Zhao Yun's troops ended the Jingnan Campaign, and it was the third day of September. It will take more than ten days on the way back from Changsha to the army, and it is impossible to rush too quickly on the return journey, so it is more than half of September when we arrive in Wuchang.

After resting for more than half a month, the wounded soldiers and sick were left behind, reorganized, and set off again in mid-October, heading down the river to Wuhu. It is not troublesome to sail down the Yangtze River this way, and in late October, I arrived in Wuhu safely and steadily, and then took a short rest, and basically at the end of October, I could return to the battle and participate in the final blow to the Sun family in Jiangdong.

On the Jiangdong side, Guan Yu and Zhuge Jin began to deploy the siege of Moling in early June, and it took about 20 days to maneuver and divide the encirclement, and the encirclement was completed in late June.

From late June to late October, Sun Ce's army was basically besieged in the Moling area for four full months.

Sun Ce didn't plan to break through or fight at first, he knew that there was no hope on his own, and he gambled that Cao Cao would be able to defeat Yuan Shao in case he could free up his hands to backstab Liu Bei. From late June to early September, he was basically settled.

From mid-September to late October, in the last forty days, Sun Ce couldn't sit still.

On the one hand, he found that the battle of Cao Yuan had not been decided for a long time, how could the two sides hold each other for so long in Guandu? Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have been holding each other in Guandu since mid-May and will never move their nests again.

So much so that Sun Ce was confused, he didn't know if he really didn't tell the winner, or Liu Bei was more tenacious, Cao Cao had obviously won, and Liu Bei could also withstand Cao Cao's pressure to fight on two fronts, and continue to block the news to prevent him from knowing that Cao Cao had won.

As for "Is it possible that Yuan Shao has already won", Sun Ce is not worried about this, because if Yuan Shao really wins, Liu Beijun will definitely not be able to block the news. This news is good for Liu Beijun, and he will definitely vigorously publicize it as soon as possible to hit Sun Cejun's military heart.

In addition to the Gu family and the Lu family, who disobeyed Sun Jiayang, other big families and local powerful forces still maintained a little confidence in Sun Ce, and continued to wait and see where they would not help each other-

Sun Ce did kill a lot of people in Jiangdong, and it was indeed unpopular, if it was in the original history, even if Sun Ce was still alive at this time, there would be all kinds of unconvinced people. But the situation in this time and space is different, because Sun Ce became Cao Cao's ally, and was temporarily whitewashed by the edict of the Xudu court, and everyone didn't want to make a wrong bet, so they continued to wait and wait, and waited for Liu Bei and Sun Ce to divide the winner by themselves before placing a bet.

So for Sun Ce, no news is good news, at least it shows that Cao Cao did not lose.

But on the other hand, just Cao Cao did not lose, it is not enough for Sun Ce, he has another layer of hidden worries, that is, as the time enters September, the autumn grain rice in Jiangnan has been harvested, and it can be dried and stored in October at the latest.

Because of the encirclement of Guan Yu's army, Sun Ce could only harvest a little grain in a very small part of the area around Moling, but it was impossible to transport autumn grain from other counties. The population of Moling was large, and Sun Ce had a strong wall before the war, and the pressure of ration consumption became more and more huge.

If there is no replenishment of autumn grain, last year's surplus of grain, even with the use of control measures, would have been enough to eat until early winter.

Coupled with the little bit that Moling County can receive, it will last until the cold winter at most, but it will definitely not last until the spring famine. Who made the Moling area now densely populated and the urban "non-agricultural" population large?

This forced Sun Ce to make a decision. Even if Guan Yu didn't take the initiative to attack the city this winter, Sun Ce would have to break through the siege and tear up the encirclement network to get food, or at least ensure that food from other places could be transported.

The siege has been around for too long.

Guan Yu and Zhuge Jin, who were opposite Sun Ce, were not in a hurry at all, they waited steadily for Zhao Yun to bring reinforcements with the army after the end of the Jingnan Campaign, and then they would fight a decisive battle with Sun Ce.

