In fact, the Wei army was not very satisfied with this battle from top to bottom.

The reason is also very simple, because they did not fight a decent battle at all.

From Nanyang to Xiangyang and then to Jiangling, there was no serious battle at all. Zhu Ling captured two cities that were only guarded by hundreds of Jingzhou soldiers, and all the other cities were descending.

Until now, Le Jin and Zhu Ling's Wei army have only three unlucky men died in battle, and more than 60 people were injured, and two-thirds of them were twisted while on the road.

This made Le Jin and Zhu Ling quite depressed.

Especially when they learned that Xu Huang, who was originally just a supporter, led his army to repeatedly defeat Huang Zu's son Huang She, the army, was even more envious and jealous.

Real military merits are the only way to advance. The number of beheadings and the number of cities they are pursuing is what they pursue. Although they are pushing forward all the way, they are all taking the initiative to surrender, and they will be greatly reduced when it comes to planning and making plans.

Le Jin was unhappy, and Zhu Ling was unhappy, so there was nothing in these two armies.

Especially when Zhu Ling saw Liu Cong and others surrender again and didn't even fight a battle, he felt even more depressed. He did not have the pleasure of destroying the Chu State to conquer Jingzhou and reaching the strategic goal.

However, Zhu Ling still knows how to restrain his emotions as a heavy responsibility.

Under the banner of General Pingnan, he accepted Liu Cong's surrender as the deputy commander of the army.

Zhu Ling held up the axe that Le Jin had given him temporarily, and rode his horse forward, bringing only a few personal soldiers, as well as the two generals Cao Chun and Li Dian.

Liu Cong walked forward, Kuai Yue and four others walked forward carrying coffins, and Song Zhong walked forward with the seal of King Chu and the seal of the Mu of Jingzhou.

When he marched to Zhu Ling, Liu Cong knelt down, and all the surrendered ministers knelt down together. Song Zhong read out the surrender statement to express the surrender of the Jingzhou lord to the Guo and Wei regime.

Zhu Ling held a clan axe in his hand, representing the army commander Le Jin and Emperor Guo Peng to accept Liu Cong's surrender.

Before officially accepting surrender, we have to go through the process.

"Liu Cong, why do you surrender?"

"With a guilty person, he dare not disobey the emperor's soldiers, but only wishes to surrender to the emperor and become a minister of the emperor in order to seek peace."

Liu Cong knelt in front of Zhu Ling, holding his ceremonial trembling slightly, and said what he didn't want to say but had to say.

Zhu Ling sat down on the horse and looked at Liu Cong who was tied up and five surrendered officials in Jingzhou. He took a deep breath, turned over and dismounted, handed the quarrel to Cao Chun, and then stepped forward and helped Liu Cong up.

"Although it is a crime, when the emperor's soldiers come to Jingzhou, you surrender in time and do not resist stubbornly, which is a deed of punishment. I will accept your surrender on behalf of the emperor and the commander of the army."

Afterwards, Zhu Ling personally untied Liu Cong, put on clothes for Liu Cong, and asked Cao Chun and Li Dian to hold a torch to burn the coffin to show that the Wei Empire would never harm Liu Cong.

Then Zhu Ling accepted Liu Cong's seal of King Chu and the seal of the governor of Jingzhou, representing the Wei Empire to officially take over Jingzhou, so the surrender ceremony ended.

Zhu Ling led his army to Jiangling City and accepted the Jingzhou household registration form, tax form and warehousing form presented by Kuai Yue and others. Hence, he officially announced the occupation of Jingzhou and the battle of Jingzhou was basically over.

At this time, it was the fourth day of the seventh month of the first year of Yande, and the war was only more than a month away.

Then Jingzhou surrendered.

Zhu Ling checked the surrender tables submitted by Kuai Yue and found that there were nearly 50,000 Jingzhou naval and land troops around Jiangling. Including the 20,000 Nanyang and 5,000 Xiangyang, the total number of Jingzhou troops is equivalent to the total number of Wei army's main forces.

However, an army of this size did not effectively resist the Wei army, and even surrendered in an established manner without even a regular battle.

