Chapter 284: Temptation
Zhang Heng just turned around and wanted to leave, but he heard Han Sui's voice coming from behind: "Brother Zhang Xian, slow down." ”
"Oh? Could it be that the general has changed his mind? Zhang Heng also turned around and looked at Han Sui with an excited expression.
But seeing Han Sui slowly stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Xian, don't be impatient first, we will discuss this matter in the long run.......
When Zhang Heng saw Han Sui say this, his face suddenly softened, and he opened his mouth just about to speak, when he suddenly felt a pain in his lower abdomen, and when he looked down, he saw that a long sword had penetrated through his body, and the other end of the long sword was held by Han Sui.
"You, you're so vicious, why?" Zhang Hengxin was unwilling, looked at Han Sui with a painful face, gritted his teeth and asked.
But seeing that the smile on Han Sui's face gradually receded, he immediately said: "If you are allowed to leave like this, won't it disturb my military heart?" At that time, I am afraid that most of my 30,000 elite soldiers will be dispersed at once, and it is not impossible to even disperse, Brother Xian, don't blame me, if you want to blame Liu Qi, if it weren't for his invasion, I wouldn't have made this choice, although I don't want my family to die, but I know a truth, that is, to leave it for the future, if you are sent to death like this, it is meaningless. ”
Zhang Heng couldn't help but sneer, and said softly: "Who is right about us...... Whoever is wrong, let the soldiers... Let's decide. Han Sui, many injustices will be ...... Kill yourself, you think you're ...... Can it retain the morale of the military? Don't do it... I am afraid that although you are afraid...... Death is inevitable in the end...... As soon as I die, it's a pity that I'm so good...... Man, you are in the company of people like you......"
Speaking of this, Zhang Heng didn't come up in one breath, but died, with tears in his eyes. His eyes were round, but he didn't bat at them.
Han Sui didn't care about Zhang Heng either, and immediately wrote a letter to Liu Bei. Expressing his intention to surrender, he asked Liu Bei to help him send troops to attack Jincheng. And promised to help Liu Bei Huairou Qiang people in the future, and use the Qiang people to help Liu Bei seize Hanzhong and Yizhou.
Han Sui immediately ordered Cheng Gongying to send the letter to Liu Bei's camp ten miles outside Guzang City, and at the same time ordered to block the news so that the officers and soldiers in the army would not know the news of the siege of Jincheng.
However, it was said that Liu Bei was discussing the military situation with Zhuge Liang in the army, and suddenly heard a report from the sergeant, saying that Zhang Heng, the general of Han Sui's army, had come to visit. I couldn't help but wonder what the purpose of this person was here, but I saw Zhuge Liang and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the lord, this time Han Sui must have come to surrender." ”
"Oh? I don't know why the military advisor is so sure? Liu Bei's heart couldn't help beating wildly, but he still couldn't believe it, so he asked with a smile.
"Hehe, Liang just got the news that Liu Qi led the army all the way to seize a lot of land in Han Sui's Longxi and Jincheng counties, and Han Sui lost his roots. had to rely on the lord so that the lord could block Liu Qi for him, and even help him restore the old land. ”
"I see. Hmph, this Han Sui is an unrighteous person, his family is all in Jincheng, and he doesn't go to the rescue, but instead he takes refuge in loneliness and injustice, so he shouldn't be. Liu Bei's face was full of disdain, and Qing snorted lightly.
Zhuge Liang secretly shook his head, he knew that his lord was pretending to be benevolent again, and secretly thought in his heart: "You were captured by Cao Cao in the first place. Isn't it also the abandonment of wives? Where do you see righteousness? Great heroes are determined to be in the world, and victory and defeat are common. If you are reluctant to give up your wife and children, how can you have today's status? ”
But Zhuge Liang couldn't say this directly. Instead, he said with a smile: "Come and don't be rude, he is eager to vote, how can the lord not accept it?" What's more, Han Sui came to vote, the lord can get Wuwei and Hanyang two counties without a fight, once this is the case, the lord only needs to send an army to occupy Xiangwu, Lintao, Di Dao and other places, you can block Liu Qi's return route, as long as the time passes, Liu Qi's food is exhausted, and he must be captured by the lord, and then the lord takes Liu Qi as a hostage and forces him to hand over Jingyi Erzhou, so that the world is all owned by the lord, why worry about the great cause? ”
Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard this, so he ordered to invite the horse to play in.
Liu Bei took the letter handed over by Ma Wan and looked at it, sure enough, Han Sui wanted to raise the four counties of Wuwei, Hanyang, Jincheng, and Longxi to surrender to him, of course, because Longxi and Jincheng had been occupied by Liu Qi, in fact, there were only two counties.
But even so, Liu Bei's heart was overjoyed, and he immediately agreed to Han Sui's request without hesitation, and solemnly promised that he would definitely help Han Sui recover his hometown.
Seeing that Liu Bei agreed, Ma Yu finally fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, and respectfully saluted Liu Bei, and then agreed with Liu Bei on the specific details of the surrender, and then returned to Guzang City and reported the results to Han Sui.
After Han Sui went out of the city and surrendered as agreed, Liu Bei personally came to the city, comforted Han Sui, and let him still serve as Wuwei Taishou, showing him as the general of the chariot and cavalry, the Marquis of Jincheng, and worshiped Cheng Gongying as the military advisor to sacrifice wine, serving as the servant of the Qin State, Ma Play was the general of Pingnan, Yan was the general of Zhennan, Li Kan was the general of Pingdong, and ordered Ma to hold Han Sui's letter to recruit Yan Xing.
