Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 115 Zhang Xiu Surrenders (2)

The next morning, Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu came to Li Song's camp with Yinshou and no one else. This was the first step in Jia Xu's plan to paralyze Li Song. The guards outside hurriedly reported to Li Song.

Li Song got up from the bed with sleepy eyes, and after washing up, he came slowly to the camp of the Chinese army, and asked Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu to be brought along, along with Liu Bowen and others.

"Zhang Xiu (Jia Xu) has met the general!" Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu respectfully saluted Li Song who was sitting in the middle of the Chinese army camp and eating breakfast.

"Did the two of you eat breakfast?" Li Song continued to eat his breakfast with his head down without raising his head.

"Back to the general! Before we came, Wen He and I had breakfast!" Zhang Xiu said.

"Oh! That's good! This saves food!" Li Song said, and Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu looked at each other!With a new understanding of Li Song, they were labeled stingy in their hearts. Liu Bowen and others looked embarrassed, as if I didn't know him.

After Li Song had breakfast and the guards took away the tableware, Li Song took a formal look at the two people in front of him. Zhang Xiu was about thirty years old, and he was a bit burly, wearing a hair crown and wearing a Brocade robes, with piercing eyes.

Jia Xu, who was standing next to Zhang Xiu, was eight feet long, with a majestic appearance, domineering eyebrows, a mustache on his upper lip, a goatee on his chin, and dressed as a Confucian scholar.

"General! Zhang Xiu is willing to submit to the general and serve under the general's command. In the future, he will obey the command of the general! Here is the seal and ribbon, please accept it with a smile!" He raised it above his head and said to Li Song.

Immediately, a personal guard stepped forward to take the tray and came to Li Song. Li Song glanced at the seal on the tray and said with a smile: "So, General Zhang has agreed to my conditions!"

"I, Zhang Xiu, have actually decided to submit to the General, so naturally everything depends on the General!" Zhang Xiu said.

"How many people are there in the arsenal, granary, and city of Wancheng? How many soldiers and horses do you have under your command? Now you can go out of the city, put down your weapons, and station five miles away from our army camp?" Li Song put his eyes on Zhang Xiu and said .

"Back to the general! There are still some weapons and equipment stored in the arsenal of Wancheng. There are [-] sets of armor and [-] spears. Among them, there are [-] sets of armor and [-] spears. It came out." Spears are cheap and simple weapons to make, and they are cheaper to manufacture than armors, so more spears are made than armors.

"In the granary in Wancheng, there are still some grain and grass, which is enough to support the soldiers in the city until the season of new grain harvest!"

"The last general has [-] infantry and [-] cavalry. When the last general came to the camp, the soldiers disarmed and left the city, and stationed five miles away from the general's camp."

"Wancheng is a city with a high center in four directions, surrounded by mountains on three sides in the west, north and east, with a population of tens of thousands of households."

Zhang Xiu originally had [-] infantry and [-] cavalry, but he lost a lot in the battle with Li Song's vanguard.

Li Song nodded and said: "Okay! Then you go and bring your family to the camp. When our army returns to Beijing, we can go on the road together. I have ordered someone to choose a house in Xuchang for General Zhang."

This is one of the conditions proposed by Li Song, to hand over the hostages and send them to Xuchang, so as to facilitate the "emotion" between Li Song and Zhang Xiu!
"General!" Jia Xu, who stood aside and hadn't said a word, cupped his hands and saluted, "General Zhang and his family have been together for a long time, and it is inevitable to be separated at this time, especially the young master and young lady, who cannot be separated for a while. Father, why don't you let them get together for a while, and when the general returns to the capital, it won't be too late to send the family members to the camp! I also ask for the general's permission!"

Zhang Xiu also wiped away tears to cooperate with Jia Xu, this is Jia Xu's way, not to hand over the hostages, Li Song looked at the two and sneered in his heart.

"Oh! I don't want to either! But I will go back to Beijing later to meet the emperor. The emperor sent an edict saying that he can't see me and misses me very much. There are still many things that I need to deal with. He ordered me to return to Xuchang as soon as possible."

