Chapter 358: Yan Hou (Sixth)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 358: Yan Hou (Sixth)

"The Yuan army soldiers of Wuchao, your lord Yuan Shao will not come to support you. Don't resist stubbornly. Surrender quickly. As long as you surrender to us, everyone will be a family!"

The plotter Xun You was shouting under the city wall with many loud soldiers.

If it were before, Xun You's words would at most shake the morale of the Yuan army and would not have much impact. But the problem is that the Wuchao defenders have never received support, so they believed it regardless of whether Xun You said the truth or the lies.

Because the facts are right in front of you, Yuan Shao, has never been able to support us for so long. This is an ironclad fact, and it is more effective than Xun You's saying ten thousand words.

After not receiving support for several consecutive days, Wuchao was just a town and had no city walls. In order to protect the granary, the wall was temporarily built. Because it was temporarily built, the wall was only one meter high.

Just like he was desperate, the soldiers of Cao's army stepped on the body of their comrades under the city wall and climbed the city wall. The first one to climb the city wall was happy again.

"The first one to climb! Happy!"

Le Jin shouted excitedly, he came first, this is the first skill.

Subsequently, the Yuan army's defense line completely collapsed, and countless Yuan army soldiers lost their fighting spirit when the Cao army soldiers climbed the city wall.

They had the confidence to fight against the city wall before, but now Cao's army has rushed into the city wall, so what else can they fight?

Xu Huang, Xiahou Yuan and others rushed towards Qu Yi. After Qu Yi killed three Cao army soldiers, he was eventually outnumbered and was stabbed in the face by Xu Huang.

"The one who killed the kid! Xu Huang!"

"ah!--"

Qu Yi died in the battlefield and fulfilled his loyalty to Yuan Shao.

...

One day later

Guandu

After Yuan Shao fled to Guandu, he was still in shock and kept resting here and almost died of illness.

Fortunately, Guandu has 40,000 infantry protection, so he has enough sense of security.

At this time, the scout who fled Wuchao finally arrived at Guandu and reported the news to Yuan Shao in tears: "Ming Gong! Wuchao... was burned! Woo-woo--"

"What?!" Yuan Shao was shocked. Cao Cao did not choose to continue chasing him, but instead shot him back and shot down Wuchao, who had no support.

"Ming Gong, now that our army's food and grass are burned, we can only retreat to Hebei, rest for three years, and then go south to eliminate Cao Cao in three years." The adviser Shen Pei suggested.

"Since you have Shao, how can you do it!" Yuan Shao felt very uncomfortable, but now he has no other choice except to withdraw his troops. Staying here to attack Guandu will only make tens of thousands of soldiers starve to death.

"Retreat troops! Return to Yecheng!"

...

One day later

Xu Chang

Wang Jue bypassed Guandu again and asked the soldiers to carry Yuan Shao's head-coaching flag to attack Xuchang City.

However, his target is not Xuchang, because his three thousand tigers and leopard cavalry are okay in the field, but it is simply a dream to conquer Xuchang with three thousand defenders.

His real purpose is to [siege the city and attack the aid], pretending that Yuan Shao's main force was attacking Xuchang, and then luring Cao Cao to come and rescue Xuchang with his tired army, and then Wang Jue can ambush halfway in advance.

At that time, how can you defeat the tired army by ambushing and fighting without preparation, and by restoring energy to fight the tired army without success?

"Report to General, Duke Ming has withdrawn his troops back to Yecheng. He asked me to inform you to lead troops back to Hebei as soon as possible, and not stay in Henan and be surrounded by Cao's army." The scout came to inform the news.

"What's the situation? Why did Gong Ming suddenly withdraw his troops?" Wang Jue asked in confusion.

"All the food and grass that our army stocked in Wuchao was burned down by Cao's army, and General Qu has been killed in battle." The scout replied.

Wuchao was burned again!

Wang Jue sighed in his heart, and then asked the scout: "When did Gong Ming ask you to report the withdrawal of troops?"

"Last night." The scout replied.

"When is the exact time?" Wang Jue asked carefully.

"Uh..." The scout didn't understand why Wang Jue had to know such a clear time. Wouldn't it be enough to just withdraw his troops back to Hebei? But he still replied respectfully: "The second hour of Hai!"

"Yeah." Wang Jue uttered calmly, and then calculated the approximate position of Yuan Shao from him based on the scout's riding speed and departure time. As a general, mathematics is a very important ability. If you don't know how to do math, you can't win a battle.

For someone like Wang Jue who wants to become a general, simply learning military tactics can no longer satisfy him. He also needs to learn various means of insight into the hearts, learn mathematical calculations, learn makeup and disguise techniques, learn wild survival skills, etc.

What is the speed of a good horse, what is the speed of an ordinary horse, what is the speed of a horse when it is tired, what is the speed of a plain, what is the speed of a mountain road, what is the speed of a sunny day, and how fast it is on rainy days, all of which require him to observe and analyze.

A true famous general must also be a famous master who is proficient in arithmetic.

"When did you leave Wuchao, when did Cao Cao start attacking Wuchao, how long did it take, and what was the situation of Cao Cao's army? What was the weather at that time, what was the weather on your way to ride a horse? And what time was it when the weather changed and how long it lasted. Don't be confused about the time, I have to be precise to the specific time!" Wang Jue asked carefully.

The scout didn't understand why the young general in front of him was disobediently following the military orders of the lord Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops back to Hebei, so why did he always ask these useless questions?

But Wang Jue asked, and he was a little scout, and he didn't dare not answer, so he honestly answered everything he knew. If he was not clear, he could only let Wang Jue analyze the previous and subsequent texts through other information.

"If this happens, Cao Cao will arrive in Xuchang in about two hours. If Cao Cao is a little greedy and wants to transport the remaining food in Wuchao, then it will be postponed for one to two hours. If he is a little greedy and needs to place Wuchao's surrendered troops, it will take another two hours. Then, it will take about two hours to Cao Cao arrive in Xuchang between two and six hours."

Based on the existing information, Wang Jue roughly analyzed when Cao Cao arrived in Xuchang and what preparations he should make.

Wang Jue started learning since he was one year old, and never stopped studying until he was twenty-four years old.

He only took three months to finish learning the Four Books and Five Classics. His opinion on these Confucian classics is that he can probably understand them, and he can barely seem to be uneducated. There is no need to study too much and waste time. Human life is limited, but the ocean of knowledge is infinite. He needs to spend his precious time learning more and more useful knowledge.

Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, Dharma, and famous peasants and doctors. He learned all the knowledge of various schools of thought, and he also learned smelting, navigation, painting, mathematics, astronomy, geography, etc. Not only did he learn a lot, but he also had a lot of practical combat. He personally went to the Goguryeo gathering area, using Goguryeo as a training student, and relied on repeated killings to improve his ability to fight alone.

In order to improve his medical skills, he asked Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo to be his teachers and use thousands of slaves as experimental materials, just to ensure that when fighting in the future, if he encounters difficult moments without a military doctor, he can treat himself.

Think about every difficulty that may be encountered in the battle in advance and learn the corresponding knowledge and abilities to deal with.

(End of this chapter)
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