Huang Gai never dreamed that he would see his old master one day.
From the moment they followed Sun Ce to rebel against the imperial court, all the four veterans, including Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Zu Mao, Huang Gai and others, thought that they might never see Sun Jian again in this life.
Because resisting the imperial court is rebellion, according to past practice, rebellion and treason are a heinous crime, and the nine tribes must be killed, including their families.
Sun Jian's people in Luoyang are equivalent to hostages. Under normal circumstances, he will definitely change from a guard of one of the Nine Qings to a prisoner in the imperial prison overnight. The situation must be full of dangers and death is inevitable.
So almost after Sun Ce embarked on the path of rebellion, everyone thought that Sun Jian would definitely die.
In fact, the entire Sun family group, including the four veterans and Zhu Zhi, were firmly opposed to Sun Ce's independence. The biggest reason was that they were afraid that the imperial court would implicate Sun Jian, Mrs. Wu and the Sun family.
However, after many years of management, Sun Ce's status in the Sun family army has skyrocketed.
In addition, Sun Jian went on many expeditions for the imperial court in the middle and later periods and was often away from Yuzhou, which led to Sun Ce gradually gaining real power. After Sun Jian went to Luoyang, the Sun family was completely controlled by him.
Now Sun Ce insisted on going his own way. Even if the four veteran generals and Zhu Zhi and others objected, most of the troops and horses were already controlled by Sun Ce. There were many close followers of Sun Ce in the army, and they had no choice but to do anything.
So even in the first two months, when Sun Ce attacked Jiangdong, due to the lack of information, the four veteran generals thought Sun Jian was dead, so they secretly built a tomb for him and often visited the grave to cry and express condolences.
Fortunately, not long after, a letter written by Sun Jian denounced them arrived, and then they learned that Sun Jian and the hundreds of Sun family members who had moved to Luoyang were not dead. While they were relieved, they were also worried about another thing.
That is, the imperial court is very likely to take Sun Jian as a hostage and force them to surrender on the battlefield. This kind of thing has not been uncommon since ancient times.
Using family members, relatives, common people, and sometimes even catching the emperor of an enemy country can be used as a threat. For example, the Jingkang Shame of the Song Dynasty and the Tumu Fort of the Ming Dynasty are vivid examples.
Although Huang Gai didn't know the deeds of the later Song and Ming Dynasties, didn't Xiang Yu, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty Liu Bang, capture his wife and father and threaten Liu Bang to force them to surrender?
Therefore, the four veteran generals are often worried these days. Sun Ce sends troops to the north, and they are worried that the court may be unfavorable to Sun Jian.
However, what Huang Gai never expected was that the imperial court would boldly let Sun Jian appear in front of them.
Isn't the imperial court afraid that they will take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to rescue Sun Jian?
But no matter what, when Sun Jian, who was nearly fifty years old but still burly, appeared among the enemy troops, Huang Gai was already in tears and couldn't stop crying.
Sun Jian got off his horse and walked over. The soldiers around him were all old soldiers in the army. They naturally knew him and fell to their knees.
"I've met Mr. Ming!"
The soldiers were also extremely excited and bowed on one knee.
"Get up and call for justice."
Sun Jian went up and pulled Huang Gai up, glanced around, and said in a deep voice: "My sons, all get up!"
"Ming Gong..."
Huang Gai wiped his tears and looked at Wen Su and others with serious eyes: "Ming Gong, now is our chance to return to Jiangdong, why not..."
"presumptuous!"
Sun Jian was furious, pointed at Huang Gai and shouted angrily: "I am here today because of the support of the Marquis of Qiantang. I have been a loyal servant of the court all my life. However, in my old age, I was killed by my traitorous son. I am not safe in my later years. Do you still want to follow him and do all kinds of mischief?"
Huang Gai hesitated for a moment and then said bravely: "Ming Gong, the young master can't look back anymore. He has caused rebellion and implicated the nine tribes. If he doesn't surrender to the court today, I'm afraid he will be harmed by the court in the future."
"Harmed by the imperial court?"
Sun Jian pointed at himself and said angrily: "Do you see that I was killed?"
"It's safe now, but there's no guarantee it will be liquidated later."
Huang Gai said in a deep voice.
Not far away, Wen Su and others watched with great interest as they argued loudly and plotted rebellion. They didn't scold them, didn't move their swords or guns, and just watched quietly.
Sun Jian's wives, concubines, four sons, and five daughters are all in Luoyang now. Their family, including more than 300 slaves, are secretly serving as hostages in Kyoto.
Historically, Sun Jian had five sons and three daughters, a total of eight children.
But now he did not die so early, so he gave birth to three more children, so the current number of children is eleven in total, six sons and five daughters.
Except for the eldest son Sun Ce and the second son Sun Quan, the rest of Wu Guotai, Sun Yi, Sun Kuang, Sun Lang and Sun Shangxiang were all in Luoyang and under the control of the imperial court.
