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

"If you, Niu Zhonglang, are not in a hurry to make military achievements, then the safest thing to do at this moment is to retreat the whole army to Chaoge County immediately, try to find a way to defend the city, and ask for help from the rear."

"The defeat of Fan Chou this time has actually had a serious impact on the frontline warfare. Our rear army should also make adjustments as soon as possible and re-arm."

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Conscience of heaven and earth, you must know that Jia Xu was really not joking with Niu Fu and others just now.

In terms of emotion and reason, he felt from the bottom of his heart that the chances of the Xiliang army winning this dispute were getting smaller and smaller.

But Niu Fu said that... He could only bite the bullet and offered a solution that was not a solution.

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"Retire soldiers and sing?"

"This move is quite safe..."

After pondering for a moment, Niu Fu nodded.

Indeed, from his standpoint, the most stable method now is naturally to retreat to the city.

With his [-] troops guarding Chaoge, and with the continuous supply of food from Luoyang in the rear... just because those rebels in the Kanto region want to capture this place, it is tantamount to wishful thinking.

……

Just hearing Niu Fu's muttering, Jia Xu beside him didn't feel at ease, but frowned tightly.

If that Niu Fu could follow his advice so quietly, then he would not be a general of the imperial court, Dong Zhuo's second son-in-law.

Sure enough, Niu Fu nodded first, then shook his head, and said softly to Jia Xu:

"If that's the case, what Wen He said is a good strategy. It's just that when we went out to fight, we had already made an oath in front of the grand master, and we will return with military merit in this battle."

"Now everyone retreats to Chaoge without making an inch of merit, and you have to ask the grand master for support. This is really unreasonable."

"Wenhe, is it possible that there is no way for us to defeat those Kanto princes head-on?"

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"Haha, yes, Wenhe, our brothers are all old people who follow the Grand Master. If we return without success in this battle, the brothers will inevitably lose face."

What annoyed Jia Xu the most was that when he and Niu Fu got the right answer, Li Que and others on the side also interjected into the topic of the two of them, and started booing.

His grandma, what does it matter to you two whether to fight or not?

Frowning and looking at Li Que and Guo Si beside him, Jia Xu just felt that these two people were going to be so stupid that they couldn't understand.

He knew about Niu Fu's situation. When he was in Hedong, he led his troops to a defeat, so he was scolded by Dong Zhuo.

Now that he had the opportunity to lead the army again, Niu Fu wanted to earn some military merit quickly, and it was normal to save face.

But this matter has nothing to do with you Li Que and Guo Si, right?

Do you just like to fight with others so much?

The assists by Li Que and others immediately caused Jia Xu's blood pressure to soar.

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"No, no more!"

Looking at the three people in front of him, he really wanted to yell at them with such a calm voice.

But he did not dare to do so.

If he really rejected Niu Fu's proposal at this moment, the current situation would have turned into a group of generals filled with righteous indignation and willing to take the initiative to fight, but as a military adviser, he was full of thoughts of surrender.

If this was placed in Daqin hundreds of years ago, he would be sentenced to a serious crime for it!

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"Here, let me think about it..."

Picking up the military newspaper again, Jia Xu secretly calculated the marching time of Zhang Yan and the others, and then looked at the sky outside, and just started pacing in Niu Fu's military tent.

This pacing was followed by several minutes of silence.

When Li Que, Guo Si and others at the side were a little impatient, Jia Xu seemed to have made some very important decision, and suddenly threw the military report in his hand back on Niu Fu's table.

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"Niu Zhonglang, I still have the previous opinion. If the battle drags on until Zhang Yan arrives here with his troops, we will surely fall into a situation beyond redemption."

"Shangdang is no better than Hanoi. If we wait here for a disastrous defeat, if we want to return to Chaoge City to regroup, at least we will lose more than [-]% of our troops on the way!"

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Jia Xu's eyes were full of complex expressions.

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"Of course, this does not mean that this battle cannot be fought, but that we must rush to defeat the eldest son county before Zhang Yan's army arrives, and take down the defenders in the city first."

"In this way, after Zhang Yan brings the rebels here, we can defend the city, advance and attack, retreat with evidence, and won't fall into chaos at will."

