Xie Feng and Yuan Ji left some men and horses to monitor Jiangbei and led a large group of soldiers and horses to attack Jiangnan, in an attempt to gather and annihilate the Han army with superior forces.

At this time, Wu Han had already repelled the Jiangnan Shu army, joined forces with Liu Shang to confront, waited for work, did not show weakness, and launched a duel with Xie and Yuan.

Here, the Shu army is fighting for survival, and it is clear what the result of defeating Wu Han will be; Here, the Han army is fighting for honor, being surrounded and chased by others, buddies are not used to it for a long time!

The confrontation between the two sides was extremely fierce, from morning to night, the sound of killing shook the sky, and corpses were everywhere.

Such a fierce confrontation is exactly Wu Han's forte. He commanded his troops to become more and more courageous, and finally gained the upper hand; The Shu army became more and more cowardly the more they fought, and they couldn't run away.

In such a fierce fight, Yuan Ji was cut down by a Han general.

However, the people are too chaotic, we don't see who this Han general is, and the history is unknown.

In the array of ten thousand armies, the thief captures the king first. Wu Han has been looking for Xie Feng.

This Xie Feng is not only inferior to Wu Han in his strategy, but his martial arts are also difficult to resist Wu Han.

As soon as the two fought for a few rounds, Wu Han slammed off Xie Feng's head, and his body fell off the horse.

When the Shu army fled, the Han army counted the battlefield and found that there were more than 5,000 heads of Shu soldiers on the ground, two of which were Xie Feng and Yuan Ji.

(Then he broke it, beheaded Xie Feng and Yuan Ji, and won more than 5,000 grades.) ）

Wu Han and Liu Shang collected their troops and returned to the camp, and the envoys of the imperial court also arrived.

Wu Han read Liu Xiu's handwriting, and couldn't help but be speechless, afraid, and blame himself, fortunately, he had turned defeat into victory, and he still had something to say, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. At the same time, he couldn't help but deeply admire Liu Xiu's wisdom and resourcefulness.

As a result, he left Liu Shang to continue to resist Gongsun Shu's possible counterattack, and he led his army back to Guangdu.

When the deployment was stopped, Wu Han wrote a report to Liu Xiu, detailing the causes and consequences of this use of troops, and conducting deep self-reflection and self-condemnation.

In fact, this is Minister Wu's own initiative to write an inspection, and he has not implemented Liu Xiu's order a few days ago to review.

This is not the first time Minister Wu has done this.

In general, Minister Wu is absolutely loyal to Liu Xiu, and he has been very obedient and has a very strong sense of discipline after following Liu Xiu for many years, and Liu Xiu also trusts him, otherwise it is impossible to hand over the military and political power of the empire to him.

However, he also has two great characteristics, one is that he is easy to kill, and the other is that he is sometimes easy to assert himself on the front line.

Of course, he has a basic premise when he makes his own assertions, that is, he is absolutely loyal to Liu Xiu and based on winning the battle.

In this regard, Liu Xiu has also reprimanded him many times, for example, the letter sent by the imperial court envoy is specially given to him by Liu Xiu.

However, as we have introduced earlier, Minister Wu is extremely rigorous in governing the army and accompanying Liu Xiu, his work is extremely serious, and he is extremely low-key and honest.

At present, after receiving Wu Han's review, Liu Xiu was very satisfied and immediately replied, saying:

"You're right to occupy the vast ground right now. Gongsun Shu didn't dare to cross Liu Shang to attack you. If he hits Liu Shang first, you can rush to the aid from Guangdu, and if you use infantry or cavalry, whether you use infantry or cavalry, when you arrive, the enemy is tired and stuck, and you will definitely be able to defeat the enemy. ”

From then on, Wu Han strictly followed Liu Xiu's deployment, and fought offensive and defensive battles, ambush battles, and tug-of-war with Gongsun Shu's generals in Guangdu and Chengdu.

Immediately, Wu Han captured and occupied the outer city of Chengdu.

