Chapter 61, Hunt and Kill the Thief Chieftain
"Kill!"
Zhang Zizhong's shield soldiers saw the shore getting closer and closer, and each flapped their shields and roared.
"Kill! If you kill on the other side, you will have food, and you will have a way to live! ”
The shield soldier's eyes lit up, and he hid himself under the shield and slowly leaned up the riverbank.
"Eldest prince, they have already come up, what should I do?" Zu Ping was anxious on the side, once he was attacked by Zhang Zizhong's shield soldiers, Xiao Qinghe was lost.
Zu Zhao held a spear in his hand, the green tendons in his hand were already bulging high, and his eyes looked at the other side coldly.
"Keep them closer!"
At the same time, he said to a pavilion chief in Huairong County: "Let the fathers and elders get all that thing!" ”
Zhang Zizhong watched eagerly at his shield soldiers, only seven or eight meters away from the shore! Once ashore, it must be a big victory!
"Woo!"
The horns sounded, and the drums of the Yellow Turban Army also roared.
"Rush forward!" The shield-bearers yelled.
Suddenly, a group of people rushed to the river carrying sacks one by one, and then opened the sacks, and countless white objects were thrown into the river!
As those white things entered the waters on the other side of the river, the entire water on the other side of the river seemed to be boiling, and the temperature was boiling hot!
"Ah~!"
Screams burst out of the shieldmen's chests, and they felt as if their entire bodies were about to be cooked, and the waters around them were bubbling.
The distance in front of them was seven or eight meters, and suddenly it was like a moat.
And this seven or eight meters of the river bank is no longer a river bank, but a huge steamer!
How long can a person last in 100 degrees of boiling water? The most important thing is that there is a wooden spear with a constant assassination on it, and a bow and arrow attack in the middle.
By the time a load of quicklime was thrown into the river, the fate of these shieldmen was already doomed to become dry bones in the river.
People are not steel, these shield soldiers struggle and roar in the boiling water of one hundred degrees, but the shields in their hands are gradually weak.
Then he was nailed to death in the water with a flying wooden spear.
Zhang Zizhong's eyes were about to split.
I didn't expect that the other party would use lime!
The entire river bank on the opposite side was like a boiling cauldron, bubbling with mist.
On the opposite bank of the river there are countless wooden spears!
On the opposite bank of the river, there is something that Zhang Zizhong doesn't know!
"Withdraw!"
Zhang Zizhong yelled and looked at Zu Zhao opposite with hatred.
The other party always has a way that he can't think of and drives him crazy.
If you don't retreat, you can't do it, there are shield soldiers in front, followed by infantry and dismounted cavalry, and the shield soldiers are dead, leaving only infantry and cavalry without shields.
The flying spear in Zu Zhao's hand is not vegetarian, and when the flying spear falls, a Yellow Turban soldier is pierced.
"Withdraw! Remove! ”
Zhang Zizhong roared loudly. These 3,000 soldiers and horses are his capital, and if he knows that he can't do it, he can't do it.
However, the shield soldiers in the river have lost most of them, and the remaining shield soldiers are no longer enough to block the wooden spears in the sky.
however
A wolf smoke appeared in the direction of Shiling, and the high flames were tens of meters high, allowing Zhang Zizhong, who was in Xiaoqinghe, to see it at a glance.
Zu Zhao also saw that fire!
Zhang Xian succeeded! Zu Zhao thought so in his heart.
Before he came to Xiaoqinghe, he had already told Zhang Xian to let him take the original men and horses of Huairong County to attack Zhang Zizhong's lair in Shiling County, and completely destroy Zhang Zizhong's lair.
Now it seems...... Zhang Xian burned down the entire thief cave in Shiling County.
Let's say that when Zhang Xian heard Zu Zhao's order, he was shocked and inexplicable, and asked him to occupy Shiling with less than 100 county officials and troops before and after?
Rao is that he knows that Zu Zhao is resourceful and has a chance of winning, but he is also frightened.
