On the second day, Lu Bu walked out of the handsome camp with heavy steps, looked up at the sky, and saw that the sky was clear and cloudless.

Hao Meng, Cao surname, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Chengliu have already ordered the generals and soldiers under their command and are waiting for Lu Bu.

Looking at the black and oppressive army of Bingzhou and Yuzhou, Lu Bu glanced at Guo Gong, and saw Guo Gong nodding slightly.

Lu Bu took the red rabbit horse led by the guards, jumped up, held Fang Tian's halberd in his hand and drank coldly, "All the gentlemen follow me to level Xuchang!" ”

"Drink!" More than 20,000 people shouted loudly, resounding in the sky.

Lu Bu glanced at Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, who were standing on the side, and said, "Let's go!" ”

Watching Lu Bu ride his horse and run away, Gao Shun shook his head and walked back to the camp, Zhang Liao followed closely behind, and asked hesitantly, "Gongxiao, if the risk can't capture Xuchang, do you really want to go to Jiang Shouyi?" ”

"Yes!" Gao Shun said lightly, "Wen Yuan doesn't need to persuade me anymore, I have made up my mind!" Just look at the fact that Feng first ordered the whole army to want Xuchang, and did not take into account Xuchang Axiu, I understand that he can't listen to our persuasion! ”

"The old love is good, how can it be said that it will be broken?" Zhang Liao persuaded hard.

"Wen Yuan doesn't need to say it anymore!" Gao Shun took a deep look at Zhang Liao and said, "If Jiang Shouyi can guard Xuchang with 10,000 Cao soldiers, he will not bury me if he throws himself there. ”

"Why ...... public filial piety" was halfway through, Zhang Liao saw Gao Shun close his eyes and recuperate, and understood in his heart that he didn't want to say anything more, so he sat down gloomily and drank to himself.

Xuchang, now I don't know that Lu Bu led the whole army out, and the people don't know that there is about to be a vicious battle.

Some businessmen naturally knew that Lu Bu wanted to attack Xuchang, and they immediately panicked.

Jiang Zhe changed taxes and treated businessmen well, not to say that businessmen are grateful to Dade, just to say that they want to continue to do business in Xuchang, they must not let Xuchang have a mistake, let alone let Jiang Zhe have a mistake!

After all, there are too few characters like Jiang Zhe in the Three Kingdoms, an era of heavy agriculture and light business, even if there are a few, they will definitely not reach Jiang Zhe's power.

So those merchants gathered one after another, sold horses, ores, etc. to the Xuchang government at a far lower price than the market price, and hired craftsmen in the city to make arrows, armor, and weapons for the Xuchang government.

In order to prevent Xuchang from falling into the hands of Lu Bu, Jiang Zhe heard this, thought about it for a while, and ordered the names of those merchants to be recorded, and said that if Xuchang wanted to buy goods in the future, he would give priority to the shops under the names of those merchants to buy.

This made those merchants suddenly surprised and delighted, and their positive surnames were even higher, you paid to hire craftsmen in the city to build weapons, and I hired the people to strengthen the city defense, and even a few rice merchants drew a piece in the open space in the city early, rice cakes, meat buns, and broth, which were distributed to Cao Bing on the city wall of Xuchang.

If Jiang Zhe hadn't ordered the soldiers guarding the city not to drink, a wine merchant would even want to send wine to the Cao soldiers to drink to keep them warm.

"Keep righteousness and have good skills!" Seeing such a situation in the city, Qiao Xuan, who came to the street by chance, couldn't help but praise Jiang Zhe a few words.

In the Assassin's Mansion, Li Ru was holding a thick account book and was reporting to Jiang Zhe about the situation in the past two days.

"Now the city has all the food and armament, and it all depends on the merchants in the city......"

"Good!" Jiang Zhe secretly relaxed a little, and then sighed again and said, "I don't know if Zhongde guards the three counties alone, how is it now?" Meng De still hasn't returned to the army? ”

"Sir......" Li Ru said helplessly, "Xuchang is far away from Xuzhou, how can it be so fast?" ”

"Yes!"

"That's right!" Li Ru remembered something and said to Jiang Zhe, "There are some merchants in the city who donate rice, grain, weapons, and horses for free, how should we repay?" Sir doesn't want to be exempt from taxes, this is absolutely unacceptable! For example, taxes must not be exempt from taxes, otherwise it will be difficult to dispose of them in the future! ”

"Xianzhang, have those families in the city helped?"

