newbobooks Chapter 897
Chapter 897
The captives were tied with ropes and driven to the outside of Luocheng's moat by Liu Bei's 7,000 soldiers.
Wu Lan and Lei Tong looked at the enemy troops outside the city with some suspicion.
"Why are they pushing the prisoners over here?"
Wu Lan asked somewhat puzzled.
"Who knows."
"I guess they want to threaten us to open the city."
Lei Tong frowned and said casually.
"Listen up, defenders in the city! Our army has arrived!"
"I'll give you two days to think it over. If you don't open the city gates within two days, I'll kill five hundred of your soldiers from Sichuan."
"I will kill you all until they are completely wiped out. If you still want to resist, I will treat you as a fight to the death. When the city is broken, no one will be left alive!"
Liu Bei pointed his sword at Luo City and shouted loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers under Liu Bei's command immediately kicked the captives over and made them kneel outside the city.
"call!"
Liu Jun's soldiers beat and scolded the prisoners, ordering them to speak.
"General, save us!"
"General, please let us in. I don't want to die here!"
"We are from Yizhou. Please open the city gate quickly, General!"
"General, our old mother is waiting for us to return home. Please have mercy on us, General! Please save us!"
The captives begged for mercy at the top of their lungs, their voices echoing over the moat.
Their eyes were filled with fear and despair, and they kowtowed continuously, with blood coming out of their foreheads.
Wu Lan and Lei Tong on the city wall frowned even more tightly as they heard the cries for mercy.
"Everyone says Liu Bei is kind and benevolent, so how could he be so vicious?"
Wu Lan frowned, clasped her hands against the wall and said angrily.
"As a result, the military's mentality changed..."
"What I'm most afraid of is the civilians... These are probably the Mianzhu defenders. If there are any of their families in the city, ah."
"What can we do?"
Lei Tong suppressed the reluctance in his heart and sighed with gritted teeth.
Seeing that there was no movement from the city, the captives' pleas for mercy became more miserable, and some even began to curse Wu Lan and Lei Tong for their cruelty.
Seeing this, some soldiers on the city wall lowered their heads one after another, and some even put down their weapons.
Liu Bei outside the city had a stern expression and remained unmoved, quietly waiting for the response from the defenders inside the city. He knew that this psychological warfare had just begun.
For a whole day, the sky outside the city was filled with dust and wailing.
The morale of the defenders in the city was suppressed like this, and their mentality was on the verge of collapse.
You know, there were as many as seven or eight thousand prisoners kneeling outside the city.
This scale of captives and wailing was enough to make the city restless.
"Damn it, if it doesn't work, I'll just leave the city and fight Liu Bei."
Wu Lan listened to the wailing outside the city and spoke angrily with gritted teeth.
"Why fight? Don't you see the dust flying over there? I wonder how many soldiers there are."
"There are only about 20,000 people in my city now. A rash attack will only lead to Liu Bei's evil plan."
Lei Tong grabbed Wu Lan and stopped her sternly.
"If we keep wasting time like this, by the time Liu Bei finishes crafting his weapons, Luocheng won't be able to hold on."
"Look for yourself, how low the morale of the defenders in the city is now."
Wu Lan shook off Lei Tong's arm and said angrily.
"The situation in Chengdu isn't looking good either."
"Guan Yu and Pang Tong have already led a large army, and Chengdu is completely unable to spare any manpower."
"Alas, when Liu Bei entered Jiangzhou, we should have immediately sent out a large army to suppress him."
“Now it’s great…”
Lei Tong shook his head helplessly. The current situation was extremely difficult.
A few days ago, news came from Baishui Pass that the Qian army's Sichuan-attacking army had entered Hanzhong.
Zhang Lu, the prefect of Hanzhong, surrendered without even putting up a fight, and went to Luoyang to preach.
This sudden situation immediately put the Yizhou army, which had originally wanted to transfer the garrison troops from various passes to provide support, into an extremely passive situation.
After two days, the morale of the defenders in the city was shaken, but they were not on the verge of collapse.
But when the third day arrived, heads fell to the ground one after another, and the blood dyed the moat red. The impact on the morale of the army reached a peak.
"The one who killed you was not me, Liu Bei, but the commander of the city."
"You are their soldiers and their generals, but they don't care about your life or death, so they let your heads fall off."
"I, Liu Bei, only ask you one question: will you surrender or not?"
"Are you willing to charge into battle for me, Liu Bei, and capture Luo City?"
Liu Bei looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground and shouted loudly to the remaining 7,000 prisoners.
As he spoke, Liu Bei pointed his sword at the terrified captives and shouted with an icy expression, "If you don't agree, tomorrow I will kill another 500 people, starting with you!"
"General Liu, I surrender!"
The soldier was already right next to the 500 prisoners who had just been killed, and at this moment he roared loudly without hesitation.
"General Liu, please spare me. I am willing to submit to you."
"We are willing to surrender too!"
Then the last straw that broke the camel's back appeared.
The Mianzhu defenders surrendered one after another, fearing that they would be the next to die.
When the defenders on the city saw this scene, their tense nerves and war-weariness that had been intensifying for days instantly reached a climax.
"do not fight!"
"How else can we fight? Are we going to fight with our own friends?"
"Whoever wants to fight can fight!"
"Surrender, we surrender!"
On Luo City, the defenders who witnessed everything immediately threw their weapons into the moat.
"Are you going to rebel?"
"No one is allowed to surrender!"
Wu Lan held a sharp sword and swung it to kill several people.
"So what if you're rebelling? All you know is to fight and kill us. If you have the guts, defeat Liu Bei!"
"kill him!"
"It's all because of him!"
The soldiers roared, and those who did not drop their weapons brandished their swords and rushed towards Wu Lan.
Mutiny!
The defenders of Luocheng mutinied and the morale of the army completely collapsed.
Liu Bei's strategy of attacking the hearts of the people caused the defenders of Luocheng to collapse without a fight.
The bodies of Wu Lan and Lei Tong were thrown off the city wall, and the 20,000 defenders in the city opened the city gates.