The north wind blew, and the world was desolate. The houses in the eastern countryside were engulfed in a sea of fire, and barbarian soldiers were roaming across them. On a distant hillside, a thousand Wuling garrison swooped down from the hillside, killing the barbarian soldiers. The barbarian soldiers fled in the wind.
"Kill." The anger of the Wuling garrison's expedition on New Year's Eve was all concentrated on the barbarians, and they were pursued closely. Shamoko led the barbarians to escape to a mountain col. When the Wuling soldiers entered the mountain col,
In an instant, countless soldiers poured out of the mountains on three sides, and Samoko in front also stopped and turned to face the enemy.
The Wuling garrison was horrified. When they looked back, Leng Bao led an army to seal the mouth.
On the mountain, Xiao Furong, dressed in red, stood beside Liu Zhang's commander's platform, with her sword drawn and raised high. The barbarian soldiers and Dongzhou soldiers from three sides fired arrows at random, causing large casualties to the Wuling garrison. After three rounds of vigorous shooting, half of the thousand people had been killed.
Most of the others were injured and struggled to break through the encirclement, but they could not break through Leng Bao's defense of up to two thousand elite soldiers, so they had to abandon their weapons and surrender.
Liu Zhang led his generals down the mountain and walked to the commander of the Wuling Army.
"name."
"Qin Ci, the Commander-in-Chief of Wuling."
"Are you willing to surrender?"
"Wish to surrender."
"I am willing to falsely open the Wuling City Gate for you."
"This..." General Qin Ci hesitated. Liu Zhang winked at Hao Sheng. Hao Sheng immediately came forward with two hundred-jin sledgehammers. Qin Ci was frightened and said repeatedly: "The general is willing, the general is willing."
willing."
Liu Zhang smiled coldly: "That's awesome. I'll serve General Qin and give him courage."
"yes."
As night fell, Qin Ci led a thousand Dongzhou soldiers to the gate of Wuling City.
"Who is under the city?"
Qin Ci stared at the powerful iron sledgehammer out of the corner of his eyes, swallowed his saliva, and replied loudly: "General, don't you know? I defeated the barbarian army, returned in triumph, and quickly opened the city."
"It turned out to be General Qin. There was a misunderstanding and Kaicheng... General Qin has made great achievements again. Don't forget to treat your brother to a drink."
The suspension bridge was lowered and the city gate opened heavily, while the Dongzhou soldiers in the darkness silently lowered their bows and arrows, strung them, and at the moment the city gate opened, random arrows were fired at the Wuling soldiers at the city gate, and the Dongzhou soldiers swarmed in.
"Phew." Leng Bao shot a rocket into the sky.
Shouts of mountains and tsunamis resounded outside Wuling City, and countless firelights emerged from the woods in the distance like ghosts. Barbarian soldiers and Dongzhou soldiers waved their white guns and swept towards Wuling like a tide.
Prefect Liang Qiao was woken up from his sleep. The old man went to bed early. Liang Qiao was particularly annoyed when he was woken up. He was about to reprimand when he saw Gong Zhi burst in with an eager look on his face: "My lord, it's not good, you are barbaric."
The soldiers have entered the city."
The words frightened Liang Qiao and made him sleepless. But when he woke up, Liang Qiao didn't believe it and angrily shouted: "Gong Zhi, what nonsense are you talking about? How could hundreds of barbarians attack our strong city of Wuling?"
"No, sir. There are nearly ten thousand barbarians. They are rushing in from all directions. Our defenders are less than three thousand and lack training. We cannot resist at all. We are almost at the governor's palace. Please make a decision quickly."
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"Nearly ten thousand?" Liang Qiao was shocked. The barbarians looted every year, and sometimes sent out large armies in disaster years. However, the barbarians summoned them, and there were usually traces of them. Why were there no signs this year? But now is not the time to think about these things. Immediately
When a disaster approached, Liang Qiao asked urgently: "Gong Zhi, do you have any good ideas?"
"What else can we do now? Either run away or sue for peace. But running away is the crime of losing the city and requires beheading. However, the barbarians only plunder property and do not occupy the city. We should seek peace with them and give them property.
Woman, protect the city."
What Gong Zhi was thinking about was not to protect the city, and it didn't matter to him that Liangqiao was the one who lost the city and beheaded him. The Gong family was a powerful family in Wuling. What Gong Zhi thought about was that if he escaped and the barbarians would rob him, his family would be in trouble.
