The main force of 70,000 Qin troops drove to the outside of Shouchun City.

Thousands of Qin troops set up wooden shelves in the open space outside the city.

Earlier, Liu Wei had studied the catapult that could be dragged and moved by a war horse, but the catapult dragged and moved by the war horse was not long enough, and the amount of large stone force thrown was insufficient, so it was difficult to have a destructive effect on the city wall.

Therefore, to attack Shouchun, the Qin army still arrived outside the city to temporarily set up catapults.

The sound of hammers smashing on wooden frames echoed in the Qin army's barracks, and Liu Wei rode on horseback, staring at Shouchun City, which was already close at hand.

"Your Highness, in less than seven days, our army will be able to complete the construction of all catapults!" Looking at Shouchun City, Lu Bu rode a horse behind Liu Wei, clasped his fists and saluted him, reporting the progress of the project.

"Bongxian!" Hearing Lu Bu's voice, Liu Wei turned his head and smiled at him and asked, "When you came to Shouchun City, you couldn't attack the city immediately, but you were a little anxious in your heart?" ”

When Liu Wei asked, Lu Bu grinned and said, "Your Highness said to the last general yesterday that leading the army to fight must be calm. Since His Highness said it, the last general thought about it for a long time, and felt that what His Highness said was really a good word! ”

"If you can think like this, Feng Xian can be a great talent!" Turning his head to look at Shouchun City, Liu Wei said to Lu Bu: "It's just that Feng Xian should take precautions at any time, and the Huainan army may not know when, it will kill from behind our army!" ”

"No!" Knowing that Liu Wei said such a thing, it was entirely out of Chen Gong's statement that the Huainan Army might open a tunnel between the city and the Xiangling, and Lu Bu hurriedly responded.

The Qin army arrived outside the city of Shouchun and set up catapults outside the city at the same time.

On the city wall of Shouchun, Yuan Shu held the battlements with one hand, staring out of the city without blinking.

Behind him, stood Yang Hong, whom he trusted the most.

"The Qin army is finally outside the city!" Looking at the Qin army arrayed outside the city, Yuan Shu asked Yang Hong behind him, "Is the passage in the city open?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's been dug through!" Holding his fists and bowing to Yuan Shu, Yang Hong said to him: "Your Majesty is really like a god, the passage was dug that day, and the generals were not informed, and now everyone is kept in the dark, and they don't know that the Qin army has come to Shouchun, and this Shouchun City will be the place where they are permanently buried!" ”

"Huh!" Yang Hong's sycophancy, the Yuan Shu was very useful, he grinned, stroked his beard and said: "I have brought the army into the city, and the world thinks that I am stupid enough to gather hundreds of thousands of troops in Shouchun City, consume grain and grass all day long, and wait for the Qin army to break through the city. How many people could have thought that I had already made proper plans for the attack on the Qin army? ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" Holding his fists and bowing to Yuan Shu, Yang Hong said: "The soldiers and horses in the city have been prepared, I don't know when Your Majesty plans to launch a surprise attack on the Qin army?" ”

Holding the battlements with both hands, looking at the Qin army outside the city, Yuan Shu pondered for a moment before saying to Yang Hong: "Call Ji Ling and Liu Xun, I have something to explain to the two!" ”

"No!" Knowing that Yuan Shu summoned the two of them to come in order to deploy an attack on the Qin army, Yang Hong hurriedly responded, turned his head and shouted to a soldier behind him: "Quickly go and invite the two generals Ji Ling and Liu Xun to come and meet Your Majesty!" ”

One of the soldiers answered, turned and ran down the wall as fast as he could.

After the soldiers left, Yuan Shu held on to the city wall, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, first looked at the Qin army arrayed outside the city for a while, and then turned his eyes to the distant Xiangling, and said to Yang Hong: "Shouchun is located between the Xiangling, which seems to be easy to attack and difficult to defend, but in fact, this continuous mountain has added a lot of barriers to this place. ”

Listening to what Yuan Shu said, Yang Hong maintained a posture of clenching his fists and bowing, and said to him: "It is easy to attack and difficult to defend, but ordinary people defend the city." Now that His Majesty is personally defending the city, how can this Shouchun become a place that is easy to attack and difficult to defend? ”

After being slapped by Yang Hong several times in a row, Yuan Shu raised his head and smiled, raised his hand and nodded twice at Yang Hong and said, "You, you!" There are a few talents in the world, and there are many people who are more shrewd than me, and you have offended many heroes in the world when you say this! ”

"In the hearts of the ministers, His Majesty is the wisest!" Holding his fists, Yang Hong bent his body deeply, and once again slapped Yuan Shu without a trace.

While Yuan Shu and Yang Hong were talking, two generals in heavy armor strode from the city to the city and walked straight towards Yuan Shu.

"Your Majesty!" Walking up to the city, it was Ji Ling and Liu Xun, the two of them arrived in front of Yuan Shu, hugged their fists and bowed to Yuan Shu, and greeted them together.

