Text: The Great Power Battle_Chapter 255 Three Strategies
The monarch of Sharu Kingdom hid under the covers in the palace, and his whole body was shivering because of the cold weather. As for the bed, it has not warmed up for such a long time, which makes the monarch of Shalu very angry.
Damn Beichen Kingdom, this is the rhythm that is going to freeze me to death, it's a little ruthless.
And this winter, why is Nima so cold? In fact, the monarch of Shalu Kingdom didn't want to think about it, in the past, there were charcoal fires in the houses for heating in winter. And now I can only rely on a quilt to avoid being frozen to death prematurely. The ancient quilt was thick and heavy, far less than the duck down in reality, and the key to the lightness of the cashmere quilt was that the warmth of the ancient quilt was very poor.
The soldiers of the Beichen Army are now two quilts per person, so it's not a little warm, not to mention the quilt of the monarch of the Shalu Kingdom. Now in the whole city of Shalu, there is not only a shortage of food and firewood, but even quilts are beginning to be shortage. It's okay to say that the army has at least a good pair of quilts. The original residents of the city also had quilts at home.
But the more than one million ordinary people who were driven into the city by the Beichen army were a bit miserable. When they came to the outside of Sharu, each of them was wearing a cotton coat, and a set was placed in the package. Other than that, there is nothing. And most of the people in the city who are freezing to death now are these people.
Sha Luguo was lying in the bed, it was cold and sad, and he really couldn't live this day.
After a while, several ministers of the Sharu country ran into the palace wrapped in cotton clothes. Knowing that his ministers were coming to him, the monarch of Sharu also cursed and shivered to get dressed.
After entering the main hall, the monarch of the Sharu Kingdom sat on a chair, his body trembling incessantly. In His Royal Highness, several ministers of the Shalu Kingdom stood on the ground in cotton clothes and shivered. The monarch of the Shalu Kingdom looked at these people and cursed in his heart. Are these subordinates Fan Er today, and they still came to look for themselves on such a cold day. A few people were frozen like dead dogs, not to mention, and they were so cold that they shivered.
"Tell me, what's the matter with you guys coming here?" The sovereign of the Sharu Kingdom endured the shaking of his body and said.
His Royal Highness immediately stepped forward and said, "King Qiqi, now there is no food in the city, and there is no firewood. Many civilians starved or froze to death, and the army barely lasted a day or two. What do you think we should do, King?"
The monarch of Shalu was stunned, and there was no food? Damn, how can this be played!
Listening to what the minister said below, the monarch of the Shalu Kingdom was troubled. Ask yourself what you think, how do you know, and if you know, you won't freeze into the way you are.
"How do I know what to do, I wonder what you think?" The monarch of the Sharu Kingdom said depressedly.
"King, why don't we descend!"
His Royal Highness suddenly popped out of his mouth with such a sentence, which immediately startled several people in the hall. It's not that no one wants to surrender, in fact, many people in Sharu want to surrender now, after all, no one wants to die. The Beichen army besieged the city and lacked food and firewood, so it couldn't survive this winter. Rather than being frozen to death in the city, it is better to surrender. Although the Beichen Army is very brutal and always likes to kill. But there is also a slight chance of survival, and staying in the city is only a dead end.
The monarch of Sharu was also surprised, he had long known that there were people in the city who wanted to surrender, but no one had dared to bring it up before. Now someone has the audacity to say these two words, which shows that there is really no hope for the country of Shalu. You must know that the few people standing in the main hall now are all high-level officials of the Shalu Kingdom, and the power of the entire government is controlled by them.
Now, there are also important ministers who have proposed to surrender, and they really can't go on. Otherwise, these people will never give up the power in their hands.
When the monarch of Shalu Kingdom thought of this, he immediately felt a heart jam, and his expression of loneliness was all expressed.
"What do you guys think!"
"King, let's come down. The Beichen army has been besieging the city for several months now, and the food and grass in the city have been cut off. The firewood needed for winter has long been gone. According to the current situation, in three or two days, all the dead will be left in the city. Moreover, the Beichen army is now nested in the big camp, and it is obvious that they are waiting for the people in the city to freeze to death!" A minister analyzed the current situation gloomily.
