At this time, Wu Crook suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Brothers, can we only stay here and wait for death? Can't we do it like the big bull?" As he said that, he looked south.

"Shut up!"

One of the older ones looked around vigilantly and found that there was no one. Then he lowered his voice and said, "You are seeking death yourself, don't implicate us."

Wu Crooked stubbornly, "Uncle Wang, it's time now, don't scare me. Now there is only one way to die. If you go down to the city to surrender, you may even be lucky enough to survive. We are also Han people, so they can't kill us directly!"

The person who was called Uncle Wang was the leader of more than ten people. He looked at the others and found that no one refuted it. Instead, everyone had a bright eye. He was silent for a moment and asked, "Do you guys think so too?"

The others looked at each other and finally nodded deeply.

Uncle Wang was silent for a moment and said, "Even if we want to surrender, we have to find a good opportunity to escape. We cannot be shot directly by the Keliao army under the city as a trick. Also, let's go over, at least we have to accept a letter of surrender! Otherwise, who can guarantee that they will not kill us."

Wu Crooker looked surprised, "Uncle Wang, do you agree?"

Uncle Wang nodded, "It's not just us who have this idea, but we have to wait for the right opportunity. Remember, you must not mention this matter with others, otherwise we will all die."

They whispered for a while and went to bed.

But when it was late at night, when it was dawn, there was another movement under the city.

Dozens of carriages were pulling more than a dozen simple stone throwers and lined up along the city.

After a whistling sound, small cloth bags of about one or two pounds passed over the city, scattering like flowers in the city.

At first, everyone thought it was stones or shells, and they all avoided them.

But seeing that there was no movement for a long time, some people were brave enough to go forward and open the rope that tied the cloth bag. They found that it was full of dumplings and a faint white air.

Some people are worried about putting poison and dare not take it.

But after being hungry for so long, there are always people who can't stand it and just eat it.

They were surprised to find that there was a small strip of cloth hidden in all the dumplings. Only after reading the literate ones, they realized that the contents above were different.

Some wrote "Those who take the initiative to surrender can survive", some wrote "The Han people will not kill the Han people", some wrote "The people who open the city gates to welcome the official army into the city will be rewarded", some wrote "The people who capture alive, kill the Qing generals in the city will be rewarded", etc.

These news instantly spread throughout the city like a whirlwind, causing shock to the Qing army.

After learning the news, Shang Keai quickly sent someone to confiscate the cloth bags and killed more than a dozen people for this. But many people still hid themselves secretly. After all, they were besieged for several months, and the lower-class soldiers were not full every day.

Moreover, the confiscated ones were also given to the cute servants, and the news spread wider.

Within half a month, nearly a thousand soldiers guarding the city fled down the city through the ropes in the night to surrender to the Keliao Army, and the number was increasing every day.

Not only did they escape by themselves, they sometimes directly attacked and killed the generals who usually suppressed them, and took their heads to surrender to the enemy.

Shang Keai was extremely frightened and hurried in her general's mansion every day. Chen Zhongbing was around the house, fearing that one day his head would be taken away.

In addition, Shang Keai wrote a letter to Shang Kexi and took the risk of sending people out of the city. He informed him of the situation in the city and asked Shang Kexi to send troops. He did not ask the Qing army to open the encirclement, but at least he had to open a passage to transport some food into the city to help him stabilize the morale of the army.

After all, he was a brother, and Shang Kexi knew that the city was in danger. He sent someone to Chenyang to ask for reinforcements from the Qing army. But there was busy dealing with Daishan's funeral, so no one paid attention to him.

In the end, Shang Kexi gathered thousands of elite troops and launched a strong attack after looking for opportunities.

Because these people were all the generals and servants who had followed Shang Kexi for many years and were very brave and good at fighting. They successfully broke through two trenches and were finally blocked in front of the third one.

After that, Shang Kexi launched several attacks, but the scale was much smaller than the first time. He no longer expected to open the passage, he just wanted the Qing army in the city to see that he did not give up on them completely.

In private, Shang Kexi sent someone to the city to meet Shang Keai. He told him that if he was not allowed to do anything in the end, he would not care about others and run away directly.

After another month of delay, the weather gradually warmed up and the Bohai Sea ice thawed.

Fu ships set out from Lushun and transported a large amount of supplies to Juehua Island. After Li Kai got the support, he gathered heavy troops to land and attacked Ningyuan City fiercely.

Depending on the critical situation, the Qing army urgently dispatched troops from Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou to reinforce.

Both sides fought under the city for several days, and many were injured.

While the battle in Ningyuan, Li Kai sent a surprise soldier to land on a boat dozens of miles from Ningyuan City, attacked Xingshan Fort near the coast, and occupied the mouth of the Xiaoling River.

Li Kai withdrew to the besiege of Ningyuan City and increased troops to Xingshan. There were continuous additions of forts to be built there for defense.

At this point, the Qing army realized that Li Kai's purpose was to seize a front fort base in western Liaoning, capture Tashan and Songshan, and then seek Jinzhou to completely block the connection between inside and outside the pass.

So the battlefield moved eastward.

The Qing army turned defense into offensive, and wanted to drive all the Liao army into the sea. The Liao army turned attack into defense, and continued to increase troops in Xingshan, and gradually consolidated its existing positions.

At the same time, Zhou Xian was not idle either.

Li Dingguo had not returned to Gaizhou yet, but more than 10,000 elite soldiers from Phoenix City had been transferred back, and Zhao Xusheng also sent back the soldiers of the two battalions from Xiuyan City.

Zhou Xian, who had sufficient troops, attacked in two groups, land and water. On the water, thousands of soldiers set off from Yulinpu on boats and bombarded Yingkou. On the land, Zhou Xian gathered heavy troops to launch an attack on Gaizhou City.

Everything went very smoothly.

Half an hour after the war began, Gao Yi's vanguard soldiers attacked the city. In less than an hour, someone took the initiative to open the city gate and welcomed the Liao army into the city.

The Liao army attacked the city, and there were many surrenders, with few resistance.

Soon after, the flags of the Ke Liao army were planted on all the city walls, announcing the re-establishment of Gaizhou City.

Gao Yi stood outside the south gate with a smile, clasped his fists and said to Zhou Xian who was riding on the horse: "Master General, take it down."

Zhou Xian turned over and got off the horse, smiled and nodded, "I'm doing a good job. Let's go and enter the city with me."

Gao Yi nodded and led the way ahead.

The war in the city has almost completely come to an end, with only sporadic shouts of killing.
Chapter completed!