Xuande

Chapter 540

Chapter 540
Liu Ye's persuasion made Li Feng very depressed.

Yuan Shu did not give him much money, nor did he give him any kindness. Asking him to bring 3000 people here to stop Liu Bei's [-] to [-] troops from attacking, he himself felt very absurd, thinking that Yuan Shu was watching him live too comfortably. , to let him die.

Not long after he joined Yuan Shu, he was promoted to captain because of his courage. This time, in order to let him come to Xihua County to serve as the first line of defense, he was unexpectedly promoted to General Zhonglang, but he was not happy at all.

This Zhonglang general, he may die within a few days, is it interesting?

You, Yuan Gonglu, treat me like this, don't you take me too seriously?
After Li Feng came to Xihua County to set up defenses, he spent every day in panic. When Liu Bei approached with his army, he couldn't sleep for three consecutive days. When Liu Ye came to persuade him, he felt a little nervous weakened.

He didn't even have the guts to speak.

"What you said is not unreasonable, but after all, Yuan Shu has the grace to promote me..."

"The emperor of the Han family still has the favor of promoting Yuan Shu, but he murdered the king and openly rebelled. For such unfaithful people, what do you still care about his promotion?"

Liu Ye sneered and said, "Yuan Shu has done a scandal, but he expects all his subordinates to be loyal ministers and righteous men. How can there be such a thing in the world? How shameless does this person have to be to ask for such a thing? For such a shameless person, I can't imagine what else he could do."

Li Feng had no confidence in what Liu Ye said, and he didn't know how to refute it.

"If I surrender, will the general think I'm a disloyal and unrighteous person and punish me?"

Liu Ye smiled and shook his head.

"Abandoning the dark and turning to the bright is obviously a wise choice. You choose to be loyal to the big man instead of the Yuan family. This is an act worthy of encouragement. How can the general punish you?"

Li Feng listened to Liu Ye's advice, thought it over, and still felt that it was not worthwhile to die for Yuan Shu, but he sighed again and again when he thought of the family members who were still kept by Yuan Shu.

But in the end he made a choice, nodded, agreed to Liu Ye, and decided to surrender.

As for his wife and children, whether they can survive or not depends on the destiny. If it is not possible, there is still time to remarry and regenerate, and it is not a pity to the ancestors.

On this point, Li Feng was as open-minded as Yuan Shu.

On September [-], Li Feng, the guard of Xihua County, surrendered the city, and the magistrate of Xihua County surrendered together without any resistance. All the weapons and supplies in the city belonged to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei did not garrison here, and the army did not enter the city. The magistrate of Xihua County was asked to stay and help with logistics and transportation.

Li Feng was not punished, but was appointed by Liu Bei as the Sima of another department, and temporarily led his army to act with the army.

Don't do Zhonglang General, he is really not up to that point.

Li Feng didn't quarrel, he thought it was very appropriate, as long as he was not punished, he felt that it was almost the same, as for the position... Let's talk about it later, let's solve the survival problem first.

After Li Feng surrendered, the door of Ruyang County was wide open, and there was nothing to stop Liu Bei from marching into Ruyang County.

As the hometown of the Yuan family in Runan, as well as the hometown of some other Fanyue families, the size of this county is still good, and there are relatively many troops stationed here.

It's just a pity that none of the Yuan clan dared to stay and live with their hometown, and they all fled with Yuan Shu.

Liu Bei didn't have any warmth towards the insects. He strictly ordered Chang Nu, the guard of Ruyang, to open the city and surrender. He didn't have much patience and gave him half a day to think about it.

After half a day, there will be no room for the army to attack the city.

After a fierce ideological struggle, Chang Nu thought of his family members who were still in Yuan Shu's hands, and reluctantly rejected Liu Bei's request.

He can die, but he really can't ignore his parents, wives, concubines, and children. He is not as open as Yuan Shu and Li Feng thought, and he still cares about their safety.

So Liu Bei didn't say anything anymore, and he resolutely eliminated those who were unwilling to surrender. One more day's delay would be a huge pressure on logistics. He led troops to surround Ruyang County and ordered to attack the city.

For the siege, he made a lot of preparations, including various large siege equipment. He prepared a lot, brought them here in the form of parts, and assembled them on site.

He is ready for Lin Chong cart, ladder cart, well rail, trebuchet and so on.

Especially trebuchets.

Regarding the most deterrent siege equipment in the pre-artillery era, Liu Bei has always regretted its loss.

During the Warring States period, early trebuchets appeared, but in the following years, the manufacturing skills of trebuchets were lost, and it did not reappear on the battlefield until the Three Kingdoms War.

No one knows how it was lost or how it reappeared.

When Liu Bei was in Liangzhou, he sent people to study the trebuchet. This thing is not simple, but it is not difficult to say. A group of craftsmen fiddled and fiddled, and they really made it. Manpower trebuchet with combat effectiveness.

