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Yesterday, Zhang Qi was still the commander of all the rebels in Yuanzhou City, and today he went to the city to persuade him to surrender, and this contrast makes people feel like a dream.

As for the effect of persuasion, it is naturally very good, and the nine knives of the south gate guard even opened the city gate, ready to lead his men out of the city and surrender.

That morning, he personally went to check the Jingguan outside the city, and the terrifying scene shocked him too strongly, and now the morale of the army in the city is fluctuating, embarrassed to fight, how can he not worry that his head will also become a part of the Jingguan?

They had just joined the rebels, and they didn't have much loyalty to Zhang Xianzhong. Now that Jingguan has been built outside the city, and the coach Zhang Qi has personally come to persuade him to surrender, it is natural for his mind to waver.

It's a pity that the nine knives just opened the south gate, and before they had time to get out of the city, they were discovered by Gao Ze, and the nine knives and more than a dozen rebels who planned to go out of the city "anyway" were killed by Gao Ze on the spot, and the blood stained the city gate, Qin Mu outside the city didn't know it in advance, and before he could react, the south gate was closed again.

Although Gao Ze snatched back the south gate in time, the impact of this incident was far from over, there was a precedent of nine knives, and he no longer dared to trust anyone easily, even if he sent his own soldiers to control the various city gates, he still had trouble sleeping, for fear that even his own soldiers would not be reliable, and he would have to keep patrolling back and forth.

Gao Ze was originally a short-tempered person, in this case, he naturally became more irritable, and it was still light to beat and scold the corporal at every turn, and if he had the slightest suspicion, he would definitely be killed immediately, in order to shock the scene.

As everyone knows, this makes the rebels in the city even more dangerous for themselves, detached from morality, and has their own thoughts in private, and the undercurrent is turbulent.

On a high slope in the north of the city, Qin Mu, Sima An, Liu Meng, Huo Sheng and others were also discussing the news that Tanma had just sent back.

Sima An pointed to the map and said: "Lu Daqi's 80,000 army has arrived in Luofang Town, and it is about four days away from Yuanzhou, while Zhang Xianzhong's 200,000 army has arrived in Heyao Town. It is only about five days away from Yuanzhou. Although it is possible that Lü Daqi's men and horses arrived a day earlier than Zhang Xianzhong, Zuo Liangyu's army was corrupt and uncontrollable, and it was impossible to immediately start a siege battle on the day of arrival, that is, in terms of time, Lü Daqi actually did not have time to recapture Yuanzhou at all; And in order to protect Jiangxi from the rebels, the gateway of Yuanzhou must be recaptured, and now it seems that we can only count on ourselves. ”

Speaking of which. Sima An looked at Zhang Qi, who was persuading him to surrender under the city, and then said: "Using Zhang Qi to persuade him to surrender, although it can hit the morale of the rebels in the city, I want the rebels in the city to surrender immediately, but I am afraid that it will not work." The ones sent in by the adults should work best, but we can't pin all our hopes on them, and we only have two days left for us. ”

Huo Sheng said with a smile: "Mr. Sima is reasonable, we really only have two days, and two days are used to attack the city." One day is used to transfer the materials in the city, and on the fourth day, as soon as Lu Daqi arrives, we will retreat to Wanzai to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. ”

Su Jin said cautiously: "Then do you want to launch a strong attack?" ”

"What about a storm? It's good to avoid a strong attack, but it's good to avoid it. No matter how big the casualties are, an army always wants to avoid the important and light, and opportunism is never a good thing, so you should prepare first. If the inner force of the city does not work tonight, the city will be attacked with all its might early tomorrow morning. ”

"Yes, sir."

At this time, Zhu Yijin took Zhang Qi back to the slope. Qin Mu glanced at Zhang Qi and said indifferently: "It's a pity, it seems that our deal failed." ”

"You're going to kill me?" Zhang Zai's voice became a little hoarse, it can be seen that he was still shouting very hard under the city just now, once the will of the person is shaken, the more afraid of death, since he is willing to go to the city to persuade him to surrender, it is normal to work harder.

"It's not that I'm going to kill you, it's that I have to abide by the agreement of our deal, if you can successfully persuade the rebels in the city to surrender, I will let you live, and if you fail to persuade you to surrender, you will lend me your head, as the general of the defeated army, I will give you a chance to live." It's a pity that you can't even persuade your men to surrender, it's a pity! ”

After Qin Mu finished speaking, he waved his hand, Zhu Yijin immediately took the person down, and at this life-and-death juncture, Zhang Qi could no longer maintain his composure, and shouted urgently: "Let me try again, I will definitely be able to persuade them to go out of the city and surrender, I know the details of Zhang Xianzhong's army, if Lord Qin spares my life, I am willing to tell Pan"

No one is not afraid of death, and it feels worthless to die so much, the step of surrender has been taken, and it is better to take a bigger step.

Qin Mu thought for a while and said: "Okay, this official will give you another chance, Zhu Yijin, this time let all the captives go to the city with him to persuade him to surrender, calculate the time of a pillar of incense, and don't wait for it to expire." ”

"Yes, sir."

