Chapter 425: Jiang Wei who set up the archway
To say that Jiang Wei was still a little conceited before, he thought that with his own ability, no matter what strong army he encountered, he would be sure to fight, but now this conceit is gone. He had long heard that Shu Han's army was invincible in the world, and he thought that it was just a rumor, or those who lost the battle deliberately exaggerated the strength of the Shu Han army in order to shirk responsibility.
He didn't think he would lose to the world-famous army. After trying it before, sure enough, he easily defeated the Xianbei cavalry with just a little trick. However, just as he was beaming, the First Division came.
Then, he finally saw the power of this strong army, no matter what tricks he used, he was easily cracked by the other party. In the past few days, he can be said to have tried his best, but he was still defeated and retreated by the First Division, and the troops under his command also suffered heavy casualties.
Only then did he know that there was really no void under the fame, he had been scared, there was no way at all, and if he continued like this, he knew that his team would be destroyed sooner or later, and if he didn't want to die, surrendering was almost the only and best choice.
The reason why he refused to surrender was, firstly, that he did have a sense of waiting for the price to sell, and secondly, because he did not want to easily bear the name of a betrayal. He hopes that he will be able to get into the past, but he will be called a traitor, which may sound a bit contradictory, but it is very realistic. Although this era is chaotic, there are still some people who pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality.
If you are a rebel, if someone who disagrees with your political views will talk about this point in the future, your experience of betraying the Lord will become a stain and a weapon for others to attack you. I have to say that Jiang Wei has a long-term political vision, and he has already thought about what will happen in a few years at this time.
And to do this kind of thing of wanting to be a ~ and building an archway, the best way is to push the notoriety of surrender to others to bear. Now Jiang Wei keenly sees that Meng Jian is the best candidate for this black pot. The reason is precisely because Meng Jian and Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han, used to be classmates and friends, and with this relationship, as long as Shu Han is willing to work hard, it is very likely that Meng Jian will surrender to Shu Han.
After all, Meng Jian is also a smart person, if he doesn't surrender now, will he wait for death? Moreover, even if he surrenders to Shu Han and has Zhuge Liang who is a very popular minister, he will have a good life in the Shu Han court in the future, at least his official position will not be lower than now.
On the one hand, he resisted to the end, and finally gave the Wei State a funeral, which will leave a notoriety in history, and on the other hand, he continued to be a high-ranking official, and became a minister of Zhongxing of a powerful dynasty, leaving a name in history, which is not a difficult choice question.
As long as Meng Jian's state assassin Shi surrenders, the entire Liangzhou will be recovered, and Ma Zun and Jiang Wei under his command will naturally follow him to become Hanchen, what a perfect ending. In the future, even if someone comes out to scold people with this matter, it will be scolding Meng Jian, and it has nothing to do with him Jiang Wei, he is still a great loyal minister.
Therefore, Jiang Wei has been dragging the negotiation envoys, playing haha with these Han army negotiation envoys every day, and talking nonsense such as "today's weather hehehe" all day long. Pity the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the two armies, who consume a huge amount of grain and grass here every day, just because of the political tricks played by these big people.
Zhang Bao is actually very impatient, delaying time like this every day, there is no progress in the negotiation at all, not only is a lot of grain and grass wasted, but the key is to affect the process of his extermination of Wei, which is the most unhappy thing for him.
He tried to order a strong attack on the Wei camp several times, but was stopped by the General Staff. The chief of staff took out Liu Hou's holy decree and told Zhang Bao that His Majesty had clearly ordered that everything should be aimed at recruiting Jiang Wei, and that nothing should be done rashly.
Zhang Bao had no choice but to give up his plan to attack the Wei army, and just continued to wait depressedly, while worrying about the deterioration of the situation in Guanzhong. Fortunately, he arranged a lot of scouts to roam around Guanzhong, and did not find any changes in the situation in Guanzhong for the time being.
After the reinforcements from other directions were wiped out, no other reinforcements had been sent for the time being, and it was estimated that it would not be easy for them to gather enough reinforcements, and even some places would not be able to draw out men and horses at all, otherwise it would definitely affect the defense of that line.
Finally, after a few more days of this bitter waiting, Zhuge Liang's letter was finally delivered, and Zhang Bao immediately asked people to send it to Wei Ying. In fact, not only Zhang Bao was waiting for this letter, but Jiang Wei was also waiting, so he was also very cooperative, and immediately ordered someone to send it back to Liangzhou and hand it over to Meng Jian.
As for what Zhuge Liang wrote in the letter, we don't know, but with Zhuge Liang's ability to fight the Confucianism, the dead can be said to be alive, and the bent can be said to be straight, it is still not a problem to persuade a former classmate and friend. Meng Jian really made the decision to surrender on the same day after receiving Zhuge Liang's letter.
At this time, surrender did not need to electrify the whole country, change the flag or anything, Meng Jian just asked people to send a handwritten message to Jiang Wei, ordering him to surrender to the Han army, and at the same time wrote a surrender letter himself, and asked people to send it to Zhang Bao, asking him to help transfer it to the Han Emperor Liu Chan.
Jiang Wei was very happy after receiving Meng Jian's order, his calculation was finally realized, he was not only cleared of his name, but also possibly ushered in a new height in his life and career, is there anything more gratifying than this? He immediately arranged for someone to contact Zhang Bao to discuss the surrender.
In fact, the generals are not subject to the orders of the monarch outside, and a general like Jiang Wei, who leads the army to fight abroad, can completely ignore Meng Jian's order. If he was replaced by a general who was loyal to Wei, or if Wei was not so decaying, this general who led the army could completely ignore Meng Jian, directly serve the Wei court, and continue to fight against the Han army.
Therefore, Jiang Wei's approach is actually deceiving himself, if he didn't have the heart to rebel against the Wei court, how could he surrender to Shu Han so easily just because of Meng Jian's order? But fortunately, he needed this ugly cloth, and Shu Han also gave him this ugly cloth, Zhang Bao didn't care what he thought in his heart, anyway, he could complete the task assigned by the little emperor.
After that, things are simple, since one wants to surrender, and the other is willing to surrender, both sides are willing to surrender, "two ~ love ~ phase ~ happy", many things are hit it off. Zhang Bao also respects Jiang Wei, at least more politely than Cao Hong, Xiahou Chong, Dong Wan and other generals, after all, this is the person designated by the little emperor, except for Sima Yi, Zhang Bao has never seen his emperor brother pay so much attention to an enemy general.
Therefore, Zhang Bao immediately invited Jiang Wei to come over to the banquet, and the two sides began to contact each other. As for the specific surrender ceremony, it is discussed and carried out by the subordinates of both sides, and the two bigwigs do not need to worry about these trivial matters.
Jiang Wei is also sincere and open-minded, so he has nothing to be afraid of, and he happily went to the appointment after receiving the invitation. During the banquet, Zhang Bao invited Cao Hong, Xiahou Chong, and Dong Wan, several Wei generals, to accompany him, as well as senior generals of the First Division and the Xianbei Cavalry to the banquet together.
Two ~ love ~ phase ~ Yue turned out to be a forbidden word, it's really drunk, isn't this a compliment to describe beautiful emotions? Do you have to write about embarrassment?