Chapter 18 Waiting for the opportunity to fight back
Zeng Yu and the others were also very tired at this time, after all, they had been staring at the outside with a high degree of nervousness, and they had to go out immediately if there was any movement. And the other party is also an outlaw, some rushed in and used indiscriminate slashing, several of Zeng Yu's guards were covered with colors, and one of them was even inadvertently stabbed in the stomach by Liu Li's soldiers, fortunately it was not deep, but it was also bleeding, he asked a few injured people to quickly help him bandage, and then hid in a corner of the house.
He heard Liu Li's shouts outside, looked outside on the road, and found that Liu Li was standing on the road, and his personal soldiers were also scattered on both sides of him at this time, and there were no personal soldiers in front of him.
He hurriedly said, "Let me kill the people who attacked outside the door, and I will go to Liu Li's life." ”
It turned out that the attackers kept rushing from outside the door at this time, blocking Zeng Yu's sight from time to time, and even between him and Liu Li, there would be several attacking soldiers.
Zeng Yu's guards heard Zeng Yu's order, and suddenly burst out with their last strength, desperately slashing and slashing, temporarily killing the attackers in front of the door.
At this time, Zeng Yu quickly took the Jinghong bow in his hand, put on the bow and arrow, aimed at Liu Li, pulled it full, let go, the bow and arrow were like a rainbow light, and suddenly rushed out of Zeng Yu's hand, passing through a soldier who happened to rush up to attack, but he flew towards Liu Li unabated.
Liu Li was looking forward to it, and suddenly, he saw a black spot in his eyes getting bigger and bigger, and then he didn't know it at all. The soldiers next to him saw that their centurion suddenly had an arrow stuck in his forehead, lying on his back on the ground, his eyes were still wide open, full of horror and unwillingness, which made them unbelievable. However, before their surprise could end, another arrow came, and the pro-soldier armor also fell, just like Liu Li, with the same horror in his eyes.
Seeing this, several other pro-soldiers turned around and ran, and two of them were shot to death by Zeng Yu. And the attacking soldiers, I don't know who shouted "The centurion is killed", everyone looked back, was at a loss, and even forgot to attack.
"Now that the first evil is dead, I think the rest of you may have been forced by him, and if you lay down your arms and surrender now, I may spare your lives."
At this time, Zeng Yu's voice came from the house, persuading them to surrender. These soldiers didn't know what to do, so they originally followed Liu Li to Huanglongzhai, but now that Liu Li is dead, it means that there is no way for them to retreat. If they surrender, they are afraid that Zeng Yu will backtrack, after all, as soon as they put down their weapons, they will be tied up.
The situation froze suddenly, these people did not dare to attack at this time, and if they fled, they were afraid that Zeng Yu would chase and kill, and they were now leaderless, so they could only gather slowly and gather in front of the house.
Zeng Yu is not in a hurry at this time, after all, for such a long time, with such a big movement here, Zhou Cang will definitely find out that something is wrong, and then send someone over to check the situation and find the situation, and the support will arrive immediately.
But Zeng Yu doesn't want to rely on others for everything, if he can handle the situation here, he will definitely leave a huge prestige among the cottage people at that time, which is more conducive to taking over the cottage, and the reform of the cottage after taking over will be more convenient.
"I know that you are worried about my treatment after you surrender, and even afraid that I will kill you directly, but you can rest assured, I Zeng Yu has always done what I said, since I said to spare you, I will definitely not kill you." Zeng Yu continued to persuade them to surrender.
"Lord Zirui, we can believe your words, but you spared us, in case the big boss wants to clean up the portal, what should we do, then we will still die." One of the surviving chiefs on the other side voiced his worries.
"Yes~Yes~, the big boss has always been jealous and hateful, and he hates betrayal the most." Others also followed, their main concern was Zhou Cang, originally they were even more afraid of Pei Yuanshao, because Pei Yuanshao was irritable and irritable, and the people in the cottage were mainly in awe of Zhou Cang, but they were mostly afraid of Pei Yuanshao.
"Since I said I could save your lives, I would do it. I won't hide it from you, your big boss has decided to serve me as the master, and I originally wanted to wait for Pei Yuanshao and them to come back before announcing it, but I didn't say anything because I was afraid that Liu Li would rebel. Now that Liu Li is dead, I will tell you directly. Zeng Yu told them about Zhou Cang's dedication to himself.
"No, how can the big boss serve Lord Zirui." This is the current idea of Zeng Yu's guards.
"If that's the case, then the cottage is the biggest in the cottage, Lord Zirui, he said spare our lives, we will definitely survive." This was the idea of Liu Li's remaining soldiers, who preferred to believe Zeng Yu.
"I know you may not believe it, but you can go over and ask next Zhou Cang now, and he will tell you the answer, I don't think these remnants of Liu Li will stop you at this time." Zeng Yu said to the guards beside him.
Several guards looked at each other, and then the fire outside, saw their eyes, and after signaling to each other, two of them stood up and said to Zeng Yu: "Lord Zijin, the two of us went to invite the big boss to come over, we didn't believe you, we wanted everyone to confirm this matter." ”
"I understand what you mean, you guys go, I'll let the people outside make way for the two of you." Zeng Yu nodded.
