Chapter 345 Everyone has their own choices, and there is no right or wrong.
Lian Po was really shocked.
The practice of raising the white flag has appeared as early as the Xia and Shang dynasties and has continued to this day. It is not a very strange way.
In earlier times, the white flag was usually equated with the battle-free flag. At that time, the meaning of raising the white flag meant "I won't fight" or "Let's talk about it."
But as time passed, and at this point in time, raising the white flag more meant - surrender.
The eyes of three thousand Zhao cavalrymen all fell on Lian Po.
Lian Po smashed his mouth and asked subconsciously: "Old Zhao, do you think this is a real surrender or a fake surrender?"
Then Lian Po came to his senses. Zhao She was still carrying the main cavalry force and didn't know where behind him.
Lian Po gritted his teeth and was about to move his horse forward, but immediately remembered Zhao She's troublesome advice along the way. After hesitating for a while, he grabbed a side general next to him and said, "Chen Jing, go up and ask the guy opposite him what it means. Remember, don't shoot a cold arrow. If you think there is something wrong, come back immediately!"
So, under the gaze of eight thousand pairs of eyes, Zhao State rode Chen Jing on a horse and walked carefully towards the Qin State's chariot formation.
On the other side, Gao Lingjun Ying Ju also looked at this scene with some surprise, and couldn't help but feel silent. He asked the adviser beside him: "Don't everyone say that Lian Po is a brave and famous general? Why do you feel so careful? Did you recognize the wrong person?"
The strategist smiled bitterly, speechless.
Ying Ju shrugged helplessly and said, "Let someone raise the white flag a little higher."
Suddenly, several generals rushed over from the side. Fortunately, the five hundred soldiers beside Ying Xue were his real hard-core private army, and instantly stopped these Qin generals.
Ying Ji's face darkened and he looked at the generals and officials: "What are you doing?"
Although Ying Ju doesn't have any majesty on weekdays, he is Gaolingjun of the Great Qin Dynasty, the King of Qin and his mother's brother. When he looks up, he looks quite scary.
A Qin general asked with a very excited expression: "Jun Hou, why did the white flag suddenly raise in the chariot formation?"
Ying Ju's face remained unchanged and said as if nothing had happened: "You see, your question is boring. Since you have raised the white flag, of course, this marquis is going to surrender!"
Ying Xue's answer was so bachelor that the generals who wanted to question Ying Xue were stunned for several seconds.
Then the leading general said excitedly: "Jun Hou is the eldest prince's brother and the clan of the Qin Dynasty. How can he surrender to the Zhao people?"
Ying Xu showed a speechless expression and sighed: "Why can't you surrender? I'm not my brother, he is the king and he will definitely not surrender even if he wants to surrender. If I say that, King Zhao must treat me well after surrendering now, otherwise will he surrender until the Qin Dynasty is destroyed? No one will take me seriously at that time."
Ying Xu continued, "To be honest, I know some things you don't know, so I actually think that the choice I made is worthy of the five thousand soldiers under my command. But you may think I am a bastard and completely sorry for the blood of the Qin Duke flowing on me, right? You don't need to answer, I know the expression on your face. But this is not important, I don't care. Do you have any shame? Let's do this, since you think the Qin Dynasty is still saved, then you can leave here quickly now, right? I try to tell Lian Po to tell him not to kill you. Although Lian Po is a little bit awkward and robs thousands of families of our Qin along the way, it doesn't seem like a butcher who kills people. Okay, stop talking nonsense, go quickly."
Ying Xu waved at several completely stunned generals, as if driving away troubled flies.
Several generals looked at each other, and finally sighed helplessly, saluted Ying Xu, left Ying Xu's formation directly, and quickly walked towards the south.
Ying Ju looked around and said loudly: "Who else is unwilling to surrender with this marquis? Now you are all leaving quickly. It will be too late if it is too late!"
Soon, someone left 66 more.
After a while, the number of soldiers around Ying Xu decreased to about 3,000.
Gao Lingjun of Qin was not unhappy. He didn't even go to see the guys who left. Instead, he waved hard to Chen Jing, the general of Zhao, not far away, and asked the advisers around him: "Sir, why aren't you talking about Zhao people... Hey, you're leaving too?"
