Gao Xiang led the crowd to Liu Zhang's house. Many soldiers came up to follow him along the way. More than a hundred people came to the front of the house. In the eyes of the city residents, these more than a hundred people were very powerful, but Gao Xiang
He knew in his heart that this was just a drop in the ocean to the Han army outside the city. Before and after he arrived at the mansion, he left most of the people behind and only entered the temple with a dozen of his trusted followers wearing armor.
Seeing that Liu Zhang and more than a dozen government officials were resting with His Highness, he felt annoyed, so he bowed in the middle with his hands, and then said: "Your Majesty, Chen Shi and I led our troops out of the city to fight fiercely, and we made many gains. But the enemy cavalry came to outflank them.
, we and other soldiers fought in a bloody battle, and most of them were killed or injured. I seemed to have broken through the siege, and if I dare to die, I would like to ask you to envoy. If you want to defend the city, you should use all your wealth to reward the soldiers! And send out another envoy to order Dong He's troops to go north quickly.
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Liu Zhang knew about the defeat, but all his belongings had been transferred to Wu Yi, and he had nothing more to use. He could only say secretly: "In this case, I can only borrow one or two on credit first." Then he had to write again.
Asking for a letter for help, his servants quickly arranged paper and pen for him, but Liu Zhang waved his hand, tore off a piece of silk cloth from his robe, bit his index finger, and wrote a bloody letter on the silk book. When everyone saw this, they were shocked and sad for a moment.
, after Liu Zhang finished writing, he handed the silk cloth to Gao Xiang and asked him to find some soldiers who dared to die and risked their lives to leave the city from the branches of the river in the west of the city. There were only a few words on the silk book: "I will bear death to wait for you. I can do it."
That’s it!”
When Gao Xiang saw this, he couldn't criticize Liu Zhang too much. He kowtowed in a hurry and left the house.
It was late at night, and the palace was getting colder and colder. Many people sneaked away, and Liu Zhang slowly fell asleep in anxiety and exhaustion. Gradually, the east turned white, and the sound of the Han army's siege in the west of the city gradually faded away.
.Suddenly a burst of noise came from outside the mansion. Liu Zhang opened his eyes and glanced around. Only three or four government officials were still around. The one close to him on the left was Liu Ba, and on the right was Peng Yi who had just arrived.
There are also a few Cangtou cleaning up debris in front of the door.
The noise soon spread to the house. Liu Zhang saw Wu Yi's son Wu Yun running up with disheveled hair in a military uniform. His heart skipped a beat. He thought there must be bad news, so he had to force himself to calm down, sit up and wait.
Wu Yun ran and cried all the way. He knelt down in the hall and cried out sadly: "Your Majesty, my father was stabbed in the heart by the loss. He has been seriously injured and is unconscious!"
Liu Zhang was shocked when he heard this. Wu Yi could be said to be the backbone of the entire Mianzhu. If something unexpected happened to him, how would the Mianzhu army and people defend themselves against the enemy? So he quickly shouted to Cangtou: "Hurry up and call Dr. Meng! Treat him!"
No, General Wu, I will hold him accountable!"
Unexpectedly, Wu Yun seemed to have something to say, hesitating and hesitating, looking very embarrassed. Liu Zhang was very impatient when he saw this, and slapped the table eucalyptus, knocking over the wine cup, and shouted: "
If you have anything to say, say it quickly! Is there anything bigger than your father’s life?!”
Wu Yun then kowtowed and said in a low voice: "I'm telling you, the young master was beside my family at the time and was shot by Chuan Chuan. An arrow penetrated his right chest and he died on the spot."
When Liu Zhang heard such bad news, his eyes suddenly turned black. He hurriedly held on to the beam on the side and confirmed in disbelief: "What did you say? Say it again." Wu Yun repeated it loudly and said to Liu Zhang: "
Although the young master is dead, you must hold on, Commander..." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of Liu Zhang falling to the ground, and it turned out that he was already unconscious.
