As one of the important figures at the core of Hussar politics, Xun You naturally knew what would happen during this long night...
Pang Tong is very smart, but... because he is young, he can't help but be a little impatient in doing things, while Jia Xu is a bit lazy. He doesn't do something when he can. Once he takes action, he is often the most brutal...
So when Pang Tong added Jia Xu, Xun You felt that this matter might be too lethal and not conducive to the subsequent management of the Hussar. However, Xun You needed this matter, or he felt that he needed to avoid suspicion. After all,
Pang Tong is from the Jingxiang sect, and Jia Xu is from the Xiliang sect, and the people who caused the commotion last night were obviously biased towards Shandong, so Xun You, who was born in the Xun family of Yingchuan, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Although the sky was already bright, it was still very gloomy, with dark clouds hanging overhead, making breathing a bit suffocating.
Xun You slowly put on the red and black official court clothes and held up the Jinxian crown on his head.
Red represents blood, black represents steel, and the red and black court uniforms represent the iron and blood of the great man.
This is what Qiusi said.
Xun You thinks it makes sense.
Those who cannot stand up in the blood of iron are not qualified to wear such a Han Dynasty uniform.
The steward next to him asked in a low voice: "My lord, there was chaos last night... Do you need more protection..."
Xun You shook his head slightly, "No need to add more, just keep it as usual."
The steward nodded in agreement and then stepped back.
Xun You and other servants arranged the ribbons and jade pendants, and then walked forward slowly.
Last night was chaotic. Some people were just looking at money, some were wishful thinking, some were bewitched by others, and some were at a loss. But no matter what, starting from today, everything will change, and those who have not yet
Those who stand in the right position, or those who are still hesitating, will pay a heavy price...
There is always only one chance, just like last night is only last night. After one night, the sky is bright and the dust has settled.
The sleeves of court clothes are wide and complicated. Of course, it is impossible to ride on a horse, but only in a car.
Xun You sat upright as usual.
But in Chang'an, things were different from usual.
The wheels rolled over the bluestone slabs in Chang'an City.
Soldiers stand on the long street, and there are crossbowmen patrolling the high platform. The defense force in Chang'an City does not seem to be anything extraordinary on weekdays, but when the veil of warmth is lifted, it is extremely sharp.
Knives and guns.
Xun You participated in the design and implementation of Chang'an's defense system, so he could know the current situation without looking too far.
All the gates of each cell were not opened, and all the soldiers were waiting near the gates.
This is not only true in Chang'an City, but also in various tombs, as well as in various places in Sanfu...
If last night was blood, today is iron.
Xun You arrived in front of General Hussar's Mansion, got out of the car, nodded slightly to Ma Yan, and then turned to glance at Wei Duan and others who were still waiting on the porch. Although there was a brazier and food, Wei Duan and others seemed a little listless.
He quietly withdrew his gaze, without saying hello to Wei Duan and others, and walked into the main hall under the guidance of the hussar guards.
There is a huge sand table placed in the main hall, and next to the sand table is Pang Tong, and next to Pang Tong's hand are some small flags that have been pulled out, lying on the table in a mess, like
Corpses were scattered all over the battlefield.
When Pang Tong saw Xun You coming in, he raised his eyes and said with a smile: "How come Gongda is dressed like this... Well, it seems that I need to change into another suit..."
Xun You smiled and walked to the sand table, "How?"
Pang Tong clicked on Zuo Fengyi, "There are only two or three places left... that's about it..."
Xun You looked down and saw Zuo Fengyi.
In a daze, Xun You seemed to see the land of Zuo Fengyi through the thick clouds, and even saw the forts in Zuo Fengyi...
Many laws in the Han Dynasty were relatively loose, such as the Wubao of Sanfu in Chang'an. Since the Han Dynasty, there has been no standard law to regulate it.
Just like many other aspects of laws in the Han Dynasty, they were full of loopholes.
Even this piece of land was once regarded as Shanglin Garden during the Western Han Dynasty.
