On the second day after Dong Zhuo's army occupied Chenggucheng, Kang Peng ordered to summon the local gentry, the people of the city and the prisoners captured by the first day to the open space outside the city, and he wanted to meet them in person.

Today's weather is very good, the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing warmly, the withered yellow leaves are mixed with the strong wind and flying, but it does not make people feel Xiao Ying, the sky is blue, although there is still some blood in the air, but it is still fresh, it is a good day for people to be happy in autumn. But the people of Chenggu were not in a good mood, because in front of them, in front of the eyes of the people of the whole city, the captives of the Hanzhong army were digging a big pit, a wide and deep pit. What do you do when you dig a pit? I believe that the people of Chenggu have also heard of Dong Taishi's methods of dealing with the Qiang people, do you think the people of Chenggu can still be happy?

"Father, is this going to bury us alive?" In the bustling crowd, a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old half-year-old man trembled and whispered to his father, "Father, what should we do?" ”

Although his father was more afraid than him, he still comforted his son and said: "Don't be afraid, listen to the businessman from Chang'an, Taishi's temper has changed a lot, not like the previous casual killing, the killing is also Qiang, it is still very good for our Han people." The father took out a blue and white porcelain bowl from his bosom, "Look at this bowl, yesterday I was the first in the city to go up to offer wine to the army of the Taishi, and this bowl was used. ”

The young man was a little relieved, but his mother hugged his six-year-old sister and scolded: "Old immortal, throw away that broken bowl, the military master just said casually, yesterday was messing around, the military master will still remember you old immortal?" Do you want to thank you again? ”

The young man's father was in a hurry, "What do the women know, I just want to thank them again, I just hope that when the military master and they will bury people alive, they will spare our family......"

The young man's father couldn't say anything more than halfway through, and Dong Zhuojun, who was neatly arranged in the wilderness, suddenly gave way to a road, and surrounded by a large number of majestic soldiers in bright armor, a tall black horse carried an ugly and vicious-looking old man who was as fat as a meat ball and slowly walked into the circle.

The same as when Kang Peng met with the prisoners of the coalition forces in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, Dong Boss's extremely lethal face made the already panicked Chenggu people and the prisoners of the Hanzhong Army even more frightened, and many children were so frightened that they cried loudly on the spot, but fortunately, Kang Peng had long been accustomed to the fact that he could stop his ugly face from crying at night, and he was not as embarrassed as in the Tiger Prison Pass and Luoshui, but calmly walked on the high platform that had been built in the wilderness. It can be seen that after Kang Peng came to this era, not only did his mind mature a lot, but even the thickness of his face increased a lot.

Kang Peng picked up a copper trumpet, tore open his broken gong and shouted: "Fellow villagers of Chenggu, I am Taishi Dong Zhuo, I have come here today to liberate you from the hands of the cult Advocate Lu. ”

Kang Peng said this is a little shameless, Hanzhong is known as the small Jiangnan in the northwest, the folk life is rich, it is the granary of the northwest, although Zhang Lu is incompetent in the military, but he does have a set in the development of the economy, for the government and close to the people, not tyrannical, the people are attached, and also in the traffic fortress to place righteous rice, righteous meat, for refugees, travelers free food and accommodation, faintly there is the shadow of primitive communism, it is really a paradise in this war-torn era. And Kang Peng, for his selfish interests, did not hesitate to use swords and soldiers to forcibly occupy Hanzhong, causing misery, and now he calls himself a liberator, which has to be admired for the thickness of his skin.

Having said that, under the delay of Dong Zhuojun's soldiers raising knives and guns, no one among the people of Chenggu dared to accuse Kang Peng of shamelessness in person, at most he just cursed in his heart. In the wilderness of Nuoda, only Kang Peng's broken gong voice echoed, "Benxiang came to rescue you and let you get rid of the tyranny and abuse of the rice thief, but there is a group of people who help the rice thief and try to prevent the army of Benxiang from liberating you." Kang Peng pointed at the captives and continued to roar: "The most unforgivable thing is that they dare to kill the soldiers of their own appearance, they deserve death!" ”

Kang Peng's murderous words caused a commotion among the prisoners of the Hanzhong army, many of whom were frightened, and some struggled to escape, but after Dong Zhuojun cut off the heads of several captives who took the lead in escaping on the spot, the commotion was quickly suppressed. Kang Peng didn't pay attention to the unarmed captives killed by his subordinates there, but turned the object of his roar to the people of Chenggu, "And among you people, there are also some people who refuse to accept the good deeds of the Prime Minister to liberate you, because it will infringe on their interests, their interests and Zhang Lu's!" So they contributed money and efforts to fund Zhang Lu to rebel against Benxiang, and indirectly killed Benxiang's soldiers, and they deserved to die! ”

Speaking of which, Kang Peng deliberately put on a ferocious appearance, wanting to scare the people of Chenggu half to death first, in fact, he didn't have to spend so much effort at all, his portrait could be used to ward off evil spirits, even the bravest warriors would be frightened, not to mention the cowardly people? In the blink of an eye, nearly 100 big girls and daughters-in-law were scared and fainted on the spot, and the children were scared and cried.

