It's not that I'm biased.
But Zheng Qiao and his two brothers are both cesspools, and neither is better than the other. When they fight, the people suffer.
Brother Shen is also aiding and abetting the evil by helping those two brothers!
"What are you staring at? Go away!"
The soldier urged Zhai Le, as if he would kick him if he was distracted again. Zhai Le showed a simple and naive smile and said repeatedly: "Soldier, don't be angry, soldier, don't be angry, I'm coming!"
He just turned his wrist and shook the whip in his hand slightly, and the stopped herds of cattle and sheep obediently followed his instructions.
Zhai Le used to be a person who loved to learn everything. He had learned a lot of tricks of herding cattle and sheep, and he acted like a cowherd. The soldiers did not suspect anything and treated them as ordinary people, and they successfully sneaked into the rebel camp.
They drove the cattle and sheep to their destination.
The soldiers also ordered them to take good care of the cattle and sheep.
These are all "food and grass" and will be killed later to feed the soldiers. As for the rules that oxen are precious and cannot be slaughtered
Hey, it’s not their cow.
They also don't know how to till the land.
If you kill it, you can eat it; if you don’t kill it, who knows who will benefit.
When no one was watching them, Zhai Le pretended to feed the cows while whispering to his cousin.
"Brother, I just saw Brother Shen."
Zhai Huan nodded to show that he understood.
Zhai Le: "Brother, why do you think Brother Shen is here?"
Zhai Huan said: "Maybe everyone has their own aspirations."
This directly implied that Shen Tang was hanging out with the rebels, and Zhai Le immediately retorted: "I believe Brother Shen is not that kind of person!"
"If he's not that kind of person, why would he go and kill the tax silver?"
Zhai Huan asked back.
Zhai Le was speechless and didn't know how to respond. He said, "But Brother Shen, he didn't expose us..."
Zhai Huan asked: "Did he recognize it?"
Zhai Le said confidently: "Yes, I definitely recognized him."
There was no mistake in that look!
If Brother Shen was really in cahoots with the rebels, there was no reason for him to remain silent after recognizing the two of them. In other words, Brother Shen either had something to hide and was in a difficult situation against his will, or he, like them, was approaching the rebel camp with some purpose in mind and waiting for an opportunity to cause trouble!
The more I think about it, the more I feel that my guess is the truth.
Zhai Huan is not so optimistic.
He warned seriously: "Don't take it lightly."
Zhai Le said: "Yeah."
As it concerns the lives of his brothers, he would not be careless. Thinking of the experience along the way, even an optimistic person like Zhai Le could not help but sigh. He knew that things in the world change, but he did not expect that they would change to such an unrecognizable degree.
When they received the signal fire that day, they brothers retreated with Captain Yang and took a day to rest before they fully recovered.
This is only for high-level warriors. Ordinary people would not be able to come down in seven or eight days. What he saw and heard along the way was shocking.
Although Captain Yang's troops suffered few casualties in the battle for taxes and their strength was still well preserved, they still faced a very serious problem - lack of water and food!
To be precise, there was not enough dry food and we could barely last a day!
The rest is on the tax-silver car.
They could neither turn back to get dry food nor continue to march quickly - that would be too exhausting! Once they encountered the rebels, the enemy was strong and ours was tired. The former still had the advantage in numbers, while the latter would only die!
These concerns made the troops lose their morale. During the rest time on the way back to the rescue, soldiers deserted one after another, with a total of more than a hundred people. Even if Captain Yang used iron-blooded means to stop them, he could only temporarily suppress the floating morale, but could not reverse the declining momentum.
Seeing this, Zhai Huan took the opportunity to make a suggestion.
Simply put, it is to rob small-scale rebels, plunder usable military supplies from them, and maintain one's own operations.
This proposal was initially rejected by Captain Yang!
It’s not that he doesn’t know that the suggestion is good and can help them hold out a little longer, but what he needs now is quick reinforcements!
It's too late. Once Xiaocheng is captured...
Captain Yang's face turned pale, and he didn't dare to think about it at all. Back then, Zheng Qiao led his troops to capture Sibao County, burning, killing and looting, causing the originally prosperous Sibao County to fall into ruins and turn it into a thousand-mile wasteland with starving people everywhere. It took two or three years for it to recover a little...
His family is still in Xiaocheng!
If the siege is followed by a massacre...
Just thinking about it made Captain Yang so angry that he wanted to kill someone.
I wish I could capture County Magistrate Yan Cheng and cut him into pieces!
Zhai Huan asked coldly, "According to Captain Yang's plan, should we go back to help or go back to die?"
Previously, they had to rush to escort the grain and grass, had to change routes halfway due to heavy rain, fought a fierce battle with criminals who were robbing tax silver in the middle of the night, and then rushed back to provide assistance... During the whole process, they didn't even have a chance to take a breath.
The brave warriors can still hold on, but what about ordinary soldiers
Give up the lives of these soldiers
If they give up, then what's wrong with them running away out of fear of death
Captain Yang said sternly: "This is different! It's not your family in your hometown that is threatened! How many people in Xiaocheng are still waiting... Maybe if we delay for another quarter of an hour, the ones who will die are..."
Zhai Huan interrupted him without hesitation and said, "Yes, we brothers are indeed not locals, so there is no need to rush."
Captain Yang's eyes widened, his nose reddened with anger, and his cheek muscles trembled. Zhai Huan continued: "But which soldier here is not from Xiaocheng? Even if they are not from Xiaocheng, judging from their age, most of them have families... Captain Yang might as well ask, who is not angry?"
Captain Yang was not the only one who was anxious.
No matter how anxious you are, you can't rush into death!
Captain Yang clenched his fists: "But..."
"No buts!" Zhai Huan gave orders in a firm tone, with a firm tone that brooked no room for argument or rejection.
He was not afraid of Captain Yang's angry glare at all. "Captain Yang's 'return to help' is also to delay the enemy's forces and relieve our pressure. Anyway, we are killing the rebels, so killing anyone is killing!"
You can only kill the enemy if you keep your life.
If you don't have life, then there is no meaning.
Captain Yang's face turned red and blue.
The fist clenched and unclenched, loosened and clenched again.
Zhai Huan knew that his hesitation had come back, so he secretly winked at his cousin, and Zhai Le understood and used his aura to pressure the soldiers. These soldiers looked embarrassed, but the aura of a high-level warrior was not so easy to resist.
They will uncontrollably have the urge to surrender, and if their rationality is not strong, they will obey directly until the brave warrior withdraws his aura, only then will they get rid of the influence.
Seeing this, Captain Yang had no choice but to close his eyes and accept Zhai Huan's suggestion.
Perhaps due to good luck, the rebel groups they encountered along the way were small, and they gained a lot along the way, which restored their low morale. Until they met a group of soldiers who were called "recruiting soldiers" but were actually robbing houses, Zhai Huan suddenly came up with a plan.
He's ready to go big!
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