The news that the Liaodong army had cut off the back road and plundered the grain route was reported to Shi Xun by Dian Wei and the horse, and Shi Xun's first reaction to this was: "How did they come here?" What about my sailor? What about my fleet?! ”

However, he did not suspect that Wei had left his post without permission. Compared with other scholars and doctors in this year, Shi Xun had a certain affection for Shang Jia Shibao, but because of this, he rarely speculated about those merchants with the greatest malice - but this time Wei Xun and the others' discipline really broke through the lower limit, which was completely unexpected by Shi Xun.

Shixun only thought that the sea was vast, and his own mercenary fleet and Liaodong's troop transport fleet occasionally missed it. After all, the ships of these days were generally small, and they were Chinese-style flat-bottomed boats, and the draft was very shallow, so there were many places to dock and land - there was no heavy equipment, and the soldiers could go ashore even if they were swimming. Therefore, it is quite difficult to completely block that long stretch of coastline.

However, now that the enemy has landed, even if the fleet searches for it and sinks all the enemy troop carriers, it will be useless. For the sake of today's plan, it is better to quickly defeat the enemy behind him and reopen the western Liaoning corridor.

To tell the truth, the pressure on the grain and straw of the Youzhou army these days is indeed quite great, and Han Yao's strategy of "strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness" has also produced some effect - with his IQ, it is impossible to come up with a strategy that is completely beneficial to Shixun and harmless, and can completely deceive the ministers of Liaodong.

In ancient times, because of the poor road conditions and means of transportation, it was a very difficult thing to transport grain for thousands of miles to the front line. And the filling of these gaps. It is necessary to be fed to the enemy. This is also one of the important reasons why the discipline of the army cannot be very good in these years. It is not enough to fight on the inner line, but once the battle is fought on the outer line, it is impossible to be free from looting. Even if Xun still retains part of the moral code of the previous life, he has strict restraints on the Youzhou army, preventing them from going out to rob the people's property, but it is still unavoidable to search for food in a planned way.

However, on related issues, Jihoon made another big mistake. That is, to spread the cage of the Karasuma Department of Liaodong, and to send Yan Rou in advance to persuade Su Fuyan to help, on the one hand, hundreds of Karasuma elite cavalry were transferred to fight together, and on the other hand, Su Muyan led the army to attack the Liaodong forces. The problem is that Su Muyan is indeed an old slippery head, he basically only wanders around the territory of Liaodong vassal countries, looting everywhere he goes, and as for the east of Liaoshui, he only sent a few teams to swim across from near Haikou. I went to the armed march in Anshi and Wenxian once. Su Muyan's meaning, you have to fight whatever you want. I can take advantage of the chaos, and as for using me as the striker to fight with the main force of Liaodong - a fool will obey his fate!

Therefore, after crossing the Daling River, it was basically impossible for Xun to collect loose valleys, and he had to rely on the rear for transshipment. He stayed on the west bank of the Great Liao River for several days, accumulated grain and grass, and then crossed the river, but he was faced with the evil plan of "clearing the wilderness" in the east of Liao, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of himself. The huge Liao Tunnel City and its suburbs, even a hundred stones of grain can not be collected, at this time the rear transportation road is cut off again, the day of the Youzhou army running out of food, it is not far away!

Zhuge Liang came to report, saying that if the grain and grass in the rear could not be transported up, only the grain in the army would last for ten days at most. Shi Xun was shocked and hurriedly summoned his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

First of all, the army paused, no longer marched to Xiangping, but temporarily retreated to the Liao Tunnel - this is the consensus of all people; Secondly, sending soldiers and horses to dredge the grain route is also a necessary policy. But the question is, what exactly is the number of enemy troops? How many people do you have to send to ensure a complete victory in the short term?

In those years, the level of reconnaissance was very low, and it was all dependent on the eyes, and there were no telescopes, so it was very difficult to judge the exact number of soldiers and horses. Unless the opponent pulls all the soldiers and horses on the plain and lines them up, then the experienced soldiers can estimate that they are not far from ten at a glance. And if the other party holds on to it, or goes by different routes, it will be relatively difficult to estimate it accurately - this is also the reason why the Liaodong Army was not sure of the true number of the Youzhou Army, and was deceived by Han Yao's sentence of "no less than 100,000".

Liu Xu's department is only more than 1,000 people, but occupies a fort of the Youzhou army, and the branch came out to set up a village. Since it is the first piece of information, it has not yet been repeatedly reconnoitred and calculated, so the water is naturally relatively large. Dian Wei's report to Shixun was: The enemy army is more than 1,000 people, or it can be close to 5,000, and it is not clear.

Based on the principle of leniency for the enemy, assuming that the enemy army is indeed about 5,000 and all of them are elite, then it may be difficult to achieve all the success in a short period of time if only one other army is sent to conquer. Therefore, some of the staff said that the whole army should turn around and retreat back to Liaoxi, or the worst should also retreat the main force to Changli, so that Si Ke can protect everything. Otherwise, the rear will not be able to open up the grain road, and the main force of the Liaodong Army in front will take advantage of the void to kill, and then there will really be no place to die.

Shi Xun also felt that this was reasonable, but once the whole army retreated, even if it could quickly reopen the transportation route, it would have to be delayed for more than half a month, and the grain and grass consumed during this period, and the troops and morale consumed during this period would make it difficult for the Youzhou army to make a comeback -- the biggest possibility was to directly open up the back road and return home by the way. This made him reluctant and extremely reluctant.

