Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1897 The Attack and Defense of Yanjing (6)

Chapter 1895: Attack and Defense of Yanjing (6)

"Father, let me go to war. I am willing to issue a military order and behead the Sulie dog thief."

Xue Kui asked for help again with red eyes, like a furious lion.

Xue Gang glanced at his son and said calmly: "Come here, tie up Xue Kui and put him in the dungeon. When he calms down, let him out."

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"Dad, the war is about to begin, why are you tying up the child? The child realizes his mistake, and the child promises not to cause any trouble, dad, dad..."

Xue Kui shouted, but Xue Gang ignored him and watched Xue Kui being taken away.

After seeing this, the other generals who wanted to ask for a fight did not dare to propose a fight. After all, Xue Gang even detained his own son, so he would definitely not let them go.

Xue Gang glanced at the generals and said in a deep voice: "I know that you are aggrieved, but you can bear with me even if you are aggrieved.

I would like to reiterate one last time that no one is allowed to go into battle without permission. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed. "

The murderous sound of the word "kill" made everyone present feel trembling.

They have no doubt about Xue Gang's determination. Once someone disobeys the military order, he will really kill someone.

After Xue Gang frightened the generals who were about to make a move, he looked coldly at Su Dingfang at the bottom of the city and said to himself: "Su Lie, as long as I, Xue Gang, are here, you can't even think of capturing Yanjing."

Su Dingfang outside the city saw that after cursing for two hours, there was still no movement in the city. He knew that Xue Gang had made up his mind to defend and couldn't get out, so he decisively ordered his troops to retreat back to the camp.

Su Ding had just returned to the camp when Lu Bu and Sun Lingming came up to meet him. They already knew that the Han army did not dare to fight, and even scolding them had no effect at all.

 “Su Shuai, what should we do now?” Lu Bu asked.

Sun Lingming picked his nose and said nonchalantly: "What else can we do? We can only attack by force."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Bu and Xue Rengui both glared at him fiercely.

 “Don’t rush to attack the city.”

Su Dingfang shook his head and said: "The city of Yanjing is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Even if we attack it by force, we can't attack it within a short period of time. Therefore, we should attack the city from the bottom and attack the heart from the top."

Xue Rengui’s eyes flashed and he asked: “How to attack the heart?”

Su Dingfang took out a folded large piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Xue Rengui, who couldn't help but read: "A letter to the people of Yanjing?"

Lu Bu and Sun Lingming both showed a clear look on their faces, and immediately understood what Su Dingfang had said about his backhand before, and what was going on now.

In the battle to attack Bohai City, Su Dingfang relied on a "Letter to the People of Bohai" to plunge Bohai City, which had hundreds of thousands of people, into internal fighting. In the end, Bohai City was destroyed without an attack. Now it seems that this is a repeat of the same trick. ah.

Xue Rengui didn't look at it. He thought of another point.

“The situation in Yanjing is completely different from that in Bohai.

 Yuan Shao valued the family and despised the common people. The land annexation of Zhao State was serious and the domestic conflicts were sharp, so he was easily provoked by a letter. The hypocrite had no such internal contradictions at all.

 Liu Che was one of the most thoroughgoing princes in promoting the land-acreage system in the Han Dynasty. It is precisely because of this that the people support Liu Che so much.

 It may be difficult to achieve the same effect by relying on the method used to deal with Yuan Shao to deal with Liu Che. ".

Hearing Xue Rengui's words, Su Dingfang smiled calmly and said: "Of course I know this. The hypocrites have done a very good job in the system, and they are not much different from our army. The rhetoric used to deal with Yuan Shao is naturally of no use to Liu Che. It’s useless, but that doesn’t mean Liu Che doesn’t have any shortcomings.”

Hearing this, Xue Rengui immediately felt a lot more at ease. Since Su Dingfang understood this, he would definitely not do it in vain, which made him look forward to the content of this letter.

Xue Rengui opened it and saw that it read: Su Lie, the general of Han Dingbei, sued the 300,000 people in Yanjing...

The actual number is naturally not that much. Su Dingfang just wrote 300,000 just to round up the number.

Xue Rengui browsed ten lines at a glance. He quickly finished reading the thousands of words of the memorandum, and he couldn't help but secretly admire it in his heart.

Su Lie's statement was far less intense than the attack on Bohai, but it also demonstrated the orthodoxy of the Qin army and Liu Che's ambition. It also denounced Liu Che's ten major crimes.

