Liu Qingzhou sent out several troops under his command, leaving only one troops beside him, and camped several miles away.

At the same time, a team of sergeants were left behind, staring at the movements in the city at all times.

"Yingzheng, do you think we should try to persuade the officials in Tiancheng Acropolis to surrender?" Ji Kui, who was fighting outside and returned to the big tent, expressed his thoughts on surrendering in front of Liu Qingzhou.

Liu Qingzhou rubbed his chin with his hands and said, "In the eyes of the government, our tiger flag is a rioter, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty may not surrender easily."

"You can send someone to try it." Ji Kui said, "I heard that the commander of Tianchengwei, Zhou Tong, is very incompetent. He only gets the black hat on his head with silver. For such a person, we only need to promise to save his life, and may not take the initiative to open the city to surrender."

The Immigration Bureau of the Tiger Flag collects various external information.

As the person with the highest status of Tianchengwei, Zhou Tong, commander of Tianchengwei, naturally, in the attention of the Illinois Bureau, all the information about Zhou Tong had long been sent to the head of the army commander of the tiger-shaped flag attacking Tianchengwei by the Illinois Bureau.

As the staff officer of the war barracks and Liu Qingzhou's deputy, Ji Kui was naturally qualified to see the information about Zhou Tong.

Liu Qingzhou pursed his lips and shook his head, saying, "Don't forget the news we received, but Wang Bao, the general of Xuanfu, is also in Tianchengwei, and Zhou Tong is incompetent, but Wang Bao is not a fool. Although our tiger-shaped flag has strong troops, it has only captured a border fort like Xinping Fort so far. Wang Bao, as the general of Xuanfu, can easily surrender our tiger-shaped flag?"

He was not optimistic about the persuasion of Tian Chengwei to surrender.

He would not surrender easily when he was in a different position. After all, it is not clear whether the tiger flag is powerful yet. On the contrary, the power of the Ming Dynasty is real.

"What a pity. If we can capture Tiancheng Guard without spending one soldier, we can save us. Deputy Chief Gao and the artillery team don't have to waste time coming." Ji Kui sighed lightly.

Liu Qingzhou next to him smiled and said, "No hurry, when Deputy Gao is coming with the artillery team, Tianchengwei will still be in the hands of our tiger flag."

When he spoke, his tone was very relaxed.

Even the two border troops of Xuanfu and Datong are not opponents of their Tiger Flag Army. They are far less powerful than the guards of the border troops, and they are even more unlikely to stop the Tiger Flag Army's advancement.

Even if there are some of the defeated soldiers and horses in Tiancheng Acropolis, it is useless.

The sun sets west and the sky becomes darker.

A group of tiger-shaped flags sent out to clear out the Tiancheng Guards began to return, and those who came back with them were also captured prisoners.

These prisoners were not all the soldiers of the garrison, and a large part of them followed Wang Bao and fled to Tiancheng Guard.

When the last team sent out the tiger flags returned, the captive garrison and border soldiers of several tiger flags combined with more than 3,000 soldiers.

The captured prisoners were almost caught up with the number of troops Liu Qingzhou brought.

Night falls soon.

The army of tiger flags did not attack the city, which made Zhou Tong in the city secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

"Master, the food is ready. Do you see if you go to eat something first?" The servant in the commander's yamen asked carefully.

The rioters besieged the city, and the servants in the mansion saw that Mr. Zhou was in a bad mood, which made the servants very careful when speaking, for fear that the words would be too loud and annoy their master.

Zhou Tong waved his hand and said, "I won't eat anymore, I won't have an appetite."

"How can I not eat? The more I eat more at this time, so that I can have the strength to kill the enemy." As he finished speaking, Wang Bao walked in from outside the house with two personal soldiers.

Zhou Tong, who was on the seat, looked uneasy and saw that Wang Bao came, hurriedly got up to meet him, and said, "General Wang is back, what's wrong? Can you stop the rioters outside the city?"

"There are naturally not a big problem to block the rioters outside the city." Wang Bao put his beard and smiled slightly.

Hearing this, Zhou Tongsong said, "With General Wang's words, the officials will be relieved. The next matter of defending the city will depend on General Wang."

"Don't worry, since I promised to defend the city, I will naturally not go back on my word, but," Wang Bao paused and then said, "The rioters outside the city are just one of the rioters. I'm afraid that more rioters will come in the next few days, and even many cannons will be brought together."

Zhou Tong, who had just relaxed, was stunned when he heard that there would be bandits coming.

"This, this, this, why are there any bandits coming? Why don't they go to harm other places? Why do they have to come to Tianchengwei?" Zhou Tong slapped his thigh with a sad look on his face.

Wang Bao, who was standing in front of him, heard these words and twitched unnaturally.

Unexpectedly, the commander of Tianchengwei was so afraid of death that he could even say anything to let the bandits harm other places.

After saying that, Zhou Tong seemed to know that he had said the wrong thing, and said with a slightly embarrassed look on his face: "President Wang, don't misunderstand it. It's not that the officials hope that the bandits will harm other places. It's really because Tianchengwei can't withstand too many attacks from the bandits."

"I can understand Commander Zhou, but I also ask Commander Zhou to be mentally prepared. The bandits have more than 10,000 troops and many cannons in their hands. If we want to defend the city, we can only fight to the death with all our might." Wang Bao said to Zhou Tong.

He wanted Zhou Tong to understand that without the determination to fight to the death, he could not defend Tianchengwei.

Zhou Tong grinned.

Although he is incompetent, he is not a fool, so he can naturally understand what Wang Bao means.

But this does not mean that he is really willing to live and die with Tianchengwei.

If Wang Bao hadn't brought thousands of border troops to station them into the city, he would have wanted to abandon the city and flee.

As for the idea of ​​surrendering to the rioters outside the city, he never thought about it. No matter what, he was also the commander of the third-rank ward. It was impossible for him to surrender to a group of rioters.

Although he was a little incompetent, he did not think that the court could not pacify the rioters named the Tiger Banner.

Even though there were rumors that the tiger flag conquered the Tumote tribe, no one saw with his own eyes what was going on. No one knew what was going on. At most, only the thief leader Liu Heng was in Qingcheng.

Similarly, the leader of the Tumot tribe still lives in the Khan Palace in Qingcheng.

Therefore, even if the tiger-like flag has troops appear on the grassland, it does not mean that the Tumote tribe was conquered by the tiger-like flag. It may be that some kind of cooperation has been reached between the tiger-like flag and the Tumote tribe.

Even if the tiger flag conquered the Tumote tribe, even when it was at its most powerful time, the Tumote tribe could not do anything to the Ming Dynasty. In the end, it would still surrender to the Ming Dynasty and accept the title.
Chapter completed!