Tongguan was broken, and the rebel army was under the city.

The 500,000-strong army marched side by side by land and water, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and from a distance, it was full of oppression.

500,000 is just a quantitative word, it is easy to say, it doesn't sound much, if this army really appears in front of you, you can really understand the huge number!

The black pressure is overwhelming, the military camp stretches for several miles, the mountains and fields are full of people, everyone can drown people with spit, and they throw the horsewhip in their hands in the river, which can cause the river to break off!

Zhao Xuanqi stood on the city wall, watching the rebel army outside the city camp in the distance, and looking at the army of soldiers stretching to the end of the sky, his heart was depressed.

"From the point of view of order, these armies are orderly, and their movements are crisp and neat, and they look excited, and they are obviously combatable armies."

"Also, all kinds of rebel armies fought each other, and finally created the current situation of unification of the rebel army, the rebel army is no longer the down-and-out peasant army at the beginning, and now they are all elite soldiers!"

"There are many auxiliaries, too many people..."

"It seems that the Northern Wei Kingdom has really disappointed many people, which is why so many people have risen up to rebel, and it is difficult to return from the evils!"

In this regard, Zhao Xuanqi seized the time to select young adults in the city for training.

It's a pity that as early as some time ago, Emperor Jingming recruited many young people to march and then released them to quell the rebellion, but the suppression failed, and all of them were destroyed!

There are not many young adults in the city now, but at least there are still some, Zhao Xuanqi uses them all as soldiers to defend the city, or else to help carry some materials, make some ordnance, and everything is used to defend the city!

Fortunately, there is enough food in the city to hold on for some time.

However, an accident occurred, the rebels only besieged but did not attack, and on the third day when the rebels came to the city, the thieves began to shoot a large number of arrows into the city, and some documents were tied to the arrow poles.

The people by the river also picked up some documents that went down the river, and when they opened them, they saw that there were many words written in them.

Or secretly, some well-intentioned people are constantly spreading these news.

No matter how much you block it, you can't block it all.

A message began to boil out in the field, and the text of the message came from the document:

"Don't kill those who surrender now, otherwise the day the city is broken, the city will be slaughtered!"

"After the establishment of the new dynasty, you can retain your current official position, and you will definitely not harm your life and retain your family property."

"The one who opens the city gate, the marquis!"

"As long as Zhao Xuanqi offers the head of the Son of Heaven and opens the door to surrender, the rebel army will not slaughter the city after the city is broken, and retain Zhao Xuanqi's position as a general."

"Otherwise, the rebel army will break through the city, and no one will be left!"

“……”

In addition, the thieves will also train outside the city, shouting and killing the sky, or galloping around on a war horse, and the sound of the war horse roaring is like falling thunder, all of which makes the people in the city panic.

The thieves would also drive some people from other areas to the city gates, and if they did not open the city gates, they would not hesitate to slaughter them all after half an hour.

The terrible screams of the people before they died, as well as the screams of despair, caused a great psychological shadow on the soldiers and young men defending the city.

After the torture and killing, the rebels would even put the corpses of the people into wooden barrels and use catapults to throw them into the city, bloody and cruel, and crazy methods.

In this case, the soldiers defending the city were still shaken and panicked, let alone the unarmed ordinary people in the city?

When the people saw these miserable corpses, their courage instantly dissipated, witnessing these cruel acts of the rebels, and they were terrified.

They remembered the cannibalism of the prodigal army, remembered that the rebel army killed wherever it went, and remembered that half of the country had fallen, these were all evil ghosts, and they could not be defeated at all!

The mood of the people was in constant panic, and everyone began to be suspicious and frightened.

If the city is broken, then they will all be slaughtered!

If you surrender, everyone will be fine, why should everyone defend the city?

A lot of people have come up with this ridiculous idea.

People's hearts are surging.

If it weren't for Zhao Xuanqi, who pretended to be a prince to enter the city a few days ago, and pretended that there were 100,000 Qin Wang's troops in the city, and stabilized the hearts of the people, I'm afraid there would be no need to fight now, someone would have already started to communicate with the thief army and was ready to open the city gate and surrender!

No matter how strong the city is, it can't withstand the chaos inside!

This made Zhao Xuanqi can't help but be glad for the plan a few days ago, which did not make the people collapse now.

But even so, some people began to persuade Zhao Xuanqi to surrender openly and secretly.

As long as you surrender, the general is still the general, and everyone doesn't have to fight hard, so why not?

Why do you have to defend the broken city? Why do you have to keep the emperor? Why did you have to sacrifice for the imminent fall of the Northern Wei Kingdom?

Is there really any hope of holding the city? Even if it is kept, what is the use? If you can keep it for a while, will you keep it for a lifetime?

The thief army has captured two-thirds of the territory of the world, and unless all the thieves are wiped out here, it will have no effect at all!

If you keep it, then everyone will have to give your life to the emperor, just hand over the emperor!

In the face of these inquiries, Zhao Xuanqi fell silent.

Emperor Jingming also heard this kind of news, and he summoned Zhao Xuanqi to the palace to meet him on the same day.

Zhao Xuanqi was startled when he saw Emperor Jingming again, Emperor Jingming's dark circles were thick, his face was withered, and the whole person seemed to be emaciated several times, listless.

Emperor Jingming sat in his position, with a rotten expression, as if he had lost his soul, pulling his head, he let Zhao Xuanqi sit next to him.

When Zhao Xuanqi sat down.

Emperor Jingming looked over and said: "Aiqing, you hand me over, and then surrender, there are only innocent people in the city, I don't want to affect them, and I don't want to affect you." ”

The words are amazing.

