Mr. Shusun, the trail pioneer, should definitely hate himself for being cowardly as a mouse and greedy for life and afraid of death, and he could miss such a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

As Mr. Shusun guessed, in fact, when he first entered the city to persuade him to surrender, he was cornered by Zhao Gao's absurd orders, and Nanyang County's guard Lu Qi was already extremely shaken, but the hardliners within the Qin army were very strong, and the Nanyang Qin army also had hope of holding Wancheng, so Lu Qi calmed down, did not immediately make up his mind to surrender, and was still not very sure, he resolutely advocated taking a risk and doing his best to strive for a weak hope of success.

After venturing out of the city and suffered a fiasco, the Nanyang Qin army not only no longer had any hope of victory, but even held Wancheng was not very sure, of course, Lu Qi, who was very familiar with the current affairs, had the idea of surrendering to save his life, and it happened that Qiu An, the lieutenant of Nanyang County, who was not subordinate to Lu Qi, ran to add fuel to the fire, Leng wanted to put all the responsibility for the defeat of the night battle on Lu Qi, and also threatened to report to the imperial court, Lu Qi, who had been threatened by Zhao Gao, was furious, not only strengthened his determination to surrender, but also had murderous intentions against Qiu An.

In such a situation, Li Shiqi's persuasion to enter the city was naturally difficult to succeed, but after listening to Li Shiqi's bitter persuasion, Lu Qi left the table and bowed to Li Shiqi, showing his willingness to surrender, and then, with the help of Chen Hui and other cronies of the county guard, Lu Qi found an excuse to trick Qiu An into the county guard's mansion, cut off Qiu An's head with a knife, and then ordered his cronies to lead the army to open the city gate, and at the same time issued an order requiring the Nanyang Qin army to lay down their arms and surrender to the young marshal army. also allowed Li Shiqi to succeed in snatching the credit that should have belonged to Mr. Shusun.

The overly deliberate surrender caused a turmoil within the Qin army, and some Qin soldiers who were unwilling to surrender also spontaneously organized themselves and suddenly launched an attack on the Nanyang County Guard, and successfully rushed into the County Guard's Mansion, forcing Lü Qi and Chen Hui and others to flee over the wall. But fortunately, the young marshal's army soon sent troops to reinforce it, and Lü Yan's cronies also firmly grasped the control of the city gate, helping the young marshal's army to enter the town smoothly to suppress the chaos, and at the same time, there were many smart people in the Qin army who made the right choice, and decisively defected to help the young marshal's army suppress the Qin army soldiers who refused to surrender, Qiu An's direct subordinate Song Yang also rescued Lü Qi, who was chased by the Qin army's hardliners, in the chaos, and helped Lü Qi to hold on until the young marshal's army entered the city for reinforcements.

When the sky was slightly dark, the young marshal's army basically controlled the four gates of Wancheng and the streets in the city, killing all the Qin soldiers who refused to surrender, and the Qin soldiers who laid down their arms and surrendered also obediently went out of the city to station, waiting to accept the reorganization of the young marshal's army, and Lu Qi took his life-saving benefactors Song Yang and Chen Hui and other henchmen to visit Xiang Kang in the camp.

Or after being invited into the big tent of the Chinese army to sit down, Lu Qi knew that Xiang Kang was actually injured to greet and entertain himself, moved, Lu Qi hurriedly left the table to bow to Xiang Kang, and swore that he would be loyal to Chu State in the future, Xiang Kang also endured the pain and stepped forward to personally pick up Lu Qi, and canonized Lu Qi as Xue Hou in public, with a bounty of 3,000 and a bucket of pearls, in recognition of Lu Qi who was the first to surrender to the young marshal army as a county guard, and tried his best to persuade Lu Qi to surrender and offered a plan to kill Qiu An's henchman Chen Hui, who was also rewarded by Xiang Kang with 1,000 gold and 500 households. It was used to encourage other Qin military generals to follow his example.

