Chapter 184: I'll Follow You
At this moment, I saw a laugh above my head: "Zhang Yan, you were captured by me today, what else do you have to say?" ”
Zhang Yan didn't need to look at it to know that the owner of this voice was his great enemy in life, Liu He, so he sighed: "Becoming a king and defeating a king, what else can I say until now?" If you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, do it. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
But he saw Liu He come forward, remove the fishing net for Zhang Yan, untie the binding, and then said solemnly: "General Zhang, in fact, you should also know that although you are as light as a swallow and can fly the eaves and walk the wall, but in the case of ten thousand crossbows, you will definitely not be spared, if I want to kill you, I can shoot you to death with arrows in the Shangdang, can you admit this?" ”
Seeing this, Zhang Yan was silent for a moment, and said to Liu He without thinking: "You are right, because I want to keep my body as light as a swallow, I can only wear light armor, if you really shoot arrows, I really can't dodge, but if you loosen my ties like this, aren't you afraid that I will escape?" ”
"I'm afraid, in fact, I'm not afraid", Liu He smiled faintly, and then said: "I won't tell you, I'm so deliberate to lure you to steal the treasure, itself is to capture you alive, naturally worried about you escaping, but I am not afraid of it, but it is not a lie, because even if you run, you will face the end of defeat, hehe, at the beginning, your forces spanned most of the state, and they were all defeated by me, and now there are only three counties of Changshan, Zhaojun and Zhongshan, and facing the coalition of me and Yuan Shao, there is no possibility of winning at all, After you lost Shangdang and Taiyuan before, you can still run here, but if you fail again this time, where else can you flee to? You're running out now, so I'm not afraid of that. ”
"That's a bit too absolute, isn't it? If I fail, I can go to Gongsun Zhan, we are allies, we have always been very friendly, how can you say that I have no way out? Zhang Yan was not convinced by Liu He's words and refuted.
saw Liu He and hehe sneered: "Gongsun Zhan? This person was a hero a few years ago, but his performance in recent years has been a bit unsatisfactory. This person is narrow-minded, jealous of the virtuous and jealous, the generals have talent but cannot be used, but the people without talent and virtue are reused, is it worth you to go to such a person? Let's put it this way, if you are still the commander of your Montenegrin army, if you still have more than 100,000 elite soldiers and occupy a huge territory, he will definitely form an alliance with you as before, and treat you with courtesy, and maybe even treat you as an ancestor, but now that you are out of power, how can he rest assured of you, how dare he rest assured of you? What if you take his place? What if you annex his people? What if you murder him? Although you won't do this, you can't stop him from thinking like this, and think about it, how could he allow you, the former commander of the Montenegrin army, to threaten his position in his army? If you defect to him, you will die sooner or later, and besides, the current Gongsun Chan can only barely protect himself, what can he do? If it weren't for the constraints of your Montenegrin Army, Yuan Benchu and I would have joined forces, and it would have been easy to destroy him! ”
"This ......" Although Zhang Yan had the heart to refute, he had to admit that what Liu He said was indeed reasonable, if he defected to Gongsun Zan with the remnants of the defeated army, waiting for him, I am afraid that there would only be one way to perish.
Zhang Yan was silent for a long time, and suddenly sighed, originally he was also the master of the world, but now it seems that even if he escapes this time, I am afraid that there will be no way out in the future.
At this moment, I suddenly saw Liu He and said, "General Zhang, tell you the truth today, what was your purpose in raising the army in the first place?" ”
"For what? Hmph, the officials of the Han Dynasty are corrupt, the people are hungry, and many people are forced to die, resulting in the darkness of the world, and the people are not living. When Zhang Yan said this, she suddenly felt her blood boiling in her body, and her voice was much higher.
But Liu He's subsequent words made him ashamed: "General Zhang's wish is good, but general, think about it, are you still working hard for your original goal?" You have a million men under your command and occupy the vast territory of Bingzhou, Jizhou and Hanoi, but have the people under your rule ever lived a day of peace? They are all poorly clothed, hungry, and their faces are full of vegetables, and even so, they are still being bullied by you and your soldiers, and in your spare time, have you not thought about the difference between you now and the corrupt officials you have to oppose before? Even, you are more vicious than those corrupt officials! It is precisely because of these reasons that when your state and county were attacked by me, no one among the people was willing to help you defend the city, even if you forced them up the city wall, their faces were full of disgust and hatred for you, and this is the main reason for your failure! ”
"Alas, now that I think about it carefully, what the envoy said is indeed right, for the sake of temporary greed and happiness, I really did not care about the life and death of the people, and I have long forgotten the oath I made at the beginning, and I am no longer the young man who swore to sweep away the evil and rebuild the peaceful and prosperous world. Ten years, only ten years later, I have transformed into those people that I hated deeply ten years ago, but I am still here to speak out, want to unify and merge states, unify the division, and compete in the Central Plains, now think about it, what ability do I have to compete in the Central Plains? What qualifications do I have to compete in the Central Plains? ”
When Zhang Yan said this, he was already full of sighs, shook his head with a wry smile, and continued: "Until today, I don't know why so many officials have the ambition to serve the country at the beginning, but in the end they become gnashing their teeth as corrupt officials, it turns out that people's hearts will change, especially in the face of materialism, there are really not many people who can adhere to the original ethics, I also understand a little, it turns out that not everything in this world is solved by force, and the people are not really deterred by force, only by really letting them live a stable life." , they will really support you. ”
"Actually, it's not too late for you to understand these things now, some people don't understand this truth all their lives, okay, let's go, I hope you can really think about the people everywhere in the future, so as to live up to the solemn oath you made at the beginning."
"What? Let me go? You're just going to let me go? When Zhang Yan heard this, she was immediately surprised, and asked Liu He in a lost voice.
"Naturally, I just let you go, do you say that I have stolen treasures in my camp, and you want me to set up a banquet to entertain you? There's no such thing in this world. Liu He smiled faintly and actually made a joke to Zhang Yan.
"Let's go? But where am I going? Like you said, where is my foothold in this world? What's more, I don't have the ability to govern the country, even if I really give me a county and a state, I don't know how to govern the people at all, not only live up to their expectations, but also push them into the abyss of suffering, forget it, I won't leave, from now on I will follow the envoy, I know that the envoy is a benevolent gentleman, and the people under his rule are praising your kindness, I have also heard that you issued the Juntian Decree in Shangdang and Taiyuan, not to mention the people and soldiers in those two counties, even many soldiers under my command are moved, and many people are secretly discussing, If I lose this battle, they will go to Shangdang and Taiyuan, honestly plough the fields and farm, and live a life in peace. ”