Zhao Bing heard the implicit meaning in Chen Fenglin's words. His concerns about damaging the granaries and causing casualties to innocent people were all excuses in his opinion. Because he knew that when it comes to street fighting, the most prominent feature of the close combat is close combat, hand-to-hand combat, and cruelty. Even the famous modern Battle of Stalingrad and the Nanjing Defense War carried out large-scale street fighting, with countless casualties and injuries on both sides of the offense and defense.

Therefore, street fighting is a tactic of adding fuel to the oil. Whoever has a lot of power, many people and sufficient resources can persist until the end. In ancient times, street fighting, many city buildings, complex environment, and labyrinth-like alleys all gave the defenders a good hiding place. The battle between households and streets often caused great losses to the attacking party. Moreover, in the battle, the boundaries between soldiers and the people are blurred, and it is difficult to distinguish between enemies and us, and it is inevitable that they will cause accidental injuries or be attacked by the people.

In addition, ancient street fighting was not like today, where heavy weapons such as long-range weapons, tanks and armored vehicles were provided with protection, so even if ancient soldiers fought in street fighting, they had to fight in close combat, and lacked communication coordination and effective organization. The individual combat capabilities of ancient soldiers were not very high, and they mainly rely on the advantage of numerical power and formations to win. Faced with a large number of enemy troops scattered around, they only rely on small teams of soldiers to compete with each other when the troops did not have an absolute advantage. In the absence of support weapons, it was simply a waste of heads and consumed a large number of veterans and grassroots commanders with rich combat experience.

In fact, street fighting rarely occurred in ancient times. In most cases, the city gates were broken and the defenders would flee. Why is this? Because street fighting was a bad strategy that the ancient military commander had to take when he had no choice. After all, a good army is not so easy to cultivate, and street fighting will also lose a large amount of weapons and equipment. Therefore, moderate retreat and retreating to attack are also a tactic.

Moreover, street fighting is very vulnerable to cruel revenge by the siege, which is often burning, killing, looting, and venting anger. Zhao Bing still remembers that in Yangzhou City, Duoduo of the Qing Dynasty led his army to attack Yangzhou. Due to the strong resistance of the defenders, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties. After the city was broken, he ordered the city to be massacred. In just ten days, Yangzhou lost hundreds of thousands of people, resulting in the most famous "Yangzhou Ten Days". When Kublai Khan was conquering Xiangfan, Xiangyang guard Lu Wenhuan persisted for six years in order to avoid the city being massacred after the city was broken, and finally surrendered to the Yuan army. In Fancheng, he was subjected to fierce resistance. After the city was broken, the commander Fan Tianshun committed suicide. After the city was broken, the commander Niu Fu still led the last hundred soldiers to resist tenaciously, fighting with the enemy. He was thirsty, drinking blood and continuing to fight. In the end, because of his serious injuries, Niu Fu committed suicide.

In addition, ancient buildings were mostly wooden structures. When siege troops could not clear the street fighting garrisons, in order to ensure food safety, the city would burn in extreme cases and force the garrisons to evacuate. Therefore, unless it is an extremely important city, the siege troops generally do not encircle the entire city in battle, but leave a gap for the garrison troops to evacuate and collapse the determination of the garrison troops to defend the city. Of course, the garrison troops in the city have a chance to survive, of course, they will not fight hard, thereby avoiding street fighting.

"What do you want?" Chen Fenglin, as an old soldier who had long been involved in the ranks, naturally knew the difficulties of street fighting. Now that the city has been broken, he naturally did not want to get involved, causing unnecessary losses to his troops. Zhao Bing did not understand his thoughts and asked in response.

"Please surrender!" Chen Fenglin said without hesitation, "Your Majesty, Ma Shao has no soldiers in his hands. Instead of retreating to the government office, the Ding Zhuang who was accompanying and signing the envoy and some defeated soldiers who had nowhere to go. As long as he knew it, Ma Shao would not be burned; and although the Zhennan Prince's Mansion was defended by Qiexue, there were still Princes, a few princes and a group of female relatives who had not escaped. If the palace was broken, what would be the result? They knew very well. We would not be afraid that they would not surrender!"

"Well, there is some reason. Go and talk to them!" Zhao Bing nodded again. But in his heart, he did not expect to persuade Ma Shao to surrender, but it was still possible for the people in the Zhennan Prince's Mansion to protect the elderly and the young, so he agreed to give it a try.

"Your Majesty, all the people under him are stupid, but Ma Shao is very clever and can't persuade him!" Chen Fenglin said with a wry smile. In fact, he still concealed some things for the sake of face. After Ma Shao led the remaining soldiers to retreat into the government office, he closed the door tightly, and piled up firewood and turf oil in the yard, preparing to burn himself. He thought that if the fire was burned, there would be nothing left and he had nothing to seize. It was really embarrassing that he also sent someone to persuade him to surrender, but he was scolded by Ma Shao.

"What do you mean is to let me persuade me to surrender?" Zhao Bing said with some amusement.

