Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

There were many people living on the way to Shangcai.

An inconspicuous captain named Diannong listened to the various whispers of abuse directed at Cao Jun and carefully avoided the sewage flowing across the ground.

Holding the record tightly in his arms, he finally crossed the street. After checking the talisman with the gatekeeper, Shangcai Mansion was suddenly in front of him.

Go through the hall and find someone in the prefect's room, so wait for a while.

"Do you know something about Wu Bei?" This was a somewhat stiff voice.

The people in the room answered, followed by other questions, asking in detail about the patrol shifts of the soldiers, the hours of duty, the deployment of various troops in the city, and the preparation of the city's defense facilities, before giving up.

It was not until the discussion in the house was completed that the pianong officer bowed in.

"Prefect Cheng, this is the current inventory of food and grass in the city."

With a flick of his hand, the booklet was picked up. The pianongguan straightened up and saw a white-haired but still meticulous prefect.

"good."

The clear numbers clearly marked the amount of food and grass, which made Cheng Yu sigh in admiration.

After reading a bit, he looked up and saw that the pianong officer was still there. Cheng Yu suddenly frowned:

"Is something wrong?"

"Prefect Cheng, now that the war is coming, the people in the city are in poverty and have no food to eat..."

Cheng Yu looked slightly unhappy, shook his head and said:

"If you can still live, why not?"

The dianong official argued vigorously:

"If we can provide food to the people and select the strong ones to give them weapons, we will surely be able to fortify the city."

"Now that Shangcai has enough food to take care of himself, how can the prefect..."

Cheng Yu knocked on the table and said displeasedly:

"Since ancient times, the victory or defeat of defending a city has depended on permanence. How can there be any reason to waste food and grass lightly?"

"The people in the city are enough to survive until the future can be used for other purposes. Why should they climb the city and die in vain to serve as traitors?"

"If nothing happens, you can defend the city!"

Seeing the pianong official walking away in frustration, Cheng Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

The originally stalemate under Wuyin City was defeated by a group of barbarian soldiers. From then on, Cheng Yu smelled a bad smell.

Therefore, he fought against all opinions, destroyed Wu Fang and Gaoyang and retreated to Shangcai with all his strength, just for stability.

After all, Shangcai connects the north and south of Yuzhou. As long as Shangcai is not lost, the bandit army coming from Yiyang will not be able to go north unscrupulously.

There are two strong armies in the west of Yuzhou, Yu Jin and Xu Huang, and Xiahou Dun comes from Shouchun to help, and Duke Ming personally comes to the front line to live and die with the soldiers. Why can't he defeat Liu Bei?

As long as you don't lose the title, you can accomplish great things. Compared with this, personal reputation, honor and disgrace are not worth a cent!

Liu Beijun arrived faster than Cheng Yu expected. Only two days after he abandoned Aoyang, Liu Beijun appeared at the foot of Shangcai City.

Just looking at the tens of thousands of Han barbarians arrayed outside the city, Cheng Yu felt reassured.

Sun Tzu said, if it is ten, it is to surround it, if it is five, it is to attack it, and if it is twice as many, it is divided.

So what about the barbarians? Can they escape from the way of using troops as Sun Tzu said?

Zhang Nan and Feng Xi, who led the army here together with Meng Huo and Wang Ping, also thought so.

"General Wang, now that Cao's army is defending the city, how can we get through with a small number of soldiers? If we don't wait until General Guan completely defeats Runan's enemy army, we can be sure by ourselves if we wait ten times to encircle them."

Now the army led by the four men has been in a stalemate at the foot of Shangcai City for two days. However, Wang Ping had already gone to bed in the middle of the night, but Wang Ping was clamoring to attack the city. This made Zhang Nan and Feng Xi have no choice but to persuade him.

"If we can't defeat them by attacking on the ground, what about flying up there?"

Wang Ping's question made Zhang Nan and Feng Xi look at each other in confusion.

Meng Huo explained:

"When we and the barbarian army were in Yizhou, Duke Xuande once gave us the title of Wudang Flying Army."

Wang Ping’s statement is more direct:

"When I was fighting barbarians in Nanzhong, climbing over dangerous mountains and cliffs was just a matter of course. I can climb up this earthen city wall with my bare hands!"

