fuss? ”

The crowd burst out laughing.

In fact, the real situation is that Cao Hong wanted to fight for merit, took the lead, and rushed straight to the big tent of the Chinese army of the Xuzhou army, and wanted to capture the enemy's main general to make a head, but he knew that he was hit by the chaotic enemy soldiers in a hurry, and fell on his back, if Dian Wei hadn't come in time, maybe he would be the only one killed by the enemy.

Xiahou Yuan asked: "Military Division, Xuzhou City is in front of you, do you want to attack the city directly?" ”

Guo Jia shook his head and said: "General Xiahou, don't be anxious, although we have won a battle, it is unrealistic to want to capture Xuzhou City, not to mention that Xuzhou City still has a lot of troops to defend, we only brought three days of dry food this time, and there is no equipment for the siege, if we attack Xuzhou City under such conditions, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties." ”

After Xiahou Yuan heard this, he calmed down, he was carried away by the victory, and he couldn't wait to capture Xuzhou City in one go.

"How much rations?" Guo Jia asked again.

This time, Li Dian replied: "Back to the military division, the Xuzhou army has a lot of military rations, which is enough for our whole army to use for three months." ”

"That's not it, if it hadn't burned part of the fire, there would have been more." Xiahou Yuan said.

Guo Jia smiled slightly: "In this way, we should be able to stay here for half a month." ”

Xiahou Yuan was puzzled: "How can it be half a month?" ”

Yu Ban said: "If it is only for my military, it can be used for three months, but if tens of thousands of Xuzhou military prisoners are added, it will be enough for half a month." ”

Cao Hong said disapprovingly: "Since these captives will only consume food and grass, why do you keep them?" Kill it, you won't get it! ”

Li Dian was shocked and said: "General Cao Hong, that's more than 30,000 prisoners!" ”

Guo Jia also said: "General Li Dian is right, these tens of thousands of captives are human lives, since they have surrendered, it is unjust to kill again, and it will cause the indignation of the people of the world, and the defenders of Xuzhou City know that we will fight to the death if we kill prisoners of war, and there is no idea of surrendering." ”

Although Cao Hong was still unconvinced, it was not good to say anything more.

Yu Ban asked: "Military Master, since we still have half a month of food and grass available, what should we do next?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard in the past few days, let's take a good rest in the next time." ”

"Rest?"

When everyone heard Guo Jia say this, they couldn't help but be surprised, they rushed from Yanzhou to here in a few days, three days and three nights without sleep, after going deep into Xuzhou, only after a day of rest, they attacked the Xuzhou army at night that night, and played the attack to the extreme, but now after the big victory, Guo Jia ordered the troops to stay still, and stopped and rested more than ten miles away from Xuzhou City, which had to be unexpected.

Le Jin arched his hand and said: "But the military division, now we have achieved a big victory, Xuzhou City must be chaotic now, it is a good time to take advantage of the victory to pursue, do nothing, it is a pity to waste this opportunity in vain, if the military division is worried that it is difficult to attack the city without equipment, I am happy to be brave, I am willing to set up a military order, ask the military division for life, to five hundred tigers and leopards to ride, form a city climbing team, tonight to climb the head of Xuzhou City, open the city gate for the military division, if unsuccessful, the military division can be dealt with by military law!" ”

This Lejin is brave and brave, he dares to say this, it is not reckless, but it is indeed certain, Guo Jia also knows Lejin's talent, he is the best at attacking the city, is a rare talent, but at this time Guo Jiazhi is not attacking the city, so he smiled and said to Lejin: "I absolutely believe in the ability of General Lejin, Xuzhou City is indeed in chaos now, if you take advantage of the chaos tonight, with the ability of General Lejin, it will be successful, but our main purpose now is not to break through Xuzhou City, and let Tao Qian surrender the city." ”

"Surrender?"

The crowd was amazed.