The rain trickled down the cracks in his not-so-finely woven, and obviously somewhat old hat, down his forehead, down his cheeks, and down his chin onto his half-worn shirt.

The middle-aged military general's face had no expression on his face, and he did not seem to be irritated by the not-so-good hat, nor did he have the slightest sympathy for the miserable men and captives.

But the general next to him seemed a little unbearable to look at the cart after cart of corpses, so he stepped forward and looked at him carefully.

"General, in fact, this city has been carefully repaired by Liu Bei, this time the general used a plan to take the city, and the city wall has not been destroyed, it is very strong, why bother to ......"

"Is it sturdy?" Yu Ban's gaze moved slightly, and he turned to the city.

It is made of the local soil of Huaiyin layer by layer, and each layer is very carefully tamped, even if it has rained for so long, it has never broken even a corner.

But that's not enough.

"If Lu Lian comes to attack," Yu Ban said, "it won't be enough." ”

Moreover, for Yu Ban, he sent these men and captives with another unexplained intention:

The lord galloped from Wancheng, broke Liu Bei all the way, surrounded Xiapi, Lu Lian Guan Yu could only march long distances, and broke through layers of defense lines all the way from Shouchun to the rescue.

It seems that the Yanzhou army has a great advantage, but how can there be a thing in the world that only takes advantage of one end and does not have to bear the inconvenience of the other end? Since the lord rushed like thunder to attack Liu Bei, this long and fragile grain transportation line would inevitably be very dangerous.

Now Lu Lian Guan Yu has never cut off his grain route, the reason is that there is still surplus grain in the hands of the lord is one of them, and they are also extremely eager to break through the encirclement of the lord, and rescuing Xiapi is the second.

Yu Bantun's troops were in Huai'an, which was to not only be able to form horns with the main force of soldiers and horses, rescue each other, but also guard a granary for the lord, and fill the stomach of the Yanzhou army with the grain of the Xuzhou people.

But Huai'an's grain is counted, and no one knows when Xiapi will break through.

With this consideration, Yu Ban looked at Huai'an's granary as if he were looking at his family's savings, and the people and captives who had to eat a lot of grain every day became an eyesore.

- If it weren't for Lu Lian's good name, he could have killed all these people directly.

Yu Ban's worried gaze swept over the Xuzhou people who were ragged, their faces were swollen, and they had only one breath left, but they had to use a pair of crippled hands to dig the soil and still wanted to continue to live.

He is not a cruel person, he thinks, Lu Lian sells her reputation and wants to achieve her own good name, but it makes it difficult for him to attack these people cleanly! So he had to watch them die slowly, painfully, and it was nothing short of torture!

Both tortured him! Tortured these poor people again!

But the men and captives did not understand what was going on in the mind of the stern-looking general, and when the overseer's sticks were raised, they knelt—even lay down in the mud, with no dignity, and like wild beasts, they dug up the earth with all their might.

Yu Ban finally sighed, and rode his horse slowly past them.

There are still seventy miles from Huaiyin.

The land hanging fish is also roasting, in fact, the weather is not extremely cold, but in such a cold weather, it is always comfortable to have a fire in the house.

In particular, she could wrap her robe, sit on the mat, drink hot tea, and watch the scouts covered in rain and mud try to control the urge to twist her clothes, while insisting on reporting to her all the movements around Huai'an City.

"Cao Bing is extremely vigilant," said the scout, "they sent many cavalry, scattered patrols, and Yu Ban cut down all the trees within a radius of thirty miles, burned all the houses, and there were no people nearby, so there was nothing to hide, there was no way to avoid it!" ”

…… This man sounds very immoral.

…… Although it is quite lacking in morality, it is a goalkeeper above the passing line.

"However, the villain still risked his life to take a look!" The scout said loudly, "Yu Ban mobilized the people and dug a trench that was extremely wide and deep, and although the villain was far away, it was at least more than four feet!" Checkmate! ”

…… She rubbed her face.

She had passed by Huai'an, and she remembered the trench that was more than a foot deep, Yu Ban dug such a trench, was he obsessive-compulsive, or was he too afraid of her?

Or is he just trying to drain the people?

A sneeze.

Lu Hangyu woke up from his brief contemplation, took an empty teacup, poured some hot tea with oil, salt and seasonings from the pot, and pushed it forward.

