In ancient times, most villages and towns had city walls. As long as the village gate was closed, it was a small fortress.
The same is true for Gubo Township, the target of Xintun's trip.
It is located on a plain, surrounded by farmland, and there are basically no mountains to block it. The township is quite large, but it is surrounded by walls more than one foot high. If you want to enter, you can only go through the two gates in the north and south.
Going eastward along Gubo Township, you can set foot on the road leading to Fangcheng and Linle in the east, so this place is still very important and needs a Qin army to garrison it.
Fortunately, when Zhao Tuo and his army arrived, the gate of Gubo Township was not closed. A group of Yan people dressed in noble attire were waiting at the door and began to bow from a distance.
"Unlucky, Mr. Nai thought..."
Halfway through Hei Butt's words, he suddenly found Shejian looking at him coldly. He was suddenly excited and said with a smile: "It's great. We can win this countryside without fighting. It seems that we can have a comfortable sleep tonight." Go to sleep, hey hey hey."
Everyone suppressed their laughter, everyone knew what this guy meant.
"I, the three elders of Gubo Township, Guze, welcome the general."
At the gate of the township, the leader of the Yan people was an old man with a gray beard, a tall crown, big sleeves, and a jade belt around his waist. He looked quite noble.
He kept his posture very low and spoke of "general" and "subordinate" to the teenage boy Zhao Tuo.
Behind Guze, other nobles from Gubo Township also bowed and greeted him. When they lowered their heads, their eyes caught sight of the weapons in Qin Jun's hands, and their faces were filled with fear.
Zhao Tuo smiled and stepped forward, held Gu Ze's hand, and said: "Elders, don't be too polite. Our department has been ordered to take over the defense of Gubo Township. We will need more help from the elders in the future, but don't refuse."
As soon as Zhao Tuo spoke, Guze's eyes lit up.
This young man spoke very wisely. He clearly wanted to lead troops to occupy the town, but when he opened his mouth, he only mentioned taking over the defense, as if his lonely town belonged to the Qin State.
In this way, Gu Ze and others feel less humiliated by surrender, and they have enough face.
When Guze first saw that the village chief was a teenager, he was still worried. Young people are arrogant and arrogant. If their passion gets the better of them and they don't care about their surrender, but just come up and cut off their heads in exchange for military merit, then they will be in misery.
Now that he saw Zhao Tuo speaking kindly, he immediately felt relieved. What particularly caught his attention was Zhao Tuo's accent.
"General, are you from Zhao?" Guze probed cautiously.
"Of course. My name is Zhao Tuo, and my ancestor is also a member of the Zhao Kingdom. Now I serve as a commander in the army, but I can't be called a general. The elders just call me by my name. Please rest assured, elders and everyone, as long as you cooperate My military affairs will be fine in the countryside."
Zhao Tuo said with a smile, his expression very gentle.
In this era, most of the villages lived together with their clans. This Gu Ze was not only the three elders in the town, but also the head of the big clan in the village. If outsiders like them wanted to stay here with peace of mind, such village elders must first befriended.
"That's natural, natural. Please don't worry, Mr. Zhao. I will definitely control the village and will never cause any trouble to you brave men."
Gu Ze had a smile on his face. Although Zhao Tuo asked him to call him by his first name, he didn't dare. At least he had to use the word "jun".
However, this village leader turned out to be a noble of the Zhao State. Even the Zhao people who had a feud with the Qin State could safely serve as military officials in the Qin army. It seemed that they, the Yan people who surrendered on their own initiative, would not suffer any disaster.
When he thought of this, the smile on Gu Ze's face became brighter and brighter.
"You brave men who have come a long way must be hungry. I have prepared wine and food at home. Please come to the city to have a meal."
Guze stretched out his hand and warmly invited Zhao Tuo and Qin Jun behind him to enter the countryside.
The powerful village elders behind him also fawned over and said, "All strong men, please come into the countryside."
In a few words, this Gubo Township completed the process of switching from Yan State to Qin State.
However, Zhao Tuo did not lead the team into the countryside immediately. He turned to look at the five chiefs behind him.
Shejian, Heihipu, Xiaobai, Xiqigu, and a gentleman named You.
"Xiao Bai, take a few people to guard this door and be careful."
Zhao Tuo issued an order. When he first arrived, he naturally had to guard the village gate before he could advance and retreat freely.
Xiaobai responded: "Wei."
The black buttocks smacked his lips and shouted: "Captain, there is another south gate, let me take people there."
Zhao Tuo glared at him. With such a black-assed temperament, he was not at ease.
But the remaining Shejian is his loyal friend, he is attentive and observant, and Xiqigu is familiar with the local affairs, so having the two of them by his side can help.
After hesitating, Zhao Tuo asked Gong Shiyou to lead a group of people to guard the south gate. Although this chief has no talent, at least he is an obedient master, which is much more reassuring than Black Butt.
At the same time, Zhao Tuo specially asked them not to start disputes easily and just guard the two rural gates.
Xiaobai and You accepted the promise and left.
Guze heard that Zhao Tuo sent people to guard the two rural gates.
There was a flash of panic in his eyes, but he was worthy of being an elder from the village. His expression remained unchanged and he still said enthusiastically: "Zhao Jun has a delicate mind and will have a bright future in the future. However, all the local Yan soldiers were summoned to Ji by the great... King Yan. The city is gone, there is no danger around, please rest assured, Mr. Zhao."
Zhao Tuo smiled and said: "It's better to be careful. However, the King of Yan summoned all the soldiers to Jicheng, which made the general worry less. In a few days, the general led his army to come in person, and he just wiped out Jicheng."
"Yes, yes, we have also heard of the reputation of the General."
Hearing the mention of Wang Jian's army in Zhao Tuo's words, Gu Ze and others became more and more frightened, and respectfully invited Zhao Tuo and the Qin army in the rear to enter the township.
…
In the courtyard in the countryside, someone was singing amidst the excitement of construction, and the voice was shrill and tragic.
A teenager rushed into the hospital.
"Brother Song, Brother Song."
"The Qin army has entered the countryside. Aweng asked me to tell you to hide and avoid being discovered by the Qin army."
The singing stopped, but the building sound was still stirring.
Song Yi looked at the young man in front of him and said coldly.
"You, Aweng, have surrendered to Qin."
The young man blushed and said, "Aweng said that the Qin army is so powerful that the Yan State will be destroyed. If we don't take this opportunity to defect to the Qin State, our clan will definitely be destroyed."
Song Yi's face turned blue and he said angrily: "Disaster of annihilation? Then the King of Qin is cruel and the laws of Qin are harsh, often affecting the whole clan. Even if you vote for Qin, will you guarantee that you will not violate Qin's laws and become a prisoner in the future? Then Then there won’t be any disaster?”
"Hmph, instead of living in vain at this time, it is better to fight with those Qin people, and it will not be in vain for the blood of my Yandi man!"
