In order to stabilize the place, in order to communicate with the East Shu Route Army, and agree on the time to jointly attack Chengdu, the North Shu Route Army took the initiative to stop in Mianzhou for more than ten days, but was forced to flee back to Chengdu by the commander of the reinforcements, the crown prince Meng Xuanzhe, and the deputy marshal Li Tingqi said that they were their own strong walls and clear the wilderness, "burning houses and destroying grain", and "scorched earth to resist Zhou", and took this as a great credit to themselves. And the Shu lord Meng Chang was also surprised that the Zhou army had stopped for a long time for the first time since the invasion of Shu, because although he was terrified because the Zhou army captured Mianzhou, which was only more than 200 miles away from Chengdu, but in order to boost morale and stabilize the morale of the army, he still decided to hype up this rare "record" since the start of the war, and rewarded Meng Xuanzhe and Li Tingqi.

Of course, boosting morale is boosting morale, but Meng Chang knew very well that the strong walls and the "scorched earth to resist the Zhou" could only drag the Zhou army for a while, but it was impossible to block the southward pace of the Zhou army for a long time, let alone drag the Zhou army to a truce in a short period of time. Therefore, after the hype, Meng Chang still summoned a group of civil and military generals to his side as soon as possible, hoping that they could give him advice and find a way to retreat from the enemy.

Before the war, there may be some Hou Shu ministers who don't know much about the outside world who don't know much about the difference in strength between themselves and the Great Zhou, and they may be delusional to fight with the Zhou army. But now that the Zhou army has been killing all the way, it can be said that it is devastating and invincible, and no Hou Shu minister is arrogant enough to think that he can compete with the Zhou army. Therefore, in the face of Meng Chang's inquiry, the civil and military ministers of the Later Shu group, who were already well aware of the gap between the strength of the two countries and the two armies in Shu and Zhou, knew that this was an unsolvable problem, and they were silent for a while.

After a long time, Shi Fengqiang, a veteran of Houshu, came out of work and said: "The Zhou army came from afar, and it is inconvenient to transport heavy grain and grass, and its momentum is bound to not last long. The minister thought that we should clear the wilderness and defend the city according to the wall, and when the veterans of the Zhou army were tired and the heavy grain and grass were insufficient, they would retreat without a fight. Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty to issue an edict to summon the troops of various states to go to King Qin, to consolidate the defense of the city and the land of the countryside outside, and to resist the Zhou army with the strength of the whole country. ”

As a veteran of Hou Shu, Shi Fengqi naturally understood what tricks the prince and Li Tingqi were playing before, and he also knew very well that the so-called strong walls and clear fields and "scorched earth to resist Zhou" were just means of self-deception, and knew that the reason why the Zhou army stopped in Mianzhou was not because of lack of food and grass, but to appease the local area and appease the gentry and people of Shu who were abandoned by Dashu but would soon become the people of Dazhou. It can be said that the measures taken by the Zhou army to help the victims and maintain the local area in Mianzhou and other places at this time were far more able to buy people's hearts and win the support of the gentry and people in Shu than the amnesty of Shu and the reduction of taxes and exemption in the future. In fact, the reason why Shi Fengqi proposed to Meng Chang to continue to implement the strategy of clearing the wilderness and "scorching the earth to resist the Zhou" was to take advantage of the rare morale of the soldiers and people of Chengdu who were stimulated by the so-called "achievements" of the crown prince and Li Tingqi in Mianzhou by the imperial court, and to support the confrontation with the Zhou army for a while sooner, so as to buy more time for the arrival of the army of King Qin in various places. Second, it is also hoped that the Zhou army will not want Shu to fall into turmoil due to famine and too many displaced people, so as to affect the weakness of the governance of Shu in the future, and delay the pace of the Zhou army's march as much as possible, so that their own lords and court ministers can recover from the previous series of defeats, and regain the determination and courage to fight to the death with the Zhou army, so as to persist until the moment when King Qin's army will join Chengdu and resist the Zhou army. In that case, Dashu may still have a chance to live.

Shi Fengchuan was there vigorously cheering up his own master, and at the same time he was also cheering up the ministers of civil and military affairs present, but Meng Chang was full of bitterness when he heard it, and sighed secretly. He naturally knew that although the strategy offered by Shi Fengqi had a slim chance, it was the only way at the moment. But he knows better that the teachers of King Qin and the "backbone of the anti-Zhou Dynasty" that Shi Fengqi said are just flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, and they are meaningless "painting cakes", which cannot become a reality at all.

