"No." Seeing that Zhao Fan wanted to surrender, Bao Long hurriedly stepped forward and said: "My lord, now the enemy army has just climbed to the top of the city, and there are only a dozen powerful siege vehicles, and only a dozen people can come up at the same time each time, our army can completely wipe them out at the head of the city, besides, the reinforcements from the counties are constantly coming, and Jiaozhou has also sent troops to help, as long as we hold on for another day or two, the reinforcements will come, why do you give up so lightly?" ”

But I heard Zhao Fan smile bitterly: "What you said is good, now that the enemy army is strong, how can we hold on for a day or two?" I know that you were entrusted by Zhang Xian, and your family was also left in Changsha as hostages, but you can't joke with the soldiers and civilians in my city? Quickly retreat, otherwise you will be held and handed over to General Liu for disposal. ”

Bao Long couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, he immediately drew his sword, rushed up with an arrow, directly cut off Zhao Fan's head, and shouted: "Zhao Fan is dead, the current Guiyang Taishou is me Bao Long, everyone immediately obeys my orders, resolutely defend the city, and repel the enemy soldiers, otherwise, military law will deal with it." ”

But at this time, the defenders were already frightened by this powerful siege equipment, and now they had no heart to fight, and saw that Bao Long had killed the always generous Taishou Zhao Fan, and forced them to fight hard, and they couldn't bear it anymore, so they immediately rushed up and chopped Bao Long into meat sauce.

Immediately afterwards, these soldiers surrendered to the Jingzhou army that climbed to the top of the city, and someone opened the city gate and directly let Liu Qi's army enter the city.

Liu Qi ordered Zhao Fan and Bao Long to be buried thickly, and personally comforted the defenders in the city, and promulgated a series of measures to reassure the people.

At this time, a sergeant dedicated the letter of the seal to Liu Qi, and Liu Qi rewarded the sealer, and then ordered Sima Zhi to temporarily lead the Guiyang Taishou, and in the name of the new Taishou, ordered the counties to surrender.

Unexpectedly, the next day, Zhenyang County ordered Cai Jing to lead 3,000 troops to return to Shun, Liu Qi was overjoyed, and immediately went to greet him, so he knew the reason.

It turned out that Cai Jing heard that Chenxian had been broken, so he was ready to lead the army back to Zhenyang, and then defected to Zhang Jin, but he did not expect to meet the servant Cai Yan on the way, only to know that Zhenyang had been occupied by Zhang Jin's son Zhang Huai led the army, this Zhang Huai was originally the order of Gan County, led the army to support Chenxian, but had no intention of helping, after coming to Hanning, he immediately occupied the entire county in the name of the army tired and needed to enter the city to rest, and robbed Cai Jing's wife and concubine, killed his whole family, Cai Jing was furious and immediately led the troops to Liu Qi, and proposed to be in the army, the county commanders of the two counties of Qujiang are his friends, and he is willing to recruit the two counties for Liu Qi.

Liu Qi immediately appointed Cai Jing as the county commander of Chenxian County, went to recruit the county commanders of Linwu and Qujiang counties, and proposed to still appoint them as the county commanders of the two counties.

Cai Jing hurriedly thanked him, and immediately took Liu Qi's appointment to recruit the second county, and not long after, the county commander of the second county went to Chenxian to meet Liu Qi and express his intention to surrender.

Half a month later, the six counties of Guiyang, Benxian, Yinshan, Nanping, Hanwei and Hanning were all surrendered, and now only Zhenyang, which was occupied by Zhang You, remained in the entire Guiyang County.

Liu Qi ordered Jiang Wan to be the captain of Pingnan, led an army of 8,000, rushed to Zhenyang in the starry night, surrounded it, but was not allowed to attack the city, in order to attract the enemy's reinforcements, and set up an ambush to eliminate the enemy's reinforcements, and at the same time wait for the opportunity to recapture Weipu Pass, which not only made it difficult for the enemy to peep into Guiyang, but also posed a threat to Panyu, the seat of Jiaozhou.

Jiang Wan thanked him and took the order.

But he said that the next day, Liu Qi was discussing the art of war with Xu Shu, Pang Tong and others in the tent, but suddenly heard the uproar outside, as if someone was arguing, and hurriedly asked what was going on?

I saw Liu Shi enter the tent, knelt down at Liu Qi, and said with tears: "Son, it's all to blame for the minions' lax control, the two rabbit cubs under the command of the slaves, Liu Xi and Liu Yan, the captains of the pro-soldiers, broke into the house of the late Taishou Zhao Fan, snatched Zhao Fan's sister-in-law Fan, and wanted to sacrifice it to the slaves. The slave knew that what they did was wrong, so they had already sent that Fan back, even if she looked like a fairy, the slave didn't dare to ask for it. But the slaves only have these two brothers, and they also ask Gongzi to read that the minions have served Gongzi for many years, open the net, spare them a dog's life, and the slaves promise that they won't dare next time. ”

Liu Qi sighed and said slowly: "Liu Shi, you have been following me for a long time, and you have learned a lot about the art of war and strategy. ”

Liu Shi was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The slave has heard Gongzi say that generals, wisdom, faith, benevolence, bravery, and strictness. ”

"Then what are wisdom, faith, benevolence, courage, and strictness?" Liu Qi nodded, and then asked.

"The so-called wisdom is resourcefulness; Faith is to believe in what you say; benevolence is to care for subordinates; Courage means courage and perseverance; Strictness means strict rewards and punishments......"

