Slaughter the city~

In fact, after receiving Hou Yin's letter, Liu Bei immediately ordered troops to be dispatched, preparing to cooperate with Hou Yin to cooperate with the outside to break Cao's army.

With the arrival of Zhang Fei, the gap between the two sides is not too obvious, at least the equipment advantage is enough to make up for the gap in strength, Liu Bei is now thinking about a decisive battle with Cao Cao, Hou Yin's letter, so that Liu Bei found an opportunity and acted quickly.

The reaction was not unpleasant, but Cao Cao's reaction was more decisive, and when Liu Bei led the army to Yuyang, there was already news in front of him that Wancheng was broken by Cao Ren and slaughtered.

This Cao Ren is really ruthless!

Sitting in Liu Bei's big tent of the Chinese army, Liu Yi looked at the news coming from the front, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, after all, this kind of thing is slaughtering, even if he has been used to seeing tragedies in the world over the years, and his mentality has begun to no longer be so repulsive, and even many times, Liu Yi will personally give the order to kill, Ci is not in charge of the army, although when he is the commander of the three armies, many times he is indifferent, but major decisions can't bypass him, and the bottom line of good thoughts preserved in his previous life in his heart has been broken through little by little, until now, Regarding the life and death on the battlefield and the suffering of the people he saw along the way, Liu Yi would think about how to minimize the losses, how to make the people live well, and have hope, but he will no longer have that kind of compassion.

It has nothing to do with good or evil, it's just that sometimes, your mercy for those people is far less real than giving each other a piece of bread, writing a thousand poems and 10,000 poems for these people who can't even eat enough is far less affordable than a full meal, it's not that there is no kindness and mercy, it's just that he shows this kind of thing in a more practical way.

But the slaughter of the city still made him a little uncomfortable, but that's all.

"Although it is a little cold-blooded, the slaughter of Wancheng is beneficial and harmless for our army!" After a moment of silence, Liu Yi was the first to speak, looked at Liu Bei, then at Pang Tong, Fa Zheng and others, and said lightly: "Slaughtering the city at this time will only make the people of Nanyang more resistant to Cao Cao, but send more people to publicize, call on the people of Nanyang counties to stand on their own, isolate the Cao army, and it will be much easier for our army to win Nanyang." ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he nodded silently, his emotions were not very high, this is not something that can be pretended, he has always been based on benevolence and righteousness, whether he really thought so at the beginning, but now, after so many years of benevolence and righteousness, this moral bottom line has taken root in his bones.

Pang Tong saw that Liu Bei didn't speak, so he took over and said: "You can order Zhang Ren's department to go out of the Ping clan, south of Wuyin, Biyang, Niuzhu and other county towns can be captured now, and in addition, the Guanping department is about the east of Li County." ”

These cities were not taken before, it was because the people's hearts were not completely towards Liu Bei's side, and there were also people loyal to Cao Cao or loyal to the imperial court, and there were quite a few of them, even if they got it, they had to send a large number of soldiers and horses to defend it, but it dispersed Liu Bei's forces and was easy to be broken by each one.

But now, there should be no such problem, so that the original assistants can just change the flag and no longer provide support for Cao Cao, this support is not only the weight of grain and grass, but also the resources of the population and troops, and the sharing of intelligence, taking back these places is equivalent to picking off Cao Cao's eyes and ears in these places, making him blind and deaf, even if Liu Bei has any military operations through these places, it is difficult for Cao Cao to get information in time to respond.

Just like the incident in Wancheng this time, if you can see the clues in advance, Liu Bei can prepare in advance, instead of doing it after getting the news, there is a big gap in between.

Liu Bei nodded silently and said with a forced smile: "It depends on the plan of Boyuan and Shiyuan!" Bo Yuan, the reconstruction of Nanyang, you should prepare for it, after this battle, Nanyang is under the jurisdiction of the General Mansion of Zhengbei, and Yun Chang will take over! ”

Liu Bei is determined to fight Cao Cao here, because Wancheng is good, whether it is a career, or the so-called righteousness, but this time, Liu Bei has obviously given birth to a determination in his heart to compete with Cao Cao.

"Whoa!" Liu Yi and Pang Tong stood up and bowed down to receive the order, and the current Nanyang was indeed broken by both sides, not just Wancheng.

Objectively speaking, now Cao Cao continues to stay in Nanyang in addition to the loss of troops, it no longer makes much sense to continue to occupy Nanyang, and there has been strong resistance among the people.

But now, Liu Bei obviously won't give Cao Cao this opportunity, and now Cao Cao has more, I'm afraid he just doesn't want Liu Bei to get Nanyang.

After all, this time Cao Cao is not just as simple as losing Nanyang, Huainan is lost, there will be more possibilities for Liu Bei and Sun Quan to cooperate in the future, and it will not be easy to break the Sun-Liu alliance, unless he takes the initiative to retreat and give up more territory for Sun Quan or Liu Bei to grow, forming a new balance, so that Liu Bei and Sun Quan can attack each other because of interests.

However, this is impossible, no matter which one wants to be finally unified, it will inevitably face the problem of facing the other two at the same time, so Cao Cao is destined not to back down, and will try his best to break this balance, and therefore, Nanyang has a very important significance for Liu Bei in the process of competing for power in the future.

