Mi Han

Chapter 374
The Xiao family is the number one local wealthy family in Hanzhong County, and his family building also has a very strong Wubi style in the world.

Wubao, also known as Wubi, the earliest origin of this kind of building can be traced back to the period of Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, but it really began to become popular among the people around the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

At that time, there was a great famine in the north, and local heroes rose together. The local tyrants built docks and camp walls one after another to support their soldiers and protect themselves.

The shape of the Wubao is roughly a dock built on flat ground, surrounded by walls, doors open front and back, watchtowers built in the dock, and turrets built at the four corners, just like a small city.

And often in the dock wall, local tyrants will hoard a large amount of troops, food and grass, and have the power to rebel in objective conditions.

If some privileges are the political and economic protection umbrella of the aristocratic family, then the existence of this kind of Wubi, where troops and food are stored, is the military protection umbrella of the aristocratic family.

It was also Xiao Pu's greatest confidence to threaten Mi Yang openly at that time.

With the existence of Wubi, the powerful families in each place are "little princes" who can separate the place at any time.

It is precisely because of knowing this that Mi Yang issued the order to exterminate the aristocratic families who openly defied him, and at the same time sent a large number of soldiers and horses to the place.

Maybe in the eyes of some future generations, all you need to do is to issue a government order if you want to exterminate the family, and you don't need to make too much preparation for the touch of upper and lower lips.

But at least in this Han Dynasty, if you want to completely wipe out a local wealthy family, you are essentially fighting a war.

Before the war, how can there be no strict preparations?
The local wealthy family will not be captured obediently.

And if it wasn't for the danger of this matter, why would Guan Yan worry about Mi Yang that day?

At present, the three thousand elite Liang army led by Zhang Yi himself is facing a very large dock wall.

Although the dock wall is a fortress that almost every powerful family will build.

However, thanks to the backward productivity in the world, unless it is a wealthy family, the dock wall generally does not occupy a large area, and the fortifications are not very strict.

However, the Xiao family in Mianyang is the representative of the aristocratic family in Hanzhong, and the Wubi built by the patriarchs of the Xiao family exhausted all their efforts. Naturally, it occupies a large area and has a high wall and a strong city.

Before, when Mi Yang intended to attack the local powerful families in the territory, he sent Si Wencao's spies ahead of time to conduct a detailed investigation of the powerful families in the territory.

He knew the size of the Xiao Clan's Wubi well.

But knowing the scale of Xiao's Wubi, he made the final decision in his heart to attack those local tyrants who did evil.

The Xiao family has expanded his family's Wubi to such a scale in the past few decades. What if he or other aristocratic families are given a period of time?

Presumably the suzerainty system with great influence in history will come into being in due course.

Mi Yang treats those aristocratic families who do evil in the territory, and treats them as enemies on the battlefield in his heart.

So after knowing the size of the Xiao family's Wubi, he gathered the leaders of the countless aristocratic families in the territory to Nanzheng in one go, in the double name of enjoying the military parade on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is a necessary preparation for him to clear all the dock walls in the territory.

In the current generation, the patriarch is the backbone of every family, and their prestige has been passed down for hundreds of years, and has already penetrated into the hearts of every clansman.

They are equivalent to the spiritual leaders in the hearts of every family private soldier.

And as long as Mi Yang sent troops to attack the Wubi of those big families, the patriarch was not in the Wubi.

So no matter how many private soldiers a family has or how often they train, their combat effectiveness and morale will drop to the extreme in an instant.

Just like what the members of the Xiao clan in Wubi have shown.

Facing the sudden appearance of thousands of elite soldiers, since Xiao Pu is not in the Wubi now, even though most of the Xiao family members are in the Wubi at the moment, they all appear very flustered and terrified.

There is another reason why they were so flustered and terrified. In order to completely turn Mianyang County into his own private property, Xiao Pu took the opportunity of colluding with the Mianyang County magistrate to replace most of the county soldiers in Mianyang County. For the Xiao clan soldiers.

This shows that the current problem facing Xiao's Wubi is not only that Xiao Pu is not there and no one is in charge of the overall situation, but also that the defensive forces in Wubi are far from enough.

After all, before Zhang Yi led his army to the outside of Xiao's Wubi today, the members of the Xiao clan, including Xiao Pu himself, did not expect that their Wubi would really be attacked one day.

The Xiao family in Mianyang has been king and hegemony in the local area for too long.

Under these two realistic factors that are enough to make people collapse, the morale of the few Xiao clan soldiers in Wubi has already collapsed.