The young man who began to speak was even more panicked, and repeatedly pulled his father's tattered sleeve, and said with a crying voice: "Father, it seems that we are going to die today, what should we do now?" His father's confidence, which was still full of confidence at the beginning, was also shaken, "Xiaoshao, when you bury us alive, you can escape with your sister, and if you can't escape, our whole family will die together." ”

Hearing his father's words, the half-grown young man named Xiaoshao cried on the spot, and the people around him began to cry loudly, and for a while, there was a mourning in the wilderness.

Kang Peng looked at the people and prisoners who were crying below, nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to roar: "Catch the prisoners who had the blood of our soldiers on their hands yesterday, as well as the people who paid to fund the rice thieves, and drag them to the front of the prime minister!" ”

Kang Peng gave an order, a team of Dong Zhuojun rushed into the prisoners and the crowd of people like wolves, punching and kicking people out, it is very strange that in yesterday's battle, Dong Zhuojun killed less than 500 soldiers, although there were thousands of wounded, but Dong Zhuojun has a large number of military doctors personally trained by bad miracle doctors, the medicine is even more sufficient, the mortality rate is certainly not high, but the prisoners of the Hanzhong Army who can be dragged out and are thought to have the blood of Dong Zhuojun's soldiers on their hands are close to 2,000 people, so it can be concluded that there is a conclusion, The education system that Kang Peng vigorously pursued was very unsuccessful, at least his generals and soldiers were not even able to count. And the people who were pulled out of the common people and were considered guilty of heinous crimes were almost all well-dressed and fat landlords, that is, fat sheep in the mouths of robbers and kidnappers. Only a very small number of noble landlords were spared, but these lucky people were also so frightened that their faces were no different from those of the dead.

Kang Peng glanced at the captives and landlords who were dragged out and knelt next to the pit crying and crying for injustice, his lips with a messy beard moved lightly, and he spit out a cold sentence, "Buried alive." "Kang Peng didn't know that many of the people he ordered to be executed were wronged, and many of those who escaped the net, but what Kang Peng wanted was the effect of killing people and establishing authority, and he didn't want to do the stupid thing of catching the princes of the Eighteenth Route and executing them endlessly. Ci is not in charge of the army, if he does not come up with iron-blooded means to deter the Quartet, and is merciful to the enemy, then the enemy will not be merciful to his side.

In the earth-shattering cry, nearly 2,000 captives and innocent people were pushed into the pit by Dong Zhuojun, and many of the people in Chenggu were stunned on the spot, and Kang Peng also quietly closed his eyes, unwilling to see the tragic scene. In the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, no war is just, whether it is Cao Cao, who was called a traitor by later generations, or Liu Bei, who is orthodox in the Han Dynasty, they started the war for their own power and ambition, not really for the sake of the people of the world. And who deserves to die? After Kang Peng was in the position of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, although he couldn't bear it, he still couldn't help but embark on the road of indiscriminate killing, countering violence against innocents, and using war to stop a bigger war.

When the crying voice completely disappeared, Kang Peng opened his eyes, looked back and quietly wiped away the tears that had burst out of his eyes, and then looked back and shouted: "See? This is the fate of resisting my righteous king, who of you will dare to hook up with the rice thief in the future, and I won't care how many more people I kill! ”

There was silence in the wilderness, and the people of Chenggu heard that the demon king in front of them had the intention of sparing them, and they dared to disturb the good mood of the demon king, and even the children who were scared to cry were tightly covered by their mothers to prevent them from crying.

Kang Peng shouted again: "Those who have transgressed will be punished!" Of course, those who have made meritorious contributions to their own appearance must also be rewarded. Kang Peng shook his head at Jia Xu, and Jia Xu immediately took out a list from his arms and read it aloud: "The person who reads the name comes out, and the Taishi will reward you, Yang Qi, Wang Sha, Kang Dong......"

Although the people who were read on the list were suspicious of the Demon King's words to reward them, they didn't make any credit to Dong Zhuojun? But he still knelt in front obediently, for fear of upsetting the demon king, and the possible good thing would become a real bad thing. Finally waited for Jia Xu to finish reading the list of Kang Peng's lots last night, and more than 20 people had knelt down before the high platform where Kang Peng was standing, most of them were small landlords and shabby clans in the city, and they were all not very happy under Zhang Lu's rule, and these people were also the targets that Kang Peng wanted to focus on. There are also a few landlords who were originally mixed up, and now they are lucky to be caught by Kang Peng.

