By the morning of the fifth day of October, there was still no response from the rebels outside the city, and the more than 400 captives who eagerly waited for the news had stayed up hungry for another day.

Around midnight, the guard of the North City Gate, Le Gui, came to the Black Tiger Yishe to meet Zhao Yu.

After saluting Zhao Yu, Le Gui said with some schadenfreude: "The twenty captives released yesterday have not been heard from so far, and the rebels outside the city have not sent anyone to negotiate so far, so it seems that the twenty captives released yesterday may have also been secretly disposed of by the rebel generals." ”

After that, he asked Zhao Yu for instructions on how to deal with this matter.

As Jiangxia Yishi Qu Shuai Chen Miao guessed, Zhao Yu really didn't care about the life or death of those rebel prisoners, even if a considerable part of this group of prisoners were new pawns recruited by the rebels in the area of Dingling and Yuncheng.

Therefore, when Guan Shuo tried his best to block the news of the 'grain exchange prisoners', Zhao Yu did not care about continuing to let those prisoners go to death.

Even, considering that those captives may not be stupid enough to run back to the rebel camp to die, Zhao Yu can even let the brigade wolves escort these people to death, as long as Guan Shuo tries his best to cover up, even if the more than 400 captives are dead, he will not have any distress.

After all, those captives were willing to defect to the rebels, and since they acted autonomously, as their enemies, there was no need for them to show mercy.

However, considering Ju Sheng's mood and attitude, after weighing the pros and cons, Zhao Yu still gave up the idea of continuing to let those captives go to death - compared to 'exposing the facts that Guan Shuo wanted to cover up' and 'damaging the morale of the rebels', Zhao Yu felt that it was more important to take the opportunity to encircle the rebels, at least not to make Ju Sheng, who had defected to them, feel cold, after all, this was a banner.

Thinking of Ju Sheng, Zhao Yu turned his head and asked Le Gui, "This matter...... Did you talk to Ju Sheng? ”

Le Gui is one of the few guys with good brains in the Black Tiger Village, and said with a smile when he heard this: "My subordinates said it on the pretense of joking, but Ju Sheng didn't say anything. …… As I can see, this man is quite knowledgeable about current affairs. ”

Zhao Yu nodded slightly, and asked again, "What is the status of those captives?" ”

Le Gui hugged his fists and said: "The old pawns under Ju Sheng's command, those who are close to him, yesterday I have ordered someone to remove them from the captives and hand them over to him, there are about seventy or eighty people, Ju Sheng is very familiar with current affairs, not only did he not ask for armor, but also let those people stay away from the city wall, I don't want us to be suspicious of him." …… As for the remaining 400 or so captives, they were cut off for two days, and they did not see the rebels outside the city send people to negotiate, and now they were very desperate, so their subordinates came to ask the chief for instructions to see what the chief would do with these people. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction.

It is undeniable that Le Gui, as Wang Qing's deputy, is much more careful than Chen Mo's deputy, Liu Tu.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Yu said to Le Gui: "Then take care of Ju Sheng's emotions, after you go back, you will count with Ju Sheng, hand over the more than 400 captives to him, and let him persuade those captives to surrender...... If he has the heart to join my Black Tiger Crowd, let Ju Sheng use these old troops to form a 'second battalion'. ”

Of course, Le Gui understood that the purpose of the leader in front of him was not to capture those prisoners, but to entrap Ju Sheng, but he still raised his doubts: "Do you want to send someone to monitor?" ”

Zhao Yu pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "No need, I will inform the rebels about Ju Sheng's defection to our side in the future, so as to plan against the rebels' soldiers, Ju Sheng is destined not to return to the rebels, there is no need to monitor it strictly...... He knew there was only one way to go. ”

"Yes."

Legui clenched his fists and retreated.

After bidding farewell to Zhao Yu, Le Gui returned to the North City Gate and met Ju Sheng, who was waiting for news in the city gate tower - Ju Sheng knew that Le Gui had gone to ask Zhou Hu for instructions on what to do with the captives.

After clasping his fists and saluting, Ju Sheng cautiously probed: "Le Benmu, I don't know the leader of Zhou...... What to do with those captives? ”

Le Gui said with a smile on his face: "The leader has an order that I will hand over these captives to you. ”

"Handed it over to me?" Ju Sheng showed a little surprise on his face.

Le Gui said very bluntly: "The leader told me that he didn't care about the life or death of those captives, since that group of people defected to the rebels that day and came to attack my Kunyang, then naturally we must be prepared to die." But considering General Ju's feelings about this, the chief decided to hand over these captives to General Ju and let General Ju decide. …… If General Ju cares about them, the leader allows General Ju to form a 'second battalion' with his old troops......"

"Zhou Hu...... Allow me to have an army?'

Ju Sheng was a little incredulous.

You must know that yesterday Zhou Hu acquiesced to him to re-recruit the old pawns under his command, there are about seventy or eighty people, and Ju Sheng is already very content with this.

Unexpectedly, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves was far more generous than he imagined, and actually allowed him to take in the remaining 400 or so captives.

"Is it for Jean to be in charge of these people alone?" Ju Sheng cautiously probed.

