Long Xiang shook his head and replied: "The last general can't say clearly, but he faintly feels that it is inappropriate, and the city of Qi County is not strong, if Cao Cao orders a strong attack..."

"It's best to attack strongly, we are not afraid of him for defending the city, Cao Cao has chased us for more than ten days, and he has not brought siege equipment, he will not attack the city in a short time, you are also tired these days, go back and rest quickly."

After Qiao Rui finished speaking, her eyes closed and she collapsed on the bed.

Although the division of troops was proposed by Long Xiang, but in the end it was Qiao Rui who fought for Zhang Xun, if the Huainan Army had a big change because of this, he had no face to go back to Yuan Shu to return to his life, so the psychological pressure during this time was too great, and now he finally arrived at the destination, Qiao Rui just wanted to sleep well.

"But..."

Long Xiang still wanted to fight, but Li Tun stretched out his hand to stop him and remind: "Marquis Longqu, the general is tired..."

"Good..."

Cao Cao has been mobilizing troops to drive away in the past ten days, and Long Xiang feels that the Huainan army is like a big fish biting a hook.

The big fish is dragged by the fisherman and runs around, and when he is exhausted, the fisherman pulls it to the shore and picks it up.

The reason why Long Xiang repeatedly offered his plan was that he didn't want to be a fish in the net, and he finally escaped from the encirclement in front of him, and now he broke into another dangerous place due to fatigue.

Zhang Xun, a miscellaneous fish who can't be ranked, has no strength to compete with Cao Cao at all.

According to his two years of experience in the army, Long Xiang found that Cao Cao's methods were obviously better than Liu Bei's.

Long Xiang was beaten by society, and he also knew that hobbies could not challenge the profession, and the result could only be self-inflicted.

Taking the current profession as an example, Long Xiang is definitely a competent Quhou with three or four hundred people to fight, but if he wants to lead thirty or forty thousand people, something will happen.

The real ancient war is not child's play, and it is very different from the fighting scenes depicted in film and television works.

The positions between the ranks are dense and compact, and the attack and retreat will be strictly in accordance with the order, unless the entire army formation is collectively scattered and scattered, otherwise individual soldiers flee and move in disorder, and will be trampled into flesh by their comrades behind them.

In addition, the ancient military system was rough and strict, in addition to obeying orders on the battlefield, each army and battalion also had overseers secretly watching, once a defector was found, he could be killed directly without asking for instructions, so Long Xiang could not flee if he wanted to.

If he didn't feel that the matter was urgent, Long Xiang, who was well versed in the way of the workplace, would not have bothered Qiao Rui at this time, but unfortunately the persuasion failed and could only be on standby.

After a good night's sleep, Qiao Rui remembered Long Xiang's words last night, and personally went to the four gates of Qi County to walk around.

As a result, the defenders of the four gates did their duty, but when he saw the familiar enemy outside the city appear, his heart immediately became unsettled.

Back at the Qi County Government to meet, Qiao Rui looked serious.

"Cao Cao still hasn't given up, he really chased him to Qi County, and now there are Cao soldiers on the southeast, north and south, should we take action?"

"Hmph, I have deployed the city defense yesterday, if the thief wants to attack the city, he will still play the siege of three missing one for me here, we don't need to pay attention to it..."Zhang Xun snorted proudly.

Qiao Rui frowned and asked, "If the Cao thief doesn't retreat for a long time, won't we be able to move?" ”

Zhang Xun stroked his beard and smiled: "General Qiao, what's wrong with you?" We are now defending the city, there is ready-made food, Cao soldiers eat and drink outside the city, stay as long as they like, and when the food is exhausted, they will naturally retreat, if we don't retreat, we will kill the generals, maybe we can capture Cao thieves alive. ”

"How much grain is there in Qi County?"

"When the main book of the meeting comes, you will know that no matter how little it is, it will be more than Cao Cao, so we don't have to worry about resting and recuperating."

"Okay."

Qi County was secretly occupied by Yuan Shu last year, because it was in the strategic buffer zone, the people in the county either moved north or fled south, leaving the people to hand in very limited grain.

