Chapter 237: A fly in the ointment
It is also funny to say, more than 100,000 rebels were surrounded by more than 30,000 new Liao troops on all sides, more than half of them were killed or wounded, Wang Jiayin, He Yilong, He Jin and others saw that it was dark, but they still couldn't break out of the encirclement of the official army and couldn't help despairing, so they decided to surrender to the official army. Bayi Chinese Network ]].
Just when Wang Jiayin, He Yilong and others led their subordinates to surrender, Ma Shouying took this opportunity to take his subordinates to forcibly cross the river from the Baishui River, braving the severe cold river water and rushing straight into the river.
Most of Ma Shouying's core old subordinates are Hui people in Qinghai, they live in the cold area of the plateau all the year round, and their cold resistance is stronger than that of ordinary people, and it didn't take long for three or four thousand people to follow Ma Shouying across the Baishui River.
Most of the new Liao army was busy chasing and killing the rebels of Wang Jiayin's army, and later had to accept the surrender of the rebels, so they had no time to care about Ma Shouying's escape. In fact, the new Liao army was not only understaffed, but most of them could not endure the cold and wade through the water like those old Huihui in Qinghai and other places.
In the big battle, in addition to more than 10,000 people who escaped from the Lao Hui Ma Shouying Department, and a small number of people escaped by taking advantage of the chaos, the rest of the rebels were all captured, including Wang Jiayin, He Yilong, He Jin and other big cowards.
Nearly 100,000 rebels laid down their arms and surrendered to the new Liao army. In the twilight, the soldiers of the New Liao Army rushed the scattered rebel soldiers together, concentrated on them, and waited for Moli's disposal. Everywhere there were dejected rebels, holding their hands behind their heads, and under the orders of the majestic soldiers of the new Liao army, they carried away towards the open field in the middle of the south bank of the Baishui River.
He Yilong was escorted over, He Jin was also escorted over, and more than a dozen rebel leaders were all drooping their heads and were escorted over by the soldiers of the New Liao Army.
Mo Shouying was very satisfied, although he ran away with Ma Shouying, so that this encirclement and suppression left a lot of regrets, but also left some hidden dangers, you must know that Ma Shouying escaped more than 10,000 people, more than 10,000 people ran to Shizhouwei, if he ran to Sichuan, I am afraid that he will soon be able to pull up a team.
However, with the 30,000 people of the New Liao Army, almost all the rebels were wiped out with 130,000 horses, this was definitely a great victory. In addition, money can make ghosts grind, last time in Zaoyang, Mo Li gave Lu Hanzhang a lot of wealth, and Lu Hanzhang was also very simple, and he did not hesitate to praise Mo Li in the song.
Coupled with this victory in Baishuihe, Mo Li felt that he should still have room for improvement as an official, but he didn't know if Chongzhen Xiaoer was reluctant to believe it or not.
Of course, Ma Shouying will continue to pursue, but the most important thing at the moment is to deal with the 10,000 rebel prisoners first.
Mo Li glanced at He Yilong and the others who were dejected, turned his head, and cast his eyes on Wang Jiayin, who was more than ten feet away on the other side, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Wang Jiayin's relatives and soldiers all surrendered to the soldiers of the New Liao Army, and several soldiers were about to pull Wang Jiayin, but Wang Jiayin suddenly shouted, drank back those soldiers, slowly put the long sword in his hand to his neck, and said loudly: "The sky is going to kill me!" Firmament! Are you blind? β
Mo Li was taken aback, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, galloped to Wang Jiayin for a few feet, and said loudly: "Wang Jiayin! What are you doing?! β
Wang Jiayin fought for a long time, his head was messy, and his body was also covered with bloodstains, at this time, the twilight was four, and the last faint light left in the sky shone on Wang Jiayin's body, and his dark face looked very vicissitudes, as if he was much older in an instant.
Wang Jiayin is actually not old, he is only forty-one or twelve years old at this time, but after the complete defeat, his heart seems to be aging rapidly, and the pride and ambition of once leading 100,000 people to sweep through various state capitals and vow to create a new world disappeared at once and disappeared without a trace.
Wang Jiayin glanced at Mo Li and said with a wry smile: "Mo Li? Are you Moli? β
Mo Li nodded: "That's right, I'm Mo Li." β
Wang Jiayin looked dejected and muttered, "You are so young! I didn't expect to lose at the hands of you frivolous boy today! But defeat is defeat, I have nothing to say, I just hope that you will treat my men well and stop slaughtering them. Moli, what will you do with me? β
As soon as Mo Li wanted to speak, Wang Jiayin said again: "Needless to say, you will definitely escort me to Beijing, right?" Then in order to shake off the prestige, the emperor will definitely push me out of the noon gate and behead me! β
Mo Li said: "Yes, I will escort you to Beijing, as long as you are sincere and surrender, the emperor will definitely be lenient......"
Wang Jiayin's face flashed a trace of sadness, shook his head to interrupt Mo Li's words, and said with a sneer: "You are too young! It's naΓ―ve, I won't grant your wish! β
After that, Wang Jiayin slashed his hand, the long sword slashed across his neck, blood gushed out, and the long sword in his hand also fell to the ground with a choking sound, with full of unwillingness, and the whole person fell in a pool of blood.
Mo Li was stunned. I didn't expect Wang Jiayin's personality to be so fierce that he killed himself.
He Yilong, He Jin and others were also stunned and shouted: "Big leader! But they didn't dare to rush