The next day, Yuan's army and soldiers launched a fierce attack on Shouchun City from the south gate, and Zhou Yu commanded more than 10,000 people, pushing various siege equipment, to attack the city wall and city gate.

Cao Xin led his troops to the southern section to support Yu Poison, and 1,000 Langya infantry stood on the city wall, in groups of 50 people, to guard the city wall tightly.

Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack three times in a row, killing and wounding thousands, and they could not capture a small section of the city wall.

"General, something is wrong."

On the city tower, Jia Xu squinted his narrow eyes, staring in the direction of Yuan Jun outside the city, his round face tightly wrinkled.

"What's wrong?"

Cao Xin put away the big iron sword with a gap and asked.

"Yuan Jun knew that he couldn't attack the city wall, and he had to attack continuously, and only attack the south wall, which reminded me of Li Dao Guo Yan's means of attacking Chang'an... It's kind of like a sound strike. ”

Jia Xu shook the feather fan and said thoughtfully.

"Striking the West?"

Cao Xin raised his sword eyebrows, "He wants to attack the North Gate?" But the north gate has been sealed..."

"General, you have to guard against it!"

"You're right."

Cao Xin sent an order to Dian Wei Buqi, telling them to be careful of the north gate and send a signal as soon as they discovered the situation.

It's just that the order has just been given, and a probe rushes up to the city tower with a long tune,

"Newspaper!! General, Yuan's army has entered the city. ”

"Really here? How did you get in, and how many people came? ”

Cao Xin asked curiously.

"General, there is a secret passage leading to the outside of the city in the homes of several families in the north of the city, the Yuan army entered the city through the secret passage, and more than 5,000 Yuan troops came in successively, and more than 10 large households in the city gathered more than 1,000 soldiers to rebel with the Yuan army, occupy the north city wall, and open the north gate, General Dian and Bu Cheng are leading people to block, and fight and retreat."

Tanma said quickly.

"Tell them to retreat quickly and come to the west gate to join them."

"Yes, General!"

The probe left quickly.

"Someone came, ordered Li Dayan to lead the bow battalion and the garrison to evacuate to the west gate."

"Yes, General!"

The probe left quickly.

"Blow the trumpet, and command all men to assemble to the west gate."

"Yes, General!"

One of the guards took out a trumpet, stood on the tower, and blew the horn vigorously.

Woo woo woo~

"Alas~"

Cao Xin looked at the messy Shouchun and sighed lightly,

"During his time in Huainan, General Ben went around arresting bandits, quelling bandits, using bandits to open up wasteland, building water conservancy, calming grain prices, helping refugees, sleeping all night, and doing his best, just to let the people of Huainan live a good life, but they still turned against me, they still turned against me."

"General, the general will plan and lead the snake out of the hole, isn't this the general's choice?"

Jia Xu pouted secretly.

At the beginning, he proposed three strategies for Cao Xin to choose, but Cao Xin did not choose the upper policy or the next policy, but he liked to use the lower policy.

At this time, he was stabbed in the back by the Huainan family, which was also his own choice.

"I chose it, but I thought I could use practical actions to resolve grievances and regain the hearts of the people, but they still reversed, the sky is long, why is it thinner than me?!"

Cao Xin raised his arms and shouted.

The corners of Jia Xu's mouth twitched, and he always felt that the general was not worthy of pity.

"General, all the soldiers and horses of our army have gathered at the West Gate."

Pei Yuanshao came up and said.

"How many more?"

"Less than three thousand!"

"Have you ever left the drink?"

"Leave five hundred altars of burning knives."

"Okay, let's get out!"

Cao Xin ordered people to open the west gate and lead the remaining soldiers and horses to withdraw from Shouchun City.

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"Newspaper!! Strategist! Cao's army withdrew! ”

Outside the north gate, Yuan Jun's spy Pegasus reported to Zhou Yu.

"Withdrawn? So fast? ”

Zhou Yu was surprised.

has fought twice with Cao Xin, and he knows that Cao Xin is a person who refuses to admit defeat, as long as there is a glimmer of opportunity, he will fight to the end.

This time, he thought that Cao Xin would lead the remnants of Cao Jun to resist stubbornly until the last soldier was killed.

But after Cao Xin heard that Yuan Jun had entered the city, he did not hesitate to run away with his soldiers and horses, which was very different from Cao Xin's style.

"Could the thief be playing some conspiracy?"

Zhou Yu felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"Gongjin, don't worry!"

Kuai Yue stepped forward and said with a smile, "The Cao thief saw my army entering the city, and saw the clan in the city rise up, knowing that the general trend had gone, he could only retreat with the soldiers and horses with hatred, I heard his subordinates make a detailed return, the Cao thief stood on the city tower and looked up to the sky and shouted, the sky, why is it better than me?" The tone is very helpless, hahaha~"

Zhou Yu bent the corners of his lips, thinking of Cao Xin's helpless roar, he also felt very relieved.