When Liu Zhang woke up again, it was already broad daylight. At this time, Liu Xun was gone and the news that Wu Yi was seriously injured had spread throughout the city. The whole city was in shock, and everyone who heard it was frightened. Without the general, the morale of the army was severely damaged.
Even though it was breakfast time, gray-brown gloomy clouds and mist shrouded the sky over Jiangling, and people had no intention of cooking. But looking at the stacks of Han military camps outside the city, the smoke was already burning. A new day was about to begin.
A round of siege.
At this time, Liu Zhang was surrounded by dozens of government officials. Seeing that he was awake, the government officials came forward to greet Liu Zhang one after another, and advised Liu Zhang to mourn, and then pretended to discuss the next matters of defending the city. Unexpectedly, Liu Zhang got up.
Afterwards, he rubbed his eyes and said in a tone of voice that was more sorrowful than heartbreaking: "No need to say more, I am determined to open the city and surrender."
Everyone was stunned, and Liu Ba persuaded Liu Zhang: "Your Majesty, we have been guarding for ten days now. Dong He's troops will arrive soon. We can hold on for more than ten days at most, and His Highness will also arrive. How can we stay here?"
If you give up at this juncture, what will happen if you fail?"
Liu Zhang waved his hands and said secretly: "In the past, when I followed my father and brother, I only took care of my leisure time and did not know the sufferings of the people. But now that I have lost my son, I know how cruel the war is. Why should the people in the city suffer like this?"
?Besides, now that Hanzhong and Brazil have been lost, what’s the use of holding on to Mianzhu? It’s only a matter of time before the country is overthrown, so there’s no need to force it.”
When Liu Ba and others heard this, they didn't know how to answer.
Then Liu Zhang said: "Although my brother knows people, he is just one person after all. He wants to use a corner of Bashu to map the world, plunder the emperor in the front, and map Jiangdong in the back. It can be said that he has exhausted his plans, but in fact it is a left-right branch.
Stupid. This may be God’s fault, and it probably cannot be undone by manpower.”
Speaking of this, he paused and then said with a smile: "Besides, I heard that there are quite a few Shu people in the Longshou Army. It shows that he really won't make things difficult for you. Why do you have to stop me?" The government officials were even more helpless.
Enough to say.
On the same day, Liu Zhang asked Liu Ba to write a letter of more than 300 words in his mansion. After writing it, he personally considered the words and deleted the redundant parts, leaving more than 200 words, and then asked Liu Ba to copy it again. p>
Hearing that Liu Zhang was planning to surrender, all the officers and soldiers in the city were extremely depressed. Gao Xiang, Fan You and others also ignored etiquette and entered the palace with their trusted officers armed with swords, and they all knelt on the ground. Liu Ba was copying the surrender, and watched the warriors holding swords coming.
After entering, he was frightened and stopped writing to look at Liu Zhang. Peng Yi, who was present, was relatively calm and asked the warrior: "What are your plans for entering without orders?"
Gao Xiang bowed his head with a knife on one knee and said: "If your Majesty wants to surrender, where will you put your highness? I will risk my life to advise you. If you think the city cannot be defended, we can burn the grain and fodder and use the remaining soldiers to leave the city in the chaos."
, The thief will not take precautions, and when he goes to Jiangzhou to seek refuge with His Highness, there is still the possibility of turning defeat into victory!"
Liu Zhang had never been able to ride a horse, and he had always avoided being involved in military expeditions, so Liu Fan left him to take charge of Mianzhu. At this moment, it seemed absurd to ask him to fight his way out of a tight encirclement under military guard. He thought about it, shook his head and said, "I
It is inconvenient to ride a horse, and the people besieging the city are northerners who are good at riding. They will definitely not succeed. They will die or be captured. It will only increase the humiliation. I have made up my mind. You don’t need to persuade me. If you feel sorry for my brother, come here and kill him with a knife.
