"A flock of straw bales! The withdrawal of the army was so procrastinating, reluctant to do this and reluctant to that, and was actually chased by Zhou Yu. I've reminded them that they can still lose so badly! ”

Outside the city of Juxian, in the siege camp of the Cao army.

When Xiahou Yuan heard the bad news from the friendly troops in the direction of the upstream counties, saying that Li Dian's troops were defeated by Zhou Yu in Jiaoshan Fortress and had to abandon their armor and flee to the counties over nearly 100 miles of mountain roads, Xiahou Yuan was indignant in his heart.

Although he has not suffered any fiascos recently, the piecemeal successive small defeats have made Xiahou Yuan's heart depressed to the extreme, and the morale of the troops is also very low.

Juxian tried to attack the fortifications, and lost 2,000 people before and after, and the counties suffered even more losses. Along the coast, Sun Guan and Li Dian were defeated one after another.

Coupled with the scattered small defeats that followed, the more than 40,000 troops sent by Xiahou Yuan to Langya County have lost nearly 10,000 people.

The battle is like this, how can I go back and talk to Cao?

Xiahou Yuan was furious, and threw the report of defeat on the desk, his eyes swept left and right, instinctively wanting to find a scapegoat punching bag to vent.

The generals around him also knew his temper, and they couldn't help but retreat slightly with a chill in their hearts, even Zhang He was no exception.

Only Guo Jia, the strategist of the army, was still calm and unmoved, obviously knowing that it was impossible to anger him with this defeat, and it was completely Li Dian and Sun Guan's poor execution. But Guo Jia also put on a solemn expression very cooperatively, to show that he shared the joys and sorrows with the Lord.

After Xiahou Yuan's mood calmed down a little, Guo Jia put himself in his shoes and persuaded him:

"Don't be angry, general, although this battle was lost, it was also caused by our army's unfamiliarity with coastal defense. Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, as long as you eat a trench and grow wise, understand the essentials, and no longer fall into danger in the future, you will not suffer this kind of loss again.

For example, in the future, when encountering a place with narrow coastal terrain and where mountains and seas meet, you cannot go deep alone and divide troops to guard it. It is also necessary to pay more attention to the situation where the enemy's naval forces come in a roundabout way from the open sea and land and intercept them with precision. As long as these lessons are summed up, the book will be commonplace, and the commonplace will forgive us. ”

was comforted and relieved by Guo Jia, and Xiahou Yuan finally felt better. At that moment, he was still angry, and he didn't care about politeness, he just looked at Guo Jia with the afterglow of his eyes, and asked, "Then Fengxiao must be very good at summarizing the lessons of this battle?" The letter to Sikong is written by you!

By the way, there is another thing, Li Dian abandoned his armor and horses, and retreated to Zhuxian to meet with Gaolan, and the battlefield in Zhuxian suddenly increased by thousands of mouths, and the military rations that were originally enough for Gaolan's troops to eat were also slightly shortage, so he had to urgently transport a few more batches of military rations to the front line, and this matter must be immediately moved and coordinated! ”

Guo Jia immediately said that he accepted the order, saying that he would write this war report well when he returned, and he must thoroughly analyze the gains and losses of the lessons.

As for the matter of expediting the extra food, he will also immediately dismantle and move, raise a fleet, and arrange an ambush in the same way-

In the past month or so, Guo Jia has arranged three or four ambushes to protect the grain delivery team. It was to wait for Gao Shun to kill and intercept the Cao army's grain fleet passing through the Shushui River in the west of the city. In this way, the ambush soldiers arranged by Guo Jia can take advantage of the situation to kill and bite Gao Shun in the field battle.

But Gao Shun never went out of the city to rob grain, and he was not worried at all that the counties in the rear would not be able to hold it, and Guo Jia's ambush soldiers would be arranged in vain.

After a long time, although Guo Jia has always been cautious and cautious, the soldiers under his command who specifically implement military orders may not be so patient.

……

Two days later, in the city of Juxian.

Gao Shun has been besieged for more than a month and a half, but he has always been diligent and cautious, and personally went to the head of Juxian County every day, especially the Ximen City Tower, not far from Shushui, to inspect the defense and watch the enemy's situation.

Through this kind of long-distance lookout, although we cannot get too many details of the military situation, we can see the clues of the large-scale movement of the enemy's troops and the round-trip of the fleet.

