Chapter 45: Soul Eater
Zhu Gang and Yu Si have been waiting for Yuji to come out in the palace. Yu Ji didn't show up for a long time, and the two didn't dare to go in to disturb them, so they kept waiting outside. Yu San also came back from the city, his face was cold and abnormal, he glanced at Yu Si and Zhu Gang, didn't say a word, and found a seat to sit down at random. Yu Si wanted to say something to Yu San, but he knew that Yu San had just been beaten into the Blood Corpse Order, and he would definitely not be in a good mood at the moment, so he was silent.
The fog outside the city is getting thicker and thicker, the garrison sergeants see the black fog, they are also extremely panicked, they are some lazy sergeants, at first Zhu Gang promised to be prosperous and rich afterwards, now they see that the city is so weird, and there are many garrisons who have become puppets, they no longer care about the so-called glory, they just want to escape from Anhuikou, but Wankou has become a lonely city, and now they can only hope to protect themselves, and leave immediately when the fog dissipates. Nearly 2,000 garrisons were hiding in their tents, and even with Zhu Gang's orders, they were reluctant to leave the camp even a step.
Zhu Gang took refuge in the Jiuli clan, but also forced to be helpless, he served as the chief general of the garrison in Anhui for a long time, and secretly sold a lot of military supplies to the Western Wei and Northern Qin to profit from it, Yuji seized this point, threatened him to obey, and promised to keep him safe afterwards, and let him go to Southern Chu to serve, and then give a sum of money. Zhu Gang had no choice but to agree, but he regretted it at the moment.
Yuji finally came out of the inner hall at noon, and he first asked Yu San if he had the whereabouts of Sun Lin and the others, and Yu San shook his head. Yu Ji looked displeased, turned to Zhu Gang, and asked, "General Zhu, let the garrison also look for it." Zhu Gang agreed, turned around and hurriedly left the mansion.
Sun Lin and the three of them rested for most of the day, recovered a little, and saw that the sky was filled with black fog, and the noon of Anhui was like evening. Feng Xunzhi sighed helplessly and said, "I don't know if I can go back." Sun Lin was silent, he thought of Dong Yun and Chen Fan, the second senior brother didn't know where he was at the moment, if he was here, he would be able to do more. Yuan Mutou is different from the two, he was adopted by Zeng Tianlin since he was a child, grew up in the army, and was instilled with the idea of not admitting defeat since he was a child.
Yuan Mutou has been thinking about a question, Zhu Gang has taken refuge in Jiuli, but with so many garrisons under him, is he willing to become a puppet at the mercy of others. He proposed to go to the garrison barracks, Sun Lin and Feng Xun knew that there was no other way at the moment, so they might as well go to the barracks to give it a try. The three of them rested for a while, and then secretly left the courtyard and went to the garrison barracks.
Zhu Gang returned to the barracks and instructed the sergeants to search for Sun Lin, Feng Xunzhi and Yuan Mutou in the city, but many of the garrisons remained motionless, and no one wanted to go out in case they ran into those blood curse puppets. Zhu Gang was extremely angry, and after several orders, no garrison was willing to leave the camp, so he pulled out his big knife and made a gesture to kill the disobedient sergeant. Who knew that several leading sergeants suddenly rushed out, and an officer yelled at Zhu Gang: "Zhu Gang, forget it if you collude with evil spirits yourself, and you have killed so many brothers, and now you want us to go out to help the demons, don't think about it, if you have the ability, you will kill us all." Zhu Gang's face was red, and he roared angrily: "You are bloody at this time, haven't you come to me to eat military pay for so many years to avoid the scourge of war, and after eating for so many years, it's time to do something for Lao Tzu." ”
When the sergeants heard Zhu Gang say this, they all rushed over, and a few of them even drew their blades. Seeing this, several of Zhu Gang's entourage cronies hurriedly stepped forward to stop them, and when they saw that the army was about to mutiny, Zhu Gang quickly changed his tone and shouted: "Don't mess up, listen to me, listen to me." The sergeants did not relent, Zhu Gang suddenly turned around and cut off the military flag of the garrison with a big knife, the sergeants saw the military flag slowly fall to the ground, and were stunned for a while, Zhu Gang put away the knife, and said loudly to the sergeants: "I know that everyone is a soldier to eat, no one wants to die, over the years, what have we done secretly, I think you all know in your hearts, as long as you press a random charge of collaborating with the enemy, my head will fall to the ground immediately, and everyone will be implicated, and it is impossible to live in peace again, I know, You all hate these people, and so do I, but for now we can only let it go, and I promise you that if I have the chance, I will definitely take you away, you want to live, I am the same as any of you, listen to me, survival is more important than anything else. ”
Zhu Gang's words quieted down the sergeants below, and for these sergeants, the only wish at this moment was to leave Anhui alive. Several officers whispered a few words in private, and in the crowd, someone shouted at the beginning: "Zhu Gang, don't lie to us." ”
"I promise you that I will take you out of here as soon as I have the chance." Zhu Gang's words were very sincere.
