Zhao Shi was tied up and escorted to the nearest county town. When he entered the city, he looked up and saw two big characters "Qu Zhou" on the city gate.
Zhao Shi withdrew his gaze and tried hard to compare the location on the map given by Fu Tinghan. The mission should have bypassed Quzhou, and he didn't know where they were at this time.
They all seemed to be from the army at first sight. I wonder if they believed him when he said that he was a deserter from the Zhao Army?
I don’t think you believe it. The third sister is known to be kind to the people and soldiers. How come there are deserters among her subordinates?
Gou Xi and Gou Chun are under strict command, so it is possible to escape from them. Yes, they are the Gou family soldiers who escaped from Yanzhou.
With this thought in mind, when he saw someone, he immediately identified himself, "I am Zhou Shi from the Gou Family Army in Yanzhou. We escaped and joined the general."
The comrades on the side who were also tied up were stunned, and they all looked at him in shock.
Zhao Shi turned to look at them with a neutral expression and introduced: "These are all subordinates who are willing to escape with me."
Zuo Min, who almost died after chasing them, looked at them unkindly and said to the superior: "General, this person is not trustworthy. If he really came to defect to us, why would he run away? Moreover, the group of defeated soldiers said that at that time
There was a convoy with them, and it seemed that a lot of treasures were being transported in the car. We searched around but couldn't find the convoy."
The general ignored the shouting Zuo Min, but looked Zhao Shi up and down, and after a moment looked at the weapons collected by the soldiers on the side.
The soldiers immediately presented Zhao Shi's spear.
The general flicked the gun tip, and the bright gun tip made a crisp sound. He couldn't help but smile and looked at Zhao Shi again, "Are you Zhao Jiajun?"
Zhao Shi denied it with a serious face, "We Gou Jiajun and Zhao Jiajun have sworn hatred. General, please don't insult me!"
General: "As far as I know, there are many deserters and refugees in Yanzhou, but they don't come to Jizhou. Most of them go to Yuzhou. The one who has conflicts with Zhao Hanzhang is General Gou. What does it have to do with you ordinary soldiers?"
"Moreover, only the Zhao Jiajun has such a gun head," the general stroked the gun head and sighed: "I have long heard that the Zhao Jiajun has special smelting technology that can make iron into a harder and sharper thing called steel. I used to
I don’t quite believe it, but now I see that I am ignorant.”
Zhao Shi's expression changed slightly, but he still insisted: "I am the Yanzhou Army."
The general then put away his gun, asked someone to loosen their bonds, and said: "I, Zu Ti, are looking for you to surrender. I wonder if the young general would be willing to introduce you?"
Zhao Shi was stunned and looked at him with wide eyes. After a while, he said with some suspicion: "But this is the territory occupied by the Xiongnu. How could Zu Junjun be here?"
Zu Ti was once recruited by the King of East China Sea to join the army, but he declined on the pretext of keeping filial piety.
Zhao Shi heard Zu Ti's name from his third sister more than once, because Mr. Ji praised Liu Kun, and the third sister once said that Zu Ti's talent and virtue were even higher than Liu Kun's.
He knew that the third sister had always wanted to ask Zu Ti to be a general, but she could not find anyone, and she could not represent the imperial court in conquering the world, so she could only regret it privately.
Zhao Shi swallowed his saliva and looked at Zu Ti with bright eyes, "Are you really Zu joining the army?"
Zu Ti smiled and nodded, "Yes, Quzhou County has been captured by me. I know that Zhao Shijun has a strong army and has recovered most of Sizhou. If so, why not capture Guangping County as well?
When the time comes, Shangdang and Pingyang Guxuan can cut off the communication between them. In the future, if the court wants to recover the lost territory in the Northern Expedition, it will be much easier."
Zhao Shi said: "How many troops are needed?"
Now they are all on the border to guard against Shi Le and Liu Cong, and they have to be careful about Gou Xi stealing from the rear, so they can't spare any troops at all.
Zu Ti said: "Don't worry about the strength of the troops. I can recruit them immediately, but I don't have enough weapons and food."
Zhao Shi understood. He wanted to defect to the third sister, but he asked the third sister to provide him with food, grass and weapons to attack Jizhou.
