Chapter 182 Han Sui's Ingenious Plan

"General! The Qiang people are newly defeated and their momentum has collapsed. Our army should attack the city immediately and take Yuzhong County in one fell swoop."

Zhou Shen looked at Sun Jian who was pleading for his life, and couldn't help feeling a headache.

"Wentai, sit down."

Zhou Shen smiled wryly: "I know that Wentai has always been brave, and it was like this in Zhu Gongwei's tent in the early years, but I don't think there is any need to worry."

Sun Jian frowned: "What does the general mean?"

Zhou Shen said slowly: "The rebels are trapped here. Yuzhong is just a small county. We will surround it and not attack it. When the rebels' food and grass are exhausted, they will naturally collapse without a fight."

"However, the emperor ordered me to wait!"

"Ben will know!"

Zhou Shen interrupted Sun Jian's words with a wave of his hand, and said, "Okay, so-and-so is the commander-in-chief, please stop talking about Wentai."

Sun Jian sneered, no wonder Zhang Wen sent Zhou Shen to besiege Yuzhong City. It turned out that the two of them were basically the same thing, they only knew how to wait and didn't dare to take the initiative to attack.

"If the warplane is delayed, how about the imperial court blaming it?" Sun Jian said coldly.

Zhou Shen said impatiently: "If the imperial court blames the crime, it is natural for someone to account for it. Let Wentai go out!"

Sun Jian sighed, stood up, and under Zhou Shen's angry gaze, he strode out of the tent.

The three generals Zu Mao, Cheng Pu and Han Dang saw this, hurried up to meet them, and asked questions in one go.

"Has Zhou Dangkou agreed to attack?"

"Am I waiting to prepare to attack the city?"

Sun Jian looked stern and snorted.

"Zhou Shen has no guts, we are all captives!"

Cheng Pusan ​​sighed.

"Zhang Wen sent Zhou Shen to attack, what should we do?" Beigong Boyu forced his sick body to sit up, and asked the three people in front of him worriedly.

Li Wenhou remained silent. He had personally experienced two failures, and now he even doubted: Was it wrong to rebel?

Bian Zhang is also at a loss. Hu Qi's army has experienced failures, and now its morale is low. It only needs to be able to defend the city. If they take the initiative to send troops to fight, they will experience disastrous defeat in all likelihood.

"Someone has a plan!"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Han Sui, who had always been silent, suddenly spoke.

Beigong Boyu hurriedly asked: "Wen Yue, plan to make an appointment?"

Han Sui looked confident: "Zhou Shen is a cautious man, and he would never dare to attack the city. We have lived in the frontier fortress for a long time and are familiar with the location, but Zhou Shen knows nothing about it. You can cut off Zhou Shen's food road with light troops, and wait until the Han army Without food and grass, we will be able to defeat it when we attack from both inside and outside."

Beigong Boyu looked at Bian Zhang, only to see Bian Zhang hesitated for a while, then nodded. Anyway, there is no better strategy at this moment, so let's just use dead horses as living horse doctors.

"Okay, Wenyue, I will give you 20,000 soldiers and horses, and you can lead the army to cut off the Han army's food road."

Han Sui bowed his head in thanks, a smile appeared on his facial features hidden under the darkness, and it was done.

That night, before Zhou Shen's troops encircled Yuzhong County, only the gate of Yuzhong County was opened, 20,000 horses galloped out, and smoke and dust rose from the ground.

Han Sui was surrounded by 20,000 horsemen, and he lowered his body on the horse's back, his body heaving up and down with the jolting of the horse. Han Sui couldn't help but look back, only to see that there was a black mass of horsemen behind him, and the sound of galloping horses came to his ears, and an inexplicable sense of security arose spontaneously.

"Accelerate! Be sure to arrive at Kuiyuan Gorge within three days."

Twenty thousand Hu Qi traveled day and night, and arrived at the destination in more than two days.

There was only a road sandwiched between two mountain walls, as if a god split a mountain with a huge ax across the sky, opening up this passage.

Kuiyuan Gorge is the grain road of the Han army, the only way for the grain transport team to pass, because this road is the only one that can be regarded as a smooth road, it can be said that it is a confluence of rivers and seas, and the Han army must pass through this place if it wants to transport grain and grass to Zhou Shenbu.

It can be said that this road is Zhou Shenjun's breathing passage, and Kuiyuan Gorge is Zhou Shenjun's throat.

Han Sui looked at the two tall mountain walls in front of him and gave orders.

"Prevent antlers and horse refusals, set up checkpoints."

"The rangers send out a wave every two quarters of an hour, with five people in each wave, and the general will know all the information within fifty miles."

After Han Sui issued an order, a group of his subordinates were busy cutting down trees to make antlers and horse-rejecting posts, and set up a card in Kuiyuan Gorge to intercept them.

At the same time, relying on the large number of cavalry, Han Sui dispatched nearly a thousand cavalry scouts, covering fifty miles around Kuiyuan Gorge.

At the same time that Han Sui divided his troops to station in Kuiyuan Gorge, Zhou Shen also sent troops to surround Yuzhong County. However, Zhou Shen did not follow Sun Jian's suggestion and launched a fierce attack on Yuzhong City. He only launched a few trials. However, there were a lot of Qiang soldiers in the city and they suffered a lot of damage, so Zhou Shen simply surrounded them instead of attacking, and waited desperately for the city to run out of food.

In Zhou Shen's barracks.

Sun Jian walked out of the camp. He used to fight in the north and south under Zhu Jun's tent, fighting almost day and night, but now he has become an idler in the northwest, and has nothing to do all day long.

"Demou, has the food arrived?" Sun Jian asked casually.

"My lord, not yet." Cheng Pu shook his head.

"Huh? Go to the supply camp and have a look."

Sun Jian led Cheng Pu into the supply camp, grabbed a village chief and asked him a question, but the grain and grass had still not been delivered.

"Demou, do you remember the last time grain and grass were delivered?" Sun Jian frowned, turned around and asked.

Cheng Pu was cautious and careful, although he was brave, he served as the clerk in Sun Jian's account, and he knew all about the military affairs, so he immediately replied: "My lord, the last time the grain and grass arrived was twelve days ago."

Sun Jian asked puzzledly, "The grain and grass are delivered once every ten days, why is it delayed for two days for no reason?"

"Maybe something happened, maybe it was delayed on the road."

Sun Jian shook his head: "Our army is on an expedition, and food and grass are the lifeblood. We must report to the general who is in trouble."

After all, Sun Jian walked into the whole camp worriedly, but it didn't take long before he came out with a dark face.

Seeing this, Cheng Pu hurried up to greet him: "My lord, how do you tell General Dangkou?"

Sun Jian snorted angrily: "Just like you, he said he was delayed on the road, and asked someone not to bother him with any trivial matters."

Cheng Pu almost burst out laughing, but he still pretended to be calm: "My lord, don't worry too much, maybe the food and grass will be delivered tomorrow?"

Sun Jian heaved a long sigh, his gaze became deep.

"Let's attack far away. Our army is now besieging and not attacking. Once the morale of the rebel army recovers, our army will not be able to retreat completely regardless of whether the food and grass can be supplied."