After Zhang Xun understood the situation, although his face was still so calm, there was a trace of panic in his heart, but he was very good at comforting himself, and said that Cao Cao had no food, and he would definitely not be able to consume it.

However, Cao Cao was not a pedantic person, in addition to sending Xiahou Yuan to transfer grain in advance, he also sent troops to the neighboring Guxian County to 'borrow grain', and prepared for a protracted war early in the morning.

Qi County was calm for five days, and Liu Bei also led the crowd to come from the north of Peiguo to reinforce, and was later arranged by Cao Cao to guard outside the north gate of Qi County.

Liu Bei hated Yuan Shu deeply, and when he saw the Huainan army, he would definitely beat the water dogs.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and on the second day when Liu Bei's reinforcements arrived, Cao Cao's grain convoy outside the city also appeared in the field of vision of the defenders of Qi County, and then someone went to the city to persuade him to surrender.

At this time, not only the soldiers in the city panicked, but even the main general Zhang Xun was so panicked that he couldn't sit still.

Zhang Xun took the initiative to talk to Qiao Rui about countermeasures: "That Cao thief is really insidious and cunning, we can't wait any longer." ”

"General, don't panic, our forces are still superior, but at night, we will go out at night, just like last time, we should have a chance to escape."

"Cao Thief is missing one of the three, and I don't know where the defense is weaker..."Zhang Xun muttered to himself.

Qiao Rui immediately remembered Long Xiang, and had to ask him about the plan, so he said perfunctorily to Zhang Xun: "Let's go to the army first, and it's not too late to subdivide before leaving." ”

"It's fine." Zhang Xun nodded slightly.

Qiao Rui said goodbye to Zhang Xun and went straight to Long Xiang, and the meeting went straight to the point.

"The food and grass in the city are about to run out, General Zhang and I decided to break through tonight, but I don't know the reality outside Cao Cao's city, what do you think?"

After persuading for a few days, Long Xiang finally waited for the news of the retreat, and he said: "The general should know that the west gate has the most ambush soldiers, but we should go to the south gate to return to Shouchun recently, so the Cao soldiers of the southwest two gates are the most, the east gate is the second, and the north gate is the least." ”

Qiao Rui was noncommittal, and asked: "In your opinion, how will you go after leaving the city?" ”

"The last general thinks that there are two routes to choose from, the main force from the northeast two gates, the first line, out of the east gate is to detour through the southeast Guyang, Huxian, Hongxian, along the way after the supply south to cross the Huaishui; The second route is to go out of the north gate and go around the northwest to cross the water (now the whirlpool) and then go south. ”

Long Xiang said as he pointed to the map in Li Tun's hand.

Qiao Rui frowned after hearing this: "The second line seems to be going back?" Moreover, the area southeast of Runan is deserted, and there are no towns to find supplies along the way, so can the army return to Shouchun alive? ”

"Although the conditions of the second line are poor, it is definitely the weak point of Cao Jun's defense, anyway, everyone has to break through in small teams, and it is good to have one more choice, of course, you can also not cross the water, directly bypass the west and then go south, there are also Long Kang and Xiang County can be replenished, but there must be a lot of Cao Jun along the way..."

"If you break through through the north gate, will you choose to cross the river?"

"Yes."

"Sure enough."

Qiao Rui went back to Zhang Xun and finally decided to open the four gates of Qi County at the same time.

The two southwest roads selected death squads to break through, and once they passed, they jumped out of the encirclement, which belonged to the two roads with the greatest risk and the highest return.

Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui each divided half of their troops and broke through from the two northeast gates, Zhang Xun gave priority to the east gate as the main general, and left the north gate to the deputy general Qiao Rui.

As soon as night fell, the four gates of Qi County opened at the same time, and countless torches poured out of the city.

Long Xiang took the one hundred and sixty people and rushed out of the north gate of Qi County with the flow of people.

For a while, the sound of killing was everywhere, and the firelight reflected the red sky.