Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 426 The Bloody Nanyang

Chapter 425: The Bloody Nanyang

Except for the junction between Nanyang and Yuzhou, which is dangerous and defendable, other areas are basically easy to attack and difficult to defend.

Zhu Jun has always relied on the eastern city to resist the Yuzhou Yellow Turbans, but now the northern line has been broken through, which exposes the entire Nanyang to Xiang Yu's iron hoofs.

There are 36 large and small county towns in Nanyang. The total strength of the Han army is only nearly 14 troops, while the Yellow Turbans attacked by the two routes has 30 troops.

In order to prevent being defeated one by one by the Yellow Turbans, it was naturally impossible for the Han army to keep troops guarding the counties.

Xiang Yu originally thought that the Han army would concentrate on defending a few strong cities and strategically release most counties. After all, this was the best way to deal with the two-way attack.

And once the Han army was like this, those counties would become Xiang Yu's strategic supply grounds, so Xiang Yu didn't worry about the consumption of food and grass, but he didn't expect this to be smoother than he thought.

"Report, Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun did not join forces. Now most of Lu Zhi's army has retreated into Wancheng, while Zhu Jun is leading the army to Wuguan."

Wuguan is the southern gate of Guanzhong. If there is an accident, this Guanzhong will be turbulent.

The news that Zhu Jun retreated to Wuguan did not arouse the suspicion of the generals of the Yellow Turbans. After all, the big man must be more afraid of 30 Yellow Turbans attacking Wuguan.

"What? Lu Zhijun has shrunk most of his troops to Wancheng?"

Xiang Yu didn't expect Lu Zhi to have such great determination. This is the rhythm of fighting with himself in Wancheng.

During the Cold Weapon War, winter can be said to be a restricted area. Once this time period is reached, the war must be stopped, and the last truce was also due to the climate.

Now that it is November, the temperature is getting colder and colder, and Wancheng City has plenty of food and sufficient defenders, so it is obviously not that easy to fight.

If he continues to drag on, the temperature will drop completely in December, and Xiang Yu will have to wait for the next year to go south to Jingzhou.

Xiang Yu was not prepared to take Jingzhou once, but as the battle became more and more smooth after Qin Hao was captured, Xiang Yu inevitably became arrogant.

The Han army without Qin Hao was really vulnerable.Xiang Yu thought so.

Xiang Yu wanted to move the battle line to Nanjun before the truce, and sitting in the rich Nanyang, he could maximize his strength this winter.

Wancheng is the first fortified city in Nanyang, and it is also the first big city in Nanjun County. If Lu Zhi gambled to die in Wancheng, Xiang Yu would not be able to take full control of Nanyang before winter.

"Are there any of our staff in Wancheng?" Xiang Yu asked with a frown.

The implication is naturally that they want to attack the Han army by means other than war.

Without even thinking about it, Zhang Liang replied directly: "Wancheng is a stronghold of Taipingwei, and there are 500 people in the city to respond."

"Can you open the city gate when our army is attacking the city?"

After thinking for a while, Zhang Liang shook his head and said, "Lu Zhi is also afraid that the inside should be combined with the outside, so he is extremely guarded against the city gate, and it is unlikely that he will succeed."

Xiang Yu's brows furrowed even tighter, but Zhang Liang's next sentence resolved his worries.

"Although our army's forces in the city can't take down the city gate, they can still burn the Han army's grain depot."

If the Han army's winter food is burned, then they can only give up Wancheng and defend another city, and how can other cities with insufficient preparations be able to resist the attack of Xiang Yu's army?

"It must be successful, and failure is absolutely not allowed." Xiang Yu said to Zhang Liang with a serious face.

"Understood." Zhang Liang nodded lightly, but his tone was extremely firm.

"The order goes on, the entire army will be divided into three groups, each with a force of [-] troops, and the cities around Wancheng will be taken down at the fastest speed."

After Zhu Jun withdrew to Wuguan, Xiang Yu also successfully joined forces with Zhang Liang's 30 Yuzhou Army, and now there are a total of [-] Yellow Turbans on the South Road.

In order to win Nanyang as soon as possible, Xiang Yu even led the army to attack the city himself, and in the other cities except Wancheng, there were only private armies united with aristocratic families, how could they resist Xiang Yu's elite division?
In the face of the gang of robbers who specially came to raid the landlord's house, the Nanyang family naturally united together.

Nanyang is not short of population, and the family is not short of money and food, and although the people at the bottom support the Yellow Turbans, when they face the benefits that they can directly get, how can the common people manage so much.

Many people responded to the call of the family and joined the defending team to resist the Yellow Turbans.

But the elites under Xiang Yu's command, how could these improvised armies be able to resist?

The Yellow Turbans generally only launched one charge, and the allied armies of the family immediately collapsed, and then they surrendered in batches.

These poor people are also lured by interests, but in the face of an invincible opponent, how can they continue to work for the family?
In just three days, the Yellow Turban South Route Army broke through ten cities in Nanyang, but the strange force increased instead of decreasing.

On average, each of the ten cities provided nearly 35 soldiers for the Yellow Turbans, and now the total strength of the Yellow Turbans is about to break through the [-] mark.

On November [-]th, another good news came from Wancheng.

"Report... Wancheng's grain depot was burned down by our army, and Wancheng is now panicked."

"That's great, it's just God helping me." Xiang Yu said happily.

Zhang Liang, the chief commander of cooking food, did not feel the joy of Xiang Yu, instead his brows furrowed slightly.

Zhang Liang always felt that this attack was a bit too simple, as simple as someone designed it to die.

Baijia has not acted so far. Is there a conspiracy or a back-up?Or am I suspicious?Zhang Liang thought to himself.

Xiang Yu is not as complicated as Zhang Liang's mind. Now that he is in good shape, he naturally wants to expand his results.

"Here's an order to mobilize 15 troops to besiege Wancheng in a situation of encirclement with three shortages and one. If Lu Zhi breaks through, ignore it for the time being and let him break through. The remaining 20 troops will continue to attack Nanyang. This time, they will slaughter all the Nanyang aristocratic families. .”

Xiang Yu decided the fate of the Nanyang family in one sentence. The wealth and land that had always been proud of it had now become a reminder of the Nanyang family.

Under Xiang Yu's order, 20 yellow scarves slaughtered all the rebellious Nanyang families, and those who obeyed were ransacked. Nearly 5 people from the family and related personnel died in this massacre.

Xiang Yu used the most bloody and violent means to forcefully implement the "Tianmu System of the Kingdom of Heaven" in Nanyang.

The people who directly benefited were naturally cheering, and they were all waiting at home for the Yellow Turban's recruitment order.

Xiang Yu did not order conscription, because after the collection of prisoners from twenty cities, the total number of Yellow Turban South Route Army has exceeded 40.

For the attack on Jingzhou, the 40 army is more than enough. If the conscription continues, the food and grass looted from the Nanyang family will not be enough.

Of course, Zhang Liang, the general of Ren Gong, could not agree with Xiang Yu to continue to expand his army.

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