Gao Lingjun looked at the gentleman in front of him and showed a look of surprise and reluctance for the first time.
The strategist bowed to Gao Lingjun and said, "I'm not to be hiding the matter. I am actually from Zhao. I escaped from Zhao for some things a few years ago. I have been to Qi, Wei, and Qin over the years. In fact, I think of the same thing, just to overthrow Zhao Yong and his son. But today... Alas, since things cannot be done, I can only say goodbye and leave."
Gao Lingjun looked at the counselor who had followed him for some time, and suddenly sighed after a while: "Mr. Li Dui, the grudge between you and King Zhao is all about the past. I think he must have forgotten it long ago, right?"
Yes, this strategist was Li Dui, the former Zhao State Grand Tutor who had been disguised for a certain time.
After the Sand Dune Palace Transformation, Li Dui, who was lucky enough to save his life, disappeared from the public and did not even appear on the Chinese stage. Unexpectedly, he appeared in front of the people of Zhao in this way at this time.
After being exposed, Li Dui was calm: "Jun Hou is indeed worthy of being Jinxiu's heart. I guess he has seen through his identity as a minister a long time ago, right? Why, does Jun Hou want to hand over the minister to the people of Zhao?"
Ying Xu sighed, waved his hand, and said, "I thought that you could still follow me to make suggestions when you go to Handan in the future, but now it seems that you don't have this blessing. Mr. Li Dui, you and I are also a monarch and minister. If you don't let me down, how can I defeat you? I have prepared the horse and the guard for you. You should go out quickly. Remember to explain your identity when you catch up with the king. The king is going to fight to the death with Zhao State. I think you can still use yours."
As he said that, Ying Ju waved his hand, and several guards led their horses to the two of them.
Li Dui's expression changed for a long time, and finally made up his mind and bowed to Ying Qi: "I thank you for your kindness."
After saying that, Li Dui got on his horse and galloped towards the south under the protection of several guards.
Ying Xu looked at Li Dui's figure gradually disappearing from his sight, and sighed: "What a pity, it's a pity. Why do you think the smart people in this world always like to go to such a dead end that they can't turn back? OK, when Zhao people come, they put down their weapons and put down their weapons!"
Under Ying Ji's order, thousands of Qin soldiers put down their weapons, dispersed the formation of cars, and looked at the three thousand Zhao cavalry gradually approaching and surrounding them with trepidation.
Lian Po's full of energy quickly heard: "Who is the main general here?"
Ying Xu coughed, and a bright smile soon piled up on his face, and he waved: "General Lian Po, Ying Xu is here!"
Lian Po's eyes fell on Ying Xu, and he was slightly stunned, always feeling that the name seemed a little familiar.
Ying Xu saw Lian Po’s doubts and smiled and said, “I will introduce myself. I am Ying Xu, the king of Gaoling of the Great Qin Dynasty.”
"Mr. Gao Ling?" Lian Po finally thought about it and blurted out: "You are the Four Prizes!"
Ying Xu shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is really a good thing that is not going out. Bad things are spreading thousands of miles... That's right, I am Ying Xu, the Gaoling Jun who is the one who is in charge of the fourth guild. In fact, the four guilds are all in charge of my two uncles. Ying Fu and I are basically just making up the numbers, which is useless."
Lian Po's curiosity suddenly came to his mind and looked at Ying Ju up and down: "If I remember correctly, you are the brother of the King of Qin, right? Why, were you left here as an abandoned son by the King of Qin?"
Ying Xu smiled and said, "General Lian Po misunderstood. Actually, I volunteered to break the back."
Lian Po's expression of surprise was even stronger: "What do you mean is, do you want to surrender on your own initiative?"
Ying Xu smiled and said, "That's right, that's right. I think the Qin Dynasty cannot beat your Zhao State, so if you surrender early, your King Zhao will definitely treat me preferentially because of my identity. What reason do I have to not surrender?"
Lian Po was silent.
At this moment, he even wondered if Gao Lingjun was playing a cross-dressing trick.
But intuition tells Lian Po that it is not the case.
After being choked for several breaths, Lian Po said: "Since you sincerely surrender, then let's talk about the current situation of the Qin army."
