Now that they had surrendered, the Duzhang barbarians walked to the south gate of the Perak army, surrendered their weapons, and lined up to be counted. The cannons on the low walls of the barracks and the cavalry staring at them in the distance had long since cut them off. When Ah Yong was introduced into the Chinese military tent and saw Zan Wanshou sitting in the middle so young, he couldn't help but be stunned in his heart, and his mind became active again. He had long heard that the Han people were not as strong as the barbarian tribes, and they only needed to have a noble bloodline to inherit their father's business. "There is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm", in Ayong's opinion, Zan Wanshou is also this type of person. At that moment, he proposed to lead the Duzhang barbarians as the vanguard to capture the city of Xuzhou for the Perak army.

Using the surrender army as cannon fodder is the usual means of the Mongolian army. Even the generals of the Song army often drove non-descendant troops to serve as the vanguard in order to preserve their own strength. This request made by Ah Yong seemed to most of the Perak soldiers to be the sincerity of the surrender of the people, and they all thought that Zan Wanshou would definitely agree. It's just that to everyone's surprise, Zan Wanshou actually rejected Ah Yong's request. Facing the puzzled crowd and Ah Yong, who was full of confusion, he said with a pleasant face: "The soldiers of the Duzhang tribe have been coerced by the Mongolian army, and they have been killing and killing for days and suffering heavy casualties. The capture of Xuzhou City will have his own plans, and he also asked the leader of Ayong to restrain his men and horses to avoid further twists and turns. ”

Zan Wanshou's words were ostensibly to pity the barbarian soldiers and the soldiers and civilians of Xuzhou, but in fact, they reminded Ah Yong to manage his subordinates and be a prisoner honestly, otherwise the Thunderbolt army would unceremoniously kill them. As the outstanding leader of the capital in a hundred years, Ah Yong led the tribe to become stronger and stronger, invincible opponents all over the surrounding tribes, and he was also an extremely smart person, where he could not understand Zan Wanshou's words. In fact, Ah Yong took the initiative to ask Ying to attack the city, and he fought another "little ninety-nine" in his heart. After capturing the city, in addition to venting the hatred of the betrayal of the new annexed army in Xuzhou, you can also recapture the property obtained by the barbarian soldiers, and maybe you can also loot it on a large scale. In order to boost morale during the siege of the city, both the Mongol army and the Song army often promised to plunder the city for three days after taking it. Ah Yong knew that as soon as the Mongol army fled, the people in the city of Xuzhou would be panicked, and together with the Thunderbolt army, the defenders would definitely not be able to hold the city. Now offering to be the vanguard of the siege shows a deferential surrender attitude, and you can also enter the city first to reap the greatest benefits, which is really a double win.

Zan Wanshou's response made Ah Yong's heart feel cold, knowing that although the commander of the Thunderbolt Army in front of him was young, he was extremely meticulous and sophisticated, so he immediately restrained his careful thinking, and secretly decided to control his subordinates, and no longer had illusions about taking back those floating wealth in Xuzhou City. He knew that he and his men were captives to be slaughtered, and the slightest disturbance would cause their heads to fall to the ground, and that only by being obedient could he return to the tribe alive. It is said that Zan Wanshou can be equal to Huang Dagen and Cao Ergou in the Thunderbolt army system, although it is related to its high starting point, it is also related to its outstanding ability, and he has outstanding points in both army management and strategy. He may not be as good as Huang Dagen and Cao Ergou in the war, but when it comes to government affairs, he is far better than the two.

The rejection of Ayong's request to be the vanguard of the attack on Xuzhou City is not that the Thunderbolts do not need to surrender to the barbarians. Zan Wanshou is ready to let them take on a more important task - to seize Shimen Pass and open the passage to Dongchuan County. The Duzhangman tribe is located at the junction of Miaojiang, Luoluo and Dali, and its adjacent Shimen Pass is the throat of Sichuan into Dongchuan County. With their help, Shimen Pass can be made as solid as a rock, preventing the Mongol army from invading from the direction of Dali, and the most convenient copper transportation channel can be established, which is also the reason why Zan Wanshou did not kill the barbarian soldiers. If the killing is too heavy, it will inevitably provoke hatred and long-term resistance from the Metropolitan Tribe, and will cause untold problems for the Thunderbolt caravan and future governance.

In the final analysis, the reason for the robbery is that the entire tribe is too poor to survive without additional income. Just when Ah Yong was worried about how the entire tribe would survive the cold winter when he returned empty-handed, Zan Wanshou's words made his sorrow unfold. Zan Wanshou proposed that the Thunderbolt Army could sell all kinds of daily necessities such as grain, ironware, cloth, salt, and wine to Duzhangman. In view of the fact that the Tyrannos did not have the financial resources to buy them, the Thunderbolts could first ship goods on credit, and then repay them in installments with minerals, timber, native products, and labor within their borders. In return, the Duzhang barbarians will serve as a precursor to assist the Thunderbolt army in advancing into Dali. On the one hand, they fought to keep the tribe fed, and as for the minerals and timber in the territory, they have been sleeping there for millions of years, since the Thunderbolt army is coming to develop and bring benefits to the tribe, why not? Besides, now that his life is in the hands of someone else, what right to bargain.

The floating wealth robbed by the barbarians in Xuzhou City, Zan Wanshou also has arrangements. Xuzhou as a water and land port leading to Dali, the Thunderbolt army will naturally vigorously operate and build, but years of war have made Xuzhou and the surrounding counties are dilapidated, and the amount of property looted by the Duzhang Barbarians is huge, which can be used as the start-up capital for the industrial and mining industry. Worried about these belongings, there was also the new annexed army of Xuzhou City, and after seeing the surrender of the capitalists, the defenders of the city hurriedly sent envoys to negotiate the terms of surrender. The generals of the new annexed army proposed that they could not be promoted, but Xuzhou still had to be their territory, and they could not be rewarded, but the property looted by the barbarians should be returned to the defenders, and this condition was naturally rejected by Zan Wanshou. It is said that these traitors who surrendered to the Mongols simply could not see the situation clearly, and still tried in vain to defend one side with the city, and they simply did not take seriously the warships on the river outside the city and the artillery outside the four guns.

Since the new annexed army in Xuzhou doesn't know each other, don't blame the Thunderbolt army for being unkind. Zan Wanshou gave an order, and the heavy artillery opened fire on the east, west, and north gates of the city gate tower at the same time. Moments later, the three gates were in rubble, and the defenders stationed on them were dead and wounded. Unlike the divisional brigades led by Zhan Wanshou at the South Gate, which are only equipped with medium and light artillery, the infantry brigades in the northwest are equipped with medium and large artillery, and the naval warship artillery of the Thunderbolt Army at the East Gate is even more powerful. After half an hour of shelling, white flags were raised in all four directions of Xuzhou City. Then the broken gate was pushed open, the passage through the gate hole was cleared, and the soldiers of the city walked out of the gate and descended.

The envoy sent by the new annex army was not a colonel, but a few ordinary soldiers, and Zan Wanshou asked about it to find out the reason. It turned out that most of the defenders of Xuzhou were unwilling to follow Liu Quan to surrender to Mongolia, but most of the generals and colonels in the city were Liu Quan's henchmen, and under their swords and axes, the soldiers had to make a choice against their will. Under the pressure of the Thunderbolt army, the soldiers in the city had already surrendered, but the general who defended the city wanted to sell it for a good price, and the ordinary soldiers had to endure it. When the Mongols secretly fled and the barbarians surrendered, the discerning people knew that the city could not be defended, which made the soldiers even more anxious. Not to mention that there are less than 2,000 people in the city, and more than 10,000 people outside the city, not to mention that the Thunderbolt army has artillery. When the heavy artillery of the Thunderbolt army bombarded the gatehouse intensively, these ordinary soldiers could not bear it anymore and mutinied under the organization of the "Firefox" in the city, they attacked and killed Liu Quan's cronies and colonels, and surrendered the city.