Someone started, and everyone followed suit. There were more than 150 people, and no one objected.

Qi Xiong was overjoyed: "Okay, since brothers agree, let's make a plan. What I mean is to send someone out of the city tonight to report the news to Liu Bei's camp, and let them bring troops to the outside of the city tomorrow. Tomorrow we will guard the city gate.

When the time comes, suddenly open the city gate to welcome Xuzhou soldiers and horses into the city, so that we may still have a reward to take home!"

Everyone was led by Qi Xiong at this time, and he would do whatever he said.

Qi Xiong selected one person and asked him and several others to carry the rope to an unguarded place and secretly roped out of the city.

On the same day, Liu Bei asked Gan Ning to lead 3,000 people to the city and persuade him to surrender as usual.

After Gan Ning, Zhang Fei led 5,000 people to prepare. As soon as the city gate opened, Gan Ning led his troops to rush over and control the gate, and he immediately led his troops to rush into the city.

Liu Bei then led the rest of his troops to assemble in the camp and wait for Zhang Fei to advance, then he would lead his troops out of the camp and attack the city.

Qi Xiong led his troops to guard the city gate.

In addition to his more than 150 people, there were more than 150 others. Cao Cao asked more than 300 people to guard one city gate, and each city gate was guarded by two soldiers of different attributes. What he was afraid of was

Someone will open the door to accept the enemy, allowing two soldiers of different attributes to guard together, which can restrict each other.

The weather is gloomy today, the sun cannot be seen, and everyone is feeling heavy.

Qi Xiong listened to the voices urging surrender outside the city, which were also mixed with some curses and threats.

He made eye contact with several village chiefs, and was about to give the order to take action when suddenly a soldier hurried over, ran up to Qi Xiong and said in his ear: "Hold on, take action, Duke Cao is here."

Qi Xiong saw another military prince looking at him with doubtful eyes. He knew that the soldier whispering secret words would arouse suspicion. After hearing this, he pushed the soldier and said with a smile: "You are telling me that you have diarrhea." What's more, I didn't pull it out until I finished it."

Several village chiefs nearby who were nervous at first understood and laughed awkwardly.

The soldier also smiled naively and pretended to run away holding his stomach, but in fact he was going to observe where Cao Cao was going.

Cao Cao personally came to patrol the city, and he brought many guards behind him, especially Dian Wei. Everyone knew that he was an invincible guy. With them around, he did not dare to take action.

"Gong Cao is here to inspect the city. You all should keep an eye on the city gate."

Qi Xiong gave an order to let everyone know why they couldn't take action now.

Cao Cao took Dian Wei and Lu Qian to inspect the city wall. He started his inspection from the north and happened to reach the east at this time.

He stood on the city wall, looking at the enemy soldiers outside the city who were trying to persuade them to surrender. He listened to their words and frowned slightly.

"They persuade them to surrender like this every day. There is a shortage of food in the city and there are no reinforcements. They are afraid that they will weaken the morale of the army!"

Lu Qian looked helpless: "The enemy soldiers are shouting and yelling outside the city every day to persuade them to surrender. The morale in the city is indeed low, but there is no way to shut them up. Should we let the soldiers yell back?"

Cao Cao smiled softly: "Haha, what's the point of scolding? How to scold? Are they saying they don't dare to attack the city? If they are angered and really come to attack the city, how can we defend it? Liu Bei wanted to die alone, but he had to die alone. , he was able to feel at ease and did not attack the city because he knew that we did not have much food in the city and could not hold it for many days, and he did not want to lose his soldiers in vain. "

"Then how to deal with it?" Lu Qian really had no choice.

Cao Cao saw the troops led by Zhang Fei behind Gan Ning, but he didn't think much about it. After all, Liu Bei was also on guard against him suddenly leading his troops out of the city to charge, so he had to prepare troops and horses to deal with them.

"You can tell the soldiers that Guo Fengxiao has gone to Yecheng and is persuading General Yuan. In a few days, the Jizhou troops and Nanyang troops will retreat, and then we can return to Yanzhou. Let the soldiers not I'm flustered, and when I return to Yanzhou, I will definitely reward them heavily."

"promise."

Lu Qian was slightly happy. This would indeed have some effect on boosting morale, but he didn't know how long the effect would last. Now he could only live one day at a time.

Cao Cao looked outside the city for a while and continued walking towards Nancheng.

When he arrived at Nancheng, looking at the enemy camp outside the city, Cao Cao was silent for a long time.

To the south are the troops and horses of Zhang Xiu, the governor of Nanyang.

Zhang Xiu brought 20,000 soldiers and horses over this time. When he surrounded Xia Pi, he was on the outside and set up camp behind Jushou's Jizhou camp.

Although one side of the city can now be besieged independently, the south side is very unimportant. It can be seen that Liu Bei and Jushu do not pay enough attention to it.

Therefore, it seems that Zhang Xiu did not work hard enough. The camp he established was not strict, and the management of the barracks seemed to be very poor. The soldiers moved around and seemed quite chaotic.

"You can break out here."

Cao Cao suddenly pointed outside the city and said.
Chapter completed!