9. Do not pardon Dong Chongqing
As for the whole Yuncheng is turned into a real Senluo Palace, the army of Huaixi will be rushed in by the officers and soldiers tied to the wooden pillar to dig out their hearts, the soldiers were beheaded, and those who were not beheaded were also cut off their noses and ears, Lingyun Gate, the moat until the long street of the public house, all the flesh and blood blurred corpses tied to the pillars, dense, the crimson body and white flower bones exposed after being broken and cut off, actually summoned many flies to surround in the middle of winter.
In the end, the officers and soldiers could not stay in the city, Gao Yue and Du Huangshang ordered all the soldiers and horses to camp in the area of the Dalu River.
In addition, the two "camps" (base camps) of Gao Yue and Du Huangshang were also officially merged, but the division of labor was still clear, that is, Gao Yue commanded his roads, and Du Huangshang also commanded his own roads, without interfering with each other.
In the battle of Yuncheng, the Huaixi army fled to Huiqu and Runan one after another, but only two or three thousand people, the other 11,000 people, and more than 2,000 people died in the battle, and the others were all slaughtered by the officials and soldiers in anger after the city was broken, plus the families of the soldiers and the ordinary people in the city were killed, the total number was almost 20,000, and the blood soaked the Dali River and Rushui.
Almost at the same time, Baigouzha on the border with Shenguang Erzhou, Neili Town and 1,000 defenders officially surrendered to Xu Sibu; Yan Zhen's Wuchang army and Yi Shen's and Wang Yi's Jingnan army also captured Yiyang, the capital of Shenzhou, the gateway south of Caizhou.
There is no suspense in the following results, the only doubt is that the last stronghold of Huaixi is bent to Runan City, this area of more than 100 miles from north to south and 70 or 80 miles from east to west, how long can it hold out under the siege of the official army?
At the beginning of the new year, Dong Chongzhen also returned, his surprise attack was a complete failure, and he could only tie himself up and beg in front of the Yuncheng official barracks.
This time, it was Lu Changyuan, the assassin of Ruzhou sent by the emperor, who made a great contribution.
Originally, Dong Chongzhen's 2,000 mule soldiers, plus thousands of Tongbai and Fangcheng's mountain sheds that took advantage of the fire to rob, did arrogantly form in the southeast of Ruzhou, shouting to capture Luoyang Yunyun together, and several county towns also surrendered, but Lu Changyuan guarded Liang County, not as disgraced as Li Yuanping in the past, he formulated a set of strict "city law and township covenant", not only mobilized more than 1,000 Ding Zhuang around to protect the city, but also contacted the mountain sheds loyal to the imperial court, and rejected Dong Chongzhen.
The mountain sheds in the eastern capital, especially those in Yique and Lu Hun, have been framed by Huaixi, and they hate Wu Shaocheng to the core.
After fighting for more than ten days in a row, it turned out that as long as Lu Changyuan was not intimidated, Dong Chongzhi had no way to take Liangxian with a deep ditch and high base, and he couldn't go around in a roundabout way, let alone conquer the eastern capital, and finally he couldn't even eat food, when the news that Yuncheng was captured by the official army came, the whole army collapsed suddenly, some fled to the mountains of Fangcheng as bandits, and some ran with Dong Chongzhen, and in the end Dong Chongzhi himself felt desperate, so he went to Yuncheng to ask for surrender.
In the tent, Gao Yue and Du Huangshang secretly discussed whether they should accept Dong Chongqing's surrender.
In fact, Gao Yue's attitude was not to accept this, and he said to Du: "When the imperial court was in Pingheshuo, the biggest mistake was to win over Zhu Tao and Wang Wujun, and the practice of using thieves to fight the fire was tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger and fighting the fire with salary, so even if Li Weiyue died, what would change the original separatist situation?" Although Li Weiyue died, Wang Wujun continued to divide Chengde, driving a tiger to a wolf, and the court treated them a little unfavorably, and they were still rebellious at every turn. Dong Chongzhi is Wu Shaocheng's son-in-law, and he participated in the planning of all kinds of evil deeds in Huaixi, such as the attempt to attack the eastern capital, Wu Shaocheng was able to hand over two thousand direct tooth soldiers to him, which shows that Dong is the biggest culprit, and the culprit must be severely punished, so as not to cause disasters in the future. ”
"I'm worried that if I kill Dong Chongzhi, it will hurt the surrenderer."
