Massacre of the city ~

In fact, after receiving Hou Yin's letter, Liu Bei immediately ordered troops to cooperate with Hou Yin to defeat Cao's army.

With the arrival of Zhang Fei, the gap in military strength between the two sides was no longer obvious. At least the equipment advantage was enough to make up for the gap in military strength. Liu Bei was now thinking about the decisive battle with Cao Cao. Hou Yin's letter gave Liu Bei an opportunity and took action quickly.

The reaction was very fast, but Cao Cao's reaction was even more decisive. When Liu Bei led the army to Yuyang, there was already a report in front of him that Wancheng was captured and massacred by Cao Ren.

This Cao Ren is really cruel!

Sitting in Liu Bei's central army tent, Liu Yi looked at the news coming from the front and felt a little uncomfortable. After all, even if he had been used to the tragic things in the world over the years, he had begun to no longer be so repulsive of fighting in his mentality. Many times, Liu Yi would personally issue orders to kill people, and be kind-hearted. Although he was the commander of the three armies, he often didn't care about the affairs, but major decisions could not avoid him. The bottom line of good thoughts preserved in his previous life was also being broken through bit by bit. Until now, for life and death on the battlefield and the sufferings of the people he saw along the way, Liu Yi would think about how to minimize the losses and how to make the people live a good life and have hope, but he would no longer have such a pity.

It has nothing to do with good or evil, but sometimes, your mercy is far less than giving the other person a bread to the truth. Writing a thousand and ten thousand poems for these people who can’t even eat enough is far less affordable than a full meal. It is not that there is no kindness and compassion, but that he shows this kind of thing in a more practical way.

But the massacre of the city still made him feel a little uncomfortable, but that was all.

"Although it's a bit cold-blooded, Wancheng was slaughtered, which is beneficial and harmless to our army!" After a moment of silence, Liu Yi spoke first, looked at Liu Bei, then Pang Tong, Fa Zheng and others, and said lightly: "This kind of massacre will only make the people of Nanyang more resistant to Cao Cao. You can send more people to promote and call on the people of Nanyang counties to establish themselves and isolate the Cao army. 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, and this was not something that could be pretended. He has always been based on benevolence and righteousness. No matter 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.

Seeing that Liu Bei did not speak, Pang Tong took over and said, "You can order Zhang Ren's troops to go out of Ping's family, south of Wuyin, Biyang, Niuzhu and other counties to be captured now. In addition, Guanping's troops to be captured east of Li County."

These cities were not taken before because people's hearts were not completely towards Liu Bei, and there were also people who were loyal to Cao Cao or the court, and there were a large number of people. Even if they could, they had to send a large number of troops to guard the city. Instead, they dispersed Liu Bei's troops and were easily defeated by each one.

But now, there should be no problem. The original assistants can only change their flags and no longer provide support to Cao Cao. This support is not only food, supplies, but also resources for population and military forces, and sharing of intelligence. Taking back these places is equivalent to picking up Cao Cao's eyes and ears in these places, making him blind and deaf. Even if Liu Bei had any military operations through these places, it would be difficult for Cao Cao to get information and respond in time.

Just like this time in Wancheng, if you can see the clues in advance, Liu Bei can make preparations in advance, instead of taking action after getting the news. There is a big gap between them.

Liu Bei nodded silently and said with a forced smile: "I will follow the plan of Bo Yuan and Shi Yuan! Bo Yuan, you can prepare for the reconstruction of Nanyang. After this battle, Nanyang will be under the jurisdiction of General Zhengbei, and will be taken over by Chief Yun!"

Liu Bei was determined to fight Cao Cao to the death here, because whether it was Wancheng, career, or the so-called righteousness, this time, Liu Bei obviously had the determination to fight for his strengths and weaknesses with Cao Cao.

"Here!" Liu Yi and Pang Tong stood up and bowed to take the order. Nanyang is indeed broken by both sides, not just Wancheng.

Objectively speaking, it is not very meaningful to continue to occupy Nanyang, except for losing troops, and the people's hearts have become strongly resistant. If Liu Bei does not come in, there will be time to slowly appease the people's hearts and use time and some people-friendly policies to make everyone forget all this.

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

After all, this time Cao Cao was not just as simple as Nanyang. Once Huainan lost, Liu Bei and Sun Quan might cooperate more in the future. It would be not easy to break the Sun and Liu Liu alliance, unless he took the initiative to retreat and gave up more territory to make Sun Quan or Liu Bei grow stronger, forming a new balance, allowing Liu Bei and Sun Quan to attack each other due to interests.

However, this is impossible. If you divide the world into three parts, no matter which one wants to be unified, you will inevitably face the problem of facing the other two at the same time. Therefore, Cao Cao is destined to not give in and will try his best to break this balance. Therefore, Nanyang has very important significance to Liu Bei in the future struggle for the three families.

