One of Chen Mu's military commanders, Fu Jie Ling Shi, who was in charge of the big seal, made a mistake and forgot to stamp the defense order from the Shaofu. As a result, sentries were not placed on several trails leading to Handan in the northwest of the camp. The matter was quickly reported to the King of Qi.
there.
Originally, such low-level officials did not need to be dealt with personally by King Qi. After all, King Qi had to take care of many things and was so busy every day that he was not so busy that he had to take care of the affairs of a three hundred stone official in the company.
However, this dereliction of duty was very harmful and created a loophole in the encirclement, which may have serious consequences. Therefore, in terms of the seriousness of the matter, it must be handled by the King of Qi himself.
More importantly, this Ling Shi was Sima Yi, the son of Sima Fang, Yin of Henan. After King Qi saw it, he felt that since there were no serious consequences, he thought that the big thing would be reduced to a trivial matter, so he let the matter pass.
It can be regarded as a favor for Henan Yin.
However, the Shaofu said that it would be better to conduct official business in an official place to avoid being held accountable by the court in the future. At the insistence of the Shaofu, King Qi did not say anything in the end.
In fact, if the superior looked into this kind of matter carefully, it is reasonable to ask him to be executed. However, since it did not cause any major consequences, in accordance with the military order, he was rewarded with ten military sticks, dismissed from his post, and never hired.
The official position of Fujie Lingshi is under the rule of the Shaofu. At the same time, Sima Yi also serves as the chief clerk in the army who is responsible for organizing documents. His official position is not big, but if Chen Mu is not around, he can do a lot with the power of his hand.
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Therefore, if this position goes wrong, the consequences will be huge. Therefore, the young government used him as a typical example to deal with. Some generals, clerks, and assistants in the army who were close to him did not dare to intercede, so they just let the matter go.
Sima Yi packed up and bowed overnight and left. Chen Mu sent him to the gate of the camp. Before leaving, he told him to study in Hanoi with peace of mind. Next year, he would be summoned to the court again as a councilor.
After thanking Chen Mu for taking care of him, Sima Yi slowly headed back to Hanoi under the escort of several servants.
Chen Mu looked at his leaving figure and nodded slightly.
This matter has been settled, as the old saying goes, it is finalized. After a matter is completely dealt with, there will generally be no further pursuit of responsibility afterwards.
This means that if mistakes are made again in the future, for example, if senior officials in Shexian County take advantage of this loophole that still exists and send troops to attack Xian Yufu, it will be none of Sima Yi's business.
Otherwise, if he continues to be in office and later finds out the cause of the problem, he will not be dismissed from his post and expelled from the military camp, but will be put to death.
In fact, if Chen Mu was a bit bad, he might as well use this opportunity to get rid of Sima Yi.
But firstly, he is not so cowardly, and secondly, Sima Fang is actually his political ally in the DPRK and China, so in order to gain the support of the Sima family, he should do whatever he wants.
Anyway, for him, the future successor has already been decided. As long as he doesn't change his mind, it will be difficult for Sima Yi to reach a high position.
After sending Sima Yi away, Chen Mu began to make secret arrangements.
Two days later, outside the north gate of Handan, groups of soldiers stood tall and formed several square formations.
At the front of the square formation is a high platform, with Liu Bei, Xian Yufu and others standing on the platform.
In ancient times, there was a certain etiquette for accepting surrender. In addition to the appearance of the highest official in the city, the official seal representing the official position, weapons and some symbolic items were also presented.
For example, when Jing Ke was assassinating Qin, he presented the map of Yan State. According to the agreement, the Jizhou army in the city planned to present Yuan Shao's Jizhou Mu seal, Yuan Shao's sword, and the directory of the army, etc.
In addition to Liu Bei and Xian Yufu, Zhang Fei was also there.
All in all, Liu Bei currently has about a group army deployed outside Handan City. In addition to his own troops, there are also the Qianzhao Department, Zhang Liao Department, Gao Shun Department and Zhang Fei Department. Chen Mu's troops are from Liu Bei's own department.
In total, there were about 60,000 people who went down.
Although the city surrendered, it was naturally impossible for all the troops to gather here before Handan was completely captured. Therefore, the more than 60,000 people had to continue to maintain a siege posture, and the generals of each department had to continue to stay in their own defense area camps.
However, Zhang Fei still had Tian Feng in charge of military affairs in the camp, and he suspected that there might be a banquet for the surrender ceremony, so he was too lazy to continue to be tortured by Tian Feng in the camp. He insisted on making a fuss and came over to have a look, so he had no choice but to let him come.
The high platform was temporarily built in the past two days. Early in the morning, Xian Yufu sent out troops to form an array according to the agreed time. He had more than 30,000 people under his command, including 20,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and generals such as Yan Rou and Kirby Neng.
Over there, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Chen Mu and others also arrived on horseback. They did not bring many people with them, only two thousand heavy black armored horses. After the two parties greeted each other, they went up to the high platform and waited together.
Soon the time agreed upon by both parties came. The north gate of Handan City opened, and a general slowly walked out of the city. He held the seal in both hands and walked towards this side.
