The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 303: Shucheng, which has been difficult to conquer for a long time

——In fact, the siege lasted only a few days.

“Do you think those secret techniques that Zi Yu used before are easy to develop?

Especially this kind of systematic naval secret technique, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of the military system. "Chen Xi shook his head.

"Naive! If it was really that easy to develop, Zi Yu wouldn't have frequently gone to the Government Affairs Office to observe which guy was more relaxed." Chen Xi said something that Fa Zheng didn't know.

When Fa Zheng heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and he said hesitantly: "Is he going to find help?"

Before Fa Zheng took office in Qi State, he often saw Yang Ji squatting in the Government Affairs Hall, not doing any work but just staring at others.

At that time, Fa Zheng thought that Yang Ji went to the Government Affairs Office to slack off or something. Now, from Chen Xi's mouth, he finally knew why Yang Ji was staying in the Government Affairs Office. It turned out that he was looking for someone to help him develop the secret technique.

"Otherwise, why do you think he only stood at the door of the Government Affairs Office for a short while and then left? Isn't it because there was no one else in the Government Affairs Office except me?" Chen Xi said with a smile, with no intention of correcting himself.

Fa Zheng was silent for a while, then said, "It's rare that you have the nerve to say that you are just an idler in the Government Affairs Office."

"Hmph, that's because you don't know me well enough. Zi Yu, who knows me and knows my situation, of course he won't look for me." Chen Xi snorted.

"Could it be that Zi Yu thinks you will make things more complicated than necessary, so he doesn't look for you?" Fa Zheng said with a sneer.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean I'm only making things worse?" Chen Xi glared at Fa Zheng and roared as if he wanted to teach Fa Zheng a lesson.

"It seems that this is the truth." Fa Zheng was not afraid of Chen Xi's intimidation. He didn't even release a bit of aura. Was he trying to scare a child?

"..."Fa Zheng finally reacted. Damn it, was Chen Xi trying to scare a kid like him?
"I have awakened my spiritual talent and am no longer a child who needs care." Fa Zheng said to Chen Xi seriously.

"Well, you reacted pretty quickly." Chen Xi teased, and then changed the subject: "But, you haven't got a family yet, so what else are you but a child?"

Although many young senior officials of Fenggao, like Fa Zheng, have not yet started a family, at this time, age has become an advantage.

After all, sometimes, some people can use their age as an excuse to make sharp comments about certain people on certain matters without worrying about being found guilty by the parties involved.

"Humph, when my father comes from Fufeng, he will bring my fiancée with him." Fa Zheng said with a hint of pride.

Chen Xi looked her up and down and said, "Your fiancée should have been engaged to you since childhood, right?"

"Um, how did you guess that?" Fa Zheng was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise. He had never talked about such things before.

"Well, maybe it's because I've seen too many young geniuses recently, so I almost forgot that you, Fa Xiaozhi, are also a young genius." Chen Xi touched his chin.

"In this case, doesn't your character, Fa Xiaozhi, fit in with the pattern of some genius novels?" Chen Xi remembered some novel-writing techniques he had learned from Yang Ji.

"The routine of genius novels?" Fa Zheng was completely confused. He didn't know what Chen Xi was talking about. Was he talking about him?
"Oh, you don't have to care about that." Chen Xi waved his hand, indicating that Fa Zheng should not care about the routine of this genius novel.

"..." Fa Zheng looked at Chen Xi speechlessly. What was wrong with this guy? He just aroused his curiosity, but ended up putting him down again.

[Xiaozhi shouldn't encounter such a bloody plot, right?] Chen Xi thought of the bloody plot of a genius whose engagement was broken off and his family members disagreed.

[Impossible, absolutely impossible. No matter how closed the place is, it is impossible not to receive news from a group of young senior officials under Lord Xuande.] Chen Xi felt that the bloody plots in novels should not happen in reality.

After all, standing behind Fa Zheng was the giant Liu Bei. How could any noble family risk offending Liu Bei and ruin the engagement with Fa Zheng?

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After sailing for a period of time, the Qingzhou fleet arrived at the mouth of the Huai River and split into two parts.

A part of them followed Gan Ning and Fa Zheng into the Huai River, then went to Xia Pi, picked up Chen Dao's Bai Li soldiers, and continued to march along the Huai River to threaten Shouchun.

The other part entered Chaohu Lake from the Yangtze River, emptied the shipyard of the Jiangdong Lu family in Chaohu Lake, and then went to Shucheng to rescue the Lu family.

"Okay, Xingba, what are you going to do next?" Fa Zheng retracted his gaze and asked Gan Ning beside him.

