Zhang Ying stared at Wang Zhao and asked softly, "So what do you think?" ”

Wang Zhao glanced at Zhang Ying weakly, scolded his mother in his heart, and then looked at a few colleagues with their heads lowered and whispered: "General, everyone, it's not that I'm pessimistic, General Hou and Lu Bu may win in Runan, and it is possible to defend Wancheng by returning troops immediately after capturing Runan, but our three thousand people will definitely not be able to wait for that time." Then we have only two choices: die in battle or be all captured. Perhaps you say that we can still retreat, but it seems to me that it is impossible for us to outrun our horses on our legs unless we run into Funiu Mountain before the enemy attacks. So there aren't many options in front of us, and there's not much time left for us to choose. ”

Everyone present became depressed when Wang Zhao said this, so they all looked at Zhang Ying, there was the previous captain who made the opening remarks, and now Wang Zhao is even more straightforward, they want to know what Zhang Ying thinks?

Zhang Ying saw that everyone's eyes were waiting for him to make a decision, he glanced at Wang Zhao and said: "Brother Wang Zhao, I wanted to trouble you to go to the enemy camp outside the city, so I said that we were willing to close the door, and they could directly bypass Luyang and go south." ”

Wang Zhao's eyes lit up, Zhang Ying was going to save himself first, and wait until Wei Xuan and Yuan Shu decided whether to hold on or surrender or escape. Everyone felt that Zhang Ying's approach was more secure, and there was no need to fight to the death with Wei Xuan's attacking army immediately, nor did he need to make a decision to surrender prematurely, and if he made a decision now, it would be embarrassing for them to return to Nanyang County after Yuan Shu's victory on the Runan battlefield.

Wang Zhao was just about to go out, but suddenly stopped and turned his head to ask Zhang Yingdao: "General, if the enemy does not agree, insists on attacking the city or asks our army to go out of the city and surrender, how should I answer?" ”

Zhang Ying waved his hand: "You go first, take one step at a time, if they insist on attacking, we can only defend for the time being." If they ask our army to surrender, you should agree first, and then come back and discuss it. ”

Wang Zhao nodded, turned around and went out, but the rest of the people did not relax, because this is a battlefield, and the decision depends on the stronger side many times. After calming down, everyone felt that the enemy had more than 20,000 cavalry, of course, it was impossible for them to stay in Luyang, which was like a fish in the throat, at least the grain road was not safe, most of them were asking the defenders of Luyang to go out of the city and surrender, or whether it was true or not, they didn't want to waste time and directly storm Luyang.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Zhang Ying smiled bitterly, how could he not know that his subordinates had long been determined to fight to the death, and now no one said it, he could only hope that the enemy generals were eager to go south and did not want to waste time in Luyang and acquiesced in their seclusion.

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But soon his illusion was shattered, Wang Zhao had not returned from outside the city, the scouts who had been sent out to Wancheng to deliver the letter came back, in order to be safe Zhang Ying took five scouts, but only one came back, and he was hit by an arrow in the left shoulder, the scout knelt down in front of Zhang Ying and said: "General, my brothers have been killed, and the enemy deliberately left me to come back to deliver a letter to the general." ”

Zhang Ying: "......"

Everyone: "......"

Zhang Ying and the others didn't listen to what the scout said next, the scout came back to prove one thing, and it seemed a little too late to abandon the city and escape. Thinking about it carefully, since Wei Xuan was going to launch an attack on Nanyang County, it was impossible to easily let Luyang's scouts ask Wancheng for help.

When the scout was left to bandage his wounds, Zhang Ying looked at everyone again, and their faces were all gray.

Wang Zhao turned around after only half an hour out of the city, and brought the enemy's main general Wei Yan to reply: "Go out of the city and surrender within one day, most of the soldiers in Luyang are fellow villagers in Nanyang, and if you go out of the city and surrender, you can re-enlist in the army or return home on your own." Those who do not surrender at this moment tomorrow will be beheaded by all the resisting soldiers in the city. ”

Zhang Ying's face did not change when he heard this, he could have thought that it was two famous fierce generals under Wei Xuan's command, how could he allow an army without a clear affiliation in a position like Lu Yang. Wei Yan's seemingly casual fellow villagers will definitely shake the hearts of the army if it spreads, Zhang Ying glanced at Wang Zhao dissatisfiedly, and then glanced at everyone present and said: "Although our army is not an enemy opponent, it must be lighted to surrender out of the city, I thought that I would lead the people to resist for a day or two no matter what, so that the attacking enemy would suffer a little, so that when they knew that they couldn't take Lu Yang in a hurry, they would definitely persuade them to surrender again, and then you should be sitting there??????????????? can raise his own value, and he can continue to hold his original position after surrendering. ”

Everyone nodded frequently when they heard this, if they didn't fight, they couldn't say that Wei Yan would really send them away as ordinary people. Thinking of this, everyone felt that they should not only fight, but also beat hard, only in this way can they win enough respect and obtain a higher status.

So everyone stood up and bowed their hands to Zhang Ying: "General Wise, we are willing to lead our brothers to stick to Luyang." ”

Zhang Ying nodded very satisfied, and waved his hand to let everyone leave. Wang Zhao and Zhang Ying's henchmen looked confused. Without waiting for everyone to leave the military tent, Wang Zhao couldn't help but say: "General, although Wei Yan said that he gave us a day, he must give an answer within an hour, otherwise they will attack the city next."

