Qiao Xuan was annoyed by the death of his guards, because of the head thrown by the Zhao army outside the city, and the continuous inquiries of those soldiers in the city also made him irritable.

As a result, after he ordered the confiscation of the letter of persuasion shot by Zhao Jun, and some soldiers were dissatisfied with the inquiry, Qiao Xuan immediately ordered the guards to kill these more than 30 soldiers, and he used blood to tell these soldiers that no matter what Zhao Jun said, they must follow the order, otherwise, the military law is not to be seen.

After the heads of more than thirty soldiers were thrown away, Qiao Xuan may also have some regrets, but under the anger, he naturally won't make up for anything, besides, things have happened, and regret is useless.

Therefore, in the name of military law, Qiao Xuan re-emphasized that this letter of persuasion was a conspiracy of the Zhao army, and it could not be trusted, and ordered the whole army to confiscate all the letters of persuasion that Zhao Jun shot into the city. In addition, he ordered the officers in the army to increase their training to calm the current chaotic thoughts of the officers and men of the army.

Although these soldiers were suppressed at the beginning, and there was no incident under the deterrence of the officers and Qiao Xuan's personal guards, but because of Qiao Xuan's military order, these soldiers thought that what Zhao Jun's persuasion letter said was true. Coupled with the teasing of some ambitious people, these soldiers began to secretly connect together.

That night, the soldiers of the northern city took the lead in the uprising, killing all the officers and military judges of the northern camp of the northern part of the city, as well as those who had been planted on them, and began to cause chaos in the city. Immediately afterwards, after the chaos in the city, the Han soldiers and soldiers of the other three gates also took advantage of the chaos and began to cause trouble in the city.

said that it was an incident, but because their families were arrested by the Han army, they began to massacre and retaliate against the military officials and the civil officials in the city. These soldiers can be said to have no organization, and when they see officials, they are all killed. Some soldiers even took advantage of the chaos to retaliate and killed all the soldiers and officials who had grievances with them in the past.

The commotion in the city spread outside the city, and the cavalry lieutenant of the Zhao army did not pay any attention to it after hearing the news. According to Zhao Xun's meaning, he watched the changes in the city. The reason for this is that in addition to the inconvenience of the cavalry to attack the city, Zhao Xun is not willing to let the soldiers go to the city to attack the city or anything else for the sake of this Weinan county, and he is not willing to let his soldiers be damaged.

In fact, Zhao Xun had already expected that if this continued, the defenders in the city would not last long. In other words, Zhao Xun had already anticipated the situation tonight. However, the Han army defending the city caused their own side to be attacked twice and suffered heavy losses, and no matter what, they also needed to make their own soldiers angry. In addition, the soldiers in the city will inevitably be uncontrollable because of the problems of their families, and they will behave in the city. And what Zhao Xun needs is the cease to exist in this Weinan county, not this city, nor the tens of thousands of people in the city.

Therefore, when Zhao Jun ignored it, the riots in the city became more and more serious. The rebels in the city began to kill civil and military officials, and gradually slaughtered the wealthy families in the city in disguise, began to rape/adulterous/women and children, and even began to attack the ordinary people in the city. Once the rebel army loses its control, the harm to the people is definitely no less than that of horse thieves and mountain bandits, and it is even no less harmful to the local people when foreign invasions occur.

There are 4,000 soldiers and thousands of young soldiers in the city, and the soldiers are naturally troops transferred from other places after Lin Shucheng's family is under house arrest, and this Weinan county town is naturally not their hometown. However, for these young people, this Weinan county is their hometown. Of course, many of them were also gathered by the Weinan County government from the surrounding towns and small towns.

Therefore, when these Han troops rebelled against the people in the city, these young men and women confronted these Han troops. So the city became a situation of soldiers and young men fighting against each other. I don't know who it was, but the houses of the big families in the city were burned by the fire, which made the city red. The chaotic battle in the city became more and more intense.

As for Qiao Xuan, at this moment, he had already hidden in the private house not far from the general's mansion from the secret passage in the general's mansion and did not dare to appear, and the situation of the chaotic army was also much more than he expected, making him feel very uneasy to hide in the private house.

