Chapter 182 Chapter 182: Chaos in Xiaocheng (Twenty-Two) [Asking for monthly votes]
Not that I am biased.
It’s just that Zheng Qiao and his two brothers are both cesspits, and no one is better than the other. They fight and the people suffer.
Brother Shen is helping those two brothers to do evil!
“What are you so dumbfounded about? Let’s go!”
The soldiers urged Zhai Le, threatening to kick him if he was stunned again. Zhai Le smiled innocently and said repeatedly: "Master Bing, don't be angry, Master Bing, don't be angry, it's coming!"
I saw him twisting his wrist, the cattle whip in his hand swaying slightly, and stopped. The cattle and sheep that came down followed the instructions obediently.
Zhai Le used to be a person who jumped up and down and loved to learn everything. He learned a lot of tricks of herding cattle and sheep, and he also acted like a cowherd. The soldiers did not suspect them, they treated them as ordinary people and managed to sneak into the rebel camp smoothly.
They drove the cattle and sheep to their destination.
The soldiers ordered them to take good care of the cattle and sheep.
These are "food and fodder", and those who give extra meals to the soldiers will be killed later. As for the rules that farm cattle are precious and cannot be slaughtered?
Hey, it’s not their cow.
They also don’t know how to plow the land.
If you kill it, you can eat it, but if you don’t kill it, you don’t know who will benefit.
When no one was watching them, Zhai Le pretended to feed the cows while whispering to his cousin in private.
"Brother, I just saw Brother Shen."
Zhai Huan hummed, indicating that he knew.
Zhai Le: "Brother, why do you think Brother Shen is here?"
Zhai Huan said: "Maybe everyone has his own ambitions."
This directly implies Shen Tang After hanging out with the rebels, Zhai Le immediately retorted: "I believe Brother Shen is not that kind of person!"
"Why would someone like that intercept and kill tax collectors again?"
Zhai Huan asked in return.
Zhai Le was speechless when asked, not knowing how to respond, and said: "But Brother Shen, he didn't expose us..."
Zhai Huan asked: "Did he recognize it?"
Zhai Le said firmly: "Well, I must have recognized it."
That look is absolutely unmistakable!
If Brother Shen is really united with the rebels, there is no reason for him to recognize the two of them and remain silent. In other words-Brother Shen either has some difficulty that he can’t explain and can’t help himself, or he and the others are also surreptitious. Approaching the rebel camp with some purpose and waiting for an opportunity to cause trouble!
Thinking about this, I feel more and more that the guess is the truth.
Zhai Huan is not so optimistic.
He solemnly warned: “Don’t take it lightly.”
Zhai Le said: "Yes."
It is about their brother's wealth and life, so naturally he will not be careless. Thinking of his experiences along the way, Zhai Le, who is optimistic by nature, couldn't help but sigh heavily. He knew that things in the world were changeable, but he did not expect that they would change to such an extent that they were "changed beyond all recognition."
When they received the smoke that day, their brothers retreated with Captain Yang, and they managed to survive for a day before they fully recovered.
This is a high-level brave warrior who would not be able to sleep with an ordinary person for seven to eight days. What I saw along the way was shocking.
Although Captain Yang’s troops did not suffer much loss in the Battle of Taxes and Silver, and their strength was still relatively intact, there was a very fatal problem in front of them—insufficient water and food!
To be precise, there was not enough dry food, so I could barely survive the whole day!
The rest are on the tax car.
They can neither turn back to get dry food, nor can they continue marching rapidly - that would consume too much energy! Once we encounter rebels and horses, the enemy has strong troops and horses, but our troops are tired and exhausted. The former still has a numerical advantage, but the latter will only die! These concerns distract people. While resting on the way back to the rescue, soldiers one after another fled from the battlefield, totaling more than a hundred people. Even if Captain Yang uses iron and blood to stop it, it can only temporarily suppress the floating people's hearts, but it cannot restore the declining momentum.
Seeing this situation, Zhai Huan took the opportunity to make a suggestion.
To put it simply, it is to rob small-scale rebels, collect available military supplies from them, and maintain their own operations.
This proposal was categorically rejected by Captain Yang at first!
It’s not that he doesn’t know that the proposal is good and can help them sustain longer, but what he needs now is a quick return of support!
I went too late, once Xiaocheng was breached...
Captain Yang's face was ashen and he didn't dare to think about it at all. At that time, Zheng Qiao led his troops to capture Sibao County, burned, killed, and looted. The originally prosperous Sibao County collapsed and turned into a wasteland of thousands of miles of starvation. It took two or three years to recover a little bit...
His family members are still in Xiaocheng!
If the siege is followed by massacre...
Just thinking about it makes Captain Yang so angry that he wants to kill someone.
I wish I could capture the governor Yan Cheng and cut him into pieces!
Zhai Huan asked coldly: "According to Captain Yang's method, should we all go back to rescue or go back to die?"
First, he hurriedly and slowly escorted the grain and fodder, changed lanes on the way and encountered heavy rain, fought fiercely with the gangsters who robbed the tax bank in the middle of the night, and then rushed back to help... The whole process did not even take a good breath.
The brave warrior can still carry it, but what about ordinary soldiers?
Give up the lives of these soldiers?
If they give up, what's wrong with them running away in fear of death?
Captain Yang said coldly: "This is different! It's not your hometown and family that are threatened! How many people in Xiaocheng are still waiting... Maybe if we delay for an extra quarter of an hour, the ones who will die... ”
Zhai Huan cut off his words without politeness and said: "Yes, our brothers are indeed not natives, so there is no need to worry."
Duwei Yang widened his big copper bell eyes and his nose was so angry that Red, cheek muscles trembling. Zhai Huan continued: "But which of the soldiers present is not from Xiaocheng? Even if they are not locals from Xiaocheng, judging by their age, they are probably married... Captain Yang might as well ask who is not anxious and angry?"
Duwei Yang is not the only one who is anxious.
No matter how anxious you are, you can’t rush to die!
Captain Yang clenched his fists: "But..."
"Nothing but!" Zhai Huan used a firm tone of command, with a toughness that could not be argued or rejected.
Without the slightest fear of Captain Yang’s glare, “Isn’t Captain Yang’s ‘return of aid’ meant to delay the enemy’s forces and ease our pressure? Anyway, they are all killing the rebels, so whoever you kill is not a murder!”
You can kill the enemy only if you save your life.
If your life is gone, then there is no meaning.
Captain Yang’s face turned red and green.
The fists were tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened again.
Zhai Huan knew that his hesitation problem had occurred again, so he secretly winked at his cousin. Zhai Le understood this and used his momentum to suppress the soldiers. These soldiers looked troubled, but the aura of high-level brave warriors was not so easy to resist.
They will have the uncontrollable desire to surrender. If they are not strong-minded, they will simply obey. They will not be able to get rid of the influence until the courageous warrior takes back his momentum.
Seeing this, Captain Yang had no choice but to close his eyes and adopt Zhai Huan's suggestion.
Perhaps due to good luck, the rebel teams we met along the way were all very small. We gained a lot along the way and the sluggish momentum was restored a lot. Until he met the group of soldiers called "Recruiting Soldiers", who were actually robbing homes and houses, Zhai Huan suddenly got into his mind.
He's ready to play a big game!
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Hehehe, there is another chapter in the early morning, which is a supplement to the previous chapter, but it is still being written, so everyone should go to bed early.
(End of this chapter)