"Ma Chao has actually brought at least 30,000 troops to Wuwei County, Lingju County. He is still hoarding more materials on the front line and preparing to attack Guzang, where General Guo is stationed? The information will not be wrong."

When Han Sui met the messenger who risked his life to break into Jincheng, he was surprised when he heard the first military information sent by the messenger.

When the messenger saw Han Sui's shirk responsibility, he was angry, but at this moment he was in someone else's territory, so he couldn't be too domineering, but he just held back his anger to clarify:

"General Cavalry personally led 20,000 elite troops from Xiliang, all of whom were cavalry. He fought with Ma Chao in the field, but he still failed for a while and retreated to the city to clear the fields. He waited for General Han to cut off Ma Chao's food route and waited for Ma Chao's army to lose his morale before fighting with him. How could Ma Chao's troops be less powerful?

Moreover, when we came to Jincheng this time, on the north bank of the estuary of the Yellow River, we only saw a small camp where the Guan Yu army could only station at most one or two thousand people, guarding the Yellow River Ferry.

Although the camp on the south bank of the ferry is not clear, it is not much. In addition, I have never seen Guan Yu's soldiers and General Han again. Are you so afraid of the enemy? Guan Yu left in Jincheng with only the grain protection camp, and you dare not go out to fight to rob the grain!

If General Cavalry and Ma Chao fail in a stalemate, General Cavalry can at least escape from Zhangye and Jiuquan along the weak water. You General Han is just a dead vine and a fruit, waiting to die! I hope you think clearly that you are also an old thief who has been rebelling against the Han Dynasty for more than ten years, and Guan Yu will not give you a way to survive!"

Han Sui fell into a nervous silence. Of course, he was not just afraid that Guo Si would punish him, after all, the subordinate relationship between the two sides was not that close. But Han Sui also knew that if he kept guarding, he would be surrounded to death sooner or later.

He was just waiting for Guo Si to reinforce, or wait for Guo Si to weaken the main force of the Han army and attract away.

Now, Ma Chao has taken so many people away, and the opportunity seems to have really come. If he doesn't do anything, he will boil the frog in warm water and miss the last chance to try.

The estuary of the canal flowing into the Yellow River is sixty miles southwest of Jincheng! The estuary of the canal flowing into the Yellow River is only more than ten miles away from the Jincheng wall! Jincheng is the best logistics cut-off point in the Northern Expedition of Xiliang. You can no longer sit and watch the enemy pass through the estuary of the canal flowing more than ten miles outside the city wall, and continuously transporting materials to the north!

Thinking about this, Han Sui replied with a solemn gesture of giving military orders: "Please come and reply to General Cavalry, just say that I will definitely attack the besieged camp at the Yellow River Ferry before Ma Chao's next large-scale fleet passes through the Yellow River and Langshui River estuary, and will not allow the next wave of supplies to arrive at Lingju!"

...

Han Sui agreed, but considering that Ma Chao's transportation team had just arrived at Lingju, it was only a few days before returning. So Han Sui didn't have to hurry.

As mentioned earlier, it takes seven days to travel from Lintao to Jincheng, and fifteen days to travel from Lintao to Lingju. When Han Sui agreed, it was Ma Chao's transportation team who returned from Lingju, which was around June 20th, so it took twenty-one or two days before passing through the estuary of the Yellow River in the northwest of Jincheng.

Han Sui still has time to prepare for this battle, seek foreign aid, and spend more time on Guan Yu, further paralyzing Guan Yu, reducing his sharpness, and increasing material pressure.

Han Sui would not waste this preparation time. Even if he did not send troops, he would strengthen the investigation of the deployment of Guan Yu's besieged camp. Every day, he would occasionally open the city gate and scatter dozens of scout cavalry groups in the night.

The investigation was prepared for several days. At about the end of June, Han Sui recruited several of his main aides and generals to discuss specific strategies for sending troops.

