The irony of Shen Pei's words was obvious, and it was obvious that it was not open to the pot.

Guan Yu was furious and his anger and shame made his whole face turn red in an instant and almost burst.

"Shenfei, you-"

"Chief Guan Yun, I have said a long time ago that Yuan Fang is very tricky. You just don't listen and insist on persuading the Fourth Young Master to fight. Now, I won't tell you that the soldiers are damaged and the generals are lost, and even the Fourth Young Master is missing. Who will bear this responsibility?"

Shen Pei no longer beat around the bush. After a stern questioning questioned Guan Yu's anger, he blocked Guan Yu's anger.

Guan Yu's blood surged onto his face, but for a moment he didn't know how to fight back, and he froze there in embarrassment.

At this moment, the scout rushed over and said that Yuan Shang had returned from the east gate and had returned to the military mansion.

Shen Pei and Guan Yu were shocked, and both let go of their grudges. The two rushed to the military mansion.

When they arrived, Yuan Shang's broken arm had been bandaged by a doctor, but the stick was too severely injured, and whether the arm could be completely recovered must be left to fate.

The painful Yuan Shang could only lie there, humming with a sad face, and cursing Yuan Fang endlessly.

"The Fourth Young Master, I didn't expect that Yuan Fang was so cunning. The last general made a mistake in his judgment. Please forgive me for his crime."

Although Guan Yu was proud, he was now living under someone else's roof, but he had to bow his head. He still chose to suppress the humiliation and apologize to Yuan Shang.

Yuan Shang glared at Guan Yu secretly, hesitated for a moment, but sighed: "Forget it, the bastard is too cunning. You also want to help me make meritorious service. I just made a misjudgment. I don't blame you."

Guan Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and left.

As soon as Guan Yu left, Shen Pei said, "Young Master. Guan Yu made a mistake in making a mistake, which led to the young master's defeat and was seriously injured. How could the young master let him go so easily?"

"It's over, it's useless to blame him. Besides..."

Yuan Shang raised a strange look on his lips and said coldly: "This Guan Yu has excellent martial arts and has a blood feud with Yuan Fang. He still has some use of us. I will record his crimes for him. After repelling the thief, it will not be too late to punish him."

Shen Pei suddenly realized and nodded, "Young Master takes the overall situation into consideration, and this move is appropriate."

Yuan Shang struggled to sit up, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Zhengnan, go and pass my orders quickly. Order the troops to defend the city from today. Whoever dares to propose another battle will want to have any head!"

"Young master is wise, let's do it now." Shen Pei bowed and said with a thumbs up and hurriedly left.

Yuan Shang stroked his broken arm with his hand and snorted coldly: "Bad, let you be proud today. I will stick to the battle now, see what else your trick can use!"

...

In the west of the city, it was already dark, and in another palace.

Guan Yu returned to the mansion angrily and cursed: "Shen Pei, what are you? You dare to scold me Guan Yu! No one in the world except me, Liu Xuande, is worthy of scolding me."

The trusted subordinates of the people were silent, for fear of annoying Guan Yu.

"Uncle. What happened? Why did it make my uncle so angry?" A slightly immature voice came from behind.

Guan Yu looked back and said that he was talking to his nephew Liu Feng, the adopted son whom Liu Bei had recognized shortly before his death.

"It's nothing, just an ignorant little guy slander. I don't care about your uncle at all." Guan Yu said disdainfully.

Liu Feng said "Oh" and sighed: "Yuan Shao's subordinates, so disrespectful to his uncle, why should we serve him? Why don't we just leave and find another way out."

Guan Yu walked up, pulled Liu Feng under his arms, and sneered: "Uncle is not serving Yuan Shao. Uncle, I am using Yuan Shao's hand to deal with your father-killing enemy, and then regain your chance to recover. These are all the power and conspiracy of your father. Feng'er, you must understand and learn more."

Liu Fengruo had thoughts and chewing Guan Yu's words, as if he had some understanding from them.

"Come on, Feng'er, my uncle sleeps with you tonight, and teach you well. Your father often taught me like this..."

As he said that, Guan Yu was already holding the boy in his arms and walked into the room together.

The door was closed tightly and the red candle was lit.

...

Outside Liyang City, the siege has begun.

Yuan Shang lost more than 10,000 troops and even lost his arm. He did not dare to fight again, so he could only let Yuan Fang set up camp outside the city.

The camp had been completed, Yuan Fang sent light troops to the city gate to call for war, and at the same time sent orders to cross the Yellow River north as soon as possible to meet at the city of Liyang.

A few days later, the remaining 60,000 troops had basically been assembled, and Yuan Fang's troops on the Liyang line had reached more than 140,000.

After the armies gathered, Yuan Fang issued an iron order to mobilize Ding Fu to build earthen walls on all sides of Liyang City, and with nearly four times the superior force, he surrounded this important town on the north bank.

Yuan Fang originally planned to use his superior forces to capture Liyang City in one fell swoop and take down this important city.

However, after completing the siege and inspecting the strong city with his own eyes, Yuan Fang changed his original combat plan.

Because Yuan Shao built this important town so strongly.

Liyang is an important town in the Yellow River, and its strength is no less than Puyang. Since Lihu's defeat last year, Yuan Shao has mobilized people to reinforcing Liyang City in order to prevent Yuan Fang from taking advantage of the situation to go north and retreated to Yecheng.

Today, the thickness of the city walls of Liyang City is more than twice as thick as before.

