Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

After Li Ji waited for about fifteen hours, a Yangzhou fleet arrived at the Xiang County section of the Ying River and joined Li Ji.

The only thing that surprised Li Ji was that he saw Jia Xu, who was becoming more plump and blessed, on the fleet.

"Wenhe personally sits in the fleet to escort the supplies?"

Li Ji asked with some surprise.

Jia Xu replied with a serious face.

"After all, these grains are related to Zikun's life and death, so I have to make a trip myself to avoid accidents."

"Uh…"

Li Ji pondered for a moment and joked.

"I'm afraid that letting Wenhe serve as Xu Wenxiang's military advisor has really made Wenhe suffer a lot, and there is nothing he can do, so he hid in the fleet to take refuge, right?"

Jia Xu couldn't hold back on the spot and replied helplessly.

"The one who knows me is Zikun."

Immediately, Jia Xu, who was invited into the camp tent by Li Ji, couldn't help but complain.

Xu Sheng is not like Wei Yan, a general with a flexible mind and full of thoughts of advancement, nor is he like Guan Yu, a gentleman who恪守春秋义礼.

For the former, Jia Xu could easily think of nine ways to induce Wei Yan to listen to his opinions.

For the latter, Jia Xu could also use the method of 君子可欺之以方 to make Guan Yu believe him.

However, Xu Sheng happened to be neither of the two, not considered to have a flexible mind, and even less considered a gentleman.

Xu Sheng is a proper "honest man", adhering to the lord's bottom line as his own, and his style is a steady style.

Every time Jia Xu offered a plan, Xu Sheng rejected it on the grounds that it was harmful to the heavens and violated benevolence and virtue.

Moreover, Xu Sheng even took it for granted that all the trivial matters in the army should be handled by Jia Xu, who was a military advisor.

Jia Xu, who had long learned to be opportunistic, had not suffered such grievances for seven or eight years, how could he bear it?

He was immediately angry…

However, in the face of the military law that Xu Sheng brought out in a straight-forward manner, Jia Xu was only angry for a moment, and then became Xu Sheng's diligent "chief clerk".

After learning about the grain transportation of the fleet, Jia Xu couldn't wait to take the opportunity to escape and join Li Ji.

"Zikun, you see… I have been racking my brains every day to deal with those trivial matters, and I am afraid that I have lost more than three points of weight."

Jia Xu, with a ruddy complexion, said with helplessness and sigh.

However, when Jia Xu noticed Li Ji's playful and teasing eyes, he couldn't help but feel a sense of prickling on his back, and said.

"Zikun, you wouldn't be thinking about any bad ideas, would you?"

"Is Wenhe suspecting me?" Li Ji replied with a righteous face.

"Does Zikun dare to swear to the sky that he is not thinking about finding an excuse another day and transferring me to Xu Sheng's side as a military advisor again?" Jia Xu asked with a suspicious face.

Li Ji revealed an awkward but polite smile, did not answer Jia Xu's words, but lowered his head and drank tea.

I have to say that the one who knows Li Ji must also have a share of Jia Wenhe.

Just now… Li Ji really thought so.

It was really one thing falls one thing, and what Li Ji didn't expect was that among Liu Bei's civil and military officials, the one who could torture Jia Xu the most was actually Xu Sheng.

And sometimes, silence is the most heart-wrenching…

Jia Xu looked at Li Ji with an angry face, and was about to stand on the moral high ground to denounce Li Ji, to question his conscience, and to hit his soul.

Li Ji took a sip of tea and said seemingly unintentionally.

"All the trivial matters in my army rely on the assistance of two disciples, and I am really not very relieved. I wonder if Wenhe can spend more effort to give some guidance on weekdays?"

Jia Xu's expression twitched slightly, and then he showed a gentle and refined smile, and replied.

"You and I are close friends, why bother with such a trivial matter?"

"Good."

The smile on Li Ji's face was even stronger, and then he continued.

"It just so happens that I want to cross the Ying River and capture Xiang County on the other side as a foothold, so that I can transport grain from Yangzhou to here through the Ying River in the future."

"I am planning to let my disciple Zhuge Liang try to command the army to attack the city, then let Wenhe spend more effort."

At this moment, Jia Xu didn't understand that Li Ji was letting him help "take care of the children".

If Xiang County is successfully breached, the credit goes to Zhuge Liang, that fledgling disciple.

As for the unsuccessful option, Jia Xu needs to adjust to the successful option.

Jia Xu squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.

"Small matter."

"That's so embarrassing, but the army's affairs are heavy, and I am also unable to do everything myself, it seems that I can only trouble Wenhe."

Li Ji said gratefully, not giving Jia Xu a chance to shirk.

Immediately, during the conversation between Li Ji and Jia Xu, the grains sent by the fleet were also simply counted, and then the generals were summoned to discuss matters.

Taking Xiang County on the other side of the Ying River as a foothold and a place for grain storage for subsequent grain transportation is naturally the focus.

At the same time, Li Ji also prepared to immediately divide a troop and go down the Ying River to capture the surrounding counties and cities, and join Xu Sheng, who was also attacking cities and plundering land along the Ying River downstream, as soon as possible.

The appearance of enemy troops attacking from both the front and the rear will undoubtedly cause a heavy and huge blow to the counties and cities along the Ying River.

Only when the Ying River is completely opened up and all the counties and cities along the Ying River are in hand can the rear grain route of the army be completely guaranteed.

Otherwise, even if Yuzhou has no navy to compete with Yangzhou, as long as Yuan Shu reacts and mobilizes labor to try to block or blockade the Ying River for a while, it may pose a threat to Li Ji's grain route.

Therefore, after arriving at the Ying River, Li Ji's top priority was to reorganize the grain route and ensure the safety of the subsequent grain route.

The task of capturing Xiang County was nominally handed over to Jia Xu, but in fact it was left to Zhuge Liang by Li Ji to lead troops to attack the city.

And the task of dividing troops along the Ying River to join Xu Sheng to ensure the safety of the grain route along the Ying River is actually not a good job.

Especially since Li Ji will march into Yuan Shu's ruling place, Ruyang, on the same day, it has made the generals who are eager to make contributions secretly give birth to the heart of refusal.

In the end, it was Huang Zhong who took the initiative to take on this task. After replenishing the grain, he led 10,000 troops south along the Ying River on the same day.

In just one day, Li Ji moved his central army camp into the county government of Xiang County.

Huang Zhong's southward attack, cooperating with Xu Sheng to attack the cities along the Ying River from both sides, undoubtedly greatly disintegrated the determination of many officials and generals to defend, and the speed of attacking cities and plundering land has increased several times.

And Li Ji, who led the army to Xiang County like a divine soldier descending from the sky, even scared Ruyang City to the point of unsuppressible chaos.

Li Ji had not even advanced into Ruyang from Xiang County, and a large-scale exodus began to appear in Ruyang City.

Even if Yuan Shu ordered the closure of Ruyang City, prohibiting all people from entering and leaving, there were still a large number of aristocratic families who originally supported Yuan Shu began to quickly evacuate Ruyang in order to cut ties with Yuan Shu as soon as possible.

Even, representatives of the Yuzhou aristocratic family have already appeared in Xiang County to take the initiative to visit Li Ji, expressing their goodwill.