Li Ruleng paused for a moment, and then said, "Only a little bit of the small family has contributed some, and the rest has no movement, hehe, he must be waiting for Mr. to beg them!" ”

"I beg them?" Jiang Zhe stretched out his face and snorted, and then said, "You erect a stone tablet for me in the center of Xuchang City, and write all the names of those merchants who contributed to me......

“…… Wonderful! Li Ru looked at Jiang Zhe in disbelief, and seemed to be thinking in his heart, why did this seemingly confused gentleman always have a clever trick?

"Sir, you might as well write down those little families who have contributed as well......" Li Ruyin added with a smile.

"It's obvious that you're sinister with a smile......"

Glancing at Jiang Zhe without a word, Li Ru shook his head and said, "I'll give the order immediately...... What the hell is in that box behind you, sir? Are you so darling? ”

"Huh?" Jiang Zhe was taken aback, protected the box and said vigilantly, "What do you want to do?" ”

"......" Li Ru was speechless, and withdrew with his arched hand.

Seeing that Li Ru retreated, Jiang Zhecai opened the box carefully, took out a piece of pastry and put it in his mouth, "What Xiu'er did with her own hands is not ordinary......

Coldly, Li Ru came back again, "Sir, the scout is coming, Lu Bu is coming with an army of 20,000...... Come and ......."

I saw Jiang Zhe hanging his chest fiercely, and hurriedly poured himself a cup of tea to drink, exhaled and said, "Choke me......"

Glancing at Li Ru, who was stunned, Jiang Zhe's face remained unchanged, he closed the box and brought it, and said in a deep voice, "Xianzhang, follow me to the city wall!" ”

“…… Good! ”

As soon as Jiang Zhe arrived at the city wall, he ordered Li Dian to shout and shout and commanded Cao Bing.

"Mancheng."

"Sir?" When Li Dian saw Jiang Zhe coming, he immediately sighed, "I was about to inform Mr. again, it's good that Mr. is here." ”

"Yes!" Jiang Zhe nodded and said, "Hard work!" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, this is the duty of the general!"

Li Ru stepped forward and glanced outside the city, shook his head and saw that Lu Bu was assembling troops, and saw dozens of ladders and wells, shook his head slightly and said, "General Li, are the other three gates ready?" ”

"Qi Qi is engaged in adulthood, the last general has left two thousand people in each of the three gates, and when he saw Lu Buwang coming here, he laid four thousand people here!"

"Yes!" Li Ru hesitated and said to Jiang Zhe, "Sir, the number is still a little small......

Jiang Zhe thought about it for a while, "We need to guard against its voice, and more than 2,000 people from the other three gates are indispensable, so we can only find a way from somewhere else......"

"There are five thousand more ...... in the city"

"No!" Jiang Zhe said in a deep voice, "Those who have just been recruited and have not been trained, and they don't say that they will die in vain, just talk about quality, if they escape from the battle, wouldn't it be a bad thing?" ”

"Sir's words are right!" Li Ru had all kinds of plans in his heart, but there were too few soldiers available in this city, making it difficult to implement his plans.

"Alas!" Jiang Zhe sighed and said, "If the people in the city can be half as capable as my sergeants...... I can't bear to let him go up and die in vain! ”

"This ......," Li Dian hesitated and said, "If Mr. said so, the last general would remember that there are still some people ......"

"Oh?" Jiang Zhe was stunned for a moment, and said to Li Dian, "Come on!" ”

"When Cao Yuanjun took Xuchang before, the last general found that there were many death row prisoners in the prison, all of whom were yellow turbans, bandits, robbers, and murderers, and the last general had already told Mr., but Mr. did not give the general an order for a long time......

"Death row inmates?" Jiang Zhe hesitated on his face.

"Sir, don't you want those ......" Li Ru immediately understood, and said to Jiang Zhe hesitantly, "They are all outlaws, I have seen those concerts, they are all serious crimes that are unforgivable, just waiting for the vegetable market to be beheaded, how to control the unruly?" If he joins the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable! Think twice, sir! ”

Jiang Zhe pondered for a moment and said to Li Ru, "Wouldn't it be even more ridiculous if those people were allowed to go into battle to kill the enemy?" Xianzhang, you will guard Xuchang on my behalf, Mancheng, while Lu Bu has not yet attacked the city, you can quickly lead me forward! ”

"Yes!" Li Dian took the order.

