The Art of War says, fight with your back against the enemy.
When the situation is unfavorable to our side, we cut off our retreat to boost morale and build up the determination to fight until the end of the battle, thereby achieving victory.
Liu Feng predicted that if Dong Gai's strategy was followed, the city of Jinyang would be in despair, allowing Cheng Yu and others to fight against the odds, because Liu Feng did not use Dong Gai's strategy.
The strategy of boiling frogs in warm water blocked the news that the Huns had raised troops to fight with the grassland people, giving Cheng Yu hope and making Cheng Yu think that the opportunity was still there, so there was no rush, no rush.[
Cheng Yu fell into the trap. He didn't expect that when he sent Yan Zhong out, Liu Feng also made full preparations. As a result, he made one mistake and another.
When the senior cadres were high-spirited and ready to fight to the death, they stifled their desire to fight on the grounds that their momentum was still rising and had not yet reached its peak.
As a result, the opportunity to finally show off with the Han army was lost.
The saying that a wise man will make a mistake every time he thinks about it is a true reflection of Cheng Yu at this moment.
It’s no wonder that Liu Feng thinks that a trapped beast is still fighting, and then treats it like a piece of grass. In fact, if you take the first move, you will win step by step.
And it was under such circumstances that time slowly passed away. The Han army outside the city, because of Liu Feng's order, was indifferent to the high morale of the defenders in the city, and on the other hand was secretly on guard to prevent the defenders in the city from attacking.
The army breaks through.
As for the defenders in the city, while they were waiting, their courage became stronger day by day, as if there was no peak. Their morale was rising day by day, and their military morale was condensed day by day.
This situation made senior cadres, Cheng Yu and others very happy, and they became more and more determined to wait and see.
I believe that the decisive battle will be in the future, not now. Since today’s morale must be higher than today, tomorrow’s morale must be higher than today.
So why not keep waiting?
As a result, the situation has remained at a stalemate.
However, the Han army had the capital to maintain a stalemate, because the entire Han Dynasty not only had a strong army, but also had a vaguely invincible spirit, and even managed its own territory and territory very well.
The Chengdu Plain in Yizhou, the Hanzhong Plain, and the abundance of Jingchu all provided a steady stream of food for the Han army. But what about the four countries in the east?
The land is filled with barren grass and wild grass as a result of the brutal military activities.
It can be said to be very, very bad. If that's all, there are more serious things. Because even if the situation inside the country is very bad, at least food can be squeezed out to supply the army with war.
However, Jinyang City is currently trapped in Bingzhou, and Bingzhou has lost important passes such as Huguan, and there has been no news about the grassland grain road.
There are 160,000 mouths in Jinyang City, like babies waiting to be fed, and they need to eat a huge amount of food every day. Under such circumstances, as time goes by, the food reserves in the entire Jinyang City plummet.
Soon, it dropped to a dangerous level.
At the same time, the Xianbei people controlled the grasslands, so the news of food going south was delayed. The hope did not come, and they themselves fell into a dangerous situation.[
This caused an astonishing change in the situation in Jinyang City. It had been rising, and there was a kind of momentum that was getting better and better day by day. It then peaked and declined, and then turned sharply downward.
The momentum that was finally raised was declining at a jaw-dropping speed. Soon, it dropped to a level that was even lower after the high-ranking cadres boosted morale that day. When the morale was boosted and they were preparing for war, it was even lower.