Chapter 374 Burning the wall of the dock and the great changes in Liangzhou
Author: Soy Sauce Mixed History
Chapter 374 Burning the wall of the dock and the great changes in Liangzhou
The Xiao family is one of the top local wealthy families in Hanzhong County, and their family construction also has a strong Wubi style.
Wubao, also known as Wubao, 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 started 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 came together. In order to support their troops and protect themselves, the local heroes built the walls of Wubao one after another.
The shape of the Wubao is roughly a dock built on the ground, surrounded by walls, with front and rear doors, a watchtower built inside the dock, and turrets built at the four corners, just like a small city.
And often in the dock wall, local powerful people will hoard a large amount of troops, food and grass, and have the power to rebel based on objective conditions.
If some privileges are the political and economic protection of powerful families, then the existence of this kind of dock for stationing troops and grain is the protective umbrella of powerful families in the military.
This was also the greatest confidence that Xiao Pu dared to openly threaten Mi Yang at that time.
With the existence of Wubi, every local wealthy family is a "small prince" who can separatize the local area at any time.
Precisely because he knew this, Mi Yang issued an order to exterminate the wealthy families who openly defied him, and also sent a large number of troops to the place.
Perhaps in the eyes of some future generations, if you want to exterminate Mi Yang, you only need to issue a decree, and there is no need to make too much preparation for the touch of upper and lower lips.
But at least in the Han Dynasty, if you wanted to completely eliminate a local wealthy family, you were essentially fighting a war.
How can anyone not make strict preparations before going to war?
The local wealthy families will not just surrender.
And if this matter wasn't dangerous, why would Guan Yan have to worry about Mi Yang that day?
Currently, the three thousand elite Liang troops led by Zhang Yi personally are facing a dock wall that occupies a very large area.
Although Wubi is a fortress built by almost every powerful family.
However, thanks to the backward productivity of the world, unless it is a wealthy family, the dock wall usually does not occupy a large area, and the fortifications are not very tight.
However, as the Xiao family of Mianyang is the representative of a wealthy family in Hanzhong, the dock wall was built with great effort by the heads of the Xiao family of all generations. Naturally, it occupies a very large area, and the wall is high and the city is strong.
When Mi Yang wanted to attack the local powerful families in the territory before, he had sent Si Wencao's spies in advance to conduct a detailed investigation of the powerful aristocratic families in the territory.
He was well aware of the size of the Xiao Clan's dock.
But just knowing the scale of Xiao's dock wall, he finally made the decision in his heart to attack those local tyrants who were doing evil.
In the past few decades, the Xiao family has expanded the dock wall of his family to this size. What if he or other wealthy families were given a period of time?
Thinking about it, the suzerain supervisory system, which had great influence in history, would have come into being in due course.
Mi Yang treats the evil-doing aristocratic families in his territory as enemies on the battlefield.
Therefore, after knowing the scale of the Xiao family's dock, he gathered the leaders of numerous aristocratic families in Nanzheng to capture them all in one fell swoop, under the dual pretext of celebrating the military parade during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This is the necessary preparation for him to clear all the dock walls in the territory.
In today's world, the patriarch is the backbone of every family. Their prestige has been passed down for hundreds of years and has already penetrated into the hearts of every clan member.
They are equivalent to the spiritual leaders in the hearts of every family's private soldiers.
And as long as Mi Yang sends troops to attack the docks of those big families, the clan leaders are not in the docks.
So no matter how many private soldiers a family has or how frequently they train, their combat effectiveness and military morale will drop to the extreme in an instant.
Just like what the Xiao clan members in the dock wall are showing now.
Facing the sudden appearance of thousands of elite soldiers, since Xiao Pu was not in the dock wall now, even though most of the Xiao family were in the dock wall at the moment, they all looked very flustered and frightened.
Another reason why they were so panicked and frightened was that in order to completely turn Mianyang County into his own private property, Xiao Pu used the opportunity of colluding with the Mianyang County magistrate to replace most of the county soldiers in Mianyang County.
A soldier of the Xiao clan.
This shows that the current problem facing Xiao's dock is not only that Xiao Pu is no longer in charge of the overall situation, but also that the defensive forces in the dock are far from enough.
After all, before Zhang Yi led his army to the outside of Xiao's dock today, none of the Xiao clan members, including Xiao Pu himself, thought that one day their dock would really be attacked.
The Mianyang Xiao family has been the local king and hegemon for too long.
