Chapter 946

Less than half a quarter of an hour after the Yellow dance butterfly Department retreated, the next round of attack soldiers attacked the city in the sound of trumpets, and a new round of war started again.

The battle in Shouchun city continued like this. Not only that, in order to better attack the morale of the garrison, the three road princes outside the city also began to harass at night. Although Ji Ling once organized the army to go out of the city for two night raids, he only played a limited role in sun Qijun.

There were a lot of cavalry in Anton's army. As soon as Yuan Shu's army left the city, it was discovered by cavalry. In the end, he lost a handful of rice instead of a chicken. Of the 5000 soldiers and horses who came out of the city, less than 200 fled back to the city. The rest were either destroyed or captured by Anton's army.

Cao Cao's army had a large number of troops and had already arranged enough patrols outside the city, and Yuan Shu's army did not get much advantage.

In this way, by the end of August, the three route princes were losing nearly half of their troops. However, the three Route Army had gradually added some troops, and the army was still around 200000. Yuan Shujun also lost 50000 or 60000 troops, which is not the most important. The most important thing is that the morale of Yuan Shujun is getting lower and lower. Even if the morale of the soldiers who can fight is low, it becomes more and more difficult to fight against the vassal army.

In Shouchun city and the Imperial Palace, Yuan Shu, the emperor of Zhong's family, who has been besieged for nearly a month, has become haggard and unkempt. He can no longer see the high spirited emperor's face when he first ascended the throne.

More than a year's war has already left Yuan Shu in a mess, and this month's war has made him even more anxious. Although Ji Ling, the papermaker of the Zhongshi Dynasty, tried his best, he still could not save the Zhongshi Dynasty.

Ji Ling used almost all the methods he could think of, such as estrangement and night attack, but the situation of Yuan Shujun went from bad to worse.

On the east wall, Ji Ling looked at Cao Cao's soldiers who had been defeated again, looked up at the sky, and finally breathed a long sigh of relief. Today's war has finally passed. From the beginning of the war to now, Ji Ling hardly went down the wall. A few days ago, he began to lead his own guards to participate in the war.

One month's war has already brought the casualties of Yuan's army to 40000, including more than 10000 serious injuries and more minor injuries. The only soldiers and horses that are really unhurt are the 10000 royal guards guarding the palace.

Looking at the exhausted soldiers on the wall, Ji Ling knows that after a month's war, many soldiers are on the verge of collapse. However, he has no time to take care of them now. After calling the deputy general and telling him something, Ji Ling hurried to the palace under the protection of his own soldiers. This is what he must do after the end of the war every day.

Under the protection of more than a hundred bodyguards, Ji Ling sped along the streets of Shouchun city. Today's Shouchun city no longer has any people, whether ordinary people or family members, all stay in their own homes, anxiously waiting for the end of the war. A good thing is that there are many soldiers in Shouchun City, so Ji Ling didn't recruit people to go to the city, so the situation in the city is stable. Today, there is no one else in the streets of the whole city except patrol taxis.

When Ji Ling rushed to the palace, Shu Shao and others were waiting in the palace. To his surprise, the emperor had already sat on the throne. Ji Ling was so scared that he knelt down and said, "I'll see you!"

"The generals are free to go flat." Yuan Shu looked tired and raised his hand to Ji Ling and said, "general, how about the battle at the head of the city?"

When Ji Linggang joined him, Yuan Shu asked;

Ji Ling gave a wry smile and bowed down to answer: "today's war has ended on all sides of the city wall, and all the vassals have returned to the camp, but the morale of our soldiers and soldiers is low, and the officials... I ask your majesty to make early preparations. "

Everyone was surprised. Has it come to such a stage?

"General, why? At the beginning, there were only tens of thousands of soldiers in xiapi city. Under the attack of 100000 Cao bandits, it could last more than a year. Now there are nearly 200000 troops in Shouchun city. Why has the situation reached such a stage only in the rest of a month? If the loss of troops is too much, I will order conscription right away! " On hearing this, Yuan Shu asked in a hurry;

"Your Majesty, the situation is different. At the beginning of the war in xiapi, although only tens of thousands of troops defended the city, all the generals knew the general plan of the army, so they were able to encourage the soldiers to fight to death. Then the subordinates led the troops to support them. Tens of thousands of troops were stationed outside the city, and they were mutual horns with the city, so that the soldiers could feel at ease. "

"But now Shouchun city is different. Since last year, the army has lost one after another, soldiers and land, and morale has been falling. Now Shouchun has only one city left, and there are no reinforcements outside. The soldiers have been fighting for more than a year, and they are tired of their teachers and soldiers. So

On hearing this, Yuan Shu murmured for a long time, "I see. No wonder so many people didn't come when I summoned all my ministers to discuss business. Either my family was seriously ill or I was ill. I see..."

Ji Ling didn't understand what was going on, so he immediately turned to Shu Shao. Seeing this, Shu Shao quickly explained to Ji Ling in a low voice. It turned out that just now Yuan Shu saw that today's war was coming to an end, so he wanted to gather all the ministers to discuss whether to increase the troops. As a result, there were more than 20 important ministers, only Shu Shao and others came to the audience, and the rest of them gave up with various excuses."How dare you Ji Ling was furious when he heard this, and he said to Yuan Shu, "Your Majesty, I ask you to kill these officials who have no king or father!"

With Ji Ling's roar, Yuan Shu sobered up and calmly stopped Ji Ling's Fury: "Ai Qing doesn't have to be like this. I'm very relieved to have you here. Let's discuss how to retreat from the enemy. "

"It's impossible to retreat from the enemy," Yan Xiang said suddenly;

"Oh! Ai Qing, please tell me

"Your Majesty, as the general said just now, the reason why the war situation is not good is because of low morale. Now it's September, and it will soon be winter, when the enemy can retreat without fighting. So if the morale of our army is greatly improved, we can support it for another one to two months. "

Yan Xiang's words brightened everyone's eyes. Yes, it's going to be winter soon. In winter, it's freezing, let alone a siege. Even if a large army stays in the field for a long time, it's in danger of collapse. In this way, nine out of ten of the princes will withdraw. Even if they don't withdraw from Jiujiang, the Shouchun siege will be lifted. Moreover, the morale of the defenders in the city only needs to be restored, let alone for one or two months, even for half a year. Even if the morale is only restored by a few percent, it will be enough to last for several months.