To seek peace with him, he could use the property of other wealthy families and common people to give to the barbarians to protect his own family. Gong Zhi naturally wanted to seek peace.
"I, Liang Qiao, have been a prefect for more than ten years, and now I have to kneel down and surrender once more?" Liang Qiao was inexplicably sad and angry, but now, he had no other choice.
Liu Zhang led the arrogant and powerful generals into the prefect's mansion. The torches in the prefect's mansion were brightly lit. Liang Qiao and Gong Zhi led Wuling Wenwu and rushed out to welcome him. They bowed to Liu Zhang and Liang Qiao said in a long voice: "Liang Qiao, the prefect of Wuling, has seen five people."
Lord Xi, I don’t know which of the Five Rivers heroes the lord is. If you want money, you can just ask for it. It doesn’t matter how much it is. Why bother to use weapons and force to harm the peace of the two families?"
"Hahaha." The generals behind Liu Zhang laughed.
Shamoke stepped forward and said: "Old man, listen, this is the husband-in-law of my young lord Xiao Furong of Wuxi, Yizhou Mu, Liu Zhang, uncle of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Lord Liu. I am not here to ask you for money this time.
Those who know the truth should quickly hand over their seals and ribbons and surrender."
All the civil and military officials in Wuling were horrified, especially Gong Zhi, who was horrified. Yizhou Liu Zhang was the butcher who killed nearly Wanhao family's children. If you surrender to him, wouldn't you be sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth? Gong Zhihui's liver and intestines were broken.
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Liu Zhang saw that the officials in Wuling were stunned and said coldly: "Qin Ci, please introduce your colleagues."
"Yes." Qin Ci lowered his head and stepped forward, facing the hostile looks of many Wuling officials, and introduced uneasily: "This is Liang Qiao, the prefect of Wuling, this is Liang Xi, the meritorious officer, this is Gong Zhi, and this is
yes……"
"Wait a minute." Liu Zhang interrupted Qin Ci: "Gong Zhi?" Liu Zhang thought for a moment and remembered this character, the guy who killed Jin Xuan, the prefect of Wuling, and took refuge with Liu Bei. He didn't expect to be working here so early.
"Gong Zhi, are you willing to surrender?" Liu Zhang asked.
Gong Zhi lowered his head and said nothing. If he had known it was Liu Zhang, he would have tried his best to resist. Unable to resist, he abandoned the city and left. He would not surrender anyway. Now that Liu Zhang asked him to surrender, how could he easily agree?
Liu Zhang sneered and grinned at Hao Sheng. Hao Sheng immediately stepped forward and hit Gong Zhi on the head with two hammers. Gong Zhi stared at the boss, and his head was smashed into pieces in front of all the Wuling officials.
He fell to the ground in a blur, with brains, blood, and residual flesh all over the floor, some of which even splashed onto Liang Qiao's face.
The officials were shocked.
"I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender." Liang Qiao took the lead in kneeling, and the other officials followed and kowtowed to the ground.
"Go and get the general's official register, seal and ribbon."
After Liu Zhang finished speaking in a cold voice, he led his generals to step through the kneeling Wuling officials and entered the prefect's mansion. The Wuling officials stood up and followed in fear.
"Lord, now that we have occupied Wuling City, the news will spread out soon. Liu Biao's son Liu Pan has stationed nearly 50,000 troops in You County, Changsha, which is five times our army. They will definitely go to Wuling to aid. Liu Pan is brave
We have a plan, and we have General Huang Zhong under his command. Our army's situation is still dangerous, so we must make a decision that morning." Fazheng advised Liu Zhang as he walked.
At this time, a soldier came to report: "My lord, the barbarian army has entered the city, burning, killing and looting. General Yang Huai ordered me to report to my lord, whether to stop it."
"Stop it." Samoko took a step forward and said, "This is not a city for adults. Why not burn, kill, and loot?" Barbarians are used to robbing, and Samoko is naturally used to it.
"That's right." Leng Bao also said: "The army braved the cold winter and marched thousands of miles. If the soldiers are not allowed to vent, the morale of the army will inevitably be unstable."
"Lord." Fazheng looked at Liu Zhang, the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.
Liu Zhang said calmly: "General Zhang Ren, I remember that the Dongzhou soldiers under your command came from Sanfu. They used to be unruly and undisciplined. Why don't you join the barbarians in looting today?"
"Reply to my lord, because Wuling is already my lord's city." Zhang Ren replied loudly.