"Back to the lord, a letter from the front line in Yuzhou!" Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe came to Liu Mang's mansion and delivered a letter that had just arrived.

"Bring it!" Although Liu Mang has been in Jingzhou for a few days, he is also worried about the battle situation in Yuzhou, whether Yuzhou can be taken is related to whether Liu Mang can return to Yangzhou, take Yuzhou, and then have half of Xuzhou under the command of Chen Deng, it can be said that Liu Mang's land is also two and a half states, which can be regarded as the overlord of the Central Plains, so that he can develop steadily and wait for Cao Cao in the north to go south.

And in this generation south of the Central Plains, a stable triangle has been formed, Jiangdong Sun Ce, Jingzhou Liu Biao, and the Central Plains overlord Liu Mang, at that time, as long as Liu Biao does not want to break this solid three-legged trend, then he must let Liu Mang go, otherwise once Yangzhou and Jiangdong join forces, then he Jingzhou will be difficult to protect, so in the end Liu Biao can only let Liu Mang go.

Thinking that he was going back after taking Yuzhou, Liu Mang's mood was extremely excited.

"In the battle of Nandun, there were more than 14,000 casualties?" Liu Mang frowned and looked at this battle report, 14,000 Yangzhou troops died under the Nandun city wall, and there were dozens of soldiers of the Chengguan army inside.

With the help of ballistas, there were also such battle losses, which shows that the battle was very tragic.

Liu Mang continued to read, although more than 14,000 Yangzhou troops fell on the battlefield, but this battle also laid the foundation for the Yangzhou army to become an elite force, 50,000 Yangzhou troops, their predecessor was a reserve, and their storage zài At the beginning, Liu Mang was just used as a second-line army. Later, it was solved because of grain and grass. So this reserve really began to become the main station force. Although the hundred generals inside are all commanded by the Chengguan Army, who have experienced a hundred battles and have been taught the art of war.

But in any case, these 50,000 Yangzhou troops are also recruits, and it is naturally difficult for recruits to compare with the elites who have already become famous, such as the Qingzhou Army and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in Liu Bei's hands, but the siege of the city under the cover of ballistas has become the task of these recruits.

More than 14,000 of the 50,000 were killed or wounded, more than 11,000 were killed, and the remaining 2,000 were seriously injured. It's basically impossible to go back to the battlefield.

"Send a letter to Shouchun, engrave the names of more than 10,000 soldiers who died in battle on the Hall of Heroes, and then properly place the brothers who have been injured more than 2,000 times, and not a single one of the good fields and silver will be missing." Liu Mang said to Jia Xu below.

"Yes!" Jia Xu nodded, he looked at Liu Mang, for such a soldier who was killed and seriously injured in battle, Jia Xu had a different opinion, in Jia Xu's opinion, the most worthless thing in this troubled world is probably human life. Isn't it just to eat in the army, Jia Xu who died in battle doesn't matter. Because these soldiers who died in battle only need to engrave their names on the Hall of Heroes, but these seriously wounded soldiers, in this era, as long as they are not generals, they are generally given a ride to make them die more comfortably, and those who have a little conscience are just to let themselves destroy themselves, because once they are seriously injured, not only can they not fight, but they are still delayed.

Because a person is seriously injured, you must at least send someone to take care of them, and you need medicine, and this group of seriously injured soldiers and horses, that wailing sound, but it will affect the morale of the army, it is completely a drag, even if the war is won, you have to be responsible for their future life, this two are okay, this war is too much, there are no less than 10,000 seriously injured people in Yangzhou, all of them have retreated from the war, they are either missing arms or legs, and some even have no arms and legs, so they are left with their bodies, This is a complete burden for Yangzhou.

However, Jia Xu also knew that no matter how much he persuaded Liu Mang, he would not change this pacification system.

Jia Xu could only shake his head and smile bitterly, fortunately, Liu Mang came like this, the soldiers of the Yangzhou Army are basically few greedy for life and afraid of death, because you are disabled in battle, Yangzhou raised you, you died in battle, not only have pensions for your family but also good land and tax reduction policies, and even engrave your name on the Shouchun Heroes Palace, so that the people can worship you, so this Yangzhou Army can be regarded as the most fearless of death.

