Night.

Southwest winds rise.

Zhuge Liang was on the high slope of the hill, and put the lamp with people, more than 5,000 people, each with a lamp.

After lighting the fire, the lamp swelled, and at this time, the wind direction was calculated, and the lamp was put up and floated into the air.

The little firelight is like a starry sky, hitting the sky above Shouchun City.

Cao Cao sat on a high platform in the middle of the camp, and when he saw this scene, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he inevitably had a little pride.

"I didn't expect it to be so beautiful."

"The night sky is dotted like the stars rolling upside down, like someone stealing gold and jade, scattered in the sky."

Guo Jia's face was gloomy, and when he heard Cao Cao's feelings, he couldn't help but smile, "When I saw it at first, I was also surprised, but I didn't expect that it really had such an effect, which could make the lights fly." ”

"If the candles are burned out, the paper lamps will fall into the city."

"Kong Ming has calculated the length and shortness, although this candle flame is not neat, but it is also within the scope of the city, and it will rarely fly out of the city."

"And on the paper lamp, recently, all the literate and literate people in the army have written on it the internal precepts pursued by the Cao family all his life, Xu Bowen disciplines himself and loves the people, and the Son of Heaven benefits the government to the people."

"Moreover, there are also books to persuade the soldiers and the common people to surrender, mainly to open the door and surrender to sincerity, which can save the lives of the family."

"As long as the soldiers and horses of Shouchun surrender, they can protect the peace of the whole family, and they can make meritorious contributions to the crime, and they can wash away the sin of rebellion as the soldiers who charge into battle in the future."

"The people in the city can get the policy of benefiting the people, get food and minced meat, can have a full stomach and prevent their bodies from dying, and can protect their children and daughters."

"Under such a favorable government, it is the military and civilians of the whole city who are persuaded to surrender, Yuan Shu's hearts have been scattered, how can he gather his soldiers and horses to protect each other desperately, this gust of southwest wind, I am afraid it can really blow into Shouchun's heart."

Cao Cao's heart was immediately at peace when he heard this, and he was able to attack with this method, which showed that this plan was already considered to be an attack on the heart.

"What's more, it's still so peaceful and beautiful," Cao Cao sighed, "how not to miss the leisure of the prosperous world." ”

The lanterns on the autumn night, what a peaceful scenery, can be seen on the battlefield, but it is also a unique flavor.

"Haha, hahaha!" Cao Cao looked at the lights flying in the sky in a daze, and gradually laughed out loud.

Many of the advisors and guards on the stage also followed with anticipation at this moment, watching the lights enter the city.

……

on the city gates.

"Look! What is that!? ”

"Out of nowhere, the fire is rising! But the stars are falling!? ”

"Be on guard! This may be Cao Jun's siege trick! Shine these lights down now! ”

"Archer!!"

Under the shouts of the generals, the soldiers who had been resting on the spot under the city hurriedly climbed the tower, holding bows and arrows to diffuse into the sky, and many lights fell and ignited flames in the middle of the road.

But most of them flew into the city.

Passed the city unharmed.

At this time, the confetti fell, and someone picked it up and looked at it, and fell into silence.

"The Cao family has been frugal all his life, and he does not let the door be extravagant and wasteful, every meter and a mile, and it is hard to come——"

"Xu Zhen is a white ding, a marquis with a clear name, he has been self-disciplined for many years, he is not involved in the dangers of the law, he has never been selfless, and his rewards have been scattered among the soldiers and the people for several years."

"Yan and Xu Erzhou, the government of benefiting the people, giving rice millet to the people, slaughtering pigs and sheep, and covering the people's full stomachs and peace——"

"Every winter, every family will have a celebration, the Son of Heaven will be shaded, and there will be heaven to help the government. Hearts to the people. ”

"Cao's family, although gradually the eunuchs, do not dare to be extravagant, the family business is strong, but also think about the difficulty of keeping the business, the suffering of the people, there has never been extravagance, such as honey water has no one to eat, and the people drink a river of water, such as drinking nectar——"

Countless passages, either penetrating to the heart, or touching to the truth, can be moving.

