After listening to Guo Yuan's inquiry, his arrogant brows tightened.

Even if Guo Yuan bluntly told Zhang Shaojun about the excavation of Yuan Shaojun's tunnels, the state army still had no good way to deal with it. After all, Yuan Jun's tunnels didn't plan to dig into the city, so could he still take the initiative to dig the tunnels outside the city?

It is probably precisely because of this that Guo Yuan will clearly say the authentic tactics without any scruples. To be able to dig down the city walls, it takes a huge amount of labor. If Yuan Shao hadn't had tens of thousands of people with the support of local heroes, and an engineer "digging team" who was good at digging the ground, he wouldn't have used this trick.

If the Julu defenders wanted to fight back against Yuan Shaojun's action of digging the foot of the wall, they could only dig some passages to the bottom of the city wall. But this counterattack method, who can be sure that it will not help Yuan Shaojun's excavation activities? If he digs down the walls of Julu City, he will inevitably become the laughing stock of the world.

In today's battle of the blockade, the state army seems to have won a complete victory, but in fact, the price paid is not small. The total annihilation of more than 1,000 Yuan troops into the city made the Bingzhou army suffer more than 300 casualties. Moreover, most of these more than 300 people are elites. If there is such an exchange ratio in the next few days, three or four days at most, Zhang Qiang will have to let the people go directly to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

There is also the exposure of the secret weapon of stone fat water to defend the city, which must have prepared Yuan Jun. The next time you use it, the effect will definitely be much worse. Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, in fact, in the later stage of the fire, some people in Yuan Shao's army had already sent a small force to try to extinguish the flames with earth bags.

The situation in Julu City is getting more and more severe. Since Yuan Jun was able to dig out one such tunnel, he could naturally dig out the second and third tunnels. You must know that the three sides that surround the southeast, west, and west of Julu City are just tunnels that can be visually detected. There will be no less than ten. Although most of them must be used for cover, who stipulated that Yuan Jun could not come to a virtual reality?

Thinking of this, insolence has a splitting headache. In addition to the severely fractured arm, the severe pain never went away, and Zhang Crazy just took a nap that night, and he couldn't sleep anymore.

Tomorrow. It must be an even tougher day, right?

As soon as the sound of the rooster crowed, Zhang Madness could no longer lie down on the bed. He endured the severe pain in his arm, cheered up, and appeared on the front line of the city defense with two huge black circles under his eyes and a helmet and armor, inspecting the defense work.

How will Yuan Shaojun launch an attack today?

You don't have to think about it, you know that today is just another day of tragic casualties.

However, to the surprise of all the state troops, the next day. Until the sun set, Yuan Jun showed no signs of dispatch. Not only that, but even the sergeant who was listening to the tunnels came to report that the underground had been unusually quiet all day.

Although taking advantage of this rare armistice, the defenders had a good rest and recovered a lot of energy. And Zhao Yu took matters into his own hands and led the women in the city to repair the "Lady Wall" completely. It was also increased to eight feet, but it still didn't make Zhang Qiang's heart feel relaxed.

Don't. Is it that Yuan's army can't attack?

That's impossible.

According to arrogant estimates, because the Yuan army has strong local support, there is no problem in terms of manpower or military rations. Even if the army besieging the city suffered heavy casualties these days, it was based on the sheer size of Yuan's army. Far from the point where morale is so low that it is impossible to siege the city.

At least, the reinforcements from Cao Cao had not yet participated in the siege. That's a new force of more than 10,000 people!

In the face of this strange phenomenon, insolence has no other way but to be vigilant.

Another sleepless night passed.

When the arrogance stared at the bloodshot eyes. When he looked at the Yuan army camp in the distance, he suddenly rubbed his eyes violently, unable to believe what he saw.

There was a mess in Yuan's camp, it seemed that he was actually packing up?

――It doesn't make sense, huh?

――Are you going to retreat?

With his arrogant military literacy, it can also be seen that if Yuan's army continues to attack the city, the probability of breaking the city within three or four days is very high. If the offensive and defensive forces of the two sides are out of position, and he faces such a situation, he will definitely grit his teeth and continue to fight.

Not to mention that the reinforcements from Bingzhou are still hundreds of miles away, even if the reinforcements arrive outside the city, forming a situation of internal and external attack, if Yuan Jun is willing to take a little risk and continue to attack, the final chance of victory is more than eighty percent!

Recovering from this shock, Zhang Qiang immediately decided on a countermeasure.

Motionless.

No matter what tricks Yuan Shao was using, Zhang Qiang decided not to care. Because time is on his side. Taking advantage of this calm time, the arrogant side hurriedly rested the city defense to be tight.

This time, Yuan Shaojun's sudden soldiers came to the city, which was an arrogant omission of the monitoring of the local heroes in Jizhou. In terms of overall combat strength, through this fierce confrontation, Zhang arrogantly believes that the state army should be above the Yuan army.

Especially now that Yuan Jun has hit his head and broken his blood flow under Julu City, his morale has been depressed to a certain extent. As long as the reinforcements sent by Zhang Qiang from Bingzhou arrived in advance, the danger of the giant deer would naturally be lifted.

As for the good thing of killing Yuan Jun in Julu City, Zhang Qiang also thought about it in his heart.

Of course, just thought about it.