At this time, the panic in Yunwu City intensified, because according to everyone's estimates, Han Sui's army should have come to the city at this time, but they waited for so long at the head of the city, not to mention reinforcements, and they didn't even have a letter. Now don't say it's an ordinary soldier, even a general like Yang Qiu is extremely heavy in his heart, and they keenly feel that I'm afraid it will be difficult for Han Sui to come here to rescue everyone again.
Liu Qi naturally would not miss such a good opportunity, in fact, he had already expected that with Han Sui's cunning, it would be absolutely impossible to lead the army to come to the rescue, but could only choose to surrender to Liu Bei, so he ordered the troops from Liangzhou to shout under the city: "Brothers in the city, don't resist anymore, Han Sui has already taken refuge in Liu Bei, and he will not care about your life or death." The Duke of Chu has an order, this time to conquer Liangzhou, only ask about the first evil, never ask about coercion, you should have heard that the Duke of Chu has never been in the habit of killing prisoners and surrendering, if you are willing to surrender, the Duke of Chu will not be guilty of the past, save your lives and the lives of your family, the opportunity to live is at hand, I hope you will think about it. ”
This shout was like a stone thrown into the middle of the lake, so that everyone's hearts were like rippling ripples, and they could not calm down for a long time, although many soldiers had not yet taken action, but they had already moved their minds to surrender, and were secretly contacting their relatives in various ways. Prepare to surrender at the right time.
They are now waiting for someone to take this head for them.
If it was just the shouts of Liu Qi's troops, I am afraid that although the soldiers in the city were moved, their will would not completely collapse. But in the next day or two, there were cavalry who fled back from Wuwei one after another. They came to the city, and after receiving assurances that they would not deal with their families after entering the city, they surrendered to Liu Qi, the Duke of Chu, and sent letters to their relatives in the city through various channels, telling their relatives and friends that Han Sui had surrendered to Liu Bei regardless of the life and death of the soldiers and children in the city, and that he had killed the general Zhang Heng, who had tried to lead his troops back to help.
In this way, in just two days, almost all the soldiers in the city knew the news, and at this time they saw that the help had not arrived for a long time. The news that escaped back to the sergeant was further verified: Han Sui had already abandoned them and surrendered to Liu Bei!
Therefore, the will of the soldiers in the city completely collapsed, and there were constantly soldiers with their families, secretly opened the city gates, and went out of the city to surrender to Liu Qi.
With the passage of time, more and more soldiers surrendered to Liu Qi, and in just one night, nearly half of the more than 20,000 soldiers in the city had surrendered, and even when the sky was about to dawn. Thousands of people crowded at the gates of the West City, clashing with the remaining sergeants, who were brave. But they also know that these are their robes and family members, so although they are duty, they can't bear to hurt people, but they are beaten by the angry soldiers and civilians because of this, and their noses and faces are swollen, even so, they dare not speak out.
But at such a moment, Han Fang, the son of Han Sui, in order to maintain order, actually ordered his own troops to massacre the congested people, but what he couldn't imagine was. However, the soldiers refused to carry out the order, and in a fit of rage, Han Da swung his sword and killed several soldiers who refused to carry out the order. As a result, it sparked large-scale outrage, and the general Yang Qiu took the opportunity to announce Han Fang's guilt. led the army to capture Han Fang and killed Cheng Yi, and then was promoted as the main general by the majority of the army and the people, and led the army and the people to surrender to Liu Qi.
This time, none of the soldiers and civilians objected, and now Han Sui has abandoned them, and for them, there is only one way left to surrender.
Therefore, all the soldiers and civilians in the city did not hesitate to surrender with Yang Qiu out of the city.
Liu Qi comforted Yang Qiu, and Ma Chao also chose to forgive him because Yang Qiu was not the direct murderer of his family, so that Yang Qiu could easily pick up a life.
And Han Sui's son Han Fang was not so lucky, as soon as he was pushed to the Chinese military tent, he was directly ordered by Liu Qi to be beheaded to show the public, and Ma Chao, in order to be able to take revenge, asked him to serve as the executioner himself.
This request was naturally agreed by Liu Qi.
At the moment of death, Han Fang finally became afraid, he kowtowed to Ma Chao with a pale face, saying that he was not involved in killing Ma Chao's family at all, so he asked Ma Chao to let him go.
Ma Chao said coldly: "Don't you let me know that you participated in the killing of your father, and you also cut off your father's ears with your own hands. ”
After Ma Chao finished speaking, he saw a flash of cold light, and a pair of ears fell to the ground. Han Fang shouted like a pig, but no one sympathized with him at all.
Ma Chao said coldly: "Han Fang, in fact, killing you today is not only for my father, but also for the people in the city, in fact, from the moment you ordered the slaughter of the people in the city today, you are already destined to die today."
Ma Chao wiped a knife and killed Han Fang, the people of Hecheng were all overjoyed, and he also took Han Fang's heart and liver, and sacrificed his family in the direction of the right wind, and said with tears in his eyes: "Father, brother, lady, Qiu'er, Cheng'er, you know under the spring, I, Ma Chao, have avenged you, I killed the son of Han Sui's old thief with my own hands today, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yi and the two thieves were also killed, I will soon be able to kill Han Sui's old thief, and avenge you, please wait for a while, I believe it won't take long, I will be able to use the head of Han Sui's old thief to pay tribute to you. (To be continued)