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However, when Cao Xiu led the Leopard Cavalry to Chang'an, he discovered that identical traps had been prepared around the battlefield.

Cao Xiu had no choice but to grit his teeth and lead his troops to charge forward again, facing not only the frames that could be used to evade the rain of arrows but also the crossbowmen who had gathered in advance.

Having learned his lesson once, Cao Xiu naturally dared not charge recklessly again.

But when Cao Xiu arrived at Chang'an, the situation was far more dangerous than Anqiu had been half an hour earlier, with many sections of the city wall already breached by Han troops.

To boost the morale of the defending soldiers, Cao Xiu had no choice but to lead the Leopard Cavalry to continue patrolling the outskirts while raising flags and constantly shouting that the main force of reinforcements would arrive in a day, in an attempt to change the situation.

However, Cao Xiu was puzzled by the fact that the Chang'an defenders did not seem to be boosted in morale by this, and the situation was still gradually sliding towards the city being breached.

In less than an hour, Cao Xiu could only helplessly watch as Chang'an was completely captured, and a banner with the character "Han" was hoisted on the city wall in its place.

Cao Xiu's expression was extremely ugly, and he led his troops back to Anqiu, wanting to further confirm whether Anqiu was still in their hands.

But before he was even halfway there, the Leopard Cavalry that Cao Xiu had left outside Anqiu to act as scouts appeared before Cao Xiu, bringing him the news of Anqiu's fall.

Learning of the successive falls of Anqiu and Chang'an in a short half-hour, Cao Xiu felt a surge of frustration building in his chest, and he couldn't understand why the defending generals of Anqiu and Chang'an were so incompetent.

With reinforcements arriving to encourage the soldiers, they should have been able to hold out for a while longer, so how could they have fallen so quickly?

Although the reinforcements Cao Ren had dispatched were far from arriving tomorrow as Cao Xiu had claimed, it would still take at least two days to reach the vicinity.

However, this rate of fall, which seemed to be unaffected by anything, made Cao Xiu feel that, apart from losing nearly two hundred cavalry, his efforts had been completely in vain.

Helpless, Cao Xiu ordered someone to quickly report the latest battle situation to Cao Ren, while he led the Leopard Cavalry fifty miles back, using them as scouts to scout the movements of Anqiu and Chang'an from a distance.

In less than three days, Anqiu and Chang'an, each garrisoned with five thousand soldiers, were announced to have fallen, and according to Cao Xiu's investigation, the number of troops led by Xu Sheng, even if not one hundred thousand, far exceeded fifty thousand.

Xu Sheng only rested in Anqiu and Chang'an for a day before leading his army north again, with the goal of directly targeting Duchang City, where the administrative center was located.

The next city blocking Xu Sheng's path was Chunyu City, which relied on the Wen River, and it was also the last barrier to Duchang.

Realizing the urgency of the situation and that Duchang could not be lost easily, Cao Ren urgently issued military orders, urging the various departments within the state and county to accelerate their march to support it, and also transferred 30,000 troops from the vicinity of Duchang to Chunyu City for defense.

Including the 10,000 soldiers already stationed in Chunyu City, all 40,000 of these defenders were entrusted to Yu Jin, the defending general of Chunyu City.

Chunyu City was close to both Anqiu and Duchang. Less than half a day after the 30,000 troops hurriedly transferred by Cao Ren arrived at Chunyu City, the army led by Xu Sheng was already at the city.

Both Xu Sheng and Yu Jin were the kind of generals who were not good at words, and they didn't even have the intention of talking to each other from afar to test the waters.

After Xu Sheng finished setting up camp in Chunyu City and rested for another night.

The next morning, Xu Sheng launched another massive and fierce attack, except for the west side of Chunyu City, which was difficult to attack due to its proximity to the Wen River, the remaining three sides were fiercely attacked.

However, Chunyu City was different from small cities like Anqiu and Chang'an.

The history of Chunyu City can even be traced back to the capital established by the Chunyu State during the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was annexed during the Spring and Autumn Period after four hundred years of wind and rain. The walls were high and the city was deep, and there were only two gates in the east and west.

The west gate, which was close to the Wen River, was difficult to deploy troops, so if they wanted to break through, only the east gate was feasible, and even if the remaining north and south city walls were breached, there would be no city gates to open.

After Xu Sheng tested it out, he temporarily withdrew his troops at noon to reorganize and then focused on the east gate, deploying troops to attack fiercely.

It's just that, although Cao Ren was in charge of military and political affairs as the governor of Qingzhou, Yu Jin was the most trusted non-clan general among the generals of Qingzhou by Cao Cao, and was once praised by Cao Cao as being even better than famous generals of ancient times.

The siege troops deployed by Xu Sheng were layered and staggered, launching fierce attacks, and the momentum of the attack could be said to have grasped the essence of military tactics.

However, after such a fierce attack, Chunyu City could be described as impregnable, and even the number of times the city head could be touched was few and far between.

This was not only because Yu Jin had sufficient troops in his hands, but also because Yu Jin's defensive arrangements were almost flawless, making Xu Sheng feel like he had nowhere to start.

Tian Feng, who was accompanying Xu Sheng, looked at Chunyu City, which seemed as stable as Mount Tai, and said.

"It is said that Cao Thief saw that our Great Han had Five Tiger Generals and wanted to imitate them by establishing 'Five Good Generals', but because the achievements of his foreign generals were not obvious and not enough to convince the public, he extinguished this idea."

"However, there seems to be a rumor that among the 'Five Good Generals' that Cao Cao originally wanted to establish, Yu Jin was one of them, and now it seems that he is indeed not to be underestimated."

Xu Sheng did not speak or respond, and after ordering the army to temporarily withdraw to rest, he also laid out some of Chunyu City's garrison arrangements in the tent based on the information obtained from today's test, and studied them carefully for most of the night.

The next day, Xu Sheng led his army to attack Chunyu City fiercely again after adjusting many arrangements, but it was still fruitless.

Another day, Xu Sheng readjusted the siege arrangements and continued to attack fiercely, but it was still fruitless.

After three consecutive days of fierce attacks that still failed to shake Chunyu City in the slightest, Xu Sheng stared at Chunyu City for a while before helplessly issuing an order to temporarily suspend the attack and let the entire army rest.

Continuous fierce attacks for three days without any substantial results had a significant impact on morale, and Xu Sheng had no choice but to order a rest, turning to a stage of confrontation and waiting for a good opportunity.

The battle situation of Chunyu City was also reported by Xu Sheng to Li Ji, who was still in Piting, truthfully in a military report. In addition to the specific battle situation, he also pleaded guilty in it.

【…Chunyu is strong, Yu Jin is capable, and there are about 40,000 defenders. It is difficult for Sheng to break through for a while, please punish the Prime Minister.】

Li Ji read the military report carefully again before putting it down and said.

"Yu Jin is indeed a talent."

Although defending with 40,000 against less than 60,000, taking advantage of the city walls, any general who is not mediocre can resist.

However, the helplessness revealed in Xu Sheng's military report was not only the helplessness of insufficient siege troops, but also a bit of helplessness towards Yu Jin's ability.

Obviously, Yu Jin's ability to defend the city made Xu Sheng unable to see any hope of breaking through Chunyu City for a while, so he sent a letter to plead guilty.

However, Li Ji was not surprised by this.

Yu Jin was at least one of Cao Wei's "Five Good Generals" in the original trajectory. His martial prowess may be far inferior to the Five Tiger Generals, but his ability to command troops was still considerable.

(End of this chapter)