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

Cao Xin led his troops to the southern section to support Yu Du. A thousand Langya infantry stood on the city wall, in groups of fifty, guarding the city wall tightly.

Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun sent tens of thousands of troops to attack three times in a row, resulting in thousands of casualties, but they were unable to capture a small section of the city wall.

"General, something is wrong."

On the city tower, Jia Xu squinted his narrow eyes and stared 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 could not attack the city wall, but he continued to attack and only attacked the south wall. This situation reminded me of Li Jue and Guo Si's method of attacking Chang'an... It was a bit like attacking in the east and attacking in the west."

Jia Xu shook his feather fan and said thoughtfully.

"Founding in the east and attacking in the west?"

Cao Xin raised his eyebrows, "He wants to attack the North Gate? But the North Gate has been blocked..."

"General, we have to guard against it!"

"you're right."

Cao Xin sent an order to Dian Wei Bu Zhao, asking them to be careful of the north gate and to send a signal immediately if they discovered the situation.

But just as the order was given, a scout horse rushed up to the tower with a long tune,

"Report!! General, Yuan Jun has entered the city."

"Really here? How did you get in? How many people came?"

Cao Xin asked curiously.

"General, there are secret passages leading to the outside of the city hidden in several houses in the north of the city. Yuan Jun entered the city through the secret passage. More than 5,000 Yuan troops came in successively. More than a dozen large households in the city gathered more than a thousand soldiers to accompany Yuan Jun to rebel, occupy the northern city wall, and open

At the north gate, General Dian and Bu Jin are leading people to block it, and they must fight and retreat."

Tan Ma said quickly.

"Send an order to Dian Wei Bu Zhao and tell them to retreat quickly and come to meet at the west gate."

"Yes, General!"

Tan Ma left quickly.

"Come here, order Li Dayan to lead the bow and arrow battalion and the garrison to evacuate to the west gate."

"Yes, General!"

Tan Ma left quickly.

"Blow the trumpet and order everyone to assemble toward the west gate."

"Yes, General!"

A military guard took out a horn, stood on the tower, and blew the horn vigorously.

Woohoo~

"Alas~"

Cao Xin looked at the messy Shouchun and sighed,

"While I was in Huainan, I arrested bandits everywhere, quelled the banditry, used bandits to open up wasteland, built water conservancy projects, stabilized food prices, and helped refugees. I worked hard and worked hard day and night, just to let the people of Huainan live a good life.

But they still rebelled, they still rebelled against me."

"General, use your strategy to lure the snake out of its hole. Isn't this the general's choice?"

Jia Xu secretly pouted.

At the beginning, he proposed three strategies: upper, middle and lower for Cao Xin to choose. Cao Xin did not choose the best strategy, but preferred to use the lower strategy.

At this time, it was his own choice to be stabbed in the back by the Huainan family.

"It was my choice, but I thought I could use practical actions to resolve the hatred and win back the people's hearts, but they still turned against me. How can Youyou Cangtian treat me any less?!"

Cao Xin raised his arms and shouted.

Jia Xu's lips twitched, feeling that the general was not worthy of pity.

"General, all our troops have gathered at the west gate."

Pei Yuanshao came up and said.

"How many more people are there?"

"Less than three thousand!"

"Did you leave any drinks?"

"Leave five hundred jars for burning knives."

"Okay, let's retreat!"

Cao Xin ordered his men to open the west gate and led the remaining troops to exit Shouchun City.

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"Report!! Military advisor! Cao Jun has withdrawn!"

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

"Withdrawn? So quickly?"

Zhou Yu said in surprise.

Having fought twice with Cao Xin, he knew that Cao Xin was a person who refused to admit defeat and would fight to the end as long as there was a chance.

This time, he originally thought that Cao Xin would lead the remaining Cao army to resist until the last soldier was killed.

But after Cao Xin heard that Yuan Jun had entered the city, he ran away with his troops without hesitation. This approach was very unlike Cao Xin's style.

"Is Thief Cao playing some conspiracy?"

Zhou Yu felt a little uneasy.

"Gongjin, don't worry!"

Kuai Yue clapped his horse and stepped forward with a smile, "That Cao thief saw my army entering the city and saw the noble families in the city rising up. He knew that the situation was over, so he could only retreat with his troops and horses with hatred. I heard his subordinates give me a detailed report. Cao thief stood on the tower.

Looking up to the sky and shouting, "How can the sky be so inferior to me?" The tone is very helpless, hahaha~"

Zhou Yu curled his lips and felt relieved when he thought of Cao Xin's helpless roar.

"Report! Military advisor, Cao Xin led his troops to retreat from the west gate. General Zhang sent someone to ask if he wanted to pursue him?"

shouted the spy.

"No!"

Zhou Yu and Kuai Yue said at the same time.

"The thief Cao has a cunning mind. He retreated too quickly this time. Perhaps he deliberately faked defeat and led our army to pursue him. Cao thief's Langya Cavalry is very sharp in the wild. Ordinary soldiers are no match for him. Once he leads the troops to pursue, he will be hit."

There is an ambush, go and inform General Zhang immediately, and you must not pursue him."

"Yes, military advisor!"

The spies retreated.

"Our army has captured Shouchun, and the next step is to capture Huainan. We only need to press forward step by step to destroy Cao's army. There is no need to take risks at this time."

Zhou Yu said.

"What Gong Jin said is absolutely true."

Kuai Yue nodded in agreement.

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

A general came excitedly to report.

"Five hundred jars of fine wine? Cao Jun is 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 the thief Cao deliberately left five hundred jars of burning knives in order to attack our army while they were drunk.

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Kuai Yue guessed.

Zhou Yu frowned and said, "Captain Xu, please lead someone to guard the warehouse and don't allow anyone to approach."

"Yes, military advisor!"

The captain retired in disappointment.

Zhou Yu walked into Shouchun, looked at the towering gate tower and said with a smile,

"Mr. Yidu, the weather is nice today, would you like to go up to the tower to take a look?"

"Haha, that's great!"
To be continued...