I asked you to surrender but you didn’t surrender. Now that the city is broken, you still want to surrender?
How can there be such a good thing in the world!
Sun Ziyi, who was standing next to Su Yonglin, was very angry. He pointed at the messenger's nose and cursed.
"I asked you to surrender or not. Now that there is only an inner city left, you plan to surrender? This is a dream!"
As Sun Ziyi spoke, he drew his sword and prepared to kill the envoy.
During the siege, Sun Tzu Yi personally led the troops to break through Shi Renmen, but he encountered fierce resistance and many of his own soldiers died, so he was very angry.
Su Yonglin originally had no intention of stopping Sun Ziyi, but this situation suddenly reminded him of something.
"Wait a moment!"
Su Yonglin spoke up and stopped the envoy from the Kingdom of Jin who was almost killed - the envoy was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.
Sun Ziyi looked back at Su Yonglin, then put away the knife in his hand and stepped aside.
Su Yonglin walked up to the messenger, knelt down and looked at him with a smile.
"You were able to surrender before, but you didn't seize this opportunity. Instead, you were extremely stupid and opposed me. Now that you are at the end of your rope, you still want to surrender? I can take over the inner city in one day with just a wave of my hand. Why do you need to surrender?" ?”
The envoy swallowed, held up his trembling body, and said: "What the general said is true, but...but there are still thousands of elite soldiers in the city, as well as tall walls and a wide and deep moat. Even if the inner city is breached, , and the imperial city.
There are still several gates in the imperial city, and there are elite soldiers who are willing to resist. If they try their best to resist, your army will still be damaged. It is close to a complete victory, but the army is still damaged. This must not be what the general wants to see. "
Su Yonglin immediately felt that this messenger was a bit interesting, and he actually played psychological tactics with him.
Unfortunately, Su Yonglin's mentality was completely different.
So he shook his head.
"How can those who achieve great things care about the price of attacking the city? Things have reached this point. Our army's morale is strong. They must be looking forward to taking over the inner city and the imperial city soon and ending this battle completely. That’s what I expect too.”
"General, I..."
"You don't have to say any more."
Su Yonglin stood up under the desperate gaze of the envoy and looked down at him: "According to what I said before, if you don't surrender but choose to resist, I will attack the city with troops and kill everyone in the city. I am a man who said To those who do it.”
"General!"
The envoy was shocked and tried to dissuade him, but was stopped by Su Yonglin.
"But now that I'm in a good mood, I can give you an extra chance. Go back and tell your little emperor that I want 10,000 horses and ask him to give me 10,000 horses, otherwise I will attack the city!"
The messenger was stunned for a long time before he realized what he was doing, and he was overjoyed.
"You mean you'll accept surrender if we give you the horses?"
"Can consider it."
Su Yonglin nodded.
The envoy was overjoyed, no longer shaking or afraid. He immediately stood up and saluted Su Yonglin, and then immediately returned to the inner city.
After the envoy left, Su Yonglin sighed when faced with doubtful looks from a room full of officers.
"I know you want to ask me why I don't attack the city directly. I have my reasons."
Su Yonglin walked to his chair and sat down, and slowly said: "Do you know how the Jin people captured Kaifeng City, the ancient capital of the Song Dynasty more than 30 years ago?"
Everyone was a little confused about this issue, but Jiang Liangping still stood up.
"At that time, the Jin army was unable to attack the city, but the Song Emperor listened to the treacherous words and did not hold on to the city. Instead, he used the so-called magic soldiers of Guo Jing to fight against the Jin army. He was defeated by the Jin army and the city gates were not closed in time, so Kaifeng was lost. Become the laughing stock of the world."
"Yes, that's it. But before and after, there are actually many, many things that the world doesn't know much about. For example, how the royal family of the Song Dynasty and the people of Kaifeng City fell into the hands of the Jin people bit by bit. .”
Su Yonglin sneered and said: "If you knew this, you would definitely find it incredible. How could anyone be so cowardly as to give up the royal family, people and almost all the wealth of the country? Now, I will re-enact it for you. Please pay attention. Watch.
