The Mengyan camp in Gushan was full of messes, the exciting smell of scorched corpses came to the nostrils, there was no sign of life in the camp, a scorched earth, the fire burned all night, although it was told in advance, there were still nearly 300 soldiers who had not had time to be burned, but fortunately, there were not many deaths.

Meng Yan, who should have been excited, had a look of regret, this massacre was caused by him, he slowly moved down the mountain, and the sergeants everywhere he went stood up and looked at him respectfully, he knew that this respect was more fear and terror, and he couldn't justify that it was just a war.

At this time, I saw Meng Xin walking towards him with a crowd, Zhong Roulan came over, I saw Zhong Roulan covering her mouth and nose, walking towards her with disgust on her face, and said coldly: "Second brother, you are too ruthless!" ”

"I know!" Meng Yan's three-word response was filled with helplessness and pathos.

"I'm not blaming you, I'm just thinking about why I want to fight." Zhong Roulan heard Meng Yan's words and knew that he felt uncomfortable.

"To fight a war is to not fight in the future." Meng Yan's response at this moment became calm.

"Second brother, let's go, it's really uncomfortable to watch, you still have your mission to complete, when I came over, I heard that you had already sent someone to support the Right Route Army, and Ye Bohuai also took Xianghu City, shouldn't you meet Zhuo Bailing in Gukou?" Zhong Roulan didn't want to irritate him, so she deliberately shifted the topic to Zhuo Bailing, who was still stubbornly resisting in the corner of the valley.

Meng Yan nodded, "Let's go, let's go over and take a look, Zhuo Bailing is also a good general, it's a pity to die like this, let's die less if you can." ”

After saying that, Meng Yan walked towards the mountain pass, Zhong Roulan looked at his back and felt a little lonely, she understood that Meng Yan was not a person who killed indiscriminately, he was a person with ideals and feelings, or that the entire Meng family had not been able to shirk the responsibility of benefiting the people since his father.

Zhuo Bailing wants to die now, his heart is tormenting, why he was not swallowed up by the fire, why is he still living so humiliatingly, the soldiers and horses besieging him are enough to solve him with one arrow, but they don't, he can only watch the lives around him disappear one by one but he can't do anything, he sees Meng Yan in the middle of the mountain, and he can't wait to bite his flesh off one by one.

Meng Yan finally stopped the siege and said loudly: "General Zhuo! Stop, Xianghu City is already broken, and there is no need to make fearless resistance. ”

"Meng Yan! Don't be cowardly! My Jiangyou Zhuo clan did not surrender to the children, only the clansmen who fought to the death! Zhuo Bailing said angrily.

"Even if I let you go today, will you go back?" Meng Yan said heartily.

Zhuo Bailing was speechless for a while, Meng Yan was right, 50,000 soldiers and horses were lost, and Xianghu City was also lost, even if he could go back according to the clan rules, he would be stripped of his skin and hanged his corpse, and he was so aggrieved that he didn't want to die.

Meng Yan saw that Zhuo Bailing did not respond, knowing that he was hesitating, and hit the railway while it was hot: "The king of Zhenbei has never been willing to be an enemy of the world, just to earn justice for the people of the world, although General Zhuo is a member of the Jiangyou Zhuo clan, have you ever had a day of fairness in the face of the Zhuo clan?" Have they ever given you justice? You see that the soldiers around you are all the children of the people of Jiangyou, has the Zhuo family ever given them fairness? ”

These words hit Zhuo Bailing's heart deeply, he lost his spirit for a moment, slowly put down his weapons, and the others also put down their weapons, Meng Yan waved his hand, and everyone surrounded him and tied up Zhuo Bailing and others and brought them to Meng Yan.

"General Zhuo, would you like to talk about it?" Meng Yan asked sincerely.

Zhuo Bailing looked at Meng Yan's face, and then looked at the unfinished smoke in the valley and the smell of scorched corpses in the air, it was really difficult to let go of his hatred, and said hatefully: "You are in the name of the righteousness of the world, but you look at the wronged souls in this valley, do you have a trace of guilt in your heart, and when you set the fire, there was a trace of mercy!" ”

Meng Yan was about to say something, only to hear Zhong Roulan interject disdainfully: "Don't pretend here, when you raided the camp in the valley, didn't you think about strangling?" Bring it down, I want to talk to you about it. ”

Everyone looked at Meng Yan, and Meng Yan also wondered why Zhong Roulan interjected at this time, only to hear Zhong Roulan say softly: "Second brother, leave it to me, he is a child of the family, I know better than you what he thinks in his heart, and I promise to let him serve you willingly." ”

Meng Yan thought about it for a while and felt that it made sense, although he was also a child of the family, after all, he had not been influenced by the family since he could remember, and his feelings for the big family were really not as familiar as Zhong Roulan, and besides, it was better to find something to do for Zhong Roulan than to float around on the battlefield every day, so he immediately agreed and handed over the person to Zhong Roulan.

