The soldiers of Cao Ying outside Fanyang City mutinied, killing several generals such as Lu Tou and Wang Ji, and the rest of the generals, officers and soldiers all surrendered.

It all happened so fast that the people in the city could barely react, and the barracks had already opened their gates on their own.

Huan Fan and Liu Ye looked at this scene blankly, looking at each other, and everyone could see the horror in each other's eyes.

Because in their eyes, a large number of Wei soldiers who had surrendered in the distance were slowly coming with the Han army.

I knew with my toes that the other party was planning to use these Wei soldiers to persuade the people in the city to surrender.

"No, if they are allowed to come, the morale of the soldiers will be weakened!"

"I've got to figure out a way."

"What should I do?"

"The only way now is to go out of the city and fight a decisive battle."

"Isn't going out of the city also death?"

"I have no choice but to fight."

Liu Ye and Huan Fan quickly exchanged views.

It is useless to defend in this situation, once the Wei army outside comes to persuade them to surrender, the Wei army in the city will probably choose to surrender when they see that they already have an example.

In that case, the entire Fanyang would fall, and even Wei County, where Xiahou Yuan was located, would be isolated.

So the only way is to go out of the city and fight a decisive battle.

But the decisive battle out of the city is probably a dead end, or nine deaths, but they have no other way but to do so.

At that moment, Liu Ye and Huan Fan immediately prepared to gather soldiers and open the city gate to go out.

But at this time, there was a commotion from the city tower, and then all kinds of angry scolding, scolding, and the sound of the handover of blades came, and when Liu Ye and Huan Fan went over with their personal guards to check, a large group of Wei soldiers appeared on the stairs of the city below.

These soldiers had defeated the soldiers in the caves, some were already opening the gates, others were rushing upward, and the one at the front was called Sun Ci, a military commander in the Wei army.

"Brothers, there is still a way to survive after surrendering to the Han army, so we can go home to see our parents, capture Liu Ye and Huan Fan alive, and kill them with me!"

"Kill!"

"Capture Liu Ye and Huan Fan alive!"

At least seven or eight hundred Wei soldiers rushed up the city tower with a roar, and the black soldiers behind them almost filled the streets.

The steps of the city wall on both sides of the city gate cave were crowded with dozens or hundreds of people, and the bright blades were stained with blood.

"Not good!"

Liu Ye and Huan Fan had just come over and saw this scene, they were taken aback, and hurriedly ran to the rear, panicking and ordering the guards to summon the Wei soldiers who were originally defending on the city wall to come over and prepare to resist.

However, Sun Ci, who is called Jun Sima, is actually an undercover agent, or he can't be regarded as an undercover agent, but a middle-level officer of Cao Wei who has just recently been rebelled by the Han army.

This person is the military Sima who went back to Nanleting to visit relatives before, and the information about the Wei army that Guan Yu learned in Nanleting came from him.

After Lu Xun decided to deal with the enemy with a plan to attack his heart, he personally found his family, and before the Guanping army arrived, he secretly asked Sun Ci's father to go to Fanyang in the name of visiting his son, and successfully plotted against him.

It stands to reason that the military is strictly controlled, and it is not so easy for family members to meet.

But as soon as Sun Ci himself is a middle-level officer, his status is not low, and his popularity is good, so everyone gives him a little thin face. Second, now that Cao Wei's army is close to dispersion, the control has long been less strict than before.

So under the persuasion of Sun Ci's father, Sun Ci finally agreed to the incident.

Now that the Wei army outside the city has surrendered, Sun Ci saw that the time had come, and the Wei soldiers in the city would definitely be demoralized because of the surrender of the soldiers outside the city.

Liu Ye and Huan Fan were caught off guard and hurriedly ran to the city wall.

But Sun Ci led his men and horses to chase and shout, telling everyone in the city that the Wei army outside the city had surrendered, and they had to survive only by capturing Liu Ye and Huan Fan alive, and they must not let the two run away.

And he was not the only one who shouted, but his subordinates also shouted like this, and the sound was very loud, causing hundreds of Wei troops to be at a loss.

Some people want to loyally defend the two, some people take the opportunity to rebel, and most of them belong to the two who do not help each other, and they retreat and hide aside, neither daring to intercept Liu Ye and Huan Fan, nor Sun Ci.

For a time, the Wei army in Fanyang City was in chaos.

Taking advantage of this time, the soldiers under Sun Ci's command had already opened the east gate, and the Guan Ping army outside the city entered the city smoothly without any obstruction on the city wall, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the situation was controlled, Liu Ye and Huan Fan did not run long, they were captured alive by Sun Ci and dedicated to Guan Ping.

"In the past!"

At this moment, the defense on the city wall has been taken over by the Han army, Guan Pingshen has been patrolled by Han soldiers since then, and the city is still in the stage of turmoil, and a large number of Han troops have entered the city to receive prisoners and have cleared the last remnants of the resistance.