The young men in the city began to ask for help from the Zhao army outside the city, and they expressed their willingness to surrender to Zhao, and they needed the Zhao army to enter the city to take over the city and quell the rebellion. It's a pity that Zhao Jun didn't have the slightest favor for the garrison system of Weinan County, and Zhao Xun only asked them to keep an eye on the Han army in the city, and the others didn't need to be ignored. Therefore, the people sent by the young Zhuang in the city did not even enter the Zhao army camp.

"Surrender? Don't use this trick anymore! In the past few days, the defenders of your Weinan county have fought to the death, and now they say surrender, do you think we will believe it? ”

"Want to surrender? Yes, we will believe it only after taking out the head of your guard general Qiao Xuan or letting him come to our army camp in person! Otherwise, you should stop playing any more tricks. ”

The words of the guards of the Zhao army's camp made the young officers who went out of the city to surrender and ask for help bitter. Regardless of why Zhao Jun did not accept them, their behavior of fighting to the death a few days ago also made Zhao Jun ignore their surrender. There was chaos in the city, shouting something, the flames were soaring, not to mention the Zhao army camp, it could be seen clearly more than ten miles away.

But now that Zhao Jun just ignores it, what can they do? These young men understood that perhaps what Zhao Jun needed was their internal strife, and what they needed was their fight with each other.

The young Zhuang representatives had to retreat in defeat and continue to fight against the Han army in order to protect their homeland. The night of fighting continued, and the shouting and killing in the city did not stop all night. It was not until the morning of the second day that Zhao Jun led his army into the county town of Weinan, where the city gate had already been opened, and began to take over the whole city and clean up the mess.

In the night of the riot, there were only more than 2,000 Han soldiers and soldiers left in the city, and there were nearly 20,000 young and strong people, common people, and wealthy families in the city, of which more than 8,000 were killed. Many of the people's houses, large households' mansions, and government mansions in the city were destroyed.

For these, the Zhao army who entered the city did not pay too much attention, but just arrested all the remnants of the rebellious army in the city and beheaded them on the spot to reassure the people, and the rest was to let the civil officials waiting in the surrounding small towns come to take over the local government affairs and restore the local people's livelihood. Speaking of which, through this riot, the already small number of wealthy families in the city have basically disappeared, which is very beneficial to the next actions of the Zhao Military Mansion.

And Qiao Xuan, the original guard in the city, also died in the war. He underestimated the threat of these rebels, and after the houses where they were hiding were broken down by the rebels, they became the target of all the rebels. Not only the rebel army, but also the young people in the city, who also regarded him as an enemy. As a result, Qiao Xuan and the more than 100 guards under his command were all killed in the end, and even Qiao Xuan couldn't even get a complete corpse.

Originally, the young Zhuang in the city and some of the rebellious army officers who were still awake wanted to capture Qiao Xuan as a gift to the Zhao army, but as a result, they could no longer control the actions of these rebellious troops.

When the good news of Weinan County reached the army, Zhao Xun had just joined Yang Wangqing's department at this moment. Hearing the battle report, Zhao Xiong and other generals of the Zhao army couldn't help but sigh, thinking that the attack was unsuccessful for many days, but they collapsed with a plan of withdrawing troops and civil strife.

"Powerful fortresses are often breached from within! It's a pity that this Qiao Xuan, although this person is young and vigorous, there are many shortcomings, but his advantages are also obvious. can be defended in Weinan County, and is responsible for two ambush armies, and his ability is not weak. It's a pity that he died at the hands of the rebels. Situ Liang couldn't help but sigh.

Zhao Kang said coldly: "Lin Shucheng and his disciple Qiao Xuan are indeed very capable, but their methods are really not flattering. If you treat your subordinates like this, how dare you let them go with you? In addition, they are afraid that after this battle, it will be difficult to wash away their infamy. ”

Situ Liang said with a smile: "Its methods are indeed ruthless, but Lin Shucheng is not a lieutenant general. Besides, the Han army in Xiyongzhou is at this point, and Lin Shucheng can use such means to almost repeat the whole situation completely, even if we are far inferior. In his position, there is nothing wrong with doing so. ”

Saying that, Situ Liang's face was straight, "Lin Shucheng did this, it can be said that he has done his best to the Han army and the king of Hanzhong, and these infamys should actually be borne by the king of Hanzhong." If it weren't for the fact that it was still in the hands of the Han army in order to protect Xiyongzhou, and if it weren't for the weakness of the Han army, it wouldn't be like this. With the assistance of Lin Shucheng, the king of Hanzhong was very lucky. ”

