The Three Kingdoms are invincible

Cao Cao has a lot of headaches because of the current situation. He is reluctant to give up Xuzhou to Yuan Shao, and it is even more impossible to give up the Emperor Han who is under his control.

However, if I don't make a decision sooner, I'm afraid the hegemony I've worked so hard to create will come to an end soon.

Sun Jian, who was marching far outside Xuchang City, would not worry about Cao Cao's dilemma, and now he is attacking Xuchang City with all his strength.

Sun Jian's army divided the 5000 troops into four groups, each with [-] people, and besieged the four gates of Xuchang.

The defenders also saw the tricks, with Cao Ren at the east gate, Yu Jin at the west gate, Li Dian at the south gate, and Xu Rong at the north gate, each leading 5000 men to defend to the death.

Bows, arrows, falling stones, and boiling oil, facing Sun Jian's army that came up from the bottom of the ladder, the defenders on the city did everything possible to prevent the enemy from climbing to the top of the city.

There was an endless stream of screams and shouts of killing.

Although the defense of Xuchang City was not particularly strong, and the number of defenders in the city was not too large, Sun Jian also knew that it would not take two or three days to conquer Xuchang City.

However, Sun Jian was not in a hurry, he had plenty of time.

It is impossible for Cao Cao to return to aid. This does not mean that he does not want to return to aid, but Yuan Shao's army is on his side. If Cao Cao does not want to end up with annihilation of the entire army, he has no possibility of withdrawing his army to rescue Xuchang.

In the absence of reinforcements, Xuchang City will eventually be unable to hold on for a moment.

So facing the Xuchang City in front of him, although Sun Jian was very excited, he was also very calm at the same time.

The excitement was because all kinds of fantasies had already unfolded in Sun Jian's mind at this time.After breaking Xuchang City, he will have the opportunity to compete in the world. At that time, if he gathers the power of the Central Plains and Soochow, even if he is as strong as Yuan Shao in the north, he may not be his opponent.It is very possible to rule the world!How could Sun Jian not be excited by such a beautiful situation?

The reason for being calm is that Sun Jian has full confidence that he can take the Xuchang City in front of him. It is only a matter of time before it is regarded as something in its own pocket.

After attacking for a day, and leaving about a thousand corpses at each of the four gates, Sun Jian ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops and return them to the camp.

At night, Zhou Yu came to Sun Jian to offer advice.

"My lord, to attack the city tomorrow, you can choose three of the four gates to attack with a majority force, and leave the other gate to attack with a small force. In this way, after a few days, the enemy's defense against that gate will inevitably be limited. Weakened, when the time comes, our army will concentrate our forces again in one fell swoop and storm this gate, and the enemy will be unprepared, and Xuchang will be within easy reach."

Zhou Yu is not only extremely handsome, but also elegant and generous, and his tone of speech is also calm and elegant. He is worthy of being a first-class handsome man in the Three Kingdoms period.

"Is that necessary?" Hearing about Zhou Yu's strategy, his elder brother Sun Ce said casually, "The capture of Xuchang City is only a matter of time, so why bother?"

Sun Ce exudes a heroic spirit between his eyebrows, and his behavior is chic and comfortable.Compared with Zhou Yu, Sun Ce is not much less, he is a rare handsome man in the world.

"That being said, according to Yu, although Xuchang City is not considered a fortified city, the Cao army in the city is very determined to defend the city. If our army wants to break the city by force, it will take at least ten days. And within these ten days, the loss of our army must not be small, at least there must be [-] casualties. Although [-] casualties are not unbearable for our army, they are still quite a lot. To reduce some casualties, it is better to reduce it as much as possible." Zhou Yu knew Sun Ce's temper well, and also expected him to say such words, so he explained.

"Gong Jin's words are very kind." Sun Jian stroked his beard upon hearing this and said, obviously agreeing with Zhou Yu's point of view.

That's right, after capturing Xuchang, Cao Cao will probably be finished, and I'm afraid he will have to face Yuan Shao head-on.In order to better deal with Yuan Shao, if the casualties of his own army can be avoided, it is better to avoid them as much as possible.

