Chapter 585: Cui Yan (Page 1/1)

Today, of Yuan Xi's 130,000 soldiers and horses, less than 80,000 are intact.

The Cao army was even more miserable, as the besieging party, looking at the dense corpses under the city wall, you knew how tragic the losses of the Cao army were.

Yuan Xi estimated that Cao's army was only afraid of no less than 100,000 deaths. The number of injuries is uncountable.

The problem is that Cao Jun suffered such casualties, and he still has more than 200,000 troops.

Fan Yangjun felt a little precarious.

The situation in Dai County and Liaoxi County is relatively better. But it's not much better.

In order not to let the living forces be consumed in this heart-wrenching battle, Yuan Xi began to encourage the people to participate in the war, have food and drink, and live in peace, Yuan Xi's mobilization. The people of Youzhou are very enthusiastic about signing up for the army.

Yuan Xi was in the Taishou Mansion, thinking hard about countermeasures, and saw Guo Jia hurriedly break in, "Lord." ”

"Bonghyo?" Yuan Xi hurriedly got up, looked at Guo Jia, who had been a little tired recently, and said with concern: "Fengxiao, why is your complexion so bad?" ”

Guo Jia shook his head and said, "Now is not the time to care about this, lord, there is something I have to say to you." ”

Yuan Xi's face sank, "You say." ”

Guo Jia Zhengse said: "If Cao Cao attacks the city in this form again, I'm afraid that our Fanyang County will really not be able to defend it." ”

Yuan Xi's face was a little ugly, "Fengxiao, do you think Cao Jun is short of food, so he attacked so crazily?" ”

Guo Jia smiled bitterly: "Everyone knows that he is short of food, the key is how long he can support it, we don't know." And, hey..."

Guo Jia sighed heavily.

Yuan Xi hurriedly asked, "And what?" ”

Guo Jia said in a low voice: "Most of the people who fought Cao Cao this time were thrown into the city by our Yuan army, Cao Cao is driving the wolf and devouring the tiger, and his heart is sinister." ”

Yuan Xi turned around and said softly, "I already knew this, but there is no way to do it." If we don't kill them, we'll be finished. ”

Guo Jia nodded, and continued: "I've thought about it, we can't stick to it like this, and we should make some counterattacks." Otherwise, if we continue to fight like this, we still won't be able to consume Cao Jun. ”

Yuan Xi's heart was cold, although Youzhou was rich, but the soldiers and horses could never be compared with Cao Jun.

This kind of consumption alone is already unbearable for them.

"Strategist, how do you think we should fight back?"

Yuan Xi's eyes have always been on defense, but he has never thought about going out of the city to fight, and Guo Jia and others have also said before that defense is the main thing.

Now that he is going out of the city to fight, he can't react.

Guo Jia took out a map from his arms and pointed to it: "The beneficial Zhou Liu Yan, Jingzhou Liu Biao, Xiliang Ma Teng, and even Hanzhong Zhang Lu that we can turn to now for help, as long as they state their interests and let them send troops to threaten Cao Cao's rear, Cao Cao will definitely retreat." Although Cao Cao is currently snobbish and strong, there are threats all around, and he has to guard against them. Let's make good use of these, make friends from afar and attack closely, the enemy retreats and I attack, the enemy advances and I retreat, and we don't necessarily have to defeat Cao Cao once at this time. ”

Yuan Xi nodded, he also felt that some thoughts had to be changed, it was too difficult to defeat Cao Cao, far beyond his expectations.

"Then who can be sent to persuade these men to send troops?" Sending someone to be a lobbyist, Yuan Xi really didn't have such an experience.

"This," Guo Jia hesitated and said, "Qinghe Cui Yan is good, if he can count one, he can be sent to lobby Liu Biao; Xiliang Ma Teng only fought last time, and the other party lost a lot, and it is estimated that it is a little difficult, so he has to send someone who can speak the Tao to have hope. ”

Yuan Xi interrupted Guo Jia, who continued to speak, "Cui Yan? Where are the others? ”

Cui Yan is very famous, Yuan Xi didn't expect to hear his reputation at this time.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Cui Yan is currently in prison, and he was locked up by the eldest son. ”

Yuan Xi frowned? "What's going on?"

Guo Jia said: "The two sons fought each other before, and they both wanted Cui Yan to join. But Cui Yan didn't want to see the two, when the third prince was the general, Cui Yan was locked up, and later the eldest prince became a general, and he also went to persuade him, but Cui Yan was naturally imprisoned until now. ”

Yuan Xi hurriedly said: "Quick, go and release him first." The military advisor already knew about this? ”

Seeing Guo Jia nodding, Yuan Xi was a little angry and said, "With such a great talent, why didn't Feng Xiao speak earlier?" Let him suffer in prison in vain. ”

Guo Jia was happy and aggrieved, and said in his heart, How dare I intervene in the relationship between your three brothers, don't you just want to take the opportunity of lobbying to let you reuse him?

"Where are the others locked up now?"

"In prison on the west side of the city." Guo Jia hesitated, and then continued: "If the lord wants to send him, it is best to release him in person, a little sincere." ”

Yuan Xi stroked his palm and said: "It should be like this, let's go, let's go see him." ”

Guo Jia followed him: "Lord, you can't just close it because he doesn't want to use it for you." ”

"You can rest assured about this, it doesn't matter if he joins us or not, the main thing for me this time is to release him, and then recruit him. But if he doesn't join us, then he won't be able to leave our Youzhou for the time being. ”

Guo Jia nodded, and the stone in his heart was put down. It seems that Cui Yan is saved.

Everyone has a temper, Cui Yan has been arrested for so long, he must have a grudge against the Yuan family, he was really afraid that Yuan Xi would not be able to stand it before.

The two of them left the Taishou Mansion and walked across the main street towards the West District.

There were people everywhere on the road, the injured, the uninjured, the begging, the miserable and the people who had no house to live in, countless of them, except for sending people to manage the order and give food to eat, for a while, he did not let people evacuate these people.

Walking on the road, looking at the numb look in the eyes of these people, Yuan Xi didn't know what to think in his heart, the battle with Cao Cao was the most tragic he had ever experienced, and his Youzhou experienced a heavy blow, the three nearby counties, it is estimated that the number of people who fled could not be counted, although they did not flee to other places, but the closed doors around the house, and the yard where refugees walked around from time to time, looking for something to eat, was somewhat shocking.

Yuan Xi quickened his pace, and it didn't take long for the two of them to come to the prison in the west of the city.

"My lord, this way." Guo Jia led the way in front.

Yuan Xi followed step by step, and the two came to a prison, Yuan Xi suddenly remembered the scene when he was in prison for the only time, and he actually felt a little kind.

"Ji Jue, the lord has come to see you." Guo Jia walked quickly to the outside of a cell and called inside.

Yuan Xi looked at it suspiciously, it seemed that Guo Jia and Cui Yan had known each other for a long time.

He walked over quietly, looked inside, and secretly praised in his heart.

(End of chapter)

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