Chapter 836: Sweeping the southwest and approaching Chengdu
Seeing that the head that was pierced on the tip of the spear was still dripping blood, Wang Shangli's eyes widened unconsciously, and his heart was like a knife.
Unexpectedly, he desperately led the crowd back to his own position, but the Tang army had already attacked and destroyed his country first, and he also beheaded Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of Daxi.
In this way, what is the point of continuing to fight with the Tang Army.
"Your Majesty!"
He cried, threw his knife to the ground, fell to his knees with a thud, and then fell to the ground and wept bitterly.
Seeing the main general kneeling on the ground, the soldiers of Onishi who followed him back also knelt on the ground with him.
"Enemy general! Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of your Great Western Kingdom, is dead, what good will it do if you wait for stubborn resistance, whether you wait for it to fall or not, hurry up and reply! The Tang cavalryman asked again with great impatience.
Wang Shangli's heart trembled, his face was full of shame, but he didn't dare to attack.
Yes, the emperor is dead, the Great Western Kingdom is about to be destroyed, and if he continues to fight, what is his plan? I'm afraid that I will fight to the death in the end, but I still can't even get the reputation of a loyal minister.
For a while, Wang Shangli only felt that he was like a walking corpse, and he didn't know how to deal with it next.
"If you want to fight, you want to surrender, answer quickly!" The cavalry of the Tang Army was already unhappy. At this time, the Tang Army inspectors next to him had already brushed and aimed the sharp tips of their guns at him in unison.
"Descend, I wait, willing to surrender." Wang Shangli let out a long sigh and raised his hands high. "Pass my order, wave the same white flag, and surrender to the Tang Army."
"Ordered ......"
Seeing a white flag flying in the Great Western Army in the distance, Monk An, the chief general of the Tang Army, who had been paying close attention to the situation with a clairvoyant mirror, suddenly had a happy face.
It seems that his own strategy of capturing the thief and capturing the king first has a very considerable effect, this Zhang Xianzhong died, and the rest of the soldiers and horses, as expected, had no more heart to fight, and surrendered immediately.
Monk An smiled coldly, put down the clairing mirror, and gave a military order loudly.
"Spread the order of the army, immediately collect the surrendered troops, and order them to quickly lay down their weapons and kneel to accept surrender, so that their lives can be safed."
"Order!"
Subsequently, the second town of the Tang Army, the monk Chang'an, and the mayor of the eleventh town of the Tang Army, Mo Changrong, rode their horses together in front of the Western Army.
Seeing Wang Shangli kneeling on the ground, his armor fell off, his hair and beard were scattered, and he kept mourning and crying, looking extremely sad, Monk An and Mo Changrong were both full of emotion.
At this time, Wang Shangli had heard Tang Bing say that the two people who came were the second town of the Tang Army, Chang'an Monk and the eleventh town mayor Mo Changrong, so he wiped his tears slightly, continued to kneel on the ground, and made a posture of welcoming and pleading.
Monk An, who was going to laugh at Wang Shangli, saw him so sad, and suddenly lost his mood, but after a light sigh, he shouted angrily: "Wang Shangli, Zhang Xianzhong resisted stubbornly, and forced to fight with our army, so he ended up in such a tragic situation of dying in battle. It doesn't matter if he wants to die, but more than 10,000 of his subordinates died in vain, all of which are his crimes! It's just that although Zhang Xianzhong is innocent of death, it is also a great achievement for you to repent and abandon the darkness and turn to the light in time. All the previous festivals, but each of them is his master, can now be revealed. ”
Wang Shangli looked ashamed, and didn't dare to look at Monk An who was sitting upright. He gritted his teeth tightly, and after taking a long breath, he came to Monk An's horse and bowed down.
"The criminal minister Wang Shangli, resisting the heavenly soldiers, has no regrets, now thank the Tang army for not killing!"
The other subordinate generals, seeing Wang Shangli bowing their heads, no longer hesitated, and immediately followed Wang Shangli and knelt down to pay their respects.
For a while, in front of Monk An's horse, a general of the Great Western Army knelt down in a hulala.
"General Wang, it doesn't have to be like this. Our army is a man of his word, you can rest assured! Mo Changrong on the side also interjected, he was proud, but he deliberately looked concerned.
Wang Shangli was ashamed in his heart, he didn't dare to get up, but just bowed his hand and said, "Mayor An, Mayor Mo don't say anything." Stupid, have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and force to compete with your army, today's battle can be described as self-inflicted humiliation, how to regret it! This defeat has come and gone, and there is no face at all. How the general wants to deal with us, but by disposal, there is no other word. ”
"General Wang, you and all the generals should stand up and talk. Now that our army has allowed you to surrender, this previous conflict and all kinds of unhappiness can also be revealed. ”
Monk An happily looked down at Wang Shangli who was kneeling on the ground, smiled coldly, gently raised the horsewhip, and motioned for him to get up and speak.