Although there were 14,000 casualties, the remaining 36,000 people were already considered elite, no longer recruits, and they had the command of the soldiers of the Chengguan Army, and the combat effectiveness of these 36,000 people was really not small.

"Nandun City has been taken!" Liu Mang read the words of Jia Xu on the side.

"Now there is Dingcheng left, and after taking Dingcheng, you can finally gather the army in Runan, and the battle will be decided." Nandun and Dingcheng are equivalent to two acropolis, if you don't take him, Runan is difficult to break, and if you take him, Liu Bei will either abandon Yuzhou and leave, or he can only coexist and die with Runan, because he has no way to retreat.

Nandun City was taken down, and the nail was pulled out, but Liu Mang's face did not have any joy at all, "Lord, are you?" Jia Xu was a little puzzled, could it be that a general died in battle? Still is?

"Dead in battle? No! Liu Mang explained that only Zhang Liao was injured in the battle report, but it was still a minor injury, because he was tired and a little out of strength after taking Nandun City, and he just needed to rest.

The reason why Liu Mang was unhappy was because this war report also said that Nandun City, 120,000 people, more than 80,000 dead and wounded, and less than 30,000 survivors in the city.

A huge city, it is so dilapidated, the entire Nandun City is full of corpses, if these are foreigners, Liu Mang will not be sad, but these are Han people, living people.

Liu Mang is really heartbroken, because this attack on Nandun City is still an order issued by Liu Mang.

Liu Mang's eyes closed, and after a while, he reacted, and when he opened his eyes, his eyes were full of murderous intent, "Liu Bei Liu Xuande, named Uncle Huang of the Han Family, is actually a thief." ”

Liu Mang was even more angry with Liu Bei's own family than he was at Cao Cao and Sun Ce, because this person was benevolent and righteous, because of his false benevolence and false righteousness, in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, if there was no Liu Bei, a-stirring stick, I am afraid that Cao Cao would have unified the world in his lifetime, and he would have been fighting and dying for so many years in the end, what Three Kingdoms, what Jin Dynasty.

Cao Cao unified the world early, and the people of this world will also have ten rooms and nine emptiness, and finally there will be five chaotic flowers.

It doesn't matter if you have ambitions, Liu Mang came to this era careerists have seen a lot, if you have the ability, you will use your army, use your generals and strategists to seize the world, but Liu Bei is different, he carries the people, bewitches the people, and lets the innocent people die for him, the battle of Xuzhou, Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao, in order to be able to successfully retreat, he actually used hypocrisy and hypocrisy, saying that Cao Cao would slaughter the city, would kill the entire people of Xuzhou, and let countless people of Xuzhou follow him to escape.

Nominally he was for the good of the people, but in fact he wanted to use a large number of people to hide the retreat of his own main army. Cao Cao is not a fool, he is also a hero, how could he slaughter the people in Xuzhou, which has already been taken? War is not only about food and grass, but also about people.

It was precisely because of those people that it was difficult for Cao Cao to annihilate Liu Bei, Liu Bei escaped, but he knew that many thousands of Xuzhou people left their hometowns along the way, starved to death and froze to death on the road.

This is not counting, now it is even said that he Liu Mang will slaughter the city, demagoguery, and let the people of Nandun Dingcheng go to the city wall for his ambition and the Yangzhou army.

Most of the more than 80,000 people who died were killed on the walls.

"Pass my military order, take Yuzhou, Liu Bei can't stay. Kill it! "Liu Mang has never had such murderous intent on a person, before attacking Yuzhou, someone from Xudu sent a hidden secretary letter, that is, the puppet Han Emperor in Xudu, originally for this Han Emperor, Liu Mang still gave face, because Liu Mang wrote several times to seal the marquis, and he gave permission.

The letter sent by Emperor Han was to let Liu Mang take Yuzhou and bypass Liu Bei's life, after all, everyone is a member of the Han family.

Liu Mang still had the heart of silhouette at the beginning, and it would be good to take Yuzhou under house arrest Liu Bei, Liu Mang still thought about the two generals Zhang Fei and Guan Yu under Liu Bei, especially Zhang Fei is now a god refiner.

But because of Nandun's battle report, Liu Mang completely gave up the idea of leaving Liu Bei's life.

Even if he killed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Liu Bei couldn't stay. (To be continued......)