Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji didn't last long, they were not as stubborn as Liu Ye and Huan Fan, and after the rear army mutinied, the two decisively surrendered.

Liao Hua escorted them and rushed back.

Soon at the beginning of November of the first year of Han Jianxing, Guan Ping and Liao Hua both completed their tasks and broke the two wings of the Wei army.

In this way, there was very little left of the Wei army on the entire eastern front, and only Xiahou Yuan was left with more than 10,000 remains, while Xiahou Yuan's side was surrounded by Guan Yu's 50,000 troops.

During the morning of the second day, Xiahou Yuan patrolled the city wall as usual, and in the middle of winter, the weather was much colder, and many Wei soldiers were reluctant to go out of the camp and hid in the barracks in the city to warm up.

Although it has not snowed yet, the temperature in Hebei has dropped extremely quickly, and even a few snowflakes fell sporadically last night, and the surface of the nearby small river was frozen.

And the Wei army did not have winter clothes, before Xiahou Yuan asked Chen Qun to send winter clothes to him, but Chen Qun refused, and now a large number of Wei soldiers can only wear a few more single clothes in summer and autumn, with small armor on the outside, and reeds wrapped in their feet, barely keeping out the cold.

But after all, the reeds are not very warm, and many people are so cold that their feet are almost numb, and they are trembling and patrolling and standing guard on the city wall, so that a large number of Wei soldiers almost have no intention of looking at the situation outside the city, and keep shaking in place to dispel the cold.

Seeing this scene, Xiahou Yuan sighed, he couldn't order the soldiers to stand guard and patrol well, and he couldn't even satisfy the basic winter clothes, let alone let the soldiers be vigilant.

So he could only pretend that he didn't see it, and at the same time asked the soldiers to demolish some of the wooden houses in the city, and then chop off some of the sassal wood that was originally used to defend the city, and set up firewood on the city wall to keep the soldiers warm.

After making these arrangements, Xiahou Yuan continued to walk towards the eastern city, his hard riding boots clattering on the hard city wall bricks, and the surrounding soldiers were all weak.

At this time, a sharp whistle sounded suddenly, and then the Wei army at the head of the city hurriedly woke up and looked in the direction of the whistle.

"What's going on?"

Xiahou Yuan happened to be nearby, and the whistles came and went, so he hurriedly brought his personal guards over.

That's the direction of the North Side.

By the time Xiahou Yuan arrived, a large number of soldiers had already gathered on the city wall, looking out of the city wall.

"What's going on?"

"It seems to be our people, they are."

"It's over, they're captured."

"Don't even speak, the general is here, the general is here."

The soldiers exchanged heads and ears, with frightened expressions on their faces, and waited until someone said that Xiahou Yuan had arrived, then they all kept silent and looked at Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan came to the head of the city, and saw in the distance between the rural roads in the north of the city, the road was criss-crossed, and from the corner of a small hill in the northwest, a huge team slowly bypassed the north of Wei County, and went towards the direction of the Han army camp in the east.

When they got a little closer, all the Wei soldiers at the head of the city were shocked and frightened, because they saw that the huge team was divided into three lines, and the left and right sides were Han soldiers.

Then in the middle were the Wei soldiers, all of whom had been unarmed and tied together in strings of ropes, and were escorted forward by the Han soldiers.

Seeing this scene, Xiahou Yuan's face turned pale in an instant, that direction is the direction of the rebuke, and now there are so many Han troops escorting the Wei army prisoners here, and I know it with my toes, I am afraid that the side of the rebuke has been broken.

And these Han troops swaggered to escort the Wei prisoners over, obviously not to show off their might, but to tell the people in the city that you have become a lone army, and no one will rescue you.

"Knock knock knock."

At this moment, the sound of roaring war drums sounded outside the East City Gate.

Xiahou Yuan was awakened by the sound of war drums, and hurriedly ran to the east city gate tower, only to see a large number of Han troops gathered outside the city, and not only the east city gate, but also the north city gate, the south city gate and the west city gate There are Han troops who began to beat drums and gather troops.

"The Art of War" has a cloud: "Ten times to surround it, five times to attack it, and twice to fight." Although Guan Yu's army was only five times the size of the Wei army, it had basically surrounded the Wei city.

Moreover, he did not abide by the rules of the siege, obviously he did not intend to give Xiahou Yuan any chance to break through the siege, and wanted to besiege him alive and die.

Seeing this scene, the Wei troops in the city were extremely flustered.

Because in addition to the north city gate, there were also a large number of Wei soldiers on the south city gate who were escorted to the Han camp.

