Night fell quietly, and there was no movement in the Cao army camp outside the city.

For the Cao army, the Qin army had run out of long-range weapons, and it was easier to attack the city at night than to attack the city during the day.

Lu Bu and Yu Poison, who understood this truth, did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and when the sky had just darkened, they had already ordered the Qin army on the city wall to closely monitor the movements of the Cao army.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, but the Cao army showed no sign of attacking Shouchun City, on the contrary, the Qin army reinforcements in the area of Xiangling had some movement.

"General, look!" Lu Bu was looking at the Cao army camp with fire in the distance, and a personal soldier raised his hand and pointed at the Lingling and shouted to him.

Hearing the shouts of the pro-soldiers, Lu Bu hurriedly turned his head and looked towards the Lingling.

Everywhere he looked, he saw a flickering fire.

Countless flames were connected into a piece, just like a wave of flames, moving rapidly in the direction of Shouchun City.

"Cao's army is leaving!" As soon as he saw the flame that almost connected to the sky, another shout came from Lu Bu's ears, and another personal soldier shouted to him happily: "General, look! The Cao army camp is retreating! ”

The Cao army camp is retreating?

Looking at Cao Jun's camp again, Lu Bu really found that the black shadows in the camp were running farther away under the reflection of the firelight in the distance.

"General!" Doubting himself in his heart, Yu Xuan quickly ran to Lu Bu, clasped his fists and arched at him and said, "The Cao army has retreated, and our reinforcements have arrived!" The general should make a decision early! ”

After the reinforcements arrived, they were always stationed on the slopes of the Lingling Mountain, and Lu Bu and Yu Poison were already very anxious.

Now that the reinforcements have finally moved, Yu Poison is only happy and doesn't think much about it.

But Lu Bu was not as happy as Yu Poison, he frowned tightly, pondered for a moment before saying to Poison: "The reinforcements are quite strange......

"Strange?" Yu Poison led the army to fight, and he often analyzed the battlefield situation, but Lu Bu's strange sentence made him feel a little confused, and hurriedly answered: "The general doesn't think too much......

"General Yu and look!" Raising his hand and pointing at the Cao army that was withdrawing outside the city, Lu Bu said to the poison: "On a certain day, he led 30,000 soldiers and horses to Shouchun, but Cao Ren not only did not retreat immediately, but instead deployed heavy troops to intercept and kill our army!" Now looking at the reinforcements from outside the city, the total number is only thirty or forty thousand, why did Cao Ren retreat so quickly? ”

After listening to Lu Bu's few questions, Yu Poison's brows also furrowed tightly, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Didn't the general say ......?"

"General Yu!" Looking at Yu Poison, Lu Bu nodded and said to him, "I suspect that it is not really reinforcements that have arrived!" ”

Lu Bu's words were exactly on point.

The ones who came from outside the city were really the suspicious soldiers that Cao Ren had arranged earlier.

Wearing the clothes and armor of the Qin army, the 10,000 Cao troops each held four torches, running under the cover of night, as if they had an army of 30,000 or 40,000.

Lu Bu and Yu Poison were talking, and a personal soldier on the side raised his hand to the reinforcements and shouted to the two: "Two generals, the reinforcements have been divided!" ”

Following the direction of the soldier's finger, Lu Bu and Yu Poison both saw that a large number of the countless torches that were rushing towards Shouchun City were rushing towards the Cao army who was retreating.

In the night, the sound of shouting and killing came from outside the city, as if a battle was unfolding outside the city.

A tide of torches poured into Cao's camp, and Lu Bu also felt a little strange.

If the reinforcements were real or fake, they should rush to the city to deceive the city gate, how could they divide their troops to chase and kill Cao Jun?

Lu Buzheng was puzzled, an army of about 2,000 people had come to Shouchun City.

A team of more than 2,000 people lined up outside Shouchun City, and a young general rode a war horse towards the city gate.

"General Lu, the last general will lead the soldiers to come to the aid on the orders of General Zhao Yun!" Outside the city gates, the little general looked up at the city and shouted.

I didn't know that Liu Wei sent Tai Shici instead of Zhao Yun, and when he heard the little general's shout, although Lu Bu had some doubts in his heart, he still replied: "Where is General Zhao?" ”

"General Zhao led the soldiers and has already pursued and killed Cao Ren!" Looking up at the city, the little general replied.

If the little general was talking about other generals, even if he brought up the name of Tai Shici, Lu Bu would have doubts in his heart.

But what he said was Zhao Yun.

Once had a fight with Zhao Yun in the back garden of the Qin Palace, Lu Bu knew that in terms of martial arts, Zhao Yun might be slightly inferior to him, but when it came to leading the army to fight, Zhao Yun was much stronger than him.

It was precisely because of this that Lu Bu really believed the little general's statement for a while.

"The general will wait outside the city, and when General Zhao comes here, General Ben will meet him, and then open the city for the general!" Looking down at the little general under the city, Lu Bu shouted loudly.

