After taking advantage of Lin Xiaoyun's identity to successfully take over 100,000 underworld troops, the next step is to appease these underworld soldiers.
Different from the ghost realm warriors, the former are the best ones selected by the underworld among millions of living souls. They are top-notch both in terms of character and strength.
Although the strength of the Ghost Realm Soldiers should not be underestimated, they were all promoted from evil ghosts with heinous crimes.
Almost every one of them has a dark history.
If such a person is hired, Cao Ning may even sleep with one eye open.
In comparison, the underworld soldiers are more attractive.
This is also the fundamental reason why Cao Ning would rather give up the prisoners of war that he could easily obtain, but also put in the effort to dig out the regular troops of the underworld.
Cao Ning placed the reorganized Hell Army in the pine forest ten miles away from the Black Flag Army camp.
Before completely gaining their trust, what Cao Ning had to do was to avoid them meeting Li Jing and other generals as much as possible, but not too far away, lest something unexpected happen and he would be too late to deal with it.
After the underworld army was arranged in the pine forest, Cao Ning asked Lu Bu to transfer a large amount of supplies, which were all prepared early in the morning.
The purpose is to use these things to win over the Yin soldiers as much as possible.
"Hey, let me ask, is Brother Ning's method really feasible? Why do I feel so unreliable?"
In the open space in front of the pine forest, three iron fools sat in a daze around the rice bowl on the table.
The porcelain bowls in front of them contained freshly cooked rice with three sticks of incense stuck in it, which confused the fools.
"That's it? Do those ugly ghost heads really know how to eat?"
"I don't know if they will eat it, but there are a lot of guys here who are so greedy that their mouths are watering."
"Is it that exaggerated? I can't even take a bite of this rice, but they can still be so greedy that their mouths water?"
"Haha, if you don't believe it, you can go and see it...here, that black-headed man is squatting there guarding himself."
"What, then I have to take a look!"
Zhao Hai excitedly pushed aside Liu Hao, only to see that the fire-headed soldiers behind him who were responsible for preparing the dinner were all drooling with greed.
If Zhang Fei, a black man, wasn't there watching, I'm afraid it would have been robbed long ago.
However, Zhang Fei, who had been busy for a long time, was not idle now. He was squatting in a corner and was busy working on something.
Zhao Hai quietly walked over and suddenly patted his shoulder: "Hey, Big Black!!! Are you eating secretly?"
"Oh my god, it turns out to be Brother Hai. You scared me to death. I thought it was Brother Ning who came."
Zhang Fei stood up with a smile, still holding half a bowl of unfinished rice in his hand: "Brother Hai, it's really not my fault. I also want to control myself, but my hands and feet just won't obey me.
This rice is really delicious.”
"That's not possible. You are here as a security guard, not just to hide here and work by yourself."
Zhao Hai snatched the bowl from Zhang Fei's hand, "Good guy, how come you even ate the incense and candles so cleanly, and all that's left is the butt cone?"
"Hey, Brother Hai, you don't know, we just like to eat incense candles, these things are always delicious." Zhang Fei explained with a smile.
Zhao Hai rolled his eyes: "How about I prepare two jars of wine for you to drink to your heart's content?"
"Really, thank you Brother Hai!"
When Zhang Fei heard this, his thick eyebrows opened in excitement.
"You're so beautiful, I'm just saying that, do you really take it seriously?"
Zhao Hai rolled his eyes at Zhang Fei and said, "Have you forgotten how you died? I'm still drinking, so I'll just twist off your head and use it as a chamber pot."
"Hehe, that's okay. As long as it allows me to drink, it's not impossible to twist off the head and use it as a chamber pot."
"Go, I can't use a chamber pot as big as yours!"
Zhao Hai took a look!
I thought that since even Zhang Fei liked this bowl of rice so much, it seemed that the officials in the underworld would not be any worse off.
So he immediately arranged for people to transport the raw rice and incense candles to the underworld army camp.
...
At this moment, in the underworld army camp, the Yin soldiers who had their weapons confiscated gathered together to chat.
They were obviously still a little uncomfortable with being suddenly taken over by the Black Flag Army.
Whenever I talk about being disarmed, I feel like Monk Zhang Er is confused.
"What is this? We are all obeying the command of the saint. Why should we disarm us? Is it possible that we are being fired?"
"Don't talk nonsense. I guess we need to change the officers. Didn't you see that all the generals with more than a thousand households were taken away by the saint? There is probably something going on here."
"Hey, have you heard? It turns out that Captain Jack of the Black Flag Army is actually the Ghost Slaughter Cao Ning."
"What, you mean the king's ex-husband? The ghost slaughterer who killed two million evil spirits with one sword?"
"Fuck, it's over. I heard that this guy has a green face and fangs, three heads and eight claws, and he likes to eat evil spirits. Now that he has disarmed us, does he want to use me as a snack?"
"Is there such a thing? But why did I hear that he only likes to eat and look good, and he marries other people's girls? Otherwise, why would everyone call him Cao Thief?"
"..."
Rumors suddenly spread in the underworld military camp, and there were all kinds of rumors, but there was no praise for Cao Ning.
This made the fools who came to deliver the rewards look embarrassed.
But fortunately, they have cheating artifacts in their hands.
When the rice with incense and candles was served, all the underworld soldiers present were dumbfounded.
Most of them have never tasted it and have only heard about it among their colleagues.
Hundreds of years ago, when the Yin soldiers collaborated with Guhun Wuchang to perform missions in the Yang world, they would often see food specially prepared for them in the master's home.
It is this kind of rice with uncooked rice and incense sticks on it, which is simply a delicacy for them.
However, as time has changed, few people are now prepared.
Unexpectedly, they would see each other again today, which really made many Yin soldiers feel a strong sense of warmth.
At this time, Zhao Hai straightened his back and walked onto the stage with a big speaker in his hand.
"Ahem...what, our brother Ning said that from now on, the brothers of the Underworld Army and our Black Flag Army will be one family. Naturally, one family will not speak the same language as the other, so we have specially prepared something for you today.
Labor supplies.”
"I can assure you here that as long as our brothers are willing to join our Black Flag Army, they will always be able to eat delicious food in the future."
"Okay, without further ado, if you are willing to join our Black Flag Army, please go to the left to register and then eat. If you are not willing, you can leave now so that we can get together and disperse."
Before Zhao Hai finished speaking, Liu Hao and Sun Liang, who were following behind and directing, immediately asked people to put piles of raw rice into bowls, and then put three sticks of incense on them.
Facing the temptation of delicious food, although the underworld army was very tempted, few took action.
The reason why they didn't make a choice was mainly because they didn't know Cao Ning's plan yet and couldn't make up their mind at the moment.
After all, they are all regular Yin soldiers, how could they be bribed with just one meal.
"Hey, is this really true? What should we do? Should we leave or stay?"
"I can't tell. Who knows if Pluto will be angry if he finds out?"
"That's right. We are all officers and soldiers of the underworld. What's going on if we just join someone else's camp?"
"I said you just eat carrots and don't worry about it. Guitu and Pluto are a couple. Although they are divorced, who can say for sure that they will not remarry in the future? Let me see, giving your life to someone is not selling your life. You can just join."
Just when the underworld army was in a dilemma and whispering in private, a man with his head wrapped in a turban suddenly appeared.
He is active in every corner of the Underworld Army camp. Whenever he hears such embarrassing remarks, he always joins in to say a few words.
After he gave this advice, all the Yin soldiers felt that it made sense.
At this time, the balance in my heart was obviously leaning towards Cao Ning, but he just couldn't make a decision. After all, there was King Qin Guang above them.