The final result greatly exceeded Cheng Lian's expectations.

Zhao Wei was speechless.

Before Cheng Lian sent troops, Li Hui sent a few soldiers to infiltrate Jiangzhou City in advance, and when they came to Jiangzhou City as Lian soldiers, these soldiers threw a letter into the mansions of Zhao Wei and several other important generals in Jiangzhou City.

The content of the letter is very simple, Zhao Wei wants to let Jin Jue outside the city retreat, there is only one way - buy with grain!

Moreover, the price of 500,000 yuan can ensure the safety of Jiangzhou City for a year.

Cheng Lian, the commander of the Jin Jue army, and Li Hui, the military advisor, swore to the sky that within this year, the Jin Jue army would not launch another attack on Jiangzhou City.

In fact, Li Hui also played a word game in the letter full of threatening words - the so-called year does not mean that he will not use force against Jiangzhou City for 12 months a year, but that he is only referring to the remaining months of the three years of Jian'an.

After reading the letter, even if Zhao Wei didn't want to agree, he had to do it under the overt or implicit threats of several other generals.

On the night of the second day when Cheng Lian's department appeared outside Jiangzhou City, Zhao Wei asked people to quietly send the agreed 500,000 pieces of grain to the north gate that Cheng Lian deliberately left out and no one blocked the door.

In the early morning of the third day, the defenders of Jiangzhou City suddenly discovered that the Jin Jue army outside the city suddenly disappeared.

Cheng Lian, who got the grain, naturally wouldn't stay in the city any longer.

This unexpected joy greatly alleviated Jin Juejun's food predicament.

Because of the problem of food, Jin Jue's army was temporarily unable to launch a larger-scale siege war, so the battle of Chengdu City entered the stage of stalemate in the middle of the year.

At this time, both sides are competing for their own perseverance, according to common sense, it is often the morale of the soldiers on the besieging side that will fall faster, but when it comes to the battle of Chengdu City, the situation is completely reversed.

Because Jin Jue built a large number of bunkers and medium-sized fortresses in the long perimeter outside the city, therefore, in addition to the west city, the soldiers who participated in the siege of the other three city walls only needed to hide in the bunker or medium-sized fortress, and did not need to suffer from the sun and rain.

The repeated tug-of-war in the west city continued, but the counterattack of the defenders in the city had become weaker and weaker.

However, the various forces in Yizhou want to seek a breakthrough in the short term, and the possibility is almost zero.

……

In June of the third year of Jian'an, just before the Xuzhou people were preparing for the summer harvest, Cao Jun and Sun Cejun launched a comprehensive attack on Xuzhou from four directions: south, east, west and north.

It is easy to say in the east, south, and west directions, but it is somewhat difficult for Cao's army to attack Xuzhou from the north. Because, between the two armies, there are still Taishan thieves.

However, this time, for some reason, a unit of Cao's army, led by Xiahou Yuan, suddenly broke through the southern part of Taishan County and broke into the southern part of Langya Kingdom.

Previously, before Liu Bei did not cede Langya County to Taishan thieves, all the Taishan thieves were concentrated in Taishan County and near Kaiyang County in Langya Kingdom.

After Liu Bei took the initiative to cede Ju County to the Taishan thieves, Changba stayed in Kaiyang County, with Kaiyang County as the center, and ruled the southern part of Langya State, while Zang Ba's Shuai Army was stationed in Ju County, and he ruled the northern part of Langya State.

At the same time, Wu Dun and Yin Li took advantage of the gap between Yuan Tan's return to Yecheng and captured the commanders and occupied the east and west parts of Donglai County.

The two brothers, Sun Kang and Sun Li, stayed in Taishan County, of course, with the strength of the two of them, it was not enough to occupy the entire county of Taishan County, they only occupied the area in Taishan County, close to the mountainous area, and the rest were occupied by Cao Jun.

The Sun brothers were originally not optimistic about Liu Bei and had their hearts set on Cao Cao, while Zang Ba, Wu Dun and Yin Li had a more neutral attitude, and they did not plan to defect to anyone before the situation in the world was clear.

Changba is the only one, because of the rumors spread by Jin Jue, he is afraid that he will take refuge in Cao Cao and will be robbed of his beautiful wife and concubine by Cao Cao, so he has the same attitude as Zang Ba and the three of them, but in fact, he has secretly served Liu Beijun.

Guo Jia found out about this situation by gathering news from all walks of life.

This time, Cao Jun and Sun Cejun joined forces to attack Liu Bei's Xuzhou, and Guo Jia suggested that he should directly send troops to the south of Langya State, and once Kaiyang County was taken, he would be able to open up a direct road to Donghai County.

At the same time, Guo Jia also suggested that Cao Cao send someone to inform Yuan Tan, hoping that he could march at the same time and attack Donglai County.

Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou, was actually attacked by two Taishan thieves who first broke through Beihai County and then captured Donglai County, which made him, the eldest son of Yuan Shao, the number one overlord in the world, have any face to speak of.

Therefore, as soon as he received Cao Cao's letter, Yuan Tan agreed to the matter, and he was actually the first to send troops in the Central Plains melee.

As soon as Yuan Tan's side sent troops to attack Donglai County, Zang Ba of Ju County had to send troops to rescue.

In order to take care of Zang Ba's face, when Cao's army crossed the border, the Sun brothers neither sent troops to stop them, but they also did not send troops to assist, and the two did not help each other. However, they still sent troops to block the road of Cao's army to the northern part of Langya County.

As long as Zang Ba still hasn't made it clear who he is throwing to, the Sun brothers naturally don't want Cao Jun to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take their eldest brother's territory. As for Changba, he has already secretly invested in Liu Bei's matter, how can he hide it from the other leaders of the Taishan thieves? It is precisely for this reason that the Sun brothers will take the initiative to make way for Cao Jun this time.

Over there, Changba in Kaiyang County suddenly encountered an attack by Cao's army, which almost made Xiahou Yuan fall in one fell swoop. Fortunately, Kaiyang County was a Taishan thief who began to operate when Tao Qian was the pastor of Xuzhou. Therefore, like the city of Sohan, although it is small, the ground on which it was built is very strong. Xiahou Yuan's first sneak attack was unsuccessful, so it was not so easy for him to capture the city in a short period of time.

Speaking of which, the reason why Changba was able to block the first wave of rapid sneak attacks of the Cao army led by Xiahou Yuan was also thanks to Jin Jue, no, it should be said that it was thanks to Liu An, who was sent by Jin Jue to Taishan thieves to act as an envoy before.

At that time, Zang Ba and others asked Liu An how Jin Jue raised troops.

Liu An told all the old yellow scarves he had heard from the old yellow turbans in Jin Jue's army to the leaders of the Taishan thieves.

Liu An speaks and likes to speak loudly, so Zang Ba and others don't believe much in Liu An's words.

However, Jin Jue sent more than a dozen people to use climbing tools to sneak attack the city, which gave Zang Ba and others a deep shock.

In order to test the authenticity, Zang Ba and Changba not only ordered people to create a replica of Panchengsuo according to Liu An's story, but also picked out the elite of their army to carry out a night sneak attack.

(End of chapter)