The heavy rain has been falling for ten days in a row, and the Huainan area has completely become a Zeguo, with big rivers and small rivers, ponds and depressions, and even the plains are full of water, only those highlands are exposed on the water like isolated islands, not to mention the heavy vehicles in such an environment, even people don't want to walk, I really don't know how the ancestors of the Han family conquered this land and transformed it into a place where the world is plastered!

The rain kept falling, so Cao Jun could only continue to wait in the camp of 'Sanfeng Mountain', waiting for the rain to stop, waiting for the sunrise, waiting for the water vapor to steam, and the earth to become dry again, so that the horse's hooves could gallop vertically and horizontally, so when Xiao Yi led the vanguard troops and advanced to Shouchun City, it was already more than twenty days later!

Shouchun City, originally the place of Yangzhou governance, the first giant city in the southeast, divided into two layers inside and outside, the circumference of the outer city is twenty-five miles, more than four zhang high, open nine gates, six of which are open by land, three gates are close to Huaishui, Huainan counties can be communicated through the waterway, it is extremely convenient!

The inner city is also called the imperial city, two miles in length and width, there are four gates, respectively named after 'spring, summer, autumn and winter', inside is the 'pseudo-palace' of Yuan Shu, there are countless rare treasures, beautiful singers, compared to the north and south palaces of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty!

If Shouchun City is a big golden egg made of the fat and ointment of countless Huainan people, then the inner city is the most delicious egg yolk!

"Shhh Hiss! ……”

Outside Shouchun City, looking at the giant city in front of him, he is as well-informed as Xiao Yi, and he can't help but gasp, he has seen the city wall, but he has never seen such a tall and solid city wall, like Chang'an, Luoyang, and Xudu, all of which are based on boulders and rammed with loess, but the Shouchun City in front of him is wrapped with a thick layer of green bricks outside the rammed earth, which is indestructible!

In addition to the need to invest a large amount of money and grain, there must be a large number of craftsmen, with crowd tactics, day and night kiln, brick-making, in order to supply, this generosity, in the world of princes, unique!

In fact, the reason why Yuan Shu spent so much manpower and material resources to wrap the city wall with a layer of green bricks was due to two considerations, one was that he wanted to fight for face among the princes of the world, so that the world would know his prestige of Yuan Highway; Second, this is also to fight against the rainy weather in Huainan, ten days and half a month of heavy rain, long-term immersion under the loess rammed city wall is very easy to collapse, bricks, but also for the consideration of city defense, just like to put on a layer of iron armor for Shouchun City, to see who can break it!

In the past 20 days, they used the waterways of Shouchun City to mobilize soldiers, horses, grain and grass from various counties in Huainan, and forcibly recruited a large number of men into the army, no matter old or young!

At the same time, he also sent people to search around for those who fled back from the battlefield, the battle of Sanfeng Mountain, after all, there were a few deaths, and the rest were not only captured, but also a lot of people who took advantage of the chaos to scatter everywhere, these people heard that Yuan Shu was still there, and they gathered together, just like that, after all kinds of efforts, in the end, Shouchun City miraculously put together an army of 100,000, which was enough to compete with the Cao army outside the city again!

And this time, Yuan Shu will never make the same mistake last time, he decided - to hold on!

"Woo! Woo! Woo! ......" The army is like a mountain, and the horns are continuous!

"Siege!" Although he knew that this bone was a little difficult to gnaw, Xiao Yi still gave the order to attack, he believed that no matter how strong the city defense was, there would be weaknesses, if he didn't try, how could he find it out?

Although it was only a tentative attack, Xiao Yi still invested tens of thousands of troops, formed a neat military formation, and slowly advanced forward, and the first obstacle they had to face was the moat outside Shouchun City.

The moat is sixty steps wide, directly connected to Weishui, the water flow is deep and urgent, only near the city gate is a little narrower, but it is also forty steps wide, and there are sharp drills, boulders, and iron chains sinking under the water, forming a series of reefs, ordinary ships can not row through it at all.

"Archers, form a formation, suppress the enemy at the head of the city, auxiliaries, carry earth for me to fill the river!"

Under the banner of the Chinese army, Xiao Yi gave an order, and a group of archers rushed to the moat, longbows, individual crossbows, and big yellow crossbows used by three people, lined up neatly in three rows, and then the arrows were like raindrops to the Yuan army at the head of the city, at the same time, tens of thousands of people without armor and weapons, wearing white linen robes, rushed to the battlefield, everyone carried a sandbag on their shoulders, and threw the sandbag into it after rushing to the moat, and then came back to continue carrying!