Zhuge Jin and his second brother A Liang have always maintained correspondence, so what stage and how long can the Jingnan Battle be completed at any moment, Zhuge Jin has always been clear in his heart, he is not panicked at all, and at most he knows seven or eight days later than A Liang.

And from June to October, in these four months, he did have a lot of personal matters to be busy, and as the battle line froze, he happened to be busy with housework-

His wife Zhen Mi was not pregnant last winter, so he had to pack up Xiaoqiao and the foot trainer at the beginning of this year, after all, Daqiao was too stressed to bear, and he didn't have a helper when he was physically inconvenient.

Now count the days, by the end of August this year and the beginning of September at the latest, Zhen Mi will also be full-term.

In the end, Zhen Mi gave birth a little later for more than ten days, and she gave birth on the seventh day of the ninth month.

So throughout August, Zhuge Jin didn't handle much official business, leaving the siege to Guan Yu to worry about alone, and he watched his wife at home. After September, I have to accompany my postpartum weak wife to the moon, and continue to give some spiritual comfort, so as not to make Zhen Mi depressed.

Sun Ce shrank in Moling City, and just gave Zhuge Jin two months of paternity leave, and the schedule was perfect.

Zhuge Jin was quite apprehensive at first, he didn't care if his son was a son or not, he just remembered that Zhuge Ke in history was arrogant, arrogant and arrogant, and caused trouble to the family.

So before the child was born, he was thinking about how to spur and suppress the child in the future to be more low-key.

If it were someone else, of course, it shouldn't be so educated, but who let Zhuge Ke's history be shadowed.

After the child was born, it was confirmed that it was a son, and the big and small bridges and the foot trainer all congratulated the master's husband, but Zhuge Jin didn't see any joy, but he was very calm and indifferent.

With Zhuge Jin's current status in Liu Bei's camp, he has the eldest son, and the big and small officials in Yangzhou, except for Guan Yu, who can talk to him on an equal footing, who else is not allowed to come to the door to give heavy gifts?

As a result, everyone saw that Zhuge Jin had an unfathomable expression when he was accepting congratulations, or when he later put a full moon wine on his son.

Everyone was amazed that the princes were really moody and low-key. Even having an eldest son, I can't see a single bit of happiness.

Fortunately, after the child was full moon, Zhuge Jin found some changes, which finally made him a little relieved-

Because he found that the child was kept and raised, and after cleaning up, he looked quite slender. Including the wet nurse and other maids and maids who were looking for it, they all said that this child would be as slender as Zhuge Jin in the future.

This clue suddenly aroused a dusty memory in Zhuge Jin's heart - he clearly remembered that "Zhuge Ke was written in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms as a big fat man, at least later he became a big fat man after being pampered, which shows that Zhuge Ke is easy to get fat.

And Zhuge Jin himself has a long donkey face, obviously not a fat-prone physique, otherwise he would not have a round face?

So when he read history books in his previous life, Zhuge Jin realized that it was estimated that Zhuge Jin's wife in history had bad genes and was fat-prone and brought to his son.

But in this life, his wife is already Zhen Mi, and after giving birth to this child is so thin, it is obvious that he is no longer the Zhuge Ke in history in all aspects. If you discipline yourself, you should be able to prevent those character flaws from getting contaminated.

After pacifying Jiangdong, he will teach Zhuge Ke to be humble since he was a child.

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The flowers bloom at two ends, one on each branch.

Zhuge Jin ended his "paternity leave" from the beginning of October and slowly devoted his energy to military and domestic affairs, but after all, two months of rest will make people get used to living slowly, and he still needs to warm up again.

Fortunately, Zhao Yun will not arrive until late October and will not be able to enter the battle until the end of October, so Zhuge Jin also has just half a month to run in.

In the original history, the battle of Guandu between Yuan and Cao ended at the end of October of this year.

Now, because of all kinds of butterfly effects, Yuan Shao is stronger than the same period in history, and Cao Cao is slightly weaker, so the stalemate consumption continues.

