As Lai She expected, with the propaganda and offensive of the Wei army, the people in Pengcheng became increasingly dispersed, and finally, the roar of some soldiers broke out.

The camp roar turned into a mutiny and soon spread throughout the city. The Wei State, who had been lurking in the past few days, took the opportunity to fan the flames, inciting people who were afraid of death to seize the opportunity and open the city gate to welcome the royal army in.

Seeing that the outer land was out of control, Lai She followed the plan and retreated to the inner city in the northeast corner of Pengcheng with three thousand tribes.

On the night of the turmoil, the Wei army launched a surprise attack and climbed up to control the city walls. In the middle of the twelfth lunar month of the third year of Wude, as the bricks and wood that blocked the city gate were moved away, Pengcheng, which had been besieging for more than 20 days, finally slowly opened the door to the winner.

The lieutenants who participated in the mutiny and the elders of Pengcheng who embroidered the five-color flag overnight stood nervously in front of the cold windy city gate avenue. Although the Wei army promised not to slaughter, the knife was in the hands of others, and they became fish on the wooden pedestal, and their lives were all due to the difference between the other party.

With a neat pace, a group of Wei troops drove in first, with tall horses, distinctive armor and colorful flags dazzled. Then there were wheels of carriages. The head coach of the Wei army arrived in person and was sent to Wei camp to deliver the surrender letters. At this moment, the representatives of the elders who were in the same car with him, which was both excited and a little embarrassed.

This Wei army commander was naturally Geng Chun, the left prime minister who was appointed by the Fifth Reun as the commander-in-chief of the front enemy in Pengcheng. Because his shoulder was injured, even if he only stood in the car, he was a little biased. As the in-laws of the Emperor of Wei, although Geng Chun was not a famous general, he had commanded tens of thousands of people to fight. He had passed the line and above the level in the Battle of Hebei and Heji, and his level was enough to call on several arrogant soldiers and generals from the State of Wei.

The most important thing is that Geng Chun is very patient and listens to the emperor very much. He should not make a big news when the fifth reunion leaves.

Geng Chun was born into a wealthy family in Hebei and worked as an official in the new dynasty. He was quite skilled in the world. When he entered the city to comfort him, he saw that the elders of Pengcheng were uneasy. The people hid in their homes and refused to come out, and they immediately had an idea.

His eyes fell on the monuments on both sides of the main road of Pengcheng. This was the custom of Chu. Those 2,000-stone officials who made outstanding contributions to the local area, or those who were famous in the world, would erect monuments to commemorate them after their birth, in order to commend the virtuous and educate the people.

After looking at it all the way, there is the "Three Lives" stele in the early Han Dynasty that made the Confucianism of Pengcheng great victory, the stele in Wei Meng, a famous poet in Pengcheng during the Wenjing period, and the stele in Princess Jieyou, who was a princess of Chu and married far away to the Wusun Kingdom during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han...

Geng Chun's wheel stopped in front of a broken inner door due to war, and his eyes fell on the eye-catching stone inner door. The ordinary inner doors were all wood, and this was the inner door, which was built into the shape of a small palace. There were stone tablets under the palace, and small characters were engraved densely.

Prime Minister Geng pretended to be enlightened and said to the accompanying elders of Pengcheng: "Is this the Lianli where Gong Jun, the former prefect of Bohai, the former Han Dynasty, and the Guanglu doctor, Gong Jun?"

The elders of Pengcheng hurriedly said, "It is where Gong Junbin is, and the locals are thinking about him..."

Speaking of this, they suddenly stopped because Gong Sheng was respected for his "loyal and honesty", so how could this be said? So they changed their words and said, "Thinking of his integrity, they specially carved stones to show their inner door."

The resume of this Chu State Gong Sheng was a typical master of scholars and counselors. He was young and studious, well-versed in the Five Classics, and was a talented man. He relied on his proficiency in Confucianism and was promoted little by little to the counselor. During the darkest time of Emperor Ai of Han, he repeatedly wrote letters to criticize the harsh punishments and heavy taxes. Although he was unheard of loyal words, Gong Sheng not only received punishment, but became increasingly bigger and bigger. However, when Wang Mang was in power, he realized that the Grand Sima and General had different actions and returned to his fellow villagers.

After Wang Mang replaced the Han Dynasty, he did not forget this respected old scholar. He sent a five-strong general to Xuzhou to greet Gong Sheng with sheep and wine, hoping to hire him to be the high priest at the Imperial Academy. However, Gong Sheng refused repeatedly, and even refused to see the envoy from the house. He sat on the bed pretending to be sick. He was really shirking his responsibility, so he started a hunger strike. After fourteen days, he starved to death on the couch.

