"No!" "No!" "No!" The three promises sounded in unison, and the officers and men of the three armies were awe-inspiringly ordered. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When I arrived at the camp of Huang Zhong's headquarters, I saw Huang Zhong's first archery brigade stretching a bow and arrows, aiming at a small camp inside, leading but not firing, Gao Shun led 2,000 camps to block the exit of the camp, Gao Shun shouted loudly: "Li Sheng, the military rations purchased by the lord from all over the country will arrive in Xiangyang in a few days, you wait for the rumors to be self-defeating, don't hurry up and surrender out of the camp, and strive for leniency, otherwise, attack the camp and burn the jade!" ”

Li Sheng's mournful voice came from the camp: "Gao Shun, don't try to lie to me, Jin Liang's military rations from all over the country have been robbed by the Yellow Turban Thieves, where is there any military rations, if I mess with you again, I'm afraid there is only one way to starve to death, if you follow Dong Gong, you won't have to worry about eating and drinking!" ”

"Brothers, don't listen to Li Sheng's dog thief's nonsense, you must know that now more than 20 princes in the world have joined forces to fight against Dong thief, Dong thief is a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, it is difficult to protect himself, and he can manage your life and death, you are thousands of miles away from Luoyang, Dong thief just wants to help you, but he is also beyond the reach of the whip, you think about it, what Li Sheng dog thief said is not!" Gao Shun shouted loudly.

Li Sheng was short of words, and shouted inwardly: "Don't talk nonsense, if you can attack in, I, Li Sheng, will be arrested, and I would rather die without regrets!" ”

Gao Shun looked at the heavily fortified camp, looked at his heavy infantry in the trapping camp, and then looked at Huang Zhong's archers, all of whom were not suitable for attacking the city and pulling out the fortress, so he had to shout angrily: "Mobilize the thunderbolt to Cao Zhenghun at the ordnance, and stone Li Sheng's dog thief to death in it today!" ”

The Thunderbolt was an advanced version of the catapult, and since Jin Liang appointed Zheng Hun as an ordnance Cao, he saw that he could not study steelmaking technology on the march. followed Jin Liang's wishes. Improve the catapult.

Catapults were available in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The original structure of the catapult was very simple, a huge lever, the long end was a leather holster or a wooden basket loaded with stones, the short end was tied to dozens of ropes, when the order was given, dozens of people pulled the ropes at the same time, using the principle of the lever to throw the stones. At that time, when Li Xin, the ancestor of the flying general Li Guang, led 200,000 Qin troops to attack the Chu State, the Chu army secretly prepared a large number of catapults. When the Qin army crossed the river, it suddenly launched at the same time, and countless sharp stones smashed into the Qin army like a dark cloud, and the 200,000 Qin army was completely defeated, and Li Xin himself was defeated and committed suicide. Later, Wang Qian, one of the four generals of the Warring States Period, led an army of 600,000 to capture the Chu State, which shows the power of the catapult at that time. Zheng Hun adjusted the internal structure of the catapult slightly, installed the pivot, and bounced out more and farther stones, because the sound of the stones bursting out was like thunder. Based on historical precedents, Jin Liang named the improved catapult the Thunderbolt. The army rested for a few days in the fierce battle against the White Wave Thieves in Hanoi County. After Huang Ze fought against the Black Mountain Thieves for a few days, Zheng Hun and a thousand craftsmen under his command stayed in the rear camp in addition to making arrow feathers, and began to build thunderbolts, and when the army arrived in Xiangyang, the ordnance battalion had built more than 50 thunderbolts.

Gao Shun has seen the power of the thunderbolt when it was tested, and felt that this thunderbolt is really a sharp weapon for attacking the city, but the main structure of the thunderbolt is a giant wood and a pure steel machine, which is very cumbersome, and it needs to be disassembled and divided into several carriages in advance.

When Jin Liang heard that Gao Shun was about to mobilize the thunderbolt, he laughed loudly and said, "Zhongping, why bother! ”

"Lord, are you back?" Gao Shun thought that Jin Liang would stay at Julutian's house for another day, but he didn't expect him to come back so quickly.

