Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

In the next few days, Ma Teng and Yuan Shang did not have any major battles, but hundreds of people tried every day, restlessly.

Yuan Shang didn't dare to be careless. He set up barriers around Xiuwu to stop Ma Teng. After Ma Teng tried it, he didn't dare to send a large army to attack easily.

The two sides were in a stalemate on the front line of Xiuwu City.

Ma Teng convened the people to discuss, Yuan Shao was fighting on two fronts, but they were fighting on three fronts, the loss of food and grass was more serious than Yuan Shao's, and they had to fight quickly.

Liu Chang, the prefect of Hanoi, suggested that Ma Teng continue to confront Yuan Shang in the front. He led [-] troops from Huai County, the prefecture of Hanoi, and traveled down the Yellow River in hundreds of boats.

Yuan Shang's party did not set up an outpost on the north bank of the Yellow River, so they did not find them.

Liu Chang landed in Chaoge County, the easternmost part of Hanoi County, leaving more than a thousand people guarding the boat, and took 9000 people straight to Muye, south of Chaoge County.

It is rumored that hundreds of years ago, King Wu defeated Zhou and fought in Muye with the army of Yin and Shang. This time Liu Chang led the army and passed through Muye again.

Muye is still where it was hundreds of years ago, but there are some small villages here.

Liu Chang didn't care about taking a break, and went straight through Muye to Chaoge County.

The city of Chaoge County was originally owned by Hanoi County. Yuan Shang captured Chaoge County, the county captain of Chaoge County died in battle, and the county magistrate surrendered.

As the rear area, Yuan Shang originally arranged more than a thousand defenders in Chaoge, but due to the tense frontline battle, half of the troops were transferred a few days ago, and the entire Chaoge County only had 500 troops.

After Chaoge County City Gate Commander discovered the enemy troops coming from the direction of Muye, he immediately ordered the gate to be closed, and then sent someone to notify the county magistrate.

The county magistrate rushed to the city tower in a hurry, only to see the densely packed army outside the city, and couldn't help but panic.

Looking carefully at the flag, it was the prefect of Hanoi who was coming. He saw the enemy army slowly approaching the city, and a cavalry came rushing to persuade him to surrender.

The county magistrate saw that there were a large number of enemy troops, and he might not be able to hold on to Chaoge for a long time, so he ordered the gates of the city to be opened and the city surrendered.

Liu Chang immediately ordered two school lieutenants to lead troops into the city to control Chaoge.

Not long after the captain entered the city, he found a large amount of food and grass hoarded in the treasury in the city, and immediately sent someone to report to Liu Chang.

Liu Chang immediately took his guards into the city to investigate. In the county office, Liu Chang asked the captain, and the captain replied that he had already counted two warehouses with [-] shi of grain and grass, and several other warehouses were being counted.

Liu Chang was overjoyed, he didn't expect that the small city of Chaoge was actually the place where Yuan Shang's army hoarded grain and grass. He immediately sent an order to strengthen the defense of Chaoge City and build a barrier outside Chaoge City.

As long as he defends Chaoge for a few days, Yuan Shang will be short of food on the front line, and the army will retreat.

As soon as you retreat, the war opportunity is approaching.

However, on the front line of Xiuwu City, Ma Teng's army and Yuan Shang's army still did not have a large-scale battle, and both sides were looking for their own opportunities.

Ma Teng's side was waiting for the result of Liu Chang's sneak attack, while Yuan Shang's side had lost a third of their troops and dared not move lightly.

The wounded soldiers are still recovering one after another. He feels that his strength is not enough to form an advantage, and he only hopes to take advantage of Jizhou's food and grass advantages.

Five days later, the food and grass officer came to the commander to report that there had been no food and grass in the rear for five days, and there were only three days left of food and grass in Xiuwu City.

Yuan Shang immediately sent people to the rear to urge food, but when he found out that no one had returned at night, he sent a few more people to the rear overnight. Knowing that no one returned at noon the next day, he panicked.

