Dadongcheng.
Meeting hall.
"Decide quickly, big boss"
"The front line of the Qin army has arrived. It is impossible to hold on to Dadong City alone."
"Yes, great leader, if you don't surrender to the Qin Dynasty, there will be no way out for you."
The hall was full of Dongyi core members, all trying to persuade Geng Chenggang, including his brother, who also twitched his lips and said in embarrassment: "Brother, why don't we surrender? With the thousands of people we have in hand, we can't do it at all." If we cannot defend Dadong, we will end up with the city destroyed and people killed in the end.”
These people were unwilling to submit when they had tens of thousands of troops at first, but now they are surrendering when they have reached a dead end.
Geng Chenggang also said: "We must surrender, but our interests must still be fought for."
People heard this and expressed their agreement:
"Yes, the big leader is right. Before surrendering, he should ask for some official positions from Qin."
"That way we can continue to govern Dadong."
"As Yang Heng is the military commander-in-chief of the Qin army in this battle, we can ask him to sign an armistice agreement. As long as the war ceases, we can slowly negotiate with Qin."
"That's exactly what I mean." Geng Chenggang said: "In this way, we will send an envoy to the Qin army camp to tell Yang Heng the conditions for our surrender."
He said and looked around: "Who wants to go?"
People look at each other.
After a pause, a civil servant stood up and saluted: "Big Chief, I'll go."
"Okay!" Geng Chenggang was delighted. Until now, his dream of separatist power had not yet been shattered.
In the afternoon, the Qin army camped.
At this time, the Qin army was indeed preparing to attack the city and was conducting final discussions.
In the large tent of the Chinese army, all the generals gathered and lined up on both sides.
Yang Heng was standing in front of the map, arranging combat missions.
"Dadong's city defense is not strong, especially the south gate, which can be used as an important breakthrough point."
"The combat effectiveness of the Dongyi soldiers is not as good as ours, their morale is low, there are many deserters, and they are extremely lacking in equipment to defend the city."
"Therefore, we must fight to defeat it."
"After the capture of Dadong City, all ministries immediately deployed defenses to prevent the remaining forces from escaping and continuing to cause chaos in the future."
"Report~~~~"
Just as he was talking about this, a soldier hurried over, arriving before anyone else arrived.
Yang Heng stopped talking.
After the soldiers came in, they knelt on one knee and said, "General, Dongyi is sending envoys into the camp."
"Oh?" Yang Heng thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Bring him over."
"No!" The soldier clasped his fists and retreated.
After he left, Chen Guandao said: "Our army is unstoppable. Both armies have fought and won consecutive battles. Today, Geng Chenggang's troops have been completely depleted. Now he is sending envoys. His intention is obvious."
Wang Lie said: "Yes, Geng Chenggang is 80% here to seek peace, and based on his purpose, I am afraid that he will probably use Dadongcheng to negotiate terms with the intention of continuing to separate the regime."
Qiao Yundao: "He is dreaming. When Dongyi had enough troops before, he wanted to fight. Now that he can't win, he wants to negotiate terms? What did he do in the first place!"
"Okay." Yang Heng said: "Geng Chenggang wanted to separate the country before. It is impossible for our army to negotiate any conditions with him. He was not qualified before, and he is even less qualified now. If Dongyi cannot be completely recovered, my general will not be able to ask for it. Your Majesty will tell you."
If you win, fight, if you don't win, surrender and get an official position. Geng Chenggang used to play this trick with Lingguo, but he still wants to play this way with the Qin Army. Obviously he is overthinking.
After a while, the Dongyi envoy was led over, and he stepped forward and bowed respectfully to Yang Heng: "I have seen General Yang."
"Just tell me what happened when Geng Chenggang sent you here." Yang Heng got straight to the point.
"General Yang, this is it." The Dongyi envoy organized his speech and said: "Our leader does not want to have any further disputes with the Qin army and has decided to submit to the Qin Dynasty. Based on this, I hope that the Qin Dynasty can also grant some official positions. "
"What does he want?" Yang Heng sneered.
"The county guards are enough." Dongyi envoy said: "In addition, there are some county magistrates."
But before he could finish his words, Yang Heng interrupted him: "Go back and tell Geng Chenggang that he is not qualified to negotiate terms with our army, and surrendering is his only way to survive."
"But General." Dongyi envoy said anxiously.
"Send guests off." Yang Heng interrupted him again.
The guard entered and stretched out his hand with a cold face: "Your Excellency, please."
"General Yang"
The Dongyi envoy wanted to say something else, but no one listened, and he was forcibly driven out.
Wang Lie couldn't help but said: "This Geng Chenggang actually still wants to seek county governor and some county magistrate positions. Doesn't this mean he still wants to separate the regime?"
"It's absolutely ridiculous!"
Yang Heng said something, then looked around and said seriously: "Tomorrow at 10 o'clock, according to the planned plan, we will attack Dadong City on time!"
"No!" All the generals clasped their fists together.
The Dongyi envoy was driven out and had no choice but to go back and report back to Geng Chenggang.
At this time, everyone was waiting for news. After hearing what he said, they couldn't help but be stunned.
When they thought about it, the Qin State should be the same as the Ling State. As long as they were willing to surrender, even if they put forward some conditions, the other party would definitely agree, but they did not expect that it would be such a result.
Geng Chenggang was a little disbelieving and said: "The county governor didn't even agree?"
"This, yes." The Dongyi envoy looked a little ugly and said cautiously: "Yang Heng also said that we are not qualified to negotiate terms with him. The only way to survive is to open the city and surrender."
"This is unreasonable!" Geng Chenggang was furious, and his desire to separatist rule never died: "I'm just a county guard! I have already made concessions, and I won't agree to this! Isn't Yang Heng afraid that we will both be destroyed!"
Seeing his appearance, the Dongyi envoy dared not reply and silently stepped aside.
The others came to their senses one after another at this time, and all of a sudden panicked and became a mess.
"The Qin army doesn't negotiate conditions. They want to attack Dadong by force."
"This is how to do ah"
Others, in panic, did not care about anything else, and began to complain about Geng Chenggang: "Big leader, I have long said that you cannot compete with the Qin army. It would not be like this if you surrendered before."
Hearing this, Geng Chenggang became even more angry and said with a glare: "What you are saying now is just because we have lost the war! At the beginning, I said that we could separate the country after winning the battle. Didn't you agree? Didn't you send troops!"
"This, this." The man was so anxious that he stamped his feet one last time: "Oh! Now that things have come to a point, what should we do? What should we do?"
Geng Chenggang ignored him and looked at his brother: "We still have one last chance. You go to the front line in person and defend Dadong City! Delay time!"
"This." His younger brother swallowed and said tentatively, "Brother, why don't we open the city."
"Kaicheng? We can't get anything from Kaicheng!" Geng Chenggang said sternly: "As long as the Qin army cannot attack, they must negotiate with us! Do you understand this truth?"
(End of chapter)
