"The younger one is Zhou Tong, the younger one is Zhou Tong." Zhou Tong hurriedly identified himself, fearing that something unexpected would happen if he said it too late.
To such a person, Gao Zhongyun was too lazy to talk nonsense and asked directly: "Are you willing to surrender?"
Zhou Tong was stunned when he heard this, his face turned pale and uncertain.
Gao Zhongyun, who didn't wait for a reply, looked at Zhou Tong on the ground.
I thought Zhou Tong would surrender immediately after hearing this, but now it seems that the officials of the imperial court are still not optimistic about their tiger-character flag, otherwise it is impossible for even officials like Zhou Tong to hesitate.
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to surrender. If anyone comes, take him out and kill him." Gao Zhongyun directly ordered the people below to execute Zhou Tong.
The two cavalrymen who were guarding Zhou Tong each raised an arm, lifted Zhou Tong from the ground, and dragged him out.
"I'm willing to surrender, I'm willing to surrender." Seeing that he was really going to be dragged out and executed, Zhou Tong shouted to Gao Zhongyun eagerly.
I was afraid that I would actually be killed after I finished speaking.
Gao Zhongyun waved his hand at the two cavalrymen dragging Zhou Tong.
The two men let go of Zhou Tong.
Once liberated, Zhou Tong knelt on the ground and crawled a few steps forward. He kept saying, "I surrender, I surrender."
"Since you chose to surrender, I just have something for you to do." Gao Zhongyun looked at Zhou Tong condescendingly and said.
Zhou Tong raised his head and said, "Whatever you say, whether it's going up a mountain of knives or going down into a sea of fire, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it for you."
"It's a small matter." Gao Zhongyun said, "Tiancheng Guards still have several Qianhu and Baihu stations that have not surrendered. Go and persuade them to surrender."
The Third Battle Barracks, which arrived at Tiancheng Guard first, only cleared the Qianhusuo and Baihusuo near the city. The Qianhusuo and Baihusuo further away had not yet had time to capture.
"Let, let the young one go and surrender!" Zhou Tong looked bitter.
Even though he promised to surrender to the Tiger Flag, he still resisted from the bottom of his heart to the task of recruiting people to surrender.
More importantly, he was worried that if he went to other Qianhu offices to recruit and surrender, before the recruitment was successful, his head would become someone else's contribution to promotion and wealth.
After all, even if he is not optimistic about the Tiger Character Flag, the Qianhu Office and Baihu Office below, as long as they are not stupid, cannot be optimistic about the great achievements of the Tiger Character Flag.
"What? You don't want to?" Gao Zhongyun's face sank.
Zhou Tong was so frightened that he trembled, and then he remembered that he was already a prisoner, his life and death were controlled by others, and he had no room for bargaining.
Gao Zhongyun continued: "If you don't want to do such a small thing, what's the use of keeping you? Come on, drag me out and kill you!"
"No, I am willing. I am willing to go to the Qianhu Station and Baihu Station below to recruit surrender. I am willing, I am willing." Zhou Tong hurriedly expressed his obedient attitude.
In order to survive, he had to surrender.
Regardless of whether he was really willing or pretending to be willing, Gao Zhongyun said directly to the subordinates on the side: "Ask the First Battle Barracks to dispatch a thousand-man team, bring two cannons, and go with him to those thousands of households. All the people and hundreds of households will be recruited to surrender."
He pointed at Zhou Tong.
"Yes." The guard on the side agreed and turned around to convey the order.
Zhou Tong secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he was not the only one to surrender, and that a large army was sent to accompany him.
Being accompanied by an army of tiger-shaped flags gave him some confidence, and he did not have to worry about the possibility of being killed as soon as he saw the stewards of the Thousand Household Office or the Hundred Household Office.
Not long after, a man wearing an iron helmet and cotton armor walked in from outside.
"Subordinate Wu Zhengkuan, please see the deputy division commander, the two battalion commanders, and Chief of Staff Ji." The visitor saluted Gao Zhongyun and Ji Kui in the room.
Gao Zhongyun said: "You know all the orders, right?"
"When my subordinates came over, Qin Guards had already informed them that they were going to the Tiancheng Guard's Thousand Households and Hundred Households to recruit surrender." Wu Zhengkuan said.
Gao Zhongyun nodded lightly, then pointed at Zhou Tong on the ground and said: "He is the commander of the Tiancheng Guard. You take him with you to recruit him. If he doesn't listen to your arrangements or makes any inappropriate moves, You are allowed to execute him on the spot."
"Yes." Wu Zhengkuan agreed and glanced at Zhou Tong next to him.
Zhou Tong was so frightened that he trembled.
He was afraid that during the process of recruiting and surrendering, the bandit leader named Wu Zhengkuan would deliberately find an excuse to kill him.
"Go and perform the mission!" Gao Zhongyun said.
Wu Zhengkuan raised his right hand and saluted others present. He then looked at Zhou Tong on the ground and said, "Can you still stand up? If you can, just follow me."
"Yes, I can stand." Zhou Tong climbed up from the ground tremblingly.
From now on, his life will be in the hands of the other party, and he does not dare to offend him in the slightest.
"Since you can stand up, come with me quickly." With that said, Wu Zhengkuan took the lead and walked outside.
Zhou Tong bowed his hands to the other people in the room with an apologetic smile, and then quickly chased after Wu Zhengkuan who was almost outside the door.
Gao Zhongyun was the only one left in the room.
Just listen to Gao Zhongyun say: "The situation in the guard station is a little better. The land is basically in the hands of the officials. Once the county is attacked, most of the land will be in the hands of the local gentry. If we can get Huangcetian as smoothly as today, The contract will become difficult.”
"I put the knife on my neck because I was afraid they wouldn't agree." Tan Zaiwang said disapprovingly.
As a poor miner, he naturally had no good impression of the squire.
Gao Zhongyun said: "It's not that simple. After all, the squire class has the final say in this world. I really want to offend all the squires. Let alone the squires here in Xuanda, they will ask us to do things It becomes difficult.”
"Is it possible that Cheng Cheng is so lethargic?" Tan Zaiwang frowned.
Gao Zhongyun rubbed his forehead and said: "Forget it, let the proprietor and Shizheng have a headache with this kind of thing. What we can do is to build cities for the proprietor."
"Now that we have captured Tiancheng Guard, where are we going to attack next?" Liu Qingzhou asked Gao Zhongyun, "Soldiers need to be quick. We should capture as many cities as possible before the surrounding border forts and county towns have reacted."
Gao Zhongyun said: "The army has been fighting continuously these days and is temporarily staying in Tiancheng Guard to rest and recuperate. Moreover, I have sent people to Xinping Fort to deliver a message to the division to ask for the direction of the next attack."
Although Tianchengwei still has a few Thousand Houses and Hundreds of Houses that have not been captured, they will be captured sooner or later, and they will not pose much of a threat to the Tiger-Character Banner's army.
Not long after Tianchengwei was captured, a group of officers and soldiers from Datong Fucheng were rushing towards Xinping Fort.
There were more than a hundred officers and soldiers in this army, under the banner of the Fubiao Camp of the Governor of Datong.
"Sir, there is a village ahead. Why don't we go to the village to rest for a while before continuing on our way." An officer and general leading the team rode to the side of the carriage and said to the people inside.