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"If my estimate is correct, after Zhang Yan attacked the city, he would definitely rest for a day. Afterwards, he came to Shangdang from Hedong. Even if the opponent traveled day and night, it would take at least three days to reach the eldest son city."

"Break the city within three days, and we will be able to take control of this place and fight back against the invading enemies at will. And if the city is not broken within three days, what awaits us is a retreat of hundreds of miles..."

"At that time, let alone the eldest son, even if I lose Chaoge, I won't be surprised..."

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Chapter 62 Desperate Accounts

"Hey, why are there so many people in this world who are eager to find death?"

"Isn't it good to live well? You have to get involved in these things."

After a while, Jia Xu came out from Niu Fu's tent.

Sure enough, facing the two choices given by Jia Xu, Niu Fu finally chose to forcibly attack the city, and handed over the heavy task of thinking about the method of attacking the city to Jia Xu.

After making a decision, Niu Fu began to have a banquet with Li Que, Guo Si and others, but Jia Xu didn't like the atmosphere, so he left the tent first.

Now looking at the soldiers who were practicing outside the camp, and the city towering farther away, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

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Siege is actually not too difficult.

Sun Jian and others had been guarding the city before, but Niu Fu was unwilling to use some dirty methods.

Now facing the "death line" of three days, he no longer cared about things like reputation, and directly ordered Jia Xu to take the eldest son county into the hands of himself and others within three days at all costs.

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at all costs.

It sounds nice.

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Thinking of what Niu Fu specially ordered for him just now, Jia Xu suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

At all costs...does destroying water sources count?Does making a plague count?Does setting fire to food count?

If it is really at all costs, then Jia Xu can now come up with dozens of strategies in a second.

Why send people to secretly scatter hair into the well, bury perishable animal corpses above the water source, or even smear the corpses with feces, and then throw them into the city with a catapult.

As long as the defenders in the city don't go out of the city immediately to dispose of the corpses, it will take less than three days for the miasma of the corpses to be accelerated by feces to fill the entire city. By then, the defenders who don't even have a clean and usable water source will fight them. ?

In addition, if he was more ruthless, Jia Xu could also make the soldiers outside the city throw rockets into the city day and night.

Don't say that blind shooting is not easy to hit. Most of the current houses are still of wooden structure, and there are very few masonry structures.

If the defenders in the city don't pay attention, an arrow will set off a fire in Zhangzi County, and even have a chance to directly ignite the granary in the county, making these guys hungry for a few days.

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There is also pouring kerosene into the water source upstream, arresting villagers from surrounding villages, infecting them with disease, and sending them into the city, or killing them in front of the defenders in the city...

As long as it is really embarrassing, Jia Xu can pick out a few of them like this, and they can disturb the defenders in the city for three days and three nights.

After three days, the soldiers in the city will be deprived of water, food, and rest, and their physical condition will definitely decline very seriously, and this decline in physical function will further accelerate the speed at which these soldiers are infected with the disease.

In this extremely weak situation, let alone defending the city...

Three days later, Jia Xu sent people into the eldest son county to collect the corpses of these people directly, without even thinking about repairing the knife.

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Of course, how vicious this extinct scheme is...how could Jia Xu not know?

This eldest son county now not only has the defenders under Sun Jian's command, but also has more than [-] residents!

Compared with the strong soldiers, in the face of actions such as polluting water sources, burning granaries, and causing epidemics, the people in the city must be the first to be unable to support themselves, and die of thirst and disease first.

Then who will be blamed for these innocent people who died?

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More than ten thousand...

Even in troubled times where human life is the least valuable, such a large-scale massacre of the city is enough to be recorded in the annals of history.

But just now, when Jia Xu mentioned these suggestions to Niu Fu in the camp, Niu Fu agreed to all of them without blinking his eyes?

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"Haha, this method is very good!"

"As long as I pretend to attack the city while the other party is leaving the city to bury the corpse, it won't take three or five times, and I will definitely exhaust these guys!"

"When they're done with their work, and while these guys are sleeping and resting, let's set off rockets and shoot arrows at the wooden houses near the city gate! They're going to be disturbed!"

"I want to see, these guys can last a few days under my hands!"

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"As for the people in the city, what does life and death have to do with me?"

"It's the same as boiling people. These guys probably can't survive the soldiers in the city. When they die, the corpses of these people can just force the defenders to go out and bury them, increasing our chances of capturing the city!"