"Over there! That square-faced guy in the blue shirt, catch him!"
"There's one on the left, hiding behind that cart!"
"Run away! That one ran away!"
The soldiers on the city gate could see more clearly and wanted to give guidance to Zhang Ji and Deng Li who were under the gate, but...
Unfortunately.
invalid.
There was a chaos of shouting below the city, covering up the guidance on the top of the city.
It's okay to use a flag, but there is more than one spy mixed in the crowd. Which one should you point to?
recent?
Okay, here comes the problem, spies can also run away. When chasing this spy, another spy suddenly becomes the closest. Do you want to change the direction?
What?
Tell these people to shut up?
If so, wouldn't it be like some people calling a beast to express what time it is? Why don't these people shut up, how can they scream so well, and why are there such complaints? Is life so unsatisfactory? There is this time to cry,
Why don't you work hard? Why don't you drive a taxi? Why don't you rent out your house and land?
Because Cao Jun's spies caused chaos, instead of dealing with Cao Jun's spies first, you want to silence the people first?
Isn't this just like when giving out money or coupons, choosing to post is the same?
From a certain perspective, if these people shut up and became quiet at the same time, it would indeed make it easier for Zhang Ji and Deng Li to arrest these Cao Jun spies. The more chaotic the situation, the easier it would be for these Cao Jun spies to hide.
But the problem is that as a manager, as an official, with the salary provided by the people, enjoying all kinds of convenient rights, you still expect the people to cooperate in times of chaos, and if they don't cooperate, you won't do things.
Are you only willing to face simple situations and don't want to deal with complex situations?
Zhang Ji and Deng Li rushed out of the pass with their soldiers and faced this situation.
As for whether you should put your fingers together, draw a magic formula, shout "I represent the moon" or something... In fact, Sailor Moon has a very profound connotation. For example, you usually show off to someone, and then treat it as if it is in your hand.
The shining scepter transformed...
Obviously Zhang Ji and Deng Li came to arrest and kill the spies of Cao Jun who were hiding among the people for the sake of these people. It was obviously good for the people, but now they were blocking the course of action of Zhang Ji, Deng Li and others, and they were running around in a panic.
It was these common people who ran away.
Although they are unconscious, they are indeed substantively and indirectly helping these Cao Jun spies to hide and escape. It is like a prank show in later generations. When they see a group of menacing people rushing out, even if they are
Knowing in his heart that he is innocent, he will subconsciously choose to run away first.
"Marquis of the Army!" Deng Li shouted, "This won't work! I'll take people to go around from the edge! Outflank!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang nodded in agreement, and at the same time ordered his spearmen to move forward, turn the heads of their spears, and use the handles of their spears to hit the common people who were rushing over and bumping into them without thinking, and asked these common people to squat down and not allow them to do so.
Running around.
So the soldiers immediately divided into two teams, one of which was led by Zhang Ji to arrest the soldiers in the crowd, while the other part of the soldiers was led by Deng Li and left the chaotic area, intending to go around to the outer area where the crowd was sparse to intercept those who were mixed in.
Cao Jun's spies among the crowd.
There were heads swaying everywhere near the official gate, and people kept crying and shouting unconsciously, "Cao Jun is here" and "kill people". The weak ones were knocked to the ground and no one had time to help them up.
The young children were separated from their parents and cried in confusion. Those Cao Jun spies were disappearing and appearing in the crowd...
The beatings and expulsions actually did not cause much harm to these chaotic people, but soon after Cao Jun's spies saw Zhang Ji taking action, they immediately shouted, "The Hussars are killing people! The Huguan defenders are killing people!"
This is obviously not true.
Even if some unlucky guys were hit on the head by the handle of a spear and bled, whether it was Zhang Ji's original intention or the actual damage caused, he did not intend to kill people, but the chaos
The people who got up have also lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong. The people who are a little further away can't see the facts, so they can only rely on their own imagination. In this imagination, these people will compare the cruel scenes they just saw with the
Connected to the present, to put it simply, the confused people only believe in what they imagine and what they want to believe.
Among these chaotic people, a large part are Shandong people and refugees from Shandong.
And what is it like in Shandong, the Han Dynasty?
As an official, you can really do whatever you want.
