Regardless of casualties, Li Mu ordered his troops to continue attacking the city. After suffering countless casualties, they finally advanced to the moat.
Boom boom boom...
Each round of explosions took away hundreds of lives. Zhao Zu, who finally rushed to the river, was unable to lift his head due to the rain of arrows fired from the city before he could even set up a ladder.
During this period, everyone's attention, including Li Mu's, was attracted by the Zhou army's artillery fire, forgetting that their crossbows were also very powerful.
Another large piece fell, and Li Mu shouted with red eyes: "Keep charging, we must capture the city. The first one to climb to the top of the city will be promoted to the third level and receive a reward of one thousand taels!"
There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, but it is better to weigh it first to see if there is a chance of promotion and wealth.
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The three people in the valley looked at each other, but Sima Shang firmly refused to surrender. He insisted that even if he died, he should leave a good reputation and never do anything that would be infamy for thousands of years.
Although Han Sui didn't say it clearly, everyone could see that this guy was afraid of death. Not to mention being trapped in a valley where it was difficult to walk, even if he was surrounded in the plains, he would choose to surrender without hesitation. After all,
He is just a grain delivery officer. The robbery of grain and grass is nothing new. Under normal circumstances, the military commander is not responsible.
Han Chuang is a two-faced man. He behaves very upright in front of Sima Shang and looks like he will not surrender to the death. However, in front of Han Sui, he behaves wisely and protects himself.
"I'll give you one stick of incense!" As soon as Ji Jie finished speaking, a guard brought out an incense burner with a lit incense stick on it. He continued: "When the time is up, I will think that you chose to die rather than surrender.
, since you choose to die, then I will help you!"
After saying that, Ji Jie turned around and went to a place where the three of them could not see.
"Two generals, I admire your high moral integrity, but even if you don't think about yourself, you still have to think about the tens of thousands of brothers under your command!" Han Sui said with seriousness and sincerity: "All tens of thousands of people died.
Here, the strength of our two countries will be seriously affected!"
When Han Sui said these words, his eyes kept looking at Han Chuang.
Of course, Han Chuang understood the inner meaning of these words. There were 30,000 people surrounded, 25,000 of them were Koreans, and Zhao had only 5,000 soldiers. If it were me, I would definitely choose to be high-spirited, since there are so many soldiers from other countries following me.
Buried with him, why not?
Sima Shang said solemnly: "I, Sima Shang, have experienced hundreds of battles. Although I dare not say that I am a victorious general, I have never bowed my head to the enemy on the battlefield and asked me to surrender, unless he kills me now!"
If I kill you, you will surrender?
Come on, how can you surrender if you are already dead?
Han Chuang wanted to have a good talk with Sima Shang, but before he could speak, Sima Shang pulled out the sword from his waist and shouted: "Warriors of the Zhao Kingdom, charge out with me and swear not to surrender until the death!"
Han Chuang and Han Sui's uncle and nephew looked at each other and thought, "You can rush if you want. If we can break through the encirclement, we will rush out too. If we can't break out, we will surrender to Ji Jie."
Ji Jie looked at the swarming Zhao army and said to the people around him: "Let Sima Shang go out, and I will block the rest. Without him, the Zhao army will definitely surrender!"
Sima Shang rushed to the front and jumped onto the rocks blocking the exit. He expected to be attacked by arrows from the Zhou army, but he unexpectedly jumped out smoothly.
But when he looked back, his heart dropped. He saw that less than twenty people had successfully escaped with him, and the rest were all blocked inside.
Sima Shang saw the pursuers coming from the flanks and quickly ordered: "Let's go back and bring reinforcements!"
The pursuers were just for show. Even if he stood still and did not run away, these people would not really chase him and catch him.
Without Sima Shang, the five thousand Zhao army had no backbone. Naturally, Han Chuang temporarily took over them as deputy marshal of the coalition forces. Together, the uncle and nephew decided to surrender to Ji Jie.
One stick of incense has just been burned.
Ji Jie despises people who surrender, but being able to make the decision to surrender is not something ordinary people can do, so we have to admire them.
"Congratulations to the two generals for assessing the situation!" Ji Jie said to them with a smile: "Order your soldiers to put down their weapons and set up camp here. I will be responsible for your food and drinking water. I hope your king can heal quickly.
No matter what agreement I reach, you will be free by then!"
Of course, food and fresh water were not given for free, and the King of Han had to pay for them in the end.
Han Chuang and Han Sui reluctantly ordered the soldiers to hand over their weapons and the fifty thousand stones of food and grass.
Ji Jie's business is worthwhile. He takes their food and grass and sells it to them at a high price. This is called making a huge profit without any capital.
When the uncle and nephew announced their surrender, it happened to be the time when Li Mu was withdrawing his troops. He dumped the corpses of thousands of soldiers in front of Zhaocheng and returned to the camp in despair.
Ji Jie sent an envoy to South Korea, but never informed Li Mu. The purpose of this was to further alienate the relationship between South Korea and Zhao.
The King of Han learned that his army was besieged in Sanzhe Valley, and Li Mu still had more than 20,000 people in his hands, but he refused to send troops to rescue him because most of the people besieged were Korean soldiers. In the end, Han Chuang had no choice but to surrender to Ji Jie
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This news was spread by Ji Jie's people, and Li Mu only found out about it after the King of Han learned about it.
Faced with the document of reprimand sent by South Korea, Li Mu felt that he was extremely unjust. Sima Shang was even more unjust. It said that he did not dare to fight Ji Jie with 20,000 men at first, but only brought 5,000 men to rescue him. After being surrounded, he led alone
Escape with your personal bodyguard, regardless of the life or death of others.
From the beginning, Li Mu regarded Ji Jie as a strong opponent. He knew that taking Zhaocheng was not an easy task, but he did not expect that in the end, instead of winning, he would end up like this.
Not only that, King Zhao, who didn't know the inside story, also wrote a letter to reprimand him. Others said forget it, but why even his own people thought so? He couldn't laugh or cry.
"Marshal, what should we do?" Sima Shang asked cautiously.
Li Mu smiled bitterly and said: "What can I do? I can only state the true situation of the matter to King Han and King Zhao in detail. Anyway, I am the commander of the coalition forces. If the battle is defeated, I cannot escape the involvement. Let them kill or scratch them as they please."
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In order for the 25,000 soldiers to stop suffering, the King of Han had to lower his proud head and sent an envoy to Ji Jie for peace talks.
King Zhao also reluctantly chose peace talks because Ji Jie made harsh words. Unless King Zhao was willing to sit down and talk, he would send people to eat the remaining coalition forces.
For this money-grubbing and incompetent father-in-law, I gave him enough face.
A shrewd person like Lu Buwei could only bow down in front of Ji Jie, let alone others. Ji Jie opened his mouth like a lion and hit South Korea hard, and then used other methods to kill them with hundreds of thousands of cars.
The bright yellow gold ingots were transported into Zhaocheng under the red eyes of the Koreans.
As for the five thousand captives of Zhao State, all were released unconditionally. This was considered as compensation for not sending a betrothal gift! However, the condition was that they must sign a letter of credence with Zhou Dynasty to non-aggression within five years. The same goes for South Korea.
Why not sign it longer? Ji Jie is not afraid that Zhao Guo and South Korea will regret it. He is afraid that he will tear it up if the time is too long.