"I surrender."

Hong Xiuquan's reaction was very fast and jumped off the horse's back. It seemed that he was staggering because of his unstable pace, but in fact he deliberately fell in front of Wu Yan.

Falling down means completely giving up resistance.

If you don’t kneel down, it’s because he is Hong Xiuquan.

Wu Yan was a little confused.

From the perspective of great significance and from the macro perspective of history, although Hong Xiuquan was a charlatan, he was greedy for glory, wealth and power and wealth, which completely defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, giving the late Qing Dynasty the opportunity to continue to harm the land of China, but it allowed many people to see the weakness and corruption of the late Qing Dynasty and also gave many people the courage to rebel.

For example, Liu Lichuan, the Xiaodaohui who had defected to Wu Yan, dared to raise an army in Shanghai in the original history because he saw the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's uprising successful.

There were also the Boxer Rebellion and so on.

Therefore, Hong Xiuquan is a person who has made contributions to history and a person who has been guilty of history. Looking at the five thousand years of history in China, there are many similar people.

After all, no one is perfect, and there are very few saints in the world who are truly uncriticized.

"I am the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and I have the title of righteousness." Hong Xiuquan was very smart, otherwise it would not have been possible to create such a big situation. Noting that Wu Yan did not have a single sword, he continued to shout: "I can let these 20,000 elite troops surrender to you, and I can also let all the areas occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom surrender to your Ming Dynasty and accept your rule."

kindness?

It's interesting.

Wu Yan gave Hong Xiuquan a look.

Hong Xiuquan understood and continued, "My Taiping Army has developed from Guangdong and Guangxi to Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, Fujian, Zhejiang... and has conquered more than 600 cities. Although some have been recaptured by the Qing court and the Suzhou and Hangzhou area has been controlled by your Ming Kingdom, I still have a lot of territory."

"As long as you open a golden mouth, I will give it to you. If it weren't for me, even if you could capture these places, even if you could dominate the world, how long would it take to capture these places, how many people would it take to lose, and how much money would it cost?"

Wu Yan actually knew very well how much land area the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom controlled.

If it weren't for him, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was at its peak at this time, occupying a land area of ​​1.5 million square kilometers.

Even because of his reasons, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom continued to shrink its troops to the Nanjing area, so that many of the cities under its control were lost and retaken by the Qing court. In addition, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas occupied by Wu Yan, the land area controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom still exceeded 500,000 square kilometers.

Capturing such a large area does require a lot of money and food, losing a lot of troops, and also wasting a lot of time.

Wu Yan was a little moved and asked, "What do you want?"

Hong Xiuquan said ecstaticly: "Ten generations of wealth and honor."

Wu Yan pondered for a moment and said, "The title of Count is hereditary to ten generations. As long as you and your descendants obey the law, I will not kill you, nor will I let others kill you."

Hong Xiuquan breathed a sigh of relief. It would be good that he could survive, but just in case, he said with additional conditions: "You must also promise that your descendants will not kill us after they succeed to the throne. You can take away 90% of my wealth."

One condition and one cost.

For Wu Yan, this must be a very profitable business, because even if he captured Hong Xiuquan alive or even gave Hong Xiuquan the Three Corpse Brain Pill, for people like Hong Xiuquan, he will become unafraid of death after losing his freedom, wealth and power.

Not afraid of death, he naturally would not help Wu Yan to conquer all the places occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

As long as Hong Xiuquan is willing to give Hong Xiuquan a chance to survive, a certain degree of freedom, or even a little power and wealth, then Hong Xiuquan will be very afraid of death.

But when Wu Yan heard Hong Xiuquan's words, he wanted to laugh a little.

My descendants succeeded to the throne?

Qin II died, and if my Ming Dynasty had lost me, it would have died in the second lifetime.

Wu Yan knew very well that the Ming Dynasty is now based on him. As long as there was a problem with him, the Ming Dynasty would fall apart in an instant.

Which one of Zeng Guofan, Shi Dakai, Li Hongzhang, Shengbao, Lei Yicheng and others is better to meet?

Even people like Hua Tong and Master Zheng would not be loyal to the Ming Dynasty without him.

This is like when Qin Shihuang was in power, Li Si and Zhao Gao were wise ministers. As soon as Qin Shihuang died, he immediately supported Hu Hai as the emperor and killed Meng Tian and Fusu.

Therefore, for a long time, there was only Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, but no Emperor II of the Ming Dynasty.

And how many years can Hong Xiuquan’s own ten generations live?

"good."

After Wu Yan agreed, he looked behind Hong Xiuquan.

With just a few words, many devout believers of the God Cult have rushed to the three steps behind Hong Xiuquan.

But because Hong Xiuquan sat down in front of Wu Yan, and Wu Yan was holding a long sword in his hand, although those people were eager to save the enemy, they did not dare to rush up.

After hearing these words, the devout believers also felt that their faith collapsed and looked at the Son of God in their eyes with incredible eyes.

What about God?

Your son has been forced into this way.

Why haven't you taken action yet?

God will not take action because there is no God in this world, no gods, demons, or ghosts, at least not now.

After hearing Wu Yan's promise, Hong Xiuquan finally regained his strength and struggled to stand up.

