The wind is cold and the snow is deepening.

The weather at the end of November was getting colder and colder day by day, and the day before was still sunny.

The 2,000 cavalry under Liu Bei's command have been enriched and rectified a lot compared with a few months ago, military discipline has become stricter, and training has become more sophisticated.

In recent years, there are not many officers and generals who have paid their salaries on time and in full, and Liu Bei is one of them. It is natural that the soldiers do not have to help the generals do private work to subsidize their livelihoods, and the training can be sufficient.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took these 2,000 people and fought for a few days of external harassment, although it was very hard, but because it was going well, their morale was also high. It wasn't until today that I saw the heavy snow flying, and I had the heart to go back and repair.

"Third brother, do you want to let the soldiers go back to Xu Wuxi? It's too demoralizing to be out on such a cold day. ”

If Li Su was here, he would never have imagined that it was Guan Yu, who had a better relationship with him and had worked with him for a longer time, and took the lead in putting forward suggestions for repairs.

What's even more unexpected is that Zhang Fei instead played the role of persuading him to continue to persevere: "This bit of snow is nothing, Boya hasn't come back yet, it's been a day, he can hold on to it in the enemy camp, what can't we hold onto?" I don't think it's better to divide some people, go to the north to cut more wood, and have enough firewood for heating, so that I won't be afraid of the soldiers complaining. ”

No way, who made Guan Yu more sympathetic to the soldiers.

In this kind of juncture, Zhang Fei's style of governing the army of "it is okay to govern the army strictly, we only punish heavily and do not reward" is reflected.

At least when he needs to insist, Zhang Fei can hold on longer.

Guan Yu did not object, so he divided his troops to chop wood for warmth.

When the army is out, there are a maximum of two meals a day, and the time has to be opened. About the end of the hour, when the cavalry was about to cook and was about to start eating, the scouts suddenly came to report that they had received a messenger from their side.

"Guan Sima, it's Liu Dun who is next to the lord who is back."

"Please. Is he alone? Guan Yu hurriedly put down his chopsticks, ran out of the camp, grabbed Liu Dun when he saw him, and then asked, "What about Li Changshi!" Aren't you ordered to protect him, and why did you three come back? ”

Liu Dun slipped through the smoke and told all the causes and consequences: "Guan Sima rest assured, Li Changshi has persuaded Qiu Liju that he is very safe ......."

Then he repeated all of Li Su's explanation, and handed a leather sketch to Guan Yu.

Li Su was very cautious, and just asked Liu Dun to bring words and pictures, and did not write the strategy into a written secret letter.

In this way, even if Liu Dun was bumped into and killed by Zhang Ju's soldiers and horses on the way, it would be impossible for Zhang Ju to leak the secret by seizing the letter, and he would not know about Li Su's existence.

Your own safety is always paramount

Guan Yu thought for a while, and was still ruthlessly calm: "Hurry up and eat, rest on the spot for an hour and a half after eating, and start pulling out at the end of the afternoon!" Don't cut down the wood, just burn all the wood on the fence of the camp to keep warm! I'm afraid I won't have to camp and rest after I set off. ”

He knew that tonight and since there was a war in the middle of the night, the soldiers had to take a good nap, a thorough sleep, and the adjustment of people day and night was not comparable to walking on horseback and squinting.

In this way, he worked steadily and steadily, strictly following the planned moment, step by step.

……

In Guanzi City, at sunset in the evening, Gongsun Zhan, who personally commanded a day's bloody battle at the head of the city, sat decadently on a stone step of the city platform, gulping cold water while tearing a rough cake of sorghum flour.

Sorghum flour is not easy either, it is already eaten by officers, and the food eaten by ordinary soldiers has begun to be adulterated with bran in proportion.

At least one-third of the chaff is bran!