Now, under Han Sui, the counselors are mainly Cheng Gongying, and the military generals are mainly Yan.

Yan Xing is the guy who tied with the young Ma Chao in history, was stabbed by Zhang Fei a few years ago and was seriously injured, and gave Zhang Fei a snake spear. Cheng Gongying is a native of Jincheng and Han Sui's confidant.

There are also some relatively loose dependent generals, mainly including the candidates, Yang Qiu, Li Kan, and Cheng Yin.

According to the "Three Kingdoms", in history, when Ma Chao and Han Sui raised their troops, there were ten troops from Xiliang. In addition to Ma Han, there were eight generals. These eight people could not be simply considered to be dependent on Ma Chao or Han Sui, but they just loosely respected the two.

When he arrived in "Arts", considering that many of these people were later defeated by the rabble, Robben wrote them as Han Sui's general.

But in fact, among these eight people, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan tends to be Ma Teng and Ma Chao and his son, so he is not under Han Sui's command. Cheng Yi and others were also very brave in the decisive battle of Weinan in history and were attacked and killed by Xiahou Yuan and Xu Chu and others.

Among the eight people, Liang Xing and Zhang Heng were both from Guzang County, Wuwei County, and were from Duan Wei's fellow townsman and generals. In history, after Duan Wei died, their power dispersed and they returned to Xiliang to establish a family.

Now due to the butterfly effect, Duan Wei has become a hero who is stationed in Hongnong. Liang Xing and Zhang Heng have to follow Duan Wei to enjoy the delicious food and drink spicy food.

Therefore, among the ten Western Liang tribes, Han Sui only had four divisions left.

After Han Sui summoned his generals, he asked: "I saw that Guan Yu stationed troops on both sides of the Yellow River, Langshui Ferry, and in low-lying and fertile lands. There were indeed not many soldiers, and the total number was only five or six thousand. Even if there were some hidden things, they would definitely not be able to hide ten thousand.

In more than ten days, the next fleet that transports supplies to Ma Chao to Lingju front line will be passed. I promised Guo Si that he would not let Ma Chao get the next batch of supplies.

And this is also for ourselves. If we don’t fight, we will have no chance. If we can still grab this large number of supplies, it will be an unexpected surprise and will even allow Ma Chao and Guan Yu to retire because of the early food. "

The adviser Cheng Gongying took the lead and said: "Lord, since the Han army's northern expedition to Guanzhong last year, Liu Bei has been known for his use of many soldiers but not many. This is because the road to Shu is difficult and the transportation is difficult. If the military is strong, the military ration needs are less.

Last year, the locust plague and severe drought in Guanzhong, and even this year, Guan Yu sent troops to raise grain from Youfufeng. Instead, he asked Yizhou's governor Li Su to transport it from Bazhong along the Jialing River and Baishui to Dazhong, and then to Lintao.

From this point of view, the elite of Guan Yu's army may be far above our army, even if there are only a few thousand people, if the offense and defense are changed, and we will attack Guan Yu's strong camp, we may not be able to attack Xiadukou camp if we send 20,000 veterans for a long battle."

Yan Xing, the reckless man next to him, said indignation: "Cheng Gongying, don't be afraid of the enemy like a tiger! This is the best opportunity. If the 20,000 long-term battle soldiers are not enough, the old and weak soldiers who return to the city will also be brought to battle, and Guan Yu will always be taken down."

When the two were arguing, Yang Qiu, who was standing by, suggested: "Han Gong, even if he had to fight, could he find some reinforcements? In previous years, if Guan Yu came from Guanzhong and Tianshui to raise grain and traveled to the lower reaches of the Yellow River to attack Jincheng, we still had no help.

But this year they came from Tao River, ate the food from Shu, and walked to the upper reaches of the Yellow River to encircle Jincheng. Within dozens of miles of the upper reaches of Jincheng, there are three main sources of the Yellow River, Tao River and Huangshui River that flow into it.