At this time, Qi Sihou and Fuwei General Zang Gong also fought very smoothly in the northeast, north, and northwest directions of Chengdu, approaching Chengdu.

The work was going well, and seeing the leader coming again, Zang Gong was very happy and wanted to find the leader to drink.

He led his army through the outside of Chengdu and came to the Wu Han military camp.

In order to promote the military prestige, and at the same time to be angry, Zang Gong asked his subordinates to go drinking this time to be high-profile.

So, his brigade sang and laughed, stood in a forest of flags, and walked under the city of Chengdu with great force.

Seeing Zang Gong, Wu Han was also very happy.

After the big victory, the victory is in sight, the brothers are in a good mood, drink!

In the Wu Han camp, the soldiers of the southern line of the Han army held a very warm party.

After the reception, Wu Han was still sober. He told Zang Gong:

"You have just passed under the enemy's city, and your majesty and speed are enough to raise the prestige of our army and break the enemy's spirit. However, when you return to the camp, you should take another route to avoid accidents. ”

Zang Gong has always been cautious and low-key, but now he is also arrogant, and he did not listen, and still returned the same way.

(The palace does not follow, and the road returns.) ）

What's in it? Lao Tzu is going to sing and go back!

In the city of Chengdu, the soldiers of Gongsun Shu watched Wu Han and Zang Gong hold an entertainment carnival outside the city, and they were so angry that they didn't dare to intervene.

Gongsun Shu originally thought that he would set up Gongsun Ji Chengjia Dynasty Company, and with the Bashu Insurance, he could at least be called the emperor's corner, and if the market was good, he could also expand his business to the Central Plains and Xizhou, and spread the company to the whole of China.

After Liu Xiu got up, he didn't lose heart, thinking that it was just one more competitor.

It's inevitable that there will be competition.

He saw the whole process of Liu Xiu's hustle and bustle, and believed that Liu Xiu was a Confucian businessman.

When Liu Xiu repeatedly persuaded him to surrender, he felt that Liu Xiu could be completely fooled. Because, he thinks that before he became emperor, whether he dealt with Zong Cheng, who called himself "General Huya", or those generals of the Genshi Dynasty, he was all talking with knives, guns and fists. Later, he relied on the army to win over Kui Huan and fight against Feng Yi.

In short, this is an era that does not need culture and relies on fists to fight the world. In such an era, you Liu Xiu actually wrote to me again and again to talk about business, and you are out!

However, what Gongsun Shu didn't expect was that Liu Xiu played with dazzling fists and kicks for a while, and a few bright sharp knives actually hit his neck!

Here, by the way, Liu Xiu wrote several times to persuade Gongsun Shu to surrender, obviously wanting to surrender without a fight, but there was also no lack of delaying tactics to cooperate with the actions of the Shu army.

Liu Xiu's city government and scheming are profound, and Gongsun Shu has never understood it all his life.

Now, in the face of the unstoppable Wu Han and Zang Gong, and in the face of his subordinates who would rather have their families ruined than flee, Gongsun Shu is trapped in the city.

On this day, Gongsun Shu summoned the general Yancen to discuss.

He asked, "What are we going to do when it comes to this?" ”

One of the important shareholders of Yancen Gongsun Ji Chengjia Dynasty Company, he was also very anxious and did not want to see the company go bankrupt, so he suggested:

"A man should survive death, not sit still. Money is something outside the body, it is easy to accumulate, and you can't cherish it too much. ”

The meaning of the shareholders is very clear, although the company is in business difficulties, but there are still many surpluses on the account, and there will be brave men under the heavy reward. In other words, we are willing to spend a lot of money to organize death squads.

Chairman Gongsun Shu listened to it and felt that it was the only way to do it now.

So, Gongsun Shu took out all the money in the company's account, recruited a death squad of more than 5,000 people, and handed it over to the shareholders of Yancen to participate in the anti-Japanese war in the outer city.

