In fact, the Wei army was not very satisfied with this battle from top to bottom.

The reason is also very simple, because they don't have a decent fight at all.

From Nanyang to Xiangyang, and then to Jiangling, there was no serious battle at all, and Zhu Ling captured two cities guarded by only a few hundred Jingzhou soldiers, and the other cities all fell in the wind.

So far, only three unlucky people of the Wei army under Le Jin and Zhu Ling have been killed in battle, more than 60 people have been injured, and two-thirds of them have twisted their feet while hurrying.

This made Le Jin and Zhu Ling quite depressed.

Especially when they learned that Xu Huang, who was originally just a strategy, led the army in Jiangxia to defeat the army of Huang Zu's son Huang Shot, they were even more envious and jealous.

Real military merit is the only way to be promoted, the number of beheadings, the number of cities conquered is what they are pursuing, and now although they are pushing all the way, they are all voluntarily surrendering, and they will be greatly discounted on the merit strategy.

Lejin is not happy, Zhu Ling is not happy, and the two armies are not happy.

Especially when Zhu Ling saw Liu Cong and the others go out of the city again and surrender without even fighting a battle, his mood was even more depressed, and he didn't have the feeling of eliminating Chu and conquering Jingzhou to achieve the strategic goal.

However, with heavy responsibilities, Zhu Ling still knows how to restrain his emotions.

Under the banner of General Pingnan, he accepted Liu Cong's surrender as the deputy commander of the army.

Zhu Ling held the Jieyue temporarily granted to him by Lejin, and stepped forward on horseback, only bringing a few personal soldiers, as well as the two generals Cao Chun and Li Dian.

Liu Cong walked forward, Kuai Yue and the other four walked forward carrying the coffin, and Song Zhong walked forward with the seal of the king of Chu and the seal of Mu of Jingzhou.

Marching in front of Zhu Ling, Liu Cong knelt down, and all the subordinates knelt together, and Song Zhong read out the surrender table to express the submission of Jingzhou's master and slave to the Guo Wei regime.

Zhu Ling held the Jieyue and accepted Liu Cong's surrender on behalf of the army commander Le Jin and the emperor Guo Peng.

Before the official surrender, there is still a process to go through.

"Liu Cong, why do you want to descend?"

"Wearing a sinful body, I dare not disobey the soldiers of the Son of Heaven, but I wish to surrender to the Son of Heaven and be a minister of the Son of Heaven in order to seek peace."

Liu Cong knelt in front of Zhu Ling, who was holding the festival, his body trembled slightly, and he said what he didn't want to say but had to say.

Zhu Ling sat on the horse and condescendingly looked at the self-bound Liu Cong and the five Jingzhou ministers, took a deep breath, turned over and dismounted, handed over the Jieyue to Cao Chun, and then stepped forward to help Liu Cong himself.

"Although it is a guilty body, when the soldiers of the Son of Heaven came to Jingzhou, you surrendered in time, and did not resist stubbornly, which is an act of atonement for the crime, and I will accept your surrender on behalf of the Son of Heaven and the commander of the army."

Subsequently, Zhu Ling personally untied Liu Cong, put on clothes for Liu Cong, and asked Cao Chun and Li Dian to burn the coffin with torches, showing that the Wei Empire would never harm Liu Cong.

Then Zhu Ling accepted Liu Cong's Chu Wang Yin and Jingzhou Mu Yin ribbon, and officially took over Jingzhou on behalf of the Wei Empire, so the surrender ceremony ended.

Zhu Ling led his army into Jiangling City, and accepted the Jingzhou household registration form, tax form and storage table presented by Kuai Yue and others, thus officially announcing the occupation of Jingzhou, and the battle of Jingzhou was basically over.

At this time, it was the fourth day of the seventh month of the first year of Yande, and it was only a little more than a month before the start of the war.

Then Jingzhou fell.

Zhu Ling consulted the surrender table presented by Kuai Yue and found that there were nearly 50,000 Jingzhou land and water troops around Jiangling, counting 20,000 in Nanyang and 5,000 in Xiangyang, the total number of Jingzhou troops was comparable to the total number of the main force of the Wei army.

And an army of this size actually did not put up effective resistance to the Wei army, and did not even fight a regular battle, and surrendered as a formation.

