Chapter 169: Disdain to be in the company of thieves
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Whether it was Zhao Yun or Meng Ding, they all underestimated the power of the smoke attack.
In fact, their smoke this time is undoubtedly a biochemical warfare. The pungent smoke produced by the use of fine grease and firewood to smoke the enemy is undoubtedly equivalent to a chemical weapon.
Maybe even Meng Ding and Zhao Yun didn't know that they started the use of chemical weapons.
When Zhao Yun and the other troops went up the mountain, Gongsun Zhan looted the whole army and brought all the edible oil, and each sergeant brought at least a bag of oil weighing a few catties to ten catties. Liquid oil, packed in a cowhide bag, some is solid oil, resin, etc., wrapped in a cloth and can be taken away.
The reason why Gongsun Chan got so much in a short period of time was that he was usually used to collect some dead war horses on the battlefield after the war, and some meat oil that he couldn't eat and get out. In addition, he was also accustomed to carrying a lot of pine resin for lighting along the march. In ancient times, there were pine forests all over the mountains, and it was easy to get pine resin, so after he gave all the fuel in the army to Zhao Yun, he sent a large number of sergeants to collect pine resin, and prepared to send it to Zhao Yun on the mountain after dawn.
However, I'm afraid I won't need it.
Zhao Yun ordered the sergeant to throw firewood at the foot of Chaoyang Valley, and at first it was thrown to the same place, so that the firewood was accumulated, even if it was a little moist firewood and grass, but under the roasting of the fire, it could also burn.
If you look down from the mountain, you can see the fire boiling below, and you can feel the heat of the fire from the mountain.
Six or seven hundred people, plus the efforts of Zhao Yun's two thousand soldiers, how much firewood and grass can be cut down overnight? I'm afraid it's too many to count.
The mountains and forests are dense, and in just a moment, you can cut a bundle of firewood and grass, and a round is one or two thousand bundles of firewood, and so on and so on. When I ran out of fuel, I threw the bundles of firewood and grass into the fire below.
By dawn, almost all the trees near Tiezuiling had been cut down.
All night. On the mountain, you can hear the neat and chaotic coughing sound at the bottom of the valley, the neat thing is that everyone is choking on the smoke and coughing, and the chaotic is one after another, and the coughing sound is continuous.
Later, it was not just a cough, but a burst of crying.
The thieves couldn't stand it.
I really can't stand it, the smoke is thick. If it weren't for the fact that there was a stream at the bottom of the valley and there was no shortage of water, they could cover their noses with a damp cloth, for fear that they would all be choked to death.
It's hard to imagine that miles of ground are covered in smoke.
However, such a situation. It is not impossible, during the later Anti-Japanese War of the Republic of China, there were many reconnaissances in order to confuse the Japanese Air Force. Firewood is lit everywhere on the ground, creating a spectacle of smoke for hundreds of miles.
Not to mention the situation during the war, when Liu Yi was a child, the place where he was adopted by the old Taoist priest was in a village in the mountains. The villagers there still retain some habits of slash-and-burn farming.
For example, after the grain is harvested, the straw will be left in the field to be exposed to the sun, and after it is dried, it will be set on fire. However. In the countryside, when the villagers harvest grain, they almost all do it at the same time, so their stalks are also exposed to the sun together. When they set fire to it, they also looked at the weather, and when they saw that it was raining, they went to the field and set it on fire. In this way, a situation of smoke is everywhere. At that time, in the smoke, I would indeed feel difficult to breathe, and I would choke on the smoke and tears together. But usually, rain and wind will come immediately to disperse the smoke, otherwise, it will be really uncomfortable.
Like this Chaoyang Valley, a rather closed place, countless firewood was thrown down in several places, all night long, how thick was the smoke condensed below?
In fact, in the early hours of the morning, the thieves in Chaoyang Valley couldn't stand it. Crazy flock to Taniguchi.
They wanted to escape from the valley to escape for their lives, but Gongsun Zhan's army was waiting in formation, and as soon as they fished the valley, they were waiting for a rain of arrows, and they would die as many as they came out.
Towards dawn, the thieves showed signs of commotion and mutiny, and in the thick smoke, it was difficult to see the five fingers of their hands, and when they opened their eyes, they choked with tears, and coughed and dizzy when they breathed.
