Chapter 142: Deren City

"General! The South Gate is lost! A rebel soldier who had escaped from the south gate ran over and said.

"Bang~"

"What? Lost? How could it be lost?! When Bai Zixi heard that the city gate was lost, his expression was in a trance, and he couldn't even hold the spear in his hand steadily.

"It's over, it's all over." The city gate is lost, the enemy army can drive straight in, and the main force of their own side has not yet returned to help, and there is no point in holding it any longer, and desperate resistance can only delay the defeat.

"Run, before the enemy army has captured the entire city, flee as quickly as you can, and flee as far as you can." Bai Zixi commanded the men and horses to slowly retreat towards the West City Gate.

"General, where are we going to flee, if we lose Rencheng, Lu County will no longer have a foothold for us." One of the rebels asked, frustrated.

"yes, where do I go? The Qingzhou army controlled Rencheng, which is equivalent to controlling their foothold in Lu County, most of these people are people near Rencheng, where else can they escape? His master doesn't know where he is, and he doesn't even have a direction after leaving the city, and sooner or later he will be wiped out.

"Then stay in Ren Cheng, isn't King Qi known as benevolent and righteous and loves the people? As long as you surrender at that time, it is estimated that they will not harm you. Bai Zixi thought of how benevolent the King of Qi was to the people spread outside, even the rebels who followed Wang Bo could be arranged properly, and he was also a subject under his Henan Dao, so he would not hurt it.

Bai Zixi's words caused a commotion, after all, no one wanted to be accused of being a rebel, although they were all bewitched by Xu Yuanlang at the time, but now they are completely sober, the beautiful future given by Xu Yuanlang is all illusory things, and the reality is that they will either fight to the end or surrender. If you surrender, you still have a chance to live, but if you fight to the death, you will definitely not survive, and your infamy will be renowned.

"General, what about you?" It was noted that Bai Zixi did not seem to intend to surrender with them.

"Me? You don't have to worry about it, if you want to surrender, don't go anywhere here, just wait quietly, the Qingzhou army will come over sooner or later. "Bai Zixi has no intention of surrendering, of course, he does not plan to fight to the death, one will not serve the two masters, although his master does not seem to be worth following, but this cannot be an excuse to change jobs, although the words that those who know the times are Junjie do not apply to soldiers.

"General, you see, the rebels have retreated, should we chase?" Seeing that the rebels had retreated, the morale of the Qingzhou army guards at the gap was greatly boosted and they wanted to pursue.

"No need, presumably General Cheng has already taken a city gate, so the rebels know that the general trend has gone and give up fighting for here, there are not many of us, if we catch up and anger them, it will not be good, anyway, the end is already doomed, we will wait here for a while." Dou Jiande understood at a glance, it must have been Cheng Yanjin who took the city gate, and the rebels retreated Since victory is in sight, there is no need to rush for a while, even if the rebels abandon the city and flee, they will not be able to go far, without the support of the city, they will only be defeated faster.

"You go and inform the rest of the soldiers outside the gates, once you see a large number of enemy troops fleeing through the door, do not forcibly block them, let them leave, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties." Dou Jiande ordered the heralds to pass the order, at least there are Internet and rebels in the city, if they really want to break through, they can't stop it, and even if they can stop it, the casualties will be too large, so the gains will outweigh the losses.

"You guys are gone, when will you wait if you don't surrender?!" Cheng Yanjin opened the city gate and brought in troops outside the city, and then roared towards the city wall.

"We surrendered, and we forgot that the general let us go." After seeing the loss of the city gate and the Qingzhou army pouring into the city, the city head knew that it was useless to resist, and had the idea of surrendering, and was afraid that the Qingzhou army would not accept it and was unwilling to propose it first to let the Qingzhou army look down on them, so Cheng Yanjin yelled and they immediately expressed their willingness to surrender.

"You take them as a good look and take the rest of the troops into the city by the way, and the rest of the people will follow me to pick up General Dou." Cheng Yanjin was not in a hurry to lead people to capture the remaining gates and was worried about Dou Jiande, after all, as long as he won one gate, Rencheng would become a bag sooner or later, but Dou Jiande was staring at him in the eyes of the rebels, and he had to worry.

"Old Dou, what's your situation here? How come there is not a shadow of a single rebel? Cheng Yanjin rushed over to take a look, and saw that Dou Jiande's men and horses, not a single rebel, and of course, there was a corpse in one place that he automatically ignored.

"Have you taken the gates? The rebels retreated suddenly, perhaps because they knew that you had taken the gates and they knew that they could not be disobeyed. Dou Jiande replied, seeing Cheng Yanjin appear, his heart finally fell to the ground.

"Withdrawn? Since the city gates have been taken, there is no need to defend them here, so follow me to take down the other gates. Cheng bit Jin and waved his lance, since the rebels are afraid, then take the opportunity to take Rencheng.

As soon as Bai Zixi left, the rebels of Rencheng suddenly fell into chaos, and under the cooperation of the inside and outside, Rencheng was finally in the hands of Cheng Yanjin.

"I wonder what happened to Zhang Taishou there?" After dealing with various post-war matters, Dou Jiande finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry, even if the rebels have 100,000, they can't match General Zhang's 20,000 elite cavalry, as long as they are not trapped in the forest or valley, even if they are surrounded, they can calmly break through. What we have to consider now is the post-war governance of Lu County, which is worrying about my old Cheng? Cheng Yanjin put on a sad look, let him use his brains to fight, let him govern the place, this is more painful than his life.

"You know, you are not the material for governing the place, you know how to fight." Dou Jiande shook his head and said, he was really speechless about Cheng Yanjin, saying that he was not smart, these tactics he used were all learned from Li Jing, and even the tactics used by Yang Jian who had only heard of it could be fully learned, but he was unwilling to do this kind of detailed work of governing the place, and he rejected it from the bottom of his heart, and now he knew that Li Jing sent him not only to give Cheng Yanjin a person to discuss, but also to let himself help manage it.

"Hehe, I'm not stupid, I'm not stupid, I'll leave this kind of brain-using work to you, I'll still practice twice to be comfortable." Cheng Biting Jin smiled, those who can work harder, he doesn't want to learn governance and he wants to be lazy.

"Okay, it's almost dawn, I have to go to sleep quickly, toss all night, and I may not have time to sleep when it dawns." Cheng Yanjin yawned, shook his hand at Dou Jiande and left, Zhang Xutuo has no news, according to the captive, Bai Zixi left and did not know where to go, and some rebels took advantage of the chaos to escape, these are all security risks, and they have to wait for him to deal with them, and Dou Jiande stayed in Rencheng to deal with big and small things.

Early the next morning, Dou Jiande, who hadn't slept all night, hurriedly rushed to Cheng Yanjin's big tent to wake up Cheng Yanjin, who was sleeping, from his sweet dream, because someone was coming to Rencheng.