Behind him was a group of soldiers, fully armed, not many in number, only a few hundred, but quite impressive.
"I didn't expect that even though Yuan Shao is dead, he still has an elite army."
Liu Bei has been fighting for many years, and just by looking at the momentum of these hundreds of people, he feels that it is extraordinary, because his queue is so neat, and he cannot achieve this effect without years of training.
Chen Mu touched the goat's beard that had been left unshaved for a long time and said with a smile: "I heard that in addition to Ju Yi's soldiers who died first, Yuan Shao also had a personal guard named Euphorbia.
They are all selected from the elite of hundreds of battles, I am afraid this team is the Euphorbia Warriors."
"I didn't see the halberd."
Liu Bei raised his head and took a look. The team did not carry halberds, just swords around their waists.
Xian Yufu frowned and said, "Didn't you say I surrendered? Why are they still carrying weapons? Anping, go and send someone to ask."
"only!"
Yan Rou sent a soldier there.
After a while, the soldier came back and reported: "General, the other general said he wanted to offer his sword in person to show his sincerity."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yan Rou thought for a while and said: "They only have a few hundred people, so they shouldn't be able to make any waves."
"Um."
Yan Rou nodded: "Let them come over."
Jiang Yiqu led the Euphorbia soldiers forward slowly. Their steps were very slow and their faces were quite nervous.
The Euphorbia soldiers were indeed a team that used long halberds as weapons. They were not many in number. According to the "Book of the Later Han", there were only a few hundred people. However, they were heavy infantry, comparable to Gao Shun's trapped camp.
However, because they were the team to attack the enemy's leader in this battle, they could not run fast with long halberds and heavy armor, so it was difficult for them to perform a surprise attack, so they all came here with swords and light armor.
If they were wearing heavy armor, they would be confident of breaking out of the siege. But wearing light armor, facing a huge enemy team of tens of thousands would still put them under great pressure.
However, they are elite veterans after all. Although many of the Euphorbia warriors are sweating and nervous, they still maintain the will to fight.
Their pace was neither fast nor slow, and everyone's eyes were locked on the high platform, which was already less than thirty feet away.
"stop!"
Before they even got close, someone from the Qingzhou Army came out on horseback and ordered them to stop.
Jiang Yiqu was shocked.
They all had short halberds hidden behind their backs, intending to approach the high platform and throw them onto the platform at the same time to assassinate the enemy general.
The original plan was to be within ten feet, but now it is only thirty feet away, which is more than seventy meters. I am afraid that the arm strength is not enough to throw the short halberd that far.
"What's wrong."
Jiang Yiqu couldn't help but ask.
The visitor shouted: "Do you understand the rules of surrender? Binding the body and holding the wall. You come here alone to present the seal to us, don't you know?"
Jiang Yiqu was confused at that time. There were so many rules in the surrender ceremony?
Wouldn't it be enough to just say it and donate the seal?
Now that we are close to the high platform, but they are not allowed to pass, what is the use of going alone?
For a while, Jiang Yiqu was a bit stuck.
And just when he was confused, Chen Mu was saying to everyone over there: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, when the Kingdom of Xu was destroyed, the men of Xu were tied up and held a jade in their hands, the officials were weak, and the scholars were in disgrace. When Prince Ying of Qin surrendered to the Great Ancestor, Zi Ying
That is to say, tie the neck to form a group, white horses and plain chariots, carry the emperor's seal and talisman, and descend to the side of Zhi Road. These are the rules of surrender. It is quite rude for this Jizhou army to come over like this."
"Young Master is right. They have all surrendered. Yet they dare to come over so arrogantly. I don't know why they thought they were the winning side."
"We have been fighting Yuan Shao for so long, and we have killed and injured many brothers. It would be good if we did not kill them, but they have not understood the situation at all. King Qi, general, it is time to give them a warning."
"The young master is still very knowledgeable. We had no idea that there were so many rules for surrender."
The generals around him were talking a lot.
Facing the compliment, Chen Mu just smiled and said nothing.
In fact, before the Song Dynasty, there were indeed many rules for surrender. The more famous one is that during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Meng Chang, the last emperor of Shu Shu, surrendered to the Song Dynasty. He tied himself up, held a jade wall in his mouth, invited an white sheep to reward his master, and made a sign of surrender.
Mrs. Huarui sighed loudly, "The flag was lowered on the king's city. I found out in the palace that 140,000 people were all disarmed, and not one of them was a man."
In the period from the Three Kingdoms to the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Chan, the queen of the Jihan Dynasty, said, "Ai arrived in the north of the city, and the queen tied up his own wood and built a gate for the army. Ai untied his wood and burned the wood, please see me."
Sun Hao, the last emperor of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, "Ren Yin, was dredged into the stone. Hao was preparing a gift for the subjugation of the country. He wore a plain chariot and a white horse, with his flesh exposed and bound on his face. He held a jade and led a sheep. The officials declined, and the scholars led the false prince Jin.
