Guo Peng suddenly asked, and Xi Zhong didn't react for a while.

Guo Jia reacted, but he didn't know what Guo Peng meant.

"Yuan Shao doesn't have so many soldiers and horses, and the city with a lot of garrisons is Fanyang, Yecheng and Gaoyang, right? There shouldn't be many soldiers and horses in other counties, but only hundreds. ”

Guo Jia answered Guo Peng's question.

"That's right, at most, there are only hundreds of soldiers guarding the city, and the army is coming to the city, at most it is only a matter of time, the city will be broken, in this case, why not sweep those cities, but keep an eye on the periphery of Yecheng to be tied hand and foot?"

When Guo Peng said this, Guo Jia and Xi Zhong frowned, not understanding what Guo Peng meant.

"What does Ming Gong mean to leave some soldiers and horses to surround Yecheng, and then divide his troops to capture other cities?"

Xi Zhong frowned and thought for a while: "There are still some dangers in doing this, we only have 30,000 soldiers and horses, how many soldiers and horses are left to surround Yecheng?" There are too many mobile troops, there are too maneuver, there are few, and we are afraid that we will not be able to parry the main force out of the city. ”

"Then let the trial match not be able to lead the troops out of the city, and completely turn Yecheng into a dead land."

Guo Peng thought of a solution.

How can you let a Yecheng hold you back?

On the third day of the second day, the fourth day, Guo Peng attacked the city for three consecutive days, but the offensive was not as fierce as at the beginning, and he did not capture the city for three consecutive days, which made the trial a little relaxed, and also spread the news that Guo Peng was about to withdraw from the army due to lack of military food in the city to stabilize people's hearts.

On the morning of the fifth day, Guo Peng did not attack the city.

Instead, 70,000 or 80,000 troops, auxiliaries, and civilians were distributed on all sides of Yecheng, and ditches were dug and connected together, so that Yecheng was surrounded on all sides, and the circle was forty miles long.

The ditch is shallower, but it is wider, about three zhang.

After reviewing the report of the soldiers defending the city, he went to the city to watch, and found that the soldiers of the Zhendong Army were digging trenches, and thought that they were some tactics that relied on trenches to fight, but it looked useless, so shallow, and they could be crossed over.

The judge is a rigid head, and he can't think of why, but he can't think of a way to deal with it, so he laughed loudly on the city wall, mocking Guo Pengqian's poor donkey skills, and there is no way.

Then let the soldiers at the head of the city taunt Guo Peng together, laughing and scolding Guo Peng for being incompetent, and scolding the Zhendong Army for being useless.

Therefore, the judge patronized and scolded, and did not think of going out of the city to obstruct Guo Peng's actions.

Then after night fell that night, Guo Peng ordered the whole army to go out, and dug the big canal with a circle of forty miles to a depth of two zhang overnight, and then directly connected it to the Zhangshui River on the edge of Yecheng City.

The river that was once used by Lu Zhi to deal with the Yellow Turban Army is now used by Guo Peng again to deal with the trial.

Guo Peng used the deep ditch to encircle Yecheng on all sides with river water, and the large canal with a width of three zhang and a depth of two zhang was comparable to a new moat, surrounding Yecheng on all sides, directly cutting off the connection between Yecheng and the outside world.

Trapped in Yecheng.

It doesn't matter if you can't beat it, I don't want it for the time being, but you just stay here obediently for me, don't move, if you move, it will be miserable.

First of all, you have to have the means to cross the canal three feet wide and two feet deep, whether it is swimming or rowing?

It doesn't matter, when you cross the river, when my army attacks you indiscriminately, don't think about crossing the river.

Guo Peng also ordered people to surround a circle of rejection horses on the edge of the canal, set up a strong crossbow, and clearly told the judge, you are finished.

After receiving the report from his subordinates, he immediately ran up to the city wall, looked out, and was directly stunned.

What is this? Guo Peng gave him a moat?

No! This is to introduce Zhangshui into the ditch and turn Yecheng into a lonely city!

The internal and external traffic of Yecheng is cut off!

Yecheng will not receive any food, soldiers and horses to help, unless they can break through here.

And before that, Guo Peng will ......

will sweep all the surrounding counties, Yecheng's soldiers and horses will basically disappear to his deterrent, he can rest assured that he can mobilize soldiers and horses to attack the city, and then completely turn Yecheng into a lonely city, a completely lonely city!

The judge was dumbfounded.

Since the plan was completed, time was running out, and that afternoon, Guo Peng sent troops to attack.

Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, and Cao Chun were dispatched to attack separately and sweep the counties of Wei County around Yecheng, requiring them to completely isolate Yecheng.

Then Guo Peng personally led the army around Yecheng, swaggering, like a demonstration, and then patted his ass and left, going directly to the north.

Target, Handan.

You come out, but you come out to stop me! Aren't you crazy?

Guo Peng laughed triumphantly.

Then he led his troops to the north, left the siege and defense affairs of Yecheng, the governor of Xizhong, left the three generals of the Li family to him, and took the rest of his men and horses to attack the city.

The trial was completely panicked, realizing that he was tricked by Guo Peng and would pay a very heavy price.

And this price is something he can't bear, and Yuan Shao can't bear it, the entire Jizhou is very likely to be overturned because of this, he can't accept it!

So he immediately ordered the generals to organize the soldiers of Shanshui, but found that he could not find many soldiers of Shanshui, and there were only more than 1,000 people in the full battle.

But there was no choice but to drive the ducks to the shelves, and randomly selected a batch, gathered enough 3,000 people, and prepared to cross the water to launch an attack and try to destroy the ditch.

He ordered a batch of improvised ferries to be made and let the soldiers of Shanshui control them, ready to break through.

Xi Zhong directly ordered the army to be in place, and the crossbowmen were shot across the horses with large shields to protect the crossbowmen, and the people who were shot by the soldiers who tried to cross the river were overturned on their backs, and they were either shot to death or drowned.

The trial did not allow them to retreat, and they wanted to storm it, but as a result, they had no other results than leaving behind more than 900 corpses.

The loss was too great, and the judge had to order a retreat to the city, and tried to build extra-long planks to cross the river, but before he could leave the city, he was pressed and beaten by trebuchets, and the soldiers did not dare to go out of the city at all, and directly retreated back to the city.

The trial still did not admit defeat, and sent troops to try to cross the river to open the gap at night, but he didn't think that Xi Zhong had expected it, and commanded the army to beat the drum to counterattack, and the Yuan army in Yecheng was greatly confused, trampling and pushing each other, fleeing in all directions, and his own people were trampled to death.

There is no other meaning than leaving a corpse on the ground.

There is nothing to be done about the trial, and there is nothing to be done for the guards in the city, so they can only watch the ditch outside the city in a daze, sitting and eating empty.

Although there is a lot of grain in Yecheng, there is also a large population in the city, especially in the past, which has aggravated the large population in the city, making the pressure on the grain in the city very great.

Faced with such a situation, the judge had no choice but to order the reduction of rations, and the soldiers and men could eat more, and the old, weak, sick and disabled could only eat less.

Because they can't get enough to eat, a large number of the old, weak, sick and disabled can only choose to lie in bed and stay still, so as to reduce hunger.

Under such a predicament, there is no way to judge and match.

However, Guo Peng took advantage of such an opportunity to raid the counties around Wei County and occupy the place.