Ma Chao was very cautious and personally accompanied Li Su to shout, calling 500 iron-armored cavalry to cover up with shields. There were also twenty loudly swearing soldiers responsible for amplifying the message, all of whom were holding paper tubes of earth horns, so that Li Su would not be able to get close to the range of the powerful crossbow before the other party could hear it.

As for Dian Wei brought by Li Su himself, of course he would also go with him.

Guo Si's army was facing a great enemy at the top of the city. These days, Ma Chao finally took on a strong attack posture. It seemed that the new reinforcements gave Ma Chao great confidence. Guo Si was surrounded in the city. His intelligence work was not very good. He still didn't know that Li Su was coming to reinforce.

Therefore, when Guo Si was nervous and a little curious when he saw five hundred iron armored cavalry holding shields and trumpets. It was not until the moment Li Su spoke that the answer was revealed.

"Guo Aduo! You are sold by Jia Xu's old dog! You can't live this autumn!" Li Su shouted first, then twenty cursing soldiers imitated Li Su's tone and roared loudly, amplifying Li Su Wenya's scolding to a rather vulgarity.

Guo Si was a little confused and yelled at the shield formation three or four hundred steps away: "Who is this? Ma Chao's little thief should pretend to be a god and make noise. If you want to attack the city, try it! This general lets you all die within the gap in this city wall!"

Some of Guo Sijun's loud voices cursing soldiers did not wait for instructions, so he took his own initiative and helped Guo Si curse.

Li Su laughed: "I can't even recognize my voice, but it's not surprising. We have never met before. During the Battle of Jingyuan last year, I could see clearly your embarrassment from afar. It felt good to be stabbed by Duan Wei on his waist with a knife. I did it by Li Boya."

Guo Si was shocked and angry: "It turned out to be you dog thief! Li Su dog thief, you help to abuse, harm the creatures in Xiliang, and slaughter my robes. I, Guo Si, will one day let you eat meat and sleep with you!"

Li Sucai was too lazy to deal with the other party's boring insults, and he had no information at all. He just sprayed out the real information that could really hit the enemy's morale:

"Guo Aduo, you are about to die. Just say something if you want to say something. If you don't have a chance in the future, I won't care about you. Today I'm here to tell you the strategies that Jia Xu Lao Gou taught you. You may be able to cheat Ma Chao for a while, but if you deal with me, you won't be able to cheat me for a day.

You didn't plan to defend Guzang at all, but you just consumed our army here. You felt that we were coming from thousands of miles and retreated after all the food was gone. Before, you fought with Ma Chao in field, desperately consuming his cavalry and war horses, but you didn't fight with Ma Dai's infantry. Wouldn't that be all you want?

Since I have come and seen through it, and knowing that you are guarding against our army's pursuit, you will not give you a chance to leave the city and escape. Yun Chang's reinforcements have also arrived. We have enough troops to surround Guzang to death. Even a fly cannot escape. You will all destroy this city, which will save us from chasing thousands of miles away."

Guo Si was slightly shocked. Of course, he didn't know that Li Su's words were bluffing. He thought that Li Su had really quietly brought enough reinforcements, which were far beyond his expected size, and could completely encircle Guzang County into an iron barrel overnight.

If this is true, wouldn’t Jia Xu give him the idea in vain?

Just as Guo Si was slightly shaken, so he forgot to stop Li Su from speaking immediately, Li Su took the opportunity to spew out more powerful information to hit the morale of the defenders:

"By the way, Jia Xu's old dog is no longer in Guzang City, right? This trick can't be hidden from me. Before I arrived a few days ago, you sent a side cavalry division back to Zhangye and other places in the rear, called executing your orders, and letting the three counties behind you strengthen the walls and clear the fields. In fact, Jia Xu wanted to run first.

He keeps you in Guzang and continues to carry out the task of delaying the consumption of Ma Chao. He is very careful to eat more than a month of Wuwei food, but he does not take risks himself and is afraid of death. If you hold on for a while, he will have a greater chance of living for the New Year this winter.

You can't hold on, you will die, it has nothing to do with him. The old thief first assisted Li Jue, then controlled Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu, and finally forced him to escape back to his hometown. Then he hit it off with you and you still think that he was in the same mind as you, and he didn't know that he was sold. Forget it, you should reflect on the road to the underworld and attack the city!"

These last two sentences really made Guo Si stern for a while.

It turned out that Jia Xu was no longer in Guzang County, but had already taken a cavalry division to Zhangye before Ma Chao completely surrounded him. Before leaving, Jia Xu told him that the work of clearing the fields in the rear also required people to coordinate the work of clearing the fields.

Only after Jia Xu returned did he mobilize all the tax and plundered grains, weapons and materials in Zhangye County to retreat to Jiuquan along the Ruoshui River. Only after Guzang really gave up could he create a "barren land" that Ma Chao could not supply thousands of miles of supplies.

(Note: It is not a real "bad land", nor is it a slaughter of the people, it is just a plunder of all the poor people in the city, and all the livestock are not left to Ma Chao.)

