In fact, Xu Hui is also puzzled by the fact that the big households in Qi County have not rebelled against the water so far. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In her mind, these big families had the same virtues as many families she had ever seen—short-sighted, shallow, selfish, and no one else was in their hearts except themselves, and it was even more difficult for them to have any integrity or know what righteousness.

Because of this, every time you defend the city, you should take care of all these guys and beware of them opening the door to the city. But now Sun Jie didn't even take care of them, no matter inside or outside the county, people with clear minds were waiting for them to sacrifice the city, but they didn't take action for a long time...... When did these great families become so faithful?

However, since this kind of thing can't be figured out, don't think about it. Anyway, two days ago, the Shangdang army defeated the reinforcements of the Taiyuan Grain Interception Road, and it was true that Dou Kai could send cavalry over, but if he didn't match the foot soldiers, he came to send them, but if he matched the foot soldiers, he wouldn't be able to catch up for a while, let alone think about it. After a moment of depression, Xu Hui was full of energy, and took turns with his third uncle and brother to supervise the city.

The three of them all have great power, whether they kill or reward, it is a matter of one sentence. In the case of the stimulus of heavy profits, the promise to take care of their families, and the fact that once they retreat, they will be dealt with by military law, or even directly killed, all the soldiers and soldiers will go all out. Even if he was hit by a stray arrow on the way forward, he didn't dare to retreat, and the red-eyed man simply pulled out the arrow directly, and rushed forward with a roar, seeing that the defenders were terrified, and their movements were half a minute slower.

Xu Pan used his troops in a decent manner, but he couldn't stand the fact that there was a tricky Xu Heng beside him, and Xu Hui, who was good at checking and filling in the gaps, under their advice, what harassed and honked the horn at night, pretended to attack the city in the middle of the night, and waited for the enemy not to take it to heart, and really attacked the city at night...... In this way, the guards of Qi County have long been tortured to exhaustion. The heavens seem to be on the side of the party, and the city has been attacked for nearly ten days, and there is not a drop of rain falling from the sky, but the fire is burning more and more because of the dry weather. In addition, Xu Ze had already planted in Qi County, seeing that the timing was good, began to spread rumors in the city, saying that Dou Kai was cruel and unkind, and was not tolerated by God. If it weren't for that, how could God not help, there is rain in Taiyuan from time to time, but there is no one these days?

"Mandate of Heaven", you say it's ethereal, it's indeed mysterious, people can't touch the edges, but it can't stand people from believing it. People in this era were already living a very bleak life, praying to God and worshiping Buddha, longing for a better life, and naturally believing in the destiny of heaven. This rumor seems to be marginal, but in fact, it has been reviewed by the descendants and trusted staff of the Xu family, and it is naturally a little tight, and it sounds like it has a nose and an eye, and it is spread ten or ten, ten is spread to hundreds, not to mention that most of the people believe it, and even many officials and officials who are not in high or low official positions, even the chief of the army, will also be suspicious.

The enemy outside the city was like a rainbow, and the guards inside the city were in a slump, and some people were unwilling to send people, and they were so powerful that they refused to contribute.

This approach has attracted praise from all over the county, but it has made the already bad situation in Qi County even worse.

Xu Hui has calmed the mind of the big family in Qi County, and he will not be soft again, if it is said that when she supervised the battle before, the defenders of Qi County could be a little slower, but now they have no power. However, in one morning, the West City Gate has missed three times, not to mention the great achievements of the catapult. The west gate of Qi County has collapsed a small half, and it is too late to even catch up with the system, and the wooden wall that is temporarily rushed to resist the impact of the catapult, there are faint signs of collapse, and the partial enemy has not rushed out, disrupting their courage to attack. If this continues, within today, maybe Qi County will be able to take it down.

Seeing that victory was in sight, Xu Pan and Xu Heng didn't care about the complicated military affairs, as well as the situation of Jiuyun Mountain Road and Grain Road, etc., and even though they hadn't closed their eyes for many days, they also stood on a high place together, overlooking the battle situation.

When the sun gradually set to the west, most of the wooden walls in the west of Qixian County finally collapsed, and the city wall also had many big openings, and the soldiers of the Shangdang climbed to the city wall and fought with the other party. The weary defenders could no longer sustain such an offensive, and the gates were soon opened by the Shangdang soldiers who stormed the county. The generals were warm, under the command of Xu Pan, in addition to Xu Lin leading people outside the city to continue to press the formation, many soldiers rushed into Qi County, swept away the enemy, and by the way, divided into teams to attack the mansions of the big families, and the elite troops followed the three descendants of the Xu family and went straight to the county office. Unexpectedly, when he arrived outside the county office, he did not see the slightest resistance, only a white flag hung on the bamboo pole, fluttering in the wind.

"This ......" Xu Hui was stunned in his heart, and subconsciously looked at his third uncle and brother, wanting to ask if the customs of Taiyuan were different from those of the Shangdang, but he saw that the white flag was abruptly closed, and after a while, he trembled and changed to a vermilion, and everyone couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

This...... Which play is this playing?