"It's good that I came back a day early, otherwise the situation would have been out of control." Jin Liang sighed.

"Lord, don't worry, with me and Han Sheng, Jun Yi, Ziyuan and other generals strictly controlled, the army is in order, but this Li Sheng dog thief harbors evil intentions, colludes with Dong thieves, and spreads rumors in the army, which is very hateful, I led the troops to kill him, but he closed the door and guarded, and he had no choice but to use Zheng Hun's thunderbolt!" Gao Shun said helplessly.

"Zhongping, it takes a lot of time to disassemble and install the thunderbolt car, and when it can be used, most of the time will pass, and now in this critical period, we must cut through the mess quickly!" Jin Liang shook his head in denial.

"Then my lord, what is your plan?" Gao Shun looked at Jin Liang expectantly.

"I only need to say a few words, and I can kill Li Sheng's dog thief without using a knife or a single shot!" Jin Liang said with confidence.

"I can't believe it!" Gao Shun thought for a moment, and couldn't think of how Jin Liang could do this.

"Of the two thousand men under Li Sheng's command, only one thousand are his private soldiers, and the other half are Black Mountain troops, and under the siege of our army, how many of those thousand private soldiers can keep their loyalty?!" Jin Liang smiled slightly.

"Lord, when I heard you say this, I understand, there are still two thousand auxiliaries in the camp, and none of them belong to Li Sheng's private soldiers, so we don't need to take Li Sheng's head personally." After Gao Shun figured it out, he laughed.

Jin Liang stood on the back of the red rabbit horse again, and repeated what he had just said to the officers and soldiers of the other troops, and the soldiers of Li Sheng's department were all frightened when they saw Jin Liang coming in person, and listened to Jin Liang's sincere promise, and the resentment in their hearts that was bewitched by Li Sheng suddenly dissipated a lot.

Jin Liang saw that the expression on the face of the soldier on the wall of the village was much soothed, and he knew that the grain promise he had just made was effective, so he shouted while the iron was hot: "You only have 4,000 people now, trapped in the more than 100,000 troops of our Central Army, what kind of big waves can you set off?!" If it weren't for the mercy of this general, who was unwilling to recruit thunderbolts to break the camp, otherwise your 4,000 people would have been wiped out in an instant! ”

The 10,000 elite cavalry of the 1st Division under Jin Liang stood in front of the camp, like a black ocean, and Li Sheng's headquarters was like a reef next to the sea, which could be swallowed up by the sea in an instant.

The soldiers under Li Sheng's command were all frightened and looked at each other.

Seeing their frightened expressions, Jin Liang promised loudly: "Fellow soldiers, you are the central army of the Han Dynasty, you are loyal to the Han Dynasty, the imperial court, and I am Jin Liang, not Li Sheng, a dog thief who privately colluded with Dong Zhuo to gamble with your life!" You see that Li Sheng's henchmen and soldiers are only a few hundred people, you only need to wave the swords and guns in your hands, and you can easily kill them. You can get rid of the crime of defecting to the enemy. You can continue to stay in the Central Army! I announce. The military rank of those who kill Li Sheng's subordinates will be advanced to one level, the military rank of those who kill Li Sheng's generals will be three stars, and the military rank of those who kill Li Sheng's henchmen and foot soldiers will be promoted to one star, and those who open the camp gate and surrender on the spot and do not become enemies of the brothers of the Central Army will be pardoned for the crime of obeying the enemy! ”

Jin Liang handed out the carrot and picked up the stick again: "If you are obsessed and follow Li Sheng's traitor, then don't blame me Jin Liang for turning his face and being ruthless." I announce. Anyone who would rather die to follow Li Sheng will be punished by his family as slaves and will be used as mining labor, and will not be forgiven for the rest of his life until he dies of exhaustion! ”

When Li Sheng's subordinates heard Jin Liang say this, they suddenly understood that now that Li Sheng's general trend has gone, and there is no future with Li Sheng, and his family will be harmed, so why follow him. The soldiers who had sworn allegiance to him also defected, not to mention those Black Mountain soldiers who had no connection with Li Sheng. They picked up their swords and guns one after another, like wolves and tigers, and pounced on Li Sheng's henchmen who had become weak.