This meant that the Wei army on the left and right sides of the strategy, the Wei army located in Qiuqiu and Fanyang was completely annihilated, and they were completely abandoned and became a lone army.

So everybody became terrified.

"It's over, it's our army in Fanyang, which was wiped out by the Han army."

"What can we do about this, we're the only ones left."

"Or surrender."

"The general treats us well, but you want to surrender?"

"If you don't surrender, will you go to your death?"

"Yes, who doesn't want to live, now that the general trend is gone, surrender can still live."

The Wei soldiers talked to each other in trembling voices, and even the officers and middle and lower-ranking generals did not stop them, and even they themselves were saying such things.

The soldiers were terrified, and everyone had a frightened expression on their faces, and a feeling called uneasiness spread among the soldiers.

"The Great General"

The guards beside Xiahou Yuan hesitated for a moment, then went up and asked, "General, do you want to gather the soldiers?" ”

Under normal circumstances, the enemy is drumming and gathering troops to prepare for the siege, and they should also gather men and horses.

Xiahou Yuan was silent, thought for a moment, and just said to the guards: "You go back to the mansion immediately, tie up Youquan, and if the Han army enters the city, take him and surrender together." ”

"General!"

Several guards looked at him in shock, and one of them said, "Before the war begins, how can the general say that he will definitely be defeated?" ”

Xiahou Yuan shook his head: "The army has no heart to fight, and few of the soldiers are willing to fight, not to mention that if I am not bad as expected, Guan Yu's means are definitely not the only ones." In order to avoid doing senseless death, go ye. ”

"General, let's run away together."

Someone said.

Xiahou Yuan looked at them and said in a deep voice: "If you can't escape, just arrange it like this, go!" ”

Speaking of Xiahou Yuan, his tone was much heavier.

The guards looked at each other, and in the end they could only grit their teeth and leave.

After a while, the Han army outside the city had completed the entire encirclement, and outside the west city gate, the Han army came over with the Wei army prisoners and asked them to shout to the city.

"Brothers in the city, surrender, the Han army will not kill prisoners. Our family is still waiting for us to go back. ”

"Come out, don't fight anymore, none of us want to die."

"Open the gates!"

The voices of persuasion to surrender one after another were overwhelming, and the Han army continued to project letters into the city, and none of the Wei troops in the city even returned fire with bows and crossbows, so they watched blankly.

After a long time, under the persuasion of family letters and colleagues, many soldiers threw down their weapons, and some went to open the city gates, and walked out with their hands raised.

No one stopped this process, and no one scolded it, because not only the soldiers, but also the generals chose to surrender.

Their morale completely collapsed at this moment.

Xiahou Yuan was still standing on the city tower and watching, the east city gate was the only one that still had resistance from the Wei army.

There were some Wei troops in the city who wanted to seize Xiahou Yuan and send him to the Han camp to receive rewards, and hundreds of soldiers who were loyal to Xiahou Yuan stubbornly guarded his side, and the two sides were still fighting to the death.

But after about half an hour, a large number of Han troops had already entered the city, and groups of soldiers wearing orange and yellow Han army uniforms raised their weapons on the city wall and began to take over the city defense of the entire Wei County.

A general rode a horse, climbed to the city wall, raised the big sword in his hand and said: "Stop, don't stop, shoot them all!" ”

"Wow!"

A column of Han soldiers immediately surrounded them, and the sharp spear tips surrounded all the two Wei armies that were still fighting, while the crossbowmen behind them showed their crossbows from the right side of each spearman's leg, and the sharp crossbow arrows still flashed with an unsettling coldness.

"Stop, stop."

"General, we just want to capture Xiahou Yuan and dedicate it to General Guan, and there is no malice."

"Put your weapons down! All those who have no weapons, exit left and right! ”

The general was none other than Zhou Cang, shouting loudly.

Hearing the sound of "Dang Dang Dang", a large number of Wei soldiers threw down their weapons, and then withdrew from the left and right sides, and were captured by the Han troops around them.

In the middle position, there were about 200 Wei soldiers lined up, holding the weapons in their hands to protect one person in the center, each of them had a frightened expression on their faces, but the hand holding the weapon was extremely firm.

As a veteran general who has followed Cao Cao since he started his army, Xiahou Yuan has been fighting on the battlefield for more than 40 years, and his army management level is strict, and there are still many loyal generals among his generals, and now they all risk their lives to protect his safety.

"General, we will protect you and rush out."

"Yes, General, give the order."

"If you want to kill the general, you must step over our corpses!"

These Wei soldiers shouted angrily, although some people's voices couldn't help but tremble and be afraid, but this courage to see death as if it were home had a bit of momentum.

