Chapter 10 Stalling for Time

As mentioned last time, the generals of Eastern Wu asked Liu Hou what he wanted, and after Liu Hou introduced the power of a round of muskets, he began to answer this question:

"As for what I want to do, the question is simple, I want you to lay down your arms and surrender. I believe that you are also aware of the environment you find yourself in, and it can be said that there is no escape. Heaven has the virtue of a good life, and I don't like to kill more, so I will give you two ways, one is to become a roast pig, and the other is to surrender. ”

"Ahh Zhou Tai yelled.

Liu Hou rolled his eyes and said, "First, you can't represent all the Eastern Wu generals, let alone all the Eastern Wu people, you don't want to surrender, but you can't stop others from surrendering; Third, surrender does not mean that you are a bad seed, and sometimes, it takes more courage to live than to die; Third, do you think that if you duel with a 12-year-old kid of mine, people will think you are a hero? ”

Zhou Tai was stunned for a moment when he said this paragraph, he didn't understand the first two points very clearly, and the latter points could still be understood, Liu Hou laughed at him for bullying the small with the big, and the adults bullying the children. Rao is no matter how thick-skinned he is, he can't help but blush at this time.

"If you want to play heads-up, you can obediently put down your weapons and be tied up now, I still have a lot of things to do, when I am free, arrange for you to have a fight with my Fourth Uncle Zhao, and then you don't lose and cry."

Liu Hou thought to himself, in this era of lack of entertainment, it is also good to have time to watch first-class military duels, or if you have time to make a gladiatorial arena like ancient Rome and engage in a gladiator competition, it will definitely attract a lot of attention, I don't know how many tickets I can receive?

If Zhao Yun and Zhou Tai knew that Liu Hou was beating their ideas, and letting them duel in order to entertain the public and collect tickets to make money, I believe they would be so angry that they would have the urge to unscrew Liu Hou's head as a stool.

But Zhou Tai didn't know who Fourth Uncle Zhao was, so he asked, "Who is your Fourth Uncle Zhao?" Is he powerful? Have the ability to call him out, see if I don't beat all his out. ”

He was purely messing around and delaying time, but Zhu Ran didn't stop him, because now they were obviously in a dead position, and if they didn't find a breakthrough, they knew that they would not be able to escape. Now that Zhou Tai came out to stir up trouble and delay time, Zhu Ran just took the opportunity to think of countermeasures.

Of course, if Liu Hou, a fledgling hairy boy, really can't stand the excitement and runs out to fight alone, it is the best, he believes that with Zhou Tai's martial arts, he will definitely be able to capture this kid alive, and then he can be forced to open the city gate for his people to withdraw, and even coerce him to sacrifice Jingzhou.

Even if he doesn't fall for it, it's good to delay the time, there is a reserve force led by the metropolitan governor Lu Meng outside the city, if he knows that there is a change in the city, he will definitely lead the army to help, and his gang will still have a chance to survive at that time.

"You don't even know my Fourth Uncle Zhao? He is Changshan Zhao Zilong Zhao Yun, how is it? Do you want to go head-to-head with him? ”

"Zhao Yun is here too?" As soon as Liu Hou spoke, Zhou Tai's complexion changed greatly, not only him, but also the generals of Eastern Wu. The prestige of Changshan Zhao Zilong spread throughout China after Changbanpo, and the generals of Eastern Wu also talked about it when they were chatting in peacetime.

Although these people are also fierce generals who often charge into battle, they still have great admiration for Zhao Yun's heroic deeds of saving the young master from hundreds of thousands of Cao troops.

They thought to themselves that they would never be able to do it in that situation, although they were also loyal, and if they knew that their young master was in the enemy position, they might rush into the enemy line to save people regardless of their own safety. But passion is one thing, ability is another, in that case, it is difficult to say whether you can come out by rushing in, let alone the legendary seven in and seven out.

Today, they have fallen into the trap of this world, they have already fallen into the dead, if there is an immortal martial artist like Zhao Yun present at this time, then they don't have to think about the possibility of breaking through, just wait for death.

"Of course he came, don't you know that my Fourth Uncle Zhao is my marksmanship master? He is still the commander of my Hong army, and I and this Hong army are here, how can he, the master and commander, not be there? But I told him to let me play with you first, so he left me alone and didn't show up. He's resting at the government now, do you want to see him? Why don't I ask him to come over and learn martial arts with you? ”

Of course, Liu Hou would not say that Zhao Yun had already led the troops out to rescue Guan Gong, and he would flicker if he could, and intimidate if he coerced. This really frightened the generals of Eastern Wu, and they were speechless.

"Okay, you guys make a decision quickly, do you surrender or not? Rest assured, I will not hurt your lives after surrendering. On the contrary, I will let you, Wu Hou, my uncle, take things to redeem you. After all, the Sun and Liu families still have an alliance, and they have a good marriage, so I won't do too much. ”

Speaking of surrender, Liu Hou naturally began to comfort him with kind words, bringing up Sun Quan as his uncle's relationship, so that the generals of Eastern Wu could lower their vigilance and reduce their resistance to surrender.

However, Liu Hou said nice words in his mouth, but he was thinking in his heart, yes, I will not do it, and I will not take your life, but I will definitely do it very much, and I will definitely let you remember this profound lesson, this time I will not call Liu Chan if I don't let you vomit blood in Dongwu.

When the generals of Eastern Wu heard Liu Hou's words, they were really relieved, even if they were all people who had been fighting for half their lives, they would have regarded death as their home, but after all, they were also human beings, and they were people with wives and children and family businesses, so it was better not to die.

