At the same time that Zhao Xu pacified Sizhou and won step by step, in Shouchun City, the once invincible emperor - Yuan Shu could already predict his fate at this time, Shouchun was besieged and not to mention for the time being, but now Yuan Shu, there is no foreign aid. With the siege of Xu Huang, Guan Yu, and Sun Ce's three-way army, Yuan Shu can be regarded as completely understanding, he is too conceited, and now Yuan Shao is dead, with Guan Yu on the top, Cao Cao on the left, and Sun Ce on the south, facing the sea in the east, enemies on three sides, and he Yuan Shu has no foreign aid.

History is always so coincidental, Yuan Shu's fate is in the dark, it has long been doomed, even if Yuan Shao is reborn, Cao Cao is not an enemy of Yuan Shu, and he can't change his fate.

Originally, Yuan Shu struggled to support it for two years in history, but unfortunately, Zhao Xu's arrival changed everything, and he was besieged by Guan Yu, Sun Ce, and Cao Cao at the same time, who could support it? It has been less than a year since Yuan Shu became emperor, and Yuan Shu has already reached the end of his rope.

After Sun Ce and Guan Yu, Xu Huang and Cao Ren's armies turned, after clarifying the other party's intentions and how to divide their respective interests after the war, they no longer waited, and each sent troops to attack the city early the next morning.

The three armies, each with its own siege method. Among them, Guan Yu's siege is the sharpest, and Guan Yu's rear is the most stable and wealthy, whether it is grain, grass or equipment, they are more than rich; In addition, Zhao Xu and Zhuge Liang and others created a lot of siege equipment on weekdays, and Zhao Xu also sent various siege methods to various states and counties, of course, most of them were hundreds of years later. In this way, Guan Yu's siege equipment is complete in specifications and variety, and the siege of the city is also the least casualties for himself, and Yuan Shu has the largest casualties.

And Sun Ce and Xu Huang and Cao Ren are much more shivering in comparison, Xu Huang's side is better, at least there are more than a dozen catapults, and Sun Ce's side, in addition to some siege vehicles, there are only the most common and mass-produced ladders.

The moat under Shouchun Castle is also useless, and has long been filled with dirt or corpses. Guan Yu's elegant and powerful siege methods made Sun Ce and Xu Huang envious, first there was a large cloud car to open the way, and then the bow and crossbow were on the same page, and then the cloud ladder was set up, under such an attack, several times almost lost, if it were not for Ji Ling to transfer a large number of soldiers from other city gates to guard, I am afraid that it would have been lost, therefore, the number of enemy troops on Guan Yu's side was three times that of Xu Huang and Sun Ce's side.

However, Sun Ce and Xu Huang and others are not wine bags and rice bags after all, and they can still learn and use it, although there is no cloud car to open the road, but use the archers to concentrate firepower to suppress the defenders in the city, and then the infantry follow, under the cover of the rain of arrows, take a ladder to the city, these methods are also very skillful.

After all, there are two generals in Shouchun City, Zhang Xun and Ji Ling, although their martial arts are not first-class, but they are not bad at defending the city. Despite the fierceness and appalling intensity of the enemy's attack, the two still took advantage of the only conditions in the city, a large number of shields to block the arrows, and grasped the rhythm of the enemy's attack, and at the moment when the infantry landed in the city, they poured down the boiling dung, as well as the burning logs and stones poured with fire oil, and the efforts of the soldiers at the head of the city blocked the enemy's attack several times.

"General Zhang, General Ji Ling's attack on Guan Yu is too powerful, the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, the enemy army has climbed the city several times, if it weren't for General Ji Ling leading the brothers to fight to the death, it would have been unbearable, General Ji Ling sent me to ask General Zhang for help." A soldier covered in blood came to the city wall of the West Gate out of breath and said to Zhang Xun.

"What?" Zhang Xun was taken aback, he didn't expect Guan Yu's attack to be so fierce, and when he first saw Guan Yu's siege method a few days ago, he was also taken aback, but he never expected that today's kung fu in less than four hours would make Ji Ling unable to resist and ask for help.

Zhang Xun looked at Cao Jun, who was attacking outside the West City, although it was majestic, but not very fierce, and couldn't help but think of what Yan Xiang said last month.