Li Sheng's face was as pale as earth, and he hurriedly shouted to the most trusted battalion commander next to him: "Li Fa, you hurry up and lead the troops to go up to the top, and when I pack up the gold and silver, we will fight our way out of the encirclement together, escape to Luoyang, and defect to Dong Xiangguo!" ”

Li Fa glanced at Li Sheng with pity: "You turn your head and see that this big camp is surrounded by Jin Liang's cavalry, how can we escape!" ”

Li Sheng stood on the wall, looking left and right, and couldn't help but lament: "I regret that I shouldn't have listened to the bewitchment of Li Cheng and ended up in such a ......." ”

Before the word "end" could be spoken, Li Sheng's eyes widened and he looked at Li Fa in disbelief: "You are my own brother!" ”

"What about my brother! If you don't die, I won't be able to live! As he spoke, Li Fa pulled out the sword inserted in Li Sheng's stomach, picked it up high, and cut off Li Sheng's head with a sword. Li Sheng never dreamed that he would be killed by his own brother, even if his head fell to the ground, he still wouldn't be able to die!Li Fa grabbed Li Sheng's head and shouted under the wall: "General, if I kill Li Sheng, you have to pardon me!" ”

When Li Sheng's subordinates saw that Li Sheng's younger brother had killed Li Sheng, they were all as cold as ice, and they no longer had the courage to fight, so they threw their weapons on the ground and surrendered. Those Montenegrin soldiers also wanted to kill some of Li Sheng's subordinates to seek promotion in military ranks, but they were stopped by the previous veterans: "The lord has an order, all prisoners who surrender must not be killed, and those who violate them will be stripped of all military ranks and sent to the mines!" Do you want to try the Lord's military law?! ”

When those Montenegrin soldiers heard this, they all stopped waving their swords and guns, and instead tied up Li Sheng's henchmen and waited for Jin Liang's fall. Gao Shun's 2,000 traps swarmed in and completely controlled the situation, and Gao Shun let Jin Liang enter the camp.

Jin Liang laughed and said, "Why is Zhong Ping so cautious, there is no one in the world who can hurt General Ben!" ”

"Lord, open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, for the sake of our common cause, the last general will not dare to let the lord enter the dangerous place!" Gao Shun said solemnly.

Li Fa knelt on the ground and offered the head of his own brother Li Sheng.

Jin Liang sat on the red rabbit horse and looked down, and saw that the two eyes on Li Sheng's head were wide, and he was taken aback: "Why didn't Li Sheng die blindly?!" ”

Gao Shun explained quietly: "The one who killed Li Sheng and offered his head is Li Sheng's own brother Li Fa!" ”

It is really inferior to a beast, Jin Liang really wanted to immediately raise the stone dragon knife and kill Li Fa on the spot.

Dong Zhao followed behind Jin Liang, and when he saw Jin Liang angry, he hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the stone dragon knife shaft, and quietly persuaded: "The lord must not be angry for a while, not only must he not be slaughtered, but he must be rewarded heavily!" ”

"Why is that?!" Jin Liang was surprised.

"My lord, let's think about it, our central army will not be the only enemy in the future, Dong Zhuo is not the only one, in the future, to deal with any force, relying on external attacks alone will lose troops, the best way is to let them fight in the nest, if they are properly infighting, the lord can take that force without blood. If the lord kills Li Fa, the people who yearn for the lord in other forces in the world will be frightened and dare not betray the old lord and take refuge in the lord, so that the lord will face all the forces united in the future, and it will be much more difficult to pacify the world. Dong Zhao patiently explained.

"If I reward Li Fa heavily, it will be a hint to those who want to take refuge in other forces in the world, no matter how they betray the old master, I will not blame the past, so far. As long as my power is thriving. There will be more and more people who turn their backs on the Lord. The rest of the forces will eventually fall apart! Jin Liang understood what Dong Zhao meant, so he added with a smile.