Eventually, as soon as dawn came, they opened the gate in front of the valley and stumbled out to surrender.
The bitter cockroach was the first to rush out, with a dead face, kneeling in front of the pass, pinching his throat and coughing non-stop.
He was the chief, and when he threw down firewood on the mountain, he could soak in the water and not be affected by the smoke, but the smoke was pervasive, and unless he did not breathe, he would inevitably inhale the smoke. Under such circumstances, he also knew that the general trend had gone, and at this time, when the officers and soldiers entered the valley, they had only one way to die. So, there is no alternative but surrender.
He only hoped that he could take the initiative to surrender and that Gongsun Chan could spare his life.
The smoke attack, without much effort, allowed Gongsun Chan to capture more than 70,000 thieves.
After he excitedly accepted the surrender of the bitter cockle, he remembered that Zhao Yun and others were still throwing firewood on the mountain, and now, the smoke has escaped to the entire Chaoyang Mountain, and it is no longer feasible to light a fire under the mountain to make a code, so he had to send a sergeant to run up the mountain to inform Zhao Yun and others to lead the army down the mountain.
It wasn't until the morning that Zhao Yun and the others received a message that all the thieves in the valley had surrendered, and immediately ordered the sergeant to stop continuing to chop firewood and grass and let the sergeant rest.
Yesterday there was a whole day of marching and another night, and everyone was too tired to do so.
The thieves who were being held captive with chopping wood were also tired, and if they were not afraid of eating knives, they would have collapsed to the ground. After a busy night's work, they were frightened and frightened, frightened by the methods of Zhao Yun and others, they thought of the tens of thousands of thieves under the mountain who were being tossed by the smoke, and at the same time they were frightened, they were also a little lucky, because they didn't have to suffer such a crime.
After resting for a few hours, the smoke and vapor of Chaoyang Valley are far from dissipating, and the fire below is still burning, looking at the sky, there seem to be dark clouds surging, afraid that there will be heavy rain soon. Now that the goal has been achieved, it doesn't matter if it doesn't rain heavily. Zhao Yun led his army down the mountain and went to Gongsun Zhan to meet and discuss the preparation of another march to Montenegro.
In the process of escorting the thief captives down the mountain, Lin Bai brought a thief soldier in his forties and fifties, who turned out to be the old hunter, and the trap near Tiezui Ridge was set by him.
The reason why Lin Bai brought him to Zhao Yun was because he had the idea of loving talents and wanted to absorb this bandit into the mountain forest special operations force.
Zhao Yun naturally wanted to interrogate the old hunter. It turned out that the old hunter's family had been killed by the bandits, and he was the only one left, and the bandits took a fancy to his skill of hunting with traps, leaving him alive. Let him set some harmful traps for the bandits.
Soon after he joined the bandits, he was sent to help defend Tiezui Ridge, and although the traps he laid were vicious, they didn't really harm anyone. Of course, because Zhao Yun and others were here, it didn't count if they had seen through the trap early.
Overall, the old hunter doesn't have much of a bad past. Zhao Yun thought about it. He agreed to Lin Bai's request and gave the old hunter to Lin Bai.
If there are no evil thieves, Zhao Yun will not kill them for no reason. However, these thieves have to be carefully examined to find out those who are extremely vicious, and they must not be merciful, and they must be killed.
But. What made Zhao Yun a little angry was that he went to Gongsun Zhan's camp and found that Gongsun Zhan didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one. Regardless of good or evil, he collected all the more than 70,000 thieves.
Because even the bitter cockroach the thief capital surrendered, Gongsun Zhan lacked a strong general, it can be said that he was thirsty for talent, and he had seen the martial arts of the thief leader of the bitter cockroach was not under him, and after a long conversation with him, he decided to take the bitter cockroach under his account.
With the help of the thief leader, it would be relatively easy to collect the 70,000 or 80,000 thieves. Therefore, when Zhao Yun came down from the mountain, it was already evening. Gongsun Chan has also completed the acquisition.
More than 70,000 people, excluding thousands of old and weak thieves, 70,000 people were organized into several infantry, Gongsun Chan sent generals to command, as for the bitter cockroach, he first took it by his side and obeyed orders. He no longer directly rules over the 70,000 thieves. This is also Gongsun Zhan's move to prevent the bitter from leading the army against him again, and he first left the bitter cockroach by his side to observe for a period of time before daring to use him.