This is not a lie. In order to ensure stability and ease of construction, rammed earth city walls in the Central Plains were mostly made of layers of rammed earth that were wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. Only large cities like Chang'an and Luoyang built their outer city walls as if they were steep cliffs that are difficult to climb.

But now that Meng Huo has expressed his stance, Zhang Nan and Feng Xi no longer have anything to say.

The two generals watched as Wang Ping ordered more than a hundred people with familiarity. Then the group of people took off their armor, leaving only the leather armor covering the vital parts of their bodies. They held the short knives in their mouths and walked into the darkness.

"General Meng, should we move to the city gate..."

Meng Huo shook his head:

"A big show of fanfare will alert Cao Cao's thieves, causing the soldiers to send orders to each other and sleep with their clothes on."

There is still a question mark as to whether Nanman's style of play can be used here, but with Wang Ping's courage, even if it doesn't work out, it shouldn't be a problem to escape in the middle of the night.

The waiting time became more and more unbearable, Zhang Nan and Feng Xi could not sit still, and even Meng Huo looked absent-minded.

There was only one bean lantern left in the tent. After Meng Huo counted the lantern and beat it nearly a thousand times, he heard a noise in Shangcai City from a distance.

"General..." The messenger rushed over. Before he could speak, Zhang Nan and Feng Xi, who were already waiting with fear, all jumped up:

"Order your troops and send out the army!"

Even if they were sleeping on their pillows, it still took a while to organize the troops and approach the foot of Shangcai City. Until the city gate was in sight, the noise in Shangcai City became more and more clear:

"Seize the door and seize the door!"

"Cao's army is defeated! Cao's army is defeated!"

"The governor has escaped! The governor has escaped! Why not surrender to the emperor?"

Zhang Nan was surprised and asked Meng Huo:

"General Wang actually captured the city with a hundred men?"

Meng Huo certainly didn't know, looking at the slowly opening city gate, he murmured:

"Or...something happened in the city that we don't know about..."

At this moment in the city, Wang Ping looked at the agricultural official in front of him and laughed:

"Brother Deng Fan, I will tell Brother Meng to write down clearly what happened tonight, don't worry, as long as it is your achievement, I will not embezzle a penny!"

Under the firelight, the agricultural official sighed:

"If it weren't for the general's merit and Liu Yuzhou's kindness, how could it be accomplished? Don't mention the talk of embezzlement again!"

Wang Ping laughed, then thrust his sword forward and killed.

In the government office, Cheng Yu frowned and listened to his subordinates' report.

Some barbarians sneaked into the city from outside, and then joined forces with the thieves in the city, setting fires everywhere in the city and creating chaos. Now the chaos is difficult to control.

Yes, in Cheng Yu's view, they are thieves.

Cao and Liu fought along the Jing-Yu line for nearly two years, and in the process, the bullshit benevolent words made up by Liu Xuande of Jingzhou inevitably spread here.

The people in the settlements were restless, and Cheng Yu believed that if he had not strictly controlled them, nine out of ten of them would have died long ago. Therefore, when he retreated to Shangcai, he simply did what he could and confiscated the remaining food of the bandits who entered the city to prevent them from causing trouble.

But now it seems that these measures seem to be taken advantage of by Liu Bei...

Sighing and sighing is not his style. After asking clearly whether the east of the city is still under control, Cheng Yu also decisively ordered:

"Organize the army, open the east gate and withdraw to Dingying and Zhaoling, and burn the remaining food and supplies, so as not to help the enemy."

After saying this, Cheng Taishou went out first, and after getting on the horse, he was protected by his personal army and went straight to the east gate.

The soldiers who were left behind to burn the city saw the governor's personal army walking away, so they simply threw two torches randomly and then scattered like birds and beasts.

After waiting for a while at the east gate, Cheng Yu snorted coldly, "traitors and thieves" when he saw no more soldiers coming out.

Although there were only a few thousand of the more than 20,000 people, there were many cities to the north that could be used to defend against thieves, and a few thousand people could also accomplish the task.

As the order was issued, the Cao army, whose faces were still full of panic, began to slowly turn north.

Unfortunately, after going out for a few miles, they saw a group of agile cavalry riding the moonlight and the firelight of Shangcai, galloping like the wind. The one in the lead was particularly dazzling with silver armor and a white horse, and what made Cheng Yu's eyes dark was the roaring voice:

"Zhao Zilong of Changshan is here, the thieves will surrender!"