Chapter 131: Descending the Table

There was chaos in the city, and Guo Shao couldn't figure out which one was where. However, he couldn't figure it out, the ** general was afraid that he had also lost control of the army, and there were many people who surrendered in the middle of the melee, and the overall situation had been decided. The ancient army, especially the civil war, was not so easy to fight in the street fighting, and after losing the formation, it was all dependent on the low-level generals to control their subordinates.

The southern ** guarding the eastern city all surrendered. Guo Shao heard that Lu Mengjun was dead, so he went to watch it with Luo Mengzi and others.

When I walked up to the tower, I saw a group of soldiers who had lost their weapons kneeling on the ground. There was a corpse lying on a wooden shelf, and when Guo Shao walked up, he couldn't help but lightly cover his nose with his fingers, and a smell of paste mixed with a foul smell came to his face.

I saw that the corpse was covered in burns, and its face was so black and blurred that it was impossible to distinguish its facial features. He was wearing the clothes and armor of a general.

At this moment, Guo Shao found that there was still a sword next to the corpse, stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and when he pressed the machine spring, a clear sword light like water suddenly popped out. Guo Shao's face was overjoyed, he pulled out the sword, took his nails and lightly scratched the blade of the sword, and immediately cut off a small piece of nails, he couldn't help but praise: "Good sword, good sharp sword!" ”

The generals congratulated Guo Shao on getting the sword.

But Guo Shao still felt that something was wrong, how could a general be burned beyond recognition? If Lu Mengjun personally rushed to kill the front line, could the East Gate be chaotic like that, and all the ** soldiers would run around?

He immediately lied: "This person is definitely not Lu Mengjun!" Where is Lu Mengjun? ”

No one answered, Guo Shao thought for a while and said: "The soldiers on the city tower are all standing still, whoever moves will kill whom!" Go and call Wang Chong (the military general of the Nan** mutiny). ”

At this moment, I saw a soldier kowtow and said, "Spare your life!" Guo Dashuai spared his life, and the last general was Lu Mengjun......"

Suddenly, the surrounding Nan** soldiers looked at each other, and some people showed indignation on their faces. Lu Mengjun should have been very tyrannical to his subordinates, but he was so greedy for life and afraid of death...... The surrendered soldiers were greatly disappointed.

Guo Shao still called Wang Chong, and when he recognized it, it was Lu Mengjun. Then he asked his own soldiers to tie them up alone, and Lu Mengjun said vigorously: "I am willing to serve the Great Zhou Army, and I will saddle before and after the horse under the command of Guo Dashuai!" But Guo Shao ignored it.

Suddenly reported that Chai Kehong was surrounded by Gao Huaide in Nancheng, Guo Shao hurriedly got off the city tower, led his soldiers out of the city, and rushed around the city to Nancheng; Because the city is still chaotic, and there are fires everywhere, there is no shortcut.

In a similar scene to Shouzhou, Chai Kehong sits directly south of the city, and there is nowhere to go at this time. Chai Kehong is a famous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Guo Shao rushed over just to see the style.

Gao Huaide was also here, he didn't order the army to attack the Nancheng Tower, but the city gate had been opened, and the inside and outside were full of Zhou troops.

Guo Shao rode to the city, raised his head and squinted his eyes to carefully observe Chai Kehong at the head of the city, only to see that it turned out to be a very young general, not a few years older than Guo Shao. Chai Kehong is a famous general in the end, and his bearing is much different from Lu Mengjun's, he stands there calmly and does not dodge at all. However, no Zhou soldiers shot him with arrows.

The smoke was rolling in the wind, and Guo Shao suddenly felt the despair in the heart of this general, who was not much different from himself. Becoming a king or losing, the taste of failure should not be so pleasant!

Luo Mengzi shouted on the horse: "General Chai Kehong, hurry down and surrender!" Liu Renzhan didn't defend my eldest brother in Shouzhou, and now it's fine, my eldest brother won't treat you badly. ”

Guo Shao thought about it, beckoned Luo Mengzi and said, "Don't persuade him, let him go." ”

Chai Kehong suddenly said loudly: "I am not defeated!" It's my subordinates who hurt me, it's not that I'm inferior to others! As he spoke, he suddenly looked up and laughed wildly.

