Eight hundred and fifty-seven Are we really that inferior to the Wei people?
From February to April, for two months, the defenders of the Sword Pavilion suffered a lot.
There are more than 2,000 Shu soldiers who died in direct battles, and more than 5,000 people died of injuries and diseases, and now there are more wounded, and I don't know when they will be infected and die.
The extremely high casualty rate made it very difficult for the defenders to hold on, and the morale was extremely low.
Moreover, Wu Yi is still nominally the commander of this army, but after entering March, he has gradually retreated to the second line and handed over the on-site command to Huang Quan.
Because of the previous behavior of abandoning his subordinates, he lost the trust of the army, and now what he said is not good, in desperation, he can only hand over the command to Huang Quan, and he retreats to the second line to assist Huang Quan.
Now the defense of the Sword Pavilion is all supported by Huang Quan, and the Wei army has not experienced any exhaustion or food exhaustion, to be precise, the Wei army has very few sieges, and basically only uses long-range strikes, because this is enough to kill and injure the defenders in the pass and put great pressure on them.
Having said that, the Wei army also carried out five or six attacks, although each time they were repelled by the efforts of the defenders of Guancheng and did not let the Wei army break through the Sword Pavilion, but the price paid by the defenders of Guancheng was really great.
Under the struggling support, it can be regarded as holding on to today, during which the Wei army probably ran out of earth-shaking thunder and fierce fire oil cans, and stopped attacking for a while, and the Shu army used that time to urgently bury a lot of corpses, and then asked Chengdu for help and medicine.
As a result, he didn't wait for much medicine, but when the Wei army resumed long-range strikes and the Sword Pavilion needed help the most, Liu Zhang announced that Wu Yi would stop resisting and lead the Sword Pavilion defenders to surrender to the Wei army.
The defense line of Badong County was broken, Yan Yan was killed, Wu Ban surrendered, the main force of 50,000 was annihilated, the Wei army went up into Shuzhong, all the way to Chengdu, Chengdu was surrounded, there were no defenders inside and no reinforcements outside, so Liu Zhang decided to go to the emperor to surrender.
Now, Liu Zhang has surrendered, and the history of Shu Han has come to an end and no longer exists.
This regime has only existed for less than a year, and it seems very hasty from birth to end, and as one of its founders and guardians, Wu Yi suddenly feels that all his efforts have been in vain and meaningless.
They worked so hard to stick to the Sword Pavilion, and withstood the indiscriminate bombardment of the Wei army for two months, two months!
How many people died, how many went crazy, how many were injured?
And how many logistics personnel who transported grain fell to death, died of exhaustion, starved to death, to the brink of collapse!
For whom?
Isn't the most direct beneficiary Liu Zhang?
But we haven't given up yet, so you gave up first?
Wu Yi stood on the spot, at a loss.
Huang Quan soon heard the news and rushed over, snatched the edict from his hand to look at it, and looked at it and trembled with anger, his eyes were red, and his eyes were full of anger.
With a loud roar, he threw the edict on the ground and drew his sword and laid it across the messenger's neck.
"Are you a Wei person? You're here to make a false message, aren't you? This is a conspiracy of the Wei people, right! ”
"It's not! No! No, General! Not really! I'm from Chengdu, I'm from Chengdu! ”
The messenger was so frightened that he fell to his knees and urinated incontinently, his face was pale, and such a cowardly appearance made Huang Quan feel desperate.
"Why !!"
Huang Quan was so sad and angry that he threw the knife in his hand on the ground, and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands and cried.
The news of Liu Zhang's order for the defenders to surrender soon spread throughout the Sword Pavilion Pass.
Some people quietly feel happy and relaxed in their hearts, and the whole person collapses on the ground and relaxes completely, crying and laughing at the same time.
But there are also people who feel inexplicable grief and indignation, crying bitterly, yelling, kneeling on the ground and grabbing their hair with their hands, like crazy demons.
There are also a very small number of red-eyed people who even want to draw their swords out of the city and fight to the death with the Wei army, making a last stand for their lost best friends and relatives.
For the sake of defense, they gave almost everything they could, and some of the soldiers' brothers, friends, and well-connected robes died in the onslaught of the previous Wei army, but with an order to surrender, everything came to naught.
