Han Xiang

Chapter 624: Cut into pieces and feed to wild dogs

Cheng Yu didn't know how powerful the engineers were, and when he was stunned, there was also a problem at the front.

The 3000 people behind Cao Xing were not ordinary soldiers, but the main force of the Tiger Guard.

Xu Chu was afraid of scaring Cheng Yu away, so he hid in the crowd before the battle.

During the war, he leaped forward with his sword in hand and led the Tiger Guard brothers to kill people and seize horses.

Almost every sword kills one, and the combat effectiveness is so strong that Cao Jun was shocked.

how can that be?

Cheng Yu finally understood why Zhang Liao was defeated and why Xiahou Dun was blind. Long Xiang's army was indeed formidable, so he immediately ordered the withdrawal.

"Retreat quickly, retreat quickly, and return to Linying."

It is easy to call for retreat, but difficult to move.

There is Long Xiang on the left, Taishi Ci on the right, and Xu Chu is behind to cover up and kill.

The three giants were powerfully encircling them. The army of ten thousand people advanced and then retreated. If they wanted to escape, they had to run as fast as they could. After turning around, the formation was in chaos.

At this time, Cheng Yu was even more embarrassed than defending Yanzhou. He wanted to kill the general and establish his power to restrain everyone to maintain their formation, but his desire for survival was uncontrollable.

The sound of fighting and shouting was deafening, and there was no way to control the situation.

Seeing that the situation was dead, Cheng Yu could only go with the tide and rush to Linying. He hoped to hold on to the city like Yanzhou and then move reinforcements to Cao Cao.

Fortunately among the misfortunes, the battlefield of Tongshui was only thirty miles away from Linying, and he could escape in a few hours.

But even so, Cheng Yu paid a huge price, losing three thousand of his men during the escape, and Long Xiang followed closely and surrounded Linying City.

By personally confronting Long Xiang, Cheng Yu confirmed that the opponent was capable of planning and using troops, and Xu Du's situation should be worse than imagined.

Therefore, after Cheng Yu entered the city, he immediately selected dead soldiers to break out of the city, intending to send all the information captured during this period to the Jingzhou front line to report to Cao Cao.

Unfortunately, Longxiang was monitored by a telescope. No matter whether he chose to break out during the day or at night, he would eventually be killed or captured, and sent to the city to show off his power to Cheng Yuyao.

Long Xiang deliberately lured Cao Cao back to help. The dead soldiers he captured who broke out of the siege were deliberately shown to Cheng Yu. After the show, he would find a way to let some go. This was to put pressure on the Linying defenders and let the people in the city Feeling hopeless and panicked.

Two days later, Long Xiang repeated his old tricks and sent craftsmen to work again to seal Linying City Gate.

Cheng Yu stood on the city and watched, knowing clearly what the other party was doing, but he was powerless and unable to stop it.

The majestic general of Cao Ying, Cheng Yu's mood at that time was like that of Jiu Kuang Meiji waiting in bed, but even taking the blue pills didn't work, so his words were still immortal, so he could only let Huang Mao enter the master bedroom.

The humiliation was inevitable, but Cheng Yu did not forget to speak harsh words to stabilize the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city.

"Long Xiang, you don't have to be proud. Even if you close the door, what can you do to me? When the Prime Minister's army comes back to help, you will die without a burial place."

"I will die without a burial place? Hahaha"

Long Xiang couldn't help laughing loudly, and retorted to the city: "When I seal off all the cities in the Central Plains and cut off Cao Cao's food supply, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Jingzhou will be polite if they don't mutiny. Your Excellency, instead of Long, If you're worried, why not think about yourself first, your situation is not good."

Seal all the cities in the Central Plains?Cheng Yu's originally peaceful heart suddenly panicked.

The craftsmen under the city were so skilled in laying stones. If Long Xiang was given enough time to cause trouble, he might be able to seal off the city in the Central Plains.

The most hateful thing was Long Xiang's siege soldiers. No matter how Cheng Yu sent dead soldiers to break through the siege to deliver messages, many of them were captured by the opponent.

Could it be that Long Xiang has opened his eyes?
The waves in his heart were already three feet high, but Cheng Yu couldn't be moved in order to stabilize the morale of the army. He pretended to be calm and responded.

"Don't try to shake the morale of our army. Linying City has enough food and grass. There is no problem in defending it for a year and a half. Cao Xingyuan beside you was under Lu Bu's command. You can ask me, Cheng Yu, if I, Cheng Yu, would be intimidated by the sneak attack on Yanzhou back then."

