Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 302
If Liu Bei was still in Xuzhou, he would definitely not just want Yizhou so simply, at least he would have to give in several times.

But after years of ups and downs, Liu Bei has deeply understood a truth.

One bird in hand is worse than a thousand birds in the forest.If you want to restore the ideal in your heart and restore the Great Han Dynasty, you must have a stable and prosperous territory.

When he was in Jingzhou, facing Liu Qi's humility several times, Liu Bei hadn't thought about the huge Jingzhou.

But the relationship between him and Liu Qi is really good. Although he is already a vassal, he was born at the bottom, and his loyalty in the world has not changed, which makes him feel ashamed.

Just like in history, he wanted to avenge Guan Yu with all his country. If Liu Qi hadn't died of illness, he would never have agreed to Liu Qi's surrender of Jingzhou to him.

However, Liu Zhang is different.

Apart from the surname Liu, the two parties have almost no friendship.

Even went to war.

Half of Liu Bei's troops came from the tens of thousands of Liu Zhang's men who were captured in the Battle of Zigui.

Fazheng is extremely smart, so he naturally understood these principles, nodded and said: "This is indeed the best way."

Seeing Zhang Lu drunkenly, with disheveled hair, as if he had aged 20 years, Yan Pu sighed, "Let's surrender."

Now that they have controlled Hanzhong, Zhang Lu's soldiers and family members are all in the north. When will this not be used?
So on the second day, Liu Bei listened to the suggestions of the two, and instead of attacking the city immediately, he chose to persuade him to surrender.

Yang Ang had no choice but to surrender, and his mother sent a letter saying that Uncle Liu Huang had treated their family very well and rewarded them with a lot of gold, silver, cloth and silk, hoping that he would not die on the battlefield.

"what?"

The guard said: "The soldiers guarding the north gate opened the gate, and now the whole city has surrendered."

"Is Xiaozhi also able to do it?"

Liu Bei pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly and said: "Well, then do it according to Xiaozhi's will. This matter is left to Xiaozhi. Just before coming, Xiaoqing also said that I hope Kong Ming will come to Xichuan next year to handle internal affairs. Xiaozhi, you and Zi Joe went to Jingzhou."

Tai Shici, Guan Ping, Shi Ren and other generals led the way.

"Let him go to Jingzhou."

So if Liu Zhang gave up Yizhou to Liu Bei, Liu Bei would not have any psychological pressure.

Only then did Fazheng understand why Liu Bei looked at the sky without saying a word for a long time, and sighed for a moment: "My lord's long-cherished wish has been fulfilled, and I'm sure he will be very happy."

"Thank you General Zuo."

Liu Bei sighed and said: "If it is not really a last resort, I don't want to seize the foundation of the same clan. However, Liu Jiyu is not a person who helped the Han family, and his father once said that "Zixia doubted the saint in Xihe". He is really not a good minister."

Sun Gan also laughed and said, "Maybe it's because this world has never belonged to the lord before, but since then, this world has a place for the lord, so the lord sighs."

Zhang Fei left.

From the Yellow Turban Uprising to being driven to Nanyang by Cao Cao, he has been in exile for more than [-] years.He was an emperor's uncle in the imperial court, and a state shepherd in Yuzhou, Xuzhou, but he never had a piece of property that belonged to him. Even in Xuzhou, it was only a short period of two years.

Zhang Lu brought Yan Pu and dozens of personal guards to the outside of Yizhou Mu's mansion. When Liu Bei's car arrived at the mansion gate, he knelt down and offered the official seal of the prefect of Hanzhong, kowtowed and said, "May I surrender to General Zuo!"

Liu Bei holds the official seal of Hanzhong prefect in his hand, and the seal of Yizhou shepherd official on his waist.

Mi Zhu and Sun Gan went over to take a look, and saw two words written on the note in their hands - family members!
Pang Tong and Fazheng looked at each other and laughed loudly at the same time.

December [-]th.

I just remember that I seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, and was dragged out in the end, and after I don't know how long I woke up, it seemed like a lifetime ago.

Now that I have traveled all over the country for so many years, I finally have two foundations in Jingzhou and Yizhou. For a while, I feel as if I have passed away.

When the wine jar fell to the ground, Zhang Lu opened his eyes wide and sat there for a long time.

"Shall Ziqiao and I go to Jingzhou?"

Zhang Fei muttered, "They didn't give this land to us, we took it with our strength."

Mi Zhu smiled and said, "Just look at the world."

Liu Bei dismounted from his horse, went up to catch the official seal, helped Zhang Lu up again, and said, "It would be best if Mr. Zhang is willing to surrender. From then on, it is also a good thing to concentrate on cultivating the Tao."

Soon the two of them wrote their own ideas on paper.

The north-south city wall alone is seven or eight kilometers long, and the east-west city wall is also five or six kilometers long, so that the soldiers in the city are extremely scattered. Not only are the soldiers distracted, but even the generals and middle- and lower-level officers have no will to fight. Many people are already planning to fight. Open the city gate and surrender.

