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Chapter 856 Kaifeng Changes Owner

"Are you going to make the world laugh at Guan?"

Guan Sheng looked at the family heirloom sword with a cold glow in Yang Zhi's hand, without even raising his hand, he said coldly: "You are also from a famous family, how can you do such evil things?"

Yang Zhi withdrew his saber and sighed deeply: "Brother Guan, to be honest, I used to be proud of my status as a descendant of the Yang family, but now I am suffering from the betrayal of the Song court. Kill me, and I will be free..."

Guan Sheng said in a deep voice: "Since that's the case, why didn't you stick to the Yingtian Mansion, even if you died in battle, it would still be vigorous and worthy of loyalty!"

Yang Zhi sternly said: "Because that's the case, my Yang family's reputation will be ruined once. The magistrate Jia Zheng is vicious and vicious. In order to escape the crime, he deliberately transferred the credit for treason against 'Zuo Ming' to me. If the matter is revealed, how will the world view my Yang family?"

Guan Sheng figured out the cause and effect, fell silent, and sighed after a while, his voice filled with sympathetic sadness: "I understand..."

Yang Zhi's tone softened slightly: "I, Yang Zhi, am not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and even more so is Brother Guan. We are small when we die, but we are great if we humiliate our ancestors. I believe that Brother Guan thinks the same as me!"

Guan Sheng said in a low voice: "That's right!"

Yang Zhi's voice rose again, even more resoundingly: "Although loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve since ancient times, it is not so difficult to achieve both. The reputation of our ancestors was earned by fighting the enemy bravely and defending the country. In the Song Dynasty, there is now a foolish ruler above and treacherous ministers below, lenient on the outside and strict on the inside, abandoned by the people!"

"Then Tao Miao, the prefect of Zhending Prefecture, was beaten to death by the people. How will he be remembered in the history books? Brother Guan will seize the food of the people in Bianliang next. Once a civil uprising is triggered, how will the history books remember you? The lightest is a foolish loyalty." Harm the people!"

Guan Sheng closed his eyes, and then opened them after a while: "So, are you planning to turn against me?"

Yang Zhi nodded heavily: "That's the case, others may not understand Brother Guan and Brother Huyan, but I know it all too well, so I'm the one to take the lead in this matter!"

In the past, Guan Sheng must have sternly reprimanded him categorically.

In the original book, there is a key reason why a court general like him will go to Liangshan, and Song Jiang made a promise to recruit security, "the heart of surrender has been long, and the ambition to serve is awe-inspiring." This is not a group of ordinary people. Thieves, the process of murder, arson, and recruitment is clear, and only when their goals are ambitious will they join the gang.

Otherwise, if you really want to surrender to a pure thieves, no matter how "Shangying Xingkui, congenial", Guan Sheng's final ending is also very good, just based on his surname, it is an invisible talisman.

But now this descendant of Guan Yunchang really hesitated, especially when he heard Yang Zhi's next words: "I wait for the salary of the emperor, and I should be loyal to the emperor and worry about the emperor's worries. I said, 'Jie and Zhou lost the world, lost their people, and those who lost their people lost their hearts'! Being loyal to the emperor and serving the country is definitely not being unkind and unrighteous, and that is not loyalty and filial piety.

Guan Sheng's lips trembled, almost wanting to respond, but finally he waved his hand: "Let me think! Let me think!"

"If Brother Guan wants to, after Kaesong surrenders, he can go north to the outside of the Great Wall to fight against other races, and not meet the former Paoze..."

Yang Zhi finished Wu Yong's last sentence and clasped his fists together: "This is the end of the conversation, Yang will leave!"

There was no more movement in the house, Guan Sheng buried his head deeply, and merged with the night.

Early in the morning of the second day, when this man walked out of the house, the left and right guards were surprised when they saw him, because his haggard appearance did not look like the majestic general in the past at all.

But what made them feel at ease was that this man's eyes returned to the firmness of the past, and a slightly hoarse voice sounded: "Let's go! We must prevent other generals from taking food!"

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"What is Guan Sheng thinking? If we don't collect food now, don't we want to wipe out all our troops?"

"I think he cherishes his reputation of benevolence and righteousness. He doesn't care about the life and death of our generals. He is far from Zhe Lao Taiwei!"

A group of middle- and lower-level generals of the Western Army came out of the camp angrily.

The old Taiwei Zhe is the honorific name of Zhe Keshi in the army, not that Zhe Keshi really became a Taiwei. Back then, the Western Army called Zhong Shiheng also an old Taiwei, but in fact Zhong Shiheng would only die for the rest of his life. A seven-rank official is a hundred and eight thousand miles away from a real Taiwei, but the army respects him, so he is called a Taiwei.

If Zhe Keshi did the same thing, the whole army would definitely obey and love the common people, but if Guan Sheng did it, it would only arouse disgust and break up unhappy. This is the embodiment of the prestige in the army.

Seeing that these generals' hatred for Guan Sheng reached an extreme level, a voice suddenly sounded: "According to me, just vote!"

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet. No one yelled loudly, but the pace quickened instead. They came to the corner together and looked around vigilantly. After making sure no one was eavesdropping, they looked over: "Chen Wu, what do you mean?"

