It is better to laugh or cry than to cry without tears. For example, Cheng Niandong is holding a telescope on the top of the city and looking at the human head hanging on a high pole. This head was hung up early in the morning and he has looked at it countless times.
, but it is still unclear whether it is Bai Wang.
There is lime on the person's head, which seems to disfigure the face. It feels a bit similar, but not quite the same.
He couldn't confirm whether it was Bai Wang or not, but it was no longer important. The military morale had been completely affected. It had been affected since the night before, the night when Chang Yu sent people across the river to contact Li Yan. After all, smart people
He was not the only one. There were many people who saw the clues. Soon there were rumors among the army that night that the officers and soldiers had crossed the border and Chizhou had been defeated. When the army was frightened, Li Yan came to attack the city again and was more fierce than the last time. He was almost
So he attacked.
After the officers and soldiers finally withdrew at dawn, who knew that another person's head was hung on a pole, saying it was Bai Wang's head? The military was in an uproar and was so restless that Cheng Niandong, who was already on the verge of collapse, couldn't hold on any longer and locked himself in a small dark room.
I cried, howled, and smashed myself until I vented my anger, and finally calmed down a little.
"Boss, can I tell you a few words from my heart?" Just as Cheng Niandong was holding up his telescope to watch, a confidant beside him whispered. Cheng Niandong put down his telescope and looked at the person in front of him: "Yuanhe, the best person around me.
The person you trust is you, just say whatever you have to say."
Yuan He swallowed and glanced outside the city: "What do you think?" Cheng Niandong was startled: "What do you think?"
"Should we continue to defend the city or surrender?" Yuan He bit his lip and whispered. If Cheng Niandong was emotionally unstable recently, if others asked, he might be pushed out and executed.
Cheng Niandong took a deep breath and turned his gaze to the officers and soldiers camp 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 commander is on the other side, but I know that the commander must have been defeated. The officers and soldiers on the other side failed to defend their offensive..."
"Go on." Cheng Niandong didn't look back and just turned his eyes towards the Yangtze River.
"Once the commander-in-chief's side is defeated, we will have no reinforcements. We will become an isolated city with no way to retreat. We will be surrounded by others and we will not be able to escape. We must either hold on and wear out the officers and soldiers, or we have to surrender. Now...the officers and soldiers are getting more and more offensive.
But our military morale is getting more and more chaotic, thinking about everything... the people in the city are even more panic-stricken. Sooner or later there will be trouble if this continues. What's more, before dark tomorrow it will be the time for the officers and soldiers to launch a general attack. Now the brothers have no intention of fighting.
...I'm just afraid..."
"What else?" Cheng Niandong didn't seem to feel anything. In fact, how could he not know what Yuan He said, but he always avoided and dared not face it. Now he needed someone to tell all these interests and risks to wake him up and force him to make a decision.
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"Even if we can withstand the general attack of tomorrow's officers and soldiers, can we withstand the next wave? If an isolated city is either destroyed from the outside by them or collapsed from the inside by our own people, how long can we persist? What is the meaning of persistence?" Yuan
Kazuya risked his life: "If we surrender at this time, there will still be some benefits. I'm afraid that the longer it takes, the more angry the officers and soldiers will be. Let's..."
"So you actually agree to surrender?" Cheng Niandong turned around with no strange expression on his face. Yuan He took a deep breath: "I agree that nothing matters. No matter what choice you make, I will follow you."
, if you choose to stick to it, I will stick to it with you..."
As he was talking, he suddenly heard shouts of killing from below the city. Cheng Niandong was shocked and thought that the soldiers were about to attack the city. When he looked around and saw that no one was there, he suddenly realized that the killing sounds were coming from inside the city: "North Gate, over there at the North Gate...
"Yuanhe reacted first.
Cheng Niandong spread his arms and ran to the north gate, not forgetting to shout to the guards on the city: "Zhang Gong, Zhang Gong, if anyone comes out of the city to shoot..."
He was out of breath after running near the north gate, but the sound of killing below was even louder. Cheng Niandong looked down while holding on to the wall stacks, and saw hundreds of people fighting under the north gate. They were all under his command. He suddenly understood that there must be someone.
Want to seize the door and surrender to the enemy...
"Stop, stop! Don't fight." Cheng Niandong got the strength from nowhere and ran to the north gate, jumped on the battlements and shouted. The two parties who were fighting gradually stopped and divided into two groups when they heard his shouts.
Confronted.
