"Yang Tugou, do you know what your subordinates and you have done?" Yang Zilu said with a dark face.

Yang Tugou stubbornly stood up straight and didn't say a word.

"Bang!" Yang Zilu angrily slammed his fist on the low table in front of him, making a loud noise. "What kind of attitude do you have? There are three famous words in the military regulations, you must not massacre ordinary civilians, look at you, what are you doing! Yang Zilu pointed outside the tent and roared.

Yang Zilu pointed to the ground, and then roared angrily: "Capture a city, if there is no accident, the army should rest in that city!" But what kind of city do you give me? Dead City! Blood, fire, black smoke, corpses. Yang Tugou, tell me, do you want to push all the Yue people to the opposite side of me and slaughter them again? ”

"Kill it!" Yang Tugou muttered dissatisfiedly.

"What are you talking about!" Yang Zilu felt very angry and disappointed, he couldn't imagine that this was the cavalry he had built single-handedly. What's all this about? It is simply a small book in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Yuanmeng Iron Horse in the Southern Song Dynasty!

"The Lord is angry, mainly because the Lord's declaration is too sensational, so that the soldiers lose their minds!" Xia Hu hurriedly persuaded Yang Zilu.

"Yes! Lord, Yang Tugou has been following the Lord for more than three years, and there is no merit and hard work! Please forgive him, for the credit for this capture of the city of Guscorn is worth the sin he has committed! Yu Yu also persuaded on the side.

"No!" Yang Zilu cut the railway. "All generals in the cavalry, except for the deputy position, are all removed from their official positions, and their positions are filled by the deputy positions! Yang Tugou, you slaughtered civilians, set fire to the city of Gu, dismissed the cavalry as a thousand-person general, served as the county lieutenant of Jian'an County, and each of them was punished with fifty military sticks, Yang Tugou, you should reflect on yourself! ”

Everyone was stunned, they thought that Yang Zilu would be punished, but they didn't expect Yang Zilu to be so heavy-handed, not only Yang Tugou, an old courtier, could not avoid it, but even Yang Zilu's most beloved cavalry was severely punished.

"Lord!" As soon as they pleaded with Yang Zilu, they were interrupted by Yang Zilu's strong wave of his hand.

Yang Zilu said solemnly: "Do you know why we want to fight? ”

Everyone was silent, thinking, and for the first time, they were thinking about the question.

"Some people fight for power, some people fight just because of the war, and I, Yang Zilu, am here to end the war!" Yang Zilu said with a righteous face, and secretly felt ashamed in his heart. In fact, Yang Zilu's war, in the final analysis, is just for himself, and on the premise of establishing his own interests, Yang Zilu will do something within his ability.

"End the war?" Everyone was stunned, if it weren't for Yang Zilu, I'm afraid they couldn't help but ridicule. You started a war, and you were embarrassed to say that it would be over.

Yang Zilu said with a righteous face: "Since Zhou Tianzi moved east, the world has been in turmoil, how many countries have been destroyed in the past few hundred years?" How many families died? How many people died? If this continues, the world will only fall into endless wars, and the reason why the widows launched a war against the Yue country is to become the hegemon through force! Build a world free of war! ”

In fact, Yang Zilu wanted to say that he would unify the world, but for fear of scaring his subordinates, Yang Zilu changed to become the overlord, in fact, this goal was also a little unrealistic in the eyes of the generals. Hegemon! It's not so easy to do, Chu State, Jin State, Qi State, Wu State, which one is a fuel-efficient lamp?

However, the eyes they looked at Yang Zilu were different, and they had a little more special respect. It's like gazing into the gaze of a great man.

Yang Tugou also lowered his head in shame and said, "Lord, minister...... The minister is really wrong! ”

"It's good that you understand, but you still have to go to Jian'an County and come back in a year!" Yang Zilu said in a deep voice.

In order to appease the people's grievances in Gumei City, Yang Zilu gathered all the remaining civilians and Han soldiers in Gumei City, announced punishment in public, and beat the punished generals in public. Yang Zilu also announced that Gumi City would be exempted from all taxes for three years, and the Han army would build houses for the civilians of Gumi City for free!

The remaining civilians in Gu Contempt City looked at all this indifferently, Yang Zilu knew that it was impossible to let the hatred disappear all at once, but he could feel that after he announced this, the resentment in the hearts of these civilians had been eliminated a lot. Yang Zilu also breathed a sigh of relief, the slaughter was either terrifying, or it made people hate, and pushed it on his mortal enemy.

Undoubtedly, under the current circumstances, the massacre of the Han army will only push the people of Yue to Gou Jian's side.

............ "Wow! For! For! Hurried footsteps rang out in the hallway outside.

"What's going on!" Gou Jian shouted irritably. Recently, there have been many hurried footsteps in the corridor outside, but it is not good news, at least it has nothing to do with the good news, and now Gou Jian is upset when he hears this hurried footsteps.

But apparently Gou Jian did not guess wrong this time, a dusty soldier ran into the main hall, knelt down on one knee, raised a bamboo tube above his head, and said with a little panic: "Lord, the border is urgent!" ”

Gou Jian's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said, "There! ”

Although he was talking, Gou Jian's movements were not slow, he walked around the low table and picked up the bamboo tube, which had mud marks on it, to make sure that the bamboo tube had not been disassembled.

