Chapter 197: The King

The county seat of Zhangxian is not big, and it is not the most important city that Zhang Chong breaks, but it is of great significance in this time period, because once Zhangxian is broken, it can be said that Dongping Kingdom has no soldiers to fight, and the last obstacle for Taishan Yellow Turban to enter Dongjun has been swept away.

Zhang Chong, surrounded by assault and ramming teams, rode on the streets of Zhangxian County.

Because after entering the city, the resistance of Zhang County was not fierce, so except for the office that burned out in the distance, the damage in the city was not great.

The Zhangxian soldiers in Kaicheng before selected a few leaders to see Zhang Chong, and they were also terrified in their hearts, after all, they had killed the Taiping Daoists in Zhangxian County with Huang Cen before, and I don't know if this Taishan Taiping Daoist would unload the mill and kill the donkey.

You say it's strange, why didn't these soldiers think about it when they killed Huang Cen and offered the city? Sometimes, after holding a knife for a long time, the brain is really too lazy to use, and there are not a few people who are as eager for success as these soldiers in the Five Dynasties period.

Zhang Chong is also thinking about how to deal with these capricious people. To be honest, according to his original idea, he wanted to kill this wave of people one by one, and just because they slaughtered the Taiping Daoists, these people didn't want to live.

But before being outside the city, He Kui meant that after all, these thieves had a meritorious role in opening the city, so they killed them like this, and in the future, those who had the blood of their Taiping Dao on their hands were all our mortal enemies.

Zhang Chong understands what He Kui means, he is not a stunned young man, he is engaged in the principle of a drop of blood, if anyone who is stained with the blood of Taiping Dao will be killed, then Zhang Chong will make too many enemies.

Sometimes people don't kill people, but they can't kill now. And if you want to kill, you have to kill for another reason.

Later generations Zhu Yuanzhang used this strategy perfectly. When you fight the world, you are humble and don't care about your past suspicions. After fighting the world, it is to find a reason to kill one by one. Among them, the reason for corruption has been tried and tested.

Looking at these Zhangxian soldiers, Zhang Chong smiled:

"You have made great achievements in opening the city, but in the end you have stained the blood of our Taiping Dao. You will definitely not be able to enter this Taiping Dao, but I will still reward this skill, I will open the treasury in a while, let you carry the cloth, and how much you carry is yours. But there is one condition. ”

The few Zhang county soldiers led by them looked at each other, and still let a bearded man say:

"I don't know what the general's conditions are?"

Zhang Chong said:

"It's nothing, as long as one of you chooses one of you who has the most blood debts in your hands and gives them to Taishan Army, the blood debts of the rest of you will be written off."

There were a total of ten Zhangxian soldiers who came to see Zhang Chong. In other words, these people are all in their own right. Now Zhang Chong wants them to hand over a person, but he doesn't say his own person. So how will these people choose? It must be someone else, if they hand over their own people, then how will these people lead the team.

These ten Zhang county soldiers thought about it for a while, and felt that this matter was not a problem at all, and they could take the cloth without worrying about retaliation, as long as they handed over an unlucky ghost from another team, what was there to be unhappy about.

Yes, the ten county soldiers agreed without much thought. Just as they were about to choose someone, Zhang Chong stopped them over there:

"Go and carry the cloth first, and you will carry as much as you want. As for the selection of people, choose after memorizing the cloth. ”

Ten people have no idea, whatever Zhang Chong says, they will do.

Then these Zhangxian soldiers were taken down, and someone took them to carry the cloth.

Then Zhang Chong continued to move forward with He Kui's complicated expression, and walked straight to a group of kneeling people, who were the civil and military who surrendered after entering the city this time.

Before Zhang Chong could speak, a person from the kneeling crowd came on his knees, and his sleeves were wide, and as soon as he came out, he said loudly:

"General Chongtian, Shenwu worked hard to save the people from hanging upside down, and Zhang County hoped that the general would be so hard."

Zhang Chong was stunned for a moment, it was rare to see such a straight ball, and asked suspiciously:

"Who is you?"

"General, villain Xiangyang Xu Yan, is the master of Jibei Kingdom."

Zhang Chong seems to have heard of this person's name, but he is not sure what to do, but he is also a small celebrity. Since Xu Yan intends to take refuge, although the scene looks a little obscene, the impact is still great. So Zhang Chong immediately got off the horse, picked up Xu Yan, and said warmly:

"Xu Jun abandons the dark and turns to the light, great goodness."

Then this Xu Yan cried, really in front of Zhang Chong and the people behind him, and he cried when he said he was crying, and he sobbed while crying:

"We are looking forward to the monarch's father, the Han family has no virtue, so that the people are miserable, and the world is looking forward to the monarch's father like a long drought and looking forward to nectar."

The generals behind Zhang Chong couldn't stand Xu Yan's words, and it was rare to be so brazen.

Zhang Chong also thinks that this person's acting skills are really good, he can cry when he says he can cry, this is a person who can play politics. He was also tired of this person in his heart, but this matter still had to be taken seriously, Zhang Chong grabbed Xu Yan and said solemnly:

"The Han family has no virtue, and it starts with my Taiping Dao. Do the right thing for heaven and hang the people to punish crimes. In this process, there will inevitably be virtuous people like Xu Jun to join Taiping Dao and achieve great things together. ”

Xu Yan is good, he Zhang Chong also reciprocated the favor and directly invited him to enter the scene, this is an invitation rather than a surrender, these two circumstances are very different.

