Chapter Seventy-Four: Surrender

However, it is the era of the Three Kingdoms, and Xu Jing is not a mature politician, he does not understand the supremacy of national interests, nor does he understand the truth that he cannot compromise with terrorists#. He did not have the courage to sacrifice, nor did he have the consciousness of putting his personal safety at risk for the sake of the overall situation.

To put it bluntly, he is a political speculator, he rushes to pick it up when he sees a bargain, and he will definitely run faster than a rabbit when there is danger of failure. He has a good ability to shoot horses and whiskers, but his actual ability is mediocre, and he has neither a political view of the overall situation, nor a military talent.

He, the Taifu, was originally obtained by persuading Liu Bei to be the king and the emperor, and this so-called work from the dragon and the work of support is just to cater to the will of the emperor and pat the horse to meet him, and it has nothing to do with his talent.

When he encounters a crisis, he doesn't have the talent to make a response, and when he encounters danger, he doesn't have the courage to be a responsible person, so what else can he do in this situation? He couldn't do anything, so he could only obediently follow the route arranged by others.

In fact, it is not entirely a problem that he has no talent, the problem is that he has always been in charge of government affairs, and Wu Yi is in charge of military affairs. The two of them were in a treacherous relationship, and they made a division of labor early on, and each other firmly grasped the things in their own domain, and they could not and could not interfere in the affairs of the other's domain.

Now that Wu Yi is dead, the army is in chaos, he usually has no intersection with the army at all, and he has no influence in the army. In this case, it is basically impossible to let him gather the army and let them fight to the end with his own heart and the Hong army outside the city.

If you want to do this, you can only be like Wu Yi, who has been in the army for many years and goes to the army every day to fight with the soldiers. Under the current situation, Xu Jing has no way, he can't mobilize the army, every qiē is in vain, there is no strong force as a guarantee, and every qiē conspiracy and trickery are like soap bubbles, which can be burst when poked.

What's more, the time given by the other party is very tight, and he only has one night to think, to adapt, and to make decisions. What is enough to do this night? Xiucai rebelled for three years, and a learned person like him is good at planning slowly, and making changes in such a short period of time is really not his forte.

The current situation is that after this night, if he hasn't made a decision, he will only be dead. He didn't doubt that the other party had this ability at all, and Wu Yi's tattered dead head confirmed this.

Wu Yi knows that there are two hundred elites to protect him when he goes in and out, and the elites of the two hundred armies can't keep Wu Yi thorough, so what can happen to these half-bucket homes in his own home?

Xu Jing sighed that the former prince was thoughtful enough, and deliberately set the time for his decision to be so short that he couldn't give birth to a different kind of thought.

In fact, what he didn't know was that the reason why Liu Hou asked him to surrender the next day was mainly because he received the news that the follow-up troops of the Hong Army would arrive at dawn the next day.

If there were no follow-up troops coming, with the strength of the two regiments in his hands alone, even if Xu Jing wanted to surrender, he would not dare to rashly enter the city to surrender.

This night, although Xu Jing was also very tormented, but the choice was not difficult to make, he did not have a white head overnight, nor a few more wrinkles on his face, but he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and when the fish belly was white in the east, he made the choice to surrender without any suspense.

The next day, the south gate of Chengdu City was opened, and Xu Jing led the city's Chinese military officials to go out of the city, kneeling on the side of the road to welcome the arrival of the victor.

Xu Jing is the head of the civil officials, he can lead hundreds of officials out of the city to surrender, but there are two aspects of people he cannot represent, one is the army, he can't control the army, otherwise he doesn't need to surrender;

The second is the royal family, originally, if there is enough time, he can enter the palace to persuade the Empress Dowager Wu to surrender, he is also willing to do so, and he also wants to take credit for it and make some benefits for himself from Liu Hou.

It's a pity that the time given to him by the other party is too short, he has no time to do this, the other party gave him a "shuanggui", begging at the specified place at the specified time, his own life is important, if he does not follow the other party's requirements, he is very afraid that he will die, so he had to give up the plan to enter the palace to persuade, and finally only had time to send his family to notify other officials to go out of the city with him to surrender.

Poor two mothers and sons in the palace, they still don't know what's going on outside, they don't even know that Liu Hou has returned, and they are still dreaming in the palace.

Today, the people near the south gate can see the diorama, a slip of officials kneeling on the side of the road outside the city, usually only see the people kneeling officials, where have I seen these big officials kneeling, and these are not small officials, not only Jiuqing, even the Taifu who is known as one person under ten thousand people are in the list, this is really a rare thing.

The most embarrassing thing is the generals guarding the city gate, before the general had an order to close the city gate and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving, but these are all high-ranking officials, and almost all the officials in the entire court have arrived, who dares to stop them?

The soldiers did not know the news that Wu Yi had been killed, but the middle and senior generals already knew about it, and they were also worried about their future.

