Chapter 861 The Fall of Changli
Wanyan Zongwang decided to accept Shi Jingtang's surrender, so he immediately summoned Wanyan Zonghan, Yuan Gai Suwen, An Dianbao and others to discuss.

The three of them were commanding the soldiers to attack the city, and they even took the lead when they got the news of Wanyan Zongwang's call, so they even withdrew from the battlefield.

The three of them were dressed in military uniforms, stained with blood.Even Wanyan Zonghan, who was slightly inferior in martial arts, still had a few scars on his body, but these small injuries were not worth mentioning to Wanyan Zonghan, and even showed a bit of ferocity and masculinity.

"General, you don't know why you are in such a hurry to call us here?" Wanyan Zonghan asked, clasping his hands.

Wanyan Zongwang handed the letter in his hand to Wanyan Zonghan, and said in a deep voice, "Look at it first!"

"Oh?" Wanyan Zonghan was puzzled, took a look at the letter, but smiled lightly after a while: "This Shi Jingtang is really shameless, but there is some truth in what he said. If he surrenders, our army can be reduced a little bit." Unnecessary casualties."

After Wanyan Zonghan finished speaking, he handed the letter to Yuan Gai Suwen.

The four generals, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan, and Yuan Gaisuwen, although they are of different races, they all respect Han culture.I can understand the meaning of this letter, but as for An Dianbao, he doesn't understand the Han culture, so after reading it, he is at a loss.

An Dianbao couldn't help looking at Yuan Gai Suwen, and asked: "This letter is very eloquent, what does it mean?"

"The garrison general of Changli City wants to surrender, this letter is a letter of surrender." Yuan Gai Suwen replied.

"Oh? At this moment, the defenders of Changli want to surrender, believe it or not? Could it be their trick?" An Dianbao rubbed his chin in thought after hearing the words.

Wanyan Zongwang sneered disdainfully and said: "Scheme? So what? Now there are only 3 Changli defenders left. Tonight, we will only send 1 troops to attack the other three sects. Even if the Changli defenders use tactics They can't ignore the other three gates, so the ambush they set up at the south gate is no more than [-] horses at most.

And we mobilized all the soldiers and horses from other areas to rush into the south gate, and there are also 12 horses. As long as Changli dares to open the gate, our Jurchen army can rush into the city in an instant.They set up an ambush with a maximum of 1 horses. What is there to be afraid of? "

Wanyan Zongwang decided to accept Shi Jingtang's surrender after careful consideration, and he was not afraid even if there was an ambush.In the face of absolute strength, Wanyan Zongwang can be confident. After all, there are only 3 Changli defenders left, and the other three sects have to divide their troops to defend the city. For the 1 Jurchen soldiers and horses, there is no threat at all.

"It's getting dark now, and the hour is approaching, so go back and prepare. Leave [-] troops at each gate to attack the city, and bring the rest to the south gate!" Wanyan Zongwang looked at the three of them. ordered.

"No!" The three of them bowed their hands and took the order, and each returned to the city gate where their soldiers and horses were located to make arrangements.

After the sky was completely dark, Wanyan Zonghan, Yuan Gai Suwen, and An Dianbao left their lieutenants behind and led [-] troops to attack the city, and the three of them led the rest of the troops to the south gate.

As the sky was getting dark, only the area around the city gate had a good line of sight, and the camp behind was completely pitch black.In addition to the siege of the city, the shouts of killing were soaring, and the soldiers and horses were mobilized outside the south gate, but the defenders of Changli did not notice the clue.

Time passed quietly in the fierce siege battle, and it came to midnight in a flash.

At this time, there were about 7000 soldiers and horses in the area around the South Gate.In fact, as far as individual soldiers are concerned, these soldiers and horses are not Shi Jingtang's confidantes, because they are loyal to Liu Bei.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary soldiers follow the lead of the general, but now Shi Jingtang has decided to surrender to the Jurchen. This is related to the righteousness of the nation, and it is an outrageous thing.Shi Jingtang knew that ordinary soldiers would not agree to surrender to a large extent, and even resisted him.

A general's confidant is his personal battalion, because the personal soldiers are responsible for protecting the general. In order to make the personal soldiers loyal, the generals usually devote far more resources to the personal military battalion than ordinary soldiers.

Therefore, the personal army battalion is the only one who can work for the master general on the battlefield and use his life to protect the safety of the master general.What the lord general said, his soldiers would unconditionally obey and act, even if they were to die, the soldiers would not hesitate at all.Of course, this is based on the fact that the general treats the soldiers well on weekdays. If the general treats the soldiers badly, the soldiers will not protect the general with their lives.

However, Shi Jingtang treated the soldiers very well, otherwise the former soldiers would not have tried their best to protect Shi Jingtang, and would not let Li Cunmao's soldiers disturb Shi Jingtang.

So Shi Jingtang sent his confidant soldiers to guard the city gate, and as soon as the hour came, he would let the soldiers open the city and surrender.

In addition to his confidantes, Shi Jingtang naturally also has confidantes and generals. As the leader of an army, Shi Jingtang naturally promotes and uses generals a lot on weekdays.As the saying goes, scholars die for their confidants, and these generals gained power because of Shi Jingtang. In a sense, their loyalty to Shi Jingtang is even higher than that of Liu Bei.