If this is seen by the people in the whole city, although it is impossible for Yanjing City to be destroyed without attack, it will definitely greatly damage the morale of the defenders. It will be relatively easy for the Qin army to attack Yanjing later. "Brother Su, this letter of yours is eloquent and has more than a thousand words, but every word is reasonable. It must not have been written recently, right?" Xue Rengui asked with a smile.

"This "Letter to the People of Yanjing" was written as early as in Yuyang, and 500,000 copies have been printed."

 Hearing what Su Dingfang said, the other generals were just surprised, but Sun Lingming was secretly frightened.

It turns out that as early as when he attacked Yuyang, the general had already anticipated that he would encounter this kind of situation when he attacked Yanjing, so he made preparations in advance and wrote a message. This was probably too far-sighted.

Sun Lingming admired Su Lie even more. He even felt that the old commander Long Qie was not a commander at the same level as Su Lie.

Su Dingfang didn't know what Sun Lingming was thinking. Instead, he looked at Lu Bu and ordered: "The wind direction is just right today. There will definitely be strong winds. General Lu Bu, you lead 10,000 strong crossbowmen and use the wind to shoot these slogans into Yanjing City." ”

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Lu Bu accepted the order with excitement on his face, and Xue Gang also immediately received the news that Lu Bu was leading the army.

 “Report...to the commander-in-chief, the Qin army has come to challenge again.”

Xue Gang, you didn't even blink your eyelids, and asked calmly: "Who is coming this time? Sun Lingming?"

 “No, it’s Lu Bu.”

　　After hearing Lu Bu's name, Xue Gang's eyes were filled with hatred, and he stood up suddenly, as if a volcano was about to erupt.

Lu Bu killed Xue Yong, and Xue Yong was Xue Gang's elder brother. The eldest brother was like his father. The hatred between Xue Gang and Lu Bu could be said to be irreconcilable.

Although Xue Gang hated Lu Bu, he understood that the war was more important than anything else. He could only suppress the hatred in his heart and gritted his teeth and said: "No matter who comes to challenge, they are not allowed to fight."

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On the other side, Lu Bu saw that Xue Gang had not left the city, so the soldiers immediately tied the slogans to the arrows, and then ordered the soldiers to shoot.

Xue Gang thought that Lu Bu was going to use crossbows to consume the defenders on the city, so he ordered the soldiers near the city wall to hide behind the city wall, while the soldiers not near the city wall put up shields for defense.

The defenders who were not near the city wall raised their shields, but found that only a small number of arrows were shot at them, and most of the arrows were shot into the city.

When Xue Gang saw this, he also looked puzzled. He didn’t know what Lu Bu’s purpose was in shooting the ‘empty arrow’.

Shortly afterwards, when a soldier brought a message in a panic, Xue Gang finally understood the sinister intentions of Lu Bu and Su Dingfang.

“…Liu Che is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, but he is so ambitious that he goes beyond proclaiming himself emperor, is disloyal to the court, and disrespects His Majesty. This is an offence…”

Xue Gang couldn't stand it after only seeing a third of it. He tore up the memorandum and shouted angrily: "How many more are there?"

"Everywhere."

 At this moment a strong wind blew. Lu Bu, who was outside the city, was overjoyed when he saw this. He did not let the soldiers continue to shoot arrows. Instead, he scattered the message into the sky and let the wind blow it into the city.

As long as half of the 500,000 messages can be blown into Yanjing City, the plan to attack the heart will be completed, and 500,000 arrows will be saved.

With such a strong wind, the officers and soldiers of the Qin army were desperately throwing messages, and all of a sudden the papers were blown everywhere.

Seeing this, Lu Bu nodded with satisfaction. The direction of the wind was exactly the direction of Yanjing City. He estimated that it could blow in at least two-thirds of it.

Xue Gang, who was on the city tower, saw countless slogans flying towards Yanjing City like snowflakes. He opened his mouth wide and was speechless for a long time.

After a while, Xue Gang weakly ordered: "Pass the order. No one is allowed to read the proclamation flying into the city. Once discovered, it must be handed over immediately, otherwise it will be punished with treason."

Having said that, Xue Gang couldn't stay any longer and hurried to the palace to report the matter to Liu Che in person.

   Second update...5 chapters are still owed.

 (End of this chapter)