As a veteran who was not in an important position in the court and held real power, what Shi Fengqiang didn't know was that in fact, as early as the beginning of the Zhou army's invasion of Shu, Meng Chang had ordered all military states to go to King Qin, but now more than a month has passed, and the soldiers and horses in these places have not even seen a shadow. Otherwise, why would his lord need to spend a lot of money to recruit brave warriors to join the army in the city of Chengdu, temporarily organize a group of rabble to reinforce Lizhou and Jianmen, and even make ugly jokes such as hanging the flag upside down.

Speaking of which, the military states to the east and north of Chengdu did not come to help, which may also explain that they were on the route of the Zhou army's march and did not dare to leave the garrison for a while, so as not to be taken advantage of by the Zhou army. However, those military states in the west and south were not on the route of the Zhou army's march, and were even far apart, but they also did not send a single soldier to King Qin, which can only be explained that those envoys and assassins had no intention of going to Beijing to savior the Lord, but wholeheartedly preserved their strength, so that after the victory of the Zhou army, they could sell a good price to the Zhou lord, keep their official titles, and keep their glory and wealth - this is also the time since the Tang Dynasty, let the emperors of one dynasty and generation after generation sing and you appear. The reason why the envoys and assassins in various places have been able to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and remain invincible forever. As for whether they will receive the same treatment as those feudal towns that were cut down and seized power in the coming week, then we can only take one step at a time. After all, the Later Zhou court had mainly seized the power of the feudal towns in the Central Plains, but the Jiedu envoys of the newly occupied Jiangxi Province (Southern Tang Dynasty) were not forced to death as they were to the Jiedu envoys of the Central Plains, at least they were allowed to stay in their own towns and do not have to go to Beijing to report on their work.

Although Meng Chang did not think that the envoys of the Shu Dynasty would get a better fate than their "peers" in the Central Plains or Jiangxi Province (Southern Tang), these are all later words. Now, his own catastrophe is coming, and the calamity is at hand, far more dangerous and urgent than those of his subordinates, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect them who still have illusions about their future to come to his rescue.

Yes, after being silent for a long time, Meng Chang sighed, a little discouraged, and a little resentful and said, "Of course, I know the stakes. It's just that the first emperor and my father and son have been high-ranking officials for 40 years, and now once a foreign enemy comes to attack, the officials of the military states and the feudal territory cannot solve the problems for me. Although they were called up many times, none of the military states in the southwest led troops to help. At present, even if I have the heart to strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, who is willing to defend the city to the death and protect the safety of my Dashu! ”

Meng Chang's words made Shi Fengyu, who had just mentioned yì, suffocated, he didn't expect that the envoys of the local military states and assassins would be so ruthless and selfish for the sake of their own lives and their future status. Before knowing this, Shi Fengqi may still have the courage to fight against the Zhou army. At this time, now that he knew the truth and understood that Dashu had lost his last chance, he gave up the idea of fighting to the death with the Zhou army, and returned to silence and never said a word again.

Shi Fengyu fell silent, but Sikong, Wuxinjun, and Li Hao, the secretary of Tongping Zhangshi, stood up. However, unlike the former's idea of cheering up the monarchs and ministers of Later Shu and mentioning the idea of defending the city to the death, Li Hao went out to persuade Meng Chang to seal the treasury, relieve the army, and open the city gate to surrender to the Zhou army.

The only one who advocated resistance Shi Fengqi no longer spoke, the local military state of the Jiedu envoys, the assassins did not move, the division of King Qin is simply far away, with Li Hao abandoning the battle and surrendering the construction of a proposal, with the first to say the word "surrender" colleagues, those who had been silent before the ministers of Hou Shu no longer have scruples at this time, have spoken out one after another, expressing their agreement and support for Li Hao's proposition.