Kill me, and then continue to defend the city."
Having said this, the other soldiers had nothing to say and could only retreat outside the mansion secretly. Liu Zhang, on the other hand, selected an envoy and ordered him to present a letter of surrender.
As soon as the envoy left Wangchun Gate and could not walk more than a mile, he was immediately captured by Han soldiers and taken to Chen Chong's camp in the middle of the camp. The envoy knelt down on the ground, handed over Liu Zhang's letter of surrender, and handed it to Chen Chong. Chen Chong received
The book was overjoyed, and he smiled at the surrounding officers and said: "We're done, just wait for Liu Fan!" He immediately ordered the whole army to know. Soon after, all the camps of the Han army were shouting for joy, and the sound of whistles and whistles was endless. Chen Chong immediately ordered to break out of the camp and move in.
Looking outside the Chun Gate, he also ordered the envoy to go back with a message, asking Liu Zhang to leave the city and enter the camp by himself.
At midnight the next day, Mianzhu's Wangchun Gate was quietly opened. Looking inside from the opened city gate, there was an empty hole with not a single person in sight. Attracted by this, the Han army officers and soldiers rushed to the east and west sides of the city gate with noisy crowds, and they were crowded in darkness.
Countless people were vying to see Liu Zhang's surrender and Chen Chong's acceptance of Mianzhu. There was an open space in the middle that led directly to Chen Chong's camp. Countless military flags were flying in front of the camp. Chen Chong and other generals gathered here, waiting to accept the surrender.<
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Not long after, two shadows, one large and one small, appeared at the gate of the city. It turned out to be an old man in front, leading a horse. Liu Zhang, dressed in white, tied his hands and tried to sit upright on the horse, facing the crowd.
Take the only road left.
When the soldiers of the Han army saw Liu Zhang's white horse in white clothes coming out of the city to surrender, they burst into thunderous cheers and threw their hats into the air. The whistle of the northerners was so harsh that the horse couldn't stand it and became restless. Fortunately, the old man in front held the reins hard.
Train the horse, otherwise it will start running away.
But this only happened for a moment. Soon a horse ran out of the camp and shouted back and forth to the soldiers on both sides: "The Prime Minister has an order! Silence! Silence! The whole army is silent!" It was Chen Chong who heard this.
Orders, the noise of the sergeants seemed to be strangled by some force, and gradually there was only the sound of bamboo leaves swaying in the autumn wind.
Then the knight arrived in front of Liu Zhang and walked side by side with him. Liu Zhang discovered that this man was actually Li Hui. Li Hui was also a little shy and turned his head away from him, but still whispered: "The prime minister knows that I am embarrassing you.
But in order to boost the morale of the military, we have to listen."
Not long after, the two horses arrived in front of Chen Chong and others. When Liu Zhang got off the horse, Chen Chong personally untied his hands, and then smiled and said, "Why is Ji Yu so late?" Liu Zhang did not dare to look up at Chen Chong.
He only replied: "I'm afraid I won't be able to see my father and brother." Chen Chong knew that his heart was heavy, so he patted his shoulder and said, "I have nothing to do with you. Let's just let it go for today. I will send you to Chang'an tomorrow."
In the past few days, Chen Chong was under great pressure. The scouts in the southwest said that Dong He's army in Nanzhong had rushed to Nanguang and would be able to enter Shu County within a few days. The scouts in the southeast also said that Liu Fan
The vanguard of the army has already appeared in Jiangzhou. The flags are flowing from west to east, stretching for hundreds of miles. The momentum is extremely strong. It is obvious that they have made plans to have a life and death battle with themselves. In about ten days, they will probably arrive.
Jiang Yang.
But now that Chen Chong had captured Mianzhu before the two, Liu Fan was unable to save him, and the initiative on the battlefield was firmly in the hands of the Han army. The last thing to do now was to fight Liu Fan's main force in a decisive battle.