Chapter Seventy-Five: Winning People's Hearts
As the young general shouted, the spears in the hands of the soldiers beside him were immediately aimed at the leaders, the surrendered soldiers.
The leader drove his horse to the young general, arched his hand and said with a smile: "General, we are Quyang Toucheng soldiers, didn't the cloth you shot in say that as long as we really came to vote, you will not be guilty of the past." ”
The young general looked at the leader and his soldiers and nodded: "General Huangfu did have a military order to pass down, and sent several of our troops to wait for the soldiers of Toucheng at the four city gates. Then he complimented the leader: "The general has made the right decision, but, in order to show your sincerity, your weapons must be surrendered for the time being, and they will be returned after the general has been incorporated into our army." ”
This request was very legitimate, and the leader could not say anything, so he ordered his soldiers to lay down their weapons. As soon as this weapon is lowered, it is equivalent to these people giving up their resistance to the heart.
Seeing the actions of the leaders, the young general's face smiled even more: "The general is really sincere, I will send the general back to the camp." As he said this, the young general waved his hand and asked his soldiers to collect the weapons of the leaders.
On the way, the leader asked the young man some questions in the barracks, and the most asked questions were naturally how General Huangfu was a person, and he would see later what General Huangfu had to do to get General Huangfu's appreciation.
After walking less than a mile, the leader asked: "I don't know if I will see General Zhao Yi in the barracks, the Yellow Turban Army is afraid of ......" The rest of the words The leader did not finish speaking, and he felt a pain in his chest.
Looking at his chest in disbelief, the tip of the spear poked out of his chest, he could clearly feel that his vitality was draining rapidly, and pointed to the young general with a gloomy smile on his face: "You, you ......" Before he finished speaking, he fell on the back of the horse.
The soldiers who lost their weapons were stabbed to death by the officers and soldiers around them without any expectation. A sneer appeared at the corner of the young general's mouth: "Our officers and soldiers have always been killing the Yellow Turban Thief, you have killed so many of our brothers, do you still want to live?" Hmph, daydreaming. ”
"Brothers, check to see if there is any life." The young general explained, and when these soldiers checked the corpses, the two wounded soldiers underground suddenly jumped up, jumped onto two empty horses, broke through the blockade of the officers and soldiers and ran quickly towards Quyang.
The archer wanted to kill these two people, but the general stretched out his hand to stop him: "Stop, this is what the lord wants, kill them and report it." ”
Beckoning his soldiers, regardless of whether any of the remaining corpses were alive or not, they slashed at the neck one after another. Only then did he call the soldiers, took off his official uniform, put it in the package, restored the identity of the Yellow Turban Army, turned over his horse and snorted at the dead body on the ground: "You dare to betray the lord, it's really damned." "Drive the horse towards Quyang City.
When the two wounded soldiers returned to the east gate to call the city gate, "coincidentally" Zhang Jiao was inspecting the city defense at the east gate, and when he heard the sound of calling the city gate, he looked down and frowned: "How can there be our soldiers under the city." Open the gates and let them in. ”
The two people were seriously injured, and immediately fell off the horseback after entering Quyang City, and they were startled when they saw Zhang Jiao in front of them, regardless of the injuries on their bodies, they wanted to turn over and salute, but they were stopped by Zhang Jiao: "You are seriously injured, don't be polite." Tell me the truth about what happened? ”
The two soldiers just wanted to flee for their lives as soon as possible, but on the way back, they only talked about how some officers and soldiers were bad, and they didn't think about how to explain when they came back. Especially when they didn't expect to run into the Tiangong General Zhang Jiao as soon as they entered the city gate, which made the two of them speechless, and the caliber was not unified at all.
Zhang Jiao stared at these two people and smiled: "Don't talk about it anymore, are you going to join the official army?" ”
These words startled the two of them, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhang Jiao: "My lord, spare my life, we don't dare, we don't dare anymore."
When Zhang Jiao heard this, he stared at the generals guarding the gate with a cold gaze, these soldiers who surrendered to Cheng escaped from the east gate, he wanted to see how the generals of the gate would answer.
Seeing Zhang Jiao like this, the general swallowed a mouthful of saliva, quickly thought of countermeasures in his heart, showed anger on his face, and kicked the two of them to the ground: "Didn't your leader say that he would go out to investigate the military situation?" How could I surrender to the official army, if I had known that you were going to join the official army, I should have killed you at that time! Then he respectfully saluted Zhang Jiao: "Lord, the last general will mistakenly believe in others, and almost make a mistake, please punish the lord." ”
For the little Jiujiu in the heart of this gatekeeper general, Zhang Jiao could see it very thoroughly at a glance, personally helped this person up, and was relieved: "The general is also for the sake of our Quyang, if you want to know more about the movements of the official army, you will let those people out of the city." The general is not to blame for this. ”
The general immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and praised in his mouth: "The lord is sage." ”
Zhang Jiao asked the two wounded soldiers to tell the story as it was. The middle process was omitted by the two soldiers, who only said that their leader took him out of the city to join the official army, but was brutally killed by the official army.
