A sudden flood washed away the joy in Yuan Xi's heart after seizing Dongwuyang. A few days ago, Xin Bi saw that he had been attacking Dongwuyang for a long time, and suggested that he dug the Luohe River to flood Zang Ba, but he didn't expect that he would discharge manpower to store water upstream, and the offensive slowed down a little, but Zang Ba immediately withdrew from Dongwuyang, and the water meter he was still preparing to implement became useless.

It's just that he didn't expect that he gave up the plan to flood, and in turn, he was released by Cao Jun and flooded the city. Reasonable, how could a person who was about to carry out the water plan accidentally beware of the enemy's water meter, since Yuan Xi entered the city, although it was only five or six hours, but the fifty miles upstream of the Luo River were within the detection range of Yuan Jun's scouts, but there was no movement of Cao Jun at all. Cao Jun wants to flood the city with water, no matter how far it goes, its power will inevitably decrease sharply, and it will definitely not be as powerful as it is now. This is also where Yuan Xi has always been puzzled by Cao Jun's plan.

Xin Bi, who had just improved his body, couldn't care about his health at the moment, and he didn't even wear clothes, so he hurriedly ran to Yuan Xi. Yuan Xi was already pale at the moment, thinking that it was a big victory, but who would have thought that in the end, he still fell for Cao Jun's tricks, and the victory and defeat were reversed so quickly. As soon as he saw Xinbi, he was even more indifferent to the situation in front of him, but asked angrily: "What the hell is going on!" ”

Xin Bi, who also looked ashen, gasped and saluted: "I'm afraid this is because the Cao army dug the Yellow River and diverted water to irrigate the city." Our attention is on the Luo River, and I always feel that the Yellow River is far away, but it is negligent. It seems that there are also capable people in Cao Jun! The second son, for the sake of today's plan, it is better to let the army climb the city wall as soon as possible to avoid the water. ”

When Yuan Xi heard this, he could only try to calm the anger in his heart, Xin Bi was right, for the sake of today's plan, it is better to let the army avoid the water as soon as possible. With such a huge water attack, it is too late to run, and it is important to preserve as much combat power as possible. After all, with such a water potential, you can't run away, and the enemy can't beat it.

Yuan Xi's plan had been decided, and he hurriedly shouted: "Someone come, immediately send an order, let all the soldiers go up to the north wall as much as possible, if the city wall can't be squeezed, find a high place to avoid the water." The guard received the order and hurriedly ran out, but Yuan Xi grabbed Xin Bi beside him and said: "This county government can't stay, go, you and I quickly find a place to avoid the water." ”

Xin Bi nodded when he heard this, and then quickly followed Yuan Xi's pace and walked towards the outside of the county office. Today's Yuan Xi can't care about such a thing as only one underwear on his body, when life and death are at stake, how can he care about so many details. It was only when the two of them ran out of the county office that they heard a loud bang. Yuan Xishang looked confused, and Xin Bi on the side suddenly turned pale, and shouted to Yuan Xi beside him: "Second son, go, go!" I'm afraid that the city wall will be washed down by the water, and the water will overflow! ”

Yuan Xi's face was like death when he heard this, although the power of the water attack was huge, but for a city with walls, if such power wanted to be truly revealed, it was impossible to do it without a three-to-five day. Although the walls of Dongbuyang are only rammed earth, it is not easy to be washed away by the flood. According to Yuan Xi's thoughts, if the water really rushes into the city, it will only happen tomorrow and tomorrow, after the rammed earth is soaked and soft. But he really didn't expect that the collapse of the city wall would happen so quickly, so fast that his entire army would be drowned in the flood before it was ready.

What Yuan Xi didn't expect was already in Xu Shu's calculations. When Xu Shu faced the map that day, he was already sure of today's battle situation. To the south of Dongwuyang is the Luo River, and ordinary people who want to use water for attack will inevitably consider storing water in the Luo River. Especially in the late summer and early autumn, when the tide rises, the average general will be wary of the water meter. However, nearly 30 miles south of the Luohe River, is the Yellow River, because there is the Luohe River, and the use of the Yellow River water to attack this road is often overlooked. The Yellow River is already abundant in water, and when it reaches the lower reaches, it is even more overhanging, as long as the river channel is dug up, it is easy to submerge a Dongwuyang.

Because of this, after Xu Shu got Gao Ye's permission, he immediately ordered people to go to the bank of the Yellow River, ostensibly preparing boats, building pontoon bridges, and making a posture of retreating south. In fact, it was to dig trenches and prepare to divert water to the north. The reason why Zang Ba in Dongwuyang City has been guarding for so long is to buy Xu Shu some time; secondly, it is also hoped that under the exhaustion of Yuan's army, his vigilance will be greatly reduced after entering Dongwuyang; Sanlai Zang Ba also needed time to make some moves on the southern city wall, so that the flood could break the city as soon as possible; Fourth, it was also because Gao Ye asked the two of them in his reply letter to try to delay some time, so that he could have time to calmly arrange and deal with the situation after Yuan Xi's defeat. Speaking of which, Zang Ba and Xu Shu began to prepare long before they received Gao Ye's reply, and on the third day of Yuan Xi's siege, they were already ready. It was only because of Gao Ye's words that the two of them had to delay for another thirteen days, and it was not until the Yuan army was preparing for a water attack that they had to withdraw from the city. After all, such a big military operation, so many steps of calculation, in the end, it is still a long night. Xu Shu saw that he had to launch it, so he and Zang Ba decisively withdrew from the city.