Why did they die?
How did they die?
Now you say surrender, surrender, and the death of our group is meaningless?
What are we fighting to the death for?
If we knew you were going to surrender, why would we be here to fight to the death today?
Some soldiers cried bitterly, Huang Quan even cried and cried and collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up, some pulled out swords and slashed stones, and some pulled out swords and slashed the camp gate.
In the midst of the collapse, another envoy tentatively asked Wu Yi if he could open the city gate so that the envoy could send the surrender documents to the Wei camp, so that the people of the Wei camp would know and avoid damage caused by another attack.
"Please also ask the general to assist."
The messenger spoke, with a flat face.
"I see."
Wu Yi, who also had a flat face, looked at the envoy, sighed and nodded, and personally went to the gate of the city to open the gate, and asked the envoy to raise the banner and go to the Wei camp to announce his surrender.
This heavy gate has not been opened since the day Wu Yi made his decision, and the Wei army has launched five or six charges but has not been able to break through here, and this time, it was Wu Yi himself who opened it again, and once it was opened this time, it could no longer be closed.
The envoy went to the Wei camp and went to the Wei generals to surrender.
Guan Yu, Xun You and others were very surprised when they learned about it.
For such a fact, the generals of the Wei army are also quite unhappy, feeling that they have brought a lot of losses to the Wei army, and now they say that they will surrender, where do we put our battle?
But there is nothing to do, Chengdu has been breached, Liu Zhang has surrendered, and there is nothing more to say.
In fact, Guan Yu was also very unhappy, but Lejin's order was sent along with Liu Zhang's surrender order, and Guan Yu got the military order and had to follow it.
For the generals in the army who were not convinced, Guan Yu directly gave a military order.
"The military order is like a mountain, who dares to say more?"
The word "military order" engraved in the mind of every soldier of the Wei army for many years is the highest standard, no matter who it is, as long as it involves military orders, they must obey them.
Those who do not obey military orders will not end well, this is the conditioned reflex of every soldier.
In the face of the military order, everyone can only suppress the unhappiness in their hearts and force themselves to accept such a reality.
The reality is that Guan Yu and others led 30,000 troops to attack the Sword Pavilion for two months, although they brought great damage to the defenders of the Sword Pavilion, but after all, they failed to break through the Sword Pavilion and failed to get the danger of Shu Dao.
It was Le Jin and others who took the lead in breaking through Chengdu and ending the resistance of the Shu army.
In other armies, it is very likely that there will be a riot at this time, or it is very likely that they will directly rush into the pass and kill all the Shu troops to vent their anger, but this is not another army, it is the Wei army.
It is the Wei army that every soldier can write even if he can't even write his name, but he can also write the four words "military orders are like mountains".
In addition to strong combat effectiveness, Guo Peng brought more powerful restraint and discipline to this army.
Military orders are like mountains, orders are forbidden, if you don't obey, behead!
is just four words, and the energy behind it is something that even Cao Ren can't challenge.
So the order was carried out.
Guan Yu also accepted the reality, resisted the strong unhappiness, and spoke lightly to the envoy.
"Go back, let the people in the city lay down their weapons, take off their armor, organize their formations out of the city and surrender, and our army will surrender here."
Guan Yu ordered the envoys.
The envoy received the order, went back to restore his life, and told Wu Yi, Wu Yi nodded disheartenedly and agreed, told Huang Quan about the matter, and asked Huang Quan to organize it, and everyone went out of the city to surrender.
"I was not defeated, but I have to suffer such a humiliation, is this the result of our fighting with our lives so far?"
Huang Quan's face was full of grief and indignation.
"This is Your Majesty's will, and we are all ministers, so we can only follow it."
Wu Yi closed his eyes and shook his head gently: "Chengdu has fallen, Your Majesty and the hundred officials have been captured by the Wei people, and we, as well as the families of the soldiers, are under the control of the Wei people. ”
"I don't understand, how can General Yan's 50,000-strong army be defeated so miserably......"
Huang Quan cried bitterly: "General Yan is loyal to the country, how could such a loyal and brave person be defeated so badly?" Are we really that weak, so inferior to the Wei people? ”
Huang Quan slammed the ground hard.