The sun rises and sets, and night falls again.

For the besieged people of Shouchun, this day seemed extraordinarily long, and it was tormenting all the time.

Through the narrow cracks in the doors or lattices, they cautiously and tremblingly observed the movement outside. Everyone who passed by the door or out of the window, they remembered it clearly; Everything that happened on the street, the soldiers and generals who walked by, and even who accidentally fell, they all saw it, but they never made the slightest sound, lest they get burned and innocent, and even affect the whole family.

This state of life is not the first day, and they have spent all these days under siege.

As the night slowly fell, another day passed quietly in the silence, and the night shrouded Shouchun City.

However, this darkness has made the people living in the city feel a little relaxed, and their tense minds can finally relax, and they can only keep their ears up and pay attention to the movement outside, instead of staring at the cracks in the doors or lattice windows.

In the dark, most of the ordinary people's homes are not lit, and darkness seems to have become their protective color. Because they can't see clearly in the dark, and no one else can see them, so they won't hurt them.

In this particular environment, darkness seems to be more secure than daylight.

With this layer of protective color, the people in the dark can feel a little more at ease, they don't have to be as worried as during the day, they don't dare to breathe in the atmosphere, they can only breathe with their mouths.

Perhaps, night is freer than day.

As the night darkens, a few stars hang in the sky.

It's the end of the month. The moon is "on holiday". Only a few distant stars are still sticking to their "posts", adding a few points of light to the night sky and pointing out the direction for night walkers.

"Ka-Titicaca!"

The first moment. A sudden, crisp and sharp sound broke the silence at the east gate of Shouchun, followed by a violent sound. Until the sound of "clang" on the ground sounded, the screaming stopped abruptly, followed by the sound of "squeak" opening the door.

In the blink of an eye, the suspension bridge outside the east gate slammed to the ground, and the city gate, which had not been moved for more than ten days, suddenly opened.

"Boom!"

The moment the gates opened. Thousands of horsemen galloped out of the city, across the drawbridge, into the darkness where they couldn't see their fingers. The horses were followed by tens of thousands of foot troops. Tens of thousands of soldiers rushed out of the city gate like a torrent. The crowd of people crashed into the city gate with a loud "bang", stepped on the drawbridge "creak" crisply, as if overwhelmed the pain moan, shook the earth and roared.

At the same time that the east gate suddenly opened. The West Gate was also opened at the same time.

There were also more than 10,000 soldiers of the Yuan army who broke through from the West Gate. The same cavalry opened the way, and the infantry followed, and then rushed across the moat and rushed to the temporary Allied camp that surrounded the city gates.

It is worth mentioning that whether it is the east gate or the west gate, the soldiers who go out of the city will not light torches, do not play flags, and do not make noise or publicity. Alignment and clarity of purpose. It can be described as an unprecedented strict military discipline. Orders are forbidden.

At this moment, the Yuan army cavalry who rushed out of the city gate did not have the shouts and kills of the previous charge, nor did they give themselves the courage to shout and shout, only the rumbling hooves of horses and the sound of running footsteps, as well as the fierce and cold eyes of wolves, and the hideous faces fighting for survival.

These soldiers of the Yuan army, who went out of the city at night, stepped on the drawbridge and rushed straight to the allied camp in front of them. The cavalry who rushed to the front picked up the antler fence in front of the Allied camp, and their movements were very skillful, as if they had been prepared and familiar with it. Even if they don't have torches, they can accurately find the location of the antlers from memory, and then pull them out to clear the way for the rest of the group behind them.

However, the Allied soldiers on the other side of the moat were not defenseless.

On the contrary, when the first loud bang came from the city gate, the scouts and sentinels who were always watching the city gate reported Yuan Jun's movements. Immediately, the Jiangdong generals Lü Dai, Ling Tong, Jiang Qin and Lü Meng who were stationed at the east gate immediately put on their sleeves and led their men and horses out of the camp to meet the enemy and prevent Yuan's army from breaking through the defense line.

At the same time, Lu Bu, who was trapped at the west gate, also learned the news of Yuan's army's intention to break through at the first time. He immediately personally led the army to block the attack, and ordered all the soldiers of the army not to let Yuan's army break through the camp and escape under any circumstances.

That's right, the purpose of Yuan's army to leave the city at night was to break through the Allied encirclement outside the city. For the Allied camp outside the city was stationed directly opposite the city gate, blocking every road out of the city. If the Yuan army wanted to escape from the city, they had to break through the allied camp, or directly defeat the allied forces besieging the city gate, open a way to survive, and then escape.

Other than that, there is no alternative.

"Rush, kill!"

The soldiers of the Yuan army, who rushed out of the city, couldn't help shouting slogans at the moment of contact with the oncoming allied troops, as if only in this way could they be more confident and brave, which could not only deter the enemy, but also give them their own courage.

After a short sprint, the soldiers of the two armies facing each other fiercely clashed.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

In an instant, the sound of weapons colliding, the neighing of war horses, the sound of sharp weapons breaking bodies, the screams of dying and the earth-shattering shouts of killing are all intertwined and become the main theme in the sky over Shouchun City, and the ruthless killing is the theme of the night.