Nanyang County and Nan County, as the two most elite counties in Jingzhou, the most populous and the most economically prosperous, surrendered to Wei intact.

The Wei government didn't even need to spend too much manpower and material resources to restore the normal functioning of the two counties.

With further understanding, Zhu Ling found that the Jingzhou army's non-resistance actually had its own difficulties.

For though they were not short of food, they lacked armament, swords, armor, bows and crossbows, and were not enough to meet the needs of many battles.

The previous quelling of Zhang Xian's rebellion consumed a considerable amount of Liu Biao's military reserves, which made the Jiangling Treasury short of ordnance for a while.

Not only that, of the 40,000 troops, more than 20,000 were urgently expanded before and after Liu Biao's death, and their combat effectiveness and combat quality were very ugly.

Such a soldier goes to the battlefield, that is, the defeat is like a mountain.

Jingzhou's outstanding generals, such as Huang Zhong and Wen Ping, were ostracized by Liu Biao before the war and seized military power, resulting in unstable morale, low morale, and disorganized Jingzhou troops, who were simply unable to fight a war.

Not to mention that just a month ago, they had fought a battle with Liu Zhang's army, and put the few remaining elite troops and ordnance in Yiling to guard against Liu Zhang, not against the Wei army.

Under such a premise, even if Gangneung City chooses to resist and work together, it is estimated that it will be the end of the entire army after World War I.

Dealing with such an army, Zhu Ling felt that his 20,000 people could definitely overthrow these 40,000 people head-on.

In this way, their surrender is actually wise.

However, Zhu Ling knew better that their surrender was absolute, not accidental.

Nothing is accidental, including Huang Zu's insistence on resistance, as well as the unsuccessful mutiny of Han Song and the others, it is not accidental, everything is actually within the scope of the pre-war staff meeting of the Imperial Front.

Today's Jingzhou battle situation is very clear, the three counties of Jingbei have surrendered two counties, the main force of the Jingzhou army has surrendered into a formation, and only Huang Zu is still resisting.

There was a rebellion in the four counties of Jingnan not long ago, and they were pacified by Liu Biao, and the local powerful clans were killed by Liu Biao, and the rest were afraid and did not accept it, they naturally could not fight for Liu Biao's Jingzhou, as long as the Wei army crossed the river, they would inevitably surrender to the wind.

The pacification of Jingzhou is actually very easy.

So in the entire Jingzhou, only Huang Zu is still resisting and willing to resist.

His demise was also doomed.

On the eighth day of July, Le Jin and Guo Jia arrived in Jiangling, and brought Zhang Yun, Cai Mao, Huang Zhong, Wen Ping and others together, and everyone "gathered together", and the atmosphere was "very harmonious".

Liu Cong lowered his posture, personally poured wine for several bigwigs of the Wei army, and called his concubines out to dance for fun, Guo Jia saw that he was about to make an old mistake, but was stopped by Le Jin.

"Bong-hyo! Have you forgotten Your Majesty's order? ”

Guo Jia's drunken eyes were hazy and stunned, and he suddenly remembered Guo Peng's important military regulations that Guo Peng had repeatedly ordered before the whole army set off.

Even if people send women, they must find out the identities and origins of these women, and women from the families of Jingzhou officials and wealthy families are absolutely not allowed to get involved.

Especially for Guo Jia, if Guo Peng knows whose woman he is involved with, when he goes back, he will have to break his third leg.

The fear of Guo Peng, rooted in the depths of his soul, made Guo Jia suddenly sober, and immediately straightened his posture, retracted his wolf claws, and didn't even dare to drink wine, looking like a saint, which made Cao Chun laugh secretly.

So the ministers of Jingzhou secretly praised the military discipline of the Wei army and the morality of the top leaders of the Wei army, and the original apprehension in their hearts gradually disappeared, and they began to gradually accept the current situation.

They gradually accepted Wei's rule over Jingzhou from the bottom of their hearts, and were ready to complete the transition from Han to Wei together from physical to psychological in Wei.

Although Le Jin, Zhu Ling and others have a lot of unhappiness, I have to say that this war is actually over.

Now the only Jingzhou army unit that is still fighting against the Wei army is Huang Zu's department.

But Huang Zu was indeed no match for the Wei army.