Xuande

Chapter 577 Desperate Trial

Hearing what Man Chong said, Chen Qun was a little worried.

"I heard that Gongsun Zan is the general's fellow student, a student of the Lu family. I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with this matter? After all, he is from the same sect. If he is sentenced to death, I don't know what Lu Taiwei thinks. There are always people responsible for the losses caused by chaos, and in the final analysis of this matter, it is Gongsun Zan who did not obey the order, this matter seems a bit tricky."

"Yes."

Man Chong stopped writing, nodded, and said, "Gongsun Zan didn't follow orders, causing chaos in Youzhou. Five county guards, as well as General Hu Wuhuan Zhonglang, and six officials of two thousand stone died because of this. That's why the general insisted." They want the Northern Expedition, and they will not return to Luoyang to participate in the trial of Gongsun Zan."

"As long as the result of the battle is big enough, it will always be worth it."

Zhong Yao said in a low voice, "But Gongsun Zan has no way to make up for it, and he doesn't know what the end result will be. Also, who will get so many vacancies in Youzhou?"

Man Chong looked at Zhong Yao, who was nearly forty years old.

"Yuanchang, if you have any ideas, why don't you recommend yourself?"

Zhong Yao was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head.

"I just joined the General's Mansion, and I still want to work for the General now. As for this matter, let's talk about it later."

Man Chong nodded noncommittally.

Several people continued to work hard until the first day of March, when they finally got the news that Liu Bei had successfully concluded the Northern Expedition and was about to return.

Everyone was overjoyed, and immediately prepared a celebration banquet to cleanse Liu Bei up.

On the seventh day of March, Liu Bei led a large army and arrived in Yuyang County with a huge victory. The huge victory directly stunned Man Chong and others. They looked at the endless queue of "war results" and were almost lost.

Liu Bei and the others were exhausted. After briefly explaining some things, they fell asleep and left everything to the bitter Man Chong and the others, so Man Chong and the others could only cheer up. I work overtime when I'm in deep sleep.

The captured livestock need to be settled, the captured captives need to be settled, they need to be taken care of, and they need to eat a little.

Because the fruits of the battle were too great, they didn't manage to complete the statistics until Liu Bei woke up, and handed the statistical results to Liu Bei.

In this battle, nearly 71 people were captured, and the population of Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu and other Hu men and women was about 300, and their livestock exceeded [-] million. .

And there have been a lot of management problems.

After Liu Bei learned of the situation, he immediately gave Man Chong an idea.

"I will contact the Zhen family as your helper. You can discuss with the Zhen family and ask them to mobilize local relations and sell a batch of the captives and livestock we captured to Jizhou to exchange them for food.

Then go further to the south to ask Qingzhou and Yanzhou if they need livestock and captives, and try to sell a batch to Qingzhou and Yanzhou as well. "

When Man Chong heard the words, he immediately felt that this should be possible, but it should be done as soon as possible, otherwise the livestock brought back would almost eat up all the grass roots in the wild, and they had to be diverted as soon as possible.

Send it to the north on the grassland to open up pastoral areas under the control of the Youzhou government as soon as possible, learn from Liangzhou's advanced experience, and engage in official grazing under official control.

Sell ​​it to Jizhou and Central Plains in the south in exchange for grain for the people of Youzhou, trying to let them survive this difficult year or two.

All in all, if Youzhou can't eat these things in one bite, they will be overwhelmed, so they need to mobilize national relations to help the people of Youzhou and help them.

The idea is good, and we need to act as soon as possible without procrastinating, but there is no manpower on Manchong's side, so Liu Bei entrusts this task to Cheng Yu, who asks Cheng Yu to run errands and contact buyers all over the place for him.

After everything was dealt with and a charter was established, Liu Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief and had a good meal.

He didn't eat meat for this meal, he ate a meal of grain, ate some fruits and vegetables, and drank a bowl of vegetable soup, which was a good defeat of the anger from eating beef and mutton for a long time.

