Guan Ping accepted Guan Yu's military order and commanded the army to start an attack on Deng County.

Guan Ping sat in charge of the Chinese army, coordinated and commanded the whole army, adjusted the direction of the offensive and grasped the rhythm of the offensive, and coordinated the overall situation.

Kou Feng still led the Shangyong soldiers to take the lead, took the ladder, and personally braved the rain of arrows to charge, and climbed to kill the enemy first.

Deng Ai was responsible for directing the armies to advance in turn, commanding the archers to suppress the enemy troops at the head of the city with arrows, and directing the siege equipment such as rushing vehicles to approach the city gate of Deng County.

Guan Xing led more than 3,000 soldiers to cruise around the battlefield, guarding against the Wei army rushing out of the city at any time to prevent them from coming out to rush out and burn the siege equipment.

Wang Ji and Shi Bao were organizing the second wave of siege troops at this time, once the former army Kou Feng and Deng Ai were not able to attack the city and wanted to retreat and recuperate, then they must immediately go on top and cause continuous offensive pressure on Deng County.

Guan Yu watched it for a long time, a little surprised, but also quite pleased to find that as far as the siege was concerned, even if he personally commanded it, it was nothing more than that, and the growth of young people was far beyond his imagination.

Perhaps, none of them can resist one side now and take on the dispatch and command of all Jingzhou legions, but under the division of labor and cooperation with each other, they can barely achieve good results.

The only pity is that their opponent is Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao is a brave general, yes, his record, the two most famous games, are won by personal martial arts - the battle slash and 800 to break 100,000.

But Zhang Liao is definitely not a general who only has courage and does not know how to command, on the contrary, Zhang Liao's battlefield insight is the top existence in the world.

In the early years, when Zhang Liao and Xiahou Yuan pacified the rebellion of Chang Feng together, they encountered fierce resistance from Chang Yuan, and Xiahou Yuan was out of luck at that time and planned to withdraw the army, but Zhang Liao saw that the arrows shot by the Chang Yuan army were becoming more and more sparse day by day, so he judged that at this time, Chang Yuan's heart was wavering, and it was possible to persuade him to surrender.

For this reason, Zhang Liao persuaded Xiahou Yuan to personally persuade Chang Feng to surrender, and entered Sangong Mountain alone, visited Chang Yuan's nest and family, and deeply respected and admired Chang Yuan, thus completing the persuasion of Chang Xian.

Afterwards, even Cao Cao felt that Zhang Liao was too risky to do this, but Zhang Liao really did it. This shows how strong Zhang Liao's insight into affairs on the battlefield is.

Therefore, although Guan Ping and others made up for Guan Yu's regret that he could not command in person through their respective division of labor and cooperation, it did make Zhang Liao feel emotional. There are so many thieves in Shu.

However, Guan Ping's overall planning ability is still very different from Guan Yu's, and the grasp of some battlefield details is still not outstanding enough.

Although the generals also have the intention of cooperating with each other, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is not possible to cooperate with each other tacitly in a day or two.

This is enough for Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao really can't go into battle to kill the enemy in person, but his eyes are still there, and the adaptability in his brain is still there.

On several occasions, Zhang Liao guessed the focus of Guan Ping's attack in advance, and responded in a timely manner through the mobilization of troops.

And even with Kou Feng's bravery, Shi Bao's cunning, Wang Ji's stability, and Deng Ai's strain, these four people can occasionally cause danger on the city wall, Zhang Liao can also take advantage of the lack of cooperation between the generals to quickly mobilize troops to rescue and save the day.

As for Guan Xing, let this goods continue to circulate around the battlefield, anyway, the Deng County garrison under Zhang Liao has a total of 3,000 people, but he doesn't plan to leave the city easily.

However, as long as Guan Xing relaxed his vigilance a little, Zhang Liao would not be polite.

Don't forget, Zhang Liao has used soldiers all his life, and what he is best at is breaking into formation.

As long as it is not to assault the enemy's main formation, killing the enemy general is just killing the retreating soldiers and burning the siege equipment, which is not a difficult thing for the group of soldiers under Zhang Liao.

After three days of fighting, the generals led by Guan Ping always felt as if the initiative of the offensive was never in their own hands, not to mention that their offensive progress was not much, and during the interval of the offensive, they had to be on guard against Zhang Liao's counterattack at any time.

Playing like this, not to mention the generals' nests, even Xu Shu can't stand it anymore.

Xu Shu has the heart to take over the command and lead the attack.

But Xu Shu relied on his brain to eat, he has always been relatively calm, and he is self-aware to think about it carefully, over the years, except for the time when he was in charge of Jingnan work in Wuling County, he led the army once, and the rest of the time was basically as a military advisor.

As far as the experience of leading troops into battle, Xu Shu felt that he might not be as good as Guan Ping and Wang Ji.

One more. The nominal commander in the army, Guan Yu Guan Erye, he didn't let it.

"Why should the military advisor be so eager and relaxed, just leave it to the juniors."