(Shu is to scatter the gold silk, recruit more than 5,000 people who dare to die, in order to match Cen in the city bridge.) ）

Yan Cen has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he knows that he is currently a grasshopper tied to the same rope as the company and Chairman Gongsun, and there is nothing else to do except fight to the death.

In this desperate situation, he saw the Achilles heel of Wu Han's army.

No matter how strong the enemy is, he has weaknesses, and if he sees his weaknesses and strikes desperately, it is possible to defeat the strong with the weak.

Yan Cen saw that under the appearance of being strong and difficult to bully, and high morale, the Wu Han army had a weakness: pride.

Proud soldiers are bound to lose, or easy to lose, which has been verified by many players on various battlefields.

Therefore, Yan Cen adopted a tactic of attacking the east and the west: he knew that Wu Han would not easily attack the city for the time being, so he arranged for a group of remnants of the defeated army to erect many flags at the head of the city and fortifications, beat the war drums, and challenge the Han army; At the same time, he secretly sent this light cavalry death squad, quietly went out of the city, made a detour to the back of the Han army, and gave an order to attack Wu Han.

The Han army didn't expect the Shu army to dare to take the initiative to challenge, and even less did it expect the Shu army to dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to find a battle.

Wu Han himself also responded to the battle in a hurry and fell into the water in a hurry. In a chaotic battle, he was quick to grasp the tail of his war horse before he went ashore and fled for his life.

It's embarrassing!

(Han fell into the water, derived from the horsetail.) ）

At this time, fortunately, the lineup of soldiers and horses in Zang Palace was complete, and a team was immediately sent to the rescue and repelled the Shu army death squad.

In this battle, the army of Wu Han was defeated.

Wu Han stabilized his gods, counted carefully, and found that the soldiers had lost thousands of people, but a lot of food had been robbed, but there were still 7 days of rations.

Due to the late autumn and the lack of food and grass, and the fact that he did not know much about the situation in the city of Chengdu, Wu Han planned to temporarily withdraw his troops and withdraw from the siege of Chengdu.

In order to retreat in an orderly manner and prevent the Shu army from pursuing, he was secretly making preparations.

At this critical moment, an outstanding cadre rushed to the front and persuaded him to persevere, saying that victory was just around the corner.

This outstanding cadre's name is Zhang Kan, not only has both ability and political integrity, but also played a key role at a critical time.

Zhang Kanzi Junyou, a native of Wancheng, Nanyang, and Liu Xiu are fellow villagers and college classmates.

He came from a large local family, and when his parents died young, he gave his inheritance of millions of family assets to his brother and nephew. He went to the capital to study at the age of 16, and was known as the "Holy Child" because of his lofty ambitions and good behavior.

When Liu Xiu was a young man who returned to his hometown in his early years, he admired Zhang Kan's conduct very much, often praised him, and had a good relationship with him.

After ascending the throne, Liu Xiu recruited his younger brother on the recommendation of Lai She, and asked him to work in the imperial court office.

This time, appointed by the imperial court, Zhang Kan came to transport supplies for Wu Han and Shu as a staff member of the imperial court, bringing with him a large amount of cloth, grain and grass, and 7,000 war horses.

When Zhang Kan was still on the road, Liu Xiu appointed him as the Taishou of Shu County.

Liu Xiu's meaning is very clear, Wu Han's victory in Shu is in sight, once Shu County is taken, you Zhang Kan is too guarded, and it will be handed over to you to govern!

Later, Zhang Kan successively ruled Shu County, Yuyang County and other places, he insisted on people-oriented, paid attention to the development of people's livelihood, benevolence and ability, power to seek treachery, and governed the people to be rich, social stability, and the enemy could not commit crimes, and became a typical representative of the outstanding cadres of Liu Xiu's regime.

Now, under Zhang Kan's persuasion, Wu Han adopted his suggestion, made up his mind again, and waited for an opportunity to fight Gongsun Shu again.

After stabilizing down, Wu Han carefully analyzed and believed that although Gongsun Shu was at the end of the road, the battle of trapped beasts could not be underestimated.

