Five hundred and sixtieth eight chapters non-war defeat
"The clothing must be literary and the food must be rice and meat. Without the hardships of farmers, you can have the harvest of Qianmo." [On Guishu Shu]
Qiao Rui did not expect such a coincidence. He chose to raise his troops to rebel that night when a large army outside the city threw stones, causing turmoil. He was planning to take advantage of the chaos to raise his troops, but because of the orderly formation of his troops, he was regarded as one by the rebel soldiers at Yingxiao.
Suppressing their army. After a confused battle between the two sides, Qiao Rui inexplicably put down the turmoil. Then other defenders arrived one after another after getting the news, leaving Qiao Rui with no chance to take advantage of it, so he had to make mistakes.
, continued to lie dormant. Afterwards, he didn’t know whether he should blame the army outside the city for throwing rocks at night with thunderbolt carts, or blame himself for choosing the wrong gate location, or his failure to make a good decision.
Make the right decision.
After thinking carefully for a day, which was also the fourth day after Xu Huang issued the military order to attack the city, Qiao Rui became eager to try again.
He watched Ji Ling's patrolling figure flash past on the top of the city. The severed arm was hidden abruptly in his sleeve. Qiao Rui was dazzled by the sight. He couldn't help but wonder what the other party's reason was. He is still devoted to Yuan Shu.
.And he claimed that he was loyal to Yuan Shu, and he was even more determined after the death of his companion Zhang Xun, but he did not expect that Yuan Shu could ruthlessly put him to death with just a groundless rumor. Qiao Rui thought angrily in his heart about what he had done these days.
After experiencing the same day, he slowly climbed up to the top of the city. Except for the personal soldiers, it was rare that Huang Yi was not following him.
"General Qiao today..." Ji Ling frowned slightly when he saw Qiao Rui leading someone up. He stood at the foot of the broken city gate and did not greet him.
"Of course it's for a big deal." Qiao Rui knew that it was useless to persuade them to surrender, so without saying much, hundreds of warriors rushed behind him like a swarm. With their swords pointed inward, they slashed at the undefended defenders indiscriminately.
The city immediately fell into panic. Ji Ling seemed to have been prepared for it. He stood calmly and said, "Rebellion and killing Paoze, is this the big thing you want to do?"
Qiao Rui secretly seemed to feel something was wrong, but still said: "General, if you are willing to abandon Yuan and serve the imperial court with me, you and I can still maintain our friendship."
Ji Ling chuckled, as if he was mocking, but also helpless. Yuan Shu treated him well, and he could not do such an unjust act, not to mention that he was already disabled, so what if he surrendered? He had already found out through clues.
After seeing Qiaorui's suspicious behavior, he took precautions when he learned that Qiaorui had brought people to the city. Now Qiaorui was the first to attack, and hundreds of elites also poured out of the broken city gate tower behind Ji Ling.
"You have been with Zhang Xun for some time. Didn't he teach you anything?" Ji Ling used his remaining left hand to draw out the sword. He and Zhang Xun were equally famous generals under Yuan Shu, like Qiao Rui.
In the past, he had not looked down upon these second-rate generals at all: "I should at least tell you how I use my troops, right?"
The prepared defenders under the city gate shouted loudly and fought fiercely with the troops transferred from the bridge. On the top of the city, Ji Ling's soldiers also began to call on the panicked defenders to organize an array in an attempt to surround the bridge.
Rui brought hundreds of men and horses to the city. Qiao Rui was not as good as Ji Linghui in leading troops to fight, and even the mutiny and rebellion could not be solved quickly. He gathered thousands of men this time, all concentrated in the area closest to the army outside the city.
At the city gate. Shouchun City is currently hearing constant shouts of killing, which naturally attracts attention from both inside and outside the city.
Zhang Xiu saw this scene in front of the battle, and was about to attack without permission, but was stopped by Liu Ye: "There is a change in the city, please go and inform the prince first."
