Chapter 529: The Surrender of Chengdu Part 1
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Before dawn, a team of soldiers came from the Xicheng Gate of Chengdu. The general Lei Tong was led by Liu Jing. After Lei Tong was released by Liu Jing, he did not receive a triumphant reward. On the contrary, Liu Xun suspected that he had surrendered to Liu Jing, deprived him of all his military posts, and imprisoned him in the military camp.
The military camp fled last night, and even the soldiers guarding Lei Tong escaped. Several old subordinates of Lei Tong rescued him. Lei Tong learned from his mistakes and decided to surrender to the Jingzhou army.
The team arrived in front of the city gate, and Lei Tong whispered loudly: "Who is the officer guarding the city?"
The west city gate was guarded by soldiers, and a military marquis named Luo was the city guard general. They were Zhang Ren's subordinates. Luo Junhou looked over from the female wall, "Is there anything wrong with General Lei?"
Lei Tong snorted heavily and said, "After the order of General Wu, go out of the city to patrol, please open the door quickly."
"May I ask General Lei has a military order"
"I accept the password, just open the city for me, otherwise I will kill you."
"Please wait for General Lei. The winch on the city gate has been locked. I'll find someone to unlock the lock and open the city immediately."
The Marquis of the Army on the City knew that Lei Tong was imprisoned, so he was reluctant to believe Lei Tong's words. While coaxing Lei Tong, he sent someone to report to Zhang Ren quickly.
"asshole"
Lei Tong was furious and waved his snake spear and urged his horse to rush towards the city. His soldiers followed him to rush up to the city. Luo Junhou saw Lei Tong coming fiercely, so he was so scared that he ran away. He only ran a few steps and was chased by Lei Tong. He pierced his vest and killed him at the city.
His soldiers killed the soldiers guarding the city and pulled the winch. The inner city gate creaked and opened. The Thunder Copper spear pointed at the outer city gate and ordered: "Go and open the outer city gate."
Yu Ming's subordinates rushed to the outer city. Lei Tong urged his horse to go down the city, rushed out of the inner city gate, and entered the urn. At this time, his subordinates had already seized the winch of the city gate and were slowly opening the city gate. At this moment, a burst of rapid horse hooves came from behind him. Zhang Ren shouted loudly, "Lei Tong, you are going to surrender to the enemy."
Lei Tong turned his horse's head, and the snake spear straddled, and said coldly: "I was captured and I would rather die than surrender. Liu Jing felt that I was loyal and righteous, so he put me back, but unexpectedly, he was framed and imprisoned. It was Lei Tong who was blind and actually recognized Liu Xun as a mediocre master. I have figured it out now that Liu Jing is the lord who deserves my life. General Zhang, please let me go."
Zhang Ren sighed and said softly: "There may be a misunderstanding in the middle. Xun Gong was wronged because of his lack of experience and no observation for a while. Please give up the idea of surrendering to the enemy. I am willing to seek justice for the general in front of Xun Gong."
Lei Tong sneered, "General Zhang, you are still suspected and deprived of military power. If Wu Yi hadn't spoken for you, you would have ended up like me. Why should you work hard for him?"
"I am not working for him, but because the first lord treats me very well, I cannot bear to abandon him. General Lei, the first lord treats you well, why do you surrender to the enemy without regard for loyalty and righteousness in times of crisis?"
Lei Tong shook his head, "We offer the city to Liu Jing and protect the people of the city. This is to repay the kindness of the first lord. It would be fine if the general doesn't want to do so, but my destiny is up to me. I just want to leave, so please let General Zhang let me go."
Zhang Ren became angry, "What if I don't let you go?"
Lei Tong crossed the snake spear and said, "I'll fight out."
"Then you die"
Zhang Ren urged the horse to run fast, and the spear stabbed Lei Tong straight to meet Lei Tong. Lei Tong waved his spear to greet him. The two fought fiercely. After more than twenty rounds, Lei Tong gradually disappeared. At this time, the city gate had been opened and the suspension bridge was put down. Lei Tong flew with a fictitious shot, and then fled outside the city. His subordinates also followed him to escape outside the city.
Zhang Ren took off his longbow and drew an arrow from behind him. He posed an arrow and aimed at Lei Tong's back neck, but he could not shoot this arrow. He put down his bow, watched Lei Tong escape far away, and sighed and said to the left and right: "Close the city gate."
Zhang Renyixing drove his horse back in a bleak manner. At this time, Wu Yi also led his army to rush to Zhang Ren. He stopped his horse and asked, "I heard that Lei Tong opened the city and surrendered to the enemy."
Zhang Ren nodded, "He is gone, I can't stop him."
After saying that, he shook his head and urged his horse to go to his mansion. Wu Yi was stunned and couldn't say a word for a long time. Lei Tong went out of the city to surrender. What kind of blow this would be to the morale of the army? Doesn't Zhang Ren know?
In the main hall of the prefecture, officials of all sizes and small Yizhou were gathered, including senior officials such as Dong He, Fei Guan, Liu Ba, and Wang Lei. There were also many middle and low-level officials such as Shu Zuo and Liu Cao. They were all worried about the fate of Chengdu and gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
At this time, officials were no longer allowed to take the lead or go to the doctrine of the mean. Two opposing factions were quickly divided into the lobby. One was the surrender faction, led by Dong He, Liu Ba and others, accounting for more than 80%.
The other faction insisted on resisting and never surrendered to Liu Jing's threat. This faction only accounts for less than 20%, mainly engaged in the army, Wang Lei and Zheng Wei.
The debate had already broken out, but no one could convince anyone. In fact, their opinions were meaningless. The last army took the hands of Wu Yi and Zhang Ren, and the only one who decided to surrender Wu Yi and Zhang Ren to open the city was Gong Liu Xun.
