Chapter 50: Bribing Yang Song
Before, I said that Liu Bei and Pang Tong's plan to let me send troops is like this: I led 5,000 troops to Yangping Pass to deliberately show weakness and lure Zhang Lu to rob the village, if Zhang Lu did not succeed, then he would be lured until Zhang Lu was in the plan, if Zhang Lu was in the plan, he would immediately retreat 30 miles after letting him suffer a big loss, and set up a strong camp on the terrain conducive to defense, only defending and not attacking. After Zhang Lu suffered a big loss, he deceived our army and soldiers, and he would definitely do his best to take revenge. At that time, Liu Bei urged Liu Zhang to send troops to rescue on the grounds that the vanguard was in danger of being surrounded. At that time, Liu Zhang would definitely lose his guard because of our army's attack on Zhang Lu, and ordered Yang Huai, the general of Baishui Pass, who was closest to Jiameng Pass, and Gao Pei, the second general, to lead the army to help, and when Liu Zhang's army from Chengdu in central Sichuan to Jiameng Pass was concentrated in Hanzhong, our army suddenly marched to Chengdu and used Jiameng Pass to block the main force of Liu Zhang's army outside.
Unexpectedly, our army not only took a bite of Zhang Lu smoothly, but also got the unexpected gain of Yang Bai. With his relationship with Yang Song, I think I can blackmail Zhang Lu well.
As agreed with Liu Bei in advance, I wrote an urgent letter for several scouts to send back together, which naturally said that after I defeated Zhang Lusheng and captured one of his generals, I was surrounded by an angry Zhang Lu at the foot of a mountain, and Zhang Lu attacked my camp every day, and I was in great danger, and I begged him to rescue him quickly.
After the letter was sent to Liu Bei, I was left to wait for Zhang Lu's reaction on the other side.
Sure enough, only one day later, Zhang Lu personally led the army out of Yangping Pass and set up camp three miles away from our army camp. and sent messengers to ransom people in my camp. In my letter to Yang Song, I said that I wanted him to bring 500 taels of gold to my camp to ransom people, and it seemed that my brother's own safety was not as important as his own safety.
I changed color, and asked the sergeant to beat the messenger with fifty sticks and blast him back, telling Jansson that if he did not come in person at noon to-morrow, I would cut off his brother's head and hang it on the flagpole outside the camp gate.
The next day Zhang Lu sent troops to surround my camp from the east and north, and I watched from the village, Zhang Lu's soldiers were densely packed, and it seemed that there could be more than 20,000 people.
Of course, Zhang Lu didn't really do this to storm the strong-fortified camp I had already built, and soon, Yang Song was escorted into my camp by a dozen or so seemingly well-chosen sergeants. Two sergeants picked a box, which I estimated to be the five hundred taels of ransom I wanted, which was very important to me, but I don't know how Yang Song would react to my suggestion in a moment.
I instructed Zheng Liang to let Yang Song see me alone, and except for the box containing gold for his own soldiers to carry in, none of the sergeants brought by Yang Song were allowed to enter my big tent.
After all, when it came to my territory, Yang Song was still a little trembling when he entered my big tent, his eyes were too small, and they squinted like a line, I waved his hand to let him sit down, although he sat down, he looked very unsteady.
Before I could speak, he pointed to the box and said, "General Zhuge , I have brought you the ransom you wanted, and I also came according to your request, you can release the person!" At this time, the soldier carrying the box had already opened the box, and it was indeed golden gold, and it seemed that Yang Song was not bad to his younger brother.
"Hehe, it's easy to say, it's easy to say. Lord Yang is calm and restless. I waved my hand to signal the soldiers carrying the box to go out, Zheng Liang looked at Zhang Lujun outside, and at this time, there were only Yang Song and Jiang Xiaoyu in the tent besides me.
