Chapter 1235 Persuading Surrender

A day later, Li Xu and two generals among the Li Dynasty prisoners were escorted to the camp.

Li Shu was lucky and survived being hit by two arrows.

At this moment, the three of them were in a mess, with stains all over their faces.

"Your Majesty!"

Shen Kuan raised his hand and pressed Li Su to the ground.

Li Su froze his body and refused to kneel.

The other two prisoners were sensible and knelt down obediently.

Bang!

Shen Kuan kicked Li Shu in the ankle.

Li Shu couldn't bear it anymore and finally fell to his knees.

"Didn't you clamor to see the king?"

Yun Zheng raised his eyes to look at Li Xu and asked calmly.

Li Su raised his head and stared at Yun Zheng with his eyes fixed on him: "There is no grudge between our dynasty and Daqian. Why did the prince raise an army to attack our dynasty for no reason?"

Yun Zheng raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Aren't you going to rob our gold mine?"

"That was your trick!"

Li Shu refused to accept the suggestion.

"trick?"

Yun Zheng snorted disdainfully, "If there really is a gold mine here, it would be natural for you to come and rob it. If you don't have that intention, my tricks will be useless!"

Li Shu opened his mouth slightly and was instantly speechless.

Yes!

If they hadn't been greedy, how could they have fallen into the trap carefully set by Yun Zheng!

Yun Zheng glanced at Li Su and said calmly, "Hundreds of years ago, the Le Dynasty was also a vassal state of our Central Plains Dynasty. Taking advantage of the internal and external troubles in the Central Plains, the Le Dynasty not only refused to pay tribute for hundreds of years, but your monarch even dared to call himself the emperor. This is so presumptuous. Where does it put our Central Plains Dynasty?"

Li Shu paused for a moment, stiffened his neck and said, "Our dynasty does not belong to the Central Plains Dynasty!"

Yun Zheng snorted coldly: "Your dynasty's writing, language, and official system were all learned from my Central Plains Dynasty. Just because you say they don't belong to me, then they don't belong to me?"

Listening to Yun Zheng's words, Jia Yao on the side couldn't help but admire him secretly.

This bastard has a really powerful mouth!

He can even say that anything black is white!

Li Shu's face froze, and he said angrily: "You just want to annex our dynasty, why do you have so many reasons?"

“This is not called annexation!”

Yun Zheng shook his head, "This time, I am raising an army of justice to fight against the rebellion! I advise you to surrender obediently. Considering that you are also my subjects, I may be able to spare your lives!"

Yun Zheng was still somewhat interested in Li Xu.

In this battle, they suffered more than 200 serious injuries and more than 90 deaths, which was considered a very small casualty.

But their casualties could have been smaller.

If everything went as he expected, their casualties could be kept within a hundred people.

However, because Li Xu was too cautious, he did not rashly lead his troops through the valley, which forced Pang Jinjiu to send out cavalry to drive them into the valley, exposing the ambushes on the mountains on both sides in advance.

If Li Shu is willing to surrender, he will definitely be of use in the future.

Li Shu was not grateful at all and shouted: "I have received the emperor's grace for generations and will never surrender to the thieves!"

"The emperor's grace is only in the Central Plains!"

Yun Zheng stared at Li Xu coldly, "Wang Shu has no right to be called emperor! If you surrender now, it means you have woken up in time and turned from darkness to light!"

"No surrender!"

Li Shu's face was full of determination.

"Are you sure you don't want to surrender?"

Yun Zheng frowned, "This king will capture Juncheng soon. If you don't think about yourself, you should think about your family!"

"No surrender!"

Li Xu answered again, stiffening his neck and shouting: "In the Li Dynasty, there are only generals who died in battle, not generals who surrendered!"

"Is it?"

Yun Zheng's eyes fell on the other two generals, "Are you willing to surrender?"

"The sin will be punished!"