Ye Bohuai did not destroy the lake city too much, in addition to the traces of the battle at the city gate, the streets in the city are still the same as usual, but the streets are empty, the shops are not open, only some bold open windows secretly watch, in fact, it is not necessarily bad for the people to change a master, it can be seen that everyone is not comfortable under the rule of Zhuo.

After Ye Bohuai entered the city, his lazy demeanor disappeared immediately, and he put on a capable posture, and after Meng Yan's approval, he first posted a notice to appease the people and merchants, and then rushed to the command embassy non-stop, blocking the backyard house and preventing soldiers from setting foot in it, and then collecting and sorting out all the household registration and field names and other materials in Xianghu County, waiting for Meng Yan to enter the city.

"This Zhuo Bailing is a talent, there is no big difference in the management of Xianghu County over the years, and the unreasonable exploitation of Zhuo Bailing's target Lake County can still have such a stable scene under Zhuo Bailing's circumference, which shows that his talent is not ordinary." Ye Bohuai looked at the sorted out information and muttered to himself.

"Report! My lord, the pioneer battalion has entered the city, it's just..." The person who reported it seems to have something unspeakable.

"Master Hou didn't come? Right, go directly to the Right Army? Ye Bohuai had already guessed it.

The man nodded in approval, "I knew he was like this, to be a general is to have the consciousness of being a general, it's just that, I heard that there is a kid in the back house who has been making trouble to see Hou Ye, right?" Ye Bohuai still has a basic judgment on Meng Yan's behavior, with two faces, one is worried about the country and the people, and the other is cold and ruthless.

"Yes, that person claimed to be Zhuo Bailing's younger brother Zhuo Baiqing, and he kept shouting to see the Hou Ye, and the guards guarding the door privately wanted to go in and knock him out with a stick, and he was so happy that his ears were clean."

"Since Master Hou can't come, there must be a competent person to escort Zhuo Bailing over, I don't bother to care, go, follow me to meet this noisy boy." Ye Bohuai didn't plan to meet with Zhuo Bailing, no matter who escorted Zhuo Bailing, it had nothing to do with him, the reason why he was willing to stay in the army was completely for Meng Yan, for a promise, as for what Xiao Huli gave him, he didn't care.

Zhong Roulan and his entourage escorted Zhuo Bailing slowly to the commanding embassy's mansion, and Meng Huan, who led the advance to the mansion to report, came out a little embarrassed, and said with an embarrassed face: "Third Miss, my master is not in the lobby, it seems that he went to the back house to talk to something, and he left a message before leaving, let us feel free." ”

"Ye is so interested in joining the army, it seems that he knows that Hou Ye is not going to the city, it's just that, I don't bother to pay attention to him, let's go into the mansion." Zhong Roulan made a cold voice through the curtain of the carriage door, I don't know why she has been at odds with this Ye Bohuai, and Ye Bohuai has always been too lazy to pay attention to her, this should be the aura discord.

Since Zhuo Bailing was captured, he has been bowing his head and not saying anything, nor eating or drinking, which makes Zhong Roulan nervous all the way, if he can't think of committing suicide for a while, he will fall in front of Meng Yan, I don't know how long I will be laughed at by him.

Zhong Roulan cleared her throat and said, "General Zhuo, eat something first, let's have a good chat." ”

Zhuo Bailing looked at Zhong Roulan with the eyes of a monster, "You are a daughter of a family, why do you want to take refuge in Xiao Huli, a traitor?" ”

Willing to talk is to talk, this is a good start, but Zhuo Bailing's words were thorny, which made Zhong Roulan habitually roll her eyes, "General Zhuo, you are also a child of the family, why are you dealing with the people and the family in Xianghu County?" ”

"Joke! Xianghu is under my rule, and it is my duty to seek benefits for the people. ”

"Okay, but what did your family do with the lake? Cracking down on merchants, squeezing the people, leviing taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and regardless of Xianghu, who in the entire Jiangyou has received preferential treatment except for the children of the Zhuo family? Zhong Roulan asked.

"Your Dongyang City is also a family, aren't the people under your Zhong clan also supporting your Zhong clan's main branch?" Zhuo Bailing asked rhetorically.

"Dongyang City has been a border city since ancient times, and has never intervened in court disputes, and the people of Dongyang have never been harsh on the people, because the people are our reliance on resisting the East China Sea." Zhong Roulan said righteousness.

Zhuo Bailing couldn't refute it for a while, Zhong Roulan was right, the existence of the Zhong clan in Dongyang City was only to resist the East China Sea, and there was indeed not much interaction with the Central Plains family, and the prosperity of Dongyang City was not only about business and trade, but also related to the loose governance of the Zhong clan.

