Rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 398

The man found a pen and paper, recorded everyone's names and addresses, and divided them into two. After the incident, even if someone was unfortunately killed, his name should be reported to reward his family.

In this way, everyone no longer had to worry about the future, and geared up one after another, looking for tools for work and starting to prepare. The man quietly left the yard, looked at the sky full of stars, and let out a sigh of relief.

He was walking on the street with a load of soil. At this time and late at night, the patrolling defenders also hid in the house to warm themselves by the fire, reducing the number of patrols. Except for the occasional sound of knocking on wooden piles and stones in the city , almost fell into dead silence.

The man observed carefully as he walked, and when he saw a bright fire, he whistled, sometimes like a night owl, sometimes like a cat, sometimes like a rat. Once he got a response, he immediately went into the yard to communicate with people.

The man walked around three or four streets in the East Gate for more than half an hour. Finally, he stopped to rest in a restaurant on East Street. Someone soon came out to meet him.

Under the dim light, the two hid in a corner, and the man asked, "Zhao Yu, how are you getting ready?"

Zhao Yu replied: "Don't worry, Lieutenant Qin, I have already found ten officers. Although there are not many weapons, there are many kitchen knives and axes in these restaurants, which can be used temporarily."

It turned out that this person was Zhang Fei's deputy general Qin Liang, who was responsible for instigating the rebellion of the people in the city. The other person was Zhao Yun's deputy general Zhao Yu. Since he had a relative working in the government office, he secretly contacted him to start the rebellion.

These two men were arranged by Liu He and Xun You to enter the city in advance. When Gongsun Zan was captured the second time, Xun You was worried that Gongsun Zan would not surrender, so he first selected 30 elite soldiers from the army, led by Qin Liang and Zhao Yu, and mixed in in batches. Jinan City.

Sure enough, after Gongsun Zan's defeat, the entire city was in chaos because he was eager to defend the city, and it was impossible to investigate one by one. Regardless of men or women, as long as they were young and strong, they were forcibly recruited to do things, which aroused civil uprisings.

Qin Liang and Zhao Yu finished their discussion. Seeing that it was about five o'clock, Zhao Yu immediately mingled with the guards, pretending to assist the city patrol to the city wall, and lit a torch in the corner of the east gate to send out a secret signal. There were already scouts outside the city. While observing the movement, report back to Liu He immediately.

After Zhao Yu sent out the signal, Qin Liang had already prepared his manpower. He first brought 30 people to guard the stairs on both sides, and Zhao Yu led the people straight to the city gate.

There were [-] soldiers guarding the city gate below, and they were dozing off in the corner to shelter from the wind. Unexpectedly, the people would rush in, and before they could react, they were hacked to death by the angry people, and the defenders immediately shouted, Draw a knife to fight.

Zhao Yu took the lead with a knife, and killed two defenders by himself. The rest of the soldiers were also surrounded by the people, and they were beaten to death in the gate of the city.

The defenders on the city could hear the noise and hurried down to the city to rescue them. However, they were guarded by Luo Hao and his men at the entrance of the stairs. They had secretly poured two buckets of water here, and the stairs were covered with ice. The defenders rushed down and rushed down. Like a rolling gourd, it was thrown into pieces.

Qin Liang led his men to kill indiscriminately. Hearing the heavy sound of the door opening, he called out and led his soldiers to kill and retreat. When they arrived in front of the city gate, Qin Liang killed several defenders with his own strength, then turned to leave. He heard The sound of horse hooves rumbled in the distance.

"The reinforcements have arrived, everyone, stay away." Qin Liang shouted and quickly led people to hide on both sides of the city gate.

Under the dim starlight, I saw a group of cavalry rushing like thunder in the distance, and the first one was like an iron tower, holding a Zhangba snake spear, leaping across the moat.

"Zhang Fei is here from Yanbei!" Amidst thunderous shouts, Zhang Fei rushed into the city gate first.

The defenders in the city were chasing after them, when they suddenly saw a black-faced man rushing in, he hurriedly resisted, and saw Zhang Fei's snake spear sweeping across, the three or four people who were in the lead were thrown backwards by him, and fell on the street.

The guards at the gate were in chaos, some left in panic, some wanted to resist, but how could they withstand Zhang Fei's impact, he rushed out of the city gate by himself, killing more than ten people in a row, the guards saw that they couldn't resist, and fled one after another.

Zhang Fei immediately took to the street, laughing and said, "Gongsun Zan's minions are all soft-legged shrimps, trying to block our army, isn't it just a mantis' arm?"

At this time, Guan Yu, Qu Yi, Tian Yu and others also led troops into the city. They each led their men and horses towards a gate. All of a sudden, the people in the city screamed and the flames shot up into the sky, creating a great chaos.

"General, you came at the right time." Qin Liang received the army and entered the city before leading others to follow him.

"Well done, you deserve the first credit this time." Zhang Fei burst into laughter, ordered Qin Liang to lead troops to the city to guard the tower, and went straight to the government office.

At this time, Zhao Yu had followed the officers to the government office. In addition to the eunuch, Gongsun Yue, seeing that the situation was over, surrendered voluntarily. Gongsun Xu led a single soldier to escape into the earth building.

Zhang Fei immediately urged his horse to come to the Tulou. When he saw Guan Yu and Yin Bing arriving, they surrounded the Tulou heavily. The city had long been controlled by Hebei soldiers and horses, and the soldiers who had no time to escape asked to surrender.

At dawn, after being frightened in the middle of the night, the people in Jinan City heard that Liu He and his men had entered the city.

Wang Ling announced the plan to appease the people. When the people heard that they had indeed exempted taxes for a year and had to re-measure and divide the land, they clapped their hands and applauded. They had long known about the decrees of Youzhou and Jizhou through relatives and friends, and they were eager to see through it.

The New Deal implemented by Liu He was nominally imitating his ancestors, under the name of Guangwu Zhongxing, but in fact the decrees and laws were adjusted, and the land-duty system was changed to a more advanced and perfect land-sharing system. This was the reform method of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is accepted by aristocratic families, but it is very popular among the common people.

As the sun rises, Liu He leads an army into Jinan City. People line the road to welcome him. There are huge crowds of people. One is to welcome Liu He, and the other is to meet this young hero who is already famous all over the world.

Liu He urged his horse to come to the bottom of the earth building, only to see that the roof had not been completely sealed, it was incomplete, and there were only a few openings in the window where someone was poking his head, observing the movement below.

Zhang Fei came up to him and cursed, "Gongsun Zan, that bastard, didn't keep his word and didn't open the door to surrender. How unreasonable it is."

Liu He looked up and saw that the earth building was very solidly built, like a large chimney. The bottom was made of huge rocks and timber, and there were adobe beams on top, like a small fortress.

Gongsun Yue came closer and briefly explained the layout of the earth building. Except for a staircase for one person to pass through, there was no way to go. It was obviously not a wise choice to rush into the building.

Guan Yu sneered and said, "Gongsun Zan has nowhere to go, and he still wants to fight. How can this small earthen building protect itself? It only takes one fire, and he has nowhere to hide!"

Xu Chu was used to working, so he hummed, "I think it's just a matter of a hoe."

Liu He looked at it for a while, and said, "First, call out to persuade him to surrender. I'll ask Mr. Lu to write a letter and shoot him into the city tower. We'll see how Gongsun Zan reacts before making sense."

(End of this chapter)