The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Therefore, the people of Lin Yiguo did not use any means to occupy Lurong County. They just sent a large army to besiege the city, and then directly sent people to lobby and intimidate the county magistrate of Lurong County, and successfully surrendered Lurong County.

But when Liu Zheng's nine thousand came, the gates of Lurong County were closed, and there were many soldiers and horses guarding the city tower.

It seems that these people have already received some news that Liu Zheng's army will arrive.

Liu Zheng knew that this city belonged to the Han court before, so when he arrived here, he did not attack directly, but came to the city gate.

He glanced coldly at the tower.

After a while, he yelled a word towards the tower.

"I am the new state shepherd of the big man. Now I order you to open the door and surrender immediately, and return to the embrace of the big man. Otherwise, if you break the city gate, all the soldiers guarding the city will be treated as collaborators and treason!"

The first time, the people on the tower didn't move much, and Liu Zheng didn't care, but continued to talk to the tower.

After saying it three times in a row, his voice was a little dry, and the people on the tower finally heard what Liu Zheng said clearly.

But no one dared to act. Without the order of their superiors, even if these soldiers wanted to open the city gate, they did not have the authority to do so.

"Very well, since you have chosen to collude with the enemy and treason, then I will fulfill you!"

Chapter 281 Regaining Lu Rong

The soldiers in Lurong County were probably replaced by people from Lin Yiguo, so from the very beginning, Liu Zhengda never thought that the people in Lurong County could open the city and surrender directly.

"Xu Huang, I leave it to you, break the city gate, and kill all men who participated in the defense of the city!"

Liu Zheng gave Xu Huang an order, then took a few steps back and handed over the battlefield to Xu Huang.

Xu Huang received Liu Zheng's order, and immediately began to attack Lurong County. Nine thousand soldiers rushed directly to the city gate. Although there were not many siege equipment, Lurong County was not a city. There are no walls that are too high, and even the gates are not thick.

After all, this is a commercial city, not a military city, and it doesn't need strict defense.

Under the command of an experienced general like Xu Huang who is good at fighting, the 9000 people under his command were quickly deployed and divided into three waves to start rushing forward. The first wave mainly dealt with the city gate, hitting the city gate with trees, and the number of hits If there are too many, the city gate will always loosen and eventually fall down.

The other part, starting from both sides, aims to attract the firepower of the defenders on the tower.

The last part of the main force did not attack, but under the leadership of Wenpin, they directly bypassed Xu Huang's city gate and ran to other city gates, bothering to look for opportunities from the other side.

The purpose of the 3000 men led by Wenpin was not to attack the city, but to put pressure on the defenders in Lurong County. Knowing that there was still an enemy army walking back and forth at the head of the city, the defenders in the city could not Gathered in one place, the troops must be sent to other places for defense to prevent mistakes in other city gates.

With such an attack, combined with the shooting of arrows, in just ten minutes, the dilapidated city gate of Lurong County collapsed.

After a loud bang, the city gate collapsed.

Xu Huang led all the siege soldiers into the city together.

Those soldiers defending Lurong County were not many in number, but they never thought that Lurong County would be breached in such a short period of time. After the gate collapsed, they panicked and started to attack one by one. Retreat from the tower.

But Xu Huang's soldiers also entered the city at this time, and these people could not escape from the city at all.

This is not because of how powerful the soldiers under Xu Huang's command are, but because of Liu Zheng's boost of morale before, these men and horses in Lurong County have a bad breath in their hearts. Before they dissipated, they were driven to kill those Lin Yiguo soldiers in Lurong County.

That's why the city gate was breached in such a short period of time.

Liu Zheng didn't even enter the city, he just led his bodyguards, and began to ride horses to other city gates to prevent those Lin Yiguo soldiers who escaped from the city. Pass.

With the breaking of the city gate, the siege of Lurong County began.

There were [-] defenders of Lin Yiguo in the city, and they couldn't hold back the army led by Xu Huang. The fight lasted for a whole afternoon, and everyone was in danger.

The whole Lurong County was filled with the smell of blood. Even though many enemy soldiers knelt down and begged him for mercy, Liu Zheng's order to massacre still caused waves of riots here.

With an autumn rain in the evening, the complexion of Lurong County was washed, and the whole Lurong County seemed to be completely new.

In the evening, Liu Zheng placed the corpses of the soldiers of Lin Yiguo who had been beheaded in an orderly manner. After counting the number of people, he roughly understood the number of people.

"My lord, there are a total of 120 defenders. All of them were killed, and no one escaped. All the corpses are here, please have a look."

