Guo Peng suddenly asked this, and Xi Zhong did not react for a while.

Guo Jia reacted, but he didn't know what Guo Peng meant.

"Yuan Shao doesn't have so many soldiers, and the cities with many garrisons are only Fanyang, Yecheng and Gaoyang, right? The other counties and counties should not have many soldiers, at most hundreds."

Guo Jia answered Guo Peng’s question.

"Yes, at most, there are hundreds of soldiers guarding the city. At most, it is only a matter of time. The city will be destroyed. If that is the case, why not sweep away those cities and keep your hands and feet on the surroundings of Yecheng?"

After Guo Peng said this, Guo Jia and Xi Zhong frowned, not understanding what Guo Peng meant.

"Ming Gong meant to leave some troops to surround Yecheng, and then divide the troops to capture other cities?"

Xi Zhong frowned and thought: "It's still a bit dangerous to do this. We only have 30,000 troops. How many troops are left to surround Yecheng? If there are too many mobile troops, there are fewer ones, and we are afraid that Shen Pei will lead the main force out of the city, and we will not be able to withstand it."

"Then let Shen Pei be unable to lead his troops out of the city, and completely turn Yecheng into a dead place."

Guo Peng thought of a solution.

How can a Yecheng stop his own footsteps?

On the second day, the third day, on the fourth day, Guo Peng attacked the city for three consecutive days, but the offensive was not as fierce as the beginning. He did not capture the city for three consecutive days, which made Shen Pei feel a little relieved and spread the news in the city that Guo Peng was about to withdraw his troops to stabilize the people.

On the fifth morning, Guo Peng did not attack the city.

Instead, the army, auxiliary soldiers and civilians were distributed to all sides of Yecheng, digging ditches and connecting them together, surrounding Yecheng, with a circle of forty miles long.

The ditches were dug relatively shallowly, but wider, about three feet away.

Shen Pei received a report from the soldiers guarding the city. When he came to the city to watch, he found that the soldiers of the Zhendong Army were digging trenches. He thought it was a tactic of relying on trenches to fight, but it seemed to be useless and so shallow that he could completely overcome it.

Shen Pei was a rigid mind and couldn't think of why, but he couldn't think of an unthinkable way to deal with it. He laughed loudly on the city wall and mocked Guo Peng for being unable to do anything.

Then the soldiers on the top of the city mocked Guo Peng together, laughed and scolded Guo Peng for being incompetent, and scolded Zhendongjun for being useless.

So Shen Falu was scolding, and he didn't think about going out of the city to obstruct Guo Peng's actions.

Then, after night fell that night, Guo Peng ordered the entire army to go on a mobilization, digging the forty-mile canal to a depth of two feet overnight, and then directly connecting it to the Zhangshui River on the edge of Yecheng City.

The river that was once used by Lu Zhi to deal with the Yellow Turban Army is now used by Guo Peng to deal with Shen Pei again.

Guo Peng used the deep-digging ditches to surround Yecheng with river water. The large canal, three meter wide and two meter deep, is comparable to a new moat, surrounding Yecheng and directly cutting off the connection between Yecheng and the outside world.

He was trapped in Yecheng to death.

It doesn't matter if you can't beat it, I don't want it for the time being, but you just stay here obediently and don't move. If you move, it will be miserable.

First of all, you must have the means to get through a canal that is three feet wide and two feet deep, whether to swim or row?

It doesn’t matter. When you cross the river, it is when my army attacks you indiscriminately. Don’t think about crossing the river.

Guo Peng also ordered people to surround the edge of the canal and set up a powerful crossbow. He clearly told Shen Pei that you are finished.

After receiving the report from his subordinates, Shen Pei immediately ran up the city wall and looked out and was stunned.

What is this? Guo Peng gave him a moat?

No! This is introducing the Zhang River into the ditches and turning Yecheng into an isolated city!

The internal and external traffic in Yecheng was isolated!

Yecheng will not receive any food or assistance from soldiers unless they can break through here.

Before that, Guo Peng would...

It will sweep away all the surrounding counties and counties, and the deterrence of Yecheng's troops on him will basically disappear. He can mobilize his troops to conquer the city and capture the land with confidence, and then completely turn Yecheng into an isolated city, a completely lonely city!

Shen Pei was stunned.

Since the plan was completed, I was in no time, Guo Peng sent troops to attack that afternoon.

The troops of Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao and Cao Chun were respectively sent to attack separately, sweep the counties and counties in Wei County around Yecheng, and demanded that they completely isolate Yecheng.

Then Guo Peng personally led his army around Yecheng, swaggering like a demonstration, and then patted his butt and left, heading northward.

Target, Handan.

You come out, you come out to stop me! Aren’t you very crazy?

Guo Peng laughed proudly.

Then he led his troops north and played with the offensive and defensive affairs of Governor Zhong Yecheng, leaving the three generals of Li to him, and took the rest of his troops away to attack the city.

Shen Pei was completely panicked and realized that he had been fooled by Guo Peng and would pay a heavy price.

And he could not bear this price, and Yuan Shao could not bear it. The entire Jizhou was likely to overturn it, and he could not accept it!

So he immediately ordered the generals Shanshui soldiers to organize, but found that there were not many Shanshui soldiers, and the number of Shanshui soldiers was only more than a thousand.

But there was no way to do this, so I could only drive the ducks to put them on the shelves, and randomly selected a group of people, gathered up 3,000 people, preparing to cross the water and launch an attack, and try to destroy the ditches.

He ordered a batch of simple ferries to be built so that the soldiers of the Shui River could control them and prepare for a breakthrough.

Xi Zhong directly ordered the army to take its seat, and protected the crossbowmen through the refusal horse and protected the crossbowmen to shoot, and overturned the people who were trying to cross the river, either shot to death or drowned.

Shen Pei did not allow them to retreat and wanted to attack, but there was no other result in the battle besides leaving more than 900 corpses.

The loss was too great, and Shen Pei had no choice but to order the retreat to the city, and tried to build super long wooden boards to cross the river. As a result, he was crushed by a catapult before he left the city. The soldiers did not dare to leave the city and retreated directly to the city.

Shen Pei still refused to admit defeat and sent troops to try to cross the river at night to open the gap. Unexpectedly, Xi Zhong had expected it long ago and commanded the army to beat drums and fight back. The Yuan army in Yecheng was in chaos, trampling and pushing each other, and fleeing everywhere. Many of his own people were trampled to death.

There is no other meaning except leaving a corpse on the ground.

Shen Pei had no choice but to do it, and the guards in the city had no choice but to watch the ditches outside the city dazed and sat in the empty space.

Although there is a lot of grain stored in Yecheng, the city has a large population, especially the previous solid walls and clear fields, which has exacerbated the large population in the city, which has made the pressure on the city to store grain very great.

Faced with such a situation, Shen Pei had no choice but to order the rations to be reduced. The strong soldiers could eat more, while the elderly, weak, sick and disabled could only eat less.

Because they are not full, a large number of elderly, weak, sick and disabled can only choose to lie in bed without moving, thereby reducing hunger.

Under such a dilemma, Shen Pei cannot come up with any solution.
Chapter completed!