Before this, the other family heads who were arrested by Peng Yue and Xu Hu in Gu Pu's mansion also bowed their heads in front of Liu De's strength, regardless of whether they wanted to or not, but on the surface they were all loyal.

Liu De knew that these so-called aristocratic families bowed their heads to him only because of his powerful army and some of the benefits they had given them. Just like Yang Zichuan back then, if one day a force stronger than himself came over, they Families who bully the weak and fear the hard, and those who are ungrateful for profit will also abandon themselves and scramble to seek refuge.

I don't have the strength to turn the table and reshuffle the cards now, so I can only wait patiently, and strive for one day to be able to cut off the hands and feet of these aristocratic families, drive them out of the center of power, and deprive them of the influence of controlling the grassroots. Completed the first oath!

But it's too difficult. At the beginning, I thought it was too simple. These things can't be done overnight.

The first premise is that there must be a large number of loyal cronies, and then gradually seize the control of the grassroots from their hands. When every pavilion and every town obeys their orders, then these so-called aristocratic families are like castles in the air, unbearable. hit.

Since these families have already pledged their allegiance to him, Liu De did not hesitate to offer rewards and gave some official positions to the nephews of the Wang family and other families to win over them.

When we were talking happily, Lingbing suddenly broke in and reported: "My lord, I found Chu Ying at the west gate, and Captain Xu is leading the tiger guards to confront him!"

Liu De slammed the case and shouted: "Okay! Chu Ying really can't hold it anymore, Dian Wei, go to the west gate to capture Chu Ying, if you can't, you can kill him!"

"Dian Wei takes orders!"

Then Liu De looked at the patriarchs sitting at the bottom, and said with a smile: "Everyone, would you like to go and have a look with me?" Although it was a question, the toughness in the words did not allow them to refute.

A group of Patriarchs bowed to Liu De under the leadership of Zheng Kui: "We take orders!"

Go back in time a little bit...

Chu Ying's beard has been shaved off by him. Logically speaking, most people can't see it if they don't look carefully, but Chu Ying has ignored her body shape. A strong man with a height of eight feet is so outstanding among a group of people. .

Moreover, Chu Ying is the number one general under Yang Zichuan, which of the people in Liaocheng has never seen Chu Ying?

After a while, Chu Ying heard the whispers of the people around her.

"Which tall one looks like General Chu!"

"How is that possible?" His companion retorted, "General Chu has a beard all over his face, okay?"

The Dongyu soldiers on the side also heard the people's discussion, glanced at the tall Chu Ying, and hurriedly reported to Xu Hu!

The soldier's reaction was seen by Chu Ying, her heart skipped a beat, and she yelled "No!"

Pushing away the civilians standing in front, he punched the nearest soldier, knocking the soldier unconscious to the ground, grabbed the soldier's waist knife, and ran towards the city gate quickly!

"Quick! Stop him!"

Dongyu's soldiers reacted quite quickly and immediately formed a long spear formation to block Chu Ying. Several soldiers immediately moved the heavy city gate and slowly closed it!

"Stop me? You are still far behind!"

Chu Ying's waist knife directly swung away the spears that were stabbing at him, and the waist knife quickly slashed and fell several people to the ground. How can Chu Ying, who has a force value of 94, be resisted by some ordinary soldiers?

With a stride, Chu Ying pulled a cavalryman off the horse, slapped the horse's butt hard, and rushed out of the city gate that hadn't been closed yet.

Xu Hu looked at Chu Ying who had already left the city gate, waved his hand, and ordered: "Shoot the arrow!"

Nearly a hundred archers quickly drew their bows and shot arrows at Chu Ying who was riding a horse with his back to the crowd.

When Chu Ying heard the sound of breaking through the air behind her, she quickly shrank to the horse's abdomen, dodging several arrows, but many arrows still hit the horse, and the horse roared and fell to the ground.Chu Ying was also dizzy from the fall, struggling to sit up!

"Let it go!"

Xu Hu said rather coldly.

Chu Ying kept calling the arrows aimed at her, and finally was shot in the shoulder blade by an arrow because she did not dodge in time.Chu Ying snorted, covered her wound, and took a few steps back!

Xu Hu raised his hand, signaling to stop shooting arrows, and ordered: "The tiger guards come with me!"

Xu Hu led a hundred tiger guards to surround Chu Ying. Chu Ying was not afraid at all, and looked at the surrounding generals with cold eyes, and tied a piece of cloth to the handle of the knife vigorously to prevent sweating. Unable to hold the handle of the knife, he is ready to fight to the death!

