Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

At this moment, under Li Ji's angry scolding, Zhang Fei also realized his slip of the tongue.

Zhang Fei still looked down on those who didn't value loyalty and righteousness, but he also understood that if Liu Bei wanted to realize his ambition of restoring the Han Dynasty, those people were indispensable.

Therefore, deliberately rejecting and despising surrendered generals was undoubtedly creating problems for Liu Bei. Once it spread, the impact would undoubtedly be terrible.

Lowering his head, Zhang Fei pondered for a while, gradually waking up to the situation.

No matter how much he despised those surrendered generals, he could not strip them of their Han citizenship. They were ultimately a part of the Great Han, and also a force that Liu Bei wanted to use to revive the Han Dynasty.

In addition, Zhang Fei's position was extraordinary, and his words and actions would have a huge impact, so some words and things could not be said.

‘In the future, I'll just scold them secretly. The mistake this time was scolding them in public, and being caught by Zikun. That was indeed inappropriate...'

After Zhang Fei felt that he had figured it out thoroughly, he said.

“Zikun, I know I was wrong.”

“Do you really understand?” Li Ji asked again to confirm.

“Really.” Zhang Fei nodded in agreement.

“Then I will punish Yide to personally invite Wen聘, Zang Ba, and Xu Sheng to the North Camp's main tent for a meeting,” Li Ji said.

“Understood!”

Zhang Fei cupped his fist and responded, striding towards the outside of the tent.

After Zhang Fei left, Li Ji then ordered people to bring all the documents from the North Camp to check the consumption of money and food during this period, as well as the casualties of the soldiers.

During this period, the four generals had used many tactics in their respective main attack directions.

In addition to strong attacks, methods such as night attacks, digging tunnels, and arson were also used.

Yuan Shu was ordinary in field battles, but his ability to defend the city was undoubtedly quite outstanding.

Even in the original timeline, Yuan Shu was gradually defeated only after Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, and Sun Ce joined forces to besiege him, coupled with internal betrayals and desertions.

Therefore, in the past half month, Yuan Shu's defending forces suffered heavy losses, but the attacking forces also suffered not insignificant losses.

Taking the North Camp as an example, the continuous siege for more than half a month had not yielded results, which naturally caused the soldiers to gradually develop war-weariness, and morale began to decline.

After Li Ji carefully read all the documents of the North Camp, the other generals also arrived at the North Camp's main tent one after another.

Although they were somewhat puzzled by Li Ji's convening of a military conference in the North Camp, when they saw Li Ji sitting in the upper seat, the generals consciously lined up in the tent according to their official positions and status, waiting.

After Zhang Fei and Wen聘 returned to the main tent, Li Ji then spoke.

“Everyone, we have been attacking Ruyang for nearly a month, but we have not been able to take it down.”

As soon as these words came out, the generals were undoubtedly ashamed and lowered their heads.

However, Li Ji mentioned this matter not to reprimand the generals, but to continue.

“And in Yu Province, the momentum of the Yellow Turbans is getting worse and worse. It is rumored that there are as many as 300,000 soldiers. Five of the six commanderies and kingdoms in Yu Province have been ravaged by this group of Yellow Turbans.”

“In addition, news has come from Ji Province that Yuan Shao died suddenly, and Cao Cao won a great victory in the Battle of Jieqiao. The situation in the world has also changed accordingly.”

“The arrival of winter is near, and it is estimated that it will snow in half a month. There is no extra time. We must take Ruyang City as soon as possible, and we must quickly quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion.”

Li Ji said in a deep voice, causing the expressions of the generals to become solemn.

Snowfall!

It is a very important time node.

For the area north of the Yellow River, it is almost impossible to use troops when it snows.

The Central Plains is not so cold, but it is still difficult to use troops, and the river surface is likely to freeze.

This will also put Li Ji, who now relies on the Ying River to transport food and grass, at risk of running out of food at that time.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly time to capture Ruyang and then quell the Yellow Turbans in Yu Province.

Even if Gan Ning can clean up the Yu Province aristocratic families a little more thoroughly, it will not be of much significance if it is delayed any longer.

The Central Plains has been turbulent for nearly a year, and letting the people of Yu Province spend a peaceful winter will be more conducive to Liu Bei's control of Yu Province and stabilizing the people's hearts as soon as possible.

Furthermore, at present, a large number of aristocratic families in Yu Province are frightened by the ravages and killings of the Yellow Turbans in Yu Province.

Many aristocratic families in Yu Province almost chose to move their entire families to the vicinity of Ruyang, realizing that the Yellow Turbans in Yu Province seemed to be worried about the army in Li Ji's hands and did not dare to approach the vicinity of Ruyang.

In order to persuade Li Ji to send troops to quell the Yellow Turbans in Yu Province as soon as possible, the aristocratic families in Yu Province almost took turns visiting Li Ji, from reasoning and moving with emotion at the beginning, to openly providing money, food, and benefits later on.

For the current aristocratic families in Yu Province, the only hope to deal with the Yellow Turbans in Yu Province lies in Li Ji, and there is no second choice at all.

Some aristocratic families in Yu Province who had a good personal relationship with Cai Yong even sent letters to Cai Yong, hoping to use their relationship with Cai Yong to persuade Li Ji to send troops to protect their many years of accumulated foundation and wealth.

Of course, Cai Yong, who is now focused on teaching and educating people, did not pay attention to this kind of thing, but sent people to send the letters directly to Li Ji intact.

In this process, Li Ji also saw what is called the bottom line of the aristocratic family, that is, the aristocratic family has no bottom line at all.

In order to persuade Li Ji to send troops, the bottom line has been lowered again and again, and now it has reached the point where they are willing to bear all the money and food expenses consumed by Li Ji leading the army to rescue Yu Province from Yuan Shu.

This is the food and expenses for nearly two months for an army of 200,000, which the aristocratic families in Yu Province, who have been badly damaged by the Yellow Turbans in Yu Province, can still provide.

It can only be said that Yuan Shu is indeed at the end of his rope, but it does not mean that the aristocratic families in Yu Province who originally supported Yuan Shu have emptied their families.

This is why Li Ji now dares to openly move the Xun family. The aristocratic families in Yu Province who are at the end of their rope will not only not oppose it, but will applaud it, and even some of the aristocratic families in Yu Province will actively assist.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Wei Yan, an outsider, to lead a thousand cavalry to wipe out nearly 900 members of the Xun family in Yingchuan Commandery.

The aristocratic families in Yu Province not only did not protect the Xun family, but instead took the initiative to push the Xun family out. This is undoubtedly an attitude given by the aristocratic families in Yu Province.

Therefore, Li Ji, who ruthlessly harvested a wave of chives in Yu Province and completely destroyed the morale of the aristocratic families in Yu Province, felt that it was a suitable time.

A time to completely swallow the entire Yu Province without any worries.

However, there are only a few people in the entire army who are truly clear about Li Ji's true plan.

After Li Ji once again stated the importance of capturing Ruyang, the generals only felt ashamed and said in unison.

“We are incompetent, please punish us, Governor.”

Li Ji said.

“Let's免了 the punishment. I will personally command the siege next, and I hope you generals will not slack off.”

The generals answered in unison.

“How dare we not give our lives?” (End of this chapter)