"Who the hell are you?"

After a long time, the relieved Lord will look up and ask.

"We are Han Chinese. This place we have lived in for thousands of years, occupied by the Jin people decades ago, and today we are just taking it back. The man replied with his head held high.

"You're not ordinary rebels?" The Lord will ask.

"Of course not. If we were ordinary people, we could easily take Taigu and Qi counties, and we could hold on for two months? Let me tell you the truth, our Great Song Northern Expeditionary Army, this is to recover Hedong! Seeing that you are also from Han China, now I will give you a chance, if you lead the whole army to surrender to the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty, your official position can be retained, and half of the army can be left. ”

The person who came explained the origin in one breath and prescribed the conditions, and the main general was suddenly confused and flustered, and he was speechless for a long time.

After a while, he came back to his senses, quickly got up, and personally untied the rope for the man.

"My lord, can you let me think about it?"

The Lord will be in a state of panic, and he will not be able to make up his mind for a moment, and he will not be sure of the credibility of what he has said.

But there are two points that seem to be not false, one is that the people who occupy Qixian and Taigu are definitely not ordinary rebels, otherwise he would not have gathered 20,000 troops, and he would not have been able to defeat them for two months.

The second is that there is a problem in Taiyuan Mansion, according to the past, Wanyan Hongzhan will send someone to urge him to quell the chaos every three days, but now he has not sent anyone after eight days, and there must have been a big change.

Also, the people he sent back to urge food, to this day, the food has not arrived, and even the people are gone, which is also doubtful.

Now there are many questions about whether these messages are true, and he needs time to confirm them, and after confirming them, he can make a decision that he will not regret.

"Time is limited, how long do you want to think about it?" The person who came did not directly refuse.

"Five days, give me five days, when the five days are up, I will definitely give an answer to the adults."

"Five days is too long, give you three days at most. As soon as the three days arrive, if you don't take the initiative to surrender, as soon as the Northern Expeditionary Army arrives, you will never have a chance again. "Someone replied.

"Three days is too short, can you have one more day?"

"No, not for an hour. Three days later, at three o'clock in the afternoon, he came to surrender under Taigu City, and if he didn't see anyone by then, today's promise would have never existed. The person who came sternly refused.

Seeing this, the Lord will have to accept a three-day time limit and wait for the news to be found out before making a decision.

"Someone, send this lord out of the camp."

"I'm waiting for your good news in Taigu City, if you think about it clearly, send someone to send me a letter, my surname is Li, you can call me Li to join the army."

"Okay, think about it carefully and go to Li to join the army."

Send Li away to join the army, and the main general will immediately summon his cronies into the account.

"Quickly send someone to Jiexiu to see if there is any abnormality, whether there is any attack, and come back to report the news immediately. In addition, send someone back to Taiyuan Mansion, don't enter the city easily, and explore whether there is any abnormality in the city in the near future. ”

After the commander gave the order, his cronies immediately received the order, selected capable soldiers, and immediately carried out the military order.

After waiting anxiously for two days, the Lord General waited for news from the direction of Taiyuan Mansion.

At this time, I learned that since more than ten days ago, the city gate of Taiyuan Mansion was suddenly closed, but people who want to enter the city can still enter the city, but there are almost no people in the city to come out.

Taiyuan City was closed for no reason, it seems that it is indeed as Li joined the army as he said, there was a big change, and it is likely to fall into the hands of the Great Song Army, but since they took Taiyuan City, why did they close the city gate and block the news?

The Lord will have doubts and contradictions.

He has been thinking about what to do for the past two days, leading the whole army to surrender is a very humiliating thing, and it may be difficult to raise his head in the future, let alone his official position and future, unless he is forced to do so, he will not consider it.

But if Taiyuan City is really occupied by the Song army, and he doesn't want to surrender, then there is only one way to go south to Pingyang Mansion, because hiding in the boundary of Taiyuan Mansion, no matter which county it is, it will be besieged after all, and it will not be able to cross the endless mountains to the west, even if you enter the mountains, there is no food and grass, and you will eventually starve to death, so if you don't want to surrender, you can only go south.

Since ancient times, between Taiyuan Mansion and Pingyang Mansion, whether it is to the south or to the north, can only take the road of the Fenhe River Valley, the narrowest part of the valley is less than 30 zhang, extremely dangerous, and Jiexiu is just at the entrance of the Fenhe River Valley, firmly occupies the only passage between Taiyuan Mansion and Pingyang Mansion, and must pass through here when going south.

However, Li joined the army and said that Jiexiu was occupied by them, and it would be difficult to go south.

Although I don't know whether it's true or false for the time being, but if I think about it carefully, it's probably true, otherwise they will defend Qixian and Taigu with three or four thousand troops for two months, and attract almost all the garrisons from all over Taiyuan Mansion and not run, it would be too stupid, obviously they have other plans.

Judging from the results, they used Qixian and Taigu as bait to attract nearly 20,000 garrisons in the entire Taiyuan Prefecture, in order to gain time and create opportunities for the capture of Taiyuan City and Jiexiu.