"Lord Mingjian!" Dong Zhao couldn't help but smile when he saw Jin Liang being so accessible.

Thinking of Cao Cao and other lords in the romance, they killed Yang Song and other betrayers after using them, Jin Liang felt incredible. In fact, Liu Cong was not killed by Cao Cao and was able to die well, and Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, was able to live longer than Cao Pi, and the author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms wanted to suppress Cao Chongliu, but he didn't think about Cao Cao's eloquence at all, how could he not think that tolerating surrender would help recruit more enemy generals.

Jin Liang forcibly endured the disgust in his heart. Piled up a smile: "Li Fa, you can kill your relatives with righteousness, this general deeply admires, so let's do it, in order to commend your loyalty, I have decided to not only forgive your thief's sins, promote your military rank, but also reward you with 100 catties of gold, and at the same time let you continue to lead your brother's troops." What do you think?! ”

Li Fa thanked Jin Liang for his kindness, and burst into tears: "The general not only does not dislike Li Fa's evil act of killing his brother. He also promoted Li Fa's military rank and rewarded him with a lot of money, which really made Li Fa grateful, but the soldiers under my brother's command all hated my righteous annihilation, if I went to lead them, I was afraid that the heads would fall to the ground at night, and I hoped that the general would be wide and put Li Fa into other camps. ”

Jin Liang looked up at Li Sheng's remaining hundreds of henchmen, they looked at Li Fa's back full of resentment, and it seemed that Li Fa had to be cramped and skinned in order to eliminate the hatred in their hearts.

In order to make a look of not snubbing and not disappointing the people who came to vote, Jin Liang smiled and said: "In this case, you can go and lead a battalion of Black Mountain troops, as for them who are so loyal to Li Sheng, it seems that they will not be used by me, so let's dig coal." That way, you don't have to worry. ”

Li Fa hurriedly kowtowed again to thank him.

Jin Liang waved his hand and pointed at Li Sheng's head: "You better take care of your brother's head." ”

Li Fa handed over Li Sheng's head to Guo Tong, the deputy captain of the Red Loyal Guards, who hung Li Sheng's head on a high pole outside the gate to set an example. After hanging for three days, he took off the head and handed it to Li Fa, so that he could choose a good coffin for his brother to bury. Li Fa was grateful for Jin Liang's kindness, so he told Jin Liang the last words Li Sheng said to him.

Jin Liang snorted coldly: "I knew that there was something wrong with this Li Cheng, so I ordered to go down and search for the original Nanyang Taishou Li Cheng in the whole city!" ”

Li Sheng's brigade commander, Jin Liang appointed Ju Yi as the deputy, Ju Yi also served as Huang Zhong's deputy, after Ju Yi arrived, eliminated hundreds of Montenegrin soldiers who could not be trained as crossbowmen, and then added his original troops, and the 4,000 combat auxiliaries of the Fourth Brigade were ready to be trained by Ju Yi to become the first warrior.

Ju Yi reported the training plan to Jin Liang, Jin Liang was of course overjoyed, and gave Ju Yi a privilege to select suitable soldiers from the whole army to fill the Fourth Brigade as the first warrior, Ju Yi said proudly: "The elite soldiers are not selected by selection, but by hard training, and the four thousand people of the last general are enough to train into a hundred battles!" ”

Jin Liang was ambitious, remembering that in history he broke Gongsun Chan with 800 Xiandeng Shi, and now there are 4,000 Xiandeng Shi, and he is not afraid of Gongsun Zhan's white horse righteousness, but he just wants to allocate a little more craftsmen to Zheng Hun, and let him hurry up to make Yuanrong crossbow.