Therefore, since Li Dian retreated to Zhuxian and joined Gao Ran, with the increase in the frequency of Xiahou Yuan's grain transportation to the front line of Zhuxian, this abnormal situation was quickly noticed by Gao Shun.

"In the past two days, the scale of Cao's army's grain transportation to the front line has suddenly become larger, but I have not seen Cao's army brigade marching to the northeast for reinforcements. It seems that there are only two possibilities: either the Cao army in Zhuxian has received reinforcements from other directions, and there are more people to eat, and more food can be transported.

Either Lu Fujun launched a counterattack against the Cao army in Zhuxian, which severely damaged the Cao army and burned the Cao army's grain stockpiles, resulting in the rear having to be urgently reloaded. In either case, it shows that Cao Jun is under great logistical pressure now, and if he makes a move at this time, he may be able to get twice the result with half the effort......"

After observing the enemy's situation, Gao Shun analyzed it to himself, and then ordered the troops to prepare first so that they could act at the opportune opportunity.

The lieutenant general beside him was a little apprehensive, and couldn't help but remind:

"General, this can't be a trick of the Cao thief, right? Cao Cao has always been cautious in the use of troops, and when the grain fleet passes outside the city, he will definitely preset an ambush. If we open the city and rob the grain, will we fall for the scheme? ”

Gao Shun's face was solemn, his expression was calm, and he touched his short beard and said calmly: "There may be ambushes, but the enemy army has been besieging the city for more than a month, and it must have suffered small setbacks many times and its morale is low.

There are only a thousand days to be a thief in the world, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves. They have been on guard so many times, but they have not encountered our army robbing grain, so they must be slack. However, our army waited for work at leisure, and there was no need to bother to be vigilant every day for more than a month. Now I have a fight, just let Xiahou Yuan know that I can use soldiers, and I will not reduce the year! ”

Gao Shun dared to make this determination, of course, because he still had five or six thousand elite soldiers under his command.

He is also a veteran who has been fighting with Lu Bu for many years, and his previous combat exploits with Lu Bu are not weak. Back then, Lu Bu and Cao Cao fought each other, and Gao Shun defeated Cao Ying's generals several times, allowing him to attack Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He with leisure, and Gao Shun still had a certain psychological advantage.

Even if the enemy army is prepared, and there is a night battle and field battle between the two sides, Gao Shun is sure to retreat.

The only thing that needs to be noted is that the soldiers must not be greedy, and want to rob the Cao army's grain and grass for our own use - as long as the troops out of the city start to loot the property, it will definitely be chaotic, lose order, and then be covered up by the Cao army, it will definitely be more auspicious.

Therefore, at the beginning of the planning, Gao Shun had already made up his mind: when the time came, let the soldiers advance in the dark, and when the enemy's food fleet was near, he would directly light the torches and set fire quickly, and burn as much as he could, and don't think about snatching it back.

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In this way, you can not only ensure your own military discipline, but also use the fire to disturb the enemy's morale, and you can also use fire to stop the enemy from delaying.

When Gao Shun made all these decisions, he did not communicate with Lu Su or Zhou Yu in real time about the battle situation.

Juxian County was besieged by Cao's regiment, and news from outside couldn't come in, so all of this was made by Gao Shun himself based on his observation of the enemy's situation.

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The next night, Cao Jun had another convoy of grain ships passing outside Juxian County, and everything seemed so logical, no different from the past month and a half.

In the past, Guo Jia specially chose to transport grain through Ju County at night, just to seduce Gao Shun and feel that there was an opportunity.

Although it is still passing by at night today, the meaning of special seduction is much less. It is more because in the Yishui and Shushui basins, there are so many grain ships that can be mobilized in a short period of time, and after the demand on the front line increases, the fleet will also have to speed up the frequency of transportation.

The ship can only be rested, and two groups of sailors and slender men take turns to ensure that the ship is never idle.

These grain transport auxiliaries have been doing this business for a month and a half, and they have not had any accidents before, so they are also relaxed and are not worried about enemy attacks. At most, I just complained that the physical work was too heavy and my body couldn't bear it.

But tonight, the accident finally came.

On the fourth watch, the fleet was slowly sailing against the current in the west of the city. The Xicheng Tower of Juxian County did not open the city gate, but relied on more than 100 thick hemp ropes to go down from the city.

