Chapter 0256 It’s hard to be true even if it’s false
So Cao Youliang temporarily agreed. If Wang Zhengxing really surrendered and helped him capture the rebels, then his words would be generally true.
It is precisely because of this that this scene happened now.
Cao Youliang asked again: "Where is the selected text now?"
Wang Zhengxing replied: "He is still in the city now, but according to my guess, I am afraid that he should take this opportunity to rescue Gutian and escape from the west gate. General, chase him quickly. It is not too late."
"It doesn't matter, I have already ordered people to set up an ambush at the west gate. As long as he dares to leave the city, he will never come back."
After saying that, Cao Youliang changed the topic and said: "Young master has been lurking for many days and must be tired. Why don't you take a rest in the general's camp first?"
Wang Zhengxing knew that Cao Youliang did not fully believe him, and he wanted to monitor him. However, he did not have the confidence to refuse, so he had to say "good" and was then taken away by several officers and soldiers.
Then Cao Youliang sent a team of more than ten people into the city first, and found that Wenxuan's rebels had left. He asked the people and said they left through the west gate.
Cao Youliang did not dare to delay in order to avoid sending people to take over the city defense, so he quickly led his troops to pursue him.
But it was said that Wenxuan led the troops out of the west city gate and ran all the way, hoping to get back to Gutian as soon as possible.
Just as they ran for more than ten miles at a stretch and passed a village, an ambush suddenly broke out. From the village and from the front and back of the road, many people suddenly shot out. The leader was Cao Youwan.
Wenxuan was shocked and asked sternly: "Why did you leave an ambush here?"
"snort."
Cao Youwan snorted coldly and said, "I'm going to ask your good brother Wang Zhengxing now. Stop talking nonsense. Wenxuan, today you have already spread your wings and cannot escape. Why don't you just capture me without mercy?"
"What, Wang Zhengxing betrayed me!"
Wen Xuan gritted his teeth, and the rebels behind him were even more panicked. They were all trembling with fear. They looked at the forest of spears, bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers in fear.
At this time, Cao Youwan loudly said to the rebel soldiers: "Wenxuan's evil words deceived the people and drove you to oppose the new law and fight against the imperial court. The imperial court distributed thirty acres of land to each of your households. Where can you find such a good thing?
What kind of string was wrong, and you actually rebelled with the Wenxuan!"
The rebels were already without a master. Now that Cao Youwan said this, he obviously wanted to give them an opportunity. How could they dare to miss it?
One person said: "General, I surrender, I surrender."
The first rebel to surrender appeared, which frightened Wenxuan. He was afraid that the morale of the army would collapse, so he decisively issued an order, saying: "The court is ruthless and tyrannical. If we want to survive, we have to fight our way out. Give me
kill."
Wenxuan gave the order and the mountains fell. Although some of the rebels were swayed, their hearts were not united after all. When Wenxuan gave the order, they naturally did not dare not to rush and kill them.
In this way, the rebels' military morale, which could collapse at any time, was temporarily stabilized by Wenxuan.
"kill."
Cao Youwan was furious, ordered his soldiers to fire arrows, tightened the encirclement, and started fighting with the rebels.
These rebels were no match for Cao Youwan. Not long after the fight, dozens of them were killed and more than a hundred were injured.
Of course, this is just the beginning. As the encirclement becomes smaller and smaller, the lethality increases exponentially, and the rebels' casualties also increase sharply, which makes every rebel feel panicked.
Seeing this, Wenxuan had a bad premonition and was about to break out. At this moment, Cao Youliang came with troops again. Seeing this, the rebels were even more demoralized and unable to fight. Many of them could only kneel on the ground and surrender.
"Wenxuan, you risk your life."
When Cao Youwan saw Wenxuan trying to escape, he charged at him with his horse, and his heavy horse-killing sword whizzed and slashed at him.
Wenxuan was shocked, and he raised his sword in panic to resist, but was knocked away by Cao Youwan's huge force and fell heavily to the ground.
Wen Xuan was about to get up, but he didn't want to mess up the fighting. A horse trampled over him, causing his chest to collapse and his mouth to vomit blood. He died on the spot.
Cao Youwan shook his head and said to himself that it was a pity. He could have almost caught him alive, which would have been a greater achievement.
Cao Youwan shook his head, quickly dismounted, chopped off Wenxuan's head with a knife, picked it up with his horse-cutting sword, and shouted loudly: "Wenxuan is dead, you still won't surrender!"
Upon hearing this, the rebels followed the sound and saw that Wenxuan was indeed dead. They immediately lost the will to resist and obediently threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender.
The overall situation has been decided, Cao Youliang and Cao Youwan led the new army into the city one after another.
At this time, Wang Zhengxing followed Cao Youliang and explained to him the situation in Lianjiang County. He looked like a hero without any guilt.
"General, general, Wang Zhengxing killed the magistrate Li Shijun and rebelled against the imperial court. General, please be careful."
Suddenly a voice came from the crowd, which made Wang Zhengxing tremble all over.
He hurriedly opened his head and looked around, looking for someone, and saw a person squeezed out from among the people. After a closer look, this person turned out to be Zhang Kai, the county magistrate who had been hiding for a long time.
Wang Zhengxing was shocked and said hurriedly: "This man is a remnant of the rebels, capture him quickly."
Wang Zhengxing's entourage really wanted to arrest him, but Zhang Kai was the first to kneel down to Cao Youliang and said: "Report to the general, this Wang Zhengxing is the real culprit who killed Li Zhixian. He killed officials and rebelled. His crime is heinous. I ask the general to deal with it strictly."
Don’t be fooled by it.”
Cao Youliang frowned, turned to look at Wang Zhengxing, and then said to Zhang Kai: "Li Shijun, the county magistrate, volunteered to die to protect the people in the city so that Wang Zhengxing could gain Wenxuan's trust. All of this belongs to Li Shijun."
Strategy, you wrongly blamed the prince."
After Zhang Zhang listened, he immediately said: "Impossible. Li Shijun knew that the government's reinforcements would arrive in a few days, and the county captain Wang Bing also said that holding the city for three to five days would not be a problem. How could he risk his life and pin his hopes on a merchant?
By his own hand? This must be a big lie fabricated by Wang Zhengxing to cover up the fact that he killed an official and became a traitor."
After saying that, he opened his eyes and looked at the county captain Wang Bing and said to him: "Wang County Captain, when we are defending the city, you and I will always be with Li Shijun. If Li Shijun really has such a plan, will you not cooperate with him?"
Do you and I discuss it?"
Wang Bi shook his head and said: "Li Shijun has never mentioned this plan, and from my point of view, Li Shijun's life-threatening strategy is completely unnecessary. You can just defend the city with peace of mind and wait for reinforcements. This has long been known to Li Shijun."
You said it, and he knows it."
"Yeah?
Cao Youliang's eyes turned fierce and he turned to look at Wang Zhengxing beside him.
Cao Youliang's glance fell on Wang Zhengxing, which only made Wang Zhengxing shiver. He hurriedly waved his hands and denied: "General, please don't listen to their nonsense. Naturally, the less people know about such a major matter, the better. The county magistrate should be cautious in handling affairs.
Of course I won’t tell them.”
Zhang Kai said angrily: "You are talking nonsense. If you really want to be cautious, no one will choose you when Li Shijun chooses. Who among the people in the county government does not have a better relationship with Li Shijun than you?"