A few days later, on the first day of the lunar month, Mianzhu Chengtou.

On the south tower of Mianzhu City, which had been besieged for two months, it suddenly ushered in the personal inspection of the city lord Liu Yan.

The last few thousand Dongzhou soldiers who were still loyal to him, maintained order and defense in the city, and did not give the locals of Yizhou a chance to exploit loopholes.

However, to the surprise of these Dongzhou soldiers, today's Liu Yuanjun actually let the knife and axe hand bring in the number one hundred and ten gentry.

Could it be that there is no food in the city, so they want to kill the big families and share the grain to reward the defenders? No, I can't.

Some Dongzhou generals and colonels who are not afraid to speculate about Liu Yan with the worst malice are thinking like this in their hearts.

Fortunately, the mystery was soon revealed.

Liu Yan waved his hand and escorted the one hundred and ten people to the female wall battlement at the head of the city, and then he personally shouted to the siege camp under the city.

It's just that Liu Yan has been suffering from a broken back for two months, he is so sick that he is dying, and he lacks breath when he speaks, so he naturally needs some scolding to relay.

"Liu Bei! Do you think you can surround Mianzhu by buying it like this? How can I, the righteous man in Shu, bend his knees and surrender to the enemy! I've seen through your guilt! Charge up, slash! ”

After that, Shu Ru Du Wei, Du Qiong, and Qian Qian were pressed against the female wall, only the human head stretched out of the city wall, and then the knife and axe hand "snorted" to the ground, and the three human heads fell down the city wall several feet high, and bounced a few times at the base of the wall before returning to silence.

They were all gagged, and the surprise, unwillingness, and grievance in their eyes at the last moment before death did not go away for a long time.

This was followed by batches of executions, until the spectators were numb and no longer felt fresh.

This scene is just like the 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in which the judge was entrusted by Xin Ping to kill more than 80 members of the family of Xin Bi, the younger brother who led the way, at the head of Yecheng City. If someone shoots it and plays it, it is enough to become a childhood shadow for many viewers.

When the Dongzhou soldiers next to him heard this, they were also slightly surprised at first, but then they felt that it was normal, and no one even felt that there was an unjust case here:

Because Du Qiong and Chen Zhi have always been secretly spreading reactionary capitulation speeches...... To say that they were stranded in this Mianzhu siege by Liu Yan, they were miserable, so it was normal for them to want to be Liu Bei's inner should lead the way.

This is very in line with the character design of Er Du and the Qian family, how could it be that Liu Yan or Liu Bei wronged them.

"Alas, these people are also unlucky, seeing that Liu Bei is about to break the city, they were actually made to see through their identity as leading the way at this juncture. Otherwise, if Liu Bei came in, wouldn't these people be able to tremble again. Some Dongzhou military colonels couldn't even help but think so.

Also, a digression? Since the whole family has been beheaded? Qian Zhou, who will be born in ten years, of course, doesn't even have a chance to be shot on the wall? It's just gone up in smoke.

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"Ah...... Liu Yan should kill me! ”

Liu Yan killed the Du family and the Qian family of the Ren An school? Even when the news of some of the Ren and Yang people reached Liu Bei's camp? Liu Bei screamed like this, sighing and lamenting? Crying bitterly.

Like another world? I heard that Liu Bei said the lines that Liu Bei said when Zhang Su exposed his younger brother Zhang Song and caused Zhang Song to be killed. It is nothing more than changing the name "Zhang Su" to "Liu Yan".

It can only be said that history has inertia, when Liu Bei heard that his inner should be killed? The first reaction is always the same.

And? He handed over the matter of internal response to Li Su to arrange, so he didn't fake crying, but really thought that some of it was his internal response - because Liu Bei himself didn't know how Li Su's anti-intermediary plan was implemented and how much internal response had been developed so far.

When the news arrived, there were still Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and some other civil and military staff members in the big tent of the Chinese army? Although they were a little surprised when they heard this, they didn't know that the lord still had so many hidden internal responses? It's a shame.

Only Li Su, who helped Liu Bei contact the rebellion work, immediately came out to answer the round: "This matter must be when the subordinates negotiate with them?" acted not carefully enough, and was found by Liu Yan? Please, the Lord punishes you! ”

In private chats, he is called a brother? But is this occasion too formal? You have to act, so you have to call the lord.