In the Western Han Dynasty, the land distribution method of Shanglin Garden was very different from that of the local area. Part of it was used to resettle the barbarians who came down from the Qinling Mountains, and the other part was sold to the rich people in Guanzhong. Both kinds of people
They have the habit of living in groups and are willing to build forts where they live.
Wubao is somewhat similar to European fortresses, but it is also somewhat different. The living style of Wubao is conducive to the formation of primitive cities, but due to the limitations of the size of Wubao itself, it is impossible to have a larger city scale, and because there are
After entering Wubao, these guys are inevitably a bit fearless.
During the three to four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, there was no law stating what the specifications of Wubao should be. Instead, there were clear regulations on residence in towns...
Perhaps hundreds of years ago, this place was just a dense woodland, but now, the woods have disappeared, leaving only the docks connected to each other. Or maybe in the beginning, these docks were like
Like the military forts outside Chang'an, they could be used as the acropolis of Chang'an's mausoleum, but now, they have become a kind of restriction on the development of Qiusi Feiqian.
In Wubao, chaotic quarrels broke out one after another.
For the same thing, I often encounter two different attitudes. If I haven't done it, I am sarcastic and sarcastic, but I still don't die by doing it. If I have done it, I am shouting that it is not a sin.
die!
"How could this be so?! Brother Ma! Isn't it foolproof?!"
"..."
"What should we do now? Brother Zhao, didn't you once say that our ancestors killed hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers here? The martial arts has been inherited for hundreds of years, and there are countless elite soldiers. Where are these soldiers now?"
"..."
"Now the Hussar has ordered General Xidu Tinghou to lead fifty thousand troops and purge the three auxiliaries! We will be here in a moment, what should we do?"
"...not fifty thousand..."
"Ah? What?"
"The soldiers led by the conquering general must not number fifty thousand..."
"..."
After a brief silence, there was a new round of quarrel.
And in the quarrel, time just disappeared...
The development of all things in the world takes time to brew.
Whether it's fine wine or bitter wine.
It's like fighting a war.
People who are anxious generally cannot fight well.
Many times, fighting is a bit of a drag, requiring a lot of foreplay, and those who start the fight eagerly to get to the point will often be torn to pieces due to insufficient lubrication.
Therefore, you need to be patient and well-prepared during foreplay, and then when you go into battle with real swords and guns, you will find that everything will fall into place easily.
From a certain point of view, these big people in Zuo Fengyi are not compassionate. People with compassionate hearts will never order or lure others to the battlefield, let alone force others to die. But Zuo Fengyi's
On the surface, these wealthy people claimed that they were good people and compassionate, but they encouraged ordinary people to die, and even used them as a protective film in an attempt to hinder the steps of Zhang Liao and others.
Zhang Liao quickly led his cavalry to Chang'an. After knowing that there was no serious problem in Chang'an, he changed from the previous urgency and started the follow-up work in a very orderly manner.
Zhang Liao came here mainly to protect the safety of Chang'an. Now that he has seen that Chang'an is basically stable, there is no need to continue to be anxious.
As for Zuo Fengyi's guys, in a sense, they can no longer achieve anything. The Longxi soldiers plus the people coming from Wuguan are like a huge net bag, with the horses and Yue
The Tongguan troops were packed inside, and then screened step by step...
When a family has lived in a fixed area for hundreds of years, and coupled with the strange laws of the Han Dynasty that protect innocent people, some things will happen that even Zhang Liao will inevitably sigh.
A farmer pretended to be deaf and mute, unwilling to identify the rebels, and even hid the rebels in his home in an attempt to deceive Zhang Liao's men. Unfortunately, these lies did not have much effect, and once it was discovered that he was harboring the rebels, Zhang Liao
This farmer and the rebels must be killed together, otherwise once this deception spreads, it will be useless even if Zhang Liao and Ma Yue search Zuo Fengyi ten times.
General concealment, or silence, will not lead to death, but hiding it at home...
It's a death penalty if caught.
