He ordered Xiao Tuguci to sit down and come to tea. Du Zhongxiao said, "Now there is only the palace left. As long as I give the order, the cannons outside the door can open the gate of the palace. You two come, I wonder why?"

Xiao Tuguci bowed: "King Alian sent me and the two of us to see the Taiwei. I want to know what the Taiwei is going to?"

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "What else can I do? I am ordered by the emperor to conquer the Khitan. Wherever I go, I will either surrender or break, and there is no second way to go. There is no need to say these nonsense. Do you think that the people in the palace should surrender or guard?"

Xiao Tuguci was a little embarrassed and said, "I don't know what if I surrender? What if I don't surrender?"

Du Zhongxiao said, "If you want to surrender, you will take your own treasures and become a wealthy official in Kaifeng City. If you don't surrender, you will have nothing. After arriving in Kaifeng Prefecture, you will first enter the prison camp, and when the chief officer thinks it is appropriate, you may release it."

After hearing this, Xiao Tuguci glanced at Han Yun and cried out, "If you follow the Taiwei said, if you surrender, wouldn't it be of no benefit?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are all Khitan princes and their family wealth is rich. It is rare to be able to protect their family wealth. What else do you want to do? After entering the Song Dynasty, you still want to be a prince and be rich for a lifetime? If you don't surrender at this time, I won't surrender too much, just attack the city."

Han Yun hurriedly said, "Prince, please stay! We are willing to surrender, but we just feel that if we surrender, we will only be a wealthy official—"

Du Zhongxiao waved his hand: "It is rare to be a wealthy person. Isn't it a great blessing for a person to be rich in this life? It's getting late, so I'll give you an hour to decide whether to surrender or not. If we don't surrender, we will attack the imperial city and don't waste time."

Han Yun and Xiao Tuguci looked at each other and looked at each other with a difficult look. Du Zhongxiao said too much and it was difficult to explain when he went back.

Du Zhongxiao said: "Send out the guests! When you go back, discuss with others more and make a decision early!"

After saying that, he ordered people to send the two out.

When the two went out, Du Zhongxiao said to Liu Ji: "The army is at the city, and they are thinking about the benefits of surrendering. These people are crazy. If I hadn't been thinking about the court's face, I must do it when I say it, and it would definitely not be so easy!"

Liu Ji said: "This matter is about to end. The Taiwei should bear it. A great country like the Khitan will be destroyed by the court in one or two years. This is an unprecedented martial arts. Of course, such great achievements are not easy."

Du Zhongxiao nodded, stood up, walked to the door, and looked at the scenery outside. It was already spring, and the peach blossoms and willows outside were green, which was the best time of the year. After the war, Du Zhongxiao was a little annoyed. The Khitan had lost its ability to resist and could be destroyed in a day. More than 20,000 troops in the Dading Prefecture were eliminated, and the remaining Khitan troops were only more than 10,000. Facing the Song Dynasty army, there was no power to fight back.

Faced with this situation, these Khitans still thought about it and had never suffered any hardships.

What will happen after this battle? Du Zhongxiao was unwilling to think about it. The contribution was too great, and I don’t know what reward would be. Du Zhongxiao didn’t care. Being the Privy Councilor himself, he went further and was nothing more than the prime minister. What else? Du Zhongxiao was already a little tired and just wanted to have a good rest.

Leading a large army to sweep the desert sounds like a very powerful thing. In fact, it is still a bit boring to do it. The Khitans are now dead, but these Khitan officials do not have the awareness of destroying the country at all, which makes Du Zhongxiao too lazy to pay attention to them.

After looking at the scenery for a while, Du Zhongxiao returned to the hall and said to Liu Ji: "Let Wang Kai and Jia Kui enter the city tomorrow and arrange the next battle. This time we come north, the most difficult place to attack is Dading Mansion. The result is like this, other places can be imagined. By the way, I wrote a letter a few days ago and asked Li Fugui to come here. Have you ever replied?"

Liu Jidao: "I have a document back today. Taiwei Li said he would come quickly and he would arrive the next day."

Du Zhongxiao said: "This is the best. Where we want to fight now, the most important thing is to see what Li Fugui said. As long as the food and grass are transported, the Khitan is no longer able to stop it. Because the food is against the enemy, it is not impossible, but we cannot find a long-term station."

Liu Ji was silent for a while before saying, "If you occupy the place, go back. It's not impossible not to stay for a long time."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "The Khitan is no longer able to fight again. Apart from Dading Prefecture, if we conquer Shangjing and Tokyo, we will have no leader. If we can't find a long time to occupy the place, what's the point of taking over? It's better to wait for a while and wait until the road is built before we can go to the battle and foster."

Liu Ji didn't say anything and sighed in his heart. How could it be the same? Take the military merits first, and take them in his hands. So what if the place is lost after withdrawing? The road is built and you will occupy it again, and you will have another military merit. But for Du Zhongxiao, he doesn't take military merits seriously at all now, so of course he won't do this.

Liu Ji understood that from the Battle of Youzhou last year to this year, Du Zhongxiao's contributions were too great and he no longer cared about these things. But for his generals, he still cared about it. How many such opportunities can a person encounter in his life?

In the imperial city, after hearing Xiao Tu's Gu's words, Yelu Alian couldn't help but frown: "According to what you said, we surrendered, and Taiwei Du just allowed him to take his family wealth to be a wealthy official in Kaifeng Prefecture. Then why should we surrender? It's not that easy for the Song army to attack the imperial city!"

Xiao Tuguci said: "King, I'm afraid that in the eyes of the Song army, it's very easy to attack the imperial city."

Yelu Alian slapped the table and said, "This is Zhongjing, the most important place in this dynasty, and it is so easy to break?"

Xiao Tuguci said: "It took the Song army a day to attack the outer city. It took less than half a day to attack the inner city. King, how long does it take to attack the imperial city?"

Yelu Alian was stunned for a moment. His mind was unacceptable. The Song army could capture Zhongjing Dading Prefecture in one or two days. This was the largest city in the Khitan, with more than 20,000 defenders. According to previous experience, the Song army could not do anything easily. But the Song army now violated common sense everywhere and could not do anything that could be done easily and happily.

Seeing that Yelu Alian didn't speak, Xiao Tugu said, "King, outside the main gate of the imperial city, the Song army has deployed many cannons. In my opinion, as soon as their cannons were set off, the city gate was broken. Now that things have come to this point, we can't defend it no matter what, so we should surrender early."

Yelu Alian clapped his hands: "How can I be willing to surrender like this!"

Han Yun said: "So what if you are unwilling to give up? Now the Song army has the upper hand. They don't care whether we surrender or not. In my opinion, Taiwei Du is afraid that he will not want us surrender. So he only gives one hour. If he does not surrender, he will attack in."

Yelu Alian was silent for a while, looked up at everyone, and said, "So, you all decided to surrender?"

Xiao Tuguci and others nodded together. Although they had not discussed it, they were all thinking about it. In a day and a half, the outer city and the inner city were all broken, so how could they still be defended? They surrendered early, packed up their property, and found a way.

Yelu Alian looked around and said helplessly: "Since that's the case, then surrender. I hope the Song army will keep their word and don't make things difficult for us after entering the imperial city. Go to Kaifeng Prefecture to be a wealthy official. Humph, do the Song people think they are to us? "
Chapter completed!