Several soldiers came over and held Liu Zeqing down, one took the saber from his waist, and the other tied him up with a rope. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Liu Zeqing kept shouting things like "the last general is wronged" and "you are framing Zhongliang", Ma Shiying frowned and said: "Plug this guy's mouth for me!" Someone stuffed a piece of cloth into Liu Zeqing's mouth.

Controlling Liu Zeqing is only the first step, and more importantly, it is necessary to be able to control the soldiers under Liu Zeqing. This time, Liu Zeqing brought a total of about 15,000 soldiers and horses, but the real soldiers will not exceed 5,000, and the others are auxiliaries. Among the 5,000 soldiers, the most critical is his more than 400 family members.

Compared with ordinary soldiers, the life of the family is much better. When most of the soldiers did not have enough to eat and did not have warm clothing, the family members had meat and wine to drink for almost every meal. Some of the generals who have guarded certain places for generations even have good land and beautiful houses allocated from the generals. For example, like Guan Ningjun's ancestral family and Wu family, their families often have hundreds of acres of fertile land.

Of course, Liu Zeqing's family is not arrogant to such an extent, but they definitely live a good life with meat to eat, wine to drink, and money to spend every day. Because they can keep up with their nutrition, they are generally well trained, and their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers. Moreover, their good life is entirely due to the personal generals, who are generally loyal to their generals in general. On the battlefield, he can often really fight to the death for the Lord, and once the Lord is killed, the family members who follow him will often fight to the death instead of choosing to surrender. Because as family members, not only can they not get the same treatment after surrendering, but they also cannot even save their lives. Because if the generals on their opponent's side believe that they are sincere surrender, then they will feel that these people have gained so many benefits, and they are not willing to be loyal, and naturally there is no possibility of being loyal to themselves, such people are really damned, and they should be killed to serve as a warning to their own families; If you don't believe that they really surrendered, then you will naturally worry about what kind of gentleman they plan to play revenge, then naturally they will kill them directly.

As for the other soldiers, under the military system of the Ming Dynasty, they were just slaves who were oppressed by the generals, and naturally they could not talk about any loyalty. Therefore, as long as these 400 or so family members can be controlled, Liu Zeqing's army of 15,000 people is not difficult to control.

At the beginning, Kong Zhang and Ma Shiying considered the idea of using fake Liu Zeqing's orders to deceive these family members into controlling Liu Zeqing after controlling them. Moreover, Kong Zhang's side also has a master who is particularly good at copying other people's handwriting, and it is convenient to use it to forge orders. However, generally speaking, there is no reason for generals to call all the family members out of the barracks alone, let alone send the family members who follow them back to give orders, but to let others pass the orders. Therefore, if you insist on doing this, it is easy to expose the stuffing. Naturally, the idea was abandoned.

The second trick is to make ghosts in the food in the name of rewarding the three armies, and put them all down. There are not many anesthetics that can have such an effect, but there are quite a few poisons, but the poison cannot accurately attack the family without injuring other soldiers, (these soldiers are still useful for Ma Shiying.) So, this hand is just thinking about it.

In the end, after thinking about it, Kong Zhang still felt that a simple and crude way might be the most useful. That is, he directly dragged Liu Zeqing over, read the "holy decree" in front of the whole army, and then slashed it with a knife. When the time comes, most of the soldiers will definitely not dare to mess around, and only those who will rush over to avenge their generals.

"If they're going to rush over, we're going to just kill them all." Kong Zhang said viciously at that time.

Ma Shiying was a little hesitant, but Kong Zhang successfully persuaded him with a sentence "The Jianqing has been cut down, and I am afraid that I can't cut Liu Zeqing's family", but he also pointed out a problem with this plan, that is-what if I see Liu Zeqing dead and the army disperses in a hurry?

In the end, Ma Shiying came up with a solution to this problem, that is, first build a military camp outside the city gate, build a high point on the camp wall, dig a deep trench, and put the soldiers inside, even if they want to disperse, there is nowhere to run.

At the same time that Liu Zeqing was controlled, Ma Shiying's pro-military camp also began to act, they quickly appeared outside Liu Zeqing's barracks, and controlled the direction of the exit of the barracks.

The sudden appearance of this army with cannons, and the blocking of the exit from the camp gate as soon as it appeared, was clearly ill-intentioned. However, now that Liu Zeqing is not in the barracks, his generals and family members do not dare to take any action on their own, so they can only hold the camp gate tightly.

After a while, more soldiers appeared on the city wall behind them, and they even set up cannons on the city, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed directly at Liu Jun's military camp.

