Any kind of creature, even a person who claims to be the leader of all spirits, has always feared power and has little virtue in nature. This is the instinct of a creature, and it is understandable.

It is common to be afraid of strength and dare not resist, but to sneer at kindness and even to repay kindness with grudges.

Especially in the last days of the dynasty, people were like wild animals, without the constraints of order. The more chaotic it was, the closer it was to the instinctive beast nature.

Thieves are such a group of things that bring their beastly nature to the extreme.

When they were holding people, killing people, treating people as grass, and destroying everything, they never put themselves in their shoes. What would they feel if they were themselves?

Instead, they will hate.

Why do you people have to live and work in peace and contentment, and I have to be a thief?

Not convinced!

I've become a thief, so you can't think of it.

This is the animal nature in human nature. After all, human beings are also an animal, but they have more wisdom than animals. However, animal nature is always buried deep in instinct. In peace, there is a constraint of order. When chaos arises, it will burst out.

Why do we say that we use heavy sanctions in troubled times?

This is the reason.

The more chaotic the times are, the more ruthless they are. Otherwise, how can they suppress the person who explodes in beast nature?

In front of 20,000 to 30,000 prisoners, Zhao Yu beat the horse Shouying into meat paste with a cone, which is nothing more than that.

After Shouzhou was brought down, Huoqiu was next. According to the original plan, the other four armies were about to take their place at this time. He had no time to waste his time in Shouzhou.

When I went to Huoqiu, I had to take away most of the troops and horses, leaving only one thousand. And there were 20,000 to 30,000 prisoners here, which were disproportionate. Once there was a change, I might not be able to suppress it.

The fear in these prisoners must be deepened.

Previously, Zhao Yu scattered dozens of people in Shouzhou City and killed one cone. Old Hui returned to the Three Thousand Old Camp, and almost 60% of them were killed by him alone, which only took half a stick of incense.

This is already scary enough.

But Zhao Yu still feels unsafe.

The court was used to Zhao'an, so the bandits were lucky. If they followed Ma Shouying's idea and surrendered him, it would not only be a good thing, but a huge hidden danger.

This kind of compromise will make the prisoners think a lot.

It is so wonderful to think that the court is weak - if you can't beat it, you surrender, if you can seize the opportunity, you rebel, if you can't beat it, you can't surrender, if you can't beat it, you can't surrender, what a wonderful thing?

Zhao Yu directly interrupted this luck with one cone.

First, he killed the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying, and then without saying a word, he directly dragged out a hundred people from the prisoners below, raised his sword and fell to the ground.

It’s not enough to kill Lao Huihui. These thieves may not be grateful to Lao Huihui. Perhaps Lao Huihui turns into meat paste, and many people are still happy.

They must know the pain of skin damage!

There are not many 100 heads, but they can kill them without saying a word. Such cruel methods are really scary.

Zhao Yu spoke, asking the prisoners to testify against each other and find out the leader. With the limit of ten breaths, if no one testifies against him, he will pull out a hundred more people and continue to kill him.

So they rushed to the forefront.

As long as the leader of the thief who commands more than a hundred people, they will be proved in less than a stick of incense, and then dragged it out and killed.

In just two moments, the captives were truly disorganized.

Only those few left behind the generals, in the pool of blood, were hundreds of heads.

Only then did Zhao Yu feel relieved.

He just nodded slightly to the guide, the juren who had controlled Shouzhou City since then, walked down the platform and left Shouzhou City.

Outside the city, about nine thousand soldiers and horses had been waiting for a long time.

This time, the troops and horses were damaged in vain. The main reason was that Zhao Yu broke the door with one blow and defeated the old camp of the bandits with one man, causing the thieves in the city to be in chaos and unable to form combat power, which was so easy.

There were less than a hundred casualties.

Speaking of which, such an easy battle almost exists in legends.

After this battle, the soldiers were more convinced of Zhao Yu. There is no doubt that victory improved the soldiers' enthusiasm. The benefits of victory, such as seizure, made the soldiers smile.

Like the thief, they are the best at plundering, and almost every bandit has silver. After taking Shouzhou and defeating Lao Huihui, the silver seized alone exceeded 800,000 taels!

With valuable items such as gold beads and jewelry, as well as food and grass, the value of the spoils is definitely more than 1.4 million taels.

This is the figures calculated by Yang He.

The food and grass were left directly in Shouzhou, and no one was left. The silver was left with Shouzhou, and all the jewelry was handed over to the juren. The remaining 500,000 taels of silver were all owned by the soldiers according to Zhao Yu's promise in Shanhaiguan.

