Tuo Yi and Zhang Liao originally came with the idea of ​​supporting Yang Chou, and working together inside and outside, so they came in a hurry, and they only had more than 30,000 people in total.

Que Yi brought 15,000 and Zhang Liao brought 20,000, which was their limit.

In the entire Hanoi County, there are only 5,000 people guarding Huai County, as well as the guards guarding troops in Zhuguanxing and other places in front of him. Others have been transferred.

Zhang Liao left nearly 10,000 people to guard Shangdang's nest, and thousands of people continued to try to harass the county town of the Liangdao behind Guanyu, such as Duan, Wu Ze, who were guarded by Zhang Ren, to maintain pressure on the Qinshui route, and other mobile troops were also sent to the Yewang Front.

But now the situation has changed. The wild king fell into nothing but three days of support. This made Tuo Yi and Zhang Liao very passive. Their total strength was less than 10,000 more than Guan Yu, but it was Guan Yu's turn to occupy the city and rely on the geographical location. How dare Zhang take the initiative to fight?

Their choice was natural. Since they couldn't get through, they could just wait a few more days to let the soldiers recover from the physical strength and morale loss of the long-distance marching, and wait for Wen Chou, who was starting from the rear, to bring his troops to meet.

Zhang Liao's troops came from Danshui, just above Danshui, thirty miles north of Yewang City, and about twenty miles from the water village on the north bank of Guan Yu's intersection of Danshuiqinshui.

Tuo Yi's troops came from the downstream of Qinshui, and continued to go downstream of Qinshui. They set foot in twenty miles east of Yewang City, forming a ninety-degree angle with Zhang Liao in the north of the city, and helping each other.

This arrangement is not because they have any internal conflicts and are unwilling to join forces, but now at this critical moment, both sides are in short supply and mobilize a large number of garrison forces in the rear.

Ye Wang is a three-way intersection in a river. If Guan Yu's troops have offensive actions in the next step, their main maneuver direction is to either go up against the Danshui or go down along the Qinshui (the upstream of the Qinshui is the direction where Guan Yu comes).

Tuo Yi and Zhang Liao were also afraid that if they would join forces completely and give up another way, if Guan Yu divided his troops and infiltrated the rear and destroyed it, the loss would be great, and the rear was not large. Except for a few county-level cities with enough troops to defend, other places would be easily defeated.

Camping camps are more than twenty miles apart, which is enough to support each other. If Guan Yu attacks either side and the other side will hurry up to the battlefield for reinforcements within an hour, it will definitely not be possible to be defeated and quickly annihilated.

The Guan Yu army on the other side also needed to be repaired because of the fierce attack on the wild king in succession. Zhang Liao and Tuo Yi did not take action, and Guan Yu was happy to rectify it, and the two sides were at peace for two days.

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On November 18th, two days after the fall of Yewang City.

Taking advantage of the stalemate of the past few days, Guan Yu's army is in a hurry to transport more combat supplies and food from the Qinshui Channel in the rear.

The logistics situation was worse than he had imagined at the beginning, because the cold winter and the water level of the water in the water dropped significantly, and it might not last until the twelfth lunar month. Perhaps in seven or eight days or at most ten days, it would not be enough for the small ship to transport grain to sail.

In the northern mountainous areas, the breakdown of rivers in winter is not only due to the reduction of precipitation, but also because many tributaries upstream have shallow and high altitudes, which are easy to freeze under the action of the northwest wind and cold wave. If the water from those small tributaries does not gather, medium-sized rivers such as Qinshui and Danshui will soon be exhausted, even if the main stream itself does not freeze, it is useless.

After Guan Yu seized the stored grain from the Ye Wang army from Yang Chou, he could have eaten it for the Spring Festival, but he wanted to add more insurance to try to save the grain until enough food is eaten next March and April.

