The strongest devouring system in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 92 Hitting the door

And then that was it; another unidentified corpse lay on the ground.

"Go up there and break down the door!"

Dian Wei addressed the soldiers behind him.

However, before Dian Wei's men could rush forward to ram the door, the gate of the Lu residence opened by itself. Dian Wei's eyelids twitched, as if something was amiss.

A dozen seconds later, the people behind the door revealed their true faces. Dian Wei heard a voice shout, "Dian Wei, how dare you attack the residence of a high-ranking official!"

Before Dian Wei could speak, dozens of muskets suddenly appeared at the door. A burst of gunfire rang out, and the soldiers in front were caught off guard and killed on the spot. Only Dian Wei reacted quickly and lay down on the ground, escaping being hit.

"You bastard Lu Zhi, hiding so many muskets in your residence!" Dian Wei roared in fury. This clearly contradicted the intelligence report. Dian Wei didn't have time to settle scores with the person responsible for gathering the intelligence; he shouted to the soldiers behind him, "Attack! Attack!"

Fortunately, Wang Yun allowed Dian Wei to bring two thousand men; otherwise, Dian Wei really wouldn't have dared to attack given such a large force.

"Whoever captures Lu Zhi alive will be rewarded with one hundred taels of gold!"

The gunshot at Lu Zhi's residence shattered the tranquility of Chang'an. Following closely behind, shouts of killing echoed throughout the city, and bloodshed would undoubtedly become the theme of the night.

Lu Zhi never expected that Wang Yun would attach such importance to his place, with Dian Wei personally leading the team, and with a full two thousand men. Although Lu Zhi was nervous sitting in the main hall, he was not completely flustered. Now he just had to wait and see when Gongsun Zan would arrive!

"I hope it's not too late," Lu Zhi thought to himself as he looked around at the people around him.

Faced with Dian Wei's numerical advantage, Lu Zhi could only try to provoke Dian Wei into a stalemate at the main gate, rather than attacking from other directions. After all, Lu Zhi only had three hundred men, and his musketeers numbered only two hundred, making him far too weak. With his army here, he didn't need many—three thousand would suffice. Why should he fear a brute like Dian Wei?

"Lu Zhi, you scoundrel! How dare you insult me!" Sure enough, upon hearing Lu Zhi's words, Dian Wei flew into a rage and waved for his men to launch a full-scale attack. However, Lu Zhi had not anticipated that Dian Wei actually had a psychological aversion to firearms. This was something Dian Wei considered a great humiliation and had never shown in front of outsiders. It was not surprising that Lu Zhi was unaware of this. In this world, a small mistake can lead to a huge disaster. Lu Zhi's misjudgment of Dian Wei directly led to the failure of his own plan.

Dian Wei knew that the firepower near the gate of Lu Mansion was strong. Although he was brave, he had experienced so many life-and-death situations and he understood the preciousness of life at a glance. Dian Wei ordered five hundred men to break through the courtyard wall from other directions with the help of the brothers surrounding Lu Mansion.

With gunpowder in hand, breaching the wall was an incredibly simple task. Several former Bingzhou soldiers found a secluded courtyard wall, piled up several barrels of explosives, and then lit the fuse.

"It's going to explode!" Several soldiers shouted as they ran to safety.

"boom!"

A dozen seconds later, a loud explosion rang out on the east side of the Lu residence. Hearing the violent explosion, Lu Zhi knew that his plan had ultimately failed. He ordered his men to retreat to the inner courtyard. At this time, Lu Zhi had less than two hundred men left. Under the attack of Dian Wei's musketeers and archers, without the protection of the high outer courtyard walls, the Lu residence's resistance was getting weaker and weaker.

"Bang!" With a gunshot, the last guard in the Lu family who could still stand fell down. Almost at the same time, Dian Wei walked in. Seeing Lu Zhi sitting in the center of the inner courtyard, Dian Wei smiled and said, "Someone, please ask Lord Lu to get up."

"General, please don't make things difficult for the maids and servants in the manor. They are all innocent," Lu Zhi suddenly said.

Lu Zhi had only intended to prolong the lives of the maids in his household, but he hadn't carefully considered what kind of person Dian Wei was. He only saw Dian Wei frown deeply, then say to the soldiers beside him, "Kill all the men, and the women are yours to keep." Hearing this, Lu Zhi roared in anger, "You scoundrel! How dare you!"

"Shut up!" Dian Wei turned around and slapped him across the face. In his opinion, what right did Lu Zhi, a prisoner, have to speak to him? Dian Wei said, "It's not up to a prisoner like you to say what I'm doing. If you make me unhappy, believe me, I'll kill you right now!"

"Go ahead and kill me if you dare." Lu Zhi turned his head away disdainfully, not wanting to look at this butcher for even a second longer. Seeing Lu Zhi's tactlessness, Dian Wei was furious. He grabbed Lu Zhi and said, "Old man, do you really think I wouldn't dare?" "Then do it." Lu Zhi now had a death wish. He understood that living would only allow Wang Yun to gain more, so it was better to die, perhaps giving the royal family a slim chance.

Upon hearing Lu Zhi's words, Dian Wei was furious. How long had it been since anyone dared to speak to him like that? Dian Wei didn't care who he was; he raised his halberd in his right hand.

Seeing this, the attendant beside Dian Wei quickly advised, "General."

"ah!"

Dian Wei interrupted his attendant with a wave of his hand, raised his halberd and swung it down. With a scream, Lu Zhi's head fell down, his eyes lost their light, and suddenly a heavy rain began to fall, as if even the heavens were weeping for Lu Zhi.

The pillar of the empire, the last pillar of the Han Dynasty, died at the hands of treacherous people.

"Hahaha, no one in this world dares to yell at me!" Dian Wei said with a loud laugh.

"Lu Zhi resisted stubbornly, vowing never to surrender, and was killed in the chaos of battle." Dian Wei, with his tiger-like eyes, looked around and spoke to the soldiers around him.

Seeing that the situation was already as it was, and that there was no way to save him, the officers around him said one after another, "Lu Zhi resisted stubbornly and died in the chaos of battle."

"Walk!"

Dian Wei didn't raid Lu Zhi's house. Everyone knew Lu Zhi was a poor man, and with such a large family to support, there wasn't much of value in his house. Besides, Dian Wei didn't only have Lu Zhi as a target. There were several other people who usually opposed Wang Yun who were also Dian Wei's targets tonight, such as the Li family of Vice Minister Li from the morning court session. Those were the wealthy ones. As for Lu Zhi's house, he could leave it to his underlings.

Although Dian Wei was not good at strategy, he still knew how to win people's hearts. He would eat the meat, but his brothers would still need to drink the soup. Moreover, he had just disobeyed Wang Yun's orders, and Dian Wei did this to shut them up.