The Tao River is occupied by Li Su, and there is also your old friend Song Jian in the area of ​​the source of the Yellow River, and the Huangshui River, and the troops of the Di King of Wudu who were forced to move to that place. If you contact them, bring a little more troops and follow the Yellow River and the Huangshui River downstream, gathering the Guanyu Ferry Camp at the mouth of the Langshui River in the upper and lower reaches, and you will definitely be able to completely break Guanyu!"

Yang Qiu was not very good at military strategy, but after all, he started his own business and later joined Han Sui, so he had a high emotional intelligence and liked to form cliques to find his elder brother to join or win over his younger brother. So the first thing he thought of was to "multiple friends and multiple ways" to attract more people to fight Guan Yu together.

The location of Jincheng is where the four rivers converge. In theory, maximizing the application is to pull all the forces at the source of the four rivers to share the same hatred for the enemy.

On the map, Li Su, Song Jian, Qian Wan, and Guo Si just decibels correspond to the four directions of Tao River, the source of the Yellow River, Huangshui, and Langshui (Han Sui himself occupied the lower reaches of the Yellow River in Jincheng).

If Jincheng was besieged and killed without hope, the Qiang Di barbarian kings and Han people rebelled with little leaders would definitely not come to join in the fun, so they had never invited them before.

But if Han Sui took the initiative to be the main attacker of Guan Yu, asked them to pick up wallets, and promised to destroy Guan Yu and divide the materials seized by the enemy's baggage team into tens of millions, Song Jian equally, these guys would definitely come.

Xiliang has never lacked greedy and rebels who forget their righteousness when they see profit. These are the old thief's nests for decades.

Among them, Song Jian was an old thief who raised an army with Han Sui, Bian Zhang and the Kingdom. He continued to maintain separatist rule in history and rebelled against the imperial court for more than 30 years.

It can be said that the viciousness of this thief is no less than that of Han Sui, but his territory is too far away and he does not expand, so the court is too lazy to beat him (if you want to beat him, you have to beat Han Sui, and then chase him to the source of the Yellow River and keep catching up with the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau)

The Di king, Qianwan, should have the surname Yang, whose full name is Yang Qianwan, and his full name is Yang Qianwan, and his father Yang Ju, who also has a grudge against Liu Bei's camp, was recruited by Liu Yan, a pseudo-Yizhou governor, seven years ago, and became one of the leaders of the Qingqiang soldiers under Liu Yan's command. He brought his tribe members into Sichuan to help Liu Yan fight Liu Bei.

Later, in the battle to block Zhao Yun in Nan'an County, Jianwei County, two major Martial Man Kings, Qiandu, Yang Ju was assassinated by Zhao Yun. Yang Ju's tribe was later expelled from Dazhong and fled into the Huangshui River along the Tao River. In the past six or seven years, they gradually grew up and gained a foothold, becoming a domineering Qinghai, and claimed to have tens of thousands of troops.

Since Yang Qianwan and Zhao Yun had a grudge against him to kill his father, Han Sui asked him to fight Guan Yu now, he would definitely be moved. If he could kill Guan Yu, even if he could not take revenge completely like Zhao Yun, he would be more angry.

After listening to Yang Qiu's suggestion, Han Sui was a little reluctant to let go of the spoils that were about to rob Guan Yu and Ma Chao, considering adding an insurance policy to the victory of the battle, he had to agree to invite the two reinforcements.

Han Sui ordered: "Then I will leave this matter to you, so that they must arrive at Huangshui and the estuary of the Yellow River within ten days, and then observe the provocation and attack with us, and attack Guan Yu in the front and back! At that time, I will take out half of Guan Yu's army's baggage and share it with them. Song Jian and Yang Qianwan each have 2.5% 20%!"

Yang Qiu: "I hope you can write a letter from the lord and I will arrange for someone to deliver it."

Han Sui immediately wrote two letters for help and divided the spoils, and Yang Qiu immediately sent them out of the city.

