In less than 15 minutes, a commotion broke out. Guan Yu, who was pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes and looked at the crowd that slowly appeared on the mountain path.
There were hundreds of people in the crowd, and they were noisy. Their clothes were also extremely tattered, like beggars. A few of them were wearing tattered armour-like clothes.
These people came to Guan Yu's pavilion and stood thirty feet away from him. The noise stopped abruptly.
Hundreds of pairs of eyes looked at Guan Yu in unison, then cupped their hands in salute and shouted,""Greetings to General Guan."
Guan Yu closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. The Green Dragon Crescent Blade was leaning against the pillar beside Guan Yu. The Red Hare was tied to a tree outside the pavilion. It was chewing on leaves and was vigilantly walking towards the beggar-like soldiers.
"Everyone's here?" Guan Yu opened his eyes and looked at the crowd.
"Every mountain in South County is here.
The rest are all followers." At the front of the crowd, a burly man in his early thirties stood up and said.
Guan Yu turned his gaze to the man who spoke. The man did not dare to meet Guan Yu's gaze and bowed.
"Who are you?" Guan Yu asked.
"General, I am Long Da of the Twin Dragon Camp. I am the leader chosen to negotiate with you.”Long Da said to Guan Yu.
Guan Yu retracted his gaze, stroking his beard and squinting,""Tell me how many people you have now.”
"General, there are more than 30,000 people in each village in South County.”
"How many young and strong are there?"
"About ten thousand."
Guan Yu glanced at Long Da and continued,""Today, I came to see you alone. My followers are all at the foot of the mountain. This is according to your request.
If you have any other requests, just say it earlier. I'm busy with military affairs and don't have much time to chat with you. I treat you with sincerity. If you don't treat me with sincerity, then don't blame my Green Dragon Crescent Blade for being merciless.”
Long Da cupped his fists and said," General Guan, we are willing to go down the mountain and belong to the Left General. However, we hope that the 30,000 of us can form an army on our own. The leaders of each village will be the generals. We also need the Left General to provide us with food and weapons. Only then will we be willing to die for the Left General."”
"We have no other requests."
Guan Yu looked at Long Da and said nothing. Long Da and the others also looked at Guan Yu, waiting for his reply.
"Go back to where you came from.”Guan Yu said.
"General Guan, why don't you consider it?"
"Before I get angry, it's best for you to retreat quickly.”Guan Yu said.
Long Da looked at Guan Yu unwillingly and couldn't help but say,""General Guan doesn't even want to negotiate?”
"We are all sincerely willing to join…"
"If he really wanted to join us, he wouldn't have such an unreasonable request.”
"Since the general thinks that our request is not feasible, why can't we talk about it again?”
"No need." Guan Yu rejected coldly.
There was no need to continue talking to such a person who had no sincerity.
Moreover, they had come to surrender, not because Guan Yu had begged them to. These bandits had come because they had no other choice. In the end, they had no right to negotiate.
"Since General Guan doesn't accept us.
Brothers, let's go and join Cao Cao.”Long Da shouted and was about to leave.
Guan Yu narrowed his eyes and reached out to grab the Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
The Red Hare sensed the change in its master's aura and turned to look at Guan Yu. If Guan Yu needed it, it would come over immediately.
As soon as Long Da finished speaking, someone in the crowd asked,"What if Cao Cao doesn't accept us?”
"Then General Guan must be careful of his logistics.”Long Da said fiercely.
Guan Yu made a move, and the Red Hare also leaped out. A miserable cry sounded out, and the crowd of more than a hundred people instantly became chaotic.
A ring-shaped saber pierced through Long Da's back. Guan Yu watched this scene and didn't do anything else.
It was obvious that the bandits were having an internal conflict.
Long Da was pushed forward by the owner of the ring-head saber until he was about twenty feet away from Guan Yu. Long Da fell to the ground and spat out blood as he struggled to get up. The ring-head saber stained with Long Da's blood was raised and slashed towards Long Da's neck.
Blood splattered like a fountain. The huge head was separated from the body and was lifted up by the hair.
"General, how is this head?"
"Great." Guan Yu said.
"I, Su Fei, offer the head of the rebel leader Long Da to you. I only hope that you will be willing to take in five thousand of my Jing State's defeated soldiers.”The young man who had beheaded Long Da knelt down on one knee in front of Guan Yu.
The battle had been decided. The Fort Masters who followed Long Da were either killed or crouched on the ground and surrendered.
These Fort Masters could never imagine why the followers they had brought with all their trust would suddenly attack them.
"These soldiers are all your men in ambush?”Guan Yu asked.
Su Fei replied," When the Cao rebels went south, some soldiers in the Jingzhou army were unwilling to follow the rebels and left the army. However, because of the war, they had no fixed residence and could only become bandits. These brothers were scattered in various villages. Many of them became reputable leaders in the villages within a year, and many of them even became village masters.”
"Why are you doing this?"
……
Su Fei looked back at his brothers who had killed Long's confidant and said to Guan Yu,""General, our brothers are at their wits 'end, and we are not willing to join Cao Cao.”
"Why did you fall from the grass back then?"
"When Cao Cao went south, many of our brothers were unwilling to follow him. However, the times were tough and South County was in chaos. Our brothers could not survive, so they became bandits.
Now, we only ask the general to take us in.”Su Fei begged.
Cao Cao had incorporated 100,000 Jingzhou soldiers, many of whom were unwilling to join Cao Cao. Some of these people had joined Liu Bei, while others had disappeared. Perhaps most of these people had followed Su Fei and chosen to gather in the mountains.
"Did you successfully accept the 30,000 people from the South County villages?”
"Many of my brothers have become bandits. Many of them have become small leaders, and some of them have even become Fort Masters. As long as I give the order, they will definitely come to surrender.”
Guan Yu stroked his beard." Since you're so powerful among the bandits of South County, why is it Long Da who negotiated with me and not you?"”
"General, I was once a lieutenant general under Liu Jingzhou. Because I offended Cai Mao in the early years, I was not put in an important position. However, because Liu Jingzhou was still alive, Cai Mao did not dare to kill me. When Liu Jingzhou died, Cao Cao went south at the right time. The Jingzhou army defected to Cao Cao under Cai Mao and the others. I had no choice but to return home quickly to avoid being persecuted. However, I was injured by bandits on the way and was kidnapped to the village. Fortunately, my brothers saved me in the village. Later, I killed the chief and gained the position of chief. After several months of dealing with the other strongholds, I learned that many brothers in the Jingzhou army who were unwilling to surrender had become bandits.
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