Zhao Yu heard the overtones in Chen Fenglin's words, and the worries he said about damaging the warehouse and causing casualties to innocent people were all excuses in his opinion. Because he knows that when it comes to street fighting, the most prominent characteristics are hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand combat, and cruelty. Even the famous Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Nanjing in modern times were fought in large-scale street battles, with numerous casualties on both sides of the attacker and defender.

Therefore, street fighting is a kind of refueling tactic, whoever has more strength, more people, and more resources can hold out to the end. In ancient street battles, there were many urban buildings, the environment was complex, and the labyrinthine alleys were a good hiding place for the defenders, and the battle for each house and street often caused great losses to the attackers. In addition, the boundary between soldiers and civilians in the battle is blurred, and it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, which will inevitably cause accidental injuries or be attacked and killed by civilians.

In addition, ancient street warfare is not like today, there are long-range weapons and tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy weapons to provide protection, so even if the ancient soldiers fought in the streets, they also had to fight hand-to-hand, and the lack of communication coordination and effective organization, the individual combat ability of the ancient soldiers was not very high, and the victory mainly depended on numerical superiority and formation. In the face of a large number of scattered enemy troops, when the strength does not occupy an absolute advantage, only small groups of soldiers will fight, and in the absence of support weapons, it will simply give away people, and it will also consume a large number of veterans with rich combat experience and grassroots commanders.

In fact, street fighting was rare in ancient times, and most of the time the city gates were breached, and the defenders would flee. Because street fighting was a last resort adopted by ancient military commanders. After all, a good army is not so easy to cultivate, and a large number of weapons and equipment will be lost in street fighting, so it is also a tactic to retreat moderately and attack by retreating.

And street fighting is very susceptible to the cruel retaliation of the besieging party, often burning, killing, looting, and slaughtering the city to vent anger. Zhao Yu also remembered the same in Yangzhou City, the Qing Dynasty's Duoduo led the army to attack Yangzhou, because the defenders resisted strongly, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, after the city was broken, ordered to slaughter the city, in just ten days, Yangzhou lost hundreds of thousands of people, resulting in the most famous 'Yangzhou Ten Days'. When Kublai Khan conquered Xiangfan, Lü Wenhuan, the defender of Xiangyang, finally surrendered to the Yuan army after holding out for six years in order to avoid being slaughtered after the city was broken. In Fancheng, it was met with fierce resistance, and after the city was broken, coach Fan Tianshun committed suicide and martyrdom. After the city was broken, Niu Fu, the commander of the commander, still led the last hundred or so soldiers to resist stubbornly, engaged in street battles with the enemy, and when he was thirsty, he drank blood and water and continued to fight. In the end, because he was seriously injured, Niu Fu committed suicide by throwing himself into the fire.

In addition, most of the ancient buildings are wooden structures, and when the besieging troops are unable to clear the defenders of the street fighting, in order to ensure the safety of the grain route, in extreme cases, the city will be burned to force the defenders to withdraw. Therefore, unless it is an extremely important city, the besieging troops will generally not besiege the entire city to death in the battle, but will leave a gap for the defenders to evacuate and break the determination of the defending troops to defend the city.

"What do you want?" As a veteran soldier who has long joined the army, Chen Fenglin naturally knows the difficulty of street fighting, and now that the city has been breached, he naturally does not want to get involved, causing unnecessary losses to his troops. Zhao Yu didn't understand his thoughts, and asked rhetorically.

"Surrender!" Chen Fenglin said without thinking, "Your Majesty, Ma Shao has no soldiers in his hands, and the only people who retreat to the palace are Ding Zhuang, who is close to him and signed the levy, and some defeated soldiers who have nowhere to go. As long as he knows the reason, Ma Shao will not be burned; Although the Zhennan Wangfu was defended by Cowardly Xue, there were still Princess Zhennan and several princes and a group of female dependents who did not escape. If the palace is breached, what will be the result, they know very well in their hearts, we tell it well, we are not afraid that they will not surrender! ”

"Well, there's some truth. Go talk to them! Zhao Yu nodded again. But in his heart, he didn't give up hope for persuading Ma Shao to surrender, but it was still possible for the people in Zhennan's palace to protect the old and young, so he promised to try.

"Your Majesty, a group of people under him are all clumsy and clumsy, but that Ma Shao is sharp-toothed, and he really can't persuade him!" Chen Fenglin said with a smile. In fact, he still hid something for the sake of face, and after Ma Shao led the remnants of the army to retreat into the palace, he closed the gate tightly, and filled the courtyard with firewood and grass, poured fire oil, and prepared to self-immolate. He thought that if this fire burned, there would be nothing left, and he would not have any seizures, which would be a shame, so he also sent people to persuade him to surrender, but he was scolded back by Ma Shao.

"You mean to let me persuade me to surrender?" Zhao Hao said with some amusement.

"How dare your subordinates, they just want to bother Governor Wang!" Chen Fenglin hurriedly saluted.

"Governor Wang has long been persuaded that he will not be moved, and even if he goes again, it will be in vain. Come here with your ears, I will tell you a way, you can keep it......" Zhao Yu hated iron but not steel, and asked him to get closer and give him an idea.

