mtl008 Chapter 659 Every day now, I feel ashamed of myself for surviving!
Chapter 659 Every day now, I feel ashamed of myself for surviving!
Wu Sangui turned around stiffly to look.
The streets and alleys were bustling with large crowds.
They did not wear standard armor, but they all carried weapons belonging to the border troops.
The border guards who originally belonged to him had no chance to get close. As the two sides confronted each other, war seemed imminent.
"Tell me, in this situation, if you were one of the three of them, would you dare to take action?"
"So stop struggling, Wu Sangui, you've lost."
"You have done a very good job in guarding against me. I tried several times to have my soldiers sneak into the border, but you kept a close watch on them and I dared not make the slightest move."
"You have almost thwarted my idea of a strong attack on the border, but your defenses against them are not as tight as they used to be."
Liu Bang said with a smile.
"Ha, if I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have waited for that opportunity. I should have found them all one by one and wiped them out completely!"
Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and forced out a cold snort.
He even had spies planted among these people, so how could he not be wary of them!
He had even planned where to bury these people beforehand!
If Liu Bang hadn't intervened, he believed that these people would have jumped out on their own the moment the Manchus entered the pass.
At that time, he only needs to join forces with Dorgon to launch a siege against these people, and they will be able to wipe them out in one fell swoop, saving the trouble of checking them one by one.
He could tell that the reason these people had refrained from taking action was because of Liu Bang's appearance!
"Yes, if I hadn't intervened, they would have acted rashly when the Manchus entered the pass, and they would have inevitably been wiped out by you."
"But when you do these things, don't you feel even a little bit guilty?"
"Their original intention in staying here was to assist you in guarding the border and keeping the enemy out of the pass, but you are always thinking about how to betray the country and how to eliminate them."
"Don't you think that your current predicament is entirely your own fault?"
Liu Bang slapped his face with the blade of his sword, an undisguised display of humiliation.
"I truly have only myself to blame, and I deserve to have you and all of them wiped out!"
"You should be sent to keep company with those ants around the border!"
Wu Sangui already knew that things had reached a point where there was no way to turn back.
He stopped offering any further persuasive advice.
"Around the border?"
Liu Bang frowned.
Wu Sangui, however, had no intention of answering his question; he simply continued talking to himself.
"You also brought trouble upon yourself. You were involved in letting the Qing army into the pass, but you were stupid enough to join forces with them."
"Just you wait, after me, their next target will be you!"
"I don't know how you managed to fool them, but the fact is that the Manchus have entered the pass, and the looting is about to begin. How are you going to explain this to them?"
"They are the sword in your hand now, but even the sword can kill its master. You cannot quell their rage. Your only way to survive is to join forces with me!"
There are only relationships in this world based on conflicting interests.
The purpose of these deserters from the border was to prevent the Manchus from entering the pass. How could they possibly let the culprit go?
Wu Sangui now desperately hopes that Liu Bang will come to his senses.
Unfortunately, in his hopeful gaze, he only saw Liu Bang's disdainful smirk.
"This leads to the next big show I'm going to show you."
"There is still time. Order all your troops to lay down their weapons and disarm."
"otherwise……"
The blade moved slightly, and the edge made another cut.
Wu Sangui was seething with anger. He wanted to curse, to call Liu Bang a fool, and to say that doing so was tantamount to courting death.
But these words, once they reached my lips, I just couldn't say them.
"By order of this Marquis, lay down your weapons and do not... do not resist!"
Faced with Liu Bang's murderous gaze, he could only obediently comply.
If he survives, he still has a chance to turn things around.
Once these deserters realize that Liu Bang is also a culprit, and once they turn their weapons indiscriminately against the two of them, he will have the opportunity to end everything in the chaos!
By then, no one will be able to escape his reckoning!
"Go and let your leader take over the city defense. I'll explain to him later and arrange your next tasks."
Liu Bang gestured towards the half-dead Zhang the tailor.
"...Sir, look at me like this, how can you bear to make me run errands?"
Despite his complaints, Zhang the tailor forced himself to walk toward a small alley.
A moment later, a large group of people dressed in plain clothes gathered their weapons and gradually spread out and placed themselves in various places.
Finally, after handing Wu Sangui over to those people, Liu Bang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Things had progressed to this point, and everything was going incredibly smoothly.
Especially when he arrived at the Marquis's residence and saw that Zhang the tailor and the waiter were still alive, he knew that it was a success.
After all, his only connection with those deserters was Zhang the tailor, and the trust between them was entirely based on this person.
If Zhang the tailor dies, things will certainly not go smoothly afterward, and even that little bit of trust will collapse instantly.
Inside the restaurant.
Liu Bang sat alone on one side. Opposite him were beggars, cooks, small merchants, and other people dressed in various ways, all looking at him with unfriendly expressions.
Based on the trust between the two parties, Zhang the tailor did indeed survive.
But it was only this most basic trust that was preserved.
They all clearly remembered that Liu Bang had led the Qing army into the pass.
If they cannot provide a reasonable explanation, then as Wu Sangui said, they will become indiscriminate blades, killing all the culprits!
"My lord, please tell me your reasons and what you intend to do."
"If I can't convince the brothers behind me, then I, a beggar, will have to apologize."
"Playing dead won't fool us; we remember your words clearly."
Seeing that the atmosphere between the two sides was somewhat tense, the beggar took the initiative to speak and break the silence.
He was mainly anxious; Liu Bang had summoned them here, but they hadn't spoken, and he couldn't hold it in any longer.
"I'm not going to fool you, and I already have a fairly complete plan for this matter, but I just don't know how to bring it up."
What I'm about to say might sound... like I'm sending you to your deaths.
"Are you afraid?"
Upon hearing this, the beggar was delighted.
"Afraid? Afraid of what? Afraid of death?"
"My lord, do you know how many brothers joined the army with me back then?"
As he spoke, he held up a few fingers.
"Thirty-seven men. Thirty-seven of my brothers joined the army together, and now I'm the only one left. Do you think I should be grateful that I survived?"
"no."
"Every day now, I feel ashamed that I have survived!"
"We're afraid of death? My lord, you're insulting me, you're insulting us all!"