Early the next morning, Cao Ju sent someone to call Yan Zhong over, and the two discussed for a while in Cao Ju's Chinese army tent, and Cao Ju gave an order, and the army returned to Yangcheng.

This order is too hard to guess, because this place is only two or three days away from Yangzhai, and it will take five days to return to Yangcheng at the earliest.

Cao Ju got up early, and Feng Yu naturally wouldn't lag behind, so he got up with Cao Ju.

Last night was Feng Yu's first time, and Cao Ju had another brace, naturally it was not Feng Yu's body that could stand it, and as soon as he walked, he felt that the pain below was unbearable.

Cao Ju knew what was going on, and while deeply blaming himself, he persuaded Feng Ju to hurry up and rest for a while.

But Feng Yu is a woman who practices martial arts after all, her physical strength and perseverance are stronger than ordinary women, she didn't agree, she held back, and when Cao Ju and Yan Zhong discussed the plan, she stood motionless behind Cao Ju.

After Yan Zhong left, Cao Ju ignored Feng Zhen's objections and asked Dian Wei to prepare a carriage, but to the outside world, he said that he had broken his foot, but in fact, he did not let Feng Zhen ride a horse and took a carriage instead.

Feng Yu's wound was in that place, and if he was on bed rest, he could heal in three or five days. But if you keep riding, straddle the horse's back, bump up and down, rub back and forth, not to mention the wound healing, it will definitely get worse.

Seeing that Cao Ju was so considerate and concerned about her, Feng Yu's heart was sweet, and he was glad that he had found the right husband, although he would be a wife when he went to Yuan Shu, and he could only be a concubine here in Cao Ju, but Feng Yu also admitted it.

In the carriage, there were only two people, Cao Ju and Feng Yu, Cao Ju had nothing to do, so he naturally hugged Feng Ju, and while going up and down his hands, he said endless tender words, which moved Feng Ju's heart so much that he almost ignored his injuries and wanted to serve Cao Ju again.

Soon, on the third day, Cao Ju met with the army of 10,000 people sent by Xizhong, and the result was naturally no suspense, the 10,000 horses were scattered by Cao Ju's cavalry, and they were unable to form an army, and they knelt on the ground to ask for surrender.

Hey, it's really a clever plan, Cao Ju sent people to accept the surrender of these 10,000 horses, and divided 2,000 troops to escort them to Yangcheng, and he personally led the army to Xiangyang City in a carpet way.

The reason why he chose this method was because Cao Ju already knew that there were only 2,000 men and horses in Yangcheng, and it was absolutely impossible for him to dare to go out of the city to fight him to the death. Cao Ju didn't care about taking Yangcheng, but about the talent in Yangcheng, so this kind of carpet search, coupled with Cao Ju's order to Gan Ning to spread scouts in the east, north, and south directions of Yangcheng, absolutely couldn't let anyone in Yangcheng leave from any direction.

Soon, Cao Ju's army advanced under the west gate of Yangcheng, and 22,000 men and horses, as well as Gan Ning's 5,000 men and horses, surrounded Yangcheng and blocked it.

The 8,000 captives, during this time, were also selected by Gan Ning from among the 2,000 who were not dragged by their families, and were scattered into the 5,000 men, making the ratio of officers and soldiers to prisoners change from 5:8 to 7:6.

In just a few days, Xi Zhong was much haggard than before, and the confident smile was no longer visible, but instead his eyebrows were locked.

As Cao Ju expected, the two thousand defenders of Yangcheng did not have any fighting spirit, including the Marquis Sun Jun, who stayed behind, and even had the idea of surrendering in Kaicheng, but he didn't dare to talk about it.

But what kind of person is Xi Zhong, how can he not know that Yangcheng cannot be defended, and he is also thinking of a way to get out in his heart, he can't be finished with Yangcheng.

After thinking about it, I was really persuaded by Xi Zhong to come up with a plan, although there are some risks, but the possibility of success is still very great.

So, Xi Zhong immediately sent someone to invite Sun Junhou and explained his strategy to Sun Junhou.

"Ah......" After listening to Xi Zhong's strategy, Sun Junhou couldn't help but be taken aback, stood up with a "huh", and looked at Xi Zhong with a shocked face, "This... Can this plan be successful? ”

Li Cheng listened to Xi Zhong's strategy and attacked the Ganning camp at night, but the result was a complete defeat, and only a few dozen of the 10,000 soldiers and horses could come back. And according to the information fed back by these dozens of people, Gan Ning clearly had taken precautions, but this also made Xi Zhong puzzled, it is said that Gan Ning should not have been able to guess that he would launch a night attack on the night before Gan Ning was ready to storm Yangcheng.

This time, Xi Zhong's strategy was more risky than the last night attack, and Sun Junhou was surprised and couldn't make up his mind.

Seeing this, Xi Zhong said lightly: "Marquis Sun, Yangcheng has become a lonely city, Cao Ju's tens of thousands of troops have arrived, and they are about to defend the south, north, and west gates, and there is a Ganning army at the east gate, so if the military marquis guards Yangcheng, there is only one dead end." ”

"With Cao Ju's wrist, the two thousand military horses in Yangcheng can survive, and the same is true below, but only Sun Junhou has been in charge of this army, Cao Ju will definitely not spare the military marquis, and the end will be the same as General Li. However, with the current situation, Ganning's army guarded 8,000 prisoners with 5,000 men and horses, and there were many dangers. ”

Turning defeat into victory, these four words sound comfortable, but it is difficult to do, but it is also very exciting.

However, what moved Sun Junhou the most was not that he turned defeat into victory, but that everyone could live, but he couldn't.

Gritting his teeth, Sun Junhou said viciously: "Okay, sir, just take Mr.'s plan, if this plan can be successful, this credit will belong to Mr." ”

Xi Zhong smiled slightly and said: "The military marquis is polite, loyal to the grace of the Ming Gong, he should try his best to repay, how dare he take credit, besides, once this plan is successful, the credit should belong to Sun Junhou." ”

Sun Junhou was not polite to Xi Zhong, and immediately according to his plan, he picked out a sharp-toothed person from among the sergeants under his command, took his surrender letter, and went to Ganning's camp.

Xi Zhong's strategy is not new, it is a strategy of deception.

With the current situation, Yangcheng is about to be surrounded on all sides, it is already a lonely city, and it will be broken sooner or later, and the defenders in the city are only two thousand, compared with Cao Ju's tens of thousands of troops, it is absolutely vulnerable.

Therefore, Xi Zhong's deception strategy, let alone Gan Ning, even if it is Cao Ju, there will be no suspicions.

Surrender by fraud, with two thousand against five thousand, there is absolutely no chance of victory, but the real killer of Xi Zhong is the eight thousand captives, once they can follow the internal and external attacks, Gan Ning's army will be defeated.

Then, 10,000 troops withdrew to Yangcheng, refused to defend the city, Cao Ju's troops were only 30,000, and the loss of Ganning was a loss, but more than 20,000 people, and it was absolutely difficult to conquer Yangcheng in the short term by storming Yangcheng, whose morale was restored.

At this time, Xi Zhong will ask people to report the situation here to Xin Bi, let him say that Kong Ling will be moved, and then send the general to lead the army to help, so that Cao Ju can break it.