As for the fact that Zhang Liao personally robbed the camp this night, although it was difficult for people to hear the shouts because the two camps were far away, but from a distance, the fire and light were mixed, and Yang Gu and Huang Ting also had some eyebrows in their hearts.

"Zhang Liao really deserves to be a good general of the five sons! Now that he is sixteen years old, such a general has begun to appear. ”

Huang Ting, who was standing side by side with Yang Gu on the watchtower, heard this, although he didn't know what the five good generals in Yang Gu's mouth were, but he didn't know why he seemed to be a little unconvinced, so he chuckled and asked: "What is the rate of the Yang team, do you know that the person who led the crowd to attack the camp under the slope is Zhang Liao?" ”

Yang Gu shook his head and replied with a smile: "I am not clairvoyant, so naturally I can't identify the leader as Zhang Liao, but he has already planned with me, it is a strategy to rob the camp in the dark, not to mention that I think that among the three hundred tiger soldiers, none of them can have such courage, and the only one who dares to raid with a hundred horses is this Yanmen Zhang Liao." ”

When Huang Ting heard this, his face was slightly red, and he was slightly gloomy.

"Zijun doesn't believe it?"

Huang Ting did not answer.

"You don't have to be unconvinced." Yang Gu smiled even more, and asked: "Let me ask you, if you Huang Zijun led the team, knowing that there are tens of thousands of thieves down the slope, can you dare to personally lead the soldiers under your command, personally take risks, and disturb the moth thief camp?" ”

Huang Ting's face was stunned for a moment, and he was speechless for a while, but what he thought in his heart was just to take the initiative to attack tens of thousands of troops with three hundred, so obvious to attack more with less, even if he was not afraid of death in his heart, he couldn't help but be stunned by the situation.

"Zijun, don't think about it." Yang Gu couldn't stop smiling and continued: "It's just that after you think about it for a long time, it already shows that you are not as good as Zhang Liao. ”

"It's really not as good as Zhang Liao in Xia." Huang Ting sighed, and the reason for his answer was affirmative, but he still frowned and retorted: "But even so, among the three hundred tiger soldiers, among which there are many team leaders and even military marquis, none of them can have Zhang Liao's ability?" ”

Yang Gu didn't seem to pay attention to Huang Ting anymore, just looked at the sparse firelight at the bottom of the slope, and sighed as if muttering to himself: "In this world, there are a few people who can be as capable as Zhang Liao, why can his luck be so good?" ”

Huang Ting naturally didn't know what he was talking about, and just about to ask questions, he saw that Yang Gu had already turned around, so he was about to go down the watchtower, and hurriedly said, "Team Yang is not waiting?" ”

Yang Gutou didn't look back, and said with a smile: "Waiting for a few criminals is really embarrassing, Zhang Liao has already succeeded in the night attack, and these criminals will not come back." ”

It turned out that the original intention of the two of them to climb the watchtower and look far away was not because they had already expected that Zhang Liao would rob the camp at night and find its roots, but it was just to monitor the half of the sinners who sent Huang Ting out of the camp and went to the corpse of the moth thief to collect materials. Therefore, it is not uncommon for such a futile pastime.

Huang Ting looked at Yang Gu's departing figure, and seemed to mutter, "What should I do with that." ”

……

"What should I do with that?"

The twenty-six people who collected available military supplies for Huang Ting's camp were also in a slightly higher place than the Pengtuo camp, and they could naturally see it in the light of the fire under the slope, although they didn't know who the Han army was and who the chief officer was, but in any case, the incident happened suddenly, and the situation under the slope was chaotic, which was the perfect time to escape in the dark.

Although these twenty-six criminals are not relatives, they are all villagers, whether they are grandparents, or children and grandchildren in the family, they have known each other for a long time.

I saw that the person heard the yellow-faced young man's question, looked around at the people beside him, and asked with a long sigh: "The proton in Yang Gu's hand, in addition to my own brother, which relatives and friends are there?" ”

"My brother is among them!"

"And my father!"

"With my child......"

After a moment of noisy reply, he also returned to silence, and the person who took the lead sighed again and said: "This time, I waited for the Yang Valley and Huang Ting to be expelled from the camp, and it took a lot of strength to get out of these trenches, and when we get here, if we can be lucky, or we can collect some military supplies and return to the camp, it is easy to say, if we can't ......."

