Chapter 385: Zhao Clan
The Thunder Messenger arrived in Tiancheng two days ago, and the Thunder Warrant was written in black and white that the Xian army would arrive five days later, and the pseudo-Taishou Shenli understood that the warrant arrived five days after the date of arrival, not five days after the date the warrant was issued, so the Xian army should have arrived in Tiancheng two days later.
"My lord, the Xian army is strong, let's wait or withdraw!"
"Then what are you waiting for, prepare the carriage and horses, go quickly!"
"No!"
Just when Taishou Shenli was about to take the fine soft and the woman and flee to the north gate, Bailiyan (Wei Xian) led more than 1,000 people from the west of the city to kill the Taishou Mansion in the north of the city.
"My lord, hurry up, the Xianjun army has arrived outside the mansion, and the brothers can't stand it anymore." The rebel general Zheng Gui said in a panic.
"Hah, so fast!"
Shen Li's large and small luggage was loaded into four large cars, and there were as many as six women alone, where could they be fast. Bailiyan slaughtered from the front hall to the atrium, and the backyard of the mansion was broken by the pioneer camp from the side door, surrounding the greedy and lustful Shen Li and others:
"Put down your weapons and spare you from dying!" Bai Liyan broke off with a snort.
The rebel general Zheng Gui gathered his generals and cronies and wanted to resist to the death:
"Whoever comes, report the name!"
"Wei Xian, the vanguard general of the Xianguo, you can still have a chance to surrender quickly, and those who resist will have a dead end."
"You!" The rebel general was taken aback first, forced his composure and said: "You are Wei Xian, hum, suffer death!" ”
Zheng Gui's eyes were fast, a sleeve arrow flew out, and Baili Yan jumped to the left and rolled to the ground, furious:
"Toast and don't eat and drink, kill me!"
At the sound of an order, hundreds of soldiers of the pioneer battalion swarmed up, surrounded more than 100 people to death, and finally slashed and killed all of them.
Coming to the corpse of the rebel general Zheng Gui, Baili Yan raised his knife and cut off his head:
"Come on, Yu Ben will hang up the entrance of the vegetable market to set an example!"
"No!"
The guards took Zheng Gui's head and quickly left with a few people.
"Search for me, the rebel puppet Taishou and others will be arrested!"
"No!"
There were four seriously overloaded carriages and horses parked outside the inner house, and Baili Yan expected that the people must not have escaped.
Sure enough, the soldiers of the pioneer battalion pulled out more than 30 men and women from Xixiang, and the puppet Taishou Shen Li and his wives and concubines and children were all here.
"Report to the general, I found thirty-seven suspicious men and women, and they were either rich or expensive depending on their clothes."
"Bring men up to me."
"No."
When he was young, Shen Li and other thirty-seven people were pressed to the inner house, Bai Liyan glanced left and right, and asked sharply:
"Who are you waiting for?"
Shen Li bowed his head and said nothing, but the others looked at him. Bai Liyan walked in front of him and kicked him to the ground:
"Are you the Taishou of Tiancheng?"
"No, it's not!" Shen Li's face turned pale and he denied it.
Bai Liyan sneered:
"It's not the best, Ben will like people who don't tell the truth the most, come on, I'll pull it down and cut it!"
"No!"
The left and right guards stepped forward, and they set up Shen Li to drag.
"Spare your life, spare your life, this official is Tiancheng Taishou, and the general will spare his life."
"Since you are too guarded, why dare you do it."
At this time, there was a sudden smell of commotion, Bai Liyan subconsciously looked down, and found that Shen Li's legs were already full of urine, and his legs trembled like sieve chaff and stood unsteadily.
"Hey, I'm scared, it seems that you and other black turban gods, it turns out that you don't have an immortal golden body cast by iron and copper, and you also know how to write death. Come on, take me down and look at it first, and then try it later! ”
"No!"
The assault on Tim City went surprisingly well, and it took less than an hour to take control of the entire city. However, Lu Zhao was not so smooth, Lu Zhao was ordered to throw off the feather arrow battalion and then set off, because of the fierce battle at the outpost, the peasants outside the city became suspicious, and then found that Lu Zhao's troops came in formation, and immediately picked up the sickle to kill Lu Zhao, and the feather arrow battalion was caught off guard and suffered more than 200 casualties.