So the battalion commanders guarding the city gate began to think about it. Now that the general is dead, it is difficult to say where the team headquarters will go, and the small court in the city is seeing the trees fall and scatter, and if they don't climb a high branch, it will be a dead end sooner or later.

The battalion general was full of thoughts, and soon made a decision, he decided to follow the example, so when the Hong army soldiers arrived, they saw that the city gate was open, and in addition to the civil and military officials, there was also a battalion general with a group of soldiers kneeling on the side and waiting for the incorporation.

If this battalion general is a guy with a tendon in his head and insists on closing the city gate and sticking to it, then even if the hundred officials surrender, it will take a lot of time for the Hong army to enter the city, and now it's okay, even the battalion general guarding the gate has surrendered, then things will be easy to do.

The Hong soldiers arrived at the south gate of Chengdu on time, and although Liu Hou and Guo Youzhi planned this matter, they were not sure whether they could succeed, so all the soldiers were fully armed and brought siege equipment.

When they came to the city gate, not only did the hundred officials surrender, but even the soldiers on the city wall and the city gate all came down and knelt on the side of the road.

Fighting a war is to lose your head, although the death rate of the Hong army has always been very low, but there are still some, no one wants to fight without fighting, it is best to solve the problem without dead people, now it depends on the situation that there is no need to fight, can everyone be unhappy?

However, Guo Youzhi proposed that since ancient times, it has been common for fraudulent surrenders to occur, and in order to prevent Xu Jing from engaging in any fraudulent surrenders, it is better to let a team of soldiers enter the city to explore the situation first. His majesty is concerned with the well-being of the people of the world, and it is not advisable to take risks lightly, and it is better to enter the city later.

For Guo Youzhi's words, Liu Houshen thinks so, he has always been the most afraid of death, although it seems that Xu Jing does not look like a fraudulent surrender, but be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, it is better to be careful, seeing that the revolution is about to succeed, just don't fall at the moment before dawn.

So, Liu Hou sent Guo Youzhi to accept the surrender of the hundred officials, invited them to the barracks to meet him, and then sent 1,000 rattan armor soldiers into the city first. The 1,000 men soon took over the city defense of the south gate, taking control of the urn city, the city gate tower, and a nearby section of the city wall.

The battalion general and his men were disarmed and then taken into the prisoner camp for temporary resettlement.

These are the officers and soldiers of Shu, although they are serving the Chengdu court, but they are still serving Shu, as long as Liu Hou controls the situation and sits on the throne, these people can still serve the Shu court, and there is no problem with their loyalty.

In the current situation that Shu is sparsely populated and the source of soldiers is insufficient, these people will be a very precious source of soldiers. Therefore, Liu Hou instructed them to treat them well, not to treat them as prisoners, and to give them the same food treatment as the soldiers of the Hong army.

Of course, their freedom of movement # is to be temporarily restricted, and until the Hong army completely controls the situation, they can only stay in the barracks honestly, so as not to make any trouble when they go out.

After controlling the south gate, the passage for the Hong army to enter the city has been opened, and the retreat of the soldiers entering the city is also guaranteed, so Liu Hou dispatched 4,000 and a half vine armor army and 4,005 fire # spearmen into the city.

They divided into two groups, starting from the left and right directions of the south gate, and went to occupy each city gate in turn, and each time they occupied a city gate, they escorted the defenders to the Hong army barracks, and then left 500# people to guard those city gates.

In order to gain the trust of the soldiers defending the city and speed up the seizure of the city defense, Liu Hou asked the surrendered officials, especially those military generals, to follow to do the ideological work of persuading them to surrender, and even the battalion officers of the South Gate who had just surrendered were also sent out, because it is said that he had many friends in the army and had friendships with the guards of several city gates.

When the Hong army reached a city gate, they first sent these officials or generals to persuade them to surrender, and they explained the situation to the battalion generals guarding the gate, and then told them Liu Hou's promise, and they generally agreed to surrender.

Liu Hou's promise is also very simple, that is, to promise them that after he sits on the throne, all generals can still continue to hold official positions in the army that are not lower than the current level, and they are real positions, not the kind of idle officials with rank but no real power.

Of course, there are also stubborn people who refuse to surrender, the most indispensable thing in the army is a tendon person, and the most important thing is the die-loyalist, foolish and loyal people, Wu Yi has been in the army for so long, there are always some who are his die-hard loyalists, and there are also some people who are not very bright and can't recognize the shape clearly, so they need to attack at this time.

As a result, gunshots rang out one after another in the city. The defenders also had a large number of firearms, not many guns, about 5,000 or so, but there were many thunderbolts. Fortunately, most of the generals still knew the times and chose to surrender, refusing to surrender about 3,000 people and 2,000 guns who resisted stubbornly, divided into two groups, one in the barracks, with about 2,000 people, and the other at the south gate of the imperial city (Jiangqiao Gate).