He saw some devout believers who rushed to Wu Yan's back. He did not attack Wu Yan, but instead looked at him with an incredible look, knowing that these people had heard the conversation between him and Wu Yan.

Looking around, Hong Xiuquan saw many disappointed eyes.

But he didn't care at all, because it doesn't matter whether these people believe him or not.

As long as those around them who did not hear him and Wu Yan's conversation, and who did not know what was going on further away, and those Taiping Army who did not know that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had fallen, and the civilians under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ruled, were still trusting him, then he would be meaningful and valuable to the Ming Dynasty and Wu Yan.

"I felt the will of the Father, and God said that the land of China is not under His control."

As soon as Hong Xiuquan spoke, he became an old charlatan and said loudly: "Zhao Wuji is the true emperor, and the Ming Kingdom is the destiny of heaven. We should surrender to the Ming Kingdom and contribute our own efforts to the hope of the 400 million people on the land of China..."

Not to mention those who just collapsed their beliefs, they were stunned when they heard these words.

Wu Yan, who was standing behind Hong Xiuquan, was also stunned.

The land of China is not under God's jurisdiction... It is worthy of being Hong Xiuquan, but it is so beautiful.

With Hong Xiuquan's voice, the Taiping Army, who were close to each other, also put down their weapons. I don't know whether it was because of the complete collapse of belief and the loss of fighting spirit, or because I really believed Hong Xiuquan's nonsense.

The process and reason are not important, what matters is the result.

As the soldiers near Hong Xiuquan surrendered and they followed Hong Xiuquan to shout surrender, some people raised the white flag, and more Taiping troops laid down their weapons.

Because he saw Wu Yan flying into the Taiping Army alone, the two thousand cavalry who were rushing wildly also noticed the movement here and stopped the chopping and slashing.

There are also some people who escaped in the chaos, which is not important.

Importantly, Wu Yan captured Hong Xiuquan alive, and without any casualties, he captured nearly 20,000 Taiping Army's "elite" and also obtained the wealth that Hong Xiuquan had accumulated for many years.

...

The war in Nanjing was quickly settled because of Wei Changhui's surrender and Hong Xiuquan's escape with his main force, there was no decent resistance in and outside the city.

However, there is a lot of chaos in Nanjing.

The soldiers under Wei Changhui took the opportunity to plunder wealth in Nanjing, and some even forced the girl to rob him in the street.

Some of Shi Dakai's subordinates did not obey military orders, and as before, they found an opportunity to rush into the city and prepared to rob.

They have all developed the habit of robbing each time they capture a city, which is one of the reasons why they are willing to follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to fight everywhere.

It doesn’t matter if there is too much money. What’s important is that you can make another money after the war. Even if you are lucky, you can still obtain financial resources comparable to money for several years in a robbery.

However, Shi Dakai, who had been prepared for a long time, was not merciful.

After entering the city, the army of three thousand elite soldiers would directly kill the Taiping Army soldiers who violated the law and discipline, and kept calling out a military order from the Ming army.

"Those who traitor women, those who rob property were killed, and those who stole pigs and dogs were killed."

The Shi Dakai tribe who rushed into the city had more than 3,000 people, but half of them were killed by the army supervision team, and the remaining half surrendered.

In addition to the fact that the elite level is indeed not as good as the army supervisors carefully selected by Shi Dakai, they are also afraid of the army supervisors and Shi Dakai.

But Wei Changhui's people do not recognize Shi Dakai's military supervisor. They now do not even recognize Wei Changhui.

When making money in chaos, there are always some people who will be lawless because of greed.

So they were all killed by Shi Dakai's people.

If you kill the younger one, the older one will naturally pop up.

"Shi Dakai, what do you mean?"

Wei Changhui actually didn't want to have a conflict with Shi Da. Originally, he was not as good as Shi Dakai. He finally relied on Hong Xiuquan to seize Shi Dakai's military power, but was defeated and completely lost his prestige.

Moreover, he defected to Wu Yan not as early as Shi Dakai, and he was considered a junior of the Ming Dynasty.

But now he has to fight with Shi Dakai, because if he doesn't fight, his men will explode.

"The traitor of the ** woman is killed, the robbery of property is killed, and the stolen pigs and dogs are killed." Shi Dakai repeated the military order and said, "This is the military order of Your Majesty to command the Ming army. Whoever dares to violate it will kill me."

Outside Nanjing City, when Shi Dakai and Wei Changhui were confronting each other, many people surrounded him. The people from both sides were clearly separated and stood behind them.

Although Shi Dakai has a lot more people than Wei Changhui, the Taiping Army trusts Shi Dakai more people than Wei Changhui.

However, due to the terrain restrictions, many soldiers and horses were asked to stay on standby, so the number of people behind the two was actually similar.

This also gave Wei Changhui some courage and said, "Shi Dakai, don't take chicken feathers as command arrows. I think you have not made any achievements after you surrender to Your Majesty. You are jealous of my achievements in offering the city, so you choose to kill my confidant subordinates and weaken my troops."

"The merit of offering sacrifices to the city? Hahaha..." Shi Dakai laughed out loud and said, "You don't want to give sacrifices to the city?"
To be continued...