, Jin's brother Lu Wangqian and twenty-one others were built at the base gate. Jun bowed to untie him, received the bib and burned it, and sent it to the capital. He collected his pictures and books, sealed his treasury, and the army was selfless. The emperor sent envoys to reward Jun
military."
The same is true for Sima Ye, the last emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty. He probably tied himself up, then held a jade seal representing a status symbol in his mouth, presented a surrender watch, and other steps. Some of them had to take off their clothes or carry a coffin.
.It is really rude and insincere to come and surrender like this, holding a seal and carrying a weapon.
Someone came over there and ordered Jiang Yiqu to tie himself up, and then he went over to offer Yuan Shao's seal and jade seal, which made him confused. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was the appointed time. He looked at the west again, and he didn't know when it happened to be already.
At three o'clock in the day, thick smoke billowed up in the western sky.
"Dong dong dong dong!"
The sound of rolling horse hooves reached everyone's ears from far to near, and the expressions of everyone including those on the high platform suddenly changed.
"Do it!"
Jiang Yiqu knew that because of the delay here, the high-ranking cadres took action at the same time, and he could only bite the bullet and be forced to give the order. Although it was thirty feet away, the power of the short halberd would be weakened a lot, but
I can't care about anything else, I can only start creating chaos first.
Almost at the same time, hundreds of euphorbia soldiers took out the short halberds from their waists behind them, and then threw them towards the high platform with all their strength. After throwing, they immediately pulled out the ring-headed knives from their waists and began to follow Jiang Yiqu in the charge.
The officers and soldiers on the high platform had just been talking about how they wanted to give the Jizhou army a showdown. Before they could say a word or wait for the general over there to tie him up and present the jade seal, they suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves.
Looking further to the west, the overwhelming flying dust can only prove one thing - at this moment, a large group of cavalry is rapidly approaching here.
Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Yu Fu, Yan Rou, Ke Bineng, were all from Youzhou. Liu Bei even worked as a horse dealer with Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping. He could tell at first glance that this was a large group of cavalry, so everyone's expressions changed drastically and they looked at each other.
At a glance, before he could figure out the situation, he saw an overwhelming number of short halberds flying towards him.
"No, it's a scam!"
Chen Mu reacted the fastest and shouted: "Protect King Qi!"
Zhang Fei twirled his Zhangba spear to protect Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's bodyguard Xu Chu also stood up immediately.
But what makes them embarrassed is that because the halberds are too far away, these short halberds look overwhelming and scary, but when they actually fall, most of them fall under the high platform, and only a few of them fall on the platform.
superior.
It happened that Xian Yufu was the protagonist who represented the surrender of Emperor Liu Yu today, so he stood in front, while Liu Bei stood behind him. As a result, no halberd flew to Liu Bei's head at all.
The two protected Lonely, but there were still some short halberds shot at Xian Yufu and others.
They easily pulled out the weapons at their waists and missed or knocked them down.
Except for an unlucky little tribal chief under Kirby Neng who was stabbed in the chest by a halberd because he did not react, this wave of halberd offensive basically could only hurt the guard soldiers below the high platform and did not cause them any harm.
What danger.
However, after the soldiers below the high platform were shot by halberds, there was no protection from the soldiers in front. The halberd warriors drew their swords to kill them, and the soldiers on both sides had no time to support them.
In desperation, Chen Mu immediately said to Zhang Fei, "Let's go, protect my brother and leave."
Zhang Fei was excited to go up and fight on foot, but the location of the Xuanjia heavy cavalry was to the east of the high platform, some distance away from them. And the high platform was surrounded by Youzhou soldiers, so he was afraid that the Xuanjia heavy cavalry would not be able to ride over, so the eldest brother and fourth brother
He really needed protection, so he hesitated for a moment and said to Xu Chu: "Zhongkang, protect the eldest brother and the fourth brother and retreat first. I will stop behind."
Liu Bei also drew his double sword at this time. He was not afraid of a fight, and shouted, "No problem, fight to the death with the enemy." However, Chen Mu, who was afraid of death, rolled his eyes and said: "Brother is really brave in the face of danger.
But little brother, I have no martial arts skills, what if you hurt me?"
Using his own life to morally kidnap Liu Bei was a sure thing. Liu Bei hesitated immediately. He looked around and saw that the enemy had already come to kill him, so he had no choice but to nod and said: "Okay, third brother Zhongkang, let's go first."
Retreat later and get on the horse."
Under the protection of dozens of guards, the four of them got off the platform from behind and ran towards the east side of the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry.
At the rear, Xian Yufu and others had led soldiers to fight with Jiang Yiqu and others.
There was a burst of chaos on the high platform, causing the entire army to get into chaos.
Because the sudden sound of horse hooves made the Youzhou Army immediately realize that the enemy was approaching, and the headquarters was raided, Xian Yufu Yan Rou, Ke Bineng and others did not issue orders, causing the soldiers to be at a loss and did not know whether to form a formation to meet the enemy.
, it is better to come to the rescue first. For a while, the battlefield developed in a more chaotic direction.