Once Sun Jian agreed to Huang Gai's request, Wen Su and more than a thousand men immediately came forward with swords drawn. Ten thousand troops from behind immediately launched an attack to destroy them.
And even if Sun Jian ran away, the Luoyang family would not be able to escape. The whole family of 300 people were waiting for him to be buried.
Therefore, in this case, Wen Su and others were not afraid of Sun Jian being persuaded by Huang Gai.
Huang Gai was also helpless.
He actually wanted to hear Sun Jian's surrender.
But rebellion is a road of no return.
According to the laws of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the nine clans were implicated, and they were together for an unknown number of times.
Although it became slightly more relaxed after the Eastern Han Dynasty, rebellion is a serious crime in any era and cannot be forgiven.
So even if Sun Jian came to persuade him in person, Huang Gai could only choose to follow Sun Ce all the way to the dark side.
However, Sun Jian said: "Your Majesty said so eloquently that as long as you surrender, you will be pardoned. Why don't you quickly put down your arms, surrender to the court, and come with me to kidnap the traitor and send him to your Majesty to be punished?"
Huang Gai shook his head and said: "Ming Gong, you can't believe what the court says. If this is a plot, it doesn't matter if my life is taken away by the court, but the Sun family line is cut off, how can Ming Gong bear it?"
"Asshole!"
Sun Jian angrily rebuked: "The emperor has always been benevolent and righteous, how can he betray his trust? What's more, you are rebelling and rebelling, just to cut off my Sun family lineage. I'm sorry, you are my close confidant, do you really want to betray me and follow that?
Rebellious son?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Huang Gai hesitated and said: "Ming Gong... Gai... Gai is willing to go through fire and water for the Sun family, without hesitation."
"So the traitor represents the Sun family, right?"
Sun Jian only felt a chill in his heart. He did not expect that just a few years after he left Yuzhou, the traitor would win over four of his confidant generals.
He knew the strength of the imperial court, and no matter how hard Sun Ce resisted, it was just an egg against a stone.
Now Liu Bei has given him this opportunity, including Sun Ce, as long as he can be captured alive rather than killed in battle, he can do whatever he wants.
It was impossible for Sun Jian to watch Sun Ce continue to make mistakes.
Therefore, facing Huang Gai's silence, he remained silent for a moment, and suddenly drew his sword and pointed it at Huang Gai: "In this case, you are no longer my general, I am the imperial guard, the general of the great man's rebellion, and you are the thieves."
, irreconcilable!"
"Ming Gong!"
Huang Gai was shocked. He didn't expect Sun Jian to be so determined. He was so frightened that he knelt down and said, "Ming Gong, I dare not make the decision on this matter."
"snort!"
Sun Jian sneered and said: "Then see the real chapter on the battlefield and come and fight me!"
"Ming Gong!"
The old soldiers around him knelt down one after another, and no one dared to use their swords.
Although Sun Ce has established his prestige in recent years and won over his team.
However, the soldiers and horses under veteran generals such as Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zu Mao, Zhu Zhi, etc. were basically veterans from Sun Jian's era.
In addition to the 20,000 troops in his own army, Sun Ce was able to fully control Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Dong Xi, Xu Sheng, Lu Fan, Ling Cao and other troops.
So Sun Jian ran outside the camp of his old subordinates. Not to mention the threat of death, even if Sun Ce personally ordered it, he probably wouldn't dare to do anything.
Seeing that Huang Gai and other old tribesmen did not dare to fight him, Sun Jian was quite relieved. He grabbed Huang Gai's neck, put the ancient ingot knife on it, and scolded: "Come here!"
"The end is here!"
Seeing this, Wen Su immediately got off his horse and knelt down on one knee.
"Tie up the thief general and collect the rebel weapons!"
Sun Jian shouted.
"Ming Gong!"
The soldiers around him were shocked.
Sun Jian's eyes were majestic, he glanced around and said coldly: "Behead those who resist!"
"this......"
"What do you think we should do?"
"You dare to take action?"
"I don't dare. Ming Gong treats me with great kindness."
"Then... why don't you surrender? The general has been captured anyway."
"Forehead......"
The soldiers around him were talking a lot.
Huang Gai looked extremely helpless, and Sun Jian personally held down his head and put a knife on his neck.
Judging from the current situation, the old master obviously intends to be loyal to the court to the end.
He knew the old master's temper. If he resisted under the command, he would chop off his head with a knife.
Huang Gai was not afraid of death. If he were captured normally, he would definitely order his soldiers to resist to the end.
However, it was Sun Jian who caught him personally.
As a family general, Huang Gai did not dare to resist and could only remain silent.
Seeing that Huang Gai did not give the order, within a moment, more than 3,000 soldiers around him put down their weapons and surrendered.
Wen Su came up and tied up Huang Gai, and said with a smile: "General, the Prime Minister said that it is the greatest blessing that there are no casualties. Anyone captured by the general will be dealt with by the general."
