Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 327 Eastern Han Dynasty Assassin's Creed
Zhou Yu smiled when he heard this, then said solemnly, “Since Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang, he has deposed the emperor, dug up the emperor’s tomb, burned the palace, and left the ancestral temple in ruins. No one in the world can stop him, and the princes took advantage of the opportunity to rise up and establish their own territories. The Han Dynasty was almost over, and the two Yuans of Runan, who are three dukes for four generations, are a prominent family in the country. Not only do they not support the Han Dynasty, but they privately engrave seals and grant official positions. Aren’t they still traitors to the Han Dynasty?

"Since they are traitors to the Han Dynasty, the Zhou family of Lujiang has been enjoying Han salaries for a long time. As a minister, loyalty to the country is the foundation of one's conduct. How can they not do the opposite?"

"Loyal ministers and filial sons should look back on their past lives and use them as a mirror. I have also heard of Wenyang's ancestors. His grandfather was a Han official, and his great-grandfather was also a Han official. They have been receiving Han salaries for three generations. Is the Han family's kindness to the Sun family not as good as the Yuan family's kindness?"

"If we help Yuan rebel against Han, how will we be able to offer sacrifices to our ancestors in the future? It will bring shame to our ancestors. Isn't it a pity?"

"Wen Yang, are you satisfied with what Yu said?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Xiang's face immediately turned red, and the hand that was stroking his beard froze instantly. He stammered for a long time and could only speak vaguely, unable to answer.

He asked this question subconsciously for some unknown reason, and regretted it immediately after asking, fearing that it would bring disaster to his family.

I didn't expect that Zhou Gongjin, who seemed to be a gentleman with a noble character, was actually full of bad intentions. I mentioned the Zhou family of Lujiang, and I didn't say the rest.

You, Zhou Gongjin, brought up my grandfather and my great-uncle for comparison, and directly embarrassed me from the perspective of loyalty and filial piety being the foundation of life.

Confucius said: "Being filial to one's parents will make one's loyalty to the ruler. Therefore, if one is looking for loyal ministers, one must look for filial sons."

Zhou Yu, didn’t you indirectly call me an unfilial son? Why did you continue to pretend to be a loyal subject of the Yuan family?

Don't think that they didn't understand what you said.

Sun Xiang felt ashamed and angry, his chest ached as if it were on fire, but he was too embarrassed to speak again, fearing that Zhou Yu would comment again on his loyalty and filial piety.

Sun Ben introduced the key points of Shouchun City to many military officers in a torrent of words like a pouring river.

While listening to the conversation between Zhou Yu and Sun Xiang.

He was not afraid that the Sun family would offend the Zhou family, he was only afraid of offending the King of Han.

Although he heard Zhou Yu's words were sarcastic and mocking Sun Xiang, he almost celebrated. On his way to join the King of Han, Sun Wenyang looked unhappy.

If he hadn't persuaded Sun Xiang to come along, she might have lost her mind and run to Shouchun to live and die with Yuan.

Your life or death, Sun Xiang, is a small matter, but if it affects the Sun clan, that would be a big deal.

After Sun Ben introduced the inside and outside of Shouchun City, he immediately widened his eyes and signaled to Sun Xiang, telling him not to call Yuan Shu "Mr. Yuan" in front of so many Han army soldiers. He was a thief of the Han family and could only be called a dog thief.

Zhou Yu no longer cared about the affairs of Sun Ben and Sun Xiang. Although the two seemed to have great trust in the army, they were actually on guard against Sun's killing of spies.

Not only did he not have the opportunity to approach the commander-in-chief Taishi Ci alone, but he was also strictly guarded by soldiers every day.

In order to prevent the past incident of Lai She and Cen Peng being assassinated, Emperor Guangwu pacified Gongsun Shu and sent a large army to attack Shu. General Cen Peng led thousands of warships up the Yangtze River and attacked Shu from Jingzhou to the west.

On the other hand, Lai Xie led his army to take Longyou from the north to the south, and the two routes jointly attacked Shu.