Wang Shangli's face turned red, and after he stood up, the rest of the generals also stood up silently, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing.
Wang Shangli stood up and sighed again: "I am ashamed to thank General An Houde Longen again." Your army is willing to accept us, regardless of the past, and is so lenient, so how can we not put our hearts in our hearts and swear allegiance to the death? From now on, we are willing to work under your army's tent to drive and do our best. ”
When Monk An heard this, he laughed, but he kept sighing in his heart.
Wang Shangli, now that the master Zhang Xianzhong is dead, in order to gain appreciation, in order to better change the court, he sees that he is so groveling and flattering. It seems that in the face of reality, this person is soft and knowledgeable.
Monk An despised it in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to appreciate it, and he said in a deep voice: "Very good, General Wang's statement is very much in line with the heart of the general." Rest assured, since our army can accommodate the surrender of others, there is no doubt about it. As long as you serve faithfully, how can you not trust? However, you also need to know that our Tang Army can not blame the past, but it will never allow changes in the future. After coming to our army this time, you must be loyal to us wholeheartedly, and there must be no repetition, otherwise, the military law will be ruthless, and the Tang King will not be spared! ”
Wang Shangli's heart froze, and he responded urgently: "This is natural, why should the general worry about it." We are so grateful that the generals of the defeated army will be allowed to be taken in by the Tang army, and they dare to have different intentions again. The subordinates of our army let your army arrange the distribution, and they all obeyed their orders. I also hope that King Tang and General An can use the materials regardless of their previous suspicions, and find a way out for the soldiers of our army, and they will be at ease. Here, let me thank General An on their behalf. ”
Monk An nodded, brushed his beard and said, "Well, you really listen to what you say. In our Tang army, there has always been no room for mountains, and your troops and horses, since they are like-minded, they naturally have to be completely reorganized and reorganized by our army, and the generals will lead the troops and soldiers to find their own way, which you can rest assured. However, these are things to be done in the future, and now, you have to do something important, to act with our army. ”
"Thank you, General Ann! Then I will represent the soldiers of the whole army in the next place, and I thank the general here! Wang Shangli looked happy, bowed his head, and said hurriedly: "Dare to ask the general what he wants my soldiers and horses to do, but please command." ”
"Listen, I want you, for the time being, as an auxiliary, together with our army, to attack Chengdu and Tongchuan Prefecture, completely eliminate the remnants of the Great Western Army, pacify Xichuan, and destroy the Great Western Kingdom. If Erbu can make meritorious contributions, this town will also ask the Tang King for merit for you. Monk An said loudly.
"Good! Our army is all arranged by Mayor An, and we will be loyal to the Tang King! Wang Shangli replied loudly.
Next, Monk An ordered Zhang Xianzhong's head to be put in a sandalwood box and sent someone to Nanjing to report his merits. At the same time, he wrote a letter and made a detailed report to Li Xiao, the king of Tang, about the battle during this time.
After resolving the siege of Langzhong, the Tang army also began to rest on the spot, and at the same time reorganized Wang Shangli's more than 70,000 troops as soon as possible, preparing to let them serve as the front to attack Chengdu Prefecture and Tongchuan Prefecture.
Now the only few remaining territories in the Great West Kingdom, only Chengdu Prefecture and Tongchuan Prefecture still have heavy troops, and other places and the Tusi territory in western Sichuan are all scarce soldiers and horses, so the two key places that the Tang army wants to attack are Chengdu Mansion and Tongchuan Prefecture.
The Tang army rested on the spot for two days, and immediately divided the troops into two routes and attacked separately.
Among them, the soldiers and horses of the second town of the Tang Army, led by the monk Chang'an, led the A battalion and the C battalion to go south, all the way south to conquer Tongchuan Prefecture, and left the injured Gao Jie, the deputy mayor of the second town of the Tang Army, to lead the B battalion, which was very expensive in this battle, to stay in Baoning Mansion.
The soldiers and horses of the eleventh town of the Tang Army, led by the mayor Mo Changrong, turned southwest and attacked Chengdu.
The total of more than 200,000 troops was divided into four parts, one of which was led by Wang Shangli and stayed in Baoning Mansion with Gao Jie. The remaining three divisions, led by Sun Kewang, Ma Yuanli, and Liu Jinzhong, accompanied the Tang army to attack Chengdu Prefecture and Tongchuan Prefecture.
Among them, Sun Kewang's 50,000 soldiers and horses, together with the soldiers and horses of Monk An's second town, attacked Tongchuan Prefecture, while the 100,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Yuanli and Liu Jinzhong attacked Chengdu Mansion together with Mo Changrong's 11th town soldiers and horses.
Due to the news of the death of Emperor Zhang Xianzhong of Daxi, he had already grown wings and spread quickly throughout the entire Daxi Kingdom, so the remnants of these forces and soldiers and horses of the Daxi Kingdom were all panicked and their morale was extremely depressed. The Tang army marched southward this time, and wherever the two armies went, it could be said that they were invincible, and there was almost no resistance.