In order to pacify the chaotic people in Qi County and Taigu, the left-behind government only left less than 2,000 defenders in Taiyuan City, and the garrisons from all over the country were also emptied.

The more the main general thought about it, the more he felt defeated, and fought with them for two months, without even realizing their intentions, Qixian and Taigu were like bait, firmly fishing almost all the defenders of Taiyuan Mansion, attracting the attention of everyone from top to bottom.

Although he has 20,000 troops in his hands now, he knows very well how much combat strength he has, because only three or four thousand of the troops gathered from all over the country really have combat effectiveness, and the others are all here to make up the numbers.

And these three or four thousand troops with combat effectiveness have only fought against small scale rebels twice, and their combat effectiveness is limited, otherwise they would not have been able to capture Qixian and Taigu in two months.

Although the current situation was already very unfavorable to him, he still reserved a glimmer of hope for Jiexiu, in case Jiexiu was not lost, or if the other party did not send many defenders, he still had hope to go south to Pingyang Mansion by way.

He can't act rashly until he gets the exact news, once he leads the army south, the other party must think that he is going to escape, if they have a heavy army stationed in Jiexiu, then he has no way to live, in the face of surrender, life and death, he still hopes to live in his heart.

Another difficult night passed, and the Lord would stay up all night, waiting for news of Jiexiu.

Three poles on the sun, a pegasus into the camp.

"The gate of Jiexiu City is closed, and there are many defenders in the city, it seems that there are no less than 2,000 people, and they are still wearing our armor!"

Hearing the return of his cronies, the last shred of hope for the Lord was dashed.

Although the defenders of the city are the armor of the Jin army, he is clear about the strength of the entire Taiyuan Mansion, and it is impossible for there to be two thousand troops to defend Jiexiu, who did not need to send heavy guards before them, so there is no doubt that the two thousand Jin troops that appeared in this city must be disguised by the Song army to confuse the surrounding cities and Pingyang Mansion.

The Lord was silent for a long time, and after thinking about it for half an hour, he finally made up his mind that it was better to live than to die.

"Half an hour later, summon all the generals and colonels to the military tent to discuss the matter."

"Yes."

The cronies took the order and left.

Half an hour later, after some arrangement, the generals and colonels came to the military tent one after another.

"In this meeting, everyone is not allowed to bring weapons into the account, and the personal weapons are placed outside the military tent, and they will be retrieved by themselves after the discussion is over!"

In front of the tent, the guards shouted several times to remind all those who came to discuss the matter.

Although the generals and colonels of the various armies thought it was strange, they could not allow them to think too much, and they entered the military tent to discuss the matter, and it was really not necessary to carry weapons, so they placed their personal weapons in the area designated by the guards.

In the military tent, when all the people who should come have arrived, the main general will immediately get straight to the point and explain the content of this meeting.

"I just got the exact news, Taiyuan City has been lost, Jiexiu has also been lost, all of them have been occupied by the rebels disguised by the Song army, and they are heavily guarded. So now there are only two ways left for us, one is to disperse to the west to break through, climb over the mountains, go north along the Yellow River to the grassland, and go to Datong Mansion, and the other is to surrender to the Song army, continue to serve in the army or leave clothes and weapons, and go home to farm. How to choose, everyone makes their own ideas! ”

As soon as these words came out, the military tent suddenly exploded.

"How is that possible! Those chaotic people are surrounded by us in Qi County and Taigu County, there are not many of them, and they dare not come out, how can they fight Taiyuan City? ”

"There are 2,000 defenders in Taiyuan City, and the walls of the city are thick, and they can't beat 30,000 people for three months, how can they lose it?"

"Taiyuan can be lost, are the defenders all eating dry rice? I don't believe it! ”

"Where did this news come from, isn't it a joke on us?"

"What the hell is going on?"

"Can those rebels fight Taiyuan? I don't believe it either! ”

"Did you be deceived, how could Taiyuan be lost? The chaotic people are all here, how can there be chaotic people in Taiyuan! ”

........

For a time, the questions and discussions of the generals and colonels of the military filled the entire military tent.

"Be quiet!"

At the sound of the order, the military tent gradually fell silent, but their faces and eyes were still full of doubt, doubting the accuracy of the news.

"You don't need to doubt the accuracy of this information, I personally sent someone to verify it three days ago." When the Lord finished speaking, he quickly glanced around to stop them from continuing their discussion.

Then he said: "Now, we have two roads, either retreat westward and go north to Datong Mansion, but this is likely to be a road of no return, and we will starve to death in the mountains before reaching the Yellow River, or surrender to the Song army and continue to serve in the army or go home to farm." How to choose, everyone thinks clearly. ”

"Can't we concentrate our forces to recapture Taiyuan City, or recapture Jiexiu? No matter which place you recapture, you don't have to retreat west, and you don't have to surrender! ”

"yes, why don't you fight, if you want to run or surrender?"

"Okay, then add a choice, fight, retreat west, surrender the Song army, choose one of the three! We don't have much time, so let's figure it out. "The Lord compromised.