Except for the 10,000 soldiers who stayed on the other side of the Luo River to receive prisoners, all the other soldiers of Yang Rui all the way arrived at the county seat of Guanxian under the command of Guo Jia.

On the way, Guo Jia even made a detour of some distances, pounced on Puyang City, and tried to provoke Liu Dai with a small number of soldiers and lure his troops out of the city for a decisive battle.

However, although there are a large number of guards in Puyang City, most of them should also be low-level soldiers, if the other party can go out of the city to meet the battle, it is undoubtedly a good fighter, maybe they can take Puyang City in one fell swoop!

Guo Jia's commander Yang Rui had an army of nearly 140,000 soldiers divided into two routes, one of which was only 20,000 or 30,000 horses, which was directly approaching Puyang City, and the other was sneaking outside to sweep the formation as reinforcements. If Liu Dai went out of the city to fight, he could use the defeat of 20,000 or 30,000 people as bait to implement the ambush plan.

However, in the end, Liu Dai's Puyang defenders looked like they were facing a great enemy, and in the face of Yang Rui's mere 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, they only tightened in the city and did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle.

It can also be seen from this that Liu Dai is still preparing to continue to defend Puyang City!

Liu Dai should have learned the news of Yang Rui's flooding of Fox City, but it was impossible for him to take the initiative to go out of the city to face the battle. When he fought with Qiao Mao before, Liu Dai had seen Zhang Ningtian's spirit fire rain skills powerful, so he simply did not prepare for the battle in the city.

Therefore, Guo Jia's previous strategy of luring the enemy is naturally difficult to achieve.

However, Guo Jia led his troops to pass through the vicinity of Puyang City not entirely for this reason, since he was from the west side of Fox City to go to the county seat of Guanxian County, it was indeed relatively close to take this road, and the result of Yang Rui's discussion with Zhang Ning and Guo Jia was to take Guanxian County first. In the end, he turned back to deal with Liu Dai in Puyang City.

Previously, Liu Dai was guarding against Yang Rui's two-way army. Basically, all the troops were deployed in the three cities of Puyang City, Guanxian City and Lihu City. Now away from Fox City, Liu Dai only has two strong cities left in Puyang and Guanxian.

And Puyang City because of the location of the Yellow River is closer, so there is a moat, and after Liu Dai took over the affairs of Puyang City, the moat of Puyang City was re-governed, and the leader of the thieves had already found out this situation, so the difficulty of capturing Puyang was obviously greater than that of capturing Guanxian County.

This is also the reason why Yang Rui, Zhang Ning and Cheng Yu decided to start with Guanxian after discussing it. And if the county seat of Guanxian County can be won along the way, then Liu Dai will only be left with Puyang City, a lonely city, and Yang Rui's side will have an advantage both physically and psychologically.

"Greetings to the lord (Lord Lieyang Prefecture)!"

When Yang Rui appeared in the main army camp outside Guanxian County, Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Wu Anguo, and Guo Jia had already gathered together and waited.

This is the first meeting of the two lines of soldiers and horses since the war between Yang Rui and Liu Dai, in this half a month or so, Yang Rui's two lines of soldiers and horses can be described as invincible, and most of the cities in Liu Dai's territory have been gnawed down, even if there is no gain from now on, it can be regarded as completing the initial goal of weakening Liu Dai.

"Thank you for your hard work! Previously, all of you were brave and achieved excellent results. It was supposed to be celebrated with everyone, but at the moment the dust has not yet fully settled. I have kept your military exploits in mind, and I will definitely reward them according to their merits after returning to Qingzhou.

I won't say more words of praise, at this time, what can you do to capture the county seat of Guanxian? ”

Yang Rui first praised a few people with words, and then asked for advice.

"Tell the lord that I, Zhang Wenyuan, and Wu Anguo have been around the county seat for five or six days, and they have also challenged the army several times in the middle, but they have never seen any signs of going out of the city to fight.

Moreover, we once intercepted a handwritten letter from Liu Dai, and learned that the lord of the city would be called Wang Yu, but Liu Dai asked him to stick to the city in the letter, and did not ask about the rest.

In this way, the defenders of Guanxian County have already made up their minds to resist to the end with the strength of the city, or only by attacking can they take this city in a short time......"

After everyone was silent for a while, Gao Shun spoke first.

Previously, Yang Rui had sent a message ordering Gao Shun and the three of them to just besiege the city, waiting for the opportunity to grasp the siege fighters, and not to build a strong attack, but at this time, looking at the expressions of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo, it seemed that they all had the intention of inviting a battle to attack the city, and after Gao Shun said that, Zhang Liao and Wu Anguo couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Yang Rui didn't know the form of the county seat of Guanxian, and if he forcibly attacked the city, he had three fierce generals on his side, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo, but he didn't worry about not being able to take the city.

Moreover, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were both the first generals to attack the city during the Three Kingdoms period, and the 40,000 iron guards who were good at fighting on the city wall were also in the army, and the cost of attacking the city should not be unbearable for Yang Rui.

However, whenever the city is stormed, some sacrifices are obviously unavoidable, although there are plot points to resurrect soldiers, but the plot points can be exchanged for some good things, so it is naturally better to save some.

"What is the best way to do it?"

Yang Rui pondered for a while, then turned his gaze to Guo Jia and asked.

