Obviously, Zhu Ling is not a fool.

He's a smart guy.

Also an ambitious person.

Naturally, I don't want to leave my life here.

So Zhu Ling didn't even put too much thought into it.

and directly answered Liu Zheng's question.

"Surrender."

"I'm willing to surrender. Please don't hurt the people of this city and my soldiers! ”

The clever Zhu Ling immediately opened his mouth and chose to surrender.

And in the words of surrender, he brought with him the people of the city and the soldiers under his command.

The main reason for saying this is to give Liu Zheng a good impression of cherishing the people and soldiers.

It can also add a few slightly better labels to his current status as the general of the defeated army.

Let Liu Zheng not despise him too much.

After Liu Zheng heard that Zhu Ling had chosen to surrender.

He nodded immediately.

For Zhu Ling, I also know that he is a person who understands current affairs.

At least it won't be brainless, and in this situation, it still chooses to die.

"The widow knows that General Zhu Ling knows the current affairs, as the saying goes, the one who knows the current affairs is a handsome, and a handsome man like General Zhu Ling, I like it very much."

"As long as the general takes refuge in the widow, the widow guarantees that you will do more than under Yuan Xi."

Liu Zheng made a promise to Zhu Ling.

Saying this was just to give Zhu Ling a reassuring pill and let him know that Liu Zheng really intended to make him surrender, not just to deceive the city gate.

After both sides spoke openly and honestly.

The rest of the process is simple.

Liu Zheng sent Tai Shici to enter the city with people and hand over the surrender to Zhu Ling.

Liu Zheng doesn't need to do these little things himself, just have Tai Shici and others do it for him.

Moreover, doing this is also useful for Tai Shici, you can check whether Zhu Ling really surrendered, and in case Zhu Ling laid down his hands and feet in the city, Liu Zheng went over in person.

If something happens, that's bad.

However, these are all things that Liu Zheng has thought about a lot, and in the current situation, it is impossible for Zhu Ling to pretend to surrender.

He cooperated very well and handed over all his soldiers and horses to Tai Shici.

He laid down his arms and was taken into custody on his own initiative.

After Liu Zheng's men took over the county seat of Anping, Liu Zheng personally met with Zhu Ling.

It wasn't because he valued Zhu Ling's ability that he would meet Zhu Ling at this time.

It's because, after all, Zhu Ling is Yuan Xi's general, and Yuan Xi can let him guard Anping County, the first line of defense, which shows how much Zhu Ling attaches importance to Yuan Xi.

Since he is such a person who is highly valued by Yuan Xi, Zhu Ling will definitely not know less news than Liu Zheng.

Therefore, Liu Zheng may be able to ask some news from Zhu Ling's mouth.

It can be learned that this time Yuan Xi attacked some plans of Jizhou.

As long as Yuan Xi's plan to attack Jizhou is known, Liu Zheng will deal with Yuan Xilai, it will be much simpler.

"General Zhu Ling, it is a great joy for the widow to have you as a good general."

"Thanks to Your Majesty's affordability, the last general will definitely bow down and die."

Since he had surrendered to Liu Zheng, Zhu Ling was also very knowledgeable, and quickly substituted himself into the identity of Liu Zheng's subordinate, and expressed his loyalty to Liu Zheng.

Such a person is either a grass on the wall, or he really understands current affairs.

Know how to transform your identity.

Liu Zheng saw Zhu Ling's appearance, but he was very useful.

immediately asked him about Yuan Xi.

"General Zhu Ling, why were you sent by Yuan Xi to this small Anping County?"

Liu Zheng asked his own words, and Zhu Ling immediately understood what Liu Zheng wanted to ask.

didn't dare to hide anything, and immediately answered Liu Zheng's words.

"Back to Your Majesty, Yuan Xi plans to order people to go to Zhongshan County to loot grain and grass, but he is not worried about Hejian County, so he will lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed in Ping'an County to watch out for Yuan Shang's movements in Jizhou."

Zhu Ling honestly told Liu Zheng the purpose of his stationing here.

However, such an answer could not satisfy Liu Zheng.

Then he continued to ask.

"In addition to this, does Yuan Xi also station soldiers and horses in other places around here?"

Hearing Liu Zheng's words, Zhu Ling hurriedly shook his head.

"No, there is no county town nearby, so there is no place to add soldiers and horses, and this time the number of soldiers and horses led by Yuan Xi from Youzhou is only so many, and some of them have already gone to Zhongshan to plunder under the leadership of Badun."

"So there are no other soldiers and horses nearby."

Originally, there was, but I encountered Xu Huang's cavalry halfway. was scattered by Xu Huang's impact.

So later, those scattered soldiers and horses were concentrated in the county towns in various places.

Of course, the main concentration places are Ping'an County and Lecheng County.

After Liu Zheng heard Zhu Ling's answer, he nodded slightly, and the information that came out of Zhu Ling's mouth was almost the same as what he knew.

After all, he knew that this time Yuan Xi brought only sixty or seventy thousand soldiers and horses from Youzhou.

After some of these soldiers and horses went to Zhongshan to plunder, some of them were stationed in Ping'an County.

There aren't many people left.

It is estimated that all those people are staying in Lecheng County.

Now that Liu Zheng, who has grasped the news, only needs to quickly drive his army to Lecheng County, surround Yuecheng County, and defeat Lecheng with lightning speed and eliminate Yuan Xi.

In this way, Liu Zheng has no reason to continue to stay in Anping County.

"General Zhu Ling, this battle will be my battle to eliminate Yuan Xi, and please follow my army, when I destroy Yuan Xi, I also need the general to manage Youzhou on my behalf."

Liu Zheng is still very important to people like Zhu Ling, who surrendered to him early, and the plan in his heart is also to explain clearly to Zhu Ling at the beginning.

As long as Zhu Ling helps him lay down Youzhou, the position of Youzhou Assassin will definitely be Zhu Ling's.

Zhu Ling also understood these words.

So after Liu Zheng finished speaking, his eyes were abrupt and flashed with a little excitement.

As far as Zhu Ling's status is concerned, under Yuan Xi's hands, even if it takes another ten years, he may not be able to get mixed up to this point.

But just after taking refuge in Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng gave him such expectations, which made Zhu Ling's heart even more determined to follow Liu Zheng's idea.

A sweet jujube was thrown down, making Zhu Ling almost kneel and kowtow to thank Liu Zheng.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your high hopes, Zhu Ling will definitely swear allegiance to the death!"

"Okay, Yuan Xi hasn't been eliminated yet, and the matter has not settled, so let's not delay time here, rush to Lecheng County as soon as possible, and eliminate Yuan Xi is a more important thing."

Liu Zheng didn't say anything to Zhu Lingduo, and he was worried about the matter on Lecheng's side, so he urged him to go to Lecheng County.

The army's stay in Anping County was only half a day.

After solving Zhu Ling, he went straight to Lecheng.