Xirong Zhan saw the shape shì and knew that it was no longer possible.

It's not that you can't fight, it's that you can't afford such a loss. Although it is of strategic significance to rescue Lingtu City, there is a premise, that is, you can't lose too much.

Decisive killing is the excellent quality of the Xirong War. Immediately, Xirong Zhan organized his own soldiers to cover the fleeing troops, these are all the living forces of Leiyang City.

Faced with the cover retreat of the Xirong Battle, Qin Ning did not dare to pursue too much. Because the number of opponents, after all, is several times that of their own. Although the annihilation of the living forces of the Xirong War is a very exciting choice, the Xirong War is obviously a battle-hardened battle, and it is good to win and lose.

Even if the army was defeated, the battle of Xirong was well commanded, leaving a certain amount of troops to cover. At this time, if the Qin army rushes headlong, although it can achieve certain results, the losses will not be small.

So, Qin Ning gave the order to stop the pursuit.

The Qin army raised its eyebrows and was proud to defeat the enemy's 50,000 people with 10,000 people, which was really a great result. Definitely something to be proud of.

Of course, such a great victory was due to their great commanders.

"General Qin is mighty!"

"General Qin is invincible!"

Deafening cheers resounded through the clouds.

Qin Ning didn't want to stay here for a long time. He didn't even clean the battlefield, just buried his own soldiers, and rushed back to Lingtu City with people.

Hearing that the reinforcements of Leiyang City were heavily damaged and fled back to Leiyang City, Lingtu City completely collapsed. The city gate facing the Qin army was simply wide open, no one cared about it, and a group of people came out to surrender.

See this. Mu Xiongtianjian said: "General Qin, at the moment, Lingtu City has completely lost the will to fight. The gates of the city are opened, and they take advantage of this opportunity to enter. It's all over the place!"

Qin Ning thought for a moment and said, "Not yet! It's not enough to say that Lingtu City has completely collapsed. You found that no, those who came out to surrender were all low-level officers and soldiers and ordinary people. And the real generals of the second prince's lineage, the elite troops, have not shown up for a long time. ”

Jin Long nodded and said: "Yes! At this time, if the second prince is panicked, then there are only three situations, one is to flee in a panic, and the other is to resist desperately." The third is to come out and surrender. And now, we don't see any signs of this. That means that I'm afraid the second prince has other plans. ”

Qin Ning didn't speak, and asked Mu Xiongtian to call some of the officers who had recently surrendered over for questioning.

These officers all knew Qin Ning, so when they saw Qin Ning's face, they still called themselves military advisors, and if they knew anything, they would tell Qin Ning something.

In fact. Qin Ning was most concerned about the situation in Lingtu City, and wanted to know what the elite soldiers of the second prince's lineage were doing now.

The officers who surrendered knew a little bit about the situation in the city. But I don't know about the matter of the second prince's descendant troops. Because when he learned that there was no hope for reinforcements, the second prince secretly summoned the generals of the lineage. I don't know what was discussed.

But from that day on, the elite soldiers of the second prince's line were hurriedly mobilized. No one knows where to transfer.

After sending these officers away, Qin Ning frowned suddenly. Take out the map of Lingtu City. Qin Ning observed a little bit, and couldn't figure out what the second prince wanted to do.

Suddenly, the herald came to report, saying that someone had come with news from the second prince and asked to see Qin Ning.

Qin Ning was stunned, looked at Mu Xiongtian and Jin Long, and said, "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”

"I recognize you, you seem to be called Du Ping, and you are also a local general of Lingtu City, right?" Qin Ning recognized this person at a glance.

Du Ping smiled slightly, bowed down and said, "The military advisor has a good memory! The last general is Du Ping." Military advisor, I brought you news in the name of the second prince, saying that he was preparing to surrender. ”

Surrender?Qin Ning was really a little surprised.

