Wu Yue's troops surrounded Changzhou City, and the air in the city suddenly became tense. Speaking of which, at the beginning of the Wuyue King Qian Yu's army to help Zhou, a number of civil and military ministers and even captains and soldiers in Jiangnan did not take this former subordinate defeat seriously. Although there were more than 1,000 elite Zhou troops accompanying Wu Yuejun, in the eyes of Jiangnan officials and guards, this Zhou army was more to supervise Wu Yue's army than to actually go to the battlefield to charge into battle. Therefore, at the beginning of the war, although the officials and guards of Changzhou were in the rear, their main attention, like other state and county officials on the front line, was always on the army of the Great Wednesday Road, which was moving down the river, and did not care about the "slow" Wu Yue army. But with the successful sneak attack of the "Wolf Tooth Battalion" in the dark night, the news that the city of Li was lost in just two hours came, and the officials and guards in Changzhou City could no longer sit still.

Although Shi Yu Wancheng, the assassin of Changzhou in Jiangnan, was also very apprehensive in his heart, he could ask him to follow the example of his colleagues in Chizhou, Dangtu and other places who surrendered without a fight, but he couldn't do it. Therefore, with the belief of serving the lord and the court with death, Yu Wancheng ordered the defenders in the city to tighten their vigilance on the one hand, and sent fast horses to gallop to Jinling for help - even if he knew very well that Jiangnan was in flames everywhere at this time, and the Zhou army had already pointed directly at Jinling, and it was impossible for the imperial court to send him any reinforcements.

Unlike Yu Wancheng, who planned to repay the lord and the court with death, Jin Chengli, the highest military attache in Changzhou and the commander of the soldiers and horses in the city, was unwilling to risk his own life and that of his family for a mediocre lord and a doomed court. So, while contacting his cronies and people who thought the same as him, he secretly prepared to seize Changzhou City. On the other hand, he sent his henchmen to secretly sneak out of Changzhou City and secretly communicate with Wu Yuejun outside the city, so that when the time is ripe, they should cooperate with the outside and contribute to the city.

Jin Chengli wanted to surrender the city, but Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, and Mutel, who were outside the city, naturally couldn't ask for it. As the saying goes, "the soldier who surrenders without a fight, and the good man is also good", if you can take a city without a single shot or bullet and without causing a large number of casualties, such an opportunity will be firmly seized as soon as it appears.

On the 23rd day of the fourth lunar month of the second year of Jianlong, Jin Chengli sent someone to send a message, saying that he had prepared with his cronies and allies, and would assassinate Shi Yu Wancheng the next day when he convened a group of officials and guards in the city to discuss the matter, control Yu Wancheng and his henchmen, and surrender to the Zhou army. The operation was tentatively scheduled for the end of the morning, and as soon as he succeeded, he would erect three white flags on each of the four gates of Changzhou City, open all the gates at the same time, and personally lead the city's Chinese military officials out of the north gate to welcome the Zhou army into the city.

After receiving the news from Jin Chengli, Qian Yu and Muttel began to make the necessary preparations. They are not only ready to lead the army into the city to receive them, but also prepare to launch a strong attack when things change. After all, although Jin Chengli repeatedly expressed his intention to surrender and sent a letter of surrender, it is indispensable to guard against people's hearts, and before seeing the four gates of Changzhou City wide open, Jin Chengli and a number of Changzhou officials and guards must take into account all possibilities before going out of the city to surrender.

