Chapter 658 Burning Xuchang
Lin Tian stood on the platform and looked at the neat and square formations walking downwards, and his heart was calm.
With the support of talents from the entire Earth world, Lin Tian already knew the current situation.
This is a destiny, and Lin Tian has seen many scenes that are much bigger than this.
However, the people behind Lin Tian obviously did not think so. This was the first time they witnessed so many elite warriors appearing in the same place in a uniform manner.
Emperor Xian of Han was also infected by the aura of the military parade and involuntarily sang fierce military songs.
Some ministers cried silently, lamenting that the warriors were ruining the country, and lamenting that Lin Tian actually valued warriors so much for authority.
Although some scholars were excited about the warriors, they calmed down and couldn't bear to join the army. In addition, Lin Tian's law gave the family great power to control the channels for progress. They couldn't help but say a few words when they gathered in three or five, hoping that Lin Tian's army would be defeated.
After the military parade, three days later, 200,000 Han Imperial Guards appeared a hundred miles outside Xuchang City, shocking Cao Cao's army's court and country.
Cao Cao personally led 50,000 main forces to fight. The two sides fought several times in Xuchang, causing losses to each other.
Huang Zhong fell into Guo Jiazhi's plan and was trapped on the mountain, but Lin Tian soon discovered Huang Zhongkuan and sent Ma Chao to lead the Western Liang cavalry to attack the weakness of the encirclement troops.
Then Sima Yi also set up a pocket formation and captured the Xiahou brothers. Although Liu Bei and the three brothers helped to kill them, they also lost two thousand tiger and leopard cavalry, making it difficult for Cao Cao's army to support them and had to retreat to Xuchang.
Xuchang was besieged, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Liu Biao all hurriedly mobilized their troops to suppress Lin Tian's forces.
At the same time, the diplomats also quickly came to Luoyang to perform various methods to test Lin Tian's intentions.
Soon, the princes and diplomats in Luoyang discovered something wrong. When they found out, they were shocked. It turned out that Lin Tian’s slogans were all true, and they really planned to unify the entire Han Dynasty again!
Lin Tian wanted to be Emperor Guangwu reads; Tian Feng said to Yuan Shao like this, be sure to send troops to rescue Cao Cao!
Yuan Shao originally planned to let Lin Tian and Cao Cao both suffer. After all, Xuchang is a big city. With Cao Cao's efforts, he has built complete city defense facilities in the past six months, and his defense is no worse than that of Xiongguan Hulaoguan.
However, Yuan Shao did not expect that in just two days, he learned the news from the fast horse that Lin Tian's Han Imperial Guard had conquered the city for one day and one night, and captured Xuchang!
More than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in Xuchang City surrendered, Cao Cao's army lost no less than 50,000 combat soldiers, and countless generals died in battle!
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Xuchang City, the capital of Cao Cao's army, on the city wall where the day and night of fighting, the tired Cao Ren led more than a hundred last tiger infantry to defend the city wall.
Cao Ren looked at the large red-clothed army rushing forward again, and he smiled bitterly: "How could this happen? These red-clothed imperial guards are so capable, and they are not afraid of death."
"And when the other party comes like a tsunami, they are always elites who are raising their energy, but we are already a tired army." Beside Cao Ren, the general Le Jin also looked frosty.
"Be careful of concealment! Be careful to throw stones!"
After the Red Army entered the range of bows and arrows, Cao Ren screamed and hid in the battlements.
Cao Ren noticed the dust splashed from a ruin. There was also the Eight-Nuo Crossbow of Cao Cao's army a few hours ago, but now it is split with those crossbowmen.
"Boom boom!"
Le Jin listened to the sound and nodded slightly to Cao Ren. Then Cao Ren pulled out his sword and shouted: "The enemy is coming to the city! For the sake of the lord, kill me!"
On the city wall, the heavy soldiers of the Imperial Guards fought with Cao Renlejin and the Huben infantry.
The strength of the Huben Infantry Wheel is stronger than that of Lin Tian’s mass-produced infantry, but the Huben Infantry is also a human being. Even with the bonus of famous generals such as Cao Ren and Le Jin, they are tired and make mistakes.
And on the battlefield, mistakes mean death!
"Kill!" Cao Ren roared, and suddenly realized that his voice was hoarse.
He also saw the Royal Guard soldiers wearing red clothes and red cherry blossoms all around him, and most of his elite subordinates fell to the ground.
"Master..." Cao Ren shouted, and suddenly felt a loud scream appear, and then he heard a cheer.
"The city gate is open!"
The red iron stream broke out and rushed out of the door, rushing away the Cao Cao army who blocked the door.
On both sides of the iron stream, there were also the Western Liang Iron Cavalry and Bingzhou Iron Cavalry to assist. Some of the strong men of the Cao Cao army were hit and trampled to death by these Iron Cavalry.
"The situation is over!" Le Jin sighed and then turned around and walked down the city wall.
Cao Ren did not stop him, and smiled bitterly and raised his sword, facing the more than 200 imperial guards on the city wall alone.
A few minutes later, after Cao Ren killed 75 people, his right arm was cut off by a sword by the captain Chen Tai. Then he was stabbed by more than ten spears, leaving more than ten wounds, and he knelt on the city wall.
In Xuchang Mansion, Guo Jia appeared in it and attracted a large number of elite troops to siege. Lin Tian quickly ordered the withdrawal of famous generals, which failed to succeed in the fire attack plan of Guo Jia's mansion.
However, Guo Jia's plan to burn Xuchang was successful.
