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Chapter 281
(PS: It’s New Year’s Eve, please don’t ask for a New Year’s monthly ticket for the dog.)
"After a long time, it turns out that the biggest dog official in Henan is here." Fan Wencheng was the first to wake up when the thieves were surprised, and then he was the first to laugh and asked Yang Zuoji, "Yang dog official, what are you doing?" If you don’t hide in Luoyang City and sleep with your little lady in your arms, what are you doing here at the front line of Tongguan? You’re so brave, you dare to come to the front line to be an envoy yourself, admiration, it’s worthy of admiration! "

"That's right, even I have some admiration for this dog official. If we had met a few more dog officials like this before, we wouldn't have developed so smoothly." Luo Rucai also laughed, and smiled at the soldiers Said: "What are you still doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and bring a chair for the governor, and let the governor sit and lecture?" Luo Rucai's rebel soldiers agreed happily, and they really brought Yang Zuoji a small horse. Yang Zuoji bit Gritting his teeth, he finally sat upright and asked calmly, "Among you, who can make the decision?"

"Our three heavenly kings can all call the shots. If you have anything to say, just say it." Ma Shouying, the relatively weak old man, hurriedly said.Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong understood his thoughts, sneered in their hearts but did not deny it.Yang Zuoji nodded, bowed his hands to the three thieves and said: "Three leaders, I am here today to make a deal with you."

"What deal? What else do you have worth trading with us?" Fan Wencheng asked with a sneer.Yang Zuoji said in a deep voice: "Of course, I have at least the food, grass and military supplies in Tongguan City that I can trade with you. If you don't agree, even if you can take Tongguan City, you will not have any food in the city." Don't even think about getting it!" Speaking of this, Yang Zuoji pursed his lips, and added emphatically according to the instructions in Young Master Zhang's letter: "Even if we burn all the food, we won't leave one for you!"

Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui, and the many thieves present at the scene watched each other face to face. They never imagined that Yang Zuoji would come up with such a vicious and shameless move. He threatened the food that the peasant rebels were most looking forward to, and forced them to cooperate with the rebels and officials. Army to make a deal.The treacherous and cunning Fan Wencheng was also taken aback - he was too aware of the extent of these thieves' thirst for food and military supplies.After exchanging a few winks with each other, Luo Ru, the most cunning of the thieves, coughed and asked, "Then, Governor, how do you want to make this deal?"

"You have also seen that it is difficult to hold Tongguan." Yang Zuoji pointed out the letter from Young Master Zhang and said, "For the soldiers and people in Tongguan City, I can open the door and surrender to you, but you must swear to God , promise not to harm any civilians and soldiers in the city. If they want to leave, you must release them unconditionally, and you cannot force them to join you. Of course, in exchange, I can also guarantee that all the grain in the Tongguan granary A lot of them are given to you."

"That's okay." Luo Rucai agreed without even thinking about it, and said, "As long as you open the city and surrender, and hand over the granary and arsenal to us intact, we promise not to hurt anyone in the city, and will not force them join us."

"There are two more conditions." Yang Zuoji said solemnly: "First, after the surrender of Tongguan, the imperial court will definitely not let me go. I have no face to return to the imperial court to work with you, and I don't want to join you, so you can execute me. , but I must be given a decent death. Second, the Shaanxi army in Tongguan City will not surrender at all. I have persuaded and agreed to them, let them retreat from Tongguan City first, and then I will open the city and surrender. So you must give me some time, let me send away the Shaanxi army in the city, and then open the city gate to surrender to you."

"Your Excellency Yang is probably trying to play a game of slowing down the army?" Fan Wencheng was full of suspicion—this matter was so similar to the tricks of Fan Wencheng's arch-enemy, Young Master Zhang.Yang Zuoji replied according to Young Master Zhang's instructions: "You can choose not to believe it, but you will also regret it - the grain depot in Tongguan City is already full of firewood, as long as you attack the city, we will set it on fire immediately!"

