Wu Liren nodded, it seems that although Mu Guiying is here to listen and study, in fact, it is to explain the situation of the enemy, but she is a smart woman.

"In addition, among the several counties occupied by Han Zheng now, only Huang County's city defense is stronger and relatively difficult to break, and the other counties should not be too difficult. After yesterday's defeat, Han Zheng should choose to stay closed, so King Zhou still needs to prepare early. ”

Mu Guiying thought about it very comprehensively, which made Wang Shouren look at her with some surprise, and then nodded, and said with a smile: "Lord Mu Zhai has extraordinary knowledge, it seems that he must be well versed in the art of war, if he can have the help of Lord Mu Zhai, it must be easy to break the army of Liaodong." ”

Wu Liren smiled and said, "Since Lord Mu Zhai has introduced the general situation of the enemy, I wonder if you have a good plan to break the enemy?" ”

After a short period of silence, Xun You came out and said: "My subordinates think that the Liaodong army will cross the sea for an expedition, and the grain and grass it will carry must not be much, as long as the army is besieged and not attacked, when its grain and grass are exhausted, it will be the time to break the enemy." ”

Although Xun You's strategy is very reasonable, he can retreat from the enemy without paying too many soldiers, but what Wu Liren wants is to capture Han Shizhong alive. Wu Liren frowned, and asked with some doubts: "Although Gongda's words are good, if this king wants to capture Han Zheng alive, if he runs out of soldiers' food, he will inevitably escape from the sea again." If you want to capture him when the time comes, wouldn't it be like a mirror? ”

At this time, Ji Xiaolan stood up again and asked, "It will be easy to defeat on the battlefield, but it will be difficult to capture the enemy alive." If you want to be captured alive, I am afraid you will have to pay a big price. Besides, I don't know what Han Zheng's temperament is, if he is captured, he is not willing to surrender, wouldn't it be empty joy? I still hope that King Zhou will think twice! ”

Ji Xiaolan's worries are indeed very critical, but since Wu Liren has the Tongue Lotus, he has a great chance to surrender.

"Mr. Ji, don't worry, this king knows that Han is a talent, especially good at water warfare, the so-called thousands of troops are easy to get, and it is difficult to find, if you can get his help, in the future, you will counterattack Liaodong, and you will get twice the result with half the effort."

Everyone didn't expect Wu Liren's ambition to be so big, not only wanted to capture Han Shizhong, but also wanted to use Han Shizhong to counterattack Liaodong. Even if Han Shizhong can be persuaded to surrender, and want Han Shizhong to counterattack Liaodong and attack the old lord with surrender, it is despised by the world, I am afraid it will be difficult.

"King Zhou Honghu is ambitious, I might as well wait!"

Ji Xiaolan sighed and retreated.

Xun You smiled and said, "The lord is worried that Han Shizhong will escape by sea, so you can cut off their back route first." ”

"How did you cut off Han Zheng's retreat? That's where the hard part is! After all, Huangxian is close to the sea, if this king sends an army to destroy their ships, he will inevitably pass through Huangxian, how can Han Zheng sit idly by and ignore them at that time? ”

This problem is the most critical, so Wu Liren has not been able to solve it.

"What King Zhou said is true, if you want to use the army to break the ship, presumably when the army arrives, then Han Zheng has already left by boat. But did the king of Zhou forget about the destruction of the dam in Surabaya? ”

Speaking of this, Wu Liren suddenly understood what Xun Yu meant, he smiled knowingly, nodded, and went to let people prepare.

At this time, Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu returned to Yeguo County together, Han Shizhong not only did not capture Mu Guiying, but was almost caught by Wu Liren, which made him sigh that the situation on the battlefield was really changing rapidly.

"Husband, now that King Zhou has personally led his troops to Donglai County, I'm afraid that this Donglai will be difficult to hold, so it's better for me to lead the troops to withdraw!"

In the battle last night, although the Shenwei Army did not continue to pursue, how could Liang Hongyu not know Wu Liren's name and the strength of the Shenwei Army. Now that Han Shizhong is on an expedition across the sea, and he is fighting away, no matter the time, place and people, he will not occupy any of them, and if he continues to consume it, it will inevitably end in failure.

Han Shizhong sighed and said, "How can a husband not know? It's just that before leaving, the second son told me that I must not retreat without a fight, and insist on it for at least three months. Even if he is defeated, he must contain Wu Ming's troops. Now that I have just arrived for more than half a month, I will retreat like this, and I will definitely be punished by the second son when I go back, which is really a dilemma! ”

Liang Hongyu also knew that this expedition basically had only one result - failure. Even if he made some achievements in the previous stage because of the surprise attack, as long as Wu Liren reacted, he still had no second way. Unless there are other princes, Wu Liren's power will be contained, so that Wu Liren will have no time to look east.

But in the current situation, Xiliang Ma Teng just went around Hangu Pass and retreated, and Hebei Liu Bei Puyang fought a big loss, and he didn't dare to attack easily, and Xue Rengui was still eyeing Hebei in the plains, and Liu Bei could only take care of himself.

"In that case, let's prepare for the worst! This county town is small and difficult to defend, so it is better to retreat to Huang County earlier and defend with all its might. ”

Han Shizhong nodded and continued to add: "The army is short of soldiers' food, before retreating, first get some food for soldiers in Yeguo County and other counties, and all of them will be stationed in Huangxian County to defend with all their might. If the situation is not good, then withdraw from the sea. ”

Hearing Han Shizhong's words, Liang Hongyu asked with some concern: "The people take food as the sky, if they take food from the people, they will definitely lose the hearts of the people, and when the time comes, I am afraid that if we don't wait for Wu Ming to attack, our army will be ...... by the angry people."

Liang Hongyu didn't finish speaking, but Han Shizhong didn't take it to heart at all, "Don't worry, your husband has his own measure, besides, this people's heart, even if I don't levy food, the people will definitely look towards the benevolent and righteous Wu Ming!" ”

Han Shizhong made a decision, he did not delay any longer, and immediately ordered the soldiers to act, although Han Shizhong was "requisitioning grain" from the people's homes, but he also clearly stipulated that he must leave some food for the people, otherwise the people without food, if they can't survive, it will provoke a popular uprising.

Han Shizhong withdrew from Yeguo County overnight, and then adopted the same strategy in other counties. It only took less than ten days for Han Shizhong to have the soldiers scavenge food in all the cities.

When Wu Liren led the army to re-enter Yeguo County, the people of Yeguo County petitioned together, asking Wu Liren to make decisions for them.

"How could this Han Shizhong do such a thing?"

Wu Liren couldn't believe it at the first time, in his impression, Han Shizhong was a general with a great sense of justice, and it was hard to imagine that he would do this kind of thing of plundering the people's rations.

"Does King Zhou have any doubts? When the general is outside, he naturally has to be responsible for the soldiers under his command. Since Han Zheng has no food for the army, it is a last resort to do this, which is better than Cao Cao's previous use of human flesh as food. In this troubled world, as long as you survive, it is the most fundamental. ”