Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 961 Unconditional Surrender

After leaving the Han Palace, Han Geng personally led a guard of his own to destroy a private weapons workshop in the western suburbs of Yangzhai City.

"Demolition! Demolition all!"

Under Han Geng's order, the old guards demolished all the furnaces used to smelt weapons, even tents and thatched cottages, and then burned them all.

Faced with Han Geng's insane behavior, all the Li Shu were impatient, and surrounded Han Geng and the rest of the guards with weapons.

"Are you going to rebel?"

Han Geng said angrily.

"Prince, you forced us!"

A bare-chested man with a big waist and a round waist said through gritted teeth: "The king fought against the Wu people, lost the battle, ended up cutting land and paying compensation, and passed the debt on to us poor people!"

"The government has cleverly set up a name to collect all kinds of exorbitant taxes, and these taxes have been received the next year!"

"How do you want us to live?"

"That's right! Prince, you have to understand our difficulty!"

Hearing this, Han Geng stared and said indignantly, "When did I never forgive you?"

"Second and third sons, please return to your own business, and don't do this kind of craftsman business again!"

"Businessmen come to South Korea to buy weapons wantonly, that's Wu Manzi's conspiracy!"

"The instigators behind this are the Wu people! They want to force us Koreans to delay farming and lose the harvest, and then send troops to destroy Korea!"

"Could it be that you have given up resistance and are willing to become subjugated slaves?"

"You claim that you have lost your livelihood, so you can't share weal and woe with the country for a few years?"

"Where is your conscience?"

Hearing this, the man became even more furious, and said, "Conscience?"

"Prince, how dare you say such outrageous words? Our conscience, like you meat eaters, has been fed to dogs!"

"Plowing the land for a living? We can't survive!"

"We know it's a conspiracy by the Wu people, but we must do it!"

"Prince, you speak lightly, you don't know the suffering in the world at all!"

"What kind of subjugated slaves? I heard that it is very good under the rule of Wu! The people in Wu are well-off, and they are all poor like us Koreans!"

Han Geng, who was accused by these Li Shu, couldn't help but fell silent.

He couldn't come up with any powerful words to refute these Li Shu.

Han Geng, who knew he was wrong, destroyed the weapons workshop and left in a hurry with the old guards.

Just now when he arrived in the suburbs, Han Geng came across a group of merchants buying weapons in a big way.

This annoyed Han Geng, so he stepped forward to stop him.

Unexpectedly, they ran into two or three soldiers from the barracks.

They took out all their weapons and armor and sold them to merchants!

"You... are really treasonous! Capital crime! Death deserves more than guilt!"

Han Geng exploded in anger for a moment, roaring incoherently, like a raging lion.

"How dare you take out your weapons, armor and bows and crossbows and sell them to merchants, don't you know that this is a capital offense?"

The soldier, who knew that he could not escape the guilt, plucked up his courage and snorted, and said plausibly, "Prince, kill me!"

"Anyway, there is no way out in South Korea! Such a country will perish sooner or later!"

"Yes! You forced me to do this!"

"I don't know how many people do this kind of thing in the military camp. You can stop us and execute us today, but how many soldiers can you stop? Are you going to kill all the soldiers in South Korea?"

"..."

Han Geng was stopped by the question.

In a trance, Han Geng couldn't help sitting down on the ground, and muttered to himself in a sense of loss: "Korea is over."

"Koreans don't even care about their own weapons and armor, and Korean soldiers don't even care about their own weapons and armor. Is there any hope for such a country...such an army?"

"It's hopeless, it's all over."

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The situation in Wei State is basically the same as that in South Korea.

In order to make money by forging weapons, the common people of Korea and Wei tried every means, and even went to the trouble of selling iron. After melting their hoes, sickles, kitchen knives, etc., they smelted them into weapons and sold them to merchants.

It is true that the two countries of Korea and Wei also thought of some ways to stop it, but none of them had any effect.

When people are cornered, they can do anything.

The "meat eaters" in Korea and Wei should be glad that the Chinese did not rise up.

And this is exactly what Qingji wants to see.

The time has entered the 31st year of Wu Wang Qingji, that is, 483 BC, the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

After half a year of planning, Qingji believed that the time was ripe for the destruction of Han and Wei.

Therefore, Qingji issued an order for Wu Jundong to go out.

Qingji worshiped Sun Wu as a general, led 10 people on foot and cavalry, and marched out of Weihan in a mighty manner, launching the battle to destroy Korea via Hedong County.

He also worshiped Wu Zixu as a general, led 10 infantry and cavalry, and launched the battle to destroy Wei from Yingchuan County.

With 20 troops in Wu State, it is not difficult to wipe out the two countries of Korea and Wei in one go.

Wu's army of destroying Korea was invincible all the way, and basically encountered no decent resistance.

After all, to this day, the hearts of the Korean people have been lost. They don't know why and for whom they are fighting.

Coupled with the fact that even the most basic military rations cannot be raised, how can the soldiers of the Korean army fight?
When Sun Wu led his army to the wild king, he was resisted by the Han army.

The ones stationed in Yewang City are South Korean Crown Prince Geng and 5000 people from the Korean Military Region.

How is this fight going?
In view of this, Sun Wu believed that in order to reduce the damage of the soldiers, he could send people to the city to negotiate peace with Prince Geng.

However, Prince Geng flatly rejected Sun Wu's kindness.

When Sun Wu was about to launch an attack on Yewang City, a message from Yangdi disrupted his deployment——

"Han Jun... surrendered?"

Sun Wu was stunned for a moment.

Han Buxin actually planned to surrender before the soldiers came to the city?

In order to find out, Sun Wu left some soldiers and horses, and after confronting Prince Geng's Han army in Yewang, he himself led an army of tens of thousands to Yangdi, the capital of South Korea.

When Sun Wubing approached the city, Han Buxin, who heard the wind, held a surrender ceremony. He was bare-chested, carrying thorns, holding a sheep in one hand, and holding a piece of jade in his mouth. He led the Korean officials to meet Wu Jun.

This is a typical surrender ceremony.

Sun Wu hastily removed the thorns from Han Buxin's body, and put a coat on him.

"Mr. Wu An, South Korea...is willing to surrender!"

It can be said that Han Buxin lowered his posture as much as possible, bowing his knees to Sun Wu.

As a result, Han Buxin didn't send anyone to negotiate terms with Wu Guo beforehand.

Surrender unconditionally?

Not necessarily.

After all, Qingji has always been tolerant and can treat the king of subjugation well.

Han didn't believe that such an "awe-inspiring" selfless behavior would make Qingji look up to him and not treat him badly.

The scheming Han Buxin can be described as a smart man.

(End of this chapter)