If Yang Zuoji hadn't taken the risk of being the emissary alone, then Master Zhang's plan would probably have worked. Conditions, forcing the thieves to temporarily withdraw their troops!But Yang Zuoji personally served as the envoy and was immediately recognized by the thieves, which disrupted Master Zhang's pre-planned plan, and the thieves also had an extra thought that exceeded Young Master Zhang's expectations—since the governor of a province, Yang Zuoji, personally acted The negotiating envoy, then the deal proposed by Yang Zuoji is probably true, even if there is a false one, we can kill this senior governor with one knife!So after all the thieves discussed in a low voice, Luo Rucai asked again: "Okay, Governor, how much time do you want us to give you?"

"One day." Yang Zuoji said nervously: "Before sunset tomorrow, I will definitely open the Tongguan city gate and surrender to you."

"How many troops does Zhang Yingchang barbarian have, and it will take a day to withdraw from Tongguan?" Fan Wencheng sneered loudly, and said viciously: "You barbarian, you are clearly trying to slow down the army and try to trick us into slowing down the attack, so you can take the opportunity to heal the wounded." Soldiers, repair the city defenses, and regroup the troops to fight again! Do you want to hide such a trivial skill from me?"

"It doesn't take a day for General Zhang's army to withdraw from Tongguan." Yang Zuoji had received instructions from Young Master Zhang's letter earlier, and quickly replied: "But it will take time for them to go far. They have fought with you for more than three years. I'm afraid you can't remember how much hatred you have formed during this period? What if they go far away and you send troops to chase and kill them? Although they are not the army under the jurisdiction of the official, their rescue is as good as the sky , how can I have the heart to see them all killed by you?"

"That's the truth." Lao Huihui nodded first, thinking that Yang Zuoji's words were reasonable, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai also felt that Yang Zuoji's words were reasonable and beyond reproach, so they also nodded.Only the cunning and suspicious Fan Wencheng refused to believe what he said, and said with a sneer: "It's better to say than to sing. You barbarians and dogs are all despicable, sinister and indecent. How can you have such a kind heart?" Zhang Xianzhong said impatiently: "Okay, Mr. Fan, don't be so wordy. Governor Zhang himself is not afraid of death. He came to negotiate with us in person. There is nothing to believe."

"That's right, we don't need to trust other dog officials, but Governor Yang has a good reputation, so we can trust it." Luo Rucai nodded, and said with a wicked smile: "Okay, Governor Yang, we can meet your conditions. But we have to add The last condition is that you must stay in our army! If Tongguan does not open the city and surrender before sunset tomorrow, we will cut off your flesh piece by piece and let you die a miserable death!"

"But I'm not in the city, who will take charge of the overall situation and lead the army and civilians in Tongguan to open the city and surrender?" Yang Zuoji panicked.Luo Rucai quickly said, "That's simple. Since you dare to go out of the city to negotiate, it proves that you must have a deputy in charge in the city. We will send someone to escort you to the city and ask you to explain to your deputy what to do."

Yang Zuoji was in turmoil, Fan Wencheng looked at his words and said with a smile, "What's the matter? Are you afraid? I said this is a tactic to slow down the army, and it's true, right?" Hearing this, Yang Zuoji suddenly made up his mind, raised his head and said with a smile: "If I want to How can you take the risk yourself if you are cheating? Well, just do as you say."

"Okay, Governor Yang is indeed a rare and good dog official!" Luo Rucai applauded.Zhang Xianzhong also said with satisfaction: "Very well, Governor Yang is really a straightforward person. Don't worry, Governor, as long as you abide by your promise, we will let you solve it yourself. You can be as decent as you want." Fan Wencheng leaned in front of Yang Zuoji, Staring at Yang Zuoji's calm eyes, he said darkly, "You barbarian, if you dare to lie to us, then I will insert a sharpened wooden stake into your valley road just like Zhang Haogu's little mad dog killed my relatives." , have been worn out from your mouth!"

