Chapter 22: The Attack on Zhaojiabao (5)
The people in the Zhao family's mansion heard that Liu Xia led the troops into the outer courtyard of the Zhao family, and the people in the inner courtyard and backyard began to be anxious, especially the wives and concubines of the Zhao family in the backyard, they were even more anxious, and even some of the concubines and maids began to pack their luggage and prepare to leave here, and the good things of the Zhao family were secretly taken away by the maids in the chaos.
There was chaos everywhere, but they couldn't leave, and the entire Zhao family's mansion was surrounded by the people brought by Liu Xia, and there was no way to escape at all. In the night, the whole sky is bright because of hundreds of torches, and it can be easily discovered by taking the opportunity to escape.
When Liu Xia led the army and was about to go to the inner courtyard of the Zhao family's mansion, the gate of the inner courtyard just opened, and Zhao Yan rushed out with two hundred heavily armed family members. Of course, even if Zhao Yan didn't open the gate of the inner courtyard, Liu Xia would easily enter, because the barrier between the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard was just a two-meter-high earthen wall, which was easy to smash at all.
Zhao Yan was forced to come out with more than 200 people, even if he didn't come out, he knew that he couldn't escape, so it was better to come out to see the situation, of course, with more than 200 family members out, Zhao Yan did not take the lead in the front, but hid in the middle, and the surrounding family members protected him tightly, which showed the degree of fear of death.
After all, Zhao Yan is just an ordinary landlord, not a warlord bandit, of course, he doesn't have the courage to rush to the front when fighting, even if Zhao Yan wants to kill people with his weapon at this time, it is a little difficult.
The two teams happened to meet, but they didn't fight immediately, Liu Xia entered the Zhao family's inner house with a lot more than Zhao Yan's more than 200 people, Zhao Yan didn't dare to act rashly, and Liu Xia looked at the two hundred heavily armed family members, who also looked a little combative, and felt that there was no need to waste so much energy, ready to let these people surrender automatically, and did not order people to attack immediately.
Liu Xia's people were all riding horses, the people in front were spears and swords, the people in the middle were bows and arrows, and the people in the back were holding several huge torches, shining the whole courtyard brightly.
Zhao Yan and other family members wear different clothes, and Zhao Yan has a pig's tail braid, when the Qing court did not release the hair cut, only those who please the Tartars will cut their hair, and the Zhao family is one of the people who please the Tartars, the Zhao family cut off the hair, only the lord of the Zhao family and the three sons, in their opinion, can cut their hair into the pig's tail braid of the river tartars, that is the supreme glory, so Liu Xia can quickly find Zhao Yan and look in the direction of Zhao Yan.
As Liu Xia's eyes swept over, Zhao Yan obviously felt a twitch in his heart, it was a feeling of fear. In the past, Zhao Yan had always been a powerful man on this territory, and he had never known how to bully people and make others afraid of himself, Zhao Yan had not been so afraid of a person, even when the Qing army came to their Zhaojiabao before, he Zhao Yan was not so afraid.
Without Liu Xia's order, Liu Xia's soldiers did not make a move, and Zhao Yan's two hundred guards were also trembling and did not dare to move, at this time the place suddenly fell silent, only listening to the screams of those relatives of the Zhao family outside the courtyard, and the chaotic sound in the courtyard.
Liu Xia didn't have the heart to wait, seeing that Zhao Yan was unwilling to surrender, so he pulled out the long knife, and the sound when the knife was pulled out was particularly harsh on this slightly silent battlefield, and when Liu Xia's soldiers heard it, they immediately took action and began to kill Zhao Yan's two hundred soldiers.
In fact, Zhao Yan was struggling with what to do at this time, just now he listened to what the family said, and thought it was to scare himself, he didn't see such a big battle, he was not afraid, he also relied on his two hundred elite family members to drive away Liu Xia These bandits, but when he came out, he saw what kind of elite Liu Xia's army was, and his heart began to be afraid.
But he didn't want to surrender, seeing that Liu Xia didn't give an order, he thought that maybe Liu Xia was also afraid of the two hundred elite family members in his hands, so he was ready to stalemate with Liu Xia, but he didn't expect Liu Xia to fight when he said that he would fight, so he didn't have any preparation.
Although his family's weapons and equipment are very well-equipped, they are not well trained, and some have not even been on the battlefield, so as soon as the two parties came into contact, the Zhao family's family died. Zhao Yan hurriedly retreated to the back, but at this time, the people were in chaos, and he couldn't squeeze out at all.
"Kill, kill me in" With Liu Xia's shout, the morale of the soldiers suddenly rose, and in the night, the soldiers were like soldiers from hell, killing the Zhao family's family.
Those members of the Zhao family, if they are okay with ordinary people or those homeless people, but against Liu Xia, the soldiers who survived the war, there is no chance of winning at all.
Liu Xia's army, at the front were soldiers with spears and swords and shields, and behind were archers, but now the scene was chaotic after all, and the archers did not act. It was mainly the pikemen and sword and shield men in front who were fighting with the Zhao family's family. And the weapons of the Zhao family's family can be described as excellent, they are all brand new knives, but they don't use them well at all, and they lose these good weapons in vain.