Liu Bei put back his crying: "How can you blame Boya for this, Boya is also just a meritorious person......

Li Su continued to guide: "Please don't be too sad, fortunately in misfortune, in fact, there are only a few people such as Du Qiong and Qian Zheng, and there is a tendency to waver as an internal response, and the rest of the people, I haven't had time to completely convince them."

Presumably because Liu Yan is suspicious and cruel, he would rather be in vain than indulge, so he kills indiscriminately! Please don't blame yourself too much, we are only a little sorry for Du Qiong and Chen Zhen at most, and it has nothing to do with Du Wei, Ren, and Yang. ”

After Li Su finished speaking, he also turned to Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others, and explained: "The lord has always been responsible for this matter, so the lord himself is not very clear about the progress of persuading the internal response, so he cried a lot, in fact, some of the people who were killed today have nothing to do with the internal response of the lord. ”

Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun also persuaded logically: "Big brother/lord, Liu Yan is perverse, time is running out, Mianzhu is just around the corner, so happy in sight, please forgive the lord." ”

A group of civilian staff, whether it was Zhang Su and Zhang Song, who were old and led the way, or Fei Shi and Huang Quan, who were newly descended, also persuaded: "The lord is benevolent and righteous, Du Qiong and Chen Zhen are in the heavens, as long as they see the lord recovering the bamboo, they will definitely be able to be comforted." ”

"Well, let's be in the army and set up sacrifices for Du, Qian and other great Confucians in Shu." Liu Bei waved his hand and ordered to prepare wine and meat sacrifices to commemorate the traitor, and this matter would be over.

Li Su also breathed a sigh of relief, people like Liu Bei are still overflowing with benevolence and righteousness, but fortunately he stopped his improvisation in the end, otherwise I am afraid that I will have to post a little benefit in the future.

The reason why Li Su hurriedly intercepted the words just now, and announced as the person in charge that "the only traitors are Du Qiong and Zhen Zheng, and the others were all killed by Liu Yan suspiciously and by mistake", it was also because Li Su knew that only these few families were really completely wiped out and the household registration book was destroyed.

And Ren and Yang, the top Confucian families in Shu, those in Mianzhu City who were monitored and taken away by Liu Yan are only core members, and there are many side branches scattered outside.

As mentioned before, taking the Yang family as an example, since the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yang Xiong family has branched out in Pi County and developed for five or six generations.

If Liu Bei's brain was hot and he declared the Yang family to be an internal response, wouldn't it be that after the core clan was killed, the land of those deceased would have to be returned to the living relatives? If they die in state affairs, do they still have to be given bereavement pensions and awards?

Li Su doesn't want to be this wronged leader, isn't it an internal response!

Therefore, he only let the family members whose household registration books are dead and cannot even find the legal heirs of the side branches are internal responses, so that there is no need to pay pensions.

Hey, hey, hey.

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Liu Yan killed the traitor, and by the way, the part of the soft property left by the traitor family in Mianzhu City was rewarded to the Dongzhou soldiers who are still loyal to this day, so that the Dongzhou soldiers who were on the verge of collapse recovered some morale.

However, only two days later, Liu Bei escorted Liu Zhang to the city and asked Liu Zhang to open his mouth to persuade him to surrender.

Liu Yan naturally had to go to the city to answer, and angrily scolded his son for not being angry, and actually followed the foreign enemy to persuade his father to surrender.

The weak Liu Zhang was scolded under the city and cried helplessly, and gave up his duties.

But Liu Bei was still very benevolent and righteous, and openly shouted to Liu Yan in the city: "Liu Junlang! You have done the opposite, killing innocents indiscriminately, and you are already full of evil! But I Liu Bei won't learn from you, I can't do such an atrocity like yours!

Although Brother Ji Yuxian is close to you, and he failed to persuade you to surrender, I think he is loyal to the court and distinguishes between right and wrong. The Father is the Father, the Son is the Son, and if the Son has the heart to change his father's mistakes and draw a line with you, I will not harm him, and I will deal with it justly. For the sake of his sincerity in persuading you to surrender, I will show him to be the Taishou of Wuling, and he will take up his post on the same day! ”

Liu Bei shouted these words in front of the two armies, which really made the Dongzhou soldiers and soldiers on the opposite side awe: Liu Yan resisted and betrayed the court like this, just because Liu Yan's weakest son was unwilling to betray the court and was willing to break with his father's position, Liu Bei actually allowed Liu Zhang to be raised for the rest of his life, and the salary was higher than his original idle lieutenant, and he was transferred to be the Taishou of a remote county.

