Zhu Yuanzhang jumped out of the grass beside the road and smiled and said, "Brother Zheng Yanfu, congratulations on your regaining freedom!"

Zheng Yanfu sighed and said, "You are right. It's not that I gave up on them, but that they gave up on me. If you didn't wake me up, I'm dead in that room now."

The four loyal brothers behind him came up to see Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er in turn. These four were Zheng Yanfu's hardcore brothers, and only he followed him. When Zheng Yanfu called Zhu Yuanzhang the Baba Zhu, the four of them also bowed their heads and called them big brothers in their mouths. They also heard of the names of Zhu Ba Baishui and Wang Er in their mouths. They knew that the two in front of them were Baishui's two heroes, and the four young people looked full of admiration.

The seven people went down the mountain together. Zheng Yanfu was betrayed by his brothers. He was a little discouraged and stopped talking. He walked quietly with a dark face. Zhu Yuanzhang patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "Do you want to see the final outcome of Zhao Yu and his group?"

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"Then come with me!" Zhu Yuanzhang led the group of people down from the back mountain, circled around the mountain and then went to the side of the officers and soldiers' military formation: "Sleep well tonight first, and you can watch the show when you get up tomorrow morning."

That night, the next morning, as soon as the sky was dawn, the officers and soldiers got up, the barracks opened, rows of cursing hands left the camp again, and shouted at the mountain: "Surrender quickly!"

"Zheng Yanfu, go down the mountain and surrender quickly and you will be appointed as the chief official!"

"Did you mess around in the mountains last night? Hahaha, surrender quickly!"

It turned out that the chaos on the top of the mountain was also seen by the officers and soldiers last night, but the cautious and timid officers and soldiers did not have the courage to take the opportunity to attack the mountain, but watched the changes at the foot of the mountain, and then used strange words to ridicule the people on the top of the mountain after dawn.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er, Zheng Yanfu and others lay on the hillside a few miles away, watching the movements of the officers and soldiers from afar.

The gate of the village on the top of the cliff suddenly opened, and a large group of bandits slowly walked down from the top of the mountain, raised their hands high above their heads, and raised the only pairs of armor in the village on their heads. There was no weapon hanging on them, and of course, there was no white flag or anything else.

Some novel authors who are not familiar with ancient history like to write about the white flags raised when ancient people surrendered. In fact, this is wrong. The white flag represents surrender. It is stipulated in the Western Treaty of Westphalia. It was later used by the Geneva Convention and became a symbol of surrender during modern and modern wars. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, raising the white flag did not mean surrender. It was used to welcome the white flag, but it had a provocative effect.

The defeated army should "stop the flag", hold the armor and hands above the head, which is the standard surrender posture in ancient China. No matter whether you are a white or a red flag, it means that the army has the will to fight, and you must not raise the flag when surrendering.

Friends who don’t believe it can think of the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty. One of them is called "Zhengbai Banner". When you go out to fight, you hold a huge white flag. If you follow the white flag, you will surrender, and the army of the "Zhengbai Banner" will become a surrender army. No matter where you go, you will always express your surrender to the enemy. What is the majesty?

Looking at the bandits who were unarmed and raised their armor to go down the mountain, the officers and soldiers made a huge noise: "Surrender! The bandits surrender."

Before the soldiers entered the camp, Yang Hong had already run out of the camp with dozens of personal soldiers, and the little maid Qiuye followed him.

Zheng Yanfu gritted his teeth from the side and saw the bandits on the mountain walking down team by team, Zhao Yu walked in front with a big forehead. He was holding a charred body in his hand. The body was burned into black charcoal. He couldn't see clearly his appearance. He could only tell that he was a tall man before his death.

Although it was seen that the bandits were going down the mountain to surrender, the officers and soldiers who were afraid of death still set up military formations to prevent the bandits from suddenly getting up and hurting people. Yang Hong stood in front of the formation with a smile and asked loudly: "Who is coming?"

Zhao Yu shouted loudly: "I am Zhao Yu, the second leader of Dongziya. Zheng Yanfu refused to surrender to the heavenly soldiers. I have killed him and now I will surrender with his body."

Yang Hong was overjoyed: "Okay! Very good! Zhao Yu, you are a good person! Send Zheng Yanfu's body over to take a look."

Zhao Yu quickly jogged over, and the other bandits were standing in the distance, far away from the officers and soldiers.

You should know that it is not a simple matter for bandits to surrender to officers and soldiers. It is not that they come forward and swing their hands and surrender. If they are really so obedient and well-behaved, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would not make a comeback when they pretended to surrender. Usually, when bandits surrender to officers and soldiers, they would still remain vigilant against officers and soldiers and would not easily hand over themselves under the swords and axes of officers and soldiers.

When Zhao Yu approached, Yang Hong glanced at the charred body that was burned in his arms, and couldn't help but frowned and said, "This corpse is so burning, who can tell if it is Zheng Yanfu?"

Zhao Yu quickly explained: "Last night, the villain brought his brother to surround Zheng Yanfu in the house and wanted to take his head. Unexpectedly, he lit the fire. When the fire was extinguished, we entered the house. He had already burned it like this..."

Yang Hong frowned tightly, turned around and asked Qiu Ye next to him, "Come and see if this guy is Zheng Yanfu."

