Chapter 76: The Dust Settles
Liu Xin looked at Su Dai strangely and asked, "Oh, did you poison me?" Then you don't hurry up and take out the antidote. ”
Su Dai smirked and said, "Hahaha, you think I'm a three-year-old child, how can this antidote be given to you now." To tell you the truth, I didn't have the antidote with me, as long as you kill Bei Yu and let me go, I'll go back and get the antidote for you. ”
Liu Xin didn't see a trace of worry on his face, and he said surprisingly calmly: "Oh, it turns out that you didn't have the antidote with you. Hehe, then you are miserable, and your lower abdomen will immediately have severe pain. ”
When Su Dai heard this, he was a little unconvinced, and said, "Did you also poison me?" Ouch, it hurts me. ”
As soon as the words fell, Su Dai only felt a sharp pain coming from his lower abdomen, and he couldn't help but shout loudly: "Adult, ouch, adult, please, ouch, give me the antidote......"
Liu Xin spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "I'm sorry, Master Su, the medicine you gave me was to be taken in five days, I didn't eat it, I left it to yourself, just now you drank a cup of this medicine, and you ate it all at once, but you are not a three-year-old child, why don't you remember to bring the antidote, and Liu can't help it now." ”
Liu Xin waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers to let him go, and Su Dai rolled on the ground in pain.
Liu Xin looked at Su Dai with an indifferent face, pointed at the two sisters, and said lightly: "Su Dai, Su Dai, it was not impossible to spare your life, but since you have taken their parents hostage, why do you have to kill them?" Those were two innocent lives. Even if I let you go, the two sisters won't agree, so you should go in peace. ”
Su Dai's forehead was already oozing beads of sweat the size of beans, and he grinned in pain, but he couldn't say a word, and the corners of his mouth slowly oozed blood, and he gradually lay on the ground and stopped moving.
Liu Xin turned to Bei Yu and said, "Pei Taishou, what did you mean by what you just said?" I don't understand how I heard. ”
Bei Yu looked at Liu Xin and said viciously: "Liu Xin, if you let me go back, Changsha will return it to you." ”
When Liu Xin heard this, he laughed: "Pei Taishou, aren't you dreaming, Changsha is in my hands, and it won't be lost for a day, what does it have to do with you." It's time to close the net, and you're still worried about your Nanjun. Come on, take him down first, take care of him carefully, and wait for tomorrow to arrest his family, and then he will have a good life. ”
Outside the west city of Changsha, Bei Yu's second son Bei Meng was ambushing in the grass with a large army, and it was pitch black all around, and the west gate of Changsha not far away could not even see the outline of the outline.
Suddenly, there seemed to be a fire in the city, and then there were a few more places where the fire started, and the sound of shouting and killing could be faintly heard. A torch was lit on the west gate of Changsha, and after a while, it was divided into two fire dragons and went to the south and north gates.
"It looks like the people of Sudai are starting to do it, let's do it. Brothers, quietly approach the west gate. Bei waved his hand vigorously and gave the order to go.
A torch lit up on the tower of Xicheng, which had already been darkened again, and dangled in the air three times. Seeing this, Bei Meng whispered: "Put a signal!" ”
The soldiers on the left and right also lit a torch and held it up in the air and shook it three times. Only a "creaking" sound was heard, the drawbridge was slowly lowered, and the city gate was slowly opened.
Bei Meng jumped up from the ground excitedly, waved the big knife in his hand, and shouted "Kill!" ”
By the light of the torches, the sword was as red as blood, and Bey rushed into the city first, followed by five thousand soldiers. After entering the city for more than half a mile, but there was no one to see, Bei Meng was puzzled, and was just about to restrain the team, only to hear a gong sound, and countless archers appeared on the roofs on both sides, and in an instant, the arrows were like flying locusts.
The 5,000 soldiers brought by Bei Meng were crowded in the narrow alleys, in a dilemma, and there were countless casualties at one time. Bei Meng turned his heart and shouted: "Brothers, there is no way back, only to move forward to the death, and maybe you can still fight your way out!" With that, he rode forward.
As soon as Bei Meng rushed through the alley, he saw a general, holding a big knife, blocking the way, and shouted: "Nanyang Huang Zhong is here, the coming general will not dismount, let alone when!" Bei Meng said angrily: "Nameless rats, eat me Bei Meng!" "Raise your sword and slash. Huang Zhong saw that this knife was as red as blood, it must be a treasure knife, so he didn't dare to stop it, so he pulled the reins and gently let it go. The two horses made a mistake, Huang Zhong cut it with a backhand, and that Bei Meng was waiting to turn the horse, not beware of a knife in the back of his head, he couldn't dodge, he screamed, and half of his body was planted off the horse. Huang Zhong turned back to his horse, first snatched the red big knife, turned over and stabbed it, cut off Bei Meng's head and held it in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Bei Meng is dead, those who descend will not be killed!" ”
The Nanjun army and horses were in chaos and wanted to turn back, but a group of people and horses came out from behind, led by a general, carrying a spear, blocking their way, and shouted: "The chaotic party in the city has been wiped out, you don't surrender yet, when will you wait!" ”
It turned out that this person was Wen Ping, and he and Huang Zhong had already secretly come to Changsha and took over the army from Xu Chu. Bei Meng's army quietly came to Changsha, but it could not escape the eyes of the phantom, and Huang Zhong and Wen Ping set up an ambush early.
