Following Li Decheng's gaze, a large number of Wei soldiers climbed up to the city wall on the other side, and the baffle in front of the well railing that was approaching suddenly fell, hitting heavily on the city wall. A fierce and fierce soldiers rushed forward and stepped out roads paved with corpses...

The broken city gate was slowly opened. The Wei army had already seized the city gate. Soon the enemy troops gathered outside would rush into Shangyuan City. The Wu defenders who obeyed Xu Wen were exhausted and even killed and injured, countless... Anyone with a discerning eye knew that Shangyuan City was broken by the Wei army, which was already a foregone conclusion.

Most of the Wu generals who were commanding troops to guard the city gate were so tired that they could not stand up. They were hunched over and gasped heavily, and their faces were full of despair. Seeing the city gate wide open, a general quickly led his troops to stop the enemy from coming in... But when he stared blankly at the large group of Wei troops who were swept into the city like a wolf or a tiger, he couldn't help but stop his steps again.

The general looked around again, and saw the soldiers around him full of fear and looked at the Wei soldiers who were rushing in desperately, and they were obviously unwilling to fight dying and stubbornly... He sighed and threw the long sword in his hand to the side, and quickly ordered his soldiers to abandon their weapons and lie on both sides of the road, bowing their heads and huddling, and let the Wei soldiers who were crushing over him deal with it.

Although in this world, people are fighting for life, and their lives seem increasingly despicable and worthless... But no one is willing to give their lives in vain, so they can only surrender as soon as possible.

Among the official residences in Shangyuan City, most of the ministers were instructing the servants to open the door. When the Wei army came, they would kneel down to the ground and shout to surrender... In fact, the officials in Shangyuanba Mansion in Shengzhou were almost all trustworthy members of Xu Wen, but now they were eager to express their intention to surrender, and were afraid that they would be mistaken for the Wei Dynasty's soldiers and soldiers to be mistaken for the Wu ministers who still had to resist, and they would kill them all...

After all, even Xu Wen himself seems to have no hope for the tough battle in Shangyuan City.

At first, when the Wei army attacked the city, Xu Wen was still able to take charge of defense. He impatiently dispatched troops and inspected the city defense all day long, and ordered three generals who had slightly negligent preparations for war... However, the Wei army's offensives went one round after another, and anyone knew very well that if there was no external rescue, Shangyuan City would definitely be broken.

As time went by, both civil officials and military officials in the city, and Xu Wen, who was powerful in the Wu Kingdom, gradually realized that the rescuers of Chu and Yue could not wait for him after all. Xu Wen was no longer as manic and anxious as the beginning of the battle to defend the city, but became increasingly taciturn. In the past two days, he was locked in the office of the Bafu Office, and was autistic and alone, and no one saw him.

With this, his ministers were of course even more pessimistic and negative. The trees fell and the money scattered. Some officials even thought about how to open the city gate secretly, surrender to the Wei Dynasty, and support the army to enter the city. Fortunately, the Central Plains Dynasty was seeking a high-ranking official and generous salary. However, this time the Wei army seized the city gate and quickly rushed into the Shangyuan City.

When he reached such a situation, almost no one would be willing to follow Xu Wen to die. The Wei army soon came to his death, so he could only surrender as soon as possible.

In the center of Shangyuan City, in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the five dynasties established the vassal kingdoms that achieved the king's career in accordance with the official system of the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. After Cao Cao, Gao Huan, Zhu Wen, Li Cunxu... and other heroes who were solemnly in charge, they either usurped the throne and became emperor when they were reigned, or their sons were seized from power and replaced the country in the previous dynasty, and they were also respected as emperor... Xu Wen established the tyrant and appointed his adopted son Xu Zhigao to assist in the capital of Wu. His intention was naturally self-evident:

The position of the Yang family’s king of Wu will be replaced by me in the future, or my descendants will be replaced.

However, most of the soldiers in the Ba Mansion of Rong Wei Shengzhou have fled, and the maids and servants have almost escaped... Only seven or eight servants are left busy, panic, and firewood poured on oil around the hall. Xu Wen is standing in front of the hall, with a blank expression on his face, and there is no trace of his eyes. He stares at the firewood piled up inside and outside the hall. If a fire is lit, it should make the official agency that symbolizes his supreme power in the Wu Kingdom soon turn into a sea of ​​fire.