Under these two realistic factors that are enough to make people collapse, the military morale of the few Xiao clan soldiers inside the dock wall has already collapsed.
Fortunately, there are still some Xiao clan members inside the dock wall, otherwise the Xiao family's dock wall might have collapsed on its own.
However, although some elders of the Xiao clan could barely suppress the panic within the dock wall temporarily by relying on the combined prestige of several people, they also knew that this was not a long-term solution.
So before Zhang Yi's army besieged the city, they immediately sent some tribesmen to Mianyang County to bring back most of their tribesmen.
At this moment, when they recognized that the thousands of troops outside the dock wall were all Liangzhou regular troops, they also knew that this army must have been sent by Mi Yang to clean them up.
Under such circumstances, it was foreseeable that Xiao Pu would encounter an unexpected incident.
Now all they can rely on are the thousands of ethnic soldiers in Mianyang County.
As long as those thousands of clan soldiers can return to the rescue in time, then their family still has a glimmer of hope.
But what those Xiao clan elders didn't know was that Zhang Yi had already anticipated every move they made.
Otherwise, he would not have sent Shi Bao in advance to lead a group of elite troops to ambush on the road between Mianyang County and Xiao's Wudi.
Zhang Yi was able to predict this in advance, not because he had any scheming skills, but because he was accompanied by a clan leader who had the same origin as Xiao Pu.
This patriarch was one of the officials who was 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 power and status.
Although there is a difference in power and status, they are the same kind after all.
People of the same kind understand each other best.
After Zhang Yi led his army hundreds of steps outside the wall of Xiao's Wharf, he, who had rich battle experience, quickly noticed through the reactions of some Xiao clan soldiers on the wall of Xiao's Wharf that the current situation on the wall of Xiao's Wharf was
The fact that people's hearts are unstable.
After realizing this, Zhang Yi originally wanted to seize the opportunity and launch an attack immediately, but his move was dissuaded by Yu Lin.
When Yu Lin came to Zhang Yi, he bowed to him and said, "I know that there is a tunnel inside the wall of Xiao's dock, which can lead directly to the outside of the wall.
That tunnel was built by the previous generation of the Xiao clan chief to prevent unexpected events and wanted to leave a way out.
Now the people in Thief's Wound are unstable, and the tunnel wants to defend the void.
The captain might as well send a group of elite soldiers to sneak into the dock wall through that tunnel, so that they can capture the traitor's dock wall in one fell swoop without any effort."
After listening to Yu Lin's words, Zhang Ni's face showed great joy.
Uncle Mu was indeed right, the Yulin faction was indeed of great use in the army.
Enemies may not necessarily understand each other, but former comrades must have a deep understanding of each other.
Zhang Yi was not too worried that Yu Lin would lie to him, because Yu Lin's life was now in his hands.
Watching the night in the sky gradually darken, Zhang Ni already made a decision in his heart.
He immediately summoned a Sima and asked him to select hundreds of soldiers from the army whose night blindness was not serious.
Then, when the sky darkens completely, let him lead hundreds of elite soldiers to follow the tunnel Yu Lin told him and sneak into the wall of Xiao's dock.
However, after instructing this point, Zhang Ni specifically told this Sima to keep Yu Lin within the reach of his weapons at all times.
Although the possibility of Yu Lin deceiving him is not high, he must be on guard against others.
As time gradually passed, the sky gradually became darker.
When darkness completely covered the sky in Mianyang County, a courtyard on the wall of Xiao's Wudi was brightly lit.
This is the ancestral hall of the Xiao family.
At this time, several elders of the Xiao clan were sitting around and discussing countermeasures.
The tribesmen they sent to contact reinforcements during the day have been gone for two hours. According to the time, the thousands of tribesmen should have returned after the rapid march.
But now, according to the reports from the tribesmen on the city wall, apart from the torches held by thousands of Liang troops, no fire was found in the direction of Mianyang County outside the wall.
It is necessary to light a torch when traveling at night. The absence of fire in Mianyang County means that there are no reinforcements coming towards this place.
This fact makes these Xiao clan elders worried.
When things go wrong, there must be monsters, especially now when the Xiao family is facing a catastrophe.
But now the outside of the dock wall has been surrounded by Liang Jun. Under this situation, all they can do is wait.
A white-haired clan 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 his more than ten years as the third elder, he used his power to obtain a lot of benefits for his family, otherwise the Xiao family would not be able to develop to the present stage.