That's right, these people are auxiliary soldiers, and more than 20 days ago, they were still the real Yuan army, the battle of Sanfeng Mountain, 100,000 Yuan troops were captured, how to treat these people, there was also a debate within the Cao army.

100,000 people, if they stay, they will consume a lot of military food every day, but if they are let go, they are afraid that they will be used by Yuan Shu again, it is really a dilemma, so some more radical generals put forward the method of 'pit prisoners', just like the overlord of Chu - Xiang Yu back then, block both ends of the valley where the prisoners were held, and then roll down the hillside to roll down the boulders and fireballs, and kill all the 100,000 prisoners of war, one hundred!

This plan was immediately opposed by Xiao Yi, and it was natural to kill the enemy on the battlefield, but since they had surrendered, and they were all of Han blood, why bother with such a poisonous hand!

Historically, after the end of the Three Kingdoms era, the number of Han people dropped sharply, the total number dropped from 60 million at the peak to a pitiful less than 10 million, in addition to famine and plague, it also has a lot to do with this vice of killing prisoners, so we must not set a precedent of 'pit prisoners', live one more, one, try to save some vitality for the Han people!

In the end, Xiao Yi asked these captives to go over, and after a little transformation, they became the best auxiliaries on the battlefield.

As for the method of transformation, it is also very simple, as long as you copy the methods of the Celestial Empire in the Liberation War in later generations, Yuan Shu has been rampant and violent over the years, poisoning living beings, and the people of Huainan hate him more than a million, so shout a few bitter and hateful slogans, and give them a chance to take revenge, and a better future, these auxiliaries will naturally be willingly used by Xiao Yi!

Facts have proved that these auxiliaries performed well on the battlefield, not only were they very diligent in carrying sandbags and arrows, but some enthusiastic guys also took the initiative to point out the defense of Shouchun City to Cao Jun's bow and arrows. ’

"Kill! …… Resist, the 'Son of Heaven' is here, and those who retreat die! ”

Shouchun City, Yuan Jun is naturally resisting desperately, in order to defend the city, Yuan Shu is also desperate, all the generals are sent to the city, 'four ministers' one guards a city wall, Yuan Shu wears a yellow dragon robe, and patrols back and forth with a newly made 'Sun, Moon and Tianzi Banner', and the attendants also carry a large amount of gold and silver treasures.

Under this encouragement, Yuan Jun also burst out with super courage, and rows of archers stood by the female wall to shoot at Cao Jun, because they were more superior.

"Boom! Boom! …… Knock knock! ”

The war drums rumbled, the arrows flew like rain, the archers rushed up in rows, and fell in rows, and even the auxiliaries who were responsible for filling the river were also shot and killed, and the corpses were planted in the moat, which quickly dyed a large area of the river red, and then was washed into the Weishui by the torrent, and even those sandbags were washed away a lot, and the progress of the river reclamation was very slow!

"Hell, Ming Jin withdrew his troops and let the two generals in front of Zhang Liao and Yu Ban retreat!"

Can't attack anymore, although the soldiers are not afraid of death, but Shouchun's city defense is too strong, in just half an hour, the subordinates have suffered thousands of casualties, and if they continue to fight, how many lives are enough to fill in!

Therefore, Xiao Yi decisively issued a military order to collect troops, such a strong city, it can't be stormed, and it has to be outwitted!

"Roar...... Roar! ”

"Cao Jun's children, if you have the courage, come and attack the city!"

"Come on, coward, Lao Tzu will send you all to the Weishui River to feed the fish and turtles!"

"Run away with your tail between your legs~~"

Seeing that Cao Jun retreated like a tide, Yuan Jun on the city wall jumped up and down, shouting and shouting, not only to boost his fighting spirit, but also to use this method to erase the fear in his heart, after all, the leader of the troops under the city was 'Ghost Face Xiao Lang', a person who brought them too much, too many deaths!

"I'm angry with me, please give an order to the Metropolitan Governor, I'll wait until I am willing to lead the troops to attack again!"

"Yes, if you don't break Shouchun, you vow not to withdraw your troops!"

Zhang Liao, Yu Ban, Dian Wei and a group of generals all poured into the banner of the Chinese army to ask for battle, after the battle of Sanfeng Mountain, the Cao army was arrogant, there was so insulted by the enemy, not to mention a group of enemy troops who were defeated by themselves not long ago!

"Shouchun City is high and deep, a strong attack is not the best policy, it will only cost the lives of the soldiers in vain, let's withdraw first, I will explain it to the prime minister!"

Xiao Yi waved his hand, he wouldn't stupidly touch the stone with his head just because he was ridiculed by the enemy, as for the momentary defeat is nothing, let's see who can have the last laugh!

"Back to camp!"