I deliberately said to Yang Song: "Lord Yang, this gold is indeed a lot, but is there five hundred taels?" ”
Yang Song hurriedly said: "Of course! Of course! If only one or two were missing, the general could have cut off my head! ”
I smiled: "I can't afford to cut off Lord Yang's head, Zhang Tianshi's attention to you can be seen by this general, I cut off your head here, and the 20,000 troops outside are estimated to be swallowing up my camp!" ”
"General Zhuge said it was funny, General Zhuge said it was funny!" Yang Song knew that I was depressed him, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. I know that this guy is greedy for money and timid by nature, and if it weren't for his brother, and with far more troops than me as the backing this time, he would definitely not dare to come if he was given ten dares.
"Then I don't know, these five hundred taels of gold are from Lord Yang himself? Or did Zhang Shijun give it? "That's the crux of the matter, but I think Jansson will be able to give me a satisfactory answer.
"Of course, it's my father-in-law, five hundred taels of gold is not a decimal for Song, although the lord has always treated me well, but with such a huge amount of money, Song still can't take it out!"
Looking at Yang Song's sincere face, I think I should still be able to believe it. After all, he accepted bribes from Liu Zhang, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao in history, which is after this, which means that he has not yet reached the time to "get rich".
Thinking about this makes me smile even more. I pointed to the box containing five hundred taels of gold and said to Yang Song: "Lord Yang's name has a pine character, and there is also a pine character in the next name. So be it! When we met for the first time, there was nothing to show my heart, so I let it go, and the five hundred taels of gold would be given to adults! ”
I saw that Yang Song's little eyes suddenly widened, and the two expressions of astonishment, joy, and so on were intertwined. Don't talk about him, Jiang Xiaoyu, who was standing next to me with a big personality and didn't care much about anything, also showed an expression of disbelief.
"This, this, this has never done anything for the general, as the so-called merit is not punished, how can I accept such a heavy gift from the general?" Jansson said so, but I saw that his eyes were almost on that box.
Of course, I'm happy with his performance. And inexplicably, my heart actually disliked him as much as before because of his words.
Historically, he was a villain who could sell out his master's interests for money. However, he is still very professional in his sentence of uselessness, no matter what year it is, there are always a lot of bastards who take money and don't do things, although this person has a very poor character, but he also abides by a certain kind of rules, whether it is Liu Zhang or Liu Bei, plus Cao Cao, whoever gives him money He has done the things entrusted by his employer beautifully, this time because I also plan to use him, so from my standpoint, the more I look at him, the more pleasing I feel.
This is exactly what I said, love wants to live, evil wants to die, and now I plan to use him to help me, and I really don't dislike him so much.
I smiled and said to Yang Song: "Don't worry, not only are you qualified to accept this gift, you only need to do me a small favor, and I dare to guarantee that you can still make great contributions to Zhang Shijun!" ”
"General, please! General, please speak! As long as you can do it in the next place, you will definitely do it in the next place! ”
I looked at Yang Song's eager expression, and deliberately said to Jiang Xiaoyu next to me: "I want to talk to Lord Yang about confidential matters, you go to the tent door to guard, no one is allowed to come in without my order!" ”
Jiang Xiaoyu answered, and I said to Yang Song: "Do you know what I want to do with my troops this time?" ”
"This?" Yang Song's face suddenly became a little gloomy, but he still had the courage to ask, "But your lord sent you to attack Hanzhong at Liu Zhang's request?" ”
Hahahaha! I burst out laughing, pretending to laugh until tears were about to come out. It wasn't until Yang Song looked at me with a puzzled look when I laughed that I reluctantly stopped laughing and said to him: "Lord Yang is not an outsider, so Song'er will ask you from the bottom of my heart, do you think my lord wants to fight against Cao Cao, can he win with Jingzhou alone?" ”
"This?" Yang Song's eyes instantly rolled several times. Suddenly, as if he understood, he was surprised: "Could it be? ”
I hurriedly used gestures to stop what Yang Song wanted to say next: "Lord Yang guessed well, my lord just wants to take Yizhou as the capital to fight against Cao Cao!" ”