Chapter 326: Conditional Surrender

"Okay," Seeing that the battle situation had become like this, Ye Tao put his hand on the railing of the command tower and said easily. "Now that everyone is rushing together, it's not easy to drop bombs. …… Immediately issue an order to recall the airship team and replenish ammunition. ”

The staff officer on the command tower was recording that the two flags and the light box had begun to work intensely. A small staff officer took advantage of Ye Tao's good mood and asked: "My lord, although we have so many fewer troops, it is obvious that we are fighting well." ”

Another staff officer said with a smile: "Just now, General Dai asked me to count how many battalions are directly and indirectly engaging the enemy at each moment." Although the Heavy Armament Battalion, the Longbow Battalion, the Scout Battalion, and the Archer Battalion were not very engaged, there was also the airship team...... But these troops are actually contributing at the same time. On the contrary, it is the other side, no matter how many people there are, only those who are in front of the array will always engage the enemy. Purely in terms of the number of troops that are playing a role at the same time, I think that our side should have a great advantage in statistics. Besides, it's not just people. The heavy equipment battalion requires dozens of people to operate a ballista, and the role it can play may not be comparable to that of hundreds or even thousands of people. ”

Ye Tao smiled encouragingly and said, "Come on." In the future, sooner or later, the army will be controlled and managed by you young people. The more thoroughly you study the military, the more reassuring we old fellows will be. ”

However, after Ye Tao finished speaking, everyone felt a little like rolling their eyes. Time has passed, and although Ye Tao's current age is still terrifyingly young, he is not the youngest group of people in the vibrant system of Yunzhou. The staff officers present were also very young, the youngest being only seventeen years old. Ye Tao is indeed old, but he is not old enough to let him casually say such words as if he is forty or fifty years old and cultivating a successor.

A thunderous sound was heard...... After tossing for a long time, the heavy equipment battalion finally avenged the revenge that failed to complete the deflagration at the beginning. They threw a lot of fire oil bombs on the battlefield with hammers and sticks, many of which were deliberately not ignited or did not explode in a bad posture on the ground, and after such a long battle, they were all stuck on the ground, mixed with blood and dirt, and the air was already full of the smell of burning, and not many people noticed the smell of dense oil in the air. An oil bomb exploded by accident, instantly igniting an entire area of the ground and instantly engulfing a group of people. Although several of them were accidentally engulfed in flames. However, the training that the Yunzhou army, which had been playing with fire, had undergone in dealing with fire was beyond the imagination of the Xiling army, and the officers immediately ordered the troops to gather and withdraw together. Fortunately, because the Yunzhou army has always maintained a fairly complete front in order to ensure its own advantages, this retreat is possible. And at this moment, the heavy equipment battalion that saw the opportunity, regardless of fatigue, actually fired a series of fire oil bombs in succession faster than a few hours ago, both lit and unlit. In the air, the airship team was also very excited to drop one fire bomb after another, as if to test how big the fire could be.

"Alas...... "Seeing this kind ......of situation on the battlefield that neither side expected, although the fire will not spread too widely because the battlefield is too large, but the army is in chaos, and the damage caused by this mutual trampling is too great. In particular, the battlefield is now crowded with Sergeants Xiling. Jiang Xujing shook his head as if he was resigned to his fate, and said, "Mingjin, the whole army retreats...... Right here, stand the truce flag and my handsome flag. After speaking, Jiang Xujing slowly inserted the long sword in his hand back into the scabbard, buckled the horse, and stood there.

The guards and adjutants around the "big handsome ......" were stunned. It didn't matter if the whole army retreated temporarily, such a situation should be so, although the loss in rhythm and morale was heavy, it was not irreparable. But what Jiang Xujing means now seems to be that after the army retreats, he will discuss a truce with the other party in the middle of the battlefield, which is obviously preparing to admit defeat and surrender. In everyone's impression, Jiang Xujing has never been a person who is pessimistic to such a point.

"Needless to say. Let the boys be careful, and keep an eye on the cathars. Jiang Xujing shook his head again.

The armies of Yunzhou immediately saw the truce flag. Immediately, the generals and officers from the command tower to all sides gave orders to retreat some distance and form a team. No one seems to suspect that Jiang Xujing is an expedient measure, and he is ready to wait for the fire to be a little late to continue fighting. This kind of trust and respect for the opponent also made Jiang Xujing feel better.

After more than three hours of vigorous fighting, leaving behind the corpses on the ground, does it really end like this? However, the two armies basically returned to the position they had before the battle began in the morning, vacating a distance of more than a thousand paces in the middle, and looking at each other from a distance. Jiang Xujing didn't even bring many guards, only a dozen people accompanied him, standing under the extremely conspicuous banner in the middle of the battlefield.

After resting for about a quarter of an hour, Ye Tao rode out of the Yunzhou army. He was surrounded by important commanders in this war. Dai Shihuan, Dai Shijin, Tan Weiran, Chi Lei, Cheng Chi and even the Chinese military camp camp Zhengpomegranate who impressed everyone today, plus one or two of their own guards, also more than ten people accompanied Ye Tao to the middle of the battlefield.

