Chapter 141 Sand
Humans are really powerful animals. After the leader of the Laizitou Tun and the strong sergeant, the horse-faced military advisor disappeared, Deng Qie, who was the most bullied and most looked down upon in the army, became the leader of this remnant army.
Without any tricks, people have the ability to get more steamed buns from where the Cao army guards, and even get some meat food such as dried fish from time to time. Whoever likes him has something to eat, and who can't get along with his stomach?
However, not everyone has food and drink. There are martial arts places in some places, and there are also classes in some places, with more than 70 remaining soldiers, and more than 30 who are actively obedient. His confidants, two small gangs who do not listen to him and disobey him, and more than 10 of them are excluded. They are in the exploited class, working the most every day, but eating the least.
When Cao Jun sent food and steamed buns to Deng Qie in the evening, he had the final say on how to distribute the food. He gave his confidant three steamed buns a day and brought some side dishes. Only half a steamed bun was not a confidant. As for side dishes, meat and fishy food, he couldn't even think about it. In a month, the physical gap between the two gangs unconsciously widened. Deng Qie's confidant was strong, while the disobedient ones were pale and thin, and they were trembling every day when they couldn't eat enough.
All those who can win over are almost the same, and the time is gradually ripe.
It was another morning, and as the Cao army was clamoring, more than 70 prisoners in a room were shaking and were driven out. As usual, they would normally send out today's leather, metal, and coal, so that they could go into the house and then work for Cao army.
But now, these Cao soldiers cursed and pushed them out of the prisoner-of-war camp that had been imprisoned for more than a month and drove them out.
Not only Deng Gan's song, He Ye, Yuan Su, Zhang Cheng, but also Zhang Yue's song, a total of more than 500 people were driven out, and more than 100 Cao's army, wearing simple armored armor, were escorted by them.
When leaving Zhongmu County, Deng Qi subconsciously looked back and looked at it. A shiny thing was flashing on the corner building gate of the county town. He nodded slightly at the highlights. Deng Qi lowered his head again and hurriedly followed the team.
However, although I didn't look at it much, the man in his early thirties was full of determination on his slightly lowered face, and his fists were clattering.
Deng Qi was particularly grateful to Wang Hou at this time! Even if Wang Hou asked him to go back to Yuan Jun to be this intrigue spy and betray Yuan Shao, it was an extremely despicable and despicable job in this era, and Deng Qi didn't care at all! There is an old Chinese saying that a soldier died for his confidant, and a woman was tolerating him for those who please him! Yuan Shao treated him just a soldier who was bullied, but Wang Hou treated him like a brother and a sister, personally wrapped his wounds. He didn't even ask what he needed, and he was all provided!
In ancient times, when Li Tsai Qingji was to behead his family, crush his bones and ashes, and cut off his arm to gain Qingji's trust! Now Wang Hou still promises to take care of his family, so what else can he do to do?
Fortunately, before going to war, Wang Hou hesitated for a long time and still did not reveal the situation of the Dog-Head Military Advisor and others. Otherwise, I really don’t know if Deng Qi could still be so motivated!
However, it was completely different from Deng Gang's mood as if he was angry at bullfighting. Putting down the telescope, Wang Hou was a little heavy-hearted. Although Cao Cao agreed easily, he was betrayed his subordinates with his own hands, even if he was just a temporary recruitment of Min Zhuang, he would be relieved.
"Master! When will you set out at the end?"
Wang Hou was dull, but a request made him suddenly come to his senses. However, Zhao Yun was bowing his head and looking at him, the powerful general who claimed to be loyal, brave, benevolent and righteous. Wang Hou suddenly felt impulsive and asked dullly.
"Old Zhao, those more than a hundred strong men are about to die!"
"That's true!"
Full of surprise, Zhao Yun raised his head and looked at Wang Hou with some confusion.
"It's not that I died on the battlefield, I betrayed them! I used their heads to serve as stepping stones for Deng and the others!"
"Lord, Ci is not in charge of the army! When the late general was under General Gongsun Zan, he had to send some people as baits to lead out the Northern Barbarian Cavalry many times. In order to win, some sacrifices were necessary!"
"But this is different from your dignified battle formation. This is a knife behind the scenes! During the battle with Shouchun, Cao Cao..."
"Forget it! I'm sentimental! Lao Zhao, let's go!"
Seeing that Zhao Yun wanted to persuade him again, Wang Hou suddenly reached out to control him, said with some excitement, and looked at him with some concern. However, Zhao Yun still put on his back and went downstairs in a hurry, watching him leave. Suddenly, Wang Hou could understand Cao Cao a little!
