"Siege the city without water and food?"

Yan Baihu rarely attacked the city, and he didn't know much about siege warfare, and the few county towns he occupied before were all using powerful soldiers and horses, either directly deterring and scaring the county to open the city and surrender, or using counter-tactics to directly let the inner city open the city gate.

There is no experience in really storming the city wall, let alone besieging the city and cutting off water and food.

"See this moat? As long as we cut off the water of this moat upstream, and then lead it to other places, if we do not pass through this city, we will control the water supply for life in this city, and if people do not have enough water, the people in the city will be in chaos within three or five days. ”

"Is this really possible?"

"If you can't try it, you'll know, anyway, we're not in a hurry, it's Liu Miao who is in a hurry, not us, outside the city, if Liu Xuan's reinforcements come, we can also eliminate his reinforcements by the way."

This method of enclosing the dots in a circle. In this case, it is also more beneficial to Liu Zheng.

Of course, Liu Zheng didn't know that Liu Jian was no longer in Huiji City at this time, that is to say, there were basically no reinforcements to Huiji City to support, maybe there were, and the possibility was very small.

Yan Baihu nodded after hearing what Liu Zheng said, and didn't say much, after all, he didn't have a better way to take down this Huiji City at this time.

Only by following Liu Zheng's method may really be successful, anyway, they have now beaten down several counties near Jijun. There are no reinforcements near Huiji City in a short period of time, and if you take a little rest and surround Huiji City, you can really use this as a base to deal with the reinforcements who come to the rescue.

If we can eliminate some of Liu Xuan's reinforcements according to this position, and eliminate the reinforcements sent from other places, the entire counties and counties in Yangzhou will be in deficit. It is even possible that they will occupy the entire other counties of Yangzhou as a result.

According to Liu Zheng's plan, Yan Baihu's men and horses soon united with Liu Zheng's men and horses and began to cut off the water of the moat outside Huiji City.

It took only one day to cut off the flow from the outside of the moat to other directions.

In the city, a group of soldiers standing on the tower of the city saw the actions of Liu Zheng and others outside the city, and their faces immediately changed miserably, as if they understood what Liu Zheng and Yan Baihu wanted to do.

Fan Neng, who had been promoted from a general to the supreme governor of Huiji City, had also reached the top of the city tower at this time, he observed left and right, and after seeing that the water in this moat was becoming less and less, he had already realized something, and even if he ordered all the people to use their greatest strength to store the water source.

But at such a speed, it was still too late, and the water stored in a short time was simply not enough, and they did not have time to find more containers.

In this way, the moat outside the city was cut off, and the water source into the city was not guaranteed, although there were still some wells in the city that could be used for the time being.

However, those wells need to supply the living life of tens of thousands of people in the city, and there is simply not enough, and at this time, it is summer, the hottest time, and if you don't take a bath for a day, you will be covered in sweat and smell, if you delay for a few days without bathing, I am afraid that you will have lice on your body.

On the first day of the water cut, there was not much movement in Huiji City.

After all, Fan Neng's previous wise move allowed the soldiers and people in Huiji City to collect some spare water in advance, and for a while, the shortage of water sources would not affect too much.

Three days passed.

There was no movement in the city, Liu Zheng and Yan Baihu were very honest for three days, and there was no sign of taking the initiative to attack the city, but let the army be stationed at the four gates of Huiji City, and conduct simple drills every day, and did not attack the city, that is, they trained outside, and after a normal rest, they were replaced to continue the exercises.

The huge shouting and killing sound can pass through the city wall and let the people in the city hear it, increasing the panic and fear of the people in the city.

However, three days have passed, and Fan Neng in the city has not lost his breath, but Yan Baihu has been a little unable to hold his breath first.

He saw that there was no movement in the city, and in the past two days, he often came to Liu Zheng's place, wanting to inquire about Liu Zheng's news.

"Brother Liu, there is no movement, in this city, the soldiers and horses inside are not moved at all, could it be that there is something wrong with our plan to cut off the water?"

Yan Baihu was a little anxious, and if he wanted to see the results as soon as possible, it was best to be able to lay down Huiji City on the same day, and then he sat in the palace of the county town with a beautiful woman and drank wine.

But I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Liu Zheng wanted to laugh at Yan Baihu, who was a little anxious, but was embarrassed to laugh in person.

"Brother Yan, don't worry, this plan of cutting off water and food, where can it be effective so quickly."

"How long will it take, the siege of this thing, I feel that it will not be good for us to delay ourselves, after all, our army of 30,000 people, the consumption of grain and grass here is not less than that of the other party."

The Fan Neng army in the city consumes a lot of grain and grass, but Yan Baihu outside the city is also not small, but they still want it, they can transport grain from other places, and the people in the city can only eat and store grain.

"Grain and grass things, don't worry for the time being, two days ago, I have ordered someone to go to Jiaozhou to urge, this time Jiaozhou's newly harvested grain and grass, has begun to prepare to be transported to Huiji, I think it will take a few days, the first batch of grain and grass will be able to arrive, when the time comes, our grain and grass problem can be alleviated, and the other party, can only use the stored grain, it must be stronger than us, and it will always go out of the city to fight with us for a long time."

"But we don't know how much food is left in this city, and how long will it take to delay?"

"Wait, it's only been three days, and it's useless to say this."

Liu Zheng didn't tell him how long he would have to wait.

Yan Baihu left after Liu Zheng couldn't get an answer here, but Liu Zheng didn't care directly, he found Gan Ning and ordered Gan Ning to start preparing the trebuchet.

Although a few trebuchets could not directly break the city, Liu Zheng needed to use trebuchets to put some pressure on the defenders of Huiji City.

The previous trebuchet was destroyed by a fire in Sun Jian's attack, and now the trebuchet that wants to attack the city can only be remanufactured, but now Liu Zheng has handed over the method of making trebuchet to Gan Ning, Wen Ping and others, and there is no problem with them going down to be responsible for making a few trebuchets.

In this way, after a few more days, there was still no movement in Huiji City, although Liu Zheng outside the city was relatively calm, but Yan Baihu was a little anxious.