Sun Ci pushed Liu Ye and Huan Fan, who had been tied up by five flowers, over, the two of them were now wearing their hair and were very embarrassed, and after being pushed in front of Guan Ping, they lowered their heads and remained silent.

Guan Ping glanced at the two of them and sneered: "You were also Han Chen, and your ancestors ate Hanlu in the last life, but now they have abandoned their ancestors, knelt at the feet of Cao Wei, and helped to abuse them, which is really inferior to beasts." ”

"Huh."

Huan Fan sneered and said: "Today's situation is great, everything you say is right, but the Han Dynasty has been four hundred years, and it should be replaced by the destiny of heaven, so what's wrong?" ”

Guan Ping pointed to Huan Fan and said: "Yagong uses the "Book of Shang" to pass on the family, and governs the loyal monarch and patriotism, but there is such an unscrupulous descendant of you, I heard that the hussar general plans to wait for the future to calm the world, re-revise the history, and want to list a "Biography of the Second Minister's Thief", I think the two of you should be on the list. ”

Liu Ye's face changed drastically, and he said, "Shen Chen can't do this, how can he decide other people's lives?" ”

Guan Ping smiled: "Scared? As a descendant of the Han family, when he didn't want to serve the country, but helped the rebels, why didn't he think that there would be today? You can rest assured, Your Majesty has re-established the Taimiao in the south, divided the temples of Gaozu and Shizu, and will rebuild the genealogy of the clan in the future. ”

Liu Ye stood in place, only to feel chills.

If the "Legend of the Second Minister's Thief" is only a stench for 10,000 years in the future, then expulsion from the clan is to completely leave this person without a home even after death.

In the Han Dynasty, people believed that the gods and ancestors, especially the ancestors, had a very high status in people's minds, and that the cohesion of a clan was not only because of the same surname and the same origin, but also because of the same sense of honor and pride, and the pride of the ancestors.

Even Cao Cao's last words before his death were saying that he had a spirit after death, and he would be ashamed of Cao Ang, so he could know the beliefs of the people at that time.

Therefore, when Liu Ye heard Guan Ping's words, he knew that once Liu Chan really rebuilt the genealogy of the clan, expelled him from the clan, and even forcibly changed his surname to humiliate him, then his descendants would probably be ashamed of him as an ancestor.

This is called woe to the offspring!

Thinking of this, Liu Ye panicked and roared and shouted, "How can you do this to me? How can you do this to me? Do you want to be so disrespectful that you have to change the surname given by my ancestors? ”

Guan Ping waved his hand, motioned for the soldiers to pull them away, and sneered: "When you followed Cao Cao to kill your own clan, surnamed Liu, why didn't you remember that you were also surnamed Liu?" Anyway, you don't even know your own last name, so why care? ”

"You can't wait to die!"

Liu Ye shouted, but the soldiers didn't listen to him, their voices became quieter and quieter, and some soldiers even thought that he was arguing and punched him in the face and pulled him away.

Guan Ping looked at Liu Yehuan Fan and several Cao Wei generals such as Wu Zhou and Yang Ke who were taken away, did not say anything to persuade them to surrender, nor did he promise them any intention of surrendering, and quietly watched them being taken away by the soldiers.

Because now for the Han Dynasty, it is meaningless to persuade surrender or not to surrender and whether to surrender or not.

The Han Dynasty is in full swing, they no longer need those so-called talents, Cao Wei's general trend is gone, even if it is useless to start Han Xinlai, let alone these people?

Guan Ping only ordered the soldiers to send Liu Ye and Huan Fan and the captured Cao Wei generals to Guan Yu's side, while he himself occupied Fanyang City.

Fanyang City is not only the right rib of Wei County, but also not far from the rear, only less than 100 kilometers away, which is the capital of Cao Wei, Yecheng, once Fanyang is opened, then there is basically no city obstruction in the rear.

Soon Guan Ping cleaned the city, collected the surrendered Wei army, imprisoned them in the city, and then sent someone to Guan Yu's side to inform his father that the plan had been successfully completed.

And just when Guan Ping succeeded in capturing Fanyang with a strategy of attacking his heart, Liao Hua on the side of the Qiu Qiu encountered some problems.

It turned out that Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji were not stationed in the city of Quqiu, but on the bank of the Qingshui River about dozens of miles southeast of the Qiuqiu, and there was a bridge connecting to the west of Qingshui.

Xiahou Yuan sent people here, firstly, to make a response, and secondly, if the war was unfavorable, he could also retreat to the hinterland of Wei County and block the pursuing troops by burning bridges.

And their camp is not a regular few camps with horns on each other, but all gathered together, and their strength is relatively concentrated.

