Chapter 946: Battle of Shouchun (12)

Under Yuan Shu's order, Ji Ling and the rest of the people exited the palace. After exiting the palace gate, he turned back to glance at the emperor's palace, sighed softly, and was about to return to the city wall.

"General!"

At this moment, Shu Shao's voice sounded behind Ji Ling, and Ji Ling stopped quickly: "Master Shu, what's the matter?"

After everyone else left, Shu Shao asked softly: "General, how are you preparing..."

The relationship between the two is very good, and they have worked as partners several times, so they have less worries about talking to each other.

"I don't know, what is Brother Zhong Ying's opinion?" Ji Ling sighed;

"The only plan for now is to protect your majesty from reuniting with the prince and find another place to go. It's just your majesty..."

"I will try my best to convince His Majesty, but Brother Zhong Ying also knows His Majesty's character... Sigh..." Ji Ling sighed again, and then walked towards the city wall without looking back. For more than a month, He had adapted to patrolling the city wall and then spending the night in the military camp next to the city gate.

On the second day, the attack of the armies of the princes came as expected. On the city wall, Ji Ling once again led his guards back and forth, joining from time to time his own defense line that was somewhat unsustainable, and drove off Cao Cao's soldiers who had attacked the city. head. However, Ji Ling found that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers had dropped significantly compared with the previous few days.

In desperation, Ji Ling had to constantly mobilize his personal guard battalion and imperial troops to the top of the city to support the crumbling defense line. At the end of the day, even with Ji Ling's strength, he was covered in blood and exhausted, and the losses of the city defenders almost reached the amount of the previous two days.

Once again, he arranged for defense. After coming down from the city, he hurried to the palace again. This time he made up his mind to persuade the emperor to agree to evacuate.

After receiving Yuan Shu's invitation, Ji Ling couldn't wait to rush to the side hall where Yuan Shu was. As soon as he entered the hall, Ji Ling saw Yuan Shu sitting there with a haggard face, seemingly even more haggard than yesterday. As if he knew Ji Ling's intention, before Ji Ling could speak, Yuan Shu waved his hand and said: "General, there is no need to say more. I have made up my mind and will never leave Shouchun City."

As he spoke, he slowly stood up. Perhaps because he couldn't sit still for a long time, when he first came together, he stumbled forward, almost losing his balance and falling to the ground. At this time, there were only two of them in the side hall. Yuan Shu's movements startled Ji Ling, and he rushed over to help Yuan Shu. Before he could come over, Yuan Shu had already stood up straight.

Slowly walking to Ji Ling's side, Yuan Shu said: "I know the general's thoughts, but if I leave too, none of us will be able to leave, and the armies of Cao Cao and Sun Ce will surely pursue us. So, I will give this thing to the general, who will escort it out and give it to the prince. You can tell the prince whether he will succeed as emperor or donate it to others. It is up to him."

With that said, Yuan Shu wrapped the jade seal in yellow silk and solemnly handed it to Ji Ling.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to stay with you in Shouchun City. Please ask your Majesty to send the others to the prince."

Yuan Shu shook his head: "No, this thing is extraordinary. I can't trust it with others. I can only feel relieved when it is handed over to Aiqing. Moreover, the prince still needs help around him. Chen Lan and Li Ling are not capable enough." To assist the prince, although Yuan Si is very capable, he is not strong in internal affairs, so the prince does not have a general to lead the army, so this person must be a minister. "

Yuan Shu's words moved Ji Ling to tears.

After Ji Ling calmed down a little, Yuan Shu continued: "In the opinion of the general, how long can the outer city last?"

"Three to five days, any longer will probably be difficult." Ji Ling thought for a while and replied;

"Three to five days should be enough." Yuan Shu made some calculations in his mind, nodded, and said: "In the past few days, Ai Qing has secretly mobilized 5,000 royal guards and 5,000 heavy armor soldiers to enter the imperial city. I ordered people to start preparations. After the outer city is conquered, I will personally go to the wall of the inner city to meet the enemy, so as to attract the attention of several princes.

When Aiqing arrived, he led his army to break out from the north gate and went to Fuling to join the prince's army. As for the prince's safety, he left it to Aiqing. "

Ji Ling immediately understood what Yuan Shu meant. Shouchun City is adjacent to the Feishui River in the north, with a water pass at the northeast and northwest corners. The Feishui River flows from south to north seven or eight miles east of Shouchun, and Cao Cao The main camp of the army stood with its back on the Feishui River, which meant that Ji Ling's army only needed to cross the Feishui River and then go around to the back of Cao Cao's military camp. Of course, Cao Cao's army also had a camp on the east bank of Fei River, but it only had less than ten thousand people.

I believe that once the outer city of Shouchun is defeated and Yuan Shu personally supervises the battle in the inner city, Cao Cao's army's attention will definitely be attracted to the city. By then, it will be much easier for Ji Ling to break through the encirclement at the camp east of Feishui. .

Seeing that Yuan Shu was determined, Ji Ling knew that he could no longer change Yuan Shu's mind, so he had no choice but to accept the order with tears in his eyes. Seeing Ji Ling accept the order, Yuan Shu also felt relieved. As long as the jade seal could be successfully handed over to the prince, his Zhong dynasty would still have hope. However, before the city was destroyed, Yuan Shu didn't want too many people to know, so he repeatedly told Ji Ling to keep it secret.

Afterwards, Yuan Shu put aside his worries and waved Ji Ling to leave, but he began to order his close eunuchs and guards to secretly prepare the treasures and materials that Ji Ling needed to take away.

This is the difference between players and NPCs. If players run away, no matter how much money they have, they will be directly put into their pockets. For example, Huangfu Chaobo made millions of dollars in the mansions of Zhang Rang's eunuchs, and all of them were directly put into the package. Of course, the rest of the jewelry and materials still need to be moved.

The decline in the combat effectiveness of Yuan Shu's army was within the expectations of several princes, so after a day of fighting, Huangfu Chaobo once again summoned all the generals to discuss matters.

In the Andong military camp west of Shouchun City, in the central army tent, Huangfu Chaobo and everyone were sitting together, and the Shouchun map was placed in front of them.

Huang Zhong pointed to the map and told everyone about the situation of today's battle. Everyone clearly felt a hint of happiness in his tone. If an old general like him who always kept his emotions indifferent was like this, it can be seen that the war has indeed progressed smoothly.

As expected, Huang Zhong said, "General, several military advisors, judging from today's battle, I can basically infer that the morale of Yuan Shu's army has been affected by yesterday's rumors. Although several attacks today were repelled by Yuan Shu's army, I believe that it will only take another three to five days to successfully capture the outer city."