With Mao Jue's repeated tolerance of the migrant workers, the dissatisfaction in the army is intensifying, the contradictions between them and the people are escalating, and the original cooperative relationship between the two sides is gone, so there is such a scene in the city, the sergeant thinks that the migrant workers are lazy, passive and slack, and they do not work for nothing, but the migrant workers think that the sergeants are domineering and oppress the people, many people can't bear this oppression, turn around and leave, but more migrant workers are united and make trouble with the sergeants.

Originally, the two sides only blamed each other, but later the contradiction between the two sides further escalated, and finally one day, this contradiction turned into a large-scale conflict, with thousands of migrant workers and hundreds of sergeants fighting each other, which attracted more military and civilian participation, making the scene out of control and the situation unprecedentedly chaotic.

When Mao Jue heard the news of the conflict between the two sides, he was immediately shocked, and hurriedly rode to the place of the incident, and sent the most elite sergeants under his command to forcibly separate the two sides that were in conflict, and then prepared to reprimand him fiercely, and each side played fifty boards in order to resolve the conflict.

However, they did not expect that the sergeants in charge of persuasion were biased towards their robes and took advantage of the chaos to punch and kick the people, which caused a larger dissatisfaction, and the people waved the tools around them and began to greet the sergeants, and the sergeants were not to be outdone, took out their weapons, and prepared to kill a few of the people who did not know how to lift in order to establish power.

As a result, the conflict escalates again, and it looks like it will turn into a large-scale fight.

Seeing this, Mao Jue was furious, immediately stood on a high place, shouted to stop both sides, and ordered his own soldiers to capture all the soldiers who drew their weapons, and beat forty military sticks on the spot as punishment, and at the same time punished several sergeants who led the trouble. At the same time, he encouraged the people to work hard, so that this struggle could be suppressed.

But unexpectedly, Mao Jue's actions did not resolve the contradiction at all, but made the military's dissatisfaction with him aggravated, thinking that he blindly favored the people and brutally suppressed the sergeants. Several Du Bo, who had been beaten with forty military sticks, all sighed silently, secretly thinking that instead of working for Mao Jue, who did not defend his brother, it was better to surrender to Liu Qi, the king of Chu.

Therefore, after some discussion, they secretly united some low-level officers such as Shi Chang, Gong Chang, and Du Bo, gathered hundreds of people, quietly came to the city gate, opened the city gate, and then surrendered to Liu Qi.

Hundreds of people suddenly disappeared in the army. This is definitely a big deal, so the next morning, the news has spread throughout the city, and the people have accused the military officers and soldiers of only knowing how to oppress the people, and they have no integrity in the face of foreign invasion, and they are shameless apostasy, and they are not as loyal as the people.

The accusations of the people made the military even more angry, because if there was no trouble among the people and the partiality of the main general Mao Jue to the people. How could these brothers choose to surrender? So they immediately united and went to the gate of Mao Jue's camp to petition. Asking Mao Jie to expel the migrant workers in the city, they were willing to fight the enemy alone, and if Mao Jue did not agree, they would rather surrender to Liu Qi.

Mao Jue is now in a dilemma, with a wry smile on his face, he really didn't know that things had developed to this point. Although he knew that without those migrant workers, the difficulty of defending the city would definitely increase several times, but if the defenders stopped working hard, I was afraid that the city would not be able to hold it for a day, so he had no choice but to dismiss the migrant workers. He also gave kind words and comforted to the soldiers, rewarded and feasted, and finally got through such a crisis.

But I didn't expect that night, many people dragged their families to the south of the city, and forcibly asked the soldiers defending the city to open the city gate and let them go out to surrender to Liu Qi.

Liu Qi was also very happy when he saw the people surrender, and immediately according to his previous promise, he gave them three catties of cotton, three hundred dollars, and issued a contract for tax exemption for one year.

These people who have benefited are naturally happy in their hearts, and then they came to the city of Licheng together according to Liu Qi's request, singing and dancing, praising the honesty and trustworthiness of the king of Chu, giving them the corresponding remuneration according to the agreement, and shouting to the city, hoping that their relatives and friends will also surrender to the king of Chu.

Although the defenders at the head of the city were very well guarded and did not allow the people to climb the city at will, the news quickly spread to the city, so that night, more people gathered at the south city gate and demanded that the city gate be opened and let them go out to surrender to the king of Chu.

At this time, Mao Jue also had to take tough measures, led the army to personally carry out bomb pressure, and even killed a few leaders, which made the situation temporarily stable.

But this is actually a measure to quench thirst, because the anger of the people in the city not only did not subside, but intensified, this time even those officials, catchers, fangding and others, as well as the local clans are also angry with the enemy, they have launched relations, wooing those soldiers who are originally from the local area, let them unite and surrender to the king of Chu.

