The lives of more than 20,000 people were all hanging in the hands of Wan Yan Xizheng at this time, but there was no way to advance or retreat, and there was no way to go to heaven and earth.

Why did you get such a field?

After taking the Hedgehog River and Haizi Village camps, the Song army of the fourth route retreated two ways, and the entire Yanjing City from top to bottom, no one said that the Song army would be defeated, and then concentrated 50,000 troops to capture the transportation camp in one fell swoop, and it didn't take much effort to repel the third road army of the Song army.

When the transportation camp was taken, it was indeed in line with the pre-war expectations, except for a delay of a few days, it did not lose too many troops, of course, the five thousand missing cavalry were not counted.

But who knew that just after taking the transportation camp, only one night later, the whole situation took a sharp turn for the worse, not only the camp was occupied, the grain, grass, war horses and materials were lost, and more than 40,000 troops were also surrounded by the Song army and fell into a desperate situation.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that all this is a trap that the Song army has already arranged, that is, waiting or luring the army in Yanjing City to go out of the city to fight.

This idea was soon formed in Wan Yan Xizheng's mind, the 30,000 Song troops in the Hedgehog River camp were defeated in one blow, defeated and retreated to Zhuozhou, and the city was closed, and the more than 30,000 Song troops in the Haizi Village camp retreated suddenly, and even the grain and grass materials left in the camp were not transported, and the retreat was in a hurry, and it was really suspicious to think about it afterwards, the Song army abandoned the camp and retreated south with a total of 60,000 troops on two roads, luring the Jin army from Yanjing City to the Tongyun camp, and then quietly went north, taking advantage of the Jin army to capture the Tongyun camp in one fell swoop.

The intention of the Song army was very obvious, as long as someone raised objections at the beginning, the Jin army would definitely not easily gather 50,000 troops to attack the transportation camp.

Because if the Song army had no other plans, after the Hedgehog River and Haizi Village camps retreated south, there would be no reason for the Tongyun camp and the Chaobai River camp to continue to hold out, there was only one reason, relying on the 60,000 or 70,000 troops in these two camps, it would be impossible to defeat Yanjing City, and it would even be a question of whether they could reach Yanjing City.

But at that time, everyone was blinded by victory, and wanted to personally drive away the enemy of the transportation camp through a big battle, and then destroy the Chaobai River camp.

If you could calm down at the beginning, the army would have waited under Yanjing City, and when the harsh winter came, the Song army would naturally retreat, and it would not have fallen into the trap of the Song army and brought the army to a desperate situation.

It's a pity that everything was too late, and the moment the whole army captured the Song army's transportation camp, the end of the Jin army was already doomed.

They were surrounded by nearly 100,000 troops of the Song army's Chaobaihe camp, Tongyun camp and Haizi Village camp, and even if they got the news in Yanjing City, they would never dare to risk sending troops to the rescue, because no one knew how many Song troops were hiding in the mountains west of Yanjing.

At this time, it is impossible to retreat from the whole body, the canal defense line, the Jin army can not break through at night, and it is even more impossible during the day, although there are bridges in Matou Village that can lead to both sides of the canal, but there are also heavy guards of the Song army, and even if they successfully break through from there, they are cold and hungry, the soldiers can't run far at all, and they can't run, and it is difficult to escape their lives, and the big array in front of them is even more cannibalistic and does not spit out bones, even if the whole army rushes together, there is no guarantee that someone can rush out of the formation alive, if there are few people who succeed in the battle, how to capture the Xianghe, in the end it is still a death.

Wan Yan Xi is as the commander of the whole army, and his head is as big as a fight at this time, and at present, it seems that they have no way to survive at all.

Are they going to die here like this?

The atmosphere of despair spread from top to bottom, and soon spread to the whole army, and everyone knew that they were likely to die here, either starving to death, freezing to death, or being killed by the Song army.

Can you find a way out?

Faced with the question of life and death of more than 20,000 people, even if Wan Yanxi was unwilling, he had to imagine a possibility at this time to surrender to the Song army!

Instead of being forced to a dead end by the Song army, most of the soldiers were killed and wounded and surrendered, it was better to take the initiative to surrender and seek a way out for the soldiers of the whole army.

His opponents are the world-famous Yang Congyi, Yao Chang, Ming Fu and others, their troops are also several times that of him, the food and grass materials are sufficient, the preparations are sufficient, and the soldiers of the Song army are high-spirited and determined, and obviously will not give him any chance to break through.

Since it is indeed a desperate situation, there is no possibility of a successful breakthrough, let all the soldiers die, it is really better to surrender the Song army, in exchange for the lives of 20,000 soldiers, just when the army hesitated, there were already soldiers frozen to death in the ice and snow, and if they did not come up with a decision, the whole army was in chaos, and it was difficult to obey the order.

After Yan Xizheng thought about it carefully, he immediately ordered his relatives to notify all the generals and officers to come to discuss the matter.

As soon as the generals arrived, he immediately cut out the situation faced by the whole army at this time, and told them little by little that the whole army had fallen into a desperate situation, and there was no possibility of breaking through the siege and surviving alone, from generals to ordinary soldiers.

The generals are not fools, what kind of situation they are facing, they know very well that the desperate situation is their unified understanding, and when Yan Xizheng analyzes, no one speaks.

