"What? Ichiro is also going to surrender?"

"Yes, sir."

"Isn't he going to fight to the end?"

"My family's imperial palace is even dissatisfied with the behavior of the lords in the city, and it also understands that it is not able to resist the attack of the Ming army outside the city at all, so it is better to surrender directly and still retain its strength. Isn't there an old saying in the Ming Dynasty, which says that if you stay in the green mountains, you are not afraid of no firewood."

「......」

As the old saying goes, your mother, Mei Yunaozi frowned.

If you are afraid of death, you are afraid of death, what does it have to do with the ancient saying of the Ming Dynasty?

"Go back and tell your lord, that we will meet at the west gate at the hour of the night. Let's go out of the city together and surrender to the Ming army."

"Yes! The little one is gone!"

"Don't leak the news!"

"Yes! Your Excellency!"

The person who came got the result he wanted and immediately ran back to report the news.

What happened next was very unexpected.

People kept coming to ask him when he would go out of the city and surrender, and by the time he was ready, there were already more than a dozen.

He felt that his decision was really right, and if he was stupid and stubborn to resist to the end, he was afraid that he would also be betrayed secretly by these guys.

As soon as the time came, Ume Yunako, who had already been prepared, took her family and samurai to the direction of the West Gate at night.

Not long after he left the house, he met someone with whom he was discussing surrender together.

The two parties were very well together, and there was no complicated communication in the whole process.

Before Mei Yunaozi's team reached the West City Gate, nearly 2,000 people had already gathered.

With so many people together, it is inevitable that there will be movements, but in the houses along the way, the people are all trembling with fright, and they dare not open the door to check, only the undulating barking of dogs echoes in the dark night sky.

In the end, under the leadership of Mei Yunaozi, the large army finally came to the gate of the West City.

At this time, the city gate was guarded by one of their families, and since they had already passed through the qi beforehand, they immediately opened the gate when they arrived.

Mei Younaozi and the others did not hesitate, and immediately rushed out.

Everything in the city was naturally under Zheng Zhilong's surveillance, from the beginning when there was movement until they came out of the city gate. Zheng Zhilong is well prepared.

Therefore, Mei Younaozi and the others didn't go far out of the city before they met the muskets that the Ming army had picked up.

"Drop your weapon and get down on your knees!"

In the darkness, a loud shout came, which frightened Mei Yunaozi and the others for a while.

Get on your knees?

How humiliating is that?

"I'll count to three, or I'll fire!" One!"

"What should I do, Mayusan!?"

As soon as he heard the other party say this, Mei Yunaozi hadn't made up his mind yet, and the others were anxious first.

"We are the people of the city, who have gone out of the city to surrender. Please help report to your generals! We have no hostility!"

[In view of the general environment,

Mei Younaozi shouted at the people on the periphery, trying to make the Ming army's attitude towards them better.

After all, even if you surrender, you have to have some dignity, right?

"Two!"

But Mei Yunaozi was destined to be disappointed, and the other party did not respond, but continued to shout loudly.

This made him feel very insulted, even when he surrendered to Amin, Amin was also treated with courtesy, how did he get to Daming, which is known as the state of etiquette, to live in humiliation in this way?

"I want to see your general!"

Mei Yunaozi was not reconciled, and shouted loudly again.

"One!"

In response to him, it was still a countdown without any feelings.

After that, there is a pause of a few seconds.

In these few seconds, Mei Yunaozi is good, and the heads of other families are good. are thinking about a problem.

Will the Ming army shoot?

If not, that's excellent. It represents that they have won a rare dignity in this surrender.

If so, then what? Revolt? What should I do if I can't beat it?

If you don't resist, let them shoot you?

As if to extinguish their luck, the voice of the Ming army shouting suddenly became fierce after a moment's pause:

"Fire!"

"Bang!"

The soldiers, who had already been fully prepared, did not hesitate to pull the trigger, and a series of gunfire pierced the sky in the dark night, startling the crows in the trees in the distance and flying into the distance.

As the gunshots rang out, the samurai on the periphery fell in response, screaming again and again.

This time, Ume Yunako was terrified.

Akito play really, they're not scaring people!

"Umeyu-san! What should I do!?" The head of the house shouted with a crying voice.

What to do?

I don't know what to do!

Or, get down on your knees and surrender?

The thought jumped wildly in his mind, and he couldn't hold it anymore.

Eventually, the desire to survive prevailed, bending his knees.

"Get on your knees! Get down on your knees and surrender!"

It's like kneeling on the tatami mat, and kneeling every day anyway.

While Mei Younaozi knelt down, she comforted herself like this.

As soon as he knelt like this, the warriors under his command naturally did not hesitate any longer, and they all knelt on the ground.

Then came the heads of other families and the warriors, like waves of wheat blown down by a strong wind, quickly knelt on the ground, lest they be killed by the muskets of the Ming army if they were one step too slow.

The whole process, slow to say, is actually very fast.

And in this process, the muskets of the Ming army have not stopped out, and there are constantly samurai screaming and falling to the ground.

In front of the Ming army's camp, Zheng Zhilong was listening to the report of his subordinates.

"Kneel?"

"Kneel."

"Cease the fire, bring the few who are leading them!"

"Yes, Commander."

The herald went away, and Zheng Zhilong turned his head to look at the widow who was standing on the side.

"Didn't you say that the people of the city would not surrender?"

"My lord, these people are all ill-intentioned, even if they surrender, they are waiting for an opportunity to make trouble, otherwise, how could they go out of the city in the middle of the night on the third watch? If it weren't for the foresight of the adults, I'm afraid that the current surrender might have turned into a night attack!"

The widow twitched his mouth at first, then rolled his eyes and thought of an idea.

"Oh?" Zheng Zhilong smiled noncommittally. "According to you, they really have a bad plan?"

"Yes! Especially that Mei Yunaozi, insidious and cunning to the extreme! When Hataamin captured Kochi, he was willing to be his lackey and killed many of our Japanese people. You can't be fooled by him!"

Zheng Zhilong sneered and didn't speak again.

The gunfire stopped, and after a while, the soldiers escorted several Japanese people to Zheng Zhilong's face, including Mei Yunaozi, the backbone of the team.

But compared to when he came, the head of the family was a few less, because the unlucky man had already died from the shooting just now.

"Who is Ume Yunaoko? Are you dead?"

Several people knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise their heads, Zheng Zhilong looked down at them and asked.

Mei Younaozi was terrified when she heard that Zheng Zhilong was the first to look for him, but she also knew that when she got to this point, she didn't dare to pretend to be confused anymore, so she raised her head slightly and said cautiously.

"Back to my lord, I'm Mei Yunaozi."

"Raise your head."

Zheng Zhilong commanded.

Mei Younaozi raised her head as ordered.

"Go to bed Miya, you come to recognize it, this is the woman in your mouth who is extremely deceitful?"