The second master is also rare, and he has time to chat with Xu Shu.

During this time, Guan Yu has been recuperating in the military tent because of his injuries, and Guan Yu is down, Xu Shu has to put more attention on military affairs, otherwise he will rely on Guan Ping and others to really handle so many military affairs.

These young generals have the ability to lead troops to fight, but Xu Shu must grasp the matter of sorting out the whole army and allocating logistics grain and grass supplies.

Therefore, the two haven't seen each other for a long time, and the last time they met was because Guan Yu had to watch the battle, and Xu Shu came to persuade him.

Well, that is, three days ago.

But now, Guan Yu took the initiative to send someone to find Xu Shu, and also advised Xu Shu not to worry, and the matter of attacking the city was handed over to these juniors in the army to deal with.

Xu Shu was puzzled and asked, "The prince is so patient. Don't the princes know that now the Wei thieves are very likely to have withdrawn to Wancheng, if we wait here for a long time, when Wancheng is fully garrisoned, how can we easily break it?! ”

Guan Yu just smiled, looked at Xu Shu, and said, "I know this matter, it's just the guard of Deng County, after all, even if Wen Yuan is the old man himself, he can't break the city in three days, how can the military advisor be strict with the juniors?!" ”

This is true, Xu Shu has always been the same, after all, the opponent is that Zhang Liao.

But even so.

"You can't just stop there, can you?!" Xu Shu sat down helplessly and said to Guan Yu, "The siege of the city in three days will not be carried out, and the Wei thieves can calmly withdraw their troops. ”

As soon as he talked about the problem of grain and grass, Guan Yu also frowned and asked, "How many days can the grain and grass in the army be supported?!" ”

Xu Shu immediately replied, "There is no problem with hoarding grain and grass in the army, and it is not a problem to support half a month, but now that it is winter, the transportation of grain and grass is quite inconvenient. If there is an omission in the middle, the whole army is in danger of running out of food. ”

When Guan Yu heard this, his brows tightened, and he said, "Please ask the military advisor to write a letter to Ji Chang, and ask him to supervise the transportation of grain, and he must not be slack, otherwise the military law will be engaged." ”

Xu Shu nodded and said, "The matter of the letter, Shu should follow it, Ji Chang has always been steady, when he will not make a mistake, he is just a prince, I will wait for this time to send troops, in the end, in a hurry, even if the military rations in Xiangyang are delivered, at the beginning of spring next year."

When Guan Yu heard Xu Shu say this, he was suddenly a little helpless.

This time the troops were sent out in a hurry.

Liu Bei's side, relying on the advantages of Yizhou Tianfu Country, the grain and grass in the army have only been prepared for half a year, let alone Jingzhou.

Guan Yu was in Xiangyang, but he had only hoarded grain and grass for about four months, so he had to cooperate with Liu Bei's military action to attack Nanyang.

Guan Yu sent troops to Nanyang County in October, and had been confronting Zhang Liao in the city of Deng County for more than a month, and the first batch of grain and grass carried by the army was about to run out, so he had to wait for Ma Liang to send the second batch of grain and grass.

And even if this second batch of grain and grass is delivered to the army in time, it will only last for another two months, and in February next year, if the Nanyang war cannot be ended. It will affect the spring plowing and people's livelihood in all parts of Jingzhou.

In the huge Jingzhou, if you really want to scavenge grain from the dead, it will not be a problem to scavenge out half a year's grain, but if you do this, the people's grain seeds this year, and the people's rations before the autumn harvest, will be all gone.

If you do this, the people of Jingzhou will not be able to survive at all.

If it is really according to the current offensive rhythm, a Deng County guarded by 3,000 people will have to fight for ten days and half a month, then when will it take to attack Wancheng? !

Wancheng itself is a strong city, in addition to the middle of winter, once the sky snows heavily, it is really not conducive to the use of soldiers, it is inevitable to wait until the beginning of spring to turn snow. With such a delay, when will Wancheng be broken?!

Therefore, Xu Shu's worries are justified after all.

At this time, Guan Yu didn't dare to continue to be so leisurely.

Originally, Guan Yu's idea was that the talents of all the young generals were not bad, but they lacked some experience and experience, and now it is a good opportunity, and there are not many opportunities to fight with a top commander like Zhang Liao.

Anyway, after the three-day attack, the enemy army was limited by the lack of troops, and the casualties caused to the Han soldiers were not large, and the biggest loss was only some siege equipment, so it was better to let the little generals play freely and accumulate experience.

But now that Xu Shu said this, the very realistic problem of grain and grass is directly in front of him.

Now there is still about half a month's worth of grain and grass in the army, and there are about two months' worth of grain in Xiangyang, which is definitely not a problem to lay down a Deng County, but to lay down Wancheng, there is not enough time.

If you continue to exercise like this, I'm afraid you're really going to make a mistake.

"That being the case, tomorrow will raise the military council!"

Sure enough, there are some things that still need to be a veteran of yourself.

It's not yet time for me, a twilight hero, to completely retreat into the background!!

(End of chapter)