"Drink some tea," she said, glancing at the scout's somewhat nervous "Is there still a reward for drinking the general's tea?" After drinking, I will go to receive the reward, and by the way, help me tell the soldiers, please Wen Yuan Ziyi and Mr. Xu come to the Chinese military tent." ”

"Yes!"

Now there are four people drinking tea with a teacup, but the posture of drinking tea is not the same.

Zhang Liao probably went to take care of the war horses—a few of the war horses vomited and laxed up and down after eating the damp and moldy hay that had been beaten by the rain, and choked the cavalry—so he had a little smell of the stables that could not be ignored, and he probably realized it himself, and put it down after taking a sip of tea, pretending to have no sense of existence there;

Tai Shici probably returned from the camp, drank one cup in one go, continued to fill it up, and began to drink the second cup;

She spends all day in the tent, and she mainly warms her hands with this kind of tea with salt and peppercorns, and when she occasionally drinks a little, she also pretends that her sense of taste has failed;

Only Xu Shu was really tasting tea, so everyone stared at him.

He tasted the tea and listened to the situation near Huai'an that she told everyone after summarizing.

"The general wants to attack the city?"

"Siege is always the best strategy," she was a little worried, "especially when it comes to forbidding the digging of a five-foot trench, which is too scary." ”

Zhang Liao and Tai Shici glanced at each other, a little disdainful, "With such a strong wall and clear wilderness, I am afraid that the general is very prestigious." ”

"I don't like to be afraid of my adversary," she said, "and those who look down on me are always prone to show a little flaw, but I find it troublesome to ban an adversary who is afraid of me and refuses to surrender." ”

Xu Shu took another sip of tea, "What did the second general say?" ”

She hesitated a little again, "I haven't talked to the second general yet." ”

Her combat style is already very hard, but Guan Gong's combat style will only be harder than hers, if she says that she wants to tentatively attack the city, the second master will definitely say that his soldiers and horses will be the first. To put it mildly...... It's not impossible, but it's hard to replenish their forces and get reinforcements right now, so they always have to go a few meters into the pot.

In this long battle that began in the spring, everyone from the soldiers to the generals was already very mentally exhausted, but the mental exhaustion could be temporarily overcome with the belief of victory and homecoming, and the physical exhaustion and injuries could not be overcome by the spirit.

She couldn't imagine the soldiers with swollen legs and sunken eyes, desperately climbing the city walls with their last breath.

…… If such a force is forced to attack the city, the casualty rate of the soldiers will reach an alarming level.

Her soldiers and horses are very precious, and so are the second master's.

"That being the case," Xu Shu touched his mustache, "Yu Ban This person has a strict army, and there are strategists in the army...... But I did think of a plan, and the general could give it a try. ”

“…… Mr. Yuanzhi, please tell me? ”

"Why did the general attack Huai'an?"

"Naturally, it was because Yu Ban and Cao Cao were horns of each other, and they blocked the road of Guangling's northern aid to Xiapi."

"Therefore, the general's fight against Huai'an, in the final analysis, is to defeat Cao Cao's troops and horses under Picheng."

“…… Not bad. ”

"And Yu Ban is full of scouts on the Huaiyin line, and the general is here."

"Not bad."

"In this case, why don't the general divide a group of soldiers and horses, raise more flags, swagger around Huai'an, and go directly to Xiapi?" Xu Shu said with a smile, "Yu Ban guarding this city, in the final analysis, is to block the general for Cao Mengde, how can he be trapped in the lonely city and not come out?" If the general would rather abandon his baggage, drill into the gaps, and rush to Xiapi, what should Yu Wen do? ”

When Yu Ban saw such a force of soldiers and horses bypassing the city and heading north, would he continue to guard Huai'an City, waiting for Cao Cao's messenger to arrive, proving that this was indeed Lu Lian's main force, and then set off with troops, or immediately order the soldiers to go out of the city to pursue?

This is a problem that defenders often face, there are always enemy troops who want to lure them out of the city, real or fake, and there are always enemy troops who will choose to go deep alone when facing a fortified city - but this time it is a little different, they are the ones who go deep alone! As long as they bypass Huai'an and go north to the Xiapi line in the East China Sea, for Lu Lian and Guan Yu, they are equivalent to returning to the base camp! They can get food and grass supplies from the county, as well as military supplies!