Yuan Shao was indeed afraid of him, otherwise, how could he be so "crazy" to strengthen Liyang City?

"Yuan Shao strengthened the Liyang city wall this time, obviously to prevent our army's thunder chariots. Hearing that Yuan Shang, at the suggestion of Shen Pei, digged a deep trench on the base of the city's walls in advance. This move must be to prevent our army from digging a pit and sank the city wall like he broke Puyang back then. The enemy was prepared so well that it would be impossible for our army to break through Liyang in a short period of time."

Tian Feng analyzed the situation in Li Yang, and his tone contained concerns.

"This is probably Chen Gong's plan. His intention is very obvious. He wants to stop our army from under the strong city. If he fails to attack for a long time, he will have to retreat. At that time, Yuan Shao will be able to wait for his leisure and take the opportunity to pursue him." Ju Su guessed.

"Chen Gong..." Yuan Fang felt thoughtful.

He recalled that after the breaking of Puyang City, Chen Gong did betray Lu Bu and went to join Yuan Shao, but for many years, he had not received attention from Yuan Shao.

Now that Yuan Shao and his advisers are all mourning and no one can use them, it is not impossible to open Chen Gong.

Yuan Fang knew very well that Chen Gong's plan was definitely not inferior to Ju Shu. In history, if Lu Bu had not repeatedly refused to listen to Chen Gong's plan, it would be hard to say the outcome of the war between him and Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao had Chen Gong's plan. This really added a strong enemy to Yuan Fang.

"How can a mere Chen Palace turn the world around? Even if there are ten Chen Palaces, I will definitely destroy Hebei!"

Yuan Fang was extremely confident. Although he attached great importance to Chen Gong's wisdom, his determination to pacify Hebei and destroy Yuan Shao was not shaken.

At this time, Guo Jia, who had been silent, said slowly: "Although Liyang City is strong, Lihu was defeated last year, Yuan Shao burned over one million hu of grain and grass. I think his supply of grain and grass this year will probably be a little tight. The grain stored in Liyang City will only last five or six months at most."

After a pause, Guo Jia continued: "This means that no matter how strong Liyang City is, the limit that Yuan Shang can hold on to is only five or six months. Let's surround Liyang City into an iron bucket. Let's see how long Yuan Shang can last."

Guo Jia's words were deeply in line with Yuan Fang's heart.

"It is reasonable to be filial to the point of being filial. Yuan Shao has been operating Jizhou for many years. The so-called centipede insect will die without being stiff. If we want to capture Jizhou, it will not be possible to complete it in one day. It will never be long to take over the important town of Liyang in five or six months." Tian Feng also agreed with Guo Jia's plan.

Yuan Fang had any doubts, so he said proudly: "Yuan Shao wanted to use Liyang City to exhaust my patience, so I wouldn't ask him to do what he wanted. He wanted to play a protracted war, so I'll play with him!"

Having made up his mind, and without hesitation, Yuan Fang issued an order on the same day, ordering Liyang City to be completely besieged, and no soldiers or even a truck of aided food would be allowed to enter the city.

So, Yuan Fang dispatched 100,000 troops to set up camps on all sides of Liyang, built earth walls, piled up high platforms, set up arrow towers, and surrounded Liyang City with three layers of surrounds.

At the same time, Yuan Fang distributed another 40,000 infantry and cavalry to station troops north of Liyang to prevent Yuan Shao from heading south from Yecheng and leading his army to rescue Liyang.

The siege officially began, from spring to summer, and before we knew it had passed March.

At the beginning, Yuan Shang was full of confidence and thought he would sit firmly on the fishing platform, but as time went by, half of the food and grass were consumed, and Yuan Shang began to unable to sit still.

After entering Xia, Yuan Shang sent a team of troops several times to risk his life to cross the city. After paying the price of more than a hundred people, one or two groups of messengers finally escaped from the siege by chance and rushed to Yecheng to ask Yuan Shao for help.

In Ye City, Yuan Shao was also worried and frowning all day long.

Li Yangdu's big defeat had hit Yuan Shao's fragile heart again, and even lost most of his confidence in Yuan Shang.

Now that Li Yang is besieged for three months, Yuan Fang has no intention of withdrawing his troops, and seems to be determined to waste his time with him to the end. This makes Yuan Shao even more anxious, fearing that Yuan Shang can't defend Li Yang.

Yuan Shao also wanted to save Li Yang, but unfortunately his condition recovered slowly and had no time to lead his army south.

On this day, Yuan Shao was lying on the bed to rest, but Liu was serving him, but he looked worried and worried about the safety of his son Yuan Shang.

At this moment, Yuan Shang's messenger came to ask for his visit and presented Yuan Shang's urgent request for help to Yuan Shao.

"Husband, Tan'er and Xier are dead now, Mai'er is young. If you lose Shang'er, what should you do? Please save Shang'er quickly."

When Yuan Shao had no reaction, Liu was already crying and begging Yuan Shao to send troops to rescue him.

The powerless Yuan Shao was upset when he heard this, so he had to repel Liu and ordered the general Chen Gong to come.

Before long, Chen Gong rushed over.

"Official platform, Li Yang has been surrounded for three months, and the little beast shows no sign of withdrawing troops. If he continues like this, Shang'er's food and grass will be exhausted. Tell me, what should I do?"

Yuan Shao showed the letter to Chen Gong and sighed with a bitter face.

Chen Gong took the letter, glanced it over, his brows were deep, and he pondered for a long time.
Chapter completed!