It is not easy to be a superior! Not only does it determine the life and death of others, but it also has to decide the life and death of one's own people at every moment. It is not that he is so cruel by nature and treats human life as grass. If he sends some people to death to protect the overall situation every time, he will be as entangled as Wang Hou. I am afraid that he will collapse first without establishing such a foundation?
So in Cao Cao's eyes, the people who are truly capable of using him are treated equally from a human perspective, so he can cry Guo Jia, but he can use himself as a scapegoat to lose his head. If Wang Hou was relieved so easily, that was a lie! But now, he really understands a lot.
Putting his arm on the railing, looking at the busy Zhongmu County town under his feet, Wang Hou sighed heavily.
"It's better to follow Mr. Cao. Leave these annoying things to him!"
…………
When Wang Hou was sad here, more than a hundred Cao army soldiers who were escorting prisoners were escorted out of prisoners, but they had no idea that they had already embarked on a dead end. While escorting, the soldiers were still yawning constantly, humming with complaints.
"The King of Envoys is really idle! I asked us to dig a septic tank yesterday, and I dug it for a day. Today, I have to watch these Hebei barbarians and dig some trenches in Nei County! I'm so trapped!"
"Who said no!"
Yesterday, I had been working all day and had only slept for a few hours before I was driven back and had to walk dozens of miles to escort prisoners of war. No wonder this group of soldiers in the back complained.
While they were shaking, Zhang Yue, the escort leader who defected to Wang Hou, looked around with murderous eyes. At this time, he had already walked out of Zhongmu County for about ten miles, and the sun gradually grew high above his head. The blazing sunlight shone on the snow field. The reflected strong light made people almost unable to open their eyes. There was no one in the field. The surroundings were silent so that they could only hear the sound of stomping on the snow shells in the team. However, when they calmed down, a sensation of squirting water could be heard in their ears.
This place is not far from Jishui.
"Go away! In order to escort you, the group of Hebei barbarians who are pickled, I don't even have breakfast! I will delay my lunch and I will kill you!"
Just as Zhang Yue listened, he was pushed down from behind, but he stood firmly on the ground, but he didn't even get pushed out. Listening to the shouting, Deng Qing in front couldn't help but turn around, and saw Zhang Yue secretly winking at him, but then he turned around arrogantly, without saying a word, and just held his arms and stared at him.
Being stared at such a tall and powerful man, the little leader of Cao's army, who was a farmer, obviously felt furrowed on his back, but he was really bad. He was used to bullying these prisoners on weekdays, and was suddenly frightened by the prisoners. Looking at the comrades and friends around him, he obviously felt embarrassed. He suddenly pulled out the whip that was pressed against his waist, and pointed at Zhang Yue's nose with a twitch, and shouted.
"The lowly barbarians in the northern region! Is it true that they rebel? I will kill you! I will still be hell! Let me go! Let me go!"
The whip was about to whip, but before the whip fell, it was caught by Zhang Yue again. As it turned out, the villain died because he talked too much, and the protagonist never talked nonsense. Just as the guard tried his best to pull the whip and shouted, a cold light flashed on his cuffs, and Zhang Yue had already used his knife.
Under his neck, blood splattered out wildly. Finally, he let go of the whip himself and looked at the bloody hands in disbelief. The leader of Cao's army fell to the ground dejectedly, and then fluttered and lay on the snow field.
The blood suddenly stained a huge fan shape.
This scene was too sudden. The soldiers of the Cao army who were guarding the custody did not even react for a while. Until another puff, they pulled out the iron piece that had been stolen from the iron that was built with horseshoes and pierced into the neck of another guard. When Deng Qi screamed with all his might, the guarding vengeance reacted.
"The Northern Barbarians rebelled!"
"These Cao army's dogs are going to take us out of the wilderness and kill them all! Brothers, I don't want to die and fight with them!"
The bloody horseshoe dagger stabbed directly on the back of the screaming Cao Jun, and suddenly forced his knife out. Deng Qing roared and slashed. Although this scene was too sudden, the knife was hidden for a long time. Zhang Yue's confidants also drew their swords and stabbed them, one inch short and one inch short, and they did not react in a hurry. Cao Jun, who was close to them, pulled out the sword in time without even coming, and was stabbed to the ground by the short daggers.
The blood was like a lotus, splattering on the left and right.
However, only two hundred confidants were suddenly exposed, and more than three hundred Yuan army prisoners followed behind were in trouble. They had already walked for more than ten miles and were exhausted and panting. Seeing that the hairy suddenly drew their swords and slashed, many prisoners could not even react and were directly chopped to the ground.
