Chapter 1639: Hong Xiuquan descends to Chu

"But the military division, the Qin army has achieved an absolute advantage on the Hebei battlefield."

Cao Shen stood up and said unhurriedly: "At this time, even if our army sends troops, it may not be able to prevent the Qin army from occupying Hebei." ”

Cao Shen's words can be said to be on the point, the battle situation in Hebei has completely fallen to the Qin army, even if the Southern Han Dynasty sends troops, it may not be able to stop the Qin army, so what is the point of sending troops?

"Even if you can't stop it, you have to send troops,"

Chen Ping didn't think about it, and said directly: "The purpose of sending troops this time is twofold, one is to contain the strength of the Qin army, and it is best to force Qin Hao to transfer troops from Hebei to reduce the pressure on the Northern Han."

Second, if it is impossible to prevent the Qin army from occupying Hebei, our army will take this opportunity to join forces with Li Shimin and others to capture Jingsi Erzhou, so as to weaken the Qin army. ”

As he spoke, Chen Ping looked at Liu Ji, clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Lord, if you don't send troops at this time, you really have to wait for the Qin army to digest Hebei, sit on the land of six states, and hold tens of millions of people, even if all the princes join forces, it may not be able to balance the Qin army, so you must send troops at this time." ”

Hearing Chen Ping say this, everyone present was silent.

Yes, if you don't send troops to attack Qin at this time, when the Qin army digests Hebei and its strength keeps up, it will really be impossible to balance the Qin army anymore.

As soon as he thought of this, Liu Ji immediately slapped the table, stood up and said in a deep voice: "This king has made up his mind and is determined to send troops to attack Qin." Where is Liu Meng? ”

"The subordinates are here."

A middle-aged Confucian student stood up, and he was Liu Yuxi, who was known as a "poet", and "Mengde" was his cousin.

Today's Liu Yuxi, like Chen Lin under Yuan Shao, is Liu Ji's royal pen.

"Liu Mengde, it's up to you to write and write an essay against Qin Hao, this king wants everyone in the world to know Qin Hao's hypocritical and hypocritical face." Liu Ji said in a deep voice.

In the last issue of the list of literati announced by famous artists, Liu Yuxi finally squeezed into the thirty-fiveth, and his prestige rose sharply because of this, and he had a lot of prestige in the hearts of the people who watched the world, so it was most suitable for him to write about Qin's hope.

"No, my subordinates will definitely write an article that will make Qin Hao stink for 10,000 years." Liu Yuxi said confidently.

"Hmm."

Liu Ji smiled and nodded, he naturally knew very well about the level of Liu Yuxi, the royal pen, and he would definitely be able to hit Qin Hao's prestige.

"Where is Zhang Song and Zhang Su?"

"The subordinates are here."

The ugly-looking Zhang Song and Zhang Su brothers stood up, they were originally Liu Yu's subordinates, but in the confrontation with Liu Ji, Liu Yu repeatedly fell into disadvantage, and even as Wenchen, they were captured by Liu Ji.

Although Zhang Songyuan betrayed Liu Zhang in history, he was extremely loyal to Liu Yu in this life, even if Liu Ji cherished his talent and did not dislike his appearance, the captured Zhang Song still preferred to die rather than surrender.

Unexpectedly, Liu Ji later supported Liu Ban to ascend the throne and established the Nanhan Group, and even Liu Yu was forced to join.

The Southern Han Dynasty was established, and the contradiction between the two Liu was temporarily suppressed, and Liu Ji also took the opportunity to ask Liu Yu for Zhang Song's wife, but Liu Yu was not good enough to give it, and the Zhang Song and Zhang Su brothers in desperation could only take refuge in Liu Ji.

"Zhang Song, Zhang Su, it is up to your brothers to contact the countries, and this king will invite the princes of the world to jointly send troops to fight against the Qin thieves." Liu Ji ordered.

"No."

Zhang Song and Zhang Su shouted in unison.

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Jiaozhou, Jiaozhi.