Fortunately, there are still some Xiao clans living in Wubi, otherwise Xiao's Wubi might be destroyed by itself.

However, although some Xiao clan elders could temporarily suppress the panic in the dock by relying on the combined prestige of several people, they also knew that this was not a long-term solution.

So before Zhang Ni's army besieged the city, they immediately sent some clansmen to Mianyang County and brought back most of their clan soldiers.

At this moment, when they recognized that the thousands of troops outside Wubi were all Liangzhou Zhengjun, they also knew that this army must have been sent by Mi Yang to clean them up.

Under such circumstances, it is foreseeable that Xiao Pu will encounter an accident.

Now all they can rely on is the thousands of ethnic soldiers in Mianyang County.

As long as those thousands of ethnic soldiers can return to help in time, then their family will still have a chance of survival.

But what the elders of the Xiao clan didn't know was that their every move had already been predicted by Zhang Ni.

Otherwise, he would not have dispatched Shi Bao to lead an elite army in ambush on the only way between Mianyang County and Xiaoshi Wubi.

And Zhang Yi could predict this in advance, not because he had any clever calculations, but because he was accompanied by a patriarch with the same background as Xiao Pu.

The patriarch was one of the officials who were willing to submit to Mi Yang on the high platform that day, named Yu Lin.

Yu Lin's family is also a local wealthy family in Mianyang County, but compared to the Xiao family, the Yu family has a gap in terms of power and status.

Despite the difference in power and status, they are of the same kind after all.

Among the same kind, they know each other best.

After Zhang Yi led his army to a hundred steps outside the Xiaoshiwubi wall, he, who has rich experience in battle formation, quickly noticed the reaction of some Xiao clan soldiers on the Xiaoshiwubi wall. The fact that people's hearts are unstable.

After realizing this, Zhang Ni originally wanted to seize the opportunity to launch an attack immediately, but his actions were dissuaded by Yu Lin.

Yu Linzai came to Zhang Yi's side, bowed to him and said: "I know that there is a tunnel inside Xiao's Wubi, which can directly lead to the outside of the Wubi.

That tunnel was built by the patriarch of the Xiao Clan of the previous generation in case of accidents and wanted to leave a way out.

Now that people in Thiefwood are not stable, that tunnel wants to defend against emptiness.

The lieutenant might as well send an elite soldier to sneak into the dock wall through that tunnel, so that he can take down the thief dock wall in one fell swoop. "

After Zhang Ni finished listening to Yu Lin's words, his face showed great joy.

Uncle Mu is indeed right, the Yulin faction is really useful in the army.

Enemies don't necessarily know each other well, but former comrades must know each other very well.

Zhang Ni wasn't too worried that Yu Lin would lie to him, because Yu Lin's life was in his hands right now.

Watching the night in the sky gradually darken, Zhang Ni already had a decision in his heart.

He immediately summoned a Sima and asked him to select hundreds of soldiers with not serious night blindness in the army.

Then when the sky was completely dark, let him lead the hundreds of elite soldiers to follow Yu Lin from the tunnel he said and sneak into Xiao's dock wall.

However, after instructing this point, Zhang Yi specifically instructed the Sima to keep Yu Lin within reach of his weapon at all times.

Although the possibility of Yu Lin deceiving him is not great, he must be on guard against others.

As time passed, the sky gradually darkened.

When darkness completely covered the sky in Mianyang County, a compound in Xiaoshiwubi was brightly lit.

This is Xiao's ancestral hall.

At this time, several elders of the Xiao clan were sitting around discussing countermeasures.

The clansmen they sent to contact the reinforcements during the day had been gone for two hours. According to the time calculation, under the rapid march, the thousands of clan soldiers should have returned.

But now, according to the report of the clansmen on the city wall, apart from the torches fired by the thousands of Liang soldiers outside the wall, no flames appeared in the direction of Mianyang County.

Torches must be lit when driving at night, and the absence of fire in Mianyang County means that no reinforcements are coming here.

This fact made these Xiao clan elders very worried.

When something goes wrong, there must be a demon, especially when the Xiao family is facing a catastrophe.

But now that the outside of Wubi has already been surrounded by Liang Jun, in this case, all they can do is wait.

A gray-haired elder came to the courtyard and looked up at the dark sky.

More than ten years ago, he was one of the three elders in Mianyang County.

During the more than ten years as the third elder, he used his power to seek a lot of benefits for his family, otherwise the Xiao family would not be able to develop to the present stage.

Although in the process, he has done many illegal things, but as long as it is for the family, he has never regretted everything he has done in the past.

