Mountains

A group of people, get together.

"Have you heard? Qingzhou Yang Envoy Jun under the mountain is ready to set fire to the mountain! ”

"Impossible, right? He's going to burn us all? ”

"Those who are officials, what are they afraid to do? They can't fight the mountain, so they want to burn us to death with a fire, that Yang Zhao is really vicious! ”

"But my family said that Yang Yuanjun under the mountain didn't want to burn us all to death, so he gave us a way to live, and moved out as soon as possible within three days, moved to Qi County, and let us reclaim the wasteland, exempt from taxes for two years, and ten taxes for the third year!"

"Is this true?"

Hearing this, the group of people gathered were immediately shocked.

Tax exemption for two years, what is the concept?

In the past two years, the harvest of all crops is theirs, and there is no need to hand it over, and then ten taxes are one, which is much lower than when the Han Dynasty was more stable, and the taxes are much lower, this sentence is like a spell, hovering in their hearts.

Yang Yuanjun under the mountain, is it really that good?

Impossible, right?

They have all sorts of suspicions.

One person said: "This promise is not for us, but for the villagers under the mountain, they can move away, and we will be thieves when we go down the mountain." ”

This remark was agreed by everyone again, but soon some people retorted: "We went down the mountain and took off the yellow scarf, who knows that we are thieves?" No, it's the same as a villager, I have a family at the bottom of the mountain, I'll go down later, I don't care so much, I don't want to be a thief anymore, I'm fed up with this kind of day! ”

The crowd was silent.

Most of them have families at the foot of the mountain.

If you move away, go to Beihai and Qi County, and regain your household registration, you are still a good citizen, and you have land, which is much better than being a thief and hiding everywhere.

"That Yang Envoy's words, can you believe it?"

Someone else asked.

Someone responded: "If we don't believe Yang Yuanjun, what else can we do?" When the fire burns the mountain, we flee to Yanzhou? Cao Cao doesn't necessarily accept us, it's all death anyway, I don't care! ”

Set fire to the mountain, the fire was monstrous.

None of their people in the mountains can escape, and they may die no matter what, so it is better to gamble.

"But...... I don't have any family down the mountain! ”

Another Yellow Turban soldier said worriedly.

The others listened and gave him a look of pity, there was no family at the foot of the mountain, and basically he was just waiting to be burned to death.

Similar scenes have occurred one after another in other places on the mountain, and all kinds of remarks have spread across the board.

When many people got the news from the mountain, they were all talking about setting fire to the mountain.

"We don't have family, what should we do?"

"You have family members down the mountain, can you take us away? I can pretend to be your relatives, and if I can escape, I will be rewarded in the future. ”

"No, no, no......"

The sound of their discussion resounded in every corner.

"Actually, it's not very difficult to get down the mountain safely."

A man in his thirties blended into the crowd.

He was a ranger arranged by Yang Zhao to go up the mountain and follow the expedition, responsible for bringing a rhythm on the mountain, giving them hope and prompting them to go down the mountain and surrender.

As soon as these words appeared, the eyes of other people fell on him at the same time, and someone asked, "What is this brother's opinion?" ”

"I don't dare to see it, in fact, I am at the bottom of the mountain, and I have no family, so I thought, we can all go down the mountain and surrender."

The ranger said: "Most of the people in the Yellow Turban Army have gone to fight with Cao Cao, and those of us who stay in the mountains are not anti-thieves, most of them are still farmers." As long as we go down the mountain to talk to Yang Yuanjun and express our willingness to surrender, so many of us will vote, he will definitely not kill, killing is not good for his reputation, and he should accept it. ”

Someone asked: "If he kills and surrenders, will we not be sent to death if we go down the mountain and surrender?" ”

The ranger retorted: "You will definitely be burned to death on the mountain, and half of the people who go down the mountain may not die, how do you choose?" ”

Everyone: "......"

I suddenly felt that this person's words made sense.

Both horizontally and vertically are going to die, but it is better to surrender down the mountain.

After a while, this sentence spread wildly in the mountains, and more and more people talked about it, and they thought that surrender was feasible.

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Rumors of setting fire to the mountain and wanting to surrender circulated on the mountain for a day.

It finally reached Xu He and Zhang Yan.

They have a headache about it.

"Yang Zhao's methods are endless!" Xu He said with a headache.

The rumors of setting fire to the mountain came up from the bottom of the mountain, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

Zhang Yan said: "In fact, Yang Zhao has long seen that the people under the mountain are all our people, and he deliberately told the villagers the news, and used the villagers' mouths to spread it to the mountain, causing us to panic." ”

Xu He asked, "General Zhang thinks that the burning mountain is actually fake, and Yang Zhao doesn't dare to do this?" ”

"No!"

Zhang Yan didn't think so, and explained: "Yang Zhao dares to do anything, whether this mountain will burn or not, for him, it doesn't matter, causing civil strife in our mountain, and a large number of people shouting to go down the mountain and surrender, which is what he wants most." ”

Xu He frowned.

Zhang Yan continued: "If he really burns it, we will definitely die on the mountain, and we dare not gamble." ”

They really don't dare to gamble, betting that this will kill them at any time.

"Handle the affairs of the mountain yourself." Zhang Yan said again.

"What is General Zhang going to do?" Xu He asked.

Zhang Yan walked outside, looked down the mountain, and said: "The Holy Maiden and Zhang Baiqi gathered us, in fact, they haven't thought about how to fight, I believe that the Holy Maiden really wants to fight, but the pattern is still small, the vision is not long-term enough, this battle will be lost, what else do I stay?" I'm going back to Montenegro, as for you...... It's not about me anymore. ”

He really left, did not hesitate at all, took the rest of the people, sneaked down from the west, found that there was no ambush under the mountain, and quickly ran out.

Back to Montenegro, relying on the terrain in the mountains, being a bandit, I don't know how comfortable I am.

Xu He: "......"

He didn't stop it, thinking about whether Zhang Yan's approach was worth emulating, but in the end he didn't choose to do so.

He stayed.

"Pass on my military order, everyone must no longer discuss surrender, and no longer contact the people under the mountain, and those who violate the order will be killed!" Xu He said loudly.

It is impossible to surrender Yang Zhao.

On the Yanzhou side, Zhang Baiqi was still able to stabilize the situation.

Xu He was going to lead everyone down the mountain to Yanzhou, and first sent someone to meet Zhang Baiqi and tell him what happened here.

However, what he didn't expect was that in this environment, the more suppressed, the stronger the resistance of those yellow turbans.

"Why can't we talk about surrendering anymore? Can't contact someone from Yamashita? ”

"I don't want to be a thief, I want to surrender, I want my household registration and land."

"I'm going to contact Yang Yuanjun, if you want to surrender, you can come with me, I don't believe that General Xu will kill us all."

The ranger who mixed in began to bring rhythm again, and he could fly.

"That's right!"

"We're going to surrender, we don't want to die!"

The crowd is surging.