There are only three gates in Zhaocheng, and only the north gate is under the control of Zhou Kong, because the administrative office is usually located in the north-east, and the rest of the east and west gates are controlled by the slave army.

The sky was dark, Bailiyan didn't know the situation at the head of the city, and shouted at the east gate for two quarters of an hour, but no one answered for a long time, and asked people to go to the north gate and the west gate to shout.

"Report, report to General Fang, General Zhou, Xianjun is shouting outside." The soldier said quickly.

"What are you shouting?" Fang Ke asked, his left hand hanging from his chest with a bandage, his face looking gloomy and unlucky.

"General Qiyu Zhou, the Xian army wants to surrender the city."

"Phew!" Zhou Kong slapped the table and glared, hating to crush Baili Yan's bones and ashes: "From beginning to end, it was a hundred miles of dog thieves, and he dared to come and surrender, ignore him!" ”

At this time, Han Qi said:

"General Zhou, the granary is currently in the south and west of the city, and we will run out of food in two days."

Zhou Kong's eyes turned, and he said:

"Why, you want to surrender!"

Han Qi hurriedly shook his head

"No, no, the last general is worried that after two days, the brothers will be scattered."

"Dare! Whoever runs, I break his dog's leg. ”

As soon as the words fell, another soldier came from outside the hall:

"Qi Qi two generals, the Xian army shot arrows into the city from outside the city, and there were letters on the arrows."

"Show me!"

Zhou Kong took the unclustered arrow with the letter, opened it and looked at it carefully, and the content was only sixteen words: "The supernatural power is defeated, and the city will be surrendered within twenty-four hours, and it will be slaughtered within the time limit." ”

After reading Zhou Kong, he was furious:

"Shameless butcher!"

Fang Ke took the note and looked at the back of the color:

"General Zhou, let's stop fighting with the slave army, and jointly defending against the enemy is the top priority."

"You know what! Baili Yan shot us to slaughter the city, do you know that it was other people who shot at the slave army. ”

Zhou Kong quickly guessed that Bailiyan gave her the slaughter of the city if she did not surrender, and the one who gave it to the east gate and the west gate was likely to open the door and surrender with a heavy reward, and those who did not surrender would have a heavy reward, so that the city would fall into cannibalism, and the Xian army would reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Due to the uneven distribution of the treasure, Bailiyan tempted the bounty with a lot of money, and the slave army at any of the east gate and the west gate could surrender at any time, and then counterattacked the governance office, killing Zhou Kong's head and surrendering his name.

Thinking of this, she lowered her head and felt hopeless than ever.

"Han Qi."

"The end will be."

"Immediately go to the Xianjun camp and tell Bailiyan that as long as the Xianjun protects the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city and does not investigate the previous crimes, I will open the city and surrender."

Han Qi was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had heard an errand, so he asked:

"General Zhou, this is to surrender the enemy."

"Let you go, you will go, and if you are delayed, the lives of the brothers will not be saved."

"No!"

Zhou Kong knew very well at this time that Ma was the right-hand man of the Chitose Heavenly King, although he was ruthless, he could suppress the 50,000 tigers and wolves under his command, and he had no disagreement with the rebels.

Now that Ma Zheng is dead, Gao Teng is robbing for wealth and dying, and the slave army is leaderless, and it is inevitable to kill in order to seize talent. If Bailiyan pulls any of them, he may attack the city, and he can't stop it.

At the same time as Han Qi left the city, the rebels at the East Gate could not withstand Bailiyan's huge bounty, and sent people to the Xianjun camp to test the details. The Xianjun came in a hurry on horseback, and Bailiyan sat by the campfire boiling tea, while listening to the dog's mouth spitting human words:

"General Song said, if the Xian army gives 30,000 inches of silver, the city will be opened immediately to welcome the Xian army into the city!"

When the person who came opened his mouth, it was 30,000 inches of silver, and Xu Jin, Jiang Jie and the others' faces immediately sank, but when they saw Bailiyan silent, everyone was silent.

"What a big appetite, just a thousand commanders, opening your mouth is 30,000 inches of silver, can you General Song take it."

Bai Liyan's words were not serious, but the threat was not seen at all, but I don't know if the person who came didn't understand it, or if they understood it and pretended to be stupid, and ignored Bai Liyan's warning:

"General Song's 20,000 horses, that is, General Song promised to surrender your Xian army, if his 20,000 brothers don't agree, General Song may be very embarrassed."

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan sneered, took a sip of tea and said: "Even if you have 20,000 people, 30,000 inches of silver and 20,000 appeasements, and each person only gets an inch of silver at best, can you General Song win people's hearts?" ”

"You don't have to bother, as long as you bring 30,000 inches of silver, the east gate will open at any time."

"Okay, two days later, the 100,000 troops will arrive, please go back and let you General Song spend two days thinking about whether you want 5,000 inches of silver or 30,000 inches of silver.

When the visitor heard the news, he was furious, and his hideous color jumped on his face:

"Don't you think it's ridiculous that you still want to enter the city with this sincerity."

"The supernatural power has been defeated, you are now alone, this commander is grateful for the suffering of the people of Zhaocheng, and he can't bear to fight again, so he persuades you to wait. And you don't think about advancing and retreating, insatiable, 30,000 inches of silver look at the world, a small country has not accumulated 30,000 gold and silver a year, you open your mouth is 30,000, I really think that the gold and silver of this handsome man fell from the sky.

Finally, I will give you two days, two days will not surrender, two days later, our army will attack the city, and your army will surrender at that time, but there will be no such good treatment. Drop-off! ”

Resolutely refused to blackmail the people who came, and Bailiyan forcibly drove them away.

