When Zheng Quchi arrived, the water in the pit had already submerged their calves up to halfway.
Zheng Quchi was also surprised. It seemed that she had miscalculated something. If the rain continued, she wouldn't even need to release water to scare them; the accumulated rainwater would be enough to give them a "cold bath."
"So, have you made up your minds?"
Zheng Quchi was, after all, a woman, and her voice was naturally sweet, crisp and soft, unlike the rough voice of a man. Therefore, in the pouring rain, she did not want to shout at the top of her lungs, so she entrusted the task of delivering the message to someone else.
Inside the pit were two groups of soldiers, half from the Hongsheng Army and half from the Nanchen Army. As for personal grudges, Zheng Quchi had killed Shen Tangzhong, so the Hongsheng Army naturally had a greater grudge against her. Therefore, it was the axe commander of the Nanchen Army who spoke up: "Lieutenant Zheng, why don't you tell us first what you want us to do for you?"
That's a smart person.
His attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, yet he had his own bottom line in his words.
“Join the Ye Camp and become part of our fighting force,” Zheng Quchi said.
Upon hearing this, the captured group was first surprised by her words, then hesitated and said, "You're asking us to join the Ye camp? Doesn't that mean we're betraying our own country?"
Zheng Quchi retorted, "How can this be called betrayal? This is a war between the Kingdom of Julu and the Kingdom of Ye. I only asked you to help me defeat the Julu army in private, not to turn around and deal with your own country. Strictly speaking, isn't the Kingdom of Julu your enemy as well?"
They were misled by her words and couldn't find any rebuttal for a moment. After all, Zheng Quchi was right. In the trial of the six states, they were all enemies. It was just that they had initially targeted the weakest state, Ye.
Some cunning and quick-witted individuals were actually willing to temporarily surrender to the State of Ye in order to save their lives, and then plan their next move after they were in power.
“Those who are willing to help me, I will have someone pull you up. Now it’s up to you. But there are too many of you, so I will let people up in batches. The first batch will be five hundred people.”
Zheng Quchi had 500 men brought up. These men were unarmed and unprotected, and were surrounded by the Ye army, so they dared not put up any resistance.
However, Zheng Quchi did not send anyone to guard them. Instead, after they came up, he provided them with dry clothes and food and water, and allowed them to move freely within a certain area.
Despite the preferential treatment Zheng Quchi gave them, the five hundred men felt uneasy. They couldn't understand why Zheng Quchi trusted them so much. Didn't she worry that they might turn against her in the face of battle?
However, this question was soon answered.
When they saw the Ye soldiers in the Ye camp wearing the clothes and armor that used to belong to them, their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. At first glance, it didn't look like the Ye camp at all, but rather like a camp jointly set up by the Hongsheng Kingdom and the Southern Chen Kingdom.
They lowered their heads and looked at their newly changed Ye army attire, feeling as if a million alpacas were galloping through their minds.
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