"Lu Xiang and Lu Kuang, two brothers, are actually dead?"

Yuan Shao, who was expressionless, seemed to chew on the news before he calmly spoke:

"Could it be that there is another '10,000 enemies' among the moth thieves?"

"Not really."

Tian Feng explained:

"According to the soldiers, the thief general Yin Gang who went out to fight was the head of the 'Sixteen Young Eagles' among the Western Thieves. In a certain opinion, there is still a gap between this thief and the '10,000 enemies', which can be regarded as the pinnacle of the '10,000 people broken'. But even so, Erlu is far from his opponent. The lord, before the war, he saw that he was unclear and failed to find out the details of the enemy, so that Erlu died in vain, and he asked the lord to punish him! ”

Hearing Tian Feng's words of self-reproach, Yuan Shao waved his hand and comforted him gently:

"What did you do? If I don't know what happened, I'm the most wrong! A few days ago, Zhong Jian [Chun Yuqiong] attacked and killed the 'young eagle' in the lie, but it was only at the level of '100 people beheaded'. I thought that the 'Sixteen Young Eagles' boasted by the Western Thief were nothing more than that, but I still underestimated the arrogant use of this thief! ”

Hearing that Yuan Shao took the initiative to take the responsibility of decision-making, Tian Feng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and complimented Yuan Shao loudly:

"The lord is broad-minded, how can Tian Feng be so magnanimous?"

Yuan Shao smiled and said:

"You and I get along, why do you have so many scruples? As long as you are human, you will inevitably make mistakes when you do things. You are capable, and it is inevitable to make mistakes. It's like Kong Beihai [Kong Rong], he doesn't dare to do anything now, of course there is no mistake! ”

Kong Rong is a famous man in the world. Since the beginning of his reign in Beihai County, because of his low eyesight, he was beaten by the Yellow Turban Army, and he drank every day and ignored political affairs. When the wine was hot, Kong Rong couldn't help but point out the country. Zang no characters. Although Yuan Shao was famous for a while, Kong Rong still had no scruples when it came to evaluation.

Yuan Shao is a practical person, and he naturally doesn't have much good impression of people like Kong Rong who can't do things and only knows how to speak out and deceive others. And Kong Rong's evaluation is biased, for Yuan Shao. Some of the words are very unfavorable. No, in his daily conversation, Yuan Shao couldn't help but inevitably ridicule Kong Rong a few words.

"However, there are really a lot of fierce generals in the Western Thief Army!"

In the end, Yuan Shao still expressed his sincere amazement at the number of fierce generals under Zhang Madness.

Before, when Zhang was arrogant and lived in the state, Yuan Shao was quite wary of him. I can't help but look down on my arrogance. How strong can a group of grass robbers who were born in yellow turban thieves be?

Dian Wei was able to defeat Yan Liang, of course, with good force. Zang Ba fought with Lu Yi, and according to Lu Yi's evaluation, he should belong to the last seat of the "Ten Thousand Enemies" level. But most of those Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and the like are boasting about themselves.

Not to mention anything else, Guan Yu is said to have been Liu Bei's subordinate at the earliest, and was later captured by insolence and surrendered. A dignified "enemy of 10,000 people". Will it be easy to be captured in a battle?

As for Zhao Yun, that is an arrogant brother-in-law. That's it alone. The rest of the generals will raise him by a few points. I don't know how the prestige of this "10,000 enemies" came out!

Of course, the above evaluations are all in the past tense. After experiencing the great battle of losing half of Jizhou, Yuan Shao had a deeper understanding of his arrogant subordinates.

Dian Wei beheaded Yan Liang, and Guan Yu attacked and killed Wen Chou. Suffice it to say that their force is not mixed with any moisture. And Zhao Yun's gang fought with the Luyi Department many times in northern Hebei, and successfully injured Zhang He, the number one fierce general in the Luyi Army, and he was also an out-and-out "10,000 enemies". Others, such as Xu Huang, Bao Chu and others, have also used the bones of Yuan Jun's soldiers in the past few months. Proven its strength.

Facts have proved that Zhang Qiang is really discerning in knowing the generals. Even if Yuan Shao successfully used the rumors, as well as the powerful power of Jizhou, he besieged Zhang Madness in Julu City, and the fierce generals under Zhang Madness still made Yuan Shao jealous.

Moreover, the most annoying thing about the state army is that you can't figure out if he is secretly ambushing. The arrogance who has the ability to "ignite" may give his enemies a sudden "surprise" at any time. Although Yuan Shao will take risks when necessary, he does not like accidents. Therefore, his jealousy of insolence is twice as high as that of Gongsun Zhan.

Oh, by the way, Gongsun Chan is dead, and Yuan Shao doesn't have to be afraid of him anymore.

"Yuan Hao, how will the thief do it? What are the casualties of our army? ”

Yuan Shao digested the results of the defeat and began to inquire about the process of defeat.

In fact, the process of this battle alone is completely lackluster. Since the two sides are fighting to boost morale, there is no fun at all. Lu Xiang led his subordinates, and the same number of troops as the state, and lined up two hundred steps away from the Julu City Wall. Immediately after, but listening to the sound of drums, the two armies launched a frontal attack face to face.