"Report! The military division, Cao Xin led the troops to retreat from the West Gate, and General Zhang sent someone to ask, do you want to pursue? ”

The spy shouted.

"No!"

Zhou Yu and Kuai Yue said at the same time.

"Cao thief is cunning, this time he retreated too fast, Xu is deliberately defeated, leading our army to pursue, Cao thief's Langya riding is very sharp in the field, ordinary soldiers are not opponents, once the troops are pursued, they will be ambushed by him, you quickly go to inform General Zhang, do not pursue."

"Yes, Strategist!"

The spies retreated.

"Our army has taken Shouchun, and the next step is to take Huainan, and we only need to press step by step to destroy the Cao army, and we don't need to take risks at this time."

Zhou Yu said.

"What Gong Jin said is extremely true."

Kuai Yue nodded in agreement.

"Report! Military advisor, our army found 500 jars of fine wine in Cao Jun's warehouse, which were burning knives. ”

A general rushed to report.

"Five hundred jars of wine? Cao Jun is also really extravagant. ”

"Gong Jin, I heard that burning knives is very powerful, one cup can make a strong man faint, in my opinion, it is possible that Cao thief deliberately left five hundred altars of burning knives, wanting to take advantage of our army to get drunk and kill into the city."

Kuai Yue guessed.

Zhou Yu frowned, "Captain Xu, you take someone to guard the warehouse, and no one is allowed to approach." ”

"Yes, Strategist!"

The lieutenant retreated disappointed.

Zhou Yu patted the horse and walked into Shouchun, looked at the towering gatehouse and smiled,

"Mr. Xeno, it's a good day today, but you want to go up to the castle tower to have a look?"

"Haha, that's great!"

The two laughed and walked up to the castle tower.

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Outside Shouchun City, Yuan's army gradually retreated, and Cao Xin stopped with his soldiers and horses.

"Old Yu Dayan, you lead the rest of the soldiers and horses to Chengde to station, and we will meet here tomorrow."

"Yes, General!"

Yu Poison and Li Dayan were ordered to leave.

"Lao Dian, you take the military guards to escort Yang Junshou, Mr. Wenhe, and Zishan to Hefei, pay attention to safety on the way."

"Yes, General!"

Dian Wei and Jia Xu, Bu Qi and others left.

Waiting for others to leave, Cao Xin and Pei Yuanshao took several horse sentinels and rushed quickly in the direction of the Lujiang River.

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"Hahaha~ Gong Jin, I heard that five hundred jars of wine were seized from the city, and our army won a big victory today, why don't you take it out to celebrate?"

In Shouchun City, General Zhang Xun walked into the conference hall with a big laugh.

"General Zhang, you came just in time, you come to see here."

Zhou Yu walked into the hall, pointed to the surrounding layout and said,

"This was originally the place where Cao Xin was meeting, but after I came in, it was clean and clean, and there was nothing left, and there was only a little old grain and hay left in the Cao army's grain warehouse, and there was no other food, which was a little wrong."

"Gong Jin, do you suspect that Cao Jun was ready to leave before retreating? This is impossible, if Cao Jun knew that there was a secret passage in the city, and had already sent people to destroy those families, how could he let them let our army into the city? ”

Zhang Xun spread his hands.

Zhou Yu frowned at his delicate eyebrows, "General Zhang, what you said is not unreasonable, but Cao Xin is insidious and cunning, before we completely control Shouchun, we must be very careful, we must not be careless, let Cao Jun take advantage of the loophole, that drinking and having fun, it is better to wait until the Langya army is completely defeated." ”

Zhang Xun nodded, "Gong Jin, speaking of strange things, I also found a strange thing, when Cao Jun left Shouchun, there were only more than four dozen light horses, and there was no Langya horse, I thought that Langya was hiding in the city and wanted to carry out a sneak attack, but I could send someone to search around, and I didn't find any trace of Langya horseback." ”

"Langya riding is not in the city?!"

Zhou Yu exclaimed.

"Langya cavalry was not in the city when our army attacked the city?"

Kuai Yue also asked out loud.

Zhang Xun shook his head, "When the Cao army left the city, there were no Langya cavalry, maybe the Langya cavalry did not wear armor and left with the infantry." ”

"No way, no way! The two sides are at war, and there is no reason for Langya to take off his armor, but where will Langya be hidden? ”

Zhou Yu held his forehead and frowned.

"Gong Jin, could it be that Cao Xin wanted to let Langya cavalry raid our army from behind when our army was attacking the city, but our army entered the city from a dark passage, which caught Cao Xin off guard, and the Langya army did not come in handy?"

Kuai Yue guessed.

Syllable!!

Zhou Yu suddenly slapped his forehead, "Lu'an! Lu'an! It must be Lu'an, someone is coming, go to Lu'an quickly to inform General Qiao, and be careful of Langya's sneak attack! 100,000 urgent!! ”

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