Chapter 50: The Dilemma
Five full days have passed since Liu Bei's attack on Peixian.
Siege is a very time-consuming matter, generally based on siege, cutting off the opponent's grain and grass supply line, and waiting until the food in the city is exhausted to force it to surrender, and there are few cases of large armies attacking.
Because the cities are easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you want to attack strongly, you need to use at least several times the strength of the defenders in the city to be able to attack, and you need to pay heavy casualties, often more than you lose.
There are 6,000 defenders in Pei County, and Liu Bei wants to rely on 5,000 people to take this city, which is no different from dreaming.
But there was a military order, even if he knew that the possibility of 5,000 people capturing Pei County was almost equal to zero, he had to send troops to attack and fight for that glimmer of life.
So on the first day of arriving outside Pei County, Liu Bei personally commanded the army and launched a fierce attack on Pei County at night, wanting to take Pei County by surprise, but the result was unsatisfactory.
Not to mention the loss of nearly 2,000 of the 5,000 troops, many of the soldiers who were still alive were wounded, and their morale was low and their morale was weakened, which forced him to rest and recuperate while thinking about countermeasures.
That's four days of thinking.
At the foot of a mountain ten miles away from Pei County, Liu Bei's Shanzi battalion was stationed here, and at the same time, Yuan Shao's 50,000 troops were stationed for him.
The black-pressed tents are all over the mountains, and they are extremely shocking from a distance.
At this time, on a small hill in the camp, Liu Guanzhang and the three of them were standing here, looking at Pei County in the distance.
"It's been five days......"
Liu Bei sighed, with lingering sorrow on his face.
In the past few days, he has been tortured by the tremendous pressure brought by the military order, and he has not slept a single soundly, and every time he thinks about it, he feels anxious.
How can Pei County be captured?
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei on the side saw it in their eyes, although they were also worried about their eldest brother, but they couldn't think of a better way.
Zhang Fei couldn't help it, and said anxiously: "Big brother, let's quickly find a way to escape, with so many soldiers left, how can we defeat Peixian?" ”
A group of remnants of soldiers, in five days, captured Pei County.
It's a fantasy!
Liu Bei smiled bitterly: "If you can't escape, there are people in the barracks who are watching all the time, as long as we want to escape, Yan Liangwen will know it as soon as possible." ”
"Yuan Shao didn't send the two of them over as decorations."
If he could escape, Liu Bei would have fled long ago.
But the key is that there is no chance to escape at all, Yan Liangwen is ugly staring at them to death, and even sends people over every day to see the situation.
Beware of this, how to escape?
And once discovered, Yan Liangwen Chou will immediately lead the army to chase and kill, how can the three of them defeat tens of thousands of troops?
Guan Yu's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness, and said: "Then just don't do it, just burn the grain, grass, baggage and military camp with a fire and then run, and then see if Yan Liangwen is ugly to chase us or put out the fire first!" ”
The weight of grain and grass is the most important thing for the army, if the grain and grass are burned, it is possible for the army to be dispersed directly, he does not believe that Yan Liangwen and Chou don't even care about this.
Liu Bei still vetoed this proposal, shook his head and said: "I've seen it, they have long been wary, this strategy will not work." ”
He hadn't thought about this plan, and that day he went to the grain and grass baggage to take a look, and found that there were three times as many soldiers patrolling and guarding around him.
It was obvious that the other party was preventing them from setting fire to the grain and grass.
"These two damn guys!"
Zhang Fei was very annoyed when he heard this, but he had nowhere to vent, so he could only smash his fist on a pine tree beside him, leaving a deep fist mark on it, making the whole tree shake.
"I'd rather lead the troops to attack the city and die on the battlefield than be dealt with by the Rausch military law!"
"Big brother, let me personally lead the troops to attack the city tomorrow, and after conquering us, we will continue to be brothers in this life; If we can't attack it, we will be brothers again in the next life! ”
Zhang Fei didn't look down on Yan Liangwen at all.
He would rather die at their hands than die in battle!
Guan Yu also said in a deep voice: "Big brother, I'll go with the third brother!" To live is to live, and to die is to die! And what is there to fear? ”
Faced with the invitation of the two brothers, Liu Bei was silent.
Is this the last resort?
"Liu Xuande, Liu Xuande, in vain, you have the blood of the Han family flowing in your body, and a mere Pei County has forced you to the point of exhaustion!"
"How ironic!"
Liu Bei's heart was bitter, and at the same time full of self-blame.
If it weren't for the fact that he coveted the huge appeal brought by the edict of the Son of Heaven and went to the Son of Heaven in private, why would he be trapped by Yuan Shao and fall into such a predicament?
It doesn't hurt for him to die, but it is the two brothers who accompany him to his death that he is most ashamed.
Liu Bei sighed, turned around and walked towards the barracks, leaving only a sentence full of exhaustion: "Let me think of a way again." ”
It was not yet the last moment, and he didn't want Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to personally lead the troops to attack the city, because that was no different from sending them to death.
If that moment had come, he wouldn't have survived.
"Big brother, don't hesitate!"
Zhang Fei shouted towards Liu Bei's back: "You just let me and my second brother lead the troops to attack the city, maybe you can capture it!" ”
"Besides, it's not a matter to drag on like this, is it possible that Lu Bu will honestly return Peixian to us?"
When this sentence fell, Liu Bei's footsteps were paused.
He suddenly turned to look at Zhang Fei, his eyes burst into bursts of essence, and he asked, "Yide, what did you just say?" ”
Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said, "I said, let me and my second brother lead the troops to attack the city, maybe they will be captured." ”
"It's not this, it's the next sentence!"
"It's not a matter to drag on like this, is it possible that Lu Bu will honestly return Pei County to us?"
"That's right! That's right! That's it! That's it! ”
Liu Bei slapped his thigh, his face was full of excitement, and he couldn't help laughing out loud.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were taken aback by him.
The two glanced at each other, and both saw the worry in each other's eyes.
Eldest brother...... Isn't it crazy?
After a long while, Liu Bei took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said with blazing eyes: "Yun Chang, Yide, I have a way!" ”
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei felt even more strange.
Especially Zhang Fei, he looked strange and said, "Big brother, you don't really want Lu Bu to return Peixian to us, right?" ”
"Why not?"
Liu Bei didn't mean to joke at all, and said: "Lu Bu, although he is capricious and can be called a villain, he has no ambition to divide one party, and he can even be called loyal to the Han family and His Majesty. ”
"If this is not the case, how could His Majesty personally crown him as Marquis Wen?"
"Now that Your Majesty is subject to Yuan Shao, as long as I tell Lu Bu about Your Majesty's situation, so as to unite with him and let him help me get through the current predicament, he will not agree!"
This is the way he came up with to break the game!