Then, Lü Xiang fought with the enemy general for three or four rounds, but he was killed, and the rest of the people were scattered. In order to avenge his brother, Lu Kuang led his troops and horses to rush forward, but he was also unable to fight and was killed by the enemy general. Fortunately, the enemy had few generals and did not dare to pursue and kill, so most of Yuan's army was able to escape back to their own camp smoothly.

After Yuan Shao's side counted the points, it lost about 140 people and wounded 80 people. These casualties are really nothing to an army of 50,000 people.

However, after this battle, the morale of Yuan Shao's army was hit to a certain extent, and it was no longer as high as when he attacked the city a few days ago. The siege of the Yuan army was also affected by the decline in morale, and the state army went out of the city from time to time to interfere, and the progress slowed down a lot.

For this kind of situation, it is completely inferior to others, and Yuan Shao has no choice, so he has to order more manpower to speed up the construction process.

What Yuan Shao ordered to build was a siege camp.

In order to prevent the enemy army in the city from attacking the city needlessly, the besieging side will never try to build its own camp directly near the city. Generally speaking, it is a better choice to be about five miles away from the enemy city. This distance can make it much more difficult for the enemy to sneak out of the city and ensure the safety of the besieging side.

However, when the army launched an attack on the city, if it set out directly from its own camp, the mental and physical consumption of the soldiers would be a bit large. Confronting the enemy city and marching through the unprotected wilderness, the soldiers must always be mentally tense in order to deal with the possibility of a surprise counterattack by the defenders. This was a small burden for the besiegers.

For this reason, the besieging side will build several siege camps in front of the main camp before the official large-scale attack. These siege camps are usually very close to the enemy city to facilitate the monitoring of the enemy city.

Between the siege camp and the main camp, a long safe passage is usually enclosed with simple fences and trenches. Walking in a fence is much safer than walking in the wilderness. Even if the enemy wants to launch a surprise attack, he must first overcome the obstacles of fences and trenches. With these obstacles, the troops on the march were enough to deploy their troops in time, to switch to a combat state. This kind of outcome is by no means what the raiders want to face.

In this way, when the siege officially begins, the siege can be launched directly from the engineering camp without wasting extra time and energy on the road.

As for whether the enemy will take advantage of the situation to attack these siege camps?

The besiegers will only wish they would attack!

Since ancient times, it has been easier to defend than to attack. If you can lure the defenders outside the city to solve the problem, it is much better than storming a well-defended city. Therefore, for the defenders of the city, it is necessary to counterattack the enemy army, but how to counterattack and where to counterattack the enemy is a big problem that needs to be carefully considered.

Don't look at the previous Yin Gang led his troops to kill Erlu and obstructed the construction of the siege camp on the Yuan army's side, in fact, in addition to boosting morale, the real effect of his battle was not too great. The construction of Yuan Shao's siege camp was delayed for one day because of Yin Gang, but it was still successfully completed two days later.

When the Yuan army had basic fortifications, even if Dian Wei personally dispatched, he would not think that he would successfully repel the Yuan army like Yin Gang before.

By the way, after a few months of cultivation, Dian Wei's injuries have basically disappeared, and his strength has not diminished.

Of course, Yuan Jun was able to repair all the camps around Julu City, and he also paid a considerable price. For example, the siege camp on the east side was once raided by the cavalry led by the arrogant general Tai Shici, killing 160 Yuan troops and capturing more than 200 in a battle. The general Jiang Qi was also shot in the arm by Tai Shici during the counterattack, and he was unable to fight for a month, which can be regarded as withdrawing from the battle of Julu.

Maybe it's because the captured Yuan Jun is a kind of auxiliary soldier who does coolies, and it is worthless. Two days later, Zhang Qi was very generous and released all the more than 200 captives.

Although according to the envoy sent by the arrogant, it was because it was ominous to kill the prisoners, and raising this group of useless people in the city wasting food and guarding it, so it was better to return it directly to Yuan Shao. However, Yuan Shao didn't believe in the arrogant explanation, and still felt that it was a little strange.

Not only Yuan Shao thought so, but also the military advisor Tian Feng.

For this reason, after Tian Feng received the captive, he separated them one by one and interrogated them to find out if there were any tricks in them. However, these captives found nothing but the accusation that after the state army captured them, they forcibly stripped them of their military uniforms, did not take good care of their meals, and gave them only a little ration every day.

I couldn't find anything strange, and I couldn't see any signs of the captives being bought, even with Tian Feng's resourcefulness, I had to let these captives go. After all, these are their own people, and they can't be too harsh on them, so as not to dampen the morale of the military. Just for the sake of safety, Tian Feng still broke them up and reorganized them into the army.

Of course, it is also appropriate to keep more surveillance of these captured soldiers afterwards. However, the one in charge of this part is the trial, and he is a capable person, so he doesn't have to worry about Tian Feng.

Although there were various accidents that restricted Yuan Shaojun's siege operations, by the seventh day of October, Yuan Shao's army still used its own military advantage to successfully complete the siege of Julu on all sides.

This time is at Tian Feng's estimated time point. (To be continued......)