In the days that followed, Cao's offensive remained fierce. However, there are still nearly 12,000 defenders in Wancheng, and it is not an overnight thing to conquer the city. Although the defenders in Wancheng were a little demoralized because Huang Zhong was seriously injured, and Cao's army also caused a lot of damage to the defenders with siege equipment, but the siege battle was like this, unless the besieging side had an overwhelming advantage in numbers, it would always be difficult to gain the upper hand even if the conditions were favorable. Five days later, Wancheng was still firmly occupied by Liu Biaojun. Although the number of defenders at this time was less than 8,000, Cao's army also suffered huge losses, and the original 20,000 troops were now only more than 13,000 remaining.

"Sir, didn't you say that as long as Wei Yan is put back, it will definitely be able to sow discord between him and Liu Pan, so as to facilitate our actions? But now, there is no movement in the city. In Cao Ying, Gao Shun was asking Jia Xu for advice. These days, seeing the losses of the self-army continue to expand, Gao Shun can't help but feel extremely upset in his heart. What worries him even more is that there are rumors that Liu Biao heard that Wancheng is in a tight situation and is intending to send reinforcements to come, and Zhang Yun is already preparing to set off from Xiangyang with 10,000 people.

10,000 people say more than much, and less is not less. But for the current Wancheng, these 10,000 people can definitely be regarded as a savior, at least as soon as these 10,000 people enter Wancheng, the number of troops in Wancheng will exceed Cao Jun by a lot. It is simply nonsense to want to break the city when its own number is inferior to the defenders in the city, if the reinforcements really enter the city, then Gao Shun will only have to retreat.

At this moment, Gao Shunyan is not in a hurry.

Jia Xu glanced at Gao Shun, all the strategies in the world cannot be said to be 100% successful. Putting Wei Yan back by himself just added a possibility of an accident. This change may or may not happen, and even if it happens, it may not be beneficial to your side. In the past few days, Wei Yan has not been observed, maybe he was killed by Liu Pan as soon as possible.

"What else can you do but count on that Wei Yan?" When Gao Shun saw Jia Xu's expression, he also knew that he couldn't completely bet his hope on Wei Yan. However, Gao Shun was really unwilling to return to Xuchang in disgrace and receive Cao Cao's ridicule and punishment.

"There's no way." Compared with Gao Shun's anxiety, Jia Xu seemed very calm. When he denied Gao Shun's question, there was not even a trace of worry in his expression, as if the victory or defeat had nothing to do with him.

Seeing Jia Xu's reaction like this, Gao Shun was really depressed to the extreme. But at the moment, Jia Xu can't be blamed for being unscrupulous, even if he is a wise man, the role he can play in the siege war is limited, otherwise Zhuge Liang will not be deflated under Chen Cangcheng. If you want to conquer a city with a strategy, all you can use is to deceive the city, respond internally, tunnel, water attack or lure the enemy out of the city, and in front of today's Wancheng, these strategies have no conditions for implementation. The deception must be taken by surprise, and now that the two sides are facing each other, it is simply impossible to carry it out. The tunnels are too difficult to implement, and the success rate is extremely low, and as long as the defenders are a little prepared, they are simply giving their own soldiers to the other side to be buried alive. Others, such as internal response, water attack, etc., are not present in either man or geography themselves. Lure the enemy out of the city? At least judging from his observations of Liu Pan in the past few days, he will definitely not be reckless to this extent.

Therefore, if the contradiction between Wei Yan and Liu Pan does not cause any benefit to his side, then there is only one way to attack at present. In case Zhang Yunzhen arrived with reinforcements, then Gao Shun had no choice but to withdraw.

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Wei Yan was angry now, and at the same time very frightened.

Since his release by Cao Jun, he has been in this panic.

Wei Yan could feel Liu Pan's indifference and indifference to him.

The reason is very simple, when Cao Jun attacked the city, Wei Yan wanted to go to the city to participate in the battle, but was mercilessly rejected by Liu Pan. Not only that, but he also ordered Wei Yan to stay in the city to take care of the seriously injured Huang Zhong.

Although Liu Pan nominally ordered Wei Yan to take care of Huang Zhong, while he was taking care of Huang Zhong, Liu Pan also sent other people to take care of Wei Yan. At this point, how could Wei Yan not know that he was detained by Liu Pan in a different way.

In fact, it's no wonder that Liu Pan did this, since he was already suspicious of Wei Yan and suspected that the other party was communicating with Cao Jun, how could he dare to let him go to the city to help in the war? What if there was a change at that time, and Wei Yan would directly defect to Cao Jun?

But the more careful Liu Pan was, the more Wei Yan couldn't rest assured.

"If the general returns to Wancheng, his death is near. Within a few days, Liu Pan will kill the general. Jia Xu's words became Wei Yan's lingering nightmare, leaving a great shadow in his heart. If it weren't for these few words, Wei Yan's current behavior towards Liu Pan would be dissatisfaction or resentment at most. But it is precisely because of the subtle influence of these words that Wei Yan has always subconsciously thought that Liu Pan will do more on his own.

He had been tormented by this fear for five consecutive days, and the longer the time, the more afraid Wei Yan became, lest Liu Pan suddenly attack and put himself to death.

Attacking first, not wanting to endure this feeling of fear anymore, Wei Yan finally made a decision to kill Liu Pan before he could do it!

Wei Yan is a decisive person, and since the plan has been decided, then he will no longer hesitate.

Dusk had arrived, and Cao's army ended its day-long offensive. And Wei Yan also left Huang Zhong's mansion and went straight to the Taishou Mansion. In the process of walking, Wei Yan's eyes still showed a trace of ruthlessness and determination from time to time.

The two sergeants assigned by Liu Pan to monitor Wei Yan followed closely behind, and they were not asked to completely restrain Wei Yan's movements, but only to keep an eye on his behavior. As long as Wei Yan didn't do anything out of the ordinary, then there was no need for them to offend this bad-tempered young man.

When he came to the outside of the Taishou Mansion, Wei Yan asked the doorman to come in to report, and he waited outside the door "very peacefully".

Although Liu Pan was very surprised by Wei Yan's request to see, he still ordered his subordinates to welcome him into the mansion.

Not long after, Wei Yan was invited into the Taishou Mansion, leaving the two sergeants who followed him to look at each other. Although he received an order not to follow Wei Yan, in this case, he would not follow him into the Taishou Mansion. Forget it, he's going to have to come out of the gate anyway, and then he'll continue to watch.

Entering the Taishou Mansion, Wei Yan did not bring a sword, because he was afraid that he would be searched, which would lead to the disclosure of his purpose. But even if he was unarmed, Wei Yan was not worried, even if he had to kill Liu Pan with his bare hands. This time, I either died by myself or Liu Pan died!