"With so many people in the city, it's not easy for us to rely on a frontal attack."

"There are only two ways to do this."

Guo Jia quickly said a word to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao frowned, listened to Guo Jia's words, nodded his head, seemed to agree very much, and then continued to ask.

"What's the solution?"

"One of them is a protracted war, this Zhu county is not big, there are still many people living in the city, counting thousands of defenders, the daily consumption of grain and grass is not a small amount, if we besiege the city, it will not be long before the people and horses in this city will be cut off from water and food."

"Without food and water, these defenders will naturally not continue to struggle fearlessly."

Guo Jia can guess the situation in Zhu County with a guess.

As Guo Jia said, when Yuan Yao was stationed in Zhu County, he had already realized that there would be another big war in this county, although he had prepared some grain and grass in advance, but the granary in the city was only so big, and it was no problem to store a month's worth of grain.

However, if seven or eight thousand soldiers want to eat, the food storage must only be enough for one or two months, and it will be impossible to have more.

However, for Yuan Yao, a month's worth of food was enough, and he didn't think he needed to hold on for more time.

And this situation will definitely be guessed by Cao Jun's people.

After Cao Cao listened to Guo Jia's description, he thought thoughtfully, but quickly shook his head.

"Although there is not much grain in the city, it is enough for these defenders in the city to eat for more than a month, not to mention, there must be many people in this city, and the people's homes also have surplus food.

"At that time, it will be a waste of two months to attack this small county town, and I am afraid that the battle situation in Huaibei has already entered the end."

After Cao Cao heard Guo Jia's words, he obviously didn't agree with this statement.

He couldn't afford two months, and he didn't want to waste two months in such a place.

Guo Jia seemed to have expected Cao Cao to say this, so he smiled faintly on his face, and quickly continued to explain to Cao Cao.

"My lord, I knew you wouldn't agree to this solution, so there was another way."

"I want to hear about it."

"Lord, the siege is the bottom, the heart is the top, what kind of soldiers and horses under Yuan Shu's command are like, I am afraid that the lord knows it very well."

"As long as we can break the morale of the enemy camp and make it fearful, it won't be long before some soldiers in the city will spontaneously choose to open the city and surrender."

"As long as we order the slaughter of the city, and at the same time set an example to kill the chickens and monkeys, make the enemy army fearful, and spread rumors, choose the enemy army who surrenders first, a bounty of 100 taels, and make an official knight, the other party will definitely have people who are greedy for money and make infighting."

"At the same time, every day, this small city is attacked repeatedly and in turn, breaking the fighting spirit of the enemy, as long as someone can't bear it, they will inevitably choose to flee or surrender in order to survive."

After all, Zhuxian is just an isolated city, and there are no reinforcements.

To deal with such an isolated city, the most direct and effective way to disintegrate people's hearts is to deal with them.

No one wants to die, and there are many people who are afraid of death.

As long as someone wants to live, they will definitely find a way to create internal strife, so as to go out of the city and surrender.

Guo Jia just wanted Cao Cao to fight, and he only needed to wait a few days to use this method.

Whether there is anyone in the city or not, go out of the city and surrender.

It's all good for them.

If no one surrenders, they will not lose.

Anyway, it broke the will of the defenders in the city. At the same time, it consumes their spirits.

Wait for the first half of the month to attack with all your might, and the certainty of taking this county will be greatly increased.

This second method immediately made Cao Cao's expression soothed.

Soon agreed with Guo Jia's approach.

"Fengxiao, let's use the second method."

"Although this county is not strong, it is still difficult to fight down, there are many defenders in the city, first kill the will for a few days, and at the same time send people to start casting siege equipment, and then attack this county with all their strength after a few days."

The main reason why Cao Cao was not in a hurry to attack the city was that after this siege battle, he realized that if there were not enough siege equipment, it would be more difficult to take the city, and it would be better to wait a few more days at the risk of huge casualties.

I've been waiting for so long anyway, and it's not in the way to wait a few more days.

And that's it, for the next few days.

On the one hand, Cao Cao ordered his craftsmen to begin to perceive the equipment needed for the siege. For example, ladders, well carts, siege engines, catapults. These things are relatively huge, and it is not convenient to carry them from where Cao Cao is, and it takes a long time to transport.

Generally, craftsmen are ordered to build on the spot, unless it is like some large siege equipment that is inconvenient to build on the spot, and people will be ordered to slowly transport it here from a distance.

On the other hand, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were not idle.

Following Cao Cao's orders, they began to attack Zhuxian every day.

Although not all the troops joined the attacking array, it was enough to attract the attention of the defenders in the city by dividing thousands of men and horses under the city and beating drums and shouting to make a noise.

Every hour or two, the Cao army called for battle outside the city, so that the defenders, who had finally been able to rest, immediately began to get nervous again, and they were really worried that the Cao army would attack at any time.

It's okay to say once or twice. More than a dozen times a day, even at night, there may not be time to rest.

This can make it, I wish the defenders on the upper floor of the county seat to be tortured.

Yuan Yao in the city also had a headache when he listened to the drums and shouts of killing from time to time outside.

He couldn't tell whether Cao Cao's attack was a suspicious plan or whether he really wanted to lead his troops and horses to attack again.

If he didn't defend, in case Cao Cao really used the wolf's technique. Don't defend once, don't defend twice, and wait until he really leads the soldiers and horses to kill.

Then it was too late.

So although he knew that this was Cao Jun's tired strategy, Yuan Yao still had to defend.

Fortunately, Yuan Yao was not stupid, Cao Jun only feinted, and he also only assigned a part of his troops and horses to defend.

There were six or seven thousand people in his city, and they were directly divided into three batches, changing shifts every two hours, so that the others could get a good rest and not be burdened by Cao Cao's tired tactics.

And so, five or six days passed.

The Cao army outside the city, except for the first day when the attack was more violent, the remaining days almost did not carry out much attack.

The most violent offensive was only to send some archers and put a few rounds of arrows on the city tower, but did not form an effective attack on Zhu County.

Until, on the eighth day of the stalemate between the two sides.