"Oh, it's okay that you didn't mention Yanzhou. Now that you have taken the initiative to mention it, have you forgotten what happened back then?"

Long Xiang stopped and smiled ghostly in the middle of his words, and then asked meaningfully: "How many of our fellow countrymen's meat did we eat back then?" "Long Yunqi, you bastard!"

Cheng Yu was so angry that he stopped Long Xiang. That incident was a nightmare he had hidden in his heart. Although he helped Cao Cao win the war, he was stigmatized because of it.

Seeing that Cheng Yu was angry, Long Xiang thought that it would be easy to deal with the old guy if he had weaknesses, so he smiled evilly and began to persuade him to surrender.

"If I spread the word about the general's great achievements to Linying through various means, how should you respond? Why don't you sacrifice the city and surrender to the light, help Long capture Xudu and rescue the emperor, and then there will be a happy ending."

"Want to threaten me? You despicable rebel, who do you think Cheng Yu is?"

"Who do you think you are?"

Seeing that Cheng Yu was not getting enough, Long Xiang spread his hands and retorted contemptuously: "He is nothing more than a man-eating beast. Now that he is a turtle in a urn, you dare to be so presumptuous in front of me?"

"you"

Cheng Yu was hit so hard that his beard flew away, he held his chest with one hand and gasped for breath.

Long Xiang glanced at the city with disdain, turned around and confessed loudly to Tai Shici.

"Ziyi, since Cheng Yu doesn't understand current affairs, then help him publicize it well. This guy even eats the meat of his fellow villagers in Yanzhou. In his eyes, the soldiers and civilians of Linying are even more careless. If the day of food shortage really comes in the city, he doesn't know what to do. How many living people have you eaten? What a sin."

"Long Xiang, you are shameless."

Before Taishi Ci could respond, Cheng Yu, who was emotionally broken, scolded him first, but Long Xiang ignored him at all and turned around and left the city gate.

First they defeated Xiahou Dun, then Cheng Yu, and then sealed the gates and blocked the roads and grain routes.

Long Xiang had already made a lot of moves in the Central Plains. He believed that Cao Cao would return in person if he knew the details. At this time, the entire army could not stop at Linying, and they had to guard against the garrison in Xudu jumping over the wall.

If tens of thousands of garrison troops climb over the wall, Hao Meng's battalion of soldiers and horses will not be able to stop them.

Long Xiang had to focus on Xudu, after all, that was where Cao Cao's central vein was.

As for the threat to Cheng Yu just now, saying that all the cities in the Central Plains would be sealed off, it was an exaggeration to scare the other party.

There is not much cement brought from Huainan, and at most one or two small towns will be blocked. The accompanying cargo ships must be prepared to evacuate and cannot easily return to Huainan to restock.

In addition, no matter whether it is quarrying or masonry, every process is heavy physical work. The continuous load exerted by the craftsmen during this period is too heavy, and continuing to close the city is meaningless for the overall strategy.

After Linying was sealed off, Long Xiang left Taishi Ci with [-] troops and ordered him to station outside the city to guard Cheng Yu. He also ordered him to loudly preach to the defenders every day and torture Cheng Yu mentally.

Long Xiang took the rest of his troops to seal the city and return to Xudu, and made arrangements for the retreat in advance.

If hundreds of thousands of Cao's soldiers return to the Central Plains, Long Xiang's few soldiers will not be enough to fill the gap between his teeth. He should consider retreating as soon as possible to avoid chaos.

Long Xiang's move was too harsh. Thousands of people shouted at the defenders. Cheng Yu couldn't stop the sound from reaching his ears. The people on the street immediately closed their doors and the new recruits in the army looked at him strangely.

Outside the city, Taishi Ci was watching him with eager eyes, while Cheng Yu stayed in Linying and lived like a year. The most hateful news could not come in or get out.

Even so desperate, Cheng Yu still insisted on sending dead soldiers to break out and deliver the message.

Taishi Ci followed Long Xiang's example of first arresting and then releasing. He knew that the more panic Cheng Yu showed, the easier it would be for Cao Cao to withdraw from Jingzhou.

Cheng Yu was trapped in Linying and isolated from the outside world. At night, he often dreamed of his fellow villagers who were made into dried meat. The more nightmares he had, the more his mental state became worse. He often appeared in front of people with bloodshot eyes, which made others afraid.

One day in April, Linying had enough food.

Cheng Yu was killed in his sleep, and his body was said to have been cut into thousands of pieces and fed to wild dogs and other animals in the city.

The Linying County magistrate investigated the murder case for a long time, but could not find the murderer until Cao Cao's squad passed by, and finally let it go.

(End of this chapter)