Gold Exchange for Hostages

Song Duo's eyes turned red when he heard this.

"What did the king of Yan say?"

"He said, isn't it just eating 50,000 people? Why rush? The treasury is empty and there is no food in the whole country. To feed Guangyingsheng's 250,000 troops, some sacrifices are necessary."

"He also issued an order, asking me not to pursue the matter, and the court would no longer distribute food and fodder. The soldiers under my command would eat the people in the city to fill their stomachs!"

"When I received the imperial edict, I knew that Yan was rotten, rotten from top to bottom!"

"With such a conscienceless king and soldiers who eat their soldiers, is this country still worth our lives to defend?"

"I don't want to eat the people of the whole city. They are the people that the soldiers have protected with their lives. How can they be eaten?"

"At that moment, I decided to send my soldiers north to surrender to the Zhan family army. It would be great if the general accepted us and let us live."

"I will let all the people leave. Once Guang Yingsheng takes over the border city, the people will become his food."

"Now the people have been settled by me in the hometown of the Chu people who came to Zhenguan. Although the conditions are harsh, it is backed by a mountain and there are dead grass on the mountain. If we dig down, we should be able to dig up some sand and water, which will allow the people to survive."

"I'm still thinking that if I really decide to stay after three months, I will definitely bring the people over and let them see that Zhenguan has a clear river, green vegetable fields, and crops that they have never seen before... They will definitely like Zhenguan!"

"General Song Duo, I know the general will suspect us. He is afraid that we will join forces with the king of Xia to capture Zhenguan."

He suddenly knelt down, raised the accessories with both hands, and handed them to Song Duo.

"I, Xia Wei, would rather die today, and I beg the general and you to protect my 50,000 soldiers and the 50,000 people hiding in Chu."

"It doesn't matter if I die, as long as they can live, I, Xia Wei, will die for a good cause!"

After hearing Xia Wei's words, Chen Kui and Chen Wu and other soldiers were all silent.

They were the same to the general, the family army and the people in the pass.

If they were put in the same position as Xia Wei, they would rather commit suicide in front of the king of Yan than let their soldiers and people be sacrificed.

The final result was that he was eaten by Guang Yingsheng's troops!

Zhuang Liang sighed, "General, this man has a strong character, loves his soldiers like his sons, is responsible for the people, and is smart, courageous, and has great wisdom."

"If he is released back to Yan State, if he replaces Guang Yingsheng's position in the future, and kills the last bit of kindness in his heart and becomes hard-hearted, he may achieve great success in the future."

"His only shortcoming now is that he is too kind! As the saying goes, kindness cannot command an army!"

Chen Kui thinks that this is not a shortcoming.

"If a person is cold-blooded and ruthless, like Guang Yingsheng, do you think his subordinates dare to fight for him when the two armies are facing each other?"

"Once Zhenguan was besieged like a few months ago, he would eat his own people first, and what city would he be stationed in? All the people would be eaten!"

Now, Chen Kui admires him more and more.

"At first I thought he and the King of Yan were setting up a scheme, but now it seems that he had no choice. Which general would abandon his own city and join another general? If he had no other choice, no one would do that."

"General, I think this Xia Wei can be brought under control!"

Young Master Mo Fan snorted, "That's not what you said just now. You firmly believed that you were willing to break up with Song Duo and insisted that he was a traitor."

Chen Kui scratched his head awkwardly, "Don't I know him?"

"Our Zhan family army has been besieged by the barbarians for nearly a year, and many soldiers have died in the battle. I think we are miserable enough."

"Compared to Xia Wei, he had half of his soldiers eaten by his own people, but he had no way to deal with it, and he felt even more aggrieved."

"Think about him, it's not easy. If you recruit him in the future, you should be nice to him!"

"Besides, what's so scary about the Yan army? They're much worse than the Chu army!"

The Yan army's equipment, military quality, training level, combat experience...

all of them are inferior to the Chu army with a record of undefeated victories. Such a powerful Chu army was killed by Zhan Chengyin. This is why the other six countries, even if they knew that Zhan Chengyin had food and water, did not dare to openly rob him.

They could only watch covetously and send troops to sneak closer when there was any movement, but they did not dare to be the first to come forward.

The king of Yan dared to come forward and face Zhan Chengyin, in addition to Xia Wei's 500,000 troops as an excuse.

In addition, he was a little stupid.

He felt that he had an excuse, and Zhan Chengyin did not dare to do anything to him.

Facing such people, how could Zhan Chengyin be a reasonable person?

He shouted: "Come on, turn on the lights!"

As they stretched out their hands, ten off-road vehicles turned on their headlights.

The people on the opposite side couldn't open their eyes.

They stopped in front of the boundary marker, about fifty meters away from the city wall.

The distance between the two armies was very close.

Next, Zhan Chengyin raised his hand and said to the densely packed crossbow team behind him: "Draw your bows, get ready to shoot arrows!"

Countless Qin crossbows were set up.

Yan Xu, the king of Yan State, had heard of the power of crossbows. The range of Qin crossbows was extremely long, from 600 meters to 1,000 meters.

Once hundreds of thousands of troops entered the range of Qin crossbows, none of them could escape!

Moreover, they no longer lacked Qin crossbows and arrow feathers. Anyone who dared to step into the boundary monument territory would be shot.

As a result, after the Zhan family army set up the Qin crossbows, all of them took three steps back.

Guang Yingsheng, who was beside Yan Xu, took the bull horn-shaped trumpet and shouted.

"Zhan family army, we have no intention of being your enemy, but the traitor entered the town of Zhenguan, and the king of Yan State hopes that you will hand him over!"

"If you let go of this rebel army, Yan soldiers will be able to escape from the army at will in the future without any punishment. I hope General Zhan will not tolerate it and hand the people over to us!"

Chen Kui couldn't bear it anymore and raised the trumpet and shouted. "What if we don't hand them over?"

"This is General Chen, right? Even if Xia Wei and the 50,000 soldiers escape, it cannot change the fact that they are from Yan!"

"This general knows that General Chen is kind, but he is being kind to the wrong person. Xia Wei is not a good person. There were originally 100,000 troops, but only 50,000 are left. Do you know how they became so few?"

Chen Kui asked, "How did they become so few?"

"Of course they were eaten by Xia Wei and the 50,000 men. General, you can sympathize with anyone, but you must not sympathize with them."

"Now there is food and water in Zhenguan, and they will be fine. If one day the food and water run out, will they rise up in rebellion? General Cheng must not be fooled."

"Hand over the people, and the monarch will offer gold and jewelry in exchange!"

"It would be even better if you could give some more water."