When Xu Kun rode his horse to the edge of the forest outside the Oxtail Gathering, he seemed to see an empty settlement, and the reason why he said it seemed to be because he still saw a person. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A person standing on the corner tower of the walled gate, looking at the figure of the other party standing still and Yuanyu Yuezhi, Xu Kunrao was full of confidence when he came, and he couldn't help but be confused at this moment.

It stands to reason that the deliberate mobilization of troops and horses has had the effect of being a soldier and a nobleman, after all, he was able to hide his whereabouts before entering the mountain, and he was not discovered by anyone, but he only deliberately made a big show and intimidated the other party when he came to the vicinity of this settlement, which is the "surprise and unpreparedness" in the art of war.

Even if a group of elite soldiers are skilled at fighting, and suddenly a large number of enemies descend from the sky and kill their side before they realize the danger, they will feel helpless and masterless. But the settlement in front of him was quiet, as if it was not affected by the invasion of foreign enemies at all, and even felt like no one, this strange phenomenon couldn't help but make Xu Kun suspicious.

Speaking of why he came here, he has to start with the big battle that Chen Cang pursued. After Huangfu Song defeated the Liangzhou rebels, there were still many Liangzhou rebels scattered as birds and beasts, fled in all directions, and turned into stragglers and ran to Sanfu to poison the local people. So Huangfu Song also ordered to eliminate the remaining murderers, and divided the troops of each army to sweep away the remnants of the chaotic army.

And Dong Zhuo also changed his previous attitude of passively avoiding war and refusing to pursue the enemy, and he was particularly concerned about sweeping away the remnants of the rebels in Liangzhou. After all, Dong Zhuo's subordinates raised a group of Huangzhong righteous servants, and this time he took advantage of the victory to recruit a lot of rebel soldiers and horses, these people and horses are his own private soldiers, and he must feed them himself.

Moreover, Dong Zhuo also got information that Huangfu Song reported his victory to the Luoyang Imperial Court and also attached a note of impeachment against himself, which mentioned that he was passively avoiding war and raising self-respect. For this reason, Dong Zhuo also immediately impeached Huangfu Song to support the army and respect himself, and at the same time sent soldiers and horses to sweep away the remnants of the rebels, and cut off more heads as a military merit so that he could have the confidence to fight a war of words with Huangfu Song, who had just broken through the strong enemy and made great achievements.

Xu Kun's uncle Xu Rong held on to Chencang City in the battle with the Liangzhou rebels this time, and dragged the rebels and horses under the fortified city of Chencang for more than 80 days, frustrating the enemy's spirit, making the first contribution, and being promoted to the captain in the army is just around the corner, and the young Xu Kun was stained with the light of his uncle's great achievements, and the former general Dong Zhuo also noticed Xu Rong's nephew who stayed under his command, so with a wave of his hand, Xu Kun was also allowed to lead a group of soldiers and horses alone and come out to kill the remnants.

Killing the remnants of thieves is a great thing in the army, and the generals who lead the troops go out to suppress the bandits, and they can run rampant in the name of officers and soldiers; if they take the opportunity to capture a few dock forts and settlements harboring "traitors," then they will make a hundredfold of profits and make a lot of money.

So early this morning, Xu Kun's army scouts who pursued all the way to the foot of the Nanmai Mountain caught a few rebel soldiers, and after learning from them about the failure of the rebel army's attack on a mountain settlement, he immediately reported to Xu Kun.

When Xu Kun heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, isn't it a good thing that someone sent him a pillow while he was napping. He made a quick decision, picked out three hundred elite men and horses, and led the way by those few captured routs, marched quickly, hid his tracks along the way, searched the mountains and forests, and went straight to Oxtail to gather.

In his opinion, if it is an ordinary dock wall, he has to carefully listen to whether there are any people behind the owner of the dock wall who can't afford to offend before he can decide whether to do it or not. A group of helpless mountain people will be killed if they are killed, and the slaughtered mountain settlements will be charged with hiding the rebels, and the severed heads can be regarded as military merits.

And those captured rebels were of course willing to do anything in order to survive, and immediately brought Xu Kun's three hundred elites to the mountains according to the original path they had found when they escaped, so there was the scene that Yan Xing encountered before.

Now that he has been killed at the door of this mountain settlement, although this oxtail gathering looks weird, but Xu Kun has spent so much manpower and thought, how can he give up attacking because of a little weirdness?

He observed the fence on the periphery of this oxtail gathering, and found that the fence of the front gate was the highest, and there were corners, and it was easy to have casualties of men and horses when attacked directly, while the fence on the east side was built low, only more than six feet high.

When he saw the peripheral situation of this settlement clearly, Xu Kuncheng, who had already made a plan to break the barrier, was full of confidence, he grinned, and immediately called out a subordinate to give a low order, and after a while, he sent a subordinate to the gate of the settlement to persuade him to surrender, so that the fugitives in the settlement would give up useless resistance, and his soldiers and horses were the economic division of the imperial court, promising not to harm them.

Xu Kun used this method to deal with those Qianshou people who lived in danger and often worked, after all, ordinary Qianshou saw many people and horses surrounding him, under the banner of officers and soldiers, he had already been suppressed by the momentum alone, and even more unbearable was directly frightened, so he immediately opened the door to apologize to the labor army, and moved out wine and meat to reward the officers and soldiers.

And once the people can't resist the pressure to open the door and surrender, and let these nominal officers and soldiers in, then the next inconsistency between what the officers and soldiers do and what they say is no longer something they can decide.

But this time everything was beyond Xu Kun's expectations, the people in the settlement were neither panicked and helpless as he thought, scattered and fled, nor did they tremble in the face of a large group of soldiers and horses, and opened the door to surrender. The whole settlement was still quiet, except for the figure standing on the corner tower, there were no other figures and voices.

The cavalry who rushed to the gate of the walled gate was ordered by Xu Kun to come and send a message to the mountain people to open the door and surrender, he was freshly dressed and angry, arrogant and arrogant, and came directly to the corner tower of the walled gate, and shouted loudly to the figure upstairs:

"Listen, the people upstairs, you fugitives have been surrounded by the imperial court and the kings, and you know each other and want to live, so open the door and surrender early, if you dare to stubbornly resist the power of heaven and resist the king, there will be no chickens and dogs left after breaking through the settlement!"

These words were coercive and tempting, coupled with the banners of the officers and soldiers, and the cavalry who passed the message felt that the mountain man upstairs must have been frightened stupid by his might, and he was afraid that it would take a while to be able to react, and then he would rush downstairs in a hurry, open the gate of the village, pounce on the horse, grab the ground with his head, and ask for his forgiveness.

The figure upstairs reacted immediately after listening to his shout, but instead of panicking, he calmly pulled out the bow and arrow in his hand!