Chapter 109 Giant Spiked Club Breaks Through the City

Although Magistrate Zhao is dead, control of Pingcheng remains a major issue.

Liu Fu understood perfectly well that if these people were truly loyal to him, they could open the city gates and let him in directly when the magistrate of Zhaozhou led his troops to seek revenge against the Bai family head that night.

After all, have you ever seen any bandits holding an imperial seal and carrying an imperial sword?

Have you ever seen any bandits or outlaws fully armed, wearing armor, wielding sharp steel knives, and equipped with shields in a uniform manner?

Anyone with a brain knows that these people are not on his side. That's why the city guard opened the city gates at dawn and let Liu Fu and his men in.

The main reason was that the magistrate of Zhao Prefecture had died.

That's all.

Liu Fu bought several treasure boxes containing famous generals and summoned the Five Tiger Generals. At this moment, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong all appeared in front of Liu Fu.

"Xun Yu of Wei?"

Guan Yu was taken aback:

"Weren't you given an empty box by Cao Mengde and forced to commit suicide? How did you come back to life?"

Xun Yu stood before Guan Yu, responding with a smile, the tense atmosphere of their past hostility completely gone.

"My lord, your head is still on your neck, so why can't Yu come back to life?"

Guan Yu immediately touched the head on his neck and was stunned:

"Yes, I've actually been reborn into this world?"

Zhang Fei, standing nearby, also rubbed his belly:

"Where are those two scoundrels, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da? I'm going to poke a hundred and eighty holes in them!"

At this moment, the elderly Huang Zhong stroked his long beard, marveling at how he had miraculously come back to life. Ma Chao, who had previously been sickly, also regained his radiant spirit.

At this moment, everyone looked at Zhao Yun:

"You... are Zilong?"

"Oh dear, Zilong is getting old. Why is he dressed like an old man with white hair like me?" Huang Zhong sighed.

Zhao Yun, now with silver beard and hair, smiled and replied:

"Although the old general is also seventy years old, he once killed five generals with his spear in a single day at Fengming Pass. What? Aren't you all old and frail? We are no longer in our prime."

That's right. The generals that Liu Fu summons with the treasure box are all dead. Even if they come back to life, they will be old.

But that's enough.

"Please wait a moment while we talk. Prime Minister Zhuge is already under the command of our lord. Generals, please come and pay your respects to our lord."

Looking at the five tigers, Liu Fu realized that they were now in another time and space. Being able to live another life was already a great opportunity, so they no longer cared about the past.

"Five generals, I would like to have you first garrison Pingcheng, train the local troops, and keep them in check. Soon after, there will be many other places in Liaodong that require your garrisoning to lend me a hand."

Liu Fu then assigned a deputy to each of the five tigers.

Pair Zhao Yun with Chen Dao, Zhang Fei with Yan Yan, Ma Chao with Ma Dai, Huang Zhong with Wei Yan, and finally Guan Yu with Zhang Liao, one of the Five Tiger Generals.

They were old acquaintances. Back then, when Guan Yu temporarily surrendered to Wei at Tuntu Mountain, it was Zhang Liao who went to persuade him to surrender because he had some connections with Zhang Liao.

After doing all this, Liu Fu ordered all the garrison commanders, deputy commanders, centurions, and captains in Pingcheng to be arrested and beheaded on the spot for treason!

After these disobedient generals were executed, the Five Tiger Generals were parachuted in. With their abilities, managing this small number of soldiers and officers would be no problem at all.

After that, Liu Fu arrived at the Bai residence.

The body of Magistrate Zhao had already been carried over, but the head of the Bai family didn't make it to see Liu Fu. Looking at the burned-out Bai mansion and the tragic scene of the Bai family members' corpses scattered all over the ground, he died of anger.

At his command, Liu Fu beheaded the two men and displayed their heads on the city tower for three days.

Thus, the problem of food supply for the people within the Bai family's territory in Pingcheng was solved.

However, when the Bai family was in ruins, people from the other two major families had already received the news.

The Guo family head and the Xu family head met and began discussing important matters:

“Back then, the four of us joined forces to teach Liu Fu a lesson, but we never expected him to wipe out the Bai and Huang families. Now, the evidence of the Huang and Bai families’ rebellion is irrefutable. Liu Fu has already seized all the wealth accumulated by these two families over the past hundred years and put it into the treasury. If we don’t resist now, we’ll probably be beheaded soon!”

The man was closest to the northern border of the Later Han Dynasty, giving him an advantage over the Bai family head. He immediately contacted the elite troops of the Later Jin Dynasty, preparing to launch a coordinated attack from within and without to open up the entire Xiaozhou Prefecture and allow the Later Jin troops to enter.

"We must immediately fortify our Xiaozhou city. When the Later Jin's elite troops arrive, we will defend the city together. At that time, as long as we can block Liu Fu's advance here, we will immediately send troops to launch surprise attacks on other places. Liu Fu will be tied up here and unable to take care of other places. Once we take his main camp, no matter how brave he is, he will be doomed."

In reality, Liu Fu simply doesn't have time to quell the rebellion right now.

Based on the confession of Bai's grandson, he searched out all the mountain bandits and outlaws recruited by Bai at dawn. These mountain bandits and outlaws had become Bai's righteous soldiers, numbering no less than three thousand, and were fierce bandits recruited by Bai from various places.

With only a few thousand soldiers under Liu Fu's command facing off against several thousand fierce bandits, casualties were inevitable.

Liu Fu immediately released over a thousand tigers, which terrified the bandits, causing them to flee in panic.

When they chased them into a valley, they immediately blocked the other exit and set the valley on fire.

The fire burned to death nearly a thousand bandits, but more than two thousand bandits eventually surrendered and were sent by Liu Fu to the border to do hard labor building the Great Wall.

But this has already wasted several days.

Meanwhile, in Xiaozhou City, the city walls had been reinforced, a large amount of grain had been stockpiled, and sufficient defensive materials such as logs and stones had been prepared.

The Guo and Xu families have made ample preparations to deal with Liu Fu, and they will take immediate action as soon as Liu Fu dares to come.

Unfortunately, the Later Jin general they had contacted was leading 50,000 elite troops and was about to cross the border when Zhuge Liang, who was surveying the local soil and water, discovered them first. After the scouts reported this, Zhuge Liang sent out treasure-hunting rats to ambush and kill all the enemy's commanders.

The last army that conquered the Later Han Dynasty was forced to retreat because of Zhuge Liang's strategy of capturing the king first.

It's the same again this time.

The treasure-hunting rat ambushed and killed all the officers of the rank of commander and above among the 50,000 elite troops. Without their commanders, the Jin soldiers were thrown into chaos, and they could no longer invade the borders of the Later Han Dynasty.

These Jin soldiers were terrified that their retreat would be cut off and they would never return.

They were all immediately withdrawn, and the crisis was resolved instantly.

On the contrary, the Guo family and the Xu family have been waiting and waiting, but no one has come. Where have the reinforcements gone?

Then, a few days later.

It was early morning, and everyone in Xiaozhou Prefecture was still asleep.

With a deafening roar, a terrifying spiked club smashed half of a city gate in Xiaozhou City.

Led by a colossal beast over forty meters tall, Xiaozhou City fell!