Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Tian Feng, who had gradually regained his forthrightness, spoke again.

“Prime Minister, now that Linzi is prepared, Cao Ren will certainly not stand idly by and watch Linzi be captured. He will definitely send reinforcements to Linzi, and even try to trap and kill General Wei Yan's partial army within Qi.”

“Should we send troops to meet General Wei Yan, or should we have General Wei Yan retreat for the time being?”

Seeing this, Gan Ning quickly spoke up for Wei Yan, saying.

“It is not easy for Wen Chang to reach Linzi in such a short time, and Cao Ren had previously hurriedly transferred troops from various places to Beihai Commandery. It is expected that there are not many defenders in Linzi. If we give Wen Chang some more time, he might be able to capture Linzi. Why should we let Wen Chang come back now?”

Zhuge Liang also nodded in agreement, suggesting.

“Indeed, there is no need to rush. The attack on Linzi will surely throw Cao Ren into chaos, making it difficult for him to decide what to do. Even if we cannot capture Linzi, we can force Cao Ren to divide his troops to rescue it, reducing the pressure on Beihai Commandery.”

As he spoke, Zhuge Liang secretly glanced at Li Ji, who was leisurely and composed, feeling that his teacher might have had this idea from the beginning when he agreed to Wei Yan taking the eastern route.

After a discussion about Wei Yan, Li Ji finally decided to let Wei Yan freely exert his abilities in Linzi for the time being.

In addition, the successful surprise attack on Dongchao Ford was undoubtedly a great joy for the Northern Expedition of Qingzhou, and it also made the civil and military officials feel invigorated.

However, after this temporary military meeting, Li Ji, accompanied by Zhuge Liang, came to the small hill again, observing the siege under Xu Sheng's command from afar.

Zhuge Liang asked softly. “Teacher, did you foresee that Wen Chang would encounter setbacks in his surprise attack on Linzi via the eastern route?”

Li Ji smiled without saying a word, his gaze still sweeping across Chunyu City, which was constantly counterattacking, carefully confirming the defensive arrangements in various places of Chunyu City, before turning to say.

“Liang'er, Wei Wen Chang is a capable and ambitious general. He can be reused, but he has many ideas, which is his strength, and also his weakness.”

“Wei Wen Chang asked to take the eastern route through Shi Yuan's mouth. If this Marquis does not allow it, even if he does not harbor resentment, he will still feel unwilling. Why not go with the flow?”

“Furthermore, the eastern route is not completely without opportunities, it depends on whether Wen Chang and Shi Yuan can seize the opportunity.”

After hearing this, Zhuge Liang already understood his teacher's intentions.

It is not appropriate to stick to formalities when employing people, and making the most of their strengths is the right way.

Whether Wei Yan takes the eastern route or the western route, it will be helpful to the Northern Expedition.

The difference is that taking the western route is Li Ji and Zhao Yun's invisible cover for Wei Yan's surprise attack on Linzi, while taking the eastern route requires Wei Yan and Pang Tong to break through layers of difficulties, and even invisibly share part of the pressure on the frontal battlefield.

However, in terms of meritorious service, the battle achievements that can be obtained are undoubtedly far greater on the eastern route than on the western route, which is not bad.

On this day, Xu Sheng once again led an army of 100,000 to attack Chunyu City, and it was a simultaneous attack on three sides of the city wall, with a momentum far exceeding the past.

However, the intensity was greatly reduced, and it was more of a tentative attack, with only a few hundred soldiers killed or injured.

However, such a day was enough for Li Ji to further verify the city defense arrangements made by Yu Jin in Chunyu City.

After the siege army slowly retreated near dusk, Li Ji, who had watched for most of the day, was helped down the small hill by Xu Chu, returned to the central army tent, took a roll of white paper, and began to draw.

What he drew was only a rough outline of Chunyu City, and then he marked four points outside the city.

Immediately afterwards, he called Xu Sheng, who had just returned from the retreat, and asked Xu Sheng to continue to create momentum and attack the city in the same way every day.

He also handed the marked white paper to Zhuge Liang, asking Zhuge Liang to arrange for craftsmen to assemble the catapults as soon as possible, and then use the catapults to suppress the four marked points as the main targets.

Soon, with more than a dozen catapults successively put into the siege, and frequent bombardment of the city walls of Chunyu City, the pressure on Yu Jin also increased a lot.

What made Yu Jin frown was that the Han army outside the city had attacked for seven or eight days in a row, almost all of them creating momentum and feigning attacks.

However, knowing that he was facing Li Zikun, Yu Jin did not dare to be careless in the slightest, fearing that a moment of negligence would relax his vigilance and Li Zikun would find a flaw and turn the feigned attack into a strong attack to break the city in one fell swoop.

However, Xu Sheng attacked three sides of the city wall in the same way, forcing Yu Jin to arrange nearly two-thirds of the troops in his hands to the city wall to be on guard, welcoming wave after wave of stone throwing, arrow rain, strong crossbows, and so on from outside the city.

'This is simply a war of attrition!'

Yu Jin cursed inwardly.

In this way, they were forced to constantly consume each other.

After so many days in a row, the entire Chunyu City looked like it had been pricked into a hedgehog from a distance.

Especially the four points that were heavily bombarded by the catapults were truly covered with gravel, piled up like a small stone mountain.

But even though the situation was so embarrassing, Yu Jin still maintained considerable calmness, thinking about what Li Zikun's intention was in arranging this.

Such attrition, the advantage is indeed in the Northern Expeditionary Army, but a large batch of military supplies has already begun to be sent from Duchang City in the rear. It is simply wishful thinking to break the city in this way.

Suddenly, Yu Jin thought of a possibility!

Tunnel!

The ten-day offensive outside the city may be a cover for secretly digging tunnels into the city.

Immediately, Yu Jin hurriedly boarded the city tower again, looking around left and right.

Outside the strong city position of Chunyu City is a large area of ​​plain, with very few coverings. Digging tunnels will inevitably require a large amount of soil to be secretly transported away without being discovered by Chunyu City.

In this way, Yu Jin quickly locked on the small hill outside the city that was the only thing that could obscure his vision.

Only on the back of that small hill can there be a tunnel entrance that is not discovered by Chunyu City.