The bloody slaughter lasted for three days, initially concentrated in the city, but as more and more people fled the city, the killing began to spread to the countryside.

On this flat and vast Chengdu Plain, the people who fled in all directions were no match for the strong Western Wei cavalry, even if they ran day and night in the wilderness, they would inevitably be chased and captured in the end.

During these three days, Xiao Yu and other Yizhou civil and military officials were always detained in the military camp in the north of the city. The howls of the terrible fighting in the city were not short to reach their ears, and they were all terrified.

Xiao Yuansu, the young son of Xiao Ji who was not very old and was persuaded by Xiao Yu, was even more remorseful, because he was worried that he would die at any time, he often cried and cried, and couldn't help but scold Xiao Yu, who persuaded him to go out of the city and ask for surrender: "Xiao Hou, Xiao Dog!" The dog thief who betrayed the lord for glory has failed the great responsibility entrusted to you by my father, and threatened me to surrender only for your own glory, and the lives of the people in the city, and I will be used in exchange for your wealth! ”

Xiao Yu's mood was also feeling remorseful and depressed, and when he heard Xiao Yuansu make this accusation, he couldn't help but die of shame and indignation, and said with tears in his eyes: "Although the minister is not virtuous, he also advised the previous king to be cautious in all things. Words are not accepted, but try their best to pick up the gaps, in order to get better, the ministers are not talented, and they fail to consider the whole family and country, but in terms of heart and deeds, today's disaster can not be a minister alone......"

Of course, Xiao Yu has a reason for saying this, Bashu's disaster today is mainly caused by Xiao Ji's father and son's reckless actions, and even the killing in Chengdu City in front of him is also caused by Xiao Yuanzheng, who is absconding.

But Xiao Yuansu was frightened and uneasy at this time, he just wanted to vent his fears, how could he listen to Xiao Yu's reasoning, and he still couldn't stop scolding Xiao Yu. No matter how many truths he has, what he said before was so good to deceive himself into going out of the city, but now his life is difficult to protect, it can be seen that his people have ill intentions and deserve death!

Hearing Xiao Yuansu's accusation of being indiscriminate, Xiao Yu only felt speechless and discouraged for a while, so he simply untied the knife on his waist and threw it directly to Xiao Yuansu, and said angrily: "Since the king is guilty of the minister, the minister has this, please punish the king himself!" ”

"You think I won't dare kill you?"

Xiao Yuansu was indignant and embarrassed, and when he saw this, he directly grabbed the knife and pulled it out of the scabbard, and approached Xiao Yu step by step. But after all, he was just a teenager with an immature mind, and when he saw Xiao Yu closing his eyes and waiting to die, he still didn't dare to stab the knife, and he suddenly cried out: "General, can I still live?" ”

Just as they were crying and making trouble here, Wei Chi Yu, who was dressed in military uniform and had a gloomy face, walked in surrounded by his own soldiers, frowned and looked at the situation in the tent, and his eyes fell on Xiao Yu, who was sad and indignant, and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Hou, there is something here that needs to be relied on by you. ”

When Xiao Yu heard this, he just snorted coldly, closed his eyes and didn't look at Wei Chi Yuan.

Xiao Yuansu next to him looked at Wei Chi Yu's gloomy expression, and nervously leaned in front of Xiao Yu and whispered: "General, General Wei Angong Chi has something to ask, don't be rude!" ”

After hearing this, Xiao Yu opened his eyes, looked at Xiao Yuansu with a complicated expression, and looked at Xiao Yuansu, who was cautious and hopeful, and then stood up and said to Wei Chi Chang: "Surrender people to defeat the general, send the prince and the marquis a thought, the general has an order, and the servant dare not obey." ”

After Wei Chi Hui heard this, his face looked a little better, and he said: "It has been several months since our army entered the country, and there is a shortage of grain and grass, so we must collect and replenish it on the border to meet the military needs. Today, however...... Xiao Hou should know that I didn't intend to kill people, so in order to avoid further killing, I had to ask Xiao Hou to go to the county to ask for food for the army. ”

Although the Western Wei army had entered the city and plundered it for several days, the food storage in the city was already scarce, and although the army had obtained a lot of property, it was difficult to consume food, so it was in urgent need of supplementary supplies.

Fortunately, it is now the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and the Chengdu Plain where they are located is the most important agricultural and grain-producing area in Shu, as long as it is collected along the river valley, the army will not lack food.

But after three days of slaughtering the city, the sequelae have already appeared.

Originally, when they entered the country all the way, the scene of looking at the scenery was no longer there, and even some of the Qiang and Ba barbarians who had joined them before were gradually centrifuged due to conflicts of interest, and this morning there was a group of more than 2,000 people from the Di tribe who broke away from the camp without asking for instructions and went in the direction of Mianzhu in the rear.

Although there are no strong soldiers in the vicinity of Chengdu, like Guanzhong and other places, there are many dock fortresses, and there are also a large number of Xiangqu Zhuangding living in them.

Since the news of the Wei army's massacre of Chengdu had spread from all sides, these dock heroes also had a hostile attitude towards the Wei army. This morning, Wei Chi had to report that two of the scouts who had been dispatched out yesterday to find out where to get food had quietly disappeared on the Chengdu Plain.

Wei Chi Yuan's tens of thousands of elite cavalry are enough to sweep the entire Chengdu Plain, but the premise is that there needs to be enough supplies to replenish it. In particular, he entered Shu this time not for the purpose of plundering and looting, but to establish rule and order in Shu, if he continued to plunder the countryside like a rogue Kou, even if he could do it with war, it would be difficult to gain a stable foothold in Shu, and the biggest possibility was to be overwhelmed by the rebellion of the Quartet.