Le Gui replied with a smile: "Does General Ju want to hear the truth or a lie?" ”

Ju Sheng was stunned and asked curiously, "How do you say a lie?" ”

"Lies are ......" Le Gui made an exaggerated gesture, and said with a smile that made Ju Sheng feel fake: "General Ju abandons darkness and turns to light, of course we believe in General Ju...... Isn't it fake? ”

“……”

Ju Sheng nodded with a strange expression, and then asked, "What about the truth?" "Raindrop Book House

Le Gui spread his hands and said: "The big leader is ready to continue to fight the morale of the rebels, and even plot against some of the rebels...... General Ju is destined to not be able to return to the rebels, so naturally there is no need to be too guarded. You know, the Great Leader is a very far-sighted man who never does anything needless. ”

"yes......"

Ju Sheng nodded in a complicated mood.

He couldn't deny that the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves was indeed quite skillful, no wonder he was able to recruit so many people, and even the Kunyang County Ya obeyed him.

This is an incredible bandit leader.

In addition to sighing, Ju Sheng and Le Gui summed it up, after all, they wanted those captives to surrender to Kunyang, and even the rebels who hated the city outside the city, they naturally had to act in a scene.

After some discussion, Le Gui and Ju Sheng went down the city wall together and came to the place where the group of prisoners was being held.

Pity the group of captives, who had not eaten water for two whole days, and could not say that they were dying at the moment, but there were really few who could move, and they sat one by one against the wall, or simply lay on the ground, their faces full of despair.

It wasn't until Le Gui appeared in front of them that the group reacted, and one by one they shrank towards the city wall in horror, because they had also learned that since the release of the twenty captives in Kunyang yesterday, there was still no response from the righteous masters outside the city.

At first, ten captives were released to negotiate with the righteous master, but there was no response, and yesterday another twenty captives were released to negotiate with the righteous master, but there was no response, even the most stupid people understood that they had been given up by the so-called righteous teachers outside the city.

The thought that Kunyang would execute all of their 'worthless' captives filled them with despair.

"Huh? Will the bow be? ”

"What? Will the bow be? …… It really is. ”

"Why is Ju Qu going to be with that surnamed Le? Could it be that Juqu will take refuge in Kunyang? ”

When they found out that Ju Sheng and Le Gui were walking together, the captives looked at each other.

Some of them may be wiser, and their hearts have rekindled the hope of life.

At this time, Ju Sheng and Le Gui exchanged a look, and immediately, he walked up to the group of prisoners and said in a heavy tone: "Maybe you are all speculating at the moment, guessing whether Ju has surrendered to Kunyang, my answer is...... Be! I have surrendered to Kunyang. ”

Hearing this, the captives were in an uproar.

After all, Ju Sheng is not an ordinary righteous soldier, he is a Qu general in charge of 2,000 people, equivalent to Ma Gai, the county lieutenant of Kunyang, such a character defected to the enemy, which greatly touched this group of rebel soldiers.

"I don't have a choice."

Under the shocked gaze of those captives, Ju Sheng said solemnly: "The generals of the Changsha army have given up on us, and they have rejected the representation of the leader of Zhou Hu to 'exchange food for prisoners', and regard us as dead in battle...... As you all know, Kunyang has been trapped so far, and food is not abundant, and many people have proposed to put us to death who can no longer be exchanged for food, but only the leader of Zhou has given us hope for life...... Leader Zhou promised me that as long as we were willing to leave the past behind and fight against Kunyang, we would be free and get food. ”

He glanced at the captives present and said in a deep voice: "The righteous teacher is unrighteous and is unwilling to exchange only six months' rations for the life of a soldier, but the leader of Zhou, regardless of the difference between the enemy and us, is willing to give us hope for the rest of life...... Let me ask, are you willing to die for the righteous teacher, or for Kunyang and for the leader of Zhou? ”

“……”

The captives looked at each other.

After a brief silence, all scrambled to shout.

"I'm willing to surrender to the leader of Cheng Zhou."

"I'm willing to ......"

Seeing this, Le Gui took a step forward and began to buy people's hearts for Ju Sheng, and by the way, he smeared the rebels again: "I, Kunyang, originally planned to drive you and the rebels back to the outside of the city, you can believe that without our action, your generals and commanders will order you to be killed." The reason why you are alive is because Ju Qu will take the lead in surrendering regardless of his reputation and pleading with my Zhou Hu Chief......"

"Ju Song Will ......"

The captives looked at Ju Sheng one after another, their eyes full of gratitude.

On that day, all the captives expressed their willingness to surrender, and Le Gui ordered the ropes to be lifted from all the captives and handed over the group to Ju Sheng, who was under the command of the latter.

By noon, the captives had also been given valuable food—the same treatment as the Nanyang pawns, the Black Tiger Thieves, the county army, and the Brotherhood militia, and a salt rice ball for a meal.

Seeing the group of captives who had escaped death holding the rice balls in their hands and crying with joy, Ju Sheng let out a long sigh.

Once upon a time, he had no doubt that his righteous teacher represented 'justice', but gradually he discovered that his righteous teacher was actually no different from the army of the Jin State in some aspects.

In particular, this 'prisoner exchange' incident touched him very much.

In comparison, it seems to be Kunyang Fang, which is more benevolent.