It's much better to cry and laugh than to cry without tears, for example, Cheng Niandong, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror on the head of the city and looking at the human head hanging on the high pole, this head was hung up early in the morning, he had seen it countless times, but he still couldn't be sure whether it was Bai Wang.

There is lime on the human head as if it is broken, it feels a little similar, but it is not very similar.

He can't confirm whether it is Bai Wang or not, but it doesn't matter anymore, the military spirit has been completely affected, and it has been affected since the night before, that is, the evening when Chang Yu sent people across the river to contact Li Yan, after all, he is not the only smart person, and there are many people who can see the clues, and soon there are rumors in the army that night, the officers and soldiers have crossed, Chizhou has been broken, and when the army is panicked, Li Yan came to attack the city again and was more fierce than the last time, and almost attacked it.

Finally, after the officers and soldiers withdrew at dawn, who knew that they would stand on the pole and hang people's heads and say that it was Bai Wang's head, and the army's heart was in an uproar and restlessness, so that Cheng Niandong, who was already on the verge of collapse, couldn't hold it anymore at all, and locked himself in a small black room and cried, howled and smashed a catharsis to finally calm down a little.

"Head, can I say a few words to you?" Just when Cheng Niandong was holding the clairvoyant mirror and watching, a henchman next to him whispered, Cheng Niandong put down the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the person in front of him: "Yuanhe, the most trusted person around me is you, if you have anything to say."

Yuan He swallowed and spat at the probe and glanced out of the city: "What do you think?" Cheng Niandong was stunned: "What do you think?" ”

"Do you want to continue to defend or surrender the city?" Yuan He bit his lip and whispered, if Cheng Niandong was emotionally unstable recently, if someone else asked, he might be pushed out and cut directly.

Cheng Niandong took a deep breath and turned his gaze to the camp of officers and soldiers outside the city: "Do you think I should continue to defend or surrender?"

"I don't know" Yuan He shook his head: "Just like I don't know if the other side is the marshal's, but I know that the marshal must have been defeated, and the offensive of the officers and soldiers on the other side of the strait is not ......"

Then he said: "Cheng Niandong didn't look back, just turned his eyes to the Yangtze River.

"As soon as the marshal's side is defeated, we will have no reinforcements, and it will become a lonely city, and there is no way to retreat, and we can't run away because we are surrounded by others, and we will either defend and kill the officers and soldiers, or we can only surrender, now...... The offensive of the officers and soldiers is becoming more and more fierce, but our military spirit is becoming more and more chaotic, and we can think of everything...... The common people in the city are even more panicked, and sooner or later there will be chaos if this continues, not to mention that it is time for the officers and soldiers to attack before dark tomorrow, and now the brothers have no intention of fighting...... I'm just afraid ......"

"What's more" Cheng Niandong didn't seem to feel anything, in fact, how could he not know what Yuan He said, but he was always running away and didn't dare to face it, he now needed someone to tell all these benefits and stakes to wake himself up and force himself to make a decision.

"Even if we can withstand the general attack of tomorrow's officers and soldiers, can we hold back the next wave? The lonely city was either broken by them from the outside or their own people collapsed from the inside, how long can we hold out, and what is the meaning of insistence" Yuan He also let it go: "If you surrender at this time, you can still fall into the benefits, but I am afraid that the longer it drags on, the officers and soldiers will be angry, let's ......"

"So you actually agree with surrender, right" Cheng Niandong turned around, there was no strange expression on his face, Yuan He took a deep breath: "I agree that it doesn't matter what you do, no matter what choice you make, I will follow you, if you choose to defend me, I will defend with you......"

As he was talking, he suddenly heard a killing cry under the city, Cheng Niandong was shocked and thought that the officers and soldiers were going to attack the city, and when he saw that there was no one, he suddenly realized that the killing sound came from within the city: "North Gate, ...... over there at the North Gate" Yuan He reacted first.

Cheng Niandong ran to the north gate, not forgetting to shout to the city guards: "Zhang Gong, Zhang Gong, if someone goes out of the city to shoot ......"

Cheng Niandong leaned on the wall and looked down, and saw that hundreds of people were fighting under the north gate, and they were all his own subordinates......

"Stop, stop! Don't fight," Cheng Niandong didn't know where he got the strength, so he ran to the north gate, jumped on the battlements and shouted, the two parties who were fighting heard his shouting, and gradually stopped, and divided into two factions to confront each other.