Then he said: "In this way, in a few days, the Beichen army will be like entering a no-man's land, and it will be able to take the city without a single soldier." Now that the outcome has been decided, why should we be powerlessly resisting? While the army is still able to move, it is better to surrender the Beichen army. We still have an army of one million, and if we ask not to harm our lives, I think the Beichen Army should still agree. ”
The monarch of the Sharu Kingdom sat on his high seat and thought about it lightly, and he figured everything out. In addition, the ministers in the palace all agreed to surrender to the Beichen Army, so they had to say sadly: "Since this is the case, then let's surrender to the Beichen Army." As for the person who contacts the Beichen Army, the Prime Minister will be in charge, and General Daban will be responsible for the safety of the Prime Minister. ”
Everyone in the hall shouted in unison: "Yes, the order of the king!"
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Negotiations between the two sides on surrender soon began, and the Beichen Army agreed that the minimum bottom line of unconditional surrender must be maintained. You don't have to kill those high-ranking people in Sharu Country, and the Beichen Army will also bring these people back to the country. As for the safety of the rest of the common people, it is no longer in the treaty of surrender.
In the end, the Beichen Army demanded that officials at all levels of the Shalu Kingdom could only leave one-tenth of the property, and the rest would be handed over to the Beichen Kingdom for safekeeping. This is the most correct, because the main purpose of this war in Beichen is to grab money and territory. Now there is no food at all, and the country of Shalu will not surrender at all. Therefore, the purpose of grabbing grain cannot be achieved, so we have to grab money.
In fact, if the Beichen army had waited for two more days and then entered the city with a large army, it would definitely have gained more money. However, Xiao Chen finally thought about it for a while and decided to accept the surrender of the Shalu Kingdom. In this way, Beichen Kingdom's image in the Beacon Continent will be much better. You must know that in the past, in the eyes of other foreign players, Beichen Kingdom was to slaughter a place when it went to a place, and its international image was even more stinky than in a ravine.
It is precisely because of the notorious image of Beichen Kingdom that many foreign players are desperately recruiting soldiers and horses in the face of Beichen Kingdom's attack, hoping to block the Beichen Army. And this time accepting the surrender of the Shalu Kingdom, then the Beichen Kingdom will completely change its appearance. Let all players think that it is not that Beichen Kingdom does not accept surrender. Therefore, in the future, if you are defeated by our Beichen army, surrender quickly.
For Xiao Chen to accept the surrender, the generals under his original command were unwilling. It was precisely because of the hard struggle of the Shalu Kingdom that the Beichen Army suffered from the flooding of the Principality of the Upper Sun. There are many soldiers of the Beichen Army who have a grudge against the Shalu Kingdom and regard the Shalu Kingdom as an accomplice to the Duchy on which the sun never sets. However, after hearing Xiao Chen talk about the international situation, Yue Fei and Zhang Han, the two military bigwigs, also understood the current predicament of the Beichen Army. In the end, everyone decided to accept the surrender of the Sharu Kingdom.
After the conditions were all explained, the representative of Shalu also hurried back to the city and reported the requirements of the Beichen army to his own king. Regarding the request of the Beichen Army, all the officials of Shalu State expressed no objection. As long as everyone can save their lives, what are those untouchables and some money? If you don't have a life, no matter how rich you are, it's useless.
The next day, the monarch of Shalu agreed with everyone's opinion and chose to surrender the Beichen army.
Since then, on the 13th day of February in the fifth year of the Beacon Continent Era, the representatives of the Beichen Army and the Shalu State officially signed a surrender document under the city of Shalu. The country of Sharu is destroyed!
In the surrender document, it is required that all the remnants of the Shalu Kingdom surrender unconditionally, and the Beichen Kingdom will retain one-tenth of the property of the officials at all levels of the Shalu State, and the rest will be handed over to the Beichen Army for safekeeping. In addition, Beichen pledged that officials at all levels of the Sharu Kingdom would not be mistreated or killed after surrendering. All the cities of Shalu Kingdom were merged into Beichen Kingdom to form Linhai County and Sanguan County of Beichen Kingdom. Rinhae-gun is composed of 77 castles in the northern part of the Salu country, and is divided into seven counties. Sanguan County is composed of 54 cities in the south of the Shalu Kingdom, which is divided into five counties.
In the early morning of the 14th, Xiao Chen was dressed in gold armor and carried a sword at his waist, which was good for the chariot. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Beichen Army were divided into dozens of phalanxes and stood around the four directions. And not far ahead, is Shalu City, which has announced its unconditional surrender to the Beichen Army.
Soon after, the gates of Sharu were opened. A king of the Shalu Kingdom, dressed in gorgeous costumes, led the civil and military officials of the Shalu country into four teams and walked out of the city in turn. The monarch of Shalu Kingdom walked not far in front of Xiao Chen's carriage and was stopped by the soldiers of the Beichen Army. Subsequently, the monarch of Shalu handed over the jade seal of Shalu and the map of Shalu's territory.