Cheng Gongying, who was standing aside, was still a little worried and noticed another problem: "Lord, if you can really ask for reinforcements from the upper reaches, you might as well see where the Huangshui River meets the source of the Yellow River, and whether there is anyone building a weir design.

Recently, the water level of the Yellow River in the north of Jincheng has dropped slightly, as if it had exceeded the dry water speed in previous autumn. Guan Yu underestimated the enemy and lured our army so much, would he have other tricks that he would surely defeat our attacking troops several times with a very small force? At the beginning of last year, when Guan Yu was in Chencang, he miraculously flooded Chencang and killed Zhang Ji!”

Han Sui was also a little nervous when he heard this, but then he laughed:

"You only know one thing, not the other. How can you compare with Chen Cang's battle now? During the battle of Chen Cang, Guan Yu stationed his troops at the high place of the Qinling Mountains, and Chen Cang City was in the low-lying Wei Valley. Now Guan Yu personally set up camp on the Langshui Ferry by the Yellow River, which is the lowest-lying place. If water is released, Guan Yu himself will be the first to drown!"

Cheng Gongying advised: "Even so, you must be careful! Especially the Di king Yang Qianwan, his troops came to support Jincheng, and he had already passed by the mouth of the Huangshui River. It would be fine if he paid a little attention."

Han Sui then said that when Yang Qianwan arrived, he would ask carefully about what he had discovered along the way, but the letter he had given to the other party would not change.

First of all, the letter has been written and sent for Yang Qiu to send it out. Even if it can be recovered, it will be too troublesome.

Secondly, Han Sui also has his own little plan. He knew that those barbarians were not mentally stubborn and were straightforward to think about problems. If he exaggerated the atmosphere of "Guan Yu has an ambush, maybe there may be tricks", maybe Yang Qianwan would further sit down and share the spoils, and even be afraid of war and cannot support him.

After all, Han Sui needs to consider the use and win over those superficial brothers and superficial allies, and it is impossible to be like an arm-instruction like calling his own direct subordinates.

...

In the following days, the battle situation developed in an orderly manner as Han Sui had expected and prepared. The Kuaima Messenger traveled hundreds of miles a day and sent the letter of help, and brought back the good news that Song Jian and Yang Qianwan were willing to reinforce.

Time has entered July.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, Han Sui discovered another bad news. When his troops left the city to investigate in a small area, they found that Guan Yu's army had begun to seize the wheat fields around Jincheng on a large scale!

Now there are about twenty days left before the wheat is fully mature. Guan Yu snatched the cutting in advance, obviously making the "rotating" food that Li Su invented seven years ago.

Moreover, this kind of harvest should have started on the third day of the seventh month, but at the beginning, Han Sui's scouts could not get close to the west of the Yellow River Ferry in the upper reaches, so it was discovered on the fifth day that Guan Yu had already dispatched to cut at least thousands of hectares of hectares, and it was spreading wildly at a rate of at least seven or eight hundred hectares a day.

Han Sui was so angry that he could hardly hold back that he wanted to leave the city to annihilate Guan Yu immediately. But when he thought that Song Jian and Yang Qianwan's reinforcements would be able to come and attack Guan Yu in four or five days, he couldn't bear to see this time difference, for fear that his elite troops would defeat too many and be picked up by friendly forces.

After thinking about it again and again, Han then decided to suppress his anger and wait for the last four or five days!

However, not starting a war with Guan Yu in advance does not mean that Han Sui did nothing. He did not do anything either. He first offered a heavy reward in Jincheng City, collecting people's knowledge of how to make food made from "crushing" such as green yellow wheat.

After all, this thing has been invented for seven years, so it is not difficult. It is just grinding the wheat into spicy strips and baking it. The key is to know the shelf life data. So after giving it a lot of rewards, I found several businessmen who had traveled to Youzhou in Jincheng and taught Han Sui the practice data.

