The battle that broke out in Changshui County extended to the core area of Gyeonggi Province. At first, Qin Feng just wanted to open the communication channel and get in touch with the Jinyiwei outside.
But when Ning Hu easily defeated the enemy troops near Qingshan County, and Zhang Zhenhai also led the cavalry to fight all the way back with almost no losses, Qin Feng realized that the Beidi capital was now on the eve of destruction.
Qin Feng was in a good mood, but he still recalled Ning Hu and 600 infantry, leaving only Zhang Zhenhai to lead the cavalry and continue guerrilla outside.
According to the news reported by Liu Ming, Chen Si, Wu Kang and Jing Peng conspired to withdraw a large number of troops and horses, heading all the way to Bozhou, continuously looting local counties along the way to raise supplies.
Obviously, Chen Si and others did not give up resistance, but chose to take a curve to save the country.
As for the armies of Li Zhang and Xu Mo, the reason why they have not reached the capital yet is because they are waiting for Chen Si to finish withdrawing.
As the saying goes, don't chase the enemy when you are in trouble. The more an army is forced into a desperate situation, the harder it is to eat it by force. Otherwise, it is very likely to force the opponent to have an unprecedented fighting will. Anyway, it is a death, and the worst is to fight.
Therefore, in order to preserve their strength, Li Zhang and Xu Mo hit it off and watched Chen Si withdraw his troops. After the defense on the northern front was completely opened, they would lead the army over.
Qin Feng also agreed with the decision of the two. Now that the overall situation has been decided, there is no need to risk a bloody battle.
After all, this is a battlefield, not a small fight. Any large-scale conflict will be accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice.
Qin Feng also realized that the winter war was coming to an end, and it was only a matter of time when he would take over Beidi.
And just as Qin Feng was preparing to continue to guard Changshui County and wait for Li Zhang's arrival, many "uninvited guests" came outside the city.
These people were either local garrison generals in Gyeonggi Province or ministers of the DPRK and China.
Without exception, they all came to surrender to Qin Feng.
Qin Feng naturally accepted it happily, and immediately opened the city gate and allowed Beidi generals and ministers to enter the city. As for the accompanying soldiers, they retreated five hundred steps outside the city and waited where they were.
As the saying goes, you must not have the intention to harm others, and you must not have the intention to guard against others.
No matter how stupid Qin Feng is, he can't let the other party bring his army into the city. If he pretends to surrender, then the joke will be big.
Not long after, the county government office was already full of people. Qin Feng briefly counted and found that there were thirteen people.
However, the official status and titles of these people are not high. They should be representatives of the ministers and generals behind the scenes. After all, Qin Feng has detained Zhang Chao and Jing Ci. In order to avoid becoming Qin Feng's prisoners, these generals and ministers are naturally Send your cronies to test it out.
Qin Feng was not ambiguous and said straight to the point: "Although my army has arrived in northern Hubei, it will take at least seven or eight days to march into the Gyeonggi area. Now, your king is still in power. You must surrender now. Aren’t you afraid of being liquidated by King Beidi?”
Facing Qin Feng's question, the leading doctor from the Ministry of Industry quickly bowed his hands and looked extremely respectful.
"There is no need to worry, Lord Qin. Now, the imperial court has ceased to exist in name only. All officials are already looking for other ways out and there is no one to supervise them."
"Previously, Your Majesty had made lofty ambitions to lead a large army to conquer personally. Unfortunately, no one responded. Now, Your Majesty can only rely on the palace to carry out the final resistance."
"There are two scenes inside and outside the palace."
Hearing this, Qin Feng couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. To be honest, even if the war had come to an end, he was still worried that King Beidi would do something desperate. Although he couldn't turn the tide, as long as it caused Qin Feng a certain The loss is as disgusting as eating a fly.
If King Beidi just clung to the palace to show the final courage of the royal family, then it would be understandable and even admirable.
As for the civil and military ministers who were seeking glory from the sellers in front of him, although Qin Feng looked down on them from the bottom of his heart and even hated them, he did not show it at all on his face, but was extremely enthusiastic.
Even if these officials are unusable and they want to be abolished, it is definitely not possible now.
It will take at least a few years until Jing Qianying has secured his position, holds all the power in his hands, and trained close officials to gradually hand over power, before he can send these people to retire and return to their hometowns for retirement.
Now Qin Feng's task is to keep everything simple, do not fight if possible, be gentle if possible, win over all the officials who can be won over, and then attack the remaining die-hard elements.
But judging from the current situation, even people like Chen Si and Wu Kang have directly betrayed the King of Beidi. How many diehards are left in Beidi?
Thinking of this, Qin Feng didn't hesitate and waved his hand directly, asking Liu Ming to take all the official representatives down and treat them well. As for the surrender, he naturally accepted them all.
Moreover, Qin Feng used the mouths of these officials to convey to the outside world that as long as anyone is willing to cooperate with Qin Feng, no matter what party they were in before or what immoral things they have done, they will not be held accountable.
As more and more officials continued to come to Changshui County to defect to Qin Feng, the entire capital, including the royal capital, had become useless.
King Beidi shrank all the imperial troops inside the palace, relying on the palace walls to carry out resistance.
As for the defenders of the royal capital city wall, almost all of them were removed under the operation of a group of officials and guards.
However, considering that Li Zhang's army has not yet arrived in the capital, Qin Feng did not dare to leave Changshui County and rashly headed to the royal capital. It would not be a joke to be locked up and beaten.
Zhang Zhenhai, who had been guerrillas outside the city, sent back a reliable message, that is, he led a mere 400 cavalry in the Gyeonggi area, and encountered almost no decent resistance as if they were in an uninhabited land.
The furthest time, they even reached the vicinity of the royal capital. Although they were afraid of too many troops stationed around the royal capital, they did not continue to advance and just watched the city from a distance. However, this move already indicated that the Beidi Dynasty was dead in name only.
The people in the city began to flee continuously to seek refuge with relatives in various places, and those who could not escape could only mourn the loss in the city, hoping to escape this disaster.
During this period, Qin Feng had been accompanying the surrendered officials and generals, drinking and chatting, which was very lively.
After seven days like this, the messenger appeared outside the city and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I am the messenger of the Beixi Expeditionary Brigade, and I have come here to report the news to Lord Qin on the orders of General Xu Mo.
Ning Hu, who had been guarding the city wall, heard the news and slapped his thigh happily: "Hahaha, it's here, it's finally here!"
