Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 573 567. The situation is over
The cavalry marched through the streets, leaving no food for people, let alone horses. These were the few horses that were barely preserved in Hefei, and almost all the others were eaten.

"Don't be so arrogant, you traitor! Zhang Hu (Le Chen) is here!"

Needless to say, the leaders are naturally the two young players, but their current condition is not very good either, and they are also in poor condition due to malnutrition and long-term hunger.

"Bah, you are a bunch of brainless things. Cao Xiu is just trying to be buried with the State of Wei. Do you idiots also want to die with them?"

Shen De yelled at Zhang Hu and Le Chen in the crowd. The two knew that what Shen De said made sense, but what could they do? Their fathers were Zhang Liao and Le Jin, both of whom were among the Five Greatest Generals. They were also blessed by the Kingdom of Wei. Under such circumstances, they couldn't just take the lead in surrendering, right?

The two men's ideas were actually the ideas of most people, that is, to let nature take its course, or to be swept along by the mighty trend and go with the flow. If they were lucky enough to survive after the Han army broke into the city, the Wei Dynasty would exist in name only, and they would probably surrender to the Han Dynasty as a matter of course.

After all, not everyone is as diehard as Man Chong, and the two did not want to die with the Wei Kingdom before they could accomplish anything. But if they were asked to surrender directly to the Han army, they would definitely not be able to wipe out this face, and they would definitely be laughed at, and even remembered by future generations.

Zhang Hu felt like a thorn in his side just thinking about the words "Zhang Liao's son surrendered to the Han army after the Han army attacked". A hundred years later, he would not be able to face his father in the underworld.

Now, let's not talk about them. In fact, except for a few determined people, such as Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, most people have this attitude. If the Han army comes, they will do their best to resist. It's fine if they die on the battlefield. If they are lucky enough to survive, they can join the Han Dynasty after Luoyang falls and the Wei Dynasty is destroyed.

Given the mess that Wei is in now, few people still think there is any possibility of a turnaround. The only reason they still have some reservations is thanks to a man who has been dead for many years, Lu Bu.

It is because Lu Bu was so fickle in the past that his reputation was ruined. Now everyone has to be hesitant before surrendering, for fear that they will be too active and be labeled as fickle.

Even Wang Shuang had to pretend to make a bet in front of the Han army before he surrendered to the Han army. After surrendering, he ate, drank and had fun without any psychological burden.

"Don't say any more. Since you have started a rebellion, we will obey the order of the Grand Marshal and suppress you!"

No matter what Zhang Hu and Le Chen were thinking in their hearts, at least they kept calm on the surface and still looked righteous.

The two sides soon engaged in a fight. The soldiers and civilians instigated by Shen De were really desperate, and now they were fighting hard, it was difficult to deal with them; and although the cavalry of the two young generals Zhang and Le had been hungry for a few days, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and cavalry is cavalry, and their lethality is still there.

Cao Xiu acted decisively and opened the gate of the prefectural governor's mansion. The soldiers who were originally guarding the mansion and loyal to Cao Xiu rushed out and immediately caused the rebels, who were already unable to hold on, to retreat step by step.

"Brothers, we have no way out! If they don't want us to live, we will fight them! Starving to death is death, and dragging them down with us is a win-win!"

Shen De continued to boost the morale of the army in the chaos, making the originally hesitant and timid rebels as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Some of them even rushed forward to attack the horses under the crotch of the cavalry led by Generals Zhang and Le without caring about their lives.

The one-sided situation fell into a stalemate. The mentality of the soldiers who still followed Cao Xiu was not complicated. It was nonsense to say that they were loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Their idea was "I don't want to rebel, but I don't know what to do. I can only continue to follow Cao Xiu to the end."

How could soldiers with this kind of awareness fight with the rebels who were determined to die and started fighting with the Wei army? When their weapons were broken, they would punch and kick, and even kill with their teeth. The rebels who were oppressed to the extreme by hunger and pressure were like springs and exploded to the extreme. Some even killed the war horses and didn't care about anything. They just cut off the horse meat and started eating it raw, so that others dared not approach. "Go into the city and capture Cao Xiu alive!"

While the rebel forces of Cao Xiu and Shen De were in a stalemate, Han Zong and Zhai Dan had already opened the city gates to welcome in their former superiors and colleagues from outside the city.

After the Han army rushed into the city, only a few of the dull-eyed Wei soldiers put up a symbolic resistance, and after being knocked to the ground, they basically stopped resisting. Of course, most people just watched coldly, watching the Han army file in. Neither the Wei soldiers nor the people had any intention of escaping or resisting, and they just watched the Han army take over the main roads in the city in silence.

Even when Zhu Yi and Zhu Heng, father and son, grabbed a Wei soldier and interrogated him about Cao Xiu's whereabouts, the Wei soldier pointed in the direction of the prefectural government with lifeless eyes and was too lazy to say a word, causing the father and son to think that the other party was lying to them. After asking a few Wei soldiers with similar performance, they were sure that it was true.

When the Han army advanced to the prefectural governor's mansion without encountering any obstacles, they saw two groups of armies wearing the same armor and clothes fighting over there, making it impossible to tell who were enemies and who were friends.

"General Shen, the Han army is coming!"

Han Zong quickly stepped forward and shouted loudly, but unexpectedly, this sentence seemed to release some magic, causing both sides who were fighting fiercely on the field to stop.

"Lao Le, let's..."

Zhang Hu saw his soldiers put down their weapons in confusion, and asked Le Chen beside him in a low voice. At this time, his brain was not enough, so he could only ask Le Chen beside him. After all, Le Chen and he were brothers who had grown up together, and he was smart, so it was obviously more practical to ask him.

However, Le Chen shook his head at Zhang Hu, signaling him not to act rashly. The two of them, like the other Wei army soldiers, stayed where they were and did not move.

"Now everyone put down your weapons, hold your heads and squat down. Do not make any rash moves. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy!"

The Han army pointed their swords and crossbows at everyone on the field, and the rebels led by Shen De immediately dropped their weapons and squatted aside. The Wei army hesitated for a moment, and before the generals and officers could say anything, they followed the rebels' example and dropped their weapons and squatted aside.

Needless to say, Zhang Hu and Le Chen also got off their horses and blended into the crowd without resisting.

"Lao Le, why are we..."

Zhang Hu lowered his head and asked Le Chen beside him in a low voice, but he still didn't understand.

"The situation is over."

Le Chen only said these four words and then stopped talking.

(End of this chapter)