In fact, in addition to the loss of contact with Shouchun, the situation in the entire city of Hefei has not yet reached the point where it is unbearable.

The battle of Xiaoyaojin lost Li Dian and nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses, as well as almost all the cavalry, but there were still more than 7,000 elite infantry troops in the city, plus Hefei City after the late Yangzhou Assassin Liu Fu years of painstaking management, the city was extremely strong, with 5,000 soldiers and horses to resist the attack of Zhou Yu's 50,000 army, as long as the defense was properly guarded, it may not be able to hold on.

The most important thing is that the grain and grass hoarded in the city are enough to support the soldiers and civilians of the city for a year, as long as there is enough food for everyone to eat, the uneasiness of the people's hearts is always just a matter of skin.

After Zhang Le and the two reconciled, they quickly appeased the people's hearts, saying internally that Cao Cao's army was already on the way, and Wu Dishan became more and more chaotic, cutting off the grain route of the Wu army, and the Wu people lacked food, and they would soon retreat without a fight.

The reassuring words of Zhang and Le are not entirely nonsense.

Zhou Yu is indeed short of food, since the beginning of the war between Liu Yong, at least nearly 100,000 men and horses have been in a state of war, for half a year, and was taken away by Gan Ning Yuzhang and Poyang County, food supply is still not enough.

Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were basically professional soldiers, and there was no need to worry about affecting food production, but the Jiangdong soldiers were all semi-professional soldiers, and they were tenant farmers when they put down their arms, and they were soldiers when they took up arms.

More than 50,000 young and strong people have not been able to return to the fields for a long time, and this year's autumn grain output reduction is a foregone conclusion. If it weren't for Zhou Yu's beautiful start, first a big victory in Xiaoyaojin, and then flooding Huainan, which gave Sun Quan more confidence in him, I am afraid that Sun Quan would have to force him to withdraw because of the food problem.

Even so, Sun Quan gave Zhou Yu only two months to capture Hefei.

In fact, it won't take so long for Cao Cao to order someone to repair the embankment of Shaobi, and at that time, without Sun Quan's order, Zhou Yu himself will retreat back to Jiangdong.

Time was pressing, flooding Huainan, and after completing the encirclement of Hefei, the generals asked for war one after another, to seize this precious time, and pull out the thorn in Hefei's eye.

Zhou Yu did not suppress the soldiers' fighting spirit, and immediately ordered a siege on Hefei City on all sides.

An army of 50,000 people, ladders, rushing cars, trebuchets, and all kinds of siege methods were used, and they launched a fierce attack on Hefei City for three consecutive days and nights.

Among the generals, many of them have participated in many battle formations, and they are also experienced in attacking this kind of fortified city, but Zhang Le's ability to defend the city is not inferior to their offensive strength, relying on the 7,000-foot army, using various means, one by one to resolve Zhou Yu's stormy offensive.

In three days, Hefei City did not even have a piece of skin, but Jiangdong paid the price of more than 1,000 deaths and injuries.

Three days later, Zhou Yu decisively ordered the siege to be stopped, and for the next few days, there was no movement.

"Governor, the soldiers are in full swing, why didn't they give the order to attack the city?"

In the big tent, the generals asked for their lives, and the veteran Han Dang, who was as straight as a powder keg, was the first to ask.

Zhou Yu said lightly: "The two generals in the city have quite some means, and you have also seen the effect of the strong attack a few days ago, I can't make such a useless attempt with the lives of the soldiers." ”

"Having said that, isn't it just to buy this precious siege time? Our army has more soldiers and less food, and the enemy has less soldiers and more food, and dragging it out will only be detrimental to us. Tai Shici also sighed, he was clear about the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and us.

Zhou Yu didn't know what was at stake, as a general, maybe he could attack the city at all costs, but as a commander, his vision had to look at the overall situation.

If Hefei is captured, but it pays a heavy price, when Cao Cao's army goes south, with a miserable victory, how to resist.

Buried in the tent for several days, Zhou Yu was saddened by this.

Looking at the anxious expressions of the generals, suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Zhou Yu's eyes.

The corners of his ruddy mouth rose slightly, and his handsome face showed a confident smile.

He immediately wrote down a general order and handed it over to Zhou Tai: "Quickly spread my order to the whole army, don't do anything else these days, do it for me." ”

Zhou Tai took the general order and looked at it, and his face was suddenly full of confusion: "This is also a war?" ”

He wondered if the governor had forgotten to take his medicine. It's just that of course he didn't dare to say this, but he still couldn't suppress the doubts in his heart, and the expression on his face betrayed his scheming.

