Start with Yan Liang, the Sims of Yuan Shao's youngest son

Chapter 157 The Battle ([-])

Surrounded by the officials, Zhong Yao came to question his teacher!

The court officials did not hide from him their opposition to his forcible pardon of the slaves. Even those gentry who supported the Yuan family before were unwilling to watch their private property being confiscated, so they also mixed in the ranks and waved their flags. .

Just yesterday in Yong'an, Yu Qing, the prime minister of Honglu Temple, refused to open the door because he did not want to hand over the slaves in the mansion, and killed all 170 and eight slaves in the mansion before Yuan Ke and others broke in.

"Slaves are my private property. I kill them whenever I want. What crime did I commit?" Yu Qing said so at the time, and his indifferent face appeared in Yuan Ke's mind again.

In the end, Yuan Ke, in a rage, beheaded Yu Qing in the street, and gave all the family's money to the soldiers.

He understood that when Zhong Yao and the others arrived, this account would definitely be brought up.

"The Great Han Dynasty will be ruined by these mediocre officials!" Yuan Ke cursed secretly, murderous in his heart.

Maybe it was due to the rush of fire, Zhong Yao's face became haggard a lot, and this evergreen tree in the Yao forest, which had dominated the political arena for many years, seemed to wither in just a few days.

Under Yuan Ke's cold eyebrows, he deliberately puffed up his chest, not knowing whether it was lack of confidence or to embolden himself, he strode down the city with great strides.

"Zhong Yao, what's the important thing for you to mobilize people like this?" Yuan Ke sneered.

The surrounding slaves also knew that they were the thorn in the side of these officials, and they all cast hatred on them.If looks could kill, none of the officials present could escape.

Facing this tense scene, Zhong Yao felt a little timid.In his heart, Yuan Ke has already been regarded as a hysterical beast. If the words are not speculative, will Yuan Ke...

This will not work!

He looked around and suddenly saw Sima Yi's figure. He couldn't help being overjoyed and called out, "Mr. Sima, don't you have something to say? Come here!"

"Sima Yi? Why is he here too?" Yuan Ke's impression of Sima Yi finally changed. Seeing him appearing here, he couldn't help frowning again, "It's not wrong in the history books. This kid is a tree Weeds!"

Sima Yi faced their eyes calmly, came to the base of the city, and bowed respectfully to Yuan Ke at the top of the city.

"The 340 servants in Sima's Mansion are willing to hand over all of them to General Hussars and join the city defense army!"

His voice was not loud, but it was like a thunderbolt exploding below the city.

Yuan Ke was still in shock, but Zhong Yao jumped up: "Mr. Sima, what are you talking about, you...are you confused?"

The accompanying officials also agreed one after another. They thought that Sima Yi was here to vent their anger on them, but they didn't expect to be put together when things came to an end.

"Is there something wrong with what I said?" Sima Yi asked.

Zhong Yao pointed at Yuan Ke, and asked, "I can't figure it out, why are you speaking for him now that he has harmed our interests so much?"

"You're right." Sima Yi nodded and said, "General Hussars exempted slaves from serving the people, and it did bring us economic losses. I admit that. But in the end, he was also doing it for business, to make the country better. I, Sima Yi, have seen his performance these days, whether you have seen it or not! Before Cao Jun arrived, he knew that the city was short of soldiers and food, and he had time to retreat, but he did not leave , but stayed! He worked so hard to keep Xu Capital, and took the lead, so let me ask, which one of you can do better than him?"

The officials looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one dared to refute for a while.

"So," Sima Yi said seriously, "From today on, I, Sima Yi, will only be led by General Hussars!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around to face Yuan Ke, bent his knees, and couldn't afford to kneel!

Yuan Ke ran down the stairs while wiping his tears. After an unknown amount of time, he finally came to Sima Yi, helped up the sensible young man, and gave him a comrade-in-arms hug.

After crossing the catastrophe, the friendship is there, and when we meet each other, we will embrace each other's grievances and hatred.
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In the blink of an eye, Xu Capital City had been besieged for more than ten days.

During this period, the two sides fought almost every day, day and night, and there were more than ten hand-to-hand combats.

The bones outside the city piled up to form a mountain of corpses on the same level as the city wall.

This is the harsh winter of October.

Under the erosion of the ubiquitous severe cold, the entire city of Xu Capital was shrouded in an invisible plague.

The doctors in the palace tried everything they could. They mobilized the common people to disinfect with lime and lit mugwort leaves day and night to prevent the epidemic. But in front of tens of thousands of carrion corpses, their strength was too small.

Yuan Ke felt as if the blood in his body had frozen, and he couldn't breathe.He couldn't figure out what the name of the plague was, but he knew he had a fever.

The attendants couldn't figure out the cause of the plague, so they could only give him a few medicines for common wind-cold and fever diseases.Yuan Ke swallowed it suspiciously, and the only thing left was to drink more hot water.

Besides him, countless people in the city were also infected with the disease, which made the city defense, which was already weaker than a cicada's wing, even more vulnerable.

Perhaps because of his illness, Yuan Ke felt that his whole body was obviously much more negative.

He was so tired that he wanted to admit his fate.

He quietly called Yan Liang to him, and said to him: "Brother, I'm afraid Xu Ducheng won't be able to keep it, I want you to do me a favor!"

"Damn it!" Yan Liang swung his fist and slammed into the city wall with a helpless and painful expression on his face, "What can I do for my third brother?"

"I have already ordered people to remove the earth mountain blocking the north gate. When the enemy soldiers come to attack the city again, you can go through the north gate..." Yuan Ke said weakly.

As soon as Yan Liang heard this, his dark red complexion turned redder like a stove with a blower installed.He said loudly: "No! Who is my third brother, Yan Liang!"

"Listen to me." Yuan Ke's tone now resembled an old man who was about to die, "I didn't want you to escape by yourself, I wanted you to take Mr. Tian, ​​Yue Yin, and Mi Er away. I've had enough, but I want them to live on."

Yan Liang fell into silence, and Yuan Ke seemed to hear him sigh softly.

"Third brother..." Yan Liang asked, "Is Xu Du really unable to hold on? Don't we have many soldiers in Hebei?"

Yuan Ke nodded and said, "They may not even be able to handle Cao Jun on the front line. I'm afraid we can't count on them. You know my temperament. I wouldn't say such things if I hadn't reached the point of no return. .I beg you for the first time, I hope you don't refuse me."

At this time, Yan Liang showed his decisive side, and immediately agreed: "I will definitely live up to my third brother's trust!"

(End of this chapter)