Jia Xu watched Zhang He leave and breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, everything is being calculated.

lived up to Wu Hou's commission.

However, Jia Xu quickly sank his face.

Next, the real big battle is coming.

In this battle, the winner will be determined: Jiangdong wins, Yuan Shao loses!

Moreover, it can buy at least two years of recuperation for Koto.

Let Yuan Shao never dare to violate again in a short period of time.

It's just that it can only last for so long.

Yuan Shao's family has a big business.

Let's just say that the army outside Shouchun City is less than half of Yuan Shao's general soldiers.

Far from half, even.

Because, this time, it can be seen that they are all well-trained elite soldiers.

At a glance, it can be seen that there is no such indiscriminate captivity.

And Yuan Shaocai didn't take long after Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, it took only two years.

It can be judged that the Youzhou soldiers captured by Yuan Shao were either trained in Hebei or temporarily disbanded.

In this case, given Yuan Shao a certain amount of time, Yuan Shao is fully capable of making a comeback.

The best way, naturally, is to strike while the iron is hot after this victory.

Unfortunately, the situation in Koto does not allow this.

But that's not something you should think about.

has an old bone, but he doesn't have the energy to calculate so much for Wu Hou.

At this point, he is already worthy of the position of the lieutenant general of this military division.

After that, it can only be up to Wu Hou to see what he thinks.

Jia Xu looked at Ma Liang in the urn city and said: "Straighten out the military horses, leave three thousand people to garrison the city, and the others, carrying prisoners, pretend to be in a hurry while withdrawing to Shouchun." ”

"After all, our Xiacai granary has been 'burned' by Zhang He's army."

"Such an absolute matter of life and death, let the soldiers pretend with their hearts."

"Don't let people see too many flaws."

After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and walked down the city wall.

And in the north of the city and the west gate of the city to attack Gao Lan, at this time also saw the raging fire burning in the city, as if the entire Xia Cai was going to be burned.

Gao Ran looked ecstatic.

It's worthy of Xu Yu!

is worthy of being Yuan Gong's playmate from childhood to adulthood!

The ploy was extraordinary, and it worked!

Now, the granary of Shouchun Jiangdong has been destroyed, and the combat mission has been achieved.

Naturally, there is no need to attack the city again.

Gao Ran hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

The besieging Yuan Shao soldiers immediately withdrew quickly.

Tai Shici stood on the city wall, watching this scene, and laughed.

Mr. Jia's plan seems to have succeeded.

Tai Shici walked towards the city wall, and said, "Call me, scream hard, say that the granary is destroyed, and you will starve to death!" ”

The Jiangdong defenders on the city wall of Xia Cai were at a loss.

However, the right capital governor Tai Shi Ci has already spoken, so naturally he is too lazy to care so much.

All the soldiers suddenly shouted at the top of their voices: "It's over, the granary is burning!" ”

"Ouch, I'm going to starve!"

"Why is it on fire!"

Tai Shi Ci and Jia Xu converged.

Leaving the deputy general Pan Zhang with 3,000 soldiers to continue to sit in Xia Cai, guard the granary, and prevent accidents.

And Tai Shici and Jia Xu, with Ma Liang, and more than 20,000 soldiers "panicked" to withdraw to Shouchun.

Along the way, Tai Shici was so smiling that he couldn't close his mouth.

When people fight, the more people fight, the fewer people fight.

Fighting with this old Mr. Jia, there are more people.

When he came to Xiacai, there were only 20,000 soldiers.

When he left, he took more than 20,000 soldiers with him.

Xia Cai also had 3,000 soldiers to guard it.

This battle was fought like a dream!

When Jia Xu and Tai Shici led the army back to Shouchun, Yuan Shao's army had already withdrawn.

Jia Xu rushed to the tent, took out a scroll from his sleeve, handed it to Lu Yi and said: "Marquis Wu, the old minister has completed the task, Zhang He has surrendered, take Jiang Qin and other four thousand cavalry of our side, and his own five hundred cavalry will go back to his fate, and tell Yuan Shao that they have successfully burned the granary." ”

"Next, it's tomorrow night to send troops."

"As soon as Zhang He returned, Yuan Shao learned that our granary had been destroyed, and he must reorganize the army and horses to block any possibility for us to attack them."

"After all, without the granary, we can only storm and try to defeat them at once."

