Chapter 37: A Big Misunderstanding
"Then if I have the behavior to complete the task, these remnants of the Yellow Turban should be alive."
Thinking of this, Hong Ji had an idea, and said to Pei Yuanshao: "You said that you are willing to surrender?" ”
"You are?"
"I am the general of Han Zhengdong, and I am fully responsible for the Yingchuan War!"
Pei Yuanshao looked at Hong Ji deeply, turned around and looked at the miserable robe, all the glory and dreams turned into ashes with a drop of crystal tears, "I'm waiting for the wish to fall!" ”
"Boom!"
The high-pitched sound was accompanied by the sound of kneeling when the knee touched the ground.
Seeing the development of the situation, Cao Cao couldn't help but approach Hong Ji and whispered: "Brother Hong, their heads are all military merits, if we surrender them, won't our operation be in vain?" ”
Hearing this, Hong Ji looked at Cao Cao with an incredulous expression, as if he had reacquainted with him, "They are three or four thousand lives!" You're just for that little bit of military merit? ”
Hong Ji, who was in shock, did not hide his volume at all, so that the yellow scarves who heard Hong Ji's voice glared at Cao Cao angrily, and they were even more grateful to Hong Ji.
Seeing this, Cao Cao thought he understood, and said respectfully: "What the general taught is that the subordinates know their mistakes. ”
just said secretly in his heart: "I didn't expect him to have such a scheming when he usually looks so arrogant, through those words, these more than 3,000 yellow scarves will be dead to him, and the 3,000 loyal troops out of thin air are indeed insignificant compared to that little military merit." It seems that those who take others for fools are the biggest fools, and this lesson should be kept in mind in the future. ”
Hong Ji naturally didn't know that Cao Cao thought of so many twists and turns in an instant, although Hong Ji, who was born under the red flag, was not at all averse to killing people and setting fires, but it was really unacceptable for more than 3,000 people to die in exchange for that insignificant military merit, so he had such a reaction, so that the true feelings were misunderstood as falsehoods.
Seeing that Cao Cao admitted his mistake, Hong Ji didn't say much, and said to Pei Yuanshao: "I, the general of Zhengdong, Hong Ji, accept your surrender on behalf of the imperial court!" ”
As soon as the voice fell, the system's prompt sounded very timely: "Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the task: Yellow Turban Remnant, reward a talent trait, or take the initiative to improve a talent trait, please make a choice within one minute, if the time limit is exceeded, the system will default to the host to choose to reward a talent trait!" Countdown 60,59......"
"I choose to improve my recovery talent!"
This time, Hong Ji didn't make the same low-level mistake as before, and directly chose the option he wanted to improve.
"Host's current strength is 20 (+1), agility is 11, constitution is 10, intelligence is 6, talents: recovery 3 order, mouth escape 1 order."
Hong Ji, who got what he wanted, didn't care whether Pei Yuanshao really surrendered or fake, and ordered a scout to take Pei Yuanshao and a group of yellow turbans to rest in the camp that had not been demolished urgently, and led the army towards Huangfu Song and others.
Although Yuan Shao didn't say a word from beginning to end, he was still quite puzzled by Hong Ji's actions, but fortunately, someone couldn't bear to be confused for him, "General, you have worked hard to subdue this class of yellow turbans, and now you let them go, if they have other thoughts in their hearts, wouldn't it be in vain?" ”
"It's all in vain!"
Looking at the casual Hong Ji, Cao Cao was really puzzled this time.
Half an hour later, when he walked through the charred grass and was about to meet Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, Cao Cao felt a thunderous explosion in his mind: "I see, I understand!" Hong Ji is now in a high position, and the slightest change will attract the suspicion of the Spirit Emperor, but he wants to subdue these 3,000 remnants, so he has to play the drama of wanting to capture the old man, if the Yellow Turban general is grateful for Hong Ji's mind and benevolence, he will naturally become his loyal army, if not, he will not have any loss! It seems that it is not without reason that he has climbed to such a high position in just one month after entering Beijing. ”
At this moment, Cao Cao had a heartfelt jealousy of Hong Ji.
Hong Ji naturally didn't know that Cao Cao had so many thoughts turning in his head, and looked at the approaching Han Jun and said loudly: "Who are Huangfu Song and Zhu Yan?" ”
"Ben will be here, I don't know who this general is?"
"I'm Hong Ji, the general of the Han Zhengdong, and I'll take over here!"
"Huangfu Song (Zhu Yun) has seen the general!"
"No need to be polite, tell me how the battle is going?"
"General Yu, we have annihilated the main force of Bocai according to General Huangfu's fire attack plan, and Bocai has even died in the current assault battle! Wentai, dedicate the head of Bocai to adults! ”
As a person in the officialdom, Zhu Wei naturally understands that Hong Ji will not come sooner or later, but if he comes at this time, he must be here to rob the merit, and the official will crush people to death, and this merit must be conceded if he is not allowed, otherwise not only will he not have the merit, but he may even be framed by others.
Sun Jian, who is already 29 years old, is naturally not a newborn calf, even if there is a lot of unwillingness in his chest, he obediently carries Bocai's head and presents it to Hong Ji.
Hong didn't look at the head presented by Sun Jian, and said casually: "Your Majesty is worried about the war, I don't know how General Zhu is going to report this great victory to Your Majesty?" ”
"Naturally, General Hong is wise and wise, and he adopted General Huangfu's fire attack strategy, plus the soldiers used their lives to annihilate countless enemies! General Hong was even more courageous, killing Bocai in front of the battle and taking his head! ”
Hong Ji glanced at Zhu Jun quite unexpectedly, he didn't expect that he would have such great benefits as a Shangguan, but he was not a greedy person, and said with a straight face: "Although this general is wise and martial, he is not a greedy person, why don't you give this beheading to Cao Mengde under my command?" ”
Cao Cao was directly stunned by the trap that fell from the world, and although Yuan Shao, who heard the words, hated Hong Ji for helping Cao Cao, he was not ignorant enough to report Hong Ji's greed for ink and meritorious deeds. Now the general of the imperial court is competing with the two tigers of the eight permanent servants, and he is even more added to the general to discuss Lang, and the political position is terrible if he makes any mistakes.
"Everything is under the orders of the general!"
Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes, they were originally virtuous and selfless people, but now they are in charge of the court.
"Hahaha! Okay, Meng De quickly sent someone to guard Bocai's head and report the victory to His Majesty, as for the wording, you think for yourself! ”
"The last general commands!"
Cao Cao, who took the order, looked at the head of Bocai who was still in Sun Jian's hand with an excited face, but when he reached out to take it, he couldn't take it.
Cao Cao looked at Sun Jian suspiciously, only to see that there was restraint of anger in his eyes. Cao Cao also somewhat understands the thoughts of the person in front of him, if he gives up his life in exchange for the meritorious service to the main general, the main general will at least be able to remember his own good in the future, and promote one or two, but now he is casually given by the main general to another irrelevant person, obviously he did not take this merit to heart, let alone think of his own good in the future, and it is strange not to be angry.