Of course, the big rebels deserve death, but just because ordinary soldiers rebel because they are relatively weak, they are justified and can be pardoned, and then be exempted?
joke.
Otherwise, how can we say that those who know how to pull back from the brink are smart people?
"General, why are these guys like this?" Xu Yu, who came from Wuguan to cooperate with Zhang Liao's actions, was a little puzzled. He frowned and asked, "Didn't we explain clearly enough? Or did this guy just not understand at all?"
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Zhang Liao shook his head, sighed, and said, "General Hussar once said a word called um... inertia... It's like a galloping horse. If it stops suddenly, it will most likely fall... And these people,
It has been driven for more than a hundred years, how can it stop at any time..."
The captured rebels have no chance of survival. They are usually hanged immediately on the roadside. The army is like a giant net, and with every step forward, the lives of more or less rebels are terminated.
It is not based on someone's will.
Because this is treason.
Zhang Liao even thought that if they were not charged with treason, it would be more difficult for Zhang Liao and others to arrest these people, because these people could easily escape and even get more help from ordinary farmers.
Cover up and hide, because the murderer can say that he is seeking revenge, and the person who sets the fire can say that he is killing evil. Only the crime of treason cannot be forgiven...
Even so, many farmers who received "favors" from these big families were still unwilling to identify the rebels, and even deliberately covered them up. Perhaps it was because of the twisted relatives, or perhaps because they had a cup of wine back then.
A basket of food, anyway, when Zhang Liao and others, especially those with non-Guanzhong accents, were interrogating and inspecting, the eyes of these farmers would always be cold, even indifferent.
In the concept of these farmers, they are first of all people from a certain ditch or a certain village, then they are people from a certain county, then they are people from Zuo Fengyi, and after that, it is too big
, they don’t have any concept...
With three to four hundred years of inertia, how could it be possible for these farmers to change in an instant? Even though Qiaoqi has been constantly trying to use welfare, farming, agriculture and engineering, and various means to deepen the impression of these farmers in the past few years, but
Just like later generations of smartphones, even after more than ten or twenty years of development, there are still a large number of people, especially those of a certain age, who don't know how to use them.
So is it because smartphones don’t work hard?
Or are these people too stupid?
Whose fault is it?
After Zhang Liao ordered the killing of the farmers who were harboring the rebels, Zhang Liao also saw the almost gray eyes of the women and children lying on the corpses crying, and the hatred hidden in their eyes...
Did Zhang Liao do anything wrong?
So whose fault is it?
Then wipe out the roots and kill these women and children as well?
Although it is said that these big family members of Zuo Fengyi who deliberately caused trouble deserved their death, these farmers and women did not participate in the rebellion, they were just subconscious, or they were not clear about the situation, and then for some reason, they sheltered and deceived Zhang Liao.
, but a little pitiful.
But pitifully, Zhang Liao had no way to pardon these guys, and from a certain point of view, Pang Tongyi began to intentionally condone, and even indulge in, just to prepare for the complete suppression of these guys, so Zhang Liao was even less likely to do it because of him
Personal emotions make the whole plan fall short.
The entire Zuo Fengyi was caused by the Sanfu area in Guanzhong, but it was precisely because of this that when Zhang Liao and others pulled up the net, these people became trapped animals in the cage. In addition to death, they either
The only option is to flee into the mountains or fight to the death.
Therefore, after Zhang Liao and others showed their determination, these guys in Zuo Fengyi area also started to show their claws and teeth from pretending that they had never done anything and were good babies, and gradually began to resist. Although
It was just sporadic, but when the army of Zhang Liao and others approached Lian Shao, large-scale resistance and escape began.
The aura of despair continues to spread in Zuo Fengyi...
The soldiers led by Zhang Liao and others did not change their behavior because of the new resistance. All search processes had a strict standard. The agricultural bachelor followed the military scouts with a roster. Anyone who appeared was not on the roster.
If you are an abnormal person, and you also find artifacts or property that are inconsistent with your family situation, then you are basically a rebel, or at least participating in zero-yuan shopping activities.