When Liu Shi said the end, he already knew what Liu Qi meant, and he couldn't help but be shocked, broke out in a cold sweat, and looked at Liu Qi cautiously.

Liu Qi said: "You're right, as a general, especially a general like Ben General, if there is no strict military discipline, how can you shock the three armies?" How to calm the people's minds? Now that our army has just recovered Guiyang and has not yet gained a stable foothold, such a thing has occurred, and it has appeared in the general's personal captain, if it is not severely punished, how can the army and the people be convinced? Zihua did the right thing in this matter, not only that, but the general also wanted to build a Yì Zihua to transfer these two boys to the army and deal with them with military law, which not only deterred the three armies, but also gave an explanation to the people. ”

After Liu Shi heard about it, he didn't dare to say it anymore, but sighed with tears.

Liu Qi ordered Wang Cang to write an official letter to Sima Zhi, the Taishou guard, escorted the two prisoners to the camp in the name of the military, and punished them with military law, and ordered Wang Cang to go there in person to explain his meaning to Sima Zhi and the plaintiff.

Wang Cang took the order and left, and within an hour, he saw him, accompanied by Sima Zhi, escorting the two pro-soldier captains back to the outside of the gate, and there were some lively crowds and plaintiffs along the way, they just wanted to see how Liu Qi dealt with these two pro-soldier captains who caused public anger?

And when the two pro-soldier captains saw that they had indeed been sent to the barracks, they were all very proud in their hearts, and secretly thought: "We know that the general is a person with affection, and the two of us are the captains of his pro-soldiers, how can he even ignore us?" Isn't it just robbing a woman? What's all the fuss? What's more, that woman is still dedicated to my eldest brother Liu Shi, we are Liu Shi's cousins. Even if the general looks at the face of our eldest brother, he will definitely let us go. Hehe, no matter how powerful you Sima Zhi is, can you be bigger than our general? The general won't let us kill, and you won't dare to give you eight guts. ”

But as soon as they looked up and saw Liu Qi's sharp gaze and Liu Shi's red and swollen eyes, their hearts were inexplicably tightened: "Is the general going to be real this time?" Will we be sentenced? ”

At this moment, they heard Liu Qi say sharply: "Liu Xi and Liu Yan, you two robbed the people's daughters, ruined the reputation of our army, and violated military orders, can you be guilty?" ”

Liu Xi and Liu Yan trembled, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "General, we were wronged, we didn't rob any beauties, she took the initiative to marry General Liu, the commander of the Chinese army." ”

Liu Qi sank his face, and then said, "Sima Taishou, do you have a testimony?" ”

Sima Zhi hurriedly sent the testimony to Liu Qi.

Liu Qi looked at the testimony and saw that Liu Xi and Liu Yan not only admitted to robbing people, but also made nonsense in the hall, saying that they were the captains of the general's personal soldiers, and Sima Zhi had no right to dispose of them.

After Liu Qi finished reading it, he couldn't help but be furious, and shouted: "Liu Xi, Liu Yan, now that the testimony is here, what else do you have to say?" Not only did you rob the people's daughters, but you also resisted arrest and injured people, and insulted the upper peak, which is really an unforgivable sin. ”

"What?" Liu Xi and Liu Yan couldn't help but be stunned when they heard Liu Qi's words, they thought that they would be sentenced to ten or eight years at most, but they didn't expect to be sentenced to beheading, and their legs couldn't help but sift their legs like chaff, and they fell to the ground with a plop, and said with tears: "General, please spare us for the sake of our hard service." We don't dare anymore. ”

Liu Qi sighed slowly and said in a deep voice: "Military law is like a mountain, it's not that the general doesn't want to spare you, it's really that military law can't forgive you." Liu Xi, Liu Yan, you fought bravely on the battlefield, and you have meritorious guards, so that I have avoided many dangers, I still remember that in Huarong Dao, the general was assassinated, and you fought hard to block it for me, at that time, Liu Yan was also stabbed in the back, and almost died, these generals remember, but the generals can't show favoritism. When you die, I will give your children a good education, and I will be your mother as my own mother, and you will be responsible for all the food and clothing of your family. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Qi couldn't help but shed tears,

Liu Xi, Liu Yan, Liu Shi and the soldiers around them all burst into tears when they heard this, Liu Xi and Liu Yan cried loudly, kowtowed and said: "General, we can't stand you, we shouldn't have violated the military order and discredited our Jingzhou army, we deserve it, please kill us." ”

Liu Qi looked at the hour and said: "It's not yet noon, you are dead now, you can still have time to be reincarnated, as soon as three o'clock in the afternoon comes, I'm afraid you won't even have a chance to be reincarnated, you should hurry up and get on the road." Liu Shi, you are not strict under control, the two of them have made serious mistakes, irreparable, it is your fault, you will be demoted to the Chinese army Sima, temporarily manage the Chinese army, can you be convinced? ”

Liu Shi kowtowed and cried: "The last general is convinced, thank you for allowing the last general to stay by your side." ”

Liu Qi nodded, stopped looking at everyone, and returned to the big tent with tears.

Liu Qi shed tears not for show, but from the heart. Although his personal soldiers have always been Liu style leaders, they are all personally selected and trained by him, one by one is extremely loyal and brave, and the top one is the elite of the elite, and these two personal army captains have made him have high hopes, and their status in his eyes is not inferior to that of Pan Jun, these generals.

But he knew that as the main general of one party, and he had just entered Guiyang, when the people's hearts were unstable, there was no second choice except to kill the two favorite generals.

Otherwise, in the future, military discipline will be abolished, the people's will will change, and his rule in Guiyang will become precarious in the future.