The situation changed so fast that even with his ingenuity, he could not imagine how Zhao Cheng managed to instigate two hundred thousand strong men in a very short period of time.
As for Zhao Cheng asking someone to ambush and intercept him at this place, this is secondary.
According to his expectations, Tian Jue Guan should be able to hold on for at least another two months.
Even if we can only hold on for another two months, it is also because of the advancement of weapons.
Because in history, Tianjueguan once appeared, and with five thousand defenders, it blocked the enemy's 600,000-strong army for half a year.
Five thousand blocking six hundred thousand, this is not because of how powerful the defender is, but because this city is a natural hazard.
Just as Sun Yuantai was daydreaming, he was already placed in front of a man dressed as a general.
The man grabbed Sun Yuantai's chin, forced his head up, and sneered: "Are you Sun Yuantai?!"
"I thought he had three heads and six arms, but he turned out to be just a dying old man!"
"By the way, I heard that your articles are very good!"
"So, there is no need to write in the future!"
As he spoke, the man did not hesitate to draw the sword from his waist and cut off five fingers of Sun Yuantai's right hand.
Afterwards, he received half of the sword, suddenly paused, and said: "It is said that many scholars can write with both hands, but they cannot keep the other hand."
At the same time as he said this, there was another flash of sword light, and the fingers of his other hand also fell down.
While blood spattered, Sun Yuantai was also stunned, but he never expected that the enemy would torture him like this.
After all, under normal circumstances, once a prisoner like him is captured alive, he can ask for a lot of things from the court in exchange.
This is also the reason why when the two armies fought in ancient times, some important figures liked to be captured alive.
The dead are the least valuable, no matter what their status is.
But if there are some important people alive, it is not impossible to move halfway across the state.
However, if you kill him, you can only give it away as "hero fragments".
"Old man, remember, my name is Wei Ye!"
"If the general hadn't ordered you to be captured alive, I would have killed you today!"
Wei Ye patted Sun Yuantai's cheek frivolously again.
"Did your general tell you that the complete Sun Yuantai is the most valuable?!"
"Do you know how much your two swords will cost your general?"
Although blood was pouring from his hands, Sun Yuantai calmed down at the moment and said coldly, as if he was not the one being captured.
It is said that the sword of a general is the mouth of a scholar. When a scholar like Sun Yuantai speaks, the edge in his words can be said to be heart-breaking with every word.
But he expected that Wei Ye must be loyal to Zhao Cheng, so he wanted to kill him in order to avenge him.
"oh?!"
"Did you know that before I came here, I asked the general for instructions, and the general said that I would just give you a breath."
"Now I have only chopped off your paws and not touched your tongue. I am already feeling soft. If you are talking too much, I will also give you your tongue to prevent you from still talking dirty words."
Wei Ye sneered. The appeal that Sun Yuantai wrote originally made him very angry.
Don't even talk about him. The entire Yingtian Army is eager to crush Thief Sun into ashes. How does this old guy still want to have a future? That's just wishful thinking.
"Come here, bandage Sun Thief!"
Wei Ye waved his hand, and immediately an accompanying military doctor walked out of the team.
Although he was hating in his heart, thinking of Zhao Cheng's order, he still did not let Sun Yuantai bleed to death.
By the time the military doctor bandaged him, Sun Yuantai had already fainted.
In Tian Jue Pass, Wei Ye looked at the firelight on the tower and the hustle and bustle in the city, and couldn't help but feel a sense of being in another world.
In the earliest days, as Zhao Cheng's personal soldier, he followed Zhao Cheng and set out from the Tianjue Pass to enter the Southern Wilderness.
It's a pity that the army was defeated and could only fall into the mountains.
I thought I was at the end of my rope, but I finally found a way out.
But now, they are sitting on a million-strong army, coming out from the southern wasteland, and the most difficult to conquer the Tianjue Pass has been passed. From then on, it is true that the sky is high and the dragon leaps.
The curse of trapping the dragon in the southern wilderness was thus broken.
There is no need to go out of the Southern Wilderness five times, nor seven times out of the Southern Wilderness, nor ten times out of the Southern Wilderness. Just once, the trapped dragon ascends to the sky.
…
By the time of destiny, the king's flag had changed on the city wall.
All the flags belonging to Da Cang were removed, while the flags belonging to the new country were fluttering on the city tower.
After several days, Zhao Cheng did not continue to use troops, but stabilized this bridgehead out of the southern wilderness.
He first cleaned up the evildoers in the city. As for the big families, if anyone was willing to be used by him, he would break up the family members and move them to different places. If they were not willing, he would confiscate the family and exterminate the family.
As for the original officials in the city, they were all replaced by Zhao Cheng. As early as in the Southern Wilderness, he had cultivated many sets of reserve official systems. He did this in order to quickly conquer a city.
He took it for his own use.
At the same time, the Taoist officials he trained also went deep into the common people. On the one hand, they upheld justice for the common people, and on the other hand, they also attracted some people with sincere minds, either into the Taoist official system, or recommended others.
Join the militia.
When you are free, you serve the people, and when you are busy, you serve as soldiers. This is the militia.
In this process, some people who were hiding deeply and had a heart for the great blue were also caught and sent to mine.
After a month of this, the entire Tianjue Pass has been marked by the Yingtian Army. From the administrative system to the patrolling militia, they are all members of the Yingtian Army. If anyone dares to cross it, they will be immediately executed.
A thunderous strike.
Under this situation, although there are still undercurrents surging behind the scenes, they can no longer change the general trend.
After that, Zhao Cheng finally left Tianjue and marched to Qingzhou. Wherever the troops passed, under Cao Zheng's lobbying and the intimidation of Ying Tianjun, more than 30 cities in a row surrendered after hearing the news without making any move.
Not the slightest resistance.
Zhao Cheng also gave more preferential treatment to those who voluntarily surrendered, but one thing was that the family must disperse and cannot stay in one place.
After more than two months of this, most of Qingzhou has fallen into Zhao Cheng's hands.
…
On the other side, Sun Yuantai, who was arranged by Zhao Cheng to be taken on a tour in the Southern Wilderness, quietly ended his life in a wooden house on a rainy night after thinking for half a night.
He has always regarded Zhao Cheng as a thief, but when he came to Nanhuang in person, he found that Zhao Cheng had actually realized his boyhood ideal in Nanhuang.
The boy’s dream of a peaceful country and a peaceful world.
The people and the king are no longer in opposition to each other. It is not that water can carry a boat or capsize it, but that water is a boat, and a boat is water, and everyone builds the world together.
If such a person is still a demon, then what have all the previous dynasties been?!
The devil within the devil?!
As a result, his Taoist heart was broken and his faith completely collapsed.
The only option is to end it all with his own death.
And this is also Zhao Cheng's purpose. Killing people is meaningless, he prefers to kill people's hearts.
