Looking out of the city with Jia Xu, Zhang Liao's brows were also tightly locked, and after a while, he said with some hesitation: "Under Cai, he will hand it over to Zhonglang and Ziyi, and a certain leader will go to Shouchun!" ”

Turning his head to look at Zhang Liao, Jia Xu's face also showed a solemnity.

The Cao army besieged Shouchun, and it must have come to besiege the city to send reinforcements.

But at the moment, the Qin army is passive, not because they can't see the enemy's strategy, but because Shouchun must be saved, even if they know that the Cao army is besieging the city to help, they must send troops to rescue.

"In this way, it depends on Wen Yuan!" After being silent for a long time, Jia Xu frowned tightly and said to Zhang Liao: "If Cao Jun intercepts and kills halfway, there are only two places to choose. First, when Wen Yuan was marching, he left Xia Cai for more than ten miles. The overlapping mountains and dangerous terrain are the perfect place for Cao Jun's ambush! Second, it is outside Shouchun City, where there are also mountains, once the Cao army sets up an ambush, even if our army sends scouts, it is difficult to find. Wen Yuan has arrived in these two places, you must be careful! ”

Nodding, Zhang Liao cupped his fists, arched towards Jia Xu, turned around and ran under the city wall.

Looking at Zhang Liao's departing back, Jia Xu's brows furrowed slightly, and it wasn't until Zhang Liao's back disappeared from his sight that he sighed softly.

Xia Cai Qin's army attacked Xudu, it was a strategy he proposed, and now that I think about it, I am afraid that this strategy is really wrong.

Cao Jun's series of responses dragged the Qin army to exhaustion, not only that, Xia Cai and Shouchun became horns of each other, but it made the Qin army here tired and led by Cao Jun.

After Zhang Liao left, Jia Xu did not go down the city wall, but held the battlements with both hands and looked out of the city.

After only a stick of incense, in Xia Cai City, there was an army marching towards the city gate.

The leader of this army was Zhang Liao, who volunteered to invite Ying to Shouchun.

led the army out of Shouchun City slowly, and when he was about to leave the city gate, Zhang Liao looked back at the city wall.

His gaze happened to be opposite to Jia Xu, who was standing on the city wall and watching him.

The two stared at each other for a moment, without saying a word, Zhang Liao turned the horse, gently clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, and rode the horse in the direction of Shouchun.

Behind Zhang Liao were 10,000 soldiers of the Qin army.

Perhaps something was seen from Zhang Liao's face, the Qin army of 10,000 people who went out of the city was also solemn, and they looked like they were going to die generously.

The army left Xia Cai, and the speed of movement was not very fast, until after a long time, their backs completely disappeared in Jia Xu's field of vision.

Standing at the head of the city, looking at the Qin army that was gradually moving away, Jia Xu's face showed the same solemnity as the Qin army that went to Shouchun.

Zhang Liao took the initiative to ask Ying, but only brought 10,000 Qin troops to the expedition.

The Cao army outside Shouchun City had as many as 70,000 people.

If the 70,000 Cao army was just the Qingzhou army, it would be fine, but the Cao army outside Shouchun City was the main force of the Cao army, which had always been known for its ability to conquer and fight.

The military strength of the two sides is equal, and with the same number of people, the Cao army is indeed not necessarily as strong as the Qin army, but the problem at the moment is that the Cao army is seven times the number of the Qin army.

With such a big difference in numbers, Jia Xu really didn't dare to have any hope for Zhang Liao's expedition.

Zhang Liao led the army to leave Xia Cai and approached Shouchun all the way.

At this time, Xiahoudun had already made arrangements, just waiting for the Qin army led by Zhang Liao to enter his ambush circle.

Just as Xiahoudun was making the final deployment, a fast horse came running in the distance.

The horse's speed was very fast, and it rushed towards Xiahoudun, and he didn't even slow down the halfway.

Seeing someone riding a horse towards him, Xiahou frowned slightly, his eyes narrowed, and his face instantly became solemn.

Rushing towards him was a soldier of the Cao Army on a war horse.

The soldier was not under the command of Xiahoudun, but looking at his anxious appearance of galloping horses, Xiahoudun was already sure that the soldier rushing towards him must be a messenger from Xu Du.

Sure enough, when the soldier rode his horse and rushed to a place that was only more than ten steps away from Xiahoudun, he suddenly reined the soldier, and the war horse neighed and stood up.

When the two front hooves of the war horse landed, the knight on horseback turned over and jumped down, ran quickly in front of Xiahoudun, clasped his fists with both hands, bowed down to Xiahoudun and said: "General Xiahou, Guo Junshi sent a letter to the villain!" ”

Hearing that Guo Jia had sent another letter, Xiahoudun hurriedly stretched out his hand to the soldier and said, "Quickly hand over the letter to General Ben!" ”

At Xiahoudun's urging, the soldier put his hand into his arms, took out the letter that Guo Jia asked him to send, held it in both hands, and presented it to Xiahoudun.