Then Han Sui asked his troops to open the east gate in advance, and went to a small-scale distance from the city every night, which was easy to warn him of a position that would not be attacked by Guan Yu. He also rushed to harvest wheat, and after the harvest was cut, roasted it into a mill and enriched military rations.

This will at least make the food cut by Guan Yu a little less and reduce his own losses.

Han Sui even thought to himself: "The things that Guan Yu cut off were delicious in a few days. When Song Jian and Yang Qianwan arrived, we killed Guan Yu from front to back, but the unfinished food was still ours.

Alas, it’s a pity that these will be considered spoils for Guan Yu at that time. Song Jian and Yang Qianwan, the guys who drank blood without blinking, would not listen to my defense, 'These things were originally plundered by Guan Yu from the people of Jincheng', and I must be separated half of them..."

Han Sui felt heartbroken when he thought that half of the autumn harvest rations he had ruled were taken away by friendly troops.

It was also at this moment that Han Sui completely gave up the plan to let Song Jian and Yang Qianwan continue to make steady progress. He sent a letter to Song Jian and Yang Qianwan who were in a hurry to marching and told them:

"Guan Yu not only has few troops, but now he is arrogant and arrogant. His troops are all spent on robbing the autumn wheat in Jincheng, so his troops are very scattered. Often, one or two thousand people in the south of the city and one or two thousand people in the west of the city are scattered everywhere in the wheat fields. If you come quickly, you can easily annihilate Guan Yu without gathering his troops!"

After Song Jiandexin, he was greedy for war trophy and accelerated his marching speed again, allowing his infantry troops to travel 90 miles a day. He no longer brought supplies and put down a batch of camping tents on the spot. Anyway, it was midsummer now, so he was not afraid that there was no tent to sleep too cold at night.

After Yang Qianwan received the letter, he ignored the disconnection of the troops and asked his Di cavalry troops to break out alone, traveling more than a hundred miles a day to rush to the battlefield in Jincheng.

In this way, because Xiping, an important town along the Huangshui coast, was further away from the battlefield, Yang Qianwan should be the last to arrive on the battlefield to support him. Now at least Yang Qianwan's main cavalry can be faster and arrived at the same time as Song Jian.

On the ninth day of the seventh month, Song Jian and Yang Qianwan, who were rushing to meet at the intersection of the Yellow River and Huangshui River. They also found that the river water seemed to be a little shallower than in the same period in previous years. However, time was tight, and they could no longer go upstream to the mouth of the Tao River and the Yellow River to see what was going on, so they directly joined forces to chase downstream.

On the tenth day of July, Song Jian and Yang Qianwan arrived at the upper reaches of Guan Yu's camp. Han Sui finally regained his energy and gathered all the elite troops in the city, leaving only the old and weak to defend the city, betting on all the family's assets, and rushing up to surround Guan Yu's way.

With Guan Yu's camp completely surrounded, Han Sui finally breathed a sigh of relief and went out to war and personally swear to fight against the enemy's morale:

"Guan Yu! You are arrogant and think that you are invincible in the world. I didn't expect that today will be there! Just a few thousand people guard the Langshui Yellow River Ferry and regard us as nothing.

Today, our army is 30,000, and there are also Yang Qianwan, the Di king of Huangshui, and Song Jian from Kuanghan and Song Jian led 10,000 elite troops to attack you. Next year, it will be your Guan Yu anniversary! If you have the courage, you will go out to the camp to fight us! But no matter whether you have the courage or not, we will break the fate of your camp today!"

Guan Yu rarely did not go out to fight. Han Sui shouted loudly and tens of thousands of people attacked around Guan Yu's ferry camp.

Han Sui's first powerful general under the tent, Yan Xing rushed forward, trying to avenge Guan Yu the enemy of a spear that was stabbed by Zhang Fei six years ago.

Di King Yang Qianwan was not willing to be outdone, and shouted that he was second only to Yan Xing in a fierce battle, hoping to avenge Zhao Yun's murder of his father on Guan Yu.
Chapter completed!