"Cheng Niandong, Bai Shuai has been defeated and we have no help, and if we continue to defend it, it will be a dead end, if you want to die, you will die yourself, don't drag us to bury you" The sword-wielding man under the city shouted wildly, and more than 200 people behind him echoed the sound of Jiuxiao.

"Huang Yancheng, I expected that if someone was the first to be you, but I didn't expect you to pull so many brothers!" Cheng Niandong snorted coldly, and the big man snorted and said: "There are so many brothers who have the heart to leave, but Lao Tzu can't help it first, and the matter has come to this point, either open the door and let me out, or I will kill it!" Staying in the city is death anyway, Lao Tzu has to fight! ”

I thought that Cheng Niandong would be furious when he heard this, but he just shook his head lightly: "We have been surrounded and suppressed by Zuo Liangyu in the mountains for several years, running around like rats, but we have never thought of surrendering, and we have only been out of the mountain for a few months, and we are like ......."

"But it's in the mountains, we don't descend, some are running somewhere, but now, where are we fleeing to a lonely city, and there is only a dead end if we go on, we can at least survive if we fall, and if you don't want to do anything with the officers and soldiers, you can just run away again" Huang Yancheng's words were very inflammatory, and many thieves began to talk about each other.

Cheng Niandong was very tired, he wanted to say something but he always felt that there was no convincing force, so he had to sigh: "What did we pull the flag to rebel for, if we surrendered at every turn, why rebel, besides, after surrendering, you think you can run away if you want to, brothers, don't forget our original intention......"

The original intention? Hahaha, Huang Yancheng laughed and cried: "The original intention of our rebellion was to have a full meal and a way to live, is it true to bless all living beings, besides, it is not the turn of these pawns to enjoy the glory and wealth of the world, after all, we are just the knives they use to fight the world, since it is a knife, of course, who gives the way to live, who gives food and who does it."

"Yes, you want to live, you want to eat!" Hundreds of thieves under the city waved their knives and shouted, Cheng Niandong was shaky and speechless for a while, Huang Yancheng shouted again: "Boss Cheng, please take a look at the current situation, if we continue to fight, we will be dead, you ask how many brothers want to fight now, you want to be loyal and righteous but don't pull the brothers into the water, please let us out......"

There was an uproar in the city, and even some of the thief troops who had originally blocked Huang Yancheng began to turn against each other and shouted with their knives to get out of the city.

That's it, that's it! Cheng Niandong was suddenly disheartened, and shouted to the city: "Let me think about it again."

"Still want to? Tomorrow when it gets dark, the officers and soldiers will launch a general attack, and at that time, we don't want to surrender even if we want to......" Huang Yancheng shouted, and the brothers behind him echoed, Cheng Niandong waved his hand to signal everyone to calm down: "Surrender must also negotiate good conditions, if you go out like this at this time, you will only be worthless to pick a dog at the mercy of others."

"How can I believe you, in case you just delay time......" Huang Yancheng was interrupted by Cheng Niandong as soon as he opened his mouth: "Could it be that I, Cheng Niandong, am such a person who has no faith in my heart!" As he spoke, he patted his chest: "Before noon tomorrow, if we descend together, if we fight me, I will defend to the death, how about you leave first."

Huang Yancheng discussed with a few people around him in a low voice, and then bowed his hand to Cheng Niandong: "Boss Cheng, we have been friends for many years, and we will see each other in the future, don't do anything wrong, this time we believe you once, but don't think about taking the opportunity to calculate us, in fact, you also know that we had every chance to kill you and sacrifice the city before, and the reason why we didn't do it is because of the love for many years."

"I understand" Cheng Niandong also arched his hand: "You can rest assured that I won't attack my own people, and before noon tomorrow, we will either descend together or let you go." ”

Huang Yancheng took his people to a military camp, Cheng Niandong at the head of the city could no longer stand up straight, and sat down along the city wall, Yuan He: "Are we really going to surrender?" ”

Yuan He exhaled: "The people's hearts have been scattered, there is no point in holding on, what Huang Yancheng said is right, let's flee after surrendering."

"Fraud is right" Cheng Niandong slowly raised his head: "This matter has been done by King Chuang and the Eight Kings."