But even if he was eating, he couldn't enjoy the food well, and he had to talk to Man Chong about the battle situation in southern Jizhou during his expedition to the north.

Then he learned that things were generally good.

Yecheng was still the same, surrounded by the army led by Niu Fu. The defender Shenpei sent people many times to try to break out of the siege, but they were all shot back by random arrows from Niu Fu who was on the defensive. People's hearts began to be turbulent, and the trial partner was a little bit overwhelmed.

As for Liu Yu and Qiao Mao, they both won.

Yecheng was besieged, and the command system belonging to Yuan Shao in Jizhou collapsed. The troops facing Qingzhou and Yanzhou soon lost their logistics supplies and could not fight at all.

Faced with Bao Xin and Yu Jin's onslaught, Jiang Qi couldn't stand it any longer. He retreated step by step and retreated again and again. One after another, the defense line of Guantao County collapsed.

He couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to retreat, but before the drum sounded, Yu Jin attacked his camp at night and succeeded. Jiang Qi was killed by Yu Jin's surprise attack, and the army collapsed. Yanzhou soldiers rushed forward and approached Yecheng.

Liu Yu's side is similar.

Wen Chou's will to fight is very strong, because he is a member of the Wen family, and now the Wen family has followed Yuan Shao all the way to the dark, and there is no other way to go, so they are very resolute in fighting, without any embarrassment of.

However, the morale and actual combat effectiveness of the army are indeed a bit stretched.

Liu Yu's army is mainly composed of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army that surrendered at the beginning. It has been trained in many ways, and it has some combat effectiveness and organization. Tai Shici is a local warrior he trusts. Guan Hai and Guan Cheng are the former commanders of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and they are very close .

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this army is still relatively strong, and there is really nothing to say about the army pulled up by Wen Chou.

Wen Chou was suppressed and beaten by Liu Yu as soon as the battle started. Although he used his personal bravery and elite private soldiers to attack the Qingzhou Army's formation many times, trying to recover the disadvantages, the main force that pulled him down would always defeat the advantage he had managed to get out of. Go back and post some more.

This defensive battle lasted for more than ten days. Wen Chou lost his logistics and food, and the battle could not go on. Most of the army collapsed. In desperation, Wen Chou led his bodyguard cavalry to launch a final charge against the Qingzhou Army, fighting with all his might To the last person, and then killed by Tai Shici.

The two armies of Jiang Qi and Wen Chou were all defeated. Qingzhou Army and Yanzhou Army rushed to Yecheng according to the original plan. Under Yecheng, they met Bingzhou soldiers led by Niu Fu. After talking, they learned that Liu Bei was leading the army in the Northern Expedition, and the situation of the battle was unknown.

It is said that the situation of the battle is unknown, but neither Niu Fu, Qiao Mao, nor Liu Yu thought that Liu Bei would be defeated, so they joined the team that surrounded and attacked Yecheng, and waited for the news of Liu Bei's victory to come back, so that they could fight together. Divide the military merits.

Of course, the result was as they expected. It didn't take long, in the middle and late January, news came back that Liu Bei defeated and destroyed Yuan Shao and the Xianbei cavalry one after another.

Yuan Shao's entire army was annihilated, and the Xianbei people who cooperated with the rebellion were also annihilated. The pacification of the Youzhou Rebellion had first seen the dawn, and the encircling army of Yecheng was very happy about it.

They were even happier when news came in late February that Liu Bei had defeated the Wuhuan people and was preparing to launch a further Northern Expedition.

The rebellious and rebellious armies were defeated one by one by Liu Bei, which fully proved Liu Bei's fighting power to dominate the world. This fighting power will become a strong support for his power. For Liu Yu and others, cooperating with Liu Bei has also become A thing with a high payoff.

So they continued to encircle Yecheng, and even launched several attacks on the city wall on their own initiative, trying to put some pressure on the city and prompt the city to collapse faster.

