"Is there any recent movement between Li Dao and Guo Yan?"

Although the armies arrived in Chang'an at different times, some fast and some slow, Li Dao Guo Yan did not have the slightest sign of leaving the city. It is believed that the two of them plan to wait for our army to besiege the city, and when our army runs out of food and withdraws, they will naturally be able to avoid this catastrophe. ”

Gently brushing his beautiful mustache, he answered Li Shushi's question unhurriedly.

Although Cheng Yu was not here because he needed to be busy with the autumn harvest in Bingzhou, Jia Xu was allowed to sit on the top spot representing the status of civil officials, but according to Jia Xu's habit on weekdays, no matter where he sits, he would not speak lightly, especially this kind of introductory words, he could resolutely not say it, so Fu Zhi took over this work very consciously.

By the way, I don't know if it's because I learned badly from Jia Xu, the old fox, or because of some other reason, Guo Jia seems to have a tendency to practice closed-mouth meditation recently, but unlike Jia Xu's face, Guo Jia's face always has a mixture of three points of mockery and three points of unruliness, in short, it still makes people laugh very impulsively to beat him.

"Do they really think that we are so unproductive as they are that we are starved of food and grass that we cannot sustain?"

Li Shushi's sentence is not angry, but the fact is exactly as he said.

After all, Tuntian has been engaged in it for so many years, and the state has been smooth most of the time under the protection of the god who doesn't know which way, and the purchasing power of the masses may not be very high, but at least there is no problem with life, and naturally the treasury of the state is also full, even if Li Shu takes out some government investment from time to time. However, the inventory of the government is still at the leading level among the princes of the Han Dynasty, so it is natural to have the confidence to speak.

But well......

"Although the lord is not wrong to say this, Guanzhong and even the entire Xiliang have been repeatedly war-torn since Dong Zhuo's death, and there are even more foreign races raging, and the people are generally in difficulty, and they still need the help of the state pastor."

"Yes, then there will be a need to re-widen the canals and rebuild all kinds of water facilities, which will be a huge expense by the standards of the state. Even the use of armies and alien slaves still required payment of rations. ”

"We also need to be concerned about the movements of the princes in the east. Once they move again. We also need to mobilize grain and grass and troops to fight against it, and the main army cannot be trapped under the city of Chang'an for a long time, giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of. ”

Therefore, if you focus on one city and one place, there is no problem, but look at the overall situation. I still feel overstretched.

Who said that the current Guanzhong and even the southern part of Liangzhou are a mess.

So it seems. The method of a long-term siege becomes less viable. Even because of this, some high-level siege equipment made by cutting down trees became impossible, even if Li Shushi had an extremely powerful golden fire cannon, but the number of one was still a drop in the bucket for the huge Chang'an City in front of him. It doesn't seem to be very useful.

Perhaps the only feasible solution is the "ant attached to the city" that Sun Tzu hated the most.

But well......

"If we use the elite men and horses of the Bingzhou Army Headquarters, although we have a certain advantage in ability, we will still lose Yan Zòng under the fortified city, and it is obviously not in line with our expectations to suffer huge losses in such a victorious battle. And if it is replaced by the soldiers and horses of Xiliang Haoqiang, Su zhì will not be able to compete with the Xiliang army in the city, then the loss will be even greater. Xiliang has already suffered too much, and those soldiers are an important force for the future restoration of Xiliang's prosperity. If all of them are lost here, it will not only hit the morale of the whole army, but also greatly affect our future plans. ”

Zhao Yun's words made everyone present turn their eyes to several strategists.

Even the generals of the Xiliang Army, who were already destined to not be able to retain so many soldiers and horses before, also agreed with Zhao Yun's words, after all, if it was mentioned that the ants were attached to the siege of the city, then non-descendant troops like them were the best candidates for cannon fodder, and too many of the cannon fodder who would be sacrificed were subordinates who had followed them for many years and had a lot of comradeship.

Even if some of these people will be arranged to return to their hometowns to farm in the future and become soldiers and farmers, it is much luckier to leave a life than to die on the battlefield.

