A protracted war of attrition begins.

Yuan Shao finally gave up the strategy of quickly breaking Su Zhe, began to put aside his proud self-esteem, and began to engage in a long-term fierce battle.

In the three months that followed, Yuan Shao had almost given up on a frontal offensive and had not launched a single decent offensive.

His 150,000-foot army was camped for ten miles, and it was separated from the Guandu Barrier, and he did not take action for a whole season.

And his nearly 8,000 cavalry were constantly sent by Yuan Shao, commanded by Wen Chou, Yan Liang and other cavalry generals, regardless of penetrating into Su Zhe's rear and copying Su Zhe's grain route.

The confrontation has entered the fourth month, and the protracted tactics of frustration have finally begun to bear fruit, and Su Zhe has begun to show signs of being unable to hold on.

Since the two sides entered a confrontation, Su Zhe could only see the move, and ordered Dong Zhao, Man Chong and other officials to stay in the rear to send a steady stream of grain and grass from various states to the front line for the use of 90,000 troops.

It's just that although Su Zhe controls more states than Yuan Shao, the quality is not very good.

Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Qingzhou have all experienced years of war, barren fields, and serious population loss, and it is only in recent years that they have begun to slowly recover their vitality, and the supply of grain and grass is limited.

As for the half of Sizhou under his control, the richest area of Luoyang, it was turned into a deserted land by Dong Zhuo's scourge back then, and in recent years, after Li Yan's governance, he has barely recovered his vitality, and he is only self-sufficient, and he has no way to support Su Zhe's main battlefield.

There is also the land of Huainan, although the land is rich and fertile, but it can't withstand Yuan Shu's poverty and luxury, after Su Zhe captured it, what he got was also ruined, and now it is also recovering, and there is no way to provide more food and grass.

This also means that excluding the ruined states, the one that can really provide Su Zhe with backing is the richest Jingzhou, which was the least damaged by the war.

As a result, the entire Jingzhou was mobilized, and a large amount of grain and grass continued to go north through Wancheng and was transferred to the front line of Guandu.

Fortunately, Su Zhe implemented Tuntian in Jingzhou in his early years, and now at the critical moment, the grain and grass obtained from Tuntian have played a great role, barely able to feed the 90,000 mouths of the Soviet army.

It's just that Jingzhou is too far away from the front line, and the transportation of grain and grass needs to go through a long journey, and there are many people needed, and the amount of grain and grass consumed on the road alone is astonishingly serious.

So as time went by, Jingzhou began to be unbearable, and Su Zhe finally began to fall into a lack of food.

Yuan Shao is different, Jizhou was originally the largest state, when he and Gongsun Zhan fought for Hebei, and also fought the boundary bridge in Jizhou, and most of the subsequent battles took place on the border of Jizhou.

That is to say, Jizhou has basically not been damaged by the war for five or six years, and its economic development is quite prosperous, and it is not counted as a secluded annex to the two states, and Jizhou alone is enough to supply sufficient grain and grass for Yuan Shao's 160,000 army.

Therefore, Yuan Shao was naturally not in a hurry at all, just spent it with Su Zhe, waiting for the day when Su Zhe's food ran out and collapsed.

After winter, Su Zhe finally couldn't bear it anymore.

The grain and grass transported from the rear became scarcer and smaller, and in order to maintain it, he could only order a reduction in the daily ration supply of the soldiers.

For any army, the impact of reduced rations is fatal.

The main reason why the soldiers fought for Su Zhe was not because Su Zhe was the "true master", nor was it just to mix a bite of food.

Now, they have begun to run out of food, and their military morale has naturally been hit and has begun to decline day by day.

Huang Zhong and other generals gradually became anxious, they knew very well that if they continued to consume with Yuan Shao, they would not be able to use up their grain and grass this winter, and 90,000 soldiers would definitely collapse without a fight.

At that time, all their previous victories will be meaningless, and although Yuan Shao did not win a battle, he will win the final victory.

It was day and night, and the Soviet camp was in the big tent of the Chinese army.

Hu Che'er read out the urgent reports sent from the rear, most of which were bad news.

"Two days ago, my 5,000 pieces of grain and grass were robbed by the enemy general Yan Liang thirty miles north of Xudu, and all the grain and grass were burned."

