Chapter Twenty-Three: Internal Response
Today's people around Sun Ming have slowly increased their favorability towards Sun Ming over time, and Guan, Zhang and others have passed the 80 mark.
Li Meng even has 90 points of favorability, Sun Ming still has eighty-nine attribute points in his hand is useless, after the previous Sun Wu defection incident, Sun Ming left more attribute points in case of accidents.
The next day, Sun Ming sent Li Meng to pick up Yu Lilai from the barracks, and an hour later, Yu Li came to the command tent.
Although Yu Li's intelligence is very high, Sun Ming still decided to test him, "Desen, you said that in this turbulent era, where is the way for civilians to live." ”
Yu Li smiled at the corner of his mouth, "The chaos of the times is all sold by the Huangmen of Luoyang Center, and they are not used by relatives, nor are they hateful." ”
"And the general public is powerless to decide the overall situation of life and death, and most of the officials in the counties and prefectures are insensitive and bent on currying favor with their superiors. And the group of central executives in Luoyang did not care about the people's welfare, and only knew how to sell officials to make money. ”
"In the long run, how can everyone live? Only by punishing the traitors and eliminating them from top to bottom is the best policy. ”
Yu Li's words, listening to the frequent nodding of several people in the account, Li Meng even exclaimed, "Yu Li, you are so talented, I thought you were just a sour Confucian, but I didn't expect you to be really capable, I just couldn't live in my hometown before I came to Zhuoxian." ”
When Guan Yu heard this, he touched his long beard and laughed.
Yu Li glanced at Li Meng, and he didn't bother to talk, so Sun Ming immediately appointed Yu Li as his staff and military advisor.
In the days that followed, the old and new barracks were in urgent drills, and spies were constantly being sent to check on the movements of the rebels.
The leader of the rebels is named Dong Luo, who was originally the leader of a local sect in Zhuo County, and later joined the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
I never wanted to kill a Sun Ming, and a few of his men were even braver, and Leng led that group of old soldiers to fight and flee by himself, and now he has less than a thousand people left.
Just when Dong Luo had nothing to do, his subordinates offered a plan and said, "General, there are officers and soldiers in the city, he revealed that Sun Ming and Qian Ning did not agree, and almost had a big fight, and then Qian Ning said that he was not sick." ”
"We can bribe him with money and status, Qian Ning also has some loyal subordinates in the battalion, let him raise troops to fight back when the time comes, let's come to a joint force inside and outside, won't we take Zhuoxian in one fell swoop?"
Dong Luo was overjoyed, let his subordinates carry 20,000 gold, and promised to let Qian Ning be the city lord after the city was broken, because they were rebels and had no regular official position, so the city lord was equivalent to Zhou Tao's county order.
His subordinates and Nei Ying knocked on the door of the Qian family late at night, and under the temptation of money, status, and revenge, Qian Ning was successfully rebelled by them, and agreed to start an incident in the early morning three days later.
The next day, Qian Ning appeared in the barracks again, and rarely showed weakness to Sun Ming, and his abnormality suddenly made Sun Ming more vigilant.
I secretly checked Qian Ning's attributes again, and sure enough, there was a problem, his favorability had fallen from 11 to a single digit to 5.
Qian Ning didn't know that Sun Ming had a golden finger, and thought that he had successfully paralyzed Sun Ming, he belonged to the kind of ability that he couldn't do but felt that he could do it.
Because during the war, the generals had to stay in the barracks, and Channing could only venture to the camp to discuss matters.
He gathered his old subordinates in the side camp, and first told them about Sun Ming's domineering, and his subordinates also complained about Sun Ming.
Sun Ming's army is too strict, and for officials like them who have stolen corpses for many years, it is better to be the old boss Qian Ning.
Qian Ning saw that the atmosphere had arrived, and then said that he was ready to rebel. Among them, several die-hard party members were even more indignant and expressed their support for Channing.
But at this time, among Qian Ning's many old subordinates, several have already defected to Sun Ming's side.
After the secret meeting broke up, within an hour, Sun Ming learned of Qian Ning's plan and immediately summoned Guan Yu and Yu Li to discuss countermeasures.
After Sun Ming told Qian Ning about it, Li Meng's foolish man shouted that he was going to kill those guys.