Lu Qi is a person who knows a lot about Entu Bao, Xiang Kang has just finished rewarding Chen Hui, Lu Qi immediately introduced Qiu An's direct subordinate Nanyang County Lieutenant Cheng Song Yang to Xiang Kang, and said: "General Right, if it wasn't for Song Weicheng's timely rescue today, and secretly hid the criminal officer in his personal army without telling everyone, the criminal officer would definitely not be able to see you, the criminal officer is cheeky, and I implore the right general to also reward Song Weicheng with one or two, so that the subordinate can repay Song Weicheng's life-saving kindness." ”

"The reward, Song Weicheng saved Lu Junzun, helped Lu Junzun abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and surrendered the city, of course, he must be rewarded!" Xiang Kang agreed, and then said casually: "Song Weicheng, I will also reward you with 1,000 gold and 500 households, are you satisfied?" ”

"Sin will not dare to receive the reward." Song Yang hurriedly knelt down and said pretendly: "Last time on the Dajianshan Road, the guilty general ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dared to send a messenger to the north to deceive and surrender, in a vain attempt to lure the right general into a dead end, and committed an unforgivable crime. ”

"That's all in the past, at that time, each was its master, you deceived and lured the enemy, and you were also loyal to your duty, so can this general blame you?" Xiang Kang waved his hand generously, and said: "Song Weicheng doesn't have to refuse, your reward is so decided." ”

Xiang Kang was slightly surprised, Song Yang actually refused again, and said: "General Right, the sin general really doesn't dare to covet your reward, if the right general must be rewarded, then the sin will only have a small request, if the right general can be gracious and agree, the sin will be grateful." ”

"Song Weicheng has any request, just ask." Xiang Kang replied very boldly.

"The guilty general is bold, and I want to beg the right general not to pursue Yan Yan, the deputy of the county governor's mansion who went to Lixian County to deceive you last time, and if possible, please ask the right general to promote him a little." Song Yang said with sincerity on his face: "Yan Yan is the villain's general friend, but the official luck is not good, he has always been a fighting official, last time he sacrificed his life to scapego to the north to surrender, although you were recognized by the right general, but the sin general still owes him a great favor, so the sin general is willing to use his own reward, in exchange for the right general, you will not hold him accountable, give him a chance to promote." ”

Song Yang's affectionate and righteous words moved many people present, and they had a good impression of him, but Xiang Kang and Chen Ping were treacherous, but they knew that this Song Yang was just retreating, and wanted Xiang Kang and the important civil and military forces of the young marshal army to leave a deep impression on him, and put a long line to catch big fish in order to covet more wealth in the future. However, Xiang Kang didn't bother to expose Song Yang's little abacus, he just laughed and promised to pardon Song Yang's friend Yan Yan, and also named Yan Yan as the county lieutenant of Wancheng, and at the same time insisted on continuing to reward Song Yang.

The matter is not over, when Song Yang, who had fulfilled his wish, desperately thanked Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang suddenly moved in his heart, and said secretly: "This puppet is very decisive, he decisively sells the master to seek glory when the situation is not good, and he is good at forbearance, and he is quite clever, and he has a lot of use value, if I just incorporate him into my army, it will be a bit wasteful, if I use him to put a longer line, maybe I can catch bigger fish." ”

With a plan in his heart, he needed to set an example of Wancheng Qin Jun to buy people's hearts, and at the next banquet, Xiang Kang of course said all the good things to Lu Qi, Chen Hui, Song Yang and others, and tried his best to envelop them, and decided on the spot to let Lu Qi continue to serve as the county guard of Nanyang, in exchange for Lu Qi's gratitude, and took the initiative to ask for Xiang Kang to persuade other cities in Nanyang to surrender on their own initiative, Xiang Kang thanked him with a smile, and dispersed with Lu Qi and others.