"If you go back to the Lord, the villain is from Zhuji City!" The soldier said respectfully.

When Gou Jian heard this, he couldn't help but hesitate when he opened the bamboo tube, and he had already thought about who attacked Yue Guo. Seeing the straw paper in the bamboo tube, Gou Jian was even more upset, and he couldn't wait to tear these straw papers from the Han Kingdom. But Gou Jian was a sane person, and he finally controlled his emotions and pulled out the straw paper in the bamboo tube and scanned it carefully.

The handwriting is very sloppy, and it is obvious that the person who wrote the letter is feeling that time is tight, but the general meaning is still visible. When Gou Jian saw that sentence, Gu Contempt City estimated that it had fallen, and he couldn't help but use his hands to crumple the straw paper immediately. Gou Jian put down the straw paper and asked solemnly, "How many people are coming from the Han army?" ”

"If you return to the Lord, there are 4,000 of them! Lord, you have to send troops to save Zhuji City! We only have 500 people in Zhuji City to defend it! When the soldier heard this, he immediately said with a sad face.

"What!" When Gou Jian heard this, he was so shocked that he took a step back, and said in a lost voice: "How is it possible?" I remember that there are 700 households in Zhuji City, plus the Chinese people in the wild, how can there be only such a few soldiers! ”

"Lord, the Han army made up a ballad outside the city: The Han army is coming, the price of grain is leveled, the Han army is coming, dividing the fields, opening the city gate to welcome the Han army, and no taxes or grain are paid. As a result, many people believed it, and ...... And the people of the country are quite dissatisfied, so only with the defenders of Zhuji City, there are only 500 people! When the soldier heard this, he said with some cringe.

"Yang Zilu, bastard!" Gou Jian roared angrily, Gou Jian immediately took a deep breath, waved his hand and said, "You are also tired, someone will take this messenger down to have a good rest, and send someone to summon all the doctors to participate in the court meeting!" ”

"No!"

............ "Tongue Yong, how many soldiers and horses are there in Huiji City now?" Gou Jian asked with a solemn face.

"Back to the Lord, there are about 1,000 people in Huiji City now, and about 1,500 people in each family's private soldiers. I'm afraid it's not an opponent of the Han Kingdom! Yu Yong said with a solemn face.

"Then immediately order the mobilization of the countrymen to participate in the war!" Gou Jian said solemnly.

Hearing this, Wen Chong smiled bitterly and said, "Lord, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid that not many people are willing to participate in the war, but now it is the beginning of March, and the spring ploughing is already coming, and the problem of grain prices makes the people very angry with the Lord, and the people are probably unwilling to participate in the war! ”

In fact, Wen Chong's words have taken into account Gou Jian's face, and the people of Yue are not only resentful of Gou Jian, they no longer trust Gou Jian. At the beginning, it was to cancel the reward of the multi-birth policy, although it has only been promulgated for two months, but many people in the Yue country have begun to create a human plan. Well, now, the order is changing. The child was thrown to us, and the Chinese people were already quite dissatisfied with Gou Jian. After opening the warehouse and putting grain, it will be finished after one day, and it was said that the warehouse was opened for fifteen days.

The most important thing is the rumor of the remnant bamboo and the rumor of the immorality. In particular, the rumors of grain merchants, in order to make the Chinese people lose hope that Gou Jian would open a warehouse and release grain, they wantonly added fuel to the fire, and many people hinted that the grain they had here was actually bought from Gou Jian. This further deepens the resentment of the Chinese people against Gou Jian, now let alone let the Chinese people fight for Gou Jian, if Gou Jian does not have an escort to follow, walking in the city, maybe the next day people will find Gou Jian's corpse on the street.

"No!" Gou Jian didn't have enough understanding of this, he stubbornly said: "The widow believes that at this time, the people of Yue will leave behind their prejudices against the widow and fight for the Yue country and the widow!" ”

"Yes!" Wen Chong smiled bitterly in his heart, he knew that he couldn't persuade Gou Jian on this issue.

Gou Jian asked, "How long do you think it will take for the Han army to capture Zhuji City?" ”

"Although Zhuji City is not big, it is not small. Even if the Han army has 4,000 people, the minister estimates that it can support it for at least a month! Yu Yong said calmly.

Speaking of this, Yu Yong paused, and said: "The minister thinks that the most important thing for the Yue Kingdom to do now is to rebuild the western wall immediately!" ”

The construction of the west wall mentioned by Yu Yong is the northwest wall of Huiji City. Not long after Gou Jian returned to China, Fan Li said to Gou Jian that the Lord had just returned to China, and he should paralyze the husband, so that the husband could trust the Lord more. Gou Jian naturally asked if the plan would be settled, so Fan Li offered advice to Gou Jian and asked Gou Jian to demolish the west wall to show his respect for Wu Guo.

The western wall is the location of the road leading directly to the state of Wu, and when Gou Jian did this, he naturally immediately got the joy of his husband. The most feared thing by the husband is to strengthen the city wall and train the armor soldiers after Gou Jian returns to China. It is precisely because Gou Jian is so cooperative that the husband is at ease with Gou Jian.

But now it has become the fatal wound of Yue Guo, and Yue Guo, who has lost a city wall, is like a beauty who has stripped all her clothes. Although there are three other walls, the symbolism seems to be greater than the actual meaning.

(To be continued)