Yang Wu pondered for a moment, and after feeling that there was no problem, he asked everyone, "Do the generals still have any questions about Guo Shumi's suggestion?" If you have any words, you may wish to say them all and discuss them together. ”

The generals groaned, and after a while, Yan Keqiu suddenly spoke: "King, Guo Shumi's suggestion is excellent, but the minister thinks that the rotation of the armies is not enough, and it is impossible for the enemy to give up the tens of thousands of troops in Henan, so they will definitely cross the river to relieve the siege in the future." ”

The generals, including Yang Wu, looked at him one after another, only to hear Yan Keqiu continue: "King, although our army can block the river near Yang Liu Ferry, the river is long, and it is impossible to block it all, and the enemy army may collect boats upstream or downstream to cross the river at any time, and we will be caught off guard." Therefore, the most important point is how our army can discover the enemy's attempt to cross the river as soon as possible. ”

Yang Wu frowned and asked, "Then you mean that we are going to send people to patrol along the river?" ”

"Exactly, but if we send people from the imperial court to inspect hundreds of miles of rivers, our manpower is obviously insufficient. Therefore, the minister suggested that the forces of the counties below could be mobilized, and people could be temporarily hired from the people of the counties along the river to monitor the river, and once the enemy army was found to have collected signs of boats crossing the river, the news could be transmitted at the first time; At that time, our navy will be able to rush over quickly and disrupt the enemy's plan to cross the river; It is even possible to inflict heavy damage on the enemy army in one fell swoop when the enemy army is halfway crossed! "Yan Ke asked.

"Well, that's a great idea. The Jin State and the Liang State are feuding, and I believe that those people do not have a good impression of the Jin army; What's more, as long as we post a notice and each hired person pays a few hundred dollars a month, I believe that a large number of people will be willing to do things for our army; And we only need to pay a small amount of money. Yang Wudang nodded in agreement.

It is obviously impossible for the Jin army to cross the river at once, and they need enough time; It took a certain amount of time for the Wu army's navy to reach the crossing point from the discovery of the enemy crossing the river to the arrival point, and it also took a long time for the main force of the Wu army to receive the news and assemble it: this would give the Jin army enough time to cross the river and transport more troops across the river.

But now that Wu has hired people to monitor the entire river, as long as it is found that the Jin army is trying to cross the river, it can transmit the news as quickly as possible, so that the navy can prepare to intercept it; And the main force of the Wu army can also be assembled as quickly as possible, ready to deal with the enemy's attack.

It can be said that Yan Keqiu's plan will win a lot of time for the Wu army, which is likely to change the success or failure of the entire battle to a certain extent, and the Wu State only needs to pay tens of thousands of dollars, which is nothing to the Wu State today, as long as it can win this war, this cost is completely worth it.

Then, the crowd discussed many detailed issues, and finally decided that according to Guo Chongtao's opinion, the main force of the army would invest 40,000 people each time to be responsible for the siege, and each army would take turns to rest and recuperate.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the siege plan, Yang Wu ordered the appointment of Zhou Ben as the main general, directly responsible for the command of Yang Liu's front.

The remaining 60,000 troops were left on the front line of Dong'e and Pingyin to support the front battle at any time and prevent the main force of the Jin army from crossing the river and breaking the siege; The remaining nearly 20,000 troops were transferred to Puyang and made a gesture of crossing the river to attack Lanzhou.

Of course, at this time, the time was not yet ripe for an attack on Shanzhou, and the purpose of arranging troops here was mainly to attract the attention of the Jin army, reduce the pressure on Weizhou, and at the same time prepare for the attack on Mengzhou, Huaizhou, Hezhongfu and other places.

After the order was issued, Wu Jun immediately made adjustments.

On Yang Liu's side, after Zhou Ben took office, the first order he issued was to build a large camp at ten miles south of the city, west of the city, and east of the city, each garrisoning 5,000 troops, and the rest of the army was to build another camp twenty miles south of the city to support the other camps at any time.

Not only that, Zhou Ben also ordered the requisition of nearly 20,000 people from the four surrounding counties, and built many small camps around the three camps, each of which only put a few hundred soldiers into it to protect the three main camps.

