Big Ear Thief Selling Straw Sandals

Chapter 215 Keeping Neutral, Persuading Peace and Promoting Talks

Technology cannot solve all problems, but it can solve most problems.

When technology is in the hands of civilization, the barbaric, backward and crazy and tyrannical forces will abide by the rules and dare not be unscrupulous.

Yongzhou reinforcements arrived. They didn't have many people and equipment, but they were enough to frighten anyone who looked at them.

"Marshal, a total of 300 guns, ten Leigong II artillery, and a large amount of ammunition arrived at the northern suburbs at noon today."

After listening to the report from the Department of Rumors, Dong Zhuo looked worried.

The big-eared thieves' new firearms are gathering more and more, and the Liangzhou Army's artillery is running low. It's hard to survive this day.

Seeing that the new marshal of the Han Dynasty military headquarters was frowning, Li Ru came up with a way to deal with it.

"Marshal, according to what my subordinates have seen, if we fight in rainy weather, firearms can be greatly weakened. We can also use cement to build a large number of bunkers to protect against artillery."

However, Dong Zhuo believed that this was just a step beyond the original goal. As long as a canopy was built above the artillery position, it would not affect the artillery bombardment at all.

Liu Bei obviously doesn't want to attack the city, so what's the use of having more dark forts?

Therefore, he ordered the Rumor Department to find out the confidential information about guns and ammunition in Shangjun Arsenal at all costs.

Only by casting enough guns can you compete with Liu Bei.

After Han Sui was killed by the three brothers of the Ma family, Dong Zhuo arranged for Han Sui's youngest son Han Su to inherit the title, and at the same time let Dong Yue occupy Longxi to divide the power of the Han family.

According to the previous agreement, the Liangzhou Army must go to the Western Regions, so Dong Zhuo appointed Xu Rong and Duan Xuan as his deputy generals, plus Hua Xiong, who had made meritorious service. The total strength of the Western Expeditionary Army was 3, and they marched towards Loulan that day.

Here, Li Ru played a trick. 5000 of the Western Expeditionary Army were Liangzhou soldiers, and the other half were drawn from Xiyuan, Huben, Yulin, Chengwei and Luoyang County soldiers.

In this way, Dong Zhuo still had [-] elite soldiers and horses, which was enough to suppress the Eastern Capital. After most of the Yuan family forces surrendered, the trial of the current imperial master finally came.

In the Public Security Bureau and the torture room, Li Que, who collected a large number of witness testimonies, interrogated Yuan Ji personally and obtained the last and most important confession.

Yuan Ji already knew that he would not be spared, so he simply kept silent.

Li Que asked three questions, but Yuan Ji didn't answer them.

"It seems that the Grand Tutor intends to fight to the end, so it's easy to handle, and I will serve you with great punishment."

Throughout China, in order to punish criminals, every dynasty has had special torturers, and all kinds of horrific torture methods have emerged in endlessly.

Suspension, whipping, ironing, pinching fingers, pulling out nails, tiger benches, watering, skinning and many other horrific methods.

Those who are being tortured often want to live but not die. Until the prisoner understands the canonical punishment and asks to be beheaded, he may even feel relieved and happy.

Yuan Ji is the son of an aristocratic family, he is pampered, and he doesn't know much about this dark world.

Therefore, after enduring ten lashes and being burned twice with a hot iron, he collapsed.

Whatever confession Li Que wanted, Yuan Ji said what he said, and the documents were recorded verbatim, and finally he had to obediently sign the confession.

After looking at the freshly released confession, Li Que smiled and said: "It's better to have done this earlier. Why would Taifu have to wrong himself? It's just a waste of my time. It seems that I have to give Taifu a long memory and remove all the nails on his right hand."

The interrogation warden took pliers and pulled out five bloody and complete nails while Yuan Ji screamed in pain.

Li Que watched Yuan Ji with great interest and collapsed like a dead dog after the torture, and then he smiled and took the file to hand over the errand.

When Cui Lie received Yuan Ji's file, he knew it was a hot potato, but he was under the eaves, so he could only sign with his nose pinched and submit it to the provincial government for imperial inspection.

Li Que laughed and walked away.

Yuan Ji was convicted by two levels of inspection by the guards of the public security government for violating the system of his family house. Once the news spread, various families and courts in Dongdu spontaneously carried out large-scale rectification.

All the auspicious beasts on the cornices and beams were smashed, the door was reduced and lowered, the door nails that did not meet the grade were pried off, and all the high-grade stone beasts in front of the house were replaced.