Why did these Shandong refugees become refugees?
In the Han Dynasty, freelancers are not encouraged. Anyone who leaves their place of residence will be treated as a refugee.
Refugees have no human rights.
Generally, the priority destination for refugees to flee is definitely the nearby big city. Because there are granaries, troops, and government in the big city, it can give these refugees a certain degree of false sense of security psychologically. After all, the government has been given to the government every year before.
Paying taxes is like paying a fee for something. If something happens now, the government should take care of it, right?
Logically speaking, this is the case.
Usually the government can provide a certain amount of relief food, and in big cities, there are kind-hearted wealthy households with a particularly good reputation on weekdays, who might even come out to set up a porridge shed or something...
In fact, most of the imperial court's policies were relatively tolerant towards refugees.
When people are forced into exile due to disasters, such as various droughts, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, banditry, etc., relief is usually organized and large households are encouraged to set up porridge shacks. Disaster relief records often seen in history books are of this kind of thing. Sometimes they will also organize other
Work-for-work relief usually comes with exemption from taxes for a certain period of time in the disaster-stricken area. Once the disaster has passed, the money will be distributed back home. This is a relatively normal way to deal with the refugees who originally had homes and records.
But there is an old saying that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below.
If everyone is so friendly to the refugees, how can the landlord class annex land?
Eating and drinking for free, and finally being handed home?
ha!
As for the local government, why are there refugees here when there are no refugees elsewhere?
Do you still want your political achievements? Should you keep your black hat?
So, what are refugees?
The policy of the Han Dynasty required local governments to treat the people well and resettle the refugees, and even issued a special policy of "fake public land" to resettle the refugees. However, the local governments and powerful families below took the opportunity to plunder the people and became their shadow citizens.
households, or they collude to put the preferential policies provided by the state to the refugees into their own pockets, and convert the public land given to the refugees into their own private land.
Just like low-rent housing in the United States in later generations is not cheap at all, and economic housing is not economical at all, no matter what country's policy it is, it can become a means of making money.
During this process, the suffering endured by these Shandong refugees can really be described as "suffering" or "enduring"...
These sufferings left such a profound impression on these Shandong refugees that even after arriving in Guanzhong and Shangdang and experiencing a short and peaceful life, they still could not forget that under the chaotic and strong stimulation, those
The blood that was finally hidden deep in my heart began to stir again.
Under the instigation of Cao Jun's spies, some Shandong villagers lost their minds and rushed towards Zhang Ji and others!
Some people picked up stones and soil from the ground and threw them at Zhang Ji and others!
In the minds of these people who took action, there were only two concepts, good and bad, or black and white. They even felt that they were doing an extremely righteous feat!
Are these people brainless?
Yes, but in a chaotic situation, many people, even if they have brains, will fall into an unconscious state of "rabble" and be coerced by others to do things they might never have done before. When the public appears
When in the "rabble" state, the minds of these people cannot accept complex concepts. They can only accept either good or bad, with absolutely no intermediate transition, or other positions.
.
If we say that these people are all heinous villains, it is not so absolute. Just like when Xiang was in chaos in later generations, his gang had nearly 300,000 sentries in just one reporting group. Is it possible to arrest them all?
behead?
Human nature has always been difficult to distinguish between good and bad.
At the beginning, Zhang Ji felt that these common people were instigated by Cao Jun's spies, and the blame was not on these people, so he held back somewhat. However, these people did not feel that Zhang Ji was taking care of them, and instead became more arrogant.
Get up, not only to smash Zhang Ji and others, but also to snatch their weapons.
Because these people discovered that Zhang Ji and others did not fight back...
It is always easier to deal with good people than evil people.
"Boom!"
A flying stone hit Zhang Ji's chest, causing his head to buzz.
More rocks flew over, hitting Zhang Ji's armor and the surrounding soldiers.
Some people rushed forward, pulling at the soldiers, even trying to snatch them away with their spears and swords...
"Don't hold back! Fight out!" Zhang was so anxious that he drew his sword and shouted, "Anyone who blocks his path will be killed without mercy!"
Blood flowed out.
Some of the people who attacked Zhang Ji and others were knocked down and chopped down, and the rest of the people who were surrounded by the crowd were frightened and began to avoid Zhang Ji and others.
