On August 17th, after ten days of high-intensity resistance, the defenders of Zhenbei City officially declared that the shells were out after losing the supply channel!

After losing the cover of artillery, how could it be possible to rely on infantry firepower alone to block the attack of the powerful Jingzhou Front!

In just one day, the defenders of Zhenbei City were defeated and retreated from the central and southern defense areas, lost a large area of defense line, and were forced to retreat to the main urban area of Zhenbei City.

At this time, resistance has become meaningless!

There is no way they can hold it!

Moreover, the previous resistance led to their casualties, and in the face of large casualties, the soldiers and grassroots officers already had great resistance, and even the middle and senior generals were unwilling to continue fighting.

In the face of this situation, the commander of the urban defense of Zhenbei City, the supreme commander of all the local Pingnan Prefecture defenders, Yue Bu did not ask for Shangqing, and did not stubbornly force the soldiers under his command to continue to resist, because that would be meaningless, and it was very likely that he would be shot by his subordinates!

On 19 August, Yue Buqiu Shangqing formally sent an envoy to meet with Liang Chenglei, commander of the Jingzhou Front, to discuss the matter of surrendering.

Not a surrender, but a surrender!

The 100,000 defenders of Zhenbei City were able to stubbornly hold out for 12 days in the face of the high-intensity attack of the Jingzhou Front, which had the advantage in the face, and they boasted that they were already worthy of Pingnanzhou.

Now that they can't win the war, they naturally need to seek a way out for the soldiers, for the middle and lower-level officers, and at the same time for themselves.

Naturally, they are more inclined to surrender than to surrender.

Anyway, everyone is a Daheng person, and it's normal to join if you can't beat it.

Even they knew that even if they surrendered, it would be impossible for them, middle and high-ranking generals, to continue to lead the troops to fight, but they could still retain the military lord and have an idle position.

At the same time, those grassroots officers can also get the opportunity to go to the military academy for further study and re-study, as long as they successfully pass the study and graduate, then they can be reassigned to serve.

They also know these preferential policies of the Lin Dynasty!

After all, the Lin Dynasty's different policies towards surrendered prisoners of war and the surrendered rebel forces were all open.

And in the past few years, the Lin Dynasty has also been firmly implementing this preferential policy, and it has also been widely advertised, in order to establish a phenomenon, to tell the officers of other feudal towns, don't play with us if you have nothing to do, if you can't fight, don't put down your arms and surrender, we can still give you a preferential treatment.

As long as a senior general is willing to give up military power and resistance, then the Lin dynasty will protect your glory and wealth for the rest of your life, whether you are willing to retire and go home to become a rich man, if you are willing to continue to serve in the army, you can also give you an idle position.

If you perform well in the future, you can still enter the high command as a senior adviser, and if you do a good job as an adviser, you will be able to return to the army again in the future.

Nowadays, in the army headquarters of the Lin Dynasty, there are quite a lot of senior advisers of all kinds, all of whom are the generals of the Shaoqing military lord and above in the former feudal towns, and Wu Guanlin's staff department, in addition to his own various operational staff officers, there are more than 50 senior advisers, who are selected from many generals who surrender to Cheng.

These people are basically professional generals from professional classes, and if they only discuss basic military literacy, they are actually much better than the half-hung generals trained by the Lin Dynasty itself.

These people serve as senior advisers, although they have no real power, but they are still able to participate in some theoretical and clerical work, and can make some strategic and tactical suggestions.

In addition to the General Staff, there are also quite a few senior advisers in the Logistics Department, the Ordnance Department, the Artillery Directorate, and the Cavalry Directorate.

There are a lot of senior advisers of all kinds, not only in the army, but also in the navy.

These senior consultants have been around for a long time, and if they have outstanding attitudes, occasionally some people will be transferred to actual positions, although most of them are clerical and deputy positions at the beginning, but that is also a good start.

Yue Buqiu Shangqing has nothing to pursue, and he also knows that with his age and military lordship, it is estimated that he will hold a false position in the past, and he will have to retire after a few years of transition.

But Xia Sheng and a group of generals in the prime of life are different, their lives are still very long, and they can all seek a background in the Lin Dynasty.

For middle and low-level officers, this is even more important, Tou Cheng used to go to school to study for a year and a half, and then go back to continue to serve in the army, so that there is a future at all.

As for ordinary soldiers, it doesn't matter, whether they surrender or surrender, they are willing to continue to serve in the army anyway, and those who pass the basic physical fitness and tactical literacy can continue to serve in the army.

Since the preferential policies of the Lin Dynasty were basically public, Yue Buqiu and Xia Sheng did not expect to negotiate with them in order to obtain any additional benefits.

This is a continuous defeat, and if you don't surrender, it will be completely finished, what additional benefits do you expect, it's very good to be able to get a name for surrender.

Therefore, after the envoy sent by Yue Buqiu Shangqing arrived in front of Liang Chenglei, his attitude was also very sincere, and he did not make too many messy requests, all he asked for was just a name for surrender.

Liang Chenglei naturally would not refuse the surrender request of the defenders in the city, which is a good thing.

After 12 days of continuous high-intensity fighting, the Jingzhou Front, as the attacking side, actually suffered many casualties, and at the same time, the ammunition consumption was extremely large.

Seeing that the other party did not make a messy request, Liang Chenglei also accepted their surrender very simply.

When the two sides reached a preliminary agreement, an hour later, Liang Chenglei formally ordered the troops to stop the offensive and build a defensive line on the spot to prepare for future troubles.

The defenders of the city also officially ordered a ceasefire!

As a result, the two sides entered into a state of formal ceasefire!

An hour and a half later, Yue Buqiu, commander of the urban defense of Pingnan Prefecture stationed in Beicheng, took Xia Sheng Shaoqing and dozens of other middle and senior officers out of the city, crossed the battle line and arrived at Liang Chenglei's temporary field headquarters outside the city.

Later, Liang Chenglei accepted their letter of allegiance to the Son of Heaven and the troop roster, and from this time, the Pingnan Prefecture defenders in the city could be renamed part of the Imperial Army.

Beginning that day, the defenders of the city began to leave their original defense line one after another and went to the open space outside the city to receive preliminary reorganization.

At the same time, the battlefield cleaning and statistics are also in the rapid statistics, and Liang Chenglei also needs to report the battle report to Lin Ziran, who is still in Ansu City.

According to preliminary statistics, the personnel losses in the battle of Zhenbeicheng are not much, but the material consumption is extremely huge, which makes Liang Chenglei have a headache.