Before the others finished speaking, a person beside him immediately interrupted: "How can Brother Zhang still have such thoughts, is it possible that I am a good man in Shanxi, and I really want to work hard for that Yang Gu?" ”

The big man surnamed Zhang frowned slightly, and asked suspiciously, "What do you mean?" ”

The man immediately flashed out, patted his chest and said: "According to the opinion below, this time we have escaped from the Ascension to Heaven and gone away, whether it is to vote for the Taiping Road, or to vote for the Han army, it is better than being trapped here with the Yang Valley, not to mention that there seems to be a war under the mountain this time, we will take advantage of the chaos to go, and we will definitely be able to avoid the Taiping Road or the eyes and ears of the Han army, isn't it God to help me?" ”

As soon as this remark came out, half of them echoed and opposed them, and those who echoed it did not have relatives or friends in the Yanggu camp as hostages, and those who opposed it naturally took special care of the safety of their relatives and friends who acted as protons in the camp.

After a long time, the big man surnamed Zhang raised his voice, stopped the noise of the crowd, and said slowly: "Everyone is quiet, and listen to the next word." ”

This big man surnamed Zhang is very prestigious among these villagers, under this remark, everyone was immediately silent, no longer speaking, only to see his person nodded, and then continued: "In this form, no matter what decision we make, there are still more than ten villagers and relatives and friends in the hands of Nayang Valley, subject to others, and there is always no mistake. ”

Everyone nodded again and again, and several of them thought that their relatives and friends were still in the Han army camp, and they beat their chests and sighed again and again.

The big man surnamed Zhang just glanced at these individuals, then retracted his gaze again, and said excitedly: "Since we are here to escape the war, we have traveled thousands of miles here, but just to survive, if we really leave, and no matter if your relatives and friends die under the Yang Gu knife, we will be the ones who escaped, and it will be difficult to support us for a few days without food." ”

What the Han surnamed Zhang said was really reasonable, irrefutable, and everyone heard the words, and they all said yes, even the person who suggested that he should flee for his life at the beginning also sighed and nodded, and then finally asked after a while: "But no matter what, you can't just go back, right?" At that time, won't it be up to me to wait for death and life to be decided by that Yang Gu? ”

"Not at all." Dahan surnamed Zhang hurriedly explained: "If we are as Huang Ting said, that is, after wearing the crime and making meritorious service, we will return to the Yanggu camp, although we will not die, but it is impossible for the village brothers to be reused. ”

Speaking of this, even a few slightly younger people in the crowd nodded yes, and hurriedly said: "What Brother Zhang said is good, if you blindly follow the Yang Valley to stay here, if you are besieged by moths and thieves, we and other villagers will be ordered by others, and we will be the first to meet the enemy, that is, we can still survive for now, if we take this situation seriously in the future, where can we still survive?" ”

When everyone heard this, they should be in harmony, but they saw that the big man surnamed Zhang made a gesture again, signaled everyone to be quiet, and continued: "It is precisely because of this that I thought that no matter what, once I got out of the way, I would never be able to return to the Yanggu camp. ”

"But if I don't go back to the camp, where should I go?"

"You can also defect to Taiping Dao, we are waiting for our lives, whether he is from the Han army or from the moth thief, what is the difference?"

"If we really want to defect to Taiping Dao, we are still in the Yongzhou territory, how can we run to this Yingchuan, and even more so to fight against the official army?"

"Yes, since you have reached the boundary of Yingchuan, you must not defect to Taiping Dao, these peasants of Taiping Dao, with tens of thousands of people, can not fight with the army of thousands of people in Yang Gu, although it is huge, it is difficult to resist the Han army for a long time, if he is weak in Taiping Dao, how should we deal with ourselves?"

"Regardless of the future, if Yang Gu knows that we have become a moth thief, then the relatives and friends in the camp will lose their lives immediately, and we are fellow villagers, so we must not do such an unrighteous thing."

……

The words of the big man surnamed Zhang are not even a plan, but they also opened the conversation box of more than 20 villagers on his side in an instant, but after a long time of complicated discussions, everyone is still difficult to have eyebrows, but they have reached an agreement on the future situation, but no matter what the situation is, they must not go to the Pengtuo camp under the slope, and they can not return to the Yanggu camp again, so they can not be decided, and finally they all look at the Han surnamed Zhang, hoping that they can make a decision on this matter.