Before his death, he left a last word: "I can't repay you with the kindness of the Han family. I'm old this year and I'm late at night. How can I do my best to serve two surnames? How can I see my former master?"

This is a typical loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. Although the locals do not have his bones, they are quite respectful. After Liu Xiu entered Pengcheng, he even praised him greatly.

Now that Pengcheng has changed its master, Prime Minister Geng of Wei State, was it because he disliked the Shilimen and wanted to send troops to smash it? If this is true, would they stand up to stop it, or would they watch it to protect themselves?

Just when the elders of Pengcheng were at a loss, Geng Chun sighed: "I studied the Five Classics for a young age. It is best to study the "Lu Poetry" as my career. I have always heard that Mr. Gong is a great success in the collection of Lu Poetry. After returning to his hometown, the two thousand stone officials in the county all came to his home, just like the etiquette of his disciples. Now that Lu Poetry is here, how can he be arrogant in the car?"

After saying that, he got out of the car, walked to the stone tablet of the gate, bowed and bowed slightly.

Then Geng Chun issued an order in front of everyone: "Send the order, if any soldiers and horses dare to defile this stone tablet, he will be punished and unpardoned!"

This incident shocked the elders of Pengcheng, and then they felt a little happy: As a loyal and loyal minister of the great man who starved to death and refused to eat Xinmi, Geng Chun could be respectful and polite to him. Although they had also been Liu Xiu's official position, they should be able to accept surrender as agreed, right?

Geng Chun seemed to know what everyone was thinking, and in front of Gong Sheng's stone tablet, he promised them again: "When the king's army broke into Qi, Haidai, and many things happened to burn, kill, and looting. When it was passed to Pengcheng, everyone was in danger. I know that everyone has many concerns."

That's right? This is also the main reason why Pengcheng did not slid directly when the troops were at the city and could resist for more than 20 days.

However, Geng Chun was very good at changing conflicts and said heartbrokenly: "Our Majesty clearly stated that his troops would not infringe upon the people. However, the main force of attacking Qi was Youzhou soldiers, Yuyang Shanggu border, the cavalry, the mixed Chinese and military forces, and it was unyielding and difficult to subdue, so he had this bad reputation."

Obviously, the majority of the soldiers in Jizhou were involved, but Geng Chun directly ignored it: "Now all the soldiers in Youzhou are in the south, and most of the soldiers entering the city are soldiers in the Central Plains, and the military discipline is stricter. You can rest assured that there will never be any slaughtering the city or killing."

Anyway, Xiao Geng and Youzhou soldiers have a very bad reputation, so they don’t mind getting worse. It is a fifth routine that they use to eliminate the untreated forces on the newly conquered territory, and then send troops with good military disciplines to settle in. Officials take over and restore and build on the cleaned land.

For a moment, the elders of Pengcheng secretly called Youzhou soldiers a barbarian and not a son of humanity, and also had a good impression of Geng Chun, for fear that he would be in charge of Pengcheng too short.

A passage also circulated in Pengcheng: "The second Gong of Chu State, Gong is the best."

"We are two Geng, and the big Geng is far better than the little Geng!"

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He used a little trick to appease the tens of thousands of people and thousands of surrendered soldiers in Pengcheng. This was not difficult for Geng Chun. What he was better at was not to conquer cities and territories, but to deal with complex post-war relationships. This was all practiced in Hebei.

But further along the main road, Geng Chun's "softness" will not work.

The magnificent and steep inner city of Pengcheng suddenly appeared in front of you, and the scorching Han flag was still floating in the sky.

"Uncle Lai Jun is worthy of being Liu Xiu's loyalty. Now that the matter is now, he still has to resist stubbornly." Zhang Zong, the general in charge of siege, said this and discussed with Geng Chun the plan to remove the inner city.

The ancient Pengcheng ancient city was destroyed during the Chu-Han dispute, so that when Han Xin first entered the vassal of Chu, he had to move the capital to Xiaoxia Pi. Later, King Yuan of Chu became a vassal and rebuilt it on the basis of ruins.

"In addition to repairing the outer land, an inner city was built in the northeast."

This inner city is different from the outer land of rammed earth. It is built with stones, which are more than four feet high, magnificent and steep, and the towers are very generous. Because there is also the golden roof of the Chu Palace in the city, it is also called Jincheng.

