Yuzhou, Ruyin City, Runan County, in the afternoon, the sun is shining, the cicadas are singing high-pitched, endlessly.

But there was a panic in Ruyin City, and Yuan Shu's 20,000 soldiers and horses were crowded in this small city, tired and tired, looking at the curling smoke outside, hungry and hungry.

Their original grain and grass, together with the grain and grass they snatched back from Chen State, were all cheaper than their opponents, and the great general Zhang Liao was famous in Kwantung, and many veterans who had participated in the Battle of Dong were a little timid when they mentioned Zhang Liao.

The soldiers were panicked and helpless, and Yuan Shu was even more angry and had nowhere to vent, those soldiers guessed correctly, not only the grain and grass, but also all the gains he had from Chen Guo before and after were cheap Zhang Liao.

This Ruyin City was originally his territory, and the Ruyin Order was also appointed by him, and after listening to the report of the Ruyin Order today, he learned that the truckload of grain, grass and property that he had continuously sent back from Chen Guo half a month ago did not arrive here, and they were all robbed in the middle of the road.

There is no doubt that the culprit is Zhang Liao!

At this time, Yuan Shu still didn't understand that Zhang Liao had already inserted a team of people in Runan, or even more than one!

So on the battlefield of Yuzhou, his more than 100,000 soldiers and horses fought less and less, but Zhang Liao began to look more and more 10,000 soldiers and horses.

What kind of battle did his mother fight!

As soon as he thought of this, Yuan Shu wanted to yell wildly.

This battle was too tragic, and he was not so powerless and guilty when he was defeated by Cao Cao, at least Cao Cao did not dare to easily chase into the territory of Runan, because Cao Cao did not know how many troops supported Yuan Shu in those powerful forts in Runan.

But Zhang Liao instigated the Yellow Turban thieves to make these powerful forts scattered, and even the forts did not dare to come out, and all kinds of news naturally could not be transmitted.

Those yellow turban thieves didn't seem to participate in the main battle, but they eliminated Zhang Liao's worries and knocked out Yuan Shu's reliance and eyes and ears, so Yuan Shu was like a headless fly on the way back to the army.

In this regard, Yuan Shu is also very powerless, he doesn't know when Zhang Liao colluded with the Yellow Turban Thief, if it was five or six years ago...... He didn't dare to imagine how terrible Zhang Liao was.

There is not much grain and grass in Ruyin City, there are more than 20,000 troops, and they can't hold out even for two days, and they can only break through as soon as possible, otherwise they will starve to death without Zhang Liao calling.

Strong is stronger than people, and can not tolerate willfulness, Yuan Shu endured the grievances and anger in his heart, and climbed to the head of Ruyin City with Qiao Rui and other generals.

At this time, flags were displayed outside the city, but a large area went south.

Seeing that Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses outside the city were transferred half of them in a grand manner, many soldiers in the city were happy, but Yuan Shu and Qiao Rui were ugly.

At this time, Zhang Liao did not concentrate his forces to attack the city, but took the move of dividing the troops, and the fools knew that they were surrounded by Zhang Liao to send reinforcements, and the more than 20,000 horses that were transferred away must have gone to ambush Ji Ling and other Shouchun reinforcements who were about to arrive.

It's just that since their first wave of messengers rushed out, Ruyin City has been besieged like an iron bucket, and they have never been able to spread any news, which also makes Yuan Shu and Qiao Rui more sure of Zhang Liao's strategy of encircling and helping.

Yuan Shu's face was pale, he looked at Qiao Rui, and said coldly: "Zhang Liao's erection is conceited and ignorant, and he took half of the soldiers and horses, which is a good opportunity to break through, and after half an hour, the soldiers will be killed in two ways!" ”

Qiao Rui naturally knew that the actual situation would not be so simple, and it turned out that Zhang Liao was by no means so easy to deal with, but this was undoubtedly also an opportunity to break through.

Ruyin City is too dilapidated, now Zhang Liao has not launched an attack, if Zhang Liao attacks, even though there are 20,000 soldiers in the city, but Qiao Rui does not have any confidence to defend.

What's more, Yuan Shu, the son of heaven, gave an order, and Qiao Rui had no more choice, so he immediately went down to the city to gather soldiers and horses.