However, this time is different from the past, this time Liu Yi has to do not just rebuild a city, but the fortifications of the entire Nanyang, to restore the people's livelihood, and at the same time to have enough ability to resist Cao's army.

"This Nanyang matter is quite difficult." Pang Tong and Liu Yi took the order, and when they went to prepare, Pang Tong couldn't help but smile and said, "Bo Yuan has a belly case?" ”

"I'm not too familiar with the terrain of Nanyang, I have to take a look at the topography here, where it is suitable for defense, make a sand table, and then design!" Liu Yi shook his head, in fact, according to the existing map, Nanyang's defense system sounds difficult to do, but in fact, Nanyang belongs to the basin, as long as you find the key points to build checkpoints, military camps, and beacon towers, but how to do it, he has to go through the mountains on Nanyang's side first, this is very time-consuming, but there should not be too many buildings to build, so Liu Yi will not participate in the next war.

"In the next step, if our army has another action, it should be mainly Guanzhong and Luoyang, and Boyuan can think more about it." Pang Tong nodded, looked at Liu Yi and smiled.

Out of Nanyang to the east, it is a large plain area, Liu Bei does not have too many cavalry at present, if he really wants to fight over, he will definitely not be able to compete with Cao Cao, attacking Guanzhong and Xiliang is the best choice, of course, it is difficult to say when to move troops.

"Understood!" Liu Yi patted Pang Tong on the shoulder, and separated from Pang Tong, he needed to let people start transporting all kinds of materials to this side, mainly cement, and at the same time, he also had to apply for a team of men and horses with Liu Bei to protect himself, although Cao Cao could not send people to the mountains, but there was no big mistake in being careful.

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Wancheng, in the empty city, those corpses have been sent outside the city to be burned or buried, Liu Yi has made changes to the world over the years is not only that the three major forces pattern is different from history, but more importantly, Liu Yi through his continuous emphasis, some common sense concepts have begun to spread beyond Jingshu.

For example, the plague mostly starts in filthy places and places where there are too many corpses, so the cleaning of corpses is now not only carried out by Liu Bei's family, but Cao Jun is also very concerned about this.

But there are too many dead people in Wancheng, it can be said that since Liu Bei and Cao Cao started the war, the soldiers killed on both sides are less than a fraction of the number of people killed in the Wancheng massacre, and the plague has begun to appear in the city, Cao Cao had to move the treatment center out of Wancheng and recruit medical craftsmen to treat.

It was noon, and the stench of rotten flesh in the air was getting worse by the hot weather, and an attendant brought chicken soup to Cao Cao.

"King Wei, Liu Bei's army has passed through Jianyang, and there are two partial divisions to occupy the surrounding counties, and now in Nanyang, the cities are looking down on the wind." Yang Xiu sent the latest information to Cao Cao's desk IQ, bowed down and said: "Right now, people's hearts are diverging, this Nanyang ......"

Cao Cao raised his eyelids and looked at Yang Xiu: "Dezu, is there anything else?" ”

"Not yet!" Yang Xiu shook his head.

"Let's go down and rest." Cao Cao picked up the bowl and began to drive people away, recently he felt that Yang Xiu was a little annoying, didn't he know these problems? Do you want to say it privately? Does it show that he Yang Xiu is talented? Why didn't Cheng Yu say it? Because Cheng Yu knows very well that Cao Cao knows the current situation better than anyone else, and besides, it is just to annoy Cao Cao, this is the benefit of the old man, who knows the warmth and coldness, and does not have a strong desire to express like young people.

"My lord, each of you should send someone to ask for today's password." Xu Chu came in and bowed to Cao Cao.

In order to prevent the opponent from mixing in, Cao Cao would change the password every day.

"Password......" Cao Cao looked at the chicken soup and suddenly smiled: "Chicken ribs." ”

"Whoa!" Xu Chu agreed, bowed and retired.

Yang Xiu, who had not yet walked out of the camp, was thoughtful, and when he saw Cao Cao coming over, he hurriedly bowed and retreated.

Leaving Cao Cao's tent, Yang Xiu immediately returned to his tent and began to pack up.

"Dezu, what are you doing?" Cao Renzheng, who was looking for camp, saw Yang Xiu packing up and asked suspiciously.

"The lord has already intended to retire from the army, I have made some preparations early." Yang Xiu smiled.

"How so?" Cao Ren was puzzled.

"Chicken ribs, chicken ribs, tasteless food, it's a pity to throw them away!" Yang Xiu smiled.

Cao Ren admired Yang Xiu's ability to figure out people's minds, and felt that it made sense when he heard the words, now that this Nanyang is about to be broken, there is indeed no need to continue to stay, plus now that the plague is rampant, Cao Ren sighed, didn't ask more, and went back to pack his bags.

Early the next morning, Cao Cao's face turned pale and found that most of the entire Cao army was packing up, and before this official order was issued, everyone was ready to go back?

After asking the reason, Cao Cao was furious and ordered Yang Xiu to be beheaded for the crime of shaking the morale of the army! This goods are kept, and they are also a dragger.

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