"The officers and soldiers first tricked us into putting down our weapons, and then poisoned us without the slightest defense. More than 200 brothers died tragically at the hands of the officers and soldiers. These two people said hatefully, and the hatred for the officials and soldiers in their hearts increased a lot.
Zhang Jiao sighed: "I already knew about the things circulating in the barracks today, and I didn't issue any orders because I believed everyone, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen." ”
When the gatekeeper heard the words of these two soldiers, and saw the blood stains on the two of them, he had already believed their words, and he was a little glad that he did not follow the man out of the city, otherwise there might be himself among those who died.
"Lord, this is a trick of the officials and soldiers, we must inform the defenders in the city of this matter as soon as possible, lest anyone be lucky again!" The general suggested.
Zhang Jiao naturally agreed with the general's suggestion, and immediately asked all the generals to go to the government to discuss the matter, not only did not punish the two injured soldiers, but also helped them heal their injuries. Let these two people be grateful to Zhang Jiao.
It's not that Zhang Jiao is magnanimous, but these two people still have their role. Many generals came to the government late at night, and they were very strange about Zhang Jiao's sudden summons, and at this time, the hearts of the soldiers in the city were floating, and the hearts of these generals were also seventy-seven, eighty-eight.
I know that Zhang Jiao asked them to come over this time for this matter, but he hasn't guessed how Zhang Jiao is going to solve this matter.
After waiting for about half an hour, Zhang Jiao still hadn't come. In fact, within half an hour, Zhang Jiao personally applied medicine to the two injured soldiers to ensure that their lives would not be in danger for a short time, and then ordered the two soldiers to be carried to the hall.
Zhang Jiao, who was in the hall, did not say anything, but handed over the right to speak to the two soldiers, their experience was real, and it was naturally full of emotion and emotion, which was more acceptable.
The officers and soldiers who surrendered to Cheng were ruthlessly killed by the officers and soldiers, which made those Yellow Turban Army generals very indignant, and some Yellow Turban generals who swayed left and right and couldn't make up their minds also made up their minds at this time, since the officers and soldiers did not let themselves live, then I will let all the officers and soldiers die.
Zhang Jiao looked at these generals with a look of common hatred on their faces, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Zhang Liang and Zhang Jiao's cronies and generals glanced at each other, their eyes were full of excitement, because Zhang Jiao's strategy finally succeeded.
At that time, after learning the news of the official army, Zhang Jiao felt that this was an opportunity, because the four gates of Quyang City, except for the east gate, the remaining gatekeepers were Zhang Jiao's cronies, and the rebels would not want to get out of the city gate half a step unless they attacked the three gates.
Therefore, he ordered his cronies to select a thousand soldiers who were loyal to him, disguised as officers and soldiers, and ambushed them at the east gate. Convince the rebels as an officer and kill them without warning.
The words spoken by the two survivors and the young general were all arranged by Zhang Jiao in advance, and even if he said it in a daze, it was not as powerful as what the two wounded soldiers said.
After this incident, Zhang Jiao successfully gathered the hearts of the originally scattered people again, and it was more solid than before. As for the more than 200 people who died, Zhang Jiao didn't care. Because at such a time someone is destined to die, they are just too impatient, plus bad luck.
After the two soldiers finished speaking, Zhang Jiao sighed: "I, Zhang Jiao, am not a ruthless and unrighteous person, you have rebelled with me so far, and there is no merit and hard work. If you want to break away from the Yellow Turban Army and have a good future, I will not stop you. Therefore, after learning about the official and military surrender documents, I didn't say anything, I just wanted to put the decision in your hands. I will not say anything to you when you go to surrender, and I will not stop you, because everyone has their own ambitions and cannot be forced. But I was saddened by what happened today, I thought that the officers and soldiers would treat our soldiers well, but I didn't expect that this would be a scam. ”
"Lord, you don't have to say it anymore, the officers and soldiers are bullying people too much, and we will fight the officials and soldiers to the death!" The generals shouted in unison. All burst out with strong resentment towards the officials and soldiers. The officials and soldiers gave them a hope, and they ruthlessly took away the hope and let them face a desperate situation again, how could these people not resent the officials and soldiers.
Zhang Jiao wanted this effect, and praised it: "Okay, our army will definitely be able to defeat the official army!" "Let these generals return to their posts and garrison them to guard against the siege of the official army.
It has been a day and a night since the cloth flew into the city, and there is still no movement in the city, and Huangfu Song thought that there would be a Yellow Turban Army to surrender to Cheng.
This plan was conceived by Cao Cao, and there has been no movement in the city until now, and he is even more worried than Huangfu Song.
"General, the Yellow Turban thieves got the news, and Zhang Jiao naturally got it, although the Yellow Turban Army is uneven at present, there are still many soldiers loyal to Zhang Jiao. Zhang Jiao must have ordered his cronies to guard the city gate, which deterred the Yellow Turban Army who were about to move. Liu Bei speculated.
Cao Cao's eyes lit up: "What Xuande said is extremely true, if you want to know whether the Yellow Turban Army has a floating military spirit, the easiest way is to fight!" ”