"How dare I? I just want to bother Governor Wang!" Chen Fenglin quickly saluted.

"Governor Wang has advised him a long time ago. He is unmoved and will be useless even if he goes there again. Come over and I ask you a way to keep it safe..." Zhao Bing looked a little disappointed, and asked him to get closer and give him an idea.

"I understand!" After hearing this, Chen Fenglin smiled and asked again, "Will the royal palace behave the same?"

"They regard the people as ants, and that method is not effective. You have to say that..." Zhao Bing said a few more words in his ear.

"Yes, yes, I'll go!" Chen Fenglin greeted with a smile after hearing this, turned around and went back to the city...

At dusk, the war in Yangzhou City was basically over. Zhao Bing had returned to the camp outside the south city. The guard regiment and the guard regiment were withdrawn, leaving only the baggage regiment to assist in cleaning the battlefield, sheltering the prisoners, and rescue the wounded. He was able to rest for a while, and he couldn't say which meal it was when he had time to eat. However, he was not at ease. Communication soldiers kept coming to the camp to report on the battle situation and asked what to do.

First, Ma Shao, who retreated into the government office, accepted the proposal to surrender. He was very clear about the current situation. The Yangzhou garrison had been defeated, and the serious casualties were not enough to organize a counterattack. He only had dozens of followers who were unable to escape. In addition, the four or five hundred men and soldiers who fled into the government office when the city was broken were broken. They were all panic at this moment, obviously without fighting spirit. There was still a group of people staring at him with uncertain faces, not knowing what they were going to do.

In addition, the Yangzhou magistrate Badu, who had always claimed to be sick at home, had already surrendered first after the city was broken and called on his old subordinates to stop resisting. Later, Brother Du, who had been dismissed, also opened the door to surrender, and helped the Song army gather his old subordinates and headed outside the city. However, the only left-handed Wanhu who had remained at the beginning was killed by artillery, and his troops, as the main force defending the city, also suffered great casualties. Therefore, even if street fighting was launched, there were no soldiers available.

In this case, Ma Shao didn't know who to blame. As the commander, Tuo Huan escaped before the battle, he broke out of the city and did not know whether he was alive or dead. However, his sons who remained in the city were not strong enough to shoulder the burden of a decisive battle with the Song army, and were now huddled in the palace and waiting for the referee of fate. If Tuo Huan had decided to defend the city and did not forcefully break through the encirclement and disperse his troops, he would have been able to withstand for a few days and would not have fallen to this point.

The Song army had already entered the city and surrounded the government office. A Song general proposed that if he would fight back and fight, he would not be able to keep the chickens and dogs. Ma Shao had struggled for a long time between loyalty and betrayal, but he agreed to surrender. However, he proposed to surrender himself, but he asked to protect the lives of the people in the city and treat them well, and not to slaughter himself. Otherwise, he would burn his jade and stones and fight one person, and would never surrender. Chen Fenglin agreed very happily to the conditions for surrender and proposed generous conditions for him to be the chief official of Yangzhou.

Ma Shao asked to open the door of the government office. He was dressed in white, covered in hair, and held a seal in his hand. The entourage behind him held the fish scale book and the accounts, and led everyone in the city to surrender. But just as Chen Fenglin was comforting and was about to send him out of the city. When he went to the camp to meet His Majesty, he suddenly shouted "Long live the Emperor of Dayuan", and touched the horse tethered stake in front of the door and committed suicide!

When Zhao Bing heard the news, although he had known this result, he still felt a little sad. He ordered people to bury Ma Shao's body and send it to the temple in the city for a while, and wait for the next day to send it back to his hometown. At the same time, he issued an order to preside over the government affairs of Yangzhou, abide by the agreement reached with Ma Shao, and strictly order all departments entering the city to strictly abide by military discipline, not to kill the people, not to kill and surrender, and not to rob, and those who violate the crime will be killed without mercy.

As for the family of Zhennan Prince's Mansion, it was much simpler. Zhao Bing asked someone to escort the captured eldest sons of Tuohuan Lao Zhang and Tuobuhua to the front of the mansion. He first bombarded the mansion with artillery, and then said that if he did not surrender, he would immediately execute the two. After attacking the mansion, the man became slaves, the woman became maids, and the young and old were killed. In fact, he learned this trick from the Mongols. They used no use when they attacked Song, and forced many people to surrender, which also destroyed many loyal and martyrs' families.

Although this has nothing to do with the "benevolence and righteousness" that has always been praised, he does not feel guilty at all when he uses it. He just treats the person with his own way, and it is in line with the so-called "good and evil will be rewarded in the end!" When the cannon was set up and the two old brothers of Lao Zhang were tied to the door, the resistance in the Zhennan Prince's Mansion immediately stopped. Obviously, between themselves and the country, they had no intention of martyrdom for the country and king. Not only was they willing to surrender, they also proposed to contribute all the property in the mansion and present the two unmarried princesses of Tuohuan to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty as maids, just to preserve the lives and titles of the whole family.
Chapter completed!