Chapter 49 You are not Marquis Chengtian, you are “Marquis Chengqiang”!
In later generations, a philosopher named Wang created a theorem: when someone sternly refuses to eat something and claims that he would rather starve to death or jump from a high place than eat it, he will soon utter the words "It smells so good".

This is called the "Law of True Fragrance".

Truth transcends time. Even if it happened nearly two thousand years earlier and we may not be in the same time and space, this theorem still applies: Liu Bei, who smashed the bowl and kicked the pot in anger, quickly realized that he had lost his composure.

He let out a long breath, closed his eyes for a moment, and suddenly opened them.

He squatted down and picked up the beef that he had spilled.

He reached out and patted the dirt off it, took a bite, chewed for a while, swallowed it and said, "It smells so good! This pot is spilled, save it for me to eat, Zifang, go cook another pot for my second brother, third brother and all the generals to enjoy!"

This action surprised Mi Fang.

It was as if he was meeting Liu Bei for the first time. He never expected that the uncle of the Han emperor, the king who commanded the army of the world, would actually pick up things from the ground and eat them.

But he didn't know that Liu Bei also came from a poor family and had eaten everything in his early years.

"Brother, let's share the happiness. Since the beef is delicious, mine can't be left out!" Guan Yu also grabbed a piece, brushed off the dirt and started eating.

Then Zhang Fei also said: "I want one too!"

For a moment, the calmness and actions of the three calmed down Tao Qian, Chen Deng and others who were originally panicked.

The morale of the army, which had been on the verge of breaking down due to a series of defeats, was reunited.

"My lord, what should we do next?" Mi Fang asked.

"Although Lu Bu lost the city, he is still our ally after all. We cannot blame him for this. Let's distribute the 500 cows he sent to all the soldiers for their enjoyment!" Liu Bei said.

Then he looked toward the fortified city ahead.

He did not directly tell the next plan, but asked the scout: "What is the enemy doing?"

Hearing this, the scout wiped his sweat and said, "Repairing the city wall!"

"Still repairing?" Liu Bei frowned.

"I heard that they are going to build a ten-meter-high 'Great Wall' starting from Qingzhou and along the border of Xuzhou!" The scout took out a document and said, "We don't have much information, but according to the news from Lu Bu, what Qingzhou is best at and pays the most attention to is building city walls!"

It was a simple map of Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Jizhou and Xuzhou.

Inside, a circle of Qingzhou city wall is marked.

In Jizhou, the coastal areas, the banks of the Yellow River, the borders with Yanzhou, and the borders with Xuzhou, there are all ten-zhang-high "Great Walls", which are only shorter than Qin Shihuang's Great Wall, but more than twice as wide and high!
Liu Bei was stunned.

Zhang Fei was also surprised and shouted, "Since he likes to build city walls so much, why should he be called Cheng Tian Hou? He should just be called 'City Wall Hou'!"

This is what other people think too.

It was really outrageous. In that era, there were only a few strong cities in the huge city of Xuzhou, and none of them had such high walls, and even the roads were not that long.

But Ji Hao surrounded Qingzhou with the Great Wall.

Ten feet high!

In this case, who can still enter Qingzhou?
As long as there are no internal problems, Ji Hao can almost be said to be invincible!
"I understand, I understand everything!" Jia Xu reacted and said, "Ji Hao must have mastered a way to quickly build city walls, so he deliberately didn't attack the city or fight us. Because there is no need. He can occupy a place and encircle it, and develop it into his base camp. He can take over the whole Xuzhou step by step. If we don't fight, we will lose!"

With such a strong wall, the garrison work was simple. In addition, even ordinary people, even some old, weak, women and children, could be used for labor.

Even food and fodder can be transported to the front-line city walls and dried in the sun!

In this way, there is no need to worry about the supply and demand issues. If a protracted war is fought, no one can consume Ji Hao - he doesn't know that Ji Hao has "hybrid rice" and is frantically making "stainless steel cans" with a shelf life of a hundred years.

Otherwise, it would be even more shocking.

That is simply not something a human can do!
"So, Ji Hao has no interest in attacking, and now all his energy is focused on building the 'Great Wall'?" Liu Bei said here, gritted his teeth, and said: "Come here, send me a letter, and dispatch Fengxian and Gonglu to gather here!"

He knew he couldn't wait any longer.

If we continue to wait, we will be exhausted to death by Ji Hao sooner or later, so we must take the initiative to attack.

"But will Lu Bu and Yuan Shu send their own troops to attack the city?" Guan Yu said.

Hearing this, Liu Bei shook his head and said, "Of course not. So at the beginning, we can only send our own troops to attack the city. We have to take down the city gate first, and then they will take action."

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On the other hand, Cao Cao led an army of 10,000 but did not attempt to capture the city.

Instead, he came to the intersection of Xuzhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou to escort Xun Yu who was stationed in Qingzhou, and asked Xun Yu to mobilize the people of Qingzhou to quickly build the city wall.

Along the border line, the train leaves directly from the track embedded inside the "Great Wall".

Transport to the border and start construction.

They climbed over mountains and built bridges over rivers. They built sluice gates on small rivers to prevent the enemy from attacking by water. They built dams on large rivers and built city walls on the dams.

In short, it is to block it completely and build it at any cost.

Sea, land and air, except for the air force which does not exist in this era, the other two routes are blocked!
Ji Hao even formulated a "five-year plan" for this purpose, namely: within five years, no matter what the battle situation was, whether the enemy army was defeated or not, a city wall must be built around Xuzhou!
Cao Cao was even prepared to meet Liu Bei's main force and fight a fierce battle with him.

However, Liu Bei did not attack.

On the one hand, Dongguan County was difficult to defend, and since the walls of Langya County had already been built, it would be useless even if they attacked. On the other hand, Ji Hao was always keeping an eye on Langya City, which was only ten miles away, and was eyeing it covetously.

If the main force dares to leave, Ji Hao will dare to attack the city and take over the entire Langya County.

"Liu Bei is going to attack the city!" On the tower, Guo Jia drank the medicinal wine specially prepared by Hua Tuo for him to nourish his body, and said: "They have also discovered our 'boiled frog in warm water' 'city wall push strategy' and want to jump out."

In response, Ji Hao smiled.

He remembered that someone in his previous life had done a very interesting experiment, which was: boiling a frog in warm water. When the water temperature was high enough, the frog would still jump out of the pot and would not lose its jumping ability unknowingly.

That's just a description.

The reality is: the person who boils the frog will put a big lid on the pot.

This is why the frog can't escape!
"Then come on! With a 50-foot-high city wall and a 10-foot-high city gate tower, I'll see them get their heads beat!"

(End of this chapter)