"Cao Cao's place is in the Central Plains, not connected to Jiujiang, one is under pressure, and the other is only for the population; Guan Yuqi's roots are in Xuzhou, there are strong enemies on both sides, and he is fighting against the water, so he will not be very attentive; If you want to repel the enemy, now is where the opportunity lies, no matter how much land Sun Ce wins, it is bound to be connected to Liu Bei and Cao Cao's territory, Guan Yu and Cao Cao are not easy to match, at this time can weaken Sun Ce's strength, and will definitely not let go, two generals, you need to make good use of the battle with you, if you are lucky, you may be able to keep Shouchun City safe for several years. ”

Zhang Xun couldn't help but sigh when he thought about it, and sighed: "Brother Yan Xiang! You're wrong this time! That's right, it was indeed Sun Ce who attacked the most, but he never expected Guan Yu to be well-equipped, which was really unprecedented. ”

"Listen, I'll take 8,000 soldiers to reinforce General Fuyi (Ji Lingbiao), and you take my general order to go to the city to transfer some young and strong people. Running back and forth, it is necessary to make the Cao army outside the city think that our army is not weak, and dare not rashly attack the city. Zhang Xun immediately ordered.

"No! Obey the general's orders"

At the south gate of Shouchun, Sun Ce himself personally pressed the formation. Drove the soldiers into another round of onslaught. Sun Ce's army has attacked the city several times, and the general Ling Tong led hundreds of people to the head of the city and met with the enemy's short soldiers, but they were all counterattacked by the soldiers at the head of the city, and Ling Tong was also hit by two arrows. However, Rao is like this, but the defense of Shouchun Nancheng has also been difficult to ride, and it is just struggling.

"Brethren! Offensive! Go on the offensive! Guan Yu saw that the city was about to break, walked out of the camp, shouted loudly, and boosted morale: "Yuan Shu is about to be unable to resist, the city is about to be broken, the first five hundred people in the city will be rewarded with 500 yuan, the official will be promoted to one level, and all the soldiers will be rewarded after entering the city, and the army will be rewarded for three days!" ”

"Kill! The enemy can't hold it anymore......"

Under Guan Yu's orders and tempting material stimulation, the morale of the whole army was greatly increased, and then under the cover of sophisticated equipment, they killed the head of Shouchun City.

"Be careful! Quick, pour fire oil on the fire, and burn this cloud car! Watch out for their crossbows! ”

Ji Ling carried a round shield in his left hand and a machete in his right hand and walked back and forth on the city wall, constantly boosting morale and reminding the soldiers of the methods.

Although Ji Ling's command blocked the two waves of onslaught of Guan Yu's army, it was already a dying struggle, under the heinous weapons such as fire oil, even if the bows and crossbows under the city completely crushed the fire on the city, even if the cloud car was on the city wall, three were burned by the fire oil; Coupled with the shield array, most of the arrows were also blocked.

However, Guan Yu is too well-equipped, and one is better than the other. Although Ji Ling tried his best to defend the city, he was unable to return to the sky, and it was only a matter of time before the city was broken, Ji Ling was just delaying time.

There is a saying: The best defense is to attack, although Ji Ling's shield array and so on are very useful, but the oil has been exhausted, under the fierce attack of Guan Yu's army, four or five openings have been torn out one after another, and Guan Yu's soldiers continue to climb the city.

"Hold on! Chase them down with Lao Tzu! Ji Ling shouted, taking the lead, carrying a knife into battle, and hacking four or five soldiers to death one after another.

"When ......" Ji Ling was slashing and killing, he suddenly saw an iron chain flying, entangled his machete, and suddenly felt a strong attack, pulling himself forward, Ji Ling's hand was shocked, the knife edge turned, escaped from the chain, and made a piercing sound.