Cao Cao's troops could keep up with the attrition, and the front-line soldiers filled it in batches, and continued to draw new recruits from the rear Latin when there were too many dead and wounded. It really didn't work, so Cao Cao transferred the troops to defend Liu Biao in the direction of Wancheng, as well as the troops in the Runan area to prevent Liu Bei from crossing the Dabie Mountain.

Wancheng has become weaker than the same period in history, and the strength of the army is estimated to be only one-third of that of the same period in history, and Liu Biao has actually freed up his hands to prepare to go north again after negotiating with Liu Bei in August to divide the spoils in Jingnan. Whether Wancheng will change hands in this life, Cao Cao has no way to guarantee.

In the original history, Zhang Xian fell more slowly, dragging Liu Biao for more than five months, and Liu Biao did not begin to free his hands until February and March of the sixth year of Jian'an. Now it was done in August of the previous year, and in September it was possible to send troops north again.

But for Cao Cao, these are not confidants, even if Wancheng is lost, he can still rely on the mountains around the Nanyang Basin to seal Liu Biao at the pass of Fangcheng, between Tongbai Mountain and Funiu Mountain. But if Guandu is lost, it will completely kill Cao Cao, and Cao Cao is very clear.

Under the circumstance that the problem of military resources can be solved, the greater threat to Cao Cao now is the problem of insufficient military rations.

Cao Jun's food shortage has become more serious than in the same period in history. So much so that in the end, he had to commit some more crimes that he couldn't bear to describe again.

Cheng Yu, the Taishou of Jiyin County, took out the ruthlessness of Cao Cao and Lu Bu in the life-and-death battle in Yanzhou six years ago and when they helped Cao Cao raise food, relying on sneaky special means, it is estimated that he can help Cao Cao last for more than a month.

But in any case, Cao Cao must end this campaign this winter, if he can't repel Yuan Shao by the end of Layue, even if he has Cheng Yu's special methods, he won't be able to survive.

In addition to the lack of food, Cao Cao also faced some troubles that he had never encountered in history, that is, Yuan Shao's technical means of tackling tough problems were also more than in the same period in history-

In the original battle of Guandu in history, Yuan Shaojun's strategy for attacking fortified positions is only two remarkable:

One is to build an earthen hill and a tower, and then condescendingly release arrows to suppress it, and finally it was smashed and broken by Cao Cao with a thunderbolt.

The other is to give full play to the ability of the Hebei army's caves, and want to dig tunnels through the camp and sneak attack, but Cao Cao dug deep trenches and cut off the tunnel exit in front of Guandu Pass.

In this life, Yuan Shao also used these two tactics to attack the fortifications, and they were also broken by Cao Cao. But Yuan Shao also used the third and fourth moves.

The first is that Yuan Shao found that the fixed Tushan Lou was easy to be smashed by slowly calibrated shots, and after the failure of the arrow tower tactics, he transformed the well that could be deployed in a mobile manner.

Although this thing is even less stable when it is smashed, it can be pushed and moved after all, and it is only supported by a few wooden pillars, so as long as the stone cannot be hit on the wooden pillar, it is relatively difficult to smash.

Another trick is that Yuan Shao also learned a Ge bus that only looks like it but does not look like it, and wants to push it to attack the wall of Guandu, and directly let the siege melee soldiers of the Yuan army rush onto the wall to fight hand-to-hand-

It is not surprising that Yuan Shao can know the existence of Ge Gongche, it is not Zhuge Jin who specially leaked it to Yuan Shao, after all, this thing has been out for three or four years, and tens of thousands of people have witnessed this thing on the battlefield, and it is not difficult to inquire about the shape and specifications dictated by witnesses. It's just that most of the things created are the same as the first time Zhou Yu used them, top-heavy, and there are many details that can't be imitated.

These additional siege methods due to the butterfly effect are also constantly tearing and impacting Cao Cao's defense line, making Cao Cao precarious. He has to crack them one by one in order to talk about a turnaround.