Faced with the extremely unfavorable reality and the almost one-sided attitude of the ministers, Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, can be said to have no choice at all. So, after the end of the court meeting, Meng Chang ordered Li Hao to prepare a surrender letter and a table, and sent a Tong Gong envoy and an envoy from the Xuanhui North Court to rush to Mianzhou with a letter and a table to surrender to the Zhou army - it is worth mentioning that before the death of Former Shu in the Later Tang Dynasty, it was also ordered by Li Hao to surrender the table. Therefore, soon after Hou Shu surrendered to the Zhou army, some Chengdu locals took advantage of the night to write the words "Shixiu surrenders to the Li family" at the gate of Li Mansion as a ridicule of Li Hao, and for a time it became a joke in Chengdu and even the entire Shu land.

Although Houshu sent people to send a letter to the table, Tang Chao, the commander of the Northern Route Army of Shu, and Mutel, the deputy marshal of the Northern Route Army, were not in a hurry to march into Chengdu. First, the preliminary work of providing relief to the victims in Mianzhou and its neighboring prefectures and counties has not yet been completed, and the movement of troops to the south at this time will inevitably affect the ongoing work of distributing relief materials such as food and tents to the governments of the affected prefectures and counties, thus adversely affecting the entire disaster relief work. If the East Route Army of Shu is not notified to enter Kaifeng alone, it will inevitably make people feel that Tang and Mu are suspected of competing for merit - especially when the two armies have agreed to meet in Chengdu on March 20 of the lunar calendar.

Therefore, Tang Chao asked people to entertain the Yizheng who came from the surrender table, and sent an envoy back to Kaifeng to report the victory to the imperial court. On the one hand, he sent messengers to Suizhou, where the East Shu Route Army was stationed, to inform Cheng Fei and Xin Feiyu there that the Shu lord had decided to surrender, and to listen to their suggestions on how the Shu army should act next. At the same time, he also ordered his officials and soldiers to speed up the distribution of relief materials, in the hope that the relief work could be completed before the army left south to Chengdu, leaving no tail.

On the thirteenth day of the third lunar month of the fifth year of Jianlong, the messengers sent by Tang Chao and Muttel to the east returned to Mianzhou on a steam-powered real yàn-type warship specially allocated by Xin Feiyu, bringing a reply from Cheng Fei and Xin Feiyu to Tang Chao and Mutel - the two armies of Jianyi were still meeting under the city of Chengdu on the 20th day of March of the lunar calendar as previously agreed.

On the fifteenth day of the third month of the fifth lunar calendar of Jianlong, the Northern Route Army of Shu completed the preliminary work of disaster relief, and all the relief materials such as food and tents needed for disaster relief were distributed to local officials, who continued to carry out the follow-up disaster relief tasks.

On the 16th day of the third lunar month of the fifth year of Jianlong, Tang Chao and Mutel led the Northern Shu Route Army to set off for Chengdu in the south. The day before, under the leadership of Cheng Fei and Xin Feiyu, the East Route Army of Huashu had already marched west from Suizhou to Chengdu.

On the morning of March 20 of the lunar calendar of the fifth year of Jianlong, the North Route Army and the East Route Army met under the city of Chengdu.

In the afternoon, Meng Chang, who had been unable to eat, sleep well, and panic all day long, finally put back into his stomach the heart that had been hanging because of the delay in hearing from the commander of the Zhou army, and led hundreds of civil and military officials to the Zhou army camp to meet Tang Chao, Cheng Fei, Mutel, Xin Feiyu and other leading troops and deputy marshals, and announced the official surrender. After joining forces, according to the arrangements before the expedition, Tang Chao, who had the supreme command of the Shu army, released the crimes of Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, and his military ministers on behalf of the Later Zhou court.

In the evening, the Zhou army divided into two routes, a small part of them entered Chengdu with Tang Chao and Cheng Fei to appease the gentry and the common people, and most of them were still stationed outside the city led by Mutel and Xin Feiyu to ensure the safety of Chengdu.

At the same time, Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, sent his brother, the envoy of the security festival, and Meng Renzhen, the king of Ya, to enter Beijing to see him.

At this point, the 50-day battle of Shu was declared to be over after Zhou's complete victory. In this battle, at the cost of more than 2,600 casualties (including more than 1,400 combat losses and more than 1,200 non-combat losses), the Zhou army successively annihilated (killed, wounded, and captured) more than 140,000 Shu troops, and incorporated the 46 states, 240 counties, 534,000 households, and more than 3 million people in the Bashu region, the country of abundance, into the territory of the Later Zhou Dynasty.