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When Xiang Kang set up a banquet in the young marshal's military camp to entertain Lu Qi and others, he had already set his eyes on Qi Gill, who was guarding the position of Nanyang County, and once again came to his daughter Qi Min's sleeping tent, first drove away the maids in the tent, and then told Qi Min that Xiang Kang had beaten his own military stick today in order to maintain military discipline, Qi Min was of course very surprised, and said: "Ah Weng, that right general of Chu named Xiang Kang is really so strict, just because he may affect the reputation of the Chu army, he actually beat his own military stick?" ”

"General Right is leading by example and not giving his subordinates the opportunity to make excuses for violating military discipline." Qi Gill explained, and sighed and said: "Ah Weng went to visit him today, he was seriously injured, he didn't even dare to move when he was lying on the couch, and he even got up to preside over the acceptance of the surrender of the violent Qin army out of the city, and he had to be carried by people." ”

Qi Min was silent, very puzzled why his father told the stupid fat son Xiang Kang's current situation, but Qi Gill peeked at his daughter's expression, and suddenly asked: "Min'er, what is your impression of Xiang Kang, the right general of Chu State?" ”

"My daughter didn't see him, he sent his men to bring her into his camp that day, and he never showed up since, so he didn't see him."

Qi Min's truthful answer made Qi Gill dumbfounded, and also made Qi Gill suddenly understand something, and said in his heart that this was the case, no wonder Xiang Kang Xiao'er was so mean to me, it turned out that he had never seen the old man's beautiful daughter at all! And after waking up, Qi Gill thought about it, suddenly gritted his teeth, and said: "Min'er, Ah Weng still has some things to ask you, tomorrow you go to visit Xiang Kang, the right general of the Chu State, if he is still unable to move, you can stay there and take care of him for a few days." ”

"What?" Qi Min almost thought that he had misheard, and asked in surprise: "Ah Weng, do you want me to visit Xiang Kang, the right general of the Chu State, and stay there to take care of him for a few days?" ”

"That's right." Qi Gill nodded cheekily, and said: "There is another very important thing, the tyrannical Qin army in Wancheng has taken the initiative to surrender today, and the right general is going to appoint a new Nanyang county guard, you take the opportunity to take care of him, help Ah Weng tell him, let him appoint Ah Weng and me as the Nanyang county guard." ”

Qi Min is not stupid, after listening to his father's words, he quickly came to his senses, and said with wide eyes: "Ah Weng, do you want your daughter to use beauty tricks, sacrifice your daughter's innocence, and change the position of Nanyang County Guard for you?" ”

"Min'er, don't say it so ugly, why sacrifice your innocence?" Qi Gill said cheekily: "You are not small, it's time to find a good family, Xiang Kang, the right general of Chu State, is not only a high and powerful person, but also a talent, although he already has a wife, but the dignitary in the world is not three wives and four concubines?" If you can achieve good things with him, Ah Weng won't have to worry about the rest of your life. ”

"I don't want it!" Qi Minqiao's face turned red, and he said angrily: "I don't covet any glory and wealth, and I don't want to use myself to curry favor with the right general of the Chu State in a low voice!" ”

Opposition is useless, Qi Gill knows very well that Xiang Kang will not let himself be the Nanyang County Guard, and the young marshal army will definitely not have anyone to help him speak, for the throne of the Nanyang County Guard, the greedy Qi Gill in addition to repeatedly persuading his daughter, also put up his father's shelf, asking Qi Min to follow the custom that the marriage of children in this era is decided by the father, forcing Qi Min to seduce Xiang Kang, and no matter how Qi Min pleaded and cried, he refused to change his words, and finally was annoyed by his daughter's crying, Qi Gill also yelled a few times: "It's decided!" Whether you like it or not, tomorrow you have to visit General You, and you have to stay there to take care of him! Ah Weng is for your good, in the future, you will be sensible, you will only thank me, you will not hate me! ”

After the roar, Qi Gill flicked his sleeves and got up and left, leaving Qi Min to cry in the tent all night, but no matter how much he cried, it was useless, and in the morning of the next day, Qi Gill personally came to force Qi Min to freshen up and dress up, and went to the camp to visit Xiang Kang, who was injured, Qi Min begged for uselessness, and finally was forced by Qi Gill to freshen up and change clothes, and went to do beauty for his father with tears in his eyes. Qi Gill refused to rest assured, and personally took his daughter to the camp, not giving her a chance to escape halfway.