Soon, a touching scene appeared under the city of Yuanzhou, Zhang Qi came to the city with more than 1,000 captives, loudly persuaded to surrender, the scene was very lively, the sound of persuasion came and went, moved with affection, knew with reason, and some could be said to be in tears, among these captives, many of them had relatives with the rebels in the city, or father and son, or brother, or neighbor, or relative

"Son, quickly lay down your weapons, otherwise when the city is broken, you will be beheaded to build a capital temple."

"Brother, come down quickly, Lord Qin promises not to hurt us, we can go home after the drop, my mother is still waiting for us at home."

"Erbastard, don't hold on, you can't beat the official army, Lord Qin is like a god with soldiers, it's only easy to capture Yuanzhou City, let's surrender quickly."

"Tie Niu, come down soon, see it, Zhang Dashuai said that Yuan Zhou couldn't hold it, it was all down, you still don't listen to Zhang Dashuai"

The emotional call under the city is like the sound of a mother calling her son home for dinner, so sincere, so warm, full of infinite love, I don't know how many rebels in the city waved the heart flag.

"Don't answer, the officers and soldiers are lying to you, haven't you seen the Jingguan outside Beijing, the officers and soldiers are extremely cruel, they have never left a living mouth, if you surrender, your head will be cut off immediately, don't be fooled, give me arrows, release arrows!"

Gao Ze shouted at the head of the city, and whoever answered the words of the prisoners under the city was immediately killed on the spot, and a puff of blood stained the head of the city, and the screams on the city were continuous, and there was chaos;

Under the bloody suppression of Gao Ze, the rebels in the city had to start firing arrows, but the arrows fired were not only sparse, but also light and not at all.

As soon as the time for a pillar of incense came, Qin Mu decided to add another fire, and after he let the more than 1,000 rebels withdraw, he personally came to the front of the formation and shouted loudly: "This official has always kept his promise, I have an appointment with your General Zhang, if he can persuade the rebels in the city to surrender, this official will let him live, he can't persuade him to surrender, so he will lend me a head, now it's no wonder this official." ”

Qin Mu said this, Qiang! Suddenly pulled out the giant sword, and the sword light slashed out like lightning, poof! Zhang Qi didn't even have time to let out a scream, his head had already rolled off several feet away, his broken neck was bleeding like a spring, and a smell of blood was permeating the wind;

More than a thousand captives couldn't have imagined that Zhang Qi's head fell to the ground like this, and there was a big uproar, this is their boss, Qin Mu killed, like killing a chicken, the frightened captives saw Qin Mu raise his sword again, and they couldn't help but take a small step back, one by one they were so frightened that they didn't even dare to come out.

Qin Mu held his sword and said: "Now, I will also give you a chance to take Yuanzhou City to the official, if you capture it, everyone will be rewarded, and the official who is willing to join our army will be treated equally, and if you are unwilling to join our army, the official will also give you a generous severance pay to let you go home;

If anyone cheats and cheats and doesn't contribute to work, I'm sorry, Zhang Qi is your example, live or die, you can do it yourself, don't say that the official didn't give you a chance;

Of course, you can also gamble, after attacking the city, return to Gao Ze, and hide in the city, this official doesn't mind at all, there are not many of you thousands, there are a lot of you, after hiding in, you zuihou try to ask God to bless me if I can't capture Yuanzhou City, otherwise I will let you know what is a life and death dilemma. ”

More than a thousand captives looked at each other, but still not one dared to speak. Qin Mu didn't care what they thought, and immediately shouted, "Come on, give them the weapon." ”

Half an hour later, the war drums under the city rumbled, and 1,300 captives rushed to the city wall north of Yuanzhou with knives and guns in their hands, carrying sandbags

Qin Mu's 1,700 strong soldiers lined up in the rear, swords and guns, but their main task was to supervise the battle, but if the captives dared to retreat or escape, they would be shot mercilessly.

Gao Ze also personally came to the north city wall to supervise the battle, in order to keep Yuanzhou, he also used iron-blooded means, but anyone who dared to slack off immediately cut off his head to show the public, forcing the rebels in the city to desperately release arrows, a rain of arrows whistling down, like flying locusts in the sky, the captives under the city continued to fall down with arrows, and the screams came and went, but no one dared to escape, just imagine that Qin Mu even killed Zhang Qi, would he care about killing you more?

If you die in battle, you can at least get a whole corpse under the city, which is better than being cut off and built a capital view.

More than 1,000 captives braved the rain of arrows and threw sand bubbles into the moat until they filled a passage through the moat.

The rebels in the city saw that the city suffered heavy casualties, corpses were all over the ground, blood was all over the city walls, and the rain of arrows gradually thinned out, after all, this was cannibalism, and some of the two sides were still relatives, how could they bear to poison again?

The captives under the city carried the ladder and rushed across the moat, and as they climbed to the top of the city, they also shouted to persuade them to surrender.

"Splash the oil, quick!" Gao Ze roared at the head of the city;

Two rebels walked past him carrying a pot of boiling oil, and I don't know whether it was too hasty or intentional, but one of them suddenly stumbled, and the oil pot overturned on the city, and Gao Ze jumped away quickly, still injured one foot by the soup;

The scorching pain made him furious, and he repeatedly slashed to death the two rebels who overturned the oil pot, and the city was in chaos, and the captives below easily attacked the city head along the ladder (to be continued......