This kind of feeling is not necessarily hypocritical or to buy people's hearts or anything, it is just a very normal emotion of human beings, not to mention those veterans who have crawled out of the pile of dead people over and over again, and they can better understand the preciousness of being alive.

Of course, for some troops with a certain faith, some things are obviously more precious than life, so they will fight hard, so they can make the enemy tremble, so they can create miracles.

But even if it is that kind of army, it is not casual to consider using human lives to fill a victory, and being able to reduce casualties is always the goal pursued by every general.

That's why Sun Wu is so disgusted with the siege of the city, which consumes everything.

Facing the eyes of all the generals, including Li Shushi, several strategists were very calm, and even Fu Xie, who originally had a melancholy on his face, was relieved a lot under the influence of several people around him.

After all, these people have hardly disappointed Li Shushi.

Not to mention that these people are united, even Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be frightened.

They are much higher than the stooge's geniuses.

"This matter has actually been mentioned to Xu a few months ago, although it is not certain that this final battle will inevitably break out in Chang'an, but some things always have to be prepared in advance. As for the specific things, let Bonghyo explain it. ”

After speaking, Jia Xu's eyes closed gently as if he was about to fall asleep, and the whole person became as if he was ethereal again.

Of course, it is not that Jia Xu's kicking and storage skills have reached the level of Carlin, but more importantly, everyone's attention has been shifted to Guo Jia, who was pitted by him with a wry smile on his face.

It is estimated that if it weren't for the wrong occasion, maybe Guo Jia would really bite Jia Xu and say not necessarily?

It's just that with Guo Jia's force potential of only a pitiful 22 to go head-to-head with a force potential of up to 56, and all kinds of experience are even more abundant, Jia Xu old fox always feels that some kind of miserable result will happen.

Ahem. I always feel that something is wrong, can it be that the influence of the Ma family brothers cannot be dissipated even if they are not in person.

"We have been here for many days, but the enemy army has not moved in the city, which means that the other party has determined to defend the city until our food and grass are exhausted. It is precisely because of this that the Li Guo coalition army, which had just experienced the rebellion of Dong Cheng and Wei Xu, will definitely carry out an internal purge. According to the information sent back by our meticulous work, all the important places in Chang'an City are now taken care of by the relatives of Li Dao and Guo Yan. Among them, the guard of the south gate is Li Wei's subordinate Li Li, the guard of the west gate is Li Wei's subordinate brother Li Ying, and the guard of the north gate is Guo Yan's sister-in-law Tang Peng. These people and Li Guo are prosperous together, and they are both lost. What's more, if you really want to surrender. The envoy should have been sent a long time ago, but according to the detailed report, these people have now refused to meet except for the familiar personal guards, and it can be said that they are determined to be martyred for Li Guo and the others. ”

Although it has been judged that the enemy is going to defend it before. But Guo Jia now goes further to tell everyone. How resolute the enemy is in such judgments. In the same way, it will be difficult for them to divide further internally. This means that even if there is any strategy, it is based on a hard-fought battle, and it is absolutely impossible to win this battle easily.

And such a reminder did its job. All the generals, including Lu Bu, showed a solemn color on their faces, even if some people were still impetuous in their hearts because of the previous Shun Lì, but now this kind of thinking is no longer the mainstream idea in their hearts, how to say that every general present has experienced enough battles.

"Now the troops we have gathered under the city of Chang'an are roughly estimated to be nearly 200,000 people, and the enemy in the city is about 50,000 people, but the situation is forced to come, the enemy may order the powerful private soldiers and even ordinary people in the city to go to the city to participate in the defense. But in today's form, this is the last resort of Li Guo and the others, because it means that they have no power to return to heaven. ”

Yes, although the number of the current army is a little small, it has also been sorted out by Li Guo and the two of them, it was originally Li Guo's lineage plus the lineage of the Xiliang Army that originally belonged to Niu Fu, these people have a personal feeling for the glory of the Xiliang Army, and naturally they have a deep hostility to the Bingzhou Army that has risen and wants to replace them, and it is naturally easy to unify their thoughts.