Kang Peng put on a smiling face, although it was still so terrifying, and praised: "You are very good, you can take the initiative to report to the army of the prime minister, and when the prime minister attacked the city, he should cooperate with the outside to help the prime minister successfully break through the city, and the prime minister will definitely not treat you badly!" Kang Peng was talking nonsense on the stage, but the Shilin and landlords in the audience were confused, when did he help Dong Zhuojun do these things? But these people are also quite discerning, and no one is uninterested in admitting that they have not made meritorious contributions.

Kang Peng talked nonsense, and finally cleared his throat, "You are very good, each of you will be rewarded with 500 acres of fertile land and 1,000 gold coins, and the families of the criminals who were killed by Ben just now who helped the rice thieves to abuse will also be rewarded to you as slaves." Also, I will reward each of you with a thousand catties of auspicious gods! ”

As soon as Kang Peng's words fell, there was an uproar among the people of Chenggu, this reward was too heavy, and the lucky ones kneeling in the audience were even more eyes glowing outside, and they kowtowed to Kang Peng again and again, and a few fat landlords jumped up and shouted, "Long live Taishi!" Long live the Taishi! ”

Kang Peng waved his hand, and a group of soldiers carried the rewarded gold coins in front of those lucky ones, and opened them in public, and the yellow and clear gold was reflected in the sun, causing another uproar in the crowd. Kang Peng saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart, what he wanted was this effect, a stick and dates, and both grace and power, so that no one in Dong Zhuojun's future battles would dare to resist with all his might, and more people would take the initiative to take refuge in themselves, and if they defeated the previous batch of vested groups, they would support a new batch of vested groups, and the new batch of vested groups would follow themselves with all their hearts in order to keep their interests, and their rule over the newly occupied areas could be maintained. What's more, these rewards are Kang Pengkang's anger, the land money and grain in the hands of the landlord Shilin he just killed are far more than this amount, and these rewards are just a drop in the bucket, as well as those good breeds, Kang Peng originally planned to promote them in the newly occupied areas, but it was just a favor.

In the thousands of thanks of those lucky people, Kang Peng shouted at the remaining prisoners of the Hanzhong army: "You are not bad, when the army of the prime minister broke the city, you did not resist to the end, and took the initiative to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, which is rare, I will spare your life today, I hope you will not help the rice thief in the future, otherwise the prime minister will not be spared!" Kang Peng paused for a moment and continued: "Among you, those who are willing to participate in the army of Benxiang will be treated the same as the Xiliang Army, and they will be rewarded for meritorious service, and they will be given five acres of fertile land after being discharged from the army; Those who do not want to participate will be given two acres of land per person and go home to farm. Kang Peng played another trick, he didn't say what land to give to the prisoners who did not want to join his army, as for whether they would get good land or wasteland, it depended on their performance.

"Long live Master Dong!" I don't know who among the captives took the lead in shouting, followed by miscellaneous shouts, "Long live Taishi Dong!" "Long live Master Dong!" In the end, more than 20,000 captives who escaped death shouted in unison, and even the people of Chenggu began to shout along, many of these captives were locals of Chenggu, and their relatives saw that they could return home safely, and they were rewarded, and they didn't care about wasting some saliva.

At first, the half-grown young man stabbed his father while shouting, "Father, is that bowl still there?" Take it out quickly, our family wants to reward it and there is probably a play. His father woke up from a dream as before, and hurriedly took out the blue and white porcelain bowl, and was about to shout, but saw a handsome white-robed young general approaching the terrifying and generous demon king Taishi and said something, the white-robed young general's appearance is special, and he is far better than a woman, so the young man's father recognized it at a glance - it was the one who picked up his wine yesterday.

The young man's father's heart suddenly quickened, and he was so nervous that he couldn't breathe, and sure enough, the terrifying and generous Taishi shouted on the stage: "Yesterday, when our army entered the city, a common man took the initiative to toast to our general, and he was holding a blue and white porcelain bowl when he toasted, did he come today?" Come out, and reward him again! ”

"Taishi, the villain is here." The young man's father held the blue and white porcelain bowl, trotted out of the crowd, ran to the high platform and knelt down, holding the blue and white porcelain bowl high with both hands like holding his life, and said tremblingly: "Taishi, yesterday was the first villain to offer wine to Wang Shi. He shouted in his heart and pondered, what reward can this terrifying master give himself? If only I could give ten acres of land, then I don't have to be a tenant farmer for Master Wu's family, no, I don't need to be a tenant farmer for other masters, Master Wu has been buried alive by the master just now.

