Liu Ye's persuasion said that Li Feng was very depressed.

Yuan Shu really didn't give him much money, nor did he give him any kindness, let him bring 3,000 people here to block the attack of Liu Bei's 450,000 army, he himself felt very ridiculous, and felt that Yuan Shu was watching him live too comfortably, and wanted to send him to death.

Not long after he joined Yuan Shu, he was promoted to lieutenant because of his bravery, and this time in order to let him come to Xihua County as the first line of defense, he was actually promoted to Zhonglang General by exception, but he was not happy at all.

This Zhonglang general, he may not be able to do it for a few days and will die, is it interesting?

You Yuan Highway treat me like this, don't you take me too seriously?

After Li Feng came to Xihua County to set up defenses, he spent every day in panic, and when Liu Bei approached with the army, he couldn't sleep well for three consecutive days, and when Liu Ye came to persuade him, he felt that he had a nervous breakdown.

I don't even have the confidence to speak.

"What you said is not unreasonable, but Yuan Shu has the grace to promote me after all......"

"The Son of Heaven of the Han family still has the grace of promoting Yuan Shu, but he plotted to kill the king of the sect and openly rebelled, for such disloyal and unrighteous people, what do you still care about his promotion?"

Liu Ye sneered: "He Yuan Shu has done ugly things, but he expects his subordinates to be loyal ministers and righteous people, where is there such a thing in the world?" How shameless does this person have to be to ask for such a thing? I can't imagine what else he can do with such a shameless person. ”

Li Feng was unconfident by what Liu Ye said, and he didn't know how to refute it at all.

"If I surrender, will the general punish me for being a disloyal and unrighteous man?"

Liu Ye smiled and shook his head.

"Abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, it is clearly a wise choice, you choose to be loyal to the Han instead of the Yuan family, this is an act worthy of encouragement, how can the general punish you?"

Li Feng listened to Liu Ye's advice, thought about it, and still felt that it was not worth it to give Yuan Shu's life, but thinking about the family who was still left by Yuan Shu's side, he sighed again and again.

But in the end, he still made a choice, nodded, promised Liu Ye, and decided to surrender.

As for his wife and children, whether they can survive depends on the destiny of heaven, it really can't be done, and it is still too late to marry and regenerate, and it is not considered to be sorry for the ancestors.

At this point, Li Feng thinks as openly as Yuan Shu.

On September 20, Li Feng, the defender of Xihua County, surrendered the city, and the Xihua County Commander surrendered with him, without any resistance, and all the ordnance and materials in the city belonged to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's army once again took a county town without blood.

Liu Bei was not stationed here, and the army did not enter the city, so the Xihua County Commander was asked to stay and help with logistics and transportation.

Li Feng was also not punished, but was appointed by Liu Bei as the Sima of the other department, temporarily leading his army to act with the army.

Zhonglang will not do it, he really didn't get to that point.

Li Feng didn't quarrel, he felt that it was very appropriate, as long as he was not punished, he felt that it was almost the same, as for the position...... Let's talk about it later, and solve the problem of survival first.

After Li Feng surrendered, the door to Ruyang County was wide open, and there was nothing to stop Liu Bei from advancing into Ruyang County.

As the hometown of the Yuan family in Runan, as well as the hometown of some other valve reading families, the scale of this county is still good, and there are also more troops stationed here.

It's just a pity that none of the Yuan clansmen dared to stay and live with their hometown, and they all fled with Yuan Shu.

Liu Bei didn't have any warmth for the worms, and strictly ordered Ruyang to defend the general Changnu to open the city and surrender, he didn't have much patience, and gave him half a day to think about it.

Half a day has passed, and the army will attack the city, and there will be no room for any more.

After a fierce ideological struggle, Chang Nu thought of his family who was still in Yuan Shu's hands, and reluctantly refused Liu Bei's request.

He can die, but his parents, wives and concubines and children, he really can't look at them as if they were nothing, he is not as open as Yuan Shu and Li Feng thought, and he still cares about their life safety.

So Liu Bei didn't say anything again, for those who were unwilling to surrender, then resolutely wiped out, and delaying for one more day was a huge pressure on logistics, he led troops to surround Ruyang County and ordered the siege of the city.

In order to siege the city, he made a lot of preparations, including all kinds of large-scale siege equipment and the like, he prepared a lot, brought here in the form of parts, and assembled them on the spot.

He was ready for the rushing car, the ladder truck, the well caster, the trebuchet and the like.

Especially trebuchets.

For this most deterrent siege equipment in the pre-artillery era, Liu Bei has always regretted its loss.

During the Warring States period, trebuchets appeared in the early days, but in the years that followed, the skills of making trebuchets were lost, and it was not until the Three Kingdoms War that they reappeared on the battlefield.

No one knows how it was lost or how it reappeared.

When Liu Bei was in Liangzhou, he sent people to study trebuchets, this thing is not simple, it is not difficult to say, a group of craftsmen tinkered with it, and it really came out, and then after a year or two of continuous modification, a human trebuchet with combat effectiveness was formed.

