Chapter 942: Battle of Shouchun (8)

"Alas," Cheng Yu sighed. Now he has fallen into Yuan Shu's trap. No matter what he does, there is no way to make up for it. "The only plan for now is to hope that General Anton can persuade Sun Ce to take the overall situation into consideration and attack Shouchun City first. I hope I can find the Jade Seal in the city!"

After saying that, Cheng Yu also felt it was impossible. He shook his head and stopped mentioning it. Instead, he said: "My lord, we should also go to the gate of the camp. Of course, we should have a good time with General Huangfu and General Sun. And Yi Yu estimated that, Huangfu Anton and Sun Poji will definitely not believe it, so our army will attack the city with all its strength tomorrow, otherwise the other two armies will probably retreat without a fight. "

Cao Cao also knew that what had happened now was all he could do to make up for it, so he ordered to go to the gate of the camp.

At this time, outside the main camp of Cao Cao's army, Huangfu Chaobo led four thousand cavalry and joined Zhou Yu's 20,000 infantry. They were anxiously waiting for Sun Ce and his party to come out of Cao Cao's camp. Fortunately, they did not wait. After a while, Sun Ce hurried out of the camp. When Sun Ce led a thousand personal guards back to Zhou Yu's army, the generals of Sun Ce's army breathed a long sigh of relief.

As soon as he returned to the army, Sun Ce said: "Gong Jin, you are here at the right time. Follow me to the Cao camp and take back the jade seal!"

"Bo Fu!" Zhou Yu grabbed Sun Ce and said, "Bo Fu, wait a moment, General Anton and I are thinking that this is probably Yuan Shu's army's plan to kill three soldiers with two peaches, so Bo Fu still needs a long-term plan. "

"Sir, what are you planning? The jade seal is already in Cao Cao's tent."

Everyone was shocked, Zhou Yu said: "Bo Fu saw it with his own eyes?"

"On the contrary, I only saw the treasure box, and the jade seal had been hidden by Cao Cao. When I entered his tent, one of his subordinates was preparing to hide the treasure box, and I happened to see him."

Fortunately, Huangfu Chaobo led his cavalry and others to set off first, and happened to catch up with Zhou Yu and Han Dang's troops two miles away from Cao Cao's camp. Then Huangfu Chaobo told Zhou Yu about the speculations of several of his military advisors, and Zhou Yu also woke up. In fact, Zhou Yu also discovered something strange, but things developed too suddenly, and then Sun Ce led a thousand guards to Cao Ying without saying a word. Zhou Yu was not allowed to calm down and think, so he didn't think of it for a moment. Only then did tens of thousands of troops rush to Cao's camp to demand people.

Zhou Yu also knew at this time that Lu Su had taken refuge with Huangfu Chaobo, and the two could only look at each other and smile bitterly.

At this moment, Cao Cao led a group of generals to appear on the wall of the camp gate, and several people talked to each other across the wall. Sun Ce jumped to his feet and scolded Cao Cao for having an affair with Yuan Shu and trying to steal the jade seal. Cao Cao bluntly said that he had fallen into Yuan Shu's words. Yuan Shu sent someone to ask for a visit, but he didn't say anything about the jade seal at all. It was just some ordinary gifts. He didn't even know that there was this treasure box inside, and it was indeed It's also empty.

But no matter what Cao Cao said, Sun Ce didn't believe it, while Huangfu Chaobo was noncommittal. Cao Cao didn't say much more. He only said that starting tomorrow, his army would attack the city with all its strength. After Shouchun was captured, the truth would be revealed.

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to the two people outside the camp, and returned to the camp to prepare for tomorrow, oh, I should say to prepare for the battle that is about to start, because at this time, the sky has begun to light up slightly, and the time has reached the beginning of Mao hour. .

Following Cao Cao's order, the horn sounded in Cao Jun's camp, and then the entire camp began to make noise, and all the soldiers began to prepare for battle.

Sun Ce outside the camp was so angry that he had no choice but to do anything.

Upon seeing this, Huangfu Chaobo said: "General Bo Fu, with the current plan, we cannot confirm whether the jade seal is in Cao Cao's hands. If we want to confirm whether it is in his hands, there is only one option, and that is to capture Shouchun City and confirm with Yuan Shu! "

When Sun Ce heard this, he knew that this was the only way to go, so he said bitterly: "This can only let Cao's thieves go for the time being. If the jade seal is not found after Shouchun is captured, someone will definitely join Cao's thieves' army and give it to him personally. It’s asking for it!”

Speaking of which,

Sun Ce turned to Huangfu Chaobo and said, "Sun Ce would like to thank General Anton for his help in what happened today."

"It's a small effort, don't worry about it." After saying that, Huangfu Chaobo turned around and ordered: "Send the order, the army will return to the camp and prepare to attack the city!" Then, he bowed his hands to Sun Ce and others on the horse, patted the horse and left.

After the Anton army left, Zhou Yu walked to Sun Ce and said, "Bo Fu, let's return to the camp as well."

Although Sun Ce was unwilling, he had no choice but to turn his horse's head and said to Jiangdong's soldiers: "The army is back!"

Standing on the wall of the village, the general responsible for monitoring the movements of Jiangdong Army saw that Jiangdong Army finally left, and he breathed a long sigh of relief. After the army left, he immediately sent people to the Chinese army's tent to report to Jiangdong Army. trends.

On the top of Shouchun City, Ji Ling and Shu Shao waited until the sky was dimming but did not hear the killing cry from Cao Cao's army camp in the east. Then at this moment, the generals from the southeast corner of the city wall sent someone to The news said that the cavalry of the Anton Army had withdrawn and was heading west from the south of Shouchun.

At this time, the two of them already understood that their strategy did not achieve the expected results, but fortunately, they only lost one treasure box. Apart from that there is no other loss. But Shu Shao believed that he had planted the seeds of differentiation in the hearts of several princes. He believed that as time allowed, the rift between them would become wider and wider and eventually break.

But Shu Shao had another thought in his mind that he dared not reveal, that is, can the Zhong Dynasty hold out until that day? In fact, as early as when Ji Ling's army was defeated outside Anfeng City, Shu Shao had already realized in his heart that Qi could not be defeated with four counties against the opponent's five states.

"Mr. Yuan, lord, you are still too anxious. If you can control two or three states and then become emperor, Qi will not do so!" Shu Shao looked up at the direction of the palace in the northwest, and said to himself;

Although Cao Cao would attack Shouchun fiercely that day, he did not launch an attack on the east city of Shouchun until noon, and only launched two rounds of attacks that day. Because Sun Ce's army and An Dong's army were busy in the middle of the night, they delayed launching an attack until the afternoon.

The next day, as expected, Cao Cao's army launched a fierce attack on Shouchun City early in the morning, and almost caught Ji Ling off guard. Fortunately, Ji Ling was also a veteran who had fought in many battles. He reacted quickly and quickly mobilized reinforcements to climb the city wall for support. After great efforts, he finally drove Cao Cao's army off the city wall.