Yecheng, as the location of Yuan Shao's base camp, was originally a fortified city in Jizhou, and now it is even more reinforced, not only in the external structure of the city wall, but also in the city's food, bows and arrows and other necessary ordnance reserves to defend the city are also very sufficient, it can be said that if you want to fight a protracted war, Yuan Shao is not afraid at all, and as long as the surrounding walls are clear, the other party will definitely not last long, and it is also in this situation that Yuan Shao will rest assured and boldly relax his vigilance around Yecheng, and even simply only retain 5,000 standing soldiers and horses to defend the city. All the remaining available troops were dispatched.

Of course, this is definitely a good thing for Lu Bu, after all, although the Shun Lì who came all the way showed that they were very successful in camouflage, but this was only when they were not closely searched, this was the case in other places, but in Yecheng, it was bound to be different, which is the difference between the so-called "central" and local.

Yuan Shao probably couldn't have imagined that it was his own arrangement that became a big hole that Lu Bu could exploit, and from another point of view, it could even be said that Yuan Shao himself "put" Lu Bu in.

And now for him, there may always be a little regret in his heart.

However, even if he came here, it didn't have much substantive significance for Lu Bu, because he knew very well that Yecheng was difficult to capture, so after returning to his own tent, he immediately gathered Liangle, Tian Chou and others to discuss countermeasures.

In this trip, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, the two generals, were left in Jingcheng by Lu Bu, I believe that with them, it is difficult for Lu Yi to find anything, even if it is discovered. Without Qiu Liju's cooperation and his troops, it is difficult to overcome the obstacles of Lu Bu's army, of course, Zhang Liao will not fight with him, which is likely to trigger a full-scale war with Yuan Shao, although Lu Bu is not afraid in his heart, but he knows that now is not the best time, and it will be on the right track next year, and the situation in Hebei should also be divided. It's a pleasure to do this kind of thing.

The people came in and sat down. Tian Chou then spoke: "Chou thinks that it is not enough to block a city gate in the northwest now. There are a total of eight large and small gates in Yecheng, we should divide our troops into eight guards, and it is best to have light and darkness, so that the news of Yecheng's trapped city cannot be passed on in such a short time......"

Liangle frowned and said, "But that's the case." We don't have many troops. How can it be a deterrent if it is more dispersed now? ”

Tian Chou smiled faintly: "Bo Yu doesn't have to worry. According to the news reported by the secret agents in the city, there were only 5,000 defenders in Yecheng at this time, and they were divided into eight city gates. For example, the larger city gate here in the northwest has nearly 1,000 people, but a small city gate such as the north city gate, but 500 people defend the city, there is no need to worry at all; And they are the defending army, not cavalry, and without our mobility, even if they go out of the city to meet the battle, they don't have to be afraid at all. ”

When it comes to understanding Jizhou and Yecheng, Liangle is of course not as good as Tian Chou, so after Tian Chou explained, he simply did not refute and kept silent.

"That being the ......case," Lu Bu glanced at everyone present and made a decision, "Then divide the troops in all directions, besiege Yuan Shao first, and then use our means!" ”

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Yuan Shao sat in the lobby, rubbed his head, and then looked at Jiang Qi opposite and asked lightly, "What's the matter?" ”

This is already the third day after Lu Bu's soldiers besieged Yecheng, to be honest, although Lu Bu only besieged but did not attack in the past few days, the trouble caused to Yuan Shao was no less than his siege.

Especially Lu Bu's house has no lower limit, he has to scold at the city gate every time, and all kinds of insulting words to his family are like ordinary greetings and chats in his mouth, and he can jump out of a few words when he says a few words, and he can often scold people to jump to the ground, if it weren't for Yuan Shao who simply felt that his ears were a little numb in the end, he would really be provoked to lead the troops out of the city to fight to the death with Lu Bu.

In fact, Lu Bu only brought 3,000 cavalry this time, and the number was not large, and Yuan Shao did not think of sending troops out of the city to fight with Lu Bu, of course, he did not go himself, that would be too risky for Yuan Shao to do.

But after carefully inspecting the troops in the city, he found that in addition to the standing 5,000 soldiers who defended the city, all the other soldiers and horses who could fight and send were all sent by him to the two roads of Liyi and Wenchou, and there was almost only one trustworthy general who could be used, Jiang Qi.

This sounds a little ridiculous and incredible, because Yuan Shao, known as the first prince of Hebei, only has 5,000 troops around him in the rear, which cannot be regarded as an adjustable army, and there are few strong generals, which is really unbelievable, but it is not surprising to study it carefully, who called Yuan Shao now has a total of less than 200,000 troops under his command, but the stall is so big, from the state to Youzhou, to Jizhou, and then to Qingzhou, the four states have their own parts, and they all need to be appointed to garrison troops, and naturally they must also assign generals to guard, In this way, not to mention the 200,000 army, even the 300,000 army is not enough to share.

