Chapter 258: Thunder Bronze Returns
"Soldiers!" You ......" Lei Tong looked at the more and more Baishuiguan soldiers who were gathering, and knew that things were beyond his control, so he said: "Okay, you take your Yangguan Road, and we have decided to return to the general of the Southern Expedition in the past, and if you don't want to follow the crowd, you can put down your weapons and leave Baishuiguan now!" Li Hui saw that most of the guards were willing to submit, and he didn't care about Lei Tong's attitude, so he climbed high and shouted.
Crash...... At this time, those soldiers who did not know the inside story began to chatter, and those who knew the officers asked their acquaintances for news. When they learned that the Lord was going to be killed and that the Jingzhou soldiers were outside the pass, they quickly had a choice.
"How can you be deceived by people and betray your lord for glory?" Lei Tong was even more angry when he saw that most of the soldiers in the pass chose to be with Li Hui, and stood on the pass and shouted loudly. But he screamed as best he could, but to no avail. Lei Tong also wanted to go down to the official to stop him, but was stopped by Wu Lan and others.
These soldiers don't have any opinions, they look at their captain, the captain looks at the captain, and the captain looks at the captain. And most of the captains and regiment leaders have a close contact with Liu Cong, knowing that Liu Cong is not a mediocre master. Now that the lord will be killed, the two deputy generals will stand up for the first time and clearly apprentice to Liu Cong. They didn't want to face the attack inside and outside the gate for the sake of that cowardly Liu Zhang.
So under the leadership of these tun chiefs and captains, Li Hui soon gathered more and more. However, there are also some people who are not open-minded, or loyal martyrs, who resolutely refuse to be in the same league with Li Hui, Wu Lan and others. There were about 2,000 people, some of them were Lei Tong's subordinates, and some of them were from Chengdu.
Li Hui saw that the overall situation had been decided, and pulled out the sword in his hand and ordered: "Kill!" ”
Li Hui's subordinates immediately rushed out and surrounded the more than 2,000 people. Li Hui used to be a postal supervisor and had also seen wars in troubled times. Now that he is a deputy general, he knows that since these are unwilling to submit, it means that everyone will be enemies in the future, and instead of letting the tiger return to the mountain, it is better to kill it on the spot now to avoid future troubles. If these people are let go, the news will definitely be revealed.
Li Hui's subordinates have a deep friendship with Li Hui, and sometimes they can even understand it with just one look. At this time, there is no need to say much, just pick up the weapon and slash and kill. Angry, Lei Tong stomped his feet on the close: "You, you ......"
In a moment's effort, the more than 2,000 people who were unwilling to submit were slaughtered by Li Hui and his people.
Li Hui also ignored the Lei Tong on the close, and directly ordered his subordinates: "Open the gate and go out to greet General Yu!" ”
Seeing the gate open, Li Hui led the guards out, Yu Ban was nervous for a while, and then slapped his horse and laughed: "General Li is really talented, the lord didn't misunderstand you." In a matter of moments, an army of 20,000 was lowered. Forbidden to admire, admire! ”
"General Yu praised, our willingness to submit is all because of the prestige of General Zhengnan. What General Zhengnan did in Jia Meng this year is obvious to all. We also don't want the people of Yizhou to suffer from the war. ”
Li Hui's words were also said to the guards behind them, and a large part of them came from Jiameng County.
If Liu Cong and Liu Zhang go to war, and they are unwilling to submit, Liu Cong is bound to attack Baishui Pass as soon as possible, and Jiameng County is their parents, relatives and friends.
And they also know the bravery of Jingzhou soldiers.
So after returning to Shun, they have no other ideas, and they will follow Liu Cong in the future. At least Liu Cong will not treat their parents, relatives and friends badly.
"Well, General Li judged the situation and the soldiers of Baishuiguan are well aware of the righteousness, and I welcome you on behalf of my lord!" Yu Ban didn't expect that the 20,000 defenders of Baishui Pass would be surrendered in a moment. Yu Ban had to sigh that Liu Cong had to personally train the Yizhou elite as soon as he came.
And this Li Hui is a general highly respected by Liu Cong, and it is really amazing when I see it today. While thinking about it, a herald came to report: "General Yu, General Wei sent someone to ask how is it here?" Do you want to send more people? ”
"Oh, I forgot about it. You quickly return to General Wei, just say that the matter of Baishuiguan has been decided, and ask him to return to Jiameng to wait for news. ”
The herald was given the order to leave, and the short conversation aroused a chill in the hearts of those Yizhou soldiers who were still a little hesitant just now. Fortunately, I was on the right team. Otherwise, 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers plus the subordinates of Li Hui and others in Guanzhong would not be enough to cut off their heads.
"General Yu, the Baishui Pass garrison has finished plating. Except for the deputy general Wu Lanzheng and Mr. Fa to persuade the deputy general Lei Tong, the rest who are unwilling to submit have been beheaded by me. What to do next, please ask General Yu to tell me. ”
"General Li is polite, wait for a while, I'll wait for Vice General Wu and Mr. Fa."
Lei Tong, who was closed, was already angry at this time, but Wu Lan didn't give an inch: "Brother Lei, why are you doing this...... Mr. Fa is right: good birds choose trees to perch, and loyal ministers choose their masters. Now you are the only soldier left in Baishuiguan. With the courage and good fighting of the general, he will definitely be appreciated by the general of the expedition to the south. The general of the expedition to the south is determined to dominate the world and support the Han Dynasty, why do you want to defend a deputy general of Baishuiguan? ”
Wu Lan and Hao Fa Zheng took turns to attack Lei Tong at Baishui Pass. Originally, Lei Tong also wanted to dissuade the guards from surrendering, and later set the goal of parting ways, but seeing that Li Hui would refuse to return to Shun and kill them all, Lei Tong suddenly lost his confidence.
"Sir...... Is it really that good for General Zhengnan? "Lei Tong finally consulted the opinion of this old man seriously for the first time.
"When was it deceived to you? This general of Zhengnan is a relative of the Han family, the son of Liu Jingsheng, and now the royal brother of His Majesty. Cao Cao's 800,000 troops can't cross a Jingzhou, so how can Liu Zhang compare? ”
"Yes, yes, how brave the Jingzhou soldiers were when they competed......" Wu Lan saw that Lei Tong's heart was moved, and hurriedly helped on the side.
"That's it, that's it, if I insist on it today, I'm afraid I'll end up with them." Lei Tong looked at the corpse of the Yizhou soldier lying on the ground in the customs with a little regret, turned his head and said to Fa Zheng: "Then I have to trouble Mr. to introduce him, and I will rely on Mr. more in the future." ”
"Where, you and I were originally old people, and now we are working for the same lord, and it is within our own business to promote each other......"
Seeing that Lei Tong agreed to return to Shun, Wu Lan pulled Lei Tong to join Li Hui and the others.
The three deputy generals of Baishuiguan were all surrendered, which made the nearly 20,000 defenders also breathe a sigh of relief.
After the three generals converged, they were led by Fa Zheng to the forbidden camp.
"Mr. Fa is really amazing!" After listening to the process of Fa Zheng and Wu Lan persuading Lei Tong, Yu Ban praised again and again.
"General Yu, the soldiers of Baishuiguan have basically returned to the lord, I will quickly pull out the camp and return to Jiameng."
"Hmm." Yu Ban agreed: "Several generals, there must be someone stationed at this Baishui Pass, so I will first wronged General Li to bring 5,000 men and horses to temporarily garrison Baishui Pass, and the other two generals will lead the troops back to Jiameng with me." ”
Although this arrangement is only temporary, it is relatively safe, although the siege of Yucheng and Chengdu are in urgent need of soldiers, but Hanzhong Zhang Lu has to be guarded, and the terrain of Baishuiguan is dangerous, leaving 5,000 men and horses to hold out for at least a while. Among the three generals, Li Hui is undoubtedly the most reliable. The rest of the soldiers were brought back to Jiameng for rectification.
The recruitment of the soldiers of Baishui Pass was surprisingly smooth, and it was also beyond Liu Cong's expectations. He originally sent Yu Ban and Fa Zheng as representatives to recruit surrender.
But then Wei Yan was asked to prepare troops and horses, once the battle broke out at Baishui Pass, Wei Yanhe and Pang Tong must rush to Baishui Pass to support Yu Ban as soon as possible. Now that the general is dead and the three lieutenants have all been surrendered, it will be much easier to rectify the nearly 20,000 horses.
And Wu Lan Hao Lei Tong was also very deferential after seeing Liu Cong, nothing else, because Liu Cong did not snub them. greeted them in person, and then there was a big feast to entertain the two.
Later, he ordered Yu Ban and Fa Zheng to entertain the middle and lower-level officers of the Yizhou soldiers who returned to Shun in Jiameng County.
The next day, Liu Cong issued an order to promote Li Hui to be the general of Yamen to garrison Baishui Pass, and transferred 2,000 people from Jiameng, and Baishui Pass increased to 7,000 people. The 13,000 people who returned to Shun were forbidden commanders, and Wu Lan and Lei Tong were deputy generals.
And Zhang Song finally arrived at Jia Meng under the escort of Liao Hua. Zhang Song kept asking Liao Hua on the road, why did the lord go back to Jingzhou at this time, and let this good situation not benefit Zhouzhou in the future, I am afraid that he will regret it!
Liao Hua didn't know how to answer, so he had to pretend to be stupid and hurry.
Zhang Song was depressed, and the first thing he said when he saw Liu Cong was: "Duke Ming, you can't go back to Jingzhou in a hurry, now Chengdu is empty, and it is not too late for Duke Ming to lead the army to capture Chengdu and then return to the division." At that time, the Ming Duke needs to keep a few people, and he is willing to stay with filial piety, and he will pass on the counties to the lord to determine the state fairly! ”
Liu Cong saw that Zhang Song was convinced, so he smiled and said: "Ziqiao, do all the officials in Chengdu think that they are going back to Jingzhou?" ”
"Could it be that Ming Gong has other plans?" Zhang Song heard what Liu Cong had to say, and asked instead.
"That's right, the specific matter, let Xiaozhi explain it to you later, it's good to come, you can rest first. Our army will set out tomorrow to attack the city! ”
"Ming Gong ......" Zhang Song finally understood why Liu Cong was so anxious to pick himself up from Chengdu, it turned out that he was not going back to the division, but was going to attack, afraid that he would be in danger in Chengdu!
Zhang Song knelt down and thanked him at the moment: "Thank you Ming Gong for your concern, thank you Ming Gong for your concern!" ”
Liu Cong disagreed, and after appeasing Zhang Song, he went to check on Yu Ban's rectification of soldiers and horses, this 18,000 people is a lot of strength, and it has a huge effect on his own capture of Yizhou. It's not that Liu Cong is anxious, but Yang Huai and Gao Pei have been killed for two days, and the news will reach Luocheng and Chengdu sooner or later.
As Fa Zheng, Pang Tong, Zhang Song and other strategists said, if Liu Cong wants to win quickly, he must be caught off guard by Liu Zhang. If you wait for Liu Zhang's counties to dispatch troops, even if you add 18,000 Baishui Pass, your 30,000 people will not be enough for Liu Zhang to eat. Only to raid the city, and then besiege Chengdu, let Liu Zhang surrender quickly, and then spread the counties, and then slowly conquer those who are not satisfied.