The moment he was dragged by Qi Gill to the door of the young marshal's military camp, Qi Min couldn't help but burst into tears again, and couldn't help but think of the handsome and elegant young man, and his heart was sad, "If he knew what I was going to do next, he would definitely look down on me forever, right?" ”

Maybe it was the heavens that opened his eyes, Qi Gill stepped forward to explain his intention to the young marshal soldiers guarding the camp gate, claiming that he was bringing his daughter to visit Xiang Kang, and after a while, the young marshal soldiers who went to pass the word came back and said: "Captain Qi, our right general said that he understands your kindness, but he is very busy now and has no time to see you, please go back and rest first, and when our soldiers finish counting the money and food in Wancheng, they will naturally send you what you deserve." ”

"Please ask the sergeant to report again, and say that I am not here for money and food this time." Qi Gill refused to give up, and pointed to his daughter next to him, and said: "It's my daughter, she heard that General Right punished herself with a military stick for her business, and she was so sad that she cried all night last night, and she must see with your own eyes General You's current situation." So I don't have to go in, just ask General Right to let my daughter meet him. ”

Seeing that the delicate and touching Qi Min was indeed crying pitifully, the young marshal sergeant in charge of communication softened in his heart, still nodded, and went in for Qi Gill and his daughter to pass the message, but what made Qi Min even more sad was that the stupid fat man Xiang Kang was really deceived by his father's lies, and changed his mouth and promised to let Qi Gill and his daughter go in to meet, Qi Gill was overjoyed when he heard it, and hurriedly pulled his daughter into the camp again, and under the guidance of the young marshal sergeant, he came directly to Xiang Kang's sleeping tent.

After waiting outside the sleeping tent for a while, Xiang Kang, who was busy with official business, ordered to invite Qi Gill's father and daughter to meet him, Qi Gill was afraid of getting in the way for his daughter, so he hurriedly claimed that he didn't want to disturb Xiang Kang, and only let his daughter go in alone, and also looked at Qi Min's envoy who killed chickens and wiped his neck, Qi Min was forced to have no choice, so he had to approach Xiang Kang's stupid fat man's sleeping tent silently with tears under the guidance of Xiang Kang's personal soldiers - fortunately, this scene was not seen by the young man Qi Min liked, and Qi Min's heart was a little relieved.

It was noon, and the light in Xiang Kang's bedroom was quite bright, but Qi Min didn't dare to raise his head at all, maintaining a posture of looking at his nose and nose, and walked to Xiang Kang, who was reading the official document on his stomach, bowed down, and said in a hoarse voice: "The little girl Qi Min has seen the right general of Chu State." ”

"You're welcome, girl, please get up and sit down."

The familiar voice suddenly came into Qi Min's ears, Qi Min's heart shook violently, and he subconsciously looked up, but saw that the handsome young man he had often thought of in the past few days was lying on the couch in the tent looking at the official document, and then Qi Min suddenly exclaimed, "You? Are you Xiang Kang, the right general of the Chu State?! ”

"I'm Xiang Kang." Xiang Kang was confused, turned his head and asked, "We've met a few times, don't you know my identity, girl?" ”

A complicated expression appeared on Qi Min's pretty face, at that moment, Qi Min wanted to laugh and cry loudly, his heart tasted in a variety of ways, his lips trembled, and two lines of tears came out of his eyes again, and he said in his heart: "You bad person, you deceived me so badly!" ”

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At this time, outside Xiang Kang's sleeping tent, Qi Gill was of course scratching his heart with a hundred claws, restless, for fear that his daughter would refuse to be obedient and refuse to tempt Xiang Kang with beauty, which would ruin his good deeds, and he was so anxious that he wanted to rush into Xiang Kang's bedroom to check the situation. Then after a period of time, just when Qi Gill became more and more unable to hold his breath, Zhou Zeng, a young marshal and important minister known to Qi Gill, suddenly led an old man in his fifties over, Qi Gill had no choice but to step forward to salute, Zhou Zeng returned the salute and asked casually: "What is the matter with Captain Qi here?" If you're in a hurry, do you want me to go in and do you want to do it for you? ”

"No hurry, no hurry." Qi Gill hurriedly shook his head, and said: "I accompanied my daughter to visit General You, my unfilial daughter heard that General Right beat her own military stick for her, and she was injured and had difficulty moving, so she insisted that she must come to visit General Right in person, I couldn't resist her, so I had to bring her, she had already gone in, and she should still be talking to General You." ”

