With Zeng Suo's death, and seeing the fire in Zeng's mansion, those Baoding who went to war no longer had the heart to fight, and knelt down to ask for surrender.

Cao Cao went straight into Zengtou City, bluffing every house was closed, every household was closed, there was no one on the street, there were still 2,000 people to fight in Baoding, seeing that the situation was like this, who would want to die? They all left their robes and hid themselves in their homes as people.

At the head of the city, the deputy teacher Su Ding couldn't resist the fierce attack of the four generals, and hurriedly disregarded the height and level, and only jumped down to the city, and landed beside Niu Gao, Niu Gao was taken aback, and waved his wedge to knock down Su Ding's single knife, and another gong poked forward, Su Ding couldn't stand on his feet, and fell down on all fours.

Yang Lin leaned out in the city and shouted: "Don't eat him and leave, he is Su Ding, the teacher of the Zeng family!" ”

When Niu Gao heard the great joy, he hurriedly jumped off the horse, stepped on Su Ding's chest, and said happily with his fingers: "First killed a general with Brother Xiaoyi, and then killed a general with Brother Fan Rui, first captured Shi Wengong, and then captured this Su Ding...... Ah, it's amazing, he has two teachers and five tigers here, and four of the seven ruthless people are folded in the hands of my Black Wind Tiger? Isn't this a great achievement? ”

Xu Guanzhong passed by him, and when he heard the words, he stopped and said in surprise: "Brother Niu, how can you achieve great success?" ”

Niu Gao said proudly: "Don't you understand this?" When I repay this great achievement to my brother, my brother will be shocked in his heart: Ah, Brother Niu Gao, it is worthy of you, if you change people, it will be difficult to make such a great achievement! ”

Xu Guanzhong laughed, patted him and said, "You really know your brother's intentions, and it must be so." ”

Cao Cao didn't know the farce behind him, and went forward, when he suddenly jumped up and down from the house next to him, and said happily: "Brother, the Zeng family house was ordered by the younger brother, and the old man Zeng and several grandchildren were killed by the younger brother, and now there is no leader in Zengtou City, only the elder brother is in charge!" ”

Cao Cao was overjoyed, dismounted and stroked his back, and exclaimed: "Virtuous brother, foolish brother has to help each other, and he will win the race of 3,000 male soldiers!" ”

Shi Qian suddenly radiated when he heard this, his chest was high, and when he saw that Cao Cao was going to pull him forward, he suddenly came back to his senses: "Ah, you can't go here, you have buried a trap and ambushed crossbow, brother and go from here." ”

Leading Cao Cao and others to the bottom of Zeng's mansion, Cao Cao looked up at the situation and nodded: "Sure enough, it is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack!" Let's go and call the people and put out the fire quickly. ”

Shi Qian said with a smile: "The younger brother lit more than ten fires, I'm afraid it will be difficult to save for a while, if the elder brother wants to discuss matters, there is a restaurant there, but it is spacious." ”

Cao Cao asked people to arrange firefighting, and he took everyone to the restaurant, and passed down five military orders in a row-

The first way is to order Lu Fang and Guo Sheng to lead 100 people each, hold the two city gates, and allow people to enter but not to go out.

The second way, Ling Yanqing and Li Kui, with 100 people, patrolled the whole city, and those who took advantage of the chaos to rob wealth, rape women, and rob houses were directly beheaded regardless of the reason and origin.

The third way, Li Yun and Yu Baosi, escorted the housekeeper of Zengfu to invite all the leading figures in Zengtou City here.

Fourth, Ling Shiqian and Zheng Tianshou took a hundred caravan men to check the assets of the Zeng family.

Fifth, Xu Guanzhong was ordered to write a notice to calm the people, Yan Ming's Zeng family provoked first, and this time he came to fight, only to destroy the Zeng family and the remnants, and not to disturb the people. After writing, the search for someone copied and posted it everywhere.

Five orders were issued, and the Chinese were ordered to go.

Cao Cao asked people to go to the back kitchen again, and all the wine out of the warehouse was scalded, and it was hot, first to the army, and then to the generals, to teach everyone to the mouth, and to drive away the cold and nourish the strength.

Half an hour later, more than a dozen leading figures in Zengtou City came to see Cao Cao with trepidation.

Cao Cao's expression was majestic, and he didn't talk much with them, but only said three things, and then taught everyone to go back to their homes.

What are the three things?

First, the Zeng family was rude first, so there was this revenge, and now all the men of the Zeng family are dead, and this matter is over.

Second, the original business of the Zeng family was all taken over by Tongque Commercial Bank, which is related to everyone here, and will remain unchanged with reference to the old practice for the time being, and if there is any unreasonableness, it will be adjusted after one year.

Third, the original business and channels of Tongque Commercial Bank are all shared with Zengtou City, and if there are capable children in everyone's family, they can also be recommended to use them.

Although these three of his words seem to be practical, they are more reassuring than those words of consolation, and those people are endless, and they are grateful to Dade one by one.

