Chapter 2006: Burning food to break through
Qin Hui was not in Jiangling originally. When Qin Zheng sent reinforcements for the second time, he took the initiative to join Zhang Xian's army and went to Jiangling for refuge.
Why is it said to be an evacuation? The reason was that Yue Fei at that time had been appointed governor of Jingzhou again, but there were some grievances between him and Yue Fei.
At the beginning, Yue Fei was framed by some ministers because he opposed Qin Hao's claim to the throne. As a result, he was dismissed and escorted back to Beijing for investigation. Qin Hui was the person responsible for escorting Yue Fei.
Although Qin Hui and Yue Fei were naturally a bit difficult to deal with, if he was just doing business, there would naturally be no grudges between the two, but Qin Hui was smart enough to figure out Qin Hao's thoughts.
Qin Hui believed that Yue Fei's political stance was unclear and he dared to oppose Qin Hao's claim to the throne three times in a row. Qin Hao must be extremely dissatisfied with him. The purpose of dismissal and investigation this time was to get rid of Yue Fei, so Yue Fei must be dead when he returns to Beijing. .
With Yue Fei's strong temper, he would definitely rather die than plead guilty, and as long as he doesn't plead guilty, given his merits, not even the lord can touch him.
Therefore, if he, Qin Hui, could make Yue Fei confess his crime in advance, it would be considered as sharing the Lord's worries, and he would definitely be favored by the Lord.
In order to make Yue Fei confess quickly, Qin Hui prepared some dirty tricks. If Yu Chigong hadn't arrived in time and escorted him all the way, Yue Fei would have shed his skin at times.
Since then, the two have developed a deep hatred. However, although Yue Fei was not dead at that time, he was demoted to a civilian, so Qin Hui didn't care.
But things are different now. Yue Fei has been restored to his original position, and even his immediate boss Qin Zheng has to obey his orders.
If Yue Fei wants revenge, Qin Hui will almost certainly die. Even his status as a descendant of the Qin family cannot protect him. After all, it is during the war, and countless people have died. And there are so many descendants of the Qin family, who will care about you? Life and death.
Based on this consideration, Qin Hui decided to avoid Yue Fei. Can't he afford to hide if he couldn't offend him? And Jiangling, where Meng Gong is located, is his only choice.
Qin Hui took the initiative to go to Jiangling because Meng Gong defended Jiangling. This shocked a large number of people at the time, but most people thought that Meng Gong could not defend it for long.
Qin Hui didn't think so. As long as the reinforcements could enter Jiangling, and with Meng Gong's ability to defend the city, he believed that Meng Gong would be able to continue to defend the city.
When everyone else is avoiding Jiangling, only if Qin Hui takes the initiative to go, can he show his vision and ability.
It has to be said that Qin Hui's vision was very accurate. After receiving the support of Zhang Xian's reinforcements, he actually defended Jiangling for two full months.
This record has far exceeded expectations. Even if Jiangling eventually fell, it would still be a great achievement for them to go back, so Qin Hui persuaded Meng Gong to break out at the last moment.
But what Qin Hui didn't expect was that Meng Gong was the same as Yue Fei. No matter how much he tried to persuade him, he would not break out of the encirclement even if he died, as if the city was in ruins and people were destroyed.
Seeing that Meng Gong didn't listen to his advice, Qin Hui panicked a little. Meng Gong was not afraid of death, but he was because he didn't want to be buried with Jiang Ling.
Liu Ji failed to persuade him to surrender before, so he became angry and issued an order, that is, after breaking the city, he would massacre all the senior officials of the Qin army.
In other words, if they do not surrender, once Jiangling is breached, ordinary soldiers will survive after being captured, but the top brass of the Qin army will die.
Qin Hui naturally did not want to be captured and then killed by the Shu army, but Meng Gong was the commander-in-chief of Jiangling. If he was unwilling to break out, the Qin army could only fight to the death. No one could leave, and the same was true for him, Qin Hui. If he stayed, he would only A dead end.
Qin Hui was obviously a person who was afraid of death. He didn't want to die, but he couldn't change Meng Gong, so a bold idea appeared in his mind, which was to surrender to the Shu army.
The power of the Qin army is so powerful. Although Qin Hui is a little weak and greedy for life and afraid of death, he can't see the situation clearly.
At this time, the reinforcements had entered Jingbei. He surrendered to the enemy at this time. It would be okay if the Qin army lost, but if the Qin army won, he would not only die but also be ruined.
But if he didn't surrender, he would definitely die if he followed that idiot Meng Gong to the death, and he really didn't want to die.
Surrender means nine deaths, but if you don't surrender, you will die ten times.
Thinking of this, Qin Hui already made a decision in his heart.
No one can say what will happen in the future, but if you die now, there will be no future.
Therefore, in order to survive, Qin Hui chose to surrender.
Qin Hui was a civil servant and had no military power, so he could not open the city gate at all. However, he knew that he was definitely not the only one who did not want to die with Meng Gong, so he selected targets for lobbying.
Qin Hui originally thought that as a disciple of the Qin family, it would be difficult to convince these generals, but he did not expect to succeed without much effort. Then he successfully opened the city gate and let the Shu army enter the city.
Although Qin Hui participated in the battle of Jiangling midway, he also helped Meng Gong a lot, but he betrayed and surrendered at the last moment, which was really unexpected.
In fact, even if Qin Hui did not rebel, it would still be a matter of time before Jiangling fell. However, Qin Hui's rebellion pushed the time for the city's destruction by two or three days.
Zhang Xian, who was responsible for guarding the west gate, was shocked when he received the news that the south gate was opened and Qin Hui surrendered. He couldn't believe that Qin Hui would rebel.
Zhang Xian immediately went to the army to resist the Shu army entering the city. However, there were too many Shu troops entering the city. Even though more than half of his subordinates were killed and wounded, they still could not drive the Shu army out of the south gate.
After watching the scene in front of him, Zhang Xian felt cold in his heart. Even if Meng Gong led the defenders from the other two gates to come and drive all the Shu troops out of the city, it would be useless. The casualties would be too great. Sooner or later, Jiangling would still be defeated. To fall.
"Go quickly and tell General Meng to break out of the encirclement immediately. I will hold off the Shu army for him at the south gate." Zhang Xian said solemnly.
"promise."
After summoning the soldiers, they started to leave, but were stopped by Zhang Xian. Zhang Xian said, "Tell me one more thing and ask General Meng to tell Governor Yue Fei that Qin Hui must be killed."
"No." The soldier shouted with tears in his eyes. He knew that the general was ready to fight to the death.
The summoned soldiers had just left, but a fire broke out in the city. Zhang Xian looked at the direction of the fire and suddenly laughed and said: "It's a good burning. Even if it is burned, it will not be left to the Shu thieves."
The direction of the fire was the granary, and the fire was naturally set by Meng Gong.
Although the defensive supplies in the city are about to be exhausted, there is still a lot of food and grass left.
The entire grain and grass supply in northern Jingbei has been stored in Xiangyang and Jiangling. Naturally, it cannot be consumed within two months.
Now that the fall of Jiangling is inevitable, Meng Gong naturally cannot leave these grains and grass to the Shu army and let the Shu army use these grains and grass to fight the Qin army after the city is broken, so he decisively and simply burned them.
