Anding County, outside Linjing City, looking at the dense Ma Teng soldiers under the city, Yang Qiu's heart was very nervous, and he sighed silently: "This Ma Teng is really too deceitful, and he directly led the troops to attack, although I Anding County is under his command, but he can't forcibly deprive me of the position of Anding Taishou, my Yang family has been operating here for many years, how can I easily give it to you?" The connection between Han Yue's Jincheng and the three counties of Hexi can only rely on borrowing from the Qiang people, which is very inconvenient, and he is now paying more attention to guarding against and dealing with Li Dao, attacking Wuwei, and is not very interested in my stability at all, or even if he is interested, he is powerless, so until now I have not expected a single reinforcement, and it is really difficult to repel the enemy army in this situation. ”

Before, Yang Qiu still wanted to nominally belong to Pei Qing, and then use Pei Qing's prestige to force Ma Teng to retreat, but Pei Qing was not fooled and directly rejected his request.

At this moment, I saw Ma Chao, the young general under the city, laughing loudly: "Yang Qiu, are you still looking forward to Uncle Han's reinforcements?" Ben will tell you the truth, Uncle Han has reached a compromise with my father, Uncle Han gave up Anding and Beidi, and gave these two counties to my father, and my father promised to help him capture Wuwei, we both work together, take what we need, and then unite sincerely to fight against Pei Qing, if you know the current affairs, it is best to surrender directly to us, so that you can save a life, otherwise, once our army captures Anding City, I am afraid that you will have the disaster of extermination, and even the people in the city will not survive, Your thoughts determine the life and death of the people of the city, why should you let the people suffer for your own selfishness? ”

"What? Han Envoy Jun he actually ......" Yang Qiu was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that things would come to this point, Han Sui actually reached a new agreement with Ma Teng behind his back, and quietly used the entire Anding County as a bargaining chip, so that the entire Anding can be dangerous, with the 20,000 people in his city, how can he block Ma Chao's tens of thousands of tiger and wolf troops?

"Haha, how's that? Now you know, right? What my Uncle Han cares about most is actually Wuwei, not your stability, if you don't surrender now, there is only one way to die, and you can just die yourself, don't let the people of the whole city suffer with you. Ma Chao said triumphantly on the horse: "I'll think about it with you for two hours, and if you don't agree after two hours, I will immediately order the siege of the city, once this method is taken, after the city is broken, don't blame me for ordering the slaughter of the city!" ”

"What? You, you're going to slaughter the city? After hearing this, Yang Qiu's hair couldn't help but stand on end, and he said in a trembling voice: "Young General, let's not say that we have fought side by side together before, even if we are like enemies with each other, you don't need to take such bloody measures, right?" There are more than 100,000 people in this city, and you know that such a rash decision will directly lead to a river of blood, and 100,000 unjust souls have nowhere to complain. ”

"Hehe, isn't it all up to you? If you choose to surrender, not only them, but even you don't have to die, but if you resist to the end, you will be primarily responsible for their death. The road is already here, and it's up to you to choose. Ma Chao's expression was very cold, and he said with a smile at Yang Qiu.

Yang Qiu immediately fell into contemplation when he heard this, now Han Sui had given him up, Pei Qing also refused to accept it, he wanted to resist Ma Chao's tens of thousands of troops had no chance of winning, so in this case, surrender was actually the best choice, but he couldn't believe Ma Chao's assurance, because he had also worked with Ma Chao before, and knew that Ma Chao was a person who spoke frivolously and had a cruel temperament, and when he spit out the word slaughter in his mouth, the expression on his face was very indifferent, it was no different from killing chickens and ducks, If he really surrendered, I am afraid that he would be the first to take his family sacrifice sword, and even if he wanted to resist at that time, it would probably be impossible.

So after some thought, Yang Qiu said to Ma Chao: "I can lead my troops to surrender, but I want you to swear in the name of the ancestors of the Ma family, and after I surrender, you will not touch me and my family subordinates, I know that you are not at ease with my family and subordinates, in order to reassure you, we can move away from stability, now we only need you to swear." ”

When Ma Chao heard this, he immediately shouted: "Presumptuous! Yang Qiu, don't give you a shame, my family has been a prince for generations, how can I casually insult the name of my ancestors? I promise I won't do anything to you, if you surrender, you'll be happy, don't wait for me to change my mind, besides, do you still have a choice? If you don't surrender, there is only one way to die, and you have to bring the whole city to accompany the funeral, if you surrender, there is still a chance to survive, how to choose between the two, do you need me to bother again? ”

At this time, Pang De, who was beside Ma Chao, whispered: "Young General, in fact, this matter is not that we can't agree to him, anyway, we don't plan to break our promises, so we swear in the name of our ancestors, what is the loss?" ”

saw Ma Chao shouting: "What do you know? My ancestors have been princes for generations, how can their names be easily used by me to make an oath? In case after taking the oath, this Yang Qiu Lao'er takes the initiative to find trouble, how can I do it to him because of the oath? Besides, now that Yang Qiu is just forced to surrender to us due to the situation, will he really be attached? His family has great prestige and appeal in Stable, how can I let them leave so easily? Don't say anything else at that time, as long as he goes to Pei Qing, and then borrows troops from Pei Qing to kill back, I believe that the people in the city will respond to him, and at that time we will be trapped both internally and externally, and the big husband wants to achieve great things, so he can't have the kindness of a woman, Yang Qiu and his family died because they saved the people in the city, which is also worth it, and when their names are included in the list of righteous people in the local chronicles in the future, this is already their greatest glory. ”

"What, what? Major General, are you really planning to kill Yang Qiu's family? In this way, I am afraid that it will provoke the wrath of the heavens and the resentment, and if the 100,000 people in Anding County riot together, this will definitely not be good news for us, and the princes of the four directions will definitely use this as an excuse to crusade against us......"

Pound suddenly felt deeply worried when he heard this, he didn't expect Ma Chao to be so ruthless, even if the other party surrendered, he would kill people.

But he saw Ma Chao and said: "Stabilize the people's customs and fierceness, if you don't punish them severely, how can you quickly return to your heart?" If there is chaos today, where will there be time to calm the people's minds? Killing is the best means of punishment, not to mention that I won't kill people directly, when the time comes, you can find someone to pretend to be a rogue or fabricate excuses, even if you kill them, no one will say anything, so it generally won't cause a riot, but leave them to bring us great hidden dangers, with all kinds of details, so that you won't know. ”

"But after all, people are watching the sky, and there is a providence in the dark, if you do this, general, I'm afraid even the heavens won't let you go, right?" Pound still looked worried, and gently persuaded him.

"Hey, providence? The providence of farts, if there is really providence, why don't good people live long and curses live for thousands of years? Ma Chao looked disdainful, and said with a smile: "Like those traitors, they can live well, but many loyal ministers and direct ministers died early, this is the will of God?" ”

"Maybe the time has not come, such as Dong Zhuo, who did a lot of evil and couldn't escape death in the end, and Li Dao, who bullied the Son of Heaven, and eventually became a ghost under the knife, another example is ......"

"Okay, okay, don't say so much useless," Ma Chao finally became impatient, and said in a deep voice to Pang De: "No matter what, Yang Qiu's whole family must die, if they don't die, they can't be stable, now I'm the commander of the army, you just need to obey orders." ”

However, at this moment, seeing the smoke and dust rising from the rear of his army, Ma Chao was suddenly surprised in his heart, and asked strangely: "This is Yang Qiu's reinforcements?" But where did he get reinforcements at this time? ”