Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Tian Feng, who gradually regained his outspokenness, spoke.

"Prime Minister, now that Linzi is well-prepared, Cao Ren will definitely not watch Linzi being breached. He will definitely send reinforcements to Linzi, and even try to trap and kill General Wei Yan's army within the borders of Qi."

"Should we send troops to support General Wei Yan, or should we ask General Wei Yan to retreat for the time being?"

Upon seeing this, Gan Ning quickly spoke up for Wei Yan.

"It's not easy for Wenchang to reach Linzi in such a short time. Cao Ren hastily transferred troops from various places to Beihai County. It is expected that there are not many defenders in Linzi. If Wenchang is given more time, he may be able to capture Linzi. Why do we need to let Wenchang come back now?"

Zhuge Liang also nodded and suggested.

"There is no need to rush. If Linzi is attacked, Cao Ren will be in a state of panic and be caught in a dilemma. Even if he cannot capture Linzi, he can force Cao Ren to send troops to rescue it, thus alleviating the pressure on Beihai County."

When he spoke to the end, Zhuge Liang secretly glanced at Li Ji, who was calm and composed, and thought that his teacher might have agreed to Wei Yan's taking the eastern route with this idea in mind from the beginning.

After everyone discussed the matter of Wei Yan, Li Ji finally spoke and set the tone to let Wei Yan play freely in Linzi for the time being.

In addition, the surprise attack on Dongchaojin was successful, which was undoubtedly a great event for the Northern Expedition to Qingzhou, and it also made all the civil and military officials excited.

However, after the temporary military meeting, Li Ji, accompanied by Zhuge Liang, came to the small hill again and observed the siege under the command of Xu Sheng from afar.

Zhuge Liang asked quietly. "Teacher, did you foresee that Wen Chang's surprise attack on Linzi from the east would be thwarted?"

Li Ji smiled without saying anything, his eyes still sweeping over Chunyu City which was constantly fighting back. After carefully confirming the defense arrangements in various parts of Chunyu City, he turned and said.

"Liang'er, Wei Wenchang is a capable and motivated general who can be used, but he has a lot of ideas. This is his strength, but also his weakness."

"Wei Wenchang asked Shiyuan to take the eastern route. If I do not agree, he will be unwilling to do so even if he does not feel resentful. Why not go along with it?"

"Besides, there are still opportunities on the eastern front. It depends on whether Wenchang and Shiyuan can seize the opportunity."

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

It is not advisable to stick to formalities when employing people; the right thing to do is to give full play to their strengths.

Whether Wei Yan took the eastern or western front, it would be helpful to the Northern Expedition.

The difference is that, taking the western route, Li Ji and Zhao Yun invisibly covered Wei Yan's surprise attack on Linzi, while taking the eastern route, Wei Yan and Pang Tong had to overcome numerous difficulties, and even invisibly shared some of the pressure on the front battlefield.

However, in terms of achievements, the military merits gained on the Eastern Front were undoubtedly far greater than those on the Western Front, which is true.

On this day, Xu Sheng once again led an army of 100,000 to attack Chunyu City, and he attacked the three walls at the same time, with a much greater momentum than before.

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

Just one day like this 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 been watching for most of the day, was supported by Xu Chu, walked down the small hill, returned to the central army tent, took out a roll of white paper, and started to draw.

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

Next, he called over Xu Sheng, who had just returned from the retreat, and asked him to build up momentum for the siege every day.

He then handed the marked white paper to Zhuge Liang, asking him to arrange for the craftsmen to assemble the catapults as soon as possible and throw stones at the four marked points. Soon, as more than a dozen catapults were put into the siege, they frequently bombarded the walls of Chunyu City, and the pressure on Yu Jin increased dramatically.

What made Yu Jin frown was that the Han army outside the city had been attacking for seven or eight days in a row, and most of them were just feints to create momentum.

But knowing that he was facing Li Zikun, Yu Jin did not dare to be careless at all, for fear that if he let his guard down, Li Zikun would find his weakness and turn the feint attack into a violent attack to capture the city in one fell swoop.

However, whenever Xu Sheng attacked a city, he would always assault the three walls. This forced Yu Jin to deploy nearly two-thirds of his troops to the city walls to be on guard, ready to face wave after wave of hurled stones, rain of arrows, powerful crossbows, etc. from outside the city.

'This is simply a war of attrition!'

Yu Jin couldn't stop cursing in secret.

The Han troops who pretended to be ready to launch a powerful attack at any time had no intention of climbing the wall by force. They just relied on abundant arrows and crossbows and various long-range siege equipment to fight against the defenders of Chunyu City outside the city.

Even if the high shot is low, it is far more advantageous than the low shot.

But in the end, the Northern Expedition Army had abundant military supplies, which far exceeded Yu Jin's imagination.

In terms of national strength and materials...

Cao Wei is naturally far from being comparable to the Han Dynasty.

After shooting at each other for nearly ten days, the bows and arrows in Chunyu City were running out of supplies, forcing Yu Jin to call on the women and children in the city to collect the broken arrows and crossbows shot by the Han army and select those that could be used again to replenish military supplies.

Yu Jin naturally did not want to fight the Han army in this way, but once Cao's army withdrew from the arrow nest, the Han army outside the city would immediately make a gesture of launching a large-scale attack.

This back and forth forced them to continue to fight like this.

After so many days, the entire Chunyu City looked like a hedgehog from a distance.

Especially the four points that were bombarded by the catapults, there were rubble everywhere, piled up like a small stone mountain.

But even though the situation was so embarrassing, Yu Jin still remained quite calm, wondering what Li Zikun's intention was in making such arrangements.

In this kind of confrontation, the advantage is indeed on the side of the Northern Expedition Army, but a large number of military supplies have begun to be delivered from the Duchang City in the rear, and it is simply wishful thinking to want to break the city in this way.

Suddenly, Yu Jin thought of a possibility!

typical!

The offensive outside the city lasted for ten days, and it was possible that it was all a cover for secretly digging tunnels into the city.

Immediately, Yu Jin hurriedly climbed up the city wall again and looked around.

Outside the fortified city of Chunyu City was a vast plain with very few shelters. Digging tunnels would inevitably require a large amount of soil that needed to be quietly transported away without being discovered by Chunyu City.

In this way, Yu Jin quickly locked onto the only small hill outside the city that could block his view.

Only the back of that small hill could be the entrance to the tunnel that Chunyu Cheng would not find. (End of this chapter)