"Withdraw!"
Yuan Jun's flag, covering the mid-air, wavered, and while shaking, the big flag moved away, revealing the bloody battlefield in front of the flag.
Yuan Jun retreated from the mottled battalion wall and gradually withdrew. Cao Jun on the camp wall stood with spears, watching the distant horses, and they didn't let go of their weapons until they could hardly see them anymore.
Some people slumped down, leaning against the wall, panting, and let their bodies sit in the blood all over the ground.
A few drops of viscous blood dripped down the spear, and the white tassels were already red. Gu Nan was holding the spear, and the sky was a red sunset. The sun sank into the mountains, leaving only the red clouds to cover it. There was silence on the camp wall, and pools of blood slowly flowed.
Yuan Jun retreated, but Cao Junzhong didn't cheer at all, probably because they were so tired that they didn't even have the strength to congratulate themselves for surviving.
At the corner of the wall, a veteran took out half a piece of dry food from his arms. He didn't care about the blood stains on the dry food, sat on the pile of corpses, took a big bite, chewed and swallowed it.
The other person lying next to him didn't move. He remembered clearly that this was a recruit who had just arrived this year.
The recruit lay halfway there, dazed.
"Hey." The veteran bumped the recruit with his elbow, broke off a small piece of half of the bloody dry food in his hand, and handed it over.
"Would you like something to eat?"
"No need." The recruit shook his head slowly and slightly.
"Then I'll eat it myself." The veteran put the broken dry food into his mouth and asked while eating.
"What are you thinking, why don't you ask me, I have been in this barracks for many years, and I know everything inside and out."
The recruit looked at the veteran and opened his chapped lips.
"Whether we can go back alive, my mother is still waiting for me."
The veteran's movements stopped, his mouth chewing dry food stopped, and his eyes looked around a few times.
What catches the eye is either a corpse or blood.
"Hmph." With a dry smile, the veteran continued to eat dry food. He couldn't answer this question.
After this battle, Yuan Shao basically found out the strength of Cao Jun's troops on Guandu. After no worries, Yuan Jun stepped up his offensive, from building high-rise buildings to harassing troops, and even tried to dig the ground to attack the camp, while Cao Jun blocked them one by one. Down. The two armies held each other, and there was no result for a long time between attacking and defending.
Although Cao's army had no worries about food and grass because of the problem of storing food, the soldiers were tired and the rear was not stable, making it more difficult to defend.
In the middle of the night, it was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, and the cicadas could not be heard at night. The night wind was rustling, and there was some coolness blowing into the sleeves.
Xun You, Guo Jia, and Gu Nan walked on the camp wall, watching the night outside.
Below the camp wall is a deep ditch, which is used to prevent Yuan Jun from digging tunnels to enter the camp. Yuan Jun did everything he could to break into Cao Camp.
Cao Jun's situation is getting worse and worse. Even Guo Jia has been frowning these days, probably thinking of breaking Yuan Jun's strategy.
Yuan Jun's advantage is too obvious, even if he can't attack Cao Ying, Cao Jun's situation will not be good if he keeps dragging Cao Cao like this.
Recently, news came from Guangling that Jiangdong Sun Ce may be going north. If Sun Ce also went north, Cao Jun would have no choice but to retreat to Xuchang.
The three of them walked slowly on the camp, and they could see the campfire in Yuan Jun's camp from a distance.
After walking for a while, Xun You asked Guo Jia.
"Feng Xiao, do you have a plan to repel Yuan Jun?"
The faint smile that always hung on Guo Jia's face sank a bit, and he said in a slightly worried tone.
"Now Yuan Jun has plenty of food and grass, high morale, and far more troops than the general. It is not a matter of time to defeat Yuan Jun."
Xun You smiled bitterly with a sad face.
"Even you can't help it..."
Guo Jia said with a smile: "I don't always have a way, now I can only wait, wait for an opportunity, as long as the opportunity comes, I will definitely defeat Yuan Jun."
When the two armies are fighting, the victory or defeat often lies in their grasp of the timing, and he still has some confidence in this aspect. He also believed that Yuan Shao would show his flaws sooner or later, and he was worried that Cao Jun would have to retreat to Xuchang before the time was right to break Yuan Jun.
And once this battle is withdrawn, the general trend of the world will be lost.
"Opportunity." Xun You nodded slightly and stopped talking.
"Hoo hoo." The westerly wind was blowing outside the camp, the autumn clothes were getting thicker, and even the wind was getting stronger.
Gu Nan kept walking on the side without saying a word. Guo Jia glanced at her. In fact, he didn't know what Gu Nan was thinking.
"Mr. Gu, how do you think you can win this battle?"
Gu Nan was looking at the trees in the distance. Her eyesight is very good. Even at night, she can see the branches and leaves in the distance being blown by the wind like waves.
Hearing Guo Jia ask her, she withdrew her gaze and looked at Guo Jia.
"The turning point should be coming soon."
"Oh?" A look of surprise flashed in Guo Jia's eyes.
Xun You also became serious and asked solemnly.
"Then Mr. Gu, what's the turning point?"
Only then did Gu Nan realize that she seemed to be talking too much. She naturally knew the outcome of the Battle of Guandu, and also knew that it was Cao Cao who burned Yuan Jun's food and grass, but none of this had happened yet.
But now that she has said it all, she can't take back her words, so she can only continue talking.
"It lies in the food and grass."
"Food and grass?" Guo Jia thought about it, but couldn't figure it out.
With the three states under Yuan Shao's command, Yuan Jun's food and grass would not be in short supply no matter what he thought. In addition, now Cao Jun doesn't know the grain road and the location of Yuan Shao's grain transportation, so how did the turning point come about.
"Mr. Gu, why do you think that grain and grass will be a turning point?"
Seeing that the two were eager to know, Gu Nan sighed, she couldn't tell them the truth, so she made an excuse, pointed to the sky and said.
"Looking at the sky at night."
As for whether to believe it or not, she didn't expect them to believe it.
Guo Jia and Xun You were all taken aback.
Then Guo Jia smiled and shook his head.
But Xun You actually looked up to the sky, he was serious, and he really believed it.
Seeing him like this, Guo Jia patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile.
"Gongdamo saw it, sir, he was just joking."
Xun You also reacted, the old man blushed and lowered his head.
"I know it."
"Hahaha." Guo Jia laughed out loud, feeling relieved, who made Xun You tease him about his weak legs.
Now he has something to laugh about, and he can talk to Xun Wenruo when he goes back.
Because of these joking words, the three of them were not as preoccupied as they were at the beginning.
It is rare that there is no shout of killing in this battle, so it should be more relaxed.
When they reached a high place, the three of them stopped and looked into the distance. Above is the vast galaxy, and below is the endless mountains and forests. It makes people sigh how magnificent the mountains and rivers are.
A gust of cool wind entered his arms, Xun You saw Guo Jia covered his mouth and coughed.
He silently took off his coat and put it on him.
"It's also autumn, Fengxiao, you should put on more clothes."
With the clothes on his shoulders, Guo Jia glanced at Xun You gratefully.
"Thank you very much."
Hearing the movement beside him, Gu Nan turned his head to look at the two of them, suddenly thought of something, and his face felt strange.
"Mr. Gu, what's the matter?" Seeing Gu Nan's expression, Guo Jia asked in confusion.
"It's nothing." Gu Nan looked aside in embarrassment, moved his shoulder uncomfortably, thinking to himself.
The atmosphere is a bit strange.
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