Chapter 52: The Surrender of Tianyun Village
"Engong" Ye Xiong wanted to speak and stopped.
Wang Xu said: "Don't call me Engong, I don't get used to it, saving you is just a gesture, not enough to worry about." "Hehe, then call the lord" Ye Xiong said: "Lord, Yunzhai Guan Qing treated us well that day, and his subordinates had a reluctant request, and I hope that the lord will be fulfilled." Wang Xu always had a faint smile on his face, his right hand was frivolous, and he said, "Say it." "Although Tianyunzhai has been a disaster for many years, it is a perennial natural disaster, and the situation is compelling, please let the lord allow them to surrender in the face of his subordinates, and his subordinates promise that I will warn them not to bully the people in the future."
Surrender? Will Tianyunzhai surrender? If you can really say it to Ye Xiong, it is really great, although you have the certainty of victory, but the so-called killing of one thousand enemies and self-loss of eight hundred, Tianyun Village now has five thousand people, if you fight hard, then your own losses will not be small.
"If Tianyunzhai is willing to surrender, I can't ask for it."
Wang Xu thought for a while and said, "Brother Ye, you go back and tell the big boss of Tianyun Village that if he is really willing to surrender, I can ignore the mistakes they made in the past, and besides, the five thousand men and horses in Tianyun Village are still under his command."
Thousands of people and horses in Tianyunzhai are all handed over to Guan Qing to command, this idea is not bold, but there is no way to do it, if there is no sweetness, who is willing to surrender, even if it surrenders, if Guan Qing's original subordinates in the army are higher than his own position, can Guan Qing be convinced? For example, Liao Yun. Guan Qing can be the big boss of Tianyun Village and obey his subordinates, it can be seen from this that Guan Qing is not useless, no matter what the martial arts are, at least he has the talent to lead the troops, and now the only people who can lead the troops under his own hands are Huang Quan and Sun Yu, Huang Quan can train soldiers well, if he leads an army to fight with the enemy, it will be a little worse, Sun Yu is an all-rounder; But Wang Xu has his own plans, Sun Yu is used to using spears, and he is the best candidate to form pikemen in the future; In this era of cold weapons, cavalry is the main force in the battlefield.
"Thank you, lord" Ye Xiong saluted and said: "Lord, please rest assured, Tianyun Village will definitely surrender, as soon as the dawn of the day, the lord will prepare to go to the surrender, and then I will let Guan Qing and others greet him outside the gate of the village."
A glimmer of morning glow pierced the sky, dispelling the darkness and ushering in a new day.
In the early morning, birds and beasts sang to their heart's content, and many animals wandered among the thorns of the jungle, looking for delicious food; The fragrance of flowers wafting in the wind and the clarity of the green leaves make people have to revel in it and forget to return.
It's a delightful morning. When the first rays of sunlight shone in through the big tent, Wang Xu slowly got up and stretched himself out, and walked out of the tent, only to see that 10,000 soldiers had been assembled under the command of Huang Quan and Sun Yu. "It's really a good weather today" is in a good mood, and it is comfortable to see anything; The disciples of the sword god were attached, and Tianyun Village surrendered; Now that he has 35,000 troops, even if the prince finds trouble after seizing the throne, he has the capital to resist. Huang Quan said: "Lord, the army has been assembled, and the bandits of Tianyun Village are already waiting outside the wall." "Let's go, go to Tianyun Village" Wang Xu turned over his horse nearby, and with an order, the army went in the direction of the wall of Tianyun Village. Outside Tianyun Village, five thousand bandits did not take any weapons, just stood lazily in place, in front of the walled gate, under the leadership of Guan Qing, Guan Hua, Liao Yun, and dozens of large and small leaders of the cottage were lined up on both sides of the walled gate. And Ye Xiong, Feng Hu, and Chu Jun are also among them.
Guan Hua stood behind Guan Qing and said softly: "Brother, then Wang Xu really said that he was not to blame in the past?" ”
Guan Qing nodded and said, "Since Master Ye said that the past is not to blame, you can rest assured, besides, we have no second way to go now, with our little strength to fight the officers and soldiers, within half a day, we will be defeated!" "Big boss, the officers and soldiers are coming," Liao Yun said. Guan Qing raised his eyes and saw flags waving in the distance, swords and guns standing in a forest, shining under the illumination of the morning sun; The army marched like a surging dark cloud, splitting the sky and the earth, making people daunting. "See, the officers and soldiers are so well-organized, they are not ordinary soldiers; If you look at these soldiers behind us, do you think it is possible for us to hold Tianyun Village? ”
What Guan Qing said was also what Liao Yun wanted to say, Guan Hua said goodbye and stopped talking.
In a few moments, the army approached; Wang Xu turned over and dismounted, and under the protection of Zhang Meng and Sun Yu, he came to the front of the village.
Guan Qing came to the front with a half-bow, and said with a formal salute: "Guan Qing led all the soldiers of Tianyun Village to greet the general."
"The big boss doesn't have to be formal, everyone will be a family in the future," Wang Xu stroked with his right hand and said.
Guan Qing glanced at the soldiers on both sides, waved his hand and said, "General, this is my soldier from Tianyun Village, please review and store it."
"Guan Qing, these soldiers were originally your subordinates, and they will always be in the future; These 5,000 soldiers are under your command, and I hope you will strictly restrain them and stop oppressing the people anymore," Wang Xu said.
"General, Guan Qing commands" Although Ye Xiong had told him last night that the five thousand soldiers were under his command, Guan Qing never believed it, in Guan Qing's opinion, it was impossible, although the five thousand soldiers in Tianyun Village were nothing in Wang Xu's eyes, but in the end they were also a lot of force, no matter what, they should be handed over to the generals they trusted; Unexpectedly, Wang Xu really handed over the five thousand soldiers of Tianyun Village to himself, which is enough to show his trust in himself. Guan Qing was secretly determined not to let the general down.
"General no, the lord please enter the cottage".
Under the leadership of Guan Qing, everyone walked into the cottage, there are no tall houses in Tianyun Village, there are no gorgeous costumes, there are only some inconspicuous caves and rows of thatched houses, in the middle of many thatched houses in the distance, a bluestone tile house is particularly conspicuous.
Guan Qing walked to a thatched hut and said, "Lord, this is the treasury of my Tianyun Village, please take a look."
Wang Xu pushed the door in, and saw more than a dozen large boxes of mahogany stacked together, could it be all gold and silver?
"Guan Qing, what's in this box?"
Guan Qing smiled proudly, stepped forward and pried open all the more than a dozen large boxes with a horizontal knife, and the golden one illuminated the entire thatched house, Guan Qing said: "Here is my Tianyun Village's savings over the years, a total of 3,000 taels of gold and more than 50,000 taels of silver; Now it's all the lord's."
"So many" It seems that Guan Qing, a bandit, is not in vain, it is worthy of being the largest bandit den within a radius of 100 miles, but I am afraid that ordinary small counties do not have such a family background. Although he is short of food instead of gold, he can buy food with gold, and he will not be able to do without this gold in the future, whether it is the soldier's salary or the creation of armor, swords and guns.