Chapter 631: The Price of Greed
After a quiet night, early the next morning, Duan Fei and Gou Zhifu and others climbed to the head of Beicheng again, looking at the enemy formation in the north, but found that there was no movement on the opposite side, Zhu Qi sent a spy to ride a fast horse, ran to the enemy camp and scolded, the enemy camp rushed out of a team of people to drive the spy away, ran out of the camp less than 500 meters and then turned around and returned to the camp, after a few trips back and forth, the spy ran back and said: "Back to the general, the rebels said that the sun is too strong today, choose another day to attack the city, it seems that after yesterday's battle, Lord Qincha and General Zhu had already killed the rebels in fright, and they did not dare to fight again. ”
Duan Fei shook his head and said: "Although there was a small victory yesterday, the strength of the rebels did not suffer much loss, and they did not dare to fight today, it must be because Cen Meng's health deteriorated, and he was no longer able to personally supervise the battle. ”
Zhu Qi said excitedly: "Cen Meng's serious injury is difficult to recover, if we suddenly counterattack at this time......"
Duan Fei shook his head and said: "It's not proper, although the rebels can't effectively organize to attack the city without a leader, but after all, there are nearly 100,000 people there, if we don't have enough troops to attack, we can't shake the rebels at all, if we come out, the rebels only need to divide six to seven adults to entangle with us, and the rest of the homeopathy can take Liuzhou, and then we can only break through and escape, even if we really have a chance to win, it's not worth paying so many lives for the upcoming victory, everyone wait patiently, we can afford to wait, The rebels can't afford to wait, if nothing happens, this official expects that this war will have a result within three to five days, and we have a great chance of winning, and your credit will never be forgotten. ”
The Lord was not allowed to fight, so everyone had to defend patiently and wait for the victory predicted by Lord Chincha.
Almost everyone thought that this would be a long wait, but early in the morning of the third day of the siege, when Duan Fei and the others had just come to the city to watch the enemy formation, a fast horse ran out of the rebel camp, waved a white flag to the city, raised his head and said loudly: "Lord Qincha, the big leader of my family wants to negotiate face-to-face with Lord Qincha, and the location is between the front of our army and the gate of Liuzhou North City!" The two sides are only allowed to bring two men, and they are a stone's throw away, I wonder if Lord Qincha will dare to go out of the city to negotiate with the big leader of my family? ”
Hearing the words of the other party's agitated general, Duan Fei looked up to the sky and laughed: "Yesterday, this official personally led the army out of the city to defeat your Black Flag Army, do you think this official will be afraid to negotiate with you?" But...... Cen Meng, does he still have the strength to shout to this official from so far away? Why don't you sit closer? A stone's throw is too far, how about a foot? ”
The spy on the other side said: "Lord Qincha has misunderstood, it is not my family commander who wants to negotiate with the lord, but the big leader Lord Cen Zhang, his old man arrived last night, in order to show our sincerity, we are ready to release the two generals who were captured by our side first......"
After the spy finished speaking, he waved the white flag in his hand backwards, only to see two more horses running out of the rebel formation, and two people sitting on them.
I saw that the two of them looked bleak and their clothes were disheveled, and the armor on their bodies had already been stripped off when they went out to fight, and now they were only wearing intimate clothes, tied to the saddle, and there was still a horse chew stuck in their mouths, which was really miserable.
Duan Fei saw that the two generals were tossed like this and made a fool of themselves in front of the two armies, his expression turned cold, and he shouted: "It's so bold, you actually mistreated our generals like this, I knew that today, when this official captured Cen Zhang's granddaughter, he shouldn't have let her go easily!" You go back and tell Cen Zhang that the official will never negotiate with him, so tell him to attack the city!" ”
The spies under the city raised their heads and said: "The big leader of my family tied a letter behind Zhang Jing, Lord Duan will understand why the big leader of my family humiliated the two of them so much before the battle, and the big leader of my family has enough time to confirm after reading the letter, the big leader of my family will wait for Lord Qincha to come at noon in front of the battle......
The spy bowed to Duan Fei on the horse, and then turned around and patted the horse away, because the city gate was blocked, Duan Fei immediately ordered two people to step on the rope circle to go down, and after untying Zhang Jing and Hu Yaoyuan, let them step on the rope circle and be pulled up the city wall, and the two horses were ridden by the two people around the south city and entered the city.
After Zhang Jing and Hu Yaoyuan ascended to the top of the city, they knelt down to Duan Fei with ashamed faces and said, "My lord, I am guilty of my humble duties, please forgive me." ”
Duan Fei said quietly: "Oh? Why are you guilty? Could it be related to the letter Cen Zhang gave me? ”
Zhang Jing was ashamed to present the letter, bowed his head and said: "My lord Mingjian, I just want to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions...... Only then did he deliberately spread rumors all the way, saying that the rebel Cen Meng was ...... Cen Zhang and the others all wanted to raid their homes and exterminate their clans, and sent people to Guishun Prefecture, scolded Cen Zhang, and asked him to surrender immediately and attack Cen Meng from behind, otherwise he would be punished by the law of great rebellion...... Cen Zhang...... It's for the lowly two to force rebellion......"
Duan Fei's hand holding the letter trembled a little, and he said with a sinking face: "Zhang Jing, Hu Yaoyuan, do you still remember that this official suggested sending someone to Guishun Prefecture to appease Cen Zhang before you set out on the expedition, so that he could give Cen Meng a fatal blow from behind, you guys are good, you are greedy and refuse to surrender Cen Meng, and even used the words of this official to force Cen Zhang again, no wonder when Cen Meng was in danger, Cen Zhang suddenly made a move, this is good, Cen Meng reversed, Cen Zhang also reversed, Are you planning to force the Yao people in Guangxi or even Yunnan to rebel against them, and exchange their lives for your own merits......"
Duan Fei shook his head and sighed, everyone who heard the conversation also shook their heads silently, Zhang Jing and Hu Yaoyuan kowtowed guiltily, Duan Fei took a breath and said coldly: "Zhang Jing! Hu Yaoyuan! Only 30,000 of the 60,000 troops you have caused the rebellion to flee back, a whole 30,000 unjust souls, how can you still have the face to beg me for forgiveness here, you should go and beg those orphans and widows, and beg those people who have lost their relatives to forgive you. Serve them well, and when the official successfully quells the rebellion and returns to the capital in the north, he will take them back to Beijing with Li Kang, Sheng Yingqi and others, and ask the emperor to rule in person! ”
With Zhengde's temper, the guy who lost money and lost money to defeat the battle and was embarrassed, naturally he would have to punish the nine clans by peeling off the skin and bones, Zhang Jing and Hu Yaoyuan naturally knew that it was powerful, and when they were escorted down, they shouted in fear: "My lord, spare my life!" There are no 30,000, there are no 30,000, Cen Zhang's men have not been killed, in Cen Zhang's hands, there are at least more than 20,000 captured soldiers, my lord spares his life! ”
Duan Fei shouted angrily: "Is there a difference between 10,000 and 30,000? The soldiers won the victory on the bloody front, and no matter how much they sacrificed, I don't blame you, but they died unjustly at the hands of your greed, what else do you have to say? Hurry down, keep them under strict guard, and never let them come into contact with anyone! ”
Zhang Jing and Hu Yaoyuan were escorted down, Duan Fei angrily opened Cen Zhang's letter, and after a hurried glance, he settled down, and said with a smile: "What a Cen Zhang, he is still playing tricks with this official, it seems that this war will soon subside, Su Hua, Murong Xiang, you go back to restore women's clothes, and this official will take you to negotiate with Cen Zhang." ”