Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

Huang Sanping was a villain who could use both hands and ears to make the most of the situation. When he saw the Eight Kings' Rebellion was gaining momentum, he was the first to surrender to King Fenyang and became the first court official to defect to the rebels.

However, in Ning Fan's view, what Huang Sanping is best at is sizing up the situation. As long as he brings enough troops and troops to the city, I believe Huang Sanping will definitely come to surrender.

It took only two days for 30,000 soldiers and horses to arrive at the gates of Jiqing City. As the emperor, Ning Fan marched on the expedition in person, and his morale was high. The first wave of siege battles began soon.

A large number of red cannons were set up and began to bombard the city wall. After a wave of bombardment, there was no sound on the city wall.

At this time, Chen Yuanqing took the lead and led the soldiers to rush to the city wall, but they were quickly repelled by the defenders on the city wall. When they came back, they charged Ning Fan and lost more than 2,000 people.

"Your Majesty, it seems that Huang Sanping is not exactly a surrendering general. It seems that the city defense is indeed very tight with two brushes. It is almost impossible to get in. If we want to attack this Jiqing City, we will not pay any price." It may not be possible at all.”

Chen Yuanqing is not afraid of fighting a vicious battle, but when faced with such a tough nut to crack, he still feels a little sorry for the soldiers under his command.

"Let's fight again tonight. Huang Sanping should surrender in Kaicheng tomorrow."

Ning Fan said confidently.

Chen Yuanqing didn't know what Ning Fan meant at all. He only thought that Ning Fan was joking. At night, under Ning Fan's order, Chen Yuanqing led five thousand soldiers to attack the city wall again. However, this time the losses were not great. Only two people were lost. Hundreds of people.

"Your Majesty can't go on like this. They are refusing to defend the city wall. If we just attack blindly, we will lose more and more men. How about I find a way to dig a tunnel under the city wall and blow it down directly?" .”

Chen Yuanqing is now learning and applying it, and he already knows how to use gunpowder in siege.

This is indeed a good method, but according to Ning Fan, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It will take at least half a month to dig a hole in the city wall, and once the enemy discovers and pours water, all the efforts will be wasted.

"I said, today Huang Sanping will open the city gate and surrender, just wait and see."

Ning Fan sneered.

The wind and sand were very strong during the day, and Ning Fan was sitting in the tent. When it was almost afternoon, suddenly a group of people rushed into the tent.

The leader was none other than Chen Yuanqing. His face was full of surprise and he couldn't hide it. He hurried into Ning Fan's tent and reported to Ning Fan that Ji Qing's door had opened.

Ning Fan had already expected this. In fact, this was not a result that Ning Fan would have predicted in advance, but in the half month before this, Ning Fan had already allowed a large number of Jin Yiwei to lurk into Jiqing City.

The cooks in the house of Huang Sanping, the prefect of Xuanzhou, were all Jin Yiwei's spies. Ning Fan wanted to capture Huang Sanping. In fact, he didn't need to spend much effort at all. As long as he bribed Huang Sanping's men and cooperated inside and outside, Ji Qing wanted to attack him. No effort at all.

In fact, Ning Fan's two waves of siege at the beginning were not to capture the city, but to give the people in the city a sense of confidence that if they did not open the city gates and surrender, sooner or later the city would be captured. .

As expected, Huang Sanping, as a traitor who had defected to the enemy, would not surrender easily, but the people around Huang Sanping were different. These people were also threatened by Huang Sanping when they defected to the rebels, but now led by Ning Fan The heavenly army has already arrived at the city, and these people are naturally unwilling to join forces with these rebels.

At this time, catching Huang Sanping and surrendering is the best choice.

In fact, it was not that Huang Sanping wanted to surrender, but that Huang Sanping's subordinates were unwilling.

A city with nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed was captured by Ning Fan in just three days. Even if it was a war that had been fought all year round, the madman Chen Yuanqing was a little envious when he saw this scene. This credit was simply given by God. Feed it to your mouth.

When Ning Fan entered the city on his tall horse, he was warmly welcomed by the people. After all, Ning Fan is now the orthodox emperor of Dakang. Both the people and the officials in the city knelt on the roadside to welcome Ning Fan as he entered the city. .

Ning Fan came to the Yamen of Ji Qing Mansion. At this time, the traitor Huang Sanping was being kidnapped in the hall by Wu Huada.

Those who were usually timid and submissive to Huang Sanping were now like wolves and tigers, pinning their former master to the ground.

"Huang Sanping, do you have anything else to say?"

Ning Fan waved his hand and motioned to the people next to him to let go of Huang Sanping.

Huang Sanping knelt on the ground without saying a word. Although he was a fence-sitting person who ran away from the wind and swayed left and right, when he saw Ning Fan, he was too embarrassed to say a word.

"Your Majesty, I am a civil servant. The rebels are approaching the city. What can the city do? Surrendering at this time can save the people of the city. If we resist stubbornly, once the city is defeated, the people in the city will be massacred."

"I just sacrificed one person to save the people of the whole city. For me, this business is very cost-effective. Your Majesty kills or cuts into pieces, and I have no complaints."

Huang Sanping is indeed a cunning old fox, and he came up with a set of rhetoric in a short time.

If this rhetoric were used by ordinary people, he would probably be deceived by him, but who is Ning Fan? He has experienced too many things, and he knows five thousand years of history by heart.

When Huang Sanping raised his tail, Ning Fan knew what he was about to pee.

In fact, Ning Fan knew very well that Huang Sanping was a capricious villain.

"Your Majesty, what should we say to this traitor? Just pull him out and chop him down."

Chen Yuanqing was already a little impatient. He wanted to rush forward and twist Huang Sanping's head off.

If Huang Sanping hadn't resisted, he wouldn't have lost two or three thousand people. You must know that these two or three thousand people were all living lives.

But Ning Fan obviously had different ideas about Huang Sanping. He was not eager to kill Huang Sanping, because Huang Sanping, as a surrender faction, was not in the minority.

Since King Fenyan started the rebellion, more than twenty cities have taken refuge with King Fenyang one after another. These officials are now in a wait-and-see mode.

If Ning Fan kills these surrendering officials, it is equivalent to telling the remaining people that surrendering is a dead end. There is no reason at all. Then if he wants to convince those cities, he will encounter desperate resistance.

So even though Ning Fan hated the person in front of him, he didn't want to kill him.

Huang Sanping is very famous and is a benchmark figure. If such a figure is killed, it will definitely have a very bad impact.