"Report to the lord, I'll send a letter from the front line of Yuzhou!" Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe came to Liu Mang's mansion and sent a letter that he had just obtained.

"Take it!" Although Liu Mang stayed in Jingzhou these days, he was also worried about the battle situation in Yuzhou. Whether Yuzhou could be taken down was related to whether Liu Mang could return to Yangzhou. Taking down Yuzhou, and with half of Xuzhou slowly advancing under Chen Deng's command, it can be said that Liu Mang's land is also two and a half states, and he can be regarded as the overlord of the Central Plains. In this way, he can develop stably and wait for Cao Cao from the north to move south.

And the generation south of the Central Plains formed a stable triangle, including Sun Ce from Jiangdong, Liu Biao from Jingzhou, and Liu Mang, the overlord of the Central Plains. At that time, as long as Liu Biao did not want to break the stable three-legged trend, he had to let Liu Mang go. Otherwise, once Yangzhou joins forces with Jiangdong, it would be difficult for him to keep Jingzhou, so Liu Mang was finally allowed to let Liu Mang go.

Thinking of taking Yuzhou, he was going back, Liu Mang's mood was particularly excited.

"The battle of Nandun has more than 14,000 casualties?" Liu Mang frowned and looked at the battle report. Ten thousand Yangzhou soldiers died in battle under the Nandun city wall, and dozens of soldiers from the city management army were inside.

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

Liu Mang continued to read. Although more than 14,000 Yangzhou troops fell on the battlefield, this battle also laid the foundation for the Yangzhou army to become an elite unit. The 50,000 Yangzhou troops were their predecessors. At first, their existence was just used as a second-line troops. Later, because the food and grass were solved, the reserves really began to become the main station troops. Although the hundreds of generals in it were commanded by people like the City Management Army who had experienced many battles and were already receiving military teachings.

But no matter what, the 50,000 Yangzhou Army is also a new recruit, so it is naturally difficult to compare the elites who have already become famous, such as the Qingzhou Army and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in Liu Bei's hands, but siege under the cover of the crossbows became the task of these new recruits.

More than 14,000 people were killed or injured, more than 11,000 people died, and the remaining more than 2,000 were seriously injured. It is basically impossible to return to the battlefield.

"Give Shouchun a letter, burn the names of more than 10,000 soldiers who died in battle on the Hall of Heroes, and properly place these more than 2,000 seriously injured brothers, and no one of them is missing for fertile land and silver rewards." Liu Mang said to Jia Xu below.

"Yes!" Jia Xu nodded. He looked at Liu Mang. Jia Xu had different opinions on such a soldier who was killed in battle and seriously injured. In Jia Xu's opinion, the most valuable person in this troubled world is probably human life. Isn't the soldiers just to make a living? Jia Xu died in battle. Because these killed in battle just carve names on the Hall of Heroes, but in this era, these seriously injured soldiers generally sent them to make them die more comfortable. Those with some conscience were just to let them die themselves, because once they were seriously injured, they would not only be unable to fight, but also to hold back.

Because a person is seriously injured, you must at least send someone to take care of them, and also use medicine. Moreover, these seriously injured soldiers and horses, the wailing voices, will affect the morale of the army, which is completely a drag. Even if the war is won, they will still be responsible for their future lives. These two battles are fine. There are more wars. There are now no less than 10,000 seriously injured people in Yangzhou, all of whom have retreated from the war. They are either missing or have few legs. Some even have no arms and legs, and only their bodies are left. This is a complete burden for Yangzhou.

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

Jia Xu could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Fortunately, Liu Mang did this, the soldiers of the Yangzhou Army were basically few of them afraid of death. Because you were disabled and Yangzhou raised you, you died in battle. Not only did you have a pension to your family, but you also had a fertile land and tax reduction policy, but you even had a name engraved on the Shouchun Hero Hall to let the people worship you. So this Yangzhou Army can be regarded as the least fearful force.

