Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

God knows how much help this will be for the future march! ?

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And there are many cases like him in Hedong County.

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The [-] to [-] new recruits who guarded the various places in Anyi before were recruited by Yuan Yi, who was in charge of guarding the city, and became a vital force under his command.

The defenders in the city who fled before were filled by Zhang Yan into the auxiliary barracks to help the people transport their luggage, which greatly reduced the logistical pressure on this army.

There is also the previous Huben Army, the luggage left by the previous Xiliang Army in this city...

Unknowingly, Zhang Yan received great help after capturing Hedong.

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Soon, after Zhang Yan's transformation, these assistances will turn into anti-Dong forces, and all will be returned to the Xiliang Army in Shangdang County in the north.

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Chapter 59 The beacon fire at the top of the city is always extinguished and ignited like this

"Pass it on, our army has won, our army has won!"

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Within a few days, the news that Zhang Yan's army had defeated Fan Chou in Hedong reached the ears of several other princes.

It's just that when he defeated the enemy army, several groups of soldiers and horses were already in danger.

His eyes came to the eldest son county of Shangdang County.

A few days ago, Sun Jian, Marquis of Wucheng, led his army back all the way here, relying on the city wall of Changzi County, barely resisted the attack of Dong Zhuo's army.

Now, he was trapped to death in the eldest son county by the tens of thousands of enemy troops, almost completely isolated from the outside world.

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"Report, my lord, there is news from outside!"

On this day, at the head of the city in Zhangzi County, Sun Jian had just commanded his soldiers to repel a wave of enemy attacks when he saw a spy rushing up the city wall dancing from the bottom of the city.

Hearing that a spy under his command reported to him, Sun Jian also waved to the spy with excitement on his face, regardless of the blood on his face at the moment, he just shook his voice like this:

"Is there any news from outside? But it belongs to the other coalition forces?"

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"Hurry up and let me see!"

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When he was in Chaoge City, Hanoi County, Sun Jian was defeated because of the strategy of Niu Fujun's counselors. He even lost a lot of equipment, and because of this, he lost contact with the outside world.

Now, he has not heard the news of the other princes for several days.

"I don't know how these guys are fighting now? Did the messengers we sent out before successfully bring the news of the call for help to them?"

Stretching out his hand to snatch the note that recorded the information from the spy, Sun Jian only glanced at it twice, and then burst out laughing:

"With the sound of the drums, thousands of troops attacked at night. What a great victory!"

That's right, this is the only piece of news that has spread to Zhangzi County recently, and it records the battle report of Zhang Yan's defeat of Fan Chou and Li Su in Anyi.

Seeing the victory recorded in the battle report in his hand, Sun Jian felt as if he was the one who won at this moment, and he felt a sense of refreshment all over his body.

In Changzi County before, Sun Jian didn't say that he was suppressed and beaten by the opponent's army everywhere, but he rarely took the initiative in the confrontation between the two armies.

Now, after hearing such good news, Sun Jian's aggrieved feeling of being pressed and beaten by the opponent finally dissipated from his heart.

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"Hey, the Marquis of Wan is advancing all the way. As the vanguard of the whole army, we should be advancing at the same time. It's just a pity that the army outside the city is really difficult to deal with."

"Let me ask you, how much food and grass do we have in our army now? Including the surplus food in the treasury in the city, how long is it enough for me to wait?"

Of course, after the initial excitement passed, Sun Jian also slowly regained his composure, turned his back and sighed softly.

The question before him now was not how to defeat the enemy's army and join Zhang Yan at Hulao Pass smoothly, but how to preserve the last sliver of strength on his side from the continuous siege battles launched by the opponent.

"My lord, if there is surplus food in the army... use it sparingly, there will probably be less than three days left."

Hearing Sun Jian's question, the spy briefly recalled the situation in the army, and then took the initiative to report:

"Since I entered the city, the army outside the city has cut off our grain supply line. Now there is no food in the army. The treasury in the city has been empty for a long time. Let alone our army, even the city Most of the common people, I am afraid that they all have a meal, and they don’t have a meal.”

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"Three days..."

After listening to the reports of his subordinates, even with Sun Jian's optimistic personality, his eyebrows could not help but frown.

