When Cao Cao, who got the news, ascended the city tower, the rest of the princes in the city had already been in place, and they were looking at the city not far away with extremely heavy faces.

At this time, a huge cloud of smoke was sweeping up there, and all the people present were people who had been in the army for a long time, and when they looked at the smoke, they knew that it must have been caused by a large number of troops marching rapidly.

In the current territory of Qingzhou, in addition to their princes' coalition army, only the Jizhou army that invaded Qingzhou not long ago can have such a scale.

However, almost all of their princes' allied forces were cowering in Linyi City at this time.

The army that caused the smoke and dust outside the city, even if you don't have to go to investigate them, you can know that it is definitely the Jizhou army.

Although last night, they had already guessed that there would be such an ending.

But when the Jizhou army really attacked on a large scale again, none of the princes in the city could calm down.

Including Cao Cao, who was the deepest in the city, his face was a little pale at this time, but he knew that he must not be chaotic at this time, if he was in chaos, then this battle would not be able to fight!

Looking at the smoke and dust that kept approaching them, Cao Cao knew he had to do something.

If this situation is allowed to develop again, maybe some of those princes will collapse without a fight!

Thinking of this, Cao Cao immediately began to order, he must now keep the other princes in the alliance busy, so that they don't have so much time to think nonsense.

With Cao Cao's order, although the princes on the city wall were very afraid, they still suppressed their fears and began to prepare for the upcoming battle.

While the princes on the city wall began to get busy, Liu Yuan, who was constantly approaching Linyi City, was not idle.

With five miles to go before he could reach Linyi, he began to issue orders that had been prepared long ago.

Dian Wei and Gan Ning, who had just recovered from their injuries, became the pioneers this time.

Liu Yuan asked them to quickly rush into the outer city of Linyi City as soon as the city wall of Linyi City was blown up, taking advantage of the enemy's lack of reaction.

They must protect their Demomen during the impact.

Once they enter the outer city of Linyi City, then these Demomen will be their biggest weapon in attacking the inner city.

Behind Dian Wei and Gan Ning were Zhang Liao and Ma Dai, and the two of them led the second wave of attack echelons.

As long as the urn city wall of Linyi City falls, they must enter Linyi in the shortest possible time.

And with the momentum of thunder, the enemy army in the city will be cleared, and then Dian Wei and Gan Ning will cooperate with their clearance, and strive to take Linyi in a short time.

is also Ma Chao, who has just returned from injury, Liu Yuan handed over all the remaining cavalry under his command to him, and his task is to cruise around Linyi City.

Once the key goals set by Liu Yuan before were discovered, such as any one of the three princes of Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shao, then it was time for Ma Chao to start exerting his strength.

As for Zhang Ren, who had just defected last night, he was arranged by Liu Yuan to be a deputy general under Ma Chao, but Liu Yuan still gave him the right to transfer 3,000 cavalry.

This made Zhang Ren have a deep sense of trust, and he knew that this was his new lord's intention to fulfill him, so that he could have the capital to avenge those brothers.

At that time, Zhang Ren made a decision, as long as he found out Liu Yan's whereabouts this time, he would definitely take the 3,000 cavalry under his command to launch an endless pursuit of Liu Yan.

At this time, Zhang Ren was loyal to the new lord Liu Yuan.

It's not just because Liu Yuan gave him a chance to take revenge.

In addition, he heard that his lord had sent someone to Shuzhong, and ordered that his old mother and young sister must be taken out.

Originally, Zhang Ren thought that the lord didn't care about his affairs at all, but now it seems that the lord doesn't care, but there are some things that he doesn't have to worry about at all.

Being able to serve such a lord, Zhang Ren felt that he had taken refuge in the right person, if it wasn't for the approaching war, he would definitely go to thank him.

Just when Zhang Ren was full of emotion in his heart, he found that Ma Chao had quickly turned around and left, and Zhang Ren knew that it was time to settle the account.

He did not hesitate to leave with Ma Chao, and went to receive the three thousand cavalry to which he belonged, looking at the back of Ma Chao and Zhang Ren leaving, a smile appeared on the corner of Liu Yuan's mouth.

Soon the city of Linyi in front of him will become his territory, and the princes who dare to conspire against him will tremble under his iron hooves!

Thinking of this, Liu Yuan immediately called a seemingly ordinary soldier, but it seems that this person is still different from ordinary soldiers.

First of all, he did not carry the standard weapons of the Jizhou sergeant.

Instead, he was carrying a not very large cloth bag behind him, and at this time, this cloth bag was bulging with something.

Second, in the area between his cloth bag and his back, he also carried a certain number of wooden racks, as well as a small sharp shovel.

Finally, on his waist, he also carried a small bulging cloth bag.

This person is the captain of the demolition team under Liu Yuan's command, and Liu Yuan called him to come at this time, which means that the attack on Linyi City is about to begin.

Sure enough, when Liu Yuan gave him a face-to-face lecture, the team leader set off immediately with a team of less than fifty people.

As soon as they walked out of the formation, the team of less than fifty people was divided into two squads.

They did not attack Linyi City directly, but seemed to be very targeted, heading straight for a certain place.

Their actions made the princes in Linyi City nervous.

These princes have seen the power of these seemingly ordinary soldiers before.

If it weren't for Cao Cao's Linyi City, which was built strong enough, maybe this city would have been breached by these unsightly soldiers.

Now these guys are here again, I wonder what they're going to do this time?

Soon the two groups of soldiers gave an answer, and when they came to a place outside the city, they quickly turned over and dismounted, and drew the small shovels behind them.

Then they quickly dug into the ground, and as they continued to dig, a dark hole that could be entered side by side slowly appeared.

This is the tunnel dug by the Jizhou army in order to attack the city.

It's just that because the tunnel was discovered by Xu Shu and others, the tunnel here was abandoned when more than half of the excavation was made.

Although it was said to be an abandoned tunnel, Liu Yuan did not send someone to block it, but just asked his subordinates to camouflage the entrance of the tunnel.

Now, after the rapid digging of the demomen, the camouflage at the entrance of the tunnel was quickly removed, and the demomen burrowed into the tunnel one by one.

When he saw these people drilling into the tunnel, Cao Cao on the city wall immediately reacted, and it seemed that the first wave of the Jizhou army's offensive should have come from underground.

At that time, Cao Cao made a decision to let some of his men return to the city walls.

And he activated the big water tank they had arranged before, this time he wanted to bury all these trump cards under Liu Yuan!