Chapter 71: Politics is Compromise.

Jia Xu said: I think there is a way, we may not need to kill a single soldier to make Gongsun Zhan and his 30,000 soldiers wiped out. It's just that it hurts the heavens and the peace, so the lord still doesn't ask.

Zhang Jie was a little curious about how this old poison could take Jixian County without a single soldier. Zhang Jie said: It's okay to talk about it, if you can't do it, you don't need to do it. If you say it, you might be able to think of something else.

The generals also nodded yes.

Jia Xu said: If you want to take Jixian County without spending a single soldier, you can't fill the moat, and if you want Gongsun Zan to be cocooned and bound by yourself, we only need to block the four gates of Jixian County with big stones, so that the city gate cannot be opened inside. If someone in the city wants to get out of the city, he has to climb down from the city wall or jump down and fall to his death, even if he is not injured by the rope, but there is a moat to block it, and he will not be able to get out of the moat. And General Ju Yi and Zilong's cavalry took turns guarding the edge of the moat at twelve o'clock in the morning, as long as someone went down the city wall, they would shoot with a strong bow and crossbow, and they were lucky enough to escape the shooting of General Koji and swim across the river, and General Zilong's cavalry only needed a knife to solve it. Just climbed up from the water and could escape the pursuit of the cavalry, it could only be a god.

Jia Xu said: In this way, it will only take one year for Gongsun Chan to either surrender or be wiped out. And it is also difficult for us to supply, but we only need to leave 30,000 soldiers and horses here, and they will return to Yecheng, so that the food and grass needed will be much less. In this way, the moat that Gongsun Chan had dug with great effort became his insurmountable grave. It is difficult for us to fill the river from outside the city, how can he fill the river inside the city? If he doesn't fill the river, he won't want to get out of the city.

Jia Xu finished speaking.

Frustrated and hurriedly said: No, the lord wants to besiege the city like this according to Jia Junshi, Gongsun Chan will definitely not be able to escape, but the tens of thousands of people in the city will all die. This is in the name of hurting the Lord's righteousness.

Everyone listened to Jia Xu's idea, and the chrysanthemum was tight, this is the people in the city, including Gongsun Zhan's 30,000 horses, all of them starved to death, and there may be people eating people in the middle.

Zhang Jie was also frightened, this old poison is really powerful, this four gates are all blocked with boulders and cannot be opened inside, surrounded by a large and wide moat, the riverbank is full of crossbowmen, in addition to starving to death, the only way to escape is to climb down the city wall, but how to escape when the moat is surrounded? Even if you dodge the crossbowmen and swim ashore, it is not a target for cavalry?

Ju Yidao: What a plan, the lord will do it. A certain dare to promise that as long as Gongsun Jun dares to take a step down the city wall, my crossbowmen will shoot whoever they want, and they will never let one go.

Zhang Jie really wanted to agree, what a good idea, once and for all, it only takes a year, maybe sooner, Gongsun Chan will starve to death. can see the expectant eyes of the frustrated and his soldiers. Zhang Jie didn't dare to agree, and Zhao Yun was not in this tent, if he was sure that he would be the first to object. Zhang Jie is not a soft-hearted person, he is afraid that his soldiers will be disappointed, and he will regret it when the time comes! It's not worth killing a grandson and losing many soldiers. And if this matter is stabbed to the point that everyone in the world knows that Zhang Jie starved to death of more than 100,000 soldiers and people in Jixian County at one time, this reputation will be infamous. This is not a foreign race, they are all Han Chinese.

After figuring it out, Zhang Jie said: Gongsun Chan kidnapped many soldiers and people, and Jie Yu couldn't bear it. Ay! Forget it, if this plan is used for foreign races, it will be used, but Jixian County is also the people of my Han family, the descendants of Yan and Huang, Jie fell into the city in order to kill Gongsun Zan and the people of the city, which is not benevolent and righteous. That's it! Let's think of something else! Hao Zhao and others said to Zhang Jie: I admire the benevolence and righteousness of the lord.

Zhang Jie really wants to scold his mother, Lao Tzu is a fart of benevolence and righteousness, isn't Lao Tzu afraid that you will all run away? When the time comes, it will be useful to kill Gongsun Zhan. Ay! It hurts to think that such a good strategy can't be used!

Zhang Jie waved his hand to let everyone go down, Ju Yi was full of disappointment, and stared at him with his eyes, as if talking about the benevolence of women, Zhang Jie felt relieved about Ju Yi, a person who doesn't know politics can't rebel, Yuan Shao killed him in history because he felt that he was highly meritorious, afraid that he would have a rebellious heart, plus an unruly character. So kill him, just like Yue Fei, a military genius and a political idiot. If Ju Yi has antipathy, it should be to win over these military advisors. And not so obviously show annoyance. In the past, Zhang Jie had to reuse Ju Yi and guard against it. This is the character of the hero.

Jia Xu was the last to leave the tent, and Zhang Jie said: Wenhe stayed.

Zhang Jie smiled bitterly: Wenhe is disappointed! Jia Xu said: No, the lord is mature, although the lord agrees with the strategy in his heart, but he is afraid that the soldiers will not use it, which means that the lord is right. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, but if the hearts of the soldiers under his command are not obtained, how can they win the world?

After today's events, the lord will surely make the soldiers more heartfelt. Zhang Jie said with a smile: Jie never thought that benevolence and righteousness could win the world, but some things were also very helpless, and Jie was not too ruthless, I just hoped that Wenhe would not be disappointed. Jia Xu said: Don't worry, the lord will not be disappointed, and he will only be pleased. This is the difference between the lord and Dong Zhuo. Politics, in fact, is compromise, and Zhang Jie has known it in later generations.

Beginning the next day, a large number of soldiers put down their knives and guns and picked up their hoes. began to fill the moat, and the Gongsun army began to release arrows in order to prevent Zhang Jie's men and horses from filling the river, Ju Yi's strong crossbowmen also began to fight back, the shooters on both sides shot back and forth, but the distance was a little far, and the damage was not large, Zhang Jie's side A row of soldiers with big shields stood in a row, and a large number of sappers began to fill the moat with stones and soil in the basket, watching the moat slowly narrow, Zhang Jie was finally a little relieved. When the river is filled, the crossbowmen can also suppress the city walls, and they take turns pouring mud and stones into the moat every day.

Although not as fast as the machines of later generations. But there are not many masters, as long as each person picks up ten stones of soil into the moat a day, more than 10,000 people are 100,000 stones. If it weren't for the crossbows of the city walls, the speed would have been a little faster, and the southern moat had been filled in just two days.

Zhang Jie, who thought it would take a long time, didn't expect it to be so fast, this was only about 10,000 people, if the moat was filled on all sides and added 10,000 people, it would be filled in a week, in fact, there is no problem with each person picking 20 stones of soil a day, 10,000 people is 200,000 stones, after all, the moat is a stagnant river dug by hand, and the water flow is extremely slow and incomparable with the wild river. It's just that when it fills up, the river overflows, causing mud everywhere.

In the military tent, Zhang Jie said to Frustration: Gonghe thinks we should attack the city at the south gate first or fill it on all sides and then attack the city?

Fu Zhu thought about it and said: If we only fill the south gate, then Gongsun Chan will definitely guess that we can only attack the city at the south gate, so that all his defenders can be transferred to the south gate, which is very unfavorable to us, and only by filling the four gates can he not find our main attack direction to attack.

Don't be afraid of trouble, add another 10,000 people, it will be filled in four or five days at most, and it will be worth wasting these few more days and breaking through the city as soon as possible. Zhang Jie thinks about it, sharpening knives is not a mistake for woodcutters!.

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