What a great benevolence and righteousness! Even the enemy's son will be let go as long as he is willing to surrender, do we, the generals of the Dongzhou soldiers, still have to worry about being liquidated in the future because of their stubborn resistance to the last city?

Although people with a little political acumen know that Liu Zhang, the "Wuling Taishou", is estimated to be a lifetime of 2,000 stone and wait for death. The military, government, and civilian affairs of Wuling County will definitely not be let Liu Zhang take care of it.

In fact, this is also true, because Li Su has already advised Liu Bei:

Give Changshui Lieutenant Zhao Yun an additional officer, and also serve as the Taishou of Yidu County, and be in charge of the defense of the Jingzhou side of the eastern front in the next few years.

Originally, Guan Yu was more suitable, but because Guan Yu's Hanzhong Taishou was sealed by the young emperor before Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the gold content was higher, and it was not the same as the current Taishou of his own "table".

Therefore, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Cai Yong, and Li Su, the four of them, Hanzhong, Wudu, Bajun, and Shujun, were too guarded by their positions, and until Dong Zhuo's death, Li Su was not ready to change his promotion. Wait for the window period when the credibility of the imperial court will regain in the future, and then change the seal. For example, during the window when Wang Yun was in power, the credibility was good. When the time comes, you can see the right time to concentrate on a wave of officials.

In the past few years, the big deal is just to let Liu Bei watch the false titles of a few miscellaneous generals, and to promote other henchmen who have not yet achieved Taishou.

After Zhao Yun became the Taishou of Yidu County, he controlled the traffic key points of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and it was impossible for Liu Zhang, the Taishou of Wuling County next to him, to surrender to the enemy. At the same time, Li Su also asked Liu Bei to change the title of Dong He to Wuling County Cheng and Zhang Su to be the chief historian of Wuling.

Dong He had already been promoted by the county order in the firing line before, and the number of rank of the county was a bit downgraded when he was reappointed as the county leader, but it was also a necessary adjustment for the transition from county to county. After all, Dong He has only defected to Liu Bei for two months, and it is a bit too heavy to directly monitor Liu Zhang as the second-in-command of the county.

But Li Su also privately sent someone to Dong He to breathe a sigh of relief: Zhang Su was originally the governor of Ba County, and he was transferred to Wuling County as the chief of the county, but he was transferred from a large county to a small county, so he would not work for too long, two years at most. It is equivalent to accumulating some qualifications for Zhang Su to serve the country in the "old and young, border and poor" areas, and in the future, he will be transferred back to Shu and find a newly split county in Nanzhong to be the Taishou, and the treatment will be like Pang Xi.

Therefore, two years later, Dong He will be able to be the second-in-command in Wuling County, and Liu Zhang, who is the first-in-command, is actually being set aside, and this promotion treatment is not bad. Therefore, for the time being, Dong He, who has been in the 600 Shijun for two years, has no opinion, but feels that the future is bright.

Li Yan, who surrendered with Dong He, was appointed as the commander of Yiling County, that is, the county of Yidu County, to assist Zhao Yun in guarding the eastern front. The rest of the new talents in Jingzhou, such as Xiang Lang and the Ma family brothers, were also arranged in Yidu and Wuling counties.

Under such an arrangement, Liu Zhang's "Wuling Taishou" can of course be taught without reservation.

Within two days, the news of Liu Zhang's leniency spread among the two armies around the Mianzhu battlefield.

Liu Yan seemed to have relieved the last bit of worry, knowing that his rebellion attempt did not cause the annihilation of the clan, and he also left a son to inherit the incense and have an official position to die well.

Liu Yan, who had been tormented by poison for three months, finally took his last breath with peace of mind and died at the age of 62.

The day after Liu Yan's death, the Dongzhou soldiers felt Liu Bei's benevolence in treating the enemy leniently, and surrendered the city without blood.

Mianzhu was recovered, and the war in the three counties of the Chengdu Plain ended completely.