After the two sides reached a deal, Luo Rucai immediately sent twenty rogue soldiers to escort Yang Zuoji to the city of Tongguan, threatening Yang Zuoji to speak to the city.Yang Zuoji didn't hesitate, and shouted towards the city: "Lord Bao, Lord Bao, Lord Bao, the Henan inspector, listen carefully, I have reached an agreement with the leaders outside the city. They promised not to harm the people in the city Soldiers and civilians, give Tongguan City one day to prepare. Let General Zhang lead his army to go as far as possible. When the sun sets tomorrow, you will lead the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender and surrender the granaries and arsenals. Hand it over intact! Otherwise, I, the governor of Henan, will be executed on the spot by the leaders!"

"Master Yang!" Rao Bao Qimo had never gotten along with Yang Zuoji, and at this moment, he was also crying, and asked, "Master Yang, are you really going to do this?"

"Of course." Yang Zuoji answered with his head held high, and shouted with a pun: "Tell General Zhang that if he doesn't want me to die in vain, he will do as agreed and take his brothers as far away as possible. They are not the Henan army, and the leaders outside the city will not let them go." Fan Wencheng, who was among the soldiers watching to see if there was any time to repair the city defenses, also called out: "Officials and soldiers in Tongguan, listen, if you don't follow If you do what the governor says, then we will not only execute your governor Ling Chi, but after the city is destroyed, we will also kill every dog ​​and dog in Tongguan City, you should think about it!"

"Gather all the brothers, open the city gate, and rush out to rescue Lord Yang!" Zhang Yingchang shouted with a livid face.Bao Qimo hugged Zhang Yingchang, and said with tears in his eyes, "General Zhang, you can't. You haven't heard Master Yang's meaning yet? He told you not to let him die in vain just because he was afraid of your impulsiveness!"

"But when the sun sets tomorrow, Mr. Yang will be dead." Zhang Yingchang roared angrily.Bao Qimo quickly covered Zhang Yingchang's mouth, and said in a low voice: "General Zhang, Lord Yang has fallen into the hands of the rebels. If you go out to save people now, not only will they not be able to save them, but the rebels will attack the city immediately. At that time, Yang Your Excellency will die in vain! The only way now is to stall for time, wait for Zhang Butang's reinforcements to arrive, and then find a way to save Sir Yang."

"Remember, do what I say, and don't play tricks!" When he was escorted away from the city by the thieves, Yang Zuoji still didn't forget to yell to remind him that although Bao Qimo, Zhang Yingchang and other civil and military officials of the Ming army were already crying He is ordinary, but he did not dare to disobey Yang Zuoji's order, and could only watch helplessly as Yang Zuoji was escorted away by the rebel soldiers.And Fan Wencheng's triangular eyes turned wildly, and after walking far away, he suddenly ran in front of Yang Zuoji, grabbed Yang Zuoji's collar and asked viciously, "You barbarian, what do you mean when you said just now that you don't want to let you die in vain?"

"If they don't listen to me and rush out to save me, will my death not be in vain?" Yang Zuoji asked back, rolling his eyes.Fan Wencheng said angrily: "Since you are determined to die, why did they rush out to save you? Are you planning to play some trick?"

"This gentleman." Yang Zuoji looked Fan Wencheng up and down, and said slowly: "If you don't understand what is friendship and righteousness, don't ask me such a question—a person like you will never got it."

"You fucking barbarian! How dare you mock you, Master Fan?" Fan Wencheng was furious, kicked Yang Zuoji's stomach, and quickly went up to see Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai and other thieves, and shouted from a distance: "Everyone! Your Majesty, in my opinion, it is better to attack the city immediately, Yang Zuoji is a bit of a barbarian, it is best to chop him up immediately...!"

