Chapter 37: Yuan Yao's Subordinates
At the head of Moling City, Huang Zhong tightly clutched the bamboo skewers soaked with sweat in his palms, and kept chanting in his mouth: "The people's heart is available, the people's heart is available?" β
How can the people's hearts be used?
"Yu Taishou, due to the siege of Shanyue, the people in the city are all panicked, just now the subordinates also received money from a gentry in the city privately, and the gentry quietly asked his subordinates for a news."
At this time, Huang Zhong's lord Bo came to the city to report with a smile.
"There is still a gentry who bribes you, what news does he want to inquire about?" Huang Zhong, who was thinking, just asked casually when he heard the report from his subordinates.
"He told his subordinates that in the past, when Shanyue attacked, the county order of Moling would choose to abandon the city and flee, and this gentleman came to ask me, where is Taishou going to flee?"
"And this gentleman also wants to dredge up my relationship and let us run for our lives with his family."
This master Bo is an old man who came from Hefei with Huang Zhong, and he is very clear about his temperament, and there is no Huang Zhong who escaped in his cognition.
"Newspaperβ"
"Taishou, the people gathered under the city tower and collectively petitioned you, saying that if you don't agree, you won't leave!"
The heralds hurried in, and Huang Zhong looked in the direction of the city, and many petitioning people gathered under the city walls.
"Haha, I didn't expect that these people are still very knowledgeable, or the military advisor has foresight, so eager to come to help me defend the city, it makes me a little embarrassed." Huang Zhong smiled heartily, with a hint of joy on his face.
"Taishou, you... Misunderstanding! Hearing Huang Zhong's excited self-muttering, the herald stood aside awkwardly, lowered his head and whispered.
"Misunderstanding?" Huang Zhong, who was on the rise, heard the words of the herald, and his face sank.
"These people are not here to help defend the city, they are here to ask Taishou, saying that when Taishou abandoned the city and fled, he asked to take them with him to escape."
The herald's voice was not loud, but the words reached Huang Zhong's ears clearly.
"General Huang, please run away with us!" Before Huang Zhong could react, the people in the city saw Huang Zhong showing his head, and immediately one of them took the lead in petitioning, and after speaking, he knelt down again.
What about the popular will that is said to be good?
Are these guys who are bent on escaping really usable?
Strategist, do you also have times when you miss calculations?
Seeing more and more people in the city kneeling on the ground, Huang Zhong's chest was filled with a nameless anger, and the whole person was stunned in place, closing his eyes and saying nothing.
After a moment of silence, Huang Zhong suddenly opened his eyes and raised the ring head knife on his waist high: "You bastards, do you look good kneeling here?" β
Huang Zhong opened his voice, and everyone shuddered with a broken drink.
"Damn it, who do you look down on? I, Huang Zhong, am I the kind of person who abandons the city and flees when the enemy comes? β
"The whole army obeys the order!"
"From now on, anyone who dares to say that they have fled, regardless of military or civilian, will be killed on the spot!"
"Listen to me, I, Huang Zhong, am not here to enjoy Qingfu, I am here to call the shots for you, as long as I still have a breath of air, no one will want to attack Moling City!"
"It doesn't matter if he is the mountain or the water, as long as Lao Tzu is here as a guard, whoever comes will die!"
After Huang Zhong vented, he suddenly opened his bow with one hand and shot an arrow towards the grain tent hundreds of meters away.
Sou!
The hanging rope was broken by an arrow, and the tent cloth slowly fell, revealing the true eyes of Lushan.
"Don't panic, the grain and grass here is enough for 10,000 soldiers for half a year, we only have 2,000 soldiers, and even if you add all the people in the city, there are only more than 7,000 people, at least enough for us to eat for more than half a year."
"Hungry and hungry, and we are guarding the city to defend against your enemies, what is there to worry about?"
Hundreds of meters away, an arrow hit the target, Huang Zhongzhi's courage made everyone dumbfounded, coupled with the mountains of grain in the granary, everyone was silent all of a sudden.
"General! If the general doesn't dislike it, the small one is willing to help the general! At this moment, a thin man in tattered clothes stood up abruptly and shouted loudly.
"General, count me in!"
"Taishou, count me in!"
Since ancient times, he was sincere and moving, perhaps because he saw that Huang Zhong really wanted to defend Moling, and after a while, a large number of men stood up on the field.
"General, we are not afraid of death!"
This chorus of shouts included almost everyone in the audience, men, women and children all stood up.
Danyang people, poor is poor, cowardly is cowardly, once the blood is hot, almost everyone is like a tiger wolf.
"Okay, I'm going to defend the city now, and if I'm not afraid of death, I'll come to report!" Glancing at the sudden change of people, Huang Zhong resolutely turned around and walked towards the side outside the city.
The big war is about to start!
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On the river, with the smell of burning, Qi Jiguang was gathering a group of remnants on the river, and there were not many casualties among the 1,000 people, but all the boats he brought were burned.
"Thank you to the two heroes for coming to the rescue, I don't know what to call the two knights?" Qi Jiguang looked at a small boat not far away and said.
"Haha, the general is polite! The two of us are just nobodies, and our names are not worth mentioning. β
"Although the general was defeated last night, he was able to stab Zheng Bao with one person and one shot, which really made my two brothers admire!"
On the boat, the two of them said a word, and they didn't mean to repay with Entu, and they both planned to leave.
"The two brothers are so heroic, isn't it a pity to be so incognito at this time when the world is in turmoil?" Qi Jiguang recalled the bravery of the two of them when they desperately rescued each other last night, and he had a heart of acceptance in his heart.
"We understand the general's kindness, but the two of us are from reckless backgrounds, wouldn't the general's friendship with us ruin our reputation?" One of them heard Qi Jiguang's words and said in a sincere tone.
"Haha! I thought it was something, and the hero still asked about his background? β
"In the past, Fan Xu was just a butcher, and he still became the founding general, and my Qi Jiguang is just a nameless person, if the two of them don't dislike it, I am willing to swear with the two of them and become brothers in life and death!"
Qi Jiguang's words were sincere, and he laughed arrogantly, and he was a person who didn't care about his birth, full of heroism.
"Qi Jiguang? You are so free and easy that you don't even know the names of the two of us, so you want to bow down to us, and you really won't regret it? Another strong man was infected by Qi Jiguang's arrogance, and asked in a stunned manner.
"I believe in my own vision!" Qi Jiguang was unreservedly confident and silenced the two.
The two glanced at each other before arching their hands and saying, "In this case, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai is willing to marry Brother Qi as a brother of life and death!" β
After Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai joined, Qi Jiguang took the two and the remnants to Hefei, and also looked for the two to learn about Zheng Bao's news along the way.
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Outside the city of Qu'a, Yuan Yao set up the army in the area of Baihe Mountain, surrounded Qu'a symbolically, and did not let people attack the city, but only asked Xu Chu to call for battle under the city.
"Lord, we have been around for half a month, and there is no movement from the scouts everywhere, do you think these people in Jiangdong have given up on Liu Xuan?" Because Xu Chu went to call for the battle, Zhou Cang temporarily assumed the position of guard, and at this moment, he followed Yuan Yao to lead the army to suppress the formation for Xu Chu, and occasionally chatted about the military situation.