Seeing that Zhuo Bailing didn't speak, Zhong Roulan struck while the iron was hot, "General Zhuo, you are a lonely branch of the Zhuo family's side house since childhood, and you can get to today's position because you have exchanged your life, not the preferential treatment given to you by the Zhuo family, and you also saw along the way that the people of Xianghu did not resist because the city was broken, and our army did not hurt the people in the slightest when they entered the city." ”

"What do you explain to Gushan's unjust soul?" Zhuo Bailing was unwilling to lose.

"General Zhuo's words are interesting, what is there to explain, war is cruel, just like Meng Yan said, did you think about being merciful to us when you raided Gushan that day? You have to ask yourself, what does it have to do with me? Zhong Roulan sneered.

Zhuo Bailing was stunned, and then suddenly became crazy, and pounced on Zhong Roulan and shouted, "You killed me!" Kill me! ”

Standing beside Zhong Roulan, the pear was suddenly frightened by Zhuo Bailing's sudden frenzy and took a few steps back, only to find that Zhong Roulan looked at the crazy Zhuo Bailing with interest, and the pear hurriedly stepped forward to pull Zhong Roulan's clinker and couldn't pull it at all, only to hear Zhong Roulan say sarcastically: "I originally thought you were a character, but I didn't expect that you were also a person who dared to do something but didn't dare to do it, why didn't Meng Yan burn you to death with a fire, you scolded him, he dared to face the tragedy, do you dare?" Only shouting here, rubbish! ”

Zhuo Bailing's eyes were about to erupt with fire, and at this moment, his anger at Zhong Roulan was far greater than his hatred for Meng Yan, and he scolded: "Shameless villain! Vile! ”

"I won't lose anything when I am scolded, the right army will be killed happily if you scold, and there are more and more unjust souls on your body, scold as much as you want." Zhong Roulan's demeanor did not fluctuate, and she even picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, probably frowning at the discord with her appetite.

Zhuo Bailing gradually quieted down after hearing Zhong Roulan's words, and then became depressed, his eyes that were originally full of anger did not have the brilliance at this moment, and the whole person sat down on the ground in a deflated manner, and said as if he was about to lose his breath: "I am willing to surrender, let Meng Yan stop, don't kill again." ”

"Yo, so fast, I thought I could use this bastard, it looks like I've brought it over in vain." Ye Bohuai broke in very inappropriately, carrying Zhuo Baiqing like a chicken in his hand.

"You let go! Said a good gentleman who doesn't use his mouth! Zhuo Baiqing is really weak, struggling with his teeth and claws, but for Ye Bohuai, it is completely grasping.

I saw Ye Bohuai easily throw Zhuo Baiqing in front of Zhuo Bailing, and casually pulled a chair and sat down cross-legged, "Old Zhuo, it's almost okay, your brother understands better than you think, although this kid is a bastard, at least he knows what he wants and what he is pursuing." ”

Zhuo Bailing saw that Zhuo Baiqing was still alive, and there was some light in his eyes, and while checking whether Zhuo Baiqing was injured, he talked to Zhong Roulan about the conditions, "I am willing to surrender, but I don't plan to join the army again, I heard that Meng Yan has a Taoli Hall in Shaonan City, I want to go." ”

"Still don't understand? I said, second girl, you can't do this skill? ”

What Ye Bohuai said was simply looking for a beating, Zhong Roulan walked to Ye Bohuai's side with a smile and went directly to his feet, Ye Bohuai didn't even lift his buttocks, just lightly tapped his toes and stepped back with a chair, and directly dodged perfectly, which was annoying, Zhong Roulan even had to bear Meng Yan when she beat people, this Ye Bohuai actually dared to hide.

What happened later really shocked the Zhuo brothers, a noble girl of a family chased and fought without any image, and a general in the army easily dodged, so it was not lively.

Finally, Zhong Roulan was tired, but her anger was still very strong, and she said to the Zhuo brothers who were watching: "You two just watch?!" ”

Zhuo Baiqing looked at Ye Bohuai, and then at Zhong Roulan, he applauded hard, and Zhuo Bailing wanted to kill him at the moment of applause, it was too embarrassing.

Zhuo Bailing suddenly found that this kind of comfortable and frolicking occasion was very beautiful, there was no distinction between identity and family, if he was unhappy, he would fight, how refreshing and comfortable, didn't he just want the people and their families to live like this? The heavy family glory in his heart was forgotten in an instant, and the door of his heart that had been locked for a long time was opened at this moment, "Two, take me to see Meng Yan." ”

"Well, yes, but you'll have to wait a minute, I'm going to kill this bastard today!" Zhong Roulan gasped and said.