Even after two years, when I recall it again, the picture is still shocking. {with}{dream} щ{suimеng][lā}

The man was nothing more than a scholar and had never even held a sword in his life.

But when the Jingnan rebellion and the Wei soldiers attacked, everyone only knew how to flee, but he did not hesitate to take his own life to guard him and protect the people on his side.

Xie Yuan suppressed the surging emotions in his heart, and after a long time, he said to Xie Qingheng, who was full of shock:

"After I repelled the besieging Wei soldiers, I sent someone to take over Jingzhou City."

"But at that time, the city was too chaotic, and the imperial court gave disaster relief several times and broke its promise, so that Jingnan's corpses were all over the field, and the old and the young were helpless."

"When I led the troops to Jingnan at that time, because it was a rapid march, I carried very little grain and grass, and those soldiers had to fight against the Southern Wei army outside the city, so they couldn't distribute the food to the people at all, not to mention that even if the food was sent out, it would only cause a bigger riot, and it couldn't appease those who were hungry and crazy at all."

"The city of Jingzhou was in chaos, and the Southern Wei Dynasty took the opportunity to spread rumors, implying that there was food in the army, so that those people thought that the imperial court did not care about their lives and deaths, and they were red-eyed for this. Later, those people were instigated and forcibly broke into the barracks and injured the people in the army, and at that time, unless it was forcibly suppressed, the chaos could not be suppressed at all. ”

Xie Yuan said in a deep voice:

"I intended to send troops to suppress it, but Su Xuanmin disagreed."

"He found me at that time and asked me to give him three days, and he will definitely take Jingzhou City for me."

Xie Qingheng listened to what Xie Yuan said, his eyes were full of emotion.

He has been staying in the capital since he was born, although he has studied Wen Tao Wuxue, and he is far more stable and intelligent than the children of other families, but he has never been on the battlefield in person, let alone seen such a shocking scene with his own eyes.

Even if he didn't see it with his own eyes, Xie Qingheng could imagine what the situation was like in Jingnan at that time.

Xie Qingheng saw Xie Yuan stop, and hurriedly asked, "What about later?" ”

Xie Yuan said: "Later, I saw him gambling with his life, so I gave him three days, Su Xuanmin took a dozen Jingnan soldiers out of the city, and when he came back three days later, he didn't know where to raise a batch of food. ”

"Although there was not much food, it was not enough to relieve the affected people before, but it was enough to temporarily appease the rioters in Jingzhou City."

"He took gruel as a guide and took the rebels without food as a condition, and after leading people to kill a few people who took the lead in making trouble, he forcibly pacified the chaos in the city."

"The grain he brought back, plus the ones I brought out from the army at that time, even if it was boiled into the thinnest gruel, it was only enough to support the city for seven days, and those seven days were the time he gave me to fight with the Southern Wei and expel them from Jingnan."

When Xie Yuan talked about the events at that time, he was full of admiration for the man who was angry with the book.

At that time, in the midst of the chaotic people, it was Su Xuanmin's own hand to kill the troublemakers, he could have retreated to the Zhizhou Mansion and handed over all the things to the people sent by the imperial court, he was a civil servant, not a military general, so there was no need to fight in front.

But he didn't.

He had always stood on the city walls, and had never left even the most dangerous moments.

Later, Xie Yuan led his troops to fight with the Southern Wei army, and there were both victories and defeats, and it was not until two days later that the Southern Wei was forced to retreat to a hundred miles outside the city, and there were signs of defeat, but who knew that at this time, there was an epidemic in Jingzhou City, and Su Xuanmin and the hundreds of soldiers who guarded the city gate before that were all infected with the epidemic.

Xie Yuan hurriedly ordered people to isolate them, and sent people to send an urgent letter back to Beijing quickly, but the letter sank like a stone into the sea, and there was no news back from Beijing.

From the discovery of the epidemic to the beginning of death, it was only a few days.

Even if Xie Yuan isolated people, as those soldiers began to die, the plague still began to spread outward as if it could not be stopped.

Later, when the food in the city was about to run out, the news that Su Xuanmin and others were infected with the epidemic could no longer be hidden, and the entire Jingzhou city fell into panic, and even the soldiers brought by Xie Yuan began to question Xie Yuan.

They felt that Xie Yuan had left dangerous people behind, threatening their lives and safety, and that chaos had arisen under the deliberate provocation of the Southern Wei Dynasty.

The people who treated the plague in Beijing did not come for a long time, and the Southern Wei army outside Jingnan City gathered again, but the people in Jingzhou were in turmoil, and even Xie Yuan couldn't suppress the rumors in the city.

Later, after Su Xuanmin learned about this, he saw that the army of the Southern Wei Dynasty was approaching the city, so he personally killed those soldiers who were suffering from the plague with him and were almost dying, and then ......

Xie Yuan's voice suddenly became hoarse:

"Then he secretly went out of the city himself, and used him as bait to lure the main general of the Southern Wei out of the camp, and let me kill him in front of the battle, and repelled the army of the Southern Wei."

"I killed Su Xuanmin, that's a fact."

"But at that time, under that situation, if I didn't kill him, he would become a hostage in the hands of the Southern Wei, making the city of Jingnan even more chaotic, and if I didn't kill him, if the plague spread because of him, it would not only be the people of the Southern Wei who were unlucky, but the entire Jingnan would not be spared."

"I don't want to kill him, but Su Xuanmin has to die."

Xie Yuan's voice was dark.

If Su Xuanmin did not die, the chaos in Jingnan would be difficult to solve, and he could not calm the panic of the people and soldiers in Jingzhou City at that time.

If Su Xuanmin didn't die, how would he face the relatives of the soldiers who were with him to protect the city, but all of them died in his hands?

Xie Qingheng looked at Xie Yuan's suddenly reddened eyes, only to feel that something seemed to be choked in his throat, and the sentence Xie Yuan said was so heavy that he couldn't speak.

How is Su Xuanmin?

He's good.

He guarded Jingnan, protected the hundreds of thousands of people, and guarded the border city in the south of Dachen.

But for those soldiers who guarded Jingzhou with him and did not retreat to the death, Su Xuanmin was a traitor, they followed him desperately after several bloodbaths, and did not retreat until death, but when they saw peace, Su Xuanmin gave them up for others and took their lives.

For those people and their loved ones, Su Xuanmin is the most evil person in this world.

……

Xie Qingheng clenched his fists tightly and calmed down for a long time before he reluctantly spoke, but his voice was muted: "Then why did they all become criminals later?" ”

How can you be guilty of defending the city to death?

Xie Yuan sneered: "At that time, Jingnan was affected by the disaster for so long, and he couldn't find any food in the entire Jingzhou City, but he only went out for two days, and he got back enough rations to support Jingzhou City for five days. ”

"No one in Jingzhou remembers how he fought for them, and no one remembers his bravery when he went out of the city alone and used himself as bait."