But what about the mighty and the people?

Li Guo and the others have lost confidence in those courtiers, and those who are still alive are just a group of wall grass, which side is advantageous to fall towards, even if they can still be forced by the sword now, but when the war is fierce, who can take care of them. But if they make a difference at that time - they don't need to open the city and defect, as long as they cringe a little and release a little water, it is very likely to be broken through, which will cause a chain reaction, which is the rhythm of the collapse.

And those people in Chang'an City, Li Guo still remembers the original immigration wave, maybe as long as Su Xiaololi in the city stands up and roars, they can all turn their backs - Li Guo and the others don't think this is an exaggeration.

"But even so, Chang'an is not invulnerable."

Now that they have said so much about the enemy's advantages, it is time to talk about their own methods, otherwise the eyes of the general, who have been hanging their appetite for so long, are already full of danger when they look at them.

"Chang'an City is indeed a high and dense city, and normally if you want to attack the city, you will inevitably suffer great losses. However, you may only see the height of Chang'an City, but you have not noticed the breadth of Chang'an City. ”

At this time, Guo Jia's eyes kept flashing with the light of wisdom, and hearing his prompts, many generals also flashed a clear light in their eyes, obviously they already had a certain understanding of the thoughts of the strategists.

"I'm afraid that many generals have already thought of it. Yes, the walls of Chang'an City are about 16,000 steps, and the troops under Li Guo can only use more than 50,000 people, while our army has 200,000 ......"

"What does Feng Xiao mean is that we will not stop day and night, play wheel warfare with Li Guo with dignified and upright soldiers, and consume each other alive?"

Although 200,000 to 50,000 is not enough to be called a five-fold bottom line that can be directly attacked in "The Art of War", but just like Guo Jia said, Chang'an City is too big, so big that although it is very difficult to attack the city, it is also a difficult thing to defend well. But as I said just now, there are not many soldiers that Li Dao and Guo Yan can trust. Even to the point where all the city is sprinkled will not be enough, and there will not be many reserves.

In this way, the Merge State Army, which has the initiative in its hands, can completely play a "fatigue tactic" with the opponent, so that the opponent's nerves are tense all the time, and finally reach the stage of collapse, and then take the opportunity to break through, which can trigger a chain reaction on the enemy's defensive line.

The most important thing is that the morale of the army is now high and the enemy is sitting in a lonely city, and the morale is low.

Therefore, this method can be regarded as a complete yang conspiracy, I just have many more soldiers than you, and I can choose the time and place of high-intensity attack at will. Or even a change in the pace of the offense. But you can only fight with all your might.

Because you can't afford to gamble!

"There's nothing wrong with the Lord's thoughts. That's the main idea. The rest, such as beating gongs and drums at night and singing big operas, beating gongs and drums at night to make lanterns, and beating gongs and drums at night to conduct emergency assembly training and so on are just after-entertainment programs. ”

Okay, Guo Fengxiao, are you planning to turn the enemy into a group of giant pandas completely, and let people not sleep.

"Don't."

So men who can read minds aren't cute at all.

"Of course. These are all set-ups for the most critical step. ”

"Foreshadowing? The most critical step? ”

"Yes. Employing such exhausting tactics can make it difficult for the enemy to survive. Quickly drain the enemy's energy, but it will take a long time for the enemy to collapse completely. ”

"So the most crucial step is ......"

"So I ask the siege troops in every direction to select an elite division and wait until the enemy's defenses are loosened. You can take the opportunity to press, and then the rest of the parties can also be put into elite forces in batches, so that the enemy can take care of one and lose the other. ”

Well, in the end, it's a strategy that requires a lot of lives. It's just that compared to the brainless ant-attached siege, such a planned, rhythmic, and premeditated attack is indeed easier for the enemy to have loopholes, so that the battle will end to the end, and naturally fewer people will die.

