Chapter 88 Chapter 9 Doomsday Heroes

In addition, when Wu Han returned to Guangdu, he didn't dare to pretend to be smart. Instead, he followed Liu Xiu's deployment and steadily advanced to Chengdu. He fought the Shu army between Guangdu and Chengdu, winning eight battles and eight victories.In the winter and October of the twelfth year of Jianwu (AD 36), Wu Han invaded the outer city of Chengdu. Gongsun Shu was desperate and helpless, so he asked Yancen for advice, and asked, "What should I do?" Yan Cen replied: "A man should survive death, but he can sit poorly! With a heavy reward, there must be a brave man. Your Majesty should use all his wealth to recruit brave men to fight for the country. Wealth is easy to gather, not love."

In the eyes of ordinary people, they often think that only the rich man will love money like his life, but he is an emperor, and he has everything he needs. Of course, he regards money as dung, and no matter how much money is spent, he will never blink his eyes. To the point of being a miser. As everyone knows, the emperor is also a human being, and there are many miser.Even at the time of life and death, many emperors still guarded their money and refused to let go. They would rather die than spend money to eliminate disasters. In the past, there was Wang Mang, the emperor of the new dynasty, whose kingdom was about to be destroyed. There were still nearly 800,000 catties of gold in the palace, and countless money, silk, pearls and jade. Thousands of money, as a result, the soldiers lost their fighting spirit, and eventually the country was defeated and died.

There was also Emperor Xiao Baojuan of the Southern Qi Dynasty. The capital Jiankang had been surrounded by Xiao Yan's rebel regiments.The generals kowtowed and asked again, Xiao Baojuan was furious, and gave a rascal reason that made people laugh and cry, saying: "Why do you ask me to pay, the rebels are here, and they don't just kill me!" What's more, Gong There are hundreds of planks stored in it, and the generals are going to use them to build city defenses, Xiao Baojuan is reluctant to give even this, and I still have to keep it for building the palace.In the end, the general was forced to rebel, and he simply chopped off Xiao Baojuan's head, asked Xiao Yan for his credit and went away to accept the reward.

In the fourth year of Tongguang (926 A.D.), Empress Liu, the "virtuous housemate" of Zhuangzong Li Cunxu of the Later Tang Dynasty, the troops of the Later Tang Dynasty were not able to pay for food and their morale was shaken, and there were a lot of treasures in the palace treasury.The prime minister asked Li Cunxu to allocate funds from the internal treasury for emergency relief. Empress Liu hid behind a screen and eavesdropped. After a while, Empress Liu brought out some makeup utensils and three silver basins and placed them in front of the prime minister. In front of the prime minister, he said angrily to the prime minister: "There are only so many things left in the palace. Please sell them and use them as military expenses." With Empress Liu doing this, the prime minister dared not ask for money again, so he had to be afraid And retreat.Empress Liu thought she had a plan and was very proud, but the soldiers were all disappointed and desperate when they heard the news.Afterwards, soldiers from all over the world rose up, and Li Cunxu rewarded the troops with gold and silk again. The sergeant yelled: "My wife and I are already starving to death, so what's the use of these gold and silk!" The country died.When Empress Liu fled for her life, she still did not forget to carry a large amount of jewels. She fled to Taiyuan and hid in a nunnery.

Compared with the above few people, Gongsun Shu had a great husbandly spirit. After listening to Yancen's suggestion, he didn't hesitate at all. He immediately gave away all the money and silk, promised a big reward, recruited more than 5,000 death squads, and handed them over to Yancen to lead. Yancen wrote a letter to Wu Han, telling him that tomorrow's battle will take place at Shiqiao outside Chengdu.Wu Han is overjoyed, he came at the right time. I was worried that the siege would be too difficult, but you took the initiative to go out of the city to seek a battle.The two sides set up a frontal decisive battle, Wu Han couldn't be more fond of it (the most important thing is that he doesn't know anything else), and immediately wrote back to Yan Cen: "As promised!"

Tomorrow, Yan Cen leads the troops out of the city, and the first one is actually the guard of honor of military music, beating drums and blowing horns, colorful flags fluttering, shaking his head, singing and dancing, more ostentatious than theatrical troupe, coming to Shiqiao at a leisurely pace. Like a wedding. Wu Han's reckless man, who knew it was a trick, rode a horse on the opposite bank, watching the excitement from the best position in the first row.The Han soldiers behind them also forgot to fight, and rushed forward, scrambling to watch. Yan Cen Yin dispatched surprise soldiers to go around Wu Han's army and launch a surprise attack.The Han army was fascinated by watching the play, caught off guard, trampled on each other, and ran away in embarrassment.