Looking at Mu Xiongtian and then at Jin Long, it seemed that they didn't believe the news. Mu Xiongtian and the others also replied to Qin Ning, who also had a look of disbelief.

However, if you don't believe it, after all, people are saying that they want to surrender, you can't be allowed to surrender, right? You know, Qin Ning is bent on taking Lingtu City as his own, and if he wants to occupy Lingtu City safely, he must occupy the moral high ground.

Surrender is the biggest taboo in capturing a city.

To do so will arouse the suspicion of all the people in the occupied place, if you surrender today, will you kill us tomorrow?

Even if the second prince has any conspiracy, he must have sufficient evidence to be able to attack, otherwise, who knows if you are forced to do so, or if you just want to cut the grass and eradicate the roots?

Thinking of this, Qin Ning said with a smile: "Very good, the second prince is willing to surrender, I, Qin, raise my hands to welcome! I can guarantee that if the second prince sincerely surrenders, he can make the second prince the lord of Lingtu City, and the generals who follow the second prince also have the guarantee of life and status." ”

Du Ping sneered: "The military advisor is a martial artist, and he is broad-minded, he is really a human king." The military advisor can think like this, it is really a blessing for Lingtu City. The military division, the second prince led the team to surrender in the western suburbs, please ask the military division to surrender. ”

"Nonsense!" Mu Xiongtian was suddenly unhappy, and pointed at Du Ping and said, "The general of the defeated army, a prince who is about to overturn is still so crazy! Go back to tell the second prince of your family, just say what I said, it has always been the surrendered person who led the team to bow down in front of the city gate, how can he stay in one place and wait for someone to go?"

Du Ping was slightly embarrassed, and said to Qin Ning: "Military advisor, you also know that the second prince has a lot of fierce generals under him. Don't talk about the Five Tigers, they will not surrender if they are killed. The second prince tried hard to persuade him, which made the five tigers relieved. However, the five tigers said wildly, see if the military advisor has the courage to enter the city to surrender, if not, it is better to go home and pick up the child. ”

"Looking for death!" Mu Xiongtian's eyes widened suddenly, and he grabbed Du Ping, "Go back and tell sù what the five tigers are, if you have the ability to come out, Lao Tzu will do it one-on-one with them, don't hide in the city and talk big." ”

"Don't be rude!" Qin Ning drank Mu Xiongtian away, and said to Du Ping with a smile, "Du Ping, go back and tell the second prince, just say that Qin Ye must go to the western suburbs before the middle of the day." ”

Sending Du Ping away, Mu Xiongtian was indignant. Tell Qin Ning that this is clearly a trap. It's a trick. After getting Qin Ning inside, he finished cleaning up Qin Ning. It just so happened that the Qin army outside was leaderless, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.

Qin Ning asked Mu Xiongtian to calm down. Explaining yourself is also this judgment. However, after thinking about it, Qin Ning felt that it was better to face the second prince.

Because you want to occupy Lingtu City, after the second prince makes the intention of surrendering, no matter what, you can't avoid this hurdle. After all, the second prince is still the manager of Lingtu City. The second prince is a weather vane, how does Qin Jun treat this weather vane. It will determine the opinion and understanding of everyone in Lingtu City towards Qin Jun.

If a swarm of bees rushes in and kills all sides, it will be happy and safe. However, it is extremely detrimental to the convergence of people's hearts.

Therefore, it is imperative to go to the western suburbs to be surrendered.

Jin Long listened and nodded continuously: "What the general said is very true. But. General Mu is right, this is a trap. The second prince also knows that such a dirty trick of deception cannot be concealed from us. However, the second prince grasped such a knot that we want to close people's hearts. We had to face him, so we had to be led. General, I don't worry about anything else. Safe ......"

Qin Ning smiled: "You probably don't know, right? Over there. I once led 5,000 men to repel a surprise attack on Xirongpo. I know exactly where to hide the soldiers. So. You don't have to worry about my safety. ”

When Mu Xiongtian heard this, he knew that Qin Ning was definitely going to leave, so he took the initiative to ask Ying and asked to go over with Qin Ning.