Xu Yan naturally heard it, and he was ecstatic, and he worked harder:

"General, all the essences behind me are going to change their ways. This is also a small contribution I have made to the cause of Taiping Dao. ”

Hearing this, Wenwu, who was originally kneeling with Xu Yan, scolded this person's shamelessness in his heart. These people are basically like Gao Yi, Zhao Shu, and Li Zou, all of whom were deceived by Xu Yanyu, and he said that he had a way to live, coaxing these people to put the hope of escape on him.

But then what? This is the way you Xu Yan said to live? Take them from thieves?

But at this moment, no matter how resentful they were in their hearts, they didn't have the courage to stand up and reprimand Xu Yan, and said:

"The man and the thief are not at each other's side."

Such a fierce person committed suicide when the Yellow Turban Army entered the city.

To put it bluntly, these people don't want to die, but they feel ashamed to surrender, and they scold Xu Yan in their hearts, just to let him take responsibility so as to liberate their shameful and uneasy hearts.

But the kneeling inside are not all duplicitous, at least not the brave general Zhao Shu. He did feel that joining Taiping Dao was a way out.

In fact, it can be seen from his name that this person is not from some big family. He was a bit of a brave man, but he was also ridiculed by the scholars. Before that, he brought his own people to vote for Li Zhan, and Li Zhan also promoted him and placed him in the shogunate. Once, Li Zan held a banquet and lamented at the banquet that in recent years, the imperial court discipline has not been there, which has caused eunuchs and ugliness to run rampant. At that time, Zhao Shu asked Li Zan suspiciously:

"Fu Jun, who is this discipline, how is it so important."

As soon as these words came out, the audience was stunned, and then the hall was full of laughter. In the end, even Li Zan teased:

"Zhao Shu's pure heart is very valuable."

Later, Zhao Shu learned that Li Zan was scolding him for being stupid, just like an ignorant child.

Now the reason why Zhao Shu voted for Zhang Chong is very simple, if you don't take us as horsemen with knives in your eyes, let's find someone who knows the goods and loves a strong man like me.

Zhang Chong saw that these people wanted to take refuge, and what he said sounded good, but he didn't take these things too seriously. How many of these people can be trusted? However, having these people take refuge naturally helped him divide the Han camp array, and he only regarded these people as tools, and it didn't matter if he was sincere or not.

After that, Zhang Chong was soothed, and when there was harmony, a person in the corner was crying and laughing, which annoyed Ding Sheng, who was following Zhang Chong, and he angrily reprimanded:

"Cast all the votes, and still cry here to make your Han Ting?"

The man was scolded by this, and his crying suddenly stopped, and several Han officials on the side who also surrendered were ashamed in their hearts:

"My Han family is still righteous in the end, although my generation is afraid of death, but I still admire such a warrior."

But who knows, the person who cried and laughed replied to Ding Sheng with a face full of grievances:

"I'm crying, it's crying, the general's humility is too touching, I'm laughing, the Han family will die for no time."

As soon as these words came out, the audience was stunned.

This and this is really shameless and flattering. Can such a person be an official of the Han family without dying?

There was a farce here, and the original Zhang County soldiers came over with hatred for each other.

This time, a few of them were not as relaxed as before, they all had something in their hearts, but they just said to Zhang Chong that they had already picked the "most" blood feud.

Zhang Chong nodded, and then let these people go.

The Zhangxian soldiers who were still walking in a wave were able to get the bearing, carrying cloth on their backs, in groups of three or five, and flew out of the city, leaving only ten Zhangxian soldiers with dead faces, and they were selected to die.

Zhang Chong looked at the back of the departing Zhang County soldiers in front of him and sighed:

"It's another easy kill!"

This was heard by He Kui on the side, and he hesitated to advise, but just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard Zhang Chong say:

"I know what you're going to say, Shulong, don't you think I'm calculating them? Yes, I'm just counting them. They thought that as long as they drew someone else, they could take the money and silk to enjoy, but each of these ten teams drew someone else, and then the feud was settled. And I have to let them smoke the cloth after they have memorized it, why? It's to make them hate each other even more. Carrying cloth, that is related to physical strength, the more the body is carried, the better, those who will look at others carry so much, how can they not blush? When the time comes, most of these people will be ordered. So in the end, the one who is abandoned is either the innocent warrior in the team, or the honest man who is usually disliked. That's how I let them choose for themselves who don't have blood feuds. These people are able to live. ”

He Kui was silent, then turned around and bowed to Zhang Chong:

"Qu Kui, you are the one who wants to be the king. If you really want to kill these people, then we will be in the open, judge their crimes, and punish them. In this way, people say that unloading the mill kills the donkey, and we are not ashamed. And now? In order not to keep our tongues and to punish others, we play this kind of conspiracy and trickery. But can this really stop everyone's mouth? Qu Kui, the servant has a word, looking at it: the king, the king of the world, the table of all the people, and the Quartet. Therefore, what is done at the top will be followed by the following. His body is upright, and he does not obey orders, and his body is not right, although he does not obey orders. ”

After speaking, He Kui bowed heavily.

Zhang Chong was shocked, and immediately helped He Kui up, and then in front of many Taishan generals and prisoners, he bowed deeply to He Kui.

It was also at this time that a voice came from behind:

"The soldiers of Zhang County, who just left the city, are fighting."