The two commanders, one old and one young, looked at each other, and after a while, Ye Tao spoke first: "General Jiang, what do you mean, how to solve this matter now?" Ye Tao was not aggressive, but talked about this tragic battle as if he was dealing with an official document in peacetime.

"I'm down." Jiang Xujing said frankly: "I lost this battle, and I lost it convincingly. ”

Ye Tao just wanted to say something, but was choked back by Jiang Xujing's continued speech. Jiang Xujing asked, "Ye Jingluo, can you promise to guarantee the safety of our surrendered soldiers?" ”

"There is no tradition of killing prisoners in our direction. Please rest assured, "Thinking of Jiang Xujing's concern about this matter, it is actually reasonable, this time Yunzhou attacked the Zhenbei Military Division, and he has always been very active in capturing prisoners, and he killed them very fiercely, Ye Tao smiled: "In the case of relatively high supply pressure, our side does not give priority to capturing prisoners, but would rather kill or defeat, this is true." However, all the sergeants who were accepted by our side were treated in accordance with their duties. Rest assured, general. ”

Jiang Xujing smiled and said, "So, Ye Jingluo, now you say, how do you think this matter should be carried out?" You and I, in this regard, don't seem to be very experienced people. ”

That's true. Ye Tao thought for a moment and said, "Please let the general announce this matter to you, please fix it in situ." We will send two wings of soldiers to observe. When we are settled, I invite the general to come to my camp. ”

Jiang Xujing nodded and said, "That's very good." So without further ado, he turned his horse's head around and ran back toward his own army. About an hour after Ye Tao returned to the camp, Jiang Xujing came.

At this very moment, Dai Shijin, the most experienced Dai Shihuan, had already taught the too young officers a lesson in the process of accepting and surrendering. Before this, everyone had already thought of the problem of food supply, and had already sent out a flying eagle message before the internal meeting, informing Yu Fuzhong and Suo Zheng, who were waiting for news in Qingtian and regulating logistics supplies, that the battle had been won, and Jiang Xujing led his troops to surrender. But at the same time, he also urged Suo Zheng to hurry up a batch of grain and quickly adjust the proportion of supply and transportation in the rear, so that he could greatly reduce the consumables such as fire oil bombs and arrows.

Within an hour, Yunzhou also quickly worked out various relevant terms. In this regard, they really didn't have any preparations, who would have thought that Jiang Xujing would actually descend at this time? Jiang Xujing had the courage to gather 300,000 troops for a decisive battle, but surrendered when the losses were just over halfway. Although there are still doubts, for the time being, it is also necessary to confirm that Jiang Xujing has no other intentions. And when Jiang Xujing came to the middle military camp of the Yunzhou army, he only brought two personal guards and all the generals and colonels, and they put the transfer tiger talisman on the long table that had just been cleaned up, although everyone looked calm, but they didn't say anything. Jiang Xujing's ability to control the army is really quite extraordinary. Ni Sigui's department has now been concentrated, and the elite soldiers of Jiang Xujing's headquarters are sandwiched in the middle, one left and one right. Probably because it's not interesting to think about, and there's no way out, but this one is very quiet now.

"General Jiang, do you have any other conditions now?" Sitting down facing each other, Dai Shihuan said, "You might as well say it now, we will consider it." ”

"The general of the defeated army, relying on the still a little combat strength to negotiate, it is too uninteresting. If there is, it can be regarded as yes, many of these generals on our side are from all over Xiling, and they belong to our department, and they want to go back. Jiang Xujing shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Yes, as long as you have preliminary control over your existing army, generals, officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers who want to return to Xiling can go. We will send troops to monitor and secure supplies until we enter Taizhou. Dai Shihuan nodded and agreed.

Jiang Xujing nodded and said, "That's it, now the old man is at your disposal." ”

Dai Shihuan smiled and said, "General Jiang, we have been fighting for many years, and we can be regarded as understanding each other. Let me now say what we think about it. ”

Yunzhou's disposition opinion is very simple, hand over the weapons, and then reorganize and repatriate step by step, that is a matter of course, there is nothing to say. It seems reasonable to ask Jiang Xujing to cooperate with the surrender of all the strongholds and towns of the Zhenbei Military Division that are not yet in the hands of the Yunzhou army. What made Jiang Xujing more suspicious was Dai Shihuan's proposal that the Guardian Army should be dealt with separately, and that they would be isolated and examined for a period of time after the whole army was disbanded and reorganized, which made Jiang Xujing have a headache. But what Dai Shihuan said also understands that he will not kill people casually, but if someone says that they will not listen to anything, at least isolation and imprisonment will be inevitable. These apologetic sergeants are too fanatical, even if there are only a little bit left of tens of thousands of people now, they still have blazing eyes, and they are praying to the heavens under the supervision of the sergeants of Jiang Xujing's headquarters, and they also say what will happen to the gods, and even say that Ye Tao will be killed by the thunder in the blink of an eye.

But everyone's idea, now that the heavenly thunder is made by the Ye family's workshop, it is obvious that Ye Tao's friendship with the heavenly gods is more iron than that of the Daoming Sect's group of grandsons.