"What General Gao Shun said is reasonable, with the combat strength of our army, if we attack the county seat of Guan County, we will definitely be able to quickly conquer the county seat of Guan County, but listening to what General Gao Shun said, I once obtained a letter from Liu Dai, so Guo Jiaxiao was inspired, if this is the case, you might as well try it with a plan."

Guo Jia didn't shirk either, and nodded a little before speaking.

In fact, everyone didn't notice that Guo Jia's eyes lit up when Gao Shunyan and Liu Dai wrote the letter just now, and he should have had a plan at that time.

"Fengxiao really has a plan, please speak up."

Hearing that Guo Jia had a plan, Yang Rui was naturally overjoyed, when he discussed with Guo Jia how to capture Guanxian County, Guo Jia didn't think of a suitable plan, but he didn't expect to think of a good plan at this time!

"Don't be happy, Guo Jia's plan is not guaranteed to be successful, and it may take a lot of time, it may take at least 10 days to achieve, I will first tell the strategy, and ask the state pastor and the generals to weigh it before making a decision."

Guo Jia first explained the stakes, and then began to explain his thoughts in detail, and let Yang Rui make his own decision.

"Brilliant plan! What a plan! Feng Xiao is really talented! ”

About a quarter of an hour later. Yang Rui couldn't help but pat his thigh and praise loudly.

"A great military advisor! We can't wait! ”

Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and Wu Anguo heard Guo Jia's account. It's also a bright vision. After exchanging glances, they stood up at the same time and clenched their fists.

After the initial Guo Jia's plan to crusade against Liu Dai, and then designed to flood the Fox City, at this time, I heard Guo Jia talk about the strategy of taking the county, Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Wu Anguo and several others seemed to have regarded Guo Jia as Yang Rui's real military.

Of course, the behavior of the four also helped Yang Rui win over Guo Jia's mind.

"The state pastor and the generals don't need to elevate Guo Jia, you need to know that you have the strength of the state pastor and the courage of the generals before Guo Jia's strategy can be implemented!

And although Guo Jia can think of some strategies to deal with the enemy. But I don't know what the result is, but the state pastor and you are so elevated, but it makes Guo Jia ashamed......"

Among the few people present, Guo Jia was the youngest, so Guo Jia's attitude was also very modest, and when he saw a few people getting up and saluting, he naturally got up in a hurry to deal with it.

In any case, after several people continued to discuss and improve, Yang Rui made a decision again and implemented it according to Guo Jia's strategy.

On the same day, Yang Rui organized his troops to carry out several attempted attacks, and put more than 100 rushing vehicles on the battlefield. Attempt to use the javelin equipped by the chariot itself to attack the guards on the wall of Guanxian County.

The rushing car can be said to be the sharpest siege equipment in Yang Rui's hands at present, especially the javelin equipped with itself. It can be said that it indirectly provides Yang Rui with a long-range power!

However, the results of these attempts to attack the city were not very good, although they caused some damage to the guards on the city walls, but all the charging vehicles seemed to be suppressed by the long-range archers defending the city, and did not dare to get too close.

Early in the morning of the second day, Yang Rui's troops besieging the county seat of Guanxian County rose up one after another and began to mobilize, after half a morning of busyness, all of Yang Rui's troops and soldiers have all evacuated the vicinity of the county seat of Guanxian County, and the camp tent has also been completely removed, as if they have never appeared.

It can be seen very clearly from the city wall of Guanxian County, after Yang Rui's troops pulled out the camp, they all went to the southwest direction, and that direction was where Puyang City was located.

The defenders of Guanxian County, including the main general Wang Yu, naturally guessed the goal of Yang Rui's march, but their task was to stick to the county seat of Guanxian, and they naturally did not dare to move lightly without Liu Dai's order.

What's more, only a small part of the soldiers in Guanxian County can fight head-on with Yang Rui's troops, even if they chase them out, they won't get much benefit, and at the same time, this may be the other party's strategy?!

Next, the soldiers who went out of the city to investigate seemed to confirm this, and there were indeed powerful troops around the county seat of Guanxian County, and none of the soldiers who went out of the city to investigate the situation could come back alive!

It wasn't until three days later that a certain group of soldiers who went out of the city to investigate brought back the news that there was no Yang Rui's soldier within a radius of 100 miles from the county seat of Guanxian County, so the defenders in the city made a judgment that Yang Rui's troops were indeed heading for Puyang City.

Even so, the defenders of Guanxian County still retreated near the county seat for defense, without violating the duties assigned to them by Liu Dai, and naturally had no intention of sending troops to reinforce Puyang City.

After another four days, the defenders of Guanxian County have always strictly guarded the city, but they have not received any news about Yang Rui's troops, and the news of Puyang City has also been completely blocked, I don't know what the current situation is.

In the early morning of the fifth day, before the city gate of Guanxian County had been opened, a fast horse suddenly appeared from the southwest side, rushing from far and near, and began to shout before entering the range of the archers of the city wall.

"Don't let the arrows go, urgent information! I am the Lord's messenger, don't let go of the arrows! ”

The archers on the city wall saw that there was only one horse, and they were soldiers of Liu Dai's camp, so they put away their vigilance, but just as they were about to open the city gate to welcome the messenger soldiers, this soldier was nailed to death under the city by an arrow from behind.

The range of this arrow was a hundred feet away, and it was not until the messenger was killed that the guards on the city wall noticed the figure of the archer! (To be continued......)