Chapter Eighty-Five: Self-Restraint
More than 300 county soldiers were disarmed by Zhou Yu's 100 guards plus more than 100 people who were disarmed by Dian Wei, and the remaining county soldiers who heard the order all approached to Zhou Tai's vicinity, while Zheng Bao was protected by about 180 county soldiers in the middle, and they all waited quietly for Zhou Tai's order.
After the distinction was clear, the gate of the Taishou Mansion instantly fell into a short silence.
"Are you sure you want to protect this thief? Then you're welcome! Master Zhou, what do you think about it? This is your territory, and you have to give us an explanation! The frightened Wang Quan also understood that he was used as a gun by Zhou Yu, and his face was not the same as before, but seeing the ferocity of Zhou Yu's guards, he just dared to complain.
"Don't worry-princess, this official will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation!" After Zhou Yu finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Han Xuan, who was tied up by five flowers: "Lord Han is really a busy man!" I haven't been able to see real people many times in the next visit, but I didn't expect the angels of the court to come, and you will send them the same! I wonder how Lord Han feels at the moment? ”
"Hmph-there is no handover yet, the official is still the Taishou of Yangzhou, you have no right to ask the official! This official is busy with official business and has no time to see you! Han Xuan looked up and saw a personable young man riding on a horse in an official uniform, he didn't have to think that he was Zhou Yu who came to take over from him, but he didn't expect to be so young. He is not a fool after being an official for a few years, if he casually admits that he refuses to hand over, it is a bad intention, and it is also a big crime! As long as the handover is completed, the new Taishou can take himself down and ask for the guilt.
"Lord Han, can you familiarize yourself with the laws of this dynasty?" Zhou Yu has never seen such a trick in hob meat, but today is time, so I will have a good time with him.
"That's natural—how can this official not know the laws of this dynasty after many years of being an official? Since you ask about the law of this dynasty, should you let your people grasp and let go, you and I are both on the same level, and you have no right to detain me. Han Xuan secretly laughed at Zhou Yu for being too tender, the law of the Han Dynasty stipulates that even if the previous official leaves office, he will still maintain his original rank until he gets a new appointment, but he will become an alternate Taishou, and only when there is a vacancy elsewhere, he can be replaced logically. There is also a shortcut, which is to stun the ten permanent servants with money, and you can also get caught.
"Okay-don't worry, since I, Zhou Yu, dare to detain you in front of so many people, there is naturally a reason to detain you. Now I will give you a good count of them one by one, and the law of the Great Han Dynasty stipulates that the predecessor can step down from the date of the appointment of the imperial court, and wait for the arrival of the new one! That is to say, after you Han Xuan received the appointment of the imperial court, you still exercised the right to be too guarded, and when you saw that the new appointment refused to hand over, the crime of knowing the law and breaking the law was added to the first; Second, the angels of the imperial court came to the Taishou Mansion to pass the decree, even if you Han Xuan is now the Taishou of Yangzhou, you should step on the incense case and kneel to receive the holy decree, right? And you are not the Taishou of Yangzhou, and the second is to command your guards to beat the court angels, do you want to rebel or do something? The third of them, as the alternate Taishou, mobilized troops and horses to besiege and kill the court angels without authorization, which is equivalent to rebellion! These three things all point to you, if you say that you are not a rebellion, who will believe it? After Zhou Yu finished saying word by word, Han Xuan found that he had nothing to say, and now he remembered what a foolish thing he had done! After being an official for so many years, I finally got to the position of Taishou, and I don't even have such eyesight, and now I really regret it!
"Get him up - give you a chance to make amends! Lord Han, you go and persuade that general to put down his weapon, otherwise it will be tantamount to complicity in rebellion! What is a big crime of rebellion, presumably Lord Han knows better than me, right? Zhou Yu saw Han Xuan, whose face turned pale in an instant, and knew that Han Xuan's psychological defense line had been broken, and now it was to let the soldiers and horses on the opposite side lay down their weapons, if they really wanted to fight, it would be very unfavorable to their side.
Zhou Tai's formation is a very defensive formation, a circle outside is a circle with a row of circular shields, the soldiers in the second circle hold knives and spears and wait for the opportunity to attack through the gap, and the soldiers in the third circle hold a round shield obliquely above their heads, which is to defend against attacks from bows and arrows overhead. Due to the number of people, the innermost layer is left with Zhou Tai with a big sword and Zheng Bao with a sword.
"General—what are we going to do now?" Zhou Tai carefully observed the situation outside through the crowd, and now his side was completely at a disadvantage both in terms of force and morality, and such a fight was really unwise. But he couldn't say it directly, the current scene was not something that a small lieutenant could hold.
"Captain Zhou, do you think we can let them let us go if we put down our weapons now? You are really too naïve - things in officialdom are changing rapidly, and being an official turns his face faster than a book! Cheer me up and wait for reinforcements to arrive—as long as I don't go back for a long time, there will be rescuers to save me! "Zheng Bao, he is not a fool, he already knows that his brother-in-law is finished after this time, and the position of Taishou has been handed over smoothly, and at worst, he has to bear a charge of bullying the king. And if you put down your weapons, you may not be able to go anywhere, it is better to kill all these people on the spot, and then deceive them and say that they were killed by bandits, in that case, your side can still be saved, maybe the court can count yourself as a bandit.
"General Zheng - listen to the old man's advice, tell someone to put down their weapons! In front of him is the prince from the capital and the new Yangzhou Taishou Zhou Yu Zhou, the real flood washed the Dragon King Temple, and his own people beat his own people! Hurry up and listen to the old man's order to put down the weapon - butler, you get over to the old man! Han Xuan heard that Zhou Yu promised him to make up for his mistakes, and the current situation can only be to save his life first.
