Chapter 324: The Arrogant Niu Gao

Looking at Niu Gao kneeling before him, Zhang Long walked up, squatted down, and patted his panicked face.

He said to him with full disdain: "With your strength, how can you say such things? Huh!"

"You couldn't even take a single move from the Centurion under my command, you are really ridiculously weak!"

After speaking, he looked at Niu Gao coldly. With the strength of a third-rate martial general, he still learned to act tough like others—who gave him the courage!

As Niu Fu's cousin, Niu Gao had always treated others like this; when had he ever suffered such humiliation?

He was instantly so angry that his face flushed red, and his eyes stared fixedly at Zhang Long; his expression was as if he wanted to swallow him alive.

"Bastard, I advise you to let me go, otherwise, my elder brother will not let you off!"

Niu Gao looked at the overbearing Zhang Long and thought of his last straw, which was Niu Fu, who was stationed in Jinyang City.

"Hehehe, do you think we would be afraid of Niu Fu, with his strength as a second-rate martial general and the twenty thousand troops in his hands?"

Hearing Niu Gao bring out Niu Fu to threaten him, he felt it was a bit funny.

Based on the strength of Zhang Liao and the others, they were not afraid of Niu Fu, let alone the fact that they had fifty thousand troops.

"Take him away, go back and hand him over to the General for disposal!"

No longer paying attention to Niu Gao, who was shouting there, Zhang Long waved his hand at the guards and said indifferently.

"Yes!"

Immediately, two guards stepped forward, tied up Niu Gao, and took a piece of rag to block his mouth.

Zhang Liao, who was heading straight for the Taishou Fu, did not know that Niu Gao had already been captured alive by Zhang Long. At this time, he was leading people to kill their way toward the Taishou Fu.

Along the way, anyone who dared to resist was cleared away. Those remaining enemy troops, seeing the murderous aura on Zhang Liao and the others,

immediately gave up resistance and knelt down to surrender. Therefore, Zhang Liao and his party soon arrived at the Taishou Fu.

"Search separately, absolutely do not let Niu Gao run away. Anyone who dares to resist, kill without mercy!"

Zhang Liao charged forward and said coldly to the people behind him.

"Yes, search separately!"

After the people behind him responded, they all separated to search...

Half an hour later, everyone came to the council hall of the Taishou Fu with ugly expressions.

Seeing the expressions of the crowd, Zhang Liao knew that they had not found Niu Gao. However, thinking of the Military Advisor's backup plan, his heart instantly calmed down.

He asked the crowd indifferently: "Looking at you, you didn't find him, right!"

After hearing Zhang Liao's words, everyone lowered their heads in shame and said to Zhang Liao: "Please forgive us, General. This subordinate and others searched the entire Taishou Fu but did not find Niu Gao's trace."

"This person may have already fled Shangjun City before we entered the city."

The Deputy General hurriedly said respectfully to Zhang Liao.

"Don't worry, the Military Advisor had long expected that Niu Gao would abandon the city and flee, so he had already set an ambush on the only path he would take to flee. He cannot escape!"

Regarding the Deputy General's words, Zhang Liao did not care, just explained to everyone with full confidence.

"General, the Military Advisor is truly a genius. This subordinate followed the Military Advisor's instructions and indeed ran into Niu Gao, who was fleeing, at the East Gate!"

Just at this moment, Zhang Long broke into the hall and said loudly to Zhang Liao with excitement.

"Hahahaha, the Military Advisor is truly talented. Zhang Long, this time I will record a great merit for you."

After hearing Zhang Long's words, Zhang Liao was also very happy and immediately said to Zhang Long.

"This subordinate thanks the General. However, Niu Gao was not captured alive by this subordinate; he was captured by a soldier under my command, Li Jiu."

In this regard, Zhang Long did not dare to take the credit and immediately explained to Zhang Liao.

After all, greedily claiming credit—if this were found out, it would be a serious crime, and if things went wrong, it would cost him his head.

"Good, then I will promote him to be a Squad Leader. As for you, Zhang Long, you will serve as a Colonel from now on."

After hearing Zhang Liao's reward, Zhang Long was also very happy and immediately thanked Zhang Liao: "This subordinate thanks the General. I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

"Hmm, alright, bring Niu Gao to me."

Afterwards, Zhang Liao intended to see Niu Gao to see if he could recruit him.

"Yes, come, bring Niu Gao in."

After Zhang Long heard Zhang Liao's words, he shouted loudly to the outside of the hall.

The guards who had been waiting outside the hall, after hearing Zhang Long's voice, immediately brought Niu Gao, who was tied up like a dumpling, into the hall.

"Woo... woo... woo..."

After Niu Gao saw Zhang Liao and the others, he was anxious to make a sound. However, he was tied up tightly, and his mouth was blocked by a rag.

He could only shout anxiously at everyone. A prisoner is nothing more than this.

"Come, untie him."

Zhang Liao raised his eyes and scanned Niu Gao's sorry state, then said to the soldier.

"Zhang Liao, you traitorous thing, you dare to betray Prime Minister Dong. Let me tell you, my elder brother has twenty thousand troops in his hands. With just your fifty thousand men, it is impossible to take Jinyang City."

"You might as well let me go. At that time, I will ask my elder brother to give you Shangjun City. Without Prime Minister Dong, that brat Liu Bian can't even protect himself. Why don't we consider for ourselves? At that time, we can cooperate with my elder brother to seize the entire Bingzhou, and then we can split Bingzhou together."

Niu Gao said to Zhang Liao with a smile in a seductive tone.

After speaking, he looked at Zhang Liao with full confidence. He could already imagine that Zhang Liao would definitely be persuaded by him. At that time, he could dominate the entire Bingzhou, and if he worked a little harder, maybe he could even compete for the world.

Thinking of this, the smile on Niu Gao's mouth became more and more uncontrollable.

"Presumptuous!"

"Bold!"

"Shameless thing, you are looking for death!"

"General, this subordinate requests to kill this thief!"

"Please, General, kill this thief!"

Different from what Niu Gao imagined, after everyone heard his words, they were all furious.

They all scolded him one after another, and the eyes looking at Niu Gao revealed a thick murderous intent.

They all knelt on one knee to Zhang Liao, requesting to kill Niu Gao.

"You, you don't know what's good for you. Don't you want to dominate a region?"

Hearing everyone's words and the murderous intent they revealed when looking at him, Niu Gao was instantly panicked, shrank his neck, and scolded everyone in a panic.

He couldn't understand why they were so angry; the look in their eyes made them want to swallow him alive.

"Hmph, Niu Gao, you really don't know what's good for you, daring to be disrespectful to His Majesty. Originally, I wanted to spare your life for the sake of our acquaintance, but I didn't expect you to be so anxious. Then I will fulfill your wish."

Zhang Liao at this time was also looking at Niu Gao with icy eyes and said coldly.

"Come, drag this traitor down and behead him in public!"

After hearing Zhang Liao's words, the soldiers who had long wanted to kill Niu Gao immediately stepped forward, hoisted him up, and dragged him outside the hall.

"General Zhang Liao, spare my life, I know I was wrong!"

"General Zhang, I surrender, please spare my life for the sake of our acquaintance..."

Seeing that Zhang Liao really wanted to kill him, Niu Gao was instantly terrified and begged for mercy loudly in a panic.

"Hehe, wanting to beg for mercy? It's too late. Drag him down and chop him!"

After hearing Niu Gao's plea for mercy, Zhang Liao ignored him and immediately said coldly to the two guards. ===== CHAPTER 325 =====