Qin Ning rejected Mu Xiongtian's request.

Qin Ning made it clear that the most important thing now is to stabilize the situation. The Qin army brought over this time was small in number for a city, especially the few high-level officers and generals. Therefore, Mu Xiongtian and Jin Long, Qin Ning didn't bring any of them.

After explaining the matters that Jin Long and Mu Xiongtian paid attention to, Qin Ning took two hundred elite guards and directly entered Lingtu City and ran to the western suburbs.

Where I have fought, I am impressed. When Qin Ning walked here again, he had a sense of intimacy.

Far away, I saw Du Pin waiting there from afar.

"The military advisor really believed in people, and before the middle of the day, he came. ”

"Can you not count the things you promised? By the way, Du Ping, where is the second prince?"

Du Ping pointed to a mansion in the distance and said that the second prince was waiting there.

Qin Ning glanced at Du Ping meaningfully, didn't speak, raised his legs and walked over there.

Du Ping led Qin Ning to the courtyard, Qin Ning looked around, but there was no half of him.

Suddenly, Du Pinto jumped to the side, three times and two times, and hid behind a courtyard wall. At the same time, on the roof of the house, on the courtyard wall, a group of elite soldiers showed their heads.

Du Ping didn't know where to go around the wall, and said with a hideous smile: "Qin Ye, you also have today! Kill you, those troops outside Lingtu City are just in the bag, let's die." ”

The elite soldiers in ambush are all hand artillery teams with hand cannons. One after another, the cannonballs rained down on Qin Ning.

Qin Ning was not in a hurry, took out a protective shield from the ring, shook his hand, and covered the two hundred elite soldiers accompanying him all at once. The hand cannon shell hit the protective shield, and there was an earth-shattering sound, but it was difficult to shake the protective shield.

Suddenly, the protective shield was slightly glandular, Qin Ning drilled out along the crack, met the cannonball, and ran towards Du Ping.

Du Ping was shocked and commanded his men to attack Qin Ning. But no matter what hit Qin Ning, it was like tickling Qin Ning, without any substantial damage.

Before Du Ping could turn his head and run away, Qin Ning rushed over, slapped Du Ping's head into a cake with one palm, and shouted: "Soldiers, it's still too late to surrender! I, Qin Ye, will definitely give you a good way to live." But if you don't come to your senses, Du Pin will be your end!"

As he spoke, Qin Ning shook his hand and threw Du Ping's headless corpse in.

When everyone saw that Qin Ning was so powerful, how dare they not listen? They all put down the ordnance in their hands and came down to surrender.

As soon as Qin Ning asked, he realized that the second prince was a surprise idea to kill Qin Ning and then go out to kill Qin Jun.

In fact, the second prince also made two preparations, and he was not here at all. Once he got the news of Du Ping's success, he led his troops out to attack the Qin army.

And once Du Ping missed, the second prince ran away.

The news that Du Ping was shot to death by Qin Ning still spread to the second prince by the soldiers who ran away. Hearing this news, the second prince no longer hesitated, and under the protection of the five tigers and other hardcore henchmen, he sneaked out of Lingtu City and ran back to Wude City along the path.

Next, the Qin army didn't spend much effort to accept the entire Lingtu City.

And Qin Ning directly appointed Jin Long as the lord of Lingtu City, responsible for the overall handover of the military and political power of Lingtu City.

Jin Long also did not live up to Qin Ning's trust, and appointed some non-descendant generals of Lingtu City who surrendered, to take over the affairs of Lingtu City one by one, to set an example for the people, and to open the warehouse and distribute some daily supplies for the people to tide over the difficulties.

For merchants and craftsmen engaged in various industries, Jinlong also gave fair arrangements.

In this way, after a few small riots, Lingtu City slowly returned to normal. (To be continued......)