He decided to change the way of thinking about the high-profile capture of Gongsun Shu and outwit him.

So, he asked Zang Gong to enter the Xianmen in the northwest of Chengdu, and he hid the strong soldiers, and specially arranged some old, weak, sick and disabled guards to patrol to tease and lure Gongsun Shu to attack.

Soon, in the middle of winter in November 36 AD, Wu Han's low-key layout finally attracted the attention of Gongsun Shu.

Chairman Gongsun is a really superstitious person, which is manifested in the fact that he not only fools others with some purely superstitious things, but even he himself believes this.

On this day, in order to relieve the immediate crisis as soon as possible, he took a hexagram and replied that it was "captured and killed in the city".

He was very happy, thinking that the enemy who came to attack would die under the city, and it seemed that it would be fulfilled in Wu Han and Zang Gong. In addition, after careful observation, he found that Wu Han was defeated a few days ago, and now there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled left, which is the best time to bully.

Then you have to do it, if you don't do it, you'll die!

Gongsun Shu ordered Yan Cen to go out of the city to attack Zang Palace, and he personally led the last tens of thousands of horses to attack Wu Han.

This time, he felt that he even threw out the company's old book, desperate, success or failure in one move, success and failure will solve the company's difficulties, and failure will be all over, that's all!

Over there, Yan Cen fought Zang Gong very smoothly, winning consecutive battles, and Zang Gong couldn't parry it for a while.

Here, it was the sick and weak soldiers of the Han army who were fighting against Gongsun Shu, but everyone worked hard under the leadership of Wu Han. Both sides fought from morning to noon, and they did not care about eating, and they were both exhausted.

Look at the fire, Wu Han ordered the guards Gao Wu and Tang Han to lead tens of thousands of elite soldiers in ambush to kill, and the Shu army immediately fled in chaos.

This time it should have been Gongsun Shu who was caught off guard, and he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to resist it, but no one could withstand it.

Run!

Where to run!

Gao Wu stared at Gongsun Shu, waved his lance, and stabbed when he stepped forward. Gongsun Shu was pierced in the chest and fell off his horse.

It should be said that Gongsun Ji Chengjia Dynasty Company has recently been supported by a few shareholders such as Chairman Gongsun Shu, and the enthusiasm of the employees is not high.

Seeing that the chairman fell from his horse, several employees hurriedly stopped fighting, helped him into a car, and ran back to the city.

(Left and right into the city.) ）

On the side of Xianmen in the northwest of Chengdu, Yancen shareholders were originally gaining the upper hand when they fought with Zang Gonggong, but when they heard that something had happened to Chairman Gongsun, they panicked and hurriedly retreated.

Seeing this, Zang Gong immediately let go of the chase and kill.

Yancen shareholders were cut down by Zang Gong, and it took a lot of twists and turns to run back to the city.

Chairman Gongsun Shu, who was at the end of his rope and was in great sorrow, was seriously injured and had no choice but to hand over the power of the company to Yancen's shareholders: handing over the command of the army to Yancen.

That night, Gongsun Shu died.

After Yan Cen took over the power, he had a headache in the face of the company's scarred situation, and felt that it would be difficult to clean up the mess and regain the company's various businesses in his own hands.

What to do?

Yancen shareholders thought about it for a long time and felt that if they and the company did not lose money, there was only one way to go: bankruptcy.

The next day, Yan Cen led the whole city to surrender to Wu Han, and all the Bashu area was surrendered to Liu Xiu's Later Han Dynasty.

At this point, Gongsun Shu's hard-working and operating dynasty for more than 10 years came to an end dumbly.

The capture of Gongsun Shu is an important plot and wonderful scene of the social life drama directed and starred by Liu Xiu.