Hearing the voices of the two, Yuan Shu turned his head to look at them, a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to them: "The two generals have a strategy to break the enemy right now?" ”

Asked by Yuan Shu, Ji Ling and Liu Xun glanced at each other, and a thick sense of loss appeared on each other's faces, and said to Yuan Shu: "Under the Qiqi Majesty, Huaishui and Weishui have all lost our army, and now I am afraid that there is no way for the two of us to retreat from the enemy!" ”

Looking at Ji Ling and Liu Xun with lost faces, Yuan Shu always had that faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to the two: "If I have a strategy to retreat from the enemy, how do you two feel?" ”

I didn't expect Yuan Shu to say such a thing to them, both of them raised their heads to look at him, and Ji Ling asked Yuan Shu with some hesitation, "I don't know what is the best plan for Your Majesty?" ”

"Yang Hong!" Yuan Shu did not answer Ji Ling's question, but greeted Yang Hong, who was standing behind him, and said to him: "Tell the two generals that I have any strategy to retreat from the enemy!" ”

Smiling slightly, Yang Hong faced Ji Ling and Liu Xun, and said to the two of them: "The two generals proposed to deploy defenses in the Huaishui and Weishui areas earlier, but I don't know what the two of them have a chance of winning?" ”

"If you don't talk about it, there are three or five points!" After a deep groan, Ji Ling said to Yang Hong: "At present, it is difficult for the army to even get out of the city, and the Qin army is already under the city, even if our army wants to deploy defenses, it will not have a chance to ......."

"Three or five points ......" Yang Hong repeated Ji Ling's answer, turned his head and glanced at Yuan Shu, smiled at each other, and then said to Ji Ling and Liu Xun: "If the two generals were deployed on the same day, they would only have a three-five chance of winning, but now Your Majesty has a plan, but there is a ninety percent chance of winning!" ”

Listening to Yang Hong's words, Ji Ling and Liu Xun were stunned for a moment, Liu Xun couldn't help it, and said to Yang Hong: "Changshi don't want to be like this, if you have something to say, just say it bluntly, both of us are military generals, and I can't stand Changshi's teasing like this!" ”

Seeing that Liu Xun was already a little impatient, Yang Hong smiled and said to him: "The two generals can go out of the city in two ways, and General Liu will lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Qin army from behind; General Ji led 70,000 soldiers and horses, killed from the city, and attacked the Qin army on both sides, this battle can be determined! ”

"Chang Shi is talking in his dreams?" As soon as Yang Hong's words were finished, Ji Ling pouted and smiled, raised his hand and pointed to the Qin army array outside the city, and said to him: "The Qin army has already surrounded Shouchun City, and if we want to get out of the city, I am afraid that it will be difficult to put on wings!" ”

"General, don't worry!" Ji Ling refuted Yang Hong's statement on the spot, and Yang Hong said to him with a smile: "On the way out of the city, Your Majesty has already prepared!" ”

Hearing that Yuan Shu had already prepared the way out of the city, Ji Ling and Liu Xun glanced at each other and asked almost in unison, "Where is the way out of the city?" ”

"A few months ago, His Majesty already knew that the King of Qin was going to lead an army to invade Huainan, and he had already made people open a secret passage in the city!" Looking at Ji Ling and Liu Xun, Yang Hong said to them: "The secret passage leads directly to Xiangling, and several exits are connected to each other. ”

After Yang Hong's words were finished, Ji Ling and Liu Xun were stunned, and Ji Ling almost blurted out: "In this way, General Liu attacks the Qin army from behind, and the Qin army will definitely turn back to meet the enemy!" The last general will lead the main force out of the city again, so that maybe the siege of Shouchun can be solved in one battle! ”

"Do the two generals now know Your Majesty's good intentions?" Ji Ling had already seen the next step of deployment, and Yang Hong asked him and Liu Xun with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Asked by Yang Hong, Ji Ling and Liu Xun hurriedly clasped their fists and bowed to Yuan Shu, and said at the same time: "The last general speculated about His Majesty's wise move earlier with a dull heart, but now that I think about it, I am really frightened, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive your sins!" ”

Chao Jiling and Liu Xun nodded, and Yuan Shu waved his hand to them very generously and said: "The two generals don't have to be like this, I just hope that the two generals will work together to defeat the Qin army outside the city in one fell swoop!" ”

After Yuan Shu's words, Ji Ling and Liu Xun bowed lower, and responded in unison, and then Ji Ling asked Yuan Shu: "When does Your Majesty plan to attack the Qin army outside the city?" ”

Turning his head to look outside the city, Yuan Shu had a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to Ji Ling and Liu Xun: "The Qin army outside the city is stepping up to build catapults, and the construction of catapults can be completed in six to seven days. ”

While Yuan Shu spoke, Ji Ling and Liu Xun were both listening silently, waiting for him to give the order to attack the Qin army.

"General Liu!" With his eyes still outside the city, Yuan Shu said to Liu Xun: "This evening, you will lead an army of 30,000 and go out of the city secretly. Tomorrow and tomorrow, immediately launch an attack on the Qin army outside the city! ”

"No!" After receiving Yuan Shu's orders, Liu Xun clasped his fists with both hands and hurriedly responded.

After giving the order to Liu Xun, Yuan Shu turned his head to look at Ji Ling and said to him: "General Ji, you immediately prepare your troops and horses and wait for the movement outside the city!" If General Liu attacks the Qin army, you will immediately lead the army out of the city, fight General Liu inside and out, and crush the Qin army in one fell swoop! ”

"Order!" Yuan Shu asked him to prepare to attack the Qin army with Liu Xun inside and out, and Ji Ling hurriedly responded with his fists clenched.

Giving instructions to the two of them, Yuan Shu waved his hand at them.

Ji Ling and Liu Xun saluted Yuan Shu again, walked down the city wall side by side, and each ordered troops to make pre-battle deployments.

After the two left, Yuan Shu pressed his hand on the battlements, and when he looked out of the city, the smile on the corner of his mouth became much colder.