Zhang Xun fixed his eyes and saw that a burly man was glaring at him. I saw his tiger skin belt, tied to a bell, and an iron chain trapped in his waist, holding it with one hand, and holding it with one hand, and the other hand holding a sea sword, ignoring Ji Ling at all, throwing off the iron chain, trapping the two soldiers next to him, and twisting his body, even if he threw the two soldiers off the city. Then he shouted: "Gan Ning is here!" ”

Ji Ling also heard the name of Gan Ning, it is the famous "Jinfan thief", everyone along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River knows it, Ji Ling knows that this person is strong in martial arts, so he hurriedly dropped his shield and raised his sword to greet him; When Gan Ning saw it, he also danced a knife to greet him. Hearing only the sound of "dang", Ji Ling only felt the numbness of the tiger's mouth.

Gan Ning grinned, an advance, and the sea sword in his hand slashed towards Ji Ling like a storm. Ji Lingfen was not afraid and faced the battle with all his might.

After all, blind defense will not be effective, whether it is a heads-up or a soldier, at this moment, there are already thousands of Guan Yu soldiers on the top of the city, and the soldiers under Ji Ling are in close combat.

Ji Ling knew that the situation in the city was urgent, but Gan Ning blocked in front of him, and he couldn't get out, so he secretly relented and fought hard! Raise your sword and fight with Gan Ning at the moment.

The two went back and forth, fighting for thirty rounds, after all, Ji Ling fought for many days, and he couldn't support it, so Gan Ning rose up and killed Ji Ling with a knife.

When Zhang Xun arrived, he saw that Ji Ling was only a headless corpse, and when he saw the might of Gan Ning, he was terrified, and the enemy army had thousands of people on the city, so he was afraid, but as the main general, he did not dare to retreat, and still led the troops to rush over.

Relatively speaking, this is just a microcosm of the battle of Shouchun, under the attack of the three fake alliances of Sun Liu Cao for the first time in the sense, Shouchun City still did not support it for too long. Ten days later, Shouchun City was fully occupied by three troops.

I have to say that a little breakthrough by Gan Ning led to the collapse of the entire Shouchun city defense, Ji Ling was killed by Gan Ning, Zhang Xun died under Guan Ping's knife, the north gate and the east gate were broken in an instant, and because the main general died, the other two Xu Huang and Sun Ce took advantage of the situation to break the city.

"Hahaha......" Yuan Shu sat on the so-called court dragon chair, looked at the army surrounding him, stood up with his already weak body, and shouted sadly: "Those who represent the Han should be Tu Gao!" Those who represent Han should be painted high! My name is the highway, when it is a certain Yuan Shu Dynasty Han! Why is the heavens teasing me so much? Am I really wrong? Ha ha...... This is not a crime of war, but a jealousy of talents! ……”

Miserable and sad, halfway through speaking, Yuan Shu suddenly vomited blood from his mouth and fell to the ground and died.

"Your Majesty......"

Yuan Shu was killed, and his advisers and remaining generals were all captured by Guan Yu's army. Lei Bo, Chen Lan, Yang Hong, Yan Xiang and other civil and military officials surrendered one after another, and Guan Yu came here, in addition to occupying some cities and grain and grass people, other purposes, that is, strategists. However, this is Zhao Xu's entrustment, otherwise, Guan Yu has always been proud of the scholars, how could he let these people survive.

Because of this, Yuan Shu's ministers thanked Guan Yu for not killing him, and took the opportunity to dedicate the jade seal to Guan Yu, Guan Yu was naturally overjoyed, and then sent it to Liu Bei, Yuan Shu's subordinates were also overjoyed Liu Bei was rewarded with silver, Yan Xiang even did the second-grade master later, and the others were not bad, and they could be treated fairly, which was already very good for those who descended.

Shouchun City was also completely crippled under the capture of the tripartite army, and the people were agreed in advance, the east and north of the city belonged to Guan Yu, the south to Sun Ce, and the west to Cao Cao; In addition to the original ones, many of them also secretly fled to Guan Yu's side. The gold, silver, jewelry, grain, and grass in the city were also divided equally among the three families; Later, Xu Huang led his troops to withdraw from the Yangzhou boundary, and Cao Cao only occupied the land of Yuzhou and Jingzhou, which were originally taken by Yuan Shu. Guan Yu and Sun Ce took Jiujiang County to Qiantang River as the dividing line and carved up the land of Yuan Shu.

At this point, the fate of Yuan Shu, who was a prince of the late Han Dynasty, was completely ended, and the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes also completely lost the opportunity to turn over in the struggle.