Shi Xie felt that Zhao Yun was rushing forward crazily regardless of logistics, and this kind of perception was not unreasonable.

It is precisely because Shi Xie thought that Zhao Yun could starve him to death, even though he was clearly defending his inside line and the temporary combat force that could be mobilized far exceeded Zhao Yun, he was still unwilling to go out of the city to fight in the field to repel Zhao Yun.

The consumption of a cage city can make Zhao Yun die for ten lives, but the field battle may make Zhao Yun die for nine lives. In contrast, of course, he chose not to leave a single chance for Zhao Yun.

After saying so much, some readers may be curious: How many troops can Shi Xie use, so that he feels there are opportunities in the field?

In fact, because the vast majority of the troops of Jiaozhi and Jiuzhen counties were gathered around the Dragon Wrapping, as well as some of the troops retreated from Yulin, Shi Xie's family gathered nearly 20,000 combat soldiers this time.

On the other hand, the defense can always mobilize farmers to join the army temporarily, especially now in the winter slack season.

In the north, spring plowing usually starts in February and autumn harvests can be achieved in July and August of the lunar calendar. In Jiaozhi County, because the weather is hot, there is plenty of water, rice can be planted naturally for two seasons, and it doesn’t matter even if there is no special introduction of the new variety of Linyi rice.

At the same time, the sowing time can start one month earlier than in the north. Usually, it starts planting in the first month. It only takes four and a half months to mature normally. One crop will be harvested in May, and it will be planted again in early June, and all harvests will be completed by the end of October.

Therefore, from the end of October every year to the beginning of the first lunar month of the next year, it is a rare slack time in Jiaozhi. Zhao Yun took advantage of the winter to attack, although he avoided the scorching heat, but it also facilitated Shi Xie's solid walls and mobilized peasants, which was a gain and a loss.

It is the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, and Shi Xie mobilized at least 20,000 local young and strong locals in Jiaozhi to join the army temporarily. Especially before his two sons were preparing to retreat from Lang Sang Pass, they had sent messengers to report to the rear, giving Shi Xie time to prepare for a solid wall and clear the country.

Shi Xie gathered a large number of people from small counties and villages around Longbian to the county town, not giving Zhao Yunqi the opportunity to replenish military supplies. These young and strong men who temporarily entered the county town had nothing to do, of course they had to temporarily distribute grain to earn extra money to serve Shi Xie in the army.

In this way, the troops that Shi Xie could use on the Jiaozhi battlefield temporarily expanded to 40,000!

In addition, Shi Xie also had a reinforcement that could be requested at any time. He used the argument that he had lost his lips and had cold teeth, and the number of reinforcements he sought from the south of Linyi State was as high as 20,000. Although these soldiers were not very effective in combat, they were probably between the regular army of Jiaozhou and the temporary recruitment of peasant soldiers.

The Linyi army was led by Prince Corin of the King of Linyi, and the nephew Fan Xiong of the District Corinthians was the deputy. They were stationed in Wu'an County at the mouth of the Honghe River (equivalent to the Waigang Haiphong City in Hanoi in later generations).

Because the territory of Linyi Kingdom is roughly equivalent to the central and southern Vietnam in later generations, it is very narrow and long. Most of the rivers cross the territory of Linyi Kingdom and cannot form inland river shipping. The transportation of Linyi people from north to south is transported by small boats along the coastline.

The troops stationed in Wu'an in the district are convenient for the situation to retreat south immediately if the situation is wrong. The Han army does not have a navy, so the district can come and go freely.

On the other hand, it is also a stance with Shi Xie. Once Shi Xie is in danger, he can go upstream along the Red River and attack Zhao Yun to rescue Shi Xie. He is not worried that Shi Xie will be forced to take the lead as cannon fodder and can ride on the wall to watch the tiger fight. Maybe if Zhao Yun and Shi Xie are both injured, Linyi Kingdom can directly annex Jiaozhi County!

Of course, Shi Xie also knew what Gu Jiang might think. After all, the money, food and property he sent to King Linyi for help was not much money. The other party could not have taken the small profit and brought the main force of the middle school to work for him. He must have another intention.

Since we are using each other, we pretend to not understand some things, but if we see them too thoroughly, even the brothers can't do it on the surface.

Shi Xie plus the border, theoretically, the army of 60,000! And how many Zhao Yun has?

When Zhao Yun sent troops from Nanhai County, he claimed to have 15,000 troops, but he suffered more or less losses when attacking Yulin County. The rear area recovered the counties and Lang Sang Pass and could not completely leave sentries, which would not stabilize the rear area.

So, even if Zhao Yun saved his manpower, he still had less than 12,000 people under Longbian City than when he set out from Nanhai County.