"They just need to defend each pass, resist the onslaught, and then sit back and wait for our army to be in chaos because the grain and grass are burned."

"At each pass, send a thousand people, and the rear army will tie up trees or straw, put on clothes, and make the appearance of soldiers."

"Be fast."

"As soon as it gets dark tomorrow, these 'armies' will immediately set out from all directions."

"Then all our other main forces, late at night, lowered their feet in the dark, and attacked from the front."

"As long as we attack the barracks, Zhang He will understand and will kill from the inside."

"There should be no doubt about defeating Yuan Shao's army."

"However, it has to be tomorrow night."

"If the time drags on for too long, our army will also be aware of it."

"We're going to get everything done before we notice it and get the word out."

"The more than 20,000 soldiers brought back by the old minister have been pulled to a separate area in the city to prevent anyone from leaving, so as not to get mixed in and leave."

"Wait for Wu Hou to gather all the main forces, and then bring them with you, it's too late."

It's not just Lu Yi in the handsome tent.

There are also Chen Gong, Huang Zhong and others.

Everyone listened to Jia Xu's strategy, and they smacked their tongues one by one.

On weekdays, I don't feel that this is always a sick look, like how powerful the little old man who hasn't woken up is.

No, even they felt that Wu Hou used the military advisor Zhonglang to raise this high-ranking official position as a "waste".

But I didn't expect that at this critical time, people would arrange it so well.

It felt like everyone was playing with him.

Thinking of Jia Xu, if he was on Yuan Shao's side-

Huang Zhong shuddered.

It's horrible.

It's all old people.

But he feels like he's going to be played to death!

For the first time, he felt that his own force was useless in the face of a sick old man!

Seeing Jia Xu say this, Lu Yi hurriedly poured a cup of hot tea for Jia Xu, and said with a smile: "Hard work, Wenhe." Next, you have a good rest, and we'll take care of the rest! ”

Jia Xu took the hot tea, thanked him, took a sip, and knelt in a corner, as if he was asleep.

But the eyes of the others looked at him with no more contempt.

Lu Yi hurriedly summoned everyone over, repeated Jia Xu's arrangement several times, confirmed that each general was not mistaken, and then arranged it.

Meanwhile.

Yuan Shaoshuai's account.

Yuan Shao returned with all the generals and strategists.

Everyone gathered in the tent to estimate the strength and strength of Shouchun Jiangdong.

Everyone's faces are not good-looking.

According to tonight's siege estimates, there are at least 40,000 Jiangdong defenders in this Shouchun City.

As for the strength, this group of Jiangdong defenders is probably not far behind the White Horse Yi they fought before.

The most critical issue is that the people are guarding the city.

Relying on the high defense thickness of Shouchun City.

And there are so many soldiers.

And with such strength.

If you want to directly attack the city and take it, it is completely impossible.

Now they can think of only two strategies:

One, find a way to carry it down, exhaust the grain and grass in Jiangdong, and find a way to prevent other places from supplying grain and grass to Shouchun.

Without grain and grass, Shouchun is in chaos.

No matter how loyal and brave a soldier is, if there is nothing to eat, it is all.

The other is to find a way to destroy Xia Cai's granary.

And these two strategies will have to wait for Xu You and Zhang He to come back from the sneak attack.

waited until the next morning, went up from Huaishui, and came back from Gao Lan, who pretended to capture the north gate and the west gate of Caicheng.

Nearly 2,000 soldiers were lost.

However, Gao Ran brought back good news.

That is, he saw with his own eyes that a raging fire was burning in Xiacai City.

The violent movement should be the burning of the granary.

The news brought back by Gao Ran made Yuan Shao's expression perk.

Guo Tu and the others all drooped their faces.

Finished!

Xu You and Zhang He actually succeeded!

After that, the life of these Yuzhou factions will definitely be sad.

Especially Xu You, who offended him before.

His character of being a villain will not miss the opportunity to come back with revenge.

However, at this point they had no choice.

At noon, Zhang He also returned with his army.

This time, Zhang He led 5,000 cavalry to attack the east gate of Caicheng "successfully", and led 5,000 cavalry to attack, losing nearly 500 people.

Among them, Xu Yu died in battle.

Guo Tu and the others almost danced with their hands.

It's like a dream!

Xu You is dead!

