Chapter Thirty-One: Follow My Will
Not long after, a middle-aged man in a green robe and a man in a tunic walked in with a pile of bamboo slips in his arms.
When Zhao Le saw the two of them coming in, he seemed to see a savior and hurriedly left the seat to pick up the bamboo slips in their hands.
The man in green robe and the man in mai sued him, placed the bamboo slips in his hand on Xu An's desk, and then made a respectful collection of Xu An who was sitting at the head of the desk.
"Li Heng pays homage to the general."
"Wang Ren pays homage to the general."
"No gift."
Xu An waved his hand and said lightly. The two of them sat aside with Zhao Le in a look of fear and fear, and then the scene fell into silence again.
The three of them looked at Xu An, who was seriously-looking sitting at the head of the desk, and they didn't dare to ask, especially Liu Pi, who was sitting next to Xu An, with a black and long beard and fierce look on his face.
Wang Ren struggled for a while, and finally broke his silence and spoke.
"Report to the general, we are all residents of the settlement near Lutai Mountain. We were forced to go up the mountain to protect ourselves because of the raging bandits in Taihang Mountain. We didn't want to use this to evade taxes. Xiaomin and others are willing to make up all the taxes they owed."
Xu An shook the lacquerware in his hand, looked at Wang Ren in surprise and said, "What tax?"
Wang Ren was stunned and had several thoughts in his mind. Could it be... These Han soldiers wanted to break their promises and kill them as bandits to do military achievements? Or were they greedy and wanted more benefits?
Not to mention that Wang Ren and others were full of conversations, Xu An just felt that the three people sitting beside him were very funny.
Xu An is in a good mood now. He thought that a bloody battle would be inevitable when he entered Lutai Mountain. Even Xu An was ready to lose more than half of the soldiers, but he didn't expect it to be so relaxed.
Lutai Mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Previously, this group of farmers only needed a hundred or ten people to block more than several times the ordinary soldiers with their dangerous terrain.
Now, if you replace these brave soldiers who came out of the sea of corpses and blood, they not only had strong armor and sharp blades, but also fifty lieutenants of strong bows. If only thousands of ordinary county soldiers came, they would probably not be able to conquer Lutai Mountain.
What's more, with the current situation, only the Yellow Turbans in a few places in Jizhou have been suppressed, and the Yellow Turbans in other states are still active again and have no time to take care of the bandits in the Taihang Mountains.
Even if the Han army entered Jingxing again found that there were only two or three hundred people who had broken through the city and wanted to pursue it. When they saw the fully armed soldiers on the village wall, plus the natural dangers of Lutai Mountain, as long as the commander of the Han army was still a little brained, he would not attack without authorization.
After all, if the generals were killed and the generals did not capture Lutai Mountain, they would be considered light. Even if they captured Lutai Mountain and only wiped out a group of hundreds of bandits, but they died in battle, what achievements would they achieve?
As for the lost armor and other military equipment in the arsenal, the Yellow Turban Army in various places broke the city and plundered more military equipment, which was almost irrelevant compared to it.
Even the eight passes of Taihang were in the hands of the bandits. Even if the Han army was going crazy and wanted to send troops to wipe out all the bandits in the Taihang Mountains, they had to attack them first. It was not Xu An's turn.
"this……"
Wang Ren was so anxious that he couldn't speak at this time. Zhao Le turned his eyes to the door and leaned against him. Li Heng narrowed his eyes slightly and reached his hand into his waist.
Xu An put down the lacquerware he was playing with in his hand and said calmly: "We are Huang Tian's messenger. I don't remember that you have owed us taxes?"
"Huang...Huang...Huang Huangtian? You? Aren't you Han army?"
Zhao Le became a little stuttered because of nervousness.
"I never said we are the Han army, but you have made no mistakes in one thing. I am indeed a general, but I am the general of Taipingdao."
Xu An looked at the expressions and movements of the three of them, and said in surprise.
The three people in the house were shocked by Xu An's words and were stunned for a moment. The three of them didn't know that what they did this time was to lead the wolf into the house.
I thought it was the Han army who settled the accounts after the autumn, but I didn't expect it to be a fake Han army team of the Yellow Turban thieves. They never thought about this from the beginning.
After all, this group of people was covered with iron armor only that was only real in the Han army, as well as extremely exquisite weapons and Han army robes.
"If we were the Han army, you wouldn't really think you still have a way out, right? Not to mention evading taxes and labor service, the Han army might also pardon you. Just saying that hiding armor is a serious crime of treason and tyranny is punished!"
"You have already become enemies. The bamboo slips of the Han army in Jingxing Pass are clearly recorded. Wang Ren, Li Heng and Zhao Le hide in Lutai Mountain to gather people to become enemies."
Xu An stood up and looked down at the three people with different expressions in front of him, and continued.
"Why do you think the Han army will let you go? Do you know how they treated our Yellow Turban Army? There was a severe drought in the world and there was no harvest. The court not only did not provide relief to the victims, but also snatched away all the remaining food from us. We just wanted a way out. After their Han army defeated, they also had to cut off our Yellow Turban heads to make a 'Jingguan'."
Xu An grinned open his mouth and showed a row of snow-white teeth, and squatted in front of the three of them.
"How did the court treat you? When the entire Xue family was killed by the bandits, and when the surrounding settlements were broken by the bandits, could the court take care of you?"
"Do you think you can spend your life in Lutai Mountain? There are hundreds of thieves of all sizes in Taihang Mountain, and there are four around you. More than 3,000 people are more than 3,000 people. It is only temporary if you don't come to attack you. Otherwise, do you really think you can defend Lutai Mountain by just you?"
"Even if you guard Lutai Mountain, do you miss your descendants, and from now on, your ancestors have been hiding in this small Lutai Mountain for generations?"
The three of them looked at each other, and when they heard what Xu An said, they felt more and more frightened. After all, what Xu An said was indeed the truth, and these problems bothered the three of them. They were also trying to find a way out, but they were almost powerless about these problems and could only take one step at a time.
After all, they are just a group of civilians.
Xu An ignored them anymore, stood up again and walked to the door. Seeing this, the soldier on the side slowly pushed the door from left to right.
The sunlight outside the house spreads from outside the courtyard to inside the house, and Xu An feels the warm sunshine shining on his body.
"Dare to take your family to Lutai Mountain, it has proved that the three of you are brave and resourceful. But people cannot just see the present, but they also have to take into account future events. You may not have any choice before, but now they are different."
Xu An slowly pulled out the ring-headed knife from his waist to the house, and the cold blade refracted the sunlight into the house.
"You look up and look inside and outside the house. Who can stop our steps in the thieves in Taihang Mountains? Look at the ring-headed sword in my hand. Is there a armor in Taihang Mountains that can block the weapon in my hand?"
"I think you should be smart people and you should know what the right choice is."
The three of them looked behind Xu An, and there were cars not far away, piles of halberds and swords piled up. The armored soldiers wearing heavy armor drove a large number of cattle and horses into the camp.
Xu An turned around and looked at the three people in the room and said coldly: "If you follow my will, you will live; if you go against my will, you will die. If you want to go, you can choose which way you want to go."
After moving to Jizhou, fighting fiercely against Guangzong, fighting Xia Quyang, and pretending to open Jingxing Pass all the way, Xu An is no longer the kind college student in later generations.
His heart gradually became hardened. After a hundred battles, he had a sense of power. Before he knew it, he had become a qualified commander.
Looking at the golden crow in the sky, Xu An raised the ring-headed knife in his hand high.
Chapter completed!