They both spoke at the same time, lowering their bodies.

Listening to what the two said, Li Xu suddenly turned his head and stared at them with his eyes spitting fire, "How dare you, you cowardly villains, surrender to the bandits? Do you want to bring shame to your ancestors?"

Facing Li Xu's gaze, the two men avoided his gaze and were too embarrassed to respond.

"They call this abandoning darkness and following light, bringing honor to their ancestors."

Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, then shouted: "Someone come!"

"exist!"

"Drag him away and behead him!"

"Yes!"

Two guards stepped forward, lifted up Li Shu and dragged him out.

"You cowards, you will not die well! Your descendants will be ashamed of you..."

As Li Shu was dragged away, he cursed his two surrendering subordinates.

Bang!

The royal guard punched Li Shu hard in the mouth.

Li Shu screamed miserably and could no longer utter any curses.

Soon, the royal guards came forward with Li Xu's head to report.

Yun Zheng waved his hand to signal the guards to withdraw, and then asked the two soldiers: "What are your names? What positions did you hold in the army before?"

"The guilty general Gao Yan was originally a lieutenant commander in the army."

"The criminal general Heichilong was originally a general in the army."

The two of them answered quickly.

The military system of the Le Dynasty basically made some innovations on the military system of the Great Kang Dynasty.

Liaojiang is equivalent to the lieutenant general of Daqian.

A Yajiang is equivalent to a captain-level officer in the Daqian Army.

Yun Zheng thought silently for a moment, and then ordered: "Gao Yan will serve as a captain in my army first, and Heichilong will serve as a general in the army. After they make contributions in the future, I will promote them!"

Yun Zheng was not clear about the abilities of these two surrendered generals, so there was no need to arrange them according to their original positions.

If they lead their troops to achieve merit in the future, Yun Zheng will not hesitate to promote them.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The two did not dare to complain and expressed their gratitude together.

"Get up!"

Yun Zheng raised his hand slightly and asked again: "Who came up with this plan?"

Gao Yan replied: "It was Song Wu who proposed it, but Song Wu had died in the previous battle..."

As he spoke, Gao Yan revealed Song Wu's detailed plan.

After hearing Gao Yan's words, Yun Zheng couldn't help but feel secretly regretful.

This Song Wu is actually quite resourceful.

It's just that I have a bad fate.

After chatting with them briefly, Yun Zheng had someone take them downstairs to treat their injuries.

"Your Highness, what should we do with these two thousand prisoners?"

It was not until this time that Wei Jianshan started asking.

They would have had more prisoners.

However, many Le Dynasty soldiers were seriously injured, so he could only order people to escort them part of the way.

"Lock him up first!"

Yun Zheng ordered: "Later, let Gao Yan and the other two go and talk to the captives. Those who are willing to surrender will be dispersed and mixed into your and Wang Qi's troops. Those who are unwilling to surrender will be used as coolies to cut wood."

"Yes!"

Wei Jianshan accepted the order.

Yun Zheng stood up and called Wei Jianshan, "Come with me for a walk outside."

Wei Jianshan was confused and quickly followed Yun Zheng out of the tent.

"Be smarter next time!"

Arriving at a corner of the camp, Yun Zheng glared at Wei Jianshan unhappily, "Why not just kill them? Why not kill the seriously injured in front of the captives? At worst, you can send a few hundred people to stay behind and let those people fend for themselves!"

They certainly would not keep the seriously injured soldiers of the Le Dynasty.

Their medicines and doctors would definitely give priority to their own people. It would be impossible for them to spend a lot of energy and medicines to treat those Le Dynasty soldiers who were basically difficult to save.

Wei Jianshan did the right thing on this point.

But there are also some considerations on how to deal with those people.

"The general understands!"

Wei Jianshan nodded heavily.

Yun Zheng retracted his gaze and said, "Your troops performed well this time. I will record your merits first, and then reward you after this battle is over!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"