Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 60
Linqiong County was built by the state of Qin and built by Zhang Ruoshi when Qin sent Zhang Ruoshi. Therefore, it is named Linqiong because it is the place where Qiong people live together.This place is famous for producing salt and iron.In the Qin Dynasty, the Zhuo family and Cheng Zheng were moved here and became rich with iron smelting.Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, salt and iron officials were set up.

When it was passed down to Emperor Wu, Zhuo Wangsun of Linqiong not only owned salt factories and iron factories, but also formed a trading cavalry team, which went west to Kangzang and went south to Yunnan and Burma.Talented woman Zhuo Wenjun is the daughter of Zhuo Wangsun, a rich man in the country, and she performed a romantic love story with Sima Xiangru.

However, these glorious pasts have disappeared in the long river of time, and the tranquility of Linqiong County has been disturbed by uninvited guests.

Huang Yuan led four thousand rebels approaching Linqiong. When the people in the city were terrified, the Han army holding high the "Wang" tooth flag also marched near Linqiong.

The two armies faced each other, and Huang Yuan's army was short of food, and he was restless. Huang Yuan provoked the Han army many times, and Zheng Chuo was ordered by Wang Ping to hold out.

Huang Yuan tried to attack Linqiong County again. Although the main body of Linqiong County is a wooden structure, it is six miles around and five feet high. Down.

Huang Yuan was furious in his heart, and ordered his attendants to shout out, threatening Linqiong County to surrender.

Soon, a dozen rebel soldiers with loud voices went up and shouted: "My general wants to be benevolent and righteous, not to humiliate women, not to kill innocent people, not to plunder property, and to commit no crimes in the past. Now that the soldiers are approaching the city, No disobedience is allowed, and you are restricted to return quickly, if you close the city gates tightly and refuse to surrender, our army will attack Linqiong with fire, and under the fire, all officials and people will be burned. Don't blame us for being ruthless."

The people at the top of the city looked at each other with worried expressions on their faces. Linqiong has been mainly made of wood structures since its construction. If Huang Yuan really wants to attack with fire, Linqiong will be destroyed.

"Magistrate Zheng..." The sergeants all turned their attention to the county magistrate Zheng Pu who was defending the city.

"Those who dare to surrender will be killed immediately! Lord Shefu has treated me with kindness, and today is the time to repay the favor." Zheng Pu led his own soldiers with a cruel expression on his face. The surrounding soldiers were photographed by the majesty, and they did not dare to speak. refute.

"Besides, there is General Wang echoing outside the city. The rebels are just threatening people with their mouths. The enemy will not dare to light the fire wantonly. If there is a large number of fires, General Wang will attack from behind. If we attack forward, the rebels will be defeated." Zheng Pu also pointed out the situation of Huang Yuan's bluff, everyone stabilized their minds.

Seeing that the rebel soldiers outside the city were still shouting, Zheng Pu ordered the archers on the city to shoot arrows.

"Whoosh!" There was a loud piercing sound, and dozens of arrows were shot from the tower.

The shouting soldiers were so frightened that they rolled and crawled back to the army formation.

"Such a bastard, what is there to be afraid of, there will be reinforcements coming later, don't worry, everyone." Zheng Pu continued to boost morale, and said: "If you don't come in half a day, you can take the head of my subordinates."

The city gates of Linqiong County were closed, the city leaders came and went, and shot arrows to drive away the shouting soldiers. This is determined not to surrender.

Huang Yuan's face was ashen, now it's hard to get off the tiger, Linqiong County can't hold on, the reinforcements are sticking to the barracks, they are determined not to fight, no matter how provocative they are, they won't leave the barracks.

"Set fire to the city!" Huang Yuan ordered.

"Report to the general, the reinforcements of the Han army are moving to Linqiong County, and they are already 7 miles outside Linqiong County." The scout reported.

Huang Yuan's face was uncertain, and he said slowly: "Cancel the fire attack, and turn to the reinforcements of the Han army. Burn the city after the reinforcements of the Han army are broken."