However, when Xiao Shi was facing a catastrophe today, for the first time, a trace of regret surfaced in his heart.

Perhaps he had expected this day in his heart, but when this day came, his heart could not be calm.

Looking at the pitch-black sky above his head, he couldn't help thinking to himself:
The sky is so dark tonight, does it represent the future fate of his Xiao family?

Just when the Xiao clan elder was deeply worried about this, he suddenly heard shouts of killing outside the courtyard.

The sound of killing was from far to near, from small to loud, and it was moving rapidly towards this place.

This sudden scene not only frightened the elder of the clan, but even the other elders of the Xiao clan who were discussing countermeasures also became overwhelmed by the frightening shouts of killing.

Several elders of the Xiao clan gathered together in the open space in an instant, looking at the closed door with fearful eyes.

A conjecture emerged in their hearts, as if the sky was falling and the earth was falling--Liang Jun attacked.

Just when their hearts became more and more frightened because of this conjecture, the closed door in front of them was violently knocked open by some Liang Jun who was covered in blood and held torches.

After the gate was knocked open, Sima, who was assigned by Zhang Yi, rushed into the courtyard with Yu Lin.

After a while, the small courtyard was surrounded by hundreds of Liang Jun armed with sharp knives.

Under the light of the torches, hundreds of sharp knives shone with a strange flame, and this strange flame was announcing the final outcome of the Xiao family in Mianyang.

When Yu Lin saw the elders of the Xiao clan surrounded by groups, he immediately pointed at them and said to Sima Liang:
"Those are the elders of the traitor Xiao Pu. If they are captured together, the Mianyang Xiao family will never recover."

When Yu Lin came out to identify those elders of the Xiao clan, his appearance happened to be seen clearly by those elders of the Xiao clan.

The moment they saw Yu Lin, these elders of the Xiao clan who had gone through vicissitudes of life couldn't guess how Liang Jun easily broke into their dock wall.

A kind of anger of being betrayed immediately surfaced in the hearts of these Xiao clan elders.

One of the elders of the Xiao clan pointed at Yu Lin's nose and cursed angrily: "My Xiao clan and the Yu clan have been married for generations, and we have a good relationship with each other. You are a relative and friend of my patriarch!

I didn't expect you to be such a wolf-hearted person, aren't you afraid that other clans will attack you Yu Lin? "

The insults of the dying man are without scruple.

Facing the insult of the Xiao clan elder, Yu Lin's face showed some ashamedness at first, and his eyes dodged a little, but soon all the ashamedness on his face dissipated.

A person who knows the current affairs is a hero, he works for Liangzhou Mu, what's wrong with him!
Anyway, since we can't turn back now, we will continue to walk to the end.

Liang Jun Sima didn't want to care about the unclear matters between the aristocratic and powerful families. He looked at the elders of the Xiao clan in front of him, and he said a word coldly:

"kill!"

When this word reached the ears of the hundreds of Liang Jun on the field, some Liang Jun rushed towards those Xiao Clan elders with sharp knives in their hands.

Soon after, there were several miserable voices in the courtyard.

After executing the elders of the Xiao clan, Liang Jun Sima looked at the Xiao clan's ancestral hall in front of him.

He took the torch from a subordinate, and decisively threw the torch into the wooden Xiao's ancestral hall.

Under Liang Jun Sima's action, many Liang Jun also threw the torches in their hands into the Xiao's ancestral hall in front of them.

The flames filled the entire Xiao's ancestral hall in an instant, and the red flame became brighter as time went by.

The fire in Xiao's ancestral hall kept leaping, as if it wanted to burn all the evils hidden in the deep ancestral hall.

Looking at the scene in front of him, the Liang Jun Sima's eyes became more determined.

Since then, there has been no Mianyang Xiao family who did many evils in the world.

Since then, Liangzhou has no local wealthy family who can defy the decree.

When Zhang Yi led the army to break through Xiao's Wubi, the same scene was happening one after another in various places in Liangzhou.

More and more local wealthy families were breached by Liang Jun, and more and more local wealthy families were wiped out by Liang Jun.

Under Mi Yang's iron-blooded wrist, a major earthquake with far-reaching impact is taking place in the entire Liangzhou.

And the aftermath of this great earthquake also spread around Liangzhou at an extremely fast speed.

However, it was not Chengdu that was first affected by the aftermath, but Guanzhong, not far from Liangzhou.

A piece of confidential information titled "Liangzhou Great Change" was quickly sent to Cao Zhen, the general of Cao Wei.

(End of this chapter)