The Zhao family's family began to stir, the family standing in the front row began to look around in horror, the timid began to retreat, Zhao Yan shouted in the middle, trying to control the decline, but his efforts were in vain, more people began to retreat, and the number of people who could insist on staying in place was becoming less and less.
The defeat was like a mountain.
With one scream after another, the Zhao family's family members died one after another. Zhao Yan was completely frightened, and at the same time, he was also angry at the combat effectiveness of his own family.
Zhao Yan thought to himself, I spent so much money to raise you fat and fat, and your weapons and armor were all built well, but you couldn't stop it for even a while, you lost, you lost so much money, you are all a bunch of stupid people, a bunch of garbage.
Zhao Yan saw that he had no chance of winning at all, so he shouted in the crowd: "Good man, good man, the old man surrenders, surrender, how much money does it cost, the old man will give it, give it all."
Liu Xia listened, sneered, he didn't surrender when he should have surrendered just now, he didn't think about surrendering until he got this time, now Zhao Yan doesn't have many families, there is no need to accept Zhao Yan's surrender anymore, and Liu Xia didn't think about giving the people in Zhaojiabao a way to live, so he ignored Zhao Yan's surrender and ordered the soldiers to continue attacking.
Liu Xia said to Liu Dazhuang beside him: "Da Zhuang, you take a large group of brothers to go in first, control the people inside, don't let one person escape."
Liu Dazhuang took the order and led a brigade of soldiers from the Huben camp through the Zhao family's family team and rode into the inner courtyard of the Zhao family.
The Zhao family's family members were all infantry, while Liu Xia's army was all cavalry, and the battle was naturally one-sided, and more than 200 family members did not have much time to stop Liu Xia's army. Soon, the remaining fifty or so still alive were captured, and of course, Zhao Yan was also captured.
The soldier brought Zhao Yan to Liu Xia and kicked Zhao Yan's leg, only to see Zhao Yan in pain, and then knelt heavily on the ground. Zhao Yan's whole body trembled, and he shouted at Liu Xia sadly: "Adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives, adults give whatever they want, give them all, adults spare their lives."
Liu Xia couldn't help laughing, he called himself an old man just now, and the old man has now become small, small, and the transformation is really fast. Looking at Zhao Yan like this is indeed quite pitiful, but Liu Xia saw the pigtail braid on Zhao Yan's head again, and his heart was full of anger.
Tartars, these will soon enter the capitalist society of China into the equivalent of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, Liu Xia every time he thinks of the Manchu Tatars said those words, such as Ning Zeng foreign thieves do not belong to domestic slaves, Pu Yi's 'I don't care how much coal the Japanese transported from the northeast and how many people they killed, as long as I am the emperor'. Liu Xia was furious.
And there are dozens of massacres staged in various parts of China, more than 100 million people died, more than 100 million, this is a very concept, in the previous life Liu Xia for the Manchu compatriots, there was no discrimination or hatred, after all, the Manchus at that time were not Manchus at all, except for the two words 'Manchu' on the ID card and household register, basically no different from the Han people.
But the Tartars of this era are different, they are now slaughtering their own compatriots, and they must not be spared. Tartars are hateful, but for traitors, Liu Xia hates them even more, and compared to Tartars, these traitors make Liu Xia think about killing them quickly. Abandoning his own nation, to help foreigners, to be a slave of a foreigner, to slaughter his own compatriots, in the face of this kind of people, Liu Xia's policy, if he does a lot of bad things, it is death.
Therefore, even if Zhao Yan smashed his head, Liu Xia did not have any sympathy, and ordered the soldiers next to him to cut Zhao Yan with a knife.
Then Liu Xia said to Niu Chao: "You take a squadron of people to collect all the weapons and armor of these family members, and then escort them up, and the others follow me in."
At this time, the form in the inner courtyard was basically controlled by Liu Dazhuang, after all, the main forces of the Zhao family were now wiped out by Liu Xia, and the rest were either some weak servants, or some maids and the like, there was no combat effectiveness at all, and when they saw Liu Dazhuang's group of blood-stained people coming in, they were all frightened, and they were all caught without much resistance.
Liu Dazhuang saw Liu Xia coming to the inner courtyard, and hurriedly went to greet him, and then said to Liu Xia: "General, now the people in the inner courtyard are under control, there are more than 30 of these families and maids, all of them are here, and none of them ran away, and the backyard, because they are all Zhao Yan's family members, without the general's orders, the subordinates did not dare to bring people in, but the door of the backyard is all under control, and a fly inside can't fly out." ”
Liu Xia nodded, ordered people to gather all the captive servants and maids, and then said: "Shi looked at the people here, Zhang Yuan went to the backyard to arrest all the people inside, Da Zhuang, you take people to the backyard to gather all the treasures in the backyard, no one is allowed to hide privately, and there is a place to hide food." Mapen, you go out of town and inform the people outside to come here."