But Huairong County is in danger, and there is no room for a moment of delay, if Huairong County is finished, he Zhang Xian will also be finished, and simply listen to Zu Zhao, even if he dies, he will die in battle.
Result -
When he led the officers and troops of Huairong County to Shiling, he found that the city gate of Shiling County was wide open! The young men who could fight in the city were all taken away by Zhang Zizhong, Zhang Zizhong thought that Huairong County was only a few hundred defenders, and the defense was not enough, so he dared to go to his stone ridge to touch the tiger's butt?
What Zhang Xian saw was that Shiling County was a rural area, with old, weak, sick, disabled women, children and children, sitting in the sun basking in the sun, waiting for Zhang Zizhong and others to come back with grain and rice, so that they could eat their stomachs in this troubled world.
In this case, like a hungry wolf breaking into the sheepfold, Zhang Xian took up his knife and cut down a few wounded soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who were about to resist, and then led the officers and soldiers to burn the entire Shiling County.
The captives were driven up the Xiaoqing River by Zhang Xian, and each captive was poured with sesame oil, and as long as he dared to move, a rocket would make him a fire man.
When a large number of captives appeared in Xiaoqinghe, Zhang Zizhong's heart was cold, including his elderly parents, but because they were his parents, they were taken care of and came up to the wooden flail to imprison.
The Yellow Turban Army, which was still roaring and struggling, completely extinguished its flames.
"Baby, his father save me!"
"Run, kid!"
"Doll, leave me alone, kill them and avenge me!"
The captives were all talking loudly, some encouraging the children to kill, some begging the Yellow Turbans to come and save them.
"Zhang Zizhong, order you to surrender within a stick of incense, otherwise I will kill all the captives here!"
Zhang Xian shouted, this is Zu Zhao's arrangement.
The so-called Yellow Turban Army was originally a group of peasants, who took their wives, children and parents to eat enough, picked up knives and followed people around to rob food and silver, but in order to keep their family alive.
It's true that they are thieves, but they all have the human form that people should have, but this troubled world has made people become wolves, snatching knives in order to survive and becoming bandits.
Yellow turban thief, if you have a bite to eat? Where are the Yellow Turban Thieves?
Zu Zhao just looked at Zhang Zizhong coldly, at this moment he was on the riverbank, Zhang Zizhong was on the riverbank, he couldn't get by, Zhang Xian was only a hundred people controlling the prisoners, if Zhang Zizhong didn't care about these prisoners and left with people himself, he couldn't stop it.
So Zu Zhao gambled again.
What is blocked is the conscience of Zhang Zizhong's subordinates, as well as Zhang Zizhong's filial piety.
"Zhang Zizhong, if you dismount and surrender and let your subordinates lay down their arms, I can not kill your parents and those captives, otherwise you can only collect their bodies today!"
As soon as the words fell, there were quite a few Yellow Turban thieves, running with those captives, and throwing their weapons all over the ground.
Most of the peasants have families, and the essential concept of hot kang heads for wives and children has not been thrown away, let alone the cold-blooded of watching their relatives being killed.
"Zhang Zizhong surrenders!" Zhang Xian was a big man, and the surrounding officers and soldiers surrounded Zhang Zizhong's parents.
"Haha, surrender is death, and not surrendering is death! The parents are on top, and the child is not filial! Kill me~! Give our people a treat! ”
Zhang Zizhong swung his knife at the crowd that Zhang Xian captured. As long as he kills these people, then he will not have any burden.
Zu Zhao can't help him! Zhang Xian's 100 people can't help him!
However, after he rode out, a knife flashed,
The huge head fell under the horse
It was his own soldiers who killed him, and he could have done it against his parents, but no one else could.
"I'm willing to submit!"
Under the control of Zhang Xian, the Yellow Turban thieves on the opposite side surrendered completely, and even if there were those who wanted to resist stubbornly, they were hacked to death by their companions.