According to the voyage of the grain transport fleet, Japan can also arrive in Qinshui County in a hurry, but it takes a little night road, so it is stationed at Shimenguan Camp. Tomorrow morning, it will continue to go south and leave the Taihang Mountains and enter the Hanoi Plain, and arrive at Yewang in the afternoon.

The grain transport fleet will naturally send a messenger to inform Guan Yu first. They can send troops to help them by noon tomorrow to avoid being robbed by Zhang Liao.

Because Zhang Ren defended the key traffic county towns in the rear, the grain road from Guan Yu's army from Wuze to Shimen was very safe. Once the county towns and gates were guarded at both ends, there was no small road in the middle to pass the large army, so Zhang Liao could not take action in this section of Taihang Mountains.

Therefore, the highest risk area for being robbed is that after the grain fleet leaves Shimen Pass and leaves the cover of Taihang Mountain, Qinshui is shallow and slow in the Henoi Plain, and Zhang Liao has many cavalrymen. You can wade directly and find gaps on the plains. It is very convenient.

It was just late that night, and Guan Yu, as usual, read the "Spring and Autumn" at night in the government hall lobby in Yewang City, as a daily hypnosis before resting, and received messengers and prepared the daily trivial matters of tomorrow's grain protection troops, and had their own subordinates to prepare for the food protection troops.

However, a noise came from outside quickly, which made Guan Yu unable to concentrate. He got up and walked leisurely in the courtyard. When the personal soldiers around him answered: "The Taiwei, the scout messenger of Zhuge Changshi's grain transport team came with him, and was looking for someone to learn about the military aircraft."

Guan Yu stroked his long beard and smiled helplessly in a self-deprecating tone: "Is Kong Ming's virtuous nephew coming? It's too rash. How can I stay only in Wu Ban in Linfen? And there are no strong generals behind him. If he is intercepted by Zhang Liao on the way, Boya will probably cause trouble for me in the future. Fortunately, it's safe, please come quickly."

In a moment, Zhuge Liang was introduced to the inner hall. Guan Yu respected him very much and treated him with wine. After all, Zhuge Liang had fully proved his value during his tenure as Chief Secretary of the Grand Marshal.

Whether it was the previous rectification of logistics, helping Guan Yu achieve the originally unlikely logistics optimization, the large-scale detour route, or the various siege tactics that were prepared in advance to target the geographical characteristics of the Hebei battlefield, all of which are now useful.

It can be said that except for field combat, Zhuge Liang may not be in the field, the fields of logistics, strategy and military engineering have all grown to the forefront. After all, these talents have relatively low requirements for the accumulation of practical command experience, and the advantages of science and engineering and mathematics coordination can be fully utilized.

After sitting down, Zhuge Liang had a drink first and took the opportunity to explain his defense arrangements for Linfen in the rear, saying that he had arranged the city defense without leaking, and he also designed a bluff, which could scare Lu Bu to preserve his strength and not come to this muddy water at all.

Then, Zhuge Liang changed his tone and learned about the battle situation ahead from Guan Yu, and understood how Shimen, Ye Wang and other places were captured at that time, how the enemy responded quickly, and the current confrontation situation.

After listening, Zhuge Liang pondered and analyzed for a while. After drinking a small glass of rice wine, he already had some opinions in his heart.

"The capture of the Wild King is almost exactly the same rhythm as I expected at the beginning, and is developing in the best direction. Taiwei, our army has been a pity in the past two days. Although we have to rest for peace and recovery after the war, it also gives the enemy a chance to breathe.

We were originally more sure that before Wen Chou arrived, we would radically weaken the two men, Zhang Liao and Tuo Yi. In this way, even if Wen Chou came, it would be just a fight with fuel."

Zhuge Liang actually felt that the current progress was still a little slower and wanted to force the enemy to a more "cauldron saves grandpa".

After hearing this, Guan Yu was still a little distracted by this view. He thought that he had a high-level command and command ability in the field was rare in the world. Zhuge Liang, a strategist who had calculated the war, should have a lower judgment in this regard.