Among these two combat powers, there were about 6,000 veterans in Jingzhou, 3,000 Wuling Man from Shamoke, and 3,000 Jiaozhou soldiers from Cangwu County, Nanhai County.

Even if there are no other difficulties, Zhao Yun had to fight five to destroy Shi Xie's mob.

...

Shi Xie carefully used five times his troops to turtle in Longbian County for two or three days.

Zhao Yun seemed to be in a hurry. He did not siege the Longbian County, but just camped in the west of the city, and then siege some defense areas in the north of the city, and did not even achieve the three sieges and one of them.

Then let the troops renovate their physical strength, and send scouts to investigate everywhere to see if there are people from rural areas or even suburban areas that can be incorporated, and if there are any civilian grains and wild grains that can enrich military resources.

But the key point is that Zhao Yun never made the intention of attacking Longbian County from beginning to end. In the past two days, he did not even do the task of building siege weapons!

Shi Xie didn't know what Zhao Yun was going to do, and he felt distressed. On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, he recruited his younger brother, sons, and several of his main staff and advisers to discuss where Zhao Yun got the courage.

Shi Xie asked, "I heard from Huier that Zhao Yun was the Langsan Pass that left on the second day of the twelfth lunar month. The seventh day of the lunar month is approaching Longbian. Today is the tenth day of the lunar month. So at least eight days ago, Zhao Yun had already left his water supply line and entered a state of no logistics supply, relying solely on grain support.

Why is Zhao Yun not in a hurry at all? I think he hasn't even built a ladder or a catapult. There are always other conspiracies? Has he been so brave? The result of searching for suburban counties is already very obvious. We are very thorough in strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. He can't find anything. Are you afraid that the entire army will starve to death?"

Shi Xie's younger brothers and sons couldn't speak.

After a while of the cold, there was still a young man named Huan Lin beside Shi Xie, sighing and pondering:

"Perhaps Zhao Yun was very confident that he had mastered the title of righteousness, so he felt that as long as the imperial soldiers arrived at Longbian City, the entire Jiaozhi area would be unstable, and relying solely on deterrence, he would force counties to submit to the court, so that he would have military rations to replenish his military supplies.

I’m sorry, I’m blunt, the murder of the King of Envoys has had a great blow to our morale and justice. Now, no one in Longbian and other places dares to resist you and submit to Zhao Yun. It’s just that you still have a lot of troops and are afraid that you will not have a good end to surrender to Zhao Yun now, and you will only die with Zhao Yun.

But Zhao Yun held the destiny of the court. As long as he won one game, the morale under the rule of the mansion would probably collapse at any time. Moreover, only the lord brothers and nephews personally took charge of the counties and counties that were strictly guarded can ensure that Zhao Yun did not surrender. Other small towns and counties that were not in charge of the scholars might not be guaranteed.”

After hearing this, Shi Xie knew that Huan Lin’s speculation had some truth, he still couldn’t let him say these morale-damaging words, so he directly scolded: “Rareless! Do you have any strange intentions? How dare you say that such words shake our army’s morale! Go out!”

Even the scolding was scolding, but Shi Xie thought about it and found that Zhao Yun's inner drama seemed to be the only possibility.

No matter what, this is also a warning to Shi Xie, which makes him pay attention to one point: that is, he must not be defeated!

Even if it is just a small defeat, as long as those subordinates who are still threatening Yu Bingwei and dare not resist him, they may see a sign that Shi Xie cannot defeat Zhao Yun, and there may be a wave of surrender and a wave of leading the way.

This time, he was on the utterly unjust side!

...

The meeting discussed for a long time, but there was no conclusion. Just when Shi Xie was nervous, a scout suddenly came to report that it was Zhao Yun's troops that had another trend.

Shi Xie immediately asked: "What are Zhao Yun's actions?"

The scout looked at the people in the conference hall and lowered his head and replied: "In the morning, Zhao Yun suddenly brought some troops to cross the Red River. When he arrived at the south bank, the fourth major general was responsible for the defense of the west city. After seeing this incident, he asked whether he would send troops to establish a camp in Jiahe River so that he could find reality in the future. When Zhao Yun takes another move, he will attack him halfway?"

Shi Xie was stunned: "Longbian is on the north bank of the Red River. What did Zhao Yun do to set up a camp on the south bank of Jiahe? It must be a trick to lure the enemy, which made us deliberately not understand and deliberately make a mysterious trick to deceive us out of the city and fight in the field. We must not give him a chance! Although his military strength is only 30% of the defenders in the city, he is an elite soldier who fights for a long time, and fighting in the field is to give him a chance.

