Because Zhang He did not control the river on the Qinshui River along the way, although he successfully attacked the south bank on the first day, he still did not gain a foothold after nightfall. After two days of repeated warping, he was considered to be a stable front.

On the ugly side, a decisive breakthrough was made on the first day of the attack. The war lasted until June 25, and Yuan Shao's army finally compressed Guan Yu's defensive troops into three cities, destroying all the defense lines connecting Guan Yu's wilderness to the three counties.

Unfortunately, Guan Yu did not pay much casualties at all. He was using gradual retreat elastic defense to madly kill Yuan Shao's army's vitality.

At the beginning of the year, Guan Yu suffered all the frustrations at Ju Su, but now it has been reversed and the Yuan army soldiers have doubled down.

Moreover, when Guan Yu's troops retreated, they did not even lose much excellent equipment. After all, the defensive side could not stand up and retreat in an orderly manner. Unlike the offensive side who failed the offensive and left the body and ran away, many iron armor and steel-filled weapons would be seized.

Even Zhang He, Chou, invested a lot of iron armored soldiers during the attack this time, and it was only so smooth at the beginning, but at least one-third of the iron armor on these soldiers was seized from Guan Yu by Ju Su at the beginning of the year.

Especially those forged steel breastplates, Yuan Shao did not have such products at all. They were almost all seized by peeling the body before. Yuan Shao still produces ordinary trowels and fish scale armor, which are forged by one hammer and one hammer, without water wheel forging hammers.

Therefore, Zhang Hechou seemed to have advanced some territory, but in fact he sent back a considerable amount of the family fortune that Ju Su had saved for them.

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On the night of June 25, Huai County, which was the base of Yuan's army's advance, was actually in a state of celebration. Because Yuan Shao wanted to celebrate the successful division and encirclement of the three counties and three passes under Guan Yu's control, it was just around the corner to defeat each of them in the future." The banquet was placed in the Hanoi Prefect's Mansion in Huai County.

It can be seen that once there are more troops, the commander is out of touch with the front, and this situation is prone to occur. The casualties are just a number for Yuan Shao, and what he sees is that he successfully divides and sieges Guan Yu.

Since all of them have been divided, Yuan Jun now has the current situation of powerful weapons such as leveraged catapults, isn’t it a matter of sooner or later to break the city? Are you still afraid that Guan Yu will break through?

If Ju Su had fought like this earlier, wouldn't it be easy to deal with it? Although Guan Yu's troops were elite, 60,000 people were divided into three cities, and there were several levels in the rear, so they could not rescue each other.

Guan Yu was still stupid and reluctant to give up any important stronghold. The field defense line was divided and still had to defend the city. What is this asking for death?

The 200,000 troops piled up in batches, and not only each place formed local superior forces to annihilate the enemy? Is it a good idea to have a strong attack on the city and suffer heavy casualties, so I can also siege a few people who have been stored for a short time, and use them to attack and hunger and adapt to the situation at will.

Ju Su, a woman’s kindness! She is not worthy of being a commander! How can you be afraid of death when fighting? At the beginning, many deaths were to annihilate the enemy after the successful encirclement!

Yuan Shao's idea was even more vigorously praised by Xu You, and he became more and more determined to his inherent perception. When other soldiers saw that Xu You were praised, they were not willing to flatter him alone. Guo Tu, who had always spoken to people and talked to ghosts, also boasted about Yuan Shao's "decisiveness".

Although Ju Su was low and small, he had the opportunity to follow the army, in the face of such an environment, he had no chance to directly advise him. At Yuan Shao's banquet, he had to pretend to be smiling and congratulate Yuan Shao on his local breakthrough.

After leaving the prefect's mansion, Ju Su thought about it worriedly that he would cleverly remind Yuan Shao that he would not fall into the strategy of Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, and used valuable lines of defense and several county towns that seemed to have no way out but actually had a way out, which consumed tens of thousands of lives of Yuan Shao's army, and even prevented morale from falling heavily due to casualties.

After thinking about it, I had already formed a bond with Xu You, so I had to find someone else.

