Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Mobilizing another 10,000 troops to Chunyu City was already Cao Ren's limit.

Among these 10,000 soldiers, more than half were young and strong men who were temporarily recruited.

When Yu Jin, who was strict in military discipline, personally inspected the tens of thousands of reinforcements that had just arrived and found that more than half of them were mixed with water, his face turned pale. However, he did not want to get angry on the spot for fear of ruining the morale of the troops.

It cannot be said that the young and strong are useless in defending the city.

But that was a last resort due to the severe shortage of troops.

If the enemy's offensive is too strong, the young and strong men who have not received long-term training may become a breakthrough point for the enemy, and may even be frightened and flee, which will cause the army's morale to waver.

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At this moment, Li Ji, the Northern Expedition Army outside the city, accompanied by a group of staff officers and generals, circled Chunyu City from a distance and observed the city defenses.

Xu Sheng, who was accompanying them, accompanied them throughout the whole process, describing one by one the defense arrangements of Chunyu City that he had summarized after several days of attacks.

Li Ji nodded from time to time, and had a clearer judgment about Chunyu City. Finally, he stopped on a small hill built by Xu Sheng to make it easier to attack the city, and said something.

"good."

This sentence "not bad" not only evaluates the strong city of Chunyu City, but also includes Yu Jin.

This Chunyu City has stood on the land of Qi and Lu for a thousand years, which is enough to show its status and solidity.

That is to say, due to the limitations at the beginning of the city's construction, the scale of Chunyu City was limited. It could be considered a strong city, but not a real big city. Otherwise, it could have served as the seat of Qingzhou.

Facing the Wenshui River on one side, there is only one city gate left to attack, which is Chunyu City’s biggest advantage.

In addition, a small camp was built on the left and right sides of the opposite bank of the Wenshui River to prevent the Northern Expedition Army from crossing the Wenshui River nearby. The camps would form a pincer attack and force the Northern Expedition Army to attack Chunyu City from the front as much as possible.

This arrangement is adapted to local conditions and is quite a good military strategy.

Li Ji squinted his eyes and looked towards the tower of Chunyu City. He saw that there seemed to be a group of people gathered there. After some guessing, he said.

"Someone is coming."

"Go, shout to the foot of Chunyu City and see if the one on the tower is the defender of Chunyu City, Yu Jin. Then tell him: I admire his talent and cannot bear to see him go to waste and be crushed to dust with the fake Wei army under my Northern Expedition Army. Let him immediately abandon the dark and join the light. I am willing to keep a position for him in my camp."

"Yes."

Immediately, a tiger guard took the order and rode his warhorse towards Chunyu City, repeating loudly what Li Ji had said.

And from the city wall, there was also a response.

However, due to the distance, Li Ji on the hill could not hear clearly and waited quietly for the tiger guard to come back.

Soon, the tiger guard rode back quickly, saluted and reported.

"Prime Minister, it is indeed General Jin of Wei on the tower."

"Yu Jin replied: Thank you Prime Minister for your appreciation, I am honored. However, since I am already a general of the Great Wei, I should go through fire and water for the Great Wei. How can I serve two masters at the same time? If the Prime Minister wants to persuade Yu Jin to surrender, why not take Chunyu City first, and then talk about other things, otherwise, wouldn't it be humiliating yourself?"

After these words were spoken, Li Ji's expression did not change, but almost all the generals following behind Li Ji were angry.

"How dare you! The Prime Minister, with the idea of ​​benevolence, gave Yu Jin a chance to turn from evil to good, yet he dared to be so rude!"

"Deserves to be killed!"

"He is stubborn and arrogant, he should be killed..."

Li Ji raised his hand and asked the generals behind him to stay calm.

"Go and tell him that he must be tied up under my command within half a month." The tiger guard who went to deliver the message quickly brought back Yu Jin's reply.

[Please Prime Minister, please let us go. Yu Jin will defend Chunyu City to the death and will not retreat even a single step.]

After hearing this, Li Ji couldn't help but smile, pointed in the direction of Chunyu City, turned around and looked at the generals, and said.

"This Yu Jin is quite interesting. He really dares to respond and is full of confidence."

Sima Yi exposed Yu Jin's little thoughts with one word and spoke.

"He is just trying to take advantage of the opportunity to gain fame. If Yu Jin is lucky enough to stop the prime minister, these words alone will be enough to make him famous in Cao Wei and Cao Cao will rely on him very much."

Nowadays, there are many people in Cao Wei who are afraid of Li Ji's name. Even Cao Cao himself is wary of Li Ji.

If a general who could stop Li Ji really emerged, his reputation and status in Cao Wei would soar with this battle.

"That all depends on whether the soldiers of our Northern Expedition agree to let a small Cao general step on our shoulders to rise to prominence."

Li Ji said with a smile, and then continued, "Let's spread this matter to the three armies and ask the soldiers whether they are willing."

Yu Jinyu wanted to take this opportunity to gain fame, but Li Ji also wanted to use this opportunity to further boost the morale of the Northern Expedition Army.

It is foreseeable that once this matter spreads among the Northern Expedition Army, it will inevitably further arouse the howling of those wolf cubs.

Not to mention that Li Ji's prestige in the army was at its peak, how many families of the soldiers in the three armies had not benefited from the benevolent policies implemented by Li Ji?
Humiliating their prime minister would only make the soldiers want to tear him to pieces alive.

Immediately, Li Ji, who was standing on a small hill, turned around and looked at the generals and staff officers standing below.

Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Tian Feng, Xu Sheng, Zang Ba, Gan Ning, Xu Chu...

"Who is willing to lead the troops to attack the city again?"

Immediately, all the generals almost unanimously requested to fight, even Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi could not help but want to fight.

Xu Sheng, in particular, was eager to avenge his previous defeat and capture Chunyu City.

"Don't worry, gentlemen. If you don't care about casualties, it won't be difficult to capture Chunyu City. But I have a plan in mind. I'm ordered to attack the city only to cover up our army's true intention and to paralyze the defenders in the city." Li Ji explained.

This did dampen the desire of many generals to join the battle.

Since it was to conceal the real intention and paralyze the defenders, even if the army was led to attack the city, it would be almost impossible to capture Chunyu City directly.

In the end, Xu Sheng asked again and again and took on the task.

The next day.

When Xu Sheng led the Northern Expedition Army and launched another massive offensive.

The battle reports of Zhao Yun and Wei Yan were also passed to Li Ji respectively.

In response to this, Li Ji glanced at it calmly and passed it on for the staff officers and generals to read.

Both results were within Li Ji's expectations, and Li Ji had also used the "strategy simulator" to deduce their success rate in advance.

Zhao Yun achieved success in one battle, but Wei Yan would encounter temporary setbacks, which was exactly the same as Li Ji's psychological preparation.

After reading the military report, everyone in the tent was half happy and half worried.

Once Dongchaojin is broken, it will be much more difficult for the reinforcements from Jizhou to reach Qingzhou.

On the contrary, Wei Yan's surprise attack on Linzi went wrong, which was undoubtedly quite disadvantageous for this detachment that had penetrated deep into the heart of Qingzhou. (End of this chapter)