Zhuge Liang stood up in time to relieve the siege for Shixun, and analyzed: "I expect that the enemy will be less than 5,000, and he is not elite. Why? Liaodong has only 40,000 victorious soldiers, and one-tenth of the sharp soldiers, if they do everything they can to plunder me, then the enemy in front of them is not enough to worry about - Gongsun clan An dares to do this? ”

The territory of the Gongsun family is not small, but the number of soldiers and horses that can be assembled in the short term is limited-besides, Liu Yi is in Lelang, and he may not be willing to rush back to rescue - let's say more than 40,000 horses, more than half of them are only auxiliaries with limited combat effectiveness, and the remaining 20,000, the real elite is only four or five thousand, they really dare to take it all out and copy our back road? Aren't you afraid that Xiangping will be empty and will be taken advantage of by us to go straight to the heart?

Guo Huai agreed with Zhuge Liang's opinion, but at the same time believed that unless he came with nearly half of his troops and horses, he could hope to open up the transportation route in a short time. And if the army does not retreat, once the war does not go as expected, if there is a slight delay, and the army runs out of food, how can it be good?

Yan Rou pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "Why don't you go north to Xuansu?" ”

Xuanwu County is located in the north of Liaodong County, the original territory is very wide, the household registration is also numerous, not under Liaodong, and later because of the repeated invasion of Xianbei, Goguryeo, Fuyu and other foreign peoples, the land is declining, the population has plummeted, and finally became a subsidiary of Liaodong. However, according to the statistics of the Huan Emperor Dynasty, there are only 1,500 households, and the population is still as high as 40,000 - it is estimated that many of them are slaves and vassals, so it has reached a terrifying number of 40 people per household - Liaodong's plan to clear the wilderness is to face the enemy in front of him, and it may not be possible to implement it all the way to Xuansu, so Yan Rou said, we can try to trace the great Liao River and go to Xuansu County to search for food.

It's Xun Yi, and this plan is also reasonable. First of all, Liaodong and the western part of Xuansu are connected to the plain terrain, there is no dangerous fortress, when the Liaodong army retreats to Shoushan and Xiangping, the Youzhou army can almost crisscross this plain unimpeded. Secondly, in the future, didn't Sima Yi bypass the Liao Tunnel and point to Xiangping through the north? Although there is no specific route recorded in the history books, it is estimated that it should be on the border line of Liaodong and Xuansu counties, and even further north to the realm of Xuanwu - which also shows that this road can be walked.

Since he was unwilling to retreat, he could only listen to Yan Rou's advice.

So Shi Xun left Guo Huai to guard the Liao Tunnel, and personally led the main force along the east bank of the Great Liao River to the north, pointing directly at Liaoyang County, Xuansu County. At this time, Liaoyang had also received an order from Jianbi Qingye, but the county commander thought that the Youzhou army was still far away, and it was impossible to drive to him, so he kept delaying. So Xun captured Liaoyang City, and then entered the city to take a look--this place is really poor, and the food of the surrounding scattered people is only enough for the army under his command to eat for two or three more days. No, I have to keep going north!

Putting aside for the time being, Shixun led the army to kill Xuansu, and said that more than 1,000 people under Liu Xu, the commander of Pingguo, attacked a fort of the Youzhou army, and soon intercepted two transport teams coming from the direction of Feiru, which not only replenished the required grain, but also captured a lot of weapons and equipment, and the morale was greatly boosted. It's a pity that half of the subordinates are just soldiers from Pingguo County and subordinate townships, and the discipline is too poor, they are busy looting materials, and they can't wipe out the grain team, so they run back more than a dozen people, and hurriedly report to the rear one station after another, and no grain transportation team has taken the initiative to bump into it again.

Since it was impossible to continue to wait for the rabbit, some subordinates proposed that it would be better for us to continue to attack the other forts of the Youzhou army to the east or west, so as to strive for greater victories and seize more supplies. Fortunately, Liu Xu was cautious, and he had not been carried away by the victory that he had won lightly, and he scolded everyone at the moment, saying that you still expect our partial division to completely control the Western Liaoning Corridor? Stop dreaming! At most five days, Yang Le or Fei Ru will send soldiers and horses to crusade, if there are few people, we can rely on the fortress to defend, and we can support it for a period of time, if there are many people, go directly to the ship and return to Liaodong.

So they sent men and horses to dig trenches on the road, and cut down the surrounding trees to build a deer barrassment. I believe that as long as you are fully prepared, even if the Youzhou army returns with all its divisions, it will be able to defend against several rounds of attacks by the opponent with the wall, and even inflict great damage on the enemy. Then he has solved the danger of Liaodong, and the benefactor Yangyi will definitely reward him greatly, and his passage to the upper echelons of Liaodong will be opened.

It was a pity that the trench was completed, and the camp was not complete, and only three days later, a sentinel came to report that the enemy was coming. Liu Xu hurriedly climbed to the top of the mound, put his hand on the awning and looked at the end of the morning, the sun had only risen from the east, and under the dazzling light, he saw hundreds of horsemen flocking from the northeast. Liu Xu couldn't help but smack his tongue and said: "Come so fast, this must be left behind to guard the soldiers and horses!" (To be continued......)

PS: The computer is basically installed, and the text is still messy, and it is organized in a big way, so I took a little time code for a chapter, which is considered to be a visit to readers and friends in the early years...... Whether there will be more before the end of the lunar calendar, I can't say for sure......