"I see!" Deng Ming saw these officials of Wanxian attacking each other, and couldn't help laughing and said: "You are worried that Xiong will fight against Wang Shi, so you coaxed Xiong Zong, and when you heard Xiong General put forward a plan to surrender, you will plan to pretend to agree." ”

"Exactly, exactly!" The group of kneeling officials nodded yes. As an accomplice, now everyone can only fight for their own escape by putting the blame on Xiong Lan. Although it sounded like what the leader of the Ming army said was sarcastic to everyone, the demoted officials still echoed each other, and they wishfully hoped that maybe the Ming army might still have a place to demote, and a sarcasm or two was nothing.

"General Xiong is worried that there are people in Wanxian County who don't know the overall situation and the imperial court will resist to the end, so he came up with such a plan to persuade everyone to surrender honestly." After Deng Ming said the second half of his words, no one answered anymore, and they all immediately closed their mouths. Xiong Lan couldn't figure out what Deng Ming meant, but just peeked at Deng Ming's expression.

"So this is a misunderstanding, you are all like-minded people." Deng Ming waved his hand and couldn't help but smile: "Get up, and let the bear be untied." ”

But the group of people kneeling on the ground did not dare to stand up immediately, although Deng Ming looked kind, but this group of people did not know about him, and felt that they might turn their faces after a while.

"Why don't you get up? Am I wrong? Is there someone who doesn't think so, but plans to find an opportunity to rebel against the court in the future? ”

As soon as Deng Ming's words came out, anyone who didn't get up again confirmed that he had bad intentions, so everyone stood up slowly with trepidation. However, many people didn't dare to stand up completely straight on their knees, and secretly prepared, waiting for Deng Ming to kneel down again and beg for mercy after a loud shout.

Zhou Kaihuang saw that Deng Ming didn't plan to kill anyone, so he frowned and shouted: "Mr. Deng! ”

Deng Ming knew very well that these demotions were full of lies, but he didn't intend to pursue them, did he want to kill all these people who had just surrendered? Although Deng Ming had killed people on the battlefield with his own hands, it was still impossible to kill a group of people who begged for mercy from him - after all, they were human beings, not pigs and dogs.

Hearing Zhou Kaihuang's voice, Deng Ming knew that he was very dissatisfied with his decision, so he immediately explained: "Just as this bear general said, they will serve Wang Shi today, so that we can enter Wanxian County without shedding a drop of blood." If they don't let us shed blood, why do we have to take their lives? ”

After saying this, Deng Ming turned to face the demote in front of him, and said, "I am a person who advocates that deeds are not careful. Maybe when you discussed this matter earlier, what you thought in your hearts was different from what you told me now, but you did abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and I will not pursue you for following Tan Hong to betray the court because of this; As for the schemes you have discussed, and the justifications you have just made, they are all spoken with your mouth, and they are empty words. I will not let you go because you have justified well, nor will I punish you for saying that you are going to cast tartars. ”

The law of Deng Ming's previous life emphasized the facts of the crime, and what he said verbally could not be used as evidence for a conviction, let alone a capital crime. However, when he said this, the people who surrendered seemed to understand it, but they were relieved to understand that there was no need to worry about their lives for the time being, and they rushed to begin to confess, expressing their gratitude and reverence for the grace of not killing.

At this time, Xiong Lan had already loosened her ties, and when she stood up, she was a burly military man, with a dignified appearance, and her voice was thick and powerful when she spoke just now. It sounds like this person is quite talented in adapting to changes, and among the group of officials in Wanxian County, Xiong Lan is the most scheming, I don't know why Tan Hong is so reluctant to see this person. After today's infighting, Xiong Lan offended many people at the scene, and may not be able to stand firm in the army in the future, but Deng Ming, who has the ability to incite, still attaches more importance to this kind of person with incitement ability, and does not intend to let it go lightly, he stared at Xiong Lan's eyes and said: "Mr. Xiong, this time you took the lead in abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, so that the Ming army could enter Wanxian County in the future, so you will make up for it, and your previous betrayal of the imperial court will be written off." But you must know that betraying the country is a crime after all, and it can never be repeated! ”

"Mr. Deng pointed out." Xiong Lan bowed down to be taught.

The more Xiong Lan observed, the more she felt that Deng Ming was unfathomable, and the contradictions between the Sichuan army and the camp had never been irreconcilable, but the people in the two camps in front of her respected and obeyed Deng Ming. In this era of emphasizing "his heart can be punished", Deng Ming used the strange theory of "deeds do not care about the heart" as the basis to pardon everyone, but the generals of the Ming army did not have any objections, which shows that this person has a very high status in the eyes of everyone.

"Xinjin Hou is now our prisoner, I don't know if there are any cells in Wanxian County?" Deng Ming asked Tan Hong and more than 50 of his dead friends to be sent to a prison cell, and handed them over to Xiong Lan and others for custody.

"There are cells, there are cells." These people really agreed immediately, led the way in front of the Ming soldiers, escorted their old boss, and took Tan Hong and his group to the prison in Wanxian County to take care of them.

There was no other opposition except for Zhou Kaihuang just now, and after Xiong Lan, Tan Hong and the others left, Zhao Tianba was the first to speak: "Mr. Deng is really soft-hearted. ”

"Xiong Lan is useless," Li Xinghan said, "Why didn't Mr. Deng kill him to appease the hearts of the rest of the people?" They will definitely be grateful to Dade for working for him. ”

"How could Xiong Lan be useless? He is a thief, and he knows a lot more about Tan Hong's military intelligence than we do. If you want me to say, you should slaughter the other guys. Zhou Kaihuang had an idea of co-opting the rest of Tan Hong's army, so he gave up his murderous intent against Xiong Lan at the beginning: "These people are capricious, how can they be trusted to discuss such a trick?" ”

"They just don't discuss this scheme, or we don't know they have discussed it like this, and I won't trust them, will you trust them?" Hearing these objections, Deng Ming shook his head and said, "Even if you kill Xiong Lan, will the rest of the people be grateful to Dade and sincerely contribute to us?" I don't think it would do any good to kill them. Having said that, Deng Ming felt that weakness and compassion were completely different, and Zhou Kaihuang and they might still not be able to tell the difference between the two.

Zhao Tianba has been listening carefully to Deng Ming's defense, as if to prove Deng Ming's suspicions, after he finished speaking, Zhao Tianba quickly asked: "Mr. Deng actually doesn't want to kill people, right?" ”

Seeing that Deng Ming was noncommittal, Zhao Tianba repeated loudly again: "Mr. Deng is too soft-hearted!" ”

"But what can be worried about in Wanxian County is Xiong Lan, a villain, I only heard that he was a rat who slipped around and slapped horses, and he didn't want to have a lot of ghost ideas when things came to an end," Li Xinghan commented on the side: "Now that he and other rats are incompatible, we don't have to worry about what kind of chaos this group of soldiers can stir up together." ”

……

After sending Tan Hong and Qin Xiucai to the prison and sending people to take care of them, Xiong Lan and his colleagues walked to the hall of the county office. There were no Ming soldiers around, the atmosphere was a little awkward, and everyone's expressions were a little complicated when they looked at Xiong Lan - just now they put Xiong Lan to death in order to exonerate themselves, and now they are lucky to survive, and several people are waiting with bated breath, as long as Xiong Lan scolds himself for not being righteous, he will go back by sneering at each other.

Xiong Lan first looked around left and right, and after confirming that there were no soldiers of the Ming army, she bowed deeply to the people around her: "Thank you brothers for saving your lives." ”

Everyone never thought of Xiong Lan's style, and they were so surprised that they couldn't speak for a while.

Xiong Lan made a frightened expression, patted her chest with her hand again and again, and said loudly: "That Mr. Deng was originally going to kill me just now, he was worried that I was the leader of this army and wanted to kill me!" Fortunately, your brothers have the wit to make it look like they have an enmity with me. Oops, I was really scared stupid at the time, thanks to your quick reaction, I quickly followed suit, which resolved Mr. Deng's murderous intention towards me. ”

No one thought like that just now, they just wanted to push Xiong Lan out of the top tank, and now seeing that Xiong Lan not only didn't hold a grudge, but also sighed and sighed with a grateful look for the rest of her life, no one came up with what to say.

"Just now, in order to save me, you brothers pinned their heads to the waistband of their trousers." Xiong Lan continued to sigh with emotion: "I originally thought that your brotherhood would flatly deny that we had discussed this matter for the sake of your own safety......

Xiong Lan immediately analyzed to everyone, if there was no quarrel between the demos of Wanxian County, Deng Ming would definitely think that they were a tight group twisted into a rope, so in order to facilitate the breakup of this group, Xiong Lan would definitely be slaughtered. And everyone made such a fuss, Deng Ming thought that they had their own calculations, and they were scattered, so there was no need to kill the leader Xiong Lan to leave such an impression.

"I don't want your brothers to come up with such a clever excuse to help me," Xiong Lan said and saluted everyone: "Seriously, I didn't expect your brothers to be so righteous at all, if I were replaced, I might not be able to think of it, let alone do it." ”

After Xiong Lan's endless explanations and figured out why he was grateful to everyone, some people accepted his thanks without shame, patted their chests and said: "Xiong always said something, we used to be familiar brothers, and these days are friends in adversity, of course, we are blessed and shared." ”

With the first one, there was the second, and soon all the people generously told Xiong Lan that they didn't have to take this matter to heart.

"However, we have to do things in the future, and we have to do it accordingly." Xiong Lan pointed to one of his colleagues, who was the first to try to put all the blame on Xiong Lan today, and Xiong Lan gave him a thumbs up and praised him for his quick reaction and quick thinking: "In front of them, we must attack each other and appear incompatible, so that Mr. Deng will feel that he can divide and conquer us." ”

"Exactly, exactly, that's what I thought." The guy who was praised by Xiong Lan for his quick reaction nodded again and again, and he took a while to understand what Xiong Lan meant.

"High, really high!" Xiong Lan sent it with two more compliments.

The way everyone looked at this guy also became complicated. I didn't see that this guy who was a fool actually had a brain that was not inferior to Xiong Lan. Well, it's beyond everyone's imagination, it turns out that the two of them were singing double reeds at the time! If it weren't for Xiong Lan's explanation, Lao Tzu probably wouldn't have understood it by now.

After giving away the most scheming title in the camp, Xiong Lan struck while the iron was hot, approached the colleague and made a look of asking for advice, and asked a few questions in a row: "...... Do you think we have to work together if we want to protect ourselves? …… Do you mean that if we discuss anything in the future, we must choose a place where no one is around, so as not to leak the news again? …… Do you want to remind everyone...... Gee, how could I not have thought of that? ”

Under Xiong Lan's questioning, the other party mechanically answered "yes" or nodded. Whenever he said something, Xiong Lan exaggerated in admiration, lowering his voice lower and lower, while the colleague's chin was raised higher and higher, making it look like he was holding a wisdom bead.

Xiong Lan bitterly explained to everyone again, he believed that if the matter discussed today was leaked out again, everyone would identify this guy's ghost idea when they defended themselves, and no longer report that Xiong Lan was the leader, which can be regarded as a means of self-protection that is better than nothing.

Xiong Lan felt that only that Deng Ming was unfathomable in the Ming army, his way of dealing with things was different from others, and he couldn't understand it, and several other Ming army officers were the same as his colleagues, and what he thought in his heart was clearly on his face.

successfully resolved the knots between everyone and herself, Xiong Lan relieved her heart and felt a trace of joy of success. Then he hurriedly went to assign work and arranged for the Ming army to stay and rest.

……

The Ming army did not go on the road the next day, but was stationed in Wanxian. The wounded and sick need herbs, after all, some may be collected in Wanxian, and it is even more difficult in the wilderness. And once they got comfortable housing, even the nervous Ming soldiers were eager to take a break, and Deng Ming himself knew this. Deng Ming and the other officers did not rush to urge their subordinates to go on the road, and Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan all believed that there were no threatening enemy troops near Wanxian, so they could rest assured. The benefits of the soldiers getting rest were also obvious, and the state of the army had become quite good, and with the current body of the soldiers, it was not a big problem to return to Fengjie in one go - the distance from Wanxian to Fengjie was almost half that of Chóngqìng to Wanxian.

The question was how to bring back the more than 2,000 soldiers from Wanxian who had recently surrendered -- now Kuizhou needed strong men, and the Ming army was supposed to bring them all back. Originally, hundreds of prisoners were captured in Tan Hong's Nanda camp, plus the total number of people in Wanxian County would be 3,000, which was more than the reliable soldiers under his command, and he needed to prepare a lot of food before going on the road.

The warehouse in Wanxian County has been empty, taking advantage of the repair work, the Ming army let the army to fish and hunt nearby, but due to the cold weather, the income is limited, it is estimated that according to this kind of work progress, I am afraid that there will not be ten days and a half months to make up enough food and grass for the march. The route was sparsely populated, and collecting grain and grass not only affected the speed of the march, but also was very unreliable.

"Leave some people in Wanxian County." Someone in the Ming army proposed this construction, which was in line with Xiong Lan's intentions. The city defense of Wanxian County was destroyed by Yan zhòng, and it was too dangerous to leave the Ming army to defend it with its own people. If a part of the surrendered army is left to defend, although they may defect again, the Ming army will return to Fengjie after all, and they will not be able to stay here indefinitely.

The officers of the Ming army discussed it in the county yamen, hesitated and could not make a decision, and suddenly someone rushed into the county yamen in a rage and reported to the officers: "Tartar! The Tartars are coming! ”

"What Tartar? Hugh had to lie about the military. Li Xinghan scolded dissatisfiedly.

"There's a Tartar coming." The soldier said that he was monitoring the fishing troops on the shore of the upper reaches of Wanxian County and saw boats coming down the river from a distance, waving the green flag of the Qing army. According to him, the ships are by no means one or two, but a fleet of considerable strength.

Zhou Kaihuang didn't believe it, and asked the officers around him: "You say, do the Tartars have the strength to attack Fengjie?" ”

Everyone knew that Fengjie had Wen Anzhi's army, and after destroying Tan Hong, there would be no threatening enemy forces nearby.

"Could it be that Chóngqìng will send a large army for us routs?" It is common sense that a large number of troops need to be consumed with a lot of supplies. If Chóngqìng was really willing to send a large army to pursue the rout, then they would have done it a long time ago, and they shouldn't have waited until today.

"Because we are not defeated," Deng Ming said softly: "We defeated Tan Hong, and the movement is not small." ”

"I wonder how many of them came?" Li Xinghan always looked confident: "Mr. Deng is right, we are not defeated, and the Tartars are just sending them to death." ”

"Let's go check it out." Everyone didn't have the heart to discuss the issue of collecting grain and grass anymore, so they seized more than a dozen horses from Tan Hong, and managed to get a few more when they entered Wanxian City, which were enough for the officers at the decision-making level.

Deng Ming also learned to ride horses, and when he heard that there were enemy troops coming, he couldn't help but feel anxious, so he naturally refused to stay in the yamen and wait for news, although his riding skills were not very good, but it was definitely faster than walking, so he insisted on following everyone to the mountains to see the situation with their own eyes.

"I just look at the situation, I don't know how to fight, I won't interfere with the decisions of these officers." Deng Ming, Zhou Kaihuang and others left Wanxian County together and went straight upstream.

In a short time they rode up the mountain. Standing on the commanding heights, there is not much shelter, the field of vision is relatively open in winter, there are terraced fields on the hillside, and the Yangtze River flows through the foot, and you can see the river surface in the distance.

I saw that the sails of the distant river were covered, and the boats of the Qing soldiers covered the waterways of the Yangtze River.

"This ...... I'm afraid there are as many as three or four thousand? Seeing such a scene, Zhou Kaihuang was surprised and said in surprise. Then he saw that behind the mountains at the end of his sight, there were more enemy ships sailing out: "Not only, maybe four or five thousand people." ”――

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