"What does the surrenderer mean, most of it is just forced by the situation. Runan City is going down overnight, Huaixi can be leveled in an instant, and the so-called descenders just want to find a way to continue to be evil, a few of them have the intention of self-reform? The quality of the active directors has no impact on the overall situation at all; Killing Dong Chongzhi made Cai Ren know the thunder and power of the imperial court. Moreover, Zunsu, you see the situation of fighting Huaixi for a year, whether it is the three divisions of the imperial court, or the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven, they all spend most of this war, if they accept Dong Chongqing's submission, then the other Huaixi generals will come to surrender, not only can the court not kill them, but also have to raise them with gold silk officials, not to mention that the burden of the national budget is heavier, what do you think of those officials and soldiers who contributed to the counterinsurgency and death war? After the imperial court pacifies Huaixi, what benefits can it get, and then immediately quell other rebel towns, I am afraid it will be unsustainable. Therefore, appeasing the culprit is ending with endless harm. ”
"What do you mean ......?"
"The thief base is pushed down as a road, the thief's bones are buried as a field, and the entire Huaining army is up to the generals, down to the military academy soldiers, that is, the local tyrant group that divided Shenguang Cai is killed, and the killing is clean, so that the Cai people will no longer be coerced by them from now on, and the court will come to regulate Caizhou again, I am afraid that it will be much simpler, and the customs will change, so I will commit suicide."
"Then until Runan City, you will no longer accept submission?"
In this regard, Gao Yue bowed his head, and then made a gesture of "uprooting".
Du Huangshang thought about it, and then said I understand, "Eliminate evil." ”
At the gate of the camp by the Dali River, Yang Yuanqing, the assassin of Gwangju who accompanied the army, got Wu Shaocheng's son-in-law Dong Chongzhen and hundreds of Huaixi soldiers, and what he did can be imagined.
Blood revenge is justified.
Of course, Yang Yuanqing still announced Dong's crimes: plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Zhao Jing, instigating Huaixi to rebel against the imperial court, plotting to attack the eastern capital, etc., each of which was indeed enough to be executed.
Subsequently, Dong Chongzhi scolded endlessly, shouting that it was better to go into the mountain as a thief, and was pressed on the stump by the executioner and beheaded.
Yang Yuanqing also deliberately told the executioner, don't end it with one knife, watching Wu Shaocheng's son-in-law being slashed more than ten times in a row, and only losing his breath when the blood flowed like a river, thinking of his wife and children who were brutally killed, there was indescribable happiness.
The rest of the tooth soldiers, none of whom were spared, were all killed.
Gao Yue deliberately summoned the generals from all walks of life in the tabernacle to explain why he wanted to kill Dong Chongzhen, in addition to this original Ming canonical punishment, he also said: "Dong Chongzhi went to our army, saying that after surrendering, the imperial court should grant him the history of Shenzhou Assassination, and reward him with 150,000 yuan of money. Therefore, this villain, regardless of the leader, will be beheaded together, which not only shows the prestige of the court, but also increases the awe of the Cai people. ”
"Everything Ji Gong does is for our consideration, I am grateful, I don't know what to say." Dozens of generals in the tent all clenched their fists and bowed their heads, and some of them were moved to tears.
At this time, Wang Pei, the general of the loyal army, who rode across the Xiaolu River, stepped forward and said: "Dare to ask Ji Gong, I don't know how to deal with the people of Saga Township in Xiping County?" ”
"What's the matter?" Gao Yue asked.
Wang Pei said, "Before the attack on Yuncheng, there were two shrewd knife-wielding servants under the tent of the last general, and they were sent to Xiping to wait for spying, but they were deceived by the people of Saga Township, and led Cai Bing to catch them and stone them to death. ”
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