Chapter 303

In the Allied camp, the atmosphere was not very good.

Ding Yuan Shao frowned.

"Everyone, Liu Bei avoids fighting and intends to fight a protracted war with our army."

Xu You cupped his hands.

"My Lord, Liu Bei is treacherous. This place is very close to Hedong and Jingzhao, and his supplies are endless. Our army needs to transport grain from Jizhou, a long journey, and there are Black Mountain bandits and Liu Bei's navy harassing us in the middle. Only five out of ten grains arrive."

Guo Tu laughed.

"My Lord, my Jizhou has many fields and is well-cultivated, and there is the abundance of mulberry and jujube, the people are prosperous, and the military grain is sufficient. There is no problem in persisting until Liu Bei is defeated!"

Cao Cao was jealous; every time he fought, he had problems due to lack of grain. Ding Yuan Shao only had five out of ten grains arriving, yet he could still hold on for a long time.

"If I take Jizhou, would I still be afraid of consuming with the big-eared thief?"

Xu You, however, didn't think so.

"My Lord, although Jizhou has a lot of grain, it can't withstand such consumption, and there are hundreds of thousands of laborers, all of whom need to eat grain."

Ding Yuan Shao also didn't want to consume like this with Liu Bei.

After all, winter was coming, and supplies would be even more difficult then.

Everyone shook their heads in distress.

Shen Pei cupped his hands.

"My Lord, since Liu Bei won't come out, our army will build towers and pile up earth to form mountains, looking down from a high position to shoot at Liu Bei's army with bows and crossbows!"

Ding Yuan Shao's eyes lit up.

"Good! Let's do that!"

In the following days,

Liu Bei was surprised to find that Ding Yuan Shao's army had piled up earth mountains outside the camp and was using bows and crossbows to shoot at the soldiers in the camp from above.

The soldiers guarding the camp walls were very miserable; in the time it took to go to the toilet, they might be shot by an arrow.

Liu Bei was not without a way.

Liu Ye commanded the trebuchets to smash fiercely at the Allied forces' earth mountains.

The Allied soldiers who were still wantonly shooting arrows from the high towers were instantly panicked.

The giant stones that came whistling smashed into the high towers, smashing the wooden pillars, the high towers collapsed, and the soldiers on them fell to their deaths or were disabled!

The Allied forces' earth mountain plan failed!

Afterwards,

The Allied forces began to dig tunnels, intending to have a tunnel war to sneak attack Liu Bei.

Pang Tong and the others had long had a response strategy, digging long trenches in the camp and pouring smoke into the tunnels!

Just like this, back and forth, they stalemated for three months, neither side making any progress, just dragging it out!

At this time, it was close to winter.

The cold air had already affected the Bingzhou area, and the temperature in Hedong dropped sharply in just a few days.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu fought several battles with Zhang He and Xu Rong in the mountains, with each side winning and losing, but there was no good progress.

Zhou Yu wanted to use fire tactics, but found that Xu Rong had cut down all the trees around the camp, and it couldn't be set on fire at all.

He used the trick of feigning defeat again, but unfortunately, Zhang He and Xu Rong were not moved at all, still fighting steadily.

Liu Bei's task for them was that holding the main road was victory.

Even though Zhou Yu was full of wisdom, he had no way.

He looked at the soldiers who were shivering from the cold, his brows furrowed.

"My Lord, Ding Yuan Shao's winter clothes haven't been sent yet. My southern soldiers find it difficult to resist the cold."

Sun Ce also frowned.

"Zhou Gongjin, what should we do?"

"Send a few rounds of messengers to Ding Yuan Shao. If they are not sent again, our army will retreat to the Allied camp!"

"Good, let's do that."

In the Allied camp,

in the center camp, the furnace fire was burning brightly,

but there were no smiles on the faces of Ding Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

Liu Bei's camp was like a turtle shell, completely unbreakable!

Even though they were full of wisdom, they were still helpless.

Ding Yuan Shao cursed loudly.

"The big-eared thief is shameful! Actually avoiding battle to such an extent!"

Liu Bei had truly managed to lie flat in the camp for a hundred days this time. He felt he could lie flat for another hundred days, just to see if Ding Yuan Shao and Cao Cao could hold on.

Ding Yuan Shao frowned.

"What is the situation at Tong Pass?"

Guo Tu cupped his hands.

"My Lord, Gao Gan and Zhen Jiang Jiang Yiqu have been attacking for more than three months, but they still haven't made any progress. Lu Xun defends well, and Xu Sheng is brave; the two cooperate tacitly..."

Ding Yuan Shao was angry.

"This Gao Gan, sixty thousand against ten thousand, and after fighting for so long, there is still no result!"

He turned to look at Cao Cao.

"Meng De, how is Wu Pass?"

Cao Cao shook his head.

"Xia Xia Houyuan has also been attacking for more than three months, but Wu Pass is too steep and easy to defend but hard to attack. We have suffered losses and still cannot break the pass. Huo Jun is also a great defensive general, arranging the defense of the pass in an orderly manner. I underestimated him."

Everyone was helpless. Liu Bei used the terrain to guard the passes, blocking the Allied forces tightly. They had strength but nowhere to use it!

Now, they were in a dilemma. If they retreated, they would definitely be pursued by Liu Bei, and it might be a total rout!

Tong Pass,

Gao Gan and Zhen Jiang Jiang Yiqu were very frustrated. They thought that sixty thousand against ten thousand would definitely be a great victory.

At the very least, even if they suffered losses, they would break Tong Pass and approach Chang'an.

However,

after more than three months of attacking,

Tong Pass still stood tall, and they had lost nearly twenty thousand men!

Moreover, the soldiers seemed to have despaired; now when they heard they were going to attack the pass, they all had faces of fear!

Other soldiers were also living one day at a time.

Zhen Jiang Jiang Yiqu cupped his hands.

"Commander, there is no progress on the Lord's side either. Winter is approaching, and our army is in urgent need of winter clothes and grain."

Gao Gan waved his hand, a bit irritable.

"I have already sent people to urge them."

He dismissed Zhen Jiang Jiang Yiqu and crawled into his warm quilt.

"This damn weather!"

Gao Gan cursed, and fell into a deep sleep. In his dream, he seemed to have returned to Outside Yecheng and had taken Zhen Zhen Jiang as a concubine.

He was just about to have something happen,

when the screams outside the tent woke him from his dream.

A guard ran in stumbling.

"General, it's not good, Liu Bei's army is attacking the camp!"

Gao Gan sat up abruptly, not caring to consider that Lu Xun only had ten thousand men, so how could they attack the camp!

"Didn't I tell you to pay close attention to the direction of Tong Pass!"

"General, Liu Bei's army is attacking from behind us!"

Gao Gan shouted.

"Quick, organize the soldiers to defend!"

At this time, the Ding Yuan army's camp had become a sea of fire. In the cold weather, everyone was sleeping soundly, and Liu Bei's army was actually attacking the camp!

Many people were killed in their sleep, and more people didn't even wear armor, rushing out of the burning tents, and as soon as they came out, they were shot!

Gan Ning and Zhang Ren led the navy to attack the camp at night, and sure enough, they hit the target in one blow!