"It's useless to talk about these things now, let's talk about how to solve the matter of grain and grass."

Although Liu Bei regretted not listening to Cheng Yu's words at the beginning, he insisted on transporting grain and grass from the Meridian Valley.

But he's not one to be stuck in remorse.

After expressing his regret for his original decision, Liu Bei quickly came back to his senses and began to think about what they should do next to deal with the shortage of food and grass.

After saying this, Liu Bei looked at Jian Yong and Guan Yu on the side.

In fact, there is no need for Liu Bei to ask.

During the time that Liu Bei was still here, Guan Yu and Jian Yong had already begun to discuss.

In fact, some results have been discussed.

At this time, just waiting for Liu Bei to ask, Guan Yu took the lead in speaking.

"Big brother, now we only have two paths to go!"

"There has not been much grain and grass for our army in Hanzhong, and now the grain and grass for the next half month have been intercepted by Liu Zheng's people, if we can't get Hanzhong within 20 days, our army will have a shortage of grain and grass!"

"So we can only conquer Nanzheng City in 20 days, and then move westward to seize the entire Yizhou, only to kill the army to Yizhou, with the food of the people of the country of abundance enough for our army to worry about food and grass for a short time!"

Guan Yu is actually the side of the main battle.

After all, the purpose of their coming to Hanzhong this time was not to occupy Yizhou, and now that they have surrounded Nanzheng City, they only need to continue to send troops and horses to attack Nanzheng City and eliminate the main forces of Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang, and the next battle to attack Xichuan will not be very difficult.

According to the current strength of Guan Yu's army in Hanzhong to storm Nanzheng City, the chance of victory is still very great.

After all, Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang's men and horses in Nanzheng City had suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, and now they could only retreat in the city.

As long as they are willing to lose soldiers and horses, if Guan Yu's army forcibly attacks the city, it will not be a problem to hit Nanzheng City.

It's just that the forced siege of the city is not necessarily how many people Guan Yu's army of more than 60,000 people will be left.

When Liu Bei heard Guan Yu's words, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about what he said, what are the odds?

After a moment, Liu Bei still shook his head.

"Second brother, this matter is very important, if we forcibly attack the city, our army will definitely suffer heavy casualties, even if we can take Nanzheng City at that time, there will not be many soldiers left, and there are tens of thousands of Gan Ning's troops on the side, when our army attacks Hanzhong, Gan Ning's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will definitely not sit idly by, in case they take advantage of our army's siege from the rear of our army, and launch a front and rear attack on our army, wouldn't it be a big deal?"

Liu Bei was still very cautious, and after realizing that this matter was impossible, he immediately rejected Guan Yu's proposal.

After Guan Yu heard Liu Bei's rejection of his statement, his face was flat and he didn't say anything, after all, he also understood that what he said just now was just angry talk, and the chance of really attacking Nan Zheng was too small.

Even if you fight, the gains outweigh the losses.

"Another way for the lord is that our army will give up attacking Nanzheng City, but transfer all the troops on the Nanzheng side to the Meridian Valley, and open up the Meridian Valley grain road first."

"The reason why the Meridian Valley Grain Road will be cut off by Huang Zhong's men and horses is precisely because our army has placed a large number of soldiers and horses on the side of Nanzheng City, as long as the soldiers and horses are re-dispatched to open up the grain route, when the next batch of grain and grass is transported, our army's grain and grass crisis can be solved!"

Guan Yu's army transported grain and grass from Chang'an City to Chenggu County, once every 10 days.

Although the grain and grass this time were robbed by Huang Zhong. But it only takes another 10 days for the next batch of grain and grass to arrive.

Therefore, as long as the grain road is opened, the next batch of grain and grass will be transported over, and the grain and grass crisis on Guan Yu's side can be temporarily lifted.

However, if you do this, you are not completely 10% sure that you can do it.

After all, they did this before because of Huang Zhong's horses, and they didn't know the grain transportation route of Guan Yu's army.

Only then can you ignore the soldiers and horses that Liu Zheng's army can appear at any time to rob grain.

But now that Huang Zhong has done something to cut off the grain channel, it may not be impossible to do it a second time.

Even when Fu Shiren disappeared, most of them had been arrested by Huang Zhong's men and horses for interrogation and torture, and no details of the entire grain and grass transportation process could escape the investigation of Huang Zhong and others.

As a result, the difficulty of transporting grain and grass through the Meridian Grain Road has skyrocketed.

"Xianhe (Jian Yongbiao), what you said, although it is feasible, but if you want to succeed, it is also not easy, now that the grain route of the Meridian Valley has been discovered by Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses, even if we send a large army over, the other party can rely on the terrain of the Meridian Valley to stalemate with us."

"Let's not talk about whether we can defeat Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses in a few days, even if Huang Zhong is really defeated in the end, when our grain transport team comes, Huang Zhong will kill it again, I'm afraid we may not be able to keep those grain and grass." They can undo our efforts with just a fire. ”

Liu Bei is not very confident in regaining the grain channel of this meridian valley.

After all, when he chose this meridian valley to transport grain and grass at the beginning, it was because of its concealment, and now that Huang Zhong's men and horses have known about it, it is not a wise move to continue to use this channel to transport grain and grass.

After Jian Yong's words were finished, after not getting Liu Bei's consent, his face became a little solemn again, after all, for Jian Yong, when he discussed with Guan Yu before, he had already raised these doubts, and now he took it out again and said that it was just denied by Liu Bei again.

"Lord, since it is not possible to storm Nanzheng, and it is not possible to retreat and protect the grain road, we now only have twenty days of grain and grass left, and as time goes by, the news that our grain road has been robbed will definitely spread in the army, and I am afraid that it will not take twenty days, and the soldiers and horses under our command will begin to have turmoil."

Although the robbery of the Meridian Grain Road has not yet been made public, Guan Yu's soldiers and horses are not fools, and the baggage team has not transported the grain and grass these days, so they can realize what happened in this land of Hanzhong.

After another ten days have passed, they haven't seen the baggage come over, and those smart people naturally know that the shortage of grain and grass in Hanzhong will not be able to suppress Guan Yu if he wants to suppress the turmoil of the soldiers and horses below.

"Then if this doesn't work, we can only find a way to transport grain and grass from this side of the valley, but even if we send the news back quickly, it will take at least a month to be able to spread the news to Chang'an and transport the grain and grass to Chenggu."

Jian Yong thought about it for a while, and then came up with a solution.