Zu Zhao nodded in satisfaction, and asked people to tie up the wooden spear to make a pontoon bridge and cross the river.
Seeing Zhang Zizhong's huge head, he smiled faintly, this is the head and his merit, in the chaotic Eastern Han Dynasty, he has another outstanding military exploit.
"Zhang Xian, isn't Zhang Xian Ling, don't you know how to nitrate the first level? Give me the head of this thief Haode, this is the military merit I am waiting for! ”
Zu Zhao said coldly.
Zhang Xianling nodded, he had seen life and death in this troubled world, and he was already numb.
Zu Zhao turned around and looked at the yellow turban thieves kneeling on the ground and the old, weak, sick and disabled, in front of these people was a kneeling young man, who was the one who killed Zhang Zizhong.
"What's your name?"
"Hou Yong!"
The boy replied on his knees.
"Weishenme killed Zhang Zizhong?" Zu Zhao had doubts in his heart.
"He wants to kill my mother, as my mother's son, how can I watch my mother be killed?" The boy's tone is simple, and he still speaks slang, but the filial piety in it is overflowing.
Zu Zhao nodded, a person with filial piety, a good person.
"Superintendent, what about these people? These are Yellow Turban Thieves! Zhang Xian hesitated on the side, if he killed these people at this moment, he was afraid that he would immediately cause a mutiny.
Zu Zhao's eyes flashed with a sharp light, looking at the yellow turban thieves around him, and seeing those ragged teenagers shivering in the wind, and some even stood barefoot on the ground that was still cold.
Where is the thief?
It's clearly a group of people! A hungry people!
According to the laws of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the law should be beheaded.
"These people are all co-opted! Pick the best to get into my Knight! What about the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled for you? There are also these women, children, old and children, let them go to the fields, because of the drought, a lot of land is barren, no one planted, but now it has rained for so many days, some fields can be planted! ”
When Zhang Xian heard this, he was sweating profusely.
These are anti-thieves! Give him ten dares not dare to take it in.
He never thought that Zu Zhao would actually take in these Yellow Turban Thieves, and he would also give him some of these Yellow Turban Thieves.
"Think twice! This is a long-term perspective! ”
"Besides, there isn't so much food and grass!" Zhang Xian also thought of the most serious problem at this time.
Grain and grass are the most fatal things, and there are so many people at once, and those grains and grasses in Huairong County can't hold it at all.
"Someone naturally has food!" Zu Zhao replied coldly.
"Zhang County Order, the Yellow Turban Thieves are in turmoil, it seems to be full of crises, but in fact it is full of opportunities, I see that you Zhang County Order has been in this Huairong County for many years, right? If you don't take the opportunity to make a fortune, I'm afraid you will have to be a county magistrate in Huairong County for a lifetime! You have also seen the combat power of the Yellow Turban Thief in front of you, if it weren't for our attack on Shiling, you think we would have won so easily? I'm afraid that I will become a ghost under the knife in the blink of an eye, there is a saying that there is food in the hand and the heart is not panicked, but what I want to say is that there are soldiers in the hand to not panic! The words have come to this, what does Zhang Xianling want? ”
In fact, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes divided the territory from the Yellow Turban Army after the rebellion, the so-called imperial court has become a righteous name, and the famous Cao Cao made a fortune by absorbing the Yellow Turban Army, he incorporated the Yellow Turban Army for his own use, and collected the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in Shandong for his own use, and then incorporated the Yellow Turban Army into one million men, women and children and their families to let them farm the land, which has the capital to dominate the world.
Zu Zhao was ambitious, of course he knew Cao Cao's secret history, and at this moment he saw that these so-called Yellow Turban thieves were all a group of peasants with knives in order to be able to eat enough, and they couldn't bear to kill them, and the only way out was to co-opt.
If you want to make a difference in troubled times, these people are his help.
At this time, Zhang Xian also said respectfully: "The lower official has figured it out, and I respectfully obey the order of the superintendent!" ”