The sergeants retreated one after another, and several officers led several teams of sergeants out of the camp to search for Sun Lin and the others. As soon as Zhu saw the sergeants leaving the camp, he didn't want to go back to the palace to face Yuji's people, so he stayed in the camp. He summoned some food and drink, and drank it alone in the tent.
Maybe it was because he was in a bad mood, Zhu Gang drank a lot, and it didn't take long for him to get a little drunk, and he didn't care what was going on outside, so he fell asleep. When the entourage saw that Zhu Gang was drunk, they didn't pay much attention to it, so they went to their own barracks to rest for a while, and then returned to the mansion when Zhu Gang woke up.
Sun Lin and the three of them quietly came to the garrison barracks, and along the way, in order to avoid the sergeants who were searching for them, they made a detour and came to the barracks, and the sky was already a little gray. The sergeants of the garrison were all gathered in their respective camps, and there were a few patrol sergeants here and there. Yuan Mutou found Zhu Gang's main general's tent at a glance, and found that there were guard sergeants outside the tent, and he expected Zhu Gang to be in the main tent at this moment. The three of them then sneaked over, Feng Xunzhi and Sun Lin shot very quickly, stepped forward and silently stunned the two guards, and the three turned around and slipped into the camp. Zhu Gang was still asleep at the moment, Yuan Mutou stepped over, grabbed Zhu Gang's collar with one hand, and picked him up.
Zhu Gang was in a sweet dream, and was suddenly grabbed by someone, and the whole person suddenly woke up, and most of the drunk woke up. When he opened his eyes and saw that the person who grabbed him was Yuan Mutou, the wine had completely woken up, and he immediately wanted to shout. Yuan Mutou used his strength in his hands, and Zhu Gang only felt that his breath was stagnant, and he couldn't make any sound in his throat. Sun Lin and Feng Xunzhi were guarding the door of the tent in case anyone came.
Yuan Mutou whispered to Zhu Gang: "Don't make noise. ”
Zhu Gang was suffocated, his face was already a little pale, and he kept nodding his head. Yuan Mutou finally let him go. Zhu Gang fell to his knees and gasped for breath.
Yuan Mutou said fiercely: "Scum! ”
Zhu Gang eased up a little, and hurriedly kowtowed to the three of them, and kept shouting: "Spare your life, spare your life, General Sun, tell your friend not to kill me." ”
Sun Lin looked at Zhu Gang, did not speak, and turned his head to look outside the tent.
Yuan Mutou picked up Zhu Gang again and said coldly: "Why do you want to help Jiuli? ”
Zhu Gang was aggrieved, already crying, and shook his head and said: "I was forced, I was really forced, they knew that I was smuggling military supplies to the Western Wei Dynasty and forced me to comply." ”
Yuan Mutou was stunned for a moment when he heard the Western Wei, let go of Zhu Gang, everyone was their own master, and he didn't expect that he was still doing munitions business with the Western Wei, so there must be people in the Western Wei army who were trading goods to Dongyue at the same time, but now is not the time to pursue these. Yuan Mutou asked Zhu Gang: "What is the purpose of Yuji's gang?" ”
Zhu Gang's life was hanging by a thread at the moment, he didn't dare to make a mistake, and hurriedly replied: "Yuji They asked me to cooperate with the placement of ** in the designated position, saying that they wanted to occupy Anhui first, and then plot to Dongyue, it is said that there are also their people in the capital of Dongyue." Hearing these words, Sun Lin was a little shocked, Dong Yun, Mo Buyu, and Mo Liu should all be in Jianye at the moment, and they don't know what their situation is. Feng Xunzhi asked on the side: "The black fog over this Wankou has something to do with your **." Zhu Gang said with an aggrieved expression: "I just buried the ** in the designated position, as for the formation of this black fog is Yuji's gang, I don't know." ”
"How do you leave?" Yuan Mutou continued to ask.
