Chapter 937: Battle of Shouchun (3)

The losses caused by the army's attack on the city made Huangfu Chaobo let out a long sigh, and turned to ask Pang Tong: "How long will it take for the reinforcements from Runan and Lujiang to arrive?"

"According to the request of the lord, 40,000 garrison troops from the two counties have arrived in Lu'an one after another. They should be able to arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Another thing is that according to General Zhang He's report, Prefect Liu and General Kong have arrived in Shu County. He The army will begin to attack the remaining cities in Lujiang."

Huangfu nodded and said eloquently: "Send an order to Zhang He and tell him that after capturing Songyang Port, he will send a message to Zhou Tai of Huai River, asking him to send his navy men south to Songyang to form the navy of Lujiang County as soon as possible. Get up, but be careful not to let Liu Biao and Sun Ce find out."

"promise!"

While several people were talking, they saw Lu Su running wildly out of the camp. Huangfu Chaobo now has three military advisors accompanying the army, so every time he travels, one of the three always stays behind at the Chinese army's tent, and among the three, the honest man Lu Su stays behind the most. In his words, his new The person who surrenders should be familiar with the situation of the army, so that he can stay in the tent without any mistakes.

Panting and climbing up to the watchtower, Lu Su whispered in his ear: "My lord, there is news from the shadow guards in the city that Yuan Shu wants to surrender with the jade seal."

The sound was neither too loud nor too quiet, just enough for all three of them to hear. When the three of them heard this, they were all startled, and they all saw doubts and confusion in each other's eyes.

"Let's go back to the big tent." Huangfu Chaobo immediately ordered without thinking too much;

The group of people quickly returned to the Chinese army's tent under the protection of their own soldiers. Here, Shi A had been waiting in the tent for a long time. When he saw Huangfu Chaobo entering the tent, he quickly stepped forward to salute: "My lord!"

"Well, is the news reliable?"

"Wei Jiang has confirmed it again and again, but the news returned cannot be completely certain. However, a few officials in Yuan Shu's army have begun to spread the news secretly, and they also got news that a few days ago Ji Ling proposed that Yuan Shu issue an additional The monthly salary was used to reward the three armies, but Yuan Shu only agreed to pay half a month's salary, so Yuan Shu spent the money but did not achieve the desired effect. "

"Now people in Shouchun City are excited, that's why Yuan Shu acted like this." Shi A paused for a moment and added;

"Do the other two families know? And who is Yuan Shu going to present the jade seal to?"

Shi A shook his head and said that he did not know about these situations, and there was no relevant news from the Shadow Guard.

"Okay, please step back first." Huangfu Chaobo waved to Shi A when he couldn't find out anything else;

Seeing this, Shi A quickly stepped aside and stood there quietly.

Everyone else also heard Shi'a's words, so after Shi'a retreated, everyone calmed down and quietly thought about the news from the shadow.

What everyone didn't know was that while they were thinking hard, in the Sun Ce army camp in the south of Shouchun City, Sun Ce, who had just returned to the camp, was already furious because he had also received news from the city that Yuan Shu was preparing to sacrifice his life. Xi surrendered. The reason why he was so angry was because Sun Ce knew that as the weakest family among the three families, the princes to whom Yuan Shu presented his seal were definitely not him.

So who is it? After thinking for a moment, Sun Ce said to Zhou Yu: "Gongjin, we must immediately send people to monitor the other two families. We must find out whose house Yuan Shu's dog thief sent the jade seal to."

Sun Ce's words were spoken with gnashing of teeth. Even though Zhou Yu's relationship with him was as close as flesh and blood, he was also frightened.

Everyone in Sun Ce knew that Yuan Shu's jade seal was obtained by Sun Jian, and Sun Jian died because of it. In the end, Sun Ce had no choice but to dedicate it to Yuan Shu in order to help the Sun family rise, and borrowed tens of thousands of troops from him. But Sun Cejun, whether Sun Ce or several veterans of the Sun family, are always thinking about taking back the jade seal.

Now that the Jade Seal is right in front of him, who knew that Yuan Shu would offer it to other princes in exchange for a chance of survival? Would this not make Sun Ce anxious? Now three groups of princes are besieging Shouchun. Only Sun Ce's army has less than three counties, but the force it sends is almost the same as the other two.

This shows Sun Ce's determination.

"But, Yu still feels a little strange about this matter." Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and said;

Sun Ce didn't care so much. He had to confirm this matter, otherwise Yuxi might never have the chance to return to the Sun family's hands.

"Come here, tell Xiumu to come see me immediately!"

A moment later, Zhu Heng hurried to Sun Ce in the tent: "I have not seen Zhu Heng before my lord!"

"Xiu Mu, you immediately send someone to my general to keep an eye on the Anton Army and Cao Cao Army camps. If anything unusual is found, come back and report it immediately!"

Zhu Heng was stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted, quickly bowed and agreed, and then immediately turned around and left the tent to make arrangements.

After Zhu Heng left, Sun Ce still couldn't calm down. He kept walking around in the tent, anxiously waiting for the news from Zhu Heng.

Compared with the restlessness in Sun Ce's tent, there was silence in Huangfu Chaobo's tent. Huangfu Chaobo and the three military advisors were all lost in thought. Although Huang Zhong and the generals who participated in the battle all said that the morale of Yuan Shu's army had declined in recent days. It has indeed declined, and the combat power is no longer as strong as in the previous days. If nothing else, the casualties of the siege army are declining day by day. Of course, this is also due to the increase in experience of the soldiers and the increase in the strength of his own army after reorganization, but it is an indisputable fact that the combat strength of Yuan Shu's army has declined.

However, all four of them felt that there was something indescribable in this matter, but none of them could figure out why. Or maybe it was because the information was so rudimentary that they could not figure it out from this simple information. I can't think of anything more useful.

In desperation, Huangfu Chaobo had no choice but to order Shi'a to send people to closely monitor the remaining camps of the two armies. If any abnormality was discovered, he would report it immediately, and then put the matter aside.

At the third watch, dozens of black shadows suddenly appeared at the top of the east wall of Shouchun City. When the general on duty at the top of the city was about to ask loudly, he suddenly heard a voice from among the group of people on the opposite side: "Chen Zhi. , don’t make any noise, the general is here to patrol the city!”

The general named Chen Zhi was furious and hurriedly ran forward to greet him. He found that it was indeed the general and his party, and the leader was the general in charge of the east wall. Chen Zhi’s immediate superior suggested to the captain Li Shi , seeing the group of people, Chen Zhi quickly stepped forward and saluted: "I will not meet the general!"

"No courtesy!" Ji Ling nodded, and then nodded to the captain next to him.

"Chen Zhi, immediately order the soldiers on duty at the top of the city to temporarily retreat, and the top of the city will be temporarily taken over by the general's personal guards!" the school captain ordered;