Gradually, the defenders on the tower of the city gate stopped shooting arrows, because there was no Cao army attacking in the distance, and it was empty under the city gate, and such a fierce shot was just self-deception.

Wherever these candles floated, there were so many pieces of paper that were read aloud by those who could read and write to spread to the people.

As a result, the sound of the word was heard everywhere, so that the garrison soldiers and horses could not catch it all, and the paper on the ground floated to the barracks, the city tower, and the hands of the people.

It has become a rumor and caused an uproar.

I don't know when, someone shouted out a sentence "How can you be loyal to such a son of heaven?" ”

"You will not surrender to Han! Would you rather be a thief? ”

"Under the Cao family, most of them are clear and benevolent, and in the Shouchun Palace, how can there be benevolence and virtue if they usurp the position of the Son of Heaven! If you don't open the city gate, when will you wait for the old dynasty! ”

"Foolish loyalty is small righteousness! Loyalty to the country is the great righteousness! Why do you want to sacrifice the great righteousness and follow the small righteousness! How could Yuan Shu have such merit!? ”

As soon as he spoke, the rest of the people rushed to all parts of the city like a tide, and although the people had no food during the night, the pent-up anger had exploded in an instant.

They had heard of Xu Zhen and Cao Cao a long time ago, and they pursued benevolence and righteousness! Houde!

Take the people as your own responsibility!

Regardless of the policy of Tuntian, Xuzhou's opening of the warehouse to repay grievances with virtue, these past reputations, all of which are known to everyone, and now they have to see such paper from the sky again and warn.

Some people even sent an immortal oracle from the heavens, so that the heavens would die and the Zhong clan would never be forgiven!

Therefore, it set off a lot of commotion, so that the soldiers in the city could not suppress it.

The generals ordered the immediate arrest of those Confucian scholars who were slightly knowledgeable, knew how to read and hyphenation, and had the eloquence to sedit.

Both old and young will be arrested in the barracks first.

However, it can suppress the people, but it can't suppress the military colonels and soldiers, and the people in the army are panicked, and they don't know whether they want to continue to defend it.

People who have seen the paper falling on the lights are all in their hearts and fall into confusion.

Even though most of the officers and men in the army were former thieves, the sensible people also accounted for the majority.

At the moment, I don't know where to choose, how to choose.

"We are loyal to Yuan Shu, but he drinks and has fun in the palace, but we have to fight to the death outside, what is the reason?"

"Not bad! What Huang Cheng said is very true, I don't understand any reason, but I understand the meaning of love, when this Yuan Shu first gathered the crowd, he didn't give us any good face, he didn't travel, it must be a gorgeous frame, expelling the people, every time he eats, he is extravagant with jade food, and even a mouthful of honey water costs a lot of money. ”

"It is better to die than to serve this lord! He doesn't care if we live or die, why should he sell his life? ”

"Military orders are like mountains, what can you do? Shall you go out of the camp without your own accord and open the gates of the city? ”

"Then do you think it's worth dying for this Yuan Shu?"

"Tyrannical scoundrels! Never die for him! ”

"Anyway, defending the city is also death, you have also seen it, the Cao army attacked the east gate, and it cost 10,000 people to enter the city, so determined where can you survive, it is better to fall, there is still a glimmer of life!"

"The letter said that if it falls tonight, in the future, you can charge into battle for the Han Dynasty and regain your homeland! Don't bother your family! ”

"The wife and children at home can have a full stomach, and the Cao family can do it! Fall! ”

"Alas! Done! ”

In a battalion.

Almost everyone whispered about it.

The night would not have calmed down at all, although the Shouchun soldiers and horses on patrol had already stretched their swords into every house.

But underneath the undercurrent, everything is still surging wildly.

……

The second half of the night.