Xu Pan has always been a person who doesn't want to think about it, so when he saw this, he touched his head irritably, and ordered someone to rush in directly, and took Sun Jie and other officials. Who expected them to kick open the door, and saw that within the second gate, a group of family members were standing with swords and ropes, and when they saw their feet, they were messed up, and then looked ahead, almost all the officials of Qi County, large and small, were tied up strongly, and several large lords stood next to Sun Jie, and Sun Jie ...... is swearing in a bad mood.

"This official eats the king's fortune, and the matter of the loyal mansion monarch, how can he be such a villain who is a traitor?" The more people next to him, the happier Sun Jie scolded, "You are disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unrighteous people......"

When Xu Heng heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "Loyalty is loyalty, filial piety is filial piety, which one does Dou Kai occupy to make you bear such infamy?" ”

Sun Jie glanced at Xu Heng's standing position and dress, and guessed who this person was, his heart was really a sharp young man, compared to Dou Kai's favorite son Dou Cheng, there was more than one talent left. What's even more rare is that with the same self-confidence to the point of almost arrogance, Dou Cheng makes people feel annoyed, but Xu Heng makes people think that he should be like this.

Whether the lord's children and grandchildren are good or not is one of the conditions that must be referred to for "effectiveness", Sun Jie's heart has long been shaken, and he is even more biased when he sees this, just to do a full set of plays, he deliberately gives his face away, pretending not to know how to argue, but he is unwilling to listen.

Xu Hui knew that Xu Pan was the most unbearable literati, and he always felt that the other party's mind was twisted and turned, and it was really difficult to deal with. He has a straight temperament, he hates the tricks of ghosts and ghosts, and he hates even more people in front of him and behind his back, Sun Jie's various ways of doing things undoubtedly make Xu Pan very disdainful. For fear that his third uncle would speak directly and chop Sun Jie up, Xu Hui interjected: "Just now I saw the flag of the county government fluttering, white for a while and red for a while, what is the reason?" ”

As soon as this question was asked, it really attracted the attention of Xu Pan and Xu Heng, and the steward she asked looked like a person, probably too scared, and opened his mouth to say a string of words that Xu Hui didn't understand.

Daqi has a vast territory and a wide variety of languages, even if it is a city and a county, the dialects are also different. Fortunately, the family takes learning Chang'an official dialect and Luoyang Zhengyin as the fashion, and the poor students are also vying to follow suit, even if it is a family surnamed Wu, Wu Nong's soft language will at most be said in private, and will never be said on formal occasions, which will make people laugh. It is Xu Hui who communicates with people, and there has never been a situation where she can't understand what others are saying, but she asked this person, but he is a native of Taiyuan, and he is a slave who serves people when he is young, so he naturally will not learn what Luoyang Zhengyin has, which led to this situation.

Seeing that Xu Hui didn't understand, the man was even more urgent, and he didn't know what to say, and the cold sweat came down. Fortunately, there were people around Xu Pan who knew the Taiyuan dialect, and even guessed, and they also made a lot of things that the other party said, so he replied with some tears and laughter: "My lord, this person said that they began to raise the white flag, saying that they planned to surrender." Later, I don't know who said that our prince is a famous man in the world, who respects etiquette and religion, respects Confucianism, and should follow the Han system and take red as the color of surrender...... Only then did he hurriedly change the red flag. ”

Hearing this, people such as Xu Hui, Xu Heng, Su Can and others were all speechless, and said in their hearts, which guy is out of tune, and even the Qin and Han systems are mistaken?

The Five Virtues Theory was put forward by Zou Yan, a yin-yang family, and was accepted by people in all dynasties, and it has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of these scholars. Qin Shangshuide, in order to extinguish the fire of the Zhou Dynasty, naturally worships black and red, and uses red as a symbol of failure, funeral and other ominous things, but Han Gaozu is the son of the Red Emperor, although the color is still the color of the emperor, red has also become extremely noble, and the deep clothes of high-ranking officials are mostly black and red, how can it symbolize ominous? If it weren't for Xu Hui's more question just now, everyone would still think that something happened in the county office, who knew that it was a comical drama made up by a group of ignorant straw bags? So the delay in surrendering the city is also because they are too ignorant and have no decisive heart, so they swayed left and right, and when Qi County was completely broken, they rushed over to catch Sun Jie first, so as to "surrender to sincerity"?

was stirred up by this farce and incompetent straw bales, and most of the anger in Xu Pan's heart disappeared, and he only felt that Sun Jie was really bad luck for such a group of incompetent people, but this could not affect his dislike for Sun Jie. I saw him striding up to Sun Jie, and the ring head knife in his hand fell heavily, and the tip of the knife happened to fall at Sun Jie's feet, and with a slight movement, his feet could be cut off.

Seeing that Sun Jie was trembling like chaff and completely out of strength, Xu Pan laughed at the literati in his heart for being really useless, but he didn't show it on his face, but said very neatly: "Surrender or die, you can choose one yourself!" (To be continued.) )