Five hundred and seventieth chapters loyal service
"The martyr of the generation, the dead minister of the Yuan family." [Three Kingdoms·Volume 6]
Jiang Qi knew that he was no match for Zhang He. After learning about the incident at the city gate, his first reaction was not to intercept Zhang He, but to organize his troops to rush into the city to try to rescue Yuan Shang. In his opinion, Xun Chen and Chunyu Qiong were ostracizing
The behavior of Shen Pei was already a preview of tonight's mutiny, and Chun Yuqiong had been living near Yuan Shang's residence recently. In order to ensure Yuan Shang's safety, he only met Chun Yuqiong's soldiers and horses and ordered them to be killed.
The commotion in the front yard frightened Chunyu Qiong. He was busy wearing his armor and sword, shouting the name of his general. He only knew that tonight he wanted Zhang He to put down the Shenrong rebellion, and he was going to charge Zhang He with treason the next night.
He was implicated in the trial and distribution of the clan and plundered military supplies. Unexpectedly, when the battle started, Zhang He actually turned his troops to point at himself. At this time, he heard the shouts of killing everywhere. He knew that there was no hope of resistance and did not want to die in vain. He knew very well.
The chief of staff asked people to go out and surrender: "Go out quickly and tell Zhang Liao that I am willing to surrender, and I am willing to lead them to capture Yuan Shang!"
These words happened to be heard by Jiang Qi who rushed in. He became more and more convinced that Chunyu Qiong had evil intentions, so he shouted angrily in the court: "Mr. Yuan treated him badly. The traitor dares to do this. Kill him!"
"Here!" All the soldiers responded in unison.
The shouts of killing were immediately heard in the house. He quickly walked out of the mansion and walked straight to Yuan Shang's mansion. He caught a few of his cronies and asked, "Master, where are the Jujian Army?"
"Young master has ordered all the troops and horses, and they are in front. The Jujian army has disappeared without a trace!" the soldier said anxiously.
Jiang Qi felt strange in his heart. Jushu had hinted that the Yingchuan scholars were disloyal many days ago and told him to pay attention to it. Today, the chaos broke out. With Jushu's wisdom, he would not be unable to respond effectively, but why did he not see him for so long?
What are the follow-up measures? Is it really necessary to abandon Yecheng and go north to Zhao State?
"It must be in the county jail. Go and look for it in the county jail!" An idea flashed in Jiang Qi's mind and he shouted quickly: "Protect the Ju Supervisor Army and Lord Shen Fu! Search for Xun Chen's traces and reward those who kill him on the spot.
Thousands of dollars!”
"What else are you looking for? The most important thing is to get out of the city now!" At this time, Yuan Shang had already rushed over with hundreds of his troops in disgrace. After seeing Jiang Qi, he felt a little relieved and hurriedly urged him to set off.
After all, Jiang Qi was concerned about Yuan Shang's safety, and for a moment he did not bother to rescue Jushu and Shenpei. Instead, he led two to three thousand remnants to fight Yuan Shang and then retreat, heading straight for the north gate. As the cries of killing grew louder and louder behind him.
The closer they got, the more voices of surrender came one after another on the top of the city. Yuan Shang knew that the situation was over, and kept urging him to sit down on his fast horse, wishing he could dismount and run wildly. At this time, someone chased him from behind, holding a head in both hands.
, shouted: "The traitor Chunyu Qiong will be crowned!"
"Where are the Jujian Army and others?" Jiang Qi temporarily stopped under the city gate and reached out to take the blood-stained head.
"The person who was sent has not returned. I wonder if something happened." The soldier whispered: "There is a fire in Xunchen's house, and it is difficult to find him."
Yuan Shang looked fearfully at the dark night outside the city gate, and turned back angrily: "What are you waiting for? Let's go!"
"Hey!" Jiang Qi seemed to understand something, and threw Chun Yuqiong's head to the ground hard, with a bang like a melon breaking. Then he didn't think about anything else, and led the remaining soldiers to escort Yuan Shang's family towards the dark night.
Escape.
Outside the semi-underground prison, dozens of troops in fine attire stood quietly, with their swords unsheathed and bleeding from their blades. Not far away, there were also dozens of soldiers sent by Jiang Qi to rescue Jushou and interrogate him.
Deep in the prison, in the cell where Xun Chen was originally imprisoned, Shen Pei and Ju Shou were sitting opposite each other.
Outside the high windows was the dark blue night reflected by the firelight. After sitting for a long time, Shen Pei sighed and said: "First it was Feng Li, then Chun Yuqiong, and now it was Jiang Qi. If it were just a Ye city, how could you
Why is it so!”
"Zhengnan prides himself on his extraordinary resourcefulness. How can he not see through a simple clumsy plan to this day?" The city was short of food, and Jushou found a pot of wine from nowhere. Seeing that the judge refused to drink it, he poured it out and drank it himself.
"There are a few things I don't understand." Shen Pei looked calm and asked, "If you want to monopolize all the credit, where will you put Xun Chen?"