Dian Wei personally led the army from the south gate, and under the charge of the army, almost all the camps in front of the city gate were broken.

Occupy the camp and continue to press forward, preparing to lead the troops to attack the city.

At the east gate, Cao Hong personally led the army eastward, under the east gate, looking at the city gate.

Cao Cao's soldiers and horses are all here, and whether it can be done tonight depends on whether Kong Ming's strategy works.

"Siege!"

"Ahhh

To the east and south, the city was attacked at the same time, and all the soldiers immediately charged.

The tranquility of the night was shattered in an instant, and Dian Wei under the south gate quickly rushed to the bottom of the city gate, his cheek slashed by an arrow, and an arrow stuck in his shoulder.

When I arrived at the city, I really hit the car twice, and the gate of the city suddenly loosened and was knocked open by Dian Wei, and the soldiers guarding the city inside saw this and directly put down their swords.

Return to Chengcheng!

Dian Wei glanced at them, ready to accept them, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of two people who were about to release dark arrows.

He immediately burst into a shout, dodged and hid behind a person, making the target lose the target, and then suddenly slashed, slashing with a halberd in his right hand, and flying on the spot.

"Defectors, go to the city and slay them at once, and I will follow you! If you are sincere, you can make a meritorious contribution by killing the defenders! ”

"If there is any abnormality, I will personally behead him!"

The soldiers glanced at each other left and right, immediately picked up the sword, turned around and took Dian Wei to the city gate.

They were still wearing the clothes of Shouchun soldiers and horses, and they were familiar faces, and the defenders in the city didn't notice it for a while.

So on the upper floor of the South Gate City, Dian Wei strode up and led people into the meeting hall of the gatehouse, where several deputy generals led more than a dozen guards to guard the town.

Originally, he was supposed to go to the herald to defend the city, but after seeing Dian Wei, they all subconsciously paved up.

Dian Wei kicked one person away, and then jumped down and killed two people, and then swung the double halberd, like a madness to cut the people who were close to him fly, its force was as great as a mountain impact, and after immediately slashing several people, he strode forward directly, and killed the leader of the general with a halberd.

"The general is dead, how long will you wait?"

"Are you really going to lose your life for Yuan Shu?"

Under Dian Wei's angry gaze, his momentum was overwhelming, making all the enemy troops chasing in around him retreat in fear, and his face was ashamed.

Don't dare to look at it.

Soon, someone dropped his sword and surrendered.

By the time the soldiers and horses arrived, Dian Wei had already surrendered all the enemy troops in the entire gatehouse.

The south gate is broken, and the east gate is similar.

Cao Hong led his troops and horses to attack again, but the defenders of the East Gate only resisted for a quarter of an hour, and Yuan Jian died on the tower of the city gate under the flying fire of countless arrows.

He was even pushed down.

The tenacity of the defenders is also the same as before, it is not a grade at all, and even after Yuan Lian's death, as soon as Chen Ji fled, those generals could only lead the soldiers and horses to surrender to Cheng.

After that, the battle was almost one-sided, and it became more and more smooth.

After Cao's soldiers and horses captured the city gate, they rushed into Shouchun City, a place known as a fortified city, and indeed broke through from the inside as mentioned in the previous strategy.

Whether it is the east gate or the south gate, there are people who do not want to defend the city and only want the war to end, and half of them are waiting for the opportunity to surrender to the Cao army.

So half-pushed, half-pushed, half-pushed, and his mind was shaken, and he didn't know how to lose.

As soon as the army's heart dispersed, it was like a collapsed mountain without support, and it fell down with a clatter.

Cao Cao, who was in the Chinese army, saw all this very seriously, and immediately got out of the car quickly and got on his fast horse.

Prepare to enter the city with the great army.

Tonight, it must be another big victory that will go down in history!

It is necessary to use the head of Yuan Shu to subdue the hundreds of thousands of thieves and civilians in this city.