In particular, Zhang Yue and Deng Qing and several leaders seemed to deliberately ignore it. They just yelled to cut off the head of Cao Jun and hung it on their belt. In a minute or two, the Cao army guarding the second half of the team had already chopped and killed more than 100 prisoners. Some of them were red in their eyes and roared with swords. Zhang Yue reacted and pulled out the ring-headed sword of Cao Jun to fight. The sharp sword hit her face. In the crackling sound, the crazy Cao Bing's face was divided into two, his eyes were terrifyingly wide open, but he fell into the snow.
The disaster came so suddenly. In just three or four minutes, more than 300 warm corpses lay down in this white snow field. Most of the Cao army guarding were chopped and killed, and only a dozen escaped. While cutting their heads, Zhang Yue also had a bloody face and shouted fiercely.
"Brothers! These Cao Gou are not kind-hearted. Now Yuan Gong is winning victories and Cao Gou are poor. This is to throw us prisoners into the snow and kill them! If you want to survive, you will cut them. Then follow me to force you to cross the Ji River and flee back to Yuan Gong's command! Cut off the heads of these Cao Gou and go back to receive the reward!"
"Yes, he went back to Hebei and received the reward!"
Deng Gang and others followed, and amid their shouts, the beastly nature of a group of prisoners was immediately aroused. These people cut off their heads with knives and learned to hang them on their belts. Some of them were red-eyed and even cut off the heads of the captives of the Yuan army in Hebei who were cut off by the chopping of the road. Then, they followed Deng Gang and Fang Yue and others and rushed northwards.
However, before they could run far, the sound of rapid horse hooves suddenly rang out. In the snow field, the dark armored cavalry was running out of hell, and a large flag of Zhao was raised high.
There are too many people and it is impossible to let the remaining 300 prisoners return to Hebei alive, so they still have to intercept and kill more than half of them. Looking at the crowd running in front of them, Zhao Yun shouted gloomyly.
"Those who are hanging high in the right sleeves will live! All the remaining ones will be shot and killed!"
"Here!"
With a promise, hundreds of Wang Hou's personal soldiers clasped their feet with their horses on their backs and held their bows in their hands. Just like hunting, they rode their horses and ran out, and arrows were like locusts.
The non-confidant who was already hungry and tired, was screaming in the rain of arrows, and fell one by one into the snow field, and painted huge plum blossoms on the white earth.
After betrayal, people in this era are much more ruthless than Wang Houlai. Deng Qi ran and suddenly suddenly pulled the sleeve of the confidant of the Lai Tou Tun who was eager to surrender to him. Before he even realized anything, the god of death had already fallen from the sky. With a sniffle, a long arrow penetrated his chest and with a thump, the man fell to the ground with a few moments.
Behind him, Zhao Yun's face was as deep as water, and he drew an arrow from the arrow pouch behind him.
This chase and silence all the way. When we arrived at the Jishui River, only 500 prisoners had been shot and killed, including many of the confidants whom Deng Gan, Zhang Yue and others made.
The reality is so cruel. In order to cover up the identities of Deng Qi and others, they must die!
However, when he arrived at the Jishui River, looking at the team of escaped prisoners who were staggering onto the ice, Zhao Yun finally stopped the war horse as if he was afraid of the ice. However, Zhang Yue, who was running at the end, couldn't help but sigh, and patted his back shoulder with a sad finger. With a sound, Zhao Yun's arrow pierced on his back shoulder as accurately as a sniper rifle. He was shot and staggered. He exclaimed in disbelief that a magical arrow was stoked forward even more embarrassingly.
It was not smooth sailing. The ice of Jishui was not so stable. So many people ran on it in panic. Several ice holes burst open in succession. Even the commander He Ye, who defected to Wang Hou, screamed in horror and fell into the ice cave. In a blink of an eye, the water flow under the ice was washed away and didn't know where it was, but he was absolutely dead.
Human nature is fully revealed here. Even if you listen to the robes of fellow villagers falling into the water, there were pursuers behind you, and no one dared to turn back to help. Finally, there were only more than 70 people left who fled back to the north bank of the Ji River with their heads hanging on their waists. They collapsed on the snow. When they looked back at Zhao Yun who was still guarding the shore, they suddenly laughed strangely. Soon, following him, the remaining Yuan soldiers also survived the disaster. Fortunately, they laughed loudly, but among these laughter, Deng Qi's smile always seemed a little out of place.
Listening to the laughter, Zhao Yun on the other side of the shore also easily exhaled a breath of turbid air.
"The sand has oozed over! Let's go!"
"drive!"
The messy sound of horse hooves was so scared that the Yuan army's laughter came to an abrupt end, but seeing these death-like cavalrymen turned around and left, these people breathed a sigh of relief again.
Chapter completed!