The big man surnamed Zhang let everyone discuss it, and when everyone quieted down, he sighed and said, "Do you remember Zhang Liao?" ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone applauded and said yes, Zhang Liao, although he was not a fellow villager with these criminals, but he was a Shanxi man, if he defected to him, although everyone was a soldier in the Yanggu camp, but if he could explain a convincing reason, he must not turn himself away, so that he did not need to return to the Yanggu camp, and second, he did not have to go to Taiping Road to survive and live, which was really excellent.

"How did I forget about this person! Zhang Liao is the chief officer of the army personally appointed by His Royal Highness, and he has the same status as Yang Gu, and he is the same as me from Shanxi, so it is better to defect to him! ”

"Zhang Liao has always been bold and righteous, I don't know how many times better than Yang Gu, I can't wait for him to defect, or I can run for a good future, it's better than daring to die under Yang Gu."

"It is this gift, not to mention that Zhang Liao and Yang Gu are both under the leadership of His Royal Highness, I waited for his people, only Zhang Liao wrote a letter to Yang Valley, so that the relatives and friends in the camp also have to be preserved, it is simply an excellent strategy."

……

Everyone was thinking again, and they couldn't suppress their excitement for a long time, and they had to be quieted down again by the big man surnamed Zhang waving his gestures, only to see him smile and say: "Zhang Liao's small camp is behind the Yanggu camp, and it is only a moment away to find the direction, but I waited for such a reason to go, so I will definitely make others suspicious and dare not accept it......"

Before the words fell, a few impatient teenagers interrupted and asked, "Brother Zhang, you say what we should do so that Zhang Liao can accept us." ”

The big man surnamed Zhang smiled slightly, pointed to the Pengtuo camp at the bottom of the slope, and said: "The fire in the moth thief camp is scattered and chaotic, I think it was attacked by the Han army from nowhere, I will wait for this to go and lead the people to Zhang Liao's camp, if these soldiers explain the reason, how can we still worry about Zhang Liao's refusal to accept us?" ”

"But if it's just me waiting for this side, how can we say that the Han army will go to that Liao camp together?"

The big man surnamed Zhang smiled even more, turned around and pointed to the Yanggu camp, and said: "Just say that His Royal Highness's department is trapped on the slope, and the situation is difficult, how can I not persuade the Han army under the slope to go with me?" ”

"Second! Seconds! The people clapped their hands and said yes, and they set out to run to the place where the fire was shining down the slope.

"Stay!" The sergeant who had spoken out first to oppose and then returned to the Yanggu camp had not yet left the Han surnamed Zhang half a step, and when he heard his words, he thought about it for a while, and hurriedly said: "But if you lead the Han army to return to the Zhang Liao camp, but you don't see Your Highness, wouldn't it be in vain to be blamed by others and cause trouble?" ”

Liu Bian's absence in the camp is a matter known to his subordinates, but it is only known to his subordinates, as for the Huangfu Song and Zhu Yi in Xiangcheng a little farther away, or Sun Jian and Cheng Pu nearby, they all don't know anything about this matter. Afterwards, Liu Wei couldn't be found, wouldn't that be self-defeating?

The big man surnamed Zhang was very approving, nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "What kind of identity is Your Highness, how can you come and go freely, how do you have to inform us and other pawns, we just need to bite to death and don't know what happened, and it is expected that Zhang Liao and Yang Gu will not care about it." ”

The sergeant on his side was still about to ask, but he stopped his words for the big man surnamed Zhang: "Although Zhang Liao, Yang Gu, and the three hundred tiger soldiers are under the command of His Royal Highness, it is a big crime to let His Highness travel without permission. ”

In this way, everyone no longer put it on hold, they packed up one after another, and they were about to hit the road.

The big man surnamed Zhang hurriedly stopped and shouted: "And each of them cut off a few moth thief heads here, hang them around their waists, and then smear some blood on the breastplate, there must be a fighting appearance." ”

When everyone heard this, they nodded again and again, and acted according to their words.

After a long time, these twenty-six people, each with one or two moth thief heads hanging from their waists, and their clothes and armor and headdresses were covered with blood, only then did they each smile and strode down the mountain.