Although Zhang He made a great contribution, the Jizhou faction raised its head again.

However, it is better than letting Xu Yu come out.

Yuan Shao looked at Xu You's corpse and was also quite sad.

However, he quickly picked himself up.

Compared with the death of his childhood friend Xu Yu, he is more concerned about the current situation.

Yuan Shao immediately gathered all the generals and strategists to discuss how to deal with the current situation.

In the end, everyone unanimously decided: Now that the Jiangdong granary has been destroyed, Shouchun Jiangdong will definitely attack all the checkpoints and force Yuan Shao, the Hebei army, to fight!

Only by fighting with all their might, Koto may still have the possibility of victory.

Otherwise, now that there is no granary, they will soon have civil strife, and even a large-scale rebellion.

Although Yuan Shao's Hebei army was outside the city, it was not at all afraid of this Shouchun Jiangdong garrison.

However, the other party has no granary, and in such a desperate situation, it may stimulate the possibility of their "Jedi counterattack" and "breaking the boat".

In that case, even if this Shouchun Jiangdong defender can be defeated, the price paid by Yuan Shao's army will be unbearable.

In that case, let's continue to play steadily.

Send heavy troops to guard each level to prevent the enemy from attacking.

And Yuan Shao, he only needs to wait in the barracks for this Shouchun Jiangdong army to be in chaos because the granary was destroyed and the grain and grass were exhausted.

At that time, if you go all out, this Shouchun Jiangdong army will definitely be easily taken.

After discussing the countermeasures, Yuan Shao immediately asked the generals in the army to lead the army to various checkpoints to prevent the Shouchun Jiangdong army from attacking.

Yuan Shao himself led an army of less than 40,000, including 10,000 cavalry and nearly 30,000 bow infantry, to sit in the military camp and strengthen the defense of the camp to prevent this Shouchun Jiangdong army from attacking from the front.

Despite this arrangement, Yuan Shao was not worried that this Shouchun Jiangdong army would attack from the front.

As long as he relied on the camp and did not move, and had arrow towers and other attacking weapons to assist in defense, this Shouchun Jiangdong army would not be able to break through the defense.

Not to mention, he still has 10,000 cavalry.

In this open area, 10,000 cavalry can disperse the opponent!

At dusk that day, Yuan Shao received a report from the soldiers who had rushed to each checkpoint: Shouchun really sent troops from all walks of life to march towards all checkpoints. However, looking at that posture, it seems that they are ready to attack together after nightfall.

When Yuan Shao heard this information, his heart was excited and sad.

Excitedly, I am finally going to take this Shouchun Jiangdong army.

Then, it's not far from taking Koto.

Sadly, the person who contributed to this situation, Xu You, died in battle.

took Xun Chen, Guo Tu, Zhang He and others to the camp where Xu You's body was located, Yuan Shao paid tribute to Xu You, and asked the soldiers to clean Xu You's body.

Yuan Shao prepared to bury Xu Yu with the gift of a national soldier.

After that, Yuan Shao asked the others to retreat, and he wanted to stay alone with Xu You's corpse for a while to send this childhood friend on his last journey.

And the people departed from the tent of Xu You.

Zhang He was a little absent-minded and ready to leave alone.

This kind of betrayal made him a thief.

He seemed to sense that the people around him were looking at him strangely.

It's like everyone is waiting for him to fall into the net.

However, he didn't take a few steps before he was stopped.

It's Guo Tu.

Zhang He said with a calm face: "Something? ”

Guo Tu looked at Zhang He and said jokingly: "General Zhang, it's better to keep a low profile." ”

"Even if you make a great contribution this time, the lord is not very good to you."

"His energy is all on Xu You."

"Know what that means?"

Zhang He looked at Guo Tu with a villain face, and his forehead was bruised.

Since Tian Feng killed himself and returned to seclusion, these people from Yuzhou have been so rampant that they have suppressed their local soldiers in Jizhou in all aspects.

Now that he has made a great contribution, he is sneering again.

Zhang He gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't it just inferior to Yan Liang and Wen Chou?" I know, I don't need you to remind you! ”

After speaking, he snorted heavily and turned to leave.

Guo Tu watched Zhang He leave and sighed.

What if you make a great achievement?

Without Tian Feng and Fu Zhu, you reckless men only deserve to be toyed with!

(End of chapter)