Although these small camps were small in size and did not have many garrisons, they could greatly reduce the space for the defenders in the city to move, making it impossible for them to go out of the city.

In the face of Wu's actions, the defenders in the city suddenly couldn't sit still: if Zhou Ben's plan really succeeded, Yang Liucheng would be completely blocked, and the defenders' contact with the outside world would be completely cut off.

Not only that, but according to the plan of the Jin army, when the main force of the Jin army came to relieve the siege, the defenders should join forces inside and outside to attack the Wu army outside the city.

However, in order to successfully break the siege, the Jin army must act quickly, and defeat the Wu army outside the city before the main force of the Wu army reacts.

And now that the Wu army has built so many camps, it will be difficult to break through so many camps in a short period of time when Li Cunqiao leads the army to relieve the siege, which will give the Wu army enough time to react.

If a quick victory is not achieved, the situation will be extremely unfavorable for the Jin army.

Therefore, after learning the news of the large-scale construction of the Wu army's fortifications, Li Zhou, Shi Jingjiao and other Yang Liu generals had to lead their troops out of the city to sabotage the actions of the Wu army.

As a result, within ten days, the Jin army went out of the city more than 30 times, and each time it sent an army of nearly 10,000 people to engage in fierce battles with the Wu army, in order to force the Wu army to abandon the plan to build a fortress.

In the face of the Jin army's initiative to fight, the Wu army's side will certainly not be polite.

The reason why they did not take the initiative to attack the city and chose to besiege the city was simply because they were worried that the casualties of the siege would be too great; But if there is a head-on battle in the field outside the city, and both sides have no geographical advantage, the Wu army will certainly not retreat.

Such a large-scale head-on battle was extremely tragic, although the Wu army had advantages in terms of strength and formation organization, but the morale of the Jin army was high, and the soldiers were brave and good at fighting, and they were often unstoppable when they rushed to kill, so it can be said that both armies had an advantage, and on the whole they should be evenly matched.

And the result of the battle was indeed the same: in more than 30 major battles, both sides suffered heavy losses, neither side had the upper hand, and only two sides were defeated.

But the problem is that the Wu army can afford to fight such a lose-lose war of attrition, but the Jin army can't afford to fight.

When the pontoon bridge was still in existence before, the Jin army could get a steady stream of reinforcements and other support from Hebei.

But now the pontoon bridge has been destroyed, the river has been completely blocked, and without the support of Hebei, the loss of the Jin defenders will be one less, and the losses in arrows and weapons cannot be replenished; However, the Wu army was able to continue to be replenished, and such a war of attrition was obviously not good for the Jin army.

So after ten days, the Jin army soon couldn't support it, so it had to retreat to the city and let the Wu army build a camp.

Outside Pingyin City, Yang Wu, who had just led the main force to retreat here, immediately laughed after learning of Zhou Ben's order: "This move seems to be similar to Guo Wei's strategy of attacking Li Shouzhen, using large-scale construction of barracks to besiege the enemy army, forcing the enemy army to go out of the city to fight, in order to consume the strength of the enemy army." ”

Thinking of Guo Wei, Yang Wu's heart moved: "According to the time, Guo Wei may also join the Jin army now, but I don't know who he is under now?" ”

……

On this day, there was a sudden long queue outside the military camp in Luzhou City.

Since Tianyou three years after Luzhou was captured by the Jin State, this has been an important town of the Jin State, and Li Sizhao was ordered to guard by the Zhaoyi Festival, and it has been fifteen years.

Although Li Sizhao likes to accumulate money, his ability is nothing to say, especially in the management of the army, the strength of the Zhaoyi army is also the leader in the Jin army, and has made great contributions to the expansion of the Jin State over the years.

However, Li Sizhao's style of leading troops prefers the elite route, that is to say, although the number of troops is small, but each is elite, not to mention that each soldier can be one enemy ten, but at least in the whole army can be regarded as elite soldiers.

As a result, the Zhaoyi Army rarely recruited troops, and even if they did, their scale was not large, and they generally only recruited a small number of strong men to supplement the losses in battle.

But the current situation is obviously different, the Zhaoyi Army is not only recruiting, but the scale of recruitment is also very large, recruiting thousands of troops in just one morning!

Such a large-scale military expansion soon attracted the attention of all parties.