It is now night, and it is very rare that two green lanterns are hung at the east gate of Xiangcheng.

At this time, there were already cronies sent by Yuan Shu, hiding outside the city and staring at the city gate. When they saw that the two green lanterns were hung up, they were overjoyed and ran back to the camp.

Yuan Jun camp outside the east gate of Xiangcheng, Yuan Shu heard the report of his henchmen, and immediately overjoyed, and said to the generals: "Xiangcheng City is broken today!" ”

Yan Xiang looked suspicious, stepped forward and asked, "Why did Your Majesty say this?" ”

Yuan Shu took out a letter from his sleeve, unfolded it in the air and shook it a few times, and said with a laugh: "The Qian family, a big family in Xiangcheng, has made people shoot out a letter, and is willing to attack Xiangcheng as an internal response of our army." ”

Yan Xiang took the letter, and after reading it, he knew the cause and effect of the matter.

It turned out that the Qian family was a prominent family in Xiangcheng, and they had always had a strong affection for Yuan Shu, who was born in a family. When Liu Bei captured Yuzhou, he was forced by Liu Bei's obscenity to pretend to surrender.

Moreover, the letter said that the head of the Qian family originally had some careful thoughts, thinking that Yuan Shu was no match for Wen Zhao.

Therefore, when Yuan Shu's soldiers were approaching the city, he was still hesitant, not knowing whether to join forces with Yuan Shuli to break through Xiangcheng.

Now Lu Buzhong is seriously injured, and even Wen Zhao himself is unconscious. The defenders in the city were leaderless, and they were suddenly a little confused.

At this time, the head of the Qian family had a different mind because of Wen Zhao's coma. Fortunately, he is also a smart man, good at protecting himself, and knows that even if Yuan Shu breaks through Xiangcheng, their family will not be affected.

It is precisely with these in mind that Qian has been sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and has not acted rashly.

However, after Wen Zhao fell into a coma, the atmosphere of the entire Xiangcheng changed. Since Xiangcheng was besieged and there was no way to transport grain and grass, the defenders in the city had begun to run out of food.

As a big family in Xiangcheng, the Qian family still has a lot of surplus grain even though it has been dry in the past few years, relying on the past accumulation of the family. The defenders of Xiangcheng, who were short of food, naturally hit the Qian family with their ideas.

Now that there is famine everywhere, and food is more expensive than gold, the Qian family is naturally reluctant to send food to the defenders of Xiangcheng. But in the face of tens of thousands of wolf-like troops, the Qian family also had to swallow their anger and hand over some of the grain.

Fortunately, the defenders of Xiangcheng did not do anything but leave some food for the Qian family. Otherwise, they may not even be able to provide food for their families.

Most of the grain was forcibly demanded, and the Qian family naturally held a grudge, so he didn't want to protect himself anymore.

So, the head of the Qian family wrote a letter and asked the henchmen of the family who helped defend the city to shoot out of the city.

Yuan had a large number of soldiers, and in order to defend the four gates in batches, Wen Zhao summoned a lot of young men in the city and asked them to help defend the city. Not only that, but he also recruited many private soldiers from large families.

The children of the Qian family and the private soldiers were to help garrison the east gate.

Of course, these people don't fight to defend the city at all, more often than not, they just help carry the corpses.

The head of the Qian family sent out a letter to Yuan Shu to make an appointment, if they could approach the east gate at night, they were sure to open the city gate, and hang two green lights at the east gate. If you are not sure, hang two red lights.

If you hang the red light, everything will be closed. If the green light is hung at the city gate, they will raise the fire at the third watch to welcome the Yuan army into Xiangcheng.

After understanding the consequences of the incident, Yan Xiang suddenly realized. He went back and forth several times, but never spoke.

Seeing this, Yuan Shu immediately smiled and asked, "Don't you think that the Qian family is a fraud?" ”

Yan Xiang frowned and said, "This letter doesn't look like a fraud, otherwise, the Qian family wouldn't have said it in such detail, and the handwriting wouldn't have been sloppy and upside down." ”

And as Qian said, if it weren't for Chen Xujun's forcible requisition of grain and grass in his family. According to the minds of these big families, they will definitely not offend Chen Xu rashly and open the city gate to welcome our army. ”

"The minister just thinks that Chen Wenzhao has just been hit by an arrow and is unconscious, and the Qian family wants to open the city and surrender, all of this is too much of a coincidence."

Yuan Shu laughed and said: "What you said is unreasonable, if it weren't for Chen Wenzhao's injury and coma, how could the Qian clan have the courage to open the city gate?" ”

Yan Xiang pondered for a moment, and felt that this was also the truth, so he stopped speaking.

As Yan Xiang said, the handwriting of this letter is sloppy, and many places have been altered, and the sentences are not very smooth.

At first glance, the letter is full of holes.

However, it is this letter full of loopholes that shows the anger and urgency in the heart of the head of the Qian family, which makes people feel real.

Yan Xiang often interacted with those people from the big family, and knew their faces very well. He also knew that if the Qian family's grain and grass were really requisitioned and transferred, they would definitely do such a thing as Kaicheng surrender.

What's more, the lack of food for the defenders of Xiangcheng is also a fact. Yan Xiang didn't believe that the defenders of Xiangcheng, who had no food and grass, would not fail to hit the big families in the city with their ideas.