Jiang Jie was angry and said dissatisfied:

"Master Hou, these thieves really don't know what to do, 30,000 inches of silver really dare to open their mouths, it's really hateful."

Xu Jin also said:

"30,000 inches of silver can be worth a year's gold and silver income in a remote and small country like Zhao Guo, and they can figure it out!"

Bai Liyan changed her color just now, waved her hand, and said disapprehantly:

"Don't you know, there is a kind of person in this world who has never seen a lot of money in his life, and one day he will get rich overnight, and he will not take any life-saving money in his eyes. There are 20,000 or 30,000 gold and silver in the tomb of Chai Bi, and there are not 50,000 or 60,000 jewels and jade, but also 30,000 or 40,000. ”

Zhaocheng rebellion is a typical overnight rich mentality, money is too easy to come by, I don't know how easy it is to make money, on the contrary, let them look at the small profits, 5,000 and 80,000 combined, 5,000 is difficult to meet the rebels' expectations.

30,000 inches of silver is just a strategy for the rebels to negotiate, 20,000 horses are also seriously inflated, one commander can't control 20,000 people at all, not to mention five or six commanders of the same level, at best, there are only 10,000 horses and three commanders.

Judging from this, the bottom line of the rebel army is 10,000 to 15,000. After all, it was the commander who came to negotiate the surrender, which meant that the commander had died, apparently the result of several commanders discussing together. The asking price is too high, and a fool knows that no matter how rich the vassal states are, it is an astronomical amount to take out 30,000 inches of silver in one go.

He believed that the defenders of Zhaocheng would have to come sooner or later to negotiate the terms of surrender, otherwise the rebel army at the east gate, west gate and south of the city would probably take their heads to vote for the name tomorrow.

And so on was an hour, until the hour of the hour, when a guard came:

"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, the north gate of the rebels is open, and there is a team of about fifty people, coming to my camp."

"Keep watching, let them go into camp."

"No!"

Waiting for the escorts to leave, Bai Liyan and Jiang Jie said:

"Ask someone to take two salted chickens to roast."

"No!"

The commander still has the privilege of carrying the necessary support supplies, even if he marches lightly and simply.

Of course, in most cases, Baili Yan does not do this, and in addition to military necessities, at most bring some light tea. This time, in order to match the atmosphere, some salted chicken was installed for easy picking.

About a moment later, Han Qi fell into the camp, and far away, he smelled the fragrance of roast chicken, and his stomach was inexplicably sour.

Seeing Han Qi, Bai Liyan said sarcastically:

"General Han, the food in Zhaocheng must be a hundred times better than that of my Xian army, otherwise, how can you go for several days and not return."

Han Qi's face turned red, quite embarrassed, and he hesitated for a long time before he said:

"General Baili has already seen through the deception, so why make fun of me."

"Then did you come this time to say surrender to Zhaocheng, or to surrender for yourself?" Bai Liyan asked, roasting the salted chicken that had just been put on the shelves, and the fragrance was full of aroma under the infiltration of chicken fat.

Han Qi's eyes stared at the roast chicken, swallowed his saliva and said:

"Under the order of General Zhou, I asked the Xian army to surrender the city, and as long as the Xian army promised our army's conditions, General Zhou would immediately open the north gate."

"Oh, General Zhou, Ben Shuai remembers that General Han said that the lord of the city will be Fang Ke, when did this become General Zhou again, it's not that he wants to cheat Ben Shuai."

"Yes, last time, it was General Zhou who designed a fraudulent surrender, and he was also ordered to act below, who would have thought that there would be today."

"Hehe, I didn't expect to have today, okay...... Let's say, General Zhou wants tens of thousands of silver, just now the East Gate guard opened his mouth is not small, claiming to have 30,000 horses in his hands, and his mouth is 50,000 inches of silver, your General Zhou is ready to ask for tens of thousands. ”

Hearing 50,000 silver, Han Qi's heart jumped wildly, in the past few days, he had seen the ferocity and greed of the slave army, from the generals to the soldiers, there were more gold, silver and jewelry than people, and when he saw gold, there were many things that killed each other for gold. It is entirely possible to open your mouth for 50,000 silver, but it is simply impossible to boast that there are 30,000 people at the east gate.

Thinking of this, Han Qi knew very well that Baili Yan was scheming, and his "ruthlessness" was not inferior to the slave army, and after thinking a little in his heart, he said:

"General Baili, General Zhou hopes that the Xian army will ensure that the lives of the soldiers and civilians in Zhaocheng are worry-free, and they will not be held accountable for their previous crimes, and there are no other conditions."

"Oh, that's it?" Baili Yan was surprised.

"Yes, that's it. Just ......"

Han Qi stopped talking halfway through his words, and Bailiyan frowned and asked him:

"Just what?"

"The 1,000 inch of silver ...... below"

"Oh...... Ben Shuai understands, you want to get back the original 1,000 inches of silver. No problem, General Han has made a lot of contributions this time, how can Ben Shuai go back on his word. The chicken has already been examined, and General Han will take it and eat it on the way back to the city. Jiang Jie. ”

"The last general!"

"Ben Shuai immediately repaired a letter and ordered you to go to the north of the city with Han Qi to surrender."

"No!"

Bai Liyan did not doubt Han Qi's sincerity at all, at this moment, Zhou Kong had no choice, whether the rebels at the East Gate or the West Gate surrendered, as long as Bai Liyan promised a lot of money to make them counterattack the northern city, these slave armies would not hesitate to kill the north of the city.

Obviously, one less person means less money, and the more people who die in deployment, the less money they need to buy, and these outlaws will obviously be happy to do so.