The cold and the heat are coming and going, and it’s another year in a hurry.

Wang Ling stood on the head of Shouchun's city, looking at the camps of Sima Jun in the distance, with a look of melancholy on his face.

When Sima's army besieged the city, Wang Ling firmly believed that if Sima Yi could not conquer Shouchun within a maximum of half a year or even three months, he would definitely withdraw his troops in shame. After all, Shouchun City had sufficient food and supplies and was equipped with defense facilities. Sima Yi worked hard to expedition and had extremely difficult food and grass supply. In addition, the reinforcements of Wu State could reinforce at any time. Sima Yi's besieging Shouchun would eventually end up with a slash of siege.

But although Wang Ling thought he knew Sima Yi very well, he still misled this time. Sima Yi's determination, confidence and patience were definitely beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Wang Ling concluded that Sima's army could support at most half a year, and after careful calculation, he could not take Shouchun within half a year, and the army would withdraw due to the exhaustion of food, because the supply of grain to support the 200,000 troops was definitely a terrifying number. Although the Wei State had a low grain reserve, it needed to transport it from Luoyang and other places. The consumption in the middle was also extremely amazing. If it was fought in a short time, there would be no problem, but it would be difficult to deal with a high-intensity war that lasted for a year and a half.

But this seems to be a problem for Sima Yi. After he surrounded Shouchun, he did not launch even one attack on Shouchun. He simply sieges without attacking, which was like a garrison. Such a low-intensity war state naturally consumed the lowest food and grass. What's more, Sima Yi also organized the army in Huainan to manage and farm the original military farm in Huainan, and fed the local area, greatly reducing the burden of transporting food and grass from the capital.

On the contrary, although Wang Ling claimed to have sufficient grain reserves, after Shouchun was surrounded, no more grains of the Huainan army were put into the tent. They were sitting in vain, and even a grain mountain would have to be eaten.

After a year of besieging the city, a food and grass crisis began to occur in Shouchun. Wang Ling had to implement food and grass ratio, and the supply of food and grass in the army was reduced by half. The price of food and grass in Shouchun City soared, from the initial few dozens of coins per stone to ten thousand coins per stone. Now, just in the tenth year of Zhengshi, the price of grain has exceeded 100,000 coins per stone, and it is often priceless. There are hungry people everywhere in the city, hungry people are everywhere, and people compete to eat.

Wang Ling was very miserable about Sima Yi's tactics. It seems that he really underestimated Sima Yi's patience.

Sima Yi knew very well that Shouchun was a strong city. If a strong attack was used, it would hit Wang Ling's thoughts, and it would probably cost a lot of money and might not be able to get Shouchun. The series of problems brought by the strong attack would inevitably cause Sima Yi to have a headache, such as pensions for the deaths, treatment of the injured, supplementary soldiers, consumption of military rations, and the morale influence brought by repeated attacks, focusing on siege to cope with the weak reinforcements of the Wu Kingdom, and other series of problems, which would inevitably be troublesome.

So Sima Yi thought about it over and over again and decided to adopt the strategy of siege but not attacking, which was to plan to trap Wang Ling to death. No matter how sufficient food and grass in Shouchun City were, it would only last for a year or two. Sima Yi decided to spend a year and slowly consume Wang Ling. If it doesn’t work for a year, then two years or two years, then three years. Anyway, there is no grain of food in Shouchun City. More than 100,000 soldiers and civilians have to eat and drink, and one day they have to eat and drink. Sima Yi has time to wait.

What Sima army has to do now is to siege and blockade. They have set up dozens of miles of battalions around Shouchun City. Of course, these battalions are not all troops, and many of the battalions are empty. The reason why Sima Yi even set up empty battalions is to give Shouchun's guards a sense of oppression and fear, and give them a feeling of a large army over the city, making them believe that the Sima army besieged in the city is indeed 200,000 or even more.

But in fact, Sima Yi, the besieged army, has always controlled about 100,000 people, while the rest of the army was deployed in Hefei area to be responsible for attacking aid.

It is obviously not enough to siege a city of more than 70,000 with 100,000 people in terms of military strength. One hundred thousand people are distributed on all sides of the city, with only 25,000 people in each direction at most. If the army in the city is desperate to break through, the Sima army will be difficult to stop.

Therefore, while the camp was siege, Sima Yi ordered the digging of deep trenches to build high towers and sealing off the possible breakthrough path of the defenders. Such a siege effect would naturally be twice the result with half the effort.

As for the 100,000 troops responsible for attacking aid, they were deployed by Sima Yi in Hefei and Lu'an. Sima Yi sent nearly half of the troops to attack aid, but it was not to completely annihilate the reinforcements of the Wu Kingdom. Based on the previous experience of fighting with the Wu army, Sima Yi also knew that the Jianghuai area was densely covered with water networks and many rivers and lakes. The Wu army relied on the advantages of the navy to advance and retreat freely. It was not difficult for the Sima army to defeat the Wu army, but it was very difficult to completely annihilate the Wu army.

Anyway, Sima Yi's real target to deal with during this southern expedition was Wang Ling. Sima Yi at most gave him a head-on blow to the Eastern Wu army that was trying to disrupt the situation and defeated him.

As for completely annihilation and severely damaging the Wu army, it was completely overthinking. In the Jianghuai River Network area, the Wu army relied on the advantages of the navy to advance and attack, retreat and defend, and slipped like a loach. It was very difficult for the Sima army to catch him.

Fortunately, the water systems in the Yangtze River Basin and the Huai River Basin are not connected. No matter how powerful the Wu navy was, it would not be able to drive the warships to the water surface of the Huai River, otherwise the entire Huainan would have fallen long ago.

Zhuge Ke had launched three attacks in this year, but he was repeatedly defeated by the Sima army and could not get close to Shouchun.

Wang Ling, who was waiting for the reinforcements of the Eastern Wu in Shouchun, was waiting for him, but he could never see any figure.

The situation in Shouchun has become increasingly difficult. The lack of food has caused great setbacks in the morale of the Huainan Army. What else can you expect from an army that cannot even eat enough?

Wang Ling originally thought that he could rest assured if he defected to Wu. Even if Sima Yi's army attacked, as long as Wu sent troops, he would be able to defeat Sima Yi.

However, Sima Yi's tactic of besieging the city and fighting aid has repeatedly defeated the Wu army. They have no chance to approach Shouchun. What are they talking about internal and external cooperation?

Wang Ling looked melancholy in despair. So far, Sima Yi has not launched an attack on Shouchun, but his strategy of besieging the city endlessly consumed the power of the Huainan Army.

"Father, the people of Wu can't count on it anymore. The child has a plan, but I don't know if it's feasible?" Wang Feixiao suggested.
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