Chapter 164: I Surrender

Looking at the peasant army outside the city, there are at least 4,000 people, these people really have to be ruthless to attack the city, whether they can stop it for two days is a question. Hong Chengchou is not afraid of death, but he is really afraid that something will happen to Yang He.

If Yang He, the trilateral governor, was captured alive or killed, the face of the Ming court would be lost.

In desperation, Hong Chengchou hurriedly sent people out of the city to ask for help, and ordered the nearby soldiers and horses to rush to Hancheng with all their might.

Now near Hancheng, the only ones who really have combat effectiveness and high hopes are Liu Yingyu and Tiemo's soldiers and horses. Now Tiemo and Liu Yingyu are in a joint army, less than twenty miles away from Mapi Mountain, and when Han Cheng's request for help was delivered, both of them were a little dizzy.

Tiemo didn't understand what Wang Zuohang wanted to do for a while!

In Yan'an Mansion, Wang Zuo was strategizing and almost killed the border army of the three towns. A person like Wang Zuohang, who has a strategic mind and a careful mind, will send troops to attack Hancheng at this time?

There were doubts, but Tiemo and Liu Yingyu didn't dare to ignore this matter, if something really happened to Yang He, half of the heads of the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi would have to be moved. Since the ammunition supply had not yet been delivered, Tiemo's corporal could only fight with bayonets in close combat, so this time Liu Yingyu took the initiative to ask for help and sent someone to be the vanguard.

Wang Zuo's peasant army did not attack Hancheng, let alone retreat, so Tiemo was really a little confused. Fight and not fight, go and not leave, waiting to be surrounded by officers and soldiers and wiped out? Wang Zuohang doesn't look like a fool no matter how he looks at it.

In this case, Liu Yingyu did not clash easily, and his troops and horses stopped at Aizhen, which was ten miles away from Hancheng.

Ai Zhen is a small town, and it is strange to say that Wang Zuo besieged Hancheng, but he did not commit any crime against Ai Zhenqiu. Tiemo asked someone to inquire, and since Wang Zuo arrived in Hancheng, he did not send a single soldier to Aizhen. However, a peasant army came to buy things, and in the end they gave enough money.

Liu Yingyu and Tiemo got together, drank the stuffy tea one by one, pondered for a long time, and didn't see through what the hell Wang Zuohang was doing.

Before the time passed, Li Wanqing hurriedly entered the house, "General, there is a man outside the town, who claims to be Wang Zuohang, and he said that he wants to interview you. ”

"Huh?" Tiemo and Liu Yingyu looked at each other, and Wang Zuojiao actually took the initiative to send it to the door, which was really weird. This is his own territory, Tiemo has no reason to be afraid, "Haha, General Liu, wait a while, Rong Tie will go and meet this person." ”

After a while, Tiemo saw this uninvited guest. Dressed in a blue robe, wearing a scarf, a short beard, and not a burly figure, at first glance, he felt that this person was an elegant scribe, and he could not be associated with the chaotic party at all.

The two sat opposite each other, and at this time, the other party had already revealed their identities, and Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing also confirmed this.

"Mr. Wang, Tie doesn't understand a little, you know that Tie and General Liu's soldiers and horses are going to pass here, why did you choose to surround Hancheng at this time?"

Tiemo didn't ask Wang Zuohang's intention, but the biggest doubt in his heart. Wang Zuohang smiled indifferently, and gestured, with a bit of ease, "Wang did this, naturally to wait for General Tie, Wang is also helpless, if you don't do this, how can General Tie be willing to sit down and have a good talk." ”

Tie Mo was slightly stunned, and then smiled. What Wang Zuohang said has some truth, taking into account the safety of Han Cheng, he naturally will not act rashly. But if it was outside, if Wang Zuohang had come over with soldiers and horses, it is estimated that the two sides would have fought a long time ago. Without any reliance, Wang Zuohang didn't have the courage to come over and talk. And Han Cheng is the confidence and reliance of Wang Zuohang.

"Mr. Wang is very scheming, at the beginning of the Sanchuan River, Mr. Wang made a plan, but we suffered a lot."

This time it was Wang Zuohang's turn to be surprised, and he was a little stunned: "The general has investigated so carefully. ”

"For an opponent who can make Tie someone suffer, how can you not be careful, the art of war, knowing yourself and knowing your opponent, and not being defeated in a hundred battles" Tie Mo took a sip of tea, and his expression became more serious, "Let's talk about it, Mr. Wang brought Tie to Hancheng, shouldn't it be to talk about family life?" ”

"Before Wang speaks his mind, is the general interested in listening to Wang tell a story?"

"General Ben still has plenty of time, if the story is interesting, Mr. Wang might as well talk about it!"

Wang Zuo arched his hands, his brows furrowed, as if he were caught in some kind of painful memory, and soon he told the so-called story.

"A few years ago, there was a scholar who traveled all over northern Shaanxi, and when he saw the tragic situation of thousands of miles of red land and the people changing their children and eating, he was determined to let more people eat. When the scholar returned to his hometown, he scattered his family wealth, set up a porridge shack, and rescued refugees. After a month, the scholar began to feel a little powerless, setting up a porridge shack can save hundreds of thousands, but there are millions of hungry people in northern Shaanxi. ”

"Finally, after persevering for half a year, the food is gone, and the porridge shed can't hold on. He ran to the county to find the officials of the grain depot, hoping that the government could set up a porridge shed together to appease the people, but the county said that he intended to gather a crowd to rebel, and threw it into the courtyard and beat him with twenty sticks. ”

"He was wounded in his body, but his heart was even more wounded. That night, the scholar lay on his bed and thought about it all night. The government has food, so why not give relief to the victims, as long as there is enough food, many people can survive. That night, the scholar made up his mind, and the next day, he threw away the pen in his hand, said goodbye to his wife and children, and went out of the house with the firewood knife in the courtyard. ”

Because he had set up a porridge shack for a long time, he was supported by many people, and he raised his arms, and many people rushed to the county seat with him. In this way, the scholar who was bent on serving the court became a thief, but he did not regret it, because he felt that he had saved many lives, at least, at that time, he felt that he was right. ”

"Lay down the county, open a good position, maybe a good day is coming. But the high-spirited scholar never thought that this was just the beginning of a nightmare, and there would always be a time when the food would run out, what should I do in the future? Later, he found that the rebel army he was in was completely different from what he had imagined. In the past, those familiar and kind people, when they picked up their knives, became hideous and terrifying, and they plundered the township, even more ruthlessly than the officers and soldiers. ”

"Last year, the tragedy in Qingyuan City made the scholars completely chilled. He found that he was on the wrong path, that the rebels should not be like this, and that saving the people should not be like this. ”

"Later, he left Ganquan City and hid on Mount Ma Pi licking his wounds."

Wang Zuohang drank a cup of tea, tears appeared in his eyes, he raised his head slightly, and his smile was a little bitter, "That self-proclaimed scholar is me, Wang Zuohang." ”

"I came to see the general today, not for anything else, just because Wang wanted to surrender....."