At the end of the letter of persuasion, a list of civil and military officials in Nanning City was listed, but it was the list of civil and military officials in Nanning City. From the magistrate to the lord and the chief lord, all of them were registered. The small regular characters with a fly head were written in a dense manner. I don’t know how much effort the Taiping Army took to get the details of Nanning City so clearly from the captive Qing army.

This list surprised the Qing army, but what shocked them even more was that the list issued by the Ming army not only captured all the officials of Nanning City, but also marked their hometowns in detail behind each name.

What is the purpose of marking the hometown?

The Qing army was all dumbfounded. There were no fools in the officials. How could they not guess the Ming army's intention?

Officials who are not from Guangxi are not very distressed about this list, but officials from Guangxi and their hometowns in the Mingjun-controlled areas changed their faces on the spot.

The Taiping Army is using their whole family to threaten them, no, they are using their family to threaten them!

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After being shocked, a few officials from Guangdong and Guangxi had the first idea to surrender quickly. They dare not bet whether the Taiping Army was intimidating them or were really preparing to do this. They really couldn't afford to bet. Besides, if they continue to defend, in addition to making the war more tragic, and making the Taiping Army more angry, what are the benefits for the situation?

Officials from Guangdong and Guangxi and their families were in the Dingnan Fan Patriarch of Nanning, looking at each other, but they no longer had the courage and confidence to stick to it.

Xie Jun, the prefect of Nanning, was relatively brave. When the Taiping Army attacked the city, he had been hiding in the government office, and he didn't even have the courage to go to the city. However, after hearing that the Taiping Army had made such a play to kill the whole family and force the surrender, he didn't know where he got the courage to express his willingness to surrender to Wang Guowei on behalf of the city officials.

Xie Jun's courage and confidence came from those officers under the Dingnan vassal who had been secretly connected. In other words, more than 80% of the officials in the city reached an agreement at this moment, that is, the city could no longer be defended. If they continue to defend, they would not only die, but also their wives, children, and their whole family would be washed away by the Taiping Army. In this era, in the eyes of officials, promotion and wealth are far less important than the clan's survival. If the Taiping Army really wants to start a big killing, the consequences are beyond their imagination.

Under the pressure of the surrendered officials, Wang Guowei sent people out of the city to the Taiping Army camp and requested the Taiping Army to send people into the city to discuss the matter of joining the city.

The deputy general of the Eleventh Town, Xiong Chaozuo, Feng Zheng, took the initiative to ask for an order to enter the city as an envoy. He said that he had been chased by the Qing army for more than ten years, and today he could finally see the Qing army being forced by the Ming army like a dog, so he had to go into the city to see the faces of the Qing dogs in the city. After Gao Jinku discussed with Wang Xing, he believed that the Qing army in the city would not have the courage to kill the Taiping Army envoy, so he agreed to Feng Zheng's request.

Xiong Chaozuo only brought two personal guards into the city. After entering the city, he found that the Qing army had formed hundreds of people and set up a sword and gun formation. He couldn't help but sneer, walked past the Qing soldiers without fear at all, and then came to the Qing generals, looked around and said to Wang Guowei, who was sitting in the middle, "When will you surrender? If you surrender, you will open the city to welcome my army into the city. If you don't want to surrender, don't talk nonsense. Everyone depends on your ability. If you can guard it, you will be counted on your own.

We are very capable. If we can't defend, then we will take your family to Huangquan together. Don't blame me for not reminding you that Guilin, Liuzhou and Xunzhou have all been captured by our Taiping Army. You can't count on any reinforcements. So if you want to surrender, you should surrender early. Don't be so upset." After saying that, he said, "It's been half a day late for opening the city in Liuzhou. My general asked someone to kill the prefect Su Jin and the admiral Huang Ding, the elders and young people of the family."

Xiong Chaozuo's voice spread from afar. Almost everyone in Nanning civil and military officials guarding outside heard his words. Hearing that Liuzhou magistrate Su Jin and the admiral Huang Ding were killed just because they opened the city half a day late, they were so shocked that they all changed their colors.

Wang Guowei's face turned pale and extremely ugly. Xiong Chaozuo looked at him squintly, not afraid of his expression at all. He raised his lips and sneered.

"presumptuous!"

The young and strong officers in the city who had proposed to kill all the young and strong men saw that Xiong Chaozuo did not take them seriously at all, was furious and drew their swords and put them on his neck. Xiong Chaozuo was not afraid, but just looked at Wang Guowei and sneered. He was really not afraid, because if he was the garrison of Nanning, he would not have cut off his only way of life.

Sure enough, Wang Guowei spoke, but he was not going to kill someone, but said, "I am so bold. I come into my city alone and dare to be my soldiers to humiliate this town in front of me. Aren't you afraid that this town will kill you?"

Upon hearing this, Xiong Chaozuo shook his head and said, "If you kill me, no official in Nanning City will be able to escape. They will not escape. Their wives, children, and children cannot escape. My Taiping Army is always one. If you say that you kill your whole family, you will never leave a living! So I am happy to see thousands of heads buried with me."

Xiong Chaozuo's tone was extremely loud, and he glanced at the officials while speaking. All the officials who were swept by his eyes were chilling. Many people consciously avoided his gaze and did not dare to look directly at him. Even some generals around Wang Guowei couldn't help but feel their scalp numb.

Wang Guowei sighed in his heart, knowing that the negotiation had been at a disadvantage from the beginning and was at a disadvantage. He waved his hand powerlessly and signaled his subordinates to take the knife away, then put on a negotiation posture, and said to Xiong Chaozuo: "If I surrender to your army in the city, what will I do in the future?"

The threat of the Taiping Army to kill the young family has already divided the officials in Nanning city. Now most people advocate surrender. The remaining few people still insist on not surrendering are nothing more than their families are not in Nanning and are not from Guangdong and Guangxi. Although Wang Guowei can hold on and refuse to surrender, he is sure that many people in the city may not let him hold on. Most of the officials in Biyi City are from Guangxi. Who can watch his clan be uprooted by the Taiping Army, and who can watch his wife, children, and children be killed?

Xiong Chaozuo was also not vague and said, "Your troops must be driven out of the city to accept our army's reorganization. Apart from this, our army will not pursue what you did in the past, and will also ensure that all of you have good lives."
Chapter completed!