Chapter 14 Breaking Guangzong Zhang Liang died
As the saying goes: if you don't fight, you don't know each other.
For a person of Zhang Fei's character, only if he is convinced, he will attach importance to you in his heart.
After a fierce competition, the relationship between Zhang Fei and Mu Yi was pulled into a lot, and the two began to call each other brothers.
For ten days, 2,000 people took turns carrying stones and dirt every day, and finally a small hill higher than Gwangjong Castle was piled up outside Gwangjong Castle.
With a group of generals, Mu Yi climbed the small hill and looked at everything, Guangzong City.
Zhang Fei, who was standing behind Mu Yi, finally showed a look of admiration: "Hahaha...... I didn't expect that the battle could be fought like this, but I Zhang Yide learned a trick today. ”
Mu Yi smiled slightly, turned to Guan Yu on the side and said: "Yun Chang, this place is condescending, everything on the city head is in full view, all the two thousand sharpshooters selected are brought up, just shoot bows and arrows at the city head."
"Whoa!"
This time, everyone began to admire, what is the brain of the people? No wonder he can become the commander of the three armed forces at such a young age.
From this day on, the officers and men fired arrows at the city every day, but they only continued to harass them, but they never launched a general attack.
In the beginning, the Yellow Turban thieves were all soldiers as long as they heard the sound of drums, and as time went on, they ignored the harassment of officers and soldiers, and let them toss.
Gwangjong Fortress
Over time, hundreds of thousands of people in the city have fallen into despair.
The weather is getting colder and colder, hundreds of thousands of people are short of food and clothing, and since retreating to Guangzong, no one has seen a great sage and good teacher. Is it really as the officers and soldiers said, the great sage and good teacher have died of illness?
Such thoughts have become more and more intense in everyone's hearts, and they have reached the point where they are out of control.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
The drums of war still rang out under the night sky, and for all this, the Yellow Turban thieves at the head of the city had long been immune, and they didn't even look at it.
However, when dawn broke, when everyone was in a snooze, the harassment of officers and soldiers became a reality, and more than a dozen ladders were erected on the city wall.
One by one, the officers and soldiers bit their steel knives and climbed up the ladder to the top of the city.
In the darkness of the night, the officers and soldiers who climbed to the top of the city took the lead in attacking, and a scream sounded in the night.
The follow-up officers and soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and as more and more officers and soldiers increased, the Yellow Turban thieves, who had already lost their fighting spirit, could only abandon the city wall and flee to the city.
"Oh no...... The officers and soldiers have entered the city......"
"Dangdangdang......"
The sound of broken gongs sounded in the city one after another, and as the shouts rang out, the city suddenly fell into chaos.
In an instant, chickens and dogs jumped in the city, people trampled on people, people hit people, and the cries of children and women did not start a war, and their own people first fell into chaos.
Gwangjong Castle Government
Zhang Liang woke up from his sleep, heard the shouts of killing in the city, and immediately shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Prepare the horses, and order the brothers to quickly retreat to Quyang."
"Whoa!"
The officers and soldiers who killed the head of the city immediately lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate, and the officers and soldiers who had been waiting outside the city for a long time rushed into the city like a tide.
The officers and men who have been aggrieved for several months now have the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and who is willing to miss it.
On the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of people, everyone is Han Chinese, so they only recognize clothes and not people. Some of the women and girls who fled slowly were either trampled to death by their horses or cut down by the officers and soldiers.
When Zhang Liang led the crowd to escape from the city gate, there were already 20,000 or 30,000 young men killed in the city, not counting the old and weak women and children.
When Mu Yi entered Guangzong City, the fighting had stopped, and the city was littered with corpses, and some of the burning houses were still billowing with smoke.
Mu Yi thought that he was ruthless enough, even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and his face did not change, but looking at the stumps and broken arms all over the ground, he couldn't help but vomit after all.
"Is the general alright? Do you want the villain to come over with the army? A soldier next to him saw that Mu Yi was about to vomit out of his stomach, so he came to him and whispered.
Mu Yi waved his hand: "It's okay...... ...... vomit"
Just then, a horse galloped from the other side of the street.
When the war horse approached, a soldier on horseback jumped off the horse in one step, came to Mu Yi and knelt on one knee: "Report...... Report to the general, the thief Zhang Liang led the crowd to flee to the direction of Quyang, whether to pursue or not, please ask the general to show down!"
Mu Yiqiang endured the tumbling of the river and the sea in his stomach, stood up and said weakly: "Chase, don't give them any respite, if there are those who surrender, leave them alive, and escort them back."
"Whoa!"
Immediately, Mu Yi turned to the herald beside him and said, "Special general military order, let Jun Sima, Lord Bo and others control Guangzong City as soon as possible, clean up the materials on the battlefield, and collect all the corpses together and bury them together."
"Whoa!"
The morning sun shone red on Guangzong City, the sun shone on the blood all over the ground, and the entire Guangzong City looked blood-red.
Mu Yi sat on a table in the yamen, took a glass of water handed over by his own soldiers, rinsed his mouth, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "As the commander of the three armies, he actually vomited so badly in front of everyone, this time it is a shame to throw it home!"
