Chapter 1372: Sacrifice the city to avoid death
Just after noon, the sun showed a smiling face on the originally cloudy sky, and the officers and soldiers in the officers and soldiers camp outside the city had eaten and walked around the lake and the river, either sleeping or going into the water to play, anyway, it seemed that they were coming for an outing, and the atmosphere in the city was definitely a quiet and good time.
Under the shade of the trees on the shore of Linghu Lake, Li Yan and the generals are sitting together and are making plans for tomorrow's general attack, no one can be sure whether the thief army will surrender or not, so the siege is a necessary alternative, once the thief army in the city does not surrender before dark tomorrow, the officers and soldiers will launch a full-scale attack, all the troops will participate in the battle, all the firearms, troops, and guys will be invested, and the scale is by no means comparable to the previous two attacks launched to exert pressure.
"Ugly words are said in the front, my old Liu is not afraid of offending anyone, this main attack must be ......" Liu Zeqing just opened his mouth to express his position when he saw several horsemen rushing from a distance, and immediately shouted: "Report to General Li, the thief in the city will send someone to meet."
Oh! Everyone was shocked and smiled at each other, it seems that there is something good!
The person sent by Cheng Niandong was his confidant Yuanhe, who was brought to the generals to report to his family, and his face was neither humble nor arrogant: "Dare to ask who says it here."
"Even if the general says it," Li Yan smiled slightly, Yuan He glanced at him and arched his hand: "Dare to ask the general how to call it." ”
"Li Yan"
Yuan He was shocked: "You are Li Yan!" ”
Li Yan chuckled: "If it's fake, tell me your intentions."
"Since General Li is here, we can be regarded as trustworthy people" Yuan He breathed a sigh of relief: "General Cheng is willing to sacrifice the city and send the small ones to ask for the price."
"Heh, others are bidding first, you should ask the price first" Huang Degong smiled and said to Li Yan: "This price is not very easy to open!" ”
Yuan He smiled: "General Cheng said that he will sacrifice the city if the price is right, and if the price is not negotiable, he will not reduce it."
"Why do you want to surrender" Before Li Yan could speak, Liu Zeqing next to him suddenly rushed to Yuan He and lifted him up: "Lao Tzu is about to accept you thieves and rats...... But why do you want to descend? ”
Yuan He's face turned pale with fright from him, and he struggled hard: "You, you, you're crazy!" ”
"Mr. Liu!" Li Yan's face sank, Liu Zeqing snorted coldly and threw Yuan He to the ground and then said angrily: "Even if the thieves have descended, they are also forced by our siege pressure, and our department is still the first merit!" ”
"What you do is not what you say, nor what Li Yan says, when it is the court or the little eunuch who says it" Huang Degong and Li Yan were good friends, and when they saw Liu Zeqing being so domineering, they stood up, Liu Zeqing didn't dare to provoke him, and snorted coldly: "No matter who says it, when it comes to heaven, this merit is also Lao Tzu."
Li Yan ignored him, walked to Yuan He's side and helped him up: "You go back and tell Cheng Niandong that as long as he dedicates the city, he will definitely give him a suitable price."
Yuan He smiled bitterly: "General Li, you didn't say what you said, you let me pass the word at least open the price first!" ”
"That's good" Li Yan chuckled: "You go back and tell him that you will sacrifice the city to avoid death!" ”
Yes! Yuan He was stunned: "You, what did you say?" ”
"Sacrifice the city to avoid death" Li Yan said word by word: "This is the biggest price that the general can offer, you are a thief to rob the house, attack the city and plunder the land to poison the people, it is a crime that deserves death, if the city is dedicated today, it will be to protect his life, and he will be incorporated into the court to serve, if tomorrow after dark, after the city will be broken, he will not escape death."
"You, you, you are also a thief, how can you say that......" Yuan He panicked and was angry, Li Yan smiled slightly: "But Ben Jiang is now an official, and officials and thieves are not separate!" He waved his hand: "You just have to pass the word to him, by the way, it is best to let him come out in person to meet Ben Jiang."
At the head of Anqing City, Yuan He told everything just now, Cheng Niandong listened carefully, but his face did not change unexpectedly.
"Li Yan, a traitor, is doing his best to the imperial court, and he can be ranked in the Pillar Country because he stepped on the corpses of our rebel brothers, which is called a general's success and ten thousand bones, this dog's ......" Yuan He couldn't help but scold.