Therefore, Shi Jingtang replaced all the generals at the south gate with generals he had promoted, and let them control the soldiers.

Although Shi Jingtang did not tell them about the surrender, Shi Jingtang was confident that he could persuade them to follow suit.

As soon as Zishi arrived, Shi Jingtang held a torch and stood in the center of the city gate above the city gate. He raised the torch three times and lowered it three times, and the fire light appeared three times.Seeing this, Wanyan Zong under the city knew that Shi Jingtang had made a move, so he ordered his soldiers to prepare for a surprise attack into the city.

"Come on, open the city gate!" Shi Jingtang threw away the torch, turned his head to the other side of the city, and shouted at the soldiers controlling the city gate.

"But there are Jurchen soldiers outside the city!" The guards in charge of the city gate were stunned.

"This general has his own ideas, so open the city gate quickly!" Shi Jingtang shouted again.

Since Shi Jingtang didn't say anything about surrendering, plus his own soldiers followed the general's order and obeyed.A group of personal soldiers opened the city gate without doubting him.

Seeing this situation, several confidant generals hurried over: "Quickly, close the city gate, General Shi, what are you doing?"

"Who dares to close the gate of the city?" Shi Jingtang yelled angrily, raised his knife and hacked to death the general who questioned him: "It's just like this person!"

All the confidants and generals turned pale with fright, how did they not know that Shi Jingtang was going to seek refuge with Jurchen?
"General Shi, do you want to surrender to the enemy?" A general pointed at Shi Jingtang with a trembling hand and asked.

Shi Jingtang stared and shouted: "Now that the Jurchen soldiers and horses are approaching the city, our army has only 3 horses, and we can't defend Changli at all. If we continue to garrison, we will only have a dead end. If we don't surrender, is it impossible to defend?"

A general was furious when he heard the words, and shouted that if the princes of the Central Plains attack each other, they will surrender.But Jurchen is a foreign race, how can we bow our knees to the barbarians? "

"So what about Han people, what about foreigners, as the saying goes, those who know current affairs are heroes, as long as they can survive, surrendering to whom is not surrender?" Shi Jing shouted coldly.

"No, we, as Han people, will never bow to the barbarians. If you want to surrender, you surrender yourself! Brothers, follow me to control the city gate!" The general was furious, and hurriedly walked down the city, preparing to close the city gate.

Shi Jingtang gave a cold shout, walked up behind the general with a long knife in his hands, and chopped off his head with a single knife.Shi Jingtang lifted the general's head, threw it at the feet of the other generals, and shouted: "I have notified Jurchen that the Jurchen cavalry will arrive in no time. I see that you are promoted by me. I can't bear to send you to death. If you don't surrender today, you will be here." You have to surrender, don't blame me, I also want to find a way out for my brothers."

The reason why Shi Jingtang wanted to persuade these generals to surrender together was mostly for himself.After all, I surrendered alone. Among the Jurchen, a single and weak person will definitely not be reused, and surrendering with many people can be regarded as a force with some right to speak.

Although Shi Jingtang said it was for the sake of it, some generals still refused to accept it, and shouted in unison: "You are the ones who are begging for glory, we will not surrender to Jurchen with you!"

After talking, several people waved their weapons and came up to fight Shi Jingtang.

But Shi Jingtang can also be regarded as a fierce general in history, these school lieutenants, military lords and the like are no match for Shi Jingtang.But after a while, he was hacked to death by Shi Jingtang.

Shi Jingtang's whole body was stained with the blood of his own soldiers, and he looked fiercely at the remaining generals: "Are you going to surrender or not?"

"I will surrender, I will surrender!" Most of the remaining generals and school were covetous and afraid of death, and they were frightened by Shi Jingtang, and quickly expressed their willingness to surrender.

"Hurry up and control the soldiers and horses of the headquarters. The Jurchen soldiers and horses will arrive later, so as not to increase unnecessary casualties." Shi Jingtang immediately ordered.

As soon as the generals and school left, they heard a huge earthquake below the city, but it was the Jurchen cavalry who rushed into the city.Yuan Gai Suwen led an elite cavalry in the lead. Among the Jurchen cavalry, he was the most skilled in martial arts, so Yuan Gai Suwen led the cavalry as the vanguard.

Seeing this situation, Shi Jingtang hurriedly got down from the top of the city, and met Yuan Gai Suwen who rushed into the city, Shi Jingtang hurriedly cupped his hands and bowed: "Shi Jingtang has met the general."

Yuan Gai Suwen could also speak Chinese, so he replied in Chinese: "So you are Shi Jingtang, how is the situation in the city now?"

"I have controlled the south gate, but I can't do anything about the other three gates! When the general rushes to kill, please don't massacre the soldiers in the city. They are all my confidantes, but there is no time to report the surrender. The general only needs to Control them, I will persuade them to surrender later, and I will serve the wolf lord in the future." Shi Jingtang cupped his hands and said.

Yuan Gai Suwen agreed as soon as he heard it: "I see, I will control the east gate first, and you can send someone over to control the soldiers and horses immediately."

Seeing that Yuan Gai Su Wen was so eloquent, Shi Jingtang was overjoyed, pointed to the two captains and ordered: "Thank you, general, you two follow the general, don't let our soldiers collide with the heavenly soldiers."

(End of this chapter)

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