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

However, the presence of Gu Rubing became Zhao Yun's biggest weakness, which made Zhao Yun much more nervous.

Gu Rubing knew that his existence was a complete burden.

He was very tactful and hid at the back.

Determined not to affect their performance.

Wang Yue felt that the strength in his body had reached its limit, so he did not stop and rushed towards Wei Yan and the others.

In the past, Wei Yan was slightly stronger than Wang Yue.

As long as the fight lasts a little longer, Wang Yue will definitely lose.

However, Wang Yue and Wei Yan had just fought for a short time and many wounds appeared on their bodies.

Although none of the wounds were fatal, the long battle caused Wei Yan's wounds to bleed continuously. Excessive blood loss also made Wei Yan's movements slower and slower, and he had more and more flaws.

In comparison, Zhang He was not much better.

There were many wounds of varying sizes on his body, and his face became paler the more he was beaten.

"My Lord, they may not be able to hold out for much longer. Do you need me to help?"

Without Zhao Yun's explanation, Gu Rubing could see that Zhang He and Wei Yan were in great danger at this time.

"Let's do it."

Zhao Yun nodded and walked out slowly.

When Wang Yue was fighting with Wei Yan, his eyes were always on Zhao Yun in the distance.

When Wang Yue saw Zhao Yun making a move, he decisively gave up on Wei Yan and shouted to Shi A, "Go, we are no match for Zhao Yun."

Wang Yue knew very well in his heart that even with the help of the Gu tribe's elixirs, it would be impossible to defeat the legendary general. After all, that was beyond human ability.

Zhao Yun didn't expect that Wang Yue didn't even have the intention to fight him and just turned around and ran away.

However, although Zhao Yun was caught off guard, this level of difficulty was still much easier for a legendary general.

When Zhao Yun was about to chase after him.

Suddenly, a silver light was seen flying out from Wang Yue's hand, and the target was Gu Rubing not far away.

"My lord, be careful."

After Zhao Yun shouted loudly, he swung the silver spear in his hand, and a silver dragon flew out, directly knocking the silver light away.

All this happened extremely quickly, and Gu Rubing didn't react until the silver light fell to the ground.

Looking at the silver dagger on the ground, Gu Rubing suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

If it weren't for Zhao Yun, he would probably have become a corpse now. After all, judging from the speed just now, he couldn't stop it at all.

Zhao Yun came to Gu Rubing's side.

"Lord, are you okay?"

"fine."

After Gu Rubing finished speaking, he looked in the direction of Wang Yue and the others, and found that the two men had long disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Chase!"

Gu Rubing realized that, at their speed, it might be too late, but he still held on to a glimmer of hope and wanted to give it a try.

Soon, news came that the north gate had been breached. Gu Rubing realized that Wang Yue and Shi A must have left, so he gave up the pursuit and began to order everyone to clean up the battlefield.

Wang Yue and Shi A ran for a long time after leaving the city. When they saw that Zhao Yun was not catching up with them, they stopped to rest.

"Master, now all our troops are gone. How are we going to explain to Shi Xie when we return? Otherwise, let's go. Shi Xie is finished. If we go back, we will be buried with him."

Gu Rubing and his colleagues’ analysis is correct.

Shi A would not betray Wang Yue, but he would definitely betray Shi Xie.

Shi A had always looked down on Shi Xie, believing him to be timid and cowardly, with basically no military talent. Shi A even doubted how a man like Shi Xie could survive in such a chaotic world.

However, Wang Yue saw the shining points in Shi Xie.

In these chaotic times, since Shi Xie has managed to survive, he must have some abilities of his own.

In terms of military talent, Shi Xie was not even as good as Liu Zhang, but Shi Xie's cowardice helped him occupy a territory in troubled times.

After all, Shi Xie is a useless person, neither tasty nor worth throwing away. He has a small territory and is good at defense. If you want to take him down completely, you must pay a certain price. Now everyone has their own enemies, and no one wants to waste their military resources on such an ant.

"Let's go back. Shi'ah, don't underestimate Shi Xie. Although he is not a very strong man among the princes, he is definitely stronger than the two of us. According to Shi Xie's strategy, we will never lose so badly. In fact, with the help of other princes, we may be able to fight Liu Bei and force him to retreat in the end."

