A spark of anger erupted from Zhao Meng's eyes, and only then did he know that when he sent out his troops, the city had already been taken away, and he had also been ambushed and suffered heavy losses. I only blamed myself for my carelessness, knowing that there were strategists like Su De, I didn't expect that they would deceive me out of the city.

At this moment, Ma Yuan and Zhao Qi behind had already caught up, Zhao Meng didn't dare to stay longer, looked west and fled, who knew how far he went, an army flashed out of the forest, each wearing black armor and holding a spear. Carrying a bow and arrows, majestic.

"General Zhao, Zu has been waiting for a long time again." is the first general, dressed in white and white, a talent, and full of energy.

"You are Zu Zhao?" Zhao Meng asked.

"Exactly. General Zhao, you have no way out, surrender! Zu Zhao said.

Zhao Meng looked around, sure enough, he had been surrounded, looking at the local army, not to mention only 10,000 people, counting the army that had already entered the city, he was afraid that there were no less than 20,000.

"Why do you have so many troops, we have seen your stove pits, at most enough for 10,000 people to eat." Zhao Meng asked.

"That's right, that's just a trick, just to deceive you, we use a stove pit twice, and the soldiers don't eat at the same time, but twice." Zu Zhao said.

Zhao Meng was taken aback and said, "So you really have 20,000 people? You weren't attacked by the northern barbarians? ”

Zu Zhao smiled: "Even if there were, I would have been on guard for a long time, they made a small fuss, not to mention." I'm going to put an end to your rebellion now. General Zhao, I think you are a brave general, you surrender and submit to me. ”

Zhao Meng sneered for a while and said, "Even if I die in battle, I won't be a general." "Wielding the Pu knife, he went straight to Zu Zhao. Zu Zhao smiled, and he didn't mean to parry at all. Just as Zhao Meng rushed to him, Zu Zhao did not move, but a group of black-armored cavalry behind him stepped forward, several iron chains were thrown out of each other, and the last rotation tied up Zhao Meng.

Zhao Meng was horrified in his heart, he had never seen such a lineup, he originally had the ability to take the head of the general from the army, but in the face of this pair of black-armored cavalry, he was caught without the slightest room to fight back.

Zu Zhao said with a smile: "I know that there are many brave people in this world who take the head of a general in a million armies, and you, General Zhao, are one of them. So I created such a unit to protect me in battle. ”

Zhao Meng struggled for a while, couldn't move at all, and scolded loudly: "People who are greedy for life and afraid of death, what kind of hero is it, you have the ability to let me go and compete with me." ”

Zu Zhao said: "I know that I am not as powerless as General Zhao, so why should I be sent to death?" After saying that, he laughed, and ordered someone to bring Zhao Meng and Han Ye into Wangping County.

This trick to lure the enemy really made Zhao Meng fooled, and now he has finally been caught. Zu Zhao was sitting in the county office, with Ma Yuan, Zhao Qi and other generals standing on both sides, while Su De was sitting next to Zu Zhao. Except for Zhao Meng and Han Ye, the others all expressed their willingness to surrender, they were originally ordinary people, and Zu Zhao promised them to garrison here after surrendering, or to return to the capital of Liaodong County to receive high-intensity training from the army and become a qualified soldier.

The rest of the captured soldiers, who are willing to work for the people, Zu Zhao promised to give them the land to grow grain, and it is the planting season at this moment, so that they can immediately open up the wasteland and plant, and if there is more food in the future, they can directly exchange it with the government for other materials they need. Some of the soldiers are willing to serve the people, and some are willing to continue to be soldiers. Zu Zhao arranged for people to count them one by one, and then it was good to make arrangements, if there were not enough people here, then they could only be sent to other places, and the industry and agriculture in that place in Da Oyster Bay still needed a large number of people, and the group of people who were recruited now was just a drop in the ocean, and compared with the great cause of fighting for the world in the future, it was too little.

There was a commotion outside the hall, and someone escorted Zhao Meng and Han Ye in, and Han also scolded all the way, scolding all the civil officials and military generals around Zu Zhao, and for Zu Zhao, he also called him by his name, yelling and scolding, and for Ma Yuan and Zhao Qi, he scolded endlessly, saying that he was going to kill these guys.

Escorted into the hall, Han also saw everyone, and scolded even more, scolding Zu Zhao and the others one by one, saying what treacherous villains, using treacherous means, he is not convinced when he dies, and if he has the ability, everyone will do a big job with real swords and real guns, so he uses conspiracy and trickery to calculate what heroes and heroes, he just doesn't accept it, and he doesn't accept it anymore.

Compared with Han Ye, Zhao Meng was silent, but his eyes were cold, he knew that he was failing now, and he naturally had nothing to fear of death, since he embarked on the road of anti-Han, he had seen through death and didn't care much. It's just that he has been thinking in his heart, why there is such a strange force around Zu Zhao, and that black-armored army seems to be dedicated to protecting Zu Zhao.

Thanks to the courage he was when he killed the enemy, he was useless in front of Zu Zhao's escort troops, thinking of this, Zhao Meng couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"General Zhao, General Han, do you surrender or not." Zu Zhao asked.