When Gongsun Shu heard this, he was horrified and feared that he could not defeat the Han army. After much thought, he decided to take a radical approach and simply sent assassins to pretend to be escaped slaves to surrender to the two men in order to leak the information in Shu.

As a result, due to the negligence of the Han army, both of their main generals were attacked by assassins and were both stabbed to death in the camp.

Liu Bei was worried that his generals would become arrogant because they had never lost a battle since they followed him to lead the army. He was afraid that the Qingzhou army would fall in Huainan. So he stayed in Xindu, Jizhou, and ordered his troops to attack the remaining counties and eliminate the tyrants who refused to surrender.

At the same time, he personally wrote several letters and sent them to the armies of Taishi Ci, Guan Hai and Le Jin in Huainan, reminding them to pay attention to safety and beware of assassins.

Yuan Shu was a man who loved assassination, much like Gongsun Shu. No matter who the surrendered person was, if they wanted to enter the main tent, they had to be strictly searched several times by soldiers to prevent assassination attempts.

The storms and waves have passed, so don't let your boat capsize in the ditch.

After receiving the reminder from the King of Han who came from afar, the Han army attacking Huainan became cautious about those who surrendered.

Even though generals such as Taishi Ci, Guan Hai, and Le Jin were all brave and good at fighting, and could easily charge into the enemy's lines and capture flags and generals, they still kept this matter in mind.

Anyone who came to surrender would be told the ugly truth in advance to shut their mouths, and then their bodies would be searched to see if they had any hidden sharp weapons.

If any clan leader is disgusted by body searches and is unwilling to surrender, he should just go back and clean his neck and wait for a sword to point at his neck.

Zhou Yu thought about the consequences of Yuan Shu imitating Gongsun Shu, and laughed in his heart: "Yuan Gonglu is already a dead bone in the tomb. Even if he dares to send assassins to kill him, it will not be able to stop the Han army's offensive. It will only anger the king and cause the three clans of the Yuan family to be wiped out. It will have no effect at all."

Seeing Sun Ben pulling Sun Xiang away and they seemed to be arguing fiercely about something, Zhou Yu felt amused and whispered to the soldiers beside him to keep paying attention to the two Suns, not only to Sun Xiang, but also to not forget Sun Ben.

Then, Zhou Yu walked forward more than ten steps and looked at the battlefield side by side with Taishi Ci. He saw the powerful troops who had been recruited, under the heavy rewards of the Han army, shouting loudly and rushing towards the city wall with their heads down. Unfortunately, they did not rush far before they were shot and killed by crossbows on the top of the city wall.

The people at the back gritted their teeth and continued to charge forward, hoping that the leather armor distributed by the Han army would be strong enough to withstand the continuous fire from the powerful crossbows.

“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!!” “Whoosh!!!”

"puff!"

"puff!!"

The rain of arrows from the Shouchun city wall never stopped for a moment. One after another, people were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, screaming miserably.

Some were only hit by arrows in their hands and feet, while others were less lucky and were hit directly in the face, with arrows either smashing their foreheads or piercing their eyeballs. Blood gushed out instantly and they rolled on the ground screaming in pain.

You forget that on the battlefield, the enemy will not show mercy to your pain. Another round of arrows flies through the air, killing the wounded instantly, leaving no sound at all.

Faced with such a situation, military doctors on the edge of the battlefield were also helpless.

Before the auxiliary soldiers could raise their large shields to rescue, the man was already dead. Even if Hua Tuo came, he could only shake his head and sigh.

These powerful tribesmen who had just been incorporated into the Han army's auxiliary troops did not understand that the more panicked they were on the battlefield, the faster they would die.

The Han army was different from the armies of other princes. It had already equipped its barracks with a group of auxiliary soldiers who were specifically responsible for rescuing the wounded. They were always observing the battlefield and saving the lives of those with minor or serious injuries.

The king had said when he was in Qingzhou that the more experienced soldiers had been in blood, the more valuable they were. No matter how fierce the fighting was, we had to raise our shields to rescue, saving every possible life.

(End of this chapter)