"Liu Yu's thief who talks on paper! Tell him that Guanzicheng will run out of food at the end of September, and he won't come to the rescue until the end of November! must have treated us as outcasts. I still kill the enemy every day to serve the country, so it is better to abandon the army with a few hundred personal soldiers to break through! As long as you go out, you must pay the price for Liu Yu! ”

The more Gongsun Chan thought about it, the more angry he became, and he had already made up his mind that if he encountered such a fierce attack again, he would definitely not be able to hold out for a month, so he would have to consider abandoning the army and breaking through.

After driving all the people out of the city, the food will be able to eat until February and March next year, but the density of this siege is too terrible! The rebels began in mid-November, and in the last half month, they simply changed the previous style of siege without fighting, to a crazy onslaught at the cost of human lives!

It's as if Gongsun Chan helped them kill a rebel soldier, he was helping the rebels save food!

Fortunately, the rebels were very strange, and often forcibly drove old people who couldn't walk, even children and women, to attack the city, and they didn't feel sorry for being shot and slashed by the official army. But this also limited the siege combat effectiveness of the rebels, and often a regular soldier of the Han army could kill a dozen or even dozens of rebel soldiers in exchange for a dozen or even dozens of rebel soldiers in the defense of the city!

Gongsun Zhan has always been isolated from the outside world, and of course he doesn't know that Li Su's strategy of "grabbing wheat and rolling it" has succeeded, so he can't understand why Hu Ren has become crazy.

He only knew that in the past half month, his descendants had died from 5,000 to 4,000 - only more than 400 were killed in direct battle, and 600 were injured and could not be healed.

And in order to kill these 1,000 people in the siege battle, the rebels killed at least more than 20,000 cannon fodder!

It's insane! However, in the siege battle, the defender had a great advantage, and the combat effectiveness of the Han army was obviously stronger, and twenty for one was normal.

Just when Gongsun Zhan's nerves were at the peak, he suddenly saw the meaning of hope.

"General! Checkmate! Good news! Wen Ze is back! Wen Junhou is back! Gongsun Zhan's staff Guan Jing, with a herald who was rushing from the west of the city, stumbled over to report the good news to Gongsun Zhan.

"What? The text is ...... Wen Ze is back? Gongsun Chan was even stunned for a few seconds, and then suddenly stood up, "What about the reinforcements?" Are reinforcements coming soon? No, aren't you guarding the West City? How could Wen Ze break through from the West Gate and come back, could it be that there was fraud in it? ”

The West Gate is the farthest direction from the imperial court reinforcements, and it is necessary to bypass half of the enemy's defense area to arrive, if it is to enter the encirclement, how can it not appear at the West Gate!

Staff member Guan Jing explained: "After Wen Junhou entered the city, I also asked carefully, he said that Qiu Liju secretly let him in, Qiu Liju has made peace with the court, Liu Zhijun promised not to blame the past, but to punish the evil, let us go out of the city tonight, go to the Zhang Ju camp in the northeast of the city to rob the camp, and everyone will attack the thief together!" ”

When Gongsun Chan heard this, he instantly fell into a stupor.

It is impossible to say that it is not happy, after all, it is a good thing, there are reinforcements, and it is expected that the war will end......

But! Why is it to make peace with Qiu Liju?

"In the past half a month, at least half of the 1,000 brothers who have died have fought against the people of Qiuliju! He owes me at least 600 robes, and I have killed more than 10,000 of his old and weak, so is this peace? He made peace, how will the credit be divided when the time comes? In Gongsun Zhan's heart, he accumulated great unwillingness.

Suddenly, a plan popped up in Gongsun Zhan's mind, and he pulled Guan Jing over and asked, "Since Qiu Liju has made peace with the imperial court, why doesn't Zhang Ju know about it?" Wouldn't it be good if we sent a detailed secretary to inform Zhang Ju and provoke Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju to merge in advance? We don't have to attack Zhang Ju side by side with Qiu Liju, we can watch the two thieves kill each other first! ”

Guan Jing was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he didn't know how to refute it, but fortunately, Wen Ze, who came back from the breakout, gave Gongsun Zhan a preventive shot: "General, don't!" Zhang Ju will not believe you suddenly, and even if he does, it will not be good for booby-trapping Zhang Ju himself.