Fortunately, Guan Yu was not a fool for real people, so he thought there was a problem and said in person: "Zhuge Zhuge, the army is fierce and dangerous, and the country is in great affairs, so be cautious. Our army has cities and villages to use, and the number of people is still less than that of the enemy. It should be a long-term plan.

Even if I raided and weakened part of the enemy, it would kill a thousand enemies and consume 800. At present, Yuan Shao just thought that this winter war could not be fought, and as long as it was stalemate, so there were not many people deployed in the front line of Bingzhou and Hanoi.

If there is a situation of a full-scale death battle, Yuan Shao will come from the Hebei Plain. This Hanoi is also the edge of the Hebei Plain. If the Yewang Guardians weaken for several years, they may not be able to withstand the enemy's siege for a winter."

Logistics are not good in winter, and it is very difficult for large corps in the mountainous areas to fight. But the Ye Wang is in Hanoi, and this place is no longer a mountainous area. Even if you leave Shimen Pass, you will be considered the Hebei Plain.

Yuan Shao’s inability to invest hundreds of thousands of people in the winter in Bingzhou does not mean that he cannot afford to invest in Hanoi, and his battlefield position is less than two hundred miles, so the material cost of protracted war may be more than double.

Zhuge Liang certainly knew these considerations in his heart. He did not persuade Guan Yu directly, but just indirectly: "Everything Taiwei said is the right way of military strategy, and Liang has no intention. But Taiwei only counts the soldiers, does not count people, and does not count the situation.

Although Yuan Shao was powerful, he was far inferior to His Majesty when he was employed. Moreover, he used the fake emperor to control Guandong, and there were far more civil and military officials who were secretly interested in his own interests than our dynasty.

If our army seized the last opportunity before Wen Chou came to meet, grabbed one side and fought to the death, and immediately withdrew its troops after the other side came to rescue, and stopped when they saw that they were better. With other counter-split techniques, even if they could not force the enemy generals, Yuan Shao would be suspicious and could not use up all the people."

Guan Yu's eyebrows trembled slightly: "Who to beat? Who? Lu Bu has always been ambitious. Zhang Liao is his direct confidant. Could it be that he wants to alienate Yuan Shao's trust in Lu Bu and Zhang Liao? But if this matter could be done, I would have done it long ago.

What's more, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao had a grudge against me. When I rushed to Luoyang in the first half of the year, I was defeated and retreated, and I was attacked by Lu Bu and Zhang Liao. Several of my confidant generals and Zuo died at the hands of Lu. I also killed Lu Bu's confidant Wei Yue, and you even killed Hou Cheng and Jia Xu who came with Zhang Liao.

This kind of grudge is not to be over, but even if I express my opinion that I don’t want to care, they will not believe it, and they will still think that they are making money."

Zhuge Liang nodded: "It is true that we cannot alienate Lu Bu and Zhang Liao. On the one hand, even if we show kindness, they will feel that it is forbearance, not sincerity.

Secondly, although Lu Bu is a capricious person, he uses Lu Bu like raising an eagle. He uses hunger for me, and leaves when he is full. But now Yuan Shao uses Lu Bu, which is just right. Lu Bu was originally a native of Bingzhou, and Yuan Shao has already made him the Bingzhou defense envoy. Lu Bu can handle the orders of the Bingzhou affairs at will at will, and the governor is useless and only provides money and food. Lu Bu gets everything he wants, and will not easily betray Yuan Shao's change of ownership."

It’s not because Lu Bu is loyal, but because he has taken all the benefits he wants for the time being.

Guan Yu: "That nephew means..."

Zhuge Liang: "Focus on Zhang Liao, let Que Yi go, and write to Que Yi before the war to show our kindness and tell him that we will not attack him. Find a clever messenger and try to send the letter to you and run away. Don't give Que Yizhan the opportunity to make a clear mind, and don't deliberately reveal our letter to you, and everything will be fine."
Chapter completed!