Zhao Ran promoted a brother named Zhao Ling to be the deputy general and served as the general of the town guarding Tongguan, and then divided the 300 men and horses of the headquarters to form a temporary core group, so that they could command all the more than 8,000 rebels in Tongguan, and then Zhang Guang's troops who were defeated in Daiziying Township and Chun Yu's troops who were captured in Tongguan, a total of more than 8,000 people, were all punished as slaves, stripped of their clothes, and let them strengthen and repair the city wall.

After such an arrangement, Zhao Ran was ready to take all the other more than 10,000 cavalry and more than 20,000 war horses to attack Chang'an!

Zhao Ling is actually a veteran of Zhao Ran's side, when he was in Sususaka before, Zhao Ling often guarded the city, and Zhao Ling was Zhao Ran's own brother, so Zhao Ran trusted Zhao Ling so much, and handed over the important task of guarding Tongguan to Zhao Ling!

on the city walls

Zhao Ran patted Zhao Ling's shoulder, and said earnestly: "Brother Ling, this time I arranged for my brother to come to guard Tongguan, but I handed over all my back to you, and if Tongguan is here, I have a way back, if Tongguan is gone, I will die!" ”

"What did my brother say, since Zhao Ling was ordered to guard Tongguan, he naturally repaid him with death!"

"Don't say anything about whether you are dead or not, this time I won't let you go to Chang'an with me, are you a little unhappy?"

"Brother, Zhao Ling understands what Tongguan means to us, as long as Tongguan is in our hands, even if His Royal Highness the fake prince of the Han Kingdom or Liu Yao, the king of Shi'an, comes, we all have the bargaining capital!"

"Yes, I asked you to guard Tongguan because I didn't want them to hand over the military power of Tongguan after they came! If we give it to them, even if we want to turn against the Han Kingdom in the future, we will be subject to others, as long as Tong is in our hands, even if we can't beat Chang'an, we can also think about it in the long run......"

"Brother is very worried, Zhao Ling hereby wishes my brother to go to Chang'an and succeed!"

"Well, Brother Wei will naturally go all out, by the way, Brother Ling, do you still have any doubts about the garrison of Tongguan?"

"Well, brother, there's nothing else, it's just that I don't understand why don't all the prisoners from Zhang Guang and Chun Yuding be made into our sergeants together with the original Tongguan soldiers?"

"Hehe, because the rebels in Tongguan, in the eyes of the prisoners Zhang Guang and Chun Yuding, they are traitors, and in the eyes of the defenders of Tongguan, these prisoners are not as good as themselves in other aspects except for pretending to be high, once there is a gap between the status and treatment of these two parties, then the rebels in Tongguan will follow us desperately, but you have to pay attention to mediating the contradictions between the two, for those prisoners, kill as much as possible, we don't have so much food to waste......"

Zhao Ling glanced at Zhao Ran's determined eyes, and he had completely understood what his brother meant......

Zhao Ran saw that Zhao Ling didn't speak, knowing that it was his own brother who was guilty of soft-heartedness, and originally wanted to say a few words to him, but now that the war was imminent, Zhao Ran really didn't want to affect his emotions, so he had to stretch out his hand again and pat Zhao Ling's shoulder, and said affirmatively: "Brother Ling, since Tongguan has been handed over to you, then you can handle everything cheaply by yourself, you don't need to report everything to me, as long as Tongguan is here, you and my brothers will still have a day to meet!" “

"Brother, rest assured, Zhao Ling will live up to his mission!"

Zhao Ran looked at Zhao Ling's firm gaze, and the worries in his heart were much less!

Zhao Ran didn't say anything more, turned around and went down the city wall.

In Tongguan, Zhao Ran stepped on the war horse and rushed out of Tongguan first, and more than 10,000 cavalry behind him also followed Zhao Ran out of Tongguan one after another.

Zhao Ling, who was on the city wall, watched the more than 10,000 iron horsemen march out of Tongguan, and he suddenly had a feeling that his heart had followed them......