Zhang Ju doesn't die, how can Zhang Jujun be in chaos? Isn't it going to be a tough battle and a battle to the death? Besides, you don't have time to use the plan, Li Changshi just calculated that Zhang Ju had already set off for the banquet in the evening, so he let me come back to report the news. It's better to reorganize the men and horses as soon as possible to attack the Zhang Ju camp! ”

When Gongsun Chan heard this, he became more and more angry: "What? Then what is Li, is Liu Yu's person? He took so long to save me, and he still guarded me? Text! You are my person, don't think that when you go to Liu Youzhou's account, you will climb to the top of the high branch after listening to the descendants for a few months!

Why didn't you want to report earlier! What a heart this is! Could it be that you want to help them see me and Zhang Ju lose both, and don't want me to watch Zhang Ju and Liu Yu lose both? ”

Wen Ze suddenly felt sad and indignant in his heart: "This ...... Checkmate! The lowly duty has fought out of the siege several times to ask for help, and his loyalty can be seen every day! The generals were suspicious. Liu Youzhou is also the general's commander, and he will not ...... if he has his own considerations."

"Shut up! You have eaten a full meal in Jixian County for a few months, and the robe and bran here are almost gone, and it is not you who is hungry! Gongsun Chan screamed, seemed to be very disappointed as he spoke, and waved his hand, "That's it, you stand down and rest!" ”

As a general, he knows right and wrong, after all, he is a warrior killed by his own men, so he can't chill people's hearts, so let's talk about it slowly in the future.

After Wen Ze was taken down, Gongsun Zhan sat and rested for a long time, consumed most of the anger accumulated because of a day of bloody fighting, and finally calmed down, and ordered the troops to be dispatched, let the soldiers rest quickly, add a meal, and go out of the city to fight two hours later.

And he also kept an extra eye, asking the sentries at the head of the city to pay attention to observe, and the enemy camp must be really chaotic before he can rush and kill.

I've been carrying the main attack for so long, and it's time to pick up a bargain.

……

The day's preparations were finally completely determined, and when it was about to get dark, Zhang Ju finally took three hundred cavalry soldiers and Shi Shiran to Qiu Liju's camp-

Qiu Liju's excuse was that there was something to talk about today, and at the same time, some of his subordinates went out on patrol, stumbled upon a cave on the slope of Yanshan Mountain in the heavy snow, and hunted a bear, so he lightly raised his praise.

Because the rebels ran out of food, even if Zhang Ju was called the Son of Heaven, he could only eat some poor meat on weekdays.

"If you don't come to harm, the battle situation will definitely take a turn for the better in the near future, so you must persevere." Zhang Ju saw Qiu Liju personally out of the camp to greet him, and he didn't care, and rode forward slightly, still twenty or thirty steps away from Qiu Liju, and began to shout heartily and say some polite words to boost morale.

The more times like these, the more important it is to make every effort to boost morale.

However, just as the two were about to talk, Qiu Liju suddenly retreated, and immediately a personal soldier stepped forward to cover him:

"Zhang Ju! You have done the opposite, I have made peace with Liu Youzhou! I don't embarrass you, you can do it yourself! ”

Zhang Ju was stunned for a moment: "Why did you change your mind!" ”

At this moment, on the left wing of Qiu Liju's personal guards, Zhao Yun, who was caged in a fur hood and smock and couldn't even see his face clearly, suddenly opened his bow and set up an arrow, and shot it with a feeling.

After shooting, he was afraid that he would not be stable enough, so he fired another arrow, followed by two arrows, and the last two arrows were completely unaimed, but fortunately, he won by covering the numbers.

"Uhh......h

"Hurry up!" Zhang Ju's guards went crazy and stepped forward to cover it, and some people dismounted and wanted to help Zhang Ju on horseback.

But Zhao Yun succeeded with one arrow, and he had already advanced like a dragon. The distance is only a few dozen steps, and in an instant, a little cold light arrives first.