The Necromancer of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 168 Give Them A Step Up
Yuan Xu drove the murderous corpses to attack Shouchun. Cao Ren, Cao Hong, and Xia Houyuan led [-] Cao troops earlier, intending to take advantage of his unpreparedness and suddenly attack him.

Before they could make a move, they were attacked by the dead beasts on the mountain.

More than ten thousand Cao troops suffered heavy casualties, and some escaped.

More Cao Jun was surrounded and became captives of dead beasts.

When Yuan Xu and others arrived, Sun Guan was still trying to persuade three people to surrender.

Ever since they were captured, Cao Ren and the others had no intention of surrendering at all.

No wonder they are.

The three and Cao Cao are relatives, and Cao Cao treats them well.

If only one person is captured, perhaps it can be persuaded.

The three generals were captured at the same time, and none of them was willing to surrender to Yuan Xu first, losing their reputation.

Knowing Yuan Xu's arrival, Sun Guan greeted him out of the tent: "I've seen you, Young Master."

"How is it?" Yuan Xu asked him, "The three of you are still unwilling to take part?"

Sun Guan replied: "No matter what I say, I just won't let go. The three of them are all related to Cao Cao. I'm afraid it will not be so easy for them to surrender."

"If I catch them, they won't let them go." Yuan Xu ordered: "Come with me."

After Cao Ren and others were captured, only Zang Ba and Sun Guan took turns to persuade them to surrender, and Yuan Xu never showed up in person.

When Yuan Xu came suddenly, the three of them were a little surprised and subconsciously stood up.

"The three generals don't need to be nervous." Yuan Xu pressed his hand to them: "Sit down and talk."

The three didn't sit down, but just looked at him vigilantly.

Cao Ren asked, "Yuan Xianxin, what do you want?"

"What?" Yuan Xu pretended not to understand what he meant at all: "The general's question made me confused."

"What do you mean when you capture us, you don't kill us, you don't let us go?" Cao Ren asked boldly.

"Let go?" Yuan Xu asked him with a surprised face: "If the three captured the enemy general, would they let him go easily?"

Being left speechless by his question, Cao Ren didn't say any more.

Cao Hong interjected: "Since we don't let him go, we should kill him..."

"Isn't it good to be alive?" The expression on Yuan Xu's face was even more surprised: "The three generals are very good, why do you want to die?"

"In your hands, do we still have a way out?" Cao Hong frowned.

He, Cao Ren and Xia Houyuan have the same views.

Having been captured by Yuan Xu, there are only two paths before him.

One is to surrender to Yuan Xu and become an enemy of Cao Cao from now on.

The second is to be killed by Yuan Xu, at most it will become a murderous corpse and rush to the top of the city.

Even if you choose the second option, it is much better than being an enemy of Cao Cao when you are alive.

"The three generals are all talents, and I am not willing to kill them lightly." Yuan Xu shook his head: "My purpose is actually quite simple, that is, to get the three of them to serve under my command."

"Since the lord Chen Liu recruited soldiers, we have made up our minds." Xia Houyuan said: "No matter what, we must follow the lord."

"What if he dies?" Yuan Xu asked suddenly.

Xia Houyuan was taken aback for a moment, but did not answer right away.

Yuan Xu asked again: "The three generals, do you want to follow him to die?"

"Why not?" Cao Ren replied stiffly, "It is our honor to follow the lord."

"You are honored. What about your wives, children, and parents?" Yuan Xu said, "I will not take care of your wives and children if you are buried for Cao Cao. If they are capable, they can survive in troubled times. Can be bullied to the point of death.”

"Yuan Xianxin, what exactly do you want?" Cao Hong couldn't help asking, "Could it be possible to attack orphans and widows?"

"I'm not that shameless." Yuan Xu immediately denied: "I'm talking about the troubled times, without your protection, they simply cannot survive."

"We made an oath to serve the lord back then." Xia Houyuan said, "No matter what, we won't..."

"What I'm asking is that Cao Mengde is dead." Yuan Xu said: "He is still alive, the generals don't pay attention to me."

Cao Ren and the others looked at Yuan Xu blankly.

After being taken aback for a while, Cao Ren asked him: "You mean..."

"I'm attacking Huainan." Yuan Xu replied, "It's been more than ten days now, and our army hasn't broken through the city yet. The three generals might as well make a bet with me."

"What's the bet?" Cao Ren asked.

"Bet on whether I can defeat Shouchun." Yuan Xu said, "If I take Shouchun, the three of you will be in my account. If I fail to take Shouchun, I will let you go back to Cao Mengde."

"Are you serious?" Xia Houyuan looked innocent.

Both Cao Ren and Cao Hong glanced at him before he realized that the question was wrong.

Yuan Xu drove the murderous corpses to besiege Shouchun.

There are countless murderous corpses, although there are many Shouchun defenders, it will only be sooner or later that the city will be broken.

Once this bet is made, they are destined to lose in the end.

"How?" Yuan Xu pressed after the three of them stopped talking.

Cao Ren thought for a while, and said to him, "As long as the city is destroyed, we will serve you. As for the lord, if you can live, we don't want to force you to die."

"The three generals have affection and righteousness towards Cao Mengde, how could I not agree." Yuan Xu smiled: "As long as Cao Mengde is willing to surrender, I will definitely let him survive."

When he left the tent where the three were imprisoned, Yuan Tan, who followed behind and witnessed the whole process, asked, "The three have already fallen into Xianxin's hands, why do you want to bet with them?"

"I'm just giving them a step." Yuan Xu replied: "The reason why I refused to vote is because the three of them cared about their friendship with Cao Cao. No one would surrender to me in front of the other two. They knew very well , This time the attack on Shouchun, the fall of the city is a certainty. Cao Cao has come to an end, is it possible that they really want to follow him to die?"

"Xianxin really intends to spare Cao Cao?" Yuan Tan reminded: "He is ambitious and deeply rooted. If you want to use his people, you can't..."

"Of course I know." Yuan Xu replied: "Cao Cao must not stay, but since I promised the three of them, I will not let him die by my hands."

"I don't know what Xianxin's plan is?" Yuan Tan was completely dumbfounded.

He couldn't understand what Yuan Xu was going to do next.

Yuan Xu smiled at him: "Brother will understand when the city is breached."

He refused to explain, and Yuan Tan couldn't ask further questions, so he could only go back to the place where he watched the battle full of doubts.

The siege of the vicious corpses became more and more ferocious.

Flames blazed under the city wall, and countless murderous corpses were burned into powder inside.

The burning flames actually couldn't completely burn the bones into ashes.

The flame can burn the bones very brittle.

The fierce corpse in the flames, after the bones are carbonized, will scatter all over the ground if it moves a little more, becoming no longer threatening slag.

Looking at the murderous corpse engulfed by the flames, Yuan Tan, Zang Ba and Sun Guan all showed anxiety on their faces.

Yuan Xu looked calm and relaxed, as if he was just here for fun, and the battle didn't have much to do with him.

(End of this chapter)