Sun Ming snorted coldly and calmed Li Meng down and stood aside obediently.
Guan Yu thought for a moment and then said, "The owner, don't startle the snake for the time being, you can notify the new army Yide first, and take down all the officers and soldiers on the day they act." ”
"I'll dig a trench in advance, and then lure the enemy deeper, and then we can catch them all."
Now Sun Ming is no longer white, but several cronies around him still call him the owner in private.
Sun Ming thought for a moment and said, "It's not appropriate, as soon as we dig and move here, Qian Ning and the rebels will immediately receive the information." ”
"Today's plan, when the same should be the same, I will first ward Zhou County's order, let him secretly prepare a large amount of dry firewood, act that night, I will take down the rebellious generals first."
"Then the whole army withdrew from the camp, leaving them with an empty camp full of dry firewood, and then we could enjoy a great drama in the fire."
After discussing the strategy, Sun Ming repeatedly pondered in his heart whether there were any loopholes.
In the evening of the same day, Sun Ming took Li Meng back to Zanglongzhuang, while Zhou Tao and Sun Wuji were already waiting in the backyard.
When Sun Ming saw the two, he told Qian Ning about his rebellion, Zhou Tao and Qian Ning have been old friends for 20 years, but he didn't expect that now his old friend would turn against him, and the angry Zhou Tao was so angry that he almost fainted.
And Sun Wuji was worried about the feasibility of the matter, and under Sun Ming's assurance, the two had nothing else to do, and finally agreed to Sun Ming's method.
In the past two days, everyone has their own thoughts and preparations, just like Sun Ming said, "The show is about to play." ”
On the day of his operation, Sun Wuji was already in charge of the grain and grass in the barracks, so in the name of transporting grain, he transported a lot of dry firewood and flammable materials into the barracks.
Because the old barracks were built against the city wall, there were only three entrances and exits, and Sun Ming had already notified the new barracks, and it would appear around the old barracks in a later time, fan-shaped, and encircled.
In the evening, Qian Ning quietly appeared in the barracks, but as soon as he came, Sun Ming received a message from his side, and when Qian Ning and his group gathered together to wait for the details of the incident.
Han Zhong broke in with a new army and captured all the people present in one fell swoop, and when Qian Ning was caught, he scolded Han Zhong and others for rebelling like a lost dog.
It wasn't until Sun Ming and Guan Yu appeared in front of Qian Ning that he knew that the matter had been revealed, stopped this kind of wailing of the loser, closed his eyes and said nothing.
Guan Yu then quickly placed the dry firewood with the rest of the officers and soldiers, and then secretly withdrew from the old military camp at night.
Sun Ming, Yu Li and others also came to the city wall, and in Sun Ming's words, this is the best place to watch fireworks.
Dong Luo, who was a few kilometers away, was anxiously waiting for Qian Ning's signal, and at that time, Qian Ning's people had a mark on their left arm.
The subordinates shouted suddenly, and saw several people in the barracks raising fires as a signal, constantly swaying from side to side.
Dong Luo saw the signal coming, stood up and shouted, "The generals will listen to the order, kill the barracks, and capture Sun Ming alive." ”
For a while, the rebels shouted loudly, and more than a thousand people poured into the barracks like a tide, but the strange thing was that the barracks were unusually quiet at this moment.
Dong Luo led people to rush into Sun Ming's command tent, but was told by his subordinates that they had gone to run out of food, leaving only a lot of dry firewood.
Dong Luo was shocked when he heard this, and suddenly realized that he had been deceived, and shouted with all his strength, "Everyone quickly exit the barracks!" Fast! ”
But how could Sun Ming's side give him another chance to escape. Rockets were fired from all sides, setting fire to all the tents and flammable materials in the camp.
All the rebels were in disarray, either burned to death or fleeing aimlessly.
The 1,000 people he brought were surrounded by the fire, and half of them were lost in an instant, which is the family wealth he has scattered and operated for many years.
Seeing this, Dong Luo roared heartbreakingly, "Qian Ning, you bastard, I won't let you go if I'm a ghost." ”
After that, seeing that the general trend had gone, he swung his knife and killed himself.
The rebels who fled were all killed or captured by the encircled Forces nouvelles.