What is different is that the soldiers of the Yuan army who rushed out of the city gate at this moment no longer have the timidity and cowardice they had before. One by one, their faces are hideous, their eyes are scarlet, they are almost crazy, they are extremely fierce in the fight, they are not afraid of death, and they are unstoppable.

There is a saying: the soft are afraid of the hard, the hard are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal is afraid of the dead.

Originally, the defenders of Shouchun had been frightened by the allies, and even the defenders of the city hid behind the arrow battlements, and they did not dare to show their heads. However, the soldiers of the Yuan army who went out of the city tonight seemed to be reborn and possessed by demons, fierce and tenacious, blindly rushing forward, and did not retreat as long as there was still a breath left. Even if he was slashed, before he died, he would pull a cushion on his back, and even if he couldn't kill the other party, he would bite off one of his ears or fingers.

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins.

In the face of such a ferocious and almost murderous Yuan army, the Allied soldiers who blocked the escape path of the Yuan army were under great pressure. At first, the Allied forces were still able to resist and were on a par with the Yuan army, but as the Yuan soldiers became more and more frenzied, the Allied soldiers began to be unable to resist and retreated. As soon as the allies retreated, it boosted the courage of the soldiers of the Yuan army, making them more and more brave and fierce, and they rushed forward more and more desperately. Over time, Yuan's army was out of control, and in just a quarter of an hour, the allies had to retreat into the camp. But Yuan Jun held on to it, rushed into the camp after him, and rushed in with all his might.

In the end, the Allied camp blocking the city gate was forced to open the gap by the Yuan army, so that some Yuan troops took the opportunity to rush out and escape into the dark night, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, and disappeared without knowing where to go.

This situation not only happened at the east gate where Lü Dai and Ling Tong were stationed, but also the Lü Bu army stationed at the west gate was also attacked by the Yuan army, and as a result, the camp was also torn open by the Yuan army, so that thousands of Yuan troops took the opportunity to successfully break through and escape.

Fortunately, most of the soldiers of the Yuan army did not break out, or they could not get rid of the entanglement and fighting of the allied soldiers at all, and could only watch others break out of the encirclement, while they had to stay and fight desperately. In doing so, they held back the Allied soldiers and made them unable to pursue, giving those who broke out precious time to escape.

Half an hour later, this sudden breakout battle was over.

It really came and went in a hurry, like a gust of wind, suddenly striking and then quickly dissipating.

However, in this short period of half an hour, more than 20,000 Yuan troops who broke through the city only survived more than 4,000 after the war. According to later statistics, among the more than 20,000 Yuan troops, as many as 12,000 were killed in battle, and the remaining more than 5,000 were missing. Obviously, these more than 5,000 people are the ones who have successfully broken through.

At the same time, the Jiangdong Army, which was responsible for garrisoning the East Gate, paid a huge casualties of nearly 5,000 men, while the Lü Bu Army stationed at the West Gate also suffered more than 4,000 casualties. The casualties and losses of the two groups were almost equal, and both suffered heavy losses, and neither took advantage of them.

Obviously, this is the last fight of the Yuan army defending the city in desperation, which is tantamount to a near-death counterattack, and it is also the last madness of Yuan Shu.

It is worth noting that the Yuan army, who went out of the city at night, actually chose the breakthrough method of attacking the two city gates at the same time, one east and one west, and both breakthroughs were successful. It can be seen that Huainan Yuanshu has been able to dominate Jianghuai for many years, which is by no means a fluke, but a matter of strength. Once Yuan Shu is really forced into a corner and cornered, then he will inevitably usher in his near-death counterattack, a desperate last fight, and the consequence will be the scene in front of him.

However, what is quite strange is that the Yuan army broke through and deliberately avoided the north gate where the Western Liang army was stationed, and the south gate where Li Li's troops were temporarily stationed. Perhaps, this is the breakthrough Yuan army was extremely afraid of the Xiliang cavalry under Li Li's command, for fear of being pursued by the Xiliang iron cavalry after breaking through the siege, so they deliberately avoided the two city gates where the Xiliang army was stationed.

As everyone knows, this move once again weakened the strength of Sun Ce and Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, which is equivalent to indirectly helping Li Li. This section, I'm afraid that Yuan Shu never dreamed of it, or he didn't think about it at all, and his mind was full of how to break through.

At the same time that the Yuan army successfully broke through the siege out of the city, Lu Bu and the Jiangdong army outside the east gate, who suffered heavy casualties again, had no time to care about their own casualties, so they invariably chose to leave a part of the soldiers and horses to intercept and break through the Yuan army, and they themselves led their own troops and horses to take the city gate directly, trying to take the lead in the city and capture Yuan Shu.

But they did not expect that a quarter of an hour after the east and west gates were opened, the south gate and the north gate were opened one after another. Immediately, Xu Huang, who was stationed at the main gate, and Gongsun Zhan, who was stationed at the south gate, led the army into the city almost at the same time, while the commander Li Li stayed outside the city to wait for news. In addition, Sun Ce was also stationed outside the south gate, but when he learned that the camp at the east gate had been raided, he immediately led the army to help without hesitation, and when he arrived at the east gate, he happened to meet Lu Dai, who was about to attack the city gate. At this time, Xu Huang and Gongsun Zhan had already led their troops into the city.

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