When Xu Huang learned about this, he immediately walked out of the military camp and looked up at the chaos on top of the city. It seemed that two groups of people were fighting each other, and he even dropped his guard against them.
"Your Majesty, there must be someone in the city clamoring for a mutiny. Our army can take advantage of this opportunity to attack Shouchun in one fell swoop!" Zhang Xiu clasped his fists and begged for orders.
Zhou Yu seemed to have thought of something, and stepped forward and said: "Yuan Jiujiu is suspicious and prone to making decisions. Except for Ji Ling and Zhang Xun, there are few generals like Chen Lan and Lei Bo who fall in love with him. This must be the result of a conspiracy by the generals in the city."
I am blocked by Ji Ling, so you must not miss this opportunity."
Xu Huang frowned and said hesitantly: "We don't distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. If we attack the city now, I'm afraid..." He turned to look at Liu Ye: "Did a corner of the west city collapse yesterday?"
After careful investigation, it was found that the terrain of the west gate of Shouchun was humid and humid, and there was a high place outside the city where you could overlook the city. Xu Huang chose this place and ordered Liu Ye to lead a thunderbolt cart to throw it all day long, and finally opened a gap. Liu Ye nodded and replied.
"The nearby head of Guizhou reported that Shouchun City was repaired by Yuan Shu several years ago. That year, Shouchun was lazy and left a section of the old city wall in the west city, only painted with chalk to make a new one. I ordered people to adjust the throwing
, now it is on the verge of collapse.”
"That's good." Xu Huang made up his mind and ordered calmly: "Chang Shi continues to throw at the west city. It's best if he can break down the city wall. If not, he will also disrupt the morale of the army in the city. Li Tong moved his troops to the west city and started from the low city wall.
Climb the city and seize the gate."
"General, take your orders!" Li Tong promised with clasped fists.
"Zhang Xiu, Xu Ding." Xu Huang commanded: "You two are going to the city from here. Regardless of who is fighting, the priority is to seize the city gate!"
Xu Huang keenly caught the turmoil at the top of Shouchun City and officially launched a large-scale assault on the city. The scale of the turmoil at the top of Shouchun City also suddenly expanded. Among the more than 30,000 defenders, nearly 10,000 were scattered in other city wall sections, and thousands
People were encouraged by Qiao Rui to fight for the city gate. Half of the remaining ten thousand people resisted under Ji Ling's organization, and the other half were panicked by the successive battles and ran around on the city wall. They were regarded as opponents by both sides.
Hack and kill.
Yuan Shu was recuperating in bed at this time. Suddenly he heard the noise at the top of the city, and everyone said in surprise: "What's going on outside?"
Cang Tou said anxiously outside the door: "General Qiao, General Qiao killed Huang Xun and raised an army to rebel!"
Yuan Shu's face suddenly turned pale, and he was inexplicably horrified. He was speechless on the bed for a long time. He sighed for a long time before beating the bed and saying in anger: "Why did Yuan Gongdao end up like this!"
Thinking of the past when he was sitting in Huainan and Jiangdong, and his troops were involved in Xuyu. His power was so great that everyone in the world looked at him. He even felt that he could compete with the imperial court and Yuan Shao in the Central Plains with his elite soldiers and generals, and aspire to the world, but who knew that he would make an appointment with Yuan Shao?
After joining the army, they were defeated in the first battle. After that, they lost consecutive battles, and everyone around them betrayed their relatives. In the end, he became a lonely man. It was not that Yuan Shu never thought about losing, but he never thought that it would be like this, even if he faced the emperor.
No matter whether he was defeated in battle or not, he could never accept the fact that people around him betrayed him one after another like now.
As the fourth generation of his family, Yuan Shu, as his legitimate son, naturally has his own pride. From childhood to adulthood, everyone has been vying to be attached to him and willing to serve him as their master. Unfortunately, he thought he could compete with Yuan Shao in everything, but no matter how he cultivated his reputation,
, or was it the Suizao Alliance, or was he reduced to all this, he actually found that he was inferior to Yuan Shao in every way, even losing, it was such a shameful way. Yuan Shu suddenly lay on the bedside, his heart was surging, and he kept vomiting in his mouth.
