Chapter 799: Opening the City and Surrendering
Three days passed quickly.
The reinforcements that Liu Biao was expecting did not arrive.
When the time was up, he finally gathered his staff in his mansion.
The wide hall was crowded with more than a dozen people.
Among them are many of his trusted doormen, as well as his own sons, nephews and others.
Liu Biao glanced at the people present and looked at the centaurs who were still beside him at this time.
It's hard for these people to compete with Liu outside the city.
Even some of them had already made plans and faintly wanted to go out and surrender to Liu Zheng directly.
It's just that Liu Biao hasn't made a final decision yet, so he hasn't taken action.
In private, Liu Biao had already heard some rumors, if he was unwilling to surrender, some men and horses would forcibly open the city gate and let Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses enter the city.
"Everyone, I think you should also know that today is the last day of my agreement with Liu Zheng."
At this time, Liu Biao looked at the people present with a lonely expression, although he knew that among these people, some people had betrayed him, but Liu Biao was unwilling to pursue it more.
If you become a king or lose a villain, Liu Biao himself will soon become a prisoner, so why bother to embarrass others.
Water flows to a low place, and people go to a high place, this kind of thing is human nature, and Liu Biao agrees.
Among those present, they were all in favor of surrender.
Only Cai Zhong, and the one who was most reluctant to surrender.
"My lord, I don't think we can be frightened by that Liu Zheng, we can wait, the eldest prince has not returned until now, maybe the eldest prince is still fighting with Liu Zheng in Hanyang, if we surrender now, then the eldest prince will be in danger!"
At this time, Liu Zheng was Deng Ai, who attacked Chengdu during the Three Kingdoms period and forced Liu Chan to surrender, and Liu Qi, who had been fighting diplomatically, was Jiang Wei.
No matter how powerful Jiang Wei is, he can't save Liu Chan, who is bent on surrendering.
Cai Zhong stood up and expressed his heart to Liu Biao.
But after Liu Biao glanced at Cai Zhong, he just smiled faintly, which was considered to be in response to Cai Zhong's proposal.
If you don't agree to surrender today, I'm afraid that Liu Zheng outside the city will also lose patience, and when the army is pressing, Liu Biao will not have the confidence to stop it.
If you can't stop Liu Zheng's attack, forget it, and the people in the entire Xiangyang City will suffer, which is not what Liu Biao wants to see.
"That's it, in this case, don't say it again, the matter has come to this point, even if you continue to insist, it will be useless, you still have to think about how to propose to surrender with Liu Zheng, although it is a surrender, but it is not a complete unconditional surrender, at least he wants to ensure the safety of the people of Xiangyang City and even the entire Jingzhou. ”
Although he is ready to surrender, Liu Biao loves the people under his command, otherwise he would not be able to open up such a paradise as Jingzhou in the chaotic times in history.
The other staff members present saw that Liu Biao had already made plans to surrender in his heart, so they began to discuss the conditions to be put forward when surrendering.
Soon, the group had already discussed a result.
Before the sun set, Liu Biao took his people and came to the city tower again.
This time, he didn't wait for Liu Zheng to call him, so he took the initiative to step forward and ordered someone to call Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng originally thought that he could go later and give Liu Biao enough time to think about it clearly.
However, since Liu Biao took the initiative to call him, Liu Zheng had no doubts, and directly came to Xiangyang City with his own men and horses.
The two sides met again, and this time it was Liu Biao who was the first to speak, speaking to Liu Zheng under the city.
"Liu Zheng, I have already thought about it clearly, the time agreed in three days has arrived, and according to the agreement, we choose to open the city and surrender."
Liu Biao's words came out, and he immediately got Liu Zheng's response.
After Liu Zheng heard Liu Biao say that he chose to surrender, he was still a little worried, but at this moment, he was finally relieved.
"Okay, very good, Liu Jingsheng is worthy of the name of being kind-hearted, he is a hero, since you choose to surrender, then I will also give you corresponding kindness."
"I can promise you that your whole family will not have to worry about it!"
Liu Zheng's words were so loud that Liu Biao and all the strategists under Liu Biao on the city tower heard it.
It's just that after Liu Biao heard Liu Zheng's answer, he was not happy, but continued to speak to Liu Zheng again.
"To ensure my safety, this is not what I want, what I want you should understand is the safety of the entire Xiangyang City and even the entire people of Jingzhou, you can't kill innocents indiscriminately, otherwise, even if I fight to the last soldier, I will not surrender!"
Liu Zheng heard Liu Biao say this, but he smiled faintly.
"It seems that Brother Jingsheng, you don't know much about me."
"I, Liu Zheng, have never been a murderous person, I love the people, although I don't say that I must be much better than you, but I will definitely not be much worse than you."
"You can rest assured, Jingzhou will definitely become richer and stronger when handed over to me, and my goal is not only a Jingzhou, but the whole world."
Liu Zhenghao said a word at Liu Biao, and Liu Biao just nodded after listening. Then he arched his hand at Liu Zheng.
The following things are simple.
Liu Biao instructed a group of civil servants and military generals under his command to stand in batches and ordered Li Yan to open the gate of Xiangyang City.
Let Liu Zheng's men and horses enter the city.
Liu Zheng was not afraid of deception, and ordered Sun Ce to lead half of the soldiers and horses into Xiangyang City to take over the entire city defense affairs of Xiangyang.
After Sun Ce entered Xiangyang City, he quickly took control of the defense of the entire Xiangyang City, and the 20,000 soldiers in the city discarded their weapons and stood aside, waiting for Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses with a lost expression, deciding where they would go.
Although Liu Zheng had persuaded Liu Biao to surrender, Liu Biao also said that he had surrendered, and even Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses had taken over the defense of the entire Xiangyang City, but Liu Zheng did not enter Xiangyang City.
Instead, he continued to let his remaining half of the soldiers and horses surround Xiangyang City, giving outsiders the appearance that they were still in a stalemate with Xiangyang City.
Liu Zheng didn't bother the people in the city, he just let Liu Biao and a group of Liu Biao's cronies come out of the city and transferred them to his own territory.
Subsequently, Liu Zheng ordered Zhou Yu's 20,000 soldiers and horses to continue to confront the defenders of Xiangyang in Xiangyang City, and he himself took Xu Huang's thousands of cavalry and quickly went to contact Sun Jian.
Then united with Sun Jian's men and horses to quickly support Hanyang City.
In the three days that I have been waiting for news here, the situation in Hanyang City has also reached Liu Zheng's ears through Jinyiwei.
Liu Zheng already knew at this time that Zhang Liao led Liu Qi's soldiers and horses, and tens of thousands of troops directly pounced on Wulin County and Gan Ning's soldiers and horses to start a duel.