Chapter 300: Zhang Ren was furious

At this point, Huang Quan knew that it was useless to continue to resist. He originally thought that Liu Cong wanted to use fire to disturb the defenders in the city. I didn't expect the fire to be so big, and of course I didn't expect Wu Yi to hold it up and let the enemy army enter the city. In fact, he also wronged Wu Yi, and it is estimated that even if he was at the scene, he was afraid that he would open the door at that time.

After all, he was just a careerist, not a beast. Of course, we can't ignore tens of thousands of people! If Liu Cong is allowed to set fire, then what is the point of him guarding Chengdu City?

"Come and put Huang Quan and Wu Ban in prison. General Wu Lan, you are familiar with this Chengdu, and the task of interrogating the two of them will be handed over to you! There are other similar accomplices to be arrested! After entering Chengdu, Chengdu handed over the task of guarding Huang Quan and Wu Ban to Wu Lan. Wu Yi was naturally exempted from punishment because of his meritorious service in opening the city gate and fighting fires, and he was on standby in the army.

Last night, Liu Cong led people to set fire to the south gate, and then launched an attack at the four gates, and it was only two hours before all the troops entered the city. However, the fire at the south gate, which mobilized tens of thousands of people, was put out until dawn, and it was initially estimated that there were 4,000 or 5,000 houses on fire, and more than 20,000 people were affected.

The defenders of Chengdu, more than 30,000 new and veterans, and 8,000 people who participated in the firefighting, all of them then surrendered to Liu Cong, who also had a choice.

At the critical moment, whether they fled from the city wall to fight the fire, or went to fight the fire after surrendering, at least they had a good heart. In the future, it will take a lot of people to guard Yizhou and maintain law and order in Chengdu, and these people are a good choice. These people did not need any conditions to be directly incorporated into Liu Cong's army. There were probably seven or eight thousand casualties in the battle. Before Huang Quan surrendered, the number of people who fled from Simen also exceeded two or three thousand. The rest were all taken to the prisoner camp, where they awaited their removal.

"My lord, the original civil and military people in Chengdu have arrived." Liao Hua saw Liu Cong staying there pondering, so he reminded him. At this moment, Liu Cong suddenly couldn't find the joy of victory. After all, a large number of people in Chengdu were affected by the disaster, but no one in Chengdu's civil and military officials could stop Huang Quan after Liu Zhang's return...... All this made Liu Cong very depressed.

"Oh, let's go." Liu Cong knew that as a prince in troubled times, now that the Yizhou Governance Office had been taken by himself, the next thing was how to quickly calm the people's hearts and surrender those soldiers who were once hostile.

The lobby of the Yizhou Supervision Yuan was full of people, and those civil officials who had been watching the excitement came here. They don't care who wins this battle, they care about whether they can continue to be their own officials.

Those surrendered generals also came, and since then they have changed a lord, and they are going to follow Liu Cong to conquer the world, this is their first official contact with Liu Cong, and they want to try to find some clues from it.

Of course, there are even more civil and military warriors in Liu Cong's army, Huang Zhong, Yu Ban, Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng, etc. have arrived.

"Brother Ji Yu, let's talk about it first." Liu Cong sat down on the top and said to Liu Zhang, who was closest to him.

When Liu Zhang heard this, he got up and bowed deeply to everyone: "Zhang's thin virtue is shallow......

Liu Zhang's speech was very slow and his voice was not loud, after all, he was no longer Yizhou Mu, and he also understood that Liu Cong invited him to come today, and the purpose of letting him speak first was to let him explain the situation by himself. It is logical to show how famous Liu Cong captured Chengdu and led Yizhou Mu to be.

The ministers of civil and military affairs also had no intention of listening to Liu Zhang's details, and in the midst of the noise, Liu Zhang ended his final speech. Then sat down silently and waited for Liu Cong to fall.

"Where is Deng Xian?"

"General, what do you command?" Deng Xian didn't expect Liu Cong's second name to call himself.

"This general ordered you to be the captain of the military academy, and ordered 2,000 troops to escort the Marquis of Jingling back to his hometown."

"General Xie!" Deng Xian is more loyal to Liu Zhang among the generals, and after Huang Quan replaced Liu Zhang to control Chengdu, Deng Xian has been assisting the eldest son Liu Xun to evade Huang Quan's search and arrest, and lost no time in rushing out of the south gate. Liu Cong's choice of such a military general to escort Liu Zhang was also to show his attitude to the civil and military officials and people of Chengdu, and he would never break his promise to Liu Zhang. And Deng Xian was naturally very happy to receive such an errand.

“…… Let me go! ”

Liu Cong was about to make further arrangements for the next matters, when Zhang Ren's voice sounded outside the door, Liu Cong frowned, and really forgot that Zhang Ren had not arrived. It's just that this guy didn't attack the north gate with Yu Ban, but also captured Wu Ban, he should be a hero. And Zhang Ren is a strict person, why is he so noisy outside the hall?

Not only Liu Cong was puzzled, but others were also confused.

After a while, I saw Zhang Ren staggering into the lobby, not greeting everyone, nor greeting Liu Cong, but going directly to Liu Cong. When he came to Liu Cong's case, he continued to pour wine into his stomach.

Seeing this situation, Fa Zheng hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Ren, and whispered: "General Zhang, the Lord is discussing a major matter with everyone, why don't you go to the side courtyard to rest for a while?" Fa Zheng smelled a smell of wine on Zhang Ren's body from afar, although he didn't understand why Zhang Ren was drinking, but it was obviously inappropriate for him to appear like this in today's meeting. I wanted to pull him away.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yiyi shook his arm and took another step forward to break free.