In addition, if you defend to the death, the enemy will have too many casualties and evil enemy generals, and even if you surrender, I am afraid it will be difficult to end well. ”

Zhang Ying was stunned, he originally thought that Wang Zhao and Wei Yan had escaped, and he had a grace day, but he didn't expect to reply immediately. While others are worried about the second half of Wang Zhao's sentence, since they can't stand it, they have to resist stubbornly, although they can win the respect of the enemy, but they will also hate the enemy.

So the originally firm Xinnan began to waver again, and looked at Zhang Ying blankly one by one. Zhang Ying is also like a balloon that has been punctured with a needle. He didn't have much strategy, and it was rare to think of resisting for a while in front of the avatar without being looked down upon by the enemy. Now Wei Yan is aggressive, and the road to Funiu Mountain that he hesitates to enter is blocked.

Zhang Ying closed his eyes painfully when everyone looked over, and only after a long time did he slowly open his eyes and said, "Wang Zhao, you take your brothers out of the city and surrender." ”

Wang Zhao was ecstatic in his heart, as a messenger, if the soldiers in Luyang City surrendered on foot, he would have a great merit for Wei Xuanjun. But then he restrained his smile and asked, "General, aren't you going to go out of the city?" ”

Zhang Ying shook his head: "General Hou is not thin with me, although the general is not capable of holding Luyang, he doesn't want to surrender like this." But we can't delay the future of our brothers, so go ahead, and we will wait here for the enemy to fall. ”

Zhang Ying's henchman lieutenant was anxious: "General, don't do it, the city of Luyang is here, and the general has 3,000 soldiers in his hands and can bargain with the enemy, if we go out of the city first, and the general does not move, it will be considered a stubborn possibility ......by the enemy general."

Everyone nodded, Zhang Ying is so trudeaut and the main general of the first army, if they take people out of the city to surrender, then the remaining Zhang Ying will have no value.

But Zhang Ying insisted on staying, and urged everyone to quickly pack up and take all the soldiers out of the city, because it was too late for the enemy to attack.

Wang Zhao and the others had no choice but to go out to gather people first, and Zhang Ying's anxin belly captain flowed down, and he wanted to accompany Zhang Ying.

When everyone went down to prepare, the henchman lieutenant asked very puzzledly: "General, since the decision to surrender was made by you, the general, even if you return to Wancheng in the future, the general will not be considerate of the general, why should the general be like this?" ”

Zhang Ying smiled: "Do you know why Ben General proposed to fight to the death before the avatar?" ”

The lieutenant said, "Didn't the general say that it was to win the respect of the enemy? ”

??????????????? Zhang Ying nodded: "Yes, but Wang Zhao and the others are worried that they will hate the enemy generals and dare not fight to the death, so this method will not work." Ben will stay in the city now is to show the enemy that Ben will let them go out of the city and surrender for the sake of holding their fists and brothers, this is righteousness, and Ben will stay in the city and would rather die than surrender is loyal to the monkey general, Wei Xuan's rotating Jiang Ling has to read every day, in the face of loyal people, what do you guess they will do? ”

The lieutenant suddenly realized: "The general is still wise, so that after Wei Yan and the others enter the city, not only will they not treat the general badly, but they may be reused!" ”

Zhang Ying nodded and smiled without saying a word, he thought like this.

Wei Yan and Tai Shici obviously didn't expect Lu Yang to really surrender directly like this, and the three thousand defenders of Luyang City all laid down their weapons and lined up from the north gate. Wei Yan immediately sent light cavalry into the city, and found that the doors of the people in the city were closed and the streets were empty. So Wei Yan's headquarters drove into the city, while Luyang's 3,000 defenders and Taishi Ci's troops stayed outside the city.

Wei Yan sat on the tall war horse and asked Wang Zhao, who looked flattering next to him: "Where is Zhang Ying, the chief general of Luyang?" ”

Wang Zhao said with a smile: "I want to play in the military camp in the city, and I want to show loyalty in front of the soldiers and generals of Luyang!" ”

Wei Yan smiled: "You go and persuade him again, if you really refuse to surrender, do you know what to do?" ”

Wang Zhao smiled thiefly: "The little one understands that General Zhang is such a loyal and righteous person, and our party will fulfill him." ”

Wei Yan smiled and said to a personal soldier beside him, "Bring a hundred armor soldiers with Captain Wang to invite General Zhang." ”

The pro-soldiers were ordered to hurriedly dispatch manpower, and Wei Yan saw that Wang Zhao was about to go to the barracks with people to catch up with Wang Zhao and whispered: "Captain Wang, if General Zhang Ying is such a loyal and righteous person, if he refuses to surrender, he will commit suicide." ”

The net summed up and understood in seconds, practiced and nodded, and then took the people to the military camp in Luyang City.

Wei Yan took his headquarters into the county government and began to post notices along the streets, while sending piles of soldiers to patrol the streets.

As soon as Wei Yan sat down in the Luyang County Ya and was about to ask people to invite Luyang officials and local wealthy families to come, Wang Zhao came in with two heads.