Several soldiers who were in charge of counting the corpses came over from the side and told Liu Zheng the number of corpses in the square.

Liu Zheng didn't even blink his eyes, and then said something directly.

"Find a carriage and transport these corpses to Linyi Country, and place them all outside the city for the people of Linyi Country to see."

As soon as Liu Zheng spoke, the soldiers immediately agreed.

"Yes!"

When Xu Huang heard Liu Zheng's words, he was also a little surprised, but he didn't say much. Wenpin, who had just stopped to rest, was a little surprised when he heard Liu Zheng's words, and hurriedly followed behind Liu Zheng. Ask Liu Zheng why he did this thankless thing.

"My lord, why bother to transport these corpses to the enemy's city?"

Seeing Wenpin's curious questioning, Liu Zheng did not refuse to answer for the reason of teaching Wenpin, but immediately spoke to Wenpin.

"The reason why I took such pains to send these corpses back is that there are actually many benefits, and it's not that it's not thankless."

"First of all, now Linyi Kingdom is afraid that the citizens will not know that we are coming. Sending these corpses back and placing them outside the city of Linyi Kingdom will definitely cause a sensation. The news will definitely spread more widely, which will cause panic. .”

After Liu Zheng said something, Wenpin nodded as if he understood immediately.

"Oh, I see, this is to make the enemy feel afraid."

"Well, smart, it's not enough to make them feel scared, but also tell them that we will kill them soon, and that the prince Fan Yi has already fled back, and he will have even greater fear of us, understand our intention Terrific, either stay behind closed doors, or directly lead people away."

"Whether it's staying behind closed doors or taking people away, it's good for us."

"Without staying behind closed doors, the battle turned into a tug-of-war, which gave us enough time to gather soldiers and horses. If we procrastinate, Lin Yiguo is a small land, and there are not many soldiers and horses at all. Sooner or later, we will be dragged down."

"Leading people away, although you can hide for a while, it is impossible to avoid us all the time. We will capture the city of Linyi country step by step, and finally wipe out Linyi country. They are also a dead end."

Liu Zheng expressed his thoughts and consequences of doing so.

Wenpin immediately slapped his head when he heard this statement.

"Wonderful, the lord is worthy of being the lord, the strategy he came up with is really powerful, it really makes the five bodies fall in admiration!"

Wenpin's compliment immediately made Liu Zheng smile lightly, and then patted Wenpin on the forehead.

"Okay, stop flattering, pay attention to the injury on your chest, it hasn't fully healed yet, pay attention to rest these two days."

Liu Zheng gave Wenpin an order, and then waited.

Waiting for the heavy rain to stop, waiting for his army to reach Lin Yiguo.

The war against Lin Yiguo will soon begin.

Another day.

After a whole night of rain, it finally stopped, and everything was refreshed by last night's rain.

Chapter 282 Returning the corpse, shocking people's hearts

Xianglin City.

Because of the taboo, it was renamed Linyi City 50 years ago.

Decades ago, it was the Han court, the Jiaozhou area, and the southernmost city in Rinan County.

Although it is only a small county, because it is located in the sphere of influence of the Cham people, there are mixed fish and dragons here. Except for a small number of Han Chinese, a large part of them are local residents, and there are also a mix of local Cham people living nearby.

A son of a meritorious man named Qu Lian, taking advantage of the internal and external troubles of the Han court, launched an uprising, captured counties and counties, and announced that he would separate from the Han and form his own country.

After Fan Yan, the governor of Jiaozhou at that time, got the news, he immediately organized the county soldiers of Jiaozhi and Jiuzhen, and a total of more than [-] people went to rescue him.

However, the soldiers and horses in these two places were afraid of the remoteness of Rinan County and were reluctant to go there. Not long after, there was a mutiny in the two counties.

Over time, Xianglin County became stronger and stronger, and the uprising soldiers and horses changed from thousands of people at the beginning to tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Later, even if the governor of Jiaozhou wanted to recover the lost land, he was powerless, and could only watch Xianglin County leave Rinan County.

In the following decades, the governor of Jiaozhou changed one after another. This problem has always existed. Jiaozhou is a place where many ethnic groups live together, and it has become difficult to ease the relationship between different ethnic groups.

And where is there any chance to deploy more manpower to deal with the remote Linyi country?

And Lin Yiguo is also very honest. Although he has become independent, he hardly offends the Han court. Instead, he has been annexing the territory of the surrounding Zhan people and gradually developing to the south.

