Mao Shao already knew that he had no other choice, and he was also reasonable. If he wanted to surrender, he would surrender completely. Mao Shao planned to coerce everyone to surrender, except of course one person, that is Zheng Hun.
National affairs are ruined in the hands of this person, so we must kill this person first no matter what.
In fact, I'm a little embarrassed to say it. Before, people asked me to surrender, and they said they would give me a lot of wealth. But I didn't know what to do. I didn't even call them slaves, but even shot their trusted soldiers. But now? I surrendered with all my strength.
, but it turns out that the previous one was just a pretense.
Hey, that’s all, I’ve already known this, how can I still have these thoughts?
After thinking about it, Mao Shao told his old servant and his companion about his intention to coerce Ren Jun and Pan Zhi into surrender, and asked them what they thought.
The old servant said forget it, please be more stable and we surrender on our own. But what Bantang meant was that it all depends on the husband's wishes.
Mao Shao understood. Thinking of what he had said before, he gritted his teeth and decided to do it.
He first called Pan Zhi, who was in contact with him, and planned to persuade him to form an alliance with him, and then work together to persuade Ren Jun.
Pan Zhi was very happy when she knew that Mao Shao had woken up and brought a bag of water. Mao Shao was extremely thirsty and drank the water bag as soon as he took it. After he recovered, Mao Shao took the water bag.
He handed it to Pan Zhi again and said gratefully:
"Pan Sheng, I didn't know how important water is now. I drank half the bottle, you can finish the rest."
Pan Zhi hurriedly waved her hands and said seriously:
"Ah Shao, you don't have a nickname yet, so I'll just call you Ah Shao. What you said just now is so embarrassing to me. If you hadn't saved me in the battle the day before yesterday, my brother would have died on the spot, so what?
Until now. Not to mention this bag of water, no matter how much more I have, I will give it all to you."
Mao Shao suddenly interrupted:
"Then I want to take Brother Pan to the other side. Is Brother Pan willing?"
Pan Zhi was stunned, and his expression immediately changed after hearing this, and he scolded:
"Boy, this is not something you can say."
Mao Shao was stunned. He really didn't expect Pan Zhi to fall out so quickly. Just now he called him A Shao, and now he calls him brat. This cultured person really fell out faster than turning over bamboo slips.
Mao Shaocheng's mansion was not deep enough, so he was annoyed and said:
"Pan Sheng, I came here with good intentions to give you a way to survive. It's okay if you don't appreciate it, why are you saying bad words to me?"
Pan Zhi took away the half-bag of water he had given him before, flicked his sleeves and clasped his fists in the direction of Luoyang to the west:
"Son, although your family is just an ordinary wealthy family, it is not like my family has been blessed by the Han Dynasty. But you must also know that the Han Dynasty is like the sun and the moon, and its existence has already brought great blessings to all people in the world.
It’s okay if you don’t want to repay your kindness. You just think that you, a rich man, don’t understand justice, but you dare to join the bandits. That’s already disrespectful and shameless.”
Hearing Pan Zhi insulting his family, Mao Shao became angry and drew his sword directly, cursing:
"What a good dog slave, how dare you humiliate me? See if I don't chop you up."
Seeing that his young master was really about to take action, the old slave, who was afraid of something happening, stopped him directly and said to Pan Zhi:
"Pan Jun, our husband just used words to test you. We just heard that Mrs. Zheng is going to defect to the opposite party, and my husband is worried that he will drag you along, so he is using these words to test your mind. Don't misunderstand,
Don’t get me wrong.”
Pan Zhi felt better after hearing this, but still said:
"Humph, you still want to test me? Even if I die here, I, Pan Zhi, will not surrender to the thieves. Moreover, the Zheng family is a son of a noble family. Even if your husband turns to the thieves, he will not join the thieves. No matter how much chaos there is,
Jun Zhiyan, see if I don't do anything to you."
As he spoke, Pan Zhi rolled up his sleeves and left a sentence:
"That's all I've said, so you can take care of yourself."
After saying that, Pan Zhi walked away.
At this time, Mao Shao was ashamed and angry, and his whole body was trembling. Suddenly he took his companion's head, and they were forehead to forehead. Mao Shao said word by word:
"Let the brothers prepare their knives and kill the man named Pan first. He is bullying others too much!"
The armor-piercing soldier's companion was also furious at this moment. He looked at Mao Shao, nodded, and went down to let the brothers prepare.
Mao Shao looked at Pan Zhi who was gradually disappearing in the night and said one word:
"kill!"
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As Pan Zhi walked, he led the guards around several bonfires and arrived at Ren Jun's rest area.
Because Ren Jun evacuated early and was fully prepared, the supplies were much more abundant than Pan Zhi's. Now, Ren Jun's tent was set up, while Pan Zhi's could only huddle around a bonfire to keep warm.
Pan Zhi and Ren Jun were both from Zhongmu County. They had agreed to help each other when they sent out troops. This time they were trapped together by the abandoned pond. Ren Jun also took good care of him. Pan Zhi gave Mao Shao a gift before.
The bag of water was sent by Ren Jun.
The reason why Pan Zhi came to see Ren Jun was very simple. No matter how he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong with Mao Shao, and he was afraid that he might not really turn into a traitor, so he came to see Ren Jun to discuss things together.
When he first came in, Pan Zhi saw Ren Jun, neatly dressed in armor and eating melon.
At that time, Pan Zhi's saliva started to secrete, and he also wanted to eat it.
"Boda, is this melon sweet?"
Without raising his head, Ren Jun handed a piece of melon to Pan Zhi and motioned for him to eat it.
Pan Zhi did not shirk, and like Ren Jun, squatted there and gnawed on the melon.
This melon is really sweet, refreshing and has endless aftertaste.
After finishing one piece, Pan Zhi took another piece and gnawed it without telling Ren Jun. Ren Jun didn't say anything. The relationship between the two was nothing.
Just like that, the two of them finished the melon in one go.
Satisfied, Ren Jun wiped his lips and praised:
"This melon is really good. It would be even sweeter if it could be soaked in well water."
Pan Zhi also nodded. If you can have a melon in this situation, what else can you ask for? He pursed his lips with a towel and said to Ren Jun:
"Boda, I just went to the Mao family boy. He was restless and afraid that he would surrender to the thieves."
When Ren Jun mentioned surrendering to thieves, he trembled, and then asked:
"How to say?"
After that, Pan Zhi told everything about what had just happened. Finally, Ren Jun said worriedly:
"I'm worried that that brat is really going to vote."
Ren Jundao:
"Then what are you going to do."
Pan Zhi shook his head and said to Ren Jun:
"I'm not sure, so I came to you to discuss it. In any case, the Mao boy did save my life. After all, he has not surrendered to the thieves now. I can't repay kindness with enmity. Isn't that a Zhongshan Wolf?"
Ren Jun nodded and said:
"Brother Pan, your considerations make sense. Who else did you tell this matter to?"
Pan Zhi shook his head.
Ren Jun nodded, stroked his beard, and said solemnly:
"Brother Pan, I have something to ask you, and I don't know if I can agree to it."
Pan Zhihao said angrily:
"Boda, let's see what you said. If you hadn't helped me every time, I would have died of hunger on the spot, and I wouldn't be here now. So don't say a thing, as long as I can do it, I will do it for you."
Ren Jun nodded and said with a smile:
"Brother Pan, you can definitely handle this."
"Then what can I ask?"
"You can lend me your head."
"ha?"
A moment later, in a hidden corner, several corpses were dragged into the tent and buried. Pan Zhi's head was placed in a wooden box, with fear and shock still on his face.
Ren Jun looked at Pan Zhi's withered face and sighed:
"Old Pan, I wanted to ask you to join the bandits before. But who knew you were so fierce? The Mao boy asked you to join the bandits, but you were so strong. I had no choice but to take your head.
As a tribute. However, I didn’t expect that the Yellow Turban thieves would contact another group of people, but yes, I will also keep a few more hands. Hmph!"
After saying that, Ren Jun closed his eyes and thought about how to end this.
It turned out that not long after Ren Jun's troops were surrounded, a tribe that had been captured by the Yellow Turban Army secretly approached him, hoping that Ren Jun could be allowed to lead his troops to surrender.
Ren Jun didn't know that this order was issued directly by Zhang Chong to Ding Sheng on the front line. Otherwise, with Ding Sheng's style, how could he allow these first-level merits to become his robe and compete with him for credit in the future? But there was no way.
, this was the first time Zhang Chong had given a direct order to force him to surrender a certain unit. No matter how unwilling he was, he could only agree, and could only lament that Ren Jun was so lucky.
It's obvious that Qu Shuai has taken a liking to this man named Ren Jun.
It was not that Zhang Chong wanted to interfere with the decision-making of the frontline commander, but when he received Ding Sheng's military report and reported on the situation of various Han army units in Pitang, Zhang Chong was shocked when he saw the name Ren Jun.
To be honest, with Zhang Chong's current situation and characterization, he wouldn't have much emotion even if Lu Bu was on the roster. Because reality is not like stamp collecting in novels after all. You really have to gather eighteen fierce generals and thirty-six adopted sons.
So what. You need to know that land, food, population, and armor are the key to the survival of a force. So, despite the fact that he won Xu Huang in the first battle in Yingyang, now this guy is still working in the collision team.
A halberd wielder.
But Ren Jun is different. If Zhang Chong remembers correctly, this person will be responsible for Cao Wei's farming in the future. This is a military talent.
Ren Jun didn't know this. Faced with the good offer from the Taishan Army, he thought about it and agreed. Those tribesmen previously advised Ren Jun to wait and see. Zheng's side has already had soldiers break out. If they want reinforcements, they can come.
Nearby.
But Ren Jun sees more clearly than these tribesmen. He understands a truth. The first one to surrender can be called a righteousness, but the one who follows can only be called surrender, and the gap between the two sides is huge.
As for the reinforcements from the Zheng family? It’s not that Ren Jun looked down on Zheng Hun. This son of an unknown generation of public clan, if he expected him to rescue him and others, it would be better to rely on himself.
Ren Jun agreed "anyway" and asked the Yellow Turban Army outside to bring some supplies in. However, Ding Sheng was worried that Ren Jun would fake a surrender, so he only sent a few buckets of water and nothing else. And the melon Ren Jun ate today was because of today's
Ren Jun was about to lead his men to start a rebellion, but a batch of supplies arrived from the other side.
At this time, a small voice came from outside:
"Master, I'm fine now."
Ren Jun came back to his senses, looked at the head in the box again, and took Douluo with him.
As soon as he opened the big tent, he saw more than thirty armored soldiers standing neatly outside the big tent with big axes in their pockets. These people were Ren Jun's remaining elite soldiers. They never abandoned their armor even when they fled all the way. But now, Ren Jun
Jun will take these people to fight for great wealth.
Looking at these tribesmen, Ren Jun said lightly:
"Raise fire."
As soon as he finished speaking, more than thirty torches were lit, illuminating the front of the tent clearly.
Afterwards, Ren Jun led his armored soldiers all the way to Zheng Hun's tent. Some of the Zheng tribes who saw them on the way greeted them, but as they walked, these tribes realized that something was wrong.
Why are these people so open to fighting?
But just as they were about to run away, Ren Jun took the lead and knocked these people to the ground.
After seeing the blood, he couldn't stop it. Ren Jun led his people to run wildly, and finally came to Zheng Hun's tent. Just as he was about to rush in, the guards on duty outside the tent stopped him. After a fight,
Leaving corpses all over the ground.
Ren Jun took a breath and opened the big tent with a knife. When he saw a person lying on his side on the couch, he didn't waste any time and stabbed it in with a knife.
But as soon as I inserted it, I found something was wrong. It was a pile of straw.
Ren Jun was shocked, thinking that the story of his uprising had been leaked, and was Zheng Hun trying to catch him?
But after waiting for a while, the enemy that he expected to jump out did not exist. Instead, all the soldiers beside Zheng Hun's tent were killed by his men. At this time, Ren Jun was puzzled:
"Where has this Zheng Hun gone?"
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Zheng Hun's disappearance made Ren Jun very anxious, and so did another person, namely Guo Liu Hong.
The Taishan Army rushed to Xingyang, which to a certain extent made the current situation of the Han court very embarrassing.
Liu Hong only knew that the Taishan Army had entered Henan when he received urgent messages from Zhang Wen, the left Zhonglang general, Zhu Jun, the right Zhonglang general, Lu Zhi, the North Zhonglang general, and Huang Wan, the herdsman of Yanzhou who had only recovered from a long illness.
, and he didn’t know anything about it before.
Especially Yin Xuguan of Henan Province, as the local official of the capital, did not even say anything to report. In anger, Liu Hong directly ordered Yousi to take Xuguan.
He scolded Xu Guan in front of many courtiers, saying that this person was a deceitful person. If he had not learned from the reports of several old commanders that the Taishan Army had entered Henan, he would have been concealed. Is he really wanted?
One day I saw the beacon fire outside the city and realized that the thieves had arrived.
In the end, Xu Guan was put to death on trial, and his relative, He Miao, was in charge. At this moment, Liu Hong trusted these relatives even more, because he knew that if the Han Dynasty was destroyed, the He brothers would also be destroyed as relatives.
After getting angry, you naturally want to solve the problem.
But something was wrong. He hadn't asked for reinforcements from the garrison officials in various places, but people from all over the place asking for reinforcements kept coming.
First, Zhao Qian, the prefect of Runan, said that with the full cooperation between him, Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou, and Zhu Jun, the general of You Zhonglang, the Yellow Turbans in Yanzhou had entered the most critical moment. He asked the country to keep Zhu Jun, the general of You Zhonglang, in Runan. , strive to complete the success.
Later, Jiao He, the governor of Qingzhou, came to report that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had become more and more serious and difficult to control. Now he could only stick to Linzi. If there were no reinforcements, he was afraid that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans would cross the river to support the Hebei Yellow Turbans.
Then came reports from Guanzhong, saying that this rebellion of the Qiang people was unusual. This time they rebelled together with the powerful people of Liangzhou. With the participation of these powerful Han people, the Qiang people were fierce this time, and there were many tombs near Chang'an. You can even smell the smell of Huma.
This made Liu Hong very anxious. Now there was war everywhere, but there were no soldiers everywhere. A large Han Dynasty was so embarrassed that there were no soldiers available.
And now the most powerful of the thieves, the Taishan thief, is about to kill Xingyang. He is about to rush into the pass before his eyes. Is the Han family really going to perish in my hands, Liu Hong?