From this point of view, this method can be regarded as a combination of "going to the army to attack the army" and "second to the army".

As for this decision, the generals thought about it, and even discussed it in a whisper, feeling that there didn't seem to be many more reliable opinions, so they acquiesced to Guo Jia, and perhaps there should be a plan involving Jia Xu, Fu Zhu and others.

"Haha, then the rest depends on us generals."

Waiting for Guo Jia to sit down, Lu Bu immediately patted his chest and kept glancing at Li Shushi, the meaning was self-evident.

"Yes, although the old man has been in the case for a long time, his muscles and bones have not rusted, and he can still make contributions to the battlefield for the lord."

Huang Zhong was also eager, obviously although this state pastor was glorious, but he was also a little depressed as a violent element, after all, compared to the struggle between the case and the sadness between the strong and the strong, he felt that the-for-tat on the battlefield made him feel more excited.

It is estimated that when the situation in Shuozhou can be stabilized, it is estimated that Huang Zhong will not plan to be this magistrate again.

In fact, taking advantage of the siege of Chang'an this time, Huang Zhong has already revealed his thoughts to Li Shushi in private, although Li Shushi is very reluctant, after all, the most important thing for such a capable scholar and martial arts is that he is good at dealing with Haoqiang and can be regarded as his own hardcore subordinates, Li Shushi does not want to let go of the other party from the bottom of his heart.

However, he also understands and respects Huang Zhong's choice, just as his habit of respecting Xiaoqiang makes him a pure general rather than a position that needs to be buried in the case, even if he has the title of Wei County Taishou, he is more like a hands-off shopkeeper than him.

Therefore, even if no commitment was made, some tacit understanding had been reached between the two sides, so Huang Zhong, who felt that he had become a general, would naturally not let go of such a rare opportunity to "warm up".

"And how should the armies on all sides be distributed?"

This time, it was Zhang Ji who was sitting next to Huang Zhong who raised the question - perhaps only he dared to open this mouth and dare to ask the question that the generals present were most concerned about.

Because this matter is related to their performance in this war, and it is also related to their treatment after the war.

Even if Li Shushi said it nicely and even acted fairly, they were still afraid that they would be assigned to a certain general of the state army, and then be used as cannon fodder by the other party, and at the same time lose the opportunity to participate in the last wave of attacks that are most likely to take credit. The former will reduce the number of troops in his hands and lower his status after being absorbed, while the latter will not let himself have a good enough meeting gift, which will affect his internal environment in the Bingzhou Army - especially Fan Chou, Ma Teng, Duan Xuan and others who have not yet made any contributions, but Li Kanhe and the candidates have some gains in the subsequent sweep because they initiated the uprising and persuaded Cheng Yin, and their hearts can be somewhat stable.

But it seems that only Zhang Ji, who has a close relationship with the Bingzhou Army but still belongs to the Xiliang Army, is able to express these thoughts, not only because his nephew is a confidant general under Li Shushi, but also because Zhang Ji has already started cooperation with the Bingzhou Army in Nanyang before, and the relationship between the two sides has been extremely close, and the status has almost been established.

"Well, this kind of thing shouldn't have much of an impact...... Okay, Wenhe, this matter will be handed over to the 'General Staff', and it will be regarded as the task I have assigned to them, and see what they have learned during this time and the Yizhen master. ”

Well, Li Shushi didn't understand Zhang Ji's off-string sound at all, or he didn't intend to understand it - no matter how much credit he made here, it was just to get a slightly higher starting point, and how to do it in the future actually depends on himself.

and the steppe Hu people, and the Kwantung princes, and the southwestern barbarians, as well as the enemies of distant enemies, and even ...... Inhuman existence zài.

Pan Sen: The recent "Wind Flower Burial" on Sanjiang is good, and it is worth reading, as long as you can read the author's abusive writing. Of course, the abuse is not heavy, and it does not belong to the heavy taste. But let's wait now for the author to be able to round this game, or finally break himself up, hehe...... (To be continued......)