Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

When Zang Ba returned to the city, the Taishan tiger bandits guarding the city understood what had happened when they saw that Zang Ba had returned alone.

So everyone was tactful and didn't ask any more questions.

Looking at the remaining ten thousand people, Zang Ba regretted very much. Why didn't he listen to Zhuge Liang and just defend the city well? Why did he have to launch a surprise attack on Jiang Wei, resulting in the loss of ten thousand people in vain.

Now there are only more than 10,000 people defending the city, and Zang Ba doesn't even have the confidence that he can hold out against the next wave of siege.

After Jiang Wei defeated Zang Ba's 10,000 Taishan tiger bandits, he immediately began to reorganize his soldiers and prepare to attack the city.

Relying on the large number of soldiers he had, Jiang Wei immediately dispatched 30,000 men to attack the city, while the remaining 20,000 men began to rest.

The two teams took turns attacking the city.

Two days later, the number of people Zang Ba could still use was less than eight thousand.

Among them were those who were defending the city with injuries.

Zang Ba suddenly felt physically and mentally exhausted.

For two days, he didn't sleep once and kept staring at the city wall.

There were several loopholes in the defense, and he discovered and filled the holes in time.

At this moment, Jiang Wei stopped attacking the city.

But Zang Ba did not relax his vigilance, but continued to stare.

Three hours passed.

Zang Ba already felt that he could not hold on any longer.

At this time, Jiang Wei led his army to attack the city again.

The reason why Jiang Wei stopped attacking the city was to allow his soldiers to have a good rest in preparation for the final decisive battle.

The tactics of Zang Ba and Jiang Wei were completely on different levels. Zang Ba had been played around by Jiang Wei since the beginning of the war.

Faced with the scene of 40,000 people attacking the city, even the exhausted Taishan tiger bandits, who were elite troops, could hardly hold on.

Gradually, the holes in the city wall became bigger and bigger.

Zang Ba wanted to bring people to fill the gap, but he was always a step slow.

Gradually the city walls were built, and the Wei army was everywhere on the walls.

Zang Ba looked at the lost city wall, looked towards Jiaozhou and Yizhou in the distance, and knelt down.

"My Lord, I am sorry for you. Huaili City cannot be defended. The gate of Sili is open."

At this moment, a burst of arrows shot over and knocked down a group of Wei soldiers on the city wall.

Seeing this, Zang Ba immediately looked outside the city.

It turned out that a group of Lie army cavalry actually rushed into the battlefield and completely disrupted Jiang Wei's formation.

Seeing this, Zang Ba immediately shouted: "Reinforcements are here, brothers, follow me."

Upon hearing that reinforcements were coming, the Taishan tiger bandits immediately became energized and dragged their injured bodies to fight back the Wei army that had rushed up the city wall.

Jiang Wei did not expect that enemies would appear behind him, so he could only order the troops to retreat.

The reinforcements did not pursue, but arrived at the city.

Zang Ba opened the city gate and saw that the reinforcements were actually brought by Gu Rubing.

"My lord! I'm sorry. It was my mistake. The Taishan Tiger Bandits were almost wiped out."

"Xuan Gao, what are you doing? It's not easy for you to resist with 50,000 people until now. Not only are you not at fault, but you have made a contribution."

Gu Rubing immediately helped Zang Ba up.

"Lord!"

There were already some tears in Zang Ba's eyes at this time.

A real man does not shed tears easily. Zang Ba's tears were not only for this victory, but also for the ten thousand Taishan tiger bandits who died because of his carelessness.

Soon after 10,000 cavalry entered the city, Gu Rubing learned about the current situation and the entire process of the battle.

After hearing this, Gu Rubing really admired Zang Ba.

The tactical abilities of the two people are completely on different levels, yet Zang Ba was able to hold on for such a long time.

At that time, Zhong Hui was guarding the Yinping Trail, but he was defeated in just one encounter and even lost the Yinping Trail.

In comparison, Zang Ba is much stronger than Zhong Hui.

"I brought 10,000 cavalry this time. With these 10,000 people, we should be able to hold on for a while and there shouldn't be any problems."

Upon hearing that there were only 10,000 people there, Zang Ba's heart, which had calmed down, began to beat wildly again.

"My lord, you should take a detour and go back first. Leave these ten thousand people to me. I will definitely be able to hold out until the reinforcements arrive."

"Xuan Gao, where are the reinforcements? Deng Ai's troops are barely enough to defend Jiangzhou City. These 10,000 people are the only reinforcements that can be mobilized. As for the Prime Minister, there is no one to mobilize. If reinforcements can be mobilized, they will be mobilized from Youzhou. It will take at least two months for the reinforcements to arrive. With these 10,000 people, are you sure you can hold out for two months?"

