Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Wen Pin, who received the order, did not delay for a moment. After receiving the military order, he immediately selected 20,000 elite troops to head towards Zhongmu County.

Of course, although they are called 20,000 elite troops, in fact Wen Pin and Shamoke also have their own troops.

Especially Shamoke, who has 3,000 elite soldiers under his command.

Wen Pin, the main general, was far less powerful than Shamoke, and his subordinates consisted of only a thousand good families from northern Jing.

When Wen Pin arrived in Zhongmu County, he found that this county town, which belonged to Sili, no longer had its former prosperity.

After Dong Zhuo's invasion of Luoyang, the war against Dong Zhuo and years of chaos, Zhongmu County, located on the passage from Sili to Yanzhou, was undoubtedly greatly affected.

The people of Zhongmu County were either killed or fled, so that even if it could not be said that nine out of ten houses in the city were empty, then more than half of the houses were empty.

Dilapidated and ruined...

This was the first impression that Zhongmu County gave to Wen Pin, and even made Wen Pin, who was accustomed to the increasingly prosperous Jingzhou, feel deeply moved.

How could Lu Bu, a usurper without a father or a king, understand what it means to govern a country and maintain peace?

The two Chens may be wise men, but Chen Gong is not good at governing. How can Chen Qun, who is only concerned about the interests of his family, impose any benevolent policies on the local people?
At this moment, Wen Pin suddenly further understood one of the fundamental reasons why the Prime Minister made a full-scale Northern Expedition, which was to enable the Han people to live and work in peace as soon as possible.

Of course, Wen Pin only sighed inwardly for a moment, and then made various arrangements in a swift and decisive manner.

Considering the size of Zhongmu County, a small city, a garrison of 24,000 troops is undoubtedly excessive.

Moreover, Zhongmu County is located less than thirty miles behind the Northern Expedition army camp arranged by the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister has already made a lot of arrangements on the front line.

Even if the Wei-Zhao coalition had wings on its back, it would be impossible for tens of thousands of infantrymen to easily ignore the defense line set up by the prime minister and infiltrate Zhongmou County in the rear.

However, out of caution, Wen Pin still planned to let Shamoke lead 8,000 soldiers to set up a camp near the city.

This camp can not only form a corner with the city and protect each other, but more importantly, it can be used as a key point for transporting food and fodder.

Regardless of whether food and fodder are entering or leaving Zhongmou County, they must be thoroughly inspected in the camp to prevent potential risks from directly entering Zhongmou County.

Once Zhongmu County had initially accommodated a large amount of food and fodder, the city gates would only be opened at fixed times during the day to transport food and fodder between the city gates and the camp.

Unless the 8,000 soldiers in the camp close to the city can be eliminated quietly, there will be no possibility of Zhongmu County being successfully attacked by the enemy.

As for a violent attack, with more than 10,000 elite soldiers on guard at all times, even an army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 would not be able to capture a city in an instant.

After making these arrangements, Wen Pin went to inspect the granary in Zhongmu County.

As expected, important places such as the armory and granary were burned to ashes before Zhongmou County was captured.

Today, a group of young and strong people are working hard to repair the granary.

"not enough!"

Wen Pin only took a glance and realized that even if the granary in this small city was repaired, it would still be far from sufficient to serve as the granary for the Northern Expedition Army.

Afterwards, Wen Pin summoned the military craftsmen to question them and quickly made a decision.

All the scattered people in the city were relocated to one area, and then more than half of the houses in the city, which were mostly uninhabited, were renovated to meet the requirements of moisture-proof and insect-proof for storing grain and grass, and those houses were used as small temporary granaries. After Wen Pin made a series of arrangements based on the actual situation, he quickly sent a written summary to the Prime Minister for reporting.

When Wen Pin's document arrived, which was related to the important matter of food and fodder, Li Ji opened it and read it almost immediately.

After reading it once, Li Ji exclaimed in praise in front of Zhuge Liang and others.

"Those who are good at fighting do not have great achievements. Zhongye is truly a man who can be cultivated."

Perhaps, if Wen Pin led the troops to fight independently, he would not be able to create any miracles, but on the other hand, with his safe, cautious and comprehensive style, he would not become the background of any miracle.

The saying "A good warrior may not have great achievements" was also used by Li Ji to comment on Xu Sheng.

However, there are still differences between Xu Sheng and Wen Pin. Xu Sheng is good at attack, while Wen Pin is good at defense.

If we put Li Ji in the other's shoes and let him be the commander of the Wei-Zhao alliance, facing Wen Pin's arrangement, even if he found out that the granary was in Zhongmou, he would be unable to do anything about Zhongmou County.

"With Zhongye guarding the army's granary, I have nothing to worry about!"

Perhaps it is not yet time to reward people according to their merits, but Li Ji's public praise is undoubtedly a recognition of Wen Pin, and it also means that Wen Pin's contribution cannot be escaped.

This made the civil and military officials in the central army tent show some envy.

However, after Li Ji listed the various arrangements made by Wen Pin in Zhongmu County, many people were instantly silenced.

With this kind of law-abidingness, it is almost impossible to trick the city gates into opening or to attack the city by surprise.

As for the city with closed gates defended by more than ten thousand elite soldiers, they really thought that the 700,000 northern expedition troops led by Li Ji were all killed.

Not to mention anything else, for the Baima Yicong who were traveling at full speed, a distance of thirty miles was a distance that could be covered in less than an hour.

After a brief discussion, the civil and military officials, even though they were fully aware of Wen Pin's arrangements, scratched their heads for a long time but could not find any way to successfully capture Zhongmou County.

As the saying goes: Think about failure before thinking about victory.

For such a huge Northern Expedition army, apart from the fear of water and fire as well as meteorites falling from the sky, its most fatal weakness is its logistics and food supplies.

Therefore, even though Li Ji was quite satisfied with Wen Pin's arrangement, he still let all the civil and military officials think about it in order to find out the gaps and fill them in.

After a long discussion, Zhao Yun stepped forward and proposed a possibility.

"There is only one way, and that is to bypass Zhongmu County and use cavalry to continuously harass the grain transportation route from Yuzhou to Zhongmu County."

The number of cavalry is one of the few advantages that the Wei-Zhao coalition forces have over the Northern Expedition Army.

Even though Liu Bei had already controlled Youzhou, he was still inferior to the two northern states of Wei and Zhao in terms of cavalry accumulation.

"If that slave of three surnames dares to lead the cavalry to attack alone, I will dig a few more holes for him to breathe." Zhang Fei blurted out, and his tone could even hardly conceal a bit of excitement.

"Don't be careless, Third Brother. Lu Bu is useless. You need to be more careful in martial arts. Third Brother, you can't talk about morality and fight a single-handed battle with this disloyal and unrighteous man..."

After a pause, Guan Yu reminded in a light tone, "We should surround and kill him, and get rid of this Han thief for the Han Dynasty as soon as possible." (End of this chapter)