Chapter 295: The Scrap Duo
Xiahou Shang, the word Boren, Xiahou Yuan's nephew, was close and friendly with Cao Pi, and during the Cao Cao period, he successively served as a military Sima, a general of the five senses, and a waiter of the Yellow Gate, who had accompanied Cao Zhang's expedition to Wuhuan and returned victoriously.
In the original historical time and space, after Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, Xiahou Shang was promoted to the general of the expedition to the south, led the history of Jingzhou Thorn, supervised the military forces in the south of the fake festival, attacked the Shangyong of Shu, and pacified the three counties and nine counties; He defeated the Wu general Zhuge Jin in Jiangling and was promoted to Jingzhou Mu.
Judging from this resume, he can also be regarded as a talent in the second generation of Cao Wei, with a brilliant future. But no one expected that his brilliant future would be ruined by his amorousness.
Xiahou is still favored~ The concubine is fortunate to surpass his wife, and his wife Deyang Township Master is the daughter of the Cao family and the sister of Cao Zhen. It is estimated that she was jealous at home and did not win, so she went to the emperor's brother to call the shots. As a result, Cao Pi was furious and sent someone to hang Xiahou Shang's concubine.
The concubine was innocently killed, Xiahou Shang was very sad, after burying the concubine, he still couldn't help but miss, and often went out to the cemetery to see her, and even couldn't afford to get sick, and was in a trance all day long, and finally died a year later (226 AD).
In this era with Jin Ge Iron Horse as the main theme, the generals kill people like hemp, blood is sprinkled on the battlefield, their hearts are like iron stones, and they regard human life like mustard; The strategists are intrigued, you deceive me, and they are full of clever schemes, and they are wiped out when they talk and laugh, and thousands of people can be killed by waving their hands.
The real hero or hero~ will not stick to the private affairs of his children at all, like Cao Cao, who likes **, or like Liu Bei, who said "Brothers are like siblings, husbands and wives are like clothes" People who have been saying such a famous sentence as "brothers are like siblings, husbands and wives are like clothes" seem to be suitable for this era. Amorous seeds like Xiahou Shang are really rare, not only rare, but even wonderful. Especially when he was born in a family of generals like the Xiahou family.
No matter what, Xiahou Shang is in love, and it hurts. There is a poem that suits him better: "If you kill her, or don't kill her, love is there, neither increasing nor decreasing." ”
During this period, not long after Xiahou Shang's concubine was killed, Xiahou Shang's love for his concubine was still there, neither increasing nor decreasing. In this way, he was sad, and this love had already made him a little nervous, which was one of the reasons why Cao Pi left him behind and let him stay in Xuchang.
These two people, one is frightened, the other is trapped by love, and he is crazy about his wife, how can he take on the big responsibility? This is the "material" basis for Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army to take Xuchang City without blood.
With this foundation, coupled with Pang Tong's little trick, it was effortless for the Shu army to take Xuchang City. Pang Tong's clever plan was naturally to attack the heart, first of all, he used a method that Liu Hou had used, that is, to scatter leaflets.
The Shu Kingdom has now mastered movable type printing, and it is very easy to print leaflets. Pang Tong personally wrote a passionate "Letter to All the Military and Civilians of Xuchang", printed tens of thousands of copies, and then let the hot air balloons fly over Xuchang City and sprinkle them like snowflakes.
Most of the soldiers and civilians in Xuchang City knew the contents of this leaflet day and night, and even those illiterate civilians heard the insider's discussion in the teahouse, the restaurant, the Goolan Tile House, and even the well. The news spreads very quickly, and the so-called one to ten, ten to a hundred refers to this kind of time.
Now the soldiers and civilians of the city know that the Wei army is in decline, and the Shu army is besieging the city with hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Wei army will not be able to hold the city no matter what. And the Shu army is a heavenly army, a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and the place where it goes has never been committed in autumn.
Therefore, the arrival of the Shu army, as long as the people keep their duties, do their own things, and quietly wait for the arrival of the heavenly army, after the Shu army enters the city, not only will not affect the lives of the people, but also bring a series of benefits to the people, such as opening a warehouse for disaster relief, such as reducing taxes, and for example, the Shu army will buy military supplies at market prices, so that the people can earn huge profits and so on.
This made it impossible for the people in the city to be of the same mind as the Wei army, and broke the people's determination to help the Wei army defend the city. You must know that in ancient times, defending the city was manual work, and a large number of the work was completed by the guards who temporarily recruited the people, and when necessary, the guards even drove the people directly to the city wall to help the guards.
It is no exaggeration to say that without the help of the people, the strength of the defenders would have dropped by at least three or even half. The "Letter to All the Soldiers and Civilians of Xuchang" also advised the officers and soldiers of the Wei army to be in time to do so, as long as the Shu army surrendered, they could get preferential treatment, and if there were meritorious performances such as opening the city gate to sacrifice the city or beheading Shangguan, the Han Emperor would be rewarded.
These words made the soldiers of the Wei State stupid~stupid~desired~ moved, and some people with official positions were both moved and panicked. The heartbeat is that they are thinking about whether to do something to strive for meritorious service, and the panic is that they are now seeing that the eyes of those subordinates are a little wrong, for fear that their heads will become the name of others for meritorious service.
Xiahou Ba and Xiahou Shang are also in a panic, they are the two biggest votes. They sent soldiers to confiscate the leaflets in the city and forbade people to hide or talk about the contents of the leaflets.
But it was too late, the news had already spread, the number of leaflets spilled by the Shu army was too large, and the "CIA" personnel lurking in Xuchang added fuel to the fire, and now there was a lot of talk about leaflets everywhere in the city, unless the people of the city were killed, it would be so easy to stop there.
After the last time the "CIA" smuggled away Sima Yi's family, it was severely cracked down on by the Wei court, and some people had to change their identities and go into hiding, while others were forced to leave Xuchang and temporarily relocate. However, the situation was chaotic, and the Wei court was tired of coping with the pressing of the Shu army, and this kind of counter-espionage operation was only hastily carried out for a few days, and soon died down.
The "CIA" took the opportunity to slowly regain its strength in Xuchang, and when Cao Pi moved the capital, the whole Xuchang was in chaos, the Wei army's control here fell to the lowest point, and the entire Xuchang city was like an undefended city for the "CIA", and the "CIA" people could almost come and go on their own.
During this period, the "CIA" arranged a large number of manpower to pour ~ into Xuchang, and this spy agency grew rapidly to prepare for the Shu army to seize the former capital. Now, the Shu army has finally besieged the city, and Pang Tong quickly got in touch with the "CIA" agency in the city, and the rest of Pang Tong's small plan was carried out through them.
On the seventh day of the siege of the Shu army, rumors spread in the city, and Xiahou Ba was busy with military affairs for a day and returned to the mansion in a hurry. Before he could take a sip of hot tea, he called an old butler and asked him about the implementation of Plan B.
Of course, the name Plan B was given by the author, and Xiahouba did not name the plan, but referred to it as "that thing", and he now asked the old housekeeper: "How was that thing done?" ”