People in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hu and Han respected together

Chapter 162 Offering the City to Surrender
Five days after the siege!

During these five days, the army was besieging the city every day, but they did not seize the gate or climb the city, but kept riding and shooting against the enemy.

Of course, cavalry and archery can't capture this city, but it can play a training effect. The soldiers' cooperation becomes more tacit, and the combat power begins to soar.

If there was no city to rely on, Song Jian would have been defeated and died long ago, but even with the city to rely on, the number of soldiers injured by arrows among the defending troops of Fanghan is also increasing.

This has also caused fear to spread in the city, constantly eroding the psychological defense of everyone from the officials to the common people.

Until this day, the soldiers under Li Wenhou's command drove away hundreds of captives again, and escorted them to the city to show off their might.

The soldiers on the top of the city, after seeing such a scene, they were already numb and fell into despair.

This is not the first time, as long as their reinforcements come nearby, Li Wenhou can easily defeat them with 5000 people, and then take the captives to the city to show off their might.

Every time after showing off their power, the atmosphere in the city will become more and more heavy. Facing Li Wenhou's army, they have no chance of winning at all.

So that night, taking advantage of the darkness, someone left the city through a basket, and then quickly ran to Li Wenhou's barracks.

Being arrested by the patrolling soldiers, he was about to be treated as a spy. At this moment, he immediately revealed his purpose, not to spy on the military situation, but to offer the city to surrender.

The surrender of Xiancheng was not a trivial matter, so he quickly reported it to Li Wenhou. Li Wenhou was also very interested when he heard about it, so he asked them to escort this person to the Chinese army tent.

The big account of the Chinese army!

Li Wenhou didn't wear armor, only a cloak, but he was still majestic. He supported his knees with his elbows, and his upper body leaned forward slightly, which made him look very oppressed. Finally, he said calmly:
"Tell me, who are you? How dare you say that Xiancheng surrendered!"

This person looks to be in his 20s, with a young face and good looks, but at this time his face has turned pale with fright, because he is wearing thick clothes, it is obviously not cold, but frightened, he quickly bowed when he heard this:

"The villain has met the general. The villain is Zhang Tie, Zhang Yi's nephew. My uncle is the prime minister of the city. He has long admired the general. This time I was specially sent out to discuss the surrender of the city..."

"Moreover, most of the officials in the city did not sincerely follow Song Jian to rebel. As long as the general speaks, we will unite and open the city gate to welcome the general into the city..."

"I'm waiting for Han's heart to be strong, and I hope the general can grant me permission to take my crimes and make meritorious deeds!"

Hearing this, Li Wenhou was quite disdainful, he sneered and said:
"Prime Minister, Hundred Officials, Song Jian is really bold. He dared to become the king of the four counties, and even appointed Prime Minister, Hundred Officials. With you people, can you really open the city gate?"

Seeing that Li Wenhou didn't believe it, Zhang Tie became a little anxious, so he said directly:
"Don't worry, general, not only us, but even Song Jian's general Ali Yun is also dissatisfied with Song Jian's being king, and he is willing to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. All we need is a word from the general, and we can really open the city gate at any time!"

Now Li Wenhou started to take it seriously, a group of civil servants were ignored by him, but if there were military generals involved, it would be different.

No matter whether he succeeds or not, he will not suffer. After thinking for a while, Dang even nodded in agreement:
"Since you are willing to sacrifice the city and surrender, I will allow you to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. As long as you open the city gate, I will give you a credit!"

Zhang Tie was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hastily kowtowed his thanks:

"Thank you, General, for your kindness, I will definitely live up to expectations!"

After talking about the details of Kaicheng, Zhang Tie left quickly, Li Wenhou also looked around, surrounded by his cronies, he said:

"Tell all the soldiers to prepare for tomorrow. If the city gate is really opened, send troops to enter the city immediately!"

Everyone around said in unison:

"only!"

But then, Li Xiong hesitated and said:
"General, some traitors in the city, even if they open the city gate, do you really want to credit them?"

Then Li Hu also opened his mouth, and he even made a gesture of wiping his neck:
"Some thieves who betrayed the Lord can betray Song Jian today and the general tomorrow, why don't they just kill them all!"

Finally Li Yao came out to stop him:

"It's okay to keep them. Although they're just some of the first-rates, it's also useful to keep them. After all, my father wants to go to Liangzhou. In the future, he will also attack the southwestern part of Longxi and the four counties of Hexi. If these people who are willing to surrender are killed, no one will dare to surrender in the future. They will all fight to the end..."

"But if we keep them, and when we raise troops to attack the Quartet in the future, then the people in the city will scramble to surrender, and maybe these places can be easily captured without a single soldier..."

"However, these traitors are indeed capricious. If they can betray Song Jian today, they can betray Father tomorrow. They must be destroyed..."

"After the army enters the city, their lives can be spared, but they are required to contribute money and efforts to reward the army. The money and food can come from their own homes or from other people's homes. Whoever can do the best can be reused..."

"Forcing them to kill each other and tormenting the common people is the best way to provoke anger and hatred. Then they can only be loyal to my father. As long as their lives are spared, they will not resist. Give them another bone, and they will be obedient..."

"In the future, we can also use this method to conquer the counties of Liangzhou. Otherwise, the local aristocratic families, powerful, powerful, united, and won the hearts of the people will definitely cause trouble for us!"

The people present gasped and looked at Li Yao's face full of shock, vicious, vicious, vicious, and vicious, and now they were in awe of Li Yao from the bottom of their hearts.

After listening to Li Wenhou, he also felt that it was poisonous and ruthless, but this strategy was really useful, so he nodded in agreement, then waved his hand and said:
"Just do it like this, as long as my army enters the city, I will have the final say on everything!"

At the same time, just after Zhang Tie returned to the city, those officials were connected again, and the leader among them was the prime minister Zhang Yi.

Song Jian was hopeless, and they didn't want to be buried with him. Facing Li Wenhou's army, all they could think of was surrender. Since they couldn't resist, they should join them.

After a while of discussion, Zhang Yi looked at everyone present, and said with a cold face:
"Do you still want to keep your family rich?"

Everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally nodded one after another and said:
"Mr. Zhang, just tell me what you think. Everyone has been rich for generations. Who wants to lose everything and become a commoner!"

In the end, Zhang Yi said in a slow voice with no expression on his face:
"It's just that Kaicheng can have any credit, why not take the head of Song Jian and show Xiang Han's heart!"

Everyone present was silent for a moment, then nodded one after another. At this time, their expressions were extremely indifferent.

Everything is false, only wealth is real, wealth is not omnipotent, but without wealth is absolutely impossible, they have always been loyal to their own interests, family interests.

(End of this chapter)