Jiang Zhe and Li Dian rode horses and galloped wildly to the Xuchang prison cell, and the strange thing was that the prison was near the east gate, which was very remote.

As soon as he took a step further, Jiang Zhe was almost overwhelmed by the smell inside.

Li Dian grabbed Jiang Zhe and said embarrassedly, "Don't be surprised, sir, it's ...... inside."

"Let's go!" How could Jiang Zhe care about such a trivial matter, one person should take the lead, which made Li Dian secretly surprised, Mr. sometimes does not look like a weak scholar...... Half of Xuchang's prison seemed to be underneath, so it was very dark and damp, mixed with an extremely pungent smell, which made Jiang Zhe very uncomfortable.

"Stompe." Hearing the sound of Jiang Zhe and the others coming in, countless pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly lit up in the cells on both sides, staring at Jiang Zhe and the others like wolves at night.

Especially Jiang Zhe, who bore the brunt of the attack, felt the crazy, murderous, and indifferent eyes of those death row inmates, Jiang Zhe's careful liver couldn't help but thump.

A suffocating pressure couldn't help but make Jiang Zhe a little dizzy.

Li Dian ordered the jailers and guards to light the torches on both sides, and then said softly to Jiang Zhe, "These death row prisoners are all outlaws, when Mr. changed taxes earlier, the last general arrested some ruffians in Xuchang City, and they were also locked up here, but I don't want to be ...... by these people."

Before Li Dian finished speaking, someone in the prison suddenly threw out a thing, which was grabbed by Li Dian, and when he looked closely, it was actually an arm, his face changed, and he drew a knife and shouted, "Who is it?" ”

Jiang Zhe's eyes tightened, and then he couldn't help but take a step back.

"Haha!" The death row inmates in the prisons on both sides looked at Jiang Zhe and laughed.

Jiang Zhe was so angry that his face turned cold, and he said coldly to Li Dian, "Man Cheng, let's go!" ”

"Yes! Mr! Li Dian sneered at the death row inmates who stopped laughing.

"Slow down, this lord!" Suddenly, an extremely low voice came, and I saw the death row inmates sitting in the corner of a cell stand up and slowly walk towards the cell door, and the death row inmates on both sides retreated.

"Don't you want to throw it over?" Jiang Zhe looked at the man coldly.

"Don't dare!" Strangely, the man said very politely, "Dare to ask Mr. Jiang Zhejiang Shouyi?" ”

"I just, what?"

I saw Jiang Zheyi say, all the death row inmates in the prison changed color, and one of them fell to the ground and said, "The villain has no eyes, offended Mr., really deserve to die!" Then he picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it on his head.

"Stop!" Although Jiang Zhe was inexplicable, he still shouted, "Don't hold him yet!" ”

When the death row prisoners on both sides heard this, they hurriedly grabbed the man.

"You ......," Jiang Zhe said suspiciously, looking around at the death row inmates, "why is that?" Zhe is very unknown! ”

"Your Excellen......cy," the leader of the prisoners who seemed to be on death row explained earlier, "My lordship, I am afraid that I don't know that there used to be about two thousand death row prisoners here, but now there are only seven or eight hundred...... Do you know why? ”

"Decapitation?"

"......No," said the man, shaking his head, "starvation......"

“……”

"Don't believe it, my lord, I have been here for three years, originally this place was under the rule of Guo Gong, and then the world was plagued by disasters, plagues and droughts, food was scarce, and even the people in the city could not eat, let alone wait, and then there were two or three meals without ...... Until one day, when I saw the soldiers who had changed guards, I said to them...... Unexpectedly, after a while, the rice and food were all ready, and I waited to ask, only to learn that it was ordered by adults! ”

Not? Is there such a thing? Jiang Zhe frowned and thought about it, and vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a concerto, when he said that there were too many concertos, he wrote two words at a cursory glance, "read, quasi", ...... "Adult's great grace, I will not be unforgettable!" In the past three years, only adults still treat us as human beings! Ladies and gentlemen, thank you yet! ”

"Thank you, sir!" I saw that the death row inmates in dozens of cells kowtowed one after another, and this scene made Jiang Zhe speechless.