It is reasonable for the Qian family to open the city to welcome Yuan Jun into the city.

After careful consideration, Yan Xiangcai said: "Your Majesty, if my expectations are correct, there will be no fraud in the surrender of the Qian family. However, is it too much to transfer all the troops of the remaining camps to the east gate? ”

Yuan Shu said: "As mentioned in the letter, Zhao Yun guards the east gate tonight, and there are five hundred soldiers from the trapped camp stationed here. Coupled with Chen Xu's injury, the guards in the city were extremely tight. ”

"As Qian said, if we can't enter the city as soon as they open the gates. When Zhao Yun reacts, he will definitely be able to kill the Qian family as soon as possible and close the city gate again. ”

"At that time, wouldn't we have wasted all our efforts?"

"What's more, with Zhao Yun's bravery and the fierceness of the camp. If I don't mobilize a large army into the city, I'm afraid that in a short time, I won't want to break through the defense line of the east gate. ”

"When reinforcements from the city arrive and defend the streets, then our army's strength advantage will not be able to play a role at all."

"Therefore, we must quickly capture the East Gate with lightning speed, relying on the absolute superiority of troops, and then sweep the entire Xiangcheng!"

I have to say that Yuan Shu still has some strategic vision and knows how to promote his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.

Although Yuan Jun has many soldiers, when it comes to the degree of elite, there is no way to compare it with the soldiers under Chen Xu.

The narrow streets of the city, there was no way at all, so that Yuan's army completely spread out its troops.

In order to prevent Chen Xujun from holding on to the streets, he drove them out of the city again. Only then did Yuan Shu mobilize the remaining three camps, the vast majority of the troops, and prepared to make a desperate bet and quickly occupy the entire south gate.

Yan Xiang thought for a while, and felt that Yuan Shu's words were not unreasonable, so he didn't say more.

That night, the entire east gate of Xiangcheng was still full of people. Several generals under Yuan Shu were ambushed not far from the city gate, quietly observing the movements in the city, waiting for the arrival of the third watch.

Above the city gate, two green lanterns flutter in the wind, reflecting the stars in the sky.

Not only those generals, but even Yuan Shu himself was also waiting silently in the luxurious tent.

"It's coming, it's finally coming!"

Yuan Shu paid attention to the time, and Huo Ran got up, with a red tide of excitement on his face.

As long as he can break through Xiangcheng and kill Chen Xu, his Yuan Shu will definitely be able to shock the world. At that time, the rest of the princes would not dare to send troops against him again.

Yuan Shu's claim to be emperor does not show his mediocrity and arrogance.

In the troubled times, people are determined, and many virtuous people are waiting to see which way the princes can get the world.

As long as Yuan Shu survives the first few years of becoming emperor, he can rely on his emperor title to recruit many ambitious talents.

At that time, the world was within easy reach for him Yuan Shu.

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

However, at this moment, Yuan Shu faintly heard a shout of killing coming from the west.

His face changed, and he shouted loudly: "Before the time comes, why is there a shout of killing?" ”

At this time, Yuan Shu actually had some gains and losses in his heart. He was worried that the Qian clan's plot to open the city gate would leak out, in that case, it would be a little unrealistic to capture Xiangcheng tonight.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Zhang Xun ran in in a panic and shouted Yuan Shu loudly.

"What happened?"

Zhang Xun gasped violently and said, "Your Majesty, the camp in the west of our army is full of flames, and the sound of shouting and killing is shaking the sky, it must be Chen Xu's army who raided the camp in the west. ”

"What?"

Yuan Shu's face was incredible. At this time, the rest of the civil and military forces also came to Yuan Shu's big tent one after another.

Yan Xiang's face was a little ugly, and he said to Yuan Shu: "Your Majesty, I have fallen for Thief Chen's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. ”

"This must be because Chen Xu saw that our army was divided into four camps, and he knew that it was not easy to break through, so he let the Qian clan in the city surrender and lure our army to gather at the east gate. But they took advantage of the emptiness of the west gate to break through from there. ”

Yuan Shu was suddenly furious, gritted his teeth and said: "I led an army of 300,000 to besiege Xiangcheng, costing countless money and food. If I let them break out unharmed, how will the people of the world laugh at me? ”

"Wait now, gather the army, and follow me to the west to hunt down and kill the thief Chen!"

Yuan Shu was teased, and suddenly felt annoyed and angry, so he called out to his subordinates and went to hunt down Wen Zhao. Fortunately, they were preparing to attack the east gate of Xiangcheng tonight, and the soldiers were all fully armed.

With Yuan Shu's order, more than 200,000 troops were dispatched in unison, and they were about to bypass Xiangcheng to pursue and kill Wen Zhao.

"Your Majesty, the east gate is far away from the west gate, if you take a detour, you will definitely not have time to rescue the West Gate camp."

"Although there are many people on the city wall now, I am sure that those must be dummies, and the east gate is now extremely empty."

"As long as Your Majesty leads the giant tree to hit the east gate, the city gate will definitely be knocked open. At that time, we didn't need to take a detour, and we could kill directly from the city to the west gate. ”

Yuan Shu's eyes lit up, and he immediately let people knock open the east door. As Yan Xiang expected, the soldiers on the city wall were all dummies made by Chen Jun by putting clothes on the straw man.

As for the east gate, there was not a single defender.