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The Wei army's siege strategy was to surround two and miss two.

Only the east and west walls were attacked, leaving the south and north sides empty.

It seems that the net is open on both sides, but Yuan Zongdi can think with his toes that there must be a cavalry ambush on both sides if the Yi army does not attack.

According to the information obtained by previous spies, more than 10,000 of the Wei army rode into the Guanzhong Plain.

If he really led the troops in the city to break out from the north or south, he would be ambushed and his entire army would be annihilated.

Therefore, he could only stick to Xi'an.

If you want to defend for a longer period of time, you can only rely on the city walls and buildings within the city to resist step by step.

While Yuan Zongdi was thinking, the artillery carriage of the Yi army was also pushed to the predetermined position.

Although he couldn't see clearly, Yuan Zongdi could vaguely estimate that there were one or two hundred doors.

'Eh, Yuan Zongdi can one day face the bombardment of two hundred red barbarian cannons. It is not in vain that he has been on the battlefield for more than ten years. '

With a secret smile in his heart, Yuan Zongdi ordered the Shun troops on the city wall to guard against the shelling of the Ei army.

as predicted.

The Yi army's artillery fire soon began.

First there was a test shot, and then there was a rumbling sound.

The city wall of Xi'an was tall and spacious, and the anti-cannon walls were also thickly built. Yuan Zongdi didn't feel much danger while squatting inside, and he was still thinking about counting the sound of cannons to deduce how many cannons were used by the Yi army in the east.

When the artillery fire stopped, he found that the Yi army seemed to have only used a hundred cannons?

But he just observed that there should be about two hundred cannons launched by the Yi army?

Is it possible that half of them are fake and used to deceive people?

Just when Yuan Zongdi was confused, Captain Guo Sheng (a fifth-grade general in Dashun, located between the mighty general and the flag bearer) ran over, holding a broken stone bullet in his arms.

"General, the bullets the Yi army just fired were all stone bullets, and they contained letters of persuasion to surrender."

While talking, the captain handed over the stone bullet.

Yuan Zongdi took out the bamboo tube from it, poured out the letter of persuasion to surrender, glanced at it briefly, and then threw it on the fire aside.

"It's just an old trick of the Yi army, don't worry about it." After saying this, Yuan Zongdi looked at Guo Sheng again, and continued: "Our children have all followed your Majesty to retreat westward, so we are here The longer we delay the Wei army, the safer they will be. Do you understand?"

"I will finally understand!"

Why doesn't Guo Sheng understand?
The meaning of Yuan Zongdi's words is: their children have followed Li Zicheng. If they surrender, Li Zicheng will not let their children go.

Therefore, for the safety of their family, they could only defend Xi'an, and the longer they could, the better.

But the question is, the Wei army is so powerful. How long can it hold on with only the two to thirty thousand soldiers left in the city, most of whom are miscellaneous soldiers?

In addition, most of the middle and high-ranking generals Jia Xiao did withdraw westward with Li Zicheng.

However, there are also a few generals who do not have young families.

As for the grassroots officers and soldiers, except for the few thousand elite soldiers, the miscellaneous soldiers are either bachelors or have family members in Xi'an.

If faced with a desperate situation, these people may not stick to it.

Thinking of this, Guo Sheng took a peek at Yuan Zong for the first time and secretly made some kind of plan in his heart.

He had secretly read the letter to persuade the troops to surrender.

Although you have to accept reorganization if you surrender, if you can surrender before the battle and perform meritorious service, even if you are reorganized, your treatment will be better.

Even if there is no meritorious service, as long as the crime is not extremely heinous, there will be no fear of life after surrender.

If your mother-in-law is gone, you can remarry, if your baby is gone, you can have another child, if your own life is gone, it’s all over...
Although Yuan Zongdi didn't know that Captain Guo Sheng was already thinking about surrendering Wei, he also guessed that there must be some generals who were greedy for life and feared death and wanted to surrender.

As for the lower-level soldiers, in addition to the few thousand elite soldiers, the miscellaneous soldiers want to surrender more.

Because in the past few days, many "spies" of the Wei army had appeared in the city of Xi'an, secretly promoting the benefits of surrendering to Dawei to the soldiers and the people, and they were repeatedly banned.

Therefore, taking advantage of the "two quarters of an hour to consider" agreed in the letter to persuade the troops to surrender, Yuan Zongdi led his troops to inspect the east wall.

On the one hand, check the various defense preparations made before and find out the deficiencies.

The second is to appease people's hearts and make the soldiers not believe the "lies" of the Wei army. Although this is not very effective, it is better than not doing it.

However, when Yuan Zongdi almost finished inspecting the east wall, he felt that two quarters of an hour had passed, but he still didn't see the Yi army firing artillery to attack the city.

So he asked the captain behind him, "Is it two-quarters of an hour?"

The city of Xi'an has a manual time telling system, but after Li Zicheng left, most of this system was abolished. At least there is no way to know the time on the city walls.

The soldier captain also felt that a long time had passed, so he said uncertainly: "It must have passed, right?"

