Although he defeated Cao *** and retreated twenty miles, if he did not retreat, the danger of Ye County would not be lifted.

If you want to pursue, it is even more impossible, you just have such a few troops, and after you fight, you will have nothing.

Now the most urgent problem is the food problem, the grain of Ye County is about to be eaten, if there is no food to come in, you can only abandon the city and leave.

Originally, it was acceptable for Li Xian to abandon the city, after all, as long as he still had soldiers, the city would not be able to run, and he would come back sooner or later.

But he has already pulled all the people of Ye County into the same boat, and it is easy to run by himself, but how can the people run?

If Li Xian wanted to leave the people of Ye County to be slaughtered by Cao Cao, he couldn't do it.

When he and Cao Ren turned against each other in Xuzhou, wasn't it because Cao Ren slaughtered the people.

Even betrayed Cao Cao, a big reason was because Cao Cao had slaughtered the city.

So now he has no other choice but to stick to Ye County.

Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun Chan in Jizhou, and Li Xian also helped Yuan Shao and betrayed Gongsun Chan.

He told Zhang Yan that Gongsun Chan would send someone to ask him for help, and he only needed to reply to Gongsun Chan, and he would go to save him, and agree on a date, and then raise a fire.

Then he revealed the news to Yuan Shao, and at the same time asked Yuan Shao to send two hundred carts of grain to Zhang Yan after Gongsun Zhan was destroyed.

In order to eliminate Gongsun Zan as soon as possible, Yuan Shao agreed to Zhang Yan's request.

And in September, he attacked Gongsun Zhan's Yi Jing.

Gongsun Chan knew that he would be defeated, so he put all his wife and sisters to death, and he also committed suicide.

His subordinate Tian Kai fought with Yuan Shaojun and died of exhaustion, and Gongsun Zhan's son Gongsun Xu was also killed by Tu Ge.

At this point, Gongsun Chan officially perished.

In order to deal with Cao Cao with all his might, Yuan Shao gave Zhang Yan two hundred carts of grain as agreed.

He knew that Zhang Yan was not that much of a threat to him now, and when he defeated Cao Cao, he would come back and slowly clean up Zhang Yan.

After reorganizing the army and horses, he prepared to lead his troops south to fight for Yanzhou and meet the Son of Heaven in Xudu.

Of course, this was a month later, and Li Xian was still worried about the food problem at this time.

On this day, he took Gao Shun out to patrol the city, after all, it was related to the safety of the people of a city and a sergeant, and he couldn't be sloppy, and he checked every place very carefully.

Especially at the Observatory, if an accident happens to the scouts sent out and they can't come back in time to report the news, the Lookout is the first person to spot the enemy army, so you must always be upbeat to observe.

But it seems that it is impossible for Cao Cao to come to attack the city, let alone attack the city, and he will not even challenge the city.

After winning the battle a few days ago, he had no doubts about holding Ye County, except for the food problem.

As soon as they returned to the house, they saw a large number of people gathered in front of the house, many of them carrying things in their hands or carrying burdens.

He was standing on the front desk and saying something to the people.

Li Xian dismounted and Gao Shun walked over, and when the people saw Li Xian coming back, they all gathered around him.

An old man held a grain bag in his hand and said to Li Xian: "General Li, I heard that your army is short of food, and the general is short of food and did not collect food from us, which shows the general's benevolence and righteousness to the people, so we are willing to donate some food to the general for military food." ”

After the old man finished speaking, he stuffed the rice bag into Li Xie's hand.

Li obliquely weighed it, not much, only a few catties.

This made Li Xian very moved, he took the old man's hand and said: "Old man, although our army is short of food, it is not enough to take the rations of the people. It's not easy for you, it's me who has burdened you, and when Cao Cao is beaten away, I will never let you suffer from war again. ”

The surrounding people gathered around and said, "General, take it quickly, we don't have much food at home, this is all a little bit of our heart." ”

"General, you can take it."

"General......

