Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 214 After Tu Zhao
Following Liu Yu's orders, Chen Dao and Zhou Cang split into two groups, each leading 500 troops, and slaughtered the families in the city who secretly defected to Cao Jun.

From south to north, they held torches and slaughtered more than a dozen nobles without changing their expressions. The bloody smell of direct killing filled the whole city.

This night, no one is destined to sleep.

That night, blood flowed like a river, and all the clans in the city were like frightened birds, terrified at the slightest disturbance.However, there are also calm families, not only not flustered, but calm and terrifying.

For example, the Zhao family, when they heard the sound of fighting in the city cease, immediately ordered the guards to rush to the west gate, intending to swindle the city gate and escape with the whole family.It's a pity that they were about to succeed, but they were chased outside the city gate by Chen Dao who came here - hundreds of members of their family were all slaughtered!

The shrill shouts resounded inside and outside the city, causing Li Tong's army to be in turmoil, and it also made the gentry people in the city worry.

No, there were no gentry who took refuge in Cao Jun, because they were worried that Liu Yu would be indiscriminate, so he quickly spread the news of his massacre of the gentry overnight, so that all the people in the ancient city knew.After these people knew about it, they were all in danger, wishing they could escape from the ancient city immediately.

"General, I don't know who sent the news. The common people have already started to panic." Chen Dao, who got the news overnight, rushed to Liu Yu's temporary mansion at dawn, and reported in a worried Shen Sheng.

When Liu Yu heard this, he was neither worried nor angry, but just smiled lightly and waved his hand to signal Chen Dao not to worry.

In fact, Liu Yu had already expected this situation.It was also because he expected this situation that he tolerated those gentry to prevent the ancient city from being turbulent.When slaughtering those gentry, Liu Yu had already thought of countermeasures to calm the turmoil in the ancient city.

"Uncle Zhi, post this notice, and at the same time send soldiers to explain the situation." With a calm face and no worries, Liu Yu took out a notice and handed it to Chen Dao, and at the same time told him what to do.

After hearing this, Chen Dao couldn't help being amazed, and said excitedly: "It turns out that the general has planned it long ago, no wonder he is so calm and indifferent. Haha, as long as the general said, the ancient city will be safe!"

In fact, Liu Yu's so-called method is nothing more than a simple explanation of the situation.Of course, he also showed some evidence and opened granaries to the people.

To explain the situation is mainly to send a signal to the gentry that he will not touch them casually.Sure enough, after receiving the goodwill signal released by Liu Yu, all the gentry stopped making trouble, let alone agitating the common people.On the contrary, they also help to stabilize the people.

As for the release of food, it is for the stability of the people.Of course, what Liu Yu released was not his own food, but the food of the massacred gentry.Liu Yujun is already familiar with this kind of ransacking and extermination of the family, and he will basically not miss anything.And he got a lot of things because of this, including a lot of food and grass alone, and putting some food and grass would not have any effect.

Chen Dao was excited and relieved that the turmoil in the city was calmed down so quickly.But Li Tong's mood was completely opposite, he was disappointed and depressed.

Seeing the Zhao family being massacred outside the city gate, he had an idea and looked forward to the turmoil in the city.The turmoil is turbulent, who knows that it will be quelled so quickly.Although he was very disappointed, there was nothing he could do. He neither sent troops out of embarrassment, nor stopped fighting in despair.

After the failure of the sneak attack plan, Li Tong reflected on it, and then came to the conclusion that he could no longer attack the city at will, and could only calmly wait for the opportunity, waiting for the opportunity for Liu Yu to make a mistake.Otherwise, he and Liu Yu will be in a deadlock, or they have already been in a deadlock.

It was also because of this that he didn't take advantage of the turmoil in the city to send troops hastily, and it was fortunate that he didn't send troops rashly, otherwise the result would be unsatisfactory.

If Li Tong is gloomy waiting for an opportunity, those Liu Yu are leisurely waiting for an opportunity.

Liu Yu has seen through the current situation.He understands that as long as he doesn't make mistakes, he is invincible.He has no shortage of food and grass, no shortage of soldiers, and can defend the city for a long time. Li Tong can't do anything to him at all.And he can go out of the city to attack Li Tong at will, or harass, fake or real attack, it depends on his mood.He has already grasped the initiative in the current battle situation.

In such a situation, how could he not relax?

However, just in the evening, a scout arrived from Shangcai at high speed.The news brought by the scout completely destroyed Liu Yu's leisure and made him irritable.

It turned out that he brought information about Shangcai City, and Ji Ling came again in full suit.Of course, not only that, the scout also said that before he left, Ji Ling attacked Shangcai once.

That battle was extremely tragic.

Ji Ling threw himself into the catapult and kept throwing boulders at the top of the city to cover the soldiers from attacking the city.And his soldiers were divided into two groups, carrying giant logs into the city gate all the way, and climbing the city wall with cloud ladders all the way.

Ji Lingjun's momentum was like a rainbow, as if he wanted to go all out and hold Shangcai City.However, Shangcai Shoujun is not a vegetarian either. Xia Houlan and Gao Meng personally led the army to snipe Ji Lingjun at the top of the city with arrows.

They either draw bows and shoot arrows to suppress Ji Lingjun's offensive; or pour gold juice to prevent Ji Lingjun from attacking the top of the city;

And when Ji Ling's army climbed to the top of the city after all the hardships, they will be hit hard by the knives and axes led by Gao Meng.Often they were dealt with by Gao Meng's army before they could gain a firm footing.

And Ji Lingjun's offensive on the other side, that is, smashing the city gate, didn't work either.It turned out that Xia Houlan had already blocked the four gates, and Ji Lingjun's efforts were all in vain.

In this offensive and defensive battle, it seemed that Liu Yujun of Shangcai won, but in fact it was not.This battle was extremely tragic. Although Shangcai's defenders had fewer casualties than Ji Ling's, they consumed a lot of supplies.You must know that Shangcai's materials, especially boulders and other materials, are basically difficult to get replenished.

That's why Liu Yu was still worried after hearing the scout's report and knowing that Xia Houlan and the others were guarding Shangcai City.Of course, there was another reason for his worry. The scout said that when he left, it seemed that Ji Lingjun had attacked the city again.

From this, it can be seen how much Ji Ling wanted to break through Shangcai, and he was ashamed.Of course, Ji Lingjun's strength can also be seen, and the urgency of Shangcai's situation can be seen even more.

In this way, Liu Yu naturally wanted to fight Li Tong to the death earlier, so that he could return to support Shangcai.It's a pity that Li Tong, who failed in the sneak attack, seemed determined to close the camp, even though Liu Yu went out of the city to provoke him several times.

With no choice but to send someone to provoke him, Liu Yu became even more irritable.Chen Dao and Zhou Cang also felt it, and tried to persuade them several times, but Liu Yu had no effect at all.

Li Tong seemed to be aware of it, and his mood became better and better, with a smile on his face.He was waiting for the irritable Liu Yu to make a mistake.At that time, it was the time for him to attack, and it was also the time for him to win in one fell swoop.

(End of this chapter)