"You want to die here?" Captain Park asked, "Don't forget, you still have a wife and children at home!" If you die here, how will they live? ”

Captain Mo said, "Even if I wait like this······ How can I go back when the matter is done, how can Prime Minister Cao Cheng spare me and others after learning about it? It's a dead end to go back! ”

"Otherwise, after the matter is completed, we will surrender to General Qin, and General Qin has not promised to kill ······ The reward is thousands of gold, 10,000 acres of fertile land, and beautiful women······ When the reward is given, I will wait for the three of us to divide it equally, and then I will think of taking my wife and children, how about it? ”

Captain Mo couldn't pay attention, and couldn't help but look at Captain He, Captain He felt that the risk of making a rash move was too great, he thought about it before saying: "Do it at this time, I have no chance of winning, why don't you wait a few days to see the situation before making a decision?" ”

The three of them looked at each other and nodded.

Forty miles away, in a wood, some of Cao's defeated soldiers were paralyzed in the grass one by one, all of them so hungry that their chests were pressed against their backs.

Since being chased and defeated by Qin Feng's army for the second time, these Cao troops have lost contact with the others, and they have fled all the way here, and the more than 300 people here have not eaten a grain of rice for two days, and in order to escape for their lives, these people don't even have time to go to the villages along the way to find some food to fill their stomachs, lest they be chased and killed by the Flame Army.

Some people were wounded, lying under the trees and moaning, and there were more than one or two wounded.

"I still have the strength to hum, I'm so hungry that I don't have the strength to speak!" A sergeant huddled in the grass with a knife in his hand looking for ants and bugs, hoping to find something to fill his stomach, and muttered when he heard someone humming.

There are more than 300 people, and the biggest official here is only a tun chief, and a tun chief is in charge of five tithes.

A sergeant approached the chief: "Chief, I'm so hungry, why don't we go around and see if there is a village, find some words, or everyone will starve to death!" ”

Tun Chang rubbed his empty stomach, sour water came out of his mouth, this hungry stomach felt really uncomfortable, "Okay, you take a few people to explore the nearby road, if you find the village, come back and report immediately!" ”

"No!"

The five men had just come out of the woods, and before they could go to the village, they heard the sound of horses' hooves and a large number of footsteps coming from the west side of the road, and one of the five immediately shouted: "It's not good, the Flame Army is catching up, run!" ”

The woods exploded all at once, and many people fled in all directions, but most of them didn't move, they couldn't run anymore, so catch up, and when the captives are captured, maybe they will still be able to eat a bite of food, and if they run again, they will definitely be overtaken, and they will be killed.

A Flame Army Dubo chased after him with a hundred and ten people, and easily captured most of the Cao Army's rout soldiers who did not run in the woods, and the Flame Army Dubo also saw that these Cao Army routs did not resist at all, and they knelt on the ground and waited to be captured.

The Flame Army Dubo gathered these captives together to take care of them, and sent people to chase the fleeing Cao army, and in less than half an hour, he captured all the other people who had escaped, and those who did not come back were killed.

It is not uncommon for a hundred people to capture three hundred people, the rout of the Cao army has not eaten for two days, and many people have not even drunk a sip of water, where is the strength to resist?

At the same time, this scene was also staged in other places, and the soldiers of the Cao army who fled were captured one by one before they had time to escape from the jurisdiction of Nanyang County, and Qin Feng also wrote to the officials in various places along the way, asking them to send county soldiers to intercept them on various traffic arteries.

Batches of Cao's army were escorted to the Flame Army camp outside Yecheng City.

Qin Feng did not order the siege of the city the next day, on the one hand, because it would take time to capture all the defeated troops of the Cao army scattered in Nanyang County, and on the other hand, Xi Ji's siege equipment battalion had not yet transported the siege equipment.

But Qin Feng's psychological offensive in Yecheng City did not stop, and for three days in a row, Qin Feng sent people to the city to shout and carry out a propaganda offensive against the defenders in the city, warning them that taking Li Tong and opening the city gate to surrender was the only way to live, and also promised all kinds of benefits.

How did this person know the power of the propaganda offensive? At first, Li Tong was still very vigilant, worried that the soldiers under his command would be bewitched, but the soldiers of the Flame Army outside the city shouted repeatedly every day, and they lost interest when they listened to it, and slowly relaxed their vigilance, but these propaganda words were listened to by the soldiers defending the city, and their mood was different every day, and they became more and more convinced that as long as they surrendered, the Flame Army would treat them well.

Although it was still calm on the surface, and it seemed that the morale of the defenders had not changed much, in reality many people wanted to surrender.

Moreover, the movement of the Flame Army camp outside the city is getting louder and louder, and the defenders in the city guess that it should be the Flame Army that has increased its troops.

As expected, on the fifth day, when Qin Feng led the army to the city again, the faces of all the defenders on the city wall changed, and the number of the Flame Army at this time was three times more than before, and the strength had exceeded 30,000.

In fact, more than half of the Flame Army at this time were captured by the Cao army, and when the Cao army withdrew from the camp outside Wancheng, there were about 25,000 people, and when they were chased and killed by Qin Feng's troops, they killed more than 3,000 people, and the rest fled, Cao Cao fled with the remnants of more than 2,000 people, so there were still about 20,000 people on the way to escape, and most of these people were captured.

It can be said that this time Cao Cao led 50,000 horses to attack Nanyang, and basically the whole army was annihilated, fortunately he still ran fast, otherwise he himself would have been captured alive by Qin Feng.

The captured Cao army captives were all disarmed, and Qin Feng ordered them to eat one meal a day, and they were not given enough for a meal, but only four points of fullness, if they were fed, I was afraid that some people would have crooked thoughts.

But when more than 30,000 people came to Yecheng City, Li Tong was taken aback, there were only 3,000 people in his city, but there were more than 30,000 people outside the city, more than ten times, with the height of the Yecheng city wall less than four meters, as long as the Flame Army did not count the casualties, I was afraid that he and his soldiers would not be able to support it for long.

In fact, Li Tong didn't know that among the more than 30,000 people, nearly 20,000 were prisoners, but even if he knew, he was afraid that he wouldn't feel at ease, because Qin Feng was planning to let these captives serve as the main force for the siege.

"Where is General Lee? Haven't decided whether to surrender yet? If the general didn't want to surrender, he could have ordered the withdrawal of the army for twenty miles and let you and others leave Yecheng and return to Xudu, how about it? Qin Feng shouted loudly outside the city.

The soldiers of the defending army all hoped that Li Tong would inquire about Qin Feng's advice and leave Yecheng with everyone, but Li Tong was destined to disappoint them.

"General Qin, Li has a military order, and it is Li's duty to garrison Yecheng, so the general doesn't need to persuade him anymore!"

Qin Feng shouted again: "General Li doesn't think about himself, doesn't he think about the lives of these 3,000 soldiers under his command?" They are all parents, wives and children waiting, and you forcibly left them here to be buried with you for your own selfishness, how can you feel at ease? Yecheng does not have your territory, and it is unrighteous for you to forcibly occupy this city, and the division is unknown, don't you feel ashamed? ”