"Guo Tu is a greedy person, and he is indifferent to others, and has short wisdom. Now that Xu You is in power, Guo Tuduan will not speak out for justice. Although Feng Ji has some military insights, he and Xu You are fellow villagers in Nanyang and will not violate Xu You in military strategy.

Tian Feng did not follow the army, and the other counselors were mostly mediocre, leaving only Xun Chen. Xin Jing could discuss and jointly plan to persuade the lord."

Ju Su took a look in his mind and decided to give priority to Xun Chen.

Xun Chen did not appear in the Romance of the Romance, but in official history he was also an important counselor around Yuan Shao. During the Battle of Guandu in history, he led Xun Chen to accompany the military counselor.

However, there was also some accidental factor in Yuan Shao's reuse of Xun Chen. Before the Battle of Guandu, Xun Chen suggested that Yuan Shao fight and decide quickly, which was just right for Yuan Shao's temperament. In contrast, in history, Tian Feng suggested that Yuan Shao not fight before the Battle of Guandu, and Ju Su suggested that Yuan Shao fight in a stalemate and delay the fight to consume Cao Cao.

From this we can see that Xun Chen has different strategic vision from the other two top Yuanying strategists.

As for Xun Chen's age, there is no clear record, but according to calculations, he should be Xun Yu's brother.

Nowadays, due to the butterfly effect, Xun Chen's status in Yuanying is significantly lower than that of Ju Su and Xu You, and is similar to Tian Feng who offended others.

Ju Su didn't understand Xun Chen's position, so he went to find him first.

"Mr. Ju is coming at night, so I will have some advice? Please. Now the war is going well, and Ju Gong seems to have hidden worries?" Xun Chen was a little surprised when he saw Ju Su. He felt that the atmosphere of celebration in Huai County today was very good, so why did Ju Su look depressed?

Ju Su was not polite, and he sat down with the host and talked happily: "Just breaking through the defense lines that Guan Yu used to stalemate with us before, he lost so many people, and it really cannot be considered a victory. What if friends know about the casualties of the front army?"

Xun Chen: "Before I was inquired, after all, the casualties were damaged, which was considered a secret of military operations. The lord didn't think it was important, so why should we ask more? If there were too many casualties and the number was circulated, it would damage the morale of the army."

Ju Su was stunned. He didn't expect Xun Chen to be such a militant, and he didn't care about casualties and only cared about strategic progress.

He had no choice but to ask and answer: "I have seen that Zhang He, the second general of Chou, has killed more than 6,000 people in battle within three days! There are 13,000 injured! There are more than 1,000 seriously injured, and I guess it will not last for the past two days.

If the remaining wounded people are so angry today, their wounds are prone to purulent. Even if they get worse, thousands of deaths will die. I will not feel that it is so severe. Do you think this is a victory?"

Xun Chen was still cold-blooded: "Although the losses are heavy now, if Guan Yu's defenders who were left in these three cities could be encircled and annihilated, what are these casualties?"

Ju Su: "The problem is that we have no chance to encircle and annihilate! Zhang He was unable to encircle and annihilate the troops guarding Guan Yu's wild defense line after breaking through the Qinshui defense line. He was taken back to Yewang City by Guan Yu with warships, which is very telling.

Even if we siege these cities to death, Guan Yu will only take advantage of the opportunity of defending the city and killing our army in large quantities. When our leveraged catapult basically smashes the city defense and the city can no longer defend, Guan Yu will shrink the army from the waterway. We have no ships available upstream of Qinshui, so he can't stop him when he breaks through the waterway!"

After hearing this, Xun Chen paid a little more attention and asked in thought: "That's just that Qinshui County and Yewang County are on the verge of Qinshui. What about Wen County? Can the Wen County defenders still retreat from the Yellow River?

I know that Zhuge Liang has blocked the Yellow River surface between Zhuxian and Wushan, but the Yellow River surface between Zhuxian and Wenxian is still quite wide, and there is Mengjindu, the Luoyang garrison, on the other side. Should the control of this Yellow River surface be firmly in the hands of our army?"