This is also the basic practice of the general heroes when they get the effect of some people, they will stay by the side of the lord first, and after a period of testing, it is possible to be truly reused.
As a result, Gongsun Zhan's strength more than doubled at once, and he actually had more than 100,000 troops.
Zhao Yun is not against Gongsun Zhan's collection of thief soldiers, like the millions of thieves in Montenegro, for some princes, they are undoubtedly a source of soldiers for them to expand their strength. Attacking the Black Mountain thieves, Zhao Yun also knew that it was impossible to really kill all the millions of thieves, and it was inevitable to surrender some of them.
However, for some thieves who are full of evil, they must not be spared, and they must be singled out and punished.
Some thieves, who have done all the evil things they usually do, have now turned into officers and soldiers, so that they can eliminate the heinous crimes they usually commit? Can they erase the harm they have done to the common people?
The wicked will not receive evil retribution, but let them become officers and soldiers, and with the protection of this identity of officers and soldiers, in the future, they will be even more dangerous to the people.
Therefore, Zhao Yun came down to the mountain and heard that Gongsun Chan had indiscriminately incorporated all the thieves. couldn't help but be a little angry, and directly broke into Gongsun Zhan's big tent, and asked with a black face: "General Gongsun, I think that the general's move to recruit more than 70,000 thieves and soldiers is very inappropriate."
"Oh? Zilong is back? It's hard work, this battle, thanks to you and Brother Mengding. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to defeat this army of thieves so easily, and it would not have been possible to capture more than 70,000 horses so easily. You work so hard......" Gongsun Zhan was excited, and he didn't notice Zhao Yun's face for a while, and he glanced at Zhao Yun before he was surprised: "Huh? Zilong, what's wrong? Why are you so ugly?"
"I said, the general has incorporated more than 70,000 thieves, this move is inappropriate, and you should not believe these thieves lightly."
"Haha, Zilong is too worried, by the way, come and see General Kushi, he was originally a Yellow Turban general, and now he has abandoned the darkness and turned to my Gongsun Zhan, if it weren't for him, the more than 70,000 people would not be so easy to absorb." Gongsun Chan laughed disappreciatively twice, and introduced the bitter cockroach in the tent to Zhao Yun for acquaintance.
"By the way, what does Zilong think is wrong?" After Gongsun Chan finished speaking, he followed and said: "You can rest assured, the newly reorganized thief soldiers are now under the supervision and command of the personal soldiers sent by the general, and there will be no chaos." Of course, in this battle, Zilong, you have made great contributions, if you also want to replenish the strength of these thieves, you say okay, I will give you as many people as you want. ”
"That's not what I mean." Zhao Yun saw that Gongsun Zhan still didn't understand what he meant. had no choice but to make it clear and said: "General Gongsun, these thieves, I dare not say that they are all evil thieves, but among them. There will definitely be a lot of thieves and soldiers whose hands are stained with the blood of the people, and a certain thinks that it is necessary to purge them first, and clean up the vicious thieves among them, and those who should be beheaded will be beheaded, and those who should be punished will be punished, and so on. If the rest of the thieves have a heart for goodness. Only then can they be recruited as officers and soldiers, and it is better to have a shortage than an abundance of them, and not to allow some black sheep to mix in the ranks of officers and soldiers. ”
"What? Zilong means to kill a group of thieves?" When Gongsun Zhan heard this, he couldn't help frowning, glanced at the bitter cockroach beside him, and said with an unnatural expression: "Zilong, now is the time to use soldiers." In order to crusade against the Black Mountain thieves, one more person is one more strength, if these thieves surrender. And kill them, will this cause them to panic? If all of them are in danger and there is an uproar, shall we kill all these thieves?"
"How so? If the thieves mutinied because of this, then it proves that they did not sincerely surrender at all, and it is a pity to kill them? What's more, I believe that many of the thieves are evil thieves. There are also many more who are forced to follow the thief, and now, when there is an opportunity for them to clear their name, how can they not cherish it? Besides, there are many thieves, and it is inevitable that there will be chaos. Now kill a group of thieves first, and you can also deter the thieves who have different intentions and are lucky. Zhao Yun said excitedly.