On the 24th day of April in the lunar calendar of the second year of Jianlong, Yu Wancheng, the assassin of Changzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, convened a group of civil and military officials in the city to discuss how to resist the Wu Yue army and the Zhou army that had already approached the city. In this regard, the officials attending the meeting had different opinions and did not agree on the same. Although some people put forward some ideas on how to defend the city and how to retreat from the enemy, most of the people present emphasized that the Wu Yue army was numerous, and it was difficult to resist with the strength of Changzhou City, and the Zhou army was even more sharp in firearms, and Changzhou City was meaningless in the face of indestructible artillery. Rather than increase casualties and devastate people's lives, it is better to find another way. Although these officials did not directly say the word "surrender", the meaning of their words could not be clearer. In this regard, Yu Wancheng was naturally very dissatisfied and very angry, on the one hand, he reprimanded those officials who intended to surrender, and on the other hand, he ordered his own soldiers to tie up several officials with the most obvious intention of surrender, and prepared to sacrifice the flag with their heads, so as to stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers defending the city.

Seeing that the situation had become stalemate, and the cronies who had arranged for everyone to surrender at the meeting were to be pulled away to sacrifice the flag, it was difficult for Kim Sung-ri to continue to remain silent. So, taking advantage of the chaos in the hall because of the kidnapping of several officials, Jin Chengli quietly withdrew, gave the confidant general who was waiting outside the door a look, and signaled him to act according to the plan.

Chen Shizheng, there was chaos in the hall, some officials shouted to kill a hundred to kill the officials who advocated surrender, and some officials pleaded with Lord Assassin Shi, hoping to spare the few officials who hinted at surrender, with a noise outside the hall, nearly a thousand soldiers with knives and bows have surrounded the entire Assassin Shi Mansion, and nearly 100 personal soldiers under the leadership of the deputy commander of Changzhou rushed directly into the meeting hall, with the bow on the string and the knife out of the sheath staring at the assassin Shi Yu Wancheng and other officials who were unwilling to surrender.

Now, even a fool understands Kim Sung-li's thoughts. Although he was very disdainful of Jin Chengli's behavior of collaborating with the enemy in the city, in the face of the bright steel knife and the cold arrows, in addition to stabbing Shi Yu Wancheng and daring to reprimand Jin Chengli with righteous and stern words, the other officials who also expressed their loyalty to the monarch and the idea of serving the country impassionedly a few minutes ago, claiming that they would fight to the degree and swear to live and die together in Changzhou City, were all silent at this time, and they didn't even dare to let go of a fart.

This situation made Yu Wancheng see it in his eyes and feel pain in his heart, although he was still reprimanding Jin Chengli on his lips, he was already helpless and embarrassed in his heart - after all, he could not deal with Jin Chengli who committed the following crimes and surrendered to the enemy and sacrificed the city, let alone tens of thousands of Wu Yue troops and Zhou troops, and the fall of Changzhou City was a foregone conclusion. The reason why Yu Wancheng continues to reprimand and curse Jin Chengli until now is to vent the depression in his chest, and secondly, he hopes to provoke the other party, and then make the other party kill himself in anger, so as to fulfill his heart of loyalty to the country.

However, to Yu Wancheng's disappointment, although Jin Chengli was scolded by himself, he was unmoved, and the complex of loyalty to the court and the lord of the country that he expected did not appear. Jin Chengli waited for Yu Wancheng to vent and roar there, until the other party was tired of scolding and couldn't scold, then he waved his hand at his deputy commander and ordered: "Quickly send someone to plant three white flags at each of the four gates of Changzhou City, and open all the city gates." We went out of the north gate with Yu Thorn Shi to meet General Mu and King Wu Yue. ”

After that, regardless of Yu Wancheng's scolding and resistance, two fierce soldiers stepped forward, set up Yu Wancheng on the left and right, and then went out of the Assassin's Mansion and went straight to the north gate. Behind them, Yu Wancheng led his generals, soldiers and a group of civil and military officials in Changzhou City to follow closely.

On the 24th day of the fourth lunar month of the second year of Jianlong, Jin Chengli, the general and commander of Changzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, with the support of his cronies and allies, abducted Shi Yu Wancheng and a group of Changzhou civil and military officials who were unwilling to surrender out of the north gate to surrender to Wu Yuejun and Zhou army.