Chapter 259: Young and Heroic
"First, open the city gate, remove the door panel, and all the Liao soldiers will go out of the city to surrender and surrender all their weapons."
"Second, all the officials went out of the city and surrendered."
"Third, there shall not be any weapons, sharp weapons, bows and arrows and armor in Dading Mansion, all of them must be handed over to the Northern Route Army, and those who hide weapons privately will die."
"Fourth, I can not slaughter the city, but when my army enters the city, as long as it is attacked, I will immediately take the most violent retaliatory action, and the soldiers of the North Route will be killed or wounded, and I will take a hundred Liao people to accompany the burial."
"Fifth, if the families want to protect their interests, it is impossible, not killing them is already for their sake, but they must hand over eighty percent of their family wealth."
"Sixth, all the royal family must be handed over to me."
As soon as everyone heard Qin Guan's condition, many people felt that it was a bit harsh, and those Liao people might not agree, so Xiong Da asked questions.
Qin Guan smiled and said, "If I completely agree with their conditions, the Liao people really may not dare to surrender, because they are afraid of fraud." ”
"If I am harsh, they will dispel a lot of doubts."
After the letter was written, more than a dozen horsemen of the guards came to the city of Zhongjing, thinking that these defenders had received a notice that no one was shooting arrows under the city, so the guards tied the letter to the arrows, shot directly at the head of the city, and said loudly: "This is our handsome's reply, telling Prime Minister Yelu that it will take two days at most, and if the city gate is not opened on the third day, it will be the time for us to attack the city." ”
After receiving Qin Guan's reply, the generals who defended the city did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly took the letter and sent it to the Great Prime Minister's Mansion.
Qin Guan's conditions are indeed very harsh, but what rights do the defeated have, but it is indeed as Qin Guan said, his conditions have dispelled Yelu Longyun's last doubts, and Qin Guan is indeed not a person who loves to kill, in Nanjing Xijin Mansion, Bei'an Prefecture, Zezhou, Yuzhou These places, Qin Guan did not slaughter the city, even if it was the captured Liao soldiers, they were not killed, and if they wanted to enter Zhongjing, Qin Guan should not massacre.
Summoned the ministers of Zhongjing to come over and showed them Qin Guan's letter, and these people were also silent.
In order to survive, they are willing to surrender, but now that their lives are guaranteed, the huge loss makes them feel painful, and people are like this.
Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Hu Jian said: "So far, we have no way out, we can leave us with two percent, it's already good, now it's a matter of survival." ”
Finally, Yelu Longyun finally spoke.
"Xiao Yixu, you are in charge of the defense of Zhongjing, and you order the soldiers guarding the city to refrain from any more attacks from now on."
"Seize the weapons of the whole city, issue a proclamation, and let no one resist."
Xiao Yixu nodded.
"As for informing the Imperial City, Hu Xuan, you can do it."
Hu Jian was stunned for a moment, he looked at the people around him, and finally said with a cold face: "Okay, I'll go and inform the princes of the imperial city."
"As for the family property, the principals of each family are here, let's prepare it yourself, but let's talk about it first, if someone hides his personal information and doesn't take out eighty percent, Qin Guan will find out that he wants to kill people after entering the city, and the old man can't control it."
"After a while, the old man will reply to Qin Guan, and tomorrow at noon, the officers and soldiers of the city will go out of the city and surrender."
"Alright, so be it."
The gate of Zhongjing City opened, and two people wearing official uniforms of the Liao State walked out, and they were caught by the Northern Route Army just after crossing the moat and brought to Qin Guan.
The official bowed deeply to Qin Guan and said, "Lord Qin, I have sent a letter from the Great Xiangguo of Yelu, and we are willing to agree to your conditions, and we only hope that you can keep your promise." ”
The reason why he was not called General Qin, but called Lord Qin, was because the people of Liao wanted to put Qin Guan in the position of literati.
Qin Guan took the letter and read it, and nodded.
"Well, tomorrow afternoon, I will formally accept your surrender."
The officer saluted again and went back with his subordinates.
Immediately, the Northern Route Army found that the defenders at the head of Zhongjing had withdrawn, and the slave soldiers of the Northern Route Army filled in the earth to build the road, and they never encountered any more shooting.
In just a short time, the road was paved.
Many Liao slave soldiers cried, and they were finally paved, and they didn't have to brave the rain of arrows from their compatriots to pave the road, and their lives were saved.
Xiao Yi led the troops to collect the weapons and armor of the city, although there were also those who disobeyed, but under the suppression of the army, they all obediently handed over the swords, guns, bows and arrows in their hands.
In the imperial city of Zhongjing City, there was a small riot.
Hu Jian came to deliver a message to inform them that the city would surrender, how could the princes agree, and beat Hu Jian out with the only remaining 500 royal forest troops in the city.
Xiao Yixu soon arrived with a large army.
The princes closed the gates of the imperial city and resisted stubbornly.
Xiao Yixu couldn't really kill them, so he could only besiege them, after all, the emperor of Liao was still in the capital.
The six princes stood at the head of the city and scolded below: "Yelu Longyun, Xiao Yixu, Hu Xuan, you eggless things, you don't want to resist and choose to surrender, my father and emperor are in Shangjing, and he will be killed back in the near future, and this Zhao army will be cleared, and you thieves will be taken down and questioned when the time comes." ”
Xiao Yilu's face turned pale, and he ordered: "Surround the imperial city, no one is allowed to come out, and leave the rest to that Qin general." ”
At noon the next day,
The 40,000 troops of the Northern Route Army all gathered under the capital of Zhongjing, waving flags, neatly arrayed, bright armor, sharp swords and guns, and holding their chests one by one.
It's noon.
The gate of Zhongjing City was opened, and then someone removed the wide door panels and put them on both sides, and the moat passage had been paved, and Zhongjing City completely gave up resistance to the Northern Route Army.
Sixty or seventy of the ministers of the Liao State walked out of the city gate, followed by nearly 10,000 Liao soldiers, carrying baskets of swords, guns, bows and arrows, and placed them in front of the two armies.
With a wave of his hand, Xiong removed his weapon.
Yelu Longyun took the lead and came to the middle with dozens of officials, and Qin Guan took Han Yuqing, Li Xuan, Xiong Daxiong and other generals to ride forward.
At this moment, Li Xuan was happy in his heart, but he still had to work hard to keep his face up and try to make himself look majestic. This is a big victory, the great minister of the Liao State took a group of Liao officials out of the city and surrendered, and this moment will be recorded in history.
In the future, his name will be remembered by future generations.
Qin Guan and the others did not dismount, Yelu Longyun led people forward, looked up, but saw a general riding a tall black horse, dressed in black armor, in the middle, protected by the generals of Zhao Guozhong, this person gave Yelu Longyun the feeling that he was young and heroic.