"My lord, someone has slid down with a rope from the upper floor of Xiapi City and swam towards us."

Pan Feng walked in from the gate.

Yang Zhao went outside, looked at the water, and said, "Get out of the boat and bring this person back." ”

The two prepared boats sailed out from the shore and quickly caught the person who came out of Xiapi and brought them to Yang Zhao.

The man hurriedly knelt down and said: "I have seen Yang Yuanjun, we are willing to surrender, please Yang Yuanjun drain the water outside the city!" ”

"Finally willing to surrender."

Yang Zhao looked down and ordered: "Dredge Surabaya, block the embankment, and drain the water!" ”

Pan Feng received the order and immediately went to make arrangements, and soon the river embankment was blocked, Surabaya was dredged, and the earthen walls that were enclosed were dug open, and the water flowed to other farmlands, and then to low-lying places, and merged into other streams.

At the same time, Yang Zhao was ready to attack the city to prevent Tao Qian from going back on his word.

However, the soaked ground is muddy everywhere and very slippery, so it is not very convenient to attack the castle tower now.

As the flood drained, they could see that there was already a part of the city wall in Xiapi, showing signs of collapse, and if it was soaked for a few more days, the collapse would be even more, and now they only needed to throw a few explosives to pass, and the city wall might not be stable.

"The water is receding!"

The people of the city shouted at this time.

The water in the flooded city gradually receded, the water level became lower and lower, and the people cheered and climbed down on the rooftops.

Tao Qian, who was on the city tower, saw it, put down the big stone in his heart, and shouted: "Move open the city gate, go out of the city and surrender!" ”

They can't struggle, that's all.

After a long time, the water in Xiapi finally receded.

Tao Qian personally led the team out of the city, opened the city gate, walked on the muddy road, looked at Yang Zhao, and waited for surrender.

"Lord, Tao Qian is out of the city."

Pan Feng came back and said.

Yang Zhao nodded slightly and said: "Send someone to control Tao Qian and the others, prepare food and medicine, and tell the people in the city that they can have food when they go out of the city, and there is also medicine to treat the sick." ”

"Good!"

Pan Feng went down to arrange it again.

After a while, Tao Qian and the others were all arrested, and the news that food and medicine were prepared outside the city soon spread throughout the city, and the people were grateful to Yang Zhao, and they left the city one after another, lined up outside the camp, and waited for the porridge to be distributed.

Naturally, there were accompanying military doctors in the army, and those sick civilians were successively taken by military doctors to other places for treatment to reduce losses as much as possible.

"Thank you, Yang Envoy!"

The people in the city were grateful, and Yang Zhao's prestige grew.

Yang Zhao just nodded in response when he heard this, and then asked people to bring Tao Qian and them.

"Tao Gongzu, what do you say I should do with you?" Yang Zhao asked.

Tao Qian made an expression of generosity to death, and said lightly: "You kill me!" ”

Falling to such a point, and being so old, Tao Qian can't stand other tosses, as a defeated, it is better to die.

Yang Zhao thought for a while and said, "Forget it, you pack up your things, take your family, and go back to your hometown Danyang." ”

Tao Qian was stunned.

Can you still live like this?

Is Yang Zhao so merciful?

He didn't seem to believe it, but it was true, and he bowed gratefully: "Thank you!" ”

Yang Zhao looked at Cao Bao and the others, and continued: "If any of you are willing to surrender, you can stay, if you are unwilling, leave your subordinate soldiers, leave by yourself, after leaving Xuzhou, as long as you don't go to Qingzhou, where you want to go, what you want to do, it has nothing to do with us." ”

It turns out that if you surrender, you can still survive, and you should not resist if you knew it.

Zang Ba hesitated for a long time, and in the end, except for Zang Ba, who was willing to surrender, everyone else chose to leave, until they walked out of the camp without any obstruction, they believed that they really would not be killed.

Went away without a hitch!

"Zang Ba, the soldiers of Xuzhou, you are in charge for the time being, integrate them first, and I will arrange them again." Yang Zhao commanded.

"Good!"

Zang Ba didn't expect that he had just surrendered and could still be in charge of the troops, so he had to sigh that Yang Yuanjun was really generous and trusted his subordinates, and all his previous dissatisfaction with Yang Zhao was put down by him.

The city was in a mess, and Yang Zhao did not go in for the time being, so he could only arrange for the soldiers to clean up, clean all kinds of dirty things, and then let the people return to the city.

When I came to the camp, I saw countless people in Xiapi, queuing up to receive porridge, or waiting for treatment.

"The lord is still very benevolent!"

Guo Jia looked at the people queuing up and sighed: "The first thing the lord thinks about is the problem of eating and getting sick for the people in the city, and flooding the city is just a helpless move." ”

"Life is always full of helplessness."

Yang Zhao also sighed: "There are many things, no matter how helpless you are, you have to do them, such as drowning in Xiapi." ”

"Yang Yuanjun is right!"

At this moment, a voice came from behind them.

Yang Zhao looked back, only to see Chen Deng supporting his father Chen Qi, walking slowly, and admiring: "It's only a few months since the Xiapi talks, but I didn't expect Yang Yuanjun to be able to get Xiapi so quickly." ”

They are very good at judging the situation.

Since Yang Zhao entered Xiapi, they no longer followed Tao Qian, so when they arrested Tao Qian just now, the Chen family was an exception, they were not implicated, and they were still safe and sound.

After living for so many years, Chen Qi is an old fox.

When and what should be done, better than anyone else, he said again: "I've seen Yang Yuanjun!" ”

"You're welcome!"

Yang Zhao nodded slightly.

Chen Jue asked again: "I don't know how Yang Yuanjun plans to take over Xuzhou next?" ”

Yang Zhao looked at the other party, pondered for a moment, and said, "Is Chen Hanyu interested in being the assassin of Xuzhou?" ”

Han Yu is Chen Jue's word.

If you want to make the family and officials in Xuzhou obey, you need someone who can live in Xuzhou Town in the early stage, Yang Zhao was ready to win over the Chen family from the beginning, and they just happened to be able to hold it.

"Thank you, my lord!"

Chen Jue first changed his name, and then said: "I will arrange for the people of the Chen family to send food to Xiapi to relieve the people of the city, please rest assured!" ”

He also breathed a sigh of relief.

Xuzhou really still has to rely on them Chen to stabilize, and it is actually not bad to be this assassin history.

"I've heard that Yuanlong has quite an opinion on water conservancy."

Yang Zhao said again: "Over there in Qingzhou, the soil is relatively special, and a lot of water conservancy needs to be built. ”

Chen Deng nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

Their father and son also understood that Chen Deng went to Qingzhou to build water conservancy was one of the reasons, and the other reason was probably that he was a hostage and did not fully trust them Chen.

"All right, go and pacify the people!"

Yang Zhao said again.

They soon left.

"Lord, Wenhe has news."

Guo Jia said: "When they spread the news, they had already arrived in Guangling County, and now, Guangling should be taken down, and the remaining other counties should surrender one after another." ”

Yang Zhao said: "Wenhe really didn't disappoint us. ”

Jia Xu's ability to attack a Guangling is even a bit overkill.

By this time, Xuzhou was basically in Yang Zhao's hands.