Set fire, cut off food, and attack the camp at night.

During this period of time, in order to destroy the supply of food and grass for the pioneers along the way, the enemy's army can be said to be doing everything possible, making others sleepy, and the food and grass in the army has always been maintained at a very dangerous warning line.

According to Sun Jian's original idea, he actually wanted to rest in Zhangzi County for a period of time, and when morale recovered, he would return to Chaoge and fight again with the army sent by Dong Zhuo.

It's just a pity that people are iron and rice is steel.After Sun Jianjun lost the supply of food and grass, not only the morale, but also the physical strength of the soldiers were actually weakened.

Over time, the weaker a soldier was, the less likely he was to defeat the enemy and retake food.The less food and grass in the army, the weaker the soldiers' physical strength.

This has become a knot in front of Sun Jian.

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"Where are the soldiers, how is our soldier recovering now?"

"How many people can go to battle?"

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Faced with the huge pressure of food and grass, Sun Jian couldn't help but have the idea of ​​giving up thinking and fighting the opponent to the death.

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"My lord, probably, there are probably more than 4 people."

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This time, the voice of the messenger was softer than when he reported the food before.

Hearing this number, Sun Jian couldn't help but frowned in pain.

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4 million people.

And this number was still [-] before January.

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Back then, in the battle of Chaoge, Sun Jian lost thousands of soldiers under his command.

Later, Sun Jian was led by Xu Rong to attack from the rear, forming a situation between two sides.In order to break the situation, nearly ten thousand people under his command got lost and were captured.

Later, he fled to Zhangzi County and defended the city under the protection of the city wall of Zhangzi County, but the enemy army came like a steady stream.

Every time he attacked a city, Sun Jian would pay an extremely heavy price in order to repel him.But the opponent saw that the city was difficult to capture, so they isolated the food and grass from the outside.

After coming and going, tens of thousands of soldiers died in the siege battle and were starved to death later.

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Today, Sun Jian's original [-] army has been killed and injured to the point where only [-] are available. This is undoubtedly a very heavy blow to Sun Jian who has always regarded the soldiers in the army as the children of the clan.

Turning around and looking outside the city wall, Sun Jian could see that Changzi County had just repelled the opponent's siege, and there were blood and corpses mixed everywhere under the city.

How much of this scarlet blood was left by the enemy, and how much came from these comrades under his command?

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"Ugh-"

Just as Sun Jian was distracted, a low-pitched horn sounded outside the city.

Inside the enemy camp in the distance, a large number of auxiliary soldiers in black began to walk towards Zhangzi County, and began to collect the bones for the corpses under the city.

This is also the rare tacit understanding between Sun Jian and the enemy troops outside the city every day.

Sun Jian would not attack those people while they were gathering their bones.

And when these people returned and Sun Jian went to the city to collect the corpses of his brothers, the enemy army would not follow the trend to attack the city.

Although the battle was a bit brutal, I have to say...

Between the generals of the two sides, there is still a little bit of the idea of ​​a gentleman's war.

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Just looking at the black mass of heads in the distance, how many people are there in the enemy army besieging the city?

Sun Jian didn't know.

Sixty thousand, eighty thousand, or more?

To be honest, the soldiers under the opponent's command are not inferior to these comrades under his own command in terms of individual combat ability, and the number of the opponent is even more than his own.

Now that food and grass were almost exhausted, Sun Jian really didn't know how to fight this battle, and whether it was necessary to continue fighting.

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Chapter 60 Capitulationism Jia Wenhe

"My lord, why don't we simply drive the people out of the city?"

After pondering for a while, the soldier saw Sun Jian's troubled face and couldn't help suggesting.

Contrary to the understanding of most people in later generations, the cities in the Eastern Han Dynasty were not as simple as enclosing the residents and buildings inside with huge walls.

Compared with the "nationals" living in the city, the "savages" living around the city and even in the countryside are the vast majority of the population structure of a city.

Take Lujiang, where Zhang Yan lives, as an example. Although the total population of Lujiang is more than one million, the population of the four cities of Wancheng, Shuxian, Qianxian, and Xiang'an counties only accounts for half of the total population.