"Dare to ask your lordship, ...... your lord is here today"

Jiang Zhe hesitated for a moment, then told the truth about the matter, and said, "I have a word first, if you kill ten enemies, you will not be punished with death!" Incorporated into the Xuchang Army! ”

"Is that true?"

"Is that really the case, my lord?" Countless voices suddenly sounded in the prison.

"What's the noise!" The death row prisoner led by him shouted, suppressed the other voices, and said to Jiang Zhe, "The adults are kind to me, we are unforgettable, and now that the adults have orders, we should serve ourselves!" Just ......"

"Just what?" Jiang Zhe said with a smile.

"We don't want to be incorporated into the Xuchang army, can you let me wait for an army of our own! My lord, I have been trapped here for a long time, and we are killing people and eating people because of hunger...... ...... eater" secretly glanced at Jiang Zhe's face, and the man said boldly, "Please allow me to form an army of my own!" ”

Li Dian beside him was a little overwhelmed, and said coldly, "Self-contained army, how can you wait for what kind of virtue you can dare to speak out and become an army of your own?" ”

Unexpectedly, the death row prisoner just respected Jiang Zhe, and when he saw Li Dian speak, he immediately said coldly, "Looking at your posture and pace, you are also a person who practices martial arts, but unfortunately, I have eaten three people like you!" ”

"Haha! Lao Tzu has eaten two people! ”

"That's it! It is! The death row inmates next to him all made a noise.

"You!" Li Dian was furious, pulled out the sword at his waist and wanted to rush over, but was grabbed by Jiang Zhe.

"You...... Cannibalism? Jiang Zhe looked at the death row prisoner in disbelief.

"......," the death row inmate's face changed slightly, and he said on one knee, "My lord Mingjian, if you can live, who wants to die so namelessly?" It's also those robbers and bandits and the like, and they are disrespectful, so they ...... So ......" As he spoke, he lowered his head, not daring to look at Jiang Zhe's eyes.

The rest of the death row inmates were silent.

Jiang Zhe took a deep breath and said, "No matter what, cannibalism is a great reversal!" But I have said it first, now that Xuchang is in trouble, I have come to recruit you and others, as long as you kill ten enemies and do not die, you will be spared the crime of waiting! I, Jiang Zhe, Jiang Shouyi, say one and the other! ”

Originally, when they heard the previous sentence, those death row inmates showed a look of disappointment on their faces, but when they heard the latter sentence, their eyes flashed, and they shouted in unison, "I am willing to serve the adults!" ”

The door of Xuchang Prison, which had not been opened for two or three years, finally opened, Jiang Zhe stepped out, took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "It's not that I said, the smell inside is really ......"

"Yes...... Yes......" Li Dian echoed in a curt, holding his sword tightly and looking at the death row prisoners behind him, he suddenly saw those death row prisoners rushing over, his face changed, and he roared angrily, "You dare to make a mistake?!" ”

"Mancheng!" Jiang Zhe grabbed Li Dian and gestured.

Li Dian was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to see those death row prisoners kneeling on the ground outside, grabbing the soil on the ground, looking at the sky and yelling.

"Humph!" The death row prisoner led by him slowly walked into Jiang Zhe, looked at Li Dian coldly and said, "Don't think that we are death row prisoners and look down on three points, we are also people who value righteousness and repay kindness, how can we be rude to adults who are kind to us?" Don't spend it with the heart of a villain! ”

"You!" Li Dian's face turned red and he looked at the man angrily.

"Alright, alright!" Jiang Zhe persuaded, "Now it's time to help Xian Zhang, although eight hundred people are a little small...... Alas, wait and find a way! ”

"Don't underestimate us!" The man said in a deep voice, "Although we are only eight hundred, we are all ten people!" ”

"Humph! The breath is big! Li Dian withdrew his sword and smiled coldly.

"Oh?" Jiang Zhe was about to speak, when he saw that the eight hundred death row prisoners had lined up in a few breaths, and their whole body exuded a strong murderous aura without the slightest sound.

Jiang Zhe was suddenly shocked in his heart, and glanced at Li Dian, seeing that he was also stunned.

"Although we are not talented, it is still not a problem to kill ten enemies by one person! Please give me the name of the army first! ”

"Please give me a name!" The condemned prisoners shouted in unison.

Looking at those wolf-like fierce eyes, Jiang Zhe touched his chin and said, "Since you have such confidence, what's the matter if Zhe gives one first, just call ...... Camp Haw Par! ”

(To be continued)