Kang Peng was very satisfied with his performance, nodded and said: "Look at your appearance, your family should be a tenant farmer, who are you going to be a tenant for?" How many fields does he have in his family? ”

The young man's father replied honestly: "Back to the Taishi, the villain is the tenant of the richest man in Chenggu, the old man Wu's family, and he is the old man Wu who was buried alive by the Taishi just now, and he has a ...... in his family."

"Needless to say." Kang Peng interrupted him, "From now on, the richest man in Chenggu is you, and the fields and mansions of that bullshit old man Wu are all yours." Kang Peng paused and said: "Since you have been a tenant, you know how bitter tenants are, treat tenants well, I hope you don't be like that bullshit old man, buried alive by his true appearance." ”

The young man's father had collapsed to the ground with excitement, and he couldn't even say a word of thanks, and the other people in Chenggu regretted that their intestines were green, if he had been faster yesterday and toasted Dong Zhuojun earlier, then the richest man in Chenggu would have been himself. And just as Kang Peng expected, as soon as the news of his heavy rewards and heavy punishments for the enemy spread, no one in the city attacked by Dong Zhuojun was willing to help the defenders, and they were all ready to drink and meat, hoping that Dong Zhuojun would enter the city as soon as possible, and the local Shilin landlords would also take the initiative to contact Dong Zhuojun and take the initiative to help Dong Zhuojun break the city, so as not to settle accounts after Dong Zhuojun's autumn, and at the same time, Dong Zhuojun's enemies were also demoralized, and more and more people took the initiative to surrender, so that Dong Zhuojun saved a lot of trouble. Of course, this is a matter for the time being.

When Kang Peng was wielding a big stick and adding dates in Chenggu, Liu Yan, his main enemy in the capture of Yizhou, was not idle. At this moment, outside Langzhong City, there was also a surge of people, the flag was fluttering, Liu Yan took the stage to pay respects to the general, and appointed the veteran Jia Long as the commander of the Yizhou Army, with full authority to resist the invasion of Dong Zhuojun. But Liu Yan was still not at ease after all, and appointed Zhang Song, who had always been at odds with Jia Long, as the supervisor of the army, under the name of assisting in handling military affairs.

Yizhou has a total of 330,000 patchwork troops, and Liu Yan handed over 250,000 to Jia Long, which seems to be almost the same as the military strength of Dong Zhuo's army that invaded, but Jia Long knows very well in his heart how big the gap between the combat effectiveness of the enemy and us is, and he did not concentrate his military strength to fight a decisive battle with Dong Zhuo's army, but the troops were divided into three routes, one route was led by Yan Yan, and the troops sent to Yangping Pass to defend Lu Bu and Zhang Xiu's troops, Yangping Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Jia Long only arranged 40,000 troops on this way; On the other hand, led by Li Yan and Li Hui, the troops went out of Qishan, and they were also preparing to use the geographical advantage to drag down Dong Zhuo's army, and the troops on this road were 60,000 people; The main force was led by Jia Long himself, with Zhang Ren as the vanguard, through Guangyuan, and recaptured Jiameng Pass before Dong Zhuojun's army and Kang Peng's main force at Jiameng Pass met.

After the army was transferred, Jia Long called Yan Pu, the envoy of Zhang Lu, and said directly: "Sir, please inform Zhang Tianshi quickly, let him hold Hanzhong for ten days, as long as he holds for ten days, the salvation army will definitely arrive." Yan Pu was overjoyed, and hurriedly went to order, Jia Long grabbed him again, "Sir, please tell Zhang Tianshi again, if you can't hold it for ten days, then the whole army will evacuate Hanzhong and attack Jiameng Pass with our army, but before evacuating, all the grain that can't be taken away must be burned, and whether you and I can take the initiative or not, this is the key." ”

Yan Pu was silent for a long time, he was not sure to persuade Zhang Lu to do this, but after thinking about it for a long time, Yan Pu still said vaguely: "Xiaosheng does his best." ”

After Yan Pu left, Jia Long hugged his fist at Liu Yan and said: "Lord, we are waiting to meet the enemy in the front, and the lord is in the rear, please also work hard to support the grain and grass and military supplies, especially the Yinping path, the lord must not take it lightly." Liu Yan agreed, and immediately ordered Zhuo Ying to lead an army of 5,000 to guard Yinping, and Jia Long went with confidence.

After the arrangement was completed, the Yizhou army set off immediately, and on the way in, Zhang Ren asked Jia Long quietly: "Teacher, Jiameng Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the guards Gao Shun and Wei Yan are also fierce generals, and the teacher is confident that he can break through Jiameng Pass within ten days?" Could it be that the teacher is already in the chest? ”

Jia Long smiled mysteriously, "Silly boy, where did your teacher's most famous battle go?" In the past, your teacher stayed in Jiameng for several months, didn't the teacher leave anything behind? ”