Yuan Zongdi frowned, and just when he was waiting for someone to go down to the city wall to find out, he saw a horse galloping from the horse path to the city wall, shouting as he ran: "General, it's not good! Zhang Nai has surrendered." !"What? !

Yuan Zongdi felt like a thunderbolt from the clear sky.

I felt like my whole body was dizzy.

Fortunately, he was in his prime and strong, so he survived.

The city wall of Xi'an is wide enough for horse racing.

The cavalryman ran up to Yuan Zongdi before rolling off his horse and saying in panic: "General, Zhang Nai has surrendered - he has opened the west city gate and let Shen Wandeng's troops into the city!"

This person is a soldier sent by Yuan Zongdi to the west city wall, so he is credible.

Even though Yuan Zongdi didn't want to believe it, he knew it was definitely true.

After swallowing a breath of bad breath, Yuan Zongdi cursed angrily: "He's a wolf-hearted thing, and he actually surrendered..."

Zhang Nai came from the Haierying camp of Li Zicheng and was the first commander of the Haierying camp.

When he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he followed Li Zicheng to fight in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Sichuan and other provinces. When he was sixteen years old, he left the Boy's Camp and became Li Zicheng's bodyguard, and eventually became the commander of the bodyguards.

It can be said that Li Zicheng did not trust Zhang Nai as much as he did his adopted son Li Shuangxi.

When the civil and military ministers in Xi'an were ennobled, Zhang Nai was granted the title of Marquis of Yi, and was promoted from the post of commander of bodyguards to the title of mighty general!
Speaking of which, Zhang Nai is also worthy of Li Zicheng's esteem. He has made many contributions since he was the commander of the Children's Camp and is one of Li Zicheng's confidant generals.

In addition, Zhang Nai also got married, and his wife also withdrew westward with Li Zicheng, but she still had no children.

Even so, Yuan Zongdi never expected that Zhang Nai would surrender and do so decisively.

"General, general, what should we do now?"

The urgent shout of the soldier captain brought Yuan Zongdi back to his senses.

He looked around and saw many soldiers looking this way, their eyes flickering.

A little further away, there were many soldiers gathered around the middle and low-level officers, planning something unknown.

Seeing this, he knew that Xi'an City might not be able to bear it for an hour.

Under such circumstances, even if he wanted to retreat into the city and engage in street fighting, it would be impossible.

If he ordered the city wall to be taken down, most of the soldiers on the wall would take the opportunity to escape and never be able to gather together again.

Even the two to three thousand elite soldiers left by Li Zicheng are still questionable.

After all, Zhang Nai has surrendered. Who knows how many of those elite soldiers have been bribed?

But if Yuan Zongdi was asked to give up resistance and surrender directly, he would not be able to do it.

For one thing, his wife and son followed Li Zicheng and retreated to the west.

Secondly, he had followed Li Zicheng for many years and was deeply trusted by him, and they felt like brothers to each other.

Although the brotherhood had become weaker in the past two years as Li Zicheng became king and emperor, there was still something in his heart that made him unwilling to betray Li Zicheng.

Thinking of this, Yuan Zongdi gathered the personal and elite soldiers on the east wall, abandoned the miscellaneous soldiers, and prepared to retreat into the city for street fighting, so as to delay the Yi army for as long as possible.

Unexpectedly, when he was waiting for an order, he saw Captain Guo Sheng approaching with dozens of elite soldiers and a large group of miscellaneous soldiers.

On the other side of the city wall, Captain Li Xuexiu also approached with a group of soldiers.

Yuan Zongdi immediately pushed away his soldiers and yelled angrily with a knife: "Guo Sheng, what do you want to do?!"

Guo Sheng stopped and said loudly: "General Yuan and General Zhang have surrendered to Wei, and the Wei army has entered the city, so it would be better for us not to resist any longer.

You should know that with the strength of the Wei army, even if we don't surrender, we can only hold the Wei army back for a moment, and eventually they will become the dead souls in Xi'an city.

You are not afraid of death, but these many brothers don't want to be buried with you - if you die, they can all live a stable life, or even a good life! "

Guo Sheng was a reckless general and his eloquence was not very good.

But these words still have a murderous meaning.

Yuan Zongdi looked around and found that even among the soldiers, there were eyes that flickered.

Seeing that Captain Li Xuexiu had blocked the way on the other side, he knew that it would be difficult to achieve his goal of leading the elite to the city to fight with the Yi army in the streets.

He then put his long knife on the ground and sighed: "That's all, it's going to rain and my mother is getting married. If you want to bring peace, then go ahead."

However, Yuan Zongdi and His Majesty grew up together at a young age and share the same love as brothers, so it is difficult to betray him.

Your Majesty ordered you to hold on to Xi'an, but you couldn't hold it for a day. You really failed the emperor's favor. Today...the only way to apologize is to die! "

As he spoke, Yuan Zong hesitated for a moment, then showed determination and wanted to kill himself with a sword. (End of chapter)