Zhang He was woken up in his sleep, which is not to say that he was not conscientious enough, and he could still sleep in such a tense situation. It was precisely because he was too conscientious, and he didn't dare to sleep peacefully even at night some time ago, but kept discussing the current situation with Xu You, which made him tired. After so many days, even the iron beaten people can't bear it, so they have to take a good rest.

Now that he was suddenly woken up, Zhang He's head was still drowsy, and he couldn't react for a while, and it took a while to realize that something seemed to have happened...

"What's going on?" Looking at the pro-soldier standing in front of him, Zhang He asked while rubbing his head.

"General, there was a sudden fire in the direction of the Yellow River, and the Qingzhou army outside the city also seemed to be in a commotion..."

"Oh?" Hearing this, Zhang He suddenly sobered up a lot, and hurriedly turned over from the bed, and even had no time to put on his armor, so he hurriedly walked out of the room.

Although he was tired these days, Zhang He had to take a good rest, but he didn't dare to run to the mansion in the city. If something really happens, there's no time to react. He had been living on top of the city walls these days, and had only changed directions from time to time, so when he came out of his room, he had already seen everything that was happening outside.

Just as the pro-soldier said, there was indeed a fire in the direction of the Yellow River, and there was also an uproar in the Qingzhou army camp outside the city. It's no wonder that a large area of fire suddenly came from the direction behind him, and it was actually able to shine from the Yellow River to this position, so you can imagine how big the fire is there. It was precisely with this sky-high fire that Zhang He could clearly see how big the commotion outside the city was, and even clearly saw dozens of horsemen galloping in the direction of the Yellow River, obviously trying to figure out what was happening in the location of the Yellow River.

"General!"

Just when Zhang He was looking at the direction of the Yellow River in a daze, a voice sounded from beside him, and he saw Xu You also running over in a hurry, wearing the clothes he usually wore, but he looked very messy. Obviously, I was in a hurry, and I didn't have time to take care of it.

"Sir, you're here too..."

Xu You's shortcomings are obvious, he is very greedy, but his advantages are also obvious, that is, he is outstanding.

Moreover, Xu You and Yuan Shao have known each other for many years, and it can be said that they have known each other since the Luoyang period, far earlier than Zhang He, who only followed Yuan Shao during the Jizhou period. Not to mention that Zhang He needs Xu You to give advice in many places when defending the city, just by saying this, Zhang He must respect Xu You. History has long shown that even a fierce general who can fight well cannot withstand the slander of his close ministers.

"Did you figure out what's going on?" Xu You didn't have time to say anything to greet, so he hurriedly asked.

It's a pity that Zhang He has just come out of it, how can he know what happened, he can only shake his head.

However, after glancing at each other, at least one thing the two of them can be sure of, that is, this matter was also unexpected by the Qingzhou Army. Moreover, the direction is still from the direction of the Yellow River, so that the change of things is likely to be beneficial to them.

"Could it be that reinforcements have arrived?" Frowning, Xu Yu guessed.

There is no evidence to prove this in Xuzhou, but after thinking about it, it seems that only reinforcements from the north can do this.

"It should be so, according to the time, the reinforcements should also arrive, but since the reinforcements did not rush to the camp directly, but chose to go to the Yellow River, it means that the number of reinforcements in this batch may not be very large..."

"Either way, it at least shows that the situation is starting to improve, and with this incident, it can also boost morale somewhat."

|“ Indeed it is. ”

These days, the morale in the city is very clear to both of them, and if it continues like this, the first thing to collapse is probably morale. Especially these days, the Qingzhou army outside the city has been working hard outside to surrender, what to sacrifice the city without killing and so on I don't know how much to shout, in recent days even specially arranged some stone machines, put some bamboo chips into the city, almost all of them are words of surrender, and even encourage people in the city to find a way to open the door to offer the city...

If it weren't for Zhang He's great prestige in the army and his ability to suppress the situation, there might have been a sergeant in the city who opened the city gate to the Qingzhou army———— plain was originally under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, and many of the sergeants in the city were natives of the plain, and even some were simply from other counties in Qingzhou, but they were recruited in the plain temporarily, and they didn't have much loyalty to Yuan Shao at all.

What's more, Yuan Shao is not the Son of Heaven, just one of the princes, even the generals under his command can hardly say how much loyalty there is to him, let alone the pawns below?

In normal times, for the sake of military salary, I am willing to die for him. Even if the situation is a little more salvageable, they don't want to bear the reputation of disloyalty. But when it was really in a desperate situation, it was Yuan Shao himself, and he was afraid that he didn't expect everyone to be loyal to him.

These days, the two of them have been worried about it. They all knew very well that Plains City was now sitting on a volcanic crater. If this problem is not solved, I am afraid that the city has not been broken by the Qingzhou army, and the two of them will be cut off by their subordinates and dedicated to Yan Shao.

No matter what, there is finally good news coming now, and Zhang He can more or less use this to appease the morale of the army and boost the morale of the corpora, which can be regarded as solving a problem for the two of them.

Compared with Zhang He and Xu You's relaxed mentality, Yan Shao was a little anxious.

Because the situation on the side of the Qingzhou Army was better before, Yan Shao didn't need to stay up all day like Zhang He, and slept when he should sleep at night. If it weren't for the fact that it was not very convenient to carry female dependents in the army, I was afraid that Yan Shao would still be holding a beauty or something. After all, when he was at home, he was also a master who never went down at night. Now that there was such a commotion, he suddenly woke up from his sleep, and looking at the firelight from the direction of the Yellow River, his face was also ugly.

In the art of war, the two most lethal things are fire and water...

Guan Yu's flooding of the Seventh Army and Zhou Yu's burning of Chibi can all be called models...

Now that there is a firelight from the direction of the Yellow River, Yan Shao can think that this is definitely not a good thing even if he thinks about it with his knees.

Sure enough, about a quarter of an hour later, a general rushed back from the Yellow River...

The pontoon bridges on the Yellow River were all burned...