"He should be in the fire now." Jushou said casually. His ally a moment ago has now become a stranger regardless of life or death. He held the wine bowl in his hand, and the turbid wine in the bowl made waves: "Zhengnan
Don't you think it's strange? The imperial court has long placed its hope in me. Yecheng is surrendered, and I am enough. But the imperial court has sent a friend of Xun Ruo to come. If he came to protect me, it would not be an invasion by the Xun clan members.
Danger. But if Xunyou comes, this means that in the eyes of others, Xunyou can live or not."
Jushou lowered his head and looked at the dregs settling at the bottom of the wine bowl, heaved a sigh of relief and said, "If your life or death, friend Xun, depends on me, it just depends on which side I want to stand."
"Do you have such a deep connection with the imperial court?" Shen Pei stared at the other party and said solemnly: "So you don't choose to stand with the Xun family of Yingchuan? In the end, these are still people from Jizhou and Yingchuan.
The feud between them has not been resolved and will continue."
"You have been fighting with me for so many years, how can the hatred be resolved in a short time? From now on, when the strong and the weak change, I will not be attached to the Yingchuan people... However, this difference in territory is a trivial matter." Jushou corrected: "Let me
What made me decide was what Xun Youruo said to me. He said freely that Jingzhou, Cao Cao and others all surrendered to Yingchuan, which shows that Yingchuan is powerful. If there is still a name for Guandong in the future, it will be
With Ru Ying as the leader."
"So what? In the past, the Deng clan, Yin clan and other clans in Nanyang had great achievements in Xiangzan. Isn't it the same?" Shen Pei asked strangely.
"That's true. But today, I don't want to be Emperor Guangwu." Jushou slowly took a sip of wine and carefully filtered out the dregs in the wine: "You have forgotten what Mr. Yuan told us in Huguan.
Have you said anything?"
Shen Pei suddenly remembered that in order to unite the civil and military forces under his command, Yuan Shao bluntly said that the emperor was rebellious, suppressed the powerful, loved the poor, was harsh in governing the law, and did not follow the scriptures. Although it was a bit exaggerated, it vaguely revealed the political tendency of the current emperor.
In connection with Jushou's choice, it is not difficult for the judge to understand that the people of Yingchuan may seem to be prosperous at the moment, but in fact they have already walked on thin ice. At the last moment of the city's destruction, the opponent used Jiang Qi's hand to kill Chun Yuqiong and others, which not only monopolized the great achievements.
, and even used this to completely tear apart the Yingchuan scholars. Since the two sides have become enemies, the enemies of the enemy will naturally extend an olive branch at the right time.
"This way you don't have to worry about being alone in power and having no one to help you." Shen Pei sighed in admiration and reached out to pick up the untouched wine bowl that Ju Shou had already poured for him: "Although Jizhou is vast, in terms of reputation and talent,
, no one can come close to you, your Ju family’s prosperity is not far away.”
Jushou took out a piece of clean silk cloth from his sleeve, wiped his lips gently, and secretly spit the dregs of the wine on the silk cloth with the tip of his tongue: "If it were as easy as you said, Mr. Xun would not have worried about slander. heart."
He knew what his choice meant. Once he did this, he would gain momentum in the short term, but in the long run, he would sooner or later become the focus of a fight. The single-plank bridge he chose was not much more stable than Xun's.
"So you chose Zhang Junyi?" Shen Pei was a little confused, then sighed and said regretfully: "If Chun Yuqiong hadn't worked so hard, how could Shen Rong have planned and driven you?"
Jushou smiled, put down the wine bowl and said, "If you want to blame, you should blame yourself. As early as when you gave out the rice stored in your home for the needs of the defenders, Shenrong hated you to the core. He had already If you have any intention to rebel, you will only have to wait until Chunyu Zhongjian puts you under house arrest."
"What?" Shen Pei said angrily, "This bastard!"
"Look at everything you insist on, even the people closest to you don't want to be with you." Jushou stood up with a complicated expression, walked out of the prison door, and suddenly sighed: "Such persistence still has meaning. Huh? You asked me before why I didn’t want to die for Mr. Yuan, you should know now, right?"
"I have always hated you." The judge said silently as he watched Jushou walk out of the prison door and was about to meet Li Fu who had just arrived.
Jushu's back stopped.
"There are many outstanding people in Jizhou, but why are you and Tian Yuanhao the first?" Shen Pei suddenly stood up, his face was shrouded in the night outside the high window, showing a strange look: "So I don't accept anyone, so I will do something Let me show you how I, Shen Zhengnan, am not better than you?"
"Is that just for this?" Jushou's laughter passed through the long corridor. He still didn't turn around, but said lightly: "As expected of you."
After saying that, he left and never said a word to Shenpei again. Shenpei stood there, raising his head and looking at the night sky through the high window. The shouts of killing outside were getting smaller and smaller, and the sky to the east of him gradually became smaller. It became lighter in color. The judge smiled miserably, and suddenly kicked up the wine bottle on the table, smashing it against the wall, just like his unnecessary persistence.