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Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui and other thieves were mostly forced to rebel by corrupt officials. Naturally, they would not believe that there are any officials in the world who are stupid enough to make fun of their own lives. At the same time, the leaders of the thieves are also extremely afraid of Tongguan The defenders burned the food and grass in Tongguan City, so Fan Wencheng's repeated persuasion was unsuccessful, and all the bandits still unanimously decided to believe in the deal proposed by Yang Zuoji.Fan Wencheng's thin arms couldn't twist his thighs, so he had no choice but to take a group of good thieves and soldiers to guard Yang Zuoji for the night, so as to prevent Yang Zuoji from escaping at night, and Yang Zuoji had already made mental preparations, and he would cross his knees all night long. Seat, Fan Wencheng was very disappointed - how much Fan Wencheng hoped that Yang Zuoji would escape.Enrage the thieves to attack the city immediately, and let the Han people kill each other.

When the sky was bright, the flag of the Shaanxi army on the head of Tongguan City had disappeared. Obviously, the Shaanxi army had evacuated Tongguan and fled to the hinterland of the Central Plains as agreed.Seeing this scene, the leaders of the rebellion were naturally rejoiced, and Fan Wencheng couldn't wait to suggest: "My lords, the only army capable of fighting in Tongguan has left, hurry up and attack the city, there will be many long night dreams." It's a pity that the leaders of the rebels are very afraid of Yang Zuoji's threat to burn down the non-existent food, grass and supplies in the city!So all the thieves still rejected Fan Wencheng's vicious suggestion, determined to wait until sunset and dark.

Time passed by every minute and every second. The sun rose on the land of Shaanxi where the spring snow had just melted, slowly climbed to the middle of the sky, and then slowly set. There was an ominous smell, and not only once did they instigate the leaders of the rebels to attack the city, but also grabbed Yang Zuoji's hair, pointed at Guanshan in the south and shouted: "You dog barbarian, go tell the barbarians in Tongguan city that when the sun sets on the top of Guanshan , if Tongguan hasn’t opened the city and surrendered, I’ll let you die a miserable death right away.” Yang Zuoji didn’t bother to pay attention to him at all, but closed his eyes, too lazy to look at Fan Wencheng’s distorted, almost ferocious, ugly face. Fan Wencheng kicked Yang Zuoji to the ground again.

"My lords, it's time to do something, the sun will be level with the top of Guanshan Mountain." Just after the time of day in the afternoon, Fan Wencheng, who was restless, rushed to Zhang Xianzhong and other bandit leaders to clamor.Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong also felt that the time was almost up, so they ordered the whole army to move out, and escorted Yang Zuoji slowly approaching the city of Tongguan. Fan Wencheng also personally put a knife on Yang Zuoji's neck, and threatened viciously: "You barbarian, listen to me, if you dare to play tricks, I will cut off all the flesh on your body with one knife at a time."

"Oh——! Long live the Ming Dynasty——!" Before Fan Wencheng could finish his words, there was an earth-shattering cheer in the city of Tongguan. Fan Wencheng and the gangsters looked up in surprise, only to see that under the setting sun, two large flags suddenly rushed to Tongguan. The wall is closed to the west, with the word "Zhang" written on one big flag, and the military flag with white characters on a red background on the other side, with three big characters written on it - Tunujun!

Seeing this familiar military flag, Fan Wencheng's face was ashen, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other bandits were all pale, and Lao Hui was so frightened that he fell off his horse and screamed, "Officer Zhang! That Zhang Haogu!" The puppy officer is here—!" Only Yang Zuoji, who was also nervous, sat down on the snow, wept with joy, and cried bitterly: "God bless me, Daming! God bless me, Henan! Here we come! Zhang Butang is finally here!"

"The dog barbarian!" Fan Wencheng almost went mad with anger, kicked Yang Zuoji on the head, rushed forward to punch and kick, and growled while beating, "The dog barbarian! How dare you play with me! You know Zhang Haogu, the little mad dog is coming , so deliberately tricked us into delaying time, right?"

