After I disguised myself as a man, I became everyone's white moonlight

Chapter 244 He is the butcher and I am the meat

Chu Er's plan was implemented very smoothly. For this reason, he took time out to carefully observe the deployment of troops in the city.

Qi Jianshu took away 50,000 soldiers and horses in the city. It goes without saying that Xianyang City must be short of troops now.

But even so, it is not easy for Chu Er and his men to turn the situation around.

After all, they sneaked into the city, and there were not many people coming in, only seven or eight.

No matter how few defenders there were in Xianyang City, there were at least thousands of them. How could they be dealt with by just a few people?

The road Chu Xi pointed out was indeed a good way out. They could not reverse the situation in Xianyang City with just a few people, but... there were hundreds of thousands of civilians in Xianyang City, and these people... like them, were all people of the Great Zhou.

This was a good entry point. Chu Er left four people behind and asked them to move carefully among the people and spread some news about Xi'an being besieged and the Western Chu army about to arrive at the city.

The news is a mixture of truth and falsehood, 70% true and 30% false.

By the way, I spent some money to hire a few storytellers to go to some teahouses to recount the "fate" of the common people who surrendered when their cities were attacked and plundered in historical books.

It is common for two armies to fight each other, but the Western Chu has always had the habit of massacring cities. If you count the "records" of the Western Chu over the past few decades, you will find that any city they captured...

The people in the city could not escape a tragic end. It was relatively rare for the entire city to be massacred, but the highest number of people recorded was that a famous general of Western Chu once ordered the massacre of up to 70% of the people in a city.

It is said that when two countries are at war, they will not kill envoys. However, the common people, who are the lowest level and most harmless, were killed by just a wave of one man's hand, with 70% of them killed. The scene was filled with blood and there were tens of thousands of corpses.

This incident was even denounced by scholars all over the world. It is said that this famous general was punished by the then Western Chu Emperor. Whether it was a show or an attempt to silence the world's gossip...

In short, the famous general who became famous in one battle and was known for his murderous nature was never reused again.

It has been more than ten years since then, and the matter has gradually ceased to be mentioned. However, when a careful count is made, it is found that as many as 60% of the generals of Western Chu are murderous by nature.

However, when the late emperor was still alive, a number of famous generals such as Marquis Zhongyong were still highly respected. With their intimidation, Western Chu was frightened and dared not to rebel or provoke again.

Even though they could not witness that scene with their own eyes, after being described by the storytellers, the people who were listening to the stories in the teahouse all had changed expressions in an instant, and their hatred and resistance towards the people of Western Chu were instantly aroused.

The blood of the literati was aroused. The literati in the teahouse found it difficult to restrain the passion in their bones when they thought about how they were now...they had become the prey of the Western Chu people.

Intellectuals have always been a contradictory group. They are the ones who fear death the most, but they also seem to be the ones who fear death the least.

Whether out of sympathy for the people who had been massacred, or out of concern for their own situation...

The effect was far better than Chu Er had expected. The people he arranged just took the lead, and the others followed suit without thinking.

"He is the butcher and I am the meat. We should fight to the death, so as to remain true to our manliness!"

"We want to protest! Let's go outside General Wang's mansion now!"

"I swear to never be a Xichu dog!"

"We must resist!"

With a wave of his arm, several people responded. In such a lively scene, Chu Er hid in the crowd and curled his lips quietly.

The effect that the master wanted was finally seen.

What effect can this fire achieve...

He had already roughly imagined that they were just ordinary people. Even if all the people in Xianyang City protested, it would only have the effect of satisfying the people's will.

If you really want to rely on them to recapture Xianyang City, it is obviously impossible.

Chu Er took a look from a distance, then turned and left, going in the opposite direction of the group's protest.

As the night deepened, he led four people and approached the city wall from a remote place. While everyone's attention was focused on the people's protests, they quickly found out the troop deployment in the city and took note of it.

Coincidentally...

Chu Er, who was in charge of surveying the direction of the north gate, noticed someone sneaking in from outside the city. That direction... was another city.

The two cities are a bit far apart, but standing on the city wall you can still vaguely see some shadows, which shows how flat this land is.

The flat terrain was quite convenient for invaders, but it greatly hindered the defenders, who had to pay a huge price to defend the city.

Chu Er followed them all the way out of the city until he saw...his cousin.

Yun Jiyu is not good at martial arts, and Yuan Qi's martial arts skills are mediocre. Although his military achievements were earned through real fighting on the battlefield, compared to people like Chu Er who focus on martial arts, he...can't even last more than twenty moves under Chu Er.

Chu Er was originally the best in the secret guard camp of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery. Later, when Chu Xi came, he raised his standards in every way and practiced with Chu Er every day.

This greatly improved Chu Er's martial arts, so that when he followed these people all the way, no one noticed his presence.

Yun Jiyu's plan to burn the grain shocked Chu Er. If Chu Er hadn't seen that his cousin was really going to put it into action, he would not have planned to show up so soon and expose himself.

Yun Jiyu held the torch in his hand, and the yellow light shone sideways on his face, making his usually gentle and elegant appearance seem to be covered with a layer of shadow.

Chu Er quickly flew over and caught the torch thrown by Yun Jiyou, successfully preventing him from burning the food and medicinal materials. "Wait a minute."

Yun Jiyou recognized Chu Er at a glance, but did not call him out. Instead, he asked in a subtle way, "Why?"

"The food and medicine you brought were all distributed by the imperial court as disaster relief. Now Xi'an is facing internal and external troubles and is surrounded by enemies. If you burn these, Xi'an will lose a great help."

Chu Er did not meet Yun Jiyou here, but quickly told him the current situation Xi'an was facing.

Yun Jiyou was not surprised at all, "I see."

No wonder he always felt uneasy about what the guard said when he let them pass.

Yuan Qi was half-believing and half-doubting, and was full of vigilance and caution towards Chu Er, the "mysterious man" who appeared halfway and had considerable martial arts skills.

"Who are you? Why should we believe that what you say is true?"

"I am a garrison soldier in Xi'an. I was ordered by General Han to sneak into Xianyang City to spy on the situation. I happened to run into them. They seemed to be like me, not wanting to be discovered, so I became suspicious and followed them."

Chu Er embellished his words slightly, neither revealing that he was Chu Jiang's secret guard nor telling the whole truth.

Yuan Qi still had doubts about Chu Er's words.

In sharp contrast to him is naturally Yun Jiyou. Yun Jiyou knows Chu Er's identity, so he naturally believes him.

"I believe what he said. If it weren't for the Xianyang city rebellion and the siege of Xi'an, the general wouldn't have dared to deliberately embarrass us so openly!"