After a while, the surviving generals under Qiao Rui gathered together, these people are now listless, listening to Qiao Rui talk about surrender, all raised their hands in favor, these generals are usually not very important, although Yuan Shu is called the emperor, but the treatment given to them not only did not improve, but dropped a grade, which is mainly the result of Yuan Shu having to cut the army's expenses in order to maintain a luxurious life.

Under such circumstances, how could these generals remain loyal to Yuan Shu? Coupled with the fact that he is now in a desperate situation, he naturally supports Qiao Rui's proposal to surrender.

So Qiao Rui ordered someone to make a white flag, and then he personally announced his surrender with the white flag.

"Haha, I said a long time ago, let you surrender quickly, but you don't believe it, and now you have lost so much to finally wake up, why bother?" When the general at the head of the city saw Qiao Rui announcing his surrender, he immediately laughed and said, with a hint of sarcasm in his words.

Qiao Rui didn't dare to say anything, he arched his hand in silence and said: "I didn't know the depth before, I offended the general, and I ask for forgiveness." ”

"It's okay, it's just a pity that there are so many soldiers, all of them died because of your distrust."

"......" Qiao Rui was silent when he heard this, the other party was right, it was precisely because of his own single-mindedness that so many people were killed, but the final result was the same, and he finally couldn't avoid the road of surrender.

"I don't know the general's name." Qiao Rui looked at the general and asked loudly, I have suffered a loss, I can't know the other party's name, right?

"I am the Great Han Xijing Guard, the general, Hou Peiqing of Wenxi County."

"Huh? What the? The last general has seen Pei Gong, and the last general really doesn't know that Pei Gong is in front of him, and he asks for forgiveness for the rudeness. Qiao Rui didn't expect that the person at the head of the city turned out to be the famous general Pei Qing, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly bowed to pay respects, and said in his heart: "I knew that you were Pei Gong, where would I dare to attack the city?" Just walked around the city. ”

In fact, what Qiao Rui didn't know was that it was precisely because Pei Qing was afraid that he would flee directly, so he didn't reveal his identity, and pretended to be empty, lured him into being fooled, and trapped him under the city wall.

Soon after, Qiao Rui led his army into the city in frustration, and then bowed down in front of Pei Qing and officially surrendered to Pei Qing.

It was only at this time that Qiao Rui knew the reason why Pei Qing pretended to be an empty city plan, and also knew that the old peasants he met on the road were all disguised by the spies sent by Pei Qing, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, he thought that he had been fighting for half his life and had extremely rich combat experience, but he didn't expect that the other party was simply playing with himself in the palm of his hand.

In this battle, Pei Qing won a complete victory almost without a single soldier, killing and wounding more than 5,000 people, recruiting more than 20,000 people, and obtaining countless amounts of grain, which was enough for an army of 50,000 to eat for a month.

After Pei Qing recruited Qiao Rui's soldiers, he ordered a selection of soldiers, selected 15,000 of them, and incorporated them into his own army, and at the same time appointed Qiao Rui as the general of Fengyi Zhonglang, and selected 5,000 soldiers to be handed over to Qiao Rui to take charge, so that he could follow him to fight against Yuan Shu.

Qiao Rui didn't expect Pei Qing to treat herself so well, and she was suddenly moved, and bowed to Pei Qing again: "The last general thanks Pei Gong for trusting him so much, he should have done his best to repay Pei Gong, but the last general still has some personal matters that he wants to ask Pei Gong for, and I hope that Pei Gong can agree, so the last general will be grateful to Pei Gong and will never forget!" ”

"I don't know what's going on? Even if you ask, as long as I can do it, I will try to answer you. Pei Qing had the style of a corporal of Lixian at this time, and said with a smile at Qiao Rui.

"Here's the thing, the last general's hometown is Anhui County, Lujiang County, so many years of following the Yuan family to fight, and did not take the family to Shouchun, who expected that there was a mistake, but let them not have to live this kind of upside down life, but now that Yuan has arrived in Lujiang, if he hears the news of the last general's surrender, he will definitely find a way to endanger the last general's family, so the last general hopes to be able to lead the army to Anhui County, on the one hand, to help Pei Gong occupy Anhui County, on the other hand, in order to protect his family from Yuan, The last general knew that this was actually a bit excessive, but it was really helpless, and asked Pei Gong to agree. ”

"I see, what's there? It should have been like this, but I didn't think about it enough, so I forgot about this stubble, and now that you mentioned it, there is naturally no problem. ”

After Pei Qing finished speaking, he immediately praised Qiao Rui as the county order of Anhui County, and ordered him to lead 5,000 soldiers to recover Anhui County.

"The lord trusts him so much, and the last general will give up his life to repay him, and he is willing to smear the liver and brain of the lord, and he will not hesitate to do so!" Qiao Rui didn't expect Pei Qing to agree to his request so easily, and immediately thanked Pei Qing, the most important thing in this world is trust, he has not been fully trusted under Yuan Shu for so many years, even if he let himself send troops to fight, he also sent out a Li Feng to supervise himself, fortunately Li Feng was shot by a stray arrow and died during the battle, otherwise he would have been obstructed by him if he surrendered, but Pei Qing trusted him so much, not only gave him soldiers, but also did not send people to supervise him, Such trust immediately moved him extremely in his heart, and he immediately swore allegiance to Pei Qing, and at the same time, the title of Pei Qing changed from "Pei Gong" to "Lord Gong".

In fact, Pei Qing was still a little uncomfortable about Qiao Rui's reaction, because he mixed in two or three hundred soldiers from his own personal battalion in the army assigned to Qiao Rui, the purpose was to let these soldiers supervise Qiao Rui, once he made a betrayal move, these two or three hundred people would kill him and regain power.

After all, I don't know the loyalty of the other party now, so I still have the necessary restraints.

Just after Qiao Rui led the army away with a grateful face, Pei Qing played the Son of Heaven, changed Hefei to Jiujiang County, ordered Lü Meng to immediately lead the army here, and left 5,000 people to enrich Lü Meng's generals, with Wen Ji as a deputy general to temporarily lead these armies.

Then Pei Qing led the remaining 35,000 or so soldiers to attack Lujiang, since he had already made up his mind to completely kill Yuan Shu, Pei Qing naturally couldn't wait any longer, because the longer he waited, the more prepared Yuan Shu was, and the more soldiers he would naturally damage to attack the city, which was not what he was willing to see.

"Hehe, I don't know how determined Yuan Shu is to fight with me in Lujiang? But this is already his last place of refuge, if even Lujiang is lost, the Central Plains has completely no place for him to live, even if he can escape, it is impossible to make a comeback, in a word, as long as Lujiang is lost, Yuan Shu is finished, this will be the last battle, it will also be the most fierce battle, although I have an absolute chance of winning, but I must not underestimate the enemy. On the way out, Pei Qing said thoughtfully and silently.