But on average, each of them has fifty taels of silver. This kind of harvest is simply ecstatic.

Not to mention anything else, just at this time, the monthly wages for regular soldiers in the Ming army would be only one or two taels or fifty taels of silver, which would be at least two years of military wages!

It has to be sufficient.

In fact, among these soldiers, there are definitely a few who have seen fifty taels of silver at one time. And they only need to be officers.

Zhao Yu fulfilled his promise and even wasted some time to distribute silver outside the city. The purpose was to show the soldiers that Zhao Yu kept his word.

So morale rose.

Victory, and silver, are the source of morale.

As for honor, it is not enough yet. It takes a long time to count the military achievements of the entire army. Now that the war is not over, we can only suppress it first. After the five camps of the Left are wiped out, we will reward them according to their merits.

Then the army set out and rushed straight to Huoqiu.

...

Huang Degong is a person who wants face. In other words, no one who has a slightly more than one's status does not want face.

Zhao Yu was in broad daylight, and in front of so many people, he stepped on his face with Huang Degong. Not to mention that Huang Degong could endure such humiliation even if he could endure it, he would be afraid that he would not be able to withstand this kind of humiliation.

So he wants to take revenge.

As for the general trend of the world and the safety of the court, what is that?

However, what made Huang Degong feel frustrated was that when he planned to deal with Zhao Yu, he found that Huaiyuanwai's military camp was empty.

But Huang Degong is not a person who is good at giving up. Of course, it must not be given up on the personal honor and disgrace and interests. As for the others, let’s talk about it.

So he sent someone to track down Zhao Yu's army and then found a way to kill Zhao Yu.

When people are angry and embarrassed, they are often irrational.

Huang Degong never thought that even if he stabs Zhao Yu in the back, could he kill Zhao Yu? If he can't kill him, what would be the consequences?

Huang Degong is called Huang Chuang'er. He is a irritable and impulsive person. He will not think so far.

Especially the next thing made him think God helped.

The court master actually sent someone to come!

He thought it was a crime, but after all, he was guilty of being a thief, and Huang Degong did many things that were ignorant. Or he thought he issued an edict to cooperate with Zhao Yu to suppress the thief.

However, unexpectedly, the old master of the court asked him to drag Zhao Yu back.

He even hints that he would kill Zhao Yu if he had the chance.

How could Huang Degong not be happy?

He immediately agreed and offered a sum of silver to send the person away. He was so excited that he called his left and right, and sent a large number of people to follow Zhao Yu's army in a big way.

If you have the support of the court master, what else can you be afraid of?

Seeing that the golden crow fell, Huang Degong was a little impatient when he waited. Finally, there was a scout reward.

"Zhao Yu went to Shouzhou in one battle, killed the old Hui Ma Shouying, and captured nearly 30,000 prisoners."

Huang Degong was dumbfounded.

So fast?!

It's impossible!

When he went to Zhao Yu's camp, he secretly observed that although Zhao Yu had many soldiers, there were 50,000. However, he did not carry heavy siege equipment. Neither it was a catapult or a cannon.

Although Shouzhou does not say that the city is strong in the world, the city wall is at least two meters high, especially after falling into the control of the thief, it has been raised and reinforced.

How to capture the city without heavy equipment?

And in such a short time?!

Huang Degong naturally didn't know that Zhao Yu's attack was not based on equipment, but on an iron cone in his hand. As for not carrying heavy siege equipment, the reason was very simple - it dragged down the speed of the marching.

The siege of Kaifeng is in critical condition, and the thieves are gathering slightly, all in the Huanghuai area. If you don’t take this opportunity to catch all the thieves in one go and wait for the thieves to scatter, it will be a big trouble.

Besides, the prince went to Kaifeng in person, which made Zhao Yu feel uneasy. There were no large number of elite soldiers available in the prince's hands, and the rest of the local army were all mobs who looked down upon, and there was no big difference from the thief. In case of an accident and put the prince in a dangerous place, this was something that Zhao Yu didn't want to see. The rebels must be dealt with as soon as possible and the thief can be conquered to the north and attacked Kaifeng.

Therefore, Zhao Yu's army was light and simple. He had never carried any heavy equipment.

If it were someone else, it wouldn't work without carrying it, because siege is a big trouble after all.

Moreover, without heavy equipment, the cannons and heavy equipment of the upper thief will be at a disadvantage.

But Zhao Yu is not worried about these things.
To be continued...