(It¡¯s a new week, a new atmosphere, students who have finished the exam, it¡¯s time to vote for the madman, and the swallows are here to bow to you)
"If you have any clever ideas for Fengxiao, tell me quickly!"
Yuan Fang could tell at a glance that Guo Jia had a clever plan in mind, and forced him to ask without waiting for him to speak.
Guo Jia was stunned, and said with a helpless smile: "I can't hide my worries from my lord. It seems that I have to learn from Tian Feng in the future and be more restrained."
"Oh, Mr. Guo, you talk too much. If you have any clever ideas, please tell me quickly. Stop nagging, okay?" Zhuge Liang urged impatiently.
"Okay, okay, I said it's not okay."
Guo Jia murmured and complained, and then he unhurriedly revealed the strategy in his heart in a eloquent way.
Zhuge Liang was speechless when he heard this. He looked in disbelief and said in surprise: "Your plan is too fantastic. I have never heard of it since ancient times."
"Puyang is a fortified city. How can we defeat the city as quickly as possible without using some strange moves?" Guo Jia smacked his lips and said.
Zhuge Liang looked at Yuan Fang with suspicion on his face, as if he couldn't believe that Yuan Fang would use Guo Jia's strategy.
Yuan Fang also looked surprised. It was obvious that Guo Jia's plan really surprised him.
"A conspiracy is indeed a conspiracy, otherwise how could you come up with such a conspiracy"
After pondering with emotion for a long time, Yuan Fang snapped the case and said resolutely: "As of now, it can only be like this. In the opinion of Feng Xiao, A Liang, I will leave this matter to you. You must be quick."
"The only one in the world who dares to use my Guo Jia's tactics is my lord." Guo Jia chuckled, admiration flashing between his brows.
Zhuge Liang was stunned. But he didn't expect that Yuan Fang was bold enough to use Guo Jia's strategy, and also put the important responsibility of implementation on his shoulders.
Even so, Zhuge Liang only hesitated for a moment and then resolutely accepted the order.
At this moment, Yuan Convenient assigned Zhuge Liang's troops to act secretly. Implement Guo Jia's plan.
On the surface, Yuan Fang continued to launch uninterrupted attacks on Puyang City to cover Zhuge Liang's actions, but the scale of the attack was greatly reduced.
As the siege continued, Cao Cao retreated to the Yanyu area to eat. Finally there was movement.
At the beginning of winter, after Cao Cao raised nearly 700,000 hu of grain and grass, he led nearly 20,000 troops from Chenliu to the north to rescue Puyang City in a mighty manner.
Yuan Fang was already prepared for this.
Cao Cao¡¯s army. In Changyuan City, which is a hundred miles away from Puyang City, Taishi Ci stubbornly blocked the city and could not take down the city for a month.
Cao Cao was trapped under Changyuan City, and Liu Bei was trapped in Puyang. Unknowingly, it was already the third month.
While Yuan Fang was besieging the city. They also sent troops to shoot more than ten thousand "letters to Puyang soldiers and civilians" into the city to expose Liu Bei's face. Call on the soldiers and civilians of Puyang City to capture Liu Bei and surrender the city.
After days of violent attacks, mind-attack tactics, and food-deprivation tactics, Liu Bei was already in a desperate situation.
As the siege entered its fourth month, all the food Liu Bei had collected from the people was exhausted.
The entire Puyang City was at the point where it was running out of ammunition and food.
The atmosphere in the mansion was extremely solemn.
Everyone in the hall, from Liu Bei to the generals, all have something to offer.
Food and grass have been exhausted. Even Liu Bei's own rations have been reduced to less than one-third of the original. It would be strange not to be hungry enough to have food.
Liu Bei knew that the whole army was already in disarray. If Cao Cao's reinforcements did not arrive, collapse would be inevitable.
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Guan Yu didn't speak. Although he didn't support Wei Xu, his eyes clearly agreed with Wei Xu's proposal to break out of the encirclement.
Liu Bei gritted his teeth and said: "The order given to us by Duke Cao is to defend Puyang until his reinforcements arrive. I will never give up Puyang City without Duke Cao's order."
Liu Bei's decisive decision made Wei Xu almost despair.
Liu Bei had his own difficulties.
If Puyang is lost, most of Yanzhou will belong to Yuan Fang. With Cao Cao's help, he will defeat Yuan Fang's conspiracy and it will be in vain.
Now that he has become an eunuch, he actually does not have much ambition. He has only one purpose for surviving:
Kill Yuan Fang!
Abandoning Puyang would be tantamount to allowing Yuan Fang to become powerful. By then, no matter what year or month, he would be able to achieve his goal.
?Therefore, Liu Bei changed his escaping nature and refused to give up until the last moment.
Seeing Liu Bei's decisive attitude, Wei Xu had no choice but to keep silent and sigh silently.
As for Guan Yu, what can be said, of course he only followed Liu Bei's orders.
A military discussion broke up unhappy.
Before I knew it, it was already dark, the lanterns were hung high, and it was time for dinner again.
Liu An directed his servants to serve the meals one by one. Liu Bei couldn't work up his appetite just looking at the meager meals.
Since he raised his army with the support of Zhang Fei, as a prince, although Liu Bei is not well-off, his three meals are considered exquisite. In his concept, he has long forgotten what it is like to have simple meals.
"It's these again"
Complaints are complaints, and he was hungry, so Liu Bei reluctantly picked up his chopsticks and prepared to eat the unpalatable food.
