Guo Si then calmed down: "Oh? Is this mountain dead mountain without water? Or Wenhe understands military tactics and geography. This can be seen, so let them live for a few more days - but they have killed so many robes of our army, so they must not let them go down the mountain alive. When they are about to die of thirst, this general will shoot them one by one into hedgehogs!"

After saying this harsh words, Guo Si temporarily let Zhang Ren go. The next morning, he drank with Li Jue and discussed with great enthusiasm how to use his superior forces to push Liu Bei back.

Li Jue also said confidently: "General Cavalry is here well, and he happened to be a great success with me. Liu Bei asked Guan Yu to attack Longguan Valley for two days. We defend and Guan Yu attack, so that he can also taste the pain of having to take the initiative in such a narrow valley!

Humph, Liu Bei didn't know that we had already met, and maybe he thought Zhang Ren was waiting for him to rescue. This was just right, so he could force Liu Bei's army to continue attacking and our army defended the camp to gain geographical advantage. Now Liu Bei's number of troops is only half of us, and he is still the attacking side. He suffered heavy losses in just a few days and had to retreat."

Guo Si and Jia Xu were very satisfied when he heard this. They drank a few drinks together and let out a sip of anger.

However, what surprised them was that Guan Yu relaxed the rhythm of the offensive that day and began to wait for the catapults to be in place, and then he would have a leisurely attack. He did not want to give Li Jue a defensive war to consume Liu Bei's army at all.

"Well? Why did Liu Bei and Guan Yu suddenly become unhurried? Did he know that our army had successfully joined forces, so he wanted to change it to a stalemate? The former army did not call General Guo." Li Jue was puzzled, and suddenly felt that it was a bit boned in his throat, and it was not good to advance or retreat.

When fighting in the Longshan War Zone, whoever attacks will suffer, the punishment for this terrain is too serious. Liu Bei did not want to attack in a hurry, and Li Jue was of course unwilling to do so.

And when Zhang Ren turned around and ate the death of Jieting, he was a little unworthy. He wanted to kill the two thousand soldiers who were on the top of the mountain and defended the danger, at least 10,000 or 20,000 or 20,000 people. It would be better to continue to surround Duanshui and die of thirst.

In Li Jue's army, Li Ru, the staff officer, saw that Jia Xu had already followed Guo Si and Zhang Xiu, was worried that Liu Bei would have any other conspiracy when he chose to stalemate. So he resigned to Li Jue as promised, hoping to go back to Chang'an to settle the abnormal movements of the ministers and ministers in the court, and also prepared for the settlement of military ration logistics dispatch if he entered a stalemate.

Li Jue felt it made sense, and he also realized that he had no plan to stalemate with Liu Bei in the Longshan area for a long time. His plan was to try his best to meet Guo Si and then fight quickly. If it was delayed, it would not be possible to rely on the poor Anding County, the long-term military rations of the army alone. So he directly sent some cavalry to protect Li Ru back to Chang'an, thinking that he had been doing it for a long time.

After another day of stalemate, that is, early on the third morning of Zhang Ren's trip to Nanshan, Guan Yu's army, which had built a catapult and some other siege weapons, resumed its attack, but focused on attack rather than a full-scale attack - he only focused on assaulting the presumption of a position on the west bank of the Sishui River, and did not advance in the river side.

This obviously left the retreat on the east bank to Li Guo's army, and wanted to use a sharp frontal offensive and positioning posture to force Li Guo's positioning.

At the same time, Liu Bei also sent someone to give Li Jue a letter of war, which stated that he had made plans to wipe out Zhang Ren's entire army. Knowing that Li Jue and Guo Si had successfully met, he hoped that the two armies would fight in a dignified manner.

This pointed out Li Guo's move, and reminded them that "it took a long time to stay in the dangerous place in Longshan, and Li Guo's own retreat is also dangerous. It is better to take a step back and adjust the current staggered formation to be beneficial to both sides."

As long as Li Guo gave up the position on the northern section of the west coast of the Nei River, Liu Bei could also give up the position on the southern section of the east coast of the Nei River, making the retreat of both sides more comfortable.

After reading it, Li Guo discussed with Jia Xu again, and felt that something made sense, so he agreed.

Guan Yu and Zhao Yun advanced along the west bank of the Lishui River, and finally extended to a position where Zhang Ren could be picked up through the mountain road. After drinking Chen Ji's dirty water on the top of Nanshan Mountain for four days, Zhang Ren finally successfully broke through.

Of course, Zhang Ren was also well aware of the consistent sanitation regulations of Liu Bei's army. Even if the soldiers had let the soldiers drink dirty water for many days, they knew to cut more trees and accumulate firewood, boil all the water and let it cool before drinking it. Therefore, there was no epidemic disease caused by drinking sewage in the army.

Zhang Ren returned to Xian County with his remnants and immediately apologized to Liu Bei: "The last general failed to follow the king's military order and insisted on blocking the intersection and preventing Li Jue and Guo Si from meeting with him. Please forgive me."

Liu Bei waved his hand: "It's enough for you to save the remaining troops to retreat. Gu didn't expect Jieting to be attacked from both sides, nor did he expect that the upstream of Longshan Mountain could set up such a trap to attack the attacking troops. You can't blame you for this, this is a strategic lack.

If you are promoted to the commander of the capital, you will be responsible for the defense of the Sanguan Pass in the future and be the commander of the Sanguan Pass. Each soldier who came back alive will be rewarded with half a year of food and salary, and the injured will be rewarded with additional rewards, and those who die in the country will be penalized for their families."

Zhang Ren: "Thank you for your kindness."

After arranging Zhang Ren's affairs, Liu Bei turned to Li Su and Xun You, with a slightly relaxed expression and asked: "Now Li Jue and Guo Si are in a position of confronting our army's water and preparing for a decisive battle. Is it a success for our army's stalemate strategy? It seems to be a little different from the military advisor's initial vision."

Li Su smiled and said, "How can the military deduction be the same everywhere? The little error in the starting conditions will be very different when deduced to the subsequent situation. But now it is obviously beneficial to our army - we sucked 170,000 enemy troops and did not dare to move around. We confronted each other through the Lishui River. Our food was transported from the Wei River, but their food was transported from the Jing River. We took a lot of this advantage."

The two grain transport rivers of the two armies were almost two hundred miles apart, and they fought at the gate of their own grain transport river. If they were placed in Cao Cao's place, they would laugh in their dreams.

During the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao's Wuchao was 80 miles away from Yanjin Ferry by land, while Cao Cao's own Guandu was only a few miles away from Langdang Canal. In this way, Cao Cao was satisfied. (Langdang Canal is a manually dredged river connecting the Yellow River and Yingchuan. The grain from Xuchang can be transferred from Yingchuan through Chen County, the capital of Chen County, and then transported directly to the Guandu Front by water)

What's more, the distance between Li Jue and Guo Si's stalemate point is more than twice as far away from the Jing River than when Wuchao was in Guandu.

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PS: It's even later...it's mainly because I accidentally wrote more than 8,000 words in this chapter, and I don't want to break the tortuous suspense in a frustrating place. Even if I still owe two updates... (Secretly take advantage of a few hundred words.)
Chapter completed!