Among the rebellious army, Wu Han was squeezed and fell into the water with his men and horses.Wu Han reacted quickly and grabbed the horse's tail. The horse was frightened and kicked with its hind legs. Wu Han's nose was bruised and his face was swollen.The war horse dragged Wu Han, galloped through the water, and finally dragged Wu Han to the shore, saving his life. Wu Han fled back and checked the troops. More than half of the soldiers were lost, and countless supplies were lost.Wu Han was newly defeated and was unable to fight any more. Taking stock of the army, there were only seven days of food left.Wu Han was disheartened, and secretly ordered his subordinates to prepare ships. Before Yancen could take advantage of the victory, he quickly withdrew his troops and retreated to Jiangzhou.

It happened that Liu Xiu sent Zhang Kan, a visitor, to send silk and 7,000 cavalry into Shu to reinforce Wu Han.On the way, Zhang Kan heard that Wu Han intends to withdraw his troops, so he rushed to persuade Wu Han, saying: "Once you withdraw your troops, all previous efforts will be for naught. How can you fall short of your success? No matter what, you must stick to it. Zang Gong's army will soon approach Chengdu. The two armies will join forces. Gongsun Shu Defeat is certain." Wu Han followed. Besides, Zang Gong, after pulling out Pingyang Township, marched forward all the way, pulled out Mianzhu, broke Fucheng, beheaded Gongsun Hui, the younger brother of Gongsunshu, and then attacked Fanxian and Pixian counties. In early November, he joined forces with Wu Han under the city of Chengdu.

Gongsun Shu guarded the isolated city, full of sorrow for the approaching doomsday.The Jiangshan Sheji he managed painstakingly, the palace and city walls he built with his own hands, everything will soon fall into the hands of the enemy, and will no longer be his property. Since you can't keep it, and you can't take it away, then destroy everything that can be destroyed, why do you want to take advantage of others!Just like Xiao Yi, Emperor Liang and Yuan of the Southern Dynasty, when he was at the end of his life, he burned all the 140,000 volumes of ancient and modern books in the palace (it’s a pity that Wang Xizhi’s Fatie and Lu Tanwei’s paintings) sighed bitterly: "The way of civil and military affairs is exhausted tonight. !" Since I can't keep it, I can't fulfill you, burn it all, be happy, be happy.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong brought this kind of perverted psychology to the extreme, and almost killed all the people in Sichuan. In the words of Mr. Lu Xun: "He didn't kill people very much at first, so why didn't he want to be the emperor. After arriving in Beijing, and then the Qing soldiers entered the customs, the only way left for him was to decline, so he started killing, killing... He clearly felt that the world has nothing of his own, and now he is destroying other people's things, which is the same as Some of the last Fengya emperors felt exactly the same when they burned their ancestors or the books and antique treasures they had collected before they died. He still had soldiers, but no antiques, so he killed, killed, killed, killed... ...Don't we cherish other people's or public things too?"

At this time, Gongsun Shu had every chance to burn all the treasures in the city, kill all the people, and be buried for him, but he didn't do it.During the Qin and Han Dynasties, more or less people were heroic, open-minded, and aboveboard.In Gongsun Shu's view, if the country is lost, it will be lost. "The people of Chu lost their bows, and the people of Chu got it."This is the dignity of the emperor, the bearing of the emperor. Gongsun Shu, like Liu Xiu, was crazily obsessed with the so-called providence, so he specially summoned a magician to divination to predict good and bad luck.The hexagram says: "The prisoner died under the city." Gongsun Shu was overjoyed, um, this must mean that Wu Han and Zang Gong were about to die under the city of Chengdu, so he was so confident that he took the initiative to attack the city, ordered Yancen to fight against Zang Gong, and himself led the way. Tens of thousands of people attacked Wu Han. Gongsun Shugui is the emperor, and he is over sixty years old, with gray hair, but he personally puts on the clothes and goes into battle, willing to risk the stone. It is indeed a touching and tragic scene. Seeing this, the Shu army is all excited and willing to die. The war lasted from morning to noon. Gongsun Shu and Yancen won three battles and three victories. The soldiers didn't even bother to eat, and gradually became tired.Wu Han saw that the Shu army was exhausted, so he dispatched tens of thousands of sharp soldiers from Xuezang for half a day, led by the guard Gao Wu, to pounce on the Shu army, and the Shu army was in chaos.Gao Wu took the lead, rushed into the Shu army, went straight to Gongsunshu, and pierced Gongsunshu's chest with his halberd.Gongsun Shu fell off his horse, grabbed it from left to right, and carried it back to the city.Seeing that Gongsun Shu was wounded and retired, Yancen dared not fight any more, so he quickly withdrew his troops into the city. That night, Gongsun Shu died, and when he was dying, he handed over the military power to Yancen.Yancen saw that the emperor was dead, and it was not only useless but also meaningless to fight again. In the early morning of the next day, Kaesong surrendered to the Han army.