After Lin Tian’s army entered the city, fire broke out, burning Xuchang, blocking a large number of Cao Cao’s army in Xuchang City.
Lin Tian had to put out the fire with all his might and followed Sima Yi's advice to retreat Ma Chao and other troops to avoid being attacked by surprise.
The fire was finally extinguished in a heavy rain, and two-thirds of the buildings in Xuchang City turned into ruins, with no less than 300,000 casualties!
Showering in the cold rain, Lin Tian walked in the passage with smoke columns, shook his head gently, and stopped at the door of the ruins of Xuchang Mansion.
The former Cao Cao's residence has now turned into a wreckage, and only a few standing rockery buildings are still declaring to others how prosperous the place once was.
"Guo Jia is dead?" Lin Tian walked in and looked at Wei Yan who was directing the cleaning of the ruins.
After Wei Yan saluted Lin Tian, he quickly said: "Yes, Guo Jia is dead. He died of myocardial infarction. Perhaps he sucked too much smoke and dust, causing his serious illness reads;."
"Did you die after backlash? Humph, but you really deserve to be Guo Jia, Cao Cao's first adviser!" Lin Tian said coldly: "Using himself as bait and Xuchang as pie, I gave me 300,000 disabled people in one go. Are you planning to let them drag my plan down?"
"it's out of the question!"
Lin Tian shook his head. If he were just an ordinary time traveler, he might have been dragged down by 300,000 disabled prisoners and stopped in Xuchang. When he was able to collect the prisoners, he was afraid that Cao Cao would have joined Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao and Sun Quan long ago.
"Wei Yan." Lin Tiandao.
"I'm here!" Wei Yan replied with his fists.
"Leave ten thousand imperial guards to gather prisoners and appease the people." Lin Tian whispered: "The rest of the troops will gather in the camp outside the city. I will send troops to Xia Pi to snipe Yuan Shu!"
"As for order!" Wei Yan was slightly stunned and nodded immediately to agree.
It is not easy to count on more than 300,000 prisoners for ten thousand soldiers. How many of these prisoners and the people will be killed or injured during this period is a complete unknown, especially those who are burned. In this era, those who are not well-caught will usually die after a few days and nights of pain.
The army gathered for three hours, and then took another half an hour to eat the prepared military dry food together. Only Lin Tian led the army to the camp and marched towards Xia Pi.
At this moment, in Xiapi City, the three brothers Liu Bei were discussing countermeasures with Cao Cao. When they heard Lin Tian coming so quickly, they all wanted to retreat.
They already knew the power of Lin Tian’s Imperial Guards, and Xuchang City has proved that the strong city will be destroyed overnight in the face of the Imperial Guards. Although Xia Pi is also a solid city, Cao Cao and Liu Bei dare not defend it.
"How long will Yuan Shao arrive?" Liu Bei was anxious and saw Cao Cao's adviser Xi Zhicai coming and asked quickly.
Xi Zhicai's eyebrows twitched a few times, and he clasped his fists and smiled bitterly: "Yuan Shao sent troops, but he went to besiege Puyang."
"What? Besiege Puyang?" Liu Bei was shocked: "If he doesn't come to join forces with us, why should he fight Puyang!"
"Puyang City is richest in the world, but Yuan Shao urgently needs military expenditure." Xi Zhicai said: "And I am worried that they suspect that we deliberately gave up Xuchang."
"Oh, this Yuan Shao is not worthy of conspiracy!" Cao Cao sighed, turned around and walked around and said suspiciously: "Where is Yuan Shu?"
"Chen Lan, the general under Yuan Shu, was rushing to Xia Pi. As for Yuan Shu, with the reputation of the Yuan family, he summoned the support of the original gentry in Shouchun. He heard... maybe there could be 100,000 rebels."
"100,000 Rebels?" Xu Shu smiled bitterly: "How is it possible? As soon as the Nine-rank Zhongzheng Dharma was released, although the wealthy families of aristocratic families would not be moved, they would not fight against him to the death. Yuan Shu's performance these mediocre times, and it would be extremely difficult to get so much support!"
"So what should we do?" Liu Bei looked at Xu Shu. Guo Jia was dead. Now he is the most wise man worth looking forward to.
As for Xun of Cao Cao's army, he may be no less than Guo Jia, but Xun's Xun family has defected to Luoyang after all, and Xun is a staunch Han sect. Now that Lin Tian is getting stronger and stronger, Cao Cao and Liu Bei no longer trust this first-class civil servant.
Xun also discovered this, and he chose to remain silent and do things in a low-key manner, but he managed Cao Cao's army's logistics in an orderly manner.
"Retreat troops. Xia Pi cannot defend it. We... can only retreat to Jiangdong." Xu Shu sighed and expressed his thoughts.
"Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are not Lin Tian's opponents. In fact... after Xuchang was defeated, the whole north was Lin Tian's." Xu Shu said: "Guo Jia originally planned to use the plan to burn Xuchang to leave a chance for the lord, but Lin Tian's reaction obviously did not intend to leave a chance for the lord, so... we might as well save our strength and retreat to Jiangdong."
"Sun Quan from Jiangdong, will he accept us?"
"Yes." Xu Shu said affirmatively: "Sun Quan will not be unable to see the current situation. The north is unified, and the next goal is Liu Biao and Jingzhou and his Jiangdong."
"He can only unite us and resist Lin Tian's army together!"
"Well, that's it." Cao Cao gritted his teeth, his face full of confusion: "If... if... if Lin Tian was not the Regent but the General... For this great man... Maybe I, Lao Cao, would surrender! Alas!"
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