The Three Kingdoms Volume 1 by Luo Guanzhong

Author:Luo Guanzhong
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8048-4393-5
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2014-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

On hearing of the approach of Cao Cao and his army, Zhang Xiu wrote to Liu Biao for help. Then he led his men out of the city under the command of two officers named Lei Xu and Zhang Xian. When the deployment was complete Zhang Xiu took his position in front and pointing at Cao Cao he railed: “You shameless hypocrite! You are no different from a beast!”

This put Cao Cao in a rage and he sent out Xu Chu to give battle. Zhang Xian came to meet him but fell in the third bout. His soldiers fled and were pursued to the very walls of Nanyang, only managing to get inside just before the pursuit closed in. The city was then closely besieged. Seeing that the moat was very wide and deep and an approach to the wall would be difficult, they began to fill up the ditch with earth. Then with sand bags, brushwood, and bundles of grass they built a great mound near the wall so that they could look over into the city.

Cao Cao rode around the city carefully, inspecting the defense in the city. Three days later he issued an order to make a mound of earth and brushwood at the northwest angle, as he would mount the walls at that point. However, little did he know that he was observed from within the city by Jia Xu, who went to his chief and said, “I know what Cao Cao intends to do and I can defeat him by turning his trick on himself.”

Even amongst the strongest there is one who excels;

Someone sees through your trick, as crafty as you he is.

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