After speaking, Zeng Yu asked Liu Li's subordinates who stayed outside at this time to get out of the way for the two of them to pass. These people were already frightened by Zeng Yu's archery method of shooting Liu Li with one arrow, coupled with Zeng Yu's guarantee of their lives at this time, they didn't dare to disobey him, got out of the way, and watched the two walk towards Zeng Yu's mansion.
About half a pillar of incense, Zhou Cang came over with two hundred people directly under him, this is his descendant who left in the cottage, and they are all brothers who can be trusted. Just arrived at the camp on Zeng Yu's side, sent people to surround the entire camp, and then went straight to Zeng Yu's house with dozens of personal guards.
Liu Li's subordinates were also startled when they saw Zhou Cang leading people to directly surround them, and hurriedly threw away the weapons in their hands, knelt on the ground and begged Zeng Yu: "Lord Zirui, we are willing to surrender, it was all Liu Li's coercion before, we are willing to follow the adults, be cattle and horses, and only ask the adults to spare our lives." ”
"Don't worry!"
After Zeng Yu finished speaking, he walked out of the house and waited for Zhou Cang to bring someone over. Although Zhou Cang knew that Zeng Yu was fine from the person who reported the news, he was relieved to see Zeng Yu walking out of the house safely from a distance at this time.
I saw that he hurriedly came to Zeng Yu, knelt down on one knee, and said to Zeng Yu: "The lord was frightened, Zhou Cang didn't know anyone, and he was not strict in his precautions, which led to Liu Li's rebellion, please punish the lord." ”
"Hurry up, I'm not fine, Liu Li's rebellion surprised all of us, no wonder you." Zeng Yu helped Zhou Cang up.
"Thank you, lord!" Zhou Cang clenched his fists and said gratefully.
"Did Xiao Zhao and Xiao Li He, who sent you the letter just now, tell you about the situation here, I plan to pardon these Liu Li's subordinates for capital crimes, after all, there are few copycats now, and I believe that after this time, they will not dare to rebel in the future." Zeng Yu knew that these people left by Liu Li were still waiting for news from him, as for what he just said to let everyone confirm whether Zhou Cang had served him, it should be seen from Zhou Cang's salute and plea to Zeng Yu just now.
"It's all up to the lord to decide, but if you spare them like this, will it make others dissatisfied."
When the captives heard Zhou Cang's first half of the sentence, they were relieved and knew that they would not die. But when he heard the second half of Zhou Cang's sentence, his heart lifted again, turned his gaze to Zeng Yu, and looked at the past with expectant eyes. They also knew that they could not be easily forgiven for their rebellion this time, but they were also worried that Zeng Yu would kill them in another way.
"I know, I've thought about it. When Pei Yuanshao and Ziwu come back from Jinniu Village, the cottage will definitely expand, and some people will be needed to do manual work at that time, let them do it, and if they perform well, we will continue to accept them and let them return to our team. ”
"Thank you Lord Zirui for not killing, we will work hard to transform and strive to make the cottage accept us as soon as possible." Many captives hurriedly said, for fear that Zhou Cang would have objections again.
But they also thought too much, Zhou Cang was still thinking about what Zeng Yu said at this time, and it could be heard from his words that Zeng Yu had full confidence in the attack on Jinniuzhai, but in his own opinion, the victory and defeat were only five or five, at most they were surprised at the beginning, and they must be fighting each other later, and they could not get too many results. And listening to Zeng Yu's meaning, it is that they are coming back from the expedition, it must be a big victory, it seems that they still don't know a lot about the strength of the lord's subordinates, and they have a high look at Zeng Yu in their hearts, knowing that they must have bet on the right bet this time.
Zeng Yu asked Zhou Cang to arrange for someone to treat the injured first, and these prisoners surrendered their weapons and took care of them first.
At the same time, Zeng Yu Zhoucang sent someone to find Zhu Wen, he saw that Zhu Wen had not returned, and he was worried that he would be drunk and encounter an accident. Liu Li was able to bring people to surround and kill him, and Zhu Wen also came up with Wang Qing, although most of Liu Li's people were here, but if they took advantage of Zhu Wen's drunkenness and took the opportunity to kill him, then he really wanted to hang Liu Li up and whip his corpse again.
Zhou Cang hurriedly asked someone to bandage the injured, especially the guard who was Zeng Yu before, who was now unconscious and needed to be treated quickly. The medical technology of this era is very crude, and in fact, there are not many direct injuries and deaths, and more post-traumatic infections caused by unreasonable treatment after injury.
Zeng Yu relied on some medical knowledge he had learned in later generations, summarized him and explained it to Zhou Cang, so that Zhou Cang could treat the injured according to his own words, including disinfection and bandaging.
Zhou Cang didn't expect that his lord also knew about medical skills, but when he thought of the Guiguzi sage, Zeng Yu, as his descendant, was naturally an all-rounder, and his heart had completely surrendered to Zeng Yu.
After seeing that Zhou Cang arranged for someone to carry the injured away for treatment, and that the prisoners were also detained in Liu Li's original camp for care, he asked Zhou Cang to follow him in, and he planned to tell him his thoughts on the future development of the cottage.