"Zihe! Immediately let the tiger and leopard ride to pass the order, seize the head of Yuan Shu, and seal the county marquis! Bounty! Bestow the Divine Soldier BMW!! Worship the General!! ”

"Huh! I'll go! ”

As soon as Cao Chun heard this, he was willing to give the order first, and directly took the tiger and leopard to ride and rush, and rushed to the city.

Less than a stick of incense.

The soldiers and horses who entered the city were all crazy, and they rushed towards the palace, more than ten times more courageous than when they entered the city!

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, not to mention such a big reward! If you kill Yuan Shu, you can become famous all over the world, return to your hometown in fine clothes, and you won't have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life!

You can also be a general of the Great Han! Wouldn't it be easier to lead troops into battle in the future to achieve merit!

The people in the city were all red-eyed, and even the soldiers were competing for meritorious service.

Among them, Cao Chun, who originally gave the order, led the army to chase the fastest and went straight to the imperial city.

The armies of the inner city and the imperial city relied on Xiang Mo to continue fighting, but they couldn't stop Cao's army from breaking the city.

Fighting was almost all over the night, and by the time dawn came, the battle was almost over.

Unknown numbers of people were killed in the palace, and the entire school yard was full of piles of corpses, as well as countless gold, silver and jade.

After the main hall was occupied, Yuan Shu's so-called deep palace was turned over, and it was found that he had gone out of the city from the north from the small road.

Everyone pounced, so the tiger and leopard cavalry raised their army and chased north, in order to gain another feat.

Otherwise, it is about to enter winter, and if Yuan Shu has to escape, won't he have to wait another year before he can be killed.

After all, the winter march is very inconvenient, and it is not worth consuming so much military rations and soldiers for a Yuan Shu who has lost all of his skills.

Cao Cao will definitely return to the army.

In the palace of the Zhong family, Cao Cao took the generals to climb the ranks, went to the main hall to sweep the valuable things, and searched out the Yuan Shu talismans, book seals, etc., but did not find the legendary jade seal.

Cao Cao was slightly displeased, and when he walked out, he sighed and looked into the distance.

"Bowen!! You're the best at materializing! You tell me now, where is Yuan Shu? ”

"Tsk," Xu Zhen frowned slightly.

You are really qualified, congratulations.

"I didn't expect it, but I knew that he would definitely go north to Yuan Shao later."

"The Zhong clan destroyed the country, Yuan Shu's death or not is nothing, so he said that he was hidden in the chaos of the army and didn't know where to go, isn't it also a big victory this time?"

Cao Cao looked left and right, there was not much joy on his face, but he still stepped forward and patted Xu Zhen on the shoulder, "Well said!" ”

"Return!"

"Cao Hong! Immediately go to collect the cities of Jiujiang, let all the people in Yangzhou Huainan come back to work, and order the local celebrities to nominate officials to appoint, and I want this Huainan water town in the spring of next year, as rich as in the past, for me to store grain and business, and accumulate armaments! ”

"Whoa, whoa! Big brother is wise, no, lord is wise! ”

Cao Hong was overjoyed, of course he knew the meaning of this order, it seems that the previous hard work, the eldest brother has always seen it!

Huainan must be let me take care of it!

……

At this moment, Cao Ang, who had arrived transporting grain and grass, had just rested for a while.

I got the information.

A mouthful of water sprayed on the ground, and he immediately got up, and said helplessly: "Shouchun has already broken through?!" ”

Me, I've just arrived! Said that the good merit is mine?! Together, there is only enough food left!?

Yuan Shu can't be dreaming of fighting, right? Such a big fortified city, with more than 100,000 male soldiers under his hands, didn't even hold it for half a month?

"Tsk, is my merit more or less now?"

Cao Ang frowned and thought for a moment.

That's it, it doesn't matter!

Cao Ang smiled indifferently and took a sip of water.

Then he wiped his mouth and hurriedly got up, "It's better to find my brother and quickly sum up." ”

(End of chapter)