"So, you should go back and send your family members to the camp now! Don't waste time, if you go back late, the emperor will blame you, but it is a serious crime of beheading!" Li Song said with a helpless expression.

Hearing this sentence, Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu almost vomited blood, what does it mean that the emperor misses you, you really think we are stupid!I'm afraid the Son of Heaven can't wait to peel off your skin, eat your flesh, and drink your blood, that's the truth.

The final crime of decapitation was Li Song's words threatening them. If they didn't hand over the hostages, they would be beheaded immediately by the soldiers of the camp in the name of resisting the decree. Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu felt a little regretful at this time , especially Jia Xu, originally thought that everything was under control, but who knew that Li Song did not play cards according to common sense.

There are still many things in Wancheng, which have not been handed over yet!Why do you want to go back immediately!As for resisting immediately, don't think about it. The soldiers have put down their weapons and left the city to station five miles away from Li Song's camp. Only he and Zhang Xiu came to this camp, and they are still unarmed. If they dare to do something, they will be killed immediately. on the spot.

"General! All the matters in Wancheng have not been reported to the general. If the general is not in the handover, there will inevitably be some mistakes!" Jia Xu said hastily, no matter what, Li Song can't just run away like this, otherwise Everything I arranged was in vain, and it would no longer be of any use.

"What Wen He said is also reasonable! It's just that the emperor's will must not be disobeyed! Otherwise, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor! Everyone knows that the crime of deceiving the emperor is to punish the nine clans! What should we do?" Li Song looked puzzled. .

Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu just rolled their eyes. The emperor is just a puppet in your hands, and what to do is not up to you. Jia Xu bowed his hands and said, "The general can be in a hurry! Tell the emperor about the Wancheng matter." Explain, come to think of it, the emperor will definitely understand the difficulties of the general, as the saying goes, the king's life will not be tolerated."

"What Wen He said is wrong!" Liu Bowen, who was sitting on the side, said, and everyone looked back at Liu Bowen, waiting for his next words, "How can the emperor's edict be disobeyed! But everything can be done in a hurry."

"I don't know what Bowen can do?" Li Song asked Jia Xu one step ahead, and winked at Bowen Liu.

Liu Bowen understood, bowed his hands and said: "Master! You can go back to Xuchang first, and leave the matter of Wancheng to me and General Su Dingfang!"

"Well! Bowen is right! The matter of Wancheng will be handled by Bowen with full authority, Dingfang, Mahe, and Yuanqing will assist, and I will leave another [-] paces!" Li Song said, without any consideration for Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu's chance to speak.

"That's right!" Li Song looked back at Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu, as if he suddenly remembered something!He said in an unquestionable tone, "The emperor also mentioned Wenhe in the imperial edict. The emperor said that he missed him very much when he said goodbye to Chang'an in the past. He ordered me to bring Wenhe back to Xuchang. Wenhe, you don't have to go back, just follow me." Back to Xuchang."

"That's it! General Zhang should go back earlier and say goodbye to his family! I will return to the court in half an hour, and General Zhang should not waste time." Li Song looked at Zhang Xiu and said.

Zhang Xiu wanted to say something to stop Li Song, but when he saw Li Song's personal guards standing on the left and right with their hands on the handle of the knife, Zhang Xiu understood that if he dared to say no, he would definitely use the excuse of disobeying the emperor's edict.

After beheading Zhang Xiu on the spot, with a bitter face, Zhang Xiu clasped his fists and saluted, "Follow the general's order!" Turning around, he walked out of the camp of the Chinese army.

Zhang Xiu, who lost Jia Xu and the army, is like a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out. What's more, in Li Song's eyes, Zhang Xiu is not yet a tiger.

This is the result of his whole night's thinking, no matter what, he will not give Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu the slightest chance, as long as they block their way, he will no longer have to worry about any sons!

"My lord! Wen He and I hit it off right away! Can we be alone if we are noncommittal?" Liu Bowen asked.

"In that case! Wenhe, you and Bowen go down and have a chat alone!" Li Song agreed, and Liu Bowen saluted Jia Xu and quit the Chinese army camp.

All this today made Jia Xu feel so unreal. He originally thought that everything was under control, but unexpectedly it exceeded his expectations.

(End of this chapter)