When Gan Ning heard Fa Zheng's question, his eyes lit up and he asked directly, "What do you think, Xiaozhi?" He was not a man who always adhered to the right path, and Fa Zheng in front of him seemed to be very good at coming up with strange plans.

"Zichuan, are you so confident about Xiaozhi and Xingba partnering up?" Liu Bei asked Chen Xi with some confusion.

In Liu Bei's impression, although Fa Zheng is intelligent, he has a very erratic temperament. When he meets Gan Ning, who does not play by the rules, there is no guarantee that he will cause any major trouble.

"Isn't this a good idea?" Chen Xi said with a smile. Having Fa Zheng and Gan Ning team up might produce some unexpected results.

"Did you do this on purpose?" Liu Bei widened his eyes and looked at Chen Xi in disbelief. He did not expect that Chen Xi would deliberately arrange Gan Ning and Fa Zheng into a group.

Chen Xi just smiled and said nothing, because he didn't know what the two would come up with after being combined. He just hoped that they could come up with something that would amaze people.

Taishi Ci on the side looked at Liu Bei and then at Chen Xi, somewhat confused about what these two were saying. Will something happen after Fa Zheng and Gan Ning are combined?

On the other side, Cao Cao didn't care about the combination of Fa Zheng and Gan Ning. What he cared about was that the three legions under his command had finally mastered some water skills.

Although they were just floundering in the water without sinking, they were no match for the marines of the Qingzhou Fleet.

However, it is enough as long as you can stand firm on the ship and exert your due combat effectiveness after arriving at the battlefield.

Cao Cao didn't want to have to rest on the shore before he could go to the battlefield for his return battle.

On the other side, Shucheng, which had been in flames for several days, was still in flames. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu had both arrived, but they were unable to capture Shucheng.

Even if Zhou Yu was extremely capable, he would not be able to withstand the fierce attacks of Sun Ce and Zhou Tai, two generals with internal energy outside their bodies.

It was clear that Lu Kang would not surrender. Together with the four members of the Lu family, none of them were easy to deal with from the old to the young, they relied on Shucheng with only a small number of soldiers and generals to block the siege of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.

It was another battle on home soil. The people in the city were united and vowed to never surrender. Sun Ce even threatened that if they did not surrender, he would attack and massacre the city. However, Lu Kang, with his old bones nailed to the breach in the city wall, cursed Yuan Shu and Sun Ce as traitors.

Sun Ce was so angry at Lu Kang's words that he rushed forward with his spear in hand, determined to take Lu Kang down. However, hundreds of elite archers and crossbow carts arranged by Lu Jun shot at Sun Ce.

If Zhou Yu had not been worried that Sun Ce would be ambushed, and if Sun Ce had not been impulsive and insisted on capturing Lu Kang, and ordered Zhou Tai to stay with Sun Ce no matter what, Sun Ce would have been hit by at least two or three of the hundreds of arrows and crossbows.

After this incident, Sun Ce rarely took the lead in charging the city, as Zhou Tai had already blocked several arrows for him on the previous occasion.

If Sun Ce took the lead in charging again, it would be hard to tell what tricks the Lu family, which had already begun to disobey the rules of war, would use.

After all, the Lu family had coated arrows and crossbows with poison in order to kill Sun Ce.

Although these poisons that can kill normal people are not a problem at all for the internal Qi leaving the body.

However, after being attacked by hundreds of archers and crossbows, Sun Ce did not dare to charge into the battle line rashly again.

The infantry in Jiangdong might not be good enough, but just like everyone in the northern border can ride a horse, the archers in Jiangdong can become elite archers with just a few months of training.

Ever since Lu Jun knew that poisoned arrows were ineffective, he prepared hundreds of elite archers to specifically target Sun Ce and Zhou Tai.

Shucheng did not have any powerful generals, and could not rely on personal strength to stop Sun Ce and Zhou Tai, but it could still gather hundreds of elite archers.

After all, other types of soldiers in Jiangdong may not be able to do it, but Jiangdong archers can be trained by just picking up any young and strong man.

"Gongjin, is there any way to take Shucheng? If we fail to take it, we will lose the enthusiasm to continue attacking Jiangdong." Looking at Zhou Tai who was forced off the city wall by a large number of arrows, Sun Ce turned his head and asked Zhou Yu.

This was the most difficult battle Sun Ce had ever fought since his debut. Even when he attacked Jingzhou before, he was not blocked like this.

Even when he was arguing with those aristocratic families who wanted to bring him down, he was not as angry as he is now, because it was not him who was arguing with the aristocratic families, but Zhou Yu.