"This……"

Zang Ba was silent for a moment. He wanted to say yes. At least, Gu Rubing might be able to leave. But 10,000 people fighting Jiang Wei for two months, isn't that a joke? Even the 50,000 Taishan Tiger Bandits couldn't hold out for two months under Jiang Wei's attack, let alone more than 10,000 people, and they were not elite.

Seeing Zang Ba's embarrassment, Gu Rubing smiled and patted Zang Ba on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I bet you that Jiang Wei will withdraw his troops in three days at most."

"retreat?"

Upon hearing this, Zang Ba looked at the map beside him and after carefully observing the location of Jiangzhou, his eyes lit up.

"My Lord, what you mean is that Deng Ai can block Jiang Wei's food supply route."

"That's right. As long as the food supply route is blocked, Jiang Wei will have no choice but to withdraw his troops."

Just when Jiang Wei found out that the reinforcements of the Lie Army this time consisted of only 10,000 men and that they were led by Gu Rubing, bad news came.

Cao Ren's grain transport team arrived and brought the news that Jiangzhou had fallen.

Looking at the last batch of food brought by Cao Ren, Jiang Wei was caught in a dilemma.

Or he could use the last bit of food to attack the city. Perhaps he could capture the city before the food ran out. In that case, all the food in the city would be his.

The other option is to withdraw troops, which is also the safest option.

If we eat sparingly the last bit of food and fodder Cao Ren sent us, it should be enough to last us until we get back to Linjiang City.

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Wei finally decided to withdraw his troops.

The news of the food supply being cut off was not only known to him, but Gu Rubing must have known it as well.

As long as Gu Rubing defends the city to the death, I will definitely not be able to take it down in a short time. The risk is too great.

Gu Rubing originally thought that it would take Jiang Wei at least three days to withdraw his troops. After all, there was such a big piece of fat meat right in front of him, so Jiang Wei would have hesitated for a while. He did not expect Jiang Wei to be so decisive.

"As expected of you, you are Kirin'er. I am very satisfied with your decisiveness and vision for the overall situation."

"What? My Lord, what are you talking about?"

Zang Ba stood aside and looked at Gu Rubing.

"It's okay, get ready, we are shrinking the defense line."

"Yes!"

With Jiang Wei's evacuation, Sili was completely safe this time.

Gu Rubing also led Zang Ba to shrink the defense line, and even took the entire Hanzhong County in one go, and joined Deng Ai's army in Linjiang City. "My lord, before you came, we saw Jiang Wei leading tens of thousands of soldiers into Linjiang City."

Deng Ai quickly reported the intelligence he had obtained to Gu Rubing.

"Yeah, we just followed them."

Gu Rubing smiled and nodded.

Zang Ba remained silent. In these battlefields, he suffered the heaviest losses, and he was the only one who led the real elite troops.

This made Zang Ba feel ashamed.

"General Zang Ba, I want to thank you for withstanding Cao Cao's fiercest attack this time. If it weren't for you and your Taishan Tiger Bandits, I'm afraid our battle line would have been completely defeated."

Zang Ba did not expect that Deng Ai would elevate him to a very high position, as if the place he was defending was very important, but Zang Ba knew that in fact every place was very important, and Deng Ai was just speaking for him.

"Thank you!"

Deng Ai smiled and said nothing.

In this counterattack, Gu Rubing suffered heavy losses. In comparison, Cao Cao's losses were smaller, which made Gu Rubing somewhat unhappy.

After learning that his plan had failed and that he had lost Hanzhong County, Cao Cao didn't want to fight anymore. He was worried that if he continued fighting, he would give away all the territory he had fought so hard to regain.

In the end, Cao Cao issued an order that no one was allowed to leave the city to fight and could only defend the city.

Gu Rubing and his men were stationed outside Linjiang City, but when they found that there were no opportunities for combat, they had no choice but to retreat back to Jiangzhou City.

Not only Cao Cao, but Liu Zhang was blocked outside Cangwu County by Zhuge Liang. He had not made any progress and was already tired. He didn't want to fight any more and simply stopped.

Cao Cao looked at the battle reports coming back from all over the place. If this continued, Gu Rubing would soon turn his attention to Youzhou.

With the two million grains of food provided by Sun Jian, it was enough for Gu Rubing to squander for a while.

Since force could not stop Gu Rubing, Cao Cao could only choose to use diplomacy.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao immediately sent a letter to Gu Rubing and Liu Zhang, inviting them to meet in Yulin County.