Originally, in such a martial arts scene, Liu Xiu, the main body of the capture, was merciful when he started, and the curtain fell because of the death of the main actor, and the curtain should be pulled up to prepare for the next scene. However, Wu Han, an important actor on the side of Liu Xiu, who captured the main body, insisted on not closing the curtain and did not act according to the director's explanation, making the stage very bloody and violent.

However, the first to enter Chengdu to engage in receiving work was Zhang Kan, the Taishou of Shu County, appointed by Liu Xiu.

Zhang Kan is very familiar with Liu Xiu's governance philosophy, and he also knows three of them.

After he entered the city, he immediately arranged for his subordinates to control all the important places in Chengdu, carefully, thoroughly and meticulously inspected, registered, and received the treasure vaults, made a detailed list, and reported them to the imperial court without reservation.

Immediately, Zhang Kan adopted a series of measures to stabilize the ranks of cadres and relieve the people's livelihood and suffering, and soon brought the situation under control and won the support of the local cadres and masses.

That is to say, Liu Xiu intends to build Chengdu into a harmonious place where the government is harmonious and the people live and work in peace and contentment after taking Gongsun Shu.

When Wu Han and Gongsun Shu were slashing and the battle situation was stalemate, Liu Xiu sent Zhang Kan to Shu as a civilian official, and his intention could not be clearer.

Later, Liu Xiu personally inspected important cadres.

When asked about Zhang Kan's situation, the comrades of Shu County reported that when Gongsun Shu perished, the treasures left behind were piled up, and Zhang Taishou grabbed a handful casually, and his own 10 generations could not eat them all. However, Zhang Taishou did not do that, he was strict with himself, diligent and honest, and when he left office, he sat in a broken car and wore coarse cloth.

At this time, after Zhang Kan served in Shu County for 2 years, he had been transferred to a number of positions, that is to say, he had left Shu County for many years, and everyone still commented on him like this, which should be very fair.

After the politicians go. It is not easy for a cadre to be remembered and praised after being away for many years.

Zhang Kan, a good cadre who is loyal to his duties and diligent and honest.

However, Wu Han's approach in Chengdu is in stark contrast to Zhang Kan's.

Three days later, Wu Han led a large army into Chengdu, and first arranged for his subordinates to cut off Gongsun Shu's head, and sent someone to Luoyang to report to Liu Xiu.

(The city descended on the day, and the first transmission was sent to Luoyang.) ）

Immediately, Wu Han arranged to immediately kill Gongsun Shu's wife, children, and the entire clan, and at the same time give Yancen to exterminate the clan.

(Nai Yi said his wife, wiped out the Gongsun clan, and joined the clan Yancen.) ）

Immediately afterwards, Wu Han announced that the whole army would have a three-day holiday, burning, killing and looting at will.

(Then the troops were plundered and the palace was burned.) ）

In this way, Chengdu suffered a terrible catastrophe: a large number of public facilities, including Gongsun Shu's office space, were destroyed, tens of thousands of ordinary people, including Gongsun Shu and Yancen's family, were innocently killed, and the city became a platform for indulging desires and exhibiting barbarism!

All this, as the works of Wu Han, is of course the act of beasts, which has become the eternal pain of Chengdu, the sin that Wu Han can never erase, and the eternal knot of the historian.

Chengdu has become a sea of fire and hell!

Regarding Wu Han's atrocities, historians basically have two theories, one is that "Wu Han allowed his troops to burn and plunder for three days when the city was broken, and it is reasonable to do so", that is, since it is a war, it is normal for you to fight me and I will burn you; One is to say that the people are innocent, and whoever bullies the people should not be, and what Wu Han did is a crime.

I'm in favor of the latter! We must at all times strictly distinguish bestiality from normal social conflicts, including conventional warfare!

Liu Xiu was extremely shocked and annoyed when she received the report!

He believes that only those who should be fought in a war should be fought, and that the administration of government must be people-oriented. Wu Han's seizure of the city was certainly a success, but the slaughter of the city was obviously wrong, and if it continued in this way, it would only lose the support of the people and arouse the anger of the people.

So, he immediately arranged for a remedy.