Although he did many illegal things in the process, he never regretted anything he had done in the past as long as it was for the sake of his family.
But today, when the Xiao family was facing a catastrophe, a trace of regret appeared in his heart for the first time.
Perhaps he had expected this day in his heart, but when the day arrived, his heart could not be calm.
Looking at the pitch-black sky above his head, he couldn't help but thought to himself:
The sky is so dark tonight, does it mean the future fate of his Xiao family?
Just when the Xiao clan elder was deeply worried about this, he suddenly heard bursts of killing cries outside the courtyard.
The shouting of killing is coming from far away, from small to loud, and is moving towards here quickly.
This sudden scene not only frightened the elder of the clan, but also other elders of the Xiao clan who were discussing countermeasures also became at a loss because of the frightening shouts of killing.
Several elders of the Xiao clan instantly gathered in the open space, looking at the closed door with fearful eyes.
A suspicion emerged in their minds, as if the sky was falling and the earth was falling - Liang Jun had invaded.
Just as they were becoming more and more frightened because of this suspicion, the closed door in front of them was violently opened by some Liang Jun soldiers covered in blood and holding torches.
After the door was knocked open, Sima, who was assigned the task by Zhang Yi, rushed into the courtyard with Yu Lin.
After a while, the small courtyard was surrounded by hundreds of Liang Jun soldiers holding sharp swords.
Hundreds of sharp blades were shining with strange firelight under the illumination of torches, and this strange firelight was announcing the final outcome of the Mianyang Xiao family.
When Yu Lin saw the elders of the Xiao clan who were surrounded, he immediately pointed at them and said to Liang Jun Sima Yan:
"Those are the elders of the traitor Xiao Pu. If we capture them all, the Mianyang Xiao family will never be able to stand up again."
When Yu Lin came out to identify the elders of the Xiao clan, his appearance happened to be clearly seen by the elders of the Xiao clan.
The moment they saw Yu Lin, these elders of the Xiao clan who had gone through many vicissitudes of life could not guess how Liang Jun easily broke into their dock wall.
A kind of anger at being betrayed immediately emerged in the hearts of these elders of the Xiao clan.
One of the Xiao clan elders pointed at Yu Lin's nose and cursed angrily: "My Xiao clan and Yu clan have been married for generations and have been in good terms with each other. You are my clan leader's relative and friend!"
I didn’t expect you to be such a ruthless person, aren’t you afraid that other clans will attack Qian Yulin Qun!”
There is no scruple in the insults of a dying man.
Facing the insult from the elder of the Xiao clan, Yu Lin's face showed some shame at first. His eyes were a little dodgey, but soon all the shame on his face disappeared.
A man who knows the current affairs is a hero. He is working for Liangzhou Mu. What's wrong with him?
Anyway, there is no turning back now, so continue on one path to the end.
Liang Jun Sima didn't want to deal with the unclear things between the wealthy families. He looked at the elders of the Xiao clan in front of him and coldly uttered one word from his mouth:
"kill!"
When this word reached the ears of hundreds of Liangjuns on the field, a moment later some Liangjuns rushed towards the Xiao clan elders with sharp blades in hand.
Soon there were several miserable sounds in the backyard.
After executing the elders of the Xiao clan, Liang Jun Sima looked at the Xiao clan ancestral hall in front of him.
He took the torch from the hand of a subordinate and then decisively threw the torch into the wooden Xiao's ancestral hall.
Under the action of Liang Jun Sima, many Liang Jun also threw their torches into the Xiao Family Ancestral Hall in front of them.
The whole sky was filled with firelight in an instant, and the red firelight became brighter and brighter as time went by.
The fire that keeps leaping in the Xiao family's ancestral hall seems to burn out all the evil hidden in the deep ancestral hall.
Looking at this scene in front of him, the Liang Jun Sima's eyes became more determined.
From then on, there was no more Mianyang Xiao family in the world who had done many evil things.
From then on, there was no local wealthy family in Liangzhou who could disobey the government order.
When Zhang Yi led the army to break through the wall of Xiao's dock, 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.
A major earthquake with far-reaching consequences occurred throughout Liangzhou under Mi Yang's iron-blooded hands.
The aftermath of this major earthquake also spread around Liangzhou at an extremely fast speed.
However, the first city to be affected by the aftermath was not Chengdu, but Guanzhong, not far from Liangzhou.
A confidential message titled "Great Change in Liangzhou" was quickly sent to Cao Wei's general Cao Zhen.
(End of chapter)
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