"I'm relieved when he says this" Cheng Niandong exhaled, but Yuan He couldn't understand: "Head, this Anqing has a high wall, if they want to fight down, they will have to kill thousands of people, let's sacrifice the city for nothing, they don't even give a little benefit, they just avoid death, this ......"
"This price is not low, if he allows me to be a general, Wanhu Marquis, then he will yin me!" Cheng Niandong gritted his teeth: "I was originally worried that the other party would rebel and kill me after surrendering to Cheng, but at this time, Li Yan will at least survive, this matter is negotiable."
Yuan He scratched his head, "If you think it's feasible, it's feasible, but I think that even if Li Yanbu is a guarantee, we may not be killed if we surrender in the past, and the Eight Kings and King Chuang were not killed back then."
"Do you know why the two of them weren't killed when the court recruited him?" Cheng Niandong sneered, and Yuan He frowned: "I heard that it was not a big climate back then, and the court was careless."
"It's good that you know, at this time and that time, now the righteous army is in full swing, but if the general is captured or surrenders voluntarily, he will be killed, and the court is afraid of repeating the mistakes of the past."
"Then Li Yan is a big man in our rebel army, how can he be alive......" Yuan He scratched his head again.
"Naturally, someone protects him" Cheng Niandong exhaled: "So we also have to find someone to guaranture" said and looked outside the city: "Arrange it, I want to meet Li Yan."
A big event is happening in Chizhou, a hundred miles northeast of Anqing!
The thief Bai Wang was surrounded!
Bai Wang, who fled like Liufeng Mountain, was finally discovered by the officers and soldiers, although he was good at climbing mountains and mountains and drilling forests, he would set up suspicious formations to lure away the pursuers, this kind of trick had an obvious effect on ordinary officers and soldiers, but it was his former comrades-in-arms who tracked him, and all his tricks were clear at a glance.
The first to discover Bai Wang's whereabouts was Wang Zamao, he sent people to follow the track to eliminate one by one, and sent people to the peak to watch, and finally found Bai Wangbu, Wang Zamao was overjoyed, while leading people to chase after him, he sent people to the rear of the large army to ventilate the news, the reason for doing this is not that he is selfless, but worried that his manpower is not enough, and the people behind him are not as fast as he chases, but he can be strong for himself, so that Bai Wang does not dare to yin himself, and Wu Sangui and others in the rear immediately gathered the army to rush to the news after learning the news.
And Bai Wang in the mountains also found that his whereabouts were exposed, and when he saw that there were not many pursuers, he wanted to ambush him, but his subordinates had no intention of fighting, no combat power, and they did not find a good position for a while, so they decided to continue to flee into the mountains.
But running over there, there are pursuers in the north, there seem to be pursuers in the canyon on the west side, and the unfathomable mountains in the east are excellent hiding places, but there is almost no way to look at the cliffs at a glance, and then look at the south of the mountain...... At the foot of the six peaks, there seems to be a canyon and a village.
Then run to the south of the mountain, the pursuers can't catch up for a while, he can first loot the village over there and then hide in the mountains to the east along the canyon, Bai Wang, who made up his mind, immediately fled with Yuan Sanzhong with less than 300 people to the south of Liufeng Mountain, that's right, there are less than 300 thieves with him at this time.
The plan is good, but the pursuers are already red-eyed, Wang Zamao's eyes are really red, from the time he entered the mountain to track until now, he has almost not closed his eyes, and the clothes on his body have already been scraped into strips of cloth by tree branches, and he was hungry and thirsty and searched in the rain for two days and two nights, and at this time he found a big fat Bai Wang, even if his leg was broken, he had to climb over!
Since the discovery of Bai Wang's traces, Wang Zamao desperately chased, all the way over the mountains and mountains to overcome thorns and thorns, and then look at the mountains and run dead horses, the mountains are complicated, obviously not far away, but in the blink of an eye is a cliff, you have to go around a big circle, but Wang Zamao is angry, the only comfort is that a lot of Bai Wang's deserters were incorporated along the way, so he painted cakes and offered a reward for them to chase together, but these deserters were also exhausted and just made a show, and they fell behind not long after.
Here, Wang Zamao used all his strength to eat Nana and chased wildly, but there was a speechless scene over there.