"I'm afraid not." Zhou Yu shook his head. "Lu Kang and Lu Jun are both mature and prudent people. If they want to defend the city, it will be difficult for us to lure them out of the city for a battle."

This is also the main reason why Zhou Yu did not advise Sun Ce to attack Shucheng before.

The two adults in the Lu family, Lu Kang and Lu Jun, are both very capable. Plus, they are fighting on home soil, so one can imagine how strong Shucheng's defense is.

However, now is the time to fight quickly and decisively, for the reason just as Sun Ce said.

"Then what should we do? We can't just watch our soldiers die and get injured every day, right?
If we continue like this, our morale will plummet to the bottom, and it will be difficult to recover if we want to continue attacking Jiangdong." Sun Ce said irritably.

In addition to the casualties and morale issues, there is another reason that Sun Ce is reluctant to mention.

That guy Lu Kang actually scolded him on the city wall. It would have been fine if he just scolded Sun Ce, but he actually scolded his adoptive father Yuan Shu as well. This was something Sun Ce could not accept.

In this life, Yuan Shu did not do any of those trivial things to Sun Ce. Instead, he handed over his foundation to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to manage.

Although a bunch of noble families were left for the two of them to deal with, this was a test they both had to go through, otherwise Sun Ce would not be at ease taking over Yuan Shu's foundation.

Besides, Sun Ce didn't think that there was anything difficult to deal with about those aristocratic families. With a large army at his command, he didn't think that there was anything difficult to deal with about the aristocratic families.

In the past, Liu Bei threatened the aristocratic families, forcing them to submit and agree to Liu Bei's policy of universal education.

Later, Zhou Yu used his wisdom to deal with the difficulties posed by many noble families.

The high-spirited Sun Ce did not think that there was anything to be afraid of with the aristocratic families. With Zhou Yu by his side, he did not think that there was anything in the world that could not be solved.

"Well, in that case, let me find a way to take Shucheng. There's no point in delaying any longer." Since Sun Ce wanted to win, he would help take Shucheng as soon as possible.

"However, Bofu, after you capture Shucheng, don't really do anything like massacring the city. Once this door is opened, we will be in a passive position in the future." Zhou Yu persuaded Sun Ce.

"Massacre the city?" Sun Ce was shocked by Zhou Yu's words, "I was just saying it in anger, just to scare the defenders of Shucheng.

Even if they were to be killed, they would have to kill the four guys from the Lu family, especially that old guy Lu Kang, who dared to curse so harshly, it really pissed me off." Sun Ce waved his spear in anger a few times, as if Lu Kang was in front of him.

"Don't worry, their whole family will die soon." Zhou Yu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. What he was most worried about was that Sun Ce's temper would become violent due to the long-term siege, and he would then vent his anger on the people of Shucheng.

As for the four people from the Lu family, if Sun Ce wants to kill them, then let him kill them. Anyway, he can just find a branch of the Lu family to take over as the legitimate leader and the matter will be settled.

"Okay, it's up to you, Gongjin, now. I'll go organize the siege troops first." Sun Ce laughed and patted Zhou Yu's shoulder.

He knew that Zhou Yu would definitely have a way, and he just wanted to see the siege capabilities of his troops.

After Sun Ce found an excuse for Zhou Yu, he ran directly to Zhou Tai, who was forced against the wall by arrows, without waiting for Zhou Yu to speak. He believed that Zhou Yu would handle everything that happened next.

Han Dang, Huang Gai and Cheng Pu followed because they were worried that Sun Ce would be hit by Lu Jun's arrows again.

"Wait a moment, generals." Zhou Yu called out to Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and Han Dang, three veteran generals from Sun Jian's era who were about to go to help.

"I wonder if Gongjin has anything to tell you?" Cheng Pu said after turning around and saluting Zhou Yu.

Huang Gai and Han Dang, who were following behind Cheng Pu, also bowed to Zhou Yu and showed great respect for him.

"It's like this, we can't let Shucheng hold us back from advancing to Jiangdong.

Otherwise, just like what Bofu said just now, the morale of the army will drop.

Moreover, if we waste any more time in Shucheng, the other counties in Jiangdong will not give us any more time."

Zhou Yu spoke to the three veteran generals as a junior. After all, they showed respect to Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu could not offend them.

After the three of them looked at each other, Cheng Pu asked, "Does Gongjin have any plan?"

Although Zhou Yu was talking about the morale of the army and the other counties in Jiangdong, they felt that the main reason Zhou Yu took action was actually Sun Ce.

(End of this chapter)