"Catch the spies! Keep an eye on the spies!" Zhang Ji glanced at the nearby people, "The spies are around!" He knew very well that without Cao Jun's spies mixed in with the people, the people would not dare to take action, but as long as Cao Jun's spies were
Once you take the lead, others will take action behind you...
Zhang Ji was angry at these ignorant people, but more importantly, he was focused on the spies of Cao Jun who were mixed among them!
Under the shaking figures, Zhang Ji even saw the mocking face of the Cao Jun spy closest to him, as if he was saying, "Look, how are you pretending to be a good guy, but you are going to kill the people?"
Zhang Ji shouted angrily, snatched the bows and arrows from the soldiers on the side, and aimed directly at the figure of the Cao Jun spy he found.
The Cao Jun spy was swaying left and right in the crowd, about to run thirty or forty steps away...
Zhang couldn't wait any longer, and he didn't care whether he was injured accidentally or not. He took a deep breath, slowly opened the bow, took another look, then released the bowstring, and the arrow flew away with a whoosh, and was about to hit the Cao soldier.
The spy, but unexpectedly when he was about to hit him in the back, a farmer bumped out of the side for some reason. The arrow failed to hit the Cao Jun spy. Instead, it shot the unlucky farmer right through the face, killing him.
He fell to the ground.
"grass!"
Zhang blurted out and did not care about the life or death of the unlucky farmer. Just when he was about to search for the Cao Jun spy in the distance, he felt a sudden evil wind coming from behind him, and he immediately dodged to the left!
A figure rushed over!
Zhang was unable to dodge and was knocked to the ground.
Before Zhang Ji could see clearly who hit him, he saw a short blade coming towards his face. Zhang Ji subconsciously tilted his head, and the blade grazed his face and hit the ground with a pop. Who was coming?
Then he jumped on him, pressed his face with one hand, and then raised the knife again and slashed at him.
The incident happened so suddenly that even the soldiers around Zhang Ji didn't have time to react!
Zhang continued to issue orders and was targeted by Cao Jun's spies.
A Cao Jun spy mingled in the crowd, found a gap, and attacked Zhang Ji directly!
Fortunately, Zhang had experienced a life-and-death battle, so he didn't rush around. Instead, before the person rushing towards him could adjust his posture, he thrust his right elbow to the left, and used the inertia of the person above him to knock the person away.
The man hit the ground on the left side. He quickly turned to the right, exerted force with both hands, and stood up. When the surrounding soldiers saw that Zhang was out of danger, they slashed at the man on the ground without saying a word.
The man didn't have time to get up, so he just used a short blade to block it. It couldn't block many swords and spears. Within two blows, the short blade was knocked away, and his head was cut off with a single blow.
"Wait..." Zhang still wanted to survive and caught the spies to inquire about the situation, but it was already too late.
"Forget it! Don't kill the next one yet!" Zhang Ji shouted, "Break the limbs as much as possible! Leave more people alive! The living deserve more credit than the dead!"
The surrounding soldiers responded in unison.
Zhang wiped the blood spattered on his face, and then led his men to rush towards the rest of Cao Jun's spies. Although he had orders to capture them alive, the process was not so easy to control, and in the end he only captured two of them alive.
, the rest were basically beaten to death.
Compared with Zhang Ji, who broke through the crowd head-on, Deng Li, who circled around from both sides and outflanked him, did it smoothly and got more. Not only did he not encounter any unlucky things like Zhang Ji, he also shot him calmly.
Several spies of Cao's army tried to escape.
As the frontal and outflanking soldiers converged, order was quickly restored.
Jia Qu, who was standing on the city gate, looked down. When he saw the panicked expressions of the squatting people, his heart suddenly moved.
I see……
This is the art of attacking the mind!
After thinking for a while, Jia Qu ordered Zhang Ji, Deng Li and others to bring the people under the city wall.
These people thought that they were going to be killed, and some of them couldn't help crying.
"What are you afraid of?!"
Jia Qu stood on the city wall and shouted loudly, "Just a few spies of Cao's army have scared you like this! You can't even recognize your own people! Are Cao's spies so scary? Come on! Tie up these spies of Cao's army."