Seeing that his father had spoken, Sun Ce had no objection.In fact, he just said that casually out of his confidence in Sun Jianjun. Sun Ce was extremely convinced of Zhou Yu's strategy, and he never sincerely questioned the other party.

"But with this arrangement, will Cao Jun fall into the trap?" After affirming Zhou Yu's idea of ​​reducing casualties, Sun Jian raised doubts about the possibility of his plan's success. The signs of interference are too obvious, and it may easily arouse the other party's suspicion.

"Besieging three and missing one is the method of siege since ancient times. It is nothing too strange for the enemy to suddenly withdraw our offensive against a certain gate." With a confident smile on his face, Zhou Yu slowly Said, "And even if the enemy has doubts, that's okay. When the pressure on the other three gates is increasing, they will eventually be unable to resist and withdraw the defense of that gate."

"Father, the camp posts have been set up, and the defenses are well-protected. There is no danger of being robbed by the enemy." While everyone was discussing, a young man entered the tent, saluted Sun Jian, and said loudly .

I saw this young man with brown hair and blue eyes, although his appearance was quite handsome, but against the background of his hair color and pupil color, his appearance also looked a bit weird.

This boy is Sun Jian's second son, Sun Quan.Sun Quan is also 15 years old this year, and he would not be too young at the end of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Sun Jian also brought Sun Quan with him on this march in order to let him receive experience.

Looking at the two sons in front of him, and Zhou Yu standing aside, Sun Jian was in a good mood for a while.

His eldest son, Sun Ce, was brave and good at fighting, although dozens of people could not defeat him; his younger brother Zhou Yu was resourceful and capable of commanding an army; his second son, Sun Quan, was still young, but he had already shown some good talents.

These promising young people are the future of Jiangdong, and even the future of this world is unknown.

Thinking of Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others who have followed him for a long time, as well as Tai Shici, Zhou Tai, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong and other civil and military personnel who have voted in recent years, Sun Jian is full of energy.My Sun Jian's servants are all capable men in the world!I think that Sun Jian has so many talents under his command, and Jiangdong has enough soldiers, horses, food and grass now, if it is not me, Sun Wentai, who will be the one who will win the world in the future!

—————————————————————————————————— The next day, Sun Jian's army continued to attack the city.

However, what was different from yesterday was that the west, south, and north cities were still being attacked fiercely, and about [-] to [-] troops were invested in each of the gates to attack the city.However, the pressure on Cao Ren's east gate suddenly eased, and only about [-] troops attacked the east gate.

"Three encircles and one is missing..." Cao Ren frowned as he saw that the attack was not violent, but rather sparse, as he pondered whether to mobilize the troops from the east gate to help the other three gates defend the city.

After all, the lack of troops attacking his own sect means that the pressure on the other three sects will increase.

The enemy army gathers forces to attack the other three gates, while our own forces are divided equally to defend the four sides. In this way, our east gate is certainly as stable as Mount Tai, but the other three gates are not easy to say.

Today, there are about 500 guards at the east gate, which is one and a half times that of Sun Jian's army under the city.In the siege battle, the siege side is destined to be at a disadvantage. Right now, Sun Jian's army is only two-thirds of the East Gate's defenders, so the East Gate can be said to be at ease.

Do you want to draw 3000 people from the defenders of the east gate, and then send 1000 of them to support the other three gates?Cao Ren fell into deep thought.

If we do that, there are still 500 people left in the Dongmen defenders. In the battle of defending the city, [-] versus [-] can last for a long time.

But Cao Ren is the number one general with the surname Cao, and his knowledge is not bad. It would be fine if the enemy is surrounded by three people, but what if this is the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, the purpose is to let him take the east gate? If the guarding power of the east gate is weak, and then quickly dispatch troops to attack the east gate, what should we do?

Cao Ren could not determine whether the weak offensive at the east gate was a trick of the enemy to lure the enemy, or whether the enemy really implemented the method of encircling the city with three gaps.For a while, Cao Ren was hesitant about whether to send troops to the other three gates.