Chapter one hundred and forty first befriend
Wancheng was defended, and the Zhou family was forced to Shucheng to struggle to death. There were other major events in the world. For example, Zhou Yu was in Jiangxia, and Liu Biao from Jingzhou was left by Sun Ce. He increased his troops to Jiangxia. Although Zhou Yu had few soldiers, he also fought with great success.
This is the second time after Liu Da'er in Xuzhou lost Xuzhou last time. Lao Cao played really well this time, and all the elites were produced, even the reorganized tiger and leopard cavalry. Liu Bei could not defend it at all. Although he had tens of thousands of soldiers under him, most of them were Qingzhou soldiers. He had no sense of belonging to Liu Bei, so he naturally would not work too hard when fighting. Liu Bei retreated step by step and ended up being forced to force him to have no choice. Liu Bei brought the people of Xia Pi and Pengcheng to block Cao Cao's journey by taking the people out of Cao Cao's way.
Lao Cao didn't want to let Xuzhou get rid of the loss by pinching his nose. Liu Bei also took the opportunity to leave Xuzhou with thousands of elite soldiers and defected to Runan, Yuzhou.
Yuan Shao's attitude towards Cao Cao became more and more aggressive. Now he wanted Cao Cao to tie himself up and offer himself to Emperor Han, and retreat from the Sikong position to surrender with all the civil and military officials of the court. Lao Cao's original attitude of retreating in Xuzhou became tough. The two princes on both sides of the Yellow River were about to go to war.
Such a big news in Wancheng cannot be concealed by the people of the world.
The 32 gentry families in Wancheng participated in this rebellion, and Liu Mang killed 32 families, not only the entire family of those gentry, but also the people under the rule of those manors, as long as they became private soldiers of the gentry, they all killed them.
There were less than 30,000 households in Wancheng, and 5,000 households were killed and injured by the rioters. Liu Mang's cleaning this time directly killed more than 10,000 households. As long as the elderly, weak, women and children had participated, no grass was left to live.
The moats in Wancheng were stained with blood.
"Murderer King Shu?!" Cao Cao, who had returned to Xudu, looked at the case and couldn't believe it. Xuzhou had been killed.
The King of Shu was the King of Shu named Liu Mang? Isn’t that a weak scholar? Cao Cao still remembered his conversation with this weak scholar outside Kaiyang City. Although it was angering, he was just a figure like a strategist, and a weak young man. His King of Shu was a title he gave to him for disgust. Now, on this document, the one who was killed by this King of Shu was more than 10,000 families, and more than 40,000 people. He waved his hand and his head fell to the ground.
Cao Cao thought he did not dare to kill anyone, either.
Why Cao Cao was considered a butcher is because Cao Cao took care of the three small cities in Xuzhou, Juling and Xiaqiu, and only burned and killed and looted them. He just wanted to scare Lao Tao. These three cities were also small cities. The total households were only 3,000, and even so, Lao Cao was regarded as a butcher and a traitor. Liu Mang killed not only tens of thousands of households this time, but also mixed with thirty-two gentry families.
What a big deal, it is indeed Wancheng! It shouldn't be said that there are only a few families left in the entire Lujiang River. The Liu family, Liu, Han, and Xu family, also have two families with Jiashishi, and the others were all uprooted, leaving no one left behind.
"That Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang!" Guo Jia still remembered Liu Mang. This was the third time that Guo Jia had heard Cao Cao mention this person. The city of Kaiyang was a person who made Lao Cao so angry that he was furious. He thought that His Highness of Shu was just a conspiracy and verbal person, but he did not find out that he was still a decisive person.
"Puchi Puchi!" Guo Jia seemed to be looking down on His Highness, the King of Shu, killing tens of thousands of households, tens of thousands of people, and killing them in one breath. These tens of thousands of people are not tens of thousands of pigs. How many floors can the heads add up to?
Some time ago, Guo Jia guessed that there would be major changes in the Wancheng gentry after Lu Bu killed the Chen family, but he didn't expect it to be so big! What's even more shocking now is the revenge of His Highness of the King of Shu, who directly uprooted the roots and kept no matter how much.
This requires great courage to be able to make up this cruelty. On the surface, it is because His Highness the King of Shu is going to offend the Jiangdong gentry. But from another perspective, His Highness the King of Shu also has a bigger plan.
Anyway, the Jiangdong gentry and the Lu Bu army were not in harmony. Instead of being prepared everywhere, it would be better to uproot and kill one cleanly, so that it would be a killing chicken to warn the monkeys. And have you noticed it? Liu Mang did not touch the gentry who did not rebel, especially the Liu family, the first-class family in Wancheng, which still existed in killing those gentry and acted as the vanguard army. Isn’t this a sign of movable characters for Lu Bu army! Tell those gentry that those who follow me will prosper and rebel against me will perish.
In this way, those gentry who want to go against Lu Bu's army or want to help Sun Ce's army must think carefully about whether they dare to make this bet. If they win the bet, they will naturally be promoted and wealthy. If they lose the bet, they will be destroyed and left without leaving any grass. This can scare a large number of people.
"This little overlord in Jiangdong has something to do!" Guo Jia has always confirmed that Cao was Liu Da'er and the other was this little overlord in Jiangdong. Even Sun Ce's threat was above Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was indeed a restless master. He rebelled and robbed Xuzhou as soon as he gained Cao Cao's trust. Now that he has been beaten out, he will not be a big problem within at least ten years.
As for this second enemy, Sun Ce, who had occupied Lujiang and stationed troops, Guo Jia could see that he had a great ambition and might be Cao Cao's biggest enemy. Guo Jia even thought of many strategies to deal with Sun Ce, but now it seems that it is not necessary.
