The cannons outside Youzhou City have never stopped, and the whole city is trembling. There is no one on the street, and the huge city seems to have become a dead city! Only the army is moving in groups from time to time.

There was a mess on the top of the city, and the smoke filled the walls, and the walls collapsed in a mess. In the air, a pigeon swooped down into the city in panic.

"Gugugugu!" A Khitan man with hair spread his hands into the pigeon cage and grabbed the gray pigeon that had just flew in. Seeing something tied on his legs, he hurriedly took it down carefully and turned around and said, "Feed food, I'm going to report the news."

Xiao Siwen was standing on a pavilion, watching the stones rolling on the city wall in the distance. Standing on the left and right were Xiao Abudi, Fan Zhongyi and other civil and military officials, and a group of infantry and cavalry below guarded the pavilion.

A common Khitan came over on a horse and said a few words below, and then a general took him up the narrow wooden staircase to the platform.

Xiao Siwen took the place and looked at it, and said, "The cavalry of the Zhou army battalions has gone south, and the infantry outside Youzhou has also evacuated a large number of times south."

"It seems that Brother Yelu Xiu made a noise in the south, and our threats suddenly became much smaller." Fan Zhongyi said.

Xiao Siwen nodded without saying a word.

The principle of sending messages by carrier pigeons is that they will fly home. Xiao Siwen was prepared for it. In order to send messages when he was besieged, he mainly fed the sender pigeons in two places, Youzhou City and Tanzhou. Needless to say, the importance of Youzhou City is, Tanzhou is also a key place because it controls the northern entrance.

Now that Youzhou City is surrounded, the Liao army scouts outside can still send messages back through carrier pigeons. Xiao Siwen can also pass the message to Tanzhou... but cannot pass the message directly from the air to Yelu Xiuge. (After all, carrier pigeons are not planes.)

Xiao Siwen pondered for a moment and said, "Using the pigeons from Tanzhou to send a letter to him and write 'Report to Brother Xiu, Master Zhou's main force advanced south'."

"Affect the order." The man who had just climbed upstairs bowed.

Fan Zhongyi said: "The Zhou army transferred a large number of infantry and cavalry from Youzhou, and there was a big gap in the siege in the east. Our horse soldiers can go out from Youzhou to support Yelu Xiuge."

Abudi said coldly: "There are not many soldiers in Youzhou. Yelu Xiu Ge is the best in the world and calls himself the number one tiger general of the Liao Dynasty. How powerful is he! Do we still need us to support him?"

"The overall situation should be the most important thing." Xiao Siwen glanced at Abudi.

After the two major cavalry battalions of the Zhou army were transferred, the Youzhou army was indeed not threatened to leave the city from the east; but Yelu Xiu Ge suddenly went out early this morning, and time was too urgent. Xiao Siwen has not yet figured out the specific situation of the Liao army and the Zhou army. He rashly left the city and did not know how to support Yelu Xiu Ge.

"Yelu Xiuge is young and famous, and is arrogant, but he has real skills in using military forces. I still believe in him very much, and the Zhou army is not easy to deal with." Xiao Siwen breathed out, "But since he has the chance, he can order the cavalry to leave from the east gate and harass the Zhou army's besieged people."

Abudi agreed: "The most important thing for us is to defend Youzhou City."

Xiao Siwen refused to comment.

...

Guo Shao heard that after Yelu Xiuge went south, he returned to Xuanren City yesterday and was no longer in Youzhou.

This place is located in the north of Caoqu and south of Youzhou, which is in the middle. But it is very quiet at this time. The sound of cannons in Youzhou cannot be heard, the sound of horse hooves near Caoqu and the sound of fighting are also inaudible.

In the tranquility, Guo Shao looked in the air, but could imagine that fighting and bleeding were everywhere.

In the signing room, there are more than twenty pairs of drawings! Some maps are very detailed, with a small hill, a forest, and a village above. There are also two sets of upper and lower structure diagrams of the intelligence system and the organizational diagram for military order transmission.

The room was not big, and dozens of people were standing or sitting. Some were writing "rustling", while others were facing Guo Shao in silence.

In the yard outside, two or three hundred commanders and officials from the former camp military palace stood in line, and the emperor was inside, and they were all very quiet. Everyone was always ready. Once there was a military order, the orders in the small signing room could be transmitted to the front in the most rigorous way and at the fastest speed... It could be specific to a hundred people!

In the silence, the atmosphere was inexplicably very tense.

At this moment, an official bent over and walked into the signing room, bowed to the superior, walked to Wei Renpu and whispered a few words.

Wei Renpu immediately stood up and bowed: "Your Majesty, all Yelu Xiu Ge's troops are still in the northern section of Caoqu!"

"Very good." Guo Shao said in a deep voice.

Wei Renpu said: "Yelu Xiu Ge must have thought that the Great Zhou cavalry was in Guizhou, and there were horse-riding infantry in both places in the south. Now he was still kept in the dark and became a monkey. As long as he was hiding it for a day, it would be enough for him to drink a pot!"

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little warm, and everyone said, "Your Majesty expects the enemy to be like a god, congratulations to you!"

Guo Shao said calmly: "It's still a little too early to celebrate now. Yelu Xiu Ge has 30,000 cavalry, and the Liao army's cavalry is not vegetarian. Even if more than 50,000 cavalrymen in Li Chuyun's army set up a decisive battle with him, he is not sure that he will win a great victory! Wait first."

His bright eyes were filled with nervous attention, but his face was not happy or angry, and he was just walking slowly in place, thinking.

At this point, Guo Shao didn't have to do anything, he just had to wait. However, this kind of waiting is indeed a bit difficult.

He wanted to go back and quiet, but he couldn't bear to leave because he wanted to hear the results in the front yard as quickly as possible.

After a long time, Guo Shao breathed a sigh of relief again and explained himself: The worst result is to let Yelu Xiu Ge go!

Originally, today's war was not within the strategy, but Yelu Xiu Ge fought very arrogantly and unrestrainedly, and his troops took dangerous moves, and unexpected fighter opportunities appeared...

The original strategy was that the main force of the Liao army had not gone south, but continued to attack Youzhou and put pressure on it; when the main force of the Liao army advanced south for the second time, he retreated to the two lines of defense and continued to waste.

It will last until the Liao army cannot afford it!

It is impossible for Yelu Xiu Ge's little man to cut off the Zhou army's grain supply line, and at most it will cause some losses. Guo Shao spent a lot of money this time, and the front-line cities hoarded a large amount of food and grass. Even if the rear did not transport grain for two or three months, the short-distance supply line from Xuanren City to Youzhou can ensure the front-line siege!

The only way Yelu Xiuge could actually relieve Xiao Siwen's pressure was to harass the siege army. But that was not easy. The Zhou cavalry was enough to protect the surroundings; even if Yelu Xiuge occasionally succeeded in sneak attacking, it would not cause a substantial blow to the army.

Guo Shao thought to himself: I will be lucky to win this battle, but I will be lucky to lose it. That’s all!

Guo Shao suddenly smiled and looked back and said, "What we do now can last for thousands of years in the future! I will be able to complete this big thing with you, and I will never forget it for my whole life."
Chapter completed!