For a time, the value of masons and carpenters skyrocketed and became very popular.

However, the Taishi Mansion, Zhijinwu Mansion, and Yushi Zhongcheng Mansion have not been demolished and overhauled, because these three houses are all mansions bestowed by the imperial court, and they have not been altered at all.

Although Wang Shizhong's family violated the rules, because Wang Yun is Liu Bei's father-in-law, and he has a tacit understanding with the old Dong, he has nothing to fear.

In fact, not only did Wang Yun and Dong Zhuo flirt, but the nephews of the Wang family were frequent visitors to the Dong residence, and they had a heated fight with the Liangzhou faction.Dong Zhuo is a veteran in the officialdom and knows the weakness of human nature. In order to win people's hearts, he holds banquets every day.

All the guests who go to the banquet are accompanied by beautiful singers and dancers. After drinking and eating, there will be scenes of lively scenes.

And for valuable guests, gold and silver will be given as special gifts before leaving.

As a result, more and more officials carried Dong Zhuo's sedan chair.

On the first day of October, the Great Court Meeting.

Dong Zhuo was officially awarded the title of first-rank Marshal of the Han Army, and the military power of Sanfu Liangzhou Gyeonggi, and his status was comparable to that of General He Jin.

In fact, He Jin was a figurehead, and thus Dong Zhuo became the undisputed military representative of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, the title of marshal is not easy to use in front of the Yongzhou army.

In the same way, it is also difficult to use in front of big bosses from various places such as Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Zhu Jun, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Yuan Shao, Tao Qian, etc.

Because the news spread that the Yuan family was overthrown by the Liangzhou faction, the prodigal son Yuan Shu immediately exploded and launched an anti-Dong alliance on the same day.

Yuan Shu bears the title of "General Fubo", the commander of the Royal Navy. He is the son of the Yuan family and owns the most affluent Yangzhou.

With an order, all the heroes gathered in Jiujiang for the grand occasion and vowed to crusade against the lowly horse thieves in Liangzhou.

Among them, Liu Biao claimed that in order to fight against the arrogant and powerful generals in Liangzhou, he once again put forward the idea of ​​"changing the assassination to Mu", so that he could concentrate the troops in one state and effectively defeat Dong Zhuo.

This move was also recognized by the heroes, so Yizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Jiaozhou formed a coalition of [-] troops, with Yuan Shu as the leader, and led the army northward.

There was such a big commotion in the south, and Dong Zhuo asked Liu Bei again.

Liu Bei replied sincerely: "You can do whatever you want. Yongzhou remains neutral and does not hand over fire or sword. It always adheres to the purpose of persuading peace and promoting talks."

Dong Zhuo, who got the guarantee, immediately became energetic.

Why can't you beat the big-eared thieves, and you can't deal with you bunch of jumping clowns?

While dispatching troops from Liangzhou, they also mobilized all troops from Xiyuan, Huben, Yulin and Luoyang counties.
Led by Li Que, he led Zhang Ji, Hu Zhen, Fan Chou, and Hu Chi'er to garrison [-] troops at Hulao Pass.

At this time, there were only 2000 Dong Zhuo's troops in the Eastern Capital City, plus Guo Bang's [-] soldiers, which was the weakest moment.

Guo Jia heard the news and suggested that Liu Bei seize the opportunity to solve the scourge of Dong Zhuo.

Liu Bei laughed and said, "Don't be impatient because of your filial piety. Let them take a look at Hulao Pass."

In fact, the emperor is about to be established, and Liu Bei does not want to bear this criticism.

Fatty Dong is big, so he looks very suitable.

Li Que went into battle again, standing at the juncture of Hulao, looking at the smoke and dust all over the sky in the south, he sneered.

"One hundred thousand coalition troops defeated Liangzhou, what a big statement!"

Zhang Jiyi said contemptuously: "They are just a bunch of rats. If we fight, I will lose if I look at them one more time."

Hu Zhen was eager to try, and asked: "Old Li, how about we show him off?"

Li Que laughed and said: "Let them get closer, or it will take a lot of effort to chase them!"

Early the next morning, the [-] anti-Dong coalition forces advanced to Hulao Pass layer by layer, with a forest of banners and a great momentum.

In the formation, Yuan Shu's suit of armor was particularly flamboyant, and his flamboyant banner was even more eye-catching.

All the generals in Liangzhou all focused their attention on Yuan Shu and set fire.

"Exit!"

Li Que ordered with confidence.

Hulao closed its door and opened it creakingly, like a bloody mouth swallowing up the world.

(End of this chapter)