As for why Guo Si was not allowed to retreat together, the excuse Jia Xu gave at that time was also very reasonable: If Guo Si left with all the cavalry and only left Wu Xi or even Hu Meng to defend the city, then with the morale of these two people and the psychological shadow left by the crushing defeat in the field a few days ago, the abandoned infantry troops in Guzang would immediately collapse and surrender to Ma Chao.

In order to prevent the infantry troops that are about to be abandoned from collapsing and surrendering to the enemy in advance, Guo Si must personally take charge and stabilize the morale of the army!

Anyway, Guo Si also has 15,000 cavalry with him, and a few 5,000 cavalry from the Qiang tribe who offended Ma Chao, will follow him to retreat in the last stage. As long as he finds a time point for the enemy to react slowly at night, are you afraid that he will not be able to break through Ma Chao's pursuit?

But a few days ago, when Jia Xu said these words, Guo Si thought it made sense no matter how he listened to it. He also interpreted Jia Xu's plan as taking into account the overall situation.

Why did it change its flavor when it hit Li Su's mouth?

And how did Li Su know that Jia Xu is no longer in Guzang? Since he guessed it, it means that Li Su was prepared and we had already fallen into the trap?

As we all know, no matter whether you have a trap or not, as long as you make the generals and soldiers on one side think that they have a trap in the war, it will itself have a great blow to the morale of the army.

Especially in Guo Si's army, many senior officers knew that "Jia Xu was no longer in the city, so they retreated first", and their wavering was even more serious than that of ordinary soldiers.

Some people who were unaware of the situation even took the initiative to come to Guo Si and yelled and requested: "General Cavalry! You can't let that thief general talk nonsense anymore. Please ask Shangshu Jia to come out and calm the morale of the army!"

Of course, this request ended in vain. They thought Jia Xu was still asking for it. Where did Guo Si go to find someone for them?

In a moment, a consensus spread among the Xiliang army: Li Su, who was under the city, had completely figured out the reality of our army. He just calculated our combat power. He had asked Ma Chao to siege him in vain and pretended not to attack the city. All he had to wait for was that Guan Yu led the army to completely siege Guzang to death! We couldn't even break through!

What's more, some officers with great imagination are likely to think more: Did Jia Xu betray us and want to sell General Guo to exchange for his own pardon? Otherwise, how could Li Su know so clearly?

Or is it that Jia Xu's troops were actually intercepted by Ma Chao, and Jia Xu has been captured? I have given everything, and there will be no friendly troops in the future ready to handle logistics to help us?

Unfortunately, they didn't have much time to think about it carefully, because Ma Dai and Wang Ping's infantry troops had already begun to charge against the gap that collapsed into a mound of soil in the city wall.

Although Guo Si had experienced the digging of the city wall by a catapult cart to break out of the gap, he had experienced the fact that the digging of soil was temporarily piled up a low wall behind the trench to form a deep defense, which could be continuously consumed in street fighting and gap fighting. It would not be a big problem to hold it for one or two days.

But the morale is panic and the killing is already very obvious.

Ma Chao, outside the city, saw his troops struggling to attack the city, and he also had many questions in his heart. He asked Li Su in a daze: "Right General, seeing the enemy's aura is so depressed, I can detect it through hundreds of steps. Could it be that Jia Xu really ran away in advance? How do you know?

I... the scouts I sent a few days ago did not say that the enemy cavalry broke through had the banner of attacking Jia Xu, but instead saw Wu Xi's flag."

Li Su laughed casually: "I guess it, why don't you guess if you have the chance? I don't have the cost for free, and I don't have to place real money and bets. If I guess wrong, it will be invalid. If I guess correctly, it can severely damage the morale of the enemy.

Besides, based on my understanding of the old thief Jia Xu's degree of cowardice, this guess has at least 80% hit rate. Bo Qi, in war, it is not always possible to destroy the enemy's body with one knife and one gun. I have said it many times, but I have to attack my heart."

Ma Chao was stunned for a while and sighed: "I can't learn it in this life, but fortunately, when I need to attack my heart in the future, please give me a tip for the right general."

Li Su was stunned and thought about it. It seemed that there was such a possibility.

The tips of Zhuge Liang written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are obviously too fake, because there are too many advanced predictions required, and some things that are even advanced predictions a year or two later are simply impossible under the chaotic system.

However, if it is just a trick to disrupt the morale of the enemy and a set of tips for scammers in front of the formation, Li Su seems to be able to write a batch of tips.

To put it bluntly, aren’t it just the representative case questions he wrote when he compiled the textbooks of negotiation experts at the Public Security University in his previous life? For appropriate scenarios, just use the standard rhetoric to slightly change it and apply it in.

Of course, this thing must not be published publicly. This life can only be used as a top-secret internal reference and internal training for senior generals in one's own camp.

When Li Su thought of this, he patted Ma Chao on the shoulder: "This discussion is not something that cannot be considered. Well, let's talk about the secret matter in the future. This time you can watch it and see how I often make the enemy feel that 'we were trapped again'."
Chapter completed!