Monk An's second soldiers and horses, after going south from Langzhong, attacked Yanting, Suining, Pengxi and other places all the way, and all the state capitals were surrendered to the wind, and only a few uneyed guys were willing to serve Zhang Xianzhong to serve the foolish loyalty, and naturally they were wiped out by the elite Tang army.
Soon, the Tang army surrounded the capital of Tongchuan after taking all the prefectures and towns and counties in Tongchuan Prefecture. Seeing that the Tang army was so strong, the officials and defenders of Tongchuan gasped, they urgently discussed, and before the Tang army came to persuade them to surrender, they immediately opened the city gate and surrendered the city.
At this point, the entire Tongchuan Prefecture was successfully pacified, and under the deterrence of the Tongchuan Pacification, the Tang Army had not yet made a move, such as Mahu Mansion, Long'an Mansion and other places, all quickly sent envoys to surrender, and the Tang Army successfully pacified these places without spending a single soldier.
And the most critical and important battle of this southern expedition, Mo Changrong's attack on Chengdu Mansion, was also far smoother than imagined.
Due to the frequent loss of defense in various places, Bai Wenxuan, the commander of the Great Western Army stationed in Chengdu, had no choice but to order the soldiers and horses of the state capitals in Chengdu to retreat to Chengdu Mansion in order to prevent all the soldiers and soldiers from being defeated by the Tang Army.
Bai Wenxuan concentrated all the soldiers and horses in the city of Chengdu, and in other places, there were insufficient soldiers and horses, so Mo Changrong and others attacked all the way, but it was very smooth, such as Mianzhou, Deyang, Hanzhou, Xinfan and other places, all of which were quickly captured, or simply went out of the city to surrender.
The Tang army, with a total number of 140,000 people, was very majestic, and after capturing Xinfan, which was the closest to Chengdu, it hurried for another day and arrived outside Chengdu.
"General! Chengdu City is ahead! ”
A Tang army guard stretched out his finger and pointed to a tall city standing on a high post in the distance, and said loudly to Mo Changrong, the main general on the side, with a happy face.
Mo Changrong nodded, raised the clairvoyant mirror, and looked ahead for a long time, when he saw the majestic and tall city in front of him from the clairvoyant mirror, that is, Chengdu Mansion, the capital of the Great Western Kingdom, Mo Changrong's face couldn't help but smile faintly.
He knew that if this Chengdu City, the capital of the Great Western Kingdom, was finally taken by himself, then the entire Great Western Kingdom would exist in name only, just waiting for himself to sweep away the embers and unify Xichuan.
Mo Changrong put down the clairvoyant mirror and shouted the order: "Pass on my military order, the whole army will speed up, and you must reach the city of Chengdu as soon as possible." This town wants to make the city of Chengdu completely cut off from the outside world and become a real isolated city. Even more so that not a single bird can escape from this city! ”
"Order!"
Soon, the Tang army rushed to Chengdu City like a surging tide, and immediately surrounded the capital of the Great Western Kingdom like an iron bucket.
Seeing that the Tang army was so large and majestic, the defenders at the head of the city, who were already demoralized, suddenly became more and more depressed. They stood at the head of the city, trembling in their faces, completely unsure of what to do next.
And Bai Wenxuan, the main general in the city, saw that the Tang Army was so large and elite, and he looked like a rainbow, and his heart was also full of fear and loss.
What to do?
The Tang army is so powerful, and the defenders in the city are so demoralized, can this Chengdu city really be defended?
Bai Wenxuan was in a low mood and was speechless for a long time, he subconsciously looked at the sky from afar, and could only see that there was a round of slanting sun that was gradually falling in the west.
The sun is setting, the twilight is vast, some remnants of the army, trapped in the lonely city, endless mountains and rivers, endless ends, for a while, Bai Wenxuan's heart is full of inexplicable sadness.
At this moment, in the formation of the Tang army, a line suddenly parted like a wave cracking, and a Tang army general wearing an eight-petal tasseled helmet, wearing steel mountain pattern armor, copper-covered boots, and wearing a bright red cloak, under the protection of a group of guards with the same armor, was riding his horse towards the north gate of Chengdu City.
Seeing the person dressed like this, Bai Wenxuan secretly said in his heart, in the eyes of this person, there is no doubt that this person must be the chief general of the Tang Army.
He guessed correctly, the general of the Tang Army was Mo Changrong, the mayor of the eleventh town of the Tang Army. Now, surrounded by a group of guards, he will soon be a stone's throw away from the north gate.
At this time, one of the guards next to him pulled his neck and shouted to the city, "Hey! Listen, people in the city! Mayor Mo Changrong, the head of my family, wants to talk to the lord of the city, please go to the city quickly! ”
Hearing Tang Jun's shout, the defenders at the head of the city became more and more panicked, and they subconsciously focused their helpless and panicked eyes on Bai Wenxuan, the main general who frowned.
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