At this time, Fu Zhu squeezed to Li Xian's side and said, "General, you can accept it for the time being, the will of the people cannot be violated." ”

Li Xian walked up to the front desk, looked at the hundreds of people below and said: "Fellow villagers, I have received your wishes, and I will also accept your grain, but there is a premise, that is, you must ensure that your family has enough surplus food to eat for some days." At the same time, I promise that Cao Cao will be defeated within a month, so that everyone can return to normal life. ”

The people below cheered in unison, praising Li Xian's benevolence and righteousness and caring for the people.

Li Xian asked people to collect all the grain donated by the people, and people came to donate grain for several days in a row.

Some people have surplus food in their homes, but there are also many people who have run out of food in their homes, so Li Xian asked people to set up a relief field. The food donated by the people was used to cook soup, and all the people in the city who had no food to eat could come here to receive food.

Although it can't make people full, it can make people hold on.

The people in the city saw that Li Xian treated the people well, and many people came to donate grain.

Even if someone has run out of food at home, he refuses to come here to receive food, saying that he wants to leave the food for Li Xie's army.

After Li Xian found out, he announced to the people, saying that if there were people in the city who starved to death, it would be his sin, and he would never want to see it. If any more people starve to death, he himself will not eat it.

As soon as the notice came out, the people in the city supported Li Xian even more, and they all vowed to live and die with Li Xian.

"It's not a way to go on like this, Xiahou Yuan must be driven away, otherwise Wanxian and Ye County will not be connected, and the grain will not be able to be transported. Although the people in the city donated a lot of food, it was only a drop in the bucket for us, and it was not worth mentioning. ”

"Xiahou Yuan led 10,000 people to guard Bowang, how many people do you need to escort the grain to Ye County?" Fu Zhu also said with deep concern. "Perhaps, you can lure Xiahou Yuan out of the city to fight, if Xiahou Yuan is defeated, then you can open the passage between the two counties of Wanye."

"Lure Xiahou Yuan out of the city to fight......" Li Xian paced around the house, thinking of a way.

"Yes, call Zilong quickly." Lee suddenly shouted with joy.

The doorman hurriedly answered: "No." "Ran to find Zhao Yun.

Seeing the joy on Li Xian's face, he knew that he must have a solution, so he hurriedly asked, "Does the general have a good plan?" ”

Li Xian smiled: "Although it is not a foolproof strategy, but now it has to be like this." ”

He told Fu Zhu about the strategy, and Fu Zhi was a little surprised: "What if Xiahou Yuan is not fooled?" Will it be self-defeating, and in the end a lot of food will be lost. ”

"It's up to people to plan things, it's up to heaven to succeed, and whether it's success or failure depends on what Xiahou Yuan wants to do."

At this time, Zhao Yun also arrived, came in and asked, "The general is looking for me?" ”

Li Xian took Zhao Yun's hand and asked, "Zilong, how is your injury?" ”

"It's nothing, it's all flesh and skin wounds, I can still go into battle to kill the enemy, if there is anything to send, please ask the general to order."

"I want you to go to Wanxian."

"Go to Wanxian? What should I do if Cao Cao comes to attack the city? I want to stay in Yexian and defend the city with the general. ”

"Cao Cao will not come to attack the city, and it is important for you to go to Wanxian."

Then Li Xian told Zhao Yun to do this and so, and told him to do it.

Zhao Yun heard that there were still some doubts on his face, turned his head to look at Fu Zhi, and saw that Fu Zhu also nodded to him, and then said to Li Xian: "No." ”

Watching Zhao Yun go out, Li Xian said to himself: "I hope this plan can be successful, otherwise I can only abandon Ye County and leave." ”

"How sure is the general?" I really didn't know how sure I was.

"Eighty percent, knowing what the enemy wants to attack, the odds are quite good."

"Do you want to send General Wen Yuan to lead the troops to meet again?"

"If you win, you can, but if you lose, you don't have to, it will only attract Cao Cao's army."

Although the 500 cavalry troops were wiped out in the last battle, more than 300 war horses were collected after cleaning up the battlefield, and Zhao Yun formed a cavalry team of 300 people.

However, this cavalry team was not trained and could not go into battle.

Zhao Yun only brought twenty horses, fearing that bringing too many would attract Cao Cao's attention, so he ran all the way to Wanxian.