Seeing Chen Xing looking at him in confusion, Huang Dengyuan explained: "Never mention the issue of slave-building. No one knows what these people are thinking now. They are also desperate. If they rise up and surrender to the slave-building group, Mind you, it’s us who are finished.”
Only then did Chen Xing realize that these people were no longer soldiers. After burning, killing and looting, they had already lost their moral bottom line. No one can predict what they will do.
"Sir, what should we do?"
"Contact them and tell them that we are going to attack Tong Jianye and divide their property. Ask them if they will participate. If they participate, we will only get 30% of Tong Jianye's death. The rest will be shared with them," Huang Tengyuan said.
Chen Xing thought for a while and said: "My lord, this is a clever idea. We only have 1,300 people in our hands, and those dozen groups of rebels have a total of 3,000 people. However, their strength is not as good as ours, so it is very reasonable for us to be the main ones. In addition, they are not as strong as us." , it’s definitely interesting if we take one third, otherwise they wouldn’t dare say anything if we take half.”
"Yes, money touches people's hearts. Tong Jianye bullied them during this rebellion and robbed them of all the good things. Everyone dared to be angry but dare not speak out. This time, if we come forward, they will definitely have grievances and revenge. .”
Chen Xing said with some worry: "Sir, there are so many people, what if someone inside is unwilling to tip off Tong Jianye and the others."
Huang Tengyuan sneered and said: "Don't pay attention to those outside the customs. Only contact those inside the customs. If they can't get out of the customs, they will report nothing."
Chen Xing said: "Sir, let's finish the fight and leave immediately. Should we take these people with us or leave them behind?"
Huang Tengyuan said: "With Tong Jianye's two thousand troops, we can only go on our own. However, if we kill this grandson, we will be the largest force. We are not afraid of these small groups of troops who will not listen to us. We can take them all away." . When we get to the place, we break up the mixed group and don’t worry about losing control. In this way, we have a strength of 6,000 people, which is enough to protect ourselves on the grassland. "
Chen Xing immediately made up his mind and said, "I will contact their leader right away. Sir, please wait for my news."
Huang Tengyuan said: "Okay, it's not convenient for me to come forward, so you go first. By the way, send a message to Tong Jianye and the others first. Just tell me that I will prepare a banquet in Guancheng tomorrow afternoon for more than a dozen leaders and let his soldiers and horses do the work. Be ready to enter Guancheng. If these people agree to come with us, just give up. If anyone is unwilling, just deal with them at the banquet."
Chen Xing praised: "Sir, what a good strategy, this will just paralyze them. Let's launch an attack tonight. Catch them off guard."
Soon a sentry officer came to Tong Jianye's camp and informed him of the news.
Tong Jianye and others were very happy, seeing that Huang Tengyuan was set up by them. Judging from how quickly he responded to messages and took action. This time he was really tempted.
It was getting dark gradually, everything was normal in Guancheng, and there were no more people patrolling.
The people sent by Tong Jianye to monitor them returned to the camp with a yawn in the middle of the night.
In the early morning, when people are most sleepy and lazy, the door slowly opens. More than four thousand people, fully armed, filed out.
They quietly headed towards Tong Jianye's camp five miles below the mountain outside the pass.
At night, there were some sentries in the camp dozing off, leaning on their spears. The angry wind lantern hanging on the wooden pole was also swaying in boredom. There is still an hour before dawn. The sentryman had already gone back to sleep. The sentry also took the opportunity to be lazy and sleep.
The Ming Dynasty's border troops had already become lax in this era.
When Qi Jiguang was in charge of Jizhen, he tried to change the problems of people being idle, indolent, lazy and derelict in their duties. The Confederate Army was specifically used to set an example for them. It did receive good results at that time.
However, after Qi Jiguang left office, these bad habits soon returned with a vengeance.
Soldiers and officers are all lazy and unwilling to endure hardship and receive training. Lie down for a while if you can. Lie down for a while if you can. Standing guard is all a fool's errand. Be lazy if you can.
The quality of the army has long since disappeared and is in a state of decay.
After this riot, these soldiers also lost their respect for Shangguan and felt more like a group of people living together. If there is benefit, they will unite; if there is no benefit, they will disperse.
They had no idea that more than 4,000 people had surrounded them from all sides.
Huang Tengyuan took his soldiers, divided them into thirteen sentries, and ambush in the southeast of Tong Jianye's camp. It was also the only way for them to escape to the slave territory.
"Burn the camp with rockets and launch them." Huang Tengyuan gave the order. His soldiers immediately bent their bows and set arrows, and lit the bows and arrows wrapped in grease. Then throw it towards the camp.
Whoosh! Countless bright spots in the dark night covered the camp.
Huang Tengyuan's soldiers were all carefully trained by him. Including the personal soldiers, there are a total of 1,600 people. He is one of the few generals in Jizhen who is neither greedy nor greedy, and is devoted to training and leading troops.
In Ji Town, even in Jiubian, such people are aliens. His full force was three thousand men, and he received half of his free pay. In addition to paying filial piety to his superiors, he lived a simple life and could almost share the joys and sorrows with the officers and soldiers. So he also won the support of officers and soldiers.
He had long been disappointed with Ming Dynasty. He no longer had any hope for Ming Dynasty.
In his opinion, Ming's future will only continue to rot and stink. Until one day, a natural disaster, or a turmoil similar to the Yellow Turbans, brought this old empire to pieces.
Before this chaos, he had long thought of breaking away from the Ming Dynasty.
Now all the grasslands have been wiped out by Uncle Dingyuan, and the Mongols don't even know where they are. Thousands of miles are uninhabited and wild beasts are rampant. There are so many places suitable for farming and grazing.
He took his carefully trained men to herd horses and sheep outside the pass. How happy it was.
But, he didn't know that it wasn't that there was no one on the grassland anymore. Instead, Yang Fan engaged in large-scale pasture planting and settled animal husbandry on the grasslands. In this case, the Mongols would be used up in several strongholds. leading to population concentration. The original scattered population on the grassland disappeared.
He didn't know who controlled the grassland now. What he knew was that the grassland had been emptied by Uncle Dingyuan and turned into a vacuum zone. In fact, there has never been any land without an owner in this world. It’s just that you don’t know who the landlord is.
During this turmoil, he ordered his subordinates not to seize gold and silver, but to collect large quantities of livestock, grain, and cloth. Try to take away young and strong laborers as much as possible. He had already started sending people to sort out that Wu Bao. He had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.
Among the captured weapons, he collected a large number of bows and arrows. Almost every one of his men now has a bow and arrow. Almost all of his soldiers knew how to shoot arrows, and if there were no horses, he would even train them to ride horses.
Tong Jianye had two drinks in the evening and was sleeping soundly with the two top picks in his arms. Completely unaware, countless rockets had fallen.
The rebels on all sides jumped up immediately when they saw the rocket falling, and their shouts of killing instantly flooded the camp.