Han Ye scolded loudly: "Treacherous villain, if you want to kill, you will kill, I, Han Ye, will be a good man in twenty years, I will not surrender to you." ”

Zu Zhao smiled and nodded, and said to Zhao Meng in a blink of an eye: "General Zhao, are you willing to follow me?" It's a pity that a talent like you is used by bad people, follow me, how about we do a great cause together? ”

Zhao Meng said coldly: "Bad people? How do I know if you are a person with a conscience and morality as you say in your mouth, in this troubled world, everyone is calculating and thinking about themselves, who will really think about us people? ”

Zu Zhao said: "In this troubled world, there are indeed people who are selfish and don't care about the lives of the people for their own enjoyment, but you can't kill a boatload of people with a stick. There are always people who think about the people, and after so many dynasties have changed, some of the people who rebelled claimed to be the people, of course, they were also forced to rebel, and there were also selfish people who took advantage of the situation to form their own forces. Putting aside the first two, take the third type as an example, if they form their own forces, if they do not seek the welfare of the people under their leadership, let alone be attacked by outsiders, even the people will rise up against him, just like you are now raising an army against the Han, because you think that the Han is no longer thinking about the people. If I say that I am dedicated to the people and have formed my own forces, will you follow me? ”

"It's up to you to decide what's going on. Now that you have arrested me, then kill me, you have recruited thieves privately, are you not afraid that the court will blame you? Zhao Meng said coldly.

Zu Zhao said with a smile: "What is to blame for leaving people to do things in the name of others." As long as the heart is right, what are you afraid of? ”

Zhao Meng said coldly: "Thank you Lord Zu for your kindness, but everyone has their own ambitions, since I am defeated, you can kill me." ”

"That's right, if you die, you'll kill us if you're enough. If I frown, I'm not a good man. Han Ye shouted and cursed loudly.

Zu Zhao slowly stepped forward, took a short sword from the guard's hand, and slowly walked towards Zhao Meng and Han Ye, everyone present held their breath, quietly watching what was going to happen, did Zu Zhao want to kill them here?

"You rebelled, your sins are unforgivable, and you invaded my Liaodong County, killed my people, and destroyed the production here." Zu Zhao raised the knife as he spoke, and everyone was shocked for a while, and he continued: "But you rebel to make a living, if you two are really the kind of people who love to kill the people, the people of Wangping County today will not be so unharmed. This Wangping County magistrate is also a person who is dedicated to the people, and you did not kill him, which shows that you also have your own judgment. As for what I have heard about you killing people and raping women, I believe that it was not you who did it, nor did you allow your subordinates to do it, otherwise I would have slaughtered you with my own hands. Since you will not surrender, then throw yourselves to those whom you think worthy of follow. Zu Zhao said, the knife swished, cutting the hemp rope trapped on them, and then untied the rope in circles.

"You can go back to your hometown, or you can go to find Zhao Ci who you think is worth following, but I tell you, Zhao Ci is now invading my Liaodong and hurting the people of Liaodong, and I will not let him go. If you continue to follow him, and prepare him for a decisive battle with me, if he kills one more people, I will slash him one more. If we see each other on the battlefield next time, it will be a life-and-death fight, and it will not be like this anymore. Zu Zhao said, "Now, you can leave." ”

"Come on, give them food to entangle, enough for them to go back to their hometown or follow Zhao Ci." Zu Zhao ordered.

His call made everyone puzzled, did he just let these two people go? If they continue to follow Zhao Ci, then when they crusade against Zhao Ci next, there will be two more fierce opponents. But since Zu Zhao did this, no one raised any objections.

Zhao Meng and Han Ye couldn't help but look at each other, they couldn't believe it, Zu Zhao let them go like this, and gave them food to wrap around, is there such a person? Perhaps he was confident enough to capture them later.

Some soldiers brought some silver taels and food and handed them to Zhao Meng and Han Ye, but the two of them didn't take it, Han Ye looked at Zhao Meng, and Zhao Meng looked at Zu Zhao, thinking about what Zu Zhao said before, it makes sense, thinking about Zhao Ci's actions, especially his treatment of officials, regardless of whether they are good or bad, they will all be killed, and a kill is an extermination, plus Zhao Ci's connivance with his subordinates, Zhao Meng really has a lot of complaints.

"General Zu will not give up, and I, Zhao Meng, am willing to stay by your side and serve the dogs and horses." Zhao Meng said with his fists clenched.

Han Ye saw that Zhao Meng had surrendered, and he also chose to surrender, but he made a request, that is, to have a good fight with Zhao Qi and Ma Yuan, before Zhao Qi was defeated in a row, it was their strategy, he wanted to see how many rounds he could fight with him, Ma Yuan and himself, who had more strength.

Zhao Qi and Ma Yuan laughed, naturally agreeing. As a result, Zhao Meng and Han Ye successfully surrendered to Zu Zhao, and then Zu Zhao's generals left Xinchang, which was now under attack by Zhao Ci.