Killing requires killing one's heart, and killing one's heart is the key. I will let you all see how the Jin people broke the backbones of the Song people back then, and how they killed people and punished them in their own way. Their human body makes them irrecoverable. "
Break their backbones so that even if they still have the strength to resist, they will have no hope of recovery!
At the same time, we must seek justice for the innocent people who died that year.
Su Yonglin was determined, and everyone no longer objected. Instead, they began to look forward to seeing things they had never seen before.
The envoy returned to the inner city to report the relevant news. All the officials in the city were happy to know that there was hope for surrender, but they were immediately distressed when they learned that Su Yonglin asked them to hand over 10,000 horses.
"How come there are 10,000 horses in the inner city? Even if you include cattle and sheep, there may not be 10,000 horses. How can they be so open-minded?"
Tu Shanzhen looked at Pusanhutu with an incredulous expression.
Pusanhutu looked at the messenger.
"Any other requests?"
"No more, just this one."
The messenger's tone was very firm.
Pusanhutu nodded, and then decided to give it.
This decision caused great controversy, and the civil and military officials who had just been frightened into weak-footed shrimps also continued to object.
Tu Danzhen grabbed Pu Sanhutu's clothes and said: "Not to mention that even if we hand over all the horses, we may not necessarily have ten thousand. If we just hand over all the horses, we will have no horsepower. Have you completely become a turtle in a urn?"
Faced with such doubts, Pusanhutu just sighed, and then said sadly: "Isn't it the turtle in the urn now?"
A rhetorical question stopped Tu Shanzhen and everyone else. Everyone was speechless and had nothing to say.
Indeed, if you give them 10,000 horses now, wouldn't they be nothing more than a turtle in a urn?
The city was surrounded by water and it was almost impossible for them to survive.
"Give them whatever they want. If they are happy, they won't go on a killing spree. If we take the initiative to give it to them, it will be better than them going into the city and looting themselves, right?"
There is a very good reason for falling into disarray.
So this decision was passed, and a large-scale collection of horses began within the inner city.
Whether it was the war horses left by Wan Yanliang or the horses that could not be used for riding among the people, they were all collected.
In the end, the shortfall in the number was so great that Pusanhutu had no choice but to attack the powerful officials, collect all the horses secretly hidden in their homes, and ordered that those who hid the horses again would be killed without mercy.
The dignitaries did not dare to resist, so they handed over their horses.
Two days later, Pusanhutu delivered all the more than 3,000 horses collected to Su Yonglin. Due to the insufficient number of horses, he was forced to use the cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and other livestock in the city to make up the number. In one time, there were four horses in the city. The running animals disappeared.
The envoy from the Kingdom of Jin thought that this would satisfy Su Yonglin and accept the surrender.
But Su Yonglin once again expressed dissatisfaction.
The reason was that there were not enough war horses for him, and he was unhappy, so he asked the Jin people in the city to hand over 100,000 weapons in the city to compensate him.
This request was once again resisted by some officials, saying that in this case the city would completely lose the possibility of resisting Su Yonglin, and even the last hope would be gone.
So I can't agree.
Pusanhutu let out another long sigh and said sadly: "Is there any hope now? If the soldiers have no fighting spirit, they will lose their will to fight. Can we resist now?"
The ministers were speechless again. They looked at the wailing Empress Dowager Tudan and the new emperor Wanyan Guangying and lowered their heads silently.
There is not much else in the inner city, but there are a lot of weapons. Although one hundred thousand weapons are a lot, if you put them together, you can really get them all. There is even a little bit left over that can be equipped for the defenders in the city, which adds a bit of illusion. sense of security.
The envoy felt that this time Su Yonglin would finally make no other requests.
but……
"Since I started the army, I have spent countless manpower and material resources, and more than 100,000 soldiers have died in battle. Their families have not received my reward. I feel very sorry. Some of the families of the soldiers are also dissatisfied, so now I hope that Emperor Jin can give 100,000 soldiers I was given pensions for soldiers who died in battle, so that I could appease them.”
Su Yonglin grinned and proposed the price of two million taels of gold and five million taels of silver. He said that this was to provide pensions to soldiers who died in the war. He could not afford the money and asked the Jin people to help him pay it.