It wasn't until Zhao Ran's army disappeared in front of him that Zhao Ling went down the city tower.

"Report! General, the prisoners in the cell are making trouble, and some of them can't control it, please deal with it quickly! ”

Zhao Ling's brows furrowed, his face was full of gloom, and he said, "Come on, bring me weapons, let's go and have a look!" ”

All the men and horses of the headquarters left by Zhao Ran followed Zhao Ling towards the prison camp.

Zhao Ling came to the location of the prison camp temporarily used to take care of these prisoners in Tongguan (Tongguan Prison Camp is a temporary square in Tongguan, more than 8,000 prisoners have been thrown here, but people are separated by wooden fences, basically a group of 500 people are placed in various places in the entire square), he found that this place has already been overcrowded, more than 8,000 people, fortunately it is a big pass like Tongguan, otherwise how could there be such a big place to settle? But it is true that these numerous captives have affected the order of the entire Tongguan interior......

Now these people have also started to make trouble because of the overcrowding and the lack of food allocated, and many people have even taken the lead in killing some Tongguan defenders who are close to them......

In this way, the contradictions between the Tongguan defenders and these newly surrendered captives are almost on the verge of breaking out!

When Zhao Ling saw this scene, there was an irrepressible anger in his heart, his brother handed over such an important Tongguan to himself, and now his brother has only left on his front foot, are these captives ready to make trouble?!

"Come on, kill those who take the lead in making trouble, drag them out and kill those who have helped them, and kill all those who dare to make trouble!"

The defenders of Tongguan all heard Zhao Ling's words, and immediately many people took action, but most of them still didn't react much......

When Zhao Ling saw this, he rushed to his head with a murderous aura, he was the first to pull out his sword and waved a butcher's knife at the indifferent Tongguan defenders, and Zhao Ling's headquarters also carried out a merciless slaughter of the Tongguan defenders who were watching the play outside the prison gate!

In the camp, the troublesome captives watched this scene in shock, they didn't expect them to make trouble, but it turned out to be the Tongguan guards who were guarding them who were slaughtered......

"Go! Then call two teams of 100 Tongguan troops to come in! ”

"Yes! Checkmate! ”

After a while, two teams of 100 Tongguan defenders entered the prison camp.

"The first team will kill all the people in the fence on the left side of the head, and the second team will kill the people on the right, if you can't finish the killing, you don't want to live yourself!"

The people of the Tongguan garrison, look at me, I look at you, they simply can't believe that their new general will give such an order, these are all unarmed people!

At this moment, the atmosphere in the prison camp has been suppressed to the extreme......

But just as they were hesitating and fearing, Zhao Ling brandished his sword again and roared: "You see no dead corpses on the ground, and those who don't obey orders will be killed!" ”

Tongguanjun's hands were trembling, and when they looked at the captives in the cell, it was obvious that the other party's eyes were full of anger!

Zhao Ling knew that if he didn't do anything now, there might be a riot at any time, so he yelled at his own headquarters: "Draw your sword, if they don't obey the order, kill them all, and not one will be left!" ”

"Yes! Checkmate! ”

Tongguan Jun watched those Zhao Ling's headquarters men and horses behave like this, and the spear in his hand tightened......

"Tongguan Army, if you don't do it again, or if you start slower than the other team, you will be killed!"

In the face of this naked threat, the two teams of Tongguan troops once again looked at the prisoners in the cell, on one side was the Zhao Lingjun who was waiting for the battle, and on the other side was the unarmed prisoners, did this still need to be chosen......?

The slaughter began, the captives had no way to compete with the heavily armed Tongguan army, and the bloody slaughter lasted not long, and all the captives in the two cells had been killed, and the death toll was more than 900 people, and many of them were trampled to death by crowding while fleeing......

The captives in the other rooms were silent when they saw all this, and some even began to cry, and there was no anger in their eyes when they looked at Tongguanjun, only fear, endless fear......