"Don't let it go - it's not allowed to be released without General Ben's order - whoever dares to put down his weapon will be killed!" Zheng Bao saw that the county soldiers in front of him were a little hesitant, and he was about to put down the weapons in his hands, if this was really the case, it was not that he was about to finish the game.
"General—it's Lord Taishou on the other side!" One of the creeps muttered.
"-didn't you hear that he's not Yangzhou Taishou now? If you don't want your head, if you want, hold your weapon and wait for reinforcements to arrive—" Zheng Bao almost went over and kicked the little soldier to let him know the consequences of talking nonsense.
After a stick of incense, Zheng Bao did not have the slightest intention of surrendering, Zhou Yu was a little impatient, and Han Xuan was sweating profusely, he was frightened. I didn't expect this Zheng Bao to not listen to his orders at a critical moment, it's really damn good!
"Feng Xiao - do you think this formation can be broken by our hands?" Zhou Yu looked at this circular Xuanwu Formation and wanted to try the power of this formation.
"Well-this depends on the proficiency and improvisation of the people in the formation, the Xuanwu formation is actually based on the ancient Xuanwu Divine Beast to create a formation, it has a strong defensive and weird attack, it can be said to be a formation with both offense and defense. According to the position they are standing in now, the captain occupies the offensive position, and Zheng Baodu's position is the main defense, which is now a defensive formation. If we have a strong bow and crossbow, we can break it in an instant, but now we have to rely on our guards, but fortunately, the disparity between the strength of the enemy and us is not too great. Guo Jia took the wine gourd and began to talk.
"Don't talk nonsense - if there had been a team of archers or a large number of ballistas, I would have ordered them to rush up! It's really - you Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao are just like that! Zhou Yu listened to Guo Jia for a long time, which is equivalent to saying in vain, this formation can be understood by himself, but he is a little bit unfortunate enough to break the formation. He really hoped that if he got a machine gun now, he would rush up with it alone, and what kind of archer would be a fart by then!
"Hehe-Brother Dian, it's up to you to break the formation - you first take fifty guards in the shape of arrows, and you make arrows to directly break through this turtle shell. The remaining guards blocked the nearby intersection to prevent the people on the opposite side from escaping. Guo Jia only smiled slightly in the face of Zhou Yu's ridicule, turned his head and began to arrange his troops.
Dian Wei led fifty guards to rush directly in the shape of arrows, Zhou Tai saw the menacing Dian Wei, and shouted: "One team defends, two teams attack, and three teams wait for the opportunity to support!" General, stay where you are, or the formation will be chaotic - the general will return to protect the general's safety! ”
Zheng Bao nodded like a chicken pecking rice, at this moment he can only hope with Zhou Tai, he himself has a few catties and a few taels he knows, he will definitely not be able to resist these elite soldiers.
Zhou Tai's Xuanwu array rotated slowly like a top, and Dian Wei felt that his ultimate move hit the sponge every time, and he could also fight back while rotating the Xuanwu array to unload the attack, so that Dian Wei had some dogs biting turtles and couldn't help but be a little impatient - the fight was getting bigger and bigger, but there was no order.
"It doesn't look like it's a good idea to keep fighting! Bonghyo, this is what you mean by breaking the formation? It seems that the son of Ben is still out of the horse, what a hard life! Zhou Yu saw Dian Wei's predicament, and had no choice but to take action by himself.
"Everyone, stop—how about listening to Ben Tai Shou?"
Hearing Zhou Yu's shout, all the men and horses on both sides stopped and started a confrontation.
"General Zheng on the other side - you already know that I, Zhou Yu, am the new Yangzhou Taishou, but I still have to send troops and horses to get along with me? Ben Taishou didn't mean to blame you, you didn't know that I was Taishou to attack me, but now that Han Taishou has made my identity clear, you still want to kill me if you insist on killing me. My Zhou Yu's life doesn't matter, but there are angels in the capital, don't you county soldiers have parents, wives and children? Are you Zheng Bao's soldiers or the soldiers of the Han Dynasty? Zheng Bao doesn't care about the life of his brother-in-law Han Taishou, that is, he is joking with your life, is such a person worthy of your life? Now if you issue weapons, Ben Taishou will only punish Zheng Bao's first evil! The others are not to blame for the past - I will only give you a stick of incense for now. After Zhou Yu finished speaking, he didn't say anything.
"Can you guarantee the safety of my brothers?" Zhou Tai thought about it again and again, it was not a way to drag it out like this, and Zhou Yu was now a legitimate Yangzhou Taishou.
"This general—I, Zhou Yu, admire you very much! I promise - after so many years in Luoyang, I Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin still talk and count, not to mention Yangzhou! If there is no faith, how can a person stand in the world! Zhou Yu said imposingly.
"All right - brothers remove their weapons - surrender!"
"Zhou Tai - you bastard! How dare you—" Zheng Bao's eyes darkened and fainted.
Zhou Tai tied himself back, and the other soldiers walked to Zhou Yu with Zheng Bao on their shoulders, and they all knelt on the ground: "The sinner, Zhou Tai begged Lord Taishou to punish him!" But please keep your promise to spare these soldiers! ”
"Lord Taishou, I am willing to be guilty of the same crime as General Zhou!"
The three hundred county soldiers knelt on the ground in a pressed manner, and Zhou Yu couldn't help but be a little moved.