After all, his hope is that Liu Bei will help him take back Chengdu, so it is impossible to poison his own property.

After a while, Fazheng came in, bowed his hands to Liu Bei and said, "My lord, has Liu Jiyu surrendered Yizhou to my lord?"

At that moment, Liu Bei took over Liu Zhang's seal of Yizhou animal husbandry, and praised him high with some words, saying how Liu Zhang understood the righteousness, and held a grand banquet for all the officials.

"Minggong."

He turned his head and smiled at several people: "Go to rest early, we have to attack the city tomorrow."

By December, Zhang Lu was almost unable to hold on.There are countless letters sent to the city every day. The soldiers have no fighting spirit and morale. The officers at all levels can't restrain them at all. They even resist the daily patrol of the city gate. There are even several incidents of fighting with the officers. , The whole army is about to become a powder keg.

Angry soldiers don't care about their superiors or not, and those who escape are considered good. If they provoke public anger, it is not impossible to rebel and kill the chief.

He was paralyzed in the mansion, and he was on the verge of breaking up with his counselor Yan Pu.

"Third brother!"

Watching Liu Zhang get drunk and leave, Pang Tong got up and bowed to Liu Bei and said, "Congratulations, my lord, you got Yizhou rightfully."

"Okay, third brother, stop talking nonsense."

Yan Pu said: "In today's world, the pattern of confrontation between the north and the south has emerged. Although Cao Gong ruled the north, he has not yet touched Guanzhong and Xichuan. Even if Ming Gong wants to submit to the court and attach Cao Gong's wings, Liu Bei has become the general trend, and we can do nothing. .”

Zhang Lu breathed a sigh of relief, at least Liu Bei didn't kill him, and let him continue to practice Taoism, which is already the best result.

After Liu Bei's army entered the city, they immediately scattered everywhere to accept the surrendered soldiers of Zhang Lu, deal with the rebellious soldiers, and issue lists to appease the people.

Therefore, with Liu Zhang being so knowledgeable, Liu Bei didn't mind going to the court to make Liu Zhang the king of Shu. As for whether Cao Cao agreed or not, it was another matter, so Liu Zhang would be offered as the king of Shu.

In fact, Liu Bei's expression is in a trance now, and he also feels like he is dreaming.

But now Liu Zhang was in a hurry when he fled, and he only had time to take part of his property, and he ran away without even disposing of the treasury and granary.

Although Pang Tong and Fazheng didn't know about this matter, the reason is the same.

The law and order was still chaotic in the morning, but by the afternoon, it had completely calmed down.

Seeing that these two masters were about to show off their operations again, Sun Qian hurriedly went to the tent to get a pen and paper.

Fazheng asked in confusion, "Why do you have to do things like this?"

After all, he was reluctant to part with this life.

Immediately after November, Yang Ren couldn't resist surrendering. Since Liu Beijun shot arrows into the city every day to distribute family letters, the army's morale was slackened, and there were even many incidents of escaping from the city overnight with a rope to surrender. , he might be tied up by the soldiers and sent out of the city.

With Liu Bei behind his back, he also drank a lot of wine and walked out of the tent.

Fazheng still couldn't figure out Liu Bei's nature, so he didn't know what he was thinking for a while, so he wanted to go up and ask, but Mi Zhu and Sun Gan stopped him, shook their heads, and signaled him not to disturb Liu Bei, and the four of them stood silently behind Liu Bei wait.

Liu Bei said: "Since you have their land, you should respect them."

Fazheng said, "How about we write down our respective methods and compare them together?"

A slight breeze was blowing, and looking at the towering snow-capped mountains in the southwest that penetrated into the clouds, Liu Bei was also in a daze, staring blankly at the distant sky as if he was sobering up.

However, because Lu Meng controlled the soldiers' families, the soldiers lost their hearts and fled one after another, and finally lost to Maicheng.

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Well, I'm here. I will go to the imperial court and ask him to be named King of Shu. When the time comes, I will build a palace for him, so that he can take care of himself for the rest of his life."

"only."

"Let's go."

After he left, Fazheng asked Mi Zhu and Sun Qiandao: "My lord, this is?"

It's just that this time around, many family members have to be summoned and sent to inquire one by one, which is indeed a bit of a waste of time.

Because there is a lot of grain in the city. In history, when Liu Bei attacked Liu Zhang, there were [-] elite soldiers in the city.

Anyway, the vassal kings who had no real power in the Han Dynasty were no different from the vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, and government orders could not go out of the palace.When the time comes to build a palace for him in other places, it will be like raising a family and idlers.

Then he turned and went back to the tent.

Zhang Lu snorted coldly, and took another sip of muffled wine.

Chengdu is broken.

The city was in turmoil.

Zhang Fei drank a lot of spirits and shouted: "Brother, this Yizhou should be owned by the elder brother. The disciples of Liu Biao and Liu Zhang can't compare with the wise and martial arts of the elder brother."

"I'll get you pens and paper."

Zhang Lu said angrily, "What is he, Liu Bei? He is just a countryman who claims to be a relative of the emperor, and he is worthy of my surrender? I would rather be a slave of Duke Cao than Liu Bei."

