Chapter 568: Gao Shun Surrenders
"Don't worry, I won't embarrass you about Ding Yuan's affairs."
"After all, Ding Yuan will surrender to me sooner or later."
Liu Zheng didn't care about Lu Bu's worries, anyway, Ding Yuan's age was also old, even if Ding Yuan could hold on for a few more years, according to his age, he wouldn't be able to live for a few years.
Liu Zheng's desire to seize the world is unlikely to be something that can be completed in a year or two.
It always takes a long process, and of course, it also needs to constantly accumulate your own strength.
With the addition of Lu Bu, Liu Zheng does not need to be afraid too much at least in terms of personal force, even if he meets Liu Bei and Cao Cao in the future, he does not need to worry too much about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he only needs to train his soldiers and horses into elites, and he will have the capital to compete for the world.
Lu Bu saw that Liu Zhengdu had already spoken to this point, so how could he hesitate.
Whether it is from the perspective of ambition to make a contribution, or Liu Zheng came up with such a delicious wine. Lu Bu had no reason to refuse Liu Zheng's proposal.
Originally, he was just a small master under Da Han, and he was transferred to Liu Zheng, and what Liu Zheng promised was not less than what Da Han gave him, on the contrary, Liu Zheng seemed to really like his martial arts, and he could also show his ambitions and show his strength under Liu Zheng's hands.
"Since this is the case, Lu Bu will take refuge in the general, and hope that the general will keep his promise."
When Liu Zheng heard Lu Bu's words, a smile appeared on his face, whether Lu Bu sincerely surrendered to him or just succumbed to him temporarily. Liu Zheng is currently able to mobilize Lu Bu.
Of course, Liu Zheng is not a fool, knowing that Lu Bu in history is half-hearted, has a backbone, and will betray his master at any time, he will not be too gullible to Lu Bu.
Anyway, he recruited Lu Bu from the beginning, and he only took a fancy to Lu Bu's martial arts, and used Lu Bu as a martial artist, and never thought of making him a general with a common disease.
Liu Zheng will not give him a single soldier, but only give him the status of a general, and the status he has, and he has no military power.
For this, presumably even if Lu Bu knew that he had no military power, but he had the corresponding status, he would not say anything. When that time comes, even if he wants to resist, he has no military power, and there is no way to resist with Liu Zheng.
After convincing Lu Bu, Liu Zheng's next step was to find a way to recruit the rest of the people. He went directly to the big tent where Gao Shun and the trapped camp were imprisoned, and found Gao Shun and the trapped camp soldiers under Gao Shun.
Liu Zheng came to the place where Gao Shun was imprisoned and trapped in the camp, and the corporal Lixian, who behaved, directly found Gao Shun.
In his opinion, it is important to trap the camp, but Gao Shun is even more important, the soldiers in the trapping camp are gone, and they can be trained again, but if Gao Shun is gone, the trapping camp is almost gone.
Therefore, as long as Gao Shun is recruited, the trapped camp will inevitably be able to retrain.
Gao Shun is not good at words, he is silent, Liu Zheng appeared in this place, he didn't even pay too much attention to Liu Zheng.
It was only when Liu Zheng walked up to him and asked him if he was Gao Shun that he seemed to have a hint of reaction, and after looking at Liu Zheng, he nodded.
"General Gao Shun, I've heard of a big name for a long time, but I was a little surprised to see it today, I didn't expect you to be such a taciturn person."
"Lord Liu Zheng, I've heard about it a long time ago, but I didn't expect the adult to be so young."
"General Gao is not old, I won't talk nonsense, I'm afraid you know my intention, I have surrendered Lu Bu, and now I want to surrender you and other people who follow Lu Bu as well, if you are willing to take refuge in me, I won't say much else, at least it won't be worse than your treatment under the court, and I will give you double the amount of money that the court gives you!"
Liu Zheng's surrender words did not get a fierce response from Gao Shun here, but showed a trace of disdain.
"I'm afraid that my lord has thought too much, and the matter of surrender is not something that can be done by the amount of money you give."
"Even if these brothers under my command die in battle, it is much better than surrendering to the enemy."
"Why is that?"
When Liu Zheng heard Gao Shun's words, if he was interested, he immediately asked.
"Dying on the battlefield can also represent the highest honor of a military general, at least he is not a man who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but if he surrenders to the general, then the family behind them will inevitably be spurned by the imperial court, and sometimes he would rather die on the battlefield than surrender to the enemy, this is the reason, although I Gao Shun is alone and surrenders to the enemy, it doesn't matter, but these brothers behind me are all family people, I don't want to see them, people die, and they have a name of defecting to the enemy."
"I can't answer the question of surrender for them, and it's up to them to decide whether to surrender or not."
Gao Shun's explanation made Liu Zheng understand why Gao Shun would say that he couldn't make the decision about surrender.
In fact, when it comes to surrender, he can be the master as a general, but Gao Shun is more humane and loves his soldiers more, and he will not decide whether they surrender or not, but cares more about the decisions of his subordinates.
This is why Gao Shun's trapped camp soldiers follow Gao Shun so much.
Gao Shun never regarded them as his subordinates, but regarded everyone as his own brothers.
Those soldiers who were trapped in the camp also regarded Gao Shun as a brother and sacrificed their lives to accompany Gao Shun to fight the world.
"I understand, don't worry, whether those soldiers under your command surrender or not, I don't care, what I care about is you, do you want to take refuge in me?"
Just like Liu Zheng guessed before, whether the soldiers under Gao Shun will surrender to him, Liu Zheng doesn't care, Liu Zheng only cares about Gao Shun, as long as Gao Shun is enough to surrender to him, it will be enough.
With Gao Shun, it is equivalent to having a trap camp, Liu Zheng's soldiers are stronger than Ding Yuan's, and it is not difficult to select people and horses under Liu Zheng again and form a new trap camp.
On the contrary, because the physical fitness of the soldiers and other factors are stronger, the new trap camp formed will be more powerful than the old trap camp.
Gao Shun was silent for a while, looking at Liu Zheng as if he was thinking about whether he was going to surrender, he didn't have much hatred for Liu Zheng. Although Liu Zheng is a thief, Gao Shun's own loyalty to the Han court is not high.
The reason why he was under Lu Bu was because Lu Bu saved him back then, so he regarded Lu Bu as a benefactor, Lu Bu chose to surrender, and Gao Shun himself would surrender to Liu Zheng with Lu Bu, just to repay his kindness.
Now that Lu Bu has really surrendered, Gao Shun can actually choose to surrender with Lu Bu.
"I am grateful that my lord has treated these soldiers under my command kindly, so I am willing to surrender and serve my lordship."