When the two met in prison, Zhang Liao, Zhang He and other rebels had already joined together and quickly occupied the four gates and marched into the city. Along the way, many Yuan generals led their troops to surrender, such as Yin Kai, Han Fan and other generals. , and even took the initiative to lead Zhang Liao to Yuan Shang's residence. The group of people rushed into the city empty-handed. Zhang Liao was so angry that he ordered his generals to dispatch cavalry out of the city to pursue Yuan Shang regardless of the night. He vowed to catch up to Yuan Shang.
On this side, Zhuge Xuan and Fazheng had a brief chat with Jusuke. Fazheng and others praised Jusuke for his righteousness in coming to the throne and his prudent and wise approach to matters. Jusuke also praised Fazheng for his various ingenious strategies in besieging Yecheng recently.
Fazheng raised his eyes and looked down, and suddenly said: "You haven't found Mr. Xun yet?"
Someone next to me replied: "There was a fire last night. Mr. Xun fell in the fire and he is still unconscious."
"Eh." Fazheng sighed, turned to look at Jushou, and said regretfully: "The war is dangerous, but there are so many misfortunes!"
Seeing that he had passed the sentence, Jushu felt relieved. Then Zhuge Xuan suddenly said from the side: "It is said that Shen Zhengnan is still in prison. You might as well call and see those famous people from Wei County to see if he surrenders." No surrender.”
Zhuge Xuan is the governor of Erqianshi County, and Fa Zheng is his junior. At this time, he nods his head in agreement.
So Shen Pei was quickly passed on. Zhuge Xuan thought about his background as a scholar, and asked his left and right officials to untie him. He also gave him food and drinks, and then slowly replied: "Shen Jun is loyal to the Yuan family, so he must have no choice but to do it for him."
Now that the situation is clear, the country has its destiny, and all the people support it, why not come down quickly to repay the favor?"
Shen Pei neither cursed nor begged for mercy, but only sneered and said nothing. When he saw Shen Rong standing at the end, he suddenly became excited, rushed over and angrily shouted: "You are such a bastard, I, the Shen family, will punish the loyal ones."
My name will all fall to your hands!"
Someone immediately came over and pulled Shen Pei away. Shen Rong's face was pale, as if he was frightened. After a while, he regained his breath and retorted to Shen Pei: "You should be the one who ruined my family! I, Shen's family, have been in business for a hundred years, so you can take it if you want."
Go, do you really take me seriously? I am the eldest grandson who will inherit the family business!"
The trial partner stared at the opponent until he felt guilty, and suddenly spat again.
Zhu Ge
He closed his eyes in embarrassment and waved his hand to have Shen Pei taken away. His intention to persuade him to surrender also dissipated.
After daybreak, the vanguard sent by Zhang Liao finally received news of their victory. After receiving their military orders, they went straight around the city and caught up with Yuan Shang and others who had fled in a hurry outside a pavilion in the north of the city. Yuan Shang was reluctant to leave his family at that time.
The progress was slowed down on the road, and as soon as the cavalry caught up with him, he became even more panicked.
Jiang Qi led his troops to resist desperately, but after a night of fleeing, only a few of the two thousand remaining soldiers he led were left. This time, they were intercepted by the cavalry without even taking a breath, and they dispersed as soon as they joined the formation.
The knights received the instructions and knew to surrender in advance.
Jiang Qi smiled miserably and said: "I have served the Yuan family for many years, and I am dying for them today. How can I serve the two masters again?"
So it was useless to talk more. After Jiang Qi finally looked at Nanpi, he committed suicide among the rebels.
His delay did not buy Yuan Shang much time, and soon Yuan Shang was overtaken by the cavalry, dragged off his horse, captured alive, and brought back to Yecheng together with Jiang Qi's head.
When Zhang Liao heard about this, he was overjoyed and said happily to Fazheng: "I have finally lived up to your Majesty's trust! If you delay this important event, I will die to apologize!"
Fazheng knew Zhang Liao's heartache. He and Xu Huang were both the most capable generals under the emperor. Now Xu Huang was making rapid progress in Huainan and was the first to achieve results. However, Zhang Liao had been content to stay at the gates of Ye City for a long time. If Ye City had been conquered earlier,
He can definitely further plot to seize Jizhou and make more contributions to the emperor.
Although Yecheng has been captured now, the time has passed and it can only be regretted.
After everyone celebrated their victory, they began to relieve the hungry people in the city, reorganized and surrendered the soldiers, and sent civil servants to Qinghe at night to report the great victory here to the emperor.
They believed that once the trouble behind Yecheng was eliminated, the emperor could finally mobilize his troops and go all out to attack Nanpi. By then, Zhang Liao would still be useful. Soon, with the arrival of the edict, Wei
The whereabouts of the county's troops have gradually become clear.
This fate made people both excited and puzzled: in addition to escorting Yuan Shang to Qinghe, Zhang Liao was worshiped as General Pingbei and packed up his troops and rushed to Youzhou that day.
"General Pingbei..." Zhang Liao looked at the envoy strangely: "Isn't this Liu Gong's military position?"