Ju Su closed his eyes in pain and shook his head: "Although I don't know what Zhuge Liang would do, I think it would be great if we can maintain our advantage in the upright battle of the Yellow River.

But if we encounter an enemy who wants to break through and retreat, our warships will fight a pursuit and interception war. Who knows what tricks Zhuge Liang will come up with torture weapons?

You may not care about the war situation in the south. At the beginning of the year, Sun Ce's death and later Zhou Yu and Huang Gai's series of defeats, although I don't know the details, I also know that Li Su and Zhuge Liang's disciples are used to using various Qimen weapons to restrain large ships that lack protection with small boats. Therefore, in addition to the upright battle of arrays, we must avoid any raids with Liu Bei's navy."

Ju Su had already realized sensitively that the water war weapons that Li Su and Zhuge Liang had an important prerequisite for making use of their small profits, that is, the more they were, the more likely they were to gain profits from chaos.

This understanding has to be said to be very correct, because if the two armies lined up the water warship array, and the small boats patrol outside in a targeted manner and the large boats were waiting for the central army, then there would be no more opportunities for sneak attacks, whether it was mines or other weapons.

Xun Chen had not understood the details of the water wars in the south, but he still believed in Ju Shu's professional judgment in this matter. Unfortunately, he was still a warlike person by nature and advocated an active offensive strategy. After understanding these disadvantages, he was still a headache to treat the headache. He suggested:

"What Mr. Ju said makes sense. Guan Yu dared to defend the city and let us divide and surround it. Maybe he was really sure that after causing major damage to our army, he still retreated smoothly by relying on the water route.

In that case, our army suffered heavy losses, but only took down a few empty cities and failed to encircle and annihilate its main force. It was indeed unprofitable. I decided to recommend my lord tomorrow to recognize the dangers in this area, and then divide the troops to block Qinshui! Let Qinshui no longer pass through the Yewang City! Even if Guan Yu had a ship in the city, he could not break through! They were all stranded!"

Ju Su was slightly startled and wondered how could Xun Chen, a militant, come up with such a response?

He came today, and his original intention was to persuade Yuan Shao to notice that "the width of the front of the battlefield is too narrow, which is not conducive to the development of nearly 200,000 people, so the second battlefield should be opened in time and the second roundabout route for division of troops to attack."

After discussing with Xun Chen, Xun Chen came up with another radical solution.

Ju Su quickly analyzed: "If friends are not allowed, the river will be destroyed and damaged, many people will be injured. Qinshui is the main source of water in Hanoi County except the Yellow River, and it also gathers the streams of the Taihang Mountains upstream.

It is indeed not necessary to block the river, but it will inevitably lead to a diversion of the landslide. At that time, the Hanoi Plain may be a country with many casualties and injuries. Could it be that you can still ask the lord to recruit the people to dig dozens of miles of new rivers and bypass the Yewang City? How much civil power will it take?

What I mean today is to advise the lord not to be obsessed with one place, and to try to surround Wei and save Zhao, open up a new front, and force Guan Yu to break through and fight with us for fear of mistakes in the rear.

For example, wasn’t it said that Wang Ping, who was the best mountain war under Guan Yu, was secretly transferred to Runan and Lujiang by Li Su. Last year, Zhang Liao tried to cross Kongcangling to attack Duan clan upstream of Qinshui, but Wu Ze failed. That was because Wang Ping was in danger. Now Wang Ping’s Wudang Flying Army has been transferred away. In fact, we can use the offensive route that Zhang Liao failed once."

Xun Chen: "But, we advised the lord to dig Qinshui and divert the route. When Guan Yu saw that there was danger of withdrawing the troops from the waterway, wouldn't he immediately give up the Wild King? Maybe before Qinshui was diverted, Guan Yu took the initiative to break through."

Ju Su had no choice but to let Xun Chen prepare for both actions. After all, Xun Chen's suggestions were also beneficial to Yuan Shao, but he didn't know how much risk it was to harm the people.

If a river is blocked and diverted, many people will often drown. The water conservancy surveyors of this era are not professional at all, and the diverting direction may not be controlled.
Chapter completed!