Being on Liu Zhang's territory would reduce Gu Rubing's suspicion and would also be safer for the three parties.

Gu Rubing looked at Cao Cao's invitation letter and sneered.

However, Gu Rubing did not have the idea of ​​continuing to fight. Two million grains were indeed a lot, but they were not enough for him to squander. After all, he had thrown out one million to save Wei Yan, and that was his last grain.

After handing over the affairs of Jiangzhou City to Deng Ai, Gu Rubing went directly to Cangwu County.

When Zhuge Liang saw Gu Rubing coming back, he immediately pulled Gu Rubing into the main camp.

"My Lord, have you forgotten what you promised me? Didn't you say you would be careful? Then why did you take 10,000 cavalry to support Zang Ba? 10,000 cavalry facing Jiang Wei's 40,000, are you looking for death? What would you do if Jiang Wei chose to risk his life to attack the city?"

In response to Zhuge Liang's series of questions, Gu Rubing smiled awkwardly.

At that time, there were really not many people that he could mobilize.

Zhong Hui had to guard the grain route, Deng Ai needed to attack Linjiang City, and I was the only one with nothing to do. Instead of this, I might as well take my men to support Zang Ba. I didn't think too much about it at the time.

Seeing Zhuge Liang talking like a machine gun, Gu Rubing suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

Finally, Zhuge Liang felt a little tired and sat on a chair drinking water in big gulps.

Gu Rubing asked the question calmly.

"If it was the Prime Minister instead of Jiang Wei, what would you choose?"

Zhuge Liang thought for a moment and said directly: "Retreat."

"That's fine. Since the Prime Minister has chosen to retreat, Jiang Wei will definitely retreat as well."

"Hmm? What do you mean? My Lord, this doesn't make sense!"

"Haha, Prime Minister, don't worry, I won't joke about my life."

Looking at Gu Rubing's expression, Zhuge Liang rolled his eyes at him and said nothing.

The people outside the tent heard the quarreling inside stop until Zhuge Liang's anger subsided.

"The Prime Minister is really good at talking. He has been talking for an hour. If it were me, Old Zhang, I wouldn't be able to say so many words."

"Third brother, if you could be half as good as the prime minister, you would definitely be able to become a man of both civil and military talents."

Guan Yu laughed and teased on the side.

Zhang Fei gave Guan Yu a cold look.

Zhao Yun was standing aside, listening to what the two were saying, and he just laughed out loud.

"Everyone outside, stop chatting there and get in here."

Hearing Gu Rubing's words, everyone hurried into the tent.

Gu Rubing looked at the legendary generals and famous generals in front of him. When he was being scolded just now, every one of them came in to stop him, but when they saw that the situation was not good, they all ran away.

Then he said unhappily, "It's quite comfortable to listen to it outside?"

"Ah? Brother, what are you talking about? We don't understand!"

Zhang Fei shook his head like a rattle, pretending that he knew nothing.

"Humph, you are such ungrateful guys."

Gu Rubing was too lazy to argue with them, and then placed Cao Cao's invitation letter in front of several people.

"Why did Cao Cao invite me to Yulin County? It's time to stop the war. There are wars everywhere and the food reserves are not sufficient."

"Brother, are you planning to take us with you?"

"Of course!"

Hearing this, Zhang Fei was extremely happy.

He had not gone out during this period of time, and Gu Rubing took Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong with him whenever he went out, which made Zhang Fei very unhappy.

"I'm taking you out, not letting you mess around. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, listen to my orders."

"My subordinate is here."

Five people stood up at the same time.

"The five of you will follow me to Yulin County. We are going to give them a good time this time."

"Yes!"

The five people nodded immediately.

Soon, the agreed day arrived.

Gu Rubing and five others rushed directly to Yulin County.

At this time, Cao Cao was already outside the city with Liu Zhang, welcoming Gu Rubing.

When he saw the five people behind Gu Rubing, the smile on Cao Cao's face froze instantly, and Liu Zhang also took a few steps back in fear.

Gu Rubing brought out five legendary generals at once, while Cao Cao only brought Xu Chu and Dian Wei this time. Even if Liu Zhang's Meng Huo and Miao Moqing were added, there was still one person missing, and the home advantage was instantly snatched away by Gu Rubing.

However, Cao Cao was the first to react and walked forward confidently.

"Haha, King Lie, it's just a party, there's no need to make such a big fuss. The five people behind you are not ordinary people."

"It's okay, I just took them out for a stroll, what's wrong, are you guys a little scared?" (End of this chapter)