Then there were more than ten to dozens of soldiers on each rope, who slid down the city wall from the rope in turn, and after a simple assembly, they killed in the direction of Cao's army food fleet.

Gao Shun also equipped the soldiers with arm guards tied with thick cloth, and specially lengthened them to ensure that the palms of the hands were also wrapped when they were wound, so that when the hemp rope was rubbed and lowered from the city wall, the palms would not be cut by the hemp fibers.

It was precisely because Gao Shun did not open the city gate at night, but sent troops from the corner of the city with hemp rope in the dark, and the Cao army besieging troops on the other side of the west bank of the city failed to find the abnormality at the first time. It wasn't until Gao Shun was close that Cao Jun reacted and hurriedly warned and called for an ambush.

Shushui is very narrow, in this section of the river in Juxian County is less than 20 zhang wide, Gao Shun's death squad as soon as they hit the river, they quickly lit the torches carried by the army.

In the Han Dynasty, there were no fire folds or fire velvet rolls, so the first few torches were more difficult.

But as long as the first torches are lit, they can borrow each other's fires in the future, and it will spread to hundreds or thousands of torches in less than a single cup of tea.

Then the Gao Shunbu death squad frantically threw torches soaked in fish anointment oil at the Cao army's grain boat on the Shushui River.

The torches flew easily over a distance of about ten zhang under the strong arms of the soldiers, and most of them landed on the surface of the river, but a few of them landed on the grain boats, which was enough to cause chaos.

"Gao Shun went out of the city to rob the grain, kill with me!" The general of the Cao army, who was in charge of the ambush that night, saw that he had finally waited for the enemy attack, and hurriedly led his troops out.

The two sides were quickly strangled together, and Gao Shun's army was not superior in numbers, but after all, it had been gathering momentum for a long time.

Before leaving the city, Gao Shun repeatedly rewarded the army, inspiring morale with wine and meat, and for a while, everyone in Gao Shun's tribe shouted to kill and fight, and swore to move forward.

The part of these soldiers who was responsible for the vanguard attack was also equipped with steel-filled armor and steel-filled swords, and the reserve light infantry and arsonist soldiers were lightly armed swords and shields - Gao Shun did not use his best pikemen to trap the battle, only because the spears were too clumsy to be suitable for a sneak attack from the city.

When a soldier descends with a hemp rope, he needs to carry all his weapons and tie them behind his back. The five-foot-long sword with the scabbard is already the limit of length. If you carry a spear, you can easily get into an accident.

However, in this kind of chaotic battle tonight, both sides cannot line up tightly, and the advantage of the spear cannot be brought into play.

As long as the weapons are sharp enough and the armor is solid enough, a few elites can move forward, and they can play a rainbow-like momentum and tear apart the enemy's formation.

Although the food ambush soldiers ambushed by the Cao army were also prepared, they were suppressed with momentum.

A month and a half of paralysis and crouching have already dissipated most of their fighting spirit, and the successive small defeats of friendly forces in recent days have caused panic in people's hearts.

Guo Jia has always reminded them to be vigilant and not to relax, but the problem is that Guo Jia will not personally lead the troops.

Those clichés have reached the front-line executive level, and how many percent can be left, which is really very doubtful.

As the flames of Cao's grain ship became more and more vigorous, and the burning became more and more fierce, Gao Shun shouted and shouted while killing and bluffing, Zhang He's grain ambush was finally killed and retreated, and more than half of this batch of grain was also burned, and the ship suffered heavy losses.

After Gao Shun's victory, he took advantage of the dawn to retreat in an orderly manner.

Early the next morning, the news that the grain fleet was burned and intercepted and the grain ambush soldiers were killed and defeated reached Xiahou Yuan's ears.

Knowing that Zhang He was defeated by Gao Shun again, Xiahou Yuan completely lost confidence in Langya, the hard bone of the poor mountains and bad waters, and broke his thoughts.

"What kind of calamity am I committing! You have to fight for your life in this kind of poor mountains and bad waters! How is Zang Ba Sun Guanchang's preparations? Switch to a backup strategy as soon as possible, and the whole army will raise the banner of Taishan thieves and invade the East China Sea in the south! Don't waste it with these Langya thieves! ”

Xiahou Yuan finally recognized the situation and knew that Cao Jun was not Liu Beijun's opponent whether it was a mountain battle or a water battle, so he should give up his illusions and obediently fight the field battle on the Northern Plains of Northern Jiangsu.

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