As for Gao Ye, he has not been idle at all in the past ten days, so he let Xu Shu and Zang Ba make their own decisions, and Xu Shu sent a problem to himself. Xu Shu said that he could annihilate Yuan Xi's army of soldiers and horses, Gao Ye was convinced, Xu Shu was also cautious when he started fighting, and he rarely did bottomless things. However, once Yuan Xi is annihilated, Yuan Shao, who is in Guandu, may not be able to stabilize again, even if he does not withdraw to Yecheng immediately, he is afraid that he will withdraw to the north bank of the Yellow River and continue to confront Cao Cao. Once Yuan Shao withdrew to the north bank, his control over all parts of Hebei would only be greatly enhanced, and the grain route would also be greatly shortened. In this way, whether he wants to attack Yecheng by surprise, or Cao Cao wants to defeat Yuan Shao, the difficulty is not increased by a star and a half.

Therefore, when Gao Ye got Xu Shu's military report, he was also entangled for several hours, and finally made up his mind to let Xu Shu do it. After all, it was man-made, and he was thinking about the possible negative impact of Yuan Xi's defeat, but on the other hand, as long as it was handled properly, this was not an opportunity to hit Yuan Jun hard. It's just that any plan and arrangement takes time, and Gao Ye made Zang Ba and the others delay as much as possible.

Since Xu Shu has already prepared, naturally he no longer needs Gao Ye to care about anything, Gao Ye's biggest task now is how to continue to expand the results on top of Xu Shu's results. Therefore, Gao Ye, who wrote a reply letter to Xu Shu, hurriedly wrote another letter and ordered someone to send it to Cao Cao immediately. The current situation no longer allows him and Cao Cao to continue to fight on both sides, what plans do you have, how do you plan to plan, it is better to tell Cao Cao as soon as possible. This kind of strategic deployment, which affects the whole body, cannot be carried out by relying only on the tacit understanding of two troops.

After sending the documents to Cao Cao, Gao Ye ordered someone to immediately find the leader of the army's spy department. Today's spy department, under the construction of Guo Jia and Jia Xu over the years, the team has become more and more growing, and pervasiveness has become the creed of the spy department. Of the old men trained by Gao Ye back then, except for one Li Zhu who was still with him, the others were now mixed into the middle and high-level in the spy department as long as they were still alive. Li Zhu is no longer on a mission in person, and he is now following Gao Ye's side, just responsible for sorting out the news brought by the Espionage Department. The current leader of the spy department is called Mi Xin. The whole person is very thin, and he is not tall, but he has light steps and outstanding body skills. The foot of the wall two or three feet high can fly up, which can be described as a real cornice walking wall. Every time Gao Ye saw him, the name of the flea on the drum would appear in Gao Ye's mind, and he didn't know where the Espionage Department found such a talent.

The matter was urgent, Gao Ye didn't make a polite deal with Mi Xin, after Mi Xin finished saluting, Gao Ye immediately went straight to the point, and asked him to do a good job with the people he had planted in Yecheng. This time, he wanted to spread rumors and slander, and the target of the framing was none other than Yuan Shao's Fa Xiao, one of Yuan Jun's important strategists.

The reason why Gao Ye chose Xu Yu was not without purpose. In the battle of Guandu in history, Cao Cao was able to burn the grain of the Yuan army's black nest with one fire, all thanks to Xu You, who defected from the Yuan army. And the reason why Xu You rebelled was because his son and nephew were in Yecheng and were arrested and imprisoned on the grounds of corruption and perversion of the law. The trial even reported to Yuan Shao that Xu You had filled his pockets, which made Xu You angry and switched to Cao Cao.

Speaking of which, Gao Ye has never understood, even if he doesn't deal with Xu Yu, is it really enough to pursue these things during the war? It's really unwise to damage one's own combat strength. But after all, this is a real thing that happened in history, the so-called existence is reasonable, maybe the trial is that if Xu Yu's matter is learned by Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao will be angry and kill him. It's just that the judge didn't expect Yuan Shao to care about the righteousness of his friend, and actually let Xu You go, which caused an uncontrollable situation in the future. However, now Yecheng is calm, Xu You's children and nephews are still living freely, and Gao Ye feels that it is time to add to the fire. Besides, there is a dark line buried by himself in Yecheng, but it is unknown how reliable it is, and this time is a good opportunity to test him.

After Mi Xin received Gao Ye's military order, he also hurried to arrange, although Gao Ye has been proposing to fly pigeons to pass the book, but the spy department has been experimenting for nearly three years, and still has not been able to train qualified carrier pigeons. Today's information transmission is all about fast horses, which is the main reason why Mi Xin left in a hurry. Although he doesn't understand strategy, he also knows that for now, time is of the essence!