The little general outside the city heard that Lu Bu didn't plan to open the door for the time being, so he didn't forcibly ask to enter the city, but arched his fist towards the city gate tower and said, "The last general will obey the general's military orders!" ”

"The whole army is arrayed, beware of the sneak attack of the Cao army!" After the little general answered Lu Bu, he didn't say anything more, but shouted to the more than 2,000 soldiers who followed him.

More than 2,000 people quickly turned around and took a defensive stance, staring at the flames of the night in the distance without blinking.

If the little general had to enter the city, Lu Bu categorically refused to believe that they were really reinforcements.

But he didn't mention entering the city at all, but instead lined up his soldiers outside the city, with their backs to the city wall.

This move made Lu Bu feel very relieved, and he also completely believed in the authenticity of the reinforcements.

In the distance, there were bursts of shouts of killing, and the shouts of killing were far and near, and patches of torches were extinguished in the night.

Just looking at that scene, Lu Bu and Yu Poison were convinced that there was a tragic battle going on outside the city.

Among the Cao troops who were retreating at this time, Cao Ren rode a tall horse, swaying forward, while the corners of his mouth were raised, revealing a smile that had succeeded in his plan.

Behind Cao Ren were two accompanying generals.

Seeing the corners of Cao Ren's mouth raised, a general asked in a low voice: "Shouchun City has not opened the city gate yet, why is the general laughing?" ”

"Open the gates, but it's only an hour!" The smile became brighter and brighter, and Cao Ren said to the partial general: "Let the soldiers shout louder, it's really not good, let them bump each other with their blades!" ”

"No!" After receiving Cao Ren's order, the partial general who had just asked the question bowed down with his fists in response, and then instructed the soldiers behind him: "Let the soldiers shout louder!" ”

Cao Jun, who was marching slowly with Cao Ren, received orders, and all of them shouted loudly "kill", and many of them were holding weapons and shields, bumping into each other as if they were playing.

After walking away from the tea scene, Cao Ren reined in his horse and said to the general on the side: "The hour is almost up, it's time to send the head to Shouchun City!" ”

A partial general, who had already received Cao Ren's orders, reached out and drew the sword at his waist after answering, and slashed a personal soldier beside him to the ground with a sword.

The soldier didn't expect that the general next to him would suddenly make a move, and he didn't even know what was going on until he died.

Shouchun City has been fighting for days, and there are really a lot of corpses, and there are also many injuries among Cao Jun.

If you want a head, you can cut off the corpse or the wounded, and you don't need to kill your own soldiers.

But the corpse and the head of the wounded, Cao Ren was worried that after cutting off such a head, the bleeding would not be enough to deceive Lu Bu and Yu Poison at the head of the city, so he secretly ordered the general to temporarily kill a personal soldier.

The general suddenly killed a personal soldier, and the other personal soldiers on the side were taken aback and hurriedly took a few steps back.

The general who had killed his own soldier did not speak, turned over and jumped off his horse, raised his long sword and slashed at the neck of the soldier who had just been slashed.

An intact head, severed from the neck of the corpse of a pro-soldier.

The general raised his head, stood beside his horse, and beckoned to a soldier wearing Qin army armor and holding a torch.

When the soldier saw that the general was waving, although he was reluctant to step forward for fear that he would be suddenly killed, he did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to walk over with a hard head.

The soldier pretending to be the Qin army had just walked to the front, trembling all over his body, and before he could speak, the general had already shoved the freshly cut off head into his hand.

The head was stuffed into his arms, and the soldier hurriedly threw the torch he was holding on to the ground, and held the head tightly, waiting for the command.

The order was given to him not by the partial general who had his head stuffed into him, but by Cao Ren.

Carrying the reins, Cao Ren looked down at the soldier who was holding his head in his hands, and was anxiously waiting for the order, and said: "You immediately rush to the outside of Shouchun City, raise your head and shout at the city, just say Cao Ren is ambushed!" ”

After receiving Cao Ren's order, the soldier was stunned, and he didn't dare to leave for a while.

Cao Rennai is the commander of the army, and calling him by his name is already a great crime of disrespect, plus to shout that he has been ambushed, the soldiers who pretended to be Qin soldiers did not dare to answer the order!

Seeing that the soldier's expression was full of uneasiness, Cao Ren frowned, waved his hand at him and said: "Whether you can enter the city tonight depends on the words you shout, if you shout the wrong words, let General Ben miss the opportunity to enter the city, and when you return to Xudu, General Ben will definitely kill you!" ”

When he said these words, although Cao Ren did not have the slightest expression on his face, his tone was cold, and the soldier holding his head did not dare to suspect that there was moisture in his words, so he hurriedly responded, hugged his head, and quickly ran towards a nearby war horse.

Carrying the head, he turned over and jumped on horseback, and the soldier pretending to be the Qin army also wiped a handful of blood from the broken neck of the skull and smeared it on the face of the head.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Cao Ren's mouth twitched slightly, revealing a satisfied smile.

Although the personal soldiers killed by the partial general are also three points similar to him, if you look closely, they are still different after all.

Blood was smeared on the face of the skull, and as long as it was not approached and carefully discerned, it was impossible to see whose head it was.