Qiuye had been scared by the burnt charred body. She covered her eyes with her hands, looked carefully, and then quickly turned her head away. In fact, she didn't see clearly at all. She trembled and said, "It should be that right..."

"Should it be? Is that true?" Yang Hong was not polite to a little maid and said loudly: "Let me see clearly."

"Yes!" Qiuye was startled by his Guan Wei. After all, she was a little maid who had never seen the world. When she was frightened, she kept talking nonsense. She just wanted to finish her own business quickly and said, "Yes, he is Zheng Yanfu."

"Haha!" Yang Hong didn't care whether Qiuye's words were true or false. Anyway, it was time to come out to suppress the bandits. It didn't matter whether the thief leader was caught or not. As long as there was a witness proving that he had caught the thief leader, that would be fine. He deliberately scared Qiuye with a fierce tone, just to make Qiuye quickly conclude that this was Zheng Yanfu. Even if he found out that he made a mistake in the future, the responsibility was not on him, but on the witness's random words. He just wanted to report his merits to the higher authorities.

Yang Hong slapped Zhao Yu on the shoulder and laughed loudly: "Good, your surname is Zhao, right? Not bad! You have made great contributions and I am very happy. Hahaha, come with me and go back to Xi'an Prefecture to ask for merit. I will let the court give you a high-ranking official."

Zhao Yu was overjoyed. He was simple-minded. After Yang Hong said this, he immediately believed it. He slapped his bones and forgot about Zhu Baihu and Wang Zongqi.

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In the woods in the distance, Zheng Yanfu spat hard: "This corrupt bone! From now on, he will be the loyal dog of the court, and I will kill him."

"I'm afraid it's not your turn to kill me." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Yang Hong will help you kill me, wait and see."

Several people quietly watched Yang Hong enter the camp with Zhao Yu's shoulders. Not long after, a banquet was set up in the open space in the middle of the camp. Yang Hong and Zhao Yu ate and drank. During the meal, Yang Hong seemed to have promised Zhao Yu a lot of benefits, which made Zhao Yu look happy. The minions who stood in the distance and had not yet leaned over were also taken care of. The officers and soldiers pushed out several trucks of food and delivered it to the minions, so that they could eat and drink as much as they could.

The goodwill released by the officers and soldiers made all the bandits relax. Many bandits no longer had the idea of ​​escaping at any time, relaxed, sat down to eat, drink, chat and laugh. The officers and soldiers became happy and harmonious.

The officers and soldiers sent a team of people up the mountain to burn all the villages on the mountain, and then began to pull out the camp and return toward Xi'an Prefecture.

Zhu Yuanzhang and others followed from afar, just like when they came. The officers and soldiers ignored them as usual and treated them as the villagers who were watching the fun.

That night, officers and soldiers camped on a low hill, the bandits' camps were camped at the foot of the mountain, and Zhu Yuanzhang and others rested in the woods a mile away.

As soon as the sky got dark, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at Wang Er and Zheng Yanfu and said, "There is a good show tonight, do you want to go and watch it?"

Needless to say, the answer was all followed by Zhu Yuanzhang and went to the camp of the officers and soldiers to watch the show. They were lying in the woods very close to the camp of the two armies, and even the sounds in the camp could be heard clearly.

The lights were lit in the camp of the officers and soldiers, and there was a night banquet. From time to time, Yang Hong's laughter of urging him to drink came from. Zhao Yu had already drunk his tongue and said vague words. The lights of the bandits' camp were turned off, and all the minions fell asleep.

About the second day of the day, the sound of a cup falling suddenly came from the officers and soldiers' camp, and then Zhao Yu's screams sounded, which came from afar in the quiet night.

"This... is the story that the storytellers often talk about, "smashing cups as a sign? Two hundred swords and axes rushed out under the tent?" Zheng Yanfu was a little stunned.

"It's almost the same, but it's not enough to deal with Zhao Yu, only twenty knives and axes." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "The next thing we need to look at is the key point... Let's see what night attack is!"

I saw a sound of war drums sounded from the officers and soldiers’ camps, and hundreds of soldiers rushed out. Most of them were holding spears, and a small number of general flag soldiers and small flag soldiers held torches and rushed towards the bandits’ camps...

The bandits were awakened by the sound of footsteps and stood up hastily. However, they were blinded by the goodwill of the officers and soldiers during the day and were completely unprepared for the battle. Hundreds of officers and soldiers rushed into the bandit camp and stabbed them hard together...

Howling, cursing, questioning unwillingly, crying, regretting...

Everything returned to silence in the darkness...

After everything calmed down, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around, patted Wang Er and Zheng Yanfu on the shoulders, and said seriously: "After embarking on the path of killing officials and rebelling, you can only move forward. If you retreat, this will be the end!"

Wang Er and Zheng Yanfu nodded together, agreeing deeply.

They didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang actually deliberately took them to see the fate of Zhao Yu and his group, because Zhu Yuanzhang had already planned to train them as his own right-hand men. What he needed was his subordinates who were determined to embark on the road of rebellion. No matter how difficult the situation was in the future, they would have the courage to rebel to the end and never compromise with the court. Therefore, he deliberately let the two watch this scene, and believed that after watching this big show, Wang Er and Zheng Yanfu would be greatly shocked.

The most important thing in the way of controlling their subordinates is to control their hearts.
Chapter completed!