Huang Yuan commanded the army to march towards Zheng Chuo, and had just turned and set off less than half a mile away, when a scout reported, "Report to the general, the reinforcements of the Han army have stopped six miles outside Linqiong County, and they seem to be preparing to set up camp."

Huang Yuan's eyelids twitched when he heard that, he was playing with me, if it wasn't for the fact that he had just pulled these mobs up, he would have directly divided his troops to resist the enemy, how dare the defender of Linqiong be so arrogant.

Huang Yuan's blood surged, he selected more than 300 people, and tried to burn Linqiong.After the selection, Huang Yuan's head calmed down in an instant, but seeing everyone looking at him again, Huang Yuan could only hold on, ordering [-] people to set Linqiong on fire.

Under the cover of the shield car, 300 people held their shields high and moved quickly to the city of Linqiong. Huang Yuan regretted his choice a little bit. He didn't know what would happen to these people, but he had some expectations.

The ending was cruel. When Zheng Pu saw the 300 people coming forward, he sneered and said, "Why is this Huang Yuan so short-witted?" He ordered the city guards to wait on them directly with boulders, supplemented by archery.

Before the three hundred soldiers reached the city, they were directly hit by the rain of arrows and retreated to the army formation. Huang Yuan was preparing to continue attacking with siege equipment.

He also heard that the scout reported to the Han army that the reinforcements seemed to be slowly moving towards him. Huang Yuan was so angry that he drew his sword and hacked to death the scout who had just reported. Everyone around was afraid and ordered them to camp.

At night, outside Linqiong City, the rebel army camp.

Huang Yuan's confidant got up to relieve himself at night, and when he passed by the tent next door, he heard that two people were whispering.

"Now that the reinforcements from the Han army have arrived, it is difficult for us to capture Linqiong. I am in a dilemma. I am worried that if we continue to follow Huang Yuanpifu, I will die under the sword of the Han army."

"Shh! Keep your voice down, the scout at noon reported the news to the Han army for no reason, and was hacked to death by Huang Yuan with a sword in anger. If you hear these words in his ears, don't be afraid that he will chop off your head."

"What are you afraid of? It makes my sword not be used for killing people." Although this person was stubborn, his voice was obviously much lower.

The confidant couldn't help being nervous after hearing this, and was about to tell Huang Yuan the news of the two of them, when he was about to turn around.

"General Huang, why are you here?" Hearing this, his heart felt cold, and a subordinate in the tent shouted, just as he was about to run away in a hurry.

Alarmed the two people in the tent, one of them obeyed and said hurriedly: "Stay here, Huang Xing."

Huang Xing couldn't escape, and when he was about to shout, his subordinates threw him to the ground and covered Huang Xing's mouth. Huang Xing struggled desperately and couldn't escape.

The two people who were leaving the tent looked at each other in panic, one of them made a gesture of wiping his neck with his hand, the other nodded in agreement, and the other drew out the ring knife, which appeared in Huang Xing's panicked eyes.

"Brother Huang, I'm sorry, you are Huang Yuan's confidant, if I don't kill you, my brother and I may die soon!"

Blindfolded Huang Xing, Huang Xing, who was trapped in the darkness, struggled more and more fiercely, and seemed to have a tendency to break free, and one person hurried forward to cooperate with his subordinates to hold him down.

"Bah!" The sharp blade slid across his neck, and Huang Xing died out of breath.

The two, who became more and more calm, together with their subordinates, moved Huang Xing's body back to their camp. At the end, the two looked at each other with lingering fear. The three went back along the road, cleaned up the blood, changed their clothes, and made a good statement.
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Huang Yuan was now three-point angry and seven-point fearful, his confidant Huang Xing tragically died in his camp, and his throat was wiped off.

In the morning, when he questioned everyone, everyone had an expression of ignorance, and each had a confession to prove his innocence, but Huang Yuan intuitively felt that Huang Xing must have been killed by someone in the army. Many, it is obvious that Huang Xing died outside and was moved into the tent, which shows that the murderer is definitely not alone.

Huang Yuan became more and more frightened...

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