In addition, they also tried to send the news of Yuan Shao's death to the city, or send people to shout loudly, so as to shake the morale of the army in the city, but the trial and assignment is really a bit capable, and the city has cut off internal and external traffic and reinforcements for a long time, but it still has not collapsed.

A few people "disturbed the morale of the army" and were executed by the judge.

In this matter, the trial and distribution is like a dictatorial king. He resolutely does not allow any thought to survive. He firmly believes that Yuan Shao can defeat Liu Bei, and he can bring the army of Xianbei and Wuhuan people to the south to relieve Ye. The siege of the city.

So Yecheng has been sticking to it.

Until March [-]th, the news of Liu Bei's successful return from the Northern Expedition spread to Yecheng. Niu Fu, Liu Yu, and Qiao Mao rejoiced at this. The news reached the city.

At this moment, Shen Pei's willpower is still firm, he declares that Yuan Shao is not defeated, this is the enemy's strategy to disrupt the army's mind, it is a despicable and shameless deception, everyone should not believe it.

But privately, in the middle of the night, when the willpower of the judge was weakest, he would also doubt whether Yuan Shao was really dead, whether they had really failed completely.

If this is true, isn't his current behavior a joke?

That is to say, it was midnight, and at dawn, the trial match was still the resolute Shen Zhengnan.

But his resolute will does not mean that other people's will is very resolute, so the judge not only has to worry about the siege of external enemies, but also the sneak attack of internal traitors. In the past half a month, he has dealt with three premeditated and organized attacks. The sneak attack is on.

This made him realize that the interior of Yecheng was about to lose stability, and if Yuan Shao couldn't come back as soon as possible, Yecheng would really be doomed.

On March [-]th, an army of thousands of people marched southward from the north, led by Dong Zhuo, the shepherd of Bingzhou. After Dong Zhuo arrived in Yecheng, he showed a large pile of Yuan Jun's battle flags, as well as Yuan Shao's own commander's flag.

"The general said that you can plant these flags around Yecheng, and then wave Yuan Shao's own commander-in-chief flag. If so, Yecheng will be in chaos."

Liu Yu and Qiao Mao were a little surprised by Dong Zhuo's arrival.

And Dong Zhuo explained Liu Bei's meaning.

Liu Bei has already achieved a complete victory in the Northern Expedition. The amount of capture and military exploits is unprecedented since Dou Xian's Northern Expedition. It is the magnificent martial arts of this dynasty, which is enough to shine in the annals of history, so Liu Bei has no interest in gaining more military exploits.

Considering that the military merits of the three prefects are not enough, Liu Bei is willing to give the military merits of capturing Yecheng and ending the war to the three, and the three will share it equally.

Liu Yu and Qiao Mao looked at each other with the same emotion in their eyes.

There's nothing to talk about, anyway, no matter how they do it, they can't get more military exploits than Liu Bei, and now they are willing to reward their help with a final military exploit, they are content.

People are valuable in having self-knowledge.

So Liu Yu and others followed Liu Bei's suggestion to check Yuan Jun's military flag around Yecheng, and then sent a Linchong chariot, and asked a strong soldier to hold Yuan Shao's handsome flag on the Linchong chariot , Showing off his power to the defenders in Yecheng.

Then continue to shout, the content of the shout is very simple.

"Yuan Shao is dead! The judge surrendered!"

Just eight words, a circle of soldiers with loud voices shouted around Yecheng, so loud that it was difficult for the people in the city to hear them.

After the judge was informed of this situation, he hurriedly went to the city to check the situation. After seeing it, his heart was completely chilled.

Doesn't he, who is in charge of logistics, know where these battle flags come from?
Not to mention the battle flag representing Yuan Shao himself that he personally sent someone to supervise and manufacture.

Even if Yuan Shao did not die, Yuan Jun was defeated. Since he was defeated, it is absolutely impossible to return to Yecheng to save him.

He is now fighting alone in a serious way, without help.

Trials were desperate.

(End of this chapter)