For such a big city as Yecheng, more than 5,000 people are actually a little stretched to defend the city, after all, Yecheng has a total of eight city gates, namely east, south, west, north, southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest eight directions, more than 5,000 people share each city gate is only more than 600 people, and these are all big city gates, the place is very wide, this point of people is really too few, but fortunately, Lu Bujun did not attack the city, otherwise even if the city tower of Yecheng is high and the city wall is thick, it will not be able to be made a little flawed.

And after all, the city is dead, no matter how strong the city is, it also needs to be guarded by people, if even this point of people is sent out, then who will defend the city, no one will defend the city, in case the Lu Bu army is going to attack the city again, even if they are all cavalry, even if they don't have any siege equipment, even if there are more, it is difficult to guarantee that there is no one in case, Yuan Shao can't afford to gamble on this alone.

More importantly, make it easy for these people to defend the city, and let them go to fight the cavalry? Not to mention whether you can beat it, you may not be able to catch up with it, and maybe you will be restrained by the opponent with mechanical power, and then it is very likely that you will be eaten alive.

It is precisely because of this that Yuan Shao will feel upset, although such days have only passed for two or three days, but for him it is like a year, because although Lu Bu did not plan to attack the city, all kinds of methods to disturb people's hearts emerged one after another, and they were used one by one.

Especially yesterday, Lu Bujun actually used a shield hand to block the front, and then let the archers shoot arrows from the gap in the shield, but this arrow is not an arrow to hurt people, and there is not even a clear goal, but it is just to shoot into the sky in the city, and then fall in the city, and the arrow is tied to a small note, the content on which is naturally some demagogic words, causing panic in the people in Yecheng.

The people's hearts are in turmoil, and the army's heart is also unstable, although Lu Bu did not attack the city, but this method is really more powerful than the other, Yuan Shao asked people to collect the note, but he also knew in his heart that if he didn't stop it at the first time, this news would inevitably spread in the market, and it would not stop at all.

Jiang Qi saw Yuan Shao so tired, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and even wondered whether he should tell Yuan Shao the news, but before he could think about it, he saw Yuan Shao on his side, and said without anger: "Is there any bad news that can't be said, is there any bad news?" ”

"Yes......" Jiang Qi was helpless, he couldn't deceive Yuan Shao, nor could he disobey his words, so he had to report truthfully: "The spies we sent out to ask for help were all sent back, but they were just ...... All dead. ”

Yuan Shao didn't move, Jiang Qi saw that he seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then returned to normal, but Jiang Qi knew that his heart would never be calm, which could be seen from the fact that he clenched his hand that exposed his green muscles.

It's just that Jiang Qi naturally won't say anything, Yuan Shao was silent for a while and said, "Shen Shi is three moments, and another batch will be sent out......

Jiang Qi wanted to say, "This is already the fifth batch", but none of them succeeded, even if they went out together in eight city gates this time, but the words that came to his mouth were still swallowed back by him, there was no need to stimulate Yuan Shao's nerves at this time, so he only responded lightly: "Huh." ”

Yuan Shao didn't know that Lu Bu seemed to be very relaxed about him in the city, but there were many monitors in the secret, and they were some people who were drawn from the "special forces", and it was just right for them to do this.

What's more, Lu Bu had also made preparations before, so that Jia Xu sent some secret agents to sneak into Yecheng before his army arrived, and to investigate the news inside, and it happened that two people were selected into Yuan Shao's mansion, Yuan Shao was no matter how much he paid attention to it, it was difficult to think that this part would let them take advantage of the loophole and become an internal response, and it was impossible for Yuan Shao to send news to the outside under the cooperation of the inside and the outside.

It can be said that Lu Bu seems to have just blocked the gates of Yecheng, and there are only hundreds of people scattered at each gate, but he has blocked the "heart" of Yecheng.

And this so-called sixth group of helpers, no accident is also the end of looking for death.

When Jiang Qi was about to go out, he was stopped by Yuan Shao, he stared at him for a while, and suddenly smiled: "I don't believe that Lu Fengxian can hold out longer than us......

Jiang Qi knew what he meant, Lu Bu came from afar, and they were all cavalry, so they had to be lightly armed and simple, and they would definitely not bring too much rations and grass food, so their preparations would not be able to support the consumption of soldiers and war horses for too long.

Of course, Lu Bu and they can also use local materials, there are a few rich villages around Yecheng, and there is no defense force except for some village soldiers, but they can only do expedient measures, not to mention that it is difficult to guarantee when their reinforcements will arrive, and it is difficult to say what situation Lu Bu will be in at that time.

Jiang Qi nodded, didn't say anything, and turned to go out.

And Yuan Shao looked at his back, his eyes flickered, and he gritted his teeth for a long time and said: "Lu Fengxian, I hope you can hold on until that time......" Then he suddenly stood up and shouted outside: "Come on, quickly gather everyone, I want to discuss the plan!" (To be continued......)