What's even more outrageous is that Lai She seemed to have expected that the outer land would be difficult to protect, and was preparing to retreat early in the morning. He sent people to demolish the hundred-year peace and climbed onto the inner city walls, which seemed to be piles of parasitic barnacles, making enough open land between the inner and outer cities, and arranged the trench and dredged them to draw water in, and now it has become a cold deep valley.

Geng Chun's comforting the people was quite effective. He immediately had a poor man in the Chu Palace and presented a detailed map of the inner city.

"The inner city is mainly the Palace of the King of Chu. Behind the stone wall, the front hall, and behind it is the inner hall, the Central Palace, Lingping Palace, Yongxiang, etc. In addition, Taicang, Armament, and ancestral temples are all in it, and it can be said that they have all the internal organs. Lai Jun Shu stationed the whole city's grain in the inner city warehouse, so that there were tens of thousands of people in Pengcheng, and there was almost no food to eat."

Zhang Zong saw the enemy's vicious plan: "Laishe abandoned tens of thousands of people to us, and deliberately asked the Wei army to increase food loss."

Their food and fodder were transported by Dou Rong from Lingbi, but the source was to the Suiyang and Luoyang areas in Liangdi upstream of the Sui River. Although Xu Si had not frozen, the few counties northwards were almost frozen, and it was difficult to transfer grain, so the Wei army's grain storage could last until next month.

Geng Chun also made up his mind: "If the people in Pengcheng eat together, they will be exhausted at the end of the month."

But if we don’t know what happened, tens of thousands of people in Pengcheng who were extremely hungry would not know what happened.

Zhang Zong proposed an idea: "Maybe you can drive him away on the pretext of war?"

Geng Chun remained silent. The so-called expulsion was actually abandonment, allowing these tens of thousands of people to leave their homes in the cold winter and go to the wilderness to fend for themselves!

But this was indeed the choice that was most in line with the interests of the Wei army. In the end, Geng Chun kicked the ball to the fifth reunion.

"You must report such a great matter to His Majesty."

The fifth reunion is still in Xia Pi. I observed Liu Xiu's movements nearby. The post cavalry was so fast that it passed back the emperor's edict in just one day.

Geng Chun and Zhang Zong took the order and saw it read: "Xunzi said that water carries boats, and water capsizes boats. Lai She only knows how to protect the Han family's country, but ignores the lives and death of the people in Pengcheng. This is like a boat leaving the water, sailing on land. If there is evidence in the spring and autumn, those who abandon the people will die. Even if the inner city is thousands of feet high, the death of heaven will come to the end!"

After reading it, Geng Chun breathed a sigh of relief. He really didn't want the killing and sacrifice to be too heavy.

Zhang Zong felt a little regretful. Unlike the unscrupulous archery throwing stones and shooting when he attacked the outer capital, the inner city was inside the outer capital, and the Wei army fought in the middle. Now that there are tens of thousands more burdens, it is even more difficult to capture it. Uncle Lai Jun took advantage of the sudden drop in temperature and caused people to spill water on the stone wall, covering them with a layer of ice. They were either slipping so hard that they could not place the ladder, or they produced ice edges, which were so sharp that they could see blood.

Fortunately, the fifth reunion did not let the horse run and asked the horse not to eat grass, so he also gave the two micro-work suggestions:

"The left prime minister asked to publicize the Han army stationed in the grain city, regardless of life or death, and blamed his heart."

"I will let all the men in Pengcheng be sent to serve as a relief service to help me to eliminate the inner city and promise to distribute rations after the city is broken."

Geng Chun laughed at this plan. He was a grain official in the new dynasty for a long time, and this was his old job.

Of course, considering the urinary nature of the Wei army generals, the Fifth Reunification also specifically emphasized: "Only carry out baggage and equipment, and do not deliberately drive them into front lines to fill the gullies!"

Geng Chun immediately sang a hymn: "Your Majesty's kindness, after the incident of Pengcheng came out, the people of Xu Huai will return to it like flowing water."

Zhang Zong, who really had the idea of ​​driving the people to die, could only say:

"Yes, your Majesty has a great opinion!"

But Zhang Zong really recognized the division of labor that the fifth reunion gave to the two:

"The left prime minister is kind and can transform the strange intentions of the people of Pengcheng and let these tens of thousands of people be used by me."

"And the General of the Conquest East is brave and brave."

"I hope the two of you will be able to combine hardness and softness, penetrate this stone wall, melt this solid ice!"
Chapter completed!