Between the two armies, they wish that the other party would surrender to themselves, which is called the highest level of war, but there is no precedent for refusing to surrender to the other party since ancient times, which is absolutely unexpected by Deng Xian.

"Do I have a grudge against you?"

Lu Peng shook his head: "No." ”

"Then why did you refuse my surrender?"

"I need to make an example of the monkeys." Lu Peng said so bluntly, and then Lu Peng thought about it, and said very, very frankly: "I am an honest and honest person, I don't want to lie to you, I don't want to lie to the people around me, of course, I don't want to lie to my enemies, this is my standard of life, now I will tell you the truth, because the five of you brothers are focused on Liu Bei, then for me, you will block my goal of occupying Yizhou." ”

"But now we've surrendered to you."

Lu Peng shook his head firmly, "I don't think your surrender to me is sincere, in my opinion, you surrender to me by being forced." ”

"Does it make a difference?"

"Absolutely." Lu Peng showed a distressed expression: "Surrender and submission to this kind of thing, it must be your willingness, so that you surrender willingly, I accept your surrender, and I can also feel at ease." But now you are not, you are forced by the situation, and I am not willing to surrender, then this question arises, how will I arrange you in the future, I will take you as a confidant, but you are not willing to surrender to me, if I take you as a confidant, it is equivalent to placing a bomb behind me, you don't understand the word bomb, that is to say, no matter where I arrange you, it may be arranging an unstable factor for myself, if one day Liu Bei sent a secret letter to you, Do you follow his commands, or do you not? ”

This kind of question is quite embarrassing, and all the people around Lu Peng understand one question, that is, Lu Peng does not want to accept the other party's surrender at all, he is deliberately forcing the other party into a position where he continues to fight with him.

Deng Xian is not an ordinary person, even if he is a clay man, he still has three points of earthiness, which is very obvious to force himself to fight with him, so Deng Xian was furious: "Then I will fight you to the death." ”

Lu Peng immediately showed his joy, and casually handed back the sword he had just handed over to him: "I accept your appointment to fight now, tomorrow, no, I will give you one more day to prepare, and then we will fight to the death." ”

Deng Xian was stunned on the spot, then looked at Lu Peng, turned around and walked away.

What is the situation? This was indeed unexpected by everyone.

Yan Yan immediately chased after him and advised: "My lord, General Deng Xian has surrendered sincerely, for the sake of our soldiers to fight to the death, how can we not accept such conditions?" ”

Lu Peng stopped, slowly turned around, and faced Yan Yan, but actually to Deng Xian: "I have just repeatedly explained that what I need is someone who is sincerely devoted to me, not half-heartedly." Then he pointed to several embarrassed generals of Deng Xian on the opposite side: "For half-hearted people, I have absolutely no need to accept their surrender, there is a very key thing here, I can now solemnly announce to you that in this Han world, there can only be one person standing at the top of the world, although I and Uncle Liu Huang used to have a brotherhood, but this absolutely cannot prevent me from unifying the world, as a result, these people have Uncle Liu Huang in their hearts, once I and Liu Bei finally fight, they suddenly defected, It will bring immeasurable damage to my whole great cause, and it is better to make a decision now than in the future. ”

Zhang Ren saw that things were deadlocked, and thought that he needed to come out and turn around, and now he must clean up this situation, as for the future, as Lu Peng said, he will fight against Liu Bei on the battlefield, he will either surrender to the past, or sincerely follow Lu Peng, of course, it will be a later story, who can say for sure what will happen in the future?

However, Deng Xian had been so humiliated that he was angry, and at that time, he grabbed back the sword he had handed in, and said firmly to Lu Peng: "Then we will fight." ”

Lu Peng suddenly became excited, and gave Deng Xian a thumbs up: "What you ask, I want, the day after tomorrow, we will fight to the death." ”

No one would have thought that there would be such a thing in the world? As a result, such a thing happened in front of everyone.

Zhang Ren, who was quite sensible, stepped forward and pressed Deng Xian to the ground, and then the other brothers also understood, this guy was impulsive, and he was cooperating with this Lu Peng guy who wanted his own life, how could this make him get his wish? Although Lu Peng definitely didn't have the slightest trust in the surrender of himself and others, saving his life was the first priority, and he definitely couldn't let this thing be destroyed.

Of course, now everyone knows in their hearts that Lu Peng is wise, and he has an absolute scale for the helplessness of the surrender of several of his own people, and from this point of view, he will never really trust himself and arrange himself for a very important position.

But things in the world are stronger than people, they have all come to this point, everyone just wants to live, who wants to be a high-ranking official in the future? Survival comes first, everything else is secondary.

Regarding the current situation, Lu Peng expressed his absolute disappointment: "The only person who still wants to fight with me has been betrayed by you, and I am helpless." ”

But in a blink of an eye, he said to these people with confidence again: "I accept your surrender, but I still want to take this county seat, and you just stand by your side to see how I can take the city that you think is impregnable." ”

The troops and people of the entire county have all withdrawn, and what remains in front of Lu Peng and in front of everyone is just an empty city wall.

Lu Peng stood on the high watchtower and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "In front of us is an imaginary city guarded by 50,000 enemies, and I now order to attack this city." Catapults, fire oil bombs launched. ”

Although there was no enemy defense on the city wall, Lu Peng still assumed that there were 50,000 enemy troops on that wall, and his soldiers still thought that there were 50,000 enemies guarding that wall, so 500 catapults began to shoot at that section of the city wall.

Dense fire oil bombs smashed into the city wall, and then the fuse ignited the fire oil, and the blue flame of coal tar and white phosphorus burned into a sea of fire on the city wall—

"Cold water canister launch—"

The dense canisters of cold water were thrown at the head of the city again, and the rammed earth wall collapsed in the blink of an eye, turning into a pile of powder.

In front of all the enemy soldiers who had just surrendered, Lu Peng ordered loudly: "Covered by longbows and arrows." In the blink of an eye, countless javelin-like arrows were densely inserted into the collapsed city wall.

"Pikemen, attack."

"Fight to the death." Wave after wave of shouts, each of a thousand people formed a large array of spears, like a tide, walked towards the collapsed city wall, and in the blink of an eye, it trampled under the feet of the soldiers.

(End of chapter)