As the supreme commander of the Southern Military District, General Eide is more adept at strategic layout than partial marching battles.

Strictly speaking, General Ed is an excellent military expert, as early as when Wei Jiaji's three-way army had not yet started, General Ed had ordered to clear the wall, with Nancheng as the center, and all the residents within a radius of 50 kilometers were forcibly moved into Nancheng.

All the food and strategic materials were scraped clean.

Now, even if the population of Nancheng has exceeded more than 2 million, there is no problem in holding on to the grain reserve for a year.

General Ed has done a lot of research on the peasant uprising, and he knows very well that if you don't look at the peasants in Weijiaji, they are all fierce and vicious, as long as there is a shortage of food, they will be disheartened.

General Ed has absolute confidence in holding the southern city.

Now there are nearly 200,000 regular troops in Nancheng, plus the 200,000 young and middle-aged people who have been forcibly conscripted, the total number has exceeded 400,000, and the most important thing is that the population in Nancheng is as high as more than 2 million.

On the other hand, the soldiers of Wei Jiaji, not to mention the lack of weapons, food and grass, the total number is less than 300,000, and most of them are mixed, among which there are many old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is no discipline at all.

Of course, Ed also buried a secret chess, that is, tens of thousands of cavalry walking outside the southern city, from the feedback of the news, Sam's cavalry has been wiped out, and the 20,000 cavalry ambushed by one of the three roads have also been wiped out, however, this has no impact on General Ed's layout, the other two cavalry combined with more than 30,000 people, these 30,000 cavalry in the periphery mobile combat, ready to cooperate with the southern city, so that the Wei Jiaji rebel army is exposed to the enemy......

……

Everything is in the hands of General Ed, but he seems to have forgotten the most crucial person.

Liu Fei!

A few years later, historians found through some research that General Ed did not ignore Liu Fei, but a kind of self-mental anesthesia, allowing himself to live in an illusion.

On this day, after Liu Fei killed Steve, the gate of Nancheng was closed, and Liu Fei also camped to rest, and there was nothing to do for a while.

The next day, another large army came to the city.

This is a well-disciplined army, in the ambush of the cavalry, this army did little harm, but strengthened this army, because, not only captured a lot of booty, but also collected the scattered men and horses of another army, and now, the total number of this army has exceeded 130,000, which can be described as a strong army.

After this large army approached the city, it did not immediately attack the city, but set up camp, dug deep trenches, and made the appearance of a long-term siege.

When he saw that the army was approaching the city and did not rush to attack the city, General Ed couldn't help but secretly admire, obviously, the leader of the army was also a master, realizing that he could not conquer the southern city in a short time, and was ready for a tug-of-war.

In addition to admiration, General Ed was a little melancholy, if the other party really made plans for a long-term siege, if there were no reinforcements, he really had no choice, because he realized that it was not the army that besieged them, but the peasants, and they could cultivate their own land......

Of course, this situation is minimal, after all, there are tens of thousands of cavalry on the periphery, and they can harass them at any time, besides, after a long time, the other three military regions will also wave their troops south.

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In fact, no one is going to really prolong the war indefinitely, not only General Eddard, but also Grand Chief Austin.

The Great Leader of Austin was the main force besieging the southern city, and it was he who completely annihilated an ambushed cavalry, creating a miracle of war in which the infantry annihilated the cavalry.

Austin was the son of the Grand Merck chieftain, thirty-two years old.

Austin was not born as a peasant, he was a famous family, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting when he was a child, and when he grew up, he went out to study, graduated from the Utopia Northern Military Academy, and it was time to be full of ambition just after graduation, but unfortunately, it backfired, and he was mixed up in the Northern Military Region for more than three years, and finally because he did not have a strong background, coupled with his high arrogance, and disdain for flattery, he did not mix a famous hall in three years, and returned depressed, taking care of the family business, when Wei Jiaji rebelled, he took over as the leader of the Merck clan and took refuge in Wei Jiaji.

Because he graduated from a military academy and knew how to march and fight, he quickly rose to prominence in Weijiaji, and countless small tribes and small families attached themselves to him and became the leader of one of the three major armies.

Now, the biggest headache for Austin is the tens of thousands of cavalry in the rear.

Not only did he have to watch out for the tens of thousands of cavalry to raid at all times, but he also had to worry about whether those cavalry would kill Wei Jiaji's lair. Or kill their tribe, now the tribe is left behind are some old, weak, sick and disabled, there is no defense at all, if those cavalry all the way, it will definitely be a disaster.

Austin decided to make a quick decision, digging deep trenches and putting on the appearance of a long-term battle, in order to confuse the Southern City military.

In the next few days, Austin kept sending small forces to harass Nancheng, and sent a large number of scouts to collect intelligence information, which always kept Nancheng in a tense state.

Austin knew very well that only in this way would the tens of thousands of cavalry on the periphery not dare to leave Nancheng, after all, Nancheng was their big rear, and if Nancheng was lost, they would become lost dogs.

On the fifth day of Austen's arrival in the South City, Wei Chongyang sent someone to contact Austen.

Wei Chongyang asked him to meet Liu Fei.

Liu Fei!

Hearing this name, Austen's heart jumped, until now, he only glanced at Liu Fei from a distance in Weijiaji Square, strictly speaking, he has not really met Liu Fei.

In fact, Austin has also been avoiding Liu Fei.

See?

Or is it missing?!

Austin was a little unwilling, the situation was very clear now, the three-way army was left with him, he had an absolute advantage, he knew very well that after meeting, his command was likely to be taken away, this was something he had been worried about, and now, what he was worried about had finally happened.

It was quiet inside the tent where dozens of big men gathered, and all the high-ranking people in Austin's army were here, waiting for Austin to make a decision.

"Great Chief, why didn't they come to meet you! Isn't that just killing Steve's shit? A big man with granite muscles broke the silence and said dissatisfied.

"Sam isn't trash, and even if Steve is trash, what about Sam?" Austin frowned and glanced at the big man.

"Sam was killed by Wei Xiong."

"Whose person is Wei Xiong?"

"He ......"

"Let's not mention these for the time being, do you have any good suggestions?"

Austin glared at the big man, this big man was his clansman, although the big man spoke was what he wanted to say, but the identity of the big man was not suitable to say, Austin wanted to get the support of other tribes.

It's a pity that when Liu Fei's name is mentioned, some tribal leaders hang their heads and don't speak.