The battle is not three-fold, Yang Zheng will pick up the head of the gun in the future and hold it in the air, Cao Jiang struggled a few times in the air, kicked his legs and feet, and settled the account.

The morale of the Cao army on the city wall was even lower, which also strengthened Le Jin's determination to hold on, and several generals with good martial arts died in the hands of Yang Zheng, He was really not sure that he could defeat the other party, if he went out of the city to fight, the death was small, and the Wuyin City was lost, then he would live up to Cao Cao's trust.

"Pass the order, from now on you can't hold out, if anyone dares to go out of the city to fight again, it will not be forgiven!"

This order completely demoralized many of Cao's soldiers, and it was even more uncomfortable to fight like this than to kill them.

And it is precisely because of this order that the other generals and colonies are relieved, at least they don't have to go out to die in order to save face, many people are thinking, the three generals who went out of the city before are really stupid, they lost their lives in vain, and they became a stepping stone for the enemy generals to become famous, it's really not worth it!

The marching speed of Xu Shu's army was not fast, and on the afternoon of the third day after he led the army from the camp outside Wuyin City, he suddenly approached the city of Xu.

Xu Du did not receive any news before, the vanguard sent by Xu Shu was a thousand former troops led by Su Fei, Su Fei wanted to take advantage of the defenselessness of the defenders of Xu Du, and seize the south city gate by means of sneak attack to enter the city, and was about to successfully control the city gate, and most of the city gate defenders had been killed, but at this critical moment, Yu Ban, who had only one arm left and was recuperating at home, happened to be a guest at a friend's house nearby, and when he heard the shouting and killing sound from the city gate, he immediately took his own guards and the family members in his friend's house to kill him, successfully blocked Su Fei.

After losing dozens of sergeants under his command, Su Fei saw that a large number of Cao troops were reinforcing here, and knew that there was no hope of seizing the door, and he was afraid that he would not be able to leave if he didn't leave, so he had to lead his army to withdraw quickly.

When Xu Shu led the army to arrive, Su Fei went to plead guilty, and told in detail about the failure of the raid on the south city gate.

"That's what happened, the last general made his own decisions without reporting and asking for instructions, and asked the military advisor to surrender!"

Xu Shu touched his beard and said with a smile: "As a striker, if you send someone to report this, it will be too late, the fighter plane will be fleeting, and there is nothing wrong with acting independently, Xu is not a pedantic person who does not know how to change, what is the crime of the general, please get up quickly!" ”

But the military judge stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Military advisor, the general will not rise for this, if he is not punished, the authority of the chief general will be greatly damaged, if everyone follows suit, the army does not become an army, how can the lord fight for the lord?" ”

Xu Shu shook his head, raised his hand and waved, "Unauthorized action and this matter are two different things, and they can't be confused!" As the leader of an army, when there is a certain degree of autonomy, can make decisions independently within a certain range, the chief general must be able to delegate power, and cannot stick to the rules to limit the power and action of the generals, so as to give full play to the strength of the army to a greater extent! ”

"Besides, General Su has not violated military regulations, military discipline and military orders, which one will punish him?"

When the military judge heard this, he clenched his fists and stepped aside.

Xu Shu's set of methods of cultivating generals, to a certain extent, delegating power to generals, can give full play to the subjective initiative of the generals, let them display their talents, learn and grow in the war, a military general without his own ideas is at best just a brave general who can only charge into battle, can not go to the big scene, the slightest unpredictable change on the battlefield, it will be blind.

Su Fei hurriedly thanked: "The military advisor is famous!" ”

Xu Shu smiled, waved his hand and said: "We didn't plan to succeed in stealing the city, if we could easily break through Xu Ducheng, someone would have done this a long time ago, how could I be here today?" There is no need to mention this matter again, the order will go down, and set up camp here, so that the soldiers can rest for a day tomorrow and attack the city the day after tomorrow! ”

The Flame Army did not have a plan to defeat Xu Ducheng this time, because this is not realistic at all, Xu Du is the national capital, the city is high and thick, there are many defenders, there are enough equipment and materials to defend the city, and there are many fierce generals and wise men in the city to defend it, if you can easily defeat it with more than 16,000 people, where can you get them?

The intention of the Flame Army is to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and the task is to let Cao Ren bring the 10,000 horses to attack Liu Bei back to help Xu Du, as for whether Cao Cao's army can return to help, it doesn't matter, there is still Yuan Shao in the north, in Qin Feng's mind, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao had better fight to defeat both.

Two days later, Xu Shu led the army to arrive at the capital of Xu again, the army formation was neat, the swords and guns were lined up, the flags were fluttering, and the sergeants and people of the rear siege equipment battalion were constantly transporting all kinds of siege equipment to assemble.

On the city wall, Xun Yu, Hua Xin, Xu You, the generals Xiahoudun, Xu Huang, and a cadre of young generals Cao Xiu, Dian Man, Cao Zhen and others.

Xun Yu was very depressed, the dignified national capital, was actually under the city by the princes' army several times in a row, and he was slapped in the face when he said it, but in the current situation, it is really not good to send troops out of the city to fight with the enemy, after all, he can't figure out the reality of the other party, in case of a plan, Xu Du will be in danger.

Xu You saw the banner of Xu in the military formation outside the city, and couldn't help asking: "This general is surnamed Xu, I don't know who it is?" Qin Feng actually trusted him so much, he had never heard of him before! ”

Cheng Yu said: "According to the scout report, Qin Feng has a military division under his account, surnamed Xu Mingshu, a person from Yingchuan, and an old mother in his family. ”

Hua Xin couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that such a talent is so good to be attributed to the prime minister, but he succumbs to the thief, it's a pity, it's a pity!" ”

Outside the city, the siege equipment captain Pegasus came to report: "Qi Qi military division, the trebuchet and bed crossbow are all assembled, and they can start at any time!" ”

Xu Shu sat on the back of the horse and nodded: "Okay, let's start with the trebuchet, and give the defenders in Xudu City an appetizer first!" ”

"Order!"

The captain of the equipment battalion rode back and ordered to shoot stones at the defenders of the city wall for a test shot, find the point of the bullet, and then adjust the firing range.

With a creaking sound from the military formation outside the city, small black dots flew in the sky, and then these small black dots turned into stones, and the size of the stone became bigger and bigger in the sight, and a terrible shout sounded on the city tower: "It's the thunderbolt that is firing stones, hide, hide!" ”

Ren is Xun Yu, these big people who have experienced strong winds and waves, in the face of this kind of formation, their faces couldn't help but change greatly, and they couldn't hold back one by one, and they took refuge in the city tower.

Some of the Cao army sergeants squatted under the battlements, reporting their heads to death, and most of the Cao soldiers were at a loss, until a stone fell on the city wall, smashing several sergeants into meat sauce in a row, and the others were so frightened that they hugged their heads and ran away!