Half an hour later.

Zhang Liao led several generals back to the military tent, with a confident smile on his face.

"Prefect, how about it?"

Only then did several of the accompanying generals finally come over and ask.

"In the face of our army's call for formation, the enemy troops were unable to move out and did not respond. Even the commander-in-chief's company never showed its face."

Zhang Liao smiled and said, "However, based on the information recently collected, it can be judged that 90% of the soldiers and horses guarding the valley city are Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu's troops. If they are others, they have different positions from our army."

On the contrary, even if he refuses to open the city gate to welcome us, the city's garrison will definitely come out to meet with me, state his neutral position, and teach our troops to leave as soon as possible to avoid conflicts."

"If Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu's people are in the city, the prefect only needs to wipe them all out. Then Xiahou Dun and Xun Yu who were stationed in Puyang and Juancheng will have no rear. When the time comes, the prefect will go south to form an encirclement with General Lu.

Yanzhou is in the pocket of General Lu and the prefect!"

Several generals all said with happy brows and rosy faces.

"Prefect, please order an attack on the city immediately. Once Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu's troops are destroyed, Yanzhou can be conquered sooner. Then we will finally have a place to live."

Someone immediately took a step forward, clasped his fists and shouted loudly, "The last general is willing to be a vanguard and requests to fight!"

"The last general also invites you to fight!"

The other people also responded one after another, not wanting to miss this opportunity to make a contribution.

"Not urgent."

Zhang Liao shook his head slightly and continued, "Our army only has three thousand troops going north this time. It is reported that Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu's troops also have thousands. They may not be smaller than us. Now they have the advantage of defending the city.

If our army rushes to attack the city, the chances of winning are extremely slim, and we may not be able to make any achievements if we lose troops and generals."

"Since Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu have many troops, why don't they dare to go out of the city to fight?"

A military general asked in surprise.

"When we called for formation just now, I saw that the officers and soldiers on the city were in strict discipline. No one responded privately, let alone showed signs of panic. Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu did not show up. Such pretentiousness may be a way to slow down the army."

Zhang Liao stroked his beard and continued, "From what I can see, these two men must know that they are equal in strength to our army and may not be able to win in a head-on battle, so they want to conserve their troops for other plans."

"This... what can they have planned?"

Everyone was even more puzzled.

"Reinforcements."

Zhang Liaoyan said two words concisely and concisely. Seeing that everyone still didn't understand, he explained, "If reinforcements come to rescue, and the enemy has twice or even several times the strength of our army and cooperates inside and outside, we can

They inflicted heavy damage on our army with minimal losses. In this way, there will be no opponent in the northern part of Yanzhou that can compete with these two men, as stable as an iron barrel!"

After hearing this, one person said: "As far as I know, their nearest reinforcements are also in Juancheng. Juancheng is nearly 300 miles away from here. If Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu send people to ask for help at this time, what will happen in this case?"

Once, even if we march in a hurry, it will take at least three days to wait for reinforcements."

"good."

Zhang Liao nodded and said, "So we will be waiting here to surround him for three days. If Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu have sent people to ask for help, when reinforcements arrive in three days, we will immediately withdraw our troops to avoid their attack."

"If Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu haven't sent out messengers yet, this valley city only has two gates, front and back. We only need to send heavy troops to ambush outside these two gates. Once anyone comes out, we will shoot them immediately and never send them any news.

opportunity, if three days have passed like this, the officers and soldiers in the city will be impatient because they still cannot wait for reinforcements."

"By that time, Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu understood that it was too late to call for help. If they wanted to leave the city to break out of the siege, their morale was very different from today."

"And our military can block them layer by layer at once and pursue the victory. Although it may not be able to annihilate them all, it can still cause heavy damage to them."

"From now on, there will no longer be a place for Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu in the north of Yanzhou. Those city guards who are still waiting will choose to support us. Our army can grow rapidly. Then we can gather troops and horses to the south to form an encirclement with General Lu.

We will attack Juancheng, Puyang, and Yanzhou in peace!"

Zhang Liao expressed the strategy in his mind to achieve both ends.

Everyone who heard this thought that this strategy could be used to attack, retreat or defend, and was almost invulnerable. They immediately bowed their hands and said: "The prefect is wise, our army will win this battle!"

"Go and deliver the order. Nothing will happen within three days. All you need to do is arrange a heavy ambush at the front and rear city gates, and send some scouts to patrol outside. The remaining soldiers will take turns to rest and build up their energy and morale. It will be a good life.

To cope with the changes in three days."

Zhang Liao waved his hand and said confidently.

"yes!"

All the soldiers surrendered and retreated.

…

The first day.

Sure enough, nothing happened.

"Report! Today the city sent messengers out of the city three times. Except for the first time when all of them were shot dead by our troops and a letter of request for help sent to Xun Yu in Juancheng was found on their bodies, the other two times they all returned to the city after some testing.

, don’t dare to come again!”

"As expected, it seems that Cao Zhen and Cheng Yu haven't sent out messengers yet. As a result, the officers and soldiers in the city may have begun to worry, and the victory is certain!"

Zhang Liao was full of confidence and had no suspicion of fraud.

What's more, even if there is a scam, he has already made two preparations. Everything will depend on the changes in three days and he will act according to the situation.

…

At the same time, inside Gucheng City.

"Hahaha, Fei Nu has been released a long time ago, but County Magistrate Cheng still keeps sending messengers to paralyze Zhang Liao. This is really cunning and cunning. Anmin is ashamed of himself, he is ashamed of himself."

Cao Zhen smiled with a relaxed expression.

"I heard that Zhang Liao is very impressive. For such a person, it is natural to have to do a complete show, otherwise it will be difficult to deceive him."

Cheng Yu was in good spirits, and his wrinkled face turned into a chrysanthemum, "According to my calculations, if Fei Nu successfully delivers the message, the Juancheng reinforcements will arrive at the outskirts of Yuancheng by tomorrow night at the latest.

Regardless of whether Zhang Liao was prepared or not at that time, he never expected that our army’s letter would have wings and that the reinforcements would be so fast!”

"After all, according to common sense, even if we send a courier in advance, the letter asking for help will not be delivered to Juancheng until tomorrow night, let alone the reinforcements arriving at that time. This is simply a divine weapon descended from heaven."

"Tomorrow night our military supplies are always ready. Once there is fighting in Zhang Liao's camp outside the city, our army will immediately open the city gate and rush into Zhang Liao's camp to join forces with the reinforcements. We will definitely hit Zhang Liao's troops hard!"

Cao Zhen nodded and smiled and praised: "This is natural. Thanks to County Magistrate Cheng's advice recently, how could our army have been so successful otherwise?"

"No, no, it's thanks to Colonel Cao's bravery that all the enemy generals are frightened. This is the key to our army's attack on the city."

Cheng Yu quickly smiled modestly.

"No, no, Magistrate Cheng is an unparalleled counselor!"

"No, no, Captain Cao has the talent of a general!"

"No, no, Magistrate Cheng should take the lead!"

"No, no, Captain Cao deserves the credit for this contribution!"

"..."
Chapter completed!