On the second day, a white flag was erected on the Jizhou city wall, which read: "The people of Jizhou are willing to surrender."
After receiving the news, Cao Cao went to watch it himself and said, "This must be that there is not much food in Jizhou City. Let the people surrender, and then during the surrender, they will definitely send troops to attack."
So Zhang Liao and Xu Huang each brought three thousand soldiers and ambushed on both sides of the road, and then rode themselves to the city to accept surrender. Sure enough, they saw that the city gate had been opened, and the people supported the old man and their own children.
He walked out with a white flag in his hand.
Before the people had completely walked out, a pair of people suddenly came from the city, mixed with the people's team. Cao Cao smiled and waved the red flag in his hand. Zhang Liao and Xu Huang both went out to kill each other, regardless of it.
The people are still troops in Jizhou City.
The troops in the city had to return, and Cao Cao personally rushed over with the troops, trying to enter before the city gate was closed. As a result, he arrived next to the suspension bridge. There were many crossbow arrows in the city. One of them happened to hit Cao Cao's helmet, almost tying his helmet.
After shooting through, the generals quickly rescued Cao Cao and returned to his camp.
Cao Cao changed his clothes and horses and took everyone to attack Yuan Shang's camp. Yuan Shang came out to fight in person. All the troops of Cao's army came out together. The two armies fought in a melee, and Yuan Shang returned in failure.
Yuan Shang retreated to the camp near Xishan and sent people to urge Ma Yan and Zhang Yan to rescue him. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao had already sent Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang to recruit the two generals.
They were really recruited and surrendered to Cao Cao directly and were named Marquis of the Legislature.
So he took his troops to attack Xishan, and first sent Er Lu, Ma Yan and Zhang Yan to cut off Yuan Shang's grain road.
After Yuan Shang learned the information, he knew that the West Mountain would definitely not be able to defend it. He left the turtle at night. Before the camp was planted, the fires rose up below. There was an ambush Cao army. Yuan Jun had no time to put on his clothes and rode a horse.
The ambush in, Yuan Shang was defeated and retreated fifty miles away. There were not many people around him who could fight. He could only send Yin Kui, the governor of Yuzhou, to Cao Cao's camp on his behalf to request surrender.
Cao Cao pretended to agree to Yuan Shang's surrender and sent Zhang Liao and Xu Huang to intercept the camp overnight.
Yuan Shang abandoned all the seals, ribbons, shackles, axes, clothes, armor, and supplies, and then ran away into some deep mountains and forests.
Cao Cao led his troops to attack Jizhou, and Xu You offered a plan and said: "Why not cut off the embankment of the Zhang River and let the water enter the city and flood it?"
Cao Cao agreed to this plan and sent soldiers outside the city to dig some trenches, expanding the range to forty miles, but the depth of the excavation was very shallow.
Shen Pei patrolled the city wall every day. After seeing it, he smiled and said, "He is preparing to simmer the water from the Zhang River into the city. If the ditches are deep, it can be simmered. It will be useless so shallow."
So I didn't take it seriously. At night, Cao Cao suddenly increased the number of people ten times to dig together and dig the ditch. On the second day, the depth was about two meters. He used Zhang water to water the water in the city. The water in the city was several feet deep.
, and there was no food or grass for a long time, and the soldiers starved to death.
Xin Pi was outside the city and used a gun to provoke Yuan Shang's seal and clothes to summon people in the city.
Shen Pei was very angry and beheaded all eighteen young people in Xinpi's family on the city wall, and then threw their heads down the city wall. When Xinpi found out, she was very sad and cried.
Shen Pei's nephew Shen Rong had a good relationship with Xinpi before. Seeing that Xinpi's family was killed innocently, she was very angry and secretly wrote a letter, tied it to a bow and arrow, and shot it down to the city.
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The soldier picked up the letter and sent it to Xinpi. After reading it, he handed it over to Cao Cao. Cao Cao ordered that if he entered Jizhou, he could not kill the Yuan family, and those who surrendered in the military and civilians could not bear the blame.
The next morning, Shen Rong opened the west gate in the city and put Cao's army in.
Xinpi rode into the horse, and the others followed him and entered Jizhou. Shen Pei was on the southeastern city tower and saw that Cao's army had entered the city and led several cavalry to fight to the death. He happened to meet Xu Huang, who was very
He was about to capture Shen Pei and tied him out of the city.
Halfway through, he met Xinpi, gritted his teeth, whipped Shen Pei's head with a whip, and said, "Evil thief! You will die today!"
Shen Pei cursed: "You are the thief! Take Cao Cao to attack our Jizhou, and I wish I could kill you now!"
Xu Huang took Shen Pei to meet Cao Cao, and Cao Cao said, "Do you know who the person who opened the Ximen is?"
Shen Pei said: "I don't know."
Cao Cao laughed and said, "It's your nephew, Shen Rong opened the West Gate."
Shen Pei said angrily: "It is because of his reason that this situation occurs!"
Cao Cao said: "I brought my troops to the city yesterday. Why do I feel that there are so many crossbow arrows in the city?"
Shen Pei said: "Not much, I still think there is less!"
Cao Cao said: "You are still very sincere to Yuan, and there is no way not to do this. Are you willing to surrender to me now?"
Shen Pei shook her head and said, "I will definitely not surrender!"
After hearing this, Xinpi quickly knelt in front of Cao Cao and said, "My more than 80 family members were killed by this thief. I hope the Prime Minister will kill him and help me avenge me!"
Shen Pei said: "I was born as a minister of Yuan, and I will be a ghost of Yuan even if I die. I am not like you flattering thieves! You can kill me quickly!"
Cao Cao nodded and asked someone to pull him out. Before his death, Shen Pei scolded the person who executed the execution and said, "My lord is in the north, don't let me die in the south, so he knelt down to the north, stretched out his neck, and let the
The executioner beheaded."
After Shen Pei's death, Cao Cao sympathized with his loyalty and asked someone to bury him in the north of the city.
The generals invited Cao Cao to enter Jizhou City. Cao Cao was about to leave. Seeing the swordsman and axe come over with someone, Cao Cao looked at him and said that the man was Chen Lin.
Cao Cao said to him: "You wrote a letter to Yuan Shao to challenge me before, stating my crimes, why did you take my grandfather with you?"
Chen Lin replied: "The arrow is on the string and I have to fire it."
The left and right advised Cao Cao to kill him. Cao Cao felt that this man was very talented and it was a pity that he killed him, so he pardoned him and appointed him as the employed person.
Cao Cao had an eldest son named Cao Pi, Ziheng, who was exactly eighteen years old. When he was born, there was a cloud of clouds, which were blue and purple, round like a hood of a car. It never disperses over the place where he was born. Someone saw it.
Afterwards, he secretly told Cao Cao and said, "This is the breath of the emperor. Your son's life is unspeakable!"
Cao Pi was able to write some articles at the age of eight. He was talented and well-versed in history. He liked riding horses and shooting archery, and also liked to learn martial arts.
At that time, Cao Cao captured Jizhou and did not follow his father in the army. He first brought his accompanying soldiers to Yuan Shao's home, drew out his sword, and dismounted his horse and entered.
Someone persuaded him: "The Prime Minister has a life, but everyone is not allowed to enter Yuan Shao's mansion without permission."