Chapter 840: Do you understand what rather die than surrender means?
Lu Xiang's soul is almost gone now!
Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang unexpectedly appeared in the city with a thousand elite troops.
It's over, there's no way to save him, he's dead.
The moment he saw Guan Yu, the last string in his heart was completely broken.
A thousand soldiers had already followed up, and without Guan Yu's command at all, they attacked upward from the horse paths on both sides of the city wall.
Guan Yu jumped from his horse and flew straight to the city gate tower. Under Lu Xiang's horrified eyes, he slashed hard on the iron chain binding the suspension bridge. There was a "click" sound and the iron chain broke.
"Crack, creak, creak..." The suspension bridge lost half of its pulling force and half of it flipped open.
Guan Yu cut off the iron chain on the other side with another sword, and the suspension bridge hit the ground with a "bang" and splashed smoke and dust all over the sky. When the smoke and dust dispersed, you could directly see the city through the open city gate.
As soon as Guan Ping saw the suspension bridge lowered and the city gate opened, he immediately shouted, "All troops attack!"
Looking at Liu Beijun rushing out like a wolf and a tiger, looking at the towering figure on the city gate tower, Lu Xiang wanted to yell, "Be paralyzed."
Lu Xiang stood there motionless. He took a few steps to stop the soldiers who were kneeling down to surrender. He did not put down his weapons and surrendered voluntarily. He just stared blankly at the city, as if he was stupid.
'Come and catch me, come and catch me, I won't resist!' Lu Xiang roared crazily in his heart. He really wanted to surrender right now. However, there was a younger brother Lu Kuang under Yuan Shao's command.
Damn it, he doesn't want to hurt his brother.
Military generals are different from civil servants. Civil servants surrender when they surrender. The whole Han Dynasty is very open to this aspect. After all, they are famous officials. They must be loyal, courageous and upright. They must be given preferential treatment and people must believe in them.
Taste.
Even if the information about the previous family was revealed in the end, resulting in the burning of food and grass, and the destruction of a million-strong army, it must be because of the last resort. It may be that the new master forced him to drink, and he would not be given a title if he did not betray the previous master.
Senior official...wait, this is all forced, the punishment is too severe...
The same cannot be said for military generals. If you are not a famous official, your character cannot be guaranteed. If you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. What if you surrender with your subordinates?
Even if you don't surrender with your soldiers, what will you do if you don't work hard during the war?
Therefore, military commanders cannot make mistakes or lose trust, otherwise they will have to wait for death.
Of course, the most important thing is the issue of controlling military power, and the threat it brings is indeed immediate.
In history, the first of the five good generals was Yu Jin, who was deeply trusted by Cao Cao.
During the Battle of Xiangfan, Guan Yu used a trick to flood seven armies. Pound died on the spot, was captured by Yu Jin, and imprisoned in Soochow. After being released by Soochow, he could no longer be trusted, and was finally
Cao Pi was humiliated during the sacrifice, and soon became angry to death. He was also given the posthumous title of "Shenghou".
Civil servants are basically not troubled by this. During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao burned all the letters of collaborators in front of all the civil servants without blaming them. This is the best proof.
At that time, there was basically no saying that the generals surrendered to the enemy. The key was that once the generals surrendered, they really surrendered, and the defense line collapsed and the entire army was defeated.
Here, Guan Yu and Wei Yan opened the city gates on both sides, and the entire Nanpi City was naturally captured without any room for struggle. The soldiers surrendered at an unprecedented speed.
Among them, Li Jin and others are indispensable. The sentence "Don't think too highly of yourself. Who knows you? You just serve as a soldier and feed yourself. Whoever occupies Nanpi has nothing to do with you. Whoever gives you a stutter will do it."
Come on, do you really think those high-ranking people expect your loyalty? Stop thinking about good things, do they know who you are?"
In this way, all the 30,000 defenders surrendered except for a thousand who died during the siege. As for Lu Xiang, he applied for house arrest.
On the other hand, Yuan Shang is a bit difficult to deal with. Let's kill him. It will ruin Liu Bei's reputation for benevolence. This will be very detrimental to his future recruitment and surrender. Don't kill him. He seems to be really unreasonable. And if there is something wrong with him, it will be terrible.
It's really just yellow mud falling into the crotch - it's not just shit, it's shit.
After thinking about it, I decided to arrange for someone to send it to Wang Xuan. Wang Xuan was better at handling this matter.
On the contrary, it was Shen Pei who was the most disliked by Guan Yu. Looking at Shen Pei who was shouting loudly that he would rather die than surrender, Guan Yu rushed out of his waist and threw the sword away, and stretched out his hand to signal for him to commit suicide immediately.
Shen Pei looked at the sword stuck on the ground at his feet, and his expression suddenly became extremely ugly. I shouted that I would rather die than surrender, but I didn't shout that I would die. Why the hell did you throw a sword away!
Staring at Guan Yu, Shen Pei roared in his heart, "You fool, you don't understand. As long as you don't force me to surrender, I won't have to die. Now you should be kind to persuade and entertain, Corporal Li Xian... you
Why don’t you throw a sword, I’m crazy!”
Guan Yu squinted his eyes, looked at the sword on the ground, and then looked at Shen Pei who looked sad and angry, with an expression like "Why don't you just die?"
"I, I..." Shen Pei really wanted to die, but he didn't dare to curse. This was Liu Bei's sworn second brother. He was also burdened by his family, so he really didn't dare to offend him.
Shen Pei's face turned red, and the veins on his forehead popped out, and he argued, "If you don't surrender, you won't be betraying the Lord..."
Then there are the words that are difficult to understand, something like, "The Master said: "Filial piety is the foundation of virtue, and the source of teaching.", something like "The body's hair and skin are received by parents, and they dare not damage them. This is the beginning of filial piety."
The kind words made everyone burst into laughter, and for a while, the courtyard was filled with a happy atmosphere.
Hearing people laugh, Shen Pei acted as if he could not be taught. He turned around and left. Just looking at the footsteps, he seemed to be running away. On the contrary, he would rather die than surrender. He never said this again.
After Nanpi City was basically secured, Guan Yu continued to order the four gates to be sealed, and divided more than 10,000 Yuan Shao's surrendered troops to station in the camp outside the city, and continued to besiege Nanpi.
On the other side, he used the big seal and Yuan Shang's seal found from the governor's house to send letters asking for help to several surrounding cities. Guan Yu still didn't believe it. Yuan Shang, Yuan Shao's favorite third son, was here, and several other
The people of this city dare not send troops to rescue.
If you don't come and let me gather around you for reinforcements, can't I create an opportunity for you to fall into a trap?
With a few days left, the city was handed over to Wei Yan for management. Guan Yu continued to go outside the city. There was a large amount of money, grain, and ordnance stored in Nanpi City. Guan Yu also followed Gan Ning's example and began to expand his troops, even if they were all temporarily relegated to the reserve force.
Well, otherwise, after capturing Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Jizhou, Qingzhou's original military strength alone would definitely be stretched thin.
Not to mention, he also knew that Wang Xuan had plans to continue marching north, east, and west.