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Jin An was silent for a while, and also agreed to Zhou Baotong's surrender, and he also decided to persuade his king to surrender to Daqi.
In the face of such a powerful country as Qi, Silla had no power to resist at all.
Rather than the city is broken and the blood is flowing like a river, it is better to surrender and keep one side safe, once the Qi army attacks, when the time comes, there is a great possibility that it will bring slaughter to Silla.
After all, the army has traveled a long way to war, and after they have won the victory, they must relax, and the best way to relax is to kill and implement the three-light policy.
Of course, Kim An and her husband Yulong were allowed to go back, but all the prisoners of war of the Silla and Baekje coalition forces were escorted to Jeju Island.
After all, they are a living force, once they are put back, if the other party is not ready to surrender, these people will become Zhou Baotong's enemies again.
So Zhou Baotong escorted them all to Jeju Island, but Zhou Baotong did not kill them, after all, he still wanted Silla and Baekje to surrender to him.
Once the killings are carried out and the anger of the people is aroused, this surrender is likely to be ruined, and the war will be expanded, and the losses will increase with it.
Kim An and Baekje returned to their country under the escort of Zhou Baotong, who informed them that in a week, they would be overwhelmed by the army.
Zhou Baotong only gave them a week, and after a week, if they were not ready to submit, Zhou Baotong set out from Jeju Island and marched into Silla and Baekje.
A week is enough for the other party to consider, and the time can't be long, once a long time is given, the other party's coastal defense will be almost done, and when it is attacking, it will be very unfavorable to itself.
Kim An returned to Silla and met with the king of Silla: "Your Majesty, your subordinates are incompetent, surrender to the other party!" ”
King Silla looked at Jin An and was silent: "I thought about defeat, I thought you would die in battle, but I didn't expect you to surrender to the other party!" ”
Jin An was silent, Jin An really didn't think about surrendering, but Fu Yulong rebelled, and he was forced to surrender, but in a conversation with Zhou Baotong, he found that Silla couldn't fight Zhou Baotong at all, so he slowly accepted the surrender.
Of course, his surrender was a testament to the respect and trust of the King of Silla.
Let him lead the troops to fight against Zhou Baotong, which is very important to him, but he surrendered and now comes to persuade him to surrender, which is indeed a shame of the king's trust and respect for him.
Jin An knelt on the ground, and the king of Silla looked at Jin An and said: "When Fu Yulong rebelled, when you were pressed onto the enemy ship, you could choose to commit suicide to protect your honor, but you didn't, but chose to surrender and join the wolf, and now you have come to persuade me to surrender!" ”
It is true that there are generally many people who would rather die than surrender, even if their subordinates rebel and are escorted to the enemy, and the enemy army persuades them to surrender, they will choose themselves to maintain their honor.
And Jin An didn't do this, when he was escorted to Zhou Baotong, he was forced to surrender, but he didn't think about preferring to die rather than give in, he wanted to live and return to Silla to continue to fight Zhou Baotong.
But when Zhou Baotong said that he was strong, he saw that Silla was unable to compete with Zhou Baotong, he chose to surrender, and even agreed with Zhou Baotong's opinion to persuade him to surrender.
In Jin An's eyes, life is still more important than integrity and honor, after all, when he was escorted to the enemy ship, he thought about how to survive, not commit suicide to protect his honor.
"Your Majesty, our Silla can't compete with the other party at all, behind the other party is the vassal state of the Great Zhou Empire, the Qi State, and the Qi State is the power of the eastern part of the empire, this is not something that we can only fight against Silla, the land of projectiles!" Jin An looked at King Silla and said.
When the king of Silla heard Jin An's words, he trembled, looked at Jin An and said, "What do you say, there is the power of the empire behind this Dongyi island country?" ”
Jin An nodded: "Otherwise, how could the Uesugi family win the power of the Emperor and the power of the shogunate?" What about the unification of the Dongyi Island Country? It is because their family has obtained the power of Qi that they can unify the Dongyi Island Country! ”
Silla understands the situation of Dongyi Island Country, after all, they have been guarding this small land for a long time, which requires trade from overseas to get money to enrich their supplies.
As for overseas trade, they will definitely accept the Dongyi Island Country, and they also know that the Dongyi Island Country is divided into many forces, the strongest of which is the Emperor Power and the Shogunate Power.
The king of Silla nodded after listening to Jin An's words, as Jin An said, how could the Uesugi family have the ability to unify the Dongyi Island country without the help of foreign forces.
Although the Uesugi family is a relatively strong force in the Dongyi Island Country, it is not strong enough to sweep the entire Dongyi Island Country.
In fact, Wang Yi wanted to support the Sado family, after all, the Sado family was Qi Xiaobai's relatives, and he was also friendly with Sado at war.
However, the strength of relatives is easy to be independent, so Qi Xiaobai chose the Uesugi family supported by Zhou Baotong.
If the Sado family gets the right to rule the Dongyi Island Kingdom, it will be easy for them to become independent of the Qi Kingdom by virtue of their status as a relative.
It is also possible to expand its domestic power in the Qi State and form the dictatorship of foreign relatives, so Qi Xiaobai vetoed Wang Yi's opinion of supporting the Sado family.
Instead, the Uesugi family was chosen, of course, the people of the Sado family were not convinced, but what if they were not convinced?
Of course, although Keiko Sado blew the pillow wind in Qi Xiaobai's ears, Qi Xiaobai was no longer the original Qi Xiaobai.
He didn't listen to Keiko Sado's ears, although Qi Xiaobai liked Keiko Sado, but in national affairs, he still listened to himself.
After all, Qi Xiaobai knew that if he was swayed by a woman, then it would be a manifestation of the death of the country and the reduction of the prisoner.
He didn't want to be like a certain emperor on the earth, in a certain year, alone, without anyone by his side, find an old crooked neck tree, hang himself on the old crooked neck tree.
"The king has the power of the empire, and our Silla is powerless to resist, if we don't surrender at this time, when the other party's army enters the territory of my Silla, we will definitely be devastated!" Jin An looked at King Silla and said.
The king of Silla was silent, once the war broke out, it would definitely be devastated, Silla had no coastal defense at all, and once the opposing army entered the territory, they could not do anything at all.
As for holding on to the city, without foreign aid, Silla could not hold out for long.
They Silla and Baekje were able to resist Goguryeo for many years because they built a huge fortification on the border of Goguryeo, and this fortification isolated Silla from Baekje and Goguryeo.
Unless Goguryeo broke through this fortification, but Goguryeo's perennial attacks were simply unable to break through, and each attack suffered heavy losses, and over time, Goguryeo gave up its plan to attack Silla and Baekje.
But at sea, they do not have such huge fortifications, nor do they have any geographical advantages, and in the case of a disparity in military power, they will only be crushed.