Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 206
"My lord, Jin Yiwei urgently reports. In the evening, an unidentified person appeared in the Zhao residence, suspected to be a member of the Ying family."

As soon as the heavy snow stops, the sun rises and sinks.A secret guard of Jinyiwei hurried to Liu Yu's temporary mansion and reported the military situation with a solemn expression.

In fact, as soon as Liu Yu learned about the situation in the ancient city, he deployed secret guards arbitrarily, especially several of the big families.Among these big families, the Zhao family is the main one.

The Zhao family and the Ying family are family friends, and they have always followed the Ying family's lead.For the defense of the ancient city this time, the Zhao family was the main person of Ying's family, which brought Chen Dao a lot of trouble.However, this Zhao family had great prestige in the ancient city, and Chen Dao didn't dare to touch it easily.

Although Chen Dao didn't dare, Liu Yu did, but Liu Yu didn't touch it.Naturally, Liu Yu was not afraid of the Zhao family, but felt that the Zhao family was useful in his mind, especially the last time he thought about dealing with the nobles in the ancient city, the flash of light in his mind made him pay more attention to the Zhao family.

It is also for this reason that Liu Yu asked people to keep a close eye on the Zhao family, otherwise it would be impossible to get such secret news.Don't forget, the Zhao family has long been linked to the Ying family, but Chen Dao has been unable to find evidence, which shows how cautious the Zhao family is.

After listening to the report from the dark guard, Liu Yu fell into deep thought.After a long time, his eyes were fixed, as if he had some thoughts, but he still said in a deep voice: "Take a few hidden guards and secretly follow the person who should belong to the family. You must find out their plan."

They are still dating at this time, if it is not a very urgent matter, neither of them can take this risk.Especially for the Zhao family, that risked extermination.Hmph, this might be an opportunity.

Let the dark guards keep a close eye on both sides, and didn't get any important information for a while.But what surprised Liu Yu was that Ying and Zhao's family had frequent contacts, as if they were planning something big, so they were extra careful.Liu Yu knew that there was no need to rush this matter, so he just asked the hidden guards to watch and inquire secretly, instead of alarming the enemy.

This matter is important, but it is not as important as the other.Therefore, after Liu Yu gave orders to the hidden guards, he concentrated on doing another thing.

This other thing is the matter of preparing for the war. Before that, it was only considered as rectification, and did not really start preparing for the war.For example, there are not many huge stones used to defend the city; and there are not many materials for making feather arrows.

The preparations for the war involved various aspects, and it was complicated and chaotic, but Liu Yu had to do it one by one.

Let me talk about the utensils used to defend the city, such as boulders, gold juice, and feather arrows.These are the first things Liu Yu has to prepare, but he didn't let the soldiers do it, but let the refugees who were given porridge do it.Not to mention, these people are serious about what they do, but because they are not serious, they have nothing to eat.

In addition to these utensils for defending the city, the other most important thing is the city wall, which is the root of it.Therefore, Liu Yu spent great efforts to strengthen the city wall.But in fact, the effect is limited. After all, the reinforcement of the city wall cannot be completed in a day or two. It can only be said to repair the more dilapidated places.

But just after the news came from the dark guard, Liu Yu deliberately left several dilapidated city walls unrepaired.

It turned out that there was news from the secret guard that Ying and Zhao's two families were colluding secretly, and when Li Tongjun arrived, they launched a plan to attack the ancient city.And this plan is to pretend to attack the main gate, and attack the dilapidated city wall in the southwest.

For this reason, the members of Zhao Ying's family knew that Liu Yu was strengthening the city wall, and they were nervous and wanted to delay Liu Yu.And it was their clumsy delaying plan that exposed their strategy and made Liu Yu plan to act according to the plan.Because of this, Liu Yu deliberately left a few places. The reason why he kept a few places was because he was afraid that the Zhao Ying family would find it suspicious.

But Zhao Ying's family didn't see it, thinking that their plan of delay had worked.

After dealing with this matter, Liu Yu inspected Chen Dao's military training, and Chen Dao trained mainly recruits.As for those veterans, there is no need for drills, just daily training.

Inspection of military training is more casual, because Liu Yu believes in Chen Dao.But when he inspected the weapon workshop, he was more strict, because it was related to the life and death of the ancient city.

However, he was very satisfied with the results of the inspection, and the weapons were well made.Especially the recasting of remnant soldiers not only saves materials, but also makes weapons full of evil spirit.

After Liu Yu browsed through all kinds of important things, he began to deal with some internal affairs.He didn't know how to deal with it originally, but after learning a thing or two from Du Ji, it is no longer a problem to deal with the internal affairs of the small ancient city.

The internal affairs in wartime are much simpler than those in peacetime, because everything revolves around the war and there is no need to consider all aspects.Therefore, Liu Yu finished processing it very quickly. It can't be said how well it was handled, but at least there will be no problems.

Just when Liu Yu finished handling the internal affairs, the first batch of grain transportation teams from Shangcai arrived. They brought a large amount of grain and grass, which greatly relieved the pressure on the grain and grass in the ancient city.

The grain transportation team not only brought grain and grass, but also brought the latest news from Shangcai.

Since Shangcai repelled Ji Ling, there has been peace, the people are stable, and the gentry are stable, as if there will be no more wars.But Xia Houlan and the others knew that it was just a superficial phenomenon, and Ji Ling would definitely make a comeback.

Therefore, Xia Houlan and others actively prepared for the battle and kept stocking up on defense equipment.Of course, they also strengthened the city walls and checked out the ghosts.Even scouts come and go in waves a day.

If the situation in Shangcai is clear, then the situation in Ruyin is a bit weird.

After Zhang Liao was repelled by Xu Chu and Zhao Yun, he only besieged but did not attack, showing a passive sabotage.Xu Chu didn't understand why, thinking that Zhang Liao was nothing more than that, and immediately felt motivated to attack.If Zhao Yun hadn't stopped him, Xu Chu might have already taken the initiative to attack.

After listening to the news brought by the grain transportation team, Liu Yu couldn't help frowning.The current situation is obviously very unfavorable to him, but there is nothing he can do.

Unless...he can make a quick decision and resolve the war on the ancient city side early.It's a pity that this is just an unrealistic fantasy, Li Tong is not so easy to solve, and there is another Cao Ren.

Thinking of Cao Ren, Liu Yu couldn't help thinking of Zhang Xiu, wondering if he had sent troops.

In fact, Liu Yu's worry was not unreasonable, Zhang Xiu was unwilling to send troops.When he heard that Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, and Lu Bu were going to hunt Runan, he was sure that Liu Yu was out of luck.

But first, Jia Xu persuaded him to send troops, so it was hard for him not to send troops; second, the news from the three battlefields was Liu Yu's victory, and even a big victory.Because of this, Zhang Xiu thought over and over again, and finally decided to send troops.Of course, soldiers were sent out, but they were just for show.

Cao Ren naturally knew that Zhang Xiu was putting on airs, but he didn't dare to mobilize troops to attack the ancient city.He knew that as long as he mobilized troops, Zhang Xiu would definitely turn a fake attack into a real attack.

Therefore, Li Tong only added 6000 troops, and with the remnants from last time, the number was only [-] or [-].These soldiers and horses are naturally enough if they are used to fight Liu Yu head-on, but the siege can only be said - less!
In a few days, the preparations for the defense of the ancient city have been almost done, just waiting for the enemy to appear.And it just so happened that Li Tong finally led his soldiers towards the ancient city at this juncture.

A big battle is imminent!

(End of this chapter)