"They rejected our terms and asked us to surrender within a quarter of an hour, otherwise they would attack the village." Wang Liang said with a wry smile.
Wang Hu turned pale when he heard this and fell into the seat behind him.
I regret in my heart that I did not flee to Guo County like the Yuan family and his son did, but now it is too late to think about leaving. They are surrounded by bandit soldiers outside. With the few soldiers in the village, it is difficult to escape.
"General, what should we do next?" Wang Liang looked at Wang Hu, waiting for the other party to make up his mind.
Wang Hu said with an ugly face: "Aren't they afraid that the fish will die and the net will be broken?"
Wang Liang didn't answer.
He had already said this when he met the bandit leader outside the village. In the current situation, the other party really had nothing to fear from them.
In the entire village, except for the dozens of soldiers and servants they brought, there was only a temporary group of fifty or sixty young soldiers and horses formed from the village.
The only ones who are truly capable are these dozens of Wang family soldiers and servants. As for the young and strong team, apart from making up a few heads, they are of little use at all.
Looking at the thieves in the village, there are hundreds of cavalry, thousands of infantry, and four cannons.
Even if they wanted to abandon the village and escape, they couldn't.
"Wang Qianshi, why don't we surrender? We can't defeat the bandits outside the village." Hundreds of households guarding the room looked at Wang Hu expectantly.
The soldiers and servants Wang Hu brought were the most powerful troops in the village. All the young men in the village combined were no match for him. Now whether he can surrender to the bandits or not is no longer the final say for him, a hundred households.
"General, surrender is one way. Moreover, if we fight, it will be difficult for us to win. Even if we want to escape, we don't have much chance against hundreds of thieves." Wang Liang also persuaded from the side.
At this point, he really couldn't see any chance other than surrender.
"Do you all want to beg for your life from the thieves?" Wang Hu looked at the two people in front of him coldly.
The man from the household smiled bitterly and said: "If there are other choices, I will never surrender. But now the outside of the village has been surrounded by bandits. For the sake of the people in the village, I ask the general to give them a way to survive."
"That's it!" Wang Hu's body softened and he lost the last bit of energy. He said slowly, "Since you all decided to surrender, then surrender!"
boom!
At this moment, there was the sound of gunfire from the direction of the village entrance, followed by the sound of a house collapsing.
A soldier of the Wang family ran in from outside the house and said anxiously: "General, the thieves are attacking."
"Surrender!" Wang Hu said weakly.
"ah!"
The soldier thought he heard wrongly and couldn't help but ask again.
"I said surrender, surrender immediately." Wang Hu roared hysterically.
"Yes." The soldier agreed and hurried out to convey the news of surrender.
After a short time, the sound of cannons stopped.
There was a rapid sound of horse hooves and footsteps coming from outside Baihuyuan.
"General, the leader of the bandits is here." Wang Liang used the window and saw a group of soldiers walking outside the courtyard gate of Baihu House. The leader was the leader of the bandits that he had seen outside the village before.
Wang Hu turned his head and glanced out the window, but he didn't move.
But the man in the room hurried outside to greet him.
"Wang Hu!" As soon as the visitor entered the room, he saw Wang Hu slumped in his seat.
Because apart from him, he had seen Wang Liang and the other person standing aside, so the only person sitting in the seat was most likely Wang Hu, the commander of Zhenwuwei.
"I am Wang Hu." Wang Hu sat upright in his seat and said, "I never thought I would fall into your hands. If I had known about this day, I should have promised your Wang Shizheng."
After hearing this, Zhou Shuiqing laughed contemptuously and said: "Now that you are a defeated general, there is no regret medicine in the world for you. Someone, come and take him away."
Two soldiers came up from behind and stepped forward to hold Wang Hu up.
Wang Liang and another Wang Hu's personal soldier did not dare to stop him, and they did not even dare to raise their heads to look.
"I don't need you, I can leave by myself." Wang Hu tried hard to break away from the two soldiers.
Zhou Shuiqing waved his hands to the two soldiers.
The two soldiers let go of Wang Hu's arms.
Wang Hu looked at Zhou Shuiqing in front of him and said: "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Since I have lost, I admit it, but don't you want to know the whereabouts of the Yuan family and his son?"
"Don't worry, they can't escape." Zhou Shuiqing said calmly.
Asking the Yuan family and his son to escape from under his nose made him feel angry, but he believed that unless the Yuan family and his son fled Shanxi, they would be caught by him sooner or later.
Wang Hu said: "They went to Guo County. Not only their father and son, but Yuan's second son is also in Guo County. If we want to catch you, we'd better hurry up. Yuan Chaoju is an old fox. If it's too late, we won't wait for you to attack." Guo County, he took his two sons and fled."
"Since Commander Yuan and Little General Yuan have other plans, I will not stay. Wang Liang, go and prepare dry food and a group of war horses. Don't delay Commander Yuan's important event." Wang Hu did not try to persuade him to stay and made arrangements directly. Let your own people prepare things.
Wang Liang took the order and left the room.
Yuan Chong, who was sitting opposite, curled his lips.
Seeing that Wang Hu didn't even want to act, he didn't understand that he was trying to drive them away.
Fortunately, before they came, they had no intention of staying in Qianhusuo. It was so close to Daizhou City. After the bandits captured Daizhou City, Wang Hu and the garrison at Qianhusuo would definitely become the targets of the thieves.
"Thank you, Wang Qian." Yuan Chaoju clasped his fists gratefully.
Seeing that Yuan Chaoju had surrendered in front of him for the first time, Wang Hu said with satisfaction: "Commander Yuan doesn't have to leave in such a hurry. It's better to stay one night and let the subordinates host a banquet for him. It won't be too late to leave." "
"Daizhou City has fallen into the hands of the bandits. I am still in the mood to stay and eat. At this time, I can't wait to leave immediately to gather troops and recapture Daizhou City from the bandits." Yuan Chaoju showed a public attitude.
Wang Hu just asked casually and never thought about hosting a banquet for the Yuan family and his son, so he took advantage of the situation and said: "Since Commander Yuan is in a hurry to leave the gathering of troops, it is not easy for his subordinates to stop him. Once Daizhou City is recaptured, he will The official hosted a banquet in honor of Commander Yuan."
"I'll definitely bother you then." Yuan Chaoju smiled and nodded.
Wang Hu had already planned to abandon Qianhu and escape, so the war horses and dry food were already prepared. Wang Liang came out and gave orders, and soon everything was ready.
"General, everything is ready. The dry food is enough to feed thirty people for three days, and twenty-seven war horses have been prepared." Wang Liang came to the room to report.
As he spoke, he turned sideways and made an inviting gesture behind him.
Yuan Chaoju led Yuan Chong and a group of soldiers over.
