Chapter 417 Although the Yuan family is defeated, there is no shortage of loyal ministers
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It was not until Xiahou Yuan led his army into the city that Feng Ji, who suddenly realized that he had fallen into the enemy's plan, but it was too late at this time. Although he was talented, he had no commander to wait until he was panicked and wanted to find Shen Pei again. Everything was too late. Feng Ji knew that he had wronged Shen Pei, so he committed suicide in shame. This led to even less people in the city to fight against the enemy. Xiahou Yuan was as if he had entered a no-man state and easily entered Yuan Shang's mansion, capturing all the trembling Yuan Shang and Mrs. Liu, and immediately forced the two to order Yuan Tan to surrender to Cao Cao.
Mrs. Liu was not a strong woman and had no knowledge. She had never seen such a scene? After seeing this scene, she immediately surrendered and immediately wrote a tough-worded letter according to Xiahou Yuan's request. The letter was stamped with Yuan Shang's general seal, requiring Yuan Tan and his soldiers to surrender to Cao Gong immediately to prevent the people from falling into war, etc.
As Mrs. Liu and Yuan Shang were captured, almost all the soldiers in the city gave up resistance, with only a few exceptions. Among the exceptions, the most core of this exception was Shen Pei. After the enemy entered the city, he did not give up resistance, and immediately organized the officials of his subordinates to resist. They advanced all the way and collected the fleeing soldiers. Gradually formed a team of two or three thousand people. These people firmly occupied a corner of Nanpi City and defended to retreat, which caused Xiahou Yuan to be more trouble.
In the end, Xiahou Yuan led the army to fight. Although Shen Pei was defeated, he still fought to the death. Unfortunately, his nephew Shen Rong and his general Feng Li took advantage of his exhausted rest and captured him, and then raised their troops to surrender.
After being captured, Shen Pei refused to surrender. Xiahou Yuan tried hard to persuade him but failed and had to kill him.
The news of the Bohai Sea being breached quickly reached Hejian Kingdom. Yuan Tan, who was guarding Hejian, was shocked after receiving letters from Mrs. Liu and Yuan Shang, and was hesitant and didn't know what to do.
After receiving the news, Xin Ping immediately made a comment: "There are still tens of thousands of troops in our city, and the total strength of General Gao Shan who guarded Zhongshan Kingdom is less than 50,000. Moreover, Gong Pei is fighting Cao Cao in full swing. As long as we stick to it, we may not be able to wait until Cao Cao withdraws his troops. The general is fighting for his grandfather's strength. Why do you have to choose to surrender?"
Yuan Tan thought for a long time after hearing this, and finally sighed: "My father had the land of Qingji and two prefectures. He was more than 100,000 elite soldiers under his command, but he was still no match for Cao Cao. I am not as far away as my father, and my generals under him were even farther away than before. How could he resist Cao Gong's attack? I led my army to fight to the death and eventually died, but if I surrender, I could still save my life, continue my Yuan family's incense, and also have my mother's life. How dare I refuse to follow? So after thinking about it, I should surrender."
Yuan Tan is still young, ten years earlier than when he died in history. In history, he had just arrived in Qingzhou. Although he successfully controlled the entire Qingzhou later, Yuan Tan was still relatively young when he first took office. However, Yuan Tan, who is so young, has now encountered such a thing as his father and brother surrender, which has matured early and made his heart that could have been slightly angular.
Now Yuan Tan has begun to think deeply about his fate. If he fights to the death, he may not be able to block Cao Cao's attack. Even if he can block it, what will happen to Pei Qing when he comes? At most, he will just give him a free job or a marquis, and live his second half of his life. Now that he surrenders to Cao Cao, the final outcome is actually similar. Since that is the case, why do you have to fight to the death?
In fact, although Yuan Tan's considerations have become a little more selfish, they cannot be said to be wrong. Now he is in a different situation than he in history. In history, he chose to betray when he joined forces to fight against Yuan Shang, so he had no way to surrender. In the end, he could only end his life on the road to escape. But now he surrendered, and Cao Cao also chose to surrender when he was in a turmoil, so Cao Cao would definitely not kill him, but would use their brothers to appease the hearts of the people in Jizhou and stabilize his situation as soon as possible, so that he could concentrate all his efforts to fight Pei Qing and protect his own power.
Guo Tu didn't say a word at this time. He actually hoped that Yuan Tan could surrender because he could also save his life through this.
Xin Ping was furious when he heard this, "I am not good at making up for you. Mr. Yuan has a heroic reputation for his lifetime. I didn't expect that he would have a cowardly son like you!"
Yuan Tan refused Xin Ping to scold him, but did not refute him. He admired a strong man like Xin Ping very much, but if he was asked to learn Xin Ping, he would not be able to do it. He was still young, so why should he sacrifice his life early? Even his father has no ability to become the leader of the country, and his ability is not as good as his father, so why should he force himself to force himself?
So Yuan Tan insisted on ordering surrender. Guo Tu was speechless and silently followed Yuan Tan to make various preparations. However, Xin Ping quietly left Yuan Tan and went to his younger brother Xin Pi's house, and advised Xin Pi to escape with him to Changshan to continue to resist Cao Cao.
However, Xinpi accused Yuan Shao of being foolish and incompetent, and Yuan Tan was also cowardly. Why did his good man want to serve them? He tried his best to persuade Xin Ping to surrender to Cao Cao.
Xin Ping didn't expect that his younger brother Jing thought so. He left Xin Pi's home in great disappointment, quietly took his family with him, sneaked out of the river in the chaos, and went to Zhongshan Kingdom to continue to resist Cao Cao.
But when Xin Ping arrived in Zhongshan, he found that Gao Gan was also discussing with Yan Liangwen Chou about the preparations for surrender to Cao Cao.
Xin Ping felt even more sad after hearing this. He didn't expect that Yuan Shao's son and nephew made such a choice. If the lord had spirit in heaven, I really don't know how he felt it?
Fortunately, at this time, the generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou firmly opposed it, and directly killed Gao Gan and another general who advocated surrender, Guo Yuan, and at the same time rectified the army and resolutely resisted Cao Cao's invasion.
Xin Ping was relieved when he saw this scene and secretly sighed in his heart that Yan Liangwen Chou was indeed worthy of being the beloved general of the lord. Although some of them were simple in mind and well-developed in all, they were still strong in the end, and they could insist on not surrendering.
So Xin Ping immediately expressed that he was willing to work with them to fight against Cao Cao together. The city is there, and the city is destroyed and the city is destroyed.
However, Xin Ping also knew that it would be impossible to block Cao Cao's attack with their strength, so he proposed a plan for Yan Liang and Wen Chou and sent someone to contact Pei Qian, the governor of Bingzhou, to fight against Cao Cao together. In this way, their chances of victory would be greater.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou agreed immediately, so a counselor Wang Xiu took the initiative to ask for an order and was willing to contact Pei Qian. Yan Liang and Wen Chou were very happy and immediately sent a hundred healthy soldiers to protect Wang Xiu.
Xin Ping felt even more moved when he saw this scene: "Although Yuan's family was defeated, there are no shortage of loyal ministers under his tent."
Chapter completed!