Chapter 576: Persuade to Surrender
After the debate in front of the hall, Chen Dou, who was hesitant at the suggestion of the ministers, invited Wei Ting to the other court for supervision and then made a decision.
At night, the ministers with their own thoughts will find it difficult to fall asleep tonight.
In An Jinfeng's reception hall, a guest came at the first update. This morning, he was also in the hall, but he did not speak. He was the few commanders left in the city. He was about thirty years old and was relatively young, named Xu Huang.
Originally, An Jinfeng did not plan to meet the guests tonight, but Xu Huang asked the butler to inform An Jinfeng, saying that there was an urgent matter to discuss with him. In desperation, An Jinfeng had no choice but to ask Xu Huang to invite him from the back doorkeeper.
The reason for walking through the back door is undoubtedly because An Jinfeng's current situation is not good. After all, in the palace today, Wei Ting's seemingly unintentional words did not arouse Chen Dou's suspicion. Moreover, even if Chen Dou had no idea, how could the two internal officials around Chen Dou not use this to instigate him?
Now that Xu Huang came to see him, he didn't know what was going on, but he just took the lead.
The old housekeeper led Xu Huang in. At this time, he was burly and strong. He was one of the few generals of Chen State who had no fat flying. He was wearing armor and without a sword. After seeing An Jinfeng, he bowed respectfully and said, "Sir An, I'm disturbing."
As soon as he finished speaking, An Jinfeng still maintained a calm state of mind. He let Xu Huang sit in without any anxiety on his face, and then asked: "Mr. Xu doesn't know what happened to visit late at night?"
Xu Huang sat down at the foot, but the servant brought the tea without taking a sip. He glanced at An Jinfeng's expression under the candlelight, pondered for a while, and suddenly spoke, saying something that made An Jinfeng's face change color in an instant.
Xu Huang said: "When Lord An joined the army last year, he asked Xiaguan where he was from and where he served in the military camp, right?" As he said that, Xu Huang lifted the lid of the teacup, as if he had made a great determination, and said, "Xiaguan said that he was from the north and had served in a tiger army, but unfortunately that army no longer exists."
After Xu Huang mentioned it, An Jinfeng suddenly remembered that Xu Huang was the Chen State who joined last year. He was only because of his strong ability. He was the best among most generals in both military use and personal bravery, so he was promoted to a lieutenant. In the past two months, the older generation of generals in the Chen State have died, surrendered, and fled, and there are only a few left who are worthy of heavy responsibility.
Therefore, in Hangu City, Xu Huang is the position of guard in the city, which is equivalent to the soldiers led by Xu Huang, which is the last line of defense in Hangu City.
At that time, Xu Huang mentioned his source with An Jinfeng under such a chat. An Jinfeng didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but tonight was an extraordinary time, and at an extraordinary time, there must be a reason to say such unusual words.
If An Jinfeng was not wrong, I am afraid that Xu Huang's so-called Northern Variety is not among the Jiuzhou, and that no longer exists the army of tigers and tigers and wolfs, is...
Thinking of this, An Jinfeng's face turned pale, and he could no longer hold back his calmness before, and stuttered: "You...you are from Lei Zejun."
Xu Huang did not deny it, and nodded steadily. Under An Jinfeng's nervous face, he finally took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, and said truthfully: "Yes, I am the deputy general of the scout camp under the tent of General Wei Ting of the former army in Lei Ze."
It turned out that in the palace today, Xu Huang recognized Wei Ting at a glance, so when Wei Ting persuaded Chen Dou to surrender, he made many plans.
Soon he heard Xu Huang continue to tell: "A year ago, the lower-ranking officer followed the Grand Governor Lei Ze to conquer Tanzhou County, and then occupied Anlu County, preparing to cooperate with the reinforcements of Emperor Shang and annihilate the Northern Army. However, after ten days of persistence, he suddenly heard that the deputy general of the Grand Governor who was arranged by our army to be killed. Only then did we know that the reinforcements would not come at all..."
Although An Jinfeng once heard that Lei Zeyan was devised by someone, and he also heard the State of Wu that Emperor Shang had betrayed the king's way and framed loyal and kind, he had never heard of the actual situation, and he could not imagine what kind of situation the brave Lei Ze army was completely wiped out on Qujiang.
Now when Xu Huang heard Xu Huang mention it, he couldn't help but take a breath. When Xu Huang said that Lei Zeyan did not protect Lei Ze army and ordered Wei Ting to take them away on the iron chain bridge, An Jinfeng swallowed: "This...this is really..."
"A disaster." Before An Jinfeng finished speaking, Xu Huang continued to say that, "Later, we encountered the re-enforcement and were driven back to Qujiang. However, during this process, I got separated from the other hundred soldiers, slid down from the foot of the nearby mountain, seriously injured, and fell into a coma. When I woke up, the battle was over. I heard that the land of Anlu County was occupied by monks, and I dared not stay for a long time, so I returned to the land of Jiuzhou."
Xu Huang sighed, looking at the shaking candlelight, his heart was filled with emotions. He didn't plan to say the rest, but he still remembered it fresh. He returned to Jiuzhou and was determined to return to the capital. If Lei Ze's family was still there, he would not have given up on Jiuzhou or Minshi.
But as soon as he arrived in the capital, he heard that the Lei Ze family was convicted of treason. At that time, Xu Huang was really disappointed with the emperor.
So when there was nowhere to go, Xu Huang followed the remaining hundred soldiers to the Chen State's tent. Although Chen Zhao was a reckless man, for ordinary soldiers, there was nothing else to expect when they were discouraged.
Unexpectedly, in the past six months, the Lei Ze army has risen again. Four months ago, the news that the Lei Ze army swept across the barren land in the north came out. The enthusiasm in Xu Huang's blood seemed to be ignited again, and he had the idea in his heart to search for the Lei Ze army.
However, they were taken in by Chen Zhao when they had nowhere to leave. Now that the old master has come, it will be hard to be named Lei Ze Army, so Xu Huang gave up the idea of going north to find the master.
Things in the world are often not expected. Who would have thought that the old Yang of Chen Kingdom would be destroyed in an explosion, the old master Chen Zhao would die in the fire, and Lei Zeyue was captured by Chen Kingdom because of his friend and started a war.
However, Xu Huang, who was in the last effort to Chen Zhao, did not immediately turn the limelight and defect to Lei Zeyue. In order to repay Chen Zhao's favor for taking in, he has been persisting until now and has tried his best. Unfortunately, Chen State is mediocre and is not a good place to belong.
Good birds choose trees to live on. Now that the military camp leader Wei Ting, whom he serves, comes in person, he cannot attack Wei Ting. Someone said that the Xu family is like the Wei Ting family, serving the Lei Ze family for generations. Now that I know that there are people in the Lei Ze family, I naturally have to go back to serve the little master.
At this point, Xu Huang had already decided, so he naturally came to find An Jinfeng, the most respected person in the city. As long as he persuaded him to persuade Chen Dou to surrender, everything would be natural. Without using military force to meet, he would not have to bear the reputation of being ungrateful and two-faced and three-killer.
Chapter completed!