Zhao Xuanqi was dumbfounded.

He didn't expect Emperor Jingming to say such words at all!

This is really unexpected!

He looked shocked: "Your Majesty, how could you say such self-defeating words?" ”

Emperor Jingming went to the wine glass next to him, drank it all, and said with a self-deprecating smile: "Everything is my fault, the world is so chaotic, it's all to blame for my incompetence, if you hand me over, it can be exchanged for the safety of the people in the city, and it is also a good choice!" ”

It turns out that if a person is physically tough and it is difficult for you to defeat that person, then you first break his mind.

If you can't defeat the body, then defeat his mind, the mind determines the body, the mind collapses, no matter how strong the body is, it has no effect, and there is no place for it.

This is the case of Emperor Jingming today, the city is strong, and the effective dead are willing to defend the city, Chang'an City is a hard bone, the rebels know that it is difficult to gnaw down, even if it is gnawed, it will hurt the muscles and bones, so the heart is the top, the city is the bottom, they successfully used tactics to crush the mind of Emperor Jingming.

30,000 against 500,000, no matter how you look at it, it looks like an unsolvable game!

The current Emperor Jingming wants to surrender, he thinks that he can't hold the city anymore, he wants to leave himself a decent ending, and he doesn't want to wait for his own people to sacrifice him and lose the emperor's last face.

Emperor Jingming is also dignified, if his death can be exchanged for the survival of the people in the city, why not? It's worth dying a worthwhile death!

"Your Majesty, we will not give up on you, we will definitely defend the city!"

"Aiqing, as long as you sacrifice me, you are still a general, why don't you do this? When the leader of the rebel army becomes the new emperor, he will definitely value your talents, choose to reuse you, give up me, I won't blame you. "Emperor Jingming's expression is sincere, everything is sincere!

Zhao Xuanqi listened to these words, shook his head and refused: "Compared with the Heavenly General, Your Majesty, you are the good master!" ”

Emperor Jingming: "Oh? ”

Zhao Xuanqi replied solemnly: "I think he is not the king's order, the world... How can there be a cannibalistic Son of Heaven? ”

The general led the prodigal army, but he ate a lot of people, and once he lacked military rations, he ate and ate, and even ate in order to save military rations!

When Emperor Jingming heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then laughed, no longer had his original frustration, and regained his bearing.

He saw Zhao Xuanqi's determination to defend the city!

These days, Emperor Jingming was afraid that his own people would hand him over, so he took the initiative to mention these words to Zhao Xuanqi, and now Zhao Xuanqi's words made him break this idea, and he was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

I don't have to worry about the soldiers defending the city handing me over!

The so-called sincerity for sincerity, when they confessed their words to each other, Zhao Xuanqi and Emperor Jingming trusted each other even more.

The next day, Zhao Xuanqi led the patrol soldiers to patrol the city as usual, and was seriously thinking about how to break the enemy's strategy.

There was a shouting voice downstairs: "The leader of my family wants to talk to the general, but dare to talk to the city?" ”

The general who rushed to the sky actually wanted to talk to himself?

What do you want to do with this guy?

Could it be that you want to use dialogue to provoke the relationship between yourself and Emperor Jingming?

Zhao Xuanqi wanted to refuse.

Then there was a commotion under the city gate, and the rebels drove a large number of civilians over!

There were a great number of people, probably hundreds, and the people were so embarrassed that they wandered in front of the gates, knocking on the doors, and begging to open them.

The soldiers did not receive the order of the commander, and the city gates naturally would not be opened, so the only way to greet these people was death.

In fact, this was the way it was handled before.

Closed doors!

Once the door is opened, it is prone to accidents!

The soldiers defending the city and the young men, although they were very unbearable, also understood that this was the most correct choice.

At this time, someone from the rebels came out and shouted: "If you don't agree, we will kill all the people around Chang'an City and kill them all under the city gate!" ”

When the people outside the city gate heard this, they trembled with fear, and reflexively let out a wailing voice, begging for mercy and loudly begging for the door to be opened.

"My lord, it's okay, open the door!"

"We don't want to die, no matter what we are asked to do, we promise not to kill us..."

"Let us go into the city, we are not a thief army, we are not a chaotic army, we are all people nearby."

When the soldiers defending the city heard these voices, they showed unbearable eyes, and they did not have the courage to look under the city.

The young and strong people on the city wall were even more frightened.

Zhao Xuanqi looked at all this, he knew very well that if he really let the rebel army continue to slaughter the people, the morale of his side would sooner or later fall to an extreme.

The people, the people.

Everyone is a living life, and dying in front of them like this cannot be saved, it is definitely a nightmare for people with a conscience, and they will definitely be afraid of the thief army and even more cowardly!

On the contrary, if the people are saved, the morale of the people in the city will be boosted.

It's better to meet this so-called sky-high general!

It's just that the people who are put into the city are also likely to be undercover agents of the thief army and need to be closely guarded, so let's clear the customs and go to the prison!

In addition to the above reasons, the most important thing is that Zhao Xuanqi also wants to meet this guy!

General Chongtian, see what he has to say, maybe you can find a way to break the game!

In this way, Zhao Xuanqi took more than a dozen cronies, including those of Emperor Jingming, and slowly went out along the gap in the city gate, and finally came to the open space between the two armies.

On the side of the rebel army, there were also about ten figures, escorting one person, slowly coming to the middle position.

The two sides were separated by a distance of four or five meters, and they were only riding horses, and they were not carrying offensive weapons.

This position can avoid the black hand of both parties and ensure that the two sides are just talking.

In front of the two armies, the generals confronted each other!

(End of chapter)