The officers in Liu Zeqing's barracks hurriedly gathered together to discuss the situation.

"I'm afraid something has happened!" Liu Zeqing's lieutenant Zheng Longfang said, "Most of the ghosts in that city are there, but now that we are blocked in this barracks, how can we be good?" ”

"Why don't we kill it!" Another lieutenant, Yao Wenchang, said.

"If we kill it directly, will it hurt the big handsome?" Liu Zeqing's nephew Liu Zhiyu said.

"If the marshal is fine, if they don't have the intention of harming the marshal, we will kill it, and the marshal will be reprimanded at most, and the court will use him to clean up the situation. If they are really harmful to the hearts of the handsome, we will rush out, and they will also throw a rat bogey. Liu Zeqing's other general, Li Huajing, said.

"I think it's better to think long-term." Liu Zhiyu shook his head and said, obviously he couldn't make up his mind.

"I think what Brother Li Huajing said makes sense, now that the matter is urgent, it is no longer the time to think about it in the long run, we have to think about it in the long run, and when we rush out, it will be too late to think about it in the long run." Zheng Longfang said loudly.

"I'm talking about it, let's gather the team first and get ready to rush out!" Yao Wenchang also responded loudly.

Liu Zhiyu's attitude is actually very vacillating, since everyone said so, he decided to follow the crowd and prepare to follow the prominence.

There are two ways to stand out, the first is to directly defeat the troops blocking the door, in Zheng Longfang's opinion, this team only has about 300 people, and it should not be difficult to repel them. Another way is to tear down the wall and fill in the trench to get out, but the trench is dug very deep and it is not a matter of filling it all at once. So it's only natural that people want to use the first approach.

Just as they were about to launch a breakout operation, someone suddenly shouted: "Look at the city wall! ”

A few people hurriedly looked towards the city wall, but saw a few people escorting an officer over, looking at the costume, it was exactly Liu Zeqing's appearance.

"Listen to the people below!" Someone on the city wall shouted loudly, "Liu Zeqing colluded with the rogues, harmed the people, and the Holy Lord issued a decree to arrest him!" If you are stubborn and stubborn, then you will sin and your family, and you must not make mistakes! ”

"Ahh This, this, this...... But how is this good? Liu Zhiyu suddenly panicked.

"Dog officer on dog days! It's really going to hurt the handsome! Li Huajing scolded, and then turned to everyone, "Everyone must not listen to that dog official, if we really surrender, the big marshal and I will all lose their lives!" ”

"We don't know this! I can't believe a word of these dog officials. When we go out, take the city, and rescue the handsome, we will definitely break this dog official into pieces! Yao Wenchang also said loudly. It's just that while he shouted, he also quietly looked around at his army. He knew that when the other party shouted on the city wall, he didn't really expect them to surrender, but more for fear of shaking their military morale. In the first army, the people who are really loyal to Liu Zeqing and are willing to fight for him against the imperial court are actually very limited, and the other auxiliaries and ordinary soldiers may be easily swayed by such shouts.

Sure enough, he noticed that many of the soldiers had confusion in their eyes. He knew that if someone shouted surrender at this time, he was afraid that many soldiers would follow suit. He knew that he had to make a decision now, so he shouted: "Sons, follow me into the city and rescue the handsome!" Then he led the men and horses of his headquarters to pass through the open camp gate, and killed the troops who were blocking the camp gate not far from the opposite side. Several other generals were also busy following with their own men.

"Boom! Rumble! The people on the city wall naturally saw the movement in the barracks, and when they saw that Liu Jun in the barracks was preparing to break through, they opened artillery to bombard downward, because the distance was relatively close, so these cannons could directly use shotguns to bombard, and a few cannons passed, and they immediately knocked over many people. There was chaos in the camp. In addition to Liu Zeqing's family, many soldiers began to run around to avoid artillery fire. Yao Wenchang's team was almost disrupted.

Yao Wenchang knew that if this attack failed, morale would plummet, and it would become more and more difficult to organize an effective impact, so he put all the most elite family members in front of him, trying to crush the opposing team at once.

As soon as the team arrived at the camp gate, two shells suddenly came from the opposite team.

This military camp was built by Kong Zhang and others for Liu Zeqing, so they have repeatedly measured the distance from where to where. Naturally, this greatly increased the hit rate of the artillery bombardment of the model army, and both shells accurately hit the ranks that were leaving the camp, easily wading through two bloody alleys in the dense crowd, causing more than 30 casualties at once. Even Yao Wenchang was directly hit in the chest by one of the shells, and he was instantly shattered! As a result, this shock ended before it began.