However, this time it is different from the past. What Liu Yi has to do this time is not just rebuilding a city, but the fortifications in the entire Nanyang, which must restore people's livelihood and have sufficient ability to resist Cao's army.

"This Nanyang incident is quite difficult." Pang Tong and Liu Yi took the order and went out to prepare. When they went to prepare, Pang Tong couldn't help but smile and said, "Does Bo Yuan have a vain?"

"I am not very familiar with the terrain of Nanyang. I have to first look at the landform here, where is suitable for defense, make sand tables, and then design it!" 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 a basin. Just find key points to build checkpoints, military camps, and beacon towers. But how to do it, he has to walk the mountains in Nanyang first. This is very time-consuming, but there should not be too many buildings to build, so Liu Yi will not participate in the subsequent war.

"In the next step, if our army takes action, it should be based on Guanzhong and Luoyang. Bo Yuan can think more about it." Pang Tong nodded and smiled at Liu Yi.

Going east from Nanyang, it was a large plain area. Liu Bei did not have too many cavalry at present. If he really wanted to fight, he would definitely not be able to compete with Cao Cao for power. To guide Guanzhong, Xiliang was the best choice. Of course, it was hard to say when the troops were deployed.

"Understand!" Liu Yi patted Pang Tong's shoulder and separated from Pang Tong. He needed someone to start transporting various materials here, mainly cement, and at the same time he had to apply for a team of people from Liu Bei to protect him. Although Cao Cao could not send someone to the mountains specifically, he was careful not to make any mistakes.

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In Wancheng, in the empty city, the bodies have been sent outside the city to burn or buried. Over the years, Liu Yi’s changes to the world are not only different from history, but more importantly, through his own continuous emphasis, some common sense concepts have begun to spread to places outside Jingshu.

For example, plagues often occur in filthy places and where corpses are piled up too much, so now it is not only Liu Bei's family that is carrying out the cleaning of corpses, but Cao Jun is also paying great attention to this.

But there were too many people who died in Wancheng. It can be said that since Liu Bei and Cao Cao started the war, the soldiers killed in both sides were less than a fraction of the number of people killed in the Wancheng massacre. The soldiers in the city had begun to experience plague. Cao Cao had to move the capital out of Wancheng and recruit doctors to treat it.

It was noon, and the hot weather made the smell of rotten meat in the air worse and worse. A accompanying servant brought chicken soup to Cao Cao.

"King of Wei, Liu Bei's army has passed Jiyang, and two side troops have occupied the surrounding county towns. Now in Nanyang, each city has descended in sight." Yang Xiu sent the latest information to Cao Cao's table IQ and bowed, "Nanyang is now deviating from people's hearts..."

Cao Cao raised his eyelids and looked at Yang Xiu: "Ancestor De, are there anything else?"

"No!" Yang Xiu shook his head.

"Let's go and have a rest." Cao Cao picked up the bowl and started to drive people away. Recently, he felt that Yang Xiu was a little annoying. Don't he know these questions? He also said privately? Is it showing that Yang Xiu is extraordinary ingenuity? Why didn't Cheng Yu say it? Because Cheng Yu knew very well that Cao Cao knew the current situation better than anyone else, and it was just a matter of trouble for Cao Cao. This is the benefit of the elderly. He knew the warmth and coldness, and did not have a strong desire to show off like young people.

"Lord, everyone should send someone to ask about today's order." Xu Chu came in and bowed to Cao Cao.

In order to avoid opponents from getting in with care, Cao Cao would change his password every day.

"Command..." Cao Cao looked at the chicken soup and suddenly smiled: "Small ribs."

"Here!" Xu Chu agreed and bowed and said goodbye.

Yang Xiu, who had not yet walked out of the tent, felt thoughtful. Seeing Cao Cao looking over, he hurriedly bowed and said goodbye.

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

"Dezu, what are you doing?" Cao Renzheng, who was looking for the camp, asked in confusion when he saw Yang Xiu packing his luggage.

"The lord already wants to withdraw his troops, so I'll make some preparations." Yang Xiu said with a smile.

"How can I see it?" Cao Ren said inexplicably.

"Chicken ribs and chicken ribs are tasteless, but it's a pity to throw them away!" Yang Xiu said with a smile.

Cao Ren admired Yang Xiu's ability to figure out people's thoughts. He thought it made sense when he heard this. Now Nanyang is almost destroyed, and there is no need to stay. In addition, the plague is rampant, Cao Ren sighed, stopped asking more questions, and went back to pack his clothes.

The next morning, Cao Cao's face turned pale and found that most of the entire Cao army were packing their luggage. Before the official order was issued, everyone was ready to return?
Chapter completed!