A eunuch quickly consciously took the jade seal and map handed by the monarch of Shalu Kingdom and stood on the side of the carriage.
After seeing Xiao Chen accept the jade seal and the map, the monarch of Shalu Kingdom put down his heart. After all, the reputation of Beichen Kingdom was too bad in the past, and killing prisoners and surrendering troops was like no one. Therefore, when the monarch of Shalu Kingdom saw Xiao Chen, he was still a little frightened, for fear that Xiao Chen would temporarily regret it and cut himself off.
"Nadeli, the monarch of the Shalu Kingdom, led one hundred and thirty-one cities of the Shalu Kingdom, with more than 2,675,000 people and more than 947,000 soldiers, to surrender unconditionally to the Beichen Kingdom!" The monarch of Shalu Kingdom knelt on the ground and surrendered to Xiao Chen very reverently.
Seeing that the monarch of Shalu Kingdom bent down, Xiao Chen had no reason to be unhappy. However, for a surrendered king and some officials of the Shalu Kingdom, it was difficult for Xiao Chen to ask any questions. After the Shalu Kingdom Monarch finished speaking, Xiao Chen just nodded, and then said to Yue Fei, who was riding a horse beside him: "Let the army enter the city, it's not a matter just to freeze outside!" ”
"No!" Yue Fei answered, and then went down to command the army to start entering the city.
As the capital of Shalu Kingdom, Shalu City is really not small, and the millions of troops in it have been out of food for more than a day. Therefore, Yue Fei only let 200,000 families enter the city, and the rest of the army still stayed outside the city for the time being.
Will Xiao Chen, the wealth in Shalu City, let it go, of course not. However, this thing of entering the city to burn and loot cannot be done in front of the king who has just surrendered. Therefore, Xiao Chen only appropriately asked Yue Fei to send 200,000 soldiers and horses into the city to master the important places in the city. After that, it is not too late to do those things after the gang of Zishalu officials in front of him are gone.
Subsequently, under the command of Yue Fei, 200,000 elite Beichen soldiers quickly rushed into the city. It was the first to occupy important positions such as city gates and city walls, followed by the location of the royal palace. Some of the rest of the army returned to the camp with the surrendered officials of the Sharu Kingdom, and the other part was stationed at the four city gates. Avoid taking advantage of the chaos to rob large households and take money out of the city during the period of receiving the city.
When the soldiers of the Beichen Army came to the military camp in the city, all the million-strong army of Shalu Kingdom trembled and stayed in the barracks. In front of them were mountains of weapons and armor, and all the soldiers of the Sharu Kingdom had their heads bowed, and there was no morale to speak of.
The surrender of the Beichen Army after receiving the Shalu army went smoothly, and all the Sharu soldiers did not make a senseless resistance. On the contrary, it was the residents in the city who made the Beichen Army angry, and actually killed three Beichen Army soldiers by means of a sneak attack. This news made Xiao Chen very annoyed. Subsequently, hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers were thrown into the city by Xiao Chen, and the only order was to kill, and none of the people in the city were gasping.
This order made the volunteers feel very uncomfortable, because they were all new recruits who had just laid down their hoes for a few months. For the residents of Sharu City, who are also ordinary people, it is difficult for them to start. It wasn't until the soldiers of the Volunteer Army entered the city that Xiao Chen attacked his own soldiers by the residents of the city, resulting in the death of several people. Therefore, the city is full of enemies, who have killed our good brothers who fought with us on the battlefield, and we must avenge our brothers!
When the officers and men of the volunteer army got the news, they immediately became angry, and hundreds of thousands of horses rushed into the city and killed anyone they saw. The intensity of the slaughter was not weaker than those veterans of the Beichen Army.
After seeing the volunteer soldiers finally raise the butcher knife in their hands, Xiao Chen just said to the guards beside him: "Let the three people who died go to the logistics department to receive a hundred taels of gold, and then go home!" ”
The guard didn't say much, and retreated in obscurity.
Within a few days, the Beichen Army cleaned up the city of Shalu. All the people of Shalu have disappeared, and all the surrendered troops are on their way to Sanguan County. The money collected in the city was also carried onto ships in large and small boxes, and was intended to be transported back to China.
And the remaining troops began to dress up in Sharu City, ready to welcome the coming Chinese New Year's Eve!