"There is a war ahead, and we have to take a long detour again. Now all the roads leading to Jingzhou from the north are blocked by Lu Bu and Yuan Shu." Cheng Yu said.
Diao Chan was wearing plain clothes and linen. The wind and sun these days had made her haggard. Many memories also appeared in her mind, which were about Li Huguo. Diao Chan said: "They want to conquer Jingzhou. Really?" I wonder how Hugo is doing now?"
"General Li has three great talents: Xun Yu, Xu Shu, and Pang Tong. Although he may not necessarily destroy Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, he can still protect himself." Cheng Yu said. His lips were cracked and he hadn't had a full meal in many days. I had a stomachache recently because I drank water from the stream.
Diao Chan gritted her teeth: "Honghua, how much money and food do we have?"
"There is only enough food for three days, and all the money and money have been spent." Honghua said, "But I picked a lot of wild fruits along the way, which can temporarily satisfy my hunger."
Luye said: "It took a lot of effort to get here. We only need to walk for seven days to meet up with the master. If we are like this now, will we take away a lot of road again?"
"Not much, just a month." Diao Chan said, "We had nothing in the previous month. Didn't we get through it? Now the rest of the way is not so difficult. At least there are no refugees around here. and bandits.”
Regarding Diao Chan's persistence, Hong Hua Lu Ye was also very curious about who Li Yuguo was, who could actually make a beauty like Miss Diao Chan become so devoted.
A peerless immortal like Diao Chan would probably be loved by thousands of people no matter where she is. Moreover, as long as she is willing, with her charming appearance, she may be able to provoke disputes between the two countries. This person is definitely an event stunner.
And who is Li Yuguo? Although he was nominally the military marshal of the imperial court, he was simply the same as the Eastern Han Dynasty imperial court, with a real name but no real power. So to put it harshly, he was just a decoration.
Although he occupied Jingzhou, the nominal leader of Jingzhou was not him, but the prince Liu Qi, and Li Huguo was only a governor. Now he was facing the attack of Lu Bu and Yuan Shu. It can be imagined that Li Yuguo was in a very bad situation.
However, along the way, Diao Chan never gave in at all and has always been very clear about her goals.
The battle in Shouchun has begun. Li Yuguo divided his troops into three groups and marched to the city. However, seeing that the walls of Shouchun were towering and difficult to break, he was in trouble for a while.
A large number of soldiers swarmed towards the city wall, riding ladders and using catapults, but they were unable to damage the city wall of Shouchun City at all.
"There are too many casualties. If this continues, even if our entire army is annihilated, we still won't be able to break through Shouchun." Xu Shu said, gritting his teeth, "Shi Yuan is a genius in siege, but without him, I am too weak to do anything. Already…”
As soon as these words came out, the surroundings were covered with a layer of haze. In the distance, large numbers of soldiers fell from the city wall and were all shattered into pieces. The death was almost one-sided.
On the top of the city, it was Li Feng who had survived by chance. Li Feng laughed loudly: "You will suffer death. Even if you plot to attack our Shuiying, so what? Our Shouchun City is the strongest city in the world. The city wall is made of blue steel stone and copper juice. The city wall is a hundred feet high. The battle pit under the city wall is two feet deep. There are all kinds of crocodiles and beasts inside. The city gate is thirty inches thick, even the heaviest one. Even the siege radium can’t break it!”
"The villain succeeds!" Sun Jian gritted his teeth and said.
"Retreat and set up camp thirty miles away from the city." Li Hugo said.
"But, if we don't take Shouchun City now, wouldn't these more than 8,000 brothers die in vain?" Sun Ce said quickly.
Next to him, Sun Jian yelled: "My lord, you are right. Their city walls have been piled with logs and boulders for many years, which is enough to consume our siege for a month. If we follow the normal method, even a million troops will have to be surrendered here." , and they are condescending, their bows and arrows can shoot farther than us, and their catapults can hit farther than us. Before we can attack, we have to pay a heavy price first. For now, the only way is to retreat first and then think about the strategy!"
Back in the military camp, Li Huguo saw the wounded around him, all of them groaning in pain, which he found unpleasant.
To capture Shouchun, Li Huguo could follow Cao Mengde's method. In fact, it was Cao Mengde who captured Yuan Shu in the end, according to history.
It turned out that Cao Mengde should have led an army of 170,000,000 to conquer Yuan Shu, who was the first to proclaim himself emperor, and formulated a strategic policy of attacking the puppet capital Shouchun at all costs. However, Yuan Shu was not stupid. After several defeats, he held on to the city. , I want to wait until Cao Mengde runs out of food and grass to retreat on his own, and then take the opportunity to pursue him, and he will definitely win.
Facts have proved that the strategy adopted by Yuan Shu is completely correct. Just like the current situation, the price to capture Shouchun is too high. Cao Mengde has 170,000 people, and Li Yuguo now only has 70,000 people, a difference of one point. Most of it.
When Cao Mengde went deep into enemy territory, he had problems with supply and demand. In addition, there were still 170,000 mouths that needed to eat every day. Soon the food in the warehouse was at the bottom. At this time, Cao Mengde had a plan in mind and ordered the army grain officer Wang He switched to using Dendrobium to distribute food, but soon, the military camp was filled with dissatisfaction with Cao Mengde. Cao Mengde had been in the army all year round, and he smelled the smell of mutiny, so at this time he had to find a scapegoat to help him bear the blame. Obviously, the military ration officer Wang Ye was the best candidate, so Cao Mengde used the excuse that Wang Ye had embezzled military rations, cut off his head and hung it in the camp to show everyone that it was Wang Ye who embezzled your military rations, not me, Cao Mengde, who was depriving you of your military rations. .
But this only diverted the soldiers' grievances. The issue of military rations was still the biggest problem faced by Cao Mengde. After Wang Yu's death, Cao Mengde knew that he had reached the final bottom line. On the one hand, there was a serious lack of food, and on the other hand, he could not retreat because Retreating will lead to chaos, and chaos will lead to defeat, so there is only one way to go, and that is to attack Shouchun. If he cannot capture it again, he will be killed by the mutiny of his subordinates without Yuan Shu taking action.
The next day, Mengde sent an order to the generals of each battalion to kill them all if they did not work together to break the city within three days. Mengde personally supervised the troops to move earth and stones and fill trenches and trenches. The city was rained with arrows and stones, and two of his assistant generals were afraid and turned back. , Meng De drew his sword and killed himself at the bottom of the city, then dismounted and took the soil to fill the hole. As a result, all the soldiers, big and small, moved forward, and the military power was greatly enhanced. But in this battle, Cao Mengde lost 80,000 people.
Li Huguo had only 70,000 people and could not attack the city in this way. Therefore, Li Huguo could not attack the city from the outside and had to find another way. For this method, Li Hugo still couldn't sleep late at night.
But at this moment, a fast horse suddenly flew past the jungle in the distance. The man was running from the south gate of Shouchun. Li Yuguo picked up a hard bow beside him, pulled the string fully, and shot an arrow. Just let him go.