It just so happened that at that time, Liu Bei found oil in Liangzhou, so he sent people to collect it and transport it to Ji County.

After that, the tactic of throwing fire canisters with trebuchets was developed to attack the city.

After a period of training, Liu Bei cultivated a group of technical troops who could skillfully use trebuchets and fierce fire oil tanks, called artillery, and their birth represented the development of long-range strike means in Liu Bei's army.

Before, they didn't have a place, but now, they have.

It takes a long time to set up and operate a large trebuchet, which is not available in the field, but siege warfare can provide them with this time, so that they can calmly set up trebuchets.

According to the current model, a catapult unit is operated by 60 people, and after the erection is completed, the aiming operation is carried out, and then the main power is manpower to carry out strong destruction of the city.

The things launched are mainly large stones, fierce fire oil cans, destroying the city walls, injuring and deterring the soldiers on the city walls, all in all, although it is not possible to directly attack the city, but it is much better than not sending troops directly to attack the city at all.

And so it is.

When the first batch of fierce fire oil canisters exploded at the head of Ruyang City, the sparks that exploded fiercely shocked the soldiers at the head of the city, making the soldiers at the head of the city stunned, and then they ran away.

No one wants to be stained with a flame that can't be extinguished no matter how they operate, or they are directly covered by flames and burned alive, and the appearance of this situation is too great a psychological deterrent to the soldiers in the city.

So the soldiers of the Yuan army at the head of the city immediately collapsed, and it was useless to stop Chang Nu, and even several of his own soldiers were burned by this kind of flames that would explode, and he also went down the city wall under the desperate protection of his own soldiers.

Subsequently, Liu Bei gave an order, the army advanced, conventional siege equipment and siege troops followed, more and more Han soldiers climbed the city, and after fighting with the few Yuan soldiers at the city, they gradually gained a firm foothold in the city.

Seeing that it was not good, Chang Nu immediately asked the guards to step forward at all costs to recapture the city wall, and the guards did not hesitate to fight at all costs, but they were unsuccessful.

The combat effectiveness of the Han army under Liu Bei's command far exceeded Chang Nu's imagination, both the will to fight and the skills and tactics showed a crushing situation, obviously on the city wall was a state of stragglers, but they could quickly form a small army formation of five people, all the way forward.

This kind of hand-to-hand combat quality made the most combat-effective guards under the command of Chang Nu unable to stop the assault of the Han army, and soon, the city wall was captured by the Han army, and the city gate was also broken and opened by the Han army.

The army poured into the county seat of Ruyang.

Liu Bei's army has always been very disciplined, the army poured into the county not for destruction and destruction, but for occupation, the army quickly seized all the traffic arteries and important buildings in the city, and killed the armed personnel who were still resisting, and soon took control of the whole city.

After desperate resistance, Chang Nu knew that there was no way out, so he killed himself with a knife.

Liu Bei entered the city under the protection of his subordinates, arrived at the Yuan family's ancestral residence complex in the city, and then ordered it to be destroyed.

"The ancestral house of the traitor and traitor, there is no need to exist, search the side, see what else can be used, and after the search, destroy it directly."

Liu Bei's order was quickly implemented, he led the army to rest outside the city for a night, and the next morning he got accurate news that the important things and people in the Yuan mansion were moved, but the transfer was obviously in a hurry, and a lot of property was left behind.

As for the people, only the servants remained, and the surnamed Yuan ran away.

Pretty fast, but so what?

The distance from Ruyang to Pingyu County is not long, if you want to arrive, send cavalry, two days is enough to arrive, and before that, Yuan Shu moved and fled for less than half a month, half a month, how far can he run Pingyu County?

Liu Bei didn't think that this guy had any ability to fight against him, but it was better to say that it was a dead end for him now.

Eight counties, plus an army of the imperial court, have a total strength of more than 80,000, so making such a big move, just to encircle and suppress the rebellion of one county, is actually a bit of a chicken with a knife.

But it doesn't matter.

As the saying goes, for a war, three parts military, seven parts political.

The military purpose is direct and decisive, but the political purpose is more long-term and more influential.

A crushing war is enough to establish its prestige in the Central Plains of the Kanto region, and with an order, the armies of the eight counties will march together to fight the rebellion, which will give the senses of the people of the world very different.

The victory in this war was enough to expand his prestige from Kansai to Kanto, and to make his identity change from the king of Kansai to the king of Kanto even faster.

He wants to let the guys in Kanto see their abilities, see their appeal, and see their terrifying lethality to rebels.

Completely destroying a huge family of four generations and three princes, and breaking the myth that the famous family cannot be broken, this is beneficial and harmless for what he wants to do in the future.

As before, he never cared about what famous families were, he never cared about thousands of years of family inheritance, this is meaningless, if it needs to be destroyed, then destroyed.

It doesn't matter if the other party is the Yuan family of Ruyang, Runan, or the Liu family of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, where he was born.

Therefore, the Kwantung clan needs to see their strong appeal, see their strong force, and then make the right choice.