Outside the city, Liu Xiu's army was everywhere, and the gate of Jiaozhi was opened, and Hong Xiuquan led his generals out of the city, not to start a war, but to surrender.

Why did Hong Xiuquan surrender? This also starts with Liu Xiu's subjugation of Chongheihu.

Chongheihu is the first warrior in Jiaozhou, but he is not Han, he is a Baiyue person, and he has a very high prestige among the Baiyue people.

Hong Xiuquan naturally knew about Chongheihu, and he had recruited him several times, but because the envoy was too arrogant, he made Chongheihu unhappy, so he decisively refused Hong Xiuquan's recruitment.

Hong Xiuquan saw that Chongheihu rejected him, thinking that his heart was towards Liu Xiu, so the six sent people to assassinate Chongheihu, but the killer was naturally killed by Chongheihu.

Originally, Chonghei Hu was not ready to go out, after all, the current Jiaozhou Han people are dominant, and he is of a different race, but after Hong Xiuquan did this, Chongheihu had to take refuge in Liu Xiu, in order to avoid Hong Xiuquan's pursuit.

Liu Xiu was very courteous to Chongheihu, and Chongheihu took refuge in him, and Liu Xiu entrusted him with an important task, which also made Chongheihu completely return to his heart, and recommended his two good brothers Cui Ying and Jiang Xiong to Liu Xiu.

Although Cui Ying (Emperor Beiyue) and Jiang Xiong (Emperor Nanyue) are not as strong as Chongheihu, they are also stable generals at the level of god generals, and the three of them defected to Liu Xiu together, and even let many small tribes of Baiyue surrender to the situation.

Later, Chongheihu and Shamoke, the leader of the Wuxi barbarians who surrendered, persuaded three of the seven clans of Baiyue in Jiaozhou to surrender.

Since then, although Liu Xiu has not yet unified Jiaozhou, he has occupied an absolute advantage in Jiaozhou, whether it is the Han people or Baiyue, Liu Xiuquan has basically been isolated.

Hong Xiuquan is not a strong-willed person, otherwise he would not have decided to go on the Northern Expedition when he entered Jiaozhou, but now he just wants to guard this one-third of an acre.

Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had not yet completely fallen into a desperate situation, and there was still Eastern Wu outside to share the pressure on Hong Xiuquan, Liu Xiu also learned a lesson after suffering losses, and only defended but did not attack in the face of the provocation of the Eastern Wu army.

Therefore, even if there is a famous general like Sun Wu in Eastern Wu, who is comparable to Bai Qi, he still cannot break through the defense of the Chu army in the short term, but the Chu army can sweep Jiaozhou before that.

Under the danger of losing the country, Hong Xiuquan can see a lot of things.

From the beginning of the Yellow Turban Uprising to the present, Hong Xiuquan has always been reluctant to admit that he is inferior to Huang Chao and Xiang Yu, but now he has to admit that he is really not as good as them.

Therefore, even if the master let himself inherit Da Ming at the beginning, he would not be able to fight against Tianjiao like Qin Hao and Liu Xiu, and the ending of Da Ming may be even worse.

Under repeated defeats, Hong Xiuquan lost all confidence, and self-denial, exhausted, and finally chose to surrender to Liu Xiu.

Hong Xiuquan can be regarded as having figured it out, compared to other princes, he is indeed too mediocre, he can't bear this pressure, and he is really tired.

"I, Hong Xiuquan, ask the King of Chu to surrender today."

Hong Xiuquan held high the seal of the Heavenly King and the Tiger Talisman of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, knelt down on one knee, and shouted at Liu Xiu on the opposite horse.

After Liu Xiu glanced at Hong Xiu, as well as Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng and other generals behind him, he pondered for a moment and immediately rode his horse to prepare to go over, but was stopped by Chongheihu and Wei Wentong.

"In order to prevent fraud, the lord should let the last general pick it up on behalf of the lord." Chonghei Tiger said.

Wei Wentong nodded, obviously the same way.