Then Wan Yan Xizheng told them that if they want to survive, there is actually another way.

A simple sentence lifted the attention and appetite of all the generals, after all, they all wanted to live.

Surrender!

Wan Yanxi was spitting these two words out of his mouth, and the atmosphere of the scene suddenly became strange, and the eyes of the generals looking at him also changed subtly.

These generals belong to different forces, each of them has a different position, different thoughts, which are willing to accept the order to surrender, and which are unwilling, Wan Yan Xizheng is not particularly clear, because this kind of matter, before this, he has never considered it.

Sure enough, after the word surrender came out of the mouth of the commander of the First Army, it immediately set off a huge wave among the generals, and those who were willing to surrender were silent and expressed their agreement with silence, while those who were unwilling to surrender immediately took a clear stand and made their stand clear.

Of course, no one can tell for the time being whether the generals who jumped up to show that they were fighting to the death, or whether they were worried that the words of surrender were deliberately spoken by the marshal to test their position.

Except for the generals themselves who spoke, no one knew what they were thinking in their hearts, and Wan Yan Xizheng himself didn't know.

There were as many as six or seven generals who opposed the surrender, and the rest were silent, without explicitly expressing their opposition or support.

Wan Yan Xi quickly stopped the chaos at the scene, and then told everyone very seriously that surrendering to the Song army was the only way to survive at present, and it was better for anyone who didn't want to surrender and could go by themselves.

Since the word surrender has been exported, there is no possibility of taking it back, so Wan Yan Xizheng ignored the resolute opposition of some generals and immediately ordered the order to surrender the Song army to spread throughout the army.

If one more hour is delayed, the situation will deteriorate by one point, and Wan Yanxi hopes to resolve this matter quickly and let the soldiers in the ice and snow be resettled.

As for whether the army will split again, it is no longer something he has to think about now, some people want to fight to die to keep their name, that is their business, and he just wants to fight for a way to survive in a desperate situation.

At the same time as the order to surrender was sent to the whole army, Wan Yanxi sent people to shout in front of the Song army's big array, saying that as long as they could treat the Jin army soldiers well, they were willing to unload their armor and surrender and join the Song army!

The Jin army was going to surrender, and this news surprised Ming Fu.

There are more than 40,000 people on the other side, even if they are in the encirclement, they should have the strength to fight, and they have to surrender before they can break into the battle on a large scale, which is really surprising.

Ming Fu did not consider the possibility of accepting the surrender of the Jin army, because in the established plan, it was to destroy most of the Jin army with a killing array, and then fight with the Jin army that successfully broke through, and wipe them all out while they had no food or drink, cold and hungry.

At this time, when he heard that the Jin army was going to surrender, for a while, he really couldn't make up his mind, and he couldn't be sure whether this was the Jin army's delaying tactic, or whether he was preparing to surrender by fraud, and then yin them again.

In order to find out the true intentions of the Jin army, Ming Fu immediately sent a close general to contact the Jin army in front of the battle.

The generals of the Song and Jin armies chatted for less than a quarter of an hour before the big array, and then left and returned to the camp.

The Song army general brought a brocade box back to the camp and handed it to Ming Fu, saying that it contained the sincerity of the surrender of the Jin army.

Ming Fu ordered people to open it and take a look, only to see the Jin Junshuai seal inside.

Ming Fu knew very well how important the handsome seal of the first army was, so he immediately ordered someone to take the handsome seal of the commander of the Jin army to Yang Congyi, the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition, to report the intention of the Jin army to surrender.

At the same time, Ming Fu ordered the whole army to increase vigilance, strengthen defenses, and beware of the Jin army distracting the Song army from a surprise attack under the guise of surrender.

An hour later, Yang Congyi got the news and asked Ming about the movement of the Jin army, and after a little thought, he returned to Ming Fu and accepted the surrender of the Jin army, and the surrender site should be set in Matou Village.

The reason why he was in Matou Village, Yang Congyi was actually the same as Ming Fu, and he was also worried that the Jin army would take the opportunity to escape under the guise of surrender.

Matou Village is located between the Yang Congyi Department and the Ming Fu Department, between the two armies, once there is an accident in the surrender, it is more convenient for the two armies to support.

At the same time, Yang Congyi also took into account the resettlement of the surrendered Jin army, the city defense of Xianghe is insufficient, and there are many grain and grass materials in the city that have been withdrawn from the transportation camp, which is not suitable for the placement of Jin soldiers, while Gu'an City is relatively strong, the city is larger, and it is also close to Hejian Mansion, and the Jin soldiers can be scattered and placed in the surrounding counties in the future, so Matou Village, which is closer to Gu'an, is the first choice for surrender.

The canal defense line and the Jin army camp were still very important, and Yang Congyi did not dare to leave easily.

So he gave Ming Fu full authority to be responsible for the entire surrender negotiation, but in order to reduce the surrender accident, he clearly warned Ming Fu not to embarrass and humiliate the generals and main generals of the Jin army, and to give them due courtesy, but remember not to let them contact with the Jin soldiers again.

Ming Fu, who received the reply and instructions, immediately sent someone to contact Jin Jun again to discuss the details of the surrender.

Within an hour, under the instruction of Ming Fu and Wanyan Xizheng, the generals in charge of the negotiations between the two armies negotiated five times before finally deciding on the matter of surrender.