The entire army was like a sophisticated machine, squeezing and combing past Zuo Fengyi at its own pace...
It's like squeezing an abscess, and the root of the lesion is in the lotus spoon.
"They dare not attack!"
"They don't dare! There are still people here, there are still people!"
"Don't the Hussars pride themselves on benevolence and righteousness? There are thousands of innocent people in Wubao now. If they are attacked by force, they will be infamy for thousands of years!"
"Yes, yes! When the time comes, it will be remembered in ancient history that the hussars massacred innocent people and massacred the common people!"
"Yes, yes! They dare not attack!"
"As long as we work together, there will be a turn for the better!"
"But...what if...what if, the hussars really attack..."
"This...someone will drive the old man forward. If he takes action, he will ruin the name of the knight's loyalty! How can he pretend to be kind to the world!"
Just like most people who do bad things, they always find excuses and reasons for themselves. What bad people like most is to speak emotionally when they need to be reasonable, and then switch back to being reasonable when they need to be reasonable. And
The truth is still their own fallacy.
And what’s very interesting is that most people who do bad things, or even die, are often caused by trivial things. It’s like a thief who originally only wanted to steal some money from an Internet cafe for late-night snacks, but then was discovered.
Afraid that the other party would call the police, he would kill the other party without stopping...
Zuo Fengyi's wealthy family may have originally just wanted to get some benefits and blackmail Qi Qifei into talking to him, but as he continued to do so, he became bolder and ended up causing trouble.
The subsequent development of the situation was as if the world was turned upside down. Not only did they fail to successfully complete their planned goals, but they also escaped from their control and slid step by step into the bottomless abyss.
It was like dreaming of a beautiful woman warming the bed at first, then putting her hands on her, and looking up, it was like a flower picking her nose.
Even so, these people are still somewhat lucky...
The fallacy gave them faith, and the strong fort built by themselves contributed to their luck. Because there are no restrictions on forts in the laws of the Han Dynasty, since there is a statue like Dong Zhuo in Chang'an
Xiwu, which is as big as a county town, naturally has a Wubao, which is like a military stronghold for the large family of Zuo Fengyi.
At the same time, around Wubao, there are also tenants and farmers who are close to these large households. They have relied on these large households for decades or even hundreds of years to survive, and have become accustomed to obeying the instructions of these large households...
There were people, food, and a strong fortress. These people were in a panic and refused to accept the result of failure, so they naturally chose to resist.
Wubao is similar to a small town.
As for siege operations, the kind of ladder ant attack is the most backward method. It has long been no longer used in the hussars.
And as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Tzu once said that siege equipment must be used to attack a city. Only when the general is overwhelmed with anger can he attack it with ants. It can be seen that the ant attack model fell behind in the Spring and Autumn Period, not to mention that it has always been
Fei Qian who advocates technological innovation.
In siege battles, the most intense areas are often near the city gates.
No matter how the city gate is reinforced, it is definitely not as strong as the city wall. As an attacker, it is faster to project troops through the city gate than to climb over the city wall. As a defender, if the city wall is climbed and conquered, there is still something to be done, and the city gate
Once it is broken, it is basically irreversible, so the area near the city gate is both the focus of attack and the focus of defense.
There are five Wubao in Lianshao, ranging in size from small to large. Originally, these wealthy families of Zuo Fengyi had imagined that they would use five Wubao to resist. However, they never expected that Zhang Liao and others would give them to them as soon as they arrived.
A wake-up call!
Under the cover of the shield, gunpowder was buried at the gate of Wubao. With a loud bang, the gate of Wubao opened, and Zhaojiabao, who was on the edge, lost the ability to resist...
Several other people in Wubao were stunned with fear.
Another chaos inevitably occurred, and after Zhang Liao and others controlled Zhaojiabao and began to move to the second Wubao, the Tian family in the second Wubao had not waited for Zhang Liao and others to take action.
, that is, he opened the gate of Wubao and expressed his surrender!
The seemingly tough shell collapsed in the blink of an eye...