At noon the next day, Bei Yu was dragged into the hall by the Flying Tiger Guard's pro-army, and in front of him was a bloody human head and a crimson broadsword. Bei Yu looked at it, screamed, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fainted.
When the soldiers on the left and right woke him up, Bei Yu hung his head and said: "I lost, if you are willing to spare my surname, I am willing to give Nanjun both hands." ”
Liu Xin couldn't help but laugh and said, "Pei Taishou, it seems that you haven't woken up from your dream yet." Nanjun is already in my hands, your wife and children, the whole family is about to come here to meet. ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard a shout outside the door: "Big brother, Zhang He has come to die." Bei Wei and the Pei family, all young and old, were captured here. It turned out that Zhang He did not go to his cave room to spend candle nights, but secretly led his troops to Jiangling.
Liu Xin heard Zhang He's voice, and without waiting for him to come in, he hurriedly greeted him, grabbed his hand and said: "Junyi, I missed your good deed, my brother and sister are afraid that they will blame me, you better go back and have a look, I will come to the door in person to make amends in a while." ”
Zhang He came in with Liu Xin in a row, and said: "If it weren't for the eldest brother, Yan'er and I might not be able to get together, how dare she blame the eldest brother." I heard that my eldest brother was very thrilling last night, but I was so worried. ”
Liu Xin laughed: "No one will be exhausted, I really didn't expect that Su Jian's kid would jump out to block Zhao Yun's sword, but they want to kill me by relying on a few women, so they underestimate me." ”
After Liu Xin finished speaking, he glanced contemptuously at Bei Yu, who fainted again, and said, "Bei Yu's father and son and Su Jian are cut down, and all the family members are put in prison." ”
Liu Xin no longer sold their families into slavery like he did with Chen Jie last time. Since accepting Zhu Qian, he has completely and slowly adapted to the life and interpersonal relationships of this era, and it is really inconvenient not to have a group of slaves at home.
The new mansion is about to be built, and a huge house must be cleaned and tidied up, and someone must take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation, all of which require manpower. And the Bei family, the Su family, and the people of those families who participated in the Changsha riots some time ago, Liu Xin imprisoned them first, sharpened their surnames, and these people will become official slaves in the future and distribute them to themselves and their cronies.
Liu Xin is not worried that they will rebel, those who are slaves are the same, they are the same wherever they go to be slaves, as long as they can be fed and clothed, they will be satisfied, if they are lucky enough to be picked by Liu Xin, their lives will be much better than before. As for the wives, young ladies, and sons of the Shi family, after a period of prison life, they should understand their current situation, and lowering their arrogant heads is the best choice.
A few days ago, Liu Xin had selected a group of people to send to Zhang He's new house, many of these people also had some dealings with the Su family in Changsha in the past, but none of them dared to reveal Zhang He's whereabouts, which is the best proof.
Liu Xin quelled the rebellion in Changsha and Nanjun, appointed Kuai Yue as the Taishou of Nanjun, transferred Tian Feng and Xu Chu back to Changsha, and left Huang Zhong in Changsha, and the red sword was also given to Huang Zhong. Considering the inconvenience of the naval army stationed in Jiangxia, Liu Xin asked Zhang Yun to go to Jiangling to build a water village, and planned to move the Jingzhou naval army to Jiangling.
The reason why this incident was able to be resolved so beautifully can be said to be due to the phantom. Not only did he make a lot of achievements in investigating the affairs of Su Dai, Su Jian, Ling'er, and Xiu'er sisters, Liu Xin dared to transfer Zhang He and Xu Huang back from the north with confidence and boldness, and also benefited from the intelligence of the phantom.
According to the news sent back by the phantom, the Yingchuan Yellow Turban lacked a lot of food and clothing, and its combat effectiveness continued to decline, and there was already an offensive and defensive situation between the official and the army, and it was impossible to have the spare strength to move south. Due to the arrival of Liu Xin, history has been changed more or less, the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, which was the first to fail, has persisted until now, and the Nanyang Yellow Turban, which was defeated in the end, was wiped out not long after occupying Wancheng. In this way, although Dong Zhuo was repeatedly defeated in Jizhou, because the imperial court had no generals available, he was able to continue to control the military alone, and the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou gradually declined.
At the beginning of the year, Zhang Jiao gave an order, and the yellow scarves in various places rose up almost simultaneously, and a series of victories were achieved one after another. With the victory after victory, the Yellow Turban Army also exposed many weaknesses, they were numerous, but lacked combat experience; They attacked cities and plundered land, but instead led to their own battles. In particular, the Yellow Turban team was slackened and gradually lost the support of the people. All this laid the groundwork for the eventual failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising.
At the same time, Liu Hong, who was far away in Luoyang, finally breathed a sigh of relief because a major event had happened that was enough to affect the overall situation.