Out of blood.
Qiao Rui was caught off guard by the counterattack due to Ji Ling's plan. Xu Huang, who knew that he was under the city, responded in time and raised his troops to attack the city. The situation in Qiao Rui began to improve.
Zhang Xiu, who led the army, was overjoyed. He climbed over the female wall from the ladder and quickly occupied a corner of the city wall with a group of troops in the melee. Looking at the chaotic situation, Zhang Xiu was not clear about the positions of both sides for a while and was cautious.
Zhang Xiu chose to stay put until the subsequent soldiers and horses gradually ascended the city and Qiao Rui came to surrender. Only then did Zhang Xiu let go and fight with Xu Ding on the spacious city wall. Ji Ling's arrangement for many days was over.
The ice collapsed. Facing the fierce offensive of Zhang Xiu and others, he began to gradually retreat along the city wall, but at this time the situation no longer allowed him to resist. When the city gate was breached by Li Tong's troops, there were more than 30,000 defenders in the city who were Vietnamese.
More and more people abandoned their weapons and surrendered in panic. The situation was over. Ji Ling was surrounded in a corner of the city wall, looking at somewhere in the city without saying a word.
Faced with Qiao Rui's persuasion to surrender, Ji Ling remained unmoved and instead said, "Ming Gong has not failed me, how can I fail him?"
"How can the country fail you? Now you are ignoring the Lord of the world because of your personal affairs. Are you really loyal?" Zhang Xiu said with a smile.
Ji Ling turned his head away and did not look at Zhang Xiu: "I have a despicable talent, and even if I am loyal to my lord, I can't do anything for him. How much more can I be loyal to the imperial court?"
Zhang Xiu was also a person who worked hard to uphold justice for his recommender. He planned to go forward personally to help the recommender, but then he thought about it and worried that his delay would allow Xu Ding to capture Yuan Shu first, so he changed his mind and chose to lead his troops down the city wall.
, hurriedly rushed to Yuan Shu's residence. As for Ji Ling's head, he pointed at the young principal beside him and said: "I'll give you a fortune."
The junior colonel was Guan Ping, who was left by Xu Huang. Guan Ping's identity was not deliberately concealed by Xu Huang in the army. He had always been a rigorous and selfless person in running the army. Even the son of his good friend was only in the army.
As a dubo in the army, everything he undertakes is no different from anyone else. However, even if Xu Huang has no selfish ideas, he cannot resist Zhang Xiu's willingness to sell this favor and trade his head for several benefits. Killing two birds with one stone
The method was taught to him by Jia Xu.
The fierce shouts of killing at the top of the city failed to hide from Yuan Shu's ears and eyes. He knew that things were not harmonious. After vomiting blood and resenting it for a while, he actually came back to his senses with a haggard expression. He put on his beautiful clothes with a glowing face and shouted like crazy.
The non-existent servants brought him rice and meat. When Yang Hong, the chief minister, hurriedly came to persuade him to lead his troops to break out, Yuan Shu took a few deep breaths in the hot room, and finally calmly invited Yang Hong to sit down, all sighing.
: "Only Ji Ling will never let me down."
Yang Hong felt that Yuan Shu was quick to speak at all times, and Ji Ling could be loyal to him, so what did it mean for him to be like this? He felt regretful in his heart, and he didn't know how to say the words he had thought up for a moment, so he hesitated for a moment, and still said
: "Ming Gong, this is not the time to talk about this. The top priority is to quickly lead the troops to break out of the encirclement! Fortunately, we can seize the boat along the Huaihe River and enter Guangling. We can still look north at Xuzhou and get a chance of survival!"