Moreover, he set up a camp in Jiahe west of the city, which would not threaten the contact between Longbian and Wu'an County in the lower reaches of Hekou. Our contact with the reinforcements of Linyi Kingdom is still smooth. There is no need to panic, just explore again!"

The scout took the order and went to reply, and the Shijia army continued to hold on.

Most of the day passed like this. During this period, Shi Xie received some subsequent military alerts, informing him that Zhao Yun launched an attack on the upstream (Mini) Ling County after establishing a camp in the Gahe River.

(Note: This word is really impossible to find, and modern input methods cannot be typed. It should be next to the word "Mi" above and the word "Ni" below. I can only express it like this)

After hearing this, Shi Xie was still not too alert at the first time: (Mini) Ling County is located dozens of miles upstream of Longbian, located at a fork in the Honghe River. It is the satellite city of Longbian and the only suburb of Longbian to the upper reaches of the Honghe River.

But that place has no strategic importance. Shi Xie's foreign aid comes from the lower reaches of the Honghe River to the direction of the sea estuary. After surfing (Mini) Ling County, there is the narrow farmland in the Red River Valley, and the mountainous tropical primitive rainforest is the mountainous area.

(Mini) Most of the young and strong population in Ling County have been moved to the Dragon Welfare by Shixie in advance, and all the surplus grains have been collected from the Dragon Welfare. Only some old and weak who really cannot move can survive the winter. Leave a little bit of food that is only enough to fill the stomach for the winter.

Unless Zhao Yun slaughtered the city through fishing and massacred the old people who could not walk, and snatched all the food they had to survive the winter, Shi Xie would not understand what Zhao Yun could do.

If the city is really slaughtered, the reputation of benevolence and righteousness of Liu Bei's camp will be greatly damaged, and the income will not be worth it at all. How long does the army with food that is less than 10,000 people last? At most, it will have no impact on the overall situation if it is eaten for ten days or half a month.

So Shi Xie chose to hold his troops again.

The next morning, Shi Xie confirmed the news of the fall of Ling County (Mini).

However, it was only after this that Shi Xie's nightmare was fully revealed.

Two more days later, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the scout who was searching upstream received a shocking bad news.

"Mr. Fu, it's not good! Countless small boats emerged from nowhere in the primitive forests of the upper reaches of the Hong River! They were attacked by the banner of Gao Shun, the Dianzhou Defense Commander, and Gu Yong, the Dianzhou Administration Commander,! It seems to be a grain fleet that transports grain to Zhao Yun!"

"Report! Zhao Yun's troops suddenly moved downstream today, strengthening the siege of the Dragon Marshal, completely surrounding the north gate, leaving only the east gate to leave the city! The troops on the other side of the Honghe River on the south side have also moved further east, and the fleet has arrived directly outside the water gate of the Nancheng City, setting up a village to block the surface of the Honghe River!"

After hearing the news, Shi Xie jumped up from his couch: "Upper Honghe? This is impossible! Where does the upper Honghe lead to? Can Jianning County or Yongchang County control the upper Honghe River? Those savages in the southern barbarians still build ships? Can Liu Bei's so-called rule in Dianzhou go deep into such a barren land that no one has explored?"

Shi Xie's cold sweat came down instantly.

This is really not his fault, because people of this era lacked the exploration of geography. In Jiaozhi County, their understanding of the Honghe Basin has reached (Mini) Ling County. Further upstream, there is no county town.

Therefore, the locals in Jiaozhou have no idea where the river will go upstream and how long it will be. No one has gone to the primitive rainforest to seek death for these unimportant things.

If you look at a map of Vietnam from the 20th century, you can see that there are at least three Vietnamese counties in the upper reaches of the Honghe River, Fushou, Anpei, and Laojie. Opposite the Old Street Port, there is also the "Hekou Yao Autonomous County" in Yunnan in later generations, which shows that there is a Honghe River Valley Pass between the border and Vietnam.

From the mouth of the old street, leaving the Honghe River bank and going north, there are dozens of miles of mountain roads, and you will reach a county town in Jianning called "Bengu" at the end of the Han Dynasty, which is the later Mengzi of Yunnan.

If you walk a few dozen miles northward from Mengzi, you can reach the Dianchi Lake in the Dianchi Lake Basin, Fuxian Lake Water System, which is the base camp of Gu Yong, the former prefect of Jianning and the current governor of Dianzhou.

In other words, Gu Yong taught Kunmingyi to carry out production in the Dianchi Basin, and accumulated supplies for so many years.

