Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 220 Offensive and Defensive Battle

Although unable to visit Shangcai in person, Liu Yu can still remotely control Shangcai through scouts.

Since Ji Ling made a comeback, there must be scouts between Shangcai and the ancient city to figure it out every day.On the one hand, these scouts passed on the battle situation of Shangcai to Liu Yu, and on the other hand, they passed on Liu Yu's guidance to Xia Houlan and others in Shangcai.

Of course, in fact, Liu Yu's guidance was not right. Firstly, if others are not in Shangcai, their understanding of Shangcai must be unsatisfactory; It's not something Ji Ling can break through easily.

It was also like this that the scouts from Shangcai City were able to leave the city and pass the information to Liu Yu.If Shang Caizhen is in danger, even the scouts will not be able to leave the city.

Of course, this is the situation in the early stage of the battle of Shangcai. The two sides are anxious and cannot win or lose.

In the mid-term, Shangcai has fallen into a passive position, which can be said to be at a disadvantage.Liu Yu knew this from the scouts he came and went.In the past, the scouts came once a day, but later they came almost every other day.In the past, the scouts were relaxed, their armor was neat, and their faces were as usual; but later, every time the scouts were covered in blood, their faces were pale, and some even had broken arms.

It can be seen that the situation in Shangcai is not very optimistic.

In fact, Liu Yu has not received information for several days in a row. Yes, the scouts who came and went have not come for several days.That's why he was so anxious, he was thinking about tricks, and he was thinking about whether he should abandon the car to protect his handsome...

The situation in Shangcai is indeed not optimistic.A few days ago, Ji Ling pretended to be Liu Yujun who came to help, and opened Shangcai's North Gate.If it wasn't for Xia Houlan who happened to be on patrol and saw through it, the situation in Shangcai would be unimaginable.

Moreover, even if Xia Houlan saw through Ji Ling, it took a hard fight to drive Ji Ling out of Shangcai City.Not to mention the heavy casualties, the blow to morale alone was huge.

Speaking of which, the reason why Ji Ling came to rescue Liu Yujun in disguise was thanks to the scouts from Shangcai and Gucheng.There were too many scouts coming and going, so he naturally got something robbed occasionally, and then he knew that Liu Yu planned to come to help.Ever since, he had an idea and came up with such a plan.

As for Xia Houlan seeing through Ji Ling, it was also related to the news from Liu Yu.He got all the information, so he knew that Liu Yu might come to help if he didn't fight, so he naturally became suspicious of Ji Ling.

In this battle, although Ji Ling failed to capture Shangcai, his morale plummeted and casualties increased greatly.And he himself transferred troops from Gebei again, with a total of [-] people, to launch a full-scale attack on Shangcai City.

On the first day, he left a large number of corpses under the city, but there was still no sign of the city being destroyed in Shangcai.

On the second day, he still left a large number of corpses under the city, and although the Shangcai city wall was stained with blood, it was still majestic and tall, standing like a giant.

On the third day, he led his army to attack the city, and finally some soldiers killed the top of the city.Although it fell into the water like soot in the end without a sound, at least there were ripples.

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For the next few days, he still dispatched troops in the early morning and retreated in the evening, launching a tragic offensive and defensive battle with Xia Houlan.

It is also thanks to Liu Yu's previous ruthless means that the gentry tyrants in Shangcai did not dare to rebel. Otherwise, if those gentry tyrants in the city make trouble at this time, Shangcai will really be unable to keep it.Of course, those gentry were not without dissent, but were too taken by Liu Yu's previous behavior.If not, how could they not take the opportunity to offer the city?
On this day, the sun was setting and Ji Lingjun retreated like a tide, but Xia Houlan and Gao Meng at the top of the city did not go back immediately, but looked at the retreating Ji Lingjun with sad faces.

The armor of the two of them was disheveled and blood-stained, the helmet on their heads was in their hands, and their hair was completely wet with sweat.And the sweat rolled down like rain, falling on their blood-covered faces, and the sweat that immediately turned blood red continued to roll down.

But the two of them ignored all of these, and just looked at Ji Lingjun in the distance with frowning.

"Bogu, the soldiers are almost unable to hold on after the continuous battles these days." Gao Meng said in a low voice with his face sinking like water.

More than just being unable to hold on, in the past few days, the Shangcai defenders have suffered heavy casualties and their morale has plummeted.If it goes on like this, I'm afraid the city will be destroyed in a few days.

Regarding the situation of Shangcai, Xia Houlan knew better than Gao Meng.Not to mention the situation of the soldiers, the defense equipment alone is not enough.

The arrows are already gone.What I use every day now is rush-made the day before, and that is not enough.There is also a serious shortage of stones, only the golden juice is still sufficient.

In addition, what is more serious is that there is insufficient medicine in the city, and the seriously injured soldiers cannot be treated one by one.

"Persevere, I have already sent people to the ancient city." Xia Houlan said with the same serious expression, gritted her teeth.Even he himself did not believe what he said.But if you don't believe it, you can't. If you don't believe it, what else can he believe?
Gao Meng naturally knew this, and didn't expect much, but he still chose to believe, otherwise he wouldn't know what would happen to Shang Cai.

Fortunately, some scouts broke through yesterday, maybe they could pass the news to Liu Yu, otherwise they wouldn't dare to hold on to this hope.

"Okay, don't think too much, it's just a death. I think Xia Houlan has wasted half his life and has no fame. Now he is favored by the young master. He is also a general. Haha, even if he dies, he has no regrets!" Immediately, he smiled proudly and dryly, but there was a trace of sadness in this smile.

Hearing this, Gao Meng exchanged a glance with him, and then burst out laughing.Yes, Gao Meng is just a blacksmith, now he is a general, what regrets are there?
If it's a pity, it probably means that you can no longer follow the young master, and fight the world with these brothers.Oh, by the way, he still has a sister he can't let go of.Moreover, Shangcai has the son's younger sister, and he doesn't want Shangcai to be breached and Liu Han to be humiliated.

Not only Gao Meng, Xia Houlan also thought so.He thought more than Gao Meng, and even considered the way out when the city was broken.If he really couldn't hold it at that time, he thought he and Gao Meng should lead the army to protect Liu Han, Gao Xue and the other women to escape.

"What Bogu said is right, there is nothing to regret." After Gao Meng laughed, he looked a little lonely, but he had no regrets.

Xia Houlan naturally knew how he felt, so she didn't try to comfort him, she just smiled and said, "Don't think too much, we should go back and rest. Hehe, we have to defend the city tomorrow."

After saying that, he went down to the top of the city with Gao Meng, striding towards the military camp in the city.But when they got down from the top of the city, a soldier suddenly ran over and reported out of breath: "General, the prisoner in the prefect's mansion said that he has something to discuss with the general."

(End of this chapter)