Chapter 190 Easily Win

Xie Baisheng is also a veteran general who has been on the battlefield for a long time and is well versed in both civil and military strategies.

He was well aware of the importance of time. He wanted to occupy enough territories before everyone reacted, so that he would have the capital to compete for supremacy in the world.

At night, Xie Baisheng ordered the army to rest in place.

It was impossible to set up camp during the march. After all, Ancheng and Qingzhou City were only more than 200 miles apart, and it would take several days to build a camp. Therefore, the rest on the way was to make a fire and cook on the spot.

The soldiers under Xie Baisheng had not received any training.

They were forced to be conscripted, so walking twenty or thirty miles a day was already their limit.

Now under Xie Baisheng's command, these soldiers were suddenly in chaos. It was like a small market. Some were preparing dinner, some were trying to escape, some were fighting, some were showing off, and some were so tired that they fell to the ground and fell asleep.

Although Xie Baisheng wanted to improve military discipline, it was obviously not the time.

He is now just waiting to take over Qingzhou City so that he can rectify military discipline.

Of these 30,000 people, only the 6,000 people he originally had might be able to fight.

These six thousand people can actually only understand military orders.

They were not like the soldiers who had just been conscripted and could not even understand an order.

Xie Baisheng felt a headache when he looked at the messy crowd.

Just at this moment, a roar came from the front.

That was the sound of thousands of horses galloping.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!!"

Upon hearing this, Xie Baisheng immediately shouted, "Pass the order down, prepare to meet the enemy, prepare to meet the enemy."

But at this time, no one listened to his orders.

Those soldiers who were forcibly conscripted began to attack Xie Baisheng's original subordinates.

The scene was in such chaos that before the Black Evil Legion from Qingzhou City rushed over, they themselves had already suffered more than a hundred casualties.

All of them died from being trampled.

Xie Baisheng yelled hysterically, trying to control the situation.

But it didn't work, the chaos remained chaos.

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from behind.

Xie Baisheng's head was buzzing. He was surrounded!

Moreover, from the sound of horse hooves, one could tell that the enemy were all cavalry, numbering at least several thousand.

Then Xie Baisheng saw countless cavalrymen rushing out from both sides.

These cavalrymen were dressed in black, with face-covering armor on their heads, and even their mounts were armored.

Xie Baisheng opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

A dozen personal guards surrounded him.

Then two black-armored cavalrymen rushed to a place not far from Xie Baisheng.

The two black-armored cavalrymen were both holding long-handled sabers. They swung them casually, taking advantage of the momentum of their horses to chop down the bodyguards.

These personal soldiers were all selected by Xie Baisheng himself. They were highly skilled in martial arts, and their food and training were far better than those of other soldiers. However, in front of the black-armored cavalry, his blade was cut off in an instant, and then his armor was cut open, followed by his body.

Xie Baisheng felt his scalp tingling. Was this black-armored cavalry too terrifying?

Could this be a demon crawling out of hell?

The battle was a complete one-sided massacre.

"Put down your weapons and those who surrender will not be killed!"

"Put down your weapons and those who surrender will not be killed!"

Xie Baisheng's troops surrendered one after another.

Soon, only the Black Evil Legion was left standing on the battlefield.

Xie Baisheng didn't even find the body of a single Black Evil Legion cavalryman.

After all, this was a battle involving tens of thousands of people, but the enemy remained unscathed.

On the other hand, there were corpses everywhere on his side.

At this moment, a black warhorse came out, and on the back of the black warhorse sat a particularly tall and burly general. The general's armor was also black, but the style was obviously different from that of ordinary cavalry.

When Xie Baisheng saw the other party walking towards him, he immediately became nervous.

"I am Xie Baisheng, the prefect of Ancheng County." Xie Baisheng was afraid that the other party would chop him to death, so he simply revealed his identity.

Xiahou Jie looked down at Xie Baisheng.

"Tie him up and go back to the city," Xiahou Jie ordered.

This war started off well but ended badly, and Xie Baisheng was truly vulnerable.

When Xie Baisheng entered Qingzhou City, he found that the city was brightly lit. You should know that it was already night time, but Qingzhou City was prosperous.

Is this really Qingzhou City occupied by rebels? Did I go to the wrong set?

This Qingzhou city is countless times more prosperous than Ancheng.

Xie Baisheng was not tied up at this moment, but was taken to the Qingzhou Municipal Government Building as usual.

The city hall building was still brightly lit at this time.

Xie Baisheng looked at the building in front of him in shock. With his limited knowledge, he couldn't even understand how this building was built.

Afterwards, Xie Baisheng was taken by Xiahou Jie to meet Zhuge Liang.

"My name is Xie Baisheng. Nice to meet you, sir. May I ask your name?"

"I am Zhuge Wulong, the Grand Steward of Qingzhou City."

"This time I mistakenly believed the slander that Qingzhou City was occupied by rebels, so I came here to fight against them. But now that I have entered the city, I see that the people are living and working in peace and contentment. I think I was wrong. Please give me a chance to make amends."

"We are the rebels." Zhuge Wulong answered very frankly.

"Ah this..."

Now it was Xie Baisheng's turn to not know how to respond. He didn't expect the other party to admit so frankly that he was a traitor.

Although this is a fact known to everyone, the traitors will never admit that they are traitors. Instead, they will use slogans such as "eliminating harm for the people" and "enforcing justice on behalf of heaven".

"Okay, if you want to live, you have to pay a compensation of one million taels of silver. If you can't come up with the money, you can also use the equivalent of grain to pay off the debt. If you can't come up with money and grain, you can use the people of Ancheng to pay off the debt. A family of three can pay ten taels of silver, a family of five can pay twenty taels of silver, and a family of ten can pay fifty taels of silver." Zhuge Wulong said, "Don't think about getting away with it. If you dismantle and piece together the families of the people and I find out, then our Qingzhou City Black Evil Legion will go directly to you to settle the account."

"Ah?" Xie Baisheng looked surprised.

In history, there have been cases of using population to pay off debts, but generally what was required were the military or young and strong people.

No one has ever used this method to settle debts with an entire household.

And this applies to both men and women, young and old. If it is young and strong men and women, it would be fine.

But he doesn't care about the age, which makes Xie Baisheng helpless.

"Do you understand my request?"

"I understand." Xie Baisheng nodded hurriedly: "Master Zhuge, do you have any other requests?"

"The people of Ancheng and Qingzhou cities must not be stopped from moving around."

"It's natural."

"No other questions. You can send a letter back to Ancheng now. You can leave when the compensation is delivered."