Zhao Xun said with a smile: "Lin Shucheng is indeed powerful, but our Da Zhao is not weak. With the help of all Aiqing, how can my Da Zhao be comparable to the Han army? Now that the army has returned to the division, it is time for us to start the final operation against Xiyongzhou. ”

Situ Liang said: "Now there are more than 30,000 Han troops in Chang'an City, of which 20,000 are Hanzhong reinforcements, and the remaining 10,000 are the original soldiers in Chang'an City, but most of them are new soldiers, and as for Qingzhuang and Minfu, there are tens of thousands. However, among them, the only ones with extraordinary combat effectiveness were the 20,000 soldiers who came from Hanzhong to support. ”

"Xianyang to the west of Chang'an has more than 10,000 Han troops, and Chang'an is each other's horns and responds to each other. If we want to attack Chang'an, we need to separate the two. ”

"Lantian in the southeast of Chang'an, there are also 5,000 soldiers of the Han army, whose main responsibility is to be responsible for the connection between the Han army's Xiyongzhou and Jingzhou, that is, the defense of Qingni Pass and Wuguan. Therefore, our next action is to completely separate these three places and break them one by one. ”

Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "You already know the situation, and now the land east and north of Chang'an is now our Zhao country's." Next, the former capital of Chang'an is our goal. ”

Zhao Xun divided the army under his command into three routes, all the way to clear the enemy forces around Chang'an, all the way to cut off the connection between Chang'an and Xianyang, and the last way, went straight to the southeast Lantian, preparing to occupy the Qingni Pass, so that Xiyongzhou and Jingzhou would be completely cut off.

Lin Shucheng learned of the failure of Feng Yifu's operation in the north and the fall of Weinan County at about the same time as Zhao's army appeared under the city of Chang'an. The fall of Weinan County, for Lin Shucheng, did not surprise him. After all, the gap between Weinan County and Zhao Jun's army is too big. Therefore, no matter what the situation was, the loss of Weinan County, which was besieged by Zhao's army, did not make him care too much.

However, the operation he arranged in Feng Yi's Mansion failed and failed to succeed, but for Lin Shucheng, the blow was not small. For the sake of the action here, Gaoling City was besieged by the Zhao army and asked Chang'an for help, but he ignored it. In addition, it makes the already stretched forces even weaker. And the failure of Feng Yifu's operation also allowed the Zhao army to gain a firm foothold in Feng Yifu, so that the influence of the Han army in the north was about to reach a low point.

It can be said that after the failure of the northern operation, the north and east of Chang'an were all under the jurisdiction of the Zhao army. Now, the land of Chang'an has begun to meet the Zhao army head-on.

Zhao's army of 60,000, 50,000 and baggage troops, a total of more than 100,000 people, began to divide the land of Chang'an. It's not that Lin Shucheng doesn't want to send troops to fight, but he doesn't have many troops in his hands. Although there are 30,000 troops in Chang'an City, there are only 20,000 people who can really fight. In addition, Chang'an, as a big city in the west, has many forces in the city, especially now, there are no 10,000 troops guarding various places from time to time, but I am afraid that Chang'an has begun to be chaotic. Compared with the forty or fifty thousand troops on the east and west sides of Chang'an, it is really powerless.

"The king should have focused on Xiyongzhou, not the land of Jingbei." Looking at the panicked soldiers under his command, Lin Shucheng couldn't help frowning. Now Lin Shucheng is no longer what he used to be, his face is tired, and his temples are slightly pale. It can be seen that the situation in Chang'an has really made it hard.

The Zhao army pressed the border and began to operate outside Chang'an City, and Lin Shucheng also had to send people to investigate the intelligence of the Zhao army, contact the army of the western prefectures and counties, and make corresponding preparations. In fact, Lin Shucheng also knew that since the failure of Feng Yifu's operation, this land of Chang'an has been difficult to preserve.

"My lord, the situation is not good!"

"General Lin, what's the matter?" Lin Shucheng, who was checking Zhao Jun's intelligence, said unhurriedly. His calm attitude also made the originally nervous visitor suddenly calm down.