As a result, that night, they sent a messenger to quietly descend the city with the surrender document jointly signed by the patriarchs of the big families in the city, and came to Liu Qi's military camp to surrender to Liu Qi.

Liu Qi was naturally overjoyed when he saw the letter, and hurriedly ordered the envoy to be rewarded, and personally wrote a reply, praising the patriarchs of those big clans and the people in the city for their loyalty to the Han family, and respectively praised those officials and gentry, and promoted Lin Wei, the son of Lin Xiang, the patriarch of the first major clan in the city, and Fang Cheng, the son of Fang Ying, the patriarch of the second largest clan, as Maocai.

After sending off the envoy, Liu Qi began to arrange the siege of the city, even if the soldiers and civilians in the city could not open the city gate smoothly because of the strong bullet pressure of Mao Jue, they would also attack the city outside the city to respond, so that the inside and the outside should be combined, and I believe that Jin will definitely be able to take Licheng.

Zhang Fei just said casually about the words that led the people out, in fact, even he didn't believe it at all, but he didn't expect that after Liu Qi and Xun Yu's planning, this was really realized, even he was a little stunned and unbelievable, but the facts were in front of him, and he couldn't believe it. Obviously, the city head that was guarded by nearly 100,000 people now looks sparse and sparse, and it has been reduced by nearly eighty percent at once, and even if it is attacked now, it will definitely cause at least half of the losses compared to the original. Such a clever plan is really incredible, even if it is similar to the plan to drive the people to attack the city mentioned by Jia Xu before.

It's just that Jia Xu's plan will make people feel the brutality of the Chu army, while the latter will make people feel the benevolence and righteousness of the Chu army, and the two can naturally be seen at a glance.

For Liu Qi's plan, Jia Xu also admired it, and at the same time felt ashamed in his heart, at this time Liu Qi had already seen his look, walked over gently, held Jia Xu's hand and said: "This king knows that Jia Xiangguo is also dedicated to the country, he is like Cheng Zhongde, for the great cause of this king, he would rather wronged himself, let himself leave a cruel and tyrannical notoriety, but you are my minister of the Great Chu State, the head of all civil officials, and the important minister that this king has relied on for so many years, how can this king bear to let you bear such a notoriety?" Therefore, this king did not agree with your plan, and I hope Wen He will not have any ideas. ”

When Jia Xu heard this, he was already moved to tears, bowed down and said: "The old minister is willing to break his bones for the king to repay the king's kindness." ”

Liu Qi gently helped Jia Xu up, and then carefully discussed the plan to send troops, and then dispersed.

The next night, Liu Qi led the army to quietly surround Liyang City, and then Liu Qi personally guarded outside the north city gate, waiting for the soldiers and civilians in the city to open the city gate and welcome him into the city as agreed.

But at the appointed time, Liu Qi just heard the voices of people in the city, the noise was loud, and it was accompanied by earth-shattering shouts of killing, but the city gate was not opened, and Liu Qi knew that things were not good, it should be Mao Jue's army that discovered the rebels and fought with them.

At this time, Liu Qi immediately made a decision and ordered the army to immediately attack the city in order to deal with the rebels in the city.

All of a sudden, only the sound of drums was heard, the sound of killing shook the sky, the army stepped on the ladder, the ants attached to the siege of the city, under the cover of the misty night, these soldiers were heroic, bravely and fearlessly climbed the ladder, and then went up to the city wall, and the defenders on the city head started a fierce hand-to-hand combat.

At the north gate, hundreds of people held a huge log, slamming the city gate fiercely, and after a while, a loud noise was heard, and the city gate was knocked open, and then the army rushed into the city.

At this time, Mao Jue in the city was leading the army to suppress the rebels who wanted to open the city to surrender to the enemy, originally with the elite under his command, it should be easy to quell the rebellion of hundreds of soldiers, but the problem is that there are still a large number of people here, and it is not easy to capture and kill the rebels under the protection of these people, no matter how bad the relationship between the military and the people is, he can't order the army to kill all the tens of thousands of people, right? Then he is a world-famous butcher, and his notoriety is even better than Dong Zhuo back then.

Mao Jue is a scribe, the most important thing is reputation, has always advocated the implementation of Confucian benevolence, these days in order to protect the city, the order to suppress the people's dissatisfaction has made him very exceptional, ordered to slaughter the people He can never do.

And under such circumstances, Liu Qi's army had already broken through the city gate, rushed into the city, and started a fierce battle with the defenders in the city.

I saw a horse coming first, silver armor and white robe, riding a white horse, a Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Listen to the soldiers in the city, I am Liu Qi, the king of Chu, you have fallen into the heavy encirclement of our army, if you continue to resist stubbornly, there is only a dead end, quickly throw down your weapons and surrender, our army has a tradition of not killing prisoners, as long as you do not resist, you can ensure that your life can be saved." (To be continued......)