Chapter 1117: Xu Chen Takes Military Power

Guo Jia came to Zhang Yu anxiously.

Guo Jia said to Zhang Yu: "My lord, a general in the city wants to surrender to us, so he secretly sent someone to contact his subordinates."

Zhang Yu took the information and read it.

"Great, plus our people, if he can really cooperate with us, Cai Mao will not have many days."

Zhang Yu has been holding back all the time, just to let the spies in the city work.

This Wang Li was naturally pushed out by him.

Wang Li is actually not a betrayal, he did not really surrender to Zhang Yu.

He was just embezzling and dereliction of duty, allowing those families who surrendered to Zhang Yu to transport their property out through the city gate he defended.

The letters he received were also all insinuations. Under Zhang Yu's control, these aristocratic families deliberately wrote vaguely, speciously.

With the cooperation of Liu Liang and Xu Chen, Wang Li was launched, causing panic in the city.

This choice of target must also be Cai Mao's cronies, coupled with the guidance of public opinion, people feel that Cai Mao has betrayed his relatives, and that Xiangyang City will fall sooner or later.

Then, someone really came to Zhang Yu and wanted to surrender.

He is still not a small general, and he controls more than 10,000 people.

Such a powerful general fell to Zhang Yu, and Xiangyang City would be easy to fight.

"Okay, let's set off in three days and surround Xiangyang City. This time, Cao Cao's army will not be able to escape." Zhang Yu said.

Zhang Yu has been managing Jingzhou for several years, all in secret.

A large number of his internal agents were also ambushed in Xiangyang City. To put it bluntly, there were 3,000 regular troops of Zhang Yu's family in ambushes.

These troops are from various families, there are guards from some officials' families, and there are some shop assistants who ambushed in the early years.

These people, some people will connect them, and when it is critical, it will play a big role.

The reason why Zhang Yu set off after three days was to let the public opinion continue to ferment, and when he reached a certain height, he would press down with his own army.

Wang Li was beheaded,

Cai Mao inspected the barracks for two consecutive days, and the barracks were really well behaved.

This Cai Mao also discovered a few talented people. These school lieutenants did not usually go to various restaurants or even brothels like other generals, but devoted themselves to their duties in the barracks.

Cai Mao is now suspicious and distrusts many people.

When inspecting the barracks, some problems were found, and the captain and general were dismissed on the spot.

This made the whole army even more uneasy, but Cai Mao felt it was very necessary.

Several talents he discovered began to be mobilized and let them defend the city gate and other important places.

Cai Mao has changed a group of people in strategic places such as city gates and granaries.

Cai Mao's actions made some people chill.

This Cai Mao was too nervous.

In the entire Jingzhou, only Xiangyang was left, and Zhang Yu's hundreds of thousands of troops were killed.

Let him surrender, he is absolutely not reconciled.

In Xiangyang City, Cai Mao often came out to make inspections recently.

What he saw was that the armies began to do their duty faithfully, so he was relieved a lot.

On this day, he called Xu Chen alone.

"Mr. Xu, if you hadn't warned the police a few days ago, the consequences would have been unpredictable. What has happened in the world recently?"

Cai Mao asked Xu Chen, Xu Chen pondered for a moment and then said: "My subordinates usually like to go to various teahouses to drink tea, listen to book reviews, and scholars' remarks. They all criticize Zhang Yu for being innocent. Strong, they are very dissatisfied with Zhang Yu's overall measures."

"I agree with the prince, the leader and example of the family."

When Cai Mao heard this, he nodded in agreement.

He and Zhang Yu could cooperate earlier, but just like that, Cai Mao did not hesitate to oppose Zhang Yu at the beginning.

Cai Mao is the representative of the aristocratic family, and he is very unfriendly to Zhang Yu's actions.

"That's right, the world has been suffering for a long time, but his military strength is really strong, and the aristocratic family has been forced by him to be unable to survive."

"Zhang Yu wants to rule the world with a group of mud legs, after all, it won't last long. As long as there is enough time, Zhang Yu will collapse on his own. As long as we can hold on for a few years, Zhang Yu will be nothing to worry about."

Xu Chen sneered in his heart, this Cai Mao still wanted to defend Xiangyang for a few years, if Zhang Yu hadn't waited for the opportunity and let Cao Jun enter the urn, the city of Xiangyang would have changed hands long ago.

But Xu Chen didn't show it on his face, and then he said: "My lord, Zhang Yu is full of tricks, we still have to be careful, send more soldiers to patrol the streets, and control the public's speech in the city, who dares to spread rumors, Handle it strictly."

Cai Mao nodded, this has been done since ancient times.

"Okay, Mr. Xu, I'll give you a soldier. You go to the street and patrol more to prevent Zhang Yu from sending people to spread rumors. Anyone who dares to spread rumors will be arrested."

Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, Zhang Yu gave him two tasks, the first task has been completed, and the second task can start.

Xu Chen has mastered military power, and more importantly, activities that can be made public.

He can lead troops to patrol around, which gives him great convenience.

Xu Chen took the order and left.

The recent performance of Xu Chen made Cai Hao look at him with admiration. He was originally his confidant, but now he relies even more heavily on him.

Relying heavily on Cai Mao, Xu Chen quickly got started.

Xu Chen led the people himself, and caught a few people who spread rumors and wanted to defect to the enemy the next day.

These, in fact, have been arranged by the spies in the city long ago, and all of them are based on real evidence.

In the face of the evidence, these people did not refute and confessed their guilt obediently.

When Cai Mao learned of this, he was furious and killed several more people.

That's why Cai Hao felt that it was fortunate that Xu Chen was reused, otherwise he would not have known that there were still people who dared to cooperate with the enemy.

Xu Chen sent people to patrol, and many public activities were stopped, but under Xu Chen's intentional arrangement, the activities inside were even more rampant.

It's very simple, the people around Xu Chen will disclose the places Xu Chen wants to inspect and the places to check.

Xu Chen can also learn about underground activities and some important activities through other methods, so naturally he will not destroy them.

Under Xu Chen's high pressure, he cooperated with the spies' activities, making the city even more tense.

I don't know how many families felt the crisis.

Zhang Yu finally surrounded Xiangyang City, five miles away from Xiangyang City, surrounded by four gates.

On the first day of the siege, Zhang Yu personally led the troops to the city.

"Listen to the defenders in the city, I am the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If I surrender now, I will be given preferential treatment. If I enter the city, you will all go to build roads for me and confiscate all my property."

"Anyone who surrenders, I will not be embarrassed, and only half of the property will be collected."

After Zhang Yu finished shouting, he asked the soldiers to take turns shouting to the inside of the city to promote their own policies.

Then, Zhang Yu gave them eight days.

It's not five days, not ten days, but to let them know that Zhang Yu's determination, this day is not just casually said, but counted.

Eight days, not long at all, Zhang Yu made people shout for a day, and all the soldiers and civilians in the city knew about it.

Eight days, when the time came, the city was even more tense.

Zhang Yu looked at the city wall, he was already confident enough about Xiangyang City, the only thing left was the last move.

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