"Subordinates understood!" After hearing this, Chen Fenglin smiled, and then asked, "Then the palace is also concocted in the same way?" ”

"Those of them treat the people like ants, that method is not working, you have to say that......" Zhao Yu said a few more words in his ear.

"Yes, yes, my subordinates will go!" Chen Fenglin saluted with a smile after hearing this, and turned around to go back to the city......

At dusk, the battle in Yangzhou City was basically over. Zhao Yu had already returned to the camp outside the southern city, and the personal guard regiment and the guard battalion were withdrawn, leaving only the baggage regiment to assist in cleaning the battlefield, sheltering prisoners, and caring for the wounded. And he was able to rest for a while, and he had time to eat, and he couldn't tell what kind of meal it was. However, the food was not peaceful, and there were constantly signal soldiers who came to the camp to report the battle situation and ask for instructions on how to deal with it.

Ma Shao, who was the first to retreat to the palace, accepted the proposal to surrender, he was well aware of the current situation, the Yangzhou defenders had been defeated, and the heavy casualties were not enough to organize a counterattack. And he only had a few dozen officials who were close to him and couldn't escape, and the other were the four or five hundred Ding Zhuang and the remnants of the soldiers who fled into the government with him when the city was broken, all of them were panicked at the moment, and they obviously had no fighting spirit at all. And there was still a group of people staring at him with a yin and yang face, not knowing what idea to fight.

In addition, the prefect of Yangzhou, who had always claimed to be sick at home, had already taken the lead in surrendering after the city was broken, and called on the old troops to stop resisting. Later, the dismissed Du Ge also opened the door to ask for surrender, and assisted the Song army to gather the old troops and go outside the city. However, the only left-handed Wanhu who remained at the beginning was killed by artillery, and his troops also suffered heavy casualties as the main force defending the city. Therefore, even if there is a street fight, there are no available soldiers.

In this case, Ma Shao didn't know who to blame, and Tuhuan escaped from the battle as the coach, and there was no news after highlighting the city, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. And his sons who stayed in the city, neither in terms of ability nor prestige, were not enough to provoke the burden of a decisive battle with the Song army, and they were now cowering in the palace waiting for the judgment of fate. If Tuhuan was determined to defend the city at the beginning, and did not forcibly break through the siege and disperse the troops, he would always be able to resist for a few days and not fall to this point.

At this time, the Song army had fully entered the city and surrounded the government and the government group, and some Song generals proposed that if they resisted again, they would wash Yangzhou City in blood, and the chickens and dogs would not be left at that time. After a long struggle between loyalty and betrayal, he agreed to surrender. However, it is okay to offer to surrender, but it is necessary to save the lives of the people of the city, and to treat them well, and not to slaughter themselves. Otherwise, he will burn all the jade and fight to the death, and he will never surrender. Chen Fenglin happily agreed to the conditions of surrender and proposed that he be the chief official of Yangzhou.

Ma Shao asked people to open the gate of the palace, he was dressed in white, his hair was scattered, he held a seal letter in his hand, and the entourage behind him held a fish scale book and accounts, and led everyone in the city to abandon their weapons and surrender. But just when Chen Fenglin was comforted and was about to send him out of the city to meet His Majesty in the camp, he suddenly shouted "Long live Emperor Dayuan", and then touched the horse stake in front of the door and committed suicide!

When Zhao Yu heard the report, although he knew about this result, he still felt a little sad. He ordered someone to bury Ma Shao's body and send it to the temple in the city for a while, and then send it back to his hometown in the next day. At the same time, it was decreed that Wang Yinglin presided over the administrative affairs of Yangzhou, abided by the agreement reached with Ma Shao, and strictly ordered all the departments entering the city to strictly abide by military discipline, and were not allowed to kill the people, surrender, or plunder, and those who violated the law were not killed.

As for the Zhennan Wangfu family, it was much simpler, Zhao Yu asked the captured eldest son Lao Zhang and Tuo Buhua to be escorted to the gate of the mansion, first bombarded the door of the mansion with artillery, and then said that if they did not surrender, the two would be executed immediately. After entering the palace, the men were slaves, the women were maids, and the old, the weak, and the young were killed. In fact, he learned this trick from the Mongols, and when they attacked the Song Dynasty, they did not use it less, forcing many people to defect, and also destroying many loyal martyrs' families.

Although this has nothing to do with the 'benevolence and righteousness' that has always been advertised, he does not feel guilty at all when he uses it, he is just treating others in his own way, and it is also in response to the so-called saying that good and evil will be rewarded in the end! When the cannons were erected and the two Lao Zhang brothers were tied to the door, the resistance in the palace of Zhennan immediately stopped, obviously between themselves and the country, they had no intention of martyring for the country and the king. Not only was he willing to surrender, but he also offered to contribute all the property in the house, and dedicated the two unmarried princesses who were detached to the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty as his maids, just to keep the lives and titles of the whole family.

If they put forward such conditions at the beginning of the siege, Zhao Yu would definitely agree with pleasure, not only will they keep their property and fiefdom, but will also reward them. But at this time, there is nothing to say, it is impossible to keep the title, the property is already in his own pocket, as for the two princesses? He was still a little moved, knowing that Genghis Khan used to 'kill all men and commit adultery with their wives and daughters', and now he should also use his colors......