Wen Chou and others were invited to discuss the matter. Wen Chou, Chen Lin and others guessed that there was a problem with the grain road in the rear, and they had to send cavalry to have a look.

Therefore, Yuan Ang, the captain of the cavalry, led a thousand cavalry to the rear, and searched along the grain road. Sure enough, he found a large number of barriers near Chaoge City, and he knew that Chaoge City had been captured by the enemy.

Yuan Ang sent someone to report Yuan Shang, while continuing to approach to investigate clearly, he attacked Chaoge several times, destroyed some barriers, and lost dozens of horses before retreating.

In Xiuwu City, after Yuan Shang heard the news, he immediately recruited Wen Chou and others.

"Chaoge, lost!"

"Young Master, Chaoge is where our army stores grain. All the grain and grass brought from Jizhou are stored in Chaoge. We must take back Chaoge, otherwise our army will be in danger of running out of food!" Chen Lin said immediately.

"What does General Wen think we should do?" Yuan Shang dared not make a decision and looked at Wen Chou.

Wen Chou thought for a while, and then said: "Our army has only [-] troops on the front line. It is difficult to take back Chaoge if we send too few troops. If we send too many troops, we are afraid that Ma Teng will see our army's inadequacy. Why don't we send [-] troops overnight, so that we can have more food and grass for martial cultivation?" Two days, as long as they take back Chaoge after four days, the food and grass for martial arts will be transferred normally!"

"Okay, please give the general an order!" Yuan Shang agreed, Xiuwu City began to mobilize troops, and the troops were dispatched to Chaoge in the rear after dark.

Sure enough, the scouts sent by Ma Teng did not find any movement of troops in Xiuwu City. He still thought that Yuan Shang still had more than [-] people in Xiuwu City.

In Chaoge City, Liu Chang never let up.A few days ago, after discovering that Yuan Shang’s army on the front line had been sending out scouts and a large number of cavalry the day before yesterday, he ordered his subordinates to step up their defenses. Common defensive tools such as thunder, stone, rolling wood, golden juice and arrows on the city wall were constantly replenished. Place it on the gate avenue and around the ramparts.

Such a defense can be said to be quite stable.

Yuan Shang, with 1 troops, arrived at Chaoge and found that Chaoge was difficult to capture, but he had to attack by force.

After attacking for three consecutive days, they could only destroy some of the barriers outside the city. By the time they reached the edge of the city wall, they had already lost one-third of their soldiers and horses.

In Xiuwu City, Yuan Shang was still waiting for the news that they conquered Chaoge, but there was no news, only they were still storming the city.

The food and grass in the city are only enough for three days. If there is no more food and grass to replenish, they will run out of food.

Wen Chou decided to lead [-] troops to Chaoge himself.

In Xiuwu City, another 1 people were missing. Ma Teng's scouts finally discovered the problem and immediately went back to report to Ma Teng.

Ma Teng went to investigate and found that the city wall was densely covered with banners, but there were fewer people. He immediately ordered Zhang Kui to go to the camp to transfer troops.

These days, a lot of siege equipment has been prepared long ago. Ma Teng, Zhang Qin, and Zhang Kui each led an army of [-], divided into three batches to continuously attack Xiuwu.

Soon, all the barriers outside Xiuwu City were pulled down, and then they began to attack the city.

At this time, Xiuwu City Yuanshang only had 1 people. Under normal circumstances, 1 people defending the city against 3 people attacking the city for 5-10 days would be no problem. However, the city was short of food and the soldiers were exhausted.

After Wen Chou's 1 people arrived at Chaoge, he joined forces with the previous soldiers and horses to attack Chaoge, and Liu Chang guarded the city tightly.

Although defending the city was difficult, Liu Chang relied on sufficient food and grass in the city to allow the soldiers to let go of food every day.

On the third day, it was discovered that Yuan Shang's defeated army appeared in the rear. He sent someone to inquire and found out that Xiuwu City was attacked by Ma Teng and Yuan Shang was defeated.

Wen Chou had no choice but to abandon Chaoge, lead his troops to join Yuan Shang, and retreat to Yecheng.