In the lobby, the two groups of people glared at each other, and did not speak, just waiting for news from Liu Xun.
In the inner hall, Yin Jing and Fei Guan were persuading Liu Xun to surrender, while Zheng Ze persuaded Liu Xun to insist on resisting. Liu Xun sat on the table, covering his head with his hands, looking extremely painful. He didn't know what to do.
Seeing that Liu Xun was indecisive and was still hesitant at this time, Yin Ming advised with heartache: "Your Mahjong, it is a fact that the inner city gate has been seriously damaged. At most, the city gate will be wide open. Jingzhou army will come into the city. At that time, it will not be enough to surrender. At that time, the city will be massacred. Please think about the people of the whole city."
Zheng, a staff member next to him, snorted coldly: "Mr. Yin is simply ignorant. Do you really think he will massacre the city? Do he still want Yizhou?"
Zheng was once one of Liu Zhang's confidant aides and served as the governor of Wenchuan County. He had just arrived back recently. Liu Xun ordered someone to assassinate his brother Liu Wei, which was Zheng's suggestion. He was a pro-war faction and urged Liu Xun to fight to the end.
Fei Guan saw that Zheng ignored the lives and death of the people and wanted to persuade Liu Xun to resist stubbornly, and he couldn't help but be angry and slapped the table and scolded Zheng: "Only idiots like you think Liu Jing is a threat. If he is untrustworthy, how can he fight for the world in the future? If he doesn't massacre the city and establish his authority, who will surrender in the future. He killed Yong Kai's tens of thousands of troops, and he will not keep a living. Do you think he is as weak as you?"
Zheng's face was pale and could not speak for a long time. At this moment, Wu Yi hurried in and said to Liu Xun anxiously: "Master, the situation is a bit bad."
"What happened?" Liu Xun raised his head and asked blankly.
"Lei Tong went out of the city without authorization to surrender to the Jingzhou army, which caused chaos. Thousands of soldiers from Xiying mutiny and wanted to open the city to surrender, but the situation could no longer be controlled.
Liu Xun's face suddenly turned pale. Fei Guan stomped his feet hard and shouted in a hurry, "Master, what are you waiting for?"
"All right"
Liu Xun sighed, "I agree to surrender."
Fei Guan rushed out like a gust of wind and shouted: "The Lord has decided to surrender, surrender."
A cheer came from the front hall, and Wu Yi knew it was irreversible. He bowed to Liu Xun, turned around and left in a hurry.
There was still an hour left before Wu, and news came from Chengdu City that Liu Xun was willing to surrender unconditionally. This news finally made Liu Jing's face appear, which means that he completely conquered Yizhou.
In the wilderness outside the northern city of Chengdu, 80,000 Jingzhou troops were lined up in an orderly manner, with flags waving, and black soldiers were overwhelming, with spectacular sounds, and the dull drum sounds, and every sound of war drums made the soldiers in the city frightened.
Liu Jing immediately looked at the gate of the North City under the Jingzhou military flag, and Sima Yi asked in a low voice: "Liu Xun surrenders, what is the lord planning to deal with him?"
Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "The best way is to kill him and eliminate future troubles forever, but it may cause dissatisfaction among the military and civilians in Yizhou, so he must not be moved for the time being. What suggestions do the military advisor have?"
Sima Yi whispered: "You can place him in Jingnan and grant him a high position and a low position, with the heart of a general in Yizhou, and then use a beautiful woman to corrupt this person. At most two years later, he will follow Liu Qi's footsteps, and the people of Yizhou will not pity this kind of master who dies on a woman's belly."
Liu Jing nodded, "What the military advisor said is right."
At this time, the inner city gate finally slowly opened, and teams of surrendered soldiers walked out of the city. They put down their weapons, took off their armor, and were led by the surrendered soldiers of the Jingzhou Army to gather outside the camp.
At this time, Wu Yi led dozens of military generals out of the city. They were led by soldiers to Liu Jing, and they knelt down on one knee, clasped their fists high and said, "I am willing to surrender to the state governor."
Liu Jing turned over and dismounted, helped Wu Yi up, and said with a smile: "Everyone is a loyal and righteous general. I hope everyone will revive the Han Dynasty with me and give Sun Bo a name and wealth."
The generals were overjoyed and shouted, "I wish to serve the governor of the state."
Lei Tong, who was in the Jingzhou army in the distance, was secretly proud. He surrendered to Liu Jing first, who appointed him as a marquis and was granted the title of lieutenant, which was much more favorable than these generals who surrendered collectively.
At this time, Liu Jing glanced at the generals and asked Wu Yi again, "Where is General Zhang Ren, why didn't you see him?"
Wu Yi sighed, "He locked himself in the mansion. We advised him, but he just ignored him and said he wanted to go back to his hometown to farm."
Liu Jing nodded and said nothing more. At this time, Liu Xun was naked and hung the seal and ribbon of Yizhou's mute on his neck, leading the official to surrender. He knelt beside the suspension bridge and shouted, "Liu Xun is willing to offer Yizhou to the Marquis of Chu."
Liu Jing ordered the soldiers to bring a brocade robe, quickly stepped forward, put on Liu Xun himself, and helped him stand up and said, "I heard that the Cao thief was going to attack Hanzhong and Yizhou, so I came to save my Liu family's country thousands of miles away. Yizhou is the foundation of the restoration of my Liu family. It cannot fall into the hands of Cao thief again. You are very wise and admirable. Please rest assured, I will never treat my husband unfairly."
Liu Xun was ashamed and presented the seal with both hands, "This is the seal with Yizhou Mu. Please accept it with the smile."
Chapter completed!