“It’s almost time…”

Valley fade

The shouts of killing from outside became clearer and clearer. Although he was wearing brocade clothes, his cheeks were sunken and his face was pale, and he sighed like a lonely ghost. Then he turned his head and looked at the clerk holding a torch beside him, and said weakly:

"Give me the torch, you all disperse..."

"Mr. Xu..."

The clerk opened his mouth and wanted to speak but stopped. In the end, he still handed over the torch tremblingly according to Xu Wen's order. When Xu Wen, who had no expression on his face, took the torch, the clerk looked sad and felt like he was lost. He hurriedly gave a gift, and then covered his face... But he turned his back to Xu Wen, and soon ran, and took the step quickly, as if the fire had been lit and burned to his butt...

Seeing this, the servants touched and slapped the property given by Xu Wen in their arms. They looked at each other for a moment and then scattered birds and beasts, and left behind Xu Wen, a powerful minister who had covered the sky with only one hand in Wu and was actually the same as the king of the same country.

Xu Wen stood alone on the spot. After a long time, he suddenly smiled bitterly, then took a step forward, held the torch in his hand, and walked towards the hall step by step.

The plan of the Wu, Chu and Yue to resist Wei was ultimately difficult to accomplish. After all, it was difficult to defend Shangyuan, but it was still difficult to resist the fierce attack of the tiger and wolf army of the Wei Dynasty... Then bowing to the Wei Emperor Li Tianqu and surrendering to the Wei Dynasty in order to save his life? Xu Wen never had this idea.

When the Wei Dynasty appointed Tian Feng, who was rebelling from the base, placed the territory he controlled into his own territory. Xu Wen, as an envoy of the Wu Kingdom, had been on an envoy to express strong protests... However, through that opportunity, he could vaguely feel the elusive temperament of the other party, which was difficult for people to see through, but he was very good at guessing people's hearts.

Even if we treat the people of the enemy, the military discipline of the Wei Dynasty was strict and we should do everything we could to ensure that the Wei Emperor Li Tianqu praised the people in various places very well... But that was only aimed at the common people. Through Xu Wen's understanding, we also knew that Li Tianqu was ruthless in dealing with the civil servants and generals he thought were ulterior motives...

What ended up with Wang Zongbi, the powerful minister of Shu Kingdom? He put down the Shu Emperor Yan and even his concubines and relatives, and forced him to hand over the emperor's seal and ribbon, so he went to the Wei army to surrender and negotiate. However, Emperor Li Tianqu of Wei handled him and directly handed over Wang Zongbi to the people of Sichuan and Sichuan to deal with it. As a result, he ended up being torn by the resentful Sichuan and Sichuan people.

What's more, there were Li Zhen, Gao Yu, Zhang Quanyi... and other founding achievements of the Wei Dynasty, and they were also responsible for forming cliques for personal gain and relying on power to make money. Li Tianqu then used thunder means to purge and eliminate those close ministers who conquered the world for him.

Xu Wen asked himself, even if he was a powerful minister who was in power with the government and the opposition, he paid more attention to people's livelihood and would never exterminate the siege and fish in the waters and harm the people under his rule... But Xu Wen knew very well that he had committed the ruling and tying the lord and tying the power of the lord, and had exposed his ambition to advance to the Central Plains if he succeeded, and if he failed, he would be opposed to the north and the south... How could a powerful lord like Li Tianqu allow himself to gain a foothold in the Wei Dynasty?

Therefore, if you want to surrender, you will be humiliated in vain, and you will not die in the end... According to Xu Wen's opinion, it would be better to use a more tragic way to kill your life when the king is destroyed.

However, Xu Wen took a few steps miserably and was completely disappointed. Suddenly, his heart felt sad... He couldn't help but sigh:

Inquiry, enlightenment, counseling... I have five sons, my wife and concubines, and Yi'er Zhigao are also destined to be doomed... But most of them are in Xuancheng, which is a pity that they have finished their eggs after being destroyed... Today I have to go on the road alone...
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