"What if Guangling can't be defended?" Yuan Shu asked unexpectedly, but Yang Hongwen was stunned: "Go to Hebei to seek refuge with my concubine brother? If the situation is like this, he himself doesn't know whether he can survive until tomorrow. I will go to him to seek refuge with my disciples.
There is no other use in making people laugh. Now that the situation is over, there is no need to say more. Where is the meat I want? Send it up quickly!"
Yuan Shu suddenly raised his voice and shouted to the quiet back room. He had asked the kitchen to prepare his favorite pork, but it had never been delivered.
Why should we eat rice meat at this time? Yang Hong was deeply disappointed with him and couldn't help but say: "Ming Gong is still worried about the present..."
"Tomorrow is gone, who will care about the present?" Yuan Shu felt a bit like a broken pot at this time. He didn't want to run away. Without Ji Ling and Zhang Xun, he no longer had any capable generals around him.
Instead of breaking through the obstacles set up on the Huaihe River, lingering in Guangling, and ultimately unable to escape the fate of defeat, he might as well think about his aftermath now. He stood up in the hot room and walked around anxiously:
"Where is my meat! You are going to die!"
The servants in the back room who had always responded in the past were silent at this time. Yuan Shu looked at Yang Hong with a sad smile: "Look, can you still escape to Guangling like this?"
Yang Hong sighed heavily. Since Yuan Shu was determined to die, why should he continue to do useless work? He stood up in a hurry, walked out of the door quickly, and caught up with Zhang Xiu who led his troops into the mansion at the last moment.
Kowtow to him and ask for surrender.
Yuan Shu listened to Yang Hong's voice asking for surrender outside the door, and then watched Zhang Xiu step inside to tell him the news of Ji Ling's death. He smiled sadly and looked at Yang Hong who lowered his head and did not dare to look at him: "I just said
Well, Ji Ling is the only one who has lived up to me in the end." Yang Hong felt guilty without saying a word and quietly exited the door. In the end, he missed Yuan Shu's whisper as if talking to him: "I have lived up to my expectations.
is you."
After several fierce battles at the head of the city, the resistance inside and outside Shouchun City began to calm down. Xu Huang successively sent Zhang Xiu, Xu Ding, Li Tong and other generals to restrain the troops and monitor the surrendered soldiers. He also sent Liu Ai to appease the people and wait for the situation to be completed.
After all this, he officially entered the city. Xu Huang was first led by Yang Hong into a warehouse, where the emperor's royal robes and costumes were displayed. In order to show his meritorious service, Yang Hong told the inside story one by one.
He said: "Ming Dynasty... Yuan Shu believed deeply in the change of fortune and prophesied secret plans, especially the saying "those who replace the Han should be Tu Gao". He often extended it to himself, claiming that the Yuan family was ordered to be the king, and Fu Ruibingran could replace the Han.
Be self-reliant. Little do you know that arrogant people do not realize how far away destiny is. Now they are defeated by the generals sent by the army of the Son of Tomorrow, but they have taken it upon themselves."
Xu Huang casually glanced at the complete emperor's official uniform, without showing any emotion on his face. He just said lightly: "Seal this place and report all the details to the emperor."
After saying that, Xu Huang called for Yuan Shu. After he was identified, he said, "I heard that I have been clamoring for rice meat. In this world, there are so many grains of rice. How come I haven't eaten enough?"
Yuan Shu sat on the ground and said with a smile: "You are a soldier in the army, how can you understand the extravagance of the public? I won't tell you, but you can just ask a son of a high official to discuss it with me!"
The only son of the minister in the room was Zhou Yu, but even Liu Ai and Liu Ye, the clan clan members of the Han Dynasty, didn't talk to him, and Zhou Yu didn't dare to speak out. He knew that Yuan Shu wanted to deliberately provoke Xu Huang and kill him, but Xu Huang chose not to speak.
He had a steady and steady temperament, and was not provoked by Yuan Shu. Instead, he was escorted away to take care of him.