After saying that, Wang Yue sighed.

"Speaking of which, the reason we are in this situation now is entirely because we did not follow the strategy formulated by Shi Xie. If I had not advocated going to war in the first place, how could it have turned out like this?"

Upon hearing this, Shi A stopped talking. He knew that Wang Yue was right, but he was prejudiced against Shi Xie. He was unwilling to acknowledge Shi Xie's intelligence.

After the two of them reached an agreement, they immediately rushed towards Shi Xie.

Now, the tens of thousands of troops under Wang Yue's command were completely wiped out. This was a rare opportunity for Gu Rubing.

Directly ordered Wei Yan and Zhang He, with an army of 60,000, to begin the comprehensive recovery of Dai County.

Without Wang Yue's command, and with all the elite troops killed by Wang Yue, the entire Dai County had no strength to resist Wei Yan and Zhang He. It was fully recovered in just over ten days.

At this time, Wang Yue and Shi A also came to Shi Xie.

They could have returned faster, but the side effects of the Gu Clan's elixir were too strong, seriously interfering with their travel speed.

Shi Xie looked at the two people in front of him and he didn't know what to say.

Now all the troops have been destroyed by Wang Yue. He is even considering where to escape so as to bypass Gu Rubing's ruling area and how he can evacuate safely.

Just as Shi Xie was thinking about it, someone walked out from the corner.

"Youzhou Mu, are you considering running away?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at the person who spoke.

"What else can I do? I don't know when the reinforcements will arrive, and I have no food. Now I have no people and no food. How can I fight Liu Bei?"

"Who said that without humans, we can't fight against Liu Bei? If there are no humans, can't we create humans?"

Hearing this, Shi Xie was stunned where he was. He was a little confused about what this meant.

Create humans?

Shi Xie's thoughts suddenly became bad.

Shi Xie quickly shook off the bad thoughts in his mind. Now that life and death were at stake, how could he think about those messy things?

After occupying the entire Dai County, Gu Rubing rested for a few days and then began to march towards Shanggu County.

What Gu Rubing did not expect was that Shanggu County still had no military force able to resist them.

The journey was basically smooth.

However, six days later, a city stood in front of them.

That is Jundu County.

This Jundu County is a military stronghold of the entire Shanggu County. Its high city walls make it easy to defend and difficult to attack, and its terrain is well connected.

If you want to completely occupy Shanggu County, you must occupy Juyang County, but in order to reach Juyang County, Jundu County is the main road that must be opened.

According to intelligence, Gu Rubing learned that there were only about 10,000 garrison troops in the entire Jundu County.

But with just these 10,000 people, and only a few first-rate military commanders in command of the battle, they were still able to keep them out of the city for two days.

"My lord, I will personally lead the troops to attack the city. I just don't believe that a few thousand captains can rebel against the heaven."

Gu Rubing nodded at Wei Yan's words. He also felt that there was no way a few captains could have any great capabilities. It was enough to send a famous general to lead the siege in person.

But soon, Gu Rubing found out that he was wrong.

Wei Yan led 10,000 people to prepare for the siege.

Just entered the opponent's shooting range.

Then I saw a rain of arrows falling from the sky.

This level of density cannot be demonstrated by tens of thousands of people.

After only advancing about ten steps, Wei Yan had to retreat.

Although the rain of arrows was dense, it did not cause them much damage, it just looked scary.

After Wei Yan came back and counted the casualties, he felt a little curious about this.

Gu Rubing was looking at the figures walking on the distant city wall, and suddenly became curious.

It doesn't look like there are only 10,000 people defending the city. Although 10,000 people are a lot, they are scattered among the city walls on all sides. There are only about 2,000 people on each city wall. It is impossible for there to be figures walking back and forth. In the case of insufficient personnel, everyone has his or her own position.

If they were moving back and forth, it meant that the other side had substitutes, but more than 2,000 people guarding a city wall was already the limit, so how could there be substitutes?
Unless there are not even 10,000 people in the city.