Originally, due to the difficulty of roads, Tushui (Niolan River) that had to go to the north line to merge into the Lushui River and the north Yunji Road. Because the Chengdu Plain has been rich and has not been short of food in recent years, Gu Yongyun did not let Gu Yongyun go. There had been a lot of grain inventory around Kunming, and the government's warehouses were almost full.

Now, Gu Yong can transport it to Jiaozhi by following the Nanpan River Basin in the Kunming Basin water system, passing less than a hundred miles of mountain roads in Mengzi area, entering the upper reaches of the Honghe Basin.

Gu Yong was looking for Linyi Dao in Yongchang County next door, and engaged in Nujiang shipbuilding, and also developed military farming in Nanpanjiang and Hongheyuan, and had already explored the map. He also operated a certain amount of shipbuilding in the Honghe Basin. Although he did not build large ships that could navigate, he still built a lot of small boats for military farming to develop new areas.

Gu Yong has not been idle in recent years. On the other hand, he also has to thank Li Su for his "The Origin of the River" written a few years ago and some other surrounding materials. After all, in order to encourage Li Hui to build ships, Li Su at that time, in order to encourage Li Hui to find Southeast Asian and Indian species, he assumed that he had already inspected it. The iron mouth cut off where the Nanzhongda River, the Mekong River, the Honghe River and other Nanzhongda Rivers could eventually flow.

The Nujiang River will enter the Yandu Ocean, the Mekong River flows to the border between Linyi and Funan countries and enters the sea, and the Honghe River will go to the Longbian in Jiaozhi County. Li Su wrote this in his internal information for the prefects of Nanzhong.

In other words, this sudden incident was like Shi Xie who thought the map was so big, but at the edge of the map that did not exist, another piece suddenly appeared in the fog of war. But there was an enemy army with the most precious military ration for Zhao Yun and suddenly broke out!

This is so fatal.

The reason why Shi Xie was not moved by Zhao Yun's temptation at all when he watched Zhao Yun's performance at first was that he felt that Zhao Yun was a big bet and was waiting to starve to death and commit suicide. Suddenly, the probability of Zhao Yun being starved to death dropped to zero, and Shi Xie's previous concessions became a clown.

More importantly, as long as Zhao Yun spread the news that "the Han army is not short of food", it will cause great shock to the fierce resistance of Jiaozhi. Those under Shi Xie's command who were originally coerced by the power of the army but did not dare to move will also be shaken.

Gao Shun brought not many people, but in fact only three thousand combat soldiers. After all, it was not easy to go along the way, and the environment was very harsh. These soldiers were just for protecting food and did not require much combat effectiveness.

In order to prevent the soldiers from being poisoned by miasma, Gao Shun did not dare to bring his direct line to the camp, and all of them were Mengchang's southern barbarians. But this was enough.

In addition, I must say here: This strategy was not thought of by Zhao Yun at the beginning, but also by Lu Su after the failure of the offensive in late Xia Dynasty, he worked hard to make the mistake of his efforts and thought it was full of his mind, and then discussed with Zhao Yun to implement it.

More than a month before the implementation, Lu Su sent a messenger to ask for help from his colleague Gu Yong in Dianzhou. He made good promises to give the first logistics contribution to the future equalization of the logistics to Gu Yong. He also said that he would submit a letter to the king or the right general as soon as possible to ask for support from the above, but hoped that Gu Yong would be in a hurry to get his brothers.

Gu Yong was quite responsible. In view of the great cause of the king, and the Kunming Basin has indeed saved a lot of surplus grain in recent years, so he has supplied the military supplies for this battle.

Of course, some people may say: Since the upper reaches of the Honghe River can be transported directly to Longbian City, why didn’t we send troops directly from Dianzhou in this battle, and insisted that Zhao Yun fight to the source of the Pearl River, and then cross the mountain from the Langshan Pass to Longbian?

This means that Liu Bei's camp is indeed not very strong in Dianzhou. Because Nanzhong has been pacified, there is no Han army left. If it is all relied on the Kunming Black Barbarians of Mengchang and Mengxin brothers to fight, Zhao Yun would not be sure to win. And if it is entirely relied on the barbarians, it would not be like the "north soldiers of the court", and it is not suitable for attacking and persuading surrender without majesty.

Besides, Zhao Yun's troops only brought individuals to the Dragon Team, which was not very difficult, and it was not too troublesome before. Since Nanhai County has troops and Jianning County has grain, the two will cooperate and show their strengths, wouldn't it be beautiful?

To put it bluntly, even if it was 1,800 years later, when defending against Vietnam, the army would divide into two groups, attacking Lang San from Guangxi, attacking Laojie from Yunnan, descending along the Honghe River, and finally attacking Hanoi from left to right.
To be continued...