"This is the ...... How about waiting for General Ben to think about this? Zilong, you just came down from the mountain, and you are tired, why don't you go and rest first, and wait for tomorrow when we are suspicious? How?" Gongsun Chan pushed.
In Gongsun Zhan's heart, he never thought about killing a group of thieves, as long as he felt that he could control these thieves, he didn't want to kill them anyway.
Because, these thieves are indeed evil, as Zhao Yun said, their hands are stained with the blood of the people. However, if he really wants to kill, then the bitter cockroach who has served him is the first to be killed. If he really killed the bitter bug, how could he control those thieves? Therefore, he could never agree to Zhao Yun's request, unless these thieves took the initiative to betray, otherwise, he would not kill some of the thieves.
What's more, don't talk about these thieves, his Gongsun Zhan himself, isn't his hands covered with the blood of the people? How many of his sergeants are innocent? His army is like this, and so are the thieves, the difference is only the name of each other, they are black mountain thieves, and his grandson Zan is just an officer and soldier.
Therefore, in Gongsun Zhan's mind, there is not much difference between his army and the Black Mountain thieves, the difference is whether he obeys his orders and whether it is his people.
He teamed up with Yuan Shao and Liu Yi to crusade against Montenegro, in addition to wanting to completely solve the threat of Montenegrin thieves in his Youzhou, why didn't he want to take the opportunity to develop and strengthen his strength? Otherwise, there is no benefit in crusading against Montenegro, what is he doing with Liu Yi and Yuan Shao? These tens of thousands of Black Mountain thieves, for Gongsun Zhan, are a little benefit for him to send troops, and getting tens of thousands of thieves is undoubtedly expanding his strength, and suddenly making his strength far greater than Yuan Shao and Liu Yi. Lay a solid foundation for future expansion.
Zhao Yun saw that Gongsun Chan had the intention of pushing himself, he couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and sighed secretly, at this moment, seeing that Gongsun Chan was expanding his power without principle, it was not like his own lord, but he really wanted to eliminate the scourge of thieves and the people, and he didn't feel a little disheartened about Gongsun Zhan. The dislike for Gongsun Chan has increased a little, such a hero who is not considered by the people, Zhao Yun also faintly has a disdain and the idea of making friends.
Glancing at the bitter cockleard that had been keeping his head down in Gongsun Zhan, Zhao Yun said tentatively: "Even if you don't eliminate the thieves who do a lot of evil in the thief soldiers, what is the origin of this thief leader?" Taishou, have you interrogated you? In your life, you are afraid of a lot of evil things, right? Keep him, could it be that the general wants to be in the company of thieves? General Gongsun, do you really believe in him?"
"Zilong" Gongsun Chan saw that Zhao Yun directly talked about the bitter cockle, he couldn't help but lose his face a little, and shouted a little unhappily: "General Bitter Cockroach is sincerely devoted to my Gongsun Zhan, and from now on he will be my Gongsun Zhan's person, how can my Gongsun Chan not believe it?" Zilong, you're tired, let's go down first. ”
Zhao Yun saw that Gongsun Zhan really wanted to collect the bitter cockroach, so it was impossible to purge the bandits and thieves. At this moment, it is not good to have a dispute with Gongsun Chan because of this matter, so he had to shake his head and say with a disappointed face: "Since the general has such intentions, I, Zhao Yun, have nothing to say, and I hope that the general will take care of himself, and please pass a mountain road in front of Guò in time, go and unite with a certain lord, and jointly launch an attack on Montenegro. Farewell"
After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he brushed his sleeves out.
At this moment, Zhao Yun really didn't want to stay with Gongsun Chan anymore, march together, and fight side by side with some thieves, Zhao Yun was not adaptable, unaccustomed, and not at ease. If he didn't kill the thief in the thief army, he wouldn't be able to pass the level in his heart, and being with the thief was not his Zhao Yun's character.
Seeing this, Gongsun Zhan opened his mouth to scream, but he didn't shout, relatively speaking, although Zhao Yun is strong, he is not his person, this bitter cockroach is not as good as Zhao Yun's martial arts, but he is a general he can appoint, who is more important, he understands in his heart. (To be continued......)
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