When it was dusk, Yan Qing and Li Kui returned first, reporting that a total of seventeen people had been beheaded, three of whom were Yanggu soldiers, who broke into people's homes and wanted to commit adultery and were caught, and the rest were local scoundrels.

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Cut off the heads of these people, hang them in the square, and teach everyone to know my mind." If three of our soldiers have their families, they will be paid as if they were brothers who died in battle, and there is no need to mention that they are traitors. ”

After a while, Shi Qian and Zheng Tianshou also returned, all of them were disgraced, reported that they had extinguished the fire of Zeng's family, opened the cellar and counted them, and obtained 70,000 taels of gold, 600,000 taels of silver, and more than 2 million copper coins.

There are two granaries of Zeng's family, a small granary is located in the Zeng's house, which has been burned down, and a large granary is in the south of the city, with 300,000 stone of grain. As for the forage, it is piled up like a mountain, and it is difficult to count.

In addition, nearly 3,000 war horses in the Zeng family's horse circle were also collected as bag.

When Cao Cao heard this, he laughed, calculated in his heart, and ordered: "The armor and blades he has hidden must be of the highest quality, and the brothers may as well choose, and if the mount is not satisfactory, go and change it to a good one." ”

He also said: "Take 500,000 guan of money and divide it into two parts, one of which is a reward of 100 guan for all my Yanggu military horses, and 500 guan for the deceased." The surrender of the army in Zengtou City, one person also rewarded him with five yuan to suppress the shock, and those who were killed Baoding, if they had a family, the family paid 100 yuan for them to support the old and the young. If there are more, they will help the local widows and poor households. In addition, each family will have ten stones of grain with him, which can be regarded as our meeting gift, so that everyone can have a good year. ”

Xu Guanzhong said happily: "Last night and today, more than 2,000 of his Baoding were killed, most of them were native people, and this blood debt is not trivial. Now that we have this money and food, we can resolve the people's hatred. When the younger brother writes another notice, he will write all the evil thoughts of the Zeng family, explain the kindness and kindness of the elder brother, and lead the hatred of the people to the Zeng family, and the elder brother will run this place, so he will have no worries. It's just that the court side also has to cover it up. ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Guan Zhong's words are deeply in line with my intentions." ”

Then he said: "Brother Shiqian, wait for a day off, take another 500,000 yuan, bring a box of jewelry treasures, load a cart, let Zheng Tianshou, Li Yun, and Yang Lin support you, take a hundred people, and send them to Bianjing as soon as possible, and send them to Gao Taiwei's mansion in the dark night, and have the right to make a New Year's gift." And two things to say to him—"

"First, Gao Yanei is now happy every day, and he doesn't want to return for the time being; Second, the soldiers and horses of the four states are not usable, we are waiting for the conquest of Liangshan, and we invested in buying horses from Zengtou City, but he has already colluded with Liangshan, killing people and seizing money, we have a sneak attack to break this place, let the Taiwei give a name, so as to occupy this horse market, and continue to get some horses. ”

Xu Guanzhong said with a smile: "Wonderful, wonderful, that Gao Yu is a trustworthy person, a military attaché, and he occupies this place by the way." ”

Cao Cao said leisurely: "The cunning rabbit still has three caves, this Zengtou City is extraordinary, connecting Shandong and Hebei, we occupy here, and Yanggu, Sizhou, just form the tripod of the tripod, isn't it stable." ”

There was no word that night.

The next day, Shi Wengong brought the surrendered army and Zhou Tong back, Cao Cao asked the reward money to be sent, the Yanggu army was happy, and the Baoding of Zengtou City were also quite surprised, and secretly grateful.

When Xu Guanzhong's newly written notice was posted everywhere, and a pension was sent to the family of the deceased Baoding, the whole city suddenly cried all over the city, but few people blamed Cao Cao, and they all scolded the Zeng family for causing disaster and causing trouble, so that their sons and daughters were damaged in front of the battle.

On the other side, Cao Cao asked people to prepare wine and meat, rewarded the army, and set up a banquet in the restaurant to entertain Shi Wengong and Zhou Tong.

During the banquet, Niu Gao talked about his capture of Su Ding, Cao Cao suddenly remembered this person, and asked people to bring him to the front of the hall, only to see him tied up with five flowers, kneeling on the ground in frustration, bowing his head and saying nothing.

Shi Wengong couldn't bear it, got up and pleaded: "Brother, this Su Ding and the younger brother are the same, they all rely on their martial arts to earn a hard meal, and now that the Zeng family is gone, and there is no deep enmity for each other, why not forgive him?"

Cao Cao nodded when he heard this, and asked: "Sect Leader Su, everyone fought before, but each is its own master, Brother Shi Xian said it well, between us and others, there is no deep enmity, and now that the Zeng family has been destroyed, are you willing to join me and others to do something earth-shattering, and it will not be in vain for your martial arts?" ”

When Su Ding heard this, he smiled bitterly and said something.

There is a division of teaching: the cunning rabbit has always been divided into three holes, and since ancient times, heroes have one heart. The re-Dao Venerable Master followed his instructions and reported to his brother for his own groaning.

(End of chapter)