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Chapter 257 You Have Been Abandoned by Cao Cao

"Besides, if we remove the people from Dongping, I'm afraid Liu Kai, the king of Dongping, won't agree! After all, Dongping is Liu Kai's food town. If there are no people, there will be no way to collect rent and tax!" Li Dian said again.

"Mancheng, we can't procrastinate any longer. How about this? I will immediately send an order to the counties and townships to concentrate all the elite troops in Wuyan, to fight the enemy decisively, or use Wuyan's special position to win!" Cheng Yu said.

"Okay, uncle, please defend the city. I will lead the soldiers to ambush in Qinglong Mountain and Tiger Mountain. As soon as the enemy attacks the city, I will lead the troops from the mountains to attack the rear, destroy their food and grass, and wait for the enemy to be in chaos." , Uncle fights out from the city again, attacking both front and back!" Li Dian said.

Cheng Yu nodded and praised: "Mancheng, you are becoming more and more scheming, and you will definitely become a world-famous general in the future! Since you want to ambush outside, I have a plan, and maybe it will work!"

Li Dianxi said: "My nephew knows that my uncle will definitely have a solution, so I ask my uncle to make it clear that my nephew will definitely cooperate!"

A rare smile finally appeared on Cheng Yu's face, he looked at Li Dian lovingly, nodded and said: "This time we need to evacuate the common people, but we don't have to do it forcibly, so that we can do it without violating the Lord's order, and without compulsion. I am sorry for the common people! If you send more local knights to the counties to spread the news of Feng Yao's attack, there will definitely be some common people who will choose to flee to the rear!"

"In this case, the enemy army will soon know that we are going to retreat and escape, just in time to lure the enemy deep into your ambush!"

Li Dian was overjoyed and left as ordered!

Yanzhou Juancheng
Yu Jin was ordered to defend the city. After receiving Cao Cao's secret order, he ordered the defenders to repel wave after wave of Lu Bu's siege, and at the same time quietly opened the east gate, and retreated the women and children in the city towards Qingzhou!

Lu Bu ordered his soldiers to shout at Juancheng, "Yu Jin, you have been abandoned by Cao Cao! Surrender quickly!"

The defenders of Juancheng were shocked, and several of Yu Jin's subordinates came to ask Yu Jin, "General, is what the enemy said true? Why did we evacuate the people from the city? Is Cao Gong going to abandon us?"

Yu Jin said: "Don't be fooled by Lu Bu. Juancheng is high and deep. Lu Bu has been attacking for more than half a year, but he still can't take it down. Is it possible to take it now? You have to have confidence in Juancheng! Besides, I'm just The women and children were evacuated, this is to reduce the consumption of food and grass in the city! The strong men will still stay and assist us in defending the city!"

The general asked again: "Then why did all the Cao clan attack Qingzhou, and even General Xiahou left Juancheng?"

Yu Jin said: "Juancheng will only face the enemy head-on. Even if it doesn't work, we can retreat from the rear at any time! At that time, the lord has already captured Qingzhou, and we will be rewarded by the lord if we have made great achievements. Don't worry, think about retreating, this is violating the Lord's order, if the enemy takes advantage of the situation to attack Qingzhou in one fell swoop, how can we retreat? And we will be punished for this! Is this what you want?"

The general was terrified and refused to disobey. In order to appease the soldiers and the people, Yu Jin took out the gold and silver money left in the city and announced: "Whether it is a commoner or a soldier guarding the city, every time you kill an enemy, Everyone will get a tael of silver!"

The morale of Juancheng's defenders was greatly boosted. Lu Bujun had no choice but to dare to attack aggressively. He just ordered catapults to throw some stones into the city every day, but it was difficult to cause damage to Juancheng's defenders.

Lu Guolu County
On the ninth day of February, Feng Yao mobilized an army of [-], and before the army reached the border of Ningyang County, Liu Shun suddenly led a man to meet him.