"Take them back to the camp first, and then we go to the next place."
Sun Jian waved his hand.
In the forest at the foot of Mount Shao in the distance, a thousand men and horses immediately came over, tied up the hands and feet of all the surrendered soldiers, connected them in a line, and led them away to the north.
Sun Jian, on the other hand, continued to lead Wen Su and headed straight to Han Dang's tribe in the southwest.
Han Dang's situation was similar to that of Huang Gai. He had already been angry with Huang Gai. As long as Sun Ce gave an order, they would immediately lead their troops to support him, so the whole army was always ready to fight.
Although the camps of both sides met within a mile of each other, and the villages were blocked by ditches and trees, what happened on the Huanggai side should not have been visible.
But Han Dang had posted sentries and cordons on the outside, so when Sun Jian's side arrived at Shanxia East Village, the scouts on guard outside reported the situation to Han Dang.
When he learned that the enemy was invading, Han Dang led his troops out of the village and saw Huang Gaizheng leading his troops to confront the enemy from a distance. Because he did not know the specific situation, Han Dang did not act rashly, but waited and observed the situation from a distance.
Immediately afterwards, he saw a scene that shocked him extremely.
Huang Gai knelt down in front of someone.
Because he was far away and couldn't see clearly, Han Dang could only see Huang Gai's flag moving towards the enemy, and then Huang Gai, who was sitting on the horse, dismounted and knelt down to the other person.
The man's figure was vaguely familiar, and there were groups of soldiers around him. He couldn't see clearly, but he could only vaguely see that he was a burly man.
But even though he couldn't see the person clearly, Han Dang was still in a state of shock and disbelief.
Because in the whole world, how many people can make Huang Gai kneel down?
How could he, an old friend of many years, not know that besides Sun Ce and Mrs. Wu, there was only one person who could make him so willing.
Han Dang felt happy and worried at the same time, his eyes filled with complex emotions of expectation and sadness.
Needless to say, I hope.
Of course, there is no need to say much about sadness.
But the next development surprised Han Dang.
Huang Gai surrendered, and the imperial soldiers and horses over there captured all of Huang Gai's men.
Seeing this situation, Han Dang's deputy general said quickly: "Oh no, General Huang is so careless. General, let's send troops to rescue him quickly."
He thought that Huang Gai and others were caught in a duel, forcing the entire army to surrender.
Han Dang waved his hand: "Go ahead and order the whole army not to move."
"General."
The lieutenant general said in surprise: "The enemies are all coming."
"Don't move, do you hear that?"
Han Dang shouted angrily.
"only......"
Seeing that he was so determined, the deputy general had no choice but to agree and said to the ordering soldier beside him: "The general has an order, the whole army must not move!"
Over there, Sun Jian was already riding towards him, with more than a thousand soldiers behind him. Although they were not many, they were powerful.
When he got closer and closer, crossing the fields and ditches of the East Village at the foot of the mountain, and arriving outside the West Village at the foot of the mountain, the expression on Han Dang's face became even more excited.
"Ming Gong!"
Before Sun Jian could approach, Han Dang had already dismounted, hurried over on foot, and knelt down in front of Sun Jian's horse.
"Yi Gong!"
Sun Jian said in a deep voice: "Are you going to follow that traitor and continue to conspire against me?"
"I......"
Han Dang did not expect that the master and servant would be so tense when they first met, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
"snort."
Sun Jian snorted coldly and said, "Where is Wen Su?"
"The end is here!"
"Tied."
"only!"
Wen Su took the rope and got off his horse to tie up Han Dang.
Han Dang instinctively wanted to draw his sword to resist.
But Sun Jian glared at him, and he did not dare to make any move, so he could only maintain his kneeling posture with a wry smile on his face, and let Wen Su tie him up.
No wonder the Huang Gai tribe had no intention of resisting before and dropped their weapons one after another.
According to the concept at the time, as Sun Jian's family general, even if he was beheaded, let alone tying him up, he would have nothing to say.
After capturing Huang Gai and Han Dang, Sun Jian went straight to the camp of Cheng Pu and Zu Mao without stopping.
The whole process went incredibly smoothly.
Except for Zu Mao who surrendered to Sun Jian without hesitation, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and Han Dang were all kidnapped by Sun Jian.
It's not that the three of them are disloyal to Sun Jian, but they do have some concerns.
After all, Sun Ce was engaged in a major conspiracy, and they were also afraid that the court would deceive Sun Jian and then backhandedly kill Sun Jian after taking advantage of him.
But Sun Jian was resolute and would tie him up if he asked. No matter how much he tried to persuade him, it was useless, so the three of them had nothing to do.
As for Zu Mao.
Historically, he wore Sun Jian's red scarf to lure the enemy away and sacrificed himself, which shows that he was loyal.
Therefore, even if he had concerns, Sun Jian gave the order without hesitation.
And at this time.
Sun Ce had no idea that when he was chasing Wu Anguo.