At this time, Zhao Yun and Liao Hua stopped doing it, and rushed over from behind Liu Cong to hold Zhang Ren. Zhao Yun was even more furious: "Zhang Ren! What do you want? Do you still have a lord in your eyes? ”

Zhao Yun really couldn't imagine that after this Chengdu was defeated, his senior brother was originally a great hero, and he must be rewarded indispensably, what kind of song is this. Zhang Ren still refused to stop, turned his head to Zhao Yun and said, "Lord? I Zhang Ren don't have such a lord! ”

"Presumptuous!" Zhao Yun and Liao Hua held Zhang Ren, and Zhang Ren naturally couldn't move, but he still didn't pay attention to the etiquette of his subordinates.

All the people in this hall are confused, this one is ......

"Zilong, let him go, I want to see what he does!" Liu Cong is also a little popular, although this Zhang Ren is his favorite general, it will only be two months to return to obedience. But what day is it? The day when he officially entered Yizhou and established his authority to the civil and military officials.

Did this Zhang choose such a day to touch his own mold? Did he mean it?

"Liu Cong, do you remember what you promised me in Luocheng?" Zhao Yun and Liao Hua let go of Zhang Ren, but Zhang Ren still did not give the courtesy of his subordinates, but called Liu Cong's name directly.

"Remember! Bury the fallen soldiers, be kind to the military and civilians, and be kind to Liu Zhang! Liu Cong saw Zhang Ren ask about this, and Liu Congran remembered several conditions that Zhang Ren had put forward when he persuaded Zhang Ren to surrender. The first thing I did today was to ask someone to escort Liu Zhang back to his hometown. He is not the emperor, and he can't be crowned the king, so he is not thin to Liu Zhang.

"Humph! You remember! If you go to the south of the city, thousands of houses have been destroyed and tens of thousands of people have been left homeless......"

"General Zhang originally said this, rest assured, Ben will soon make the organization rebuilt. Before that, more porridge shacks were set up in the city, trying not to let the people starve! Liu Cong knew the reason why Zhang Ren was annoyed, so he was a little more relaxed. This was supposed to be his second plan. However, the internal affairs must be handed over to Zhuge Liang to deal with.

"You butcher, all this could have been avoided, as long as you attack it slowly, how many days can Huang Quan last? But you have no regard for the lives of the people, and you have set fire to the city. Is this what you promised to be kind to the military and civilians? ”

"Presumptuous!" Zhuge Liang and Yu Ban and others over there also didn't do it, they knew Liu Cong's temper, although Liu Cong was young, he had a very high prestige in Jingzhou, and no one had ever dared to speak loudly in front of Liu Cong.

"All sit down!" Liu Cong knew Zhang Ren's temper, four or five thousand houses were destroyed, thousands of people were said to have been injured, and hundreds of people died on the spot. Thousands of soldiers and civilians were also injured in the fire. Zhang Ren is a veteran general in Yizhou, seeing this scene, it is inevitable to be sad, and it is reasonable to drink more wine.

"General Zhang, those who achieve great things are not informal. The main public fire broke through Chengdu, which reduced the casualties of our army...... "Fa Zheng, as an old man from Yizhou, also experienced Zhang Ren's mood at this time. To be honest, it is indeed a bit unbearable to have such a large number of casualties. But he knows that this is a troubled time, Liu Cong is a person who does great things, if this is reluctant, then it is reluctant, what kind of battle do you still lead the troops to, go home and farm. Because of the situation, he couldn't say it to Zhang Renzhi.

"Whoever has achieved great things? The one who has achieved great things will be so reckless about the lives of the people...... "Zhang Ren still refuses to forgive!" He was very puzzled when Liu Cong was ready to launch a general attack last night, the two sides had been deadlocked for almost a month, and Liu Cong had been emphasizing the cultural offensive. Why did you suddenly attack the city with four gates, and you are still full of confidence that you will definitely win it? Later, when the flames in Chengdu City soared, Zhang Ren looked stupid.

Later, bad news kept coming, the losses were getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people died, Zhang Ren couldn't bear it after all, and went to drink alone. Today, he knew that Liu Cong had convened a hundred officials to discuss the matter, so he relieved his alcohol and courageously came to question Liu Cong.

Zhang Ren made such a fuss, and the officials in the hall gradually divided into two factions.

Some people think that Zhang Ren is completely disrespectful and unreasonable.

Of course, there are also people who support Zhang Ren, thinking that he is crying out for those people.

So the hall was not as serious and silent as it began, especially the civil officials in Yizhou, who began to chatter below.

"Shut up! General Zhang, sit down, I'll show you something! After you finish reading, if you still insist on your idea, I, Liu Cong, am willing to go to the city gate to cut my hair and apologize! ”

"Good! I see how you quibble! Seeing that Liu Cong was angry, Zhang Ren did not accept it, but stood in place and looked at Liu Cong.

"Liao Hua, take those letters!"

"No!" Liao Hua glared at him very dissatisfied, turned around and ran towards the inner hall. There was also a brief silence in the hall, and everyone didn't know what Liu Cong was going to show Zhang Ren, but seeing that Liu Cong had a clear face and a little angry, he couldn't help but worry about Zhang Ren.

Only Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly, he knew that Liu Cong was also forced to be helpless, if he couldn't convince Zhang Ren today, once he was used by someone with a heart and deduced, Liu Cong's prestige would be greatly reduced.