The way to deal with a beast is to use another beast to compete with him for hegemony, and Lu Bu is just a dragon crossing the river. Sun Ce's tiger's ambitions can only be realized after dealing with Lu Bu.
This period of time is enough for the general trend of the world to change.
Jingzhou Xiangyang
"Good thing, good thing! Hahaha!" Cai Mao and Zhang Yun looked at the desk and laughed at the middle-aged man in the main position and bowed to the middle-aged man in the main position, "Lord's happy event!"
"Hmph! He Xizhi," a middle-aged general next to him was very disdainful. "Lu Bu is the enemy of our army, and so is Sun Ce. No matter who wins or loses, it is not a blessing for me in Jingzhou. How can one wolf and one tiger be together?
"General Huang doesn't have to be angry, please listen to Mao slowly say it!" This middle-aged general lost most of Huang Zu of Jiangxia. Huang Zu killed Sun Ce's son Sun Jian and the Sun family's hatred were irreconcilable, and it was impossible to resolve it. Lu Bu's army even made him lose half of Jiangxia's culprit. His precious son Huang She was even more in the hands of Lu Bu's army. Only when Huang Zu had a good impression of the price of food would he have a ghost.
Cai Mao was not angry, actually, Jiang Xia's gains and losses were in charge of him. Jiang Xia was the territory of the Huang family. The Cai family was the real first family in Xiangyang. He could also see that Liu Biao was not a wise master, but Liu Biao was still the master of Jingzhou after all, Cai Mao was waiting for the price to wait for the Central Plains to decide the outcome, so that he could pack the entire Jingzhou and send it out to give him the Cai family to promote him.
But now Sun Ce is aggressive and defeated half of Jiangxia. If Sun Ce beats Jiangxia and swallows Jingzhou, the Cai family will talk about promotion, and how can they talk about adding officials and becoming a family for generations! Jiangxia of the Huang family is just a tortoise shell in Jingzhou, in order to block the little overlord of Jiangdong.
"General Huang Zu, the Lu Bu army has killed so many gentry members now, which can be said to have lost the hearts of the Jiangdong gentry! Without the support of the gentry, no matter how powerful the princes are, they are just boundless roots. Moreover, Lu Bu has completely offended Sun Ce and Sun Ce, it is impossible for him to be harmonious anymore. The enemy's enemy is a friend!" Cai Mao said with a sigh.
"Hmph! Isn't this Lu Bu an enemy?" Huang Zu felt uncomfortable, and according to Cai Mao's words, he wanted to form an alliance with Lu Bu's army.
"General Huang Zu is not impatient!" If the Huang family had not used it, Cai Mao would have kicked the Huang family out, but now it is still very favorable to Huang Zu.
"It is not scary to offend the Jiangdong gentry. What you are afraid of is offending the gentry in the world! If the Jiangdong gentry jointly came up to inform the world that Lu Bu was a butcher and a great enemy of the aristocratic family, what would you do if Lu Bu's army would be like!"
What will happen? Huang Zu is not a fool. He understood as soon as he thought about it. The world is still the world of the gentry. The most lacking thing in the world is the foolish people. If it is promoted by the Jiangdong gentry, the whole world from the gentry to the foolish people below would think that the Lu Bu army was completely a group of robbers and butchers. What they brought was only disaster, only burning, killing, looting, and thus the reputation of the Lu Bu army would be destroyed.
Not to mention that those military generals and scholars would not surrender to them, and even the people would not join such an army. The people of the Lu Bu army themselves wanted to save them! The Lu Bu army conquered the cities and bounded the land, and the people and gentry of those cities would unite together to prevent the Lu Bu army from coming in. They were afraid of this butcher.
If there is no new troops or those who govern the territory, the last thing that will be left for Lu Bu's army is to perish.
"You are thinking?!" Huang Zu seemed to have thought of something.
"That's right! The major families in Jingzhou have joined forces to not only help Lu Bu's army beautify it, but also to help him clear his name, and to all the 32 families killed by Lu Bu's army in the name of rebellion, and tell the gentry in the world that Lu Bu is just cleaning up those rebellious! It was those gentry who committed rebellion, and Lu Bu's army had no choice but to fight back." Cai Mao said his thoughts.
"What are the benefits of doing this!" Liu Biao spoke. He was the master of Jingzhou, he was also a relative of the Han Dynasty, and one of the largest families. If he spoke to restore the reputation of Lu Bujun, then that appeal would be terrible.
"Lord! This way we can make friends with Lu Bujun!"
"Friend Lu Bujun together? Do you want to form an alliance with them? You are crazy. He is our enemy. He just captured our Huangzhou and caught Huang Sho!" Huang Zu questioned.
"General Huang, I didn't say that I was an alliance with Lu Bu's army!" Cai Mao said with a smile, "We only need a statement, don't just talk, but let Lu Bu's army thank us!"
"What's the use of him thanking us! Do you expect the enemy to thank us and will hold back on the battlefield?" Huang Zu sarcastically.
"If it's useful, it may not be able to hold back, but at least the chance of Huang Shooting Master is back! And if you have a far-reaching and near attack, the stronger the Lu Bu's army, the more he can hold Sun Ce! We can treat this Wen Hou as a Zhang Xiu of Wancheng. In this way, we not only have a gatekeeper dog in the northern gate, but also one in the east gate!"
The stronger Lu Bu is, the more he can hold Sun Ce. If Sun Ce is held back, Jiangxia will be worry-free, and they will have enough time to wait for the emergence of the Central Plains overlord.
Chapter completed!