At this time, Guan Yu went back to his own barracks, Zhang Fei drank too much and went to sleep, and the generals at all levels went to work, and only Pang Tong, Fazheng, Mi Zhu, Sun Qian and others followed behind him.

Just like in history, Guan Yu sent troops to Xiangyang, flooded the seven armies, and shocked China, but was attacked by Lu Meng across the river in white clothes.

Fazheng said: "My lord, don't let him stay in Shu. Although Liu Jiyu is cowardly, many people in Shu will not accept him. However, his father has made some achievements and left some diehard loyalists. If he is in Shu, I'm afraid he will summon his old troops to join him." Chaos in the rear."

For this reason, Zhang Lu had nothing to do, so he spent the whole day in Yizhou Mu's mansion to drink away his worries.

Fazheng smiled and said: "You should walk around more among the clans. The king of Chu must be lonely in Jingzhou, so you can go out and walk around more. Let Liu Jiyu go to Jingzhou, Liu Xiu come to Xichuan, find a place with beautiful scenery, build a palace for them, and enshrine money. , slaves, this is also for their own good.”

"boom!"

Zhang Lu was shocked: "What's going on?"

Now that times have changed, Liu Zhang's territory has been controlled by Liu Bei.Respect you, and call you clan brother.If I don't respect you, I will sink you into the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

Pang Tong said in a deep voice: "My lord will be happier when Yizhou is actually in the hands of the lord. Let's first discuss the plan for attacking the city tomorrow. Shen Xiaoqing once said that attacking the city is the bottom and attacking the heart is the top. What can you do?" "

Liu Zhang had the cheek to ask for it, because he thought Liu Bei was a loyal person and wanted to engage in moral kidnapping.But he didn't know that Liu Bei, who had experienced severe beatings in the society, was no longer what he used to be.

"Down?"

"Humph."

In fact, although Chengdu was besieged for so long, it did not cause famine.

Pang Tong said: "Similar to the exchange between the king of Chu and the king of Shu, Zhuge Kongming and Shen Xiaoqing were too involved with the local family in Jingzhou. When the government order was issued, due to affection, they could not deal with these great families when they violated the people. But it’s much easier to exchange things. Kong Ming doesn’t need to care about the Yizhou family, and Xiaozhi doesn’t need to care about the Jingzhou family.”

It was not until October that the first batch of family letters were sent to Chengdu, and Yang Ang, who was stationed in Deyang, surrendered first.

At the same time, Zhao Yun, who stayed in Hanzhong, was ordered to collect letters from the soldiers' families and let them write home letters and send them over. There was no need to persuade them to surrender, as long as they wrote home letters.

"Lord."

After leaving Liu Bei's place, Liu Zhang's mind was buzzing, his whole body was in a trance, and he couldn't remember many details that Liu Bei said at the banquet.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Lu couldn't last long at all.Because Chengdu is not smaller than Luocheng and Deyang, and Luocheng and Deyang are smaller. Even if soldiers launch a rebellion and want to open the city gate, as long as the chief suppresses it by force, they can still hold it down. Chengdu has more than four city gates and occupies less land. Small.

Looking at the distant sky for a long time, Liu Bei's eyes gradually changed from absent-minded to determined, and finally the eyes seemed to gradually have light, becoming brighter and brighter.

More importantly, Zhang Lu had almost wiped out Liu Zhang, and now Yizhou was snatched back from Zhang Lu by Liu Bei.

This day Zhang Lu is at the end of his life.

At this moment, the guard outside the door came in panic, knelt down on one knee, and said in a crying voice: "Liu Bei's army has entered the city."

After about a minute, he felt lost, slowly got up from the seat, shook his head, and said to Yan Pu: "Come out with me and surrender."

Fazheng looked at Pang Tong and said with a smile, "Since Mr. Fengchu said that attacking the city is the bottom line and attacking the heart is the top priority, I must have already made up my mind."

Guan Yu won the battle, but he still had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands.

Guan Yu also said: "You drink too much, go to rest."

Liu Bei asked, "What does Xiaozhi mean?"

After several rebellions in the city that robbed the city gate and wanted to open the city to surrender, Yang Ren finally couldn't bear the pressure and chose to leave the city to surrender. Otherwise, as a loyal minister who followed Zhang Wei to fight Cao Cao in history, he would not have chosen this path.

"I see."

"Report!"

Pang Tong asked.

Liu Bei looked at the crowd and said: "Everyone go back to the camps first, and prepare to attack the city today."

So this led to enough food in the city, and there were no casualties among the people.

The point is that the generals defending the city did not dare to order the soldiers not to take or read the letters from Liu Beijun's family.In an era when the concept of family is far higher than that of the country, preventing soldiers from reading family letters is tantamount to death.

He raised his head and looked at the huge Yizhou Mu Mansion.

He turned his head and looked to the north again!

Cao Mengde.

I have settled for two-thirds of the south, leaving Jiangdong unleveled.

When I pacify Yangzhou and destroy the Sun family, I will fight you to the death again!
(End of this chapter)