The general Chen Wulang who just spoke said: "We are all brothers in life and death. To tell you the truth, there is a promise that as long as we surrender, we will not belong to the township army, but will still form an independent army, provide food, grass and supplies, and let us return to the northwest. Guard the frontier and prevent Xixia from taking advantage of the fire!"

The generals were startled in the lead, then surprised and delighted, but they couldn't believe it: "Is there such a good thing? Yan Yun will be so generous?"

Chen Wulang said: "It's not about generosity, but it's obvious that they don't trust us, so they don't want us to stay in the camp. When they return to the northwest, they will also be responsible for destroying the Gaotuo Mountain that is running around in the east of the river, and stabilizing the situation in east and shaanxi. "

When the generals heard the words, they talked a lot: "What's the difficulty in fighting this bandit?" "It's great to be an independent army, I don't want to surrender to those peasant soldiers!" The food and grass reserves are abundant, and this promise is generosity!"

The western army has its own pride. Although the township army is now unstoppable, they don't think they are really being overtaken by others. They are only temporarily behind because of exhaustion from long-term battles, unfair rewards and punishments, constraints from the court, and insufficient logistics...

Therefore, the matter of surrender has actually been thought of by every general in their hearts, and the most objectionable thing is to let them be incorporated into the township army and obey the command of the younger generation.

Now that they can go back to their hometown in the Northwest and become an independent army, they are naturally ecstatic. After discussing for only a moment, they almost reached an agreement: "If this is the case, everyone is willing, Chen Wu, please contact me quickly!"

But at this moment, one of the generals also said: "If we really go back to the northwest, what will happen to the old Taiwei and General Zhong?"

As soon as these words came out, the joy on the faces of all the generals froze for a moment, but Chen Wulang had been taught a long time ago how to answer similar questions, so he quickly said: "Wrong, it is precisely because we have preserved our strength and returned to the northwest , the imperial court dare not kill the killer..."

Everyone suddenly said: "This is the reason, this is the reason, you should raise your soldiers and respect yourself. Isn't it like this in the former Tang Dynasty?"

In their tone, they missed the fifth generation very much, and at the same time, they no longer felt burdened.

The generals of the Western Army certainly respect Zhe Keshi and Zhongshi, but if they completely sacrificed themselves for the sake of the two old generals, they have not yet reached that point. Enter Bianliang.

Someone even showed a fierce look and said in a low voice: "Before that, how about dealing with Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo first?"

Chen Wulang sneered: "Just wait and see, they may not be loyal to the imperial court, and they might rush to surrender when they open the city gate!"

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"Brother Guan, you shouldn't forcefully suppress those generals of the Western Army..."

On the Bianliang city wall, Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng stood side by side, looking at the township army barracks in the distance, said in a low voice.

Guan Sheng said indifferently: "No matter what, we have no morale in the army, and we can't defend Bianliang. Why do we need to harm those innocent people at this moment?"

Hu Yanzhuo opened his mouth, his words were obviously extremely pessimistic, but he couldn't find a reason to refute, so he could only sigh: "It's true..."

Guan Sheng said: "Brother Huyan, you and I are close friends, I don't want to hide it from you, the next thing I have to do is to offend the court!"

Hu Yanzhuo's face suddenly changed, his eyes widened: "What are you going to do?"

Guan Sheng solemnly said: "Kasong surrenders!"

Hu Yanzhuo looked left and right, on the city wall, there were guards patrolling, as always, the other party said such shocking words, his scalp was numb with shock: "Brother Guan, are you crazy?"

Guan Sheng shook his head: "Yang Zhi came to look for me last night..."

He recounted the ins and outs of Yang Zhi's defection to the enemy, or the original words he said, and finally concluded: "Others are fine, what Yang Zhi did really awakened me. What we hold in our hearts is not foolish loyalty to the enemy. Faint king, but loyal to integrity!"

"Since ancient times, integrity has been the orthodox orthodoxy. Discriminating between Huayi and Barbarians, life and death are trivial, and infidelity is major. It has nothing to do with civil and military affairs!"

"Brother Huyan thinks, if we were ordered by a foolish emperor to trap loyal ministers, tire the common people, and die to serve the country when the city was destroyed, did we fulfill our loyalty, or did we lose our integrity?"

When he said the last sentence, Guan Sheng turned around and stared at him.

Stared at by those shining eyes, Hu Yanzhuo, who was filled with shock and anger, was actually speechless: "But...but..."

Guan Sheng said: "It's nothing, but Lin Yiyong returned to Yanyun, retreated from the barbarians, let the Liao people bow their heads, and let all the people look forward to it. I, Guan Sheng, can't stand in front of these rebels for my own selfishness, but let Jinghu Fanglana and others Rebellious officials and thieves benefit!"

He finally said: "I have made up my mind, if Brother Huyan wants to kill me as a traitor, please do so!"

Watching Guan Sheng stride away undefended, Hu Yanzhuo clenched the double whips in his hands, and finally leaned against the city wall dejectedly.

……

Two days later, the city of Bianliang opened.

Headed by Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo, the generals of the middle and lower ranks of the Western Army, and even all the soldiers of the Western Army, surrendered the city together.

Kaifeng Mansion has ushered in a new owner.

　Thanks to the book friends "Yinchai", "White Frost Mist", "Holmium" and "Weird Moon" for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)