"Shizi, the matter is very important, please allow us some time to think about it." Zhu Ran arched his hand to Liu Houdao. He no longer dares to call Liu Hou a "boy", people now have the advantage, they can take their lives at any time, and there is no point in taking advantage of those tongues.

Besides, this son of the world is obviously a scheming person, just now Han Dang, Zhou Tai and others had a lot of insults and insults, but this son of the world was not moved at all, like a stone without a little emotion, cold and not angry at all. Although his language was frivolous and seemed to be nonsense, Zhu Ran could feel that he was very calm and even indifferent in his heart, and he didn't care about his own insults, and even didn't seem to care about his own 30,000 lives. This kind of indifference made Zhu Ran feel a chill.

"Yes, I will give you a pillar of incense time, and after a stick of incense time, you will tell me whether you surrender or not, if you don't surrender, we will light a fire." Liu Hou waved his hand.

"How can a stick of incense be enough, at least 3 hours, you see, there are so many of us, it is difficult to unify opinions, you have to give us at least 3 hours, let us consult everyone's opinions." Zhu Ran circled a large circle with his hand, meaning to encircle all the 30,000 soldiers in the open space, and then "argue with reason".

Liu Hou rolled his eyes, when did the Three Kingdoms era also talk about the master? What decisions do generals need to consult with their soldiers? Is the Soochow army going to poll like that?

"No, 3 hours is too long, so I'll give you half an hour." Liu Houdao. He was secretly vigilant in his heart, this Zhu Ran asked me to wait for him for three hours, there must be a conspiracy, three hours, 6 hours, there are too many changes that can happen.

"How is this enough, at least two and a half hours, how can you ask everyone's opinions without this time?" Zhu Ran said.

"Do you really think I'm a fool? Hurry up, the seven of you will discuss and make a decision, whether to live or die, whether to surrender or become a roast pig, it is up to you to decide. I'll give you an hour at most to think about it, and after an hour, if you haven't replied, don't blame me for being rude. ”

"One hour is not enough, son, for your uncle's sake, please give one more hour. I will give you a satisfactory answer in two hours. Zhu Ran saw Liu Houti's uncle, so he also brought out Sun Quan is his uncle. In fact, both sides do not look at this relationship at all.

"Two hours is already the limit, you see so many of us, and they are all bull tempers, it is not easy to convince them, if the prince refuses to give us these two hours, we will fight to the end of the net." Zhu Ran added another sentence.

"Well, two hours is two hours, I hope you don't play any tricks, otherwise, I don't mind having a barbecue tonight." Liu Houdao.

Although he didn't know why this Zhu Ran had to fight for two hours, he knew that there must be something wrong with him doing this, and he did it too deliberately. The reason why Liu Hou agreed to him was because he also needed these two hours.

He is currently in Jingzhou City, and he arrived in advance on the "Super Battleship" with him*, plus the original troops left behind in Jingzhou, it is only 1*. With such a force facing the 30,000 Jiangdong Tigers below, to be honest, he was a little stunned. Although the trap is arranged, once they fight for their lives, who knows if a few people will really be able to escape.

The so-called dog jumping over the wall in a hurry, trapped beasts still fighting, if Liu Hou once ordered to set fire, the Eastern Wu soldiers will certainly suffer heavy casualties, and there will be no one in ten, but if these crazy people don't care about hitting the low wall, there are still a few people who can rush to the low wall.

Needless to say, if one or two thousand of these 30,000 people jumped over the low wall and faced these mad tiger-like soldiers up close, the people on their side would definitely suffer heavy casualties. And it is not impossible to break through the low wall, after all, this low wall is too short, only more than one zhang, and it is more than 2 meters and less than 3 meters high in later generations.

At this height, some masters can climb the wall with their hands by kicking two feet on the wall with one run. Another example is that Arhats can also climb low walls. At that time, their baby pimple musketeers will face the situation of hand-to-hand combat, although under Zhao Yun's strict training, these musketeers will not suffer a loss against the Shangdong Wu army, but after all, they cannot win with an absolute advantage, and when the time comes, Liu Hou will really cry if he suffers heavy casualties.

And Liu Hou wanted to wait for these two hours because he was calculating the time, and his follow-up troops were almost there. His other more than 4,000 Hong troops were on ordinary merchant ships, which were relatively slow, and Liu Hou had already sent three waves of messengers in one day to urge these reserve troops to speed up. According to the previous report, these people will arrive in about two hours.

With these more than 4,000 musketeers, if he defended the city, Liu Hou was confident that he would face tens of thousands of troops attacking the city. Therefore, he was unwilling to force the Eastern Wu generals too tightly, so as not to cause a situation where the dog jumped over the wall and lost both, but chose to wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

Needless to say, the generals of Eastern Wu are also waiting for their own reinforcements. Zhu Ran calmed the restless crowd, and explained the crisis they were facing now with the other 6 generals, and analyzed that if the metropolitan governor Lu Meng saw that there was no movement in Jingzhou City, he must know that something had happened to his gang and he would inevitably bring troops to the rescue.

In the end, all the generals expressed their understanding, and stopped shouting that they were going to storm the low wall, and gradually quieted down one by one. Zhu Ran ordered all the soldiers to sit down and rest on the spot to save their bodies.

Liu Hou also ordered the soldiers to strengthen their vigilance, so that they could enter the battle at any time if they found out that the Eastern Wu soldiers were about to move. Liu Hou and the generals have not closed their eyes for a day and a night, and they are all tired and hot-eyed, but no one dares to relax their vigilance, and they all observe the scene on the field with wide eyes.