"I am the bodyguard of King Dongping, and I am here to deliver the letter by the order of the prince!" The visitor knelt down when he saw Feng Yao, with an extremely respectful expression.

Feng Yao got the letter, and there was indeed King Dongping's seal on the letter. When he opened it, it turned out that it was a secret letter from King Dongping.

Xin Dongping Wang Liu Kai had learned of Cao Cao's plan and was furious, so he decided to support Feng Yao in taking over Dongping, and told Ningyang, Dongpinglu, Zhangxian and other cities that there were only hundreds of disabled veterans guarding the city, as long as Feng Yao The army will surrender as soon as it arrives!Feng Yao is asked to send troops to the counties as soon as possible to take over the county towns so that the people in the cities can settle down.

Feng Yao was overjoyed and urgently ordered Liu Shun to send troops to investigate in various cities.

Xu Shu said: "My lord, I heard that Cheng Yu is very resourceful, and he will definitely not disperse his forces in various small cities and let us attack them one by one. The subordinates guess that Cheng Yu will definitely concentrate his forces and prepare to rely on the terrain of Wuyan City to fight us. Decisive battle! So I think what Dongping Wang Liu Kai said should be true, and the surrounding counties are almost defenseless!"

In less than an hour, news came from the nearest Ningyang County, that the four gates of the city were wide open, and only a hundred soldiers were guarding each gate, and they held up flags to welcome Feng Yao's army.

Feng Yao sent Wei Yan to lead the army to take over Ningyang, and the army also accelerated the marching speed.

Soon, the scouts sent by Liu Shun to other cities also returned one by one, confirming Xu Shu's guess.

Xu Shu said again: "My lord, although most of the cities in Dongping Kingdom are waiting for us to take over, my subordinates think that we shouldn't take over all the cities at this time!"

"Why?" Feng Yao asked curiously when he heard the suggestion of not occupying a city for the first time.

Xu Shu said: "These cities are no longer a threat to us. We can take over them after we break through Wuyan. If we go to take over now, we must send out capable generals and a certain number of troops. Each will send two thousand soldiers to each. In terms of generals, ten cities will have ten generals and [-] troops, which will greatly disperse our troops, while Cheng Yu is concentrating his troops, which is very bad for us!"

"Okay, what the military adviser said is true, but Dongpinglu and Zhang County are both around Wuyan City and also close to Wenshui. We still need to send troops to garrison these two cities as backup!" Feng Yao nodded.

"My lord is wise!" Xu Shu said.

According to Feng Yao's plan, he ordered the army to advance towards Dongpinglu, but the news from the scouts and what Feng Yao saw along the way made Feng Yao puzzled.

From time to time along the way, you can see a large number of people from Chengjun marching towards Wuyan in groups. These people all drag their families, drive their own ox carts or carry big bags and burdens, looking like they are fleeing. .

Some civilians who were overtaken by Feng Yao's army and had no time to escape knelt by the side of the road after seeing this, begging for mercy loudly.

After Feng Yao sent someone to question, he realized that these people were afraid of being slaughtered by Feng Yao's army!

The counselor Jian Yongjin said: "My lord, this must be the enemy's trick. They have spread rumors against the people among the people. Please order me, my lord, that no one in the whole army should bully the people. Anyone who violates this will be beheaded immediately!"

Xu Chu, the commander of the Tiger Guard who followed Feng Yao, also reported after hearing the words: "My lord, I would like to lead the tiger cavalry to supervise the military discipline of all the troops on behalf of the lord!"

Feng Yao's army has more than [-] people. During the march, the army went up and down for several miles. He dispatched the most reliable and quick-response tiger cavalry, which can quickly reach any place. This is indeed the most suitable candidate !
"Okay! Zhongkang, you lead the tiger riders to pass on my order! If anyone dares to take a needle or thread from the people, or insults and hurts the people, he will be beheaded as a public display!" Feng Yao ordered.

(End of this chapter)