Hearing that Guo Jia had sent a letter, Cao Ren hurriedly said to the soldier who reported the news: "Quickly bring the person who delivered the letter!" ”

The soldier who reported the news answered, turned around and ran quickly.

After a while, he brought in a dusty Cao soldier with a dusty face.

Seeing Cao Ren, the soldiers of the Cao Army, whose faces were full of dust, hurriedly clasped their fists and bowed to him.

Raising his hand towards Cao Junxu, Cao Ren asked him, "But does the military advisor have a letter to hand over to General Ben?" ”

"Exactly!" Straightening up, the soldier reached out and took out a letter from his bosom, held it in both hands and handed it to Cao Ren.

After receiving the letter, Cao Ren waved his hand at the soldier and said, "Go down and rest!" ”

The soldier answered, said goodbye, and under the guidance of a Cao Ren's own soldier, entered the barracks to rest.

Unfolding the letter, Cao Ren just briefly skimmed the contents of the letter, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

A general who had been by his side saw that his eyes were shining, and his face was already showing unconcealable joy, and he asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with the general?" Isn't it that the military advisor has a strategy to break the city? ”

"Exactly!" Holding the letter in his hand, Cao Ren nodded and asked the general: "A few days ago, our army defeated the Qin army, can you discard the military flag you obtained?" ”

"Not discarded!" Holding his fist and arching towards Cao Ren, the general first replied, and then asked a little blankly: "What is the plan of the military advisor?" Why use the Qin army flag? ”

Unfolding the letter, Cao Ren put the letter in front of the general and said to him: "Our army broke through Lu Bu earlier, and the military advisor expected that the King of Qin would send troops to rescue him, but this time the Qin army may not be lightly attacked by our army's plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements!" ”

"If that's the case, wouldn't our army have to be surrounded by the Qin army?" Hearing that the Qin army would no longer besiege the city to send reinforcements, the general was stunned for a moment, he really didn't understand that the crisis was just around the corner, why did Cao Ren seem extremely happy!

"After reading the letter from the military advisor, let's talk about it!" With a smile on his face, Cao Ren ordered the general to read the letter, and only when there was a sudden expression on the general's face did he ask, "What?" You know how the military advisor plans! ”

"If it is according to what the military advisor said, our army only needs to make deployments, and Shouchun City will be captured!" After reading the letter, the partial general, who had already understood Guo Jia's intentions, also looked at Cao Ren with a happy face and said: "The general will return to Xudu in the future, and Cao Gong will definitely be rewarded!" ”

"Whether the reward is generous or not, and it is a later story!" Cao Ren waved his hand and said to the general: "I will wait for the Qin army reinforcements to arrive, and it is important to take Shouchun down!" ”

"This matter is entrusted to you, tomorrow morning, you will make arrangements!" Looking at the partial general beside him, Cao Ren whispered to him: "Whether you can break through Shouchun depends on how you lead the army!" ”

"General rest assured!" Cao Ren handed over a credit to him, and the general knew that if the matter was done well this time, it would be indispensable to return to Xudu and be promoted to the knighthood, so he hurriedly thanked Cao Ren and said: "Thanks to the general's cultivation, even if the last general loses his head, he must do things safely!" ”

waved his hand at the general, and when the general left, Cao Ren's gaze at Shouchun City was already a little hotter, as if Shouchun was already in his pocket.

After the bloody fighting during the day, the night quietly shrouded Shouchun City.

In the military camp of the Cao army in the distance, there were clusters of fires, and the Qin army on the city wall of Shouchun also lit torches.

A young soldier sat with his back to the battlements, looking up at the starry sky, holding a handful of corn in his hand, but not filling his mouth.

"What's wrong?" Sitting next to the young soldier was a veteran in his thirties, and when he saw that the young soldier was holding corn and didn't eat it, the veteran whispered: "While Cao's army has not attacked the city, I can eat some." If you really want to fight, you have to be physical! ”

"Brother, do you think we're going to die?" Looking at the starry sky, the young soldier seemed to be talking to himself, but he was clearly asking the old soldier a question.

"Perhaps!" The old soldier tugged at the corners of his mouth, filled the corn in his hand into his mouth, and waited until he swallowed the corn before saying to the young soldier: "But Cao Jun will die more than us!" ”

"I miss my mother!" Looking at the night sky, the young soldier's eyes shone with a glittering luster, and although the tears did not flow out, he was a little choked when he spoke.

"Brother!" Gently patting the young soldier on the shoulder, the veteran said to him: "Who doesn't want to go home? My little girl will be a few days old, and I won't even be able to go home! ”

As he spoke, he sighed softly and turned his head to look behind him.

He was sitting by the battlements, and when he looked back, all he saw was the bluestone on the city wall, and it was impossible to see the military camp of Cao Jun outside the city.

"Brother, if we could all live, how nice it would be!" With a grin, the young soldier raised his arm and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said to the veteran: "I can go home to see my mother, can you go home to see your little girl......"

"Someone is going to die!" Shaking his head, the veteran said in a somewhat gloomy tone: "The brothers who died a few days ago, which one has no home?" Who doesn't have a loved one at home? ”

Listening to the old soldier's words, the young soldier did not say anything more, and a sadness gradually appeared on his face.

He was also one of the soldiers who followed Lu Bu to help Shouchun, and was intercepted and killed by Cao's army that day.

If it hadn't been for a brother who pushed him away, he would have been killed by Cao Jun's random arrows.

The brother who pushed him away had already fallen on the battlefield, but he survived......

The veteran is right, who has no relatives, and who has no home?

But they live in troubled times, and if they don't pick up weapons, they will be slaughtered like pigs by others!

"Our relatives are all in Luoyang, all in Daqin!" Turning his head to look at the young soldier, the veteran did not see through what he was thinking in his heart, and continued to say to him: "If we retreat, the Cao army will drive straight in, once Luoyang is breached, how many hardships will the relatives suffer!" Think about how Dong Zhuo brutalized the villagers back then, and now I will have a cold sweat on my spine! ”

"Brother, you don't have to say it!" Smiling slightly, the young soldier said to the veteran: "I understand! As long as His Highness does not order us to leave, even if I die, I will die on this city wall! When the time comes, at least the mother will tell the villagers that her son died in the battle for Daqin and the villagers! ”

At this point, the young soldier was already a little choked.

After all, he is still too young, although the truth has been understood, but the thought of dying in Shouchun, thinking of never seeing his parents again, the sadness in his heart is still difficult to hide.

Stretching out his arm to put his arm around the young soldier's shoulder, the veteran held his hand holding the corn and said, "Eat, eat the grain, and when Cao's army attacks the city, we will have a fierce battle!" ”

"Hmm!" The young soldier answered, and with tears in his eyes, he brought the corn to his mouth and ate it bite by bite.

The city wall is full of Qin troops sitting on the battlements, although the city wall is full of people, but the surroundings are surprisingly quiet.

Except for the occasional whisper of something, the only sound on the walls of the walls is the "whirring" sound of the flames on the torches jumping in the wind.

The battle flags planted on the battlements were hunting and flying, as if they were inspiring the soldiers of the Qin army.

But at this time, no one in the Qin army had the heart to care about the flying battle flags, and most of them were thinking about whether they could survive tomorrow!

After the daytime fighting, since the retreat of Cao's army, Lu Bu and Yu Poison have been discussing how to consolidate the city defense next.

Yu Poison had already thought of letting most of the Qin troops in the city withdraw, but foreign aid had not yet arrived, and withdrawing at this time was tantamount to sending Cao Jun to slaughter.

After roughly planning the deployment of reinforcements before they arrived, Lu Bu and Yu Poison decided to go to the city wall to inspect first.

The Qin army, which has never suffered defeat, has been defeated in successive battles recently, and they have besieged the city in the past, but at this time they are surrounded by the enemy in the city, and the feelings of the Qin army soldiers will definitely fluctuate greatly.

Lu Bu and Yu Poison both knew very well that their patrolling of the city defense at this time played an extremely important role in stabilizing the morale of the army.

Walking down from the city gate tower side by side, Lu Bu and Yu Poison saw Qin Jun sitting on the battlements along the way.

As they walked by, some of the Qin soldiers would look up at them, but very few stood up to greet them.

All of them were tired and depressed, and although everyone knew what they were fighting for, their morale had fallen to their lowest point.

Looking at the soldiers of the Qin army on the city wall, Lu Bu's brows frowned slightly, and he whispered to Yu Poison on the side: "The soldiers are already tired, and they have been defeated repeatedly, and their morale is declining at this time. ”

Yu Xuan lowered his eyelids and was silent for a moment before he said to Lu Bu: "Earlier, I followed His Highness to fight, and every time there was a big battle, His Highness would encourage the soldiers, why don't you say something to the soldiers today?" ”

Lu Bu nodded, did not speak to Yu Poison again, but pressed the hilt of the sword with one hand, straightened his body, and shouted to the soldiers of the Qin army on the city wall: "Soldiers! General Ben has something to say to you! ”

Hearing Lu Bu's shout, the soldiers of the Qin army all stood up one by one, and many people even moved closer to Lu Bu and Yu Poison.

"General Ben has a question for you!" Looking at the group of Qin troops approaching, Lu Bu shouted loudly: "Do you know why we are fighting today?" ”

"General, I know all this!" Lu Bu's words were obviously very uninnovative, and a soldier of the Qin army pouted and interjected: "Once the Cao army breaks through Shouchun, Luoyang will be in front of them, and my relatives will be killed by them!" We will not retreat, and even if we die in battle, we will die on the city wall. ”

"Well said!" Originally, I wanted to use this excuse to mobilize the soldiers, but I didn't expect the soldiers to understand the reason, Lu Bu nodded, and then shouted: "Then the general asks you again, do you want to live?" ”