"Dudu, what are you ......" Zhou Tai was at a loss, and was a little surprised, as if he didn't believe that such an incredible order could be given by Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu looked at Zhou Tai and smiled indifferently, as if he knew what he was thinking clearly, and Zhou Tai, who was frightened, quickly lowered his head. Zhou Yu waved his hand and said: "You don't need to ask more, just follow the order, and you will see it after ten days." ”

Zhou Yu's calmness and self-confidence made Zhou Tai's heart even more troubled, but he always had a deep trust in the elegant and chic commander in front of him, although he couldn't understand his meaning for a while, but since Zhou Yu had an order, he could only obey it.

Zhou Tai seemed to have become Zhou Yu's herald in the eyes of other generals, and after receiving Zhou Tai's order, the Wu army was stupid by Zhou Yu's order, and there was a lot of discussion up and down, and no one could guess what their Zhou Dadu meant.

What's more, in private, I wondered if the governor of Zhou Dadu had relapsed from his old illness, and his brain was confused.

Although everyone was equally puzzled, the military orders were like a mountain and could only be followed. Everyone could only hold a puzzled expression and act separately according to Zhou Yu's orders.

Ten days later.

After many efforts by the soldiers and the full cooperation of the local officials in the rear, the task assigned by Zhou Yu was finally completed.

Early in the morning, Zhou Yu once again issued an order to siege the city.

The morning glow in the east is warm, and the morning glow embroiders the city and countryside of Hefei with a faint layer of gold edge, and nearly 20,000 Wu troops are arrayed in the south of Hefei.

The soldiers are full of armor, the flag is waving, the whole army is stirring, the soldiers are eager to try, and Baba is looking forward to Hefei City becoming the best stage for himself to become famous.

"The infantry army is in formation, and the artillery carriage is forward."

Zhou Yu reined in the Chinese army, looked at Hefei with a smile on his face, and gave a strange order.

The so-called artillery cart is just a simple wooden trebuchet imitated in the course of the war with the Jingzhou army, which can throw stone projectiles at a distance of nearly 200 steps, which is far from the catapult of the Jingzhou army.

If you want to play a role in a big war, especially in a siege war, you must gather hundreds of guns and stones, and at the same time launch a saturated attack to make up for the lack of accuracy with numbers.

And the trebuchets that were placed in front of the battle this time were only thirty or forty gates, and they could not pose a real threat to the enemy's city walls at all. Therefore, as soon as Zhou Yu gave this order, the soldiers who had a little insight naturally felt extremely strange.

"Push me up with our secret weapon."

The second order was given, and dozens of ox carts came forward from the rear, loaded with clay pots one by one, and the gunners loaded those clay pots on the launch racks with strange looks.

Those who saw this formation were all surprised and surprised.

Only Zhou Tai suddenly seemed to guess a few points, and shouted to Zhou Yu in surprise: "Dudu, do you want to ......?"

Zhou Tai didn't finish his words, but Zhou Yu knew that he had realized his strategy, so he raised his horsewhip slightly and said with a smile: "Let's watch the excitement." ”

At this moment, at the head of the city, Zhang Liao and Le Jin were fully armed at the head of the city, leading thousands of Cao troops to stand in battle, ready to meet another strong attack of the enemy.

In the offensive and defensive battle of the previous three days and three nights, Zhang Liao and his team successfully repelled the attack of the Jiangdong Army, but at the same time, they also saw the strong combat effectiveness of the Jiangdong Army.

Originally, Zhang Liao would have thought that Zhou Yu would continue to attack the city day and night, but what surprised him was that after three days of strong attack, there was ten days of silence.

Zhou Yu besieged Hefei City but did not attack, this kind of calm made Zhang Liao feel uneasy, he had a hunch that Zhou Yu must be playing some tricks again, so in the past ten days, he has not dared to relax his vigilance for a moment.

However, what puzzled Zhang Liao was that the Wu people did not make any movement, and until today, they appeared outside the city again in a strong posture.

"General Wenyuan, what kind of medicine do you think Zhou Yu is selling in this gourd?" Le Jin asked with a deep brow.