At this moment, Liu Bei's nose suddenly moved, as if a slanderous cat had smelled something fishy, ??and the base of his tongue was immediately filled with saliva.
The smell of meat, he actually smelled a long-lost smell of meat.
Liu Bei's eyes suddenly shone, and he raised his head suddenly, looking for the source of the meat smell.
At this moment, Liu An picked up a bowl of steaming food, walked into the hall, and carefully offered it to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was overjoyed and was surprised to find that there was a big bowl of fragrant meat in front of him.
"Didn't we eat the meat in our house late two months ago? What kind of meat is this?" Liu Bei asked in surprise.
"Back to my lord, this is a cat I caught in the backyard in the afternoon, and my subordinates stewed it. It was just in time to replenish my lord's health," Liu An replied.
It turns out to be cat meat.
This cat meat has the same taste as wolf meat. Except as a last resort, few people eat it.
But at this point, he didn¡¯t care much. For Liu Bei, this cat meat was simply heavenly and delicious.
Liu Bei didn't ask any questions, picked up his chopsticks, and started to eat voraciously.
Liu Bei has not had any meat for two whole months, and now he has seen meat. I didn't care about my style, I just immersed myself in eating.
After a while, Liu Bei swept away the entire pot of cat meat, including the meat and broth, leaving not even a tiny bit of shredded meat left.
After eating, Liu Bei burped several times, still unsatisfied. Reminiscent of the aroma of meat.
Suddenly, Liu Bei felt that the origin of this meat seemed to be different.
"Puyang was besieged for three months, and all the rats, insects, and ants in the city were plundered. How could there still be cats sneaking into the backyard?"
The more Liu Bei thought about it, the more suspicious he became, and the more he felt something was wrong. I wanted to call Liu An and ask what happened.
Liu Bei had doubts in his heart, so he stopped calling Liu An and got up and went to the kitchen to check it out.
Step to the back hall. Liu Bei walked into the kitchen where food and wine were specially prepared for him. Pushing the door open, Liu Bei took a breath of cold air.
I saw a bloody woman lying on the kitchen floor. She had been killed, and the flesh on the woman's arms had been cut off.
"Could it be that the meat I just ate was not cat meat at all, but"
Liu Bei suddenly realized what he was doing and was shocked.
At this time, Liu An happened to come in and bumped into Liu Bei. Seeing Liu Bei's surprised look, his whole body froze immediately.
"Liu An, what kind of meat did I eat, and who is this murdered woman?" Liu Bei pointed at the corpse on the ground and asked sharply.
Liu An fell to his knees with a bang and cried: "I see that my lord has been working hard for military affairs all day long, but he has not eaten fish and meat for several months, and his body is getting more and more haggard. I am just afraid that my lord is in bad health, so I have no choice but to do it." I can only kill my wife"
Liu Bei suddenly realized it, and the shock on his face gradually faded away, replaced by some kind of deep emotion.
"Liu An, you shouldn't do this. You are trying to trap me into injustice." Liu Bei sighed and helped Liu An up.
Liu An said seriously: "This is what the villain did voluntarily, and it has nothing to do with the lord. Besides, the lord is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, the master of benevolence and righteousness, and is responsible for the safety of the world. The villain's wife is just a woman, how can she be compared with the lord?" "
Liu Bei was filled with emotions. Facing this loyal subordinate, he was so moved that he didn't know what to say. He could only keep patting Liu An on the shoulder, and tears welled up in his eyes.
While sighing with emotion, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Liu Bei's eyes, as if he suddenly became enlightened.
After pondering for a long time, a hint of cold determination quietly appeared on his gray face.
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South of Puyang City, Yuan Jun¡¯s camp is located.
In recent days, the number of Puyang people leaving the city has increased significantly. Yuan Fang comforted these people with food and wine.
That day, another three or four people who looked like bones were rescued by the scouts and brought back to the camp. Yuan Fang personally rewarded them with food and wine, and asked them about the current situation in the city.
Several people were obviously very hungry and lost their minds in front of the food. They all gobbled it up and ate desperately.
Yuan Fang didn't mind either, he just watched them quietly, eating several bowls of wheat rice.
"You have eaten enough. Now you have the strength to tell me how the situation in Puyang City is lately?" Yuan Fang asked.
When Yuan Fang asked this question, the faces of the hungry people changed, and they all showed fear.
A bold young man said in a trembling voice: "Liu Bei robbed all our food stores before. Recently, at night, officers and soldiers broke into people's houses, kidnapped them in the name of collaborating with the enemy, and then never let them go again." Come out. There are rumors in the city that Liu Bei made the captured people into preserved meat and distributed them to his soldiers as military rations. The common people were so scared that they had to risk their lives and escape across the city ¡¡±
Hearing these words, Yuan Fang fell silent, his fists clenched loudly, and in his eyes, angry flames burned wildly.
Zhuge Liang was even more furious and cursed: "Liu Bei is a hypocrite. He actually treats the common people as military rations. He is so vicious!"
Yuan Fang remembered that in history, Liu Bei was attacked by Lu Bu in Xuzhou, and was defeated by Yuan Shu. When he was trapped in Guangling, after the army ran out of food, they ate each other to satisfy their hunger.
Yuan Fang also believed that Liu Bei could definitely do such a thing.
After a moment of silence, Yuan Fangteng stood up, gritted his teeth, and said in a deep voice: "We can't wait any longer. Send the order and implement the plan tomorrow. I will attack Puyang in one fell swoop and kill that big-eared thief!"