In this way, it is difficult for Liao Hua to break through one by one like Guan Ping, and it is not easy to start.

However, if the strategy of attacking the heart can be successfully implemented, then there is no need to break through one fortress first, and then use Neiying to break through another city, and directly take all the Wei troops.

As for how to do it, Liao Hua didn't think about it.

At the same time, after the Han army arrived, Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji also watched the Han army building a camp in the distance above the camp.

"The enemy is menacing, how do we deal with it?"

Hu Zhen's face was melancholy, they only had more than 10,000 people on hand, and the army was disheartened and demoralized, facing the more than 20,000 elite Han troops on the opposite side, they really couldn't fight the enemy.

Jiang Ji said in a deep voice: "Now there is only a defensive position, I am worried that the morale of the soldiers is too low, what if the enemy uses a strategy to attack the heart?" ”

"A plan to attack the heart? How so? ”

Hu asked.

Jiang Ji said: "If I am an enemy, writing some letters of persuasion and sending them into the camp will inevitably break the morale of the army. ”

"How's that okay?"

Hu Zhen glanced back at the soldiers behind the wall.

The Wei army's walled wall was built against the bridge, and the bridge was used as the defensive base point to prepare for the later cover of the retreat of Xiahou Yuan's main force.

The situation of the construction of the camp took a whole and several small camps were scattered in the large camp, and a large number of Wei soldiers were concentrated on the walls on both sides, and many soldiers were also assembled in the direction of the main gate of the wall.

I saw the soldiers squatting on the ground scatteredly, and although sometimes the officers would order them to get up and line up in formation, even if they did, their faces seemed to be listless, they had no spirit, and their morale was low to the bottom.

Cao Wei's method of controlling the soldiers was very simple, that is, to adopt the hostage system, which is also known as the "Law of the Death of Soldiers". If there is a desertion, the family members are punished, and the immediate family members are killed.

However, now that Cao Wei is about to be beaten to the capital, it is difficult for the upper echelons of Cao Wei to control the families of soldiers in the hinterland, so the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers have basically been exhausted.

Hu asked Jiang Ji what he could do, and Jiang Ji was actually very difficult to do.

In the final analysis, the strategy is actually a matter of morale of the army, and if the army's spirit is cohesive and morale is high, it is impossible to succeed.

But now, how can we solve the morale problem?

Jiang Ji pondered for a long time before he said: "Now the morale of the soldiers is not high, I am afraid it is difficult to simply boost morale, and we must find a way to win a battle." ”

"How can you win?"

Hu asked.

Jiang Ji glanced around, pointed to the middle of one of the camps, and said, "If the Han army attacks, we deliberately let them in, lure the enemy deeper, and then use the last bit of stored fish paste grease to ignite the camp, we may be able to win." ”

"Hmm."

Hu Zhen felt that Jiang Ji's method was good, so he nodded and responded.

After that, Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji first let the soldiers have a good rest, and constantly gave speeches in various camps to boost morale and adjust the morale of the army.

After the same more than ten days, almost on the day Guan Ping captured Fanyang, Liao Hua launched an attack at the same time.

The Han army deployed as originally planned, approached the camp, and prepared to start shooting arrows at the camp.

However, the Wei army, under the command of Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji, abandoned the front camp and let go of the outer camp to lure the Han army to attack.

Liao Hua didn't think that it was to lure the enemy deeper, he felt that if he shot an arrow into the Wei camp, the Wei generals would definitely find the paper on the arrow as soon as possible, and if it was confiscated, wouldn't it be a failure of the strategy?

So he thought that since the enemy took the initiative to retreat, it was better to simply capture the Wei camp and continue to fire arrows to break the enemy's morale, plus the Han army had already entered the camp, wouldn't it be a big victory?

So he gave the order to attack.

Soon the Han army broke through the undefended gate and rushed into the front camp.

As a result, before the Han army could shoot arrows at the camp behind, a raging flame ignited around it, and then a large number of bows and crossbow arrows from the surrounding camp were shot over.

"Withdraw!"

Liao Hua found the ambush and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops.

Fortunately, the Han army did not come to storm the camp, but to shoot arrows, so they all held their shields and withdrew in an orderly manner, only killing and wounding a few hundred.

And because the Wei army was a big camp and there were many small camps in it, it just burned this one, and it didn't have much impact.

After the Han army withdrew, the Wei army quickly extinguished the fire, and there were loud cheers from the camp.

Although it only repelled a small attack by the Han army, it also greatly boosted the Wei army's now low morale.

Especially under the propaganda of Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji, many Wei troops who did not participate in the war thought that this was a big victory, so their morale gradually increased.

And this undoubtedly gave Liao Hua a signal to the attacker, that is, the Wei army on the side of Qiuqiu was not easy to deal with.

(End of chapter)