"Returning to my lordship, for some reason in the city, it began to be rumored that the adults put the families of the soldiers in the eastern and northern cities under house arrest, and promised benefits to force them to fight to the death with the Zhao army, but as a result, more than 10,000 soldiers fought bloodily and fought to the death with the Zhao army. However, their families were not given the arrangements they deserved, and were ordered to be expelled or beheaded on the grounds that the logistical pressure of our army was too great. ”

"Suitability to start circulating?" Hearing this, Lin Shucheng's face moved slightly, and he asked in a deep voice, "Since you have already inspected, have you made arrangements?" ”

"My lord, rumors have been spreading throughout the city since the morning, and somehow among the army. Although the general of our fourth battalion has already ordered that it is strictly forbidden to talk around, and inform them that this is a trick of the Zhao army. However, the rumor continued to spread in the city. Even the soldiers began to disbelieve in us. Especially the defenders in the original city, I'm afraid that the situation is a little bad. ”

"I knew it would be like this! Zhao Xun personally conquered Xiyong Prefecture, how can we not be used by it if we do this? The official said at the beginning that this is a double-edged sword, hurting others and hurting oneself. As a result, we failed, and this naturally became Zhao Jun's means to counter us. Lin Shucheng said astringently.

"My lord, if it goes on like this, the army's heart is unstable. In addition, even the reinforcements from Hanzhong began to look at us coldly and refused to cooperate with us. ”

"It's a good Zhao Xun, it's really good to use the opportunity. Since then, the reinforcements from Hanzhong have begun to have opinions about us. Maybe it shouldn't have been like this in the first place! Lin Shucheng muttered to himself in a muffled voice.

"My lord, we did not expel the families of those soldiers, nor did we murder them, but we even gave them the fields, food and money, and we are not ashamed of them. We don't deserve such infamy. ”

Lin Shucheng asked coldly: "What if you don't bear it?" Such rumors must have been spread by Zhao Jun, and the situation in it was not false, and it was not no one in the city who knew about it. What's even more odious is that the rumors created by Zhao Jun did not blindly hit us, that is, they framed us for attacking the families of the soldiers, and also found the reason for the excessive logistical pressure on us. You say, will they believe our justifications? ”

"Most of the families of these soldiers have moved west, do you now want to send people to relocate these tens of thousands of people from the west back to testify in front of the court? Who believes? ”

"But ......"

"Give the generals of the fourth battalion an order, let them all be honest and don't argue too much. He can do whatever he wants to do with this Hanzhong reinforcement, and this official also wants to see what he wants to do if the Zhao army is attacking outside the city, and he Luo Dingyuan is not working together to fight against the Zhao army. Lin Shucheng said coldly.

The original commander of Chang'an City was Lin Shucheng, but since then, after the Hanzhong reinforcements entered Chang'an, the commanders of Chang'an have become two. One is Lin Shucheng, who is supported by the forces of Xiyongzhou and Chang'an. After all, Lin Shucheng has been in Chang'an for many days, and the civil and military officials in Xiyongzhou and Chang'an have become accustomed to Lin Shu being the master.

The other person was Luo Dingyuan, the commander of the Hanzhong reinforcements, who led 35,000 troops to help, and after entering the land of Chang'an, he naturally did not want to be under Lin Shucheng. However, most of the civil and military officials in Xiyongzhou and Chang'an did not like him. This person is the favorite minister of the king of Hanzhong, arrogant, difficult to get along with people, the officials of Xiyongzhou after Luo Dingyuan entered Chang'an, but he was not less sarcastic.

The reason for this situation is that after Lin Shucheng was forced to belong to the command of King Hanzhong, Situ Fei, King of Hanzhong, did not reuse Lin Shucheng at the beginning, and he did not believe in him very much. Secondly, Luo Dingyuan is the person with real power in Hanzhong, while Lin Shucheng represents Xiyongzhou, and it is common sense that the two sides do not deal with each other.

Therefore, although the number of troops in Chang'an City has increased, the relationship between the two sides is not harmonious. However, in the face of Zhao Jun, the purpose of the two sides is still the same.

"In the future, all the military affairs of Chang'an will be handed over to Luo Dingyuan! Let the camp owners report everything to Luo Dingyuan. At the end, Lin Shucheng said in a deep voice.

"My lord, so ......"

"Now there are rumors in the city, and if this official appears in the army again, it will inevitably make the soldiers dissatisfied, and let Luo Dingyuan be responsible, which is beneficial to Chang'an! In addition, although this Luo Dingyuan is arrogant, his ability to be a person is still good. ”