"Report ......"
"Speak!"
"Report to the general, an underground treasure trove was found in the backyard of the government."
"Treasure trove?" Mu Yi frowned slightly, and instantly became interested. Since it's a treasure trove, there must be a lot of treasures in it, right?
"Lead the way!"
"Whoa!"
In the backyard of the government, hundreds of soldiers surrounded a rockery.
Seeing Mu Yi coming over, all the soldiers saluted in unison: "See the general......"
Mu Yi waved his hand: "Where is the treasure house?"
One of the captains pointed to the rockery and said, "The entrance is in the belly of the rockery, and the general asks to come with his humble post." With that, he took the lead in the belly of the mountain.
There is a door on the rockery, and if you don't look closely, it will be no different from the rockery after closing the door, but if you look closely, you will find that something is wrong.
The dark cave was already illuminated by torches, and after walking about a dozen steps, there was a passage that went straight underground.
The road is not very long, about five or six zhang. At the end of the passage there are two stone doors with an oversized lock hanging from them.
Mu Yi looked at the lock hanging on the door, and his brows couldn't help frowning, these soldiers are really, they haven't even seen a copper plate until now, and they actually guessed that it was a treasure trove.
A soldier carried a hammer on his shoulder, and smashed it with both hands on the lock, and the large lock fell to the ground.
Several shield-bearers raised their shields to protect Mu Yi inside, and the four strong soldiers pushed open the stone door with great difficulty.
I didn't see anything like a hidden weapon for a long time, so everyone relaxed and walked in.
It's okay not to go in, and everyone was stunned on the spot after entering the stone gate.
Inside is a huge cave, an underground warehouse excavated by hand, to be exact.
The warehouse is very large, filled with hundreds of large wooden boxes, and around the walls of the cave are some wooden shelves, on which are all kinds of rare antiques, calligraphy and paintings, as well as pearl agate, any of which are of great value.
The wooden box was opened, and it was filled with horseshoe gold.
Looking at all this, Mu Yi secretly swallowed his saliva, he couldn't imagine that Zhang Jiao had collected so much wealth, how many rich businessmen should be robbed to accumulate it?
Glancing at the captain standing beside him with his eyes shining and almost drooling, Mu Yi smiled and shook his head and said: "The military commander Bo and the military Sima are responsible for registering and making records, and after a period of time, they will be escorted back to Luoyang and handed over to the emperor." In addition, this time to be able to break through Guangzong, it all depends on the lives of the soldiers of the three armies, and this general is in charge, and he will take out ten boxes of gold to reward the three armies!"
"......"
When everyone heard Mu Yi's words, they were like being beaten with chicken blood, and they were so excited that they almost burst into tears.
Among them, the most excited is the main book and the military sima, Mu Yi asked them to register and make a book, obviously giving them a fat difference, so many treasures, how much should be given to the imperial court, it is not up to them to decide.
The two glanced at each other, and they both saw each other's thoughts in each other's eyes, and the two couldn't help but smile.
The underground treasure house was sealed off by the officers and soldiers, and even the registration and registration of the book was carried out in the underground warehouse.
Mu Yi took out ten boxes of gold to reward the three armies, and immediately won the gratitude of the soldiers of the whole army.
Why are you a soldier in these years? The first is to be promoted and make a fortune, and the second is to eat a mixed meal. As for protecting the family and defending the country, of course, it does not mean that there is none, but for the poor people, it is very few.
The pursuit lasted for a full day, and it was not until late evening that the officers and soldiers escorted tens of thousands of prisoners back to Quang Jong.
"Reported to the general, the thief army was defeated, and more than 30,000 thieves were killed on the way, of which 50,000 or 60,000 jumped into the river to escape, but the weather was cold, and the river was cold, and after jumping down, they sank to the bottom of the river, and all of them were drowned by the river. More than 60,000 enemies were captured, and the remaining thief army went deep into the mountains under the leadership of Zhang Niujiao and others. And the thief Zhang Liang also died in the chaos, as for who was killed, it is unknown!"
Mu Yi nodded, his face couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried, and said with a long sigh: "Order the three armies to clean up the corpses in the city, repair the army for three days, and report the list of fallen soldiers one by one, and this general will be listed in the imperial court."
"Whoa!"
After winning a battle, what Mu Yi should do now is to play the names of meritorious personnel to the imperial court one by one.
Sure enough, as Mu Yi knew, Zhang Jiao may have seen the drawbacks brought about by the hasty uprising, and also knew that even if they laid down more territory, no one would govern them, and in the end they were just a group of thieves, and they really couldn't afford to die in Guangzong.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was no imperial examination system, and officials also needed to be recommended. Since the Yellow Turban Uprising, they have coerced the people to rebel, attacked the city, killed local officials everywhere they went, and then really targeted the local wealthy gentry, who would help them govern one side.
What poor Zhang Jiao did, not only did not do any good, but became a stepping stone for the rise of the princes of all parties.
In order to tie up Mu Yi, the officers and soldiers dug out Zhang Jiao, who had died of illness and was buried, cut off his head, and salted Zhang Liang's head with lime to make antiseptic measures, and presented it to Mu Yi in front of the case.