Half an hour later, the two gates of Ruyin City suddenly opened, and Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses forcibly broke through.

Yuan Shu was extremely cunning, and when he broke out, he ordered a dead soldier of his size to break through the north gate wearing his clothes, while he disguised himself as an ordinary soldier to break through the south gate.

In this battle, Yuan Shu and Qiao Rui both gave orders to fight to the death, with the dead soldiers in front and the overseers behind.

However, in less than half an hour of the battle, the 20,000 soldiers and horses of Yuan Shu who broke through the siege were defeated and returned to the city in a hurry.

The gap was too big, and the forwards who broke through Yuan Shu were all dead soldiers, but they poured out of the narrow city gate, and they couldn't form a formation at all.

And Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses were two tight arrays, with guns, shields, bows and crossbows closely coordinated, not giving Yuan Shu's strikers a chance to battle under the city gate at all.

Most of the dead soldiers who did not rush to the front of the formation were killed by several waves of arrows, and the remaining dead soldiers who could rush to the front faced the formation lined with guns and shields.

The striker was frustrated, and the soldiers who followed him were half chilled.

Xu Chu and Huang Zhong took the lead, each leading for a while, and almost didn't fight, and Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses that broke through collapsed.

Morale, array, combat power, state, generals, troops, no matter which aspect, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were crushed, and how could they give Yuan Shu the slightest surprise and luck.

What made Yuan Shu vomit blood even more was that the rout frantically returned to the city gate, and the overseer team only had time to kill a dozen people before they were overwhelmed by the rout, and the city gate was trampled and crowded, and it is estimated that more soldiers died of cannibalism than in the hands of the enemy.

Yuan Shu, who pretended to be an ordinary soldier, almost couldn't squeeze into the city gate, or the fake Yuan Shu over there attracted a lot of attention, and Yuan Shu's personal guards killed more than ten soldiers who blocked the way, and he was able to return to the city, but a few Wenchen who followed lost half of them, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

Fortunately, Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses did not take the opportunity to attack the city, otherwise the consequences would not have been known.

As a result of this battle, Yuan Shu had another four or five thousand soldiers and horses captured by Zhang Liao, and only more than 10,000 returned to the city.

In fact, Yuan Shu launched a breakthrough battle in Zhang Liao's expectations, and the transfer of half of the soldiers and horses under his command was not only a goal, but also a lure to Yuan Shu, he believed that with Yuan Shu's character, he would most likely launch a breakthrough, so he had already taken precautions, and the facts also proved his guess that Yuan Shu's defeat was almost inevitable.

Fighting against a demon like Zhang Liao, who is good at adapting to the situation and planning meticulously, is a kind of sadness for Yuan Shu.

Back in the city, the disheveled and unkempt Yuan Shu almost wanted to draw his sword and commit suicide, the Son of Heaven did his job as the only one since ancient times, he wanted to die, and now he is not afraid of death, but as soon as he remembered that Zhang Liao was not dead, he was never willing to die.

Looking at the imposing military formation outside the city, Yuan Shu was actually even more desperate in his heart, from the time he broke through the city, when he saw the military formation on the opposite side, he knew that there was no hope of breaking through, and he knew the combat effectiveness of his army.

There is a kind of army called the enemy's army.

Looking at the frightened and depressed soldiers in the city, Yuan Shu was angry at his incompetence, but he didn't know that these soldiers were also full of resentment towards him as a son of heaven in their hearts, especially Yuan Shu killed several of his own subordinates with his own hands in order to enter the city, which made these soldiers deeply chilled.

There is a kind of lord called the lord of the enemy.

Under the successive failures, a variety of negative emotions are breeding in Ruyin City.

Especially when they saw that their comrades who had been captured not long ago outside the city were queuing up to receive their meals, there was a strange atmosphere in the city, and some soldiers already had envy in their hearts.

Yuan Shu didn't know that this was exactly the effect that Zhang Liao wanted, and Zhang Liao was teaching his two disciples the art of attacking the heart in the camp outside the city at this time.

If it were a strong city like Shouchun, Zhang Liao would have already launched an attack, but now he used the technique of attacking the heart first.