"I see." Zhou Zeng smiled, turned to the old man next to him and said, "Lu Junzun, General Right is meeting guests, let's wait a while before going in." ”

When Lu Qi nodded with a smile, Qi Gill had already heard that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked Zhou Zeng: "Zhou Sacrifice Wine, could it be that this old gentleman is the Tyrannical Nanyang County Shou Lu Junzun?" ”

"Exactly." Zhou Zeng nodded, and said casually: "However, Lu Junzun is no longer the Nanyang County Guard of the Tyrannical Qin, but the Nanyang County Guard of our Chu State, after he led the people to surrender last night, our right general has already made him the Nanyang County Guard of our Chu State." ”

"General Right directly asked Lu Junzun to continue to be the Nanyang County Guard of Chu State?" Qi Gill almost doubted his ears, and blurted out, "He's an official of Tyranny Qin?" How can he continue to serve as the county lord of Nanyang? ”

Hear this. Of course, Lu Yan's expression was extremely embarrassed, but Zhou Zeng laughed and said: "Captain Qi, it seems that you don't know our right general too well, our right general has always been to use people without suspicion, and suspects don't need to be suspicious, under the command of the right general, not only Lu Junzun used to be an official of Tyrannical Qin, but I also used to be the county commander of Tyranny Qin, and General Chao Zhichao, who assisted our right general to lead the Chinese army, was also a county lieutenant of Tyranny Qin, and we county commanders and county lieutenants can still be reused by General Right, not to mention the respect of a county like Lu Junshou?" ”

I really don't know Zhou Zeng's former identity, Qi Gill inevitably opened his mouth completely, and it was also a coincidence that at this time, Qi Min suddenly walked out of Xiang Kang's bed, Zhou Zeng hurriedly said a polite word to Qi Gill, and then led Lu Qi in to report military affairs to Xiang Kang. And after Qi Gill finally came back to his senses, of course, he immediately pulled up his daughter and said, "Min'er, let's go, let's go back." ”

Qi Min shook off his father's pull, his pretty little face was full of disgust, and said, "Ah Weng, where are you pulling me?" Didn't you want me to stay and take care of General Right for a few days? Why did you change your mind and pull me back right away? ”

"Don't waste time." Qi Gill said in a low voice: "There are already people in Nanyang County, Ah Weng, I don't have any hope, you don't have to waste any more time." ”

"But General Right has promised to let me stay and take care of him for a few days." Qi Min's voice was full of complaints, and said: "It was not easy for people to ask for the right general's consent, and now they regret leaving again, how can I explain to the right general?" ”

"Already agreed." Qi Gill was dumbfounded again.

"Well, yes." Qi Min nodded, and then said: "Ah Weng, you go back first, Qing'er and Si'er stay to help me, and I'll go back when General You's injuries are better." Also, the things I used to groom and the clothes I changed, you sent someone to deliver them earlier. ”

After speaking, Qi Min also pulled up the two maids she brought, asked Xiang Kang's personal soldiers outside the tent to lead the way, and went to the military tent arranged for her by Xiang Kang to stay, ready to take care of the injured Xiang Kang at any time, leaving Qi Gill to stammer in place, not knowing how the matter should end.

By the way, two days later, a sensational incident happened in Wancheng, that is, Song Yang, the lieutenant of Nanyang County, who had already surrendered to the young marshal army with Lu Qi, suddenly fled at night with his friend Yan Yan and more than a dozen personal soldiers, and left a letter to mock Xiang Kang, saying that he surrendered just to save his useful body, and threatened to avenge his direct boss Qiu An on the battlefield in the future. Xiang Kang was furious when he saw the letter, and immediately issued a sea fishing document, vowing to capture Song Yangsheng alive who dared to play tricks on him, and execute the car crack!

By the way, when the Wancheng Qin army surrendered, Song Yang rescued Lu Yan in the chaos, and Xiang Kang once promised to make Song Yang's friend Yan Yan the county lieutenant of Wancheng, but I don't know what the reason is, it has not been spread, and the few people who know the inside story are still silent and never mention these things again.