"Cheng Niandong, Bai Shuai has been defeated and we have no help. If you continue to defend, you will die. If you want to die, die by yourself. Don't drag us to bury you with you." A big man with a knife in the city shouted wildly, and more than 200 people behind him echoed.
Jiuxiao.
"Huang Yancheng, I had expected that you would be the first to turn around, but I didn't expect that you would attract so many brothers!" Cheng Niandong snorted coldly, and the big man took a sip and said, "There are not only so many people who want to leave.
Brother, it’s just that I couldn’t bear it any longer. Now that things have come to a point, either open the door and let me out, or I’ll fight my way out! If I stay in the city, I’ll die anyway, so I’m going to give it a try!"
I thought Cheng Niandong would be furious after hearing this, but he just shook his head gently: "We have been surrounded by Zuo Liangyu in the mountains for several years, running around like mice but never thought of surrendering, so we came out of the mountain."
Just a few months later, this is what we have been waiting for..."
"But it's in the mountains. If we don't surrender, we'll have somewhere to run. But now we're in an isolated city. Where can we escape? If we continue to defend it, there's only one way to die. If we surrender, we can at least survive. If we don't want to fight with the officers and soldiers, we can just run away."
Huang Yancheng's words were very inflammatory, and many rebels began to whisper and discuss among themselves.
Cheng Niandong was very tired. He wanted to say something, but he always felt that he was unconvincing. He had to sigh: "Why did we rebel in the first place? Why rebel if we surrender easily? Besides, after surrendering, you think you can run away if you want."
You can run away, brothers, don’t forget our original intention..."
Original intention? Hahaha, Huang Yancheng laughed and cried: "The original intention of our rebellion is to have enough food to eat and a way to live. Is it possible that it is really a blessing to all living beings? Besides, it is to defeat all the glory in the world.
Wealth and honor are not ours' turn to be enjoyed by pawns. After all, we are just the knives they use to conquer the world. Since they are knives, of course whoever gives them a way to live and who gives them food to eat will do what they want."
"Yes, we need a way to survive and food to eat!" Hundreds of thieves in the city waved their swords and shouted. Cheng Niandong was shaken and speechless for a moment. Huang Yancheng shouted again: "Boss Cheng, please take a look at the situation in front of you, and then continue the fight.
We are at a dead end. Ask how many brothers want to fight now. You must be loyal and loyal but don't drag the brothers into the water. Please let us out..."
There was a lot of noise in the city, and even some of the rebels who originally blocked Huang Yancheng began to switch sides, brandishing their swords and shouting to leave the city.
That's it, that's it! Cheng Niandong suddenly felt discouraged and shouted to the people in the city: "Let me think about it again."
"Still thinking? The officers and soldiers will launch a general attack when it gets dark tomorrow. At that time, even if we want to surrender, we won't accept it..." Huang Yancheng shouted, and the brothers behind him followed suit. Cheng Niandong waved his hand to calm everyone down: "We also want to surrender.
Negotiate good terms, if you just go out now, you will be nothing more than a worthless dog that is at the mercy of others."
"How can I trust you? What if you are just stalling for time..." As soon as Huang Yancheng opened his mouth, he was cut off by Cheng Niandong: "Is it possible that I, Cheng Niandong, are such a dishonest person in your hearts?" He slapped him.
Chest: "Before noon tomorrow, if we surrender together, we will surrender together. If attacked, I will defend to the death. How about I let you leave first?"
Huang Yancheng discussed in a low voice with the people around him for a while, and then he bowed his hands to Cheng Niandong: "Boss Cheng, our friendship for many years has been preserved so that we can meet each other in the future. Don't try to do anything absolutely. This time, we believe in you. But
Don't think about taking the opportunity to plot against us. In fact, you also know that we had every chance to kill you Xiancheng before. The reason why we didn't do this was because of the friendship we have had for many years."
"I understand." Cheng Niandong also bowed his hand: "You can rest assured that I will not attack any of my own people. I will either surrender together or let you go before noon tomorrow."
Huang Yancheng took his people to a military camp. Cheng Niandong on the top of the city could no longer stand upright and sat down along the city wall. Yuan He: "Are we really going to surrender?"
Yuan He breathed a sigh of relief: "People's hearts have been dispersed, and there is no point in holding on. Huang Yancheng is right. We just surrender and then escape."
"Fake surrender, right?" Cheng Niandong slowly raised his head: "Both King Chuang and the Eight Great Kings have done this before."