Xiahou Yuan was protected by the soldiers in the middle, and suddenly felt a little emotional.

The mourning soldiers will win, but unfortunately these mourning soldiers are a little few, if the Wei army all over the city becomes mourning soldiers, it is not good to say that they can really break through.

But now letting them continue the battle was no different from sending them to their deaths, so he waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers to get out of the way, and when the soldiers were separated, he slowly walked forward.

After a while, he was in front of everyone, two feet away from him, the Han army surrounded into an encirclement, the city wall was already crowded, and the front was full of heads, and it was almost impossible to rush out.

However, Xiahou Yuan didn't intend to rush out, he raised his head and glanced at Zhou Cang at the front of the team, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"My Zhou Cang is also!"

Zhou Cang replied.

Xiahou Yuan nodded and asked, "What about Guan Yu?" ”

"You deserve to be called a general by his name?"

Zhou Cang was furious with a knife.

In the Han Dynasty, it was very impolite to call by name unless the elders or the status was much higher.

Like Cao Pi, Sun Quan, and Liu Chan, even if they were emperors in history, they rarely called the ministers by their names, and generally called them table characters or honorific titles.

But if it's hostile, or deliberately trivial, that's another matter.

At present, Xiahou Yuan is in a hostile state with Guan Yu, and directly calling Guan Yu's name obviously means to despise the other party.

When Xiahou Yuan heard Zhou Cang's words, he sneered, not caring about Zhou Cang's anger at all, with his understanding of Guan Yu, that person would definitely come out to meet when he heard that he despised him.

"Humph!"

Really.

A cold snort was heard in the crowd behind.

After a while, the crowd slowly parted, and a veteran rode his horse slowly up the city wall, looking at him condescendingly.

Xiahou Yuan raised his head and looked.

He and Guan Yu naturally know each other, and they have known each other for many years.

When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou several times, they had a hostile relationship and a brief relationship between teammates.

It's just that at that time, Guan Yu only played with Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, and Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan always looked down on those generals, so they just knew each other, they couldn't talk about friendship, and they didn't even like each other.

Seeing each other again at this moment is another taste.

At that time, Guan Yu was under the fence, and Xiahou Yuan was half the master, and his attitude towards him was high.

Now that Guan Yu's army is pressing, he has lost all the games and is about to become a prisoner of war.

This huge difference is also quite sentimental.

Guan Yu slowly approached, looked down at Xiahou Yuan, and wanted to say two contemptuous words, but suddenly remembered Zhang Fei again, so he couldn't help it, but said lightly: "Miaocai, do you want to see me?" ”

Xiahou Yuan looked at him and chuckled: "Why, we are also old acquaintances, and at this point today, can't you and I even see each other?" ”

Guan Yu thought for a while and said, "Well, since we want to meet, we should always talk about something." You are gone, how about you surrender to me? ”

"Throw down your weapons and surrender."

Xiahou Yuan said to the soldiers beside him.

"General!"

Someone was stunned and said, "I'll defend the general to the death." ”

"Alright."

Xiahou Yuan waved his hand: "Don't do senseless death, live well, and go back to see your family." ”

"We."

The soldiers looked at each other, and eventually the first threw down their weapons, then the second, the third, the fourth.

They are willing to sacrifice because of their loyalty, but if they can live, who wants not to live?

Guan Yu saw this scene and asked, "Miaocai, is this willing to surrender?" ”

After all the surrounding soldiers surrendered, Xiahou Yuan raised his head and looked at Guan Yu again, and did not answer directly, but just asked, "How is my niece Juan'er now?" ”

Guan Yu replied: "The third brother and daughter-in-law are very good, and they gave birth to two daughters, one is the queen and the other is the concubine. ”

"What about Zhongquan?"

Xiahou Yuan asked again.

Guan Yu said: "Xiahou Ba? He was made a marquis. ”

"That's good, that's good."

Xiahou Yuan muttered to himself, put his right hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, turned his head to look at the west and said, "My heirs are all uncles, and my children and grandchildren are worry-free, Meng De, I came to find you." ”

Before he could finish speaking, he drew the sword from his waist, slammed it across his neck, and then slashed hard, piercing the major artery in his neck without hesitation.

"Poof!"

Blood splattered out, and Xiahou Yuan fell in a pool of blood.

This scene stunned everyone around.

Only Guan Yu looked at Xiahou Yuan's corpse indifferently with indifferent eyes.

He knew that Xiahou Yuan would not surrender, just like if he was captured, he would also die with his will.

"Bring his body back to the South!"

Guan Yu left this sentence, and then looked at the west with the same eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Order the three armies, pull out the camp, and take Yecheng directly!" ”

(End of chapter)