"You guessed it." Yang Zuoji laughed happily while being beaten all over the ground: "There is one more thing to tell you, in fact, the food and grass in Tongguan were all used up last night! But now, Zhang Butang not only Bring your nemesis slave slaughter army here, and bring food, grass and military pay! You wait for death, wait for death for me!"

"Cut off this dog official!" Countless thieves roared angrily, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was impatient, simply mentioned Yang Zuoji, who had been beaten with a bruised nose, a swollen face and a bloody head, and chopped him off with a knife.Fan Wencheng quickly calmed down, grabbed Zhang Xianzhong's arm, and shouted: "Eight Great Kings, wait a minute! This bastard is still useful to us!"

"What use is it to us?" Zhang Xianzhong roared with red eyes.Fan Wencheng grinned and said, "Use him to exchange Tongguan! I know Zhang Haogu's mad dog very well. He is a hypocrite and a hypocrite. If he knows that Yang Zuoji, a dog in the official house, came to lie to us personally, he will definitely not ignore him! Let's take this dog. The officer is escorted to Tongguan City, forcing that little mad dog Zhang Haogu to leave Tongguan City, and use Tongguan City to replace the dog official, otherwise, we will kill the dog official immediately!"

"Officer Zhang Xiaogou will agree?" Zhang Xianzhong asked in surprise.Fan Wencheng nodded with a smirk, and replied: "As the so-called robber has its way, that little mad dog Zhang Haogu will definitely agree in order to buy people's hearts." In exchange for officials in Tongguan City, Zhang Haogu's little mad dog came out of the city to hunt us down, we have no danger to defend, how could we beat him?" Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other thieves were already scared by Young Master Zhang, After hearing it, he found it very reasonable, and immediately accepted Fan Wencheng's request, and escorted Yang Zuoji to the city of Tongguan to threaten him.Fan Wencheng was well aware of the power of the snipers of the Slaughter Army. While reminding the bandits to avoid them carefully, he ordered the soldiers of the bandits to guard Yang Zuoji closely. After escaping, Young Master Zhang also took the opportunity to go out of the city to save people.

When the thieves surrounded Yang Zuoji and came to Tongguan City, countless Franco cannons had already been set up on Tongguan City, and the soldiers of the slave slaughter army who had experienced many battles also loaded their ammunition and ammunition, and guarded the crenels above the city.Fan Wencheng was extremely treacherous. He hid behind his shield early on and commanded the rebel soldiers to shout in unison, "Don't shoot, we will kill Yang Zuoji! Don't shoot, the governor of Henan, Yang Zuoji, is in our hands!" Hearing this shout As expected, the soldiers of the slave slaughter army on the city did not rush to shoot to stop the enemy, and let the thieves force their way to the Tongguan city.

"Zhang Haogu, Zhang Haogu, get out!" With the hostage in hand, Fan Wencheng became more courageous, yelling and threatening Young Master Zhang to come out and answer.After a while, the dusty Young Master Zhang really stood out from the top of the city, first glanced at Yang Zuoji who was surrounded by bandits and soldiers, then at the leaders of the bandits hiding behind countless shields, and calmly shouted: "Let's go!" Master Yang, I won't hunt you down, I can let you go."

"Little savage Zhang Haogu, will we believe your words?" Fan Wencheng, who volunteered to negotiate with Young Master Zhang, hid behind several shields and roared with a grinning grin: "Hand over Tongguan City, and we will let Yang Zuoji go, otherwise, we will Right in front of you, cut off the flesh of this loyal barbarian!"

"Okay." Young Master Zhang didn't even think about it, and immediately said: "Hand over Master Yang, and I'll give you Tongguan. But I've said the ugly thing before, you enter the city, I will attack the city immediately, just you This gang of mobs, no matter how many there are, this official will not pay attention to it."