Now it has expanded its territory to the southward coastal areas. After gaining sufficient strength, the king of Linyi Kingdom finally became more and more ambitious.

Finally, they waited for an opportunity. A few months ago, they learned from the businessmen in the two places that Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, was fighting with a group of bandits and was losing ground. The soldiers and horses of the counties and counties are recruiting again, which has already aroused complaints from the entire Jiaozhou.

Many people were dissatisfied with the governor of the state, and some people even started to organize resistance in private.

The king of Linyi Kingdom felt that this was an opportunity, and he organized [-] soldiers and horses as quickly as possible.

The [-] soldiers and horses are already the entire force of the Linyi Kingdom. Although the current Linyi Kingdom has hundreds of thousands of citizens, these citizens are scattered all over the country, and it is not easy to gather them all.

In addition to a part of the standing army, many of the 3 people are soldiers they recruited from various places.

They plan to use these 3 people to launch an attack on Jiaozhou and capture Rinan County, which is the closest to Linyi Kingdom, so that their Linyi Kingdom's territory can be expanded a lot.

If there is a chance, Jiuzhen County will also be occupied, and the territory of Linyi Kingdom will be expanded by a whole circle, and the annexation of the entire Jiaozhou is just around the corner.

Just after they took down Rinan County with lightning speed, the king of Linyi Kingdom naively thought that this was an opportunity for them to rise to the rise of Linyi Kingdom. According to this speed, they could take down the entire Jiaozhou in less than half a year.

Learning from Zhao Tuo, the emperor of South Vietnam a hundred years ago, he occupied the entire Jiaozhou and fought against the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.

But when a [-]-strong army appeared and defeated Lin Yiguo's [-]-strong army with miraculous speed, Fan Yi, the prince of Linyi Kingdom, woke up from his beautiful fantasy.

Two days ago, Fan Yi fled back to Xianglin City from the front line exhausted.

As the prince, when he fled back to Xianglin City in a hurry, he had already attracted the attention of many people, and the whole city was under martial law.

King Fan Xiong was even more shocked when he heard that the [-] army led by his son had been defeated. While scolding his son for being useless, he urgently recruited nearby soldiers and horses.

Because his son brought him news that the Han court was ready to attack them, and soldiers and horses came straight to Xianglin City.

Fan Xiong didn't sleep well all night, and was in a state of nervous worry.

He is clear about the strength of the Han court. Although Lin Yiguo is much stronger than it was decades ago, if the Han court really wants to deal with them, it will just be a wave of the hand.

So Fan Xiong is thinking about how to face it.

At this time, Fan Xiong sat on the throne blankly, thinking whether he would take the initiative to show weakness, or put on a tough attitude.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong!"

Outside the palace, a little eunuch hurried in.

Fan Xiong, who was in deep thought, was interrupted by this cry, and immediately blurted out in surprise.

"Could it be that the officers and soldiers of those big men came over?"

The little eunuch was taken aback by Fan Xiong's questioning, but continued immediately.

"No, Your Majesty, something serious has happened, and there are many corpses outside the city!"

"What corpse?"

"You'll know when you go and have a look."

The little eunuch didn't dare to say more, but led Fan Xiong from the palace to the tower of Xianglin City.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the first batch of soldiers on duty appeared on the city tower. They had already discovered a large number of corpses that were placed outside the city last night.

The corpses were randomly placed outside the city, in piles of three or five, large and small, which looked extremely cruel.

Those stumps and broken arms were scattered nearby, and the stench was transmitted to the whole Xianglin City.

Although a large number of corpses appeared outside the city, at this time, the gate of Xianglin City was still not opened, and the people in the city did not send people out of the city to clean it up.

Because the generals in charge of defending the city already knew that a group of people would attack here, and they were afraid that this was the trajectory of the enemy.

When the king Fan Xiong led the prince Fan Yi and other people to appear here, more and more people knew about it.

"what happened?"

Fan Xiong stood on the tower with a gloomy expression, and glanced out of the city. After looking at the corpses all over the ground, Fan Xiong felt a shuddering look in his heart.

The general on duty stepped forward immediately.

"Returning to Your Majesty, it rained heavily last night. The person on duty did not stand guard in the rain, but hid in the pavilion. When we got up in the morning, there were so many corpses here."

"Who did it? Who are these corpses? Where did they come from?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, according to our observations, these people may have been stationed in Lurong County with the prince on the expedition before, and they were dumped here for some reason."

One of them recognized the corpses on the ground, and when he said a word, the expressions of all the people present changed suddenly.

Chapter 283 Elephant Forest City

"This, who did this!"