The intensive sound of horse hooves alerted the guards on the city.
They first exclaimed, and then some people started to look around.
"Open the door quickly!"
"Open the door! Open the door!"
General Tu's soldiers started to make a noise.
"Who is under the city?" After a moment, someone at the top of the city asked tremblingly.
"The soldiers from Luoyang are not Liu Qiao's soldiers. Open the door quickly, or behead you if you are too late." Someone said loudly.
As soon as these words came out, there was no movement at the top of the city.
The generals and soldiers gradually became impatient and cursed one after another.
"If you don't open the door, I'll beat you up like Liu Qiao."
"You came all the way to work for King Fan Yang, and you didn't even get a hot meal?"
"Brothers, we are exhausted, tired and hungry, and we have to endure his bird-like behavior. Which one can't bear it? Let's climb up and chop them all up."
"Yes! Kill them and let a reasonable person speak."
Gradually, someone started making noise.
Shao Xun signaled with his eyes, and soon someone rushed into the houses in Fuguo outside the city and searched from house to house. After a while, he came over carrying two ladders.
"Bah." The wooden ladder quickly leaned against the city wall, and someone holding short soldiers quickly climbed up.
When he climbed to the top of the ladder, he took out an iron chi and hung it on the city wall, then quickly climbed up - the chi is also called a "flying hook", a common climbing tool in the military.
No one stopped, as if this was an empty city, leaving the sergeants outside the city who were looking for the long ladder stunned.
"Creak." The city gate was quickly opened.
Shao Xun was overjoyed when he saw this and immediately ordered to enter the city.
We originally thought that we would have to wait until dawn for the baggage and horse teams to arrive before we could begin to attack the city. Unexpectedly, the defenders were so cowardly that they abandoned the defense directly, which saved them a lot of trouble.
He believed that if Liu Qiao led his troops to attack at this time, he would definitely defeat them without any suspense.
The rumble of horse hooves echoed throughout Xuchang.
The guards panicked and fled in all directions.
Some even took off their clothes and hid in the dark streets.
Some people opened other city gates and fled outside.
Others went to Tian Hui Mansion and shouted loudly.
The sudden general who entered the city did not entangle with them and immediately divided into several groups.
One controls the gate into the city.
One went straight to Prince Fan Yang's Mansion to "protect" Prince Fan Yang's family.
One of them rushed to the treasury and controlled it in time to avoid being destroyed.
Xuchang has basically announced a change of ownership.
When Tian Hui got the news, he was crawling on his concubine and trying his best. He was so frightened that he only wore a single piece of clothing, his bare feet were spread out, and he rolled and crawled out.
Just as he was about to go out, he saw the knights filling the streets and was so frightened that he locked himself up again.
Cursing Liu Qiao in his heart, he rushed to the backyard.
When he reached the bottom of the courtyard wall, he jumped and climbed over the wall and landed on the dark street.
Fortunately, there was no one here. He hid all the way and ran out through an open gate in the north of the city, led by a few defeated soldiers.
After leaving the city, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Protector, I'm afraid Liu Qiao won't show mercy to us, so we'd better leave quickly." A knight came over and was about to ask Tian Hui to get on his horse and run for his life, but he was dragged to the ground.
Tian Hui didn't say much, got on the horse, pinched the horse's belly with his bloody feet, and the horse neighed and ran into the vast night.
He wanted to quickly go to Hebei and alert King Fan Yang.
Xuchang has been lost. If any supporting troops accidentally bump in, wouldn't they suffer a big loss? Reporting this matter in time should be considered a credit, right?
As soon as Tian Hui left, the other defenders looked at each other, then dispersed and went to different places.
In Xuchang City, Shao Xun went straight to the arsenal immediately.
When the heavy door was opened and the sergeants entered holding torches, everyone was dumbfounded.
There are all kinds of spears, ring-headed knives, iron armors, leather armors, large axes, halberds, etc. At a glance, there are probably more than 100,000 pieces?
Shao Xun's expression became very exciting in an instant.
He walked to the place where the iron armor was placed, looked at it with a torch, and then touched it with his hand.
Guaiguai, they are all genuine and high-quality iron armor.
The largest number is naturally the Xiaoxiu armor.
In addition, there are more than a thousand pieces of two-crotch armor. This armor appeared in the late Han Dynasty. It was not as popular as the Xiaoxiu armor at this time, but it was not uncommon. Historically, it was not really popular until the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Shao Xun even saw more than 500 people wearing Mingguang Armor.
This armor also appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and a small amount of equipment was available during the Three Kingdoms period.
For example, Cao Zhi once wrote in "The First Emperor Granted His Ministers Armor Tables": "The First Emperor bestowed upon his ministers armor, one collar each for Black Light and Bright Light, one collar for Liangdang Armor, one collar for Red Refined Armor, and one collar for Horse Armor."
Due to its strong protective power and handsome appearance, Mingguang armor was mainly worn by mid-level and senior officers during this period. When superiors reward meritorious service, they often issue Mingguang Armor, which is mainly used as a reward item and is not a standard military equipment. The reason is probably that the cost is too high.
Historically, it was not until the late Southern and Northern Dynasties that large-scale equipment was used in the military, and the Northern Dynasties had more equipment.
"Book of Zhou: Biography of Cai You" says: "You were wearing bright iron armor and marching forward in an indomitable way. The enemies said, 'This is a ferocious iron beast,' and they all scuttled away from him."
The sleeve armor, the two crotch armor, the bright light armor, haha!
