After looking around for a long time with tears in his eyes, the Sixth Prince of the Jin Kingdom who stayed in Zhending finally walked down the stairs. Then, he seemed to come to his senses and looked at Hong Ya again, and said with a folded hand: "Minister Hong... please teach me, what should I do in this situation and with such people's hearts?!"

Hearing this, Hong Ya looked up and sighed, but didn't say a word.

Seeing this, the slave of the Grand Master finally came out and bowed his head, saying, "Sixth Prince! I was originally the personal servant of the Fourth Prince, and I am also the personal servant of the Sixth Prince... Please believe me, Sixth Prince... I am willing to enter the Song camp again, firstly to ask for surrender, and ask the Zhao Song emperor to allow the whole city to live; secondly to negotiate peace, and ask the Zhao Song emperor to treat the Sixth Prince with courtesy, and agree to a peace talk between the two countries! But please also follow the previous strategy of the Fourth Prince and work hard to promote peace talks between the two countries!"

Eluguan was stunned for a long time, watching that no one around him stepped forward, and no one refuted, but he finally nodded with all his strength: "Since peace talks are what Fourth Brother wants, Eluguan should obey your orders; if surrender is what the whole city wants, why should Eluguan care about the honor and disgrace of one person? Please trouble me."

Just as the Grand Tutor was about to speak again, Hong Ya turned around, bowed to Elu Guan, and then raised his head to comfort him: "Sixth Prince, don't worry about your reputation... If we can negotiate, it will be a roundabout way to save the country, so why bother about honor or disgrace?"

Many civil and military officials in the surrounding cities, especially those who had stayed in the camp on the other side of the river yesterday, seemed to have just woken up at this moment. They came out one after another to echo, just as orderly as when they escaped back with Hong Ya yesterday.

The remaining civil and military officials also stepped out after a moment's hesitation.

Of course, some people did not move.

A night in silence.

The next day, the fifth day of February, in the morning, Tai Shi Nu rode out of the city alone again, and then the whole city waited until the afternoon, and sure enough, they saw the dragon flag of the Zhao Song official family appear outside Zhending City, and the commander of the imperial guard, Liu Yan of Yanzhou, drove a horse to ask.

At this moment, Eluguan no longer hesitated, and immediately followed the agreement, took off his armor and robe, opened the city gate, and went out of the city wearing only a single layer of clothes to pay a visit to the Zhao Song government... However, he had no idea that after the chaos last night, at this moment, seventeen civil and military officials of all ranks had chosen to die in the city.

Of course, it doesn’t hurt to know.

Because there were only seventeen people, less than one thousandth of the casualties the day before.

Ps: Thanks to Ms. An (female) for the peaches... The house number was written wrong... Zhichun Road was also written as Zhiqing Road... Oops, I forgot to wish everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival!