My Immortal Brother-in-law

Chapter 103 Entrustment
"At that time, I really wanted to surrender."

At this point, Wen Zhonggang's smiling face turned back into a look of deep bitterness and hatred.

As he spoke, he clasped his hands on the table, as if he wanted to vent something.

After a moment, he raised his head and spoke to Zhong Su while leaning against the table.

"Will you laugh at me, my brother, for wanting to surrender?"

"will not."

Zhong Su shook his head and remained silent, motioning Wen Zhong to continue.

As if gaining some strength from Zhong Suli's calmness, Wen Zhong nodded and continued.

"But just when I really wanted to surrender, something surprising happened in Sishui Pass.

In the past few months, most of the soldiers in Sishui Pass died, leaving less than 50,000. Even the civilians in Sishui were killed in five or six out of ten, leaving only about half.

Moreover, during that period, we had been living on slaves, but as time went on, the number of merchants in Sishui Pass decreased, and the remaining slaves were even more numerous than the merchants.

After asking around, I found out that the largest number of slaves in Sishui Pass are the northern Di slaves who are not afraid of the severe cold.

They didn't have a good life on a daily basis, and even though Sishui had become a hell on earth at that time, this hell was surprisingly similar to the slaves' daily lives.

So apart from being eaten, there was no extra loss of slaves, and as time went by, their number seemed to increase.

The gradual increase in the proportion of slaves also made Sishui what it is today."

Wen Zhong frowned fiercely and looked outside the tent coldly.

Then he turned back and continued speaking to Zhong Su in an even colder tone.

"As the number of slaves increased, our army and merchants decreased. Finally, the slaves gradually became dissatisfied and made several tentative disturbances.

At that time, Ji Fa was singing Shang music outside the city, which made my army restless. Inside the city, slaves were changing three times a day and coming and going, which made my army and civilians exhausted.

So in the end, I simply gave the armor and weapons to the slaves, and led the Northern Di slaves to select a thousand Southern Barbarian slaves, kill them and eat their meat, as a sacrifice to heaven.

At this point, the Northern Di slaves were reluctantly put to use by me. They stood on the city walls and began to defend the city, making the Sishui River more stable.

However, what I didn’t expect was that the sudden rise of the Northern Di slaves actually brought additional opportunities for victory.

The Guifang slaves controlled by Xiqi saw that the Sishui northern slaves could actually wear armor and eat meat, so they started to make trouble in Xiqi.

It’s ridiculous that Ji Li had just defeated Guifang not long ago, and most of the Guifang slaves have not yet been completely obedient.

Now their disturbance brought great trouble to Xiqi, and even Jifa stopped singing.

After that, I waited for more than ten days and saw that Xiqi was really in chaos. A large number of naked Guifang slaves even went into a full-scale war with Jifa's soldiers.

So I attacked boldly, using only 50,000 Shang troops to control 800,000 Northern Di slaves, and together with the Guifang slaves, I attacked Ji Fa.

Since then, I have driven Ji Fa back outside the moat, and we have been facing each other across the river like we are now."

At this point, Wen Zhong let out a long sigh, then looked at the Beidi slaves outside with even colder eyes.

“Brother, I know that you must have been teased and offended by the Northern Slaves when you came here, otherwise you wouldn’t have made the White Tiger grow so big in a high-profile manner and barged into the formation so violently.

However, these northern slaves are indeed my top priority in guarding Sishui. I cannot get rid of them all in a short time.

Those northern slaves have gained benefits and are becoming more and more arrogant. In recent days, I have received many reports of northern slaves violating the daughters of my merchants, or small groups of northern slaves going south to secretly plunder my merchant villages.

I no longer need to record these things one by one for them.

Even dogs that have eaten human flesh will gradually become less afraid of humans, not to mention the Rongdi people in the north.

Therefore, after this battle between me and Xiqi is completely over, and after the king appoints a new general to lead his troops to Sishui Pass, I will join forces with the new general and clear out all the slaves in Sishui Pass.

No matter north, south, east or west, no slaves in the city will be left alive. Only in this way can we completely avoid the barbarians from rebelling against Tiangang.

Those barbarians do not know the will of heaven, the majesty of heaven, have no sense of shame, and are ignorant of etiquette. They are difficult to educate and are no better than pigs and dogs.

But no matter what, let them be free under my command for a while. After all, they have defended Sishui Pass for my Shang Dynasty.

They defended the last bit of dignity on behalf of Da Shang and me, as well as every hero who died in this pass!
My face is not important. I have lost to Ji Fa so many times that I no longer care about face.

However, if the city wall was breached, even the heroes of the Deng family would die in vain, and this kind of result is absolutely unacceptable to me!!!"

boom!
The table suddenly broke apart, and Wen Zhongze was filled with righteous indignation, his facial features almost collapsing together. At the same time, Zhong Su also understood what those things he had seen along the way were.

There is no need to talk much about the Northern Di slave army that harassed them by the river, but the main focus is on the current situation in Xiqi.

No wonder the morale of the Xiqi soldiers was low. They all tortured their slaves severely and vented all their hatred on them.

It turned out that they had been in a massive mutiny by their own slaves...

Hearing this, Zhong Su used a whisk to dust the ground to calm Wen Zhong down.

Then, Zhong Su closed his eyes and spoke silently.

"I only had so many fish last day, but I could have had more."

"A few fish and shrimps are useless. Sishui Pass was indeed extremely hungry, but what it lacked was not food, but spirit."

Wen Zhong interrupted Zhong Su's words and tried to comfort him with a forced smile.

"The delicious food you left behind made us very happy during those few days. It was this spirit that helped me withstand Ji Fa's initial and fiercest attack.

As for what happened later, no one could save Sishui Pass. Only we ourselves could save us. Look, we managed to make it through.

Let’s not talk about that anymore. Big brother, please let me relax. Seeing you again, I finally see my family again. This feeling is so good!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Wen Zhong immediately fetched some wine and found Zhong Su and started drinking heavily.

Zhong Su knew that Wen Zhong was upset, so he deliberately tried to please him by talking about some matters related to immortals to help Wen Zhong feel better.

The two drank from noon to dusk, and from dusk to midnight.

Just as the two were about to end the drinking party, Wen Zhong also arranged for people to clean up the military tent for Zhong Su and his party to take a rest, when Xiao Jiu suddenly came back into the tent.

Blah blah blah!

Even from a long distance away, Zhong Su, under the influence of alcohol, could hear the sound of armor colliding.

When he looked back, he saw that Xiaojiu had taken off his long gown and was now wearing heavy armor. He stood in front of the big tent, looking young but not so young anymore.

After receiving the money, Xiaojiu took a deep breath, then fell to his knees in front of Wen Zhong and Zhong Su.

Then he raised his hand, holding the sword, and spoke in a deliberately low voice.

"The generals of the Deng family are already in place. Please give us your instructions, Grand Master!"

"good good good good!!!"

Looking at Xiaojiu who was fully armed, Wen Zhong burst into tears.

While wiping his tears, Wen Zhong stood up with a laugh and patted Deng Jiugong's shoulder armor heavily.

Wen Zhong shouted as the armor rustled.

"From now on, you, General Deng, will live in the camp with me, and you are not allowed to leave until the battle is over!
As long as Sishui is here, you are here. If Sishui dies, my family will die with you. Do you understand? "

"Mr. Deng Jiugong obeys the Grand Master's order!"

Deng Jiugong responded heavily, then stood up with his sword in his arms, hung the sword around his waist, went out and stood quietly on the left side of the tent without moving.

Looking at Deng Jiugong's shadow, Wen Zhong's tense heartstrings finally relaxed a little. He patted his chest and said something to Zhong Su.

"It seems like my Great Shang is destined to have another powerful general, haha!

Come on, big brother, help me get this title!
As far as I am concerned, this cup of wine is a tribute to our Shang ancestors, and more importantly, to the many famous generals of the Shang Dynasty in the past. Finally, I wish that the Shang Dynasty will last forever!

Hahahahaha! ! ! "

At this point, Wen Zhong was completely drunk.

Even though the battle of Sishui has not yet ended, and even though there is still Ji Fa on the other side of the river who needs to be guarded against.

Even with so many evens, Wen Zhong fell drunk and fell into a long sleep without a care.

But before he fell asleep, he still held Zhong Su's hand tightly, as if he was asking Zhong Su to entrust something.

(End of this chapter)