Shao Xun suppressed the urge to look up to the sky and laugh.
He took a rough look and found that there were probably seven or eight thousand collared iron armors in the arsenal. This was the inventory left after Sima Hui went on the expedition. You can imagine how much he had before the war.
No wonder they all want to be governors, the resources at their disposal are indeed huge.
As an important town since the Cao Wei Dynasty, Xuchang may be more important than Chang'an in terms of status. It is the well-deserved core place of the Wei and Jin dynasties. After the fire, the Luoyang arsenal is not necessarily much better than the Xuchang arsenal. - In the fifth year of Yuankang ( 295) In the tenth month of winter, there was a fire in the Luoyang arsenal. "Two million (0)80,000 instruments were wiped out in one moment."
Shao Xun's thoughts suddenly wandered and he thought of a question.
Did Liu Qiao conquer Xuchang in history? Have you removed the equipment?
Besides Liu Qiao, did any peasant uprising army occupy Xuchang and rely on the equipment in the arsenal to exchange shotguns for cannons and suddenly start shaking?
It's not that he looks down on the refugee army, it's just that their weapons and equipment are not very good. A force of ten thousand people, with hundreds of pieces of iron armor, if they could completely capture a weapons depot, it would definitely be a qualitative change for them.
He thought of Zhang Chang, who was sacked at the end of last year.
This person had been active in the Xiangyang and Wancheng areas. Taking advantage of the opportunity when Jingzhou soldiers were transferred to central Sichuan to quell the rebellion, he tried to capture Xiangyang, where the Jingzhou governor was stationed, and Wancheng, where the Mibei governor was stationed. However, he failed and had to turn around. And went to attack some counties.
But the gains from attacking counties cannot quench their thirst at all. Only by capturing Xiangyang and Wancheng can we obtain the massive inventory of combat readiness materials in the two major governorates and complete the qualitative transformation and upgrade of the troops.
Well, it was a coincidence that Liu Qiao also led his army south to Jingxiang to quell the chaos.
These things, from now on, are all mine.
Shao Xun smiled from ear to ear, immediately called Tang Jian, and whispered: "Immediately send someone to Yushanwu to send a message and ask them to send someone over to move the equipment. No, you make one more trip and go Let people organize carriages and horses from Yunzhongwu. I am not very relieved about the people at Yushanwu."
"No." Tang Jian agreed immediately without any hesitation.
In terms of status, he is Shao Xun's slave, and the fifty people under him are also guests of Shao Mansion, and they are completely private. In this era, the characteristics of personal dependence are very obvious, and there is really nothing to hesitate about. Even if Shao Xun fell because of Gein, the court would not let him go, and his end would be disastrous.
Shao Xun quickly left the arsenal and deployed almost half of his troops here. Then he went to the next door and smashed the door lock with a big axe.
The sergeants pushed open the door, then lit torches and entered.
Good guy! Next door is the arsenal, and money and silk are stored here.
Some decayed wooden frames cannot cover up the "fragrance" of money and silk.
Yes, in Shao Xun's eyes, money has a "fragrance" because it can communicate with ghosts and gods, which is so useful.
I don't know how many brave and tough warriors, driven by Qian Bo, fought bravely to kill the enemy and made great achievements.
Wonderful!
"Gao Yi." Shao Xun shouted.
"exist."
"First give out the rewards I promised to my sons. Five bolts of silk for each person. I will never break my promise." Shao Xun said: "For officers above the corps commander, superior rewards will be given at the festival level. Calculate how much you need in total, and then send someone to get it. .”
"No." Gao Yi left excitedly.
Can I get items from Xuchang Daku? Logically speaking, this is not possible. How could Sima Hui, the king of Fanyang, take whatever he wanted?
But then again, aren't there enough troops to plunder the entire city these days? Zhang Fang is the one who went to the extreme, but that doesn't mean others don't do it.
Moreover, the general said so, what else do they have to fear? The sky was falling, but General Shao was holding it up, so they could not be charged with "extreme plunder".
You can take this money with confidence.
Shao Xun quietly looked at the dazzling warehouse.
It would be a lie to say that I am not worried, but I have made up my mind and done the work, so what else can I do?
When he was in Jinyong City, he weighed the pros and cons for a long time.
With 300% profit, capitalists dare to sell the rope to hang themselves.
Now here is more than triple the benefits. It can be said that this is the biggest windfall he has obtained in more than three years, and it is completely worth the risk.
If I give up this opportunity, I don’t know how long it will take to accumulate so much. Five years? Not too possible. ten years? It's hard to say.
It's a bet. Is it possible that Sima Yue really dares to punish me?
If that happens, I will directly implement plan B, return to Luoyang, and make a big fuss.
If soldiers from all directions come to attack and directly seize Luoyang's goods, I will take the token Liu Yuan gave me and my private army, and lead Concubine Pei and Queen Sheep to surrender to Liu Yuanhai.
Of course, this is only the last choice in a life-or-death situation. Until then, there seems to be another way.
Shao Xun thought for a while, called two soldiers, and ordered them to send orders to Huang Biao and Li Zhong to speed up, advance with light troops, and come to Xuchang quickly.
Everyone who sees Xuchang's wealth will have a share. Even when He Lun's troops came, they could have some meat and fish, and everyone would get a share.
I never eat alone!
What I value most is the thousands of pairs of iron armors. Everything else can be divided.
Thinking of this, Shao Xun was in a good mood. He left the warehouse and began to distribute silk and silk to the sergeants.