This is the real purpose of Lian Po's patience and not chasing the King of Qin and talking nonsense to Ying Qi for a long time here.
Ying Ju's identity is here, and he must have known much more than other ordinary Qin prisoners.
Ying Xu smiled calmly and said, "Then I'll just tell you. According to what I know, there are about 70,000 soldiers in Daqin now. Oh, you have killed a few of them just now, and then I surrendered some of them. It's estimated that there are less than 70,000 of these 70,000 soldiers and horses. There are about 10,000 or 20,000 of them are truly combat-capable, and the others are actually some of the defeated generals who are not worth mentioning. But Meng Ao and Bai Qi are both here. These two people are still very capable of leading troops. They may cause some trouble to you... No, Meng Ao is your defeated general, so let's go Bai Qi, Bai Qi, you have to be careful."
Lian Po's brows jumped slightly, and he was secretly surprised.
The Qin people actually have such a huge army?
At this moment, Lian Po felt that his luck was really good.
He rushed to the formation of 70,000 people with three thousand cavalrymen. Not only did he come back alive, but he even killed many people. When he talked about this matter with Zhao She, he probably didn't believe it.
But after finding out, Lian Po was somewhat disappointed.
Since it is such a huge army and is vigilant, then I will definitely not be able to perform a good show of taking over the King of Qin directly from the army.
It seems that we can only follow the initial plan, first catch up and then delay the Qin people's escape, and then wait for Zhao She to come up with the army in the future.
If all 25,000 cavalrymen were in hand, Lian Po thought this battle could still be fought.
Seeing Lian Po pondering, Ying Qing's eyes rolled for a moment, and suddenly said, "Are you thinking about continuing to pursue my brother Wang? To be honest, I advise you to forget it. After you caught up, there was a fight about how to deal with you. They originally wanted to eat you, but they were worried about the Zhao army that appeared behind you, so they decided to cut off their arms to survive. This time you had a lucky encounter with me, and next time my brother Wang would probably not miss it and would have made any tricks to block the surrender of the troops. And in two more hours he would be able to enter the Ziwu intersection, and even if you chased after that, it would be useless."
Lian Po was silent.
After a while, Lian Po said, "Then what should you do if you think I am the general?"
Ying Qing spread his hands and smiled and said, "How do I know? I am just a prisoner."
Lian Po: “…”
After all, Lian Po decided not to listen to Ying Ju's words, but decided to continue moving south!
Of course, this time he brought Ying Jue with him.
As for the remaining thousands of Qin soldiers, Lian Po directly asked them to wait on the spot.
Anyway, Zhao She's army is about to arrive, so you can just ask these guys to surrender to Zhao She again.
Then, under the guidance of Ying Ju, Lian Po continued to move south like a gust of wind.
After chasing for another hour, Lian Po once again caught up with the Qin army.
And things were indeed as Ying Xu said. The Qin people once again sent a unit of 3,000 people to occupy a valley on both sides of the road, and used twenty tanks to block the road, blocking Lian Po.
After a full half hour of fierce battle, Lian Po finally successfully defeated the other party through the valley after hundreds of casualties.
Before the sun set, Lian Po finally saw the Qin King's flag again.
However, it was too late at this time.
Just as Lian Po was gaze, the banner representing the location of the King of Qin had slowly entered the Ziwu Road.
At the Ziwu Road intersection, tens of thousands of Qin soldiers lined up against the enemy. Although the military appearance was not very strict or even very hasty, it was a completely unsurpassable barrier for Lian Po, the 4,000 cavalry, who had been raiding for so long and fought twice in a row.
Lian Po looked at this scene quietly, knowing very well that there was only one result when he rushed forward at this time - the entire army was wiped out.
He finally sighed helplessly: "Oh, if I had known, I would have taken Xianyang directly. I've done this..."
The contribution that had been recorded in history just before my eyes was gone, which made Lian Po very depressed.
Ying Xu, who was standing beside him, comforted: "It's okay, didn't you catch me?"
Lian Po gave Ying Ju a blank look, turned around and rode the horse and left.
Half an hour later, Zhao She finally arrived late in the night with 20,000 cavalrymen.
Chapter completed!