If it had been anyone else, they would have rejected Zu Ti on the spot. This was too risky a move.
But Zhao Shi was a young man, and when he didn't know how high the sky was, his third sister said that nothing in this world is impossible. As long as they dare to think and do it, there is hope of success.
He immediately said: "I will write a letter for you and the envoy."
Zu Ti laughed heartily and asked loudly: "The young general doesn't say that he is a Yanzhou Army now?"
Zhao made a sigh and said, "I am not one of those generals from Yanzhou who only know how to fight against others."
Zu Ti's smile faded slightly and he sighed: "They are not all like that. The soldiers who followed General Gou back then all had great ambitions."
Pity.
Zu Ti: "I wonder what I call the young general?"
Zhao Shi then said: "I'm going to Xiping Zhao Shi."
Zu Ti knew that he and Zhao Hanzhang were from the same clan, but why did Zhao Jiajun come to Jizhou?
"How many of you are there?" Zu Ti asked: "I asked the soldiers to pick them up. Is it business to come to Jizhou at this time?"
Zhao Shi smiled sheepishly and did not mention Zhao Xin and others. He only said vaguely: "General, don't worry about them. It is still important to attack Guangping County. I will write a letter back to Luoyang right away and ask General Zu to send two people to follow me."
We will return to Luoyang with our bodyguards."
The matter of sending an envoy to Zhongshan County is still a secret. Even if Zu Ti is a good character, Zhao Shi can't tell him now.
When Zu Ti saw that he didn't say anything, he stopped asking and asked him to go down and rest.
As soon as he left, Zuo Min said unconvinced: "General, he doesn't believe us at first sight, why should we cooperate with them?"
Zu Ti said: "They are obviously traveling under orders. Not to mention that we are still outsiders now. Even if we are our own people, we cannot disclose the secret mission. You should be more polite to them. If we have to work together in the future, the relationship will be too troublesome."
It’s not good to be stiff.”
Zuo Min pursed his lips and asked, "Do we have to surrender to the Zhao Army? In fact, with the general's current power, we can take down the entire Guangping County in one go."
Zuo Min was a bandit captured on the Zuti Road. He was actually a small fort owner.
Because Shi Le was too cruel and attacked Wubao everywhere, he had no choice but to lead the villagers to build Wubao and recruit some people to defend Wubao. As a result, Wubao was labeled as a mountain bandit by the local county government.
And because he took in so many people and didn't have enough food rations, he would bring people out to grab things from time to time, and he really became a bandit.
Zu Ti went all the way to the west. He didn't know where Gou Xi heard that he was going to defect to Zhao Hanzhang and sent people to look for him along the way.
In order to avoid Gou Xi's people, he took detours everywhere, and walked around until he came to this area. He happened to be robbed by Zuo Min, so he fought back and captured Zuo Min.
Zuo Min was also aware of current affairs and immediately recognized Zu Ti as the boss and asked him to command the entire Wubao.
Zu Ti happened to feel that it would be embarrassing to go to Zhao Hanzhang with bare hands, and Gou Xi was blocking him along the way, so he simply led the people from Wubao to beat up all the nearby bandit dens.
Originally, he wanted to capture two to three thousand people and take them to Zhao Hanzhang, but in the end, he captured Quzhou County.
It was also the county magistrate of Quzhou County who had to provoke him and send troops to suppress him, so he had no choice but to beat Quzhou County.
Zuo Min's hometown is here. He doesn't want to leave here, and he is not interested in Zhao Hanzhang. He thinks that if Zu Ti is willing to stick to one side here, then it would be good for him to be the second boss here.
However, Zu Ti's ideal is not to be a bandit who dominates one area. What he wants is to unify the world, so he wants to follow the person he thinks can lead him to unify the world.
Zu Ti insisted on contacting Zhao Hanzhang. Zhao Shi wrote a letter, and he also wrote a letter. The two letters were given to the chief minister, who took the letter back to Luoyang.
Zhao Shi stayed here and waited.
As for Zhao Xin and his party, Zhao Shi did not say a word. Calculating, they should have run far away by now, right?