Nanyang County and Nanjun, as the two most elite counties with the largest population and the most prosperous economy in Jingzhou, surrendered to the Wei State intact.

The Wei government did not even need to spend too much manpower and material resources to restore the normal operation of these two counties.

With further understanding, Zhu Ling found that the Jingzhou army had its own difficulties if it did not resist.

Because although they do not lack food, they lack weapons, swords, armor, or crossbows, which is not enough to meet the needs of multiple battles.

The previous rebellion to pacify Zhang Xian consumed a lot of Liu Biao's military reserves, which made the Jiangling Treasury urgent for a while.

Not only that, more than 20,000 of these 40,000 troops were urgently expanded before and after Liu Biao's death. His combat effectiveness and combat literacy were very ugly. He was not even prepared for a unified military uniform. Some people even sent a sharpened bamboo gun and were considered soldiers.

Such soldiers will be defeated if they go to the battlefield.

Excellent generals in Jingzhou, such as Huang Zhong and Wen Pin, were rejected by Liu Biao before the war and seized military power, resulting in unstable spirit, low morale, chaotic organization, and unbearable for the war.

Not to mention that just a month ago, they fought a battle with Liu Zhang's army, and placed all the few remaining elite troops and weapons in Yiling to guard against Liu Zhang, rather than guard against the Wei army.

Under such a premise, even if Jiangling City chooses to resist and is united, it is probably the end of the annihilation of the entire army after the war.

In dealing with such an army, Zhu Ling felt that his 20,000 people could definitely confront these 40,000 people head-on.

In this way, their surrender was actually wise.

However, Zhu Ling knew more clearly that their surrender was absolute, not accidental.

Everything was not accidental, including Huang Zu's insistence on resisting and the unsuccessful mutiny of Han Song and the other three, it was not accidental. Everything was actually within the scope of the deduction of the pre-war staff meeting.

The battle situation in Jingzhou is now very clear. The three counties in Jingbei have surrendered to two counties. The main force of the Jingzhou army surrendered in an established manner, and only Huang Zu is still resisting.

A rebellion occurred not long ago in the four counties of Jingnan and was pacified by Liu Biao. Many of the local powerful clans were killed by Liu Biao. The rest was fear and disobedient. Naturally, they could not fight for Liu Biao's Jingzhou. As long as the Wei army crossed the river, they would definitely surrender.

Pacification in Jingzhou is actually very easy.

So in fact, only Huang Zu was still resisting in Jingzhou and was willing to resist.

His demise is also destined.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, Le Jin and Guo Jia arrived in Jiangling and brought Zhang Yun, Cai Mao, Huang Zhong, Wen Pin and others together. Everyone gathered together and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Liu Cong lowered his posture, poured wine for several Wei army bosses himself, and called his concubine out to dance to cheer him up. Guo Jia was about to make an old problem, but was stopped by Le Jin.

"Fei Xiao! You forgot your Majesty's order?"

Guo Jia was stunned in a daze of drunken eyes, and suddenly remembered the important military rules that Guo Peng had repeatedly declared before the entire army set off.

Even if someone gives away women, they must understand the identity and origin of these women. Women in the family of the powerful people in Jingzhou are absolutely not allowed to be involved.

Especially for Guo Jia, if Guo Peng knows whose woman he has been involved in, he will have to break his third leg when he returns.

The fear of Guo Peng, rooted in the depths of his soul, suddenly became sober, immediately corrected his posture, retracted his wolf claws, and didn't even dare to drink wine. He looked like a saint, making Cao Chun laugh secretly.

So the ministers in Jingzhou secretly praised the military discipline of the Wei army and the moral integrity of the senior leaders of the Wei army. The original uneasiness gradually disappeared and they began to gradually accept the current situation.

They gradually accepted the rule of Wei over Jingzhou from the bottom of their hearts, and were ready to serve in Wei at any time, completing the transition from Han to Wei from physiology to psychology.

Although Le Jin, Zhu Ling and others were very upset, it has to be said that this war has actually ended.

The only Jingzhou army unit that is still fighting against the Wei army is the only one under Huang Zu's army.
Chapter completed!