Chapter 621: Don’t ask, asking is the victory of farming
The first battle was unfavorable. It should be said that the first battle suffered heavy losses, with more than 10,000 troops and horses lost. Even if Zhang Zhao was unconvinced, he could only follow the advice of his subordinates, fight steadily, and completely surround Hefei first.
After being alert to Zhang Liao's surprise attack all night, everyone was obviously highly nervous.
It's a pity that the other party never came after all.
Therefore, when the army set off again earlier, all the soldiers of Soochow seemed exhausted.
The only good news may be that Zhu Huan's injury was not serious. However, even so, Zhang Zhao did not dare to let a general like Zhu Huan carry out his unreasonable mission again.
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Wow——
After wading through the river, the Soochow soldiers' legs felt as heavy as lead.
Coupled with the heavy rain in the past few days, the soldiers' anxious complaints were heard on the extremely muddy beach.
Zeng Youyun: Mentality can determine everything——
Although this statement is absolute, in some cases, this statement has its own truth.
Compared with the Hefei defenders who were full of momentum and confidence, the Soochow people at this time were obviously beginning to feel discouraged.
Fortunately, Zhang Liao and others did not take the risk of attacking its instability at this time, which gave Zhang Zhao some time to breathe, otherwise... maybe... this war could have ended faster.
But...letting the enemy surround Hefei City was naturally within the expectations given by Yi Xiaotian——
People in Soochow didn't know how many years of food and grass there were in Hefei, but Yi Xiaotian knew very well...Before the war, Cao Cao intentionally or unintentionally began to mobilize the food and grass troops in Shouchun, and he was already determined to build Hefei into another Eastern Front.
There is indeed no problem with Zhang Zhao's judgment in the important military town. After experiencing the defeat in Chibi, Cao Cao no longer had any extra troops to rush to Hefei to aid.
If we really count, including the reinforcements that Xun Yu later allocated to Hefei, Hefei would be extremely overwhelmed if he had at most 5,000 reinforcements.
Under such circumstances...to defend a city like Hefei, food and grass are an indispensable part——
Zhang Liao sent out cavalry in advance to detect Zhu Huan's movements. This was unexpected, but even if they did not ambush Zhu Huan at that time and let Zhu Huan freely guerrilla between Shouchun and Hefei, they would not be able to defeat him.
What kind of waves... Because from the beginning to the end, Jiang Ji, Zhang Liao and the others had no intention of using the grain channel——
At this moment, the three barns in Hefei City are filled to the brim. Not to mention more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, even if there are another 30,000 soldiers and horses, it will be difficult for them to use up the food reserves every half a year.
Now we have to talk about Jiang Ji...
Jiang Ji is a good official. If the normal historical development is followed, this person has been the ruler of the four generations of Cao Wei and is definitely a meritorious official in the Cao Wei camp——
Of course, his main achievements were made when he took office in Yangzhou, whether he was the Shouchun Order or the Hefei Order——
He loved the people and loved to make friends with people with lofty ideals. When he was in office, Hefei and Shouchun had good weather year after year, and the granaries were basically full every year.
If that's all, then Jiang Ji is actually a good official in the normal sense.
But today Hefei is able to stand firm under the siege of 100,000 troops. The reason lies in another hobby of Jiang Ji...
Jiang Ji is an alcoholic. To put it nicely, he likes drinking. To put it worst, he is an old drunkard... There are twelve hours in a day. As a citizen of Hefei, if you want to see the sober Jiang Ji, you must either
You have to get up early, or you have to come home late——
During the two hours after getting up in the morning, Jiang Ji dealt with official duties, and at night, after finishing all matters at home, Jiang Ji went home with his wine cup. During these two hours, he was sober and did not drink.
And because of drinking, he himself was particularly sad about the grain harvest - other officials often have to do some big things when they go to a place, such as suppressing bandits, such as issuing government decrees, in short, they have to do something that can be verified every year
At that time, there was a name on the list, adding an A... But what about Jiang Ji?
In order to be able to drink well, Jiang Ji went to work in the fields himself, observing the weather and knowing the calendar. To a certain extent, he was better at growing food than some old farmers.
And because of this strange skill, Jiang Ji sent people outside the city to collect this year's grain in advance in order to prevent war before he received the call from the Soochow people to attack Hefei - even if he gave up some quality for this.
and yield…
Sure enough, when the war broke out in Xiangyang, Hefei was the first city to support Xiangyang with grain and grass. Even though a batch of grain and grass had been transported, the city still had considerable reserves of grain when the Soochow people arrived. After knowing this, Zhang Liao was really happy.
I drank several bowls of wine...
Therefore, Zhang Zhao wanted to lay siege to the city, hoping to completely trap the tens of thousands of Cao's troops in the city to death.
Little did they know that all this played into Zhang Liao and Jiang Jiwenpin's plans.
They were afraid that the other party would not lay siege to the city... Otherwise, the extremely torturous strategies in the second half of the tips package sent by Yi Xiaotian would be difficult to use.
The naive Zhang Zhao thought it was his steady attack that kept the defenders in the city from daring to act rashly. He had just been depressed for half a day, and when the siege of the city began to take shape, Zhang Zhao began to embarrass his subordinates again.
"When everything is ready, we will attack the city together today! We will do our best to consume the opponent's strength... In less than half a month... the enemy will surely surrender!"
But this time, no one was willing to agree with Zhang Zhao.
Sometimes things are just so realistic. The loss of troops and horses is not a big problem. The key point is that people's hearts are scattered. Many times, it is difficult to find this cohesion again——
Zhang Zhao looked at the busy soldiers in embarrassment, stamped his feet, and returned to the tent without saying a word to drink. He was proud, praised by the stars, and highly respected, just like a monarch.
Like Mr. Zhang Ge.
Making him realize his mistakes is sometimes far more difficult than killing him - of course killing him is not easy, and this is what Zhang Liao has to consider.
…
It was a day when the sun was high overhead.
In the dull Soochow formation, the long-lost horn finally sounded...
Woo...woo...woo...
This trumpet sound that always devastated the minds of the soldiers, obviously at this moment, put shackles on the Soochow people who had lost most of their energy and spirit.
This is not an all-out attack on the city... this is a rush to the execution ground...
Zhu Huan, Han Dang, Ding Feng, Jiang Qin, Zhu Zhi and other generals who were as competent as before were anxious about their deployment and launched an attack on the city wall from four directions of Hefei City——
Similarly, the Hefei garrison that sprung up on the city walls launched a powerful and well-organized counterattack against the enemy's desperate offensive.
For a moment, there were shouts of killing all day long, and blood stained the sky above Hefei... In less than half a day, Hefei turned into a meat grinder as cruel as Xiangyang, ruthlessly devouring lives... especially the people of Soochow.