"You little savage, that's refreshing enough." Rao had already hated Young Master Zhang to the bone, and Fan Wencheng couldn't help admiring Young Master Zhang for his arrogance.Fan Wencheng shouted again: "You go out of the city first, and then we will release Yang Zuoji!"

"What guarantee do you take?" Young Master Zhang asked in a deep voice.Before Fan Wencheng could speak, Yang Zuoji suddenly shouted: "Zhang Butang, don't be fooled! Even if you give up Tongguan City, these thieves are afraid of your reputation, and they won't let you go. The subordinate officials are threatening you. Don’t let the soldiers of Ming Dynasty die in vain, let’s fire.”

"Shut him up!" Fan Wencheng shouted hastily.Yang Zuoji shouted quickly again: "Zhang Butang, I heard General Zhang Yingchang say that you said in your letter to Mr. Sun Ge that I am your confidant and friend, a peerless national scholar, and a pillar of the country. Although I don't know you Why do you say that, I have never met you, but with your comment, I have no regrets even if I die..."

"Tell him to shut up! Shut up!" Fan Wencheng jumped up and down, and when the rebel soldiers went to press Yang Zuoji together, Yang Zuoji struggled and shouted: "Butang, leave me alone, I am incapable of running the army and cannot defend Tongguan ...don't implicate the soldiers anymore...don't implicate them any more..." At this point, Yang Zuoji's mouth was finally pinned down by the rogue soldier, and Yang Zuoji bit it off suddenly in desperation, causing the rogue soldier to scream and bleed Letting go, Yang Zuoji took the opportunity to raise his head and shouted: "For Daming, the Ministry, fire at me! Soldiers, fire at me—!"

"Call me!" Fan Wencheng never dreamed that Yang Zuoji would be so stubborn, jumping and jumping and ordering the rebel soldiers to beat Yang Zuoji.Yang Zuoji was beaten until he screamed incessantly, yelling incessantly, "Fire the cannon! Kill the thief! Kill the thief—!"

"Butang, can you fire the cannon?" Zhang Dapao, the artillery captain of the Tunu Army, asked sweating profusely.Young Master Zhang bit his lips tightly, hesitating to make a decision, while Fan Wencheng in the city kept yelling wildly, "Zhang Haogu, you bastard! If you are brave enough, shoot! If you are brave enough, shoot me! Let me see who dies first!"

"Ah!" At this time, a scream came suddenly. It turned out that Yang Zuoji saw that Young Master Zhang had not given the order for a long time, and knew that Young Master Zhang was cherishing his own life. In order to make Young Master Zhang make up his mind, Yang Zuoji took the initiative to use his body to disrupt The knife in the bandit soldier's hand, the scream was also caused by the bandit soldier accidentally thrusting the steel knife into Yang Zuoji's chest.

"Master Yang!" Young Master Zhang exclaimed in shock.Yang Zuoji raised his head with difficulty, with blood in his mouth, and shouted with the last of his strength: "Butang! Fire the cannon! Kill the thief!" Roaring, Yang Zuoji rushed upwards violently, allowing the steel knife to pierce his chest And past......

"My lord—!" Amidst the exclamation of the soldiers of the Ming army, tears rolled down the eyes of Young Master Zhang, and he roared angrily: "Fire! Avenge Yang Zhongcheng—!"

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PS: Some friends may think that today's plot is a bit exaggerated, thinking how could there be an official like Yang Zuoji in a feudal society?In fact, what many friends may not know is that the first person in history who shouted the slogan "Fire me" was Zhu Wannian, a Han official in the late Ming Dynasty!In the fifth year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the traitor Kong Youde rebelled in Shandong. He took Zhu Wannian, who was the prefect of Laizhou at that time, to the city of Laizhou, and forced the defenders of Laizhou to open the city gate. Martyrdom.

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