There are 20,000 people in Ma Zheng's headquarters, Gao Teng is the deputy general, and three commanders are placed to lead 10,000 troops each. When Ma Zheng was in power, Gao Teng, the adjutant general, was basically no different from a Chinese officer, and he had little effect. But as soon as Ma Zheng died, Gao Teng, the deputy general, automatically obtained the right to dispose of it and inherited the 20,000 troops of Ma Zheng's headquarters.

But Gao Teng did not have Ma Zheng's means and ruthlessness, let alone Ma Zheng's military exploits, so he could not convince the public, and at best he was on an equal footing with the other three captains.

As soon as Ma Zheng died, how to convince these three people to recognize his commander-in-chief status was the most difficult problem that Gao Teng had to face after learning of Ma Zheng's death.

Unlike Zhou Kong's consideration, Zhou Kong intended to use gold, silver and jewelry to settle the misunderstanding, but Gao Teng needed a reasonable and favorable excuse to calm everyone's anger while asking others to recognize his jurisdiction.

To put it bluntly, it is to buy people's hearts.

At this time, tens of thousands of gold, silver and jewelry undoubtedly solved the irreconcilable contradiction between the two.

On the one hand, it is to take revenge, on the other hand, it is not possible to make a big move, and at the same time it is necessary to be recognized, and money is undoubtedly omnipotent. As for revenge, anyone's head will do.

In the face of money, as long as individuals have no conscience and good thoughts, greed is the only driving force to support their survival. With money, what brotherhood, what revenge, is just an excuse to solve the problem.

So the result was not unexpected, Gao Teng and the others hit it off, and they didn't even try it, and they snapped the Holy Commander Cao Shengzhi and others in public, and then said that they would share the spoils, and Zhou Kong repeatedly assured that the matter was over, so that they could continue to enter Zhaocheng.

When entering the city, Gao Teng and the generals came to see, everyone looked at Zhou Kong and other women, coveting the beauty of the women, although most of them are not very beautiful, but at the moment, it is better than not being good, and there are two completely different things.

Although he bought Gao Teng with gold and silver, Zhou Kong still did not dare to slack off, placed Gao Teng and his 50,000 people in the camp in the south of the city, and took out the stock of wine and meat, slaughtered all the livestock that could be found in the city, and even did not hesitate to kill 200 war horses and 500 donkeys.

Back at the office, Zhou Kong was paralyzed on the seat and was restless, and Xiaolianzi on the side said:

"General Zhou, this group of thieves is not a good thing!"

"I can see that they are all notorious thieves, but fortunately, they will only stay tomorrow for one day, and leave the day after tomorrow, and if they fool around for another day, it will be over. By the way, what about Han Qi? ”

"Han Qi is still in Dongying, or I'll go find him."

"The sisters don't have to go out of the house in the past two days, let the male pawn call Han Qi."

"No!"

Zhou Kong issued martial law and a grounding order, and women were not allowed to show their faces for three days, whether morning or evening, so as not to be captured by the slave army.

About two moments later, Han Qi came to the governance office, still carrying a letter from Bailiyan:

"The last general has seen General Zhou."

"How are your brethren interrogating? It can be seen why the Xian army let them go back to the city. ”

"General Qiyu Zhou, there are more than 180 people who returned to the city, all of them are natives of Zhaocheng, and the Xianjun let them go back to the city, or ......"

Han Qi wanted to speak and stopped, and Zhou Kongcui asked:

"Or what!"

"persuaded our army to surrender, and also brought a letter from Bailiyan, the deputy commander of the Xian army."

After receiving Han Qi's letter, Zhou Kong didn't even look at it and was on the table.

"The Xianjun is dying, and he still wants to persuade the general to surrender, and he is a fool dream! Go, and look like your brethren, and don't leave for half a month. ”

"Yes."

"Ben is tired, you can step down."

After Han Qi retreated, Zhou Kong approached the oil lamp and burned the Baili Yan persuasion book, and then went to the back house to rest.

After a busy day, Zhou Kong fell asleep, and the time was about ugly, around two o'clock in the morning, I faintly heard the sound outside the house.

Zhou Kongmeng started from the couch and called:

"Little Lotus Seed, Little Lotus Seed......"

Little Lotus and the sisters slept in the outer room of the dormitory, and in a hazy way, they picked up their weapons and came to the inner room:

"What did General Zhou call me?"

"What do you hear?"

Xiao Lianzi listened carefully, frowned and said:

"It was like a shout, and I couldn't hear it clearly. Or I'll check it out. ”

"Well, go and go back quickly, don't leave the house."

Xiao Lianzi pushed the door out, hurriedly ran to the atrium, and on the way, he happened to bump into Fang Ke, who was disheveled and his armor was crooked, and stumbled into the atrium.

"General Fang, why are you so alarmed."

Fang Ke had a bitter old face, like a dead mother:

"Hi...... I don't know, when I woke up, I heard the news that Gao Tengbu killed himself. Now the south of the city is finished! ”

"What!" Little Lotus was taken aback: "How is this possible! ”

"Who said it wasn't, it's really a thief. Quick, tell General Zhou, this is terrible. ”

Fang Ke wanted to cry without tears, how did he know that Gao Teng and the others had moved the guy without saying a word because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, and as a result, who killed whom.

Due to the uneven distribution of spoils, Gao Teng could not get enough gold and silver to buy Ma Zheng's old department, so it was Ma Zheng's old department that had an accident first, Gao Teng couldn't suppress it, so he led people to grab gold and silver first, and then bullet pressure, the situation expanded, and finally in just one hour, from a disagreement, rose to a big fight.

Xiaolianzi hurriedly returned to the backyard and told Zhou Kong the news in detail, and Zhou Kong was furious when he heard the news:

"A group of scum ordered the whole city to assemble at the place of governance."