After receiving the letter from the soldier's hand, Xiahoudun couldn't wait to open the letter, just glanced at it, and was taken aback, and couldn't help but say: "The plan of the military advisor is here!" ”

"Someone!" After reading the letter, Xiahoudun had fully understood, why Guo Jiayin specially ordered him to deal with the Qin army according to Cao Ren's strategy earlier, after he took the letter into his arms, he shouted to a personal soldier behind him: "Attack the city immediately, before dusk, take Shouchun for this general!" ”

Earlier, Xiahoudun ordered the soldiers of the Cao army to be stationed outside Shouchun City, and the soldiers thought that Xiahoudun was going to besiege the city for several days before attacking the city.

I didn't expect the order to change so quickly, and when the soldiers of the Cao army got Xiahoudun's order, they were all stunned there.

Although the soldiers of the Cao army did not recover from the sudden change of orders for a while, they were not comparable to the Qingzhou army after all, and they quickly made preparations to attack the city.

The ladders were carried out of the barracks by the heavy infantry of the Cao army, and behind each ladder, there were arrays of heavy infantry that had already lined up in a phalanx.

In addition to the heavy infantry carrying the ladder, Cao Jun's barracks also launched a battering ram.

Dozens of Cao soldiers pushed the battering ram out of the barracks, because the battering ram was too heavy, the Cao soldiers who pushed the battering ram looked very difficult.

When Cao's army rolled out the ladder and battering ram, a quadrangular array of heavy infantry followed out of the barracks.

The quadrangular array stopped behind the siege equipment, and as soon as they stopped their pace, Cao's longbowmen followed closely and walked into the array.

"Roar!" The Cao army, which was completely prepared for the siege, let out a neat cry after the formation was completed.

The Cao army outside the city made a siege posture, but the Qin army on the city wall was very nervous at this time.

They only had more than 1,000 men, and with such a small number of troops, they wanted to hold the entire city wall, and their troops were slightly insufficient.

Not to mention, the Cao army outside the city was well-equipped with siege equipment, and the number of them was seventy times that of them.

Looking at the Cao army's large array outside the city, the Qin army, who was in charge of guarding Shouchun, jumped violently a few times at the green tendons at his temples.

It wasn't until Cao Jun let out a neat cry that the partial general turned around and shouted to the soldiers of the Qin army at the head of the city: "Soldiers, the Cao army is about to attack the city!" ”

There were too many enemies, and the Qin army at the head of the city also knew that once the battle began, the Cao army would definitely take advantage of their outnumbered strength and attack the city wall for a while.

The shouts of the partial generals reached the ears of the Qin army facing the city wall of the Cao army's big array, and every Qin army on the city wall subconsciously clenched the blade in his hand.

The city wall of Shouchun is not very tall.

After several sieges earlier, Shouchun City is now very withered, and this city is not suitable for long-term defense.

It is precisely for this reason that Jia Xu and others did not station the army in Shouchun City, but chose to garrison in Xia Cai, and once Shouchun had something to do, they would send troops to help.

The soldiers of the Qin army on the city wall stared at the Cao army array outside the city without blinking, and made preparations for a death battle with the enemy.

The Cao army outside the city, after forming a formation, began to slowly advance towards Shouchun City.

The Cao army array was still not close to Shouchun City, and when the Cao army began to move forward, they did not block their shields in front of them and prepare for defense in advance, but straightened their chests and marched towards Shouchun City with neat steps.

The Cao army, which was in formation, stepped into a thick cloud of smoke and dust as it advanced.

Smoke and dust billowed around the Cao Jun array, and the entire Cao Jun array was wrapped in thick smoke and dust.

The smoke and dust rolled up by the Cao army when it marched was filled, but it exerted a lot of psychological pressure on the Qin army on the city wall.

Looking at the smoke and dust outside the city, the strong crossbowmen of the Qin army on the city wall had already put their arrows on the strong crossbow.

The Qin army guarding the city wall was only a few hundred crossbowmen, and although they were aiming at the Cao army outside the city, they all knew very well that with their little strength, it was impossible to cause any trouble to the Cao army.

The array of the Cao army continued to advance towards Shouchun City, and when they reached a place that was only a hundred steps away from Shouchun City, all the Cao army's heavy infantry had their shields in front of them.

Cao Jun, who raised the shield, moved very neatly, and when they raised the shield, they actually made a neat sound of "bang".

The Qin army, which was holding a strong crossbow, aimed at the Cao army array under the city, and the forehead of each strong crossbowman was covered with beads of sweat.

The solemn aura permeated the entire Shouchun City, and all the Qin troops in the city felt an extremely strong sense of oppression.

Holding a strong crossbow, a Qin Jun strong crossbowman took a deep breath, and he could clearly feel that his hands were trembling slightly due to nervousness.

The soldiers of the Qin army are all warriors who have fought on the battlefield, and they can make them nervous when they are about to fight, unless the opponent is too strong and makes them smell death.

At this time, the Qin army on the wall of Shouchun smelled a strong breath of death.

The city guarded by 1,000 people was facing the attack of 70,000 strong enemy troops, and under such a large gap in strength, each Qin army defending the city was ready to die in battle while picking up their weapons.