Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

However, while the good news kept coming, a piece of bad news was also mixed in.

Xu Shiji was worthy of being the number one general in Sichuan. After the loss of Jiangzhou City, even after that, he fell into Wu Qi's ambush even more.

However, it is not that he did not make his own response.It should be said that at the moment Jiangzhou City was just lost, Xu Shiji had already made his own response.

At the first moment, Xu Shiji had already thought of a crucial key point, grain and grass.

As far as the Shu army was concerned, it was impossible for Xu Shiji to carry any food and grass with him when he went out to attack.Therefore, this is the biggest crisis for Xu Shiji.If there is not enough food and grass, then the next situation of the Shu army can be imagined.

Zhu Tianpeng's side of the Yangzhou army must have a certain amount of food and grass.However, just by thinking about it, Xu Shiji already knew that even if Zhu Tianpeng of the Yangzhou army had food in his hands, the amount of food and grass for them who came from afar would certainly not be much.

Even if Zhu Tianpeng of the Yangzhou Army had food in his hands, he might not be able to supply it for too long.Under such circumstances, how could he be willing to supply food and grass to the Shu army.

What's more, logically speaking, the Shu army should supply the Yangzhou army with food and grass.

Therefore, next, the biggest problem facing the Shu army is the problem of food and grass.If this problem is not resolved, they who have been isolated from the road in the middle of Shu may collapse within a few days.

Unless, they can regain Jiangzhou City in a very short period of time and re-open the connection with Shuzhong.But, how easy is it to achieve this?
Gan Ning's navy suffered heavy losses, and Xu Shiji lost [-] troops after an ambush.Therefore, even with the support of Xu Shiji's Yangzhou Army Navy Division, they still do not have any advantage in terms of military strength.

But the current situation is that Wu Qi and Qi Jiguang have become the defenders, sitting on a strong city, while Xu Shiji and Zhu Tianpeng have become the attackers, who still have no siege equipment.

Therefore, it is temporarily impossible to break through the road of Jiangzhou.

The other way is to retreat, retreating to Jingnan, and going down the south of the Yangtze River, it is possible to retreat before their food and grass problem completely breaks out and the morale of the army collapses.

However, this is a dangerous road.

Now that Wu Qi has laid such a trap, the treacherous waterway of the Three Gorges may not be easy to pass through.

Although there are not many remaining navy forces in Jingbei, with the help of the treacherous terrain of the Three Gorges channel and a large number of iron chains and wooden piles, there is no need to block them at all, it only needs to delay them for a few days. A large army will be defeated without a fight.

If they decide to retreat to Jingnan, although they can request Zhu Yuanzhang's support through Zhu Tianpeng, if they cannot break through the obstacles of the Jin army in a short period of time, it will be a devastating disaster for them.

But no matter which path he chooses, for Xu Shiji, the most critical point is the problem of food and grass.If the grain and grass in their hands can be made in more time, they have more choices.At that time, no matter which path you choose, you will not fall into the end of the collapse of the army's morale in a short period of time.

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And where does the food come from?After much deliberation, Xu Shiji had to find a way from the Jin army.Not only because the Shu army had already discovered that Wu Qi had transported a large amount of grain and grass during this period, enough grain and grass to support a protracted war.

On the other hand, Xu Shiji, who is a famous general of the generation, is very sure that Wu Qi needs a lot of food and grass to set up this situation.There must be food and grass for the Shu army in Jiangzhou City, but even if Jinqun took all of them, it would only be enough for one month.

And Jiangzhou City has already fallen into the hands of the Jin army, so it is naturally impossible to transport food and grass here in Central Shu.

And if Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Xiuruo attacked Jingbei, neither of these two people was short-sighted. Of course, they knew that Wu Qi's logistics could only be guaranteed by Jingbei.Therefore, even just in case, Wu Qi would definitely store a large amount of food in advance.

If Xu Shiji had a way to destroy all of Wu Qi's food and grass, then the two sides would probably end up dead together.

When Xu Shiji saw that Wu Qi had captured Jiangzhou City, he had already made some calculations silently.At that time, Jiangzhou City was already empty, but Wu Qi wanted to take it before Xu Shiji returned to Jiangzhou. In this limited time, to achieve this, the amount of effort invested was imaginable!
In addition, even if Wu Qi sent false soldiers to meet Qi Jiguang by the river, if he wanted to deceive Xu Shiji, he must still have a certain amount of troops.

After all the calculations, Xu Shiji guessed that the troops in Wu Qi's hands were also very tight, especially the ones used to look after the granary.

As for why Wu Qi didn't move the grain and grass to Jiangzhou City, of course there is no time. That is the grain and grass used by the Jin army's 10,000+ army for half a year. Moved over?
When the two armies are at war, the food and grass area of ​​both sides will inevitably become an important investigation target for both sides. If this kind of place is used well, it will play a decisive role in the entire battle situation. Wuchao in the Battle of Guandu is an excellent example. example of.

It's just that Xu Shiji may have locked the suspicious target in his place after many investigations before.Now, at such a time, there is no time for Xu Shiji to investigate and lock the last place.

Therefore, Xu Shiji dispatched all the generals in his hands, and picked three places he thought were the most likely to launch a surprise attack.

It was precisely because he had no generals available at that time that Xu Shiji suffered heavy losses in Yang Ye's subsequent sneak attack.

On Wu Qi's side, not to mention that there is Chen Ping beside Wu Qi who is looking for gaps and filling in gaps and making suggestions. They have already discovered that their food and grass are a loophole for them.

However, in the case of concentrating the main force and wanting to take Jiangzhou City in an instant, it is true that there are too many troops that can be used to protect the food and grass.

In order to seek stability, Wu Qi simply scattered the granaries in different places to prevent the possibility of being taken over by the enemy.

As a god-level commander, Xu Shiji's vision was indeed vicious. Two of the three locations he selected were the right ones. In the end, among the two correct locations, one of them supported Wu Qi's reinforcements, while the other The place was breached by the generals sent by the Shu army, and separated the fire ignited by the Jin army defenders in time, and finally grabbed some food and grass.

It was precisely because of this that Wu Qi's plan was only half successful.

Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons