Chapter 14 Show Goodwill

The pamphlet found from Zhang Hu's home made Cheng Qian and other eight people find a reason to betray Fu Mingshan.

In the next few days, Cheng Qian waited for eight people to carry out Xiao Yu's various orders to be obviously more attentive.

It took seven days for Xiao Yu to select 12,000 prisoners from nearly 17,000 prisoners to form twelve thousand pairs, and then selected twelve of the 8,000 soldiers who followed him to lead the twelve thousand pairs.

After training these twelve thousand people together with 3,000 people who were loyal to him for three days, Xiao Yu left Guanjia Town with 15,000 people.

Guanjia Town is the most important military town in the eastern part of Yunshan County. Xiao Yu's occupation of Guanjia Town is equivalent to cutting off the connection between a large area in the eastern part of Yunshan County and a large area in the west.

Xiao Yu tried his best to occupy Guanjia Town, which is the area in the eastern part of Yunshan County with an area of more than 370 miles.

If Xiao Yu does not occupy the eastern part of Yunshan County as soon as possible, once Pingjiang County in the south increases troops to the place he wants to occupy, it will be much more difficult for him to capture that area.

Therefore, as soon as Guanjia Town stabilized, Xiao Yu took these soldiers who had not yet been loyal to him to attack the place he needed to occupy.

Xiao Yu led 15,000 troops for nearly six hours. When night fell, he stopped by a small river more than 30 miles away from Gaoyang City.

Gaoyang City is just a small county town, and there are only 3,000 defenders in the city. If Xiao Yu wants to catch the night road, even if he doesn't let the soldiers rest, he can easily take down Gaoyang City with 15,000 people.

However, due to the average strategic location of Gaoyang City, Xiao Yu does not want those soldiers who are not loyal to him to go at night.

Because she was worried about the riot of 12,000 soldiers who had not yet developed any loyalty to him, Xiao Yu did not dare to practice or rest.

After all fifteen of them left his tent, Xiao Yu took out "Eagle Taming" and looked through it.

Xia Yu only has some ways to command the crows, and because the more noticeable crows are not suitable for use as messengers, Xiao Yu can only learn the means of domesticating birds by herself.

After a period of deliberation, Xiao Yu has some experience on the means of domesticating birds recorded in "How to Taming Eagles". However, he has no time to find out when to experiment with birds, and can only deepen his understanding of "How to Taming Eagles" through continuous deliberation.

Unconsciously, the night passed.

When the sky began to brighten, Xia Yu flew into Xiao Yu's tent like a bloody crow.

After turning into a human form, Xia Yu told the news he had heard without waiting for Xiao Yu to ask.

"Two days ago, Tongcheng was beaten down by Tangshan Yao, the owner of Huangxia City, Tianfu County!"

"Is Tang Yue going to stumbling me again?"

When Xiao Yu frowned and thought about how to deal with Tang Yue, Xia Yu continued, "After Tangshan Yao took down Tongcheng two days ago, he closed the city and did not go to Baitu City and Jiangjia Town on the edge of Tongcheng."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu's heart moved. She looked at Xia Yu and asked, "Can you find out the purpose of Tangshan Yao's occupation of Tongcheng?"

"I stayed in General Tongcheng's Mansion for an hour, but I couldn't find anything useful."

Xiao Yu pondered for a moment and smiled faintly, "No matter what the purpose of Tangshan Yao occupied Tongcheng, he now occupied Tongcheng and blocked the army of Pingjiang County, which is also a good thing for us. It's almost dawn. Senior, hurry up and adjust your breath!"

Almost after noon, Xiao Yu led 15,000 soldiers to the outside of Gaoyang City.

Xiao Yu first waved his hand to the soldiers to stop, and then rode to the gate tower and whispered to the gate tower, "Where is the guard of Gaoyang City?"

Seeing that no one replied, Xiao Yu then said in a low voice, "The general of Gaoyang City will listen. I will give you a quarter of an hour to think about it. If you don't go out of the city to surrender after a quarter of an hour, I will attack Gaoyang City."

After saying this, Xiao Yu summoned the Jinyang God Bow.

Xiao Yugang took out the divine bow, and two powerful crossbow guns shot at him on the wall.

With a cold hum, Xiao Yu grabbed the crossbow gun and threw it back in the direction of flying.

While two screams came from the city wall, Xiao Yu opened the divine bow and shot at the gate.

Boom!

In a loud noise, a big hole appeared on the door that could be easily penetrated by more than 20 adult men.

After shooting through the gate of Gaoyang City, Xiao Yu quietly waited for the reply of the general of Gaoyang City.

In the waiting, a quarter of an hour passed quickly.

Seeing that no one spoke on the gate, Xiao Yu snorted coldly and opened the divine bow to the gate again.

Just as Xiao Yu was about to loosen the bow string, an old voice came from the gate tower.

"General Xiao, do it slowly."

Talking is a gray-haired old man, who is Wang Si, the general of Gaoyang City.

Although Xiao Yu has never seen Wang Si, he has a general understanding of the county guards he wants to fight. From the appearance of the old man, he knows that the old man is Wang Si, the general of Gaoyang City.

"Is General Wang willing to go out of the city and surrender to resolve this war?"

Hearing Xiao Yu's words, Wang Si's wrinkled eyes couldn't help twitching a few times.

Wang Si is now seventy-eight years old, and he has been a general of Gaoyang City for 33 years. As a general who is about to leave office, the last thing he wants to do is to surrender.

"The majority of these soldiers led by General Xiao should be those who have just surrendered! General Xiao took them as his main force to fight. Aren't you afraid that they will defect before the war?

"I don't believe them. How can I take them to war?"

He replied with a sneer. Xiao Yu said in a low voice with the spiritual arrow on the divine bow to Wang Si, "General Wang, you should understand the truth that the dragon and snake are defeated. I won't say much. Now I will ask you a word, will you surrender?"

Seeing Wang Si's hesitation, Xiao Yu then said in a low voice, "If you surrender, you will save the lives of the 3,000 defenders in Gaoyang City. They will thank you from the bottom of their hearts and think about the lives of the 3,000 defenders in the city!"

Everyone cherishes their lives, but in the hearts of many people, there are many things that are more important than life.

In Wang Si's heart, the name of loyalty is more important than the few Shouyuan he has left.

After his face changed color several times in an instant, a cold light flashed in Wang Si's eyes. He stared at Xiao Yu below and said in a low voice, "I would have been favored by the marquis and trusted by the defenders in the city. How could the soldiers in the city be scolded by traitors on their heads?"

When Wang Si's words spread to the soldiers behind Xiao Yu, some soldiers' faces were obviously a little unnatural.

Looking at Wang Si with a straight face, a cold light flashed in Xiao Yu's eyes. She laughed a few times and stared at Wang Si and said in a deep voice, "General Wang, when I defeats Gaoyang City, I will set up a monument at the gate of the city and write down the fact that General Wang vowed not to surrender, and let future generations slowly comment on it. Let's say that you are loyal. Many people? Or do you think there are many people who don't care about the life and death of soldiers under your command for your own reputation? Old general, you haven't lived for a few years, but the defenders in the city are still young.

Before Wang Si replied, Xiao Yu loosened the bow string.

Wang Si saw a golden red light flashing, and then he lost consciousness.

After shooting Wang Si, Xiao Yu did not immediately order the siege, but then shouted to the gate, "Is that a partial general of Gaoyang City?"

As Xiao Yu guessed, Wang Si appeared on the gate, and his general was also on the gate.

"He Sheng, the general of Gaoyang City, has met General Xiao!"

Xiao Yu looked at He Sheng up and down and said in a low voice, "Would you like to lead the troops to surrender?"

He Sheng was silent for a while and shouted in a low voice, "Put down your weapons and open the gate."

Seeing that the soldiers around him were hesitating, He Sheng gave another order.

After a soldier put down his weapons, the soldiers on the wall put down their weapons.

The defenders of Gaoyang City are relatively few soldiers attacking the city, and there are no masters in the city. It is inevitable that they can't defend the city.

In the absence of reinforcements, Wang Si would not attract any name even if he surrendered. Unfortunately, he cherished his reputation far more than his soldiers and made a stupid decision.

Due to He Sheng's surrender, Xiao Yu easily occupied Gaoyang City.

Xiao Yu had no available general in his hand. Therefore, after arranging some loyal people in the garrison of Gaoyang City, he still asked He Sheng to be a partial general of Gaoyang City and stationed in Gaoyang City for him.

In the evening, Xiao Yu searched the notes about Gaoyang City left by Wang Si in the General's Mansion of Gaoyang City, while Xia Yu was eliminating the provocative soldiers in the garrison of Gaoyang City for Xiao Yu.

Although Gaoyang City has not experienced the war, Gaoyang City has just changed hands. In the morning, the streets of Gaoyang City were almost empty.

The street is quiet, which makes the sound of Xiao Yu and others riding and walking very loud.

Xiao Yu and He Sheng rode in front, and eight soldiers followed with a stone tablet nearly seven feet high.

When walking to the gate, He Sheng wanted to speak several times, but he never said what he wanted to say.

Out of the city gate, Xiao Yu asked the soldiers to place the stone tablet on the side of the gate cave, and then took out half of the gun body from the Xumi beads, used half of the gun body as a pen, and wrote it on the stone wall.

Although Xiao Yu was very disdainful of Wang Si's stupid loyalty, when he wrote down what happened yesterday, he just wrote down the original story of his persuasion of Wang Si, and did not add all kinds of speculations about Wang Si.

"He Sheng, how many people do you think Wang Si's choice is right?"

He Sheng hesitated for a moment and replied to Xiao Yu, "In my humble opinion, I think there should be half of the people who have done the right thing."

"Half? Why do you think so?"

"You don't like loyal ministers, and Lord doesn't like loyal slaves. No matter why General Wang refused to surrender, his loyalty will be recognized by many people.

Xiao Yu nodded and turned around with a frown when her eyes swept to the west.

At this time, an old man and a girl were walking this way a little and a half miles away.