It happened that at that time, Liu Bei discovered oil in Liangzhou, so he sent people to collect it and transport it to Ji County. After some research, people from the ordnance industry department packed the oil into jars and made it into a war weapon.

After that, the tactic of using trebuchets to throw fierce oil tanks to attack the city was developed.

After a period of training, Liu Bei has cultivated a group of technical arms that can skillfully use trebuchets and fierce fire tanks, called artillery. Their birth represents the transcendental development of long-range strike methods in Liu Bei's army.

Before, they were useless, but now, they are.

It takes a long time to erect and operate a huge trebuchet, which is not available in general field battles, but siege operations can provide them with this time, allowing them to set up trebuchets calmly.

According to the current model, a catapult unit is operated by 60 people. After the erection is completed, the aiming operation is carried out, and then human power is used as the main power to destroy the city.

The things fired are mainly large stones and fierce fire oil tanks, which destroy the city wall and injure and deter the soldiers on the city wall. many.

The same is true.

When the first batch of fierce fire oil tanks exploded at the head of Ruyang City, the sparks that exploded followed severely shocked the soldiers at the head of the city.

No one wants to be covered with flames that cannot be extinguished no matter how they operate, or to be completely covered by flames, and to be burned alive. The psychological deterrent effect of this kind of situation on the soldiers in the city is really too great .

So Yuan Jun soldiers at the head of the city collapsed immediately, and it was useless to stop Chang Nu. Even several of his soldiers were burned by the flames that would explode. He was also under the desperate protection of his soldiers. Only then went down the city wall.

Later, Liu Bei gave an order, and the army advanced. Conventional siege equipment and siege troops followed one after another. More and more Han soldiers climbed to the top of the city. Stand firm at the head of the city.

Seeing that it was not good, Chang Nu immediately asked the guards to go forward to take back the city wall at all costs, and the guards did go forward to fight at all costs, but failed.

The fighting power of the Han army under Liu Bei far exceeded Chang Nu's imagination. Whether it was fighting will or tactics, they showed a crushing situation. Although they were scattered soldiers on the city wall, they could quickly form a small army of five people. Advance all the way.

This kind of hand-to-hand combat quality made Chang Nu's most powerful personal guards unable to stop the Han army's assault. Soon, the city wall was captured by the Han army, and the city gate was also breached and opened by the Han army.

The army poured into Ruyang County.

Liu Bei's army has always been very disciplined. The army rushed into the county not to destroy or destroy it, but to occupy it. The army quickly seized all the traffic arteries and important buildings in the city, and beheaded the armed personnel who were still resisting. Controlled the whole city.

After desperate resistance, Chang Nu knew that there was no way out, so he killed himself with a knife.

Liu Bei entered the city under the protection of his subordinates, arrived at the complex of Yuan's ancestral house in the city, and then ordered to destroy all of them.

"There is no need for the ancestral house of the traitor. Search aside to see what else can be used. After searching, destroy it directly."

Liu Bei's order was quickly carried out. He led the army to rest outside the city for one night. The next morning, he got accurate news that all the important things and people in Yuan's mansion were moved away, but the transfer was obviously in a hurry. , left behind a lot of property did not take away.

As for people, only the servants remained, and those named Yuan ran away.

Pretty fast, but so what?

The distance from Ruyang to Pingyu County is not long. If you want to arrive, you can send cavalry. It takes two days to arrive. Before that, Yuan Shu moved and fled in less than half a month, half a month. , to what extent can he manage Pingyu County?
Liu Bei didn't think this guy had any ability to fight against him at all, it would be better to say that it was a dead end for him now.

Eight counties, plus an army of the imperial court, have a total strength of more than 8. Such a large-scale war, just to encircle and suppress the rebellion in one county, is actually a bit of a sledgehammer.

But it doesn't matter.

As the saying goes, for a war, three parts are military and seven parts are political.

The military purpose is very direct and decisive, but the political purpose is more long-term and has greater influence.

A war that crushes the bureau is enough to establish one's own prestige in the Kanto Central Plains. With one order, the armies of the eight counties march together to fight against the rebellion. The senses of the people in the world will be very different.

The victory of this war is enough to expand one's prestige from Kansai to Kanto, and to make oneself change from the king of Kansai to the king of Kanto more quickly.

He wants the guys in Kanto to see his ability, his appeal, and his terrifying lethality against rebels.

Completely destroying a huge family of four generations and three lords, and breaking the myth of the indestructibility of the famous family, this is of great benefit to what he wants to do in the future.

Just like before, he never cared about famous families, he never cared about the family inheritance of thousands of years, this is meaningless, if it needs to be destroyed, then it will be destroyed.

It doesn't matter whether the opponent is the Yuan family of Ruyang, Runan, or the Liu family of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, where he was born.

Therefore, the Kanto gentry need to see their strong appeal, see their strong force, and then make the right choice.

(End of this chapter)

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