Chapter 124: A thief for one day and a thief for life
Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were full of all kinds of contempt for the Guards before.
When the Ming army launched a charge in the direction of the guards to break through, they were still extremely worried, and they all hurriedly wanted to catch up and intercept them, for fear that the guards would not be able to hold on.
But there will be thought that in the past, they thought that they were just playing like a family, and the guards who played in line every day and said what discipline they were were able to defeat more than 60 Ming troops in one fell swoop!
And it was also to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop in a dignified head-to-head duel!
Such a result was something that almost none of them expected, or even imagined before.
Is it that those Ming armies are too weak?
Definitely not!
The Ming army of more than 60 people before was definitely not ordinary young and strong, and it was unlikely that they would even be serf-like soldiers, otherwise, they would have surrendered directly when they were surrounded, and it was impossible for them to bravely launch a charge to break through in adversity.
In the face of such a fierce Ming army, even Fang Dongquan and Butcher Chen had to be cautious, and if they really wanted to fight, they could only rely on the advantage in numbers to oppress the Ming army step by step.
And if it was a head-to-head duel with equal troops, Fang Dongquan knew very well that these bandits could not be the opponents of the regular army at all, and nine times out of ten they would be defeated, and it was very likely that they would not even fight, and they would collapse and flee directly.
However, it was such that more than 60 people, the Ming army was defeated by more than 80 guards.
What does this mean?
Although Fang Dongquan didn't want to admit it, they couldn't change the fact that the Guards were not a team that played family games, but an army, an army stronger than the Ming army.
If it is deduced from this, then a conclusion will be drawn that shocked Fang Dongquan and them at the same time, and at the same time was extremely embarrassing, that is, this group of boys in the Guards was even more awesome than their uncles!
The Ming army, which their uncles couldn't beat, was easily defeated by these half-eldest sons and nephews.
There is no place to put this face!
But embarrassment is embarrassment, this interview still can't be lost, Fang Dongquan and the others walked in front of Li Xuan, and said the same words as Liu Bagou and them to compliment Li Xuan, it is nothing more than how awesome Li Xuan is, how awesome the trained guards are, and so on, how awesome our Datang is!
Well, in short, all kinds of!
And Wang Danxu on the side looked at everyone with a smile on his face!
Among all the people in Huangzhushan, except for Li Xuan, he was the happiest today, and the guards he commanded exerted unexpected combat effectiveness and defeated the Ming army in one fell swoop, although he himself knew that the formation and even training of the guards were basically done by Emperor Li Xuan alone.
But I don't dare to say anything, he is also an executor.
Li Xuan used his brain, but he did it!
Neither physical nor mental work is equally glorious, and there should be no distinction between superior and inferior!
Now that the Guards have won a great victory, no matter what, he is indispensable for his credit!
And now that he is the commander of the Guards, the stronger the Guards, the higher his status in the Tang Dynasty, and it may not be long before he can be on an equal footing with Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, or even surpass them.
After the Tang Dynasty and the ministers praised each other for a moment, someone finally remembered the matter!
"Now that these Ming prisoners have all been disarmed, what will happen to them in the future?" It was Bai Yunqi who said this: "Now we still need to continue to find opportunities to attack the logistics line of the Ming army, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to take these more than 30 prisoners!" ”
Li Xuan also frowned a little when he heard this, this captive is indeed not very easy to handle, directly they Huang Zhushan caught the captive and it is very easy to deal with it, what can be recruited, if it can't be recruited, it will be used directly as coolies, but now they go out and take these prisoners with them, naturally it is not good.
But it is not possible to send it back to Huangzhu Mountain, now there are only dozens of old and weak people left behind in Huangzhu Mountain, mainly to guard the fields that have been cleared and planted with food, and more than 1,000 old and weak women and children have already entered the mountains to escape the war.
At this time, Butcher Chen said: "This is not simple, those who are willing to submit to the Shun will accept it directly, and those who are not willing to submit to it will be cut with a knife, otherwise will they still be left to waste food?" ”
As soon as Butcher Chen opened his mouth, Fang Dongquan also said: "That's the reason, it's best if they are willing to submit, and there is no need to keep it if they don't want to!" ”
But at this time, Huang Xueren said: "My Tang Dynasty is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and killing prisoners is really hurting the peace of the heavens, so it is better for us to collect the food, clothes and swords of those who refuse to submit, and then let them go." ”
Huang Xueren's words sounded a bit like the Virgin Mary, but when the people present heard it, their scalps were numb, there was no food and no swords in the deep mountains and old forests, and those Ming soldiers who were let go could still live?
Either starved to death or gnawed by tigers and wolves!
What's more, they don't even have clothes left, and these people will freeze to death tonight if no miracle happens!
Don't look at it now, it's spring, but it's very cold at night, and the cold night in spring is not much better than the night in winter.
At this time, Liu Bagou and the others looked at Li Xuan, and after taking a look, Liu Bagou quickly turned his head and said to the others: "This is very good, you can do it!" ”
No matter how he kills people directly or strips him naked and lets him go in the end, these things are all harmful to heaven and harmony, and damage to Shengming, as an emperor, Li Xuan naturally will not do this, but if the courtiers want to do this, and take the initiative to carry the black pot for him, the emperor, he will not object!
And this is the way of getting along with kings and ministers.
Liu Bagou wanted to assist the Holy Monarch, so naturally he couldn't let Li Xuan get involved in these things, so he opened his mouth directly and decided this matter with the position of the head of a hundred officials.
And Li Xuan never spoke from beginning to end!
Soon, someone went to persuade the more than 30 captives to surrender, this person was mainly Bai Yunqi, he had persuaded more than 60 Ming army captives to surrender to Cheng and join Huangzhushan, and now let him go, presumably the effect will be better.
It didn't take long for Bai Yunqi to come back, and brought back a great news, more than 30 Ming army prisoners all surrendered on the spot, expressing their willingness to join the great Tang Dynasty and serve the once-in-a-millennium holy monarch Li Xuan.
According to Bai Yunqi, there were not so many people who were willing to surrender at the beginning, but at the beginning, Bai Yunqi let more than a dozen people who were once prisoners of the Ming army and now join Huangzhushan take turns to fight, and they showed up to say, saying how awesome Datang is, how many benefits there are after joining Datang, and so on.
Then after a few undetermined Ming army captives took the lead in surrendering, Bai Yunqi appointed these people as captains on the spot, and then threatened others that those who refused to surrender would be stripped naked and still in the mountains.
Under the threat and temptation, these Ming army captives all chose to surrender and expressed their willingness to join the Tang Dynasty, as for whether they were sincere or not, it didn't matter, the important thing was that once they joined the Tang Dynasty, there was no way back.
They are anti-thieves, they are thieves for one day and thieves for life, and if you want to go down on the thief ship of Datang, you have to ask the Ming Army if you agree!