Chapter 652: Abandoning the Rook to Save the King

Now, Sizhou's army is approaching the city, and seeing everyone looking at him, Chen Lan knows that this time he has to cover up for his subordinates. With his lord's temperament, if he can abandon an unimportant general and save himself, I will definitely do it without hesitation. However, he may be concerned about his reputation and not take action personally. Then he will definitely be the only evil person. Rather than doing this, it is better to seek some benefits for his family. In this way, he not only solves the problem for his lord, but also finally seeks some benefits for his subordinate.

Thinking of this, Chen Lan walked forward a few steps: "Please make atonement, my lord. This general is named Chen Li. This matter is also caused by my subordinates' laxity. This matter was all caused by his reckless behavior, which led to today's disaster. I will decide I will persuade him to take this matter on his own so as not to embarrass the lord. However, he will accompany the lord through life and death for many years, and he also asks the lord not to leave his family behind."

When Yuan Shu heard this, he was very happy to see Chen Lan acting like this. He said: "General Chen, don't worry. Since this general has been following me for many years, he will not embarrass his family because of his loyalty. Not only that, I will also General Chen, you can tell Chen Li that in order to show his loyalty, I will allow him to choose one of his nephews to succeed him, and all his subordinates will be under his command. At the same time, he will reward his family members with a hundred gold. "There is a house in Wancheng, a hundred acres of fertile land, and hundreds of brocades and silks."

When Chen Lan heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly knelt down and thanked him: "General, I would like to thank my lord for Chen Li!"

Yuan Shu waved his hand to let Chen Lan stand up, and then asked everyone who could go to Huangfu Chaobo Camp to discuss the truce. After a group of staff discussed for a long time, the general strategy was finalized, and the candidate for the trip was also decided, that is Yang Hong. In his opinion, this is a good opportunity for him to make a contribution. With his eloquent tongue, he will definitely persuade Huangfu Chaobo and his party to cease the war.

On July 15, Huangfu Chaobo led his army to arrive ten miles outside the north gate of Wancheng. There was an NPC Wu town called Xiyangju. Later, while Huang Zhong arranged for the auxiliary troops to set up camp, each of them led tens of thousands of soldiers to slowly approach the formation two miles outside the north gate of Wancheng.

"Dang, Dang, Dang..." For a moment, warning bells and gongs sounded on the entire Wanxian city wall. Then, the entire city poured a basin of water into the boiling oil pan, and shouts rang out one after another everywhere. Voice.

"My lord! My lord!!!" Yuan Shu, who had just woken up early in the morning, was startled by the sound of the alarm bell outside his house.

Immediately afterwards, a general rushed out of the Hou General's Mansion, rushed from the outer hall to the entrance of the backyard, and then shouted loudly there.

Yuan Shu, who hurriedly put on his clothes, walked out of the backyard and headed directly towards the meeting hall. As he walked, he asked the general: "Why are you panicking? Have Huangfu Chaobo's army arrived?"

The general said: "Yes, my lord, the Sizhou army has arrived at the city. According to reports from the scouts, an hour ago, the Sizhou army had arrived at Sunset Ju, ten miles outside the north gate of Wancheng. The army set up camp there. Later, Huangfu Chao Bo Qin led tens of thousands of troops directly to Wancheng, and now the enemy troops have been arrayed two miles away from the north gate. General Ji has led his generals to the city to report to the Lord. "

After arriving at the meeting hall, Yuan Shu saw that Yang Hong and all the officials had arrived, so he said no more and said with a gloomy face: "Masters, follow me to the city for a visit and see Huangfu Chaobo's army."

With that said, he headed towards the north gate without looking back.

After a while, the group arrived at the north gate tower. At this time, Ji Ling had already arrived on the city wall to set up defenses. Seeing Yuan Shu and others ascending the city, he quickly went up to greet them and said: "My lord!"

"General Ji, how is the situation?" Yuan Shu asked directly without saying much;

"The enemy has no signs of attacking the city yet. Please take a look, my lord," he said, leading Yuan Shu to the tower and looking in the direction of Sizhou's army outside the city. "There are large armies outside the city including the Guards Camp under General Pingdong and the Huben Camp under Huang Zhong, the first general under his command, as well as the Changshe Army and Luyang Army of the Yuzhou Army also appearing outside the city.

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Looking in the direction of Ji Ling's finger, Yuan Shu could see tens of thousands of troops waiting in formation outside the city.

The army outside the city has been formed, and in the middle is Huangfu Chaobo's personal guard camp. It can be seen that although the personal guard camp is divided into small arrays, each array only has more than a thousand soldiers, but they are all elite soldiers. On both sides of the guard camp are the imperial guards and heavy infantry of Huang Zhong's Huben camp, and further on both sides are the ordinary soldiers of the two schools. On the far side, you can see that they are obviously two different troops from the Sizhou army. Yuzhou Army, judging from the flags, they should be Changshe Army and Luyang Army respectively. On both sides of the infantry formation, there were thousands of tiger and horse cavalry roaming.

For Huangfu Chaobo's subordinates, Ji Ling and Chen Lan were most impressed by the infantry holding the "high" flag, but they knew nothing about the other soldiers in the square formation.

Pointing to the position of Gao Shun's trapped camp, Ji Ling said: "My lord, that infantry group of about a thousand people is the infantry group that the general saw when he was waiting in Luoyang. Judging from their equipment, they seem to be more advanced than before. Well, it seems that its combat power must be even greater."

Yuan Shu looked around and saw that those soldiers were indeed different from the surrounding soldiers. Although they were also wearing black armor, they were different from the heavy armor of the heavy armored infantry he had seen. From the city tower, we can see that the heavy armor of a school of heavy-armored infantry beside Huangfu Chaobo should be the heavy armor of his own Nanyang Army, but the heavy armor of this infantry is different.

Seeing this, Yuan Shu said: "Is the combat power of this infantry really as the general said?"

"I dare not deceive the lord. The combat power of this infantry is seen by my own eyes. However, there were only eight or nine hundred people at that time. Now half a year has passed, and it has only increased to about a thousand people. This shows that these soldiers are strictly selected. Otherwise, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers under General Pingdong, it should not be a problem to increase to one school of soldiers. It is precisely because of this that I have concluded that the combat power of this school of soldiers is stronger than before." Ji Ling listened and immediately answered carefully;

Yuan Shu nodded, turned to look at the other soldiers and said: "Several thousand soldiers around Where do the rest of the troops come from? "

Ji Ling looked at them and shook his head, saying, "I don't know much about the situation of these three troops. I wonder if Lord Yuan's spies have sent back any news?" Ji Ling turned to look at Yuan Huan, who was in charge of the spies.

Yuan En listened and took two steps forward and said, "My lord, according to the news sent back by the spies, the one with the 'Yuan Rong' flag should be a new crossbow soldier formed by General Pingdong this year. It is said that its crossbow arrows can be continuous, and the other 'Iron Eagle Sharp Soldiers' are not very clear, they should be a newly formed army. As for the 'Bai Hao Soldiers' next to them, there is no news. "