Guo Shao looked back and said: "Liu Renzhan can be tolerated; Chai Kehong could not be forgiven, he did not dare to surrender...... The national fortunes of the Southern Tang Kingdom, the morale of the first country, and the expectations of Huainan were pinned on him, and they collapsed so quickly; Such a young man carries something too heavy on his back, and he can't afford to carry it. ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Chai Kehong staring at the sun in the west for a long time...... His eyes were full of dead ashes, and Guo Shao's heart tightened.

"I'm not defeated!" He shouted, leaning forward.

"Bang!" Guo Shao only felt a tremor in his heart.

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Chai Kehong died in Haozhou, and he took on too much responsibility for the Southern Tang Kingdom, and he was blamed for what should and shouldn't be.

Soon after, the general of the Sizhou Navy Division led more than 300 warships to surrender to Hantong. Fan Zai, the general of Sizhou, met the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty again, saying that his family was in Jinling, and he was allowed to quietly take his family out and surrender the city; Chai Rong allowed it to play.

Han Tong led the naval division to Chuzhou, and Guo Tingyu, the general of the southern **, led his troops to surrender. Zhang Yanqing, the defender of Chuzhou, defended it, but he was trapped in the city and couldn't move. Soon after, Han Tongshui entered the Cao Canal from Chuzhou and approached the Great River.

Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin led their troops to attack Xiong and Tai, and the two city guards heard that Chai Kehong in Haozhou was defeated, and went out of the city to gather troops for a decisive battle, and was defeated by Zhao Kuangyin and the iron cavalry. Li Jingda, the general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, had just crossed the river to reinforce Huainan, and when he heard that many places had fallen and the Zhou army's sailors Keri had entered the river, he led his troops back.

The emperor of the Zhou Dynasty set up the palace outside the city of Haozhou, and it didn't take long to wait for the surrender of Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Guo Shao and other generals witnessed the ceremony of the surrender of the Southern Tang Kingdom in the palace: the envoy Liu Chengyu knelt on the ground to offer the surrender table. In the book, Li Jing proclaimed himself the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, gave up the title of emperor, and asked to cede all 14 prefectures and 60 counties north of the Great River, and paid hundreds of thousands of tributes to the court of the Zhou Dynasty every year. Nantang begged to surrender and begged Chai Rong not to cross the river to fight him again.

It was the second year of Xiande, and the Huainan War lasted for more than half a year. Chai Rong mobilized almost all of the Zhou Dynasty's troops in the hundreds of thousands.

Chai Rong's face showed an almost sickly red light, and the surrounding ministers and generals were all happy. Chai Rong said: "I agree to the request of the Southern Tang Lord, you go back and tell the Southern Tang Monarch that in the future, you can attach the Great Zhou to the country, and I will treat him well." ”

The envoys retreated and waited for the edict of the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.

Chai Rong couldn't wait to reward and deploy the meritorious soldiers. There are many generals who died in battle, but many more were promoted. There were too many people, Guo Shao couldn't remember, and only paid extra attention to the people who had a relationship with him on the spot.

Guo Shao was promoted to the guard Sima Budu Yuhou, and still led the envoy of Xuzhou Zhongwu Festival; Gao Huaide served as the commander of the guards and the commander of the infantry army and the envoy of the construction of the festival; Chai Gui was appointed as the commander of the right wing of the Hujie army. Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin have been inspected in front of the palace and commanded in front of the palace respectively, and their military positions cannot be promoted. Li Chongjin still led the commander of the guard division, and added the captain of the school inspector and the envoy of the Huainan Festival (Guo Shao felt that the latter two official positions seemed to be of little use). Han Tong served as the deputy commander of the guard department, and Shi Yanchao was transferred to the front of the palace to serve as the front of the palace.

The other are the transfer of middle-level generals approved by the privy envoy, Guo Shao's close subordinates Li Chuyun, Luo Yanhuan, Yang Biao, and Wang Zhang have all been promoted to military commanders (all in the left wing), and some of the original military generals in the left wing have been transferred to the right wing. Luo Mengzi and Deng Fei led the army, and Luo Mengzi still led Guo Shao's personal command.

