Chapter 947: Battle of Shouchun (13)

Huangfu Chaobo and the three military advisors also paid full attention to today's battle. It can be seen that the defense of Yuan Shu's army on the top of the city seems to have weakened. Although the losses of their own army are similar to those in the previous few days, Huangfu Chaobo and others on the nest car can see that the frequency of Yuan Shu's generals mobilizing reinforcements from the city is significantly higher than in the previous few days.

Guo Jia nodded, agreeing with Huang Zhong's words, and then said: "In this case, we must be prepared for the next step."

According to the initial plan of the An Dong Army, the purpose of the Shouchun Battle is twofold. One is that Yuan Shu must die, and the other is to get enough benefits from Shouchun City. These benefits include people, money, and materials. The speed of wealth and materials entering the city is fast enough. If it is fast enough, you can get a lot of benefits.

But in terms of people, in addition to various talents, there is population. When Yuan Shu led hundreds of thousands of troops, merchants and their families to Huainan, most of them were settled in Shouchun and several surrounding counties. Shouchun alone had a population of 200,000 to 300,000, which turned Shouchun from an ordinary county into a huge city with a population of more than 400,000. The city was also expanded several times. You know, the county capital of Jiujiang has always been Yinling City.

Faced with such a large population, Huangfu Chaobo would feel embarrassed if he didn't take 100,000 or 200,000 people away from here. In addition to these ordinary people and special talents, the captives of Yuan Shu's army are also the targets of the Anton Army. Once Yuan Shu's forces are destroyed, the Anton Army can safely recruit and use these captives. You know, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Shouchun City, and even their injured soldiers will not be spared.

The next step that Guo Jia mentioned refers to this. In the next few days, the Shadow Guard will spread the news that Cao Cao's army and Sun Ce's army will massacre the people and Yuan Shu's soldiers in Shouchun City, attracting more people to surrender to the Andong Army in the west of the city. As for what the other two will do, Huangfu Chaobo can't care so much.

At the same time, Huangfu Chaobo is ready to let Lu Su start to contact Zhou Yu to lay a solid foundation for the alliance to attack Cao Cao later. Of course, there will be a lot of benefits for Sun Ce's army. However, there are some things that Huangfu Chaobo doesn't care about, but Sun Ce and Zhou Yu will definitely be interested.

For example, Shouchun City, the Andong Army is not very interested in it at present, so Huangfu Chaobo is ready to support Sun Ce's army to control Shouchun City, and Chengde County, Huangfu Chaobo is also ready to hand it over to Sun Ce's army. Of course, it's just a city, most of the population and materials in it will be taken away, and it is impossible for them to get a county for nothing after working hard to conquer it.

Huangfu Chaobo nodded and agreed with Guo Jia's suggestion, saying: "General Shi, send a message to the Shadow Guards in Shouchun City and let them start the next move. How much we can gain from the Shouchun battle depends on you Shadow Guards."

"Yes!" Shi A replied respectfully;

After Shi A left, Huangfu Chaobo looked at Guo Jia and others and said: "In your opinion, will Yuan Shu run away?"

The reason why Huangfu Chaobo asked this question is because he knew that Yuan Shu had run away in history, and he had run away several times, but he was unsuccessful and eventually died in Huainan. What he didn't know was that Yuan Shu in the game had already decided to stay in Shouchun and defend the imperial city.

If he knew this news, he would be surprised.

For this question, no one could give Huangfu Chaobo a satisfactory answer. In desperation, Huangfu Chaobo had to order Hu Yandu's cavalry to closely monitor the situation at the north gate. Once Yuan Shu was found to have escaped, he must be held tightly and wait for the army to come.

In addition to these, Huangfu Chaobo also ordered the camp to be expanded to prepare for the temporary resettlement of the relocated people and captives.

When it was about to end, Pang Tong suddenly said: "There is one more thing, the lord needs to start preparing."

Huangfu Chaobo was stunned and looked up at Pang Tong. Pang Tong said slowly: "Once Shouchun, the lord must send people to surrender Li Feng's troops in Qisi and the remnants of Yuan Shu's army in the surrounding cities as soon as possible.

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"Well, let Shi Yuan arrange this matter. If Li Feng and the surrounding cities can be successfully surrendered, it would be the best. If they are unwilling to surrender, let them hand over their weapons and let them leave."

"Yes!"

Starting from the second day, Shouchun City was undercurrent. In addition to the news that the emperor was preparing to escape, there was suddenly news in the army that Cao Cao's army and Sun Ce's army wanted to massacre the people and defenders in the city. At the beginning, everyone sneered at this, but as time went on, more and more people spread the news, and each of them had a nose and eyes, and everyone couldn't help but doubt the authenticity of the rumor.

For Sun Ce's army, he was originally a soldier under the emperor, but later betrayed the emperor, and now he is personally leading the army to counterattack his former master. For people who betray their masters, they are already despised, so it is indeed possible that he would treat Yuan Shu's soldiers and the people in this way.

As for Cao Cao's army, the rumor is that the emperor and the generals played a trick on Cao Cao a few days ago. In anger, Cao Cao ordered that no prisoners be left wherever the army passed, and all the soldiers of Yuan Shu's army should be killed to avenge the humiliation of that day. As for the changes in the army outside the city that night, because Ji Ling and others did not deliberately conceal it, most of the soldiers in the city knew something.

In this way, it just confirmed that the news spread by the rumor was correct.

The war in Shouchun has been going on for more than a month now. It is impossible for people to stay at home all day long. Therefore, during the day, there is still a period of time every day to allow people to leave their homes to buy some supplies. However, this time is not long, usually about half an hour at noon. However, it is this half an hour every day that makes the rumor spread throughout the city in a few days.

During the few days when the rumor spread, more and more people left the East City and the South City. Those who could hide in the inner city tried every means to hide in the inner city, and those who had no connections to enter the inner city took every opportunity to escape to the West City, because the rumor did not say that the An Dong army would do so.

Another point is that many people in Shouchun City moved from Nanyang. After the Luoyang army captured tens of thousands of Nanyang soldiers, they also specifically asked Yuan Shu for their families. Many people in Nanyang knew about it. Therefore, from two aspects, the attitude of the people in Shouchun City towards the An Dong army was closer than that of the other two princes.