Yuan Shao is not incompetent. On the contrary, when it comes to the world's outstanding talents, Yuan Shaozhi's ability can be called first-rate, and he is by no means worse than anyone - including Cao Cao. In addition, by Yuan Shao's side, there is also Tian Feng, who can rank in the top ten of the Three Kingdoms Ministers, no matter what, they will not put the army in such an unfavorable situation.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao's other adviser who was tied with Tian Feng was now quietly locked up in Julu's prison, and he couldn't block the arrogance. Otherwise, the difficulties that insolence needs to face at present will definitely be even greater.

Now that his heart is settled, he is becoming more and more sensitive to the pain in his arm. The guards on the left and right saw that they were arrogant and haggard, so they had to secretly ask Mrs. Zhao Yu to come forward.

Miss Zhao really has a strong aura, and as soon as she appeared, she suppressed her arrogant excuse with her sharp eyes. Since Yuan Shaojun didn't make any moves, he didn't say anything more, and obediently followed Zhao Yu's request and returned to the Thorn History Mansion to recuperate.

This scene spread out in the future, leaving Zhang Qiang with a reputation of "fear of guilt" in history. In this regard, Zhang Qiang also couldn't cry or laugh.

The sky can be seen, but the arrogance dragged Zhao Yu many times, forcing her to put down the housewife's shelf and participate in the "Four Ps" conference in the inner house. Guo Fu and A are the two daughters, and they can maintain a superficial harmonious relationship with Zhao Yu, is it not the result of the three women having to form a "sister alliance" in bed under the strong "oppression" of insolence and "resist the enemy" together?

It's just that after a day of cultivation, Zhang Qiang had to go to the top of the city again. Because, the Yuan army outside the city actually began to retreat with the whole army!

"Lord, do you want to pursue?"

Tai Shi Ci suggested on the side. Pursuing the enemy, of course, cavalry is preferred. As the only cavalry general in Julu City, Tai Shici still attaches great importance to the capture of the pursuing enemy army.

After observing for a while, Zhang Madness fell into a brief contemplation.

The retreat of Yuan's army appeared to be a little disordered. A lot of military supplies were actually discarded in a visible place at the head of the city, and no one cared about it. Moreover, farther away from the periphery, Zhang Madness looked through with precious binoculars and found that the camp where the people were stationed was much more empty at the moment.

Seeing this scene, the more Zhang Yan thought about it, the more he felt that there was something strange in it.

Not to mention that Yuan Shaojun has not yet reached the point where he must retreat, it is difficult to say whether this retreat is true or false. With Yuan Shao's dominance and Tian Feng's strategy value, could a retreat that was not urgent be brought to such an embarrassing point?

Insolence doesn't believe it. Unless something big went wrong with Yuan Shao, so that he couldn't keep fighting, he couldn't successfully explain the phenomenon in front of him.

If something really happened to Yuan Shao, everything could be explained. However, considering the current situation of wounded soldiers in Julu City, Zhang Qi had no intention of taking risks.

Even if Yuan Shao is spared this time, when the arrogant army is assembled, it will still be able to destroy the Yuan army who has suffered a lot of vitality. Besides, even if something goes wrong with Yuan Shao, such an important matter as withdrawing troops, will the other Yuan generals think about it?

According to insolent speculation, nine times out of ten, Yuan's ambush soldiers were hiding in which corner of the camp. When the pursuers in the city are dispatched, those ambushes will be mobilized to flank their pursuers.

In the end, for the sake of safety, Zhang Arrogant vetoed Tai Shici's request to attack immediately.

"Ziyi, don't be impatient. The 100,000-strong army is slow, where is it to leave if you want to? When the enemy is almost retreating and the ambush soldiers are also beginning to retreat, Ziyi, you will attack at that time, but it is not too late. ”

Whether there are any ambushes of the Yuan army outside the city, the people in the city have no way of knowing for the time being. However, with insolent patience, by the end of the evening, Yuan Shao's army had withdrawn from the less than twenty miles, and a Yuan army suddenly appeared from a silent Yuan army camp. Looking at the actions and equipment of those Yuan army ambushes, if Tai Shici dared to go out of the city to pursue, most of them would be defeated.

Seeing this scene, Tai Shici couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. However, after receiving the report from the defenders, Zhang Qiang, who hurried back to the city from the Assassin's Mansion, only glanced at it a few times, and then ordered Tai Shici:

"Ziyi, let's fight! Guys below, leave me at least half! ”

Encouraged by the arrogant "anticipation of the enemy's opportunity", Tai Shici loudly agreed, and after a short while, he gathered more than 1,000 cavalry who had been on standby for a whole day.

As the gates opened for the first time in these days, the deafening sound of horses' hooves rang out, alarming the entire city. A quarter of an hour later, the earth-shattering shouts of slaughter rang out for miles outside the city.

The battle lasted for about half an hour, and Tai Shici returned to the city covered in blood, holding a human head in his hand, and replied to Zhang Qiang.

"Chen Xing did not disgrace his life and killed the enemy's main general, Zhang Nan! There were 2,000 people under Zhang Nan, more than 1,000 prisoners were killed, and the rest were scattered! ”

"Good! It is worthy of the divine shooting! ”

Zhang Qi expressed satisfaction with Tai Shici's results. He praised Tai Shi Ci a few words, and then asked Tai Shi Ci to go back to the camp to rest. Recharge your energy and fight better tomorrow.

After Tai Shici retired, Zhang Qi immediately called Guo Jia beside him and asked him to interrogate the captured officers of the Yuan Army and find out why Yuan Shao suddenly withdrew. (To be continued......)