Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

At this time, under Li Ji's angry scolding, Zhang Fei also realized his slip of the tongue.

Zhang Fei still looked down on those who were disloyal from the bottom of his heart, but he also understood that if Liu Bei wanted to realize his ambition of supporting the Han Dynasty and reviving the Han Dynasty, then those people were indispensable.

Therefore, intentionally excluding and despising surrendered generals would undoubtedly cause trouble for Liu Bei. Once the news got out, the impact would undoubtedly be bad.

Zhang Fei lowered his head and pondered for a while, then gradually came to his senses.

No matter how much he despised those surrendered generals, he could not expel them from the Han nationality. After all, they were part of the Han Dynasty and a force that Liu Bei wanted to use to revive the Han Dynasty.

In addition, Zhang Fei's status is extraordinary, and his every word and action will have a huge impact, so some words and some things cannot be said.

"From now on, you can just curse in secret. This time, your mistake was that you cursed in public, and Zikun caught you. That was definitely inappropriate..."

After Zhang Fei felt that he had figured it out, he spoke.

"Zikun, I know I was wrong."

"Do you really understand?" Li Ji confirmed again.

"Really." Zhang Fei nodded in agreement.

"Then punish Yide to personally invite Wen Pin, Zang Ba and Xu Sheng to the North Camp tent for a meeting." Li Ji said.

"As ordered!"

Zhang Fei bowed in response and strode out of the tent.

After Zhang Fei left, Li Ji ordered his men to bring all the documents from the North Camp Army to check the loss of money and food, as well as the casualties of soldiers during this period.

During this period of time, the four generals have used many means in their respective main attack directions.

In addition to violent attacks, other methods including night raids, digging tunnels, and fire attacks were also used.

Although Yuan Shu was average in field combat, his ability in defending a city was undoubtedly outstanding.

Even in the original trajectory, Yuan Shu was besieged by Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu and Sun Ce, and was deserted by his friends and relatives, which led to his gradual defeat.

Therefore, over the past half month, Yuan Shu's troops defending the city suffered serious losses, but the troops attacking the city also suffered heavy losses.

Taking the North Camp as an example, the siege that lasted for more than half a month had no results, which naturally made the soldiers gradually become tired of war and their morale began to decline.

After Li Ji carefully read through all the documents of the North Camp, the other generals also arrived at the North Camp tent one after another.

Although they were somewhat skeptical about Li Ji's holding of a military meeting in the North Camp, when they saw Li Ji sitting in the upper seat, the generals consciously lined up in the tent according to their official positions and waited.

Li Ji spoke only after Zhang Fei and Wen Pin rushed back to the tent.

"Everyone, we have been attacking Ruyang for nearly a month, but we still cannot take it."

After these words were spoken, the generals were undoubtedly ashamed and lowered their heads.

However, Li Ji mentioned this matter not to reprimand the generals, but to continue.

"The Yellow Turbans are gaining momentum in Yuzhou. It is rumored that they have as many as 300,000 soldiers. Five of the six counties in Yuzhou have been affected by this group of Yellow Turbans."

"In addition, news came from Jizhou that Yuan Shao had died suddenly and Cao Cao had won a great victory in the Battle of Jieqiao. The situation in the world also changed accordingly."

"With winter approaching, the heavy snow is expected to fall in half a month. We don't have much time left. We must not only capture Ruyang City as soon as possible, but also quickly put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion."

Li Ji said in a deep voice, causing the generals to look solemn. Snowfall!

It’s a very important time point.

North of the Yellow River, it is almost impossible to use troops when it snows.

The Central Plains is relatively not as cold, but it is just as difficult to deploy troops, and the river is likely to freeze.

For Li Ji, who now relies on Yingshui to transport food and fodder, there will also be a risk of food shortage.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly time to capture Ruyang and then pacify the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou.

Even if it was delayed any further, Gan Ning would be able to clean up the Yuzhou aristocratic families more thoroughly, but it would not be of much significance.

The Central Plains had been in turmoil for nearly a year, and allowing the people of Yuzhou to spend a peaceful winter would be more conducive to Liu Bei's rapid control of Yuzhou and stabilizing the people's hearts.

Furthermore, many of the noble families in Yuzhou are now terrified by the rampant killings by the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou.

Many aristocratic families in Yuzhou chose to move their entire families to the vicinity of Ruyang, as they realized that the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou seemed to be concerned about the large army under Li Ji's command and did not dare to approach the vicinity of Ruyang.

In order to persuade Li Ji to send troops to quell the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou as soon as possible, the Yuzhou noble families almost took turns to visit Li Ji. They started by explaining things to him and appealing to his emotions, and then began to blatantly provide him with financial and food benefits.

For the aristocratic families in Yuzhou today, the only hope to deal with the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou lies in Li Ji. There is no second choice at all.

Even some aristocratic families in Yuzhou who had a good personal relationship with Cai Yong sent letters to Cai Yong, hoping to use their relationship with Cai Yong to persuade Li Ji to send troops to protect the wealth and food that their families had accumulated over the years.

Of course, Cai Yong, who was now devoted to teaching and educating people, did not pay attention to such matters. Instead, he sent someone to deliver the letter directly to Li Ji intact.

In the process, Li Ji also saw what the bottom line of the aristocratic family is, that is, the aristocratic family has no bottom line at all.

In order to persuade Li Ji to send troops, the bottom line has been lowered again and again, and now it has reached the point where the court is willing to bear all the money and food that Li Ji will spend in leading the army to rescue Yuzhou from Yuan Shu.

This is nearly two months' worth of food and money for an army of 200,000 men, and yet the Yuzhou noble families, who had been severely damaged by the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou, were still able to provide it.

All we can say is that Yuan Shu was indeed at the end of his rope, but that doesn't mean that the Yuzhou families who originally supported Yuan Shu had emptied their assets.

This is also the reason why Li Ji now dares to touch the Xun family openly. The desperate Yuzhou families will not only not oppose it, but will only applaud and cheer, and some of them even actively assist them.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for an outsider like Wei Yan to lead a thousand cavalrymen to capture nearly 900 members of the Xun family in Yingchuan County.

Instead of protecting the Xun family, the Yuzhou noble families took the initiative to push the Xun family out. This was undoubtedly the attitude shown by the Yuzhou noble families.

Therefore, Li Ji, who had reaped the benefits of a lot of profits in Yuzhou and completely destroyed the morale of the Yuzhou families, felt that the time had come.

An opportunity to completely swallow up the entire Yuzhou without any worries.

However, there were only a few people in the entire army who knew clearly about Li Ji's true plan.

After Li Ji once again emphasized the importance of conquering Ruyang, the generals felt extremely ashamed and said in unison.

"We are incompetent, please punish us, Governor."

Li Ji said, "Forget the punishment. I will personally lead the siege from now on. I hope you will not slack off."

The generals answered in unison.

"How dare you disregard your life?" (End of this chapter)