Chapter 251 Surrender
There was not much black gunpowder left in the city, but because the city was surrounded by bandits and it happened to be the Chinese New Year, every household prepared a lot of firecrackers before the New Year, and the government office even stockpiled a batch of fireworks and firecrackers.
Although these things contain black powder, removing the black powder from the firecrackers and making them into black powder bombs is not very effective.
But just because black powder bullets don’t work well doesn’t mean they won’t work well in other ways.
Su Qingqing had people wrap bamboo nails around the firecrackers. She and Rong Que sneaked around behind the enemy while they were fleeing in the dark.
The lit firecrackers were thrown directly into the enemy's camp.
Bang!
The lethality is not great, but the noise is quite loud. In addition, when the bamboo nails are exploded, they pierce into various parts of the human body with huge force.
The cries of wolves and howls of ghosts suddenly sounded.
Su Qingqing and Rong Que rode their horses at full speed and threw all the prepared firecrackers in other directions.
The already panicked crowd became even more frightened and ran around in panic under the bombardment of firecrackers.
For a moment, the lethality of firecrackers combined with the lethality of the frightened horses and the frightened people themselves, the entire retreating army was thrown into chaos.
Su Qingqing and Rong Que were not interested in fighting. They threw out about seventy or eighty bundles of firecrackers they had prepared in advance and then rode back to the city.
In less than a day's effort, at least eight thousand of the 20,000-strong army were wiped out.
There were more than 10,000 soldiers left. The veterans were still able to keep their composure, but the new recruits were completely crushed.
Once the spirit is crushed, no fighting spirit can be ignited.
In order to ensure tomorrow's attack, the team did not retreat too far. The leading general looked at his subordinates who were dejected and howling, and felt anxious.
Marquis Rong'an gave him three days to capture Datong County.
From the looks of it, he might be wiped out by those people in the city tomorrow!
What the hell is this!
He had fought on the battlefield for many years in his early years, how could he be killed like this!
"General, how do we fight this battle?"
An old soldier approached the general, angrily swung the sword in his hand, and sat down.
He raised his chin slightly and pointed around, "Look at these people, which one of them can still go to the battlefield? We have spent so much manpower and material resources just to train them these days, and they have trained a bunch of cowards!
Just a few words can make people lose their minds!"
The general was so worried that he couldn't speak.
There was a lot of commotion here when the sound of drums came from the opposite city gate.
A huge voice came over, causing the general's eyebrows to jump, "What's going on? What tricks are you going to play?"
The recruits who were greatly stimulated looked over with red eyes.
On the other side, someone shouted at the top of his voice, "People on the other side, look carefully, when you were in chaos just now, your General Wang Dahu has already surrendered!"
boom!
The morale of the army was already low, and because of this sentence, there was an uproar in the entire army.
The name Wang Dahu is so familiar.
The leading general immediately became anxious. He jumped up and said, "Don't listen to their nonsense. Wang Dahu is not in our team at all. Has anyone seen Wang Dahu these days? You haven't seen him at all, right? They are trying to instigate you. Don't be fooled!"
However, before he could finish his words, another voice came.
"I am Wang Dahu!"
"That's Wang Dahu's voice! It's him!"
"Yes, it's him, it must be him!"
More than 10,000 soldiers looked towards the city gate tower. They couldn't help but move forward a little, wanting to see the people on the city gate clearly.
Wang Dahu was held by Jixiang at the city gate. His face was distorted, but with a dagger pointed at him from behind, he still finished what he said as Jixiang requested.
"Brothers, listen to me, don't rush to your death. Do you know who is guarding this city? It's General Su, Su Qingqing of the Su Family Army.
How many of you are her rivals?
If General Su gets angry, he can tear you apart with his bare hands. He has fought more battles than you have slept with more women.
Surrender.
You were all forcibly recruited by Marquis Rong'an, and General Su understands your suffering.
If anyone is willing to stay here, General Su will recruit you into the Su Army.
If you don't want to, General Su will let you go home.
Brothers, listen to my advice. Don’t send yourself to die. What’s the point of fighting this war?
Who the hell are you fighting for? "
Su Qingqing is indeed an expert at playing with people's hearts.
She accurately grasped the hearts of those recruits. At this moment of collapse, she pushed Wang Dahu out. This was a powerful force that pushed them to the brink of collapse and completely shattered the mentality of the recruits over there.
"Damn it, no more fighting!"
"Yes, I didn't want to join the army in the first place, but you guys forced me to come here. When you guys arrested me, my wife was nine months pregnant! If I die, what will happen to my wife and my baby?"
"Da Huzi was burned to death. I will be the next one to die. Da Huzi even said he wanted to marry my sister."
"No more fighting, no more fighting!"
The military coup happened in an instant.
Like a tsunami.
The leading general had a dark face, but the number of veterans under his command was too small. Most of them had been sent to Huludao by Marquis Rong'an.
Even though these veterans are experienced, they cannot withstand the large number of new recruits.
Moreover, once the old soldiers attacked the new recruits, the mutiny immediately turned into a bad one.
In a hurry, the general, who was a veteran with many years of experience, saw these new recruits quitting their jobs and immediately said, "Listen to me, I hate Rong'an Hou so much now.
My brother-in-law was also among those who died today!
I never expected that there was General Su in this city. Didn’t General die?
But no matter what, if you don't want to fight this war, we don't want to fight it either!
So, I'll make the decision. Those of you who are willing to surrender, go and surrender now. Those of you who are willing to return to Qibei, I'll let you go now!"
Several veterans were in tune with the general and immediately realized what he meant. "I surrender, why should I go back to Qibei? Will I let Marquis Rong'an skin me alive? Damn it, I might as well surrender and follow General Su!"
"That's right, I surrender too. That's General Su. We're the ones who march and fight. Who wouldn't want to follow General Su? Although I don't know why General Su's dead people are now in Datong County, I don't care. I just want to follow General Su!"
With these veterans taking the lead, the new recruits immediately made their choices.
Those who have family ties said they want to go back to Qibei, while those who have no ties said they want to surrender together.
The general made the decision and asked those who wanted to leave to leave immediately.
As for the rest, he personally led the troops and approached Datong County again.
Su Qingqing stood on the city gate tower, with a confident and determined smile in the corners of her eyes.
She held a large bow in her hand, drew the bow to its full length, and shot an arrow.
The arrow directly pierced the toes of the soldiers in the front row.
The people on the other side immediately shouted, "We surrender!"