"Among the orders Cao Cao gave him, there must be one thing that will stop me—but after Cao Ren, there are probably not many opponents in the world who want to confront us head-on," the female general on the throne hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded, "Let's see what his determination is." ”

Chapter 260

Everyone has different opinions on how many people should be transferred to this lure army, who should lead the troops, and how to go.

Lu Hangyu felt that Hongze Lake was full of wetlands and swamps, and it was difficult for her soldiers to get out, and it was naturally difficult for Yu Ban's soldiers to come in, so there was no worry that Yu Ban would go around to the southwest of Hongze Lake and attack them from behind.

Since there is no danger of being defeated separately, and she is the one who is forbidden to defend, it is natural that she should lead the troops.

But everyone immediately objected to her opinion.

"It's just a ban, General He Lao? I'll take 3,000 soldiers and horses! "This is Tai Shi Ci.

"The war has to be repeated in a moment, if Yu Ban really goes out of the city, wouldn't it be better if the general and General Guan worked together to take Huai'an?" This is Xu Shu.

"Ziyi is used to leading troops, and Yongwu is not under the generals, why should Ciyu be suspicious?" This is Zhang Liao, thinking about it and muttering something.

…… She may or may not have heard clearly.

But she still had to protest, "My injuries are all healed!" ”

Everyone's eyes seemed to turn around, and they didn't care what she was yelling about.

There were still more than 6,000 people in the battalion, and Tai Shici originally thought that as long as she took the Donglai soldiers away, she was a little uneasy, so she still picked and chose those soldiers who looked uninjured or lightly injured and in better condition.

Dressed in dirty and shabby cloth clothes, the soldiers silently carried flags and weapons, followed Tai Shici, and lined up out of the camp in the cloudy autumn wind.

They looked tired and depressed, but if you look at the people who followed them out of the baggage camp, you can feel that these soldiers are indeed in good shape.

Lu Hangyu has never been stingy in giving food to the people, but these people have to carry rice, flour, grain and grass, carry gravel to repair the dirt road, push the load of carts one cart after another, and laboriously dig a mud pit when the cart falls into a mud pit to pull it out.

But it is unthinkable to really give up the baggage completely, not to mention anything else, the oilcloth tent on this is the basic to ensure that these soldiers do not have to sleep in the jungle, as well as the tools for camping and digging pits and fences, as well as those tung oil and food guys, all of which need to be loaded and carried.

Transporting the baggage is a tiring task, so no matter how much fabric they are given, they are reluctant to cut it into new clothes.

So under the bleak autumn wind, these people were all in rags, some with bare arms, some with bare legs, and some simply bare their upper bodies, so they silently pushed the small cart and set off.

"I don't have much baggage, only less than ten days of grain and grass," Xu Shu stood beside her and explained, "These cars can be thrown away when the time comes." ”

"What about them?" She suddenly said, "What about the people? ”

Xu Shu glanced at her.

"This is Xuzhou, and I have already told them," he said with a smile, "except for the dozens of miles that have been cleared by the forbidden wall, as long as you go north, there will be villages to accommodate, and when Huai'an is captured and troops are gathered, they can return." Thinking that General Taishi was here, Yu Wen had no spare energy to embarrass these people. ”

She nodded, "That's good." ”

After saying this, she felt as if there was nothing more to advise.

Tai Shi Ci is used to leading soldiers, and Zhang Liao's cavalry is far behind, so there will be no mistakes, even if he can't win, it shouldn't be difficult to retreat.

The brown figures of the soldiers slowly faded from her vision, turning into a vague trail, and finally becoming one with the vapor of the swamp in the distance.

Maybe it was a little cold, maybe it was because the injury really hadn't healed, and she always felt that something was wrong.

After that battle, the world seemed to slowly lose its color.

In spite of their triumphant success, almost triumphant, and she did not suffer much on the march—she always demanded that the standards from officer to soldier be as uniform and austere as possible, but her usual use was still incomparable to that of ordinary soldiers—but she still felt a familiar dullness.

It doesn't come from the body, it comes from the mind.

The sergeants picked the wild fruits in the wetlands, washed them, and put them in baskets and sent them over; Or catch a fresh fish and bring it to the soup, which was originally delicious, so that her favorite food gradually lost its taste and became lackluster.

She seemed to lose the chirping of the grass insects at night, nor could she feel the brilliance of the moon hanging high in the sky on a rare clear night.

…… But it shouldn't matter.