Although there were 14,000 casualties, the remaining 36,000 people were already considered elite. They were no longer recruits, but also commanders of the soldiers of the city management army. The combat power of these 36,000 people was really not small.

"Nandun City has been taken down!" Liu Mang said to Jia Xu on the side after reading it.

"Now there is only Dingcheng left. If you take down Dingcheng, you can finally gather in Runan. The world will be determined by a battle." Nandun and Dingcheng are like two acropolis. It is difficult to defeat Runan if you don't take him. If you take down him, Liu Bei either abandons Yuzhou and leaves, or he can only survive and die with Runan because he has no way out.

Nandun City was taken down, and the nail was pulled out, but there was no joy on Liu Mang's face. "Lord, you?" Jia Xu was a little confused. Could it be that a general died in battle? Or?

"Diet in battle? No!" Liu Mang explained that only Zhang Liao was injured in the battle report, but he was still a minor injury because he was so tired that he was a little exhausted after taking down Nandun City. He just needed some rest.

The reason why Liu Mang was unhappy was that the war report also stated that Nandun City had 120,000 people, more than 80,000 casualties, and less than 30,000 remaining in the city.

A huge city is so dilapidated, and the entire Nandun City is full of corpses. If these were foreigners, Liu Mang would not be sad, but these are all Han people and living people.

Liu Mang really felt heartbroken because it was the order issued by Liu Mang to break through Nandun City.

Liu Mang's eyes closed, and after a while, he reacted. He opened his eyes and his eyes were full of murderous intent. "Liu Bei and Liu Xuande are named the Han Dynasty emperor, but they are actually Han thieves."

Liu Mang was even more angry at Liu Bei's family than Cao Cao and Sun Ce, because this person was benevolent and righteous, because of his false benevolence and righteousness. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, if Liu Bei had not been the messenger, Cao Cao would have unified the world in his lifetime, and would have been killed for so many years in the end, such as the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty.

Cao Cao had already unified the world, and the people of this world would have been in vain. Finally, the Five Barbarians invaded China.

It doesn't matter if you have ambitions. Liu Mang came to this era and saw many ambitions. If you have the ability, you should use your army and your generals and advisers to seize the world. However, Liu Bei was different. He took the people and bewitched the people, and let innocent people die for him. In the Battle of Xuzhou, Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao. In order to make himself retreat successfully, he actually used false benevolence and righteousness to say that Cao Cao would massacre the city, kill the entire Xuzhou people, and let countless Xuzhou people follow him to escape.

In name, he is for the good of the people, but in fact he wants to use large-scale people to hide his main force's retreat. Cao Cao is not a fool, he is also a hero. How could he massacre the people in Xuzhou, which he has already taken down? The war not only feeds food and grass but also population.

It was precisely because of those people that Cao Cao had no choice but to annihilate Liu Bei. Liu Bei escaped, but he knew that there were so many people in Xuzhou who left their hometowns along the way, starved to death and froze to death on the road.

That's not all. Now it's even more said that Liu Mang will massacre the city, bewitching people's hearts, and let the people of Nandunding City go up to the city wall to fight with the Yangzhou army for his ambitions.

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

"Transfer our military orders and take Yuzhou, Liu Bei should not be kept. Kill him immediately!" Liu Mang had never had such a murderous intent to a person. Before attacking Yuzhou, someone from Xudu sent a secret letter, which was the puppet Han Emperor in Xudu. Originally, Liu Mang gave face to this Han Emperor, because he approved Liu Mang's letters several times.

The letter sent by Emperor Han was to let Liu Mang take over Yuzhou and circumvent Liu Bei's life, after all, everyone was a relative of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Mang had the intention of silhouette at the beginning, so he just took Liu Bei under Yuzhou for house arrest. Liu Mang was still thinking about the two generals Zhang Fei and Guan Yu under Liu Bei's command, especially Zhang Fei, who is now a god-refining warrior.

However, because of Nandun’s battle report, Liu Mang completely lost the idea of ​​leaving Liu Bei’s life.

Even if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were killed, Liu Bei could not stay. (To be continued...)
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