"General, these mobs are very vicious, and they come up to fight without saying anything, which is really hateful."
"Well, it's no wonder that you are in a hurry, so I didn't send anyone to inform you. Let the brethren hurry up and rest, and immediately after dark go on the road to attack Weijin. ”
"The last will obey."
"Su Hong, the situation of the Xiao Cavalry Camp is like this."
"General, I have released 2,000 men to drive the people outside the city back to the city together with the cavalry battalion. Two hundred people from the cavalry battalion were on guard on the perimeter. ”
"Well, pay attention to the direction of the west and south roads leading to Xiaqu and Weijin, and you must not let people slip away."
"No!" Su Hong responded, and then said: "General, the Zhao family in Guiping Village, Tiancheng helped our army to quell the rebellion this time, and the Zhao family is outside the mansion and wants to see the general." ”
"The Zhao family? Is it the Zhao family that the rebels have been talking about rebelling for the past two days? ”
"It should be, I heard that the ancestor of the Zhao family is still a prince and king, and he is a famous family in Tiancheng."
"yes, let's go, I'll see."
The Zhao family of Tiancheng is the largest commoner clan in the Xian Kingdom, and its ancestors were the monarchs of the "Law Kingdom" two hundred and eighty years ago. After the law was destroyed by the Lu state, the Lu country was destroyed by the Sun state, and the law country of that year was roughly the current Pengyuan, Wanchuan, Shangguan, Xiaguan of the Sun State, and a county in the north of the Xu State, and the land area was slightly less than the Xian State in the middle period.
After the destruction of the Zhao clan, the lord of the law state, his descendants fled to the Zhi Kingdom, the Xian Kingdom, the Changsun Kingdom, and the Xu Kingdom, and the only remaining ones who still recognized the Zhao family were the Zhao family of Tiancheng and the Gongliang clan of the Zhiguo Kingdom.
Gongliang's original surname was Zhao, and in terms of bloodline, Gongliang should be a direct descendant of the last king of the Law Kingdom, and the Xianguo Zhao family is a side branch. Zhao, who fled to Zhiguo, changed his surname to Gongliang more than 150 years ago, and since then he has jumped up in Zhiguo and become Zhiguo's humerus.
After King Zhi defeated Sun, he was worried that the Gongliang clan would return to the country and the tail would not be lost, so he did not ask for the land to be ceded, and instead began to attack the Xian country, cutting off a county from the Xian country.
This directly led to the Xianguo, which treated the Zhao family as a guest, was furious and reduced the Zhao family to civilians overnight, and all of them were moved from Chengling to Tiancheng to be banned from residential surveillance.
For more than 100 years, the Zhao family in Tiancheng was extremely prosperous, although it was a common class, but it was a noble scholar in the previous dynasty, and the family style was very good, and the personal relationship with the magnates under the jurisdiction of Tiancheng was very good, and there were many marriages. The current Zhao family has six families, the Zhao family is the largest, there are more than 1,000 men, women, children and dependent relatives near and far, and the other five families have more than 3,000 people.
So these six families account for almost two-thirds of the population of the entire Guiping Village, which can be called a small county town, and the mayors of Guiping Village have been served by the six surnames in the past dynasties, and they are considered to be a pivotal party under the rule of Tiancheng Territory.
The first group of people in the Black Turban rebels came from Pengyuan and Wanchuan counties of Sun State, which were the territory of the Law State at that time, so after capturing Tiancheng, thanks to the origin and reputation of the Zhao family, the rebels did not kill themselves.
The first is that not long after the capture, the rebels still want the Zhao family and other big clans to maintain the situation, and the second is that the Zhao family is a large number of people, and they are a civilian class, so there is no political excuse, and at the same time, the rebels are not strong enough to rashly move against the big clans of four or five thousand people.
The rebels attacked the Zhao family this time, because Taishou Shen Li acquiesced, and the guard general Zheng Gui conspired to insult and mutilate the Zhao family's daughter-in-law, so as to provoke the Zhao family and force it to rebel.
When they came to the front hall of the mansion, more than 100 men of the Zhao family with red scarves on their arms gathered in the front hall of the mansion. Su Hong briefly introduced:
"General, this is Zhao Ju, the head of the Zhao family."