20,000 soldiers poured into this kind of small city, if Zhang Liao pursued and attacked in a hurry, the soldiers in the city would inevitably have the same hatred for the enemy, as long as Yuan Shu was instigated, it would inevitably be a tragic battle.

On the other hand, Zhang Liao did not rush to pursue and attack, and Ruyin City did not give Yuan Shu's soldiers a sense of security, and they did not believe that they could hold it, under the pressure of this crisis, coupled with the lack of food and grass, crowded and disorderly, the more it dragged on, the more their military spirit was scattered.

The failure of Yuan Shu's breakthrough exacerbated the deterioration of this situation, and Zhang Liao's scenes of preferential treatment of prisoners and hot meals were displayed, which made the mentality of the soldiers in the city even more unbalanced.

In battle, the morale and state of the army are extremely important, and sometimes they can even reverse success or failure.

This is the principle that the mourning soldiers will win, on the contrary, it can be miraculous to break the hearts of the enemy's troops. Four hundred years ago, when Chu and Han were competing for power, Liu Bang quickly disintegrated the will of Xiang Yu's army to fight to the death by letting the soldiers sing Chu songs on all sides, and even Xiang Yu himself was greatly affected.

The same is true for Zhang Liao today.

Yuan Shu didn't notice it so obviously, he saw that Zhang Liao didn't launch a fierce attack, and thought that Zhang Liao was going to encircle the point to send reinforcements, so he just besieged but not attacked.

So he just ordered Qiaomao to guard the city, and ordered Ruyin to mobilize the young and strong in the city to defend it together.

Yuan Shu was right, Zhang Liao was indeed encircling the point to send reinforcements, but he didn't realize that from the moment they sent the messenger for help out of the city, the strategic intention of encircling the point and sending reinforcements had been achieved, which meant that Ruyin City was not safe, and Zhang Liao could attack the city at any time.

At this point, Zhang Liao played a beautiful game of fiction and reality.

He never made any effort to attack the city, and transferred half of the soldiers and horses, giving Yuan Shu the illusion that he would first send reinforcements and then attack the city.

Zhang Liao transferred half of the soldiers and horses with great fanfare, with at least three intentions, one was to lure Yuan Shu out of the city, eliminate his living force, and hit his morale, and the other was to give Yuan Shu the illusion that he would not attack the city for the time being, confusing Yuan Shu, in fact, 10,000 of the 20,000 soldiers and horses transferred were stationed not far from the city, forming a defensive line on the periphery, and arranging an ambush.

And the real purpose of the other 10,000 soldiers and horses is very simple, to take war horses.

Zhang Liao came to Yuzhou to have a cavalry, which was not needed when attacking Shouchun, and the horses were not suitable for marching in the rainstorm last night, so they were temporarily hidden in one place, and they were just retrieved today when the weather was fine.

After taking the horses, 10,000 cavalry rushed back that night.

There was nothing to do that night, and just when Yuan Shu thought that Zhang Liao would not attack the city for the time being and relaxed his vigilance, before dawn, Zhang Liao's army, which had rested all night, suddenly launched a fierce attack on Ruyin City.

Previously, Zhang Liao gave Yuan Shu, including Qiao Rui, and even the soldiers under him, the illusion that Ruyin City was temporarily safe, and when attacking the city, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were defenseless at all.

Zhang Liao fulfilled his promise, Xu Chu led the personal guard battalion to ascend first, did not attack the city gate, but carried a giant tree directly knocked down a city wall and rushed in.

At the same time, there was chaos in Ruyin City.

Since Zhang Liao had already laid out to hunt Yuan Shu in Ruyin City, how could he not prepare early, there were already many shadow guards lurking in Ruyin City.

When the city was in chaos, the Shadow Guard joined the outside and the two gates were opened.

Ruyin City was destroyed in one fell swoop, and Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses completely lost the will to resist, and they did not organize a decent resistance at all, and surrendered one by one.

At the same time, the cavalry who rushed back was also galloping around the city, not letting go of a single rout, otherwise the news of the destruction of Ruyin City would spread, and Ji Ling, Liu Xun and other Yuan Shu generals might not come.