At this time, Gu Rubing was already somewhat suspicious as to whether there was something wrong with the intelligence provided by Captain Younu.

Wei Yan, who refused to believe in evil, organized another charge, but was still beaten back by the dense rain of arrows.

Finally, Wei Yan concluded that there were definitely not 10,000 people in the city, but at least 20,000.

After Wei Yan told Gu Rubing his thoughts, he got Gu Rubing's approval. Finally, Gu Rubing contacted the captain of the mobile crossbow army again and asked them to re-investigate the situation in the city.

But before the war started, the captain of the mobile crossbow army was still able to pass on intelligence. Now that the war has started, the city walls on all four sides have long been surrounded, and the enemy seems to have been prepared for it. There are fixed people guarding the city gates every day. With them around, no one can open the city gates.

This means that it is impossible for anyone to leave through the city gate, and the information naturally cannot be transmitted.

Gu Rubing also understood the difficulties faced by the Captain of the Roving Crossbows, so he did not force him. He could only temporarily stop the siege and study to see if there was any other way out.

However, at this time in the military capital.

Several centurions surrounded a man in black robe.

"Sir, you are truly a god. You actually allowed us to stop Liu Bei's army of 60,000 with only 10,000 people."

"Yes, with the sir, it won't be a problem for us to defend the military capital for ten days."

Hearing this, the man in black robe looked at the people present.

"Your goal is just to defend the city for ten days? Then why am I helping you so much?"

Hearing this, everyone present fell silent.

Finally, a captain said slowly: "Sir, it's not that we don't want to defend the city. During this period, many of our brothers died in battle. If we didn't want to defend the city, we would have run away long ago. Why should we stay here? But now the food and grass in the city are only enough for ten days. Without food and grass, we can hold on, but the soldiers can't. Without food, there will be big problems sooner or later."

Hearing this, the man in black robe smiled.

"It's just food and fodder. We can have as much as we want. Do you think that I asked you to pretend that there are tens of thousands of people defending the city just to help you defend the city?"

After saying this, the man in black robe directly told him his plan.

After hearing the whole plan, several people were stunned.

No matter how you look at it, the plan of this man in black robe is extremely dangerous.

Even if it fails, the military capital will be lost. Originally, the city could be defended for ten days, but if the plan fails, it will not be able to be defended even for an incense stick.

However, they had to admit that they were tempted by what the man in black said: they could have as much food as they wanted.

The purpose of being a soldier is to have something to eat. When it comes to food, they don’t care about a city.

"Sir, let's do it, just as you say."

late at night.

Gu Rubing stood in front of the map, looking at it.

Jundu County had been blocking his way for four days.

If the stalemate continues, there is no guarantee that Cao Cao, Liu Zhang, or even Sun Jian will not come up with other ideas.

By then, I will have to open up several battlefields, and I will be extremely passive.

At this time, the gates of the military capital opened.

Tens of thousands of soldiers quietly left the city under the moonlight.

The target of these people was not Gu Rubing's camp, but a high mountain far away from the camp.

In order to prevent Gu Rubing from having an easy time, Junducheng implemented the strategy of clearing the countryside.

All the trees outside the city were cut down.

Only a small forest was left, and inside the forest was a huge sinkhole, which was a hole created by a catapult.

After Gu Rubing came here, he also placed food and fodder here.

It is easy to take and easy to defend. After all, this kind of big pit is a rare good thing.

However, what Gu Rubing didn't know was that this big pit was specially prepared for him by the other party, just to make Gu Rubing store food and grass.

Soon, tens of thousands of people quietly entered the woods.

The size of the forest was also calculated by the man in black robe.

Just enough to accommodate 10,000 people.

With the protection of the woods and the night, the tens of thousands of people were not discovered by the guards when they approached the pit.

One of the thousand soldiers drew his sword and shouted, "Kill them!"

As the voice fell, thousands of people suddenly rushed out.

The people in the baggage camp were caught off guard, and in the blink of an eye, they were completely defeated, leaving behind enough food and fodder to sustain the army of tens of thousands for half a month.

Looking at the food and fodder in front of him, a centurion's eyes gleamed with greed.

At this moment, one of the men slapped the centurion on the head. (End of this chapter)