Therefore, Wei Chi Yu planned to seize the opportunity to establish local supply routes and bases on the Chengdu Plain through both soft and hard means before there was any powerful resistance force emerging, with Chengdu as the center, fully mobilize the Wei army's powerful cavalry mobile field combat capabilities, and try to control the core area of the Chengdu Plain. As for the four wild borderlands, that's not what he is capable of doing right now.

But if you want to do this, you still have to rely on the cooperation of the locals, especially Xiao Yu, who has been an official in Shuzhong for many years and was appointed by Xiao Ji to stay in Yizhou.

If Xiao Yuken came forward to contact and lobby those township heroes who had mastered the food resources, it would undoubtedly be cheaper and much more efficient than Wei Chi Hui sending men and horses to forcibly conquer one dock stronghold after another.

"It is not my intention to clear the city. If it weren't for Xiao Hou and others concealing the matter of Xiyang, I would not have forced the army to enter the city for the sake of stabilizing the situation. Now the situation in the city, Xiao Hou and I are both to blame, but the plan for today is not to accuse each other and distance themselves, but to connect and try to avoid creating more killing karma, so that Shuzhong can return to stability. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Chi Hui put on a kind face again, looked at Xiao Yu and smiled: "Because of the search for rebellious troops in the city, it is inevitable to disturb people. But Xiao Hou and King Xiao and other family members have their own elite soldiers to protect them. Because he was afraid that the military camp would offend the nobles, he stayed in the city temporarily. After Xiao Hou returns, he can be reunited with his family! ”

Xiao Yu's expression changed when he heard Wei Chi's words, and Xiao Yuansu next to him came closer, pulling Xiao Yu's clothes and whispering: "Promise him, promise him......"

Xiao Yu was silent for a while before nodding slowly and said, "At this point, the servant is indeed to blame." But it can help guide the Shu people into governance, and the servants are duty-bound, and they dare not boast of their merits. ”

Wei Chi Yu nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, without further ado, when even a thousand elite cavalry guards were transferred from the city to go to the left near county to collect grain.

However, Wei Chi Zhen also underestimated the bloody nature of the Shu people, and only said that the killing in Chengdu could more or less give a certain deterrent to the heroes in Zuo Jinxiang, coupled with the persuasion of Xiao Yu, the original governor of Shu, he could always force some heroes to submit under the soft and hard.

However, Xiao Yu wandered around Chengdu several times, and without exception was rejected by those city dock walls, and none of them were willing to open the door to greet him. What's more, even before the Wei army visited, because it was too late to harvest, they directly set fire to the ripe corn in the field.

"A certain kind of villager, although he is not brave, knows shame! The Qiang thief slaughtered my father, the blood is not dry, and the soul is not far away, how can he sacrifice grain to steal life and feed this jackal! Xiao Hou has been educated and governed in previous years, and the villagers are still thin and righteous, why don't Xiao Hou die quickly! ”

When he saw those villagers who were respectful to him in the past, but now they turned him away and insulted him loudly, Xiao Yu was also ashamed, so that he became depressed and couldn't afford to get sick.

The soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty were not good men and women, and when they saw that they could not be convinced, they also launched a strong attack. However, although these dock walls were not impregnable fortresses, under the resistance of the villagers who sacrificed their lives and deaths, the soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty were inevitably killed and wounded. What's more serious is that some dock walls were not defended, and they actually burned down the barns, so that the Wei army lost troops but did not gain much.

Seeing such a situation, Wei Chi Hui also realized that the resistance of the Shu people was stronger than he expected, and in desperation, he hurriedly reported the situation to the country.

At the same time, the Qian Yan Division, which had been driven away by Wei Chi's division, returned to Suining, while the Shu army that retreated at the mouth of the gorge was entrenched in Xinzhou, and many other Shu county heroes and powerful troops were stationed in Meizhou. For a time, Chengdu Siye looked at all enemies.

Although these people did not dare to advance lightly because they were afraid of the strong combat effectiveness of the Wei army, they were entrenched in the surrounding areas, which also made the situation of the Wei army in Chengdu gradually worse.

Seeing that the surrounding situation was like this, Wei Chi had no choice but to send a message to the people on the East Road who had been ordered by him to be stationed in Langzhong, ordering them to come south immediately and respond to each other.

"I have long said that Wei Angong and Pingchang are fortunate to steal favors, and they can be used for a small time, how can they have the talent to seek far-reaching results? If you don't believe it, you will be able to prove it. If it weren't for Lord Lang's clever strategy to make me prepare for changes here, the situation would probably be even more dangerous! ”

He Ruodun led the army south to prepare for a big fight, but he was stranded in Langzhong and could not move forward, and he was indignant in his heart, and after receiving the order, he naturally couldn't help but be extremely sarcastic about Wei Chi Yuan, but he was also enthusiastic and prepared to send troops south.

But Li Qianzhe was still a little cautious, and still opened his mouth to advise: "Wei Angong slaughtered the city, and the Shu people shared the sorrow, and now it is not beneficial to rush to the city, so it is better to send a batch of grain and grass for the time being, and then ask Lord Lang for instructions on whether to march or not." ”

After hearing this, He Ruodun also nodded and said: "The armies on the road ahead have stolen Chengdu and caused huge goods, but now I have been sent to frighten the masses. ”

He just had a poisonous mouth, but he was not stupid, and after hearing Li Qianzhe's reminder, he also felt that he should ask for instructions, so he was no longer in a hurry to send troops.

(End of chapter)