Xu Yixian looked at the enemy army going up the river, and at Zhang Dai who was hanging up by the basket, his face was cold and numb.
He has great ambitions and compares himself to Zhuge Liang.
It's a pity that Zhang Xianzhong is not Liu Bei. He often doesn't listen to advice, and even if he listens, he only listens to half of it.
Zhang Xianzhong is a very contradictory person. When he is cruel, he kills in cold blood, and when he is gentle, he loves the people like a son.
Historically, Zhang Xianzhong once restrained the troops in Sichuan, forbidding soldiers to bully the common people, and violators would be beheaded. The prime minister of the right, Yan Ximing, was cut off by Zhang Xianzhong because he lived in a mansion. He asked the ministers of civil and military affairs to be honest and simple, and he was not allowed to marry local women.
But when Zhang Xianzhong was provoked by the Sichuan gentry, he took the lead in killing, and many innocent people were also implicated.
In this time and space, Zhang Xianzhong was similar in Hubei, and he was also very kind to the people at the beginning. Gradually, the taste changed, and government orders were often changed inexplicably, and they all had their own set of reasons.
Xu Yixian, Zhuge Liang, couldn't keep up with Zhang Xianzhong's train of thought.
"Mr. Xu!"
Zhang Dai came to the tower, smiled and bowed.
Xu Yixian stood up politely, cupped his hands in return and said: "If your Excellency persuades you to surrender, you don't need to waste your words. The lord is still fighting outside, how can I surrender to the enemy inside?"
Zhang Dai found a place to sit down by himself, and with a casual tone, he said with a smile, "I'm not lying to Mr. Xu, and I'm not talking about Zhang Xianzhong's death. But Zhang Xianzhong was indeed defeated. Stop it. Does Mr. Xu know about this?"
Xu Yixian was expressionless, but his fingers trembled involuntarily. He sneered and said, "This is a slander. Our army, horses and infantry have 800,000 soldiers, how can only the cavalry escape? Your Excellency, please go back."
"Please look outside the city." Zhang Dai pointed to the outside.
Xu Yixian got up and walked, holding on to the parapet with both hands to visit, but saw He Jiuyi escorting the two of them across the moat.
He Jiuyi shouted to the city: "Military commander, surrender, the king has already wiped out the entire army, Wang Fuchen and Zhang Mingzhi are here!"
As soon as this remark came out, the guards were in an uproar, and panic quickly spread.
Wang Fuchen and Zhang Mingzhi are both Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, and they are old thieves who have fought in the South and North for more than ten years. And He Jiuyi, although a native of Hubei, is also a rising star under Zhang Xianzhong's command.
Of the three generals, one defected to the enemy and two were captured. Zhang Xianzhong must have suffered a defeat!
Zhang Dai walked to Xu Yixian's side: "Mr. Xu, if our army continues to attack the city and the morale of the army in Hanyang City is fluctuating, how long can you hold on?"
Xu Yixian was silent.
"If you surrender now, all the soldiers in the city will be saved from death, and you won't even have to dig mines and serve prison sentences," Zhang Dai said. "Take their wives and children and go to the north to share the land. The past sins are past the past."
At this moment, the news of the Great Northern Plague has reached Zhao Han's ears.
He really didn't want to kill any more people, and he didn't want to delay the siege, because it would consume a lot of food and grass.
After Zhao Han seemed to think about it, he re-determined the policy: All the property of the soldiers under Zhang Xianzhong's command would be confiscated, and they would immigrate to Henan with their families, and they would be treated as ordinary people to share the land. Even if you hide floating wealth, as long as you don't hide much, you will not be held accountable.
Of course, when immigrating, they have to be dispersed and assigned to different states and counties.
Henan is already empty, and Shandong is also plagued by epidemics. It is necessary to enrich the population as much as possible.
As for the old thieves and generals under Zhang Xianzhong, they were carefully screened out and immigrated to Dongfan (Taiwan) and Qiongzhou (Hainan) to reclaim wasteland!
Xu Yixian still didn't speak.
Zhang Dai continued: "As for your Excellency, you can serve as an official and go to Henan to assist immigrants. In the future, no one will be treated differently for promotion. You call yourself Zhuge Liang, and you must be full of talents. You can quickly get promoted as an official."
Xu Yixian felt very aggrieved. He was Zhang Xianzhong's military adviser, and he had the merit of surrendering the city, so he could only be an official?
What if you don't surrender, Hanyang will be captured sooner or later.
Xu Yixian sighed and said, "I don't care about the army in the city."
Zhang Dai sat back in his original seat and said with a smile, "I am here waiting for your good news."
Xu Yixian could only go to the general who guarded the city, and after a few words, it was quickly settled.
Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, and the Datong army was approaching the city. No one was willing to stand firm and die. The military advisers and soldiers knelt together to welcome the King of Wu into the city.
In order to show his majesty and deter these surrendered generals, Zhao Han rode a horse Warima, wearing a full set of armor, and led the soldiers striding forward.
&Build floating bridges.
Huang Shun's troops were a little further downstream, Fei Ruhe was in charge of defending this place, and Zhang Tieniu was in the middle to support the two friendly troops.
"Boom boom boom!"
The artillery that has tried the ammunition drop point has been fired accurately and landed in the middle of the river.
After a round of salvo, two pontoon bridges were destroyed.
"Build a pontoon bridge, and everyone will be rewarded with twelve taels!" Li Dingguo roared and ordered.
The death squads responsible for building the pontoon bridge were all death squads. Although many bamboo and wooden rafts were damaged, few of these death squads really died.
It just continued for several days, constantly shelling and building bridges.
Once the bridge is built to the center of the river, the firecrackers will shoot salvo at the enemy, and when the pontoon bridge is built, the Year of the Monkey will be gone.
On the eighth day after the bridge was built, a sentry from the south suddenly came back to report: "Captain, the enemy cavalry wants to cross the river in the south!"
It was Li Dingguo who sent cavalry to go around for sixty miles, trying to swim quietly at night.
It's a pity that there were many landlubbers in the cavalry, and they didn't dare to swim directly. They had to make bamboo rafts first, and they were discovered by sentry cavalry of the Datong Army.
When the cavalry smuggling was discovered, Li Dingguo finally said ruthlessly: "The peasants take the earth and fill up the river!"
Of course it is impossible to fill up the river of history, just fill in this section.
Due to the dry weather, the 40-meter-wide river channel is not only only 30 meters wide, but also the water flow is extremely slow. It is relatively easy to fill in a road.