Originally, there was a confrontation between the defenders and the surrenderers at the head of the city, although most of the surrenderers were ordinary people, only a very small part of them were soldiers, and it was estimated that they were also those newly recruited soldiers, and only Lu Zhao's descendants were really immobile.

These descendants have always been loyal to Lu Zhao, and they are obedient to Lu Zhao, even if Lu Zhao asks them to go to the soup and forget to die, I am afraid they will have no complaints.

But now it's different, Lu Zhao suddenly committed suicide, this army is like losing the backbone, becoming at a loss, not knowing what to do next, whether to continue to resist, or surrender to the Bingzhou army, Lu Zhao did not make any explanation before he died, they are naturally at a loss, one by one stunned in place, not knowing what to do.

It stands to reason that in addition to Lu Zhao, the commander-in-chief, this army also has layers of generals and colonels to command, but after Lu Zhao's death, these generals, captains, Sima, military marquis and others were stunned, and the entire army was paralyzed.

And the people who are ready to surrender are waving their arms high and signaling to the Bingzhou army to surrender, maybe these people will not think about Lu Zhao's life and death, they are more concerned about when the flood will subside, how can they save their lives?

Zhao Hai was ordered to lead his troops to shout here, but there was no answer for a long time, which made Zhao Hai wonder, there are so many people in the military and civilians in Jizhou, are they all people who regard death as home?

It wasn't until later, after one of them jumped into the water and fled to them, that the situation on the city wall changed radically, and finally he saw the scene he wanted to see.

As for the second person who fell into the water, Zhao Hai had no time to care about who he was, he hurriedly asked Yanghu for instructions, what should he do next?

Yanghu pondered for a moment, after all, there were still many soldiers of the Jizhou Army in the city, and the state army still couldn't easily land in the city at the moment, if there was a battle when they landed in the city, the consequences would probably be a series of consequences.

Therefore, Yanghu ordered all the people on the inner city wall who were willing to surrender to the outer city wall, and he ordered Zhao Hai to connect dozens of rafts together and connect them to form a pontoon bridge to transport those who wanted to surrender.

Yanghu's surrender to the Jizhou army was not refused, but there was a condition, that is, all the people should give up the weapons in their hands, and those who climbed the outer city wall must be barehanded, so as to screen out whether there will be people who fish in troubled waters among the surrenderers.

Those who ultimately choose not to give up their weapons and not climb the outer walls will be considered enemies, and the state army will launch a final assault to annihilate them all.

The Bingzhou army will not kill a good person by mistake, but it will never be placed on any enemy, and those Jizhou soldiers who stubbornly resist to the end can only be buried for Lu Zhao.

The rafts were lined up and all connected by ropes to form a temporary pontoon bridge, and ladders were built on the first raft and the last raft to facilitate the people of Jizhou to get up and down.

Soon the first man stepped onto the pontoon bridge, and he walked tremblingly, as if he were walking on thin ice, but when he saw that the soldiers of the Bingzhou army were very friendly to him, he was relieved, and walked on the raft to the outer city wall.

One by one, they descended from the inner wall and walked to the outer wall with trepidation.

Zhao Hai led the other rafts, and on the rafts stood countless soldiers of the Bingzhou Army, armed with shields and bows and arrows, waiting to prevent those saboteurs from secretly causing trouble.

However, the whole process of surrendering was still quite peaceful, and it was precisely because of Lu Zhao's death that those soldiers who were originally restless also became hesitant.

If Lu Zhao still spoke, these factional forces loyal to him would inevitably obey his orders, and no matter what they were asked to do, even if they were to die, they would be generous.

But now without Lu Zhao's order, as if they had suddenly lost their goal in life, they hesitated one by one, and in the face of the general trend of surrender, they didn't know whether to obey or resist.

All the people were in a state of confusion, they didn't know what to do, they were in the middle of the crowd, and when the other defenders threw away their weapons, they hesitated at best, and then threw them away.

After throwing away the weapon, the whole person relaxed, because they no longer had the capital to resist, so they went with the flow.

At first, Yanghu was still a little worried that these hundreds of thousands of people would surrender, and once a few people disrupted it, the order would be chaotic, and it would be difficult to suppress it with only the thousands of troops he brought.

But as the surrender process progressed, order was unexpectedly calm and smooth, and no one rose up to resist, not even ordinary civilians and those sergeants, who succumbed to fate.

Maybe this is the consequence of Lu Zhao's suicide, at this moment, there is no one in Xindu who has the prestige of Lu Zhao to carry this heavy burden, and those officials and generals are all silent.

Despite the orderliness, with only such a pontoon bridge, the transfer of people from the inner city to the outer city was relatively slow, and if all these hundreds of thousands of people were to be transferred from the inner wall to the outer wall, the outer wall would inevitably be crowded.

So after seeing that about half of the people moved to the outer wall, Yanghu decisively ordered the transfer to be stopped, and instead sent the state army to the inner city, where they received the surrendered people and troops.

It was already late, and most of the people were fleeing for their lives, where to put on other things, and at the moment they were hungry one by one, and Yanghu ordered people to transport a large amount of food to relieve their urgent needs.

The flood had already receded, and Cao Liang, after receiving the news of the surrender of the entire city of Xindu, had ordered Wen Qin and Deng Ai to re-plug the opening that had been opened.

After the Zhanghe River and the Qinghe River poured a large amount of floodwater, the water level in the river has been significantly reduced, but it still took a lot of effort to really plug all these breaches, and the state army prepared countless sandbags, and also laid a lot of wooden piles at the river embankment, and tried their best to recover the two unruly rivers.

The water of the Zhanghe River and the Qinghe River was restored to its original channel, and the flood in Xindu slowly fell, but the entire city has been completely soaked in water, and a large number of houses in the city have collapsed, and it is no longer suitable for human habitation, at least for a few months.

Therefore, Cao Liang ordered that all the soldiers and civilians of Jizhou who had surrendered should be resettled in neighboring counties.