Gao Shun entered the inner and reported: "Lord, search the entire camp, I can't see the whereabouts of the royal capital, the last general thought of a possibility, the royal capital was originally in charge of the fifth brigade, the lord later allocated the fifth brigade to Pan Ming to command, Wang Du was demoted to the deputy brigade commander of the fourth brigade, and later Pan Ming was given death by the queen mother, but the fifth brigade still acts as the Yulin army to guard the palace ban, the last general is worried that the royal capital has sneaked back to Xiangyang, to the Yulin army to make waves, it is very likely that the queen mother and the Son of Heaven have been held hostage by him! ”

"What?!" Jin Liang looked at Gao Shun in disbelief, saw Gao Shun's serious face, knew that Gao Shun had never lied, and hurriedly said, "Quickly send Li to me and call me!" ”

Li Fa ran over in a hurry: "Lord, I don't know what happened to the summoning general?!" ”

"Do you know the whereabouts of the royal capital?" Jin Liang stared at Li Fa.

Li Fa felt Jin Liang's murderous aura, and couldn't help but sweat like rain, and said silently: "The day before, the elder brother Li Sheng and Wang Du sneaked into Xiangyang, and when my brother returned to the camp last night, he could let people go out and spread rumors that the food was running out, and I didn't see the figure of the royal capital at all." ”

"In this way, it is very likely that Wang Du did not return to the camp tent, and has been hiding in Jinliang, it is very likely that he is hiding in Li Cheng's mansion, they have a seizure together this morning, and they want me to be overwhelmed, and they are defeated, it seems that they have played these abacus really well." Jin Liang figured all this, so he asked Gao Shun to lead the men and horses outside the city to surround the four gates of Xiangyang, not even letting go of a bird, Jin Liang personally led the Flying Tiger Army to rush into Xiangyang, ready to kill.

As soon as Jin Liang's army arrived at the gate of the city, he saw Lu Chong, the commander of the Fifth Division of the First Army of the Central Army, Lu Zifeng, carrying a human head, rushing out on horseback, and said loudly: "The head of the royal capital is here, please rest assured general, the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven are all right." ”

Jin Liang looked at Lu Chong holding the bloody head in his hand, it was indeed Wang Yun's nephew Wang Du, his heart was wide, and he asked with a smile: "Zifeng, I have been worried that Wang Du is holding the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven hostage, and now a big stone in my heart has landed, by the way, how did you find Wang Du?" ”

"The last general received the general's order and began to block the four gates, and the whole city was under martial law. The last general led a thousand elites to inspect the whole city, and when passing through the palace of the Son of Heaven, the last general remembered that Dong Zhaojun had told the general that Li Sheng and Wang had changed, and the last general remembered that the fifth brigade where Wang Du had been the brigade commander was now organized as the Yulin Army, and he was afraid that Wang Du would sneak into the Yulin Army to make trouble, so he led the troops to the vicinity of the palace to guard. Sure enough, after a short time, I saw the chaos in the palace, the last general hurriedly led the troops into the palace, and saw that the king instigated the original henchmen to attack the main hall, fortunately Wu Chong, the captain of Yulin, led the troops to defend effectively, and the king thief did not succeed, and the last general led a thousand elite soldiers and Wu Chong to attack the royal capital before and after, and the king was defeated and killed on the spot. Now Wu Chongzheng is leading the troops to stick to the palace, and I specially came to greet the general. ”

Lu Chong respectfully reported that if it weren't for his uncle Lu Zhi in the court, he would have worshiped Jin Liang as the lord a long time ago.

Jin Liang saw that Lu Chong was cautious in his use of troops, and he was quite like an uncle, so he admired it very much, and laughed and praised: "If it weren't for Zifeng's accurate judgment and timely dispatch of troops, the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven would definitely be held hostage by the traitors of the royal capital, and the general trend would be out of control. ”

Lu Chong heard Jin Liang's reward and hurriedly leaned over to thank him.

"How are those families inside and outside Xiangyang?!" Jin Liang believes that there are definitely some families involved in this matter.

"Most of the families have not moved, only the Wang family, the Li family, the Xue family, and the Jia family jointly dispatched eight thousand soldiers to besiege the palace of the Son of Heaven, when the last general had swept away the rebellion in the royal capital, and then repelled the four coalition forces with Wu Duwei, and the four families also sent two thousand soldiers together to besiege the general's house, because Dian Wei even beheaded dozens of people, they were frightened, and later saw the retreat of the siege of the palace, they also retreated, and now they are all cowering in the courtyard of the four families." (To be continued.) )