"There is news from Jingzhou Thorn Shi Ma Liang that the local people are unbearable to transport grain and grass, and they have fled."

"Runan Yellow Turban Liu Pi raised troops to rebel and announced his support for Yuan Shao, and Jiang Wan, the assassin of Yuzhou, has sent troops to conquer."

……

The news after news was really unfavorable to Su Zhe, and the generals who listened to it all had gloomy and ugly faces.

Only Su Zhe drank a little wine and was not in a hurry, as if he didn't take these disadvantages seriously at all.

Pang Tong on the side couldn't help but remind: "Prime Minister, the supply of food and grass for our army is becoming more and more difficult, the soldiers have frequently complained, and there are people fleeing in the rear, and the remnants of the Yellow Turban are in chaos, the situation is already quite unfavorable to us. ”

Huangfu Song also arched his hand and said: "Yes, Prime Minister, we must defeat Yuan Shao as soon as possible and end this war, otherwise we will collapse ourselves before Yuan Shao comes to attack." ”

Su Zhe still didn't speak, just slowly peeled the broad beans, chewing them one after another.

It wasn't until the last one was chewed that he clapped his hands and said lightly: "Since this is the case, then let's launch a counterattack and end this protracted war." ”

The generals' spirits were lifted, and their killing intent was ignited.

Su Zhe slowly stood up, glanced at the generals, and said loudly: "Yuan Shao's purpose is obvious, it is nothing more than relying on his family's great cause, wanting to fight for grain and grass to drag us down. ”

The generals had already held their breath, just waiting for Su Zhe's words, and immediately the battle spirit was wild, and the hunting machine filled the big tent.

Huang Zhong shouted angrily: "Yuan Shao, the old thief, can't beat us head-on, he only dares to make such a trick, I wanted to fight him to the death, let's fight this battle!" ”

Gao Shun also said angrily: "We are already fighting against the water, and we should fight to the death to kill the enemy, and the big deal is death." ”

The generals were all impassioned, but not all of them were fanatical enough to ignore the situation in front of them.

Xu Huang was not so impulsive, but said: "Prime Minister, we should take the initiative to attack, but the enemy is strong and I am weak, and we have no chance of winning if we attack head-on, and we need to find a good strategy to win more with less." ”

Pang Tong looked at Su Zhe's confident expression, but suddenly thought of something, so he asked: "The prime minister has not done anything before, but today he suddenly said that he would fight back and fight a decisive battle, could it be that he already has a clever plan in his heart?" ”

"Those who know me are indeed children."

Su Zhe sighed with emotion, but sneered: "Since Yuan Shao wants to drag us down on grain and grass, then we will retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, and also make a fuss about his grain and grass, I have found out that Yuan Shao's millions of grain and grass are all in the black nest in the northwest of his camp, as long as we can burn his grain and grass in one fell swoop, are we afraid that Yuan's army will not collapse." ”

Burn the Black Nest!

When everyone heard Su Zhe's plan, their expressions were shocked.

This is where Su Zhetai Mountain collapsed in front of him and stood still.

He is familiar with history, and naturally knows that in the past history, Yuan Cao confronted each other, and Cao Cao burned Yuan Shao's black nest grain and grass, so that Yuan's army collapsed without a fight.

Although history has changed now, he replaced Cao Cao as the lord of the Central Plains, but the decisive battle with Yuan Shao still happened as scheduled, and the location of the decisive battle between the two sides was also in Guandu.

Since Cao Cao in history can burn the black nest to defeat Yuan Shao, and put this current "lesson from the past", what reason does he have not to follow suit.

Therefore, in the past few months, he has not done nothing, and secretly sent meticulous reconnaissance to conclude that Yuan Shao's grain and grass were indeed in the black nest.

The reason why he waited so long before he planned to do it was because of the time to charge the quantum meteorological satellite, and secondly, because he had to wait for enough grain and grass in the black nest.

Otherwise, if he started to burn the black nest in advance, if it burned early, Yuan Shao could immediately transfer grain and grass from the rear, which was not enough to win with one blow.

And now, the grain and grass that can be transported behind Yuan Shao have almost been transferred, and all of them are concentrated in Wuchao.