"I can't get out, I really can't get out, I didn't lie to you, I only saw the rain sacrifice black gas to resist, and the rest of the people were corroded by the black water inside as soon as they entered the black fog, believe me, I also want to go out." When Zhu Gang said these words, his tone was quite honest, and he also wanted to leave Anhuikou, so he secretly tried it, and the result can be imagined.
Sun Lin heard Zhu Gang say the formation, and he asked Zhu Gang: "Then what kind of formation are these black fogs, do you know?" ”
"I don't understand this, I only heard Yu San and Yu Si say what fierce beasts they are, I really don't know what this ghost array is." After Zhu Gang said this, Sun Lin thought for a moment, it seemed that Zhu Gang really didn't understand, as for the fierce beasts, he faintly thought of a famous fierce array hundreds of years ago, the four fierce beast soul devouring arrays of gluttony, Qiqi, Hanqi, and Chaos. But this is only recorded in ancient books, the book describes that the four fierce beasts were exiled to the Quartet by Emperor Shun to resist the charm, so in later generations, some people used the four fierce beasts to set up a formation in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, which can resist attacks on the outside, and cause chaos on the inside, which is generally used to isolate a specific area independently, but this formation drive requires a large amount of turbid gas, which is why there will be chaos within the formation, and the fastest way to cause turbidity is **, the explosion makes the surrounding beings shatter and dissipate, then the turbid gas will naturally appear. Sun Lin thought about the current situation in Wankou, which was indeed somewhat similar to the four fierce beast soul devouring arrays. However, there is no such thing as black water corrosion. It seems that this formation is quite strange.
Yuan Mutou and Feng Xunzhi were a little disappointed when they heard this, this Zhu Gang was also used by Jiuli, but he still harmed a lot of his own sergeants, which was really hateful. Sun Lin slowly walked towards Zhu Gang and said quite calmly: "You also want to leave here?" ”
"Yes, yes, I really want to go, and I don't want to be their accomplice." Zhu Gang saw Sun Lin say this, and quickly stated his position, he continued: "Today I also told my brothers that I will take everyone out of here and leave Dongyue as soon as I have the opportunity, and I also want to live." After saying this, Zhu Gang actually cried. Yuan Mutou and Feng Xun understood Sun Lin's intentions, so they won over Zhu Gang, gathered the garrison and Yuji to fight, and maybe there was a chance to leave. Although Yuan Mutou hated Zhu Gang very much for being a scum in the army, he was in Dongyue at the moment, and he was deep in Anhui, so he silently stepped aside and asked Sun Lin to persuade Zhu Gang.
The guard sergeant outside the main general's tent disappeared, and it was not long before he was discovered by the garrison, and several officers led a number of sergeants and hurried over. Feng Xunzhi saw someone coming over, called Yuan Mutou, and the two of them were ambushed behind the camp door, ready to strike at any time.
"If you believe us, lead the garrison to join me and others to destroy Yuji's gang." When Sun Lin said this, his eyes were extremely cold, which was quite different from his usual eyes.
Zhu Gang was a little shocked by Sun Lin's eyes, he didn't dare to look directly, lowered his head, and didn't say a word.
Several officers rushed into the main general's camp, and saw Zhu Gang kneeling on the ground, and there was a young man standing in front of him, it was Sun Lin, the general of Zhonglang, and immediately pulled out his knife, Feng Xunzhi and Yuan Mutou moved very fast, and shot at the same time, restraining the two officers who were walking in front, but then the sergeants all pulled out their blades one after another, and surrounded the three of them and Zhu Gang.
Just as everyone was about to make a move, Zhu Gang lowered his head and suddenly shouted, "Stop." ”