Beginning in mid-December, because of the continuous fine weather, the Han army's fire attack tactics continued to be successful.

The hills and hills around the old nest of the headquarters of the Yellow Turban Mountain and Vietnam Coalition Army were conquered by the Han army one after another and occupied on a large scale, and the Yellow Turban Mountain and Vietnam Coalition Army also began to change their tactics for this reason.

Instead of defending to the death, it turned into offensive tactics, taking advantage of the narrow mountain roads that were difficult to travel, limiting the Han army's numerical superiority, and forcing the Han army to fight small-scale battles with them, so as to gain a tactical advantage.

In addition, the Yellow Turban Army also tried to outflank the rear road of the Han army through the mountain roads they were familiar with, and launched an attack on the logistics and grain routes of the Han army.

The situation on the battlefield has changed, and the Yellow Turban Army is no longer passively defensive, but actively fighting.

Of course, the initiative on the frontal battlefield could not shake the advantage of the Han army, Guan Yu let the main army retreat slightly, with Gan Ning, Yan Xing and Shi Lian, three southern soldiers and horses who were good at mountain warfare, fought between the mountains and the Yellow Turbans, and won several victories.

Gan Ning was particularly brave, leading the elite of the army to take the lead, crossing mountains and mountains, crossing rivers and bridges, setting a combat record of conquering three mountains in three consecutive days, and was called "General Turning Mountain" by people in the army.

In the frontal battle, the Yellow Turban Shanyue coalition army could not take any advantage, but was defeated by the Nanren army of the Han army, suffering heavy losses, the defense line further retreated, and the living space was further compressed.

Now, their nest is indeed in grave danger.

But they are not without gains.

Taking advantage of the familiar road, Shanyue discovered a grain route for the Han army and informed the Yellow Turban Army, Xu He immediately organized men and horses, handed them over to Sima Ju to command, and decisively launched an attack.

Sima Ju bravely attacked and took the initiative to attack the grain team of the Han army, although the combat strength was not good, and failed to completely destroy this batch of baggage, but the grain protection team of the Han army also suffered a certain loss, and part of the grain was burned by the Yellow Turban Army.

When the news came, Guan Yu was worried, so he ordered the army to temporarily stop advancing and stay to discuss what to do next.

After some discussion, the generals all felt that they should try their best to protect the logistics route, first invest heavy troops to protect the grain route, suspend the advance, and guard the Yellow Turban Army at the same time, and quickly plan a new grain road line to use the backup plan.

Then increase the front-line food stocks.

But at the critical moment, Guo Jia, who had not expressed his views on the war before, unexpectedly put forward his own views.

He resolutely opposed the plan to stop the offensive and try to protect the grain routes.

"Previously, the thieves had been limited to our army's fire attack tactics and could not extricate themselves, failed to change tactics in time, and suffered heavy losses, but now the thieves have obviously reacted, and they are trying to use their advantage of being familiar with the mountain road to limit the advance of our army.

This is not only their tactics, but also their conspiracy, at this moment, our army should remain calm, must not be led by the nose by the thief, the thief wants to slow down the pace of our army's advance by threatening logistics, so as to gain a respite, but our army can't let them do it!

They want to force our army to delay the march, then our army must insist on marching, they sneak attack theirs, our army advances our army, they threaten our army's logistics grain route, but our army's logistics grain road is more than one, our army threatens the thief's lair, there is only one nest!

Isn't it the right choice to take a little risk in exchange for the results of the total destruction of the thieves? If the rebels' wishes are fulfilled and the rebels are allowed to breathe, our army's advance will be slowed down, and the effect of the fire attack will be greatly reduced if there is a rainy weather after that.

At that time, our army will be in a dilemma, and it is very likely that it will be dragged into a protracted battle by the rebels, which will be a very unfavorable thing for our army, General Guan, don't you also hope to end this war before spring ploughing? If you slow down the pace of your march now, it will be difficult! ”

Guo Jia's opinion, in Guan Yu's opinion, is a bit level.

Because he had thought this way before, he was a little hesitant about the idea of the generals to properly preserve the grain route, but because no one came up with the same opinion as him, he didn't know what to say.

As a result, this idea was said by Guo Jia.

To be honest, before, Guan Yu had always looked at Guo Jia not very well, was lukewarm to him, and didn't care much about him.

Because this person's qualifications are too shallow, and he doesn't know what he can do, he has just come to the General's Mansion to serve and has Liu Bei's trust, taking him with him in everything, and even sleeping with him.

In the past, this was only the treatment of old people like Guan Yu Zhang Fei, but despite this, for so long, because they often went out to lead troops to fight, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and other old people rarely had the opportunity to sleep with Liu Bei and exchange emotions.

At this moment, I suddenly heard that there was a young man named Guo Jia who was in his twenties and Liu Bei every day, had a close relationship, slept and ate together, and enjoyed the treatment that only old people could get, Guan Yu felt a little unhappy.

As a result, in this southern expedition, Liu Bei also sent Guo Jia to Guan Yu, and told Guan Yu to ask Guo Jia more if he had something to do, Guo Jia has a strong talent, and he also has a lot of views on the way of marching.

Guan Yu only superficially agreed to this, and did not agree with it very much in his heart.

How can a small character who has never been on the battlefield have the courage to say that he can be a military counselor?

Does he have experience?

Soldiers, the major events of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival, must not be observed, people with sufficient experience and ability are needed to intervene, this Guo Jia has no military experience before, just with a mouth, can he actually let Liu Bei make him a marching staff officer?

If this is replaced by people like Xun You and Jia Xu who have been tested on the battlefield for a long time, Guan Yu will pay attention to it if he doesn't say what he says, but this Guo Jia really has no reason for him to pay attention to it.

When he set out on the expedition, Guan Yu also made up his mind that if this kid pointed fingers at him and made irresponsible remarks, he would let him know what the majesty of his predecessors was.

But this kid is quite honest, or quite good at being a man, since he set out on the march, he has not done anything to Guan Yu, and he has not even approached Guan Yu very closely.

At each regular meeting, he made a symbolic speech to express his existence, and then listened to the speeches of the generals, made some notes by himself, and then disappeared.

Guan Yu inquired a little and learned that Guo Jia would go to the army below to deal with grassroots officers and soldiers as soon as he had time, and used his identity as a general to get the attention of these people, and asked them everything about the march and battle.

He would ask the officers and soldiers about their previous marches, ask them about things that they remembered, and then take notes.

Either they went to the logistics department to inquire about the logistics news, and the logistics officials in charge of the logistics department to inquire about the logistics news.

I heard that because he was always soaking over there, he once met Cheng Yu who went to inspect the work, and Cheng Yu didn't give him a good face, so he smiled and talked to Cheng Yu cheekily, wanting to ask Cheng Yu about some of his experience in logistics work.

Cheng Yu didn't want to deal with him, but he couldn't help being entangled by him, so he said something that he didn't have and sent him away.

After several days, he went to talk to Cheng Yu and Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu was busy with work, so he took advantage of Cheng Yu's busy work to come over and ask questions, Cheng Yu was annoyed, but he was worried about Liu Bei's favor for Guo Jia, and it was inconvenient to really drive him away.

Can only barely cope.

Guan Yu also noticed that this Guo Jia especially likes to make notes, he chats with whoever he talks with with a pen and a thick stack of paper, and he likes to record what he hears, and he doesn't know what he has memorized.

He gradually felt that this kid might have some ability.

(End of chapter)