Zhang Liao shook his head and said, "Zhou Yu is a scheming person, and it is really difficult to guess. Do you see, what are the catapults in his army? ”

Le Jin stared at it carefully, and his expression suddenly became puzzled, and he said strangely: "It seems that they are all clay pots, using clay pots to attack the city, is Zhou Yu crazy?" ”

"It shouldn't be that simple, let's see first." Zhang Liao was already cautious, and he had suffered a big loss from Zhou Yu, so he naturally did not think that Zhou Yu's attack would be simple, and did not dare to despise it, so he immediately ordered the whole army not to slack off, and to prepare for the enemy with a twelve-point spirit.

In full view of everyone, more than 30 trebuchets were loaded with clay pots, and with an order, the artillery carts fired in unison, and more than 30 clay pots rose into the air and roared towards the city wall.

Although the lethality of the clay pot is not comparable to that of stone bullets, it will definitely hurt a lot if it is smashed on the body, and Sergeant Cao hurriedly leaned down to avoid the female wall.

The hit rate of the Jiangdong army was surprisingly poor, and none of the more than 30 clay pots hit the city, but all of them swept over the city wall and fell straight into the city. The fragile stone jars were touchable and caused almost no damage to the city's premises.

The original nervous mood of the Cao soldiers was completely wiped out because of the clumsy archery skills of the Jiangdong Army, and thousands of Cao soldiers straightened their waists from under the female wall, laughing and watching the Wu people continue the clumsy performance, and the soldiers were mocking and laughing, as if they were watching a joke.

In the Jiangdong Army, except for a very few people, most of them felt embarrassed, but Zhou Yu smiled very strangely, which made Zhang Liao at the head of the city murmur in his heart.

"This Zhou Yu, is he amusing us?" Lejin's mood is also much lighter.

Zhang Liao's heart tightened, he looked up at the clay pots that swept over his head, and in his confused gaze, the solemn color gradually became heavier.

Zhou Yu is by no means that simple, how could he really do such a stupid thing that makes others laugh!

Suddenly, Zhang Liao realized something, and ran to the other side of the city wall in a few steps, his eyes scanning the city like electricity, carefully staring at the landing point of each clay pot.

Suddenly, there was a kind of horror in his expression.

The clay pots were not empty, they contained many rats, and as soon as the pots broke, the rats burst out, squeaked and scurried around, and in a blink of an eye fled into the cracks and hollows in the corners, walls, and steps.

"Mouse! The jar is full of rats! Zhang Liao pointed to the rats scurrying around in the city and exclaimed.

Le Jin and the soldiers heard the sound, a swarm of bees pounced towards this side of the city, everyone took a closer look, only to find that the clay pot was indeed full of mice, which in the blink of an eye, the streets and alleys, has been full of rats, this Hefei City has become a big rat nest.

"Wen Yuan, what do you mean by Zhou Yu this time, this is too, too ......"

Facing this absurd and strange scene, Le Jin didn't know how to describe the strong surprise in his heart for a while.

Zhang Liao suddenly realized, his expression suddenly became extremely solemn, and he gritted his teeth and scolded resentfully: "This Zhou Yu is really scheming, he actually came up with such an insidious trick, he is here for our food." ”

"Grain?"

Le Jin was dazed for a moment, and suddenly realized, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he shouted urgently: "Quick, immediately send an order to every household in the city, men, women, and children to give me to exterminate rats." ”

Clay pots flew all over the sky, and in the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of rats were quickly shot into the city.

Just when Hefei City became a rat's nest, the Jiangdong soldiers outside the city also exploded.

Although the range of the trebuchet was set to the inside of the city, after all, the machine was too rudimentary, and some of the clay pots still crashed into the city wall, and the rats that broke out of the cans immediately scattered flowers on the foot-high grass.

When the Jiangdong soldiers saw this formation, they were all stunned for a moment, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.

Zhou Yu raised his head, pointed at the head of the city, and said to Zhou Tai and Tai Shici beside him with a smile: "Ziyi, Youping, can you imagine what the situation in the city is now, I guess it must be very interesting, haha......"

Tai Shi Ci was also surprised at first, but he was able to lead the men and horses, fight with Gan Ning, experienced countless battle formations, and was naturally extraordinary in terms of wisdom and insight.

"Zhou Dudu, your trick is not for their food?" Tai Shi Ci still didn't quite understand how Zhou Yu came up with this strategy, so he couldn't help asking.

Zhou Yu smiled and said proudly: "Didn't Zhang Liao rely on a lot of food and want to consume it with us, okay, I'll use these tens of thousands of mice to eat up their food, and see what capital he has to spend with me." ”

As soon as this statement came out, the truth came out.