Xu Hu persuaded: "General Chu is loyal and brave, and Xu admires him deeply, but Yang Zichuan is a traitor and traitor. For his own selfishness, he let the barbarians enter the pass, causing hundreds of thousands of people in Yanzhou to be displaced and their families destroyed! Even if all the bamboo in the South Mountains is used to make bamboo slips, his crimes cannot be exhausted; even if the water in the East China Sea is opened, his crimes cannot be washed away. Everyone who is a righteous man in the world will be punished! The name of my lord Liu Derenyi is known all over the world, why not return to my lord and create a great cause together! In the future, you will worship the general and become a marquis, and you will have children and grandchildren, and this life is not in vain!"

Chu Ying's face was as usual, neither angry nor ashamed, and said calmly: "I don't understand these so-called great principles you said, I only know that there is no reason for a man to surrender and betray the lord, don't talk too much, let's fight!"

Seeing that Chu Ying had made up his mind, Xu Hu slowly clenched the sledgehammer tightly. All the tiger guards also held their shields and drew their knives and waited for Xu Hu's order. As long as Xu Hu ordered, Chu Ying would be strangled here!

"My lord is here!"

When Xu Hu heard the voice behind, he let go a little, and the tiger guards also gave up an open space for Liu De and Zheng Kui, the Patriarchs, to come in.

Zheng Kui and the others looked at Chu Ying, who was standing in front of the crowd like an iron tower with an arrow stuck in his shoulder blade, and they were all dejected, but then they got rid of this thought, and Chu Ying's behavior was compared with theirs. It's really a sky and an underground.

Their rebellion completely set off Chu Ying's loyalty and bravery. Of course, they didn't see it that way, but felt that Chu Ying was stubborn and stubborn.

"I didn't expect that after only one day, you all betrayed the lord!" Chu Ying looked at the heads of various families surrounding Liu De, with an indescribably mocking tone.

"cough!"

The Patriarch of the Wang family coughed lightly, and said to Chu Ying: "General Chu, those who know the current affairs are heroes, don't you think about yourself, you should also think about your wife and children!"

Chu Ying ignored the patriarch of the Wang family, but looked at Liu De, and said, "I often hear that General Anbei's benevolence and righteousness will not harm other people's relatives, and he will never sacrifice others. The Lord is the Lord, and I shall die for the Lord!"

Say it!He killed himself with a knife.

Liu De looked at Chu Ying's corpse and said in silence for a while, "Duke Zheng!"

"What is the general's order?" Zheng Kui came out and asked.

"Take care of General Chu's wife and children, don't neglect them!"

"Obey!" Zheng Kui bowed his head deeply.

Liu De sighed and said: "Chu Ying is a loyal and brave man. Although he committed himself to a thief, his deeds are admired by someone. Pass down an order to bury General Chu alive!"

"Yes!" Xu Hu took the lead.

Liu De shook his head, and said in words only he could hear: "Yang Zichuan is so lucky to be loyal to such a loyal and brave man!"

Now that the matters in Liaocheng were basically settled, Liu De led the army and left Liaocheng the next day, leaving Jiang Lin alone with a thousand soldiers and horses to stay in Liaocheng, waiting for the arrival of Yannan and others.

......

Under Dongfu City.

Yang Zichuan's general [Miao Zhou] commanded the army to continuously attack the city, and the [-] army was like a tide, wave after wave, taking turns to attack the city wall without stopping.

The Dongfu army also resisted bravely in the past few days. Kong Hu, the second of the eight great generals under Guo Zidong's command, was also seriously injured because of his fight with Dong Zhen who attacked the top of the city.

Guo Zidong came to the top of the city in person, held his sword, and loudly boosted morale. For a while, the defenders of Dongfu were excited and burst out with powerful strength, severely curbing the offensive of Yang Zichuan's army!

"My lord, should we bring up [Biaoziying]? With the current enemy's offensive, I'm afraid we won't be able to last for a few days!" Tian Yuan suggested to Guo Zidong.

Guo Zidong shook his head, pointed at the soldiers who were fighting constantly, and said: "Fight once more, then decline again, and exhaust three times. The enemy army will not last long after suffering such handsome casualties. [Biaozi Battalion] is our last resort. Only when it is the most critical moment can we win or lose in one fell swoop!"

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