Let them all see! Is it three heads and six arms, with great supernatural powers?"
Zhang Ji, who was at the bottom of the city, loudly received his order, then immediately erected some wooden stakes and tied all the dead and injured Cao Jun spies to the wooden stakes. "You can see clearly! This is the Cao Jun spies! They are also one head, with two heads."
Only eyes and one mouth! Even if your head falls off, you are still dead! Just now, there were just a few spies, but you were so scared that you ran around like rabbits!"
Are there any survivors? Just one or two are enough. Are there any other spies who were killed or wounded in Cao's army?
"There are people in the family who were killed or injured just now. Now I'll give you a chance!" Jia Qu stretched out his hand and pointed at the spies of Cao's army who were standing up. "Here are your swords! If you want revenge, come up and take revenge!"
"..." The people below the city were silent.
Jia Qu looked around, "Why, no one has the courage?"
A moment later, a woman's sharp voice sounded from the crowd, with a cry, "My boss is dead! Can I take revenge!"
"Okay!" Jia Qu said solemnly, "Come forward!"
The crowd heard the sound and gave way to an alley.
A woman struggled to drag a civilian husband who was shot in the face and was already dead, and slowly walked out. Beside her, there was a child, tearfully pulling at the corner of the woman's clothes, following suit.
Zhang Ji couldn't help coughing slightly and turned away.
Jia Qu glanced at Zhang Ji, then stood on the city, cupped his hands to the woman, "I'm sorry! What I've done is not our intention! If this lady wants something, just say it!"
The woman bowed back, then pushed the child forward, "A common woman has nothing to ask for, but... I just want this son to be able to read and read, and to pass on the incense of her late husband..."
Jia Qu was silent for a while and was about to speak when Deng Li, who was at the foot of the city, held up his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have some knowledge of writing and calligraphy. If this lady does not give up, I am willing to teach this son how to read and write!"
Jia Qu nodded, "Madam, are you willing?"
The woman pushed the child in the direction of Deng Li and said, "Hurry up and become a disciple!"
The child was confused, but he obeyed and took a few steps forward. He prostrated himself in front of Deng Li and said, "Boy...boy, bye, bye...meet the master..."
Deng Li stepped forward to help the child up and asked, "I don't know what your name is yet?"
"My...my name is Li Fan..." the child responded.
"Good!" Deng Li nodded, and then said, "From now on, you will follow me and learn to read and write!"
When the woman over there saw the child bowing before Deng Li, she walked up to Zhang Ji and looked at him.
Zhang Ji raised his eyebrows, "What, you want revenge?"
The woman nodded and said, "Exactly. Do you dare to borrow a knife?"
"Hmph! Why don't you dare?!" Zhang Ji shook his hand, pulled out the sword, then pointed the sword downward, handed it out with one hand, while holding the edge of a shield low with the other hand, he said coldly,
"Please use!"
Although Zhang Ji shot his husband before, it was an unintentional mistake, but after all, he died at Zhang Ji's hand, so now Zhang Ji wants to be more straightforward and settle the matter, not that he really wants this woman to chop him.
Instead of killing him, the most he could do was let her slash the shield once or twice.
An arrow for a sword, there is nothing to say in the future.
But what Zhang Ji didn't expect was that the woman took the knife, her hand still trembling, but she didn't cut Zhang Ji. Instead, she turned around and staggered to the side, tied to a wooden stake. A seriously injured Cao Jun spy
in front of me.
Cao Jun's spy stared at the woman, spitting out blood bubbles in his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, or to laugh, but when he saw the woman screamed, she closed her eyes.
He picked up the sword and struck it randomly!
"puff!"
"Click!"
The dull sound of chopping meat sounded, and the Cao Jun spy lowered his head.
After a few stabs, the woman stopped and finally burst out crying. She looked up to the sky and howled, with big tears falling down her face.
Everyone couldn't bear it.
"Husband! Wait a minute!"
While crying, the woman turned the blade and stabbed herself in the chest and abdomen...
"Mother!"
When the child next to Deng Li saw this, he yelled and ran forward, then fainted on the spot.
Deng Li quickly reached out and held him in his arms, letting out a long sigh...