Everyone congratulated the emperor. It didn't take long for Chai Rong to get up and summon the privy envoy Wei Renpu, the deputy envoy Wang Pu and several prime ministers to leave the hall.

Guo Shao knows: Chai Rong's war machine will never stop; According to the strategy of the Zhou Dynasty that he understood before, now the biggest rear threat to Shu and the Southern Tang Dynasty has been subdued, Chai Rong will not pay attention to these countries for the time being, and his eyes will immediately shift: Khitan Liao State!

The strongest enemy of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Even if it is now in a weak period, it is also the opponent that Chai Rong regards as the number one strong enemy!

But Guo Shao vaguely remembered that Chai Rong did not distinguish himself from the Liao State, and later died of illness, and Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinies easily got his country. Chen Qiao's mutiny, the release of military power with a glass of wine, and the content memorized in middle school history books, Guo Shao remembers these two major events very well.

At this time, the Huainan War seemed to be smoother and ended earlier than in history. But Chai Rong's complexion does not look very healthy, how long can he live? Guo Shao felt the pressure that was getting closer and more urgent.

Guo Shao was reluctant to serve Zhao Kuangyin...... In the past, he couldn't be treated as his own person, and he was not a military general in someone else's circle at all; Then there is only an enemy of him. But now he feels that his strength is still not strong, although the military rank is already very high, but he climbs too fast, in fact, his feet are a little weak...... The third person in the Guards Division, his strength is only limited to the left wing of the Hujie Army, which is less than one-eighth of the forbidden army; There is little influence in the rest of the forces.

Just like Li Chongjin, the military general with the highest military rank in the Guards Division, Guo Shao felt that he was even more weak.

"I'm not defeated!" Chai Kehong's words at the moment of his body were deeply imprinted in Guo Shao's heart. You can't shout this sentence yourself!

Zhao Kuangyin......

Everywhere was celebrating the moment of victory, Guo Shao held back the anxiety in his heart. He silently led his own soldiers to Xia Cai with a captive, and the prisoner was Lu Mengjun, who was tied up by five flowers, and Guo Shao beat the spoils of Haozhou, and he detained it himself without bringing it to Chai Rong. The victory in the later stage suddenly accelerated, and there were so many things that it seemed that everyone would not care about such a captive.

Entering the courtyard, Yang Shi walked out when he heard the movement, glared at Guo Shao and said, "I heard that you won the battle in Haozhou, did you see Lu Mengjun?" ”

Guo Shao turned around, beckoned his soldiers to bring him up, and asked, "Is it this person?" ”

When Yang saw it, he immediately covered his mouth, and tears soaked his eyes in an instant. She trembled, "It's him!" I know it too! He is not human, he has a vicious heart, and his methods are brutal......"

Guo Shaoxin said: I still have to thank him, without Lu Mengjun, Haozhou can be so smooth? Chai Kehong has knowledge under the spring, go to the underworld to settle accounts.

Without saying a word, he untied his sword and handed it over: "Kill him with your own hands and take revenge." ”

Yang took the sword, bit his lip and pulled it out, but he didn't pull it out. Guo Shao stepped forward and pressed the machine spring gently, and with a "bell", the sword light of the sword was revealed.

Yang pulled out her sword and walked up slowly, her whole body trembling. Lu Mengjun's eyes widened and said, "Mrs. Yang...... You listen to me, I have no choice but to ...... back then. Yes! ”

A sword stabbed him in the abdomen, but the sword was heavier, and when it stabbed out, it was deflected, and blood splattered out. The personal soldiers who grabbed Lu Mengjun in the back hurriedly avoided it, this woman's method is completely crooked, wouldn't it be unlucky not to stab the wrong person?

Lu Mengjun's legs were not tied, and he wanted to run when he was let go and screamed, but he was lightly tripped by his own soldiers, fell and gnawed on mud, screaming in pain like killing a pig.

"I can't help it! Do you have to torture and insult people like that......" Yang's face turned pale, and his arms trembled violently after seeing the blood, but he still gritted his teeth and stabbed indiscriminately.

Pity that Lu Mengjun, who was killed more than a dozen swords and still didn't die, his blood splashed all over Yang's body. This beautiful woman, covered in blood, looked very strange.