"General Zhou, there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and they have 50,000!" Xiao Lianzi said worriedly.

"Then you can't just watch each other kill each other, go quickly."

"Oh......"

With the sound of killing in the city, the fire began to spread, and the slave army quickly developed from fighting each other at the beginning, to rape and plunder throughout the city.

At the same time, the shouting of killing spread more than ten miles away and reached the camp of the Xian army, causing a lot of commotion:

"Vice Marshal, Vice Marshal!"

Shouting outside the guard's tent, Bailiyan sat up and asked, forced to resist sleepiness and hurriedly asked:

"What?"

"Shine on the city, shine on the city, the sound of killing is deafening, the fire is soaring into the sky, it seems that there is chaos in the city."

didn't have time to think about it, Bailiyan jumped out of bed and walked out of the sleeping tent, faintly heard the sound of people, and looked north, and saw the fire.

"It's weird, why did the city kill itself!" I secretly said in my heart, and then I thought again: "I know, I see, it's ......"

At this time, Zhao Anling and Jiang Jie came in a hurry, and Zhao Anling hurriedly said:

"Master Hou, there seems to be a sound of killing in the city, not to mention tens of thousands of people!"

"Well, the rebels themselves were killed by internal strife, mostly because of the uneven distribution of spoils."

"Uneven distribution of spoils?" Zhao Anling was puzzled.

"Yes, the spoils are unevenly divided. The day before yesterday, there was infighting in the mountains, and most of them were dug up the tomb of Chai Bi. And this reinforcement of Zhaocheng is a division of tigers and wolves made up of slaves and outlaws. I guess that the day before yesterday, the fight must have killed the master of the slave army, and the defenders of Zhaocheng wanted to use gold and silver to make a big thing a small thing, and a small thing turned into a small thing, but the result was counterproductive. ”

"Shhhh yes, I didn't think about it. ”

"It's not that Mr. didn't think of it, but this kind of thing definitely won't happen in the princes' army, and only the forces with many factions and different orders can have such a rare thing happen.

In addition to slaves, there are thugs, death row prisoners, outlaws, outlaws, and outlaws, and the rebels connive at these people to commit evil deeds. For the sake of gold and silver, for the sake of women, and even for the sake of eating better than others, there are often big fights. ”

This morning, Bailiyan vaguely guessed that there would be variables, but it was just a guess, and it developed into large-scale infighting, which was also unexpected.

All the previous intelligence did not show what the quality of the 50,000 horses who reinforced Zhaocheng was, but based on the strategic deployment of Shentong and Chitose, as well as the reaction of the Gongliang clan, Bailiyan and Zhao Anling had a basic judgment that the reinforcements sent by Chitose to Zhaocheng must be strong soldiers, and their combat power is definitely not weak.

Otherwise, the Gongliang clan would not ask the Xian army to drag and not fight in the north, and the Gongliang clan knew very well that the Xian army would fight rashly, and the best result would be a defeat for both sides, because the combat power of the 50,000 slave army was far above the elite of the 50,000 Xian army. Once the Xian army is defeated, it will inevitably retreat to the east and withdraw from the battle, and the Gongliang army will be in danger of being attacked by the enemy.

Therefore, until the rebels landed in Xingcheng, they did not figure out the details of this army, and it was not until this morning that this group of soldiers and horses was equipped with chain mail and fine scale iron armor, and Bailiyan understood the general situation of the battle that happened in the mountains yesterday, and the only reinforcements who came to Zhaocheng were slave troops.

The military system of the Black Turban Army is roughly divided into the internal faction, the slave army, the main army and the foreign army.

Among them, the main army is equivalent to the garrison, and the internal faction descendant army constitutes the core force of the rebel army, more than sixty percent are from Sun Guo, and the remaining two percent are from the headquarters of the Heavenly King of other vassal states.

Among them, after years of attrition, more than half of the foreign army has been incorporated into the main army, and the internal faction is the elite of the Heavenly King's headquarters and the slave army.

The slave reserve army is roughly the same as the main army, and the treatment and equipment are roughly the same as that of the main army, and the equipment of the slave army is the same as that of the internal faction, but the treatment is different.

The descendants of the slave army were often used as dead soldiers, so the treatment of three meals was very high.

Of course, you get what you pay for, and the battle ranks first among the rebels, but whenever there is a vicious battle, the death rate is also very high, so in order to raise the slave army, the Black Turban Army did not hesitate to spend blood, and at the same time, in order to reduce costs, it also connived at the slave army to do evil, so the slave army was notorious for doing all kinds of evil.

In addition, there are also miscellaneous civilian armies and reserve armies in various localities that are not included in the establishment, and the civilian army is poorly equipped and has low combat effectiveness, and it has to fight and garrison, and is also responsible for the supply and transportation of grain and grass, which is very difficult.

The reinforcements landed in Xingcheng the day before yesterday, and after a day of repair, the information of the horse exploration showed that shortly after landing, hundreds of people rushed to Zhaocheng, so it was judged that they were going to contact Zhaocheng.

In this way, it is not difficult to guess what will happen after entering the city.

One is nothing more than to eat and drink, the second is to ask for women, and the third is to ask for money, and the problem may lie in money. Because in addition to rations, there was a shortage of wine and meat in Zhaocheng, and there was no prostitution.

And yesterday's fire fight site is far from the vicinity of Chai Bi's tomb, if the tomb is dug up, the result can be imagined.

This rush is not handled properly, and the best result is to spend money to eliminate the disaster, and the worst result is to kill the money.

Now it seems that killing people for money obviously failed to prevent the expansion of the gaffe, and it further escalated the gaffe, to a situation where the gaffe was divided internally and fought each other.