Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

But when Cao Xiu led the Leopard Cavalry to Chang'an, he found that an identical trap had been prepared outside the battlefield.

Cao Xiu had no choice but to lead his army forward again. What greeted him were the racks that could be used at any time to avoid the rain of arrows and the powerful crossbowmen who had gathered in advance.

Having learned his lesson once, Cao Xiu naturally did not dare to charge again.

But when Cao Xiu arrived in Chang'an, the situation in Chang'an was much more dangerous than that in Anqiu an hour and a half ago, and the Han army had already rushed up many sections of the city wall.

In order to boost the morale of the defenders, Cao Xiu had to lead the Leopard Cavalry to continue patrolling the periphery, raising flags and constantly shouting that most of the reinforcements would arrive in a day, in an attempt to change the situation.

But what puzzled Cao Xiu was that the morale of the Chang'an defenders was not boosted by this, and the situation was still slipping towards the direction of breaking the city.

In less than an hour, Cao Xiu could only watch helplessly as Chang'an was completely breached, and a "Han" character was inserted on the top of the city wall in its place.

Cao Xiu's face looked quite ugly, so he led his army back to Anqiu, wanting to further confirm whether Anqiu City was still in his hands.

But while they were still halfway on the journey, the Leopard Cavalry who were left by Cao Xiu outside Anqiu City as scouts appeared in front of Cao Xiu first, resulting in the fall of Anqiu City.

In just half an hour, Cao Xiu learned that Anqiu and Chang'an had fallen one after another. This made him feel depressed and he didn't understand why the defenders of Anqiu and Chang'an were so incompetent.

With the arrival of reinforcements, the soldiers under his command should have been encouraged and could have at least been able to hold out for a while longer. How could they have fallen so quickly?

Although the reinforcements Cao Ren had mobilized were far from arriving tomorrow as Cao Xiu had claimed, it would take at least two days for them to reach the surrounding areas.

But this did not seem to change the speed of the fall, and Cao Xiu felt that his efforts were completely in vain after losing nearly two hundred cavalrymen.

In desperation, Cao Xiu ordered his men to quickly report the latest battle report to Cao Ren, while at the same time he led the Leopard Cavalry to retreat fifty miles, using the Leopard Cavalry as scouts to investigate the movements of the two cities of Anqiu and Chang'an from afar.

In less than three days, Anqiu and Chang'an, which each had 5,000 soldiers stationed there, were declared to have fallen. And according to Cao Xiu's investigation, even if the number of soldiers led by Xu Sheng was not 100,000, it was far more than 50,000.

Xu Sheng rested for only one day in Anqiu and Chang'an before leading his army north again, heading directly for Duchang City, where the government was located.

The next city standing in Xu Sheng's way was Chunyu City along the Wenshui River, which was also the last barrier of Duchang.

Realizing the urgency of the situation and that Duchang could not be lost easily, Cao Ren issued urgent military orders, urging all troops in the prefectures and counties to speed up their march to provide assistance. At the same time, he drew 30,000 troops from the vicinity of Duchang to garrison in Chunyu City.

Including the 10,000 soldiers stationed in Chunyu City itself, the 40,000 defenders were all entrusted to Chunyu City defender Yu Jin.

Chunyu City is close to Anqiu and Duchang. Less than half a day after the 30,000 troops hastily mobilized by Cao Ren arrived at Chunyu City, the army led by Xu Sheng was already at the gates of the city.

Xu Sheng and Yu Jin were both generals who were not good at speaking, and they didn't even bother to talk to each other from a distance to test the waters.

After Xu Sheng set up camp in Chunyu City and rested for a night.

The next morning, Xu Sheng once again launched a massive offensive. Except for Chunyu City, which was difficult to attack because it was close to the Wen River in the west, he launched fierce attacks on the remaining three sides.

However, it is different from small towns such as Anqiu and Chang'an.

The history of Chunyu City can even be traced back to the capital of the state of Chunyu established during the Western Zhou Dynasty. After 400 years of ups and downs, it was annexed during the Spring and Autumn Period. The walls are high and deep, and there are only two gates, east and west. The west gate, which is close to the Wenshui River, is difficult to deploy troops. If you want to break in, you can only use the east gate. The remaining north and south walls cannot be opened even if they are broken.

This made Xu Sheng test the waters. After he withdrew his troops temporarily at noon to regroup, he focused on the east gate and deployed troops to launch a strong attack.

However, although Cao Ren was the governor of Qingzhou and in charge of military and political affairs, Yu Jin was the most trusted general from outside of Qingzhou by Cao Cao, and was once praised by Cao Cao as being better than the famous generals in ancient times.

The siege troops arranged by Xu Sheng were layered and attacked in an interlaced manner. The ferocity of the attack was truly the essence of military strategy.

But after such a fierce attack, Chunyu City was as solid as a rock, and even the top of the city wall was only touched very rarely.

It was not just that Yu Jin had sufficient troops, but also that Yu Jin's arrangements for defending the city were almost flawless, which made Xu Sheng feel like he had no idea where to start.

Tian Feng was walking beside Xu Sheng, looking at Chunyu Cheng who seemed to be as steady as Mount Tai from afar, and spoke.

"It is said that Cao Cao saw that our Han Dynasty had five great generals and wanted to set up the 'Five Great Generals' in imitation of them. However, he gave up the idea because the achievements of his foreign generals were not obvious enough to convince the people and gain fame."

"However, there seems to be a rumor that Yu Jin was one of the 'Five Elite Generals' that Cao Cao originally wanted to appoint. Now it seems that he should not be underestimated."

Xu Sheng said nothing and ordered the army to retreat and rest for the time being. Then, in the tent, he laid out some of Chunyu City's garrison arrangements based on the intelligence obtained from today's probe and studied them carefully for most of the night.

The next day, Xu Sheng, who had adjusted a lot of arrangements, led his troops to attack Chunyu City again, but still to no avail.

Another day, Xu Sheng adjusted the siege deployment again and continued the attack, but to no avail.

After three days of fierce attacks, Xu Sheng was unable to shake Chunyu City in the slightest. After staring at Chunyu City for a long time, he reluctantly issued an order to temporarily suspend the siege and let the entire army rest.

After three days of continuous attacks without any substantial results, the impact on morale was quite obvious. Xu Sheng had to order a rest and enter a confrontation phase to wait for a good opportunity.

The battle situation in Chunyu City was also reported truthfully by Xu Sheng to Li Ji, who was still in Pi Ting. In addition to the specific battle situation, he also apologized for his crime.

[… Chunyu’s determination, Yu Jin’s ability, and the garrison of about 40,000 soldiers make it difficult to break through the city in a short period of time. Please ask the Prime Minister to punish them.]

Li Ji read the military newspaper carefully again, put it down and spoke.

"Yu Jin is a talented person."

Although the enemy was outnumbered by 40,000 men, with the advantage of the city walls, any general who was not a mediocre one could have resisted.

But the helplessness revealed in Xu Sheng's military report was not only the helplessness of insufficient troops for siege, but also a bit of helplessness about the forbidden power.

Obviously, Yu Jin's ability to defend the city meant that Xu Sheng saw no hope of breaking through Chunyu City, so he sent a letter to apologize.

However, Li Ji was not surprised by this.

Yu Jin was at least one of the "Five Great Generals" of Cao Wei in the original storyline. His bravery might not be as good as the Five Tiger Generals, but his ability to lead an army was still quite impressive. (End of this chapter)