Bai Liyan quickly glanced at the man in front of him, who was nearly fifty years old and had a coarse cloth and a slightly thin coat, which did not look like a martial artist at all
"This general Wei Xian, I have heard the name of the Zhao family in Tiancheng for a long time, and today I am fortunate to have the help of the Zhao family, and I will be grateful."
"The general is Wei Xian, who terrifies the thieves?" Zhao Ju couldn't believe that the young man in front of him was Wei Xian, who had already shocked the enemy.
"The thief was frightened, Wei didn't dare to be, and the arrogance of killing the rebels would have been able to reluctantly embarrass him."
"What a hero out of a young man, please accept me for a while."
Zhao Ju and the others bowed their heads and bowed, and Baili Yan hurriedly stepped forward to help them up:
"It is the duty of the generals to punish the tyrannical thieves and recover the homeland, and you don't have to do it."
"The general's heavenly soldiers came, such as a long drought and rain, saving the people of Tiancheng from fire and water, it is really the luck of the people of Tiancheng, the luck of my Zhao family, this worship of the general deserves it!"
Zhao Ju insisted on worshipping, and Baili Yan reluctantly accepted the gift for his embarrassment. But to say that the people of Tiancheng are grateful to themselves, Bailiyan really doesn't dare to compliment. The situation when Lu Zhao came just showed that the people of Tiancheng did not welcome the former owner.
Introducing the Zhao family into the front hall, Bailiyan invited Zhao Ju to take a seat:
"The head of the Zhao family, please take a seat, this will be the first time to come to Tiancheng, everything is still unclear, can the head of the Zhao family give some advice."
"The general is serious, and Zhao really doesn't dare to point out the two words, but if you want to talk about the situation in Tiancheng, Zhao still knows a thing or two."
"I also ask the head of the Zhao family to help the general, Wei is grateful."
In the more than a year since the loss of Tiancheng, the rebels have moved in a large number of foreigners from outside, and sent holy envoys to spread demagogic rumors to the poor people. Not only that, thieves are polite and honest in the open, but they are inferior to beasts in secret.
Bullying men and women to kill innocent people indiscriminately, all in the name of the gods in the sky, doing dirty and despicable things, Zhao's two daughters-in-law were also tragically ravaged and poisoned, but I hate our incompetence, if it weren't for the general to lead the king to save me, it would be in danger, I am afraid that my Zhao family will no longer exist. ”
The situation in Tiancheng is basically the same as that of Shao Ping, except that after the Shao Ping Incident, the rebels implemented more severe suppression and control measures against the Xian people in the Xian occupied areas.
Tianwang Shentong also promulgated a series of surveillance measures, using the Sun people who moved into the Xian State to entrap the Xu State, the Zhi State, and the Changsun Guo people, thus forming a level of suppression and level 1 level of hierarchical measures, and at the same time sending the Xian State men to the battlefield as much as possible to use as cannon fodder consumption, or move abroad.
For the women of the Xianguo, the policy of marriage was forcibly implemented, and the women of the Xianguo in the occupied areas were not allowed to marry the men of the Xianguo, so as to completely disintegrate the influence and control of the Xianguo people over the territory of the Xianguo and achieve the basic conditions for completely eliminating the resistance of the people of the Xianguo.
Most of the mobs that Bai Liyan saw before were not natives of Xianguo, but foreign civilians who were brainwashed by the Black Turban Army.
Shao Ping's defeat had a great impact on the rebels, and the rebels intensified their propaganda of fallacies and heresies, the most typical of which was the theory of reincarnation.
After being packaged by the rebel holy envoy, it finally became the suffering that people suffered in this life, in order to atone for their sins, die in battle for their father, and be reincarnated after death, so that they can enjoy the glory and wealth of the third life in the next life.
For this reason, the Black Turban Army Holy Envoy found a voice changer and a ventriloquist to pretend to be a ghost and dance god, and used the so-called spell to summon spirits to attract the soul possession of the previous life, but in fact, it was just the same person who changed his voice and acted.
For the ignorant people, where do they know that the lights are extinguished when people die, where do they know that there is really reincarnation, how can there be a theory of soul possession, even if it is a reincarnated parasite like Bailiyan, it is not a kind of peace to enjoy the glory and wealth of the third world.