Outside the east gate of Xudu.

The three men pushed a cart under the protection of the four knights to the city, and when they reached a stone's throw from the city wall, the leading knight raised his hand, and the three men who were pushing the cart immediately stopped.

"Alright, let's get it here, let's go!" The leading knight said this, and turned around, and the other three knights and three men departed immediately, leaving behind a lone cart.

There is a person lying on the cart, to be precise, it is a patchwork corpse, the corpse is wearing a helmet, wearing armor, and the weapon is also on the cart.

Seeing the knights and people escorting the carts walking away, the captain on duty on the city tower thought for a moment and ordered: "Open the city gate and go to a few speeds to push the carts in!" ”

"No!"

The gates of the city opened quickly, and several soldiers ran out, pushing and helping, and ran back.

Shangshu Mansion.

Xun Yu is discussing the next city defense arrangements with Cheng Yu, Xiahoudun and others.

"I thought I sent someone out of the city secretly to get along with Cheng to get along with the thunderbolt car construction atlas and manufacturing method, maybe it will take three or five days to return, during this time, General Yuan Rang must resist!"

Xiahoudun said: "Since Liu Bei has a building car, he has built a large number of earth mountains, the average daily casualties of our army have increased sharply several times, and the dead and wounded are all elite soldiers, although Liu Bei's command is a rabble, but the number is more than twice as many as our army, so hard to consume, our army can't fight, I want to make use of the people's strength, especially among the ministers and officials and the family to be guards, guards, and those caravan guards, these people are quite powerful, many of them have experience in fighting and fighting, if they are incorporated into the army in the form of recruits, and in the way of a veteran leading a new soldier, the number of troops participating in the city defense will increase by sixty percent! ”

Xun Yu thought about it for a while and agreed to Xiahoudun's plan, "Okay, this matter will be handled like this!" ”

At this time, a sergeant ran in and shouted: "Xun Lingjun, General Xiahou, the big thing is not good, the big thing is not good, General Cao Chun is ······."

Cao Chun?

Xun Yu got up suddenly, and Xiahoudun and Cheng Yu immediately turned around, "General Cao Chun, what's wrong with him?" ”

"General Cao Chun······ Dead in battle! ”

The faces of the three changed drastically.

A quarter of an hour later, Xun Yu, Xiahoudun, Cheng Yu and others rode to the East City Gate.

The rows of Cao Jun sergeants stood up and down the city in the middle of a large open space, and on the open space was the lonely cart, and on the cart was Cao Chun's corpse.

Xun Yu and the three of them jumped off their horses and hurriedly ran to the side of the cart, looking at the cart It was Cao Chun lying on the cart, the body was cut into two pieces by heavy weapons, but at the moment it was pieced together, and the blood stains on the cart had dried up.

Xiahoudun wept in grief, and Xun Yu, Cheng Yu and others sighed silently.

There was also a roll of bamboo slips next to Cao Chun's corpse, Xun Yu picked it up after seeing it, opened it and looked at it, only to see the bamboo slips written: "In a battle outside the city of Xudu, Cao Zihe and his heavy armored iron cavalry suffered heavy losses and were surrounded, swore not to surrender, died in battle, Zihe and the general were loyal and brave!" Qin Feng's handwriting, Jian'an five years ······"

To be praised and affirmed by enemy generals is also the glory of a general.

Xun Yu closed the bamboo slip and sighed: "Send the son and the general home!" ”

The news of Cao Chun's death in battle and the annihilation of the 3,500 iron cavalry was very spread in the city, but Xun Yu and others wanted to block the news but it was too late, and when Cao Chun's body was returned, the news had already spread, which was undoubtedly a major blow to the morale and confidence of the soldiers and civilians in the city.

"What is Brother Zhongde's opinion on this matter?" On the way back to Shangshu Mansion, Xun Yu asked.

Cheng Yu touched his short beard and sighed: "By sending back Cao Zi and the corpse, he reflected his demeanor, and explained the loyalty and courage of his son and the general by letter, which expressed a high evaluation, but also exalted himself, in such a way, let the news spread in the city, and hit the morale and confidence of our army and people, killing three birds with one stone, this person has won the essence of the art of war!" ”

"In the past, I was ordered by the prime minister to send someone to investigate this person and obtained a lot of useful information, but now it seems that I still know less about this person!"

Xun Yu nodded, "From this point of view, Qin Wuyi is by no means comparable to ordinary generals, aside from the ability to force and command troops, this person has qualities that other generals do not have!" ”

Cheng Yu said: "I want to hear it in detail!" ”

"At the moment, it seems that this person can be called a good general!" Xun Yu said.

Cheng Yu turned his head to look at Xun Yu and asked, "Good general?" What is Xun Lingjun's criterion? ”

Xun Yu smiled and said: "I think that throughout the ages, martial arts can be divided into six types by classification: the first category is for brave generals, on the battlefield, bravely fighting for the first, and not afraid of the dead!" The second type is for fierce generals, if a person is strong and brave and invincible, he is called a fierce general in the world, and he deserves it! The third category, benevolent generals, who break through the mental barrier, treat the sergeants under their command with benevolence and righteousness, treat the enemy cruelly, and can train and integrate a group of rabble and different groups of people into a mighty army with strict military discipline is a benevolent general! ”

"The fourth category, the wise general! They are familiar with military books, proficient in the art of war, strategizing, and winning decisive victories, but they have obvious weaknesses, and they often have extremely low force values, which are inversely proportional to their resourcefulness, and they can only stay in command of the Chinese army, but cannot go to the frontline battlefield in person."

"The fifth category, good generals! Compared with the lame and partial generals, the good generals who can write and martial arts are obviously better and more favored! A good general can easily resist the enemy for thousands of miles and destroy the enemy country; Tranquility can calm people, and stabilize the country! ”

"The sixth category, the generals, the commanders! Throughout the ages, there are only a handful of generals and commanders who can be called generals, and the strength of troops is just a number for them. and there are works on the art of war handed down; He is not only familiar with military affairs, but also knows politics; This is a group of people who have truly seen through the essence of war and mastered the fundamental laws of war! ”

Cheng Yu couldn't help nodding when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "Except for the human master, I don't know if there will be generals in the world?" ”

Xun Yu shook his head and smiled: "I haven't found it yet!" ”

At night, laughter and laughter came from the big tent of the Chinese army in Liu Beijun's camp.

Liu Bei raised the wine cup and smiled at Qin Feng: "Today, thanks to the general who led the army to block the sneak attack of the Cao army's cavalry from the flank, otherwise, our army is in danger!" Come on, come on, Bei General, please drink this lamp! ”

Qin Feng picked up the wine cup and drank it all, put down the wine cup and said: "Uncle Liu Huang is polite, we have a clear division of labor before, Uncle Huang is responsible for attacking the city, and is responsible for peripheral defense and vigilance, if there is an enemy attack, our army should go all out to resist the enemy, even if it fights to a single soldier, it will never retreat!" ”

"Hahaha······ Well, the general is a trustworthy person, and he is ready to hand over the flanks and backs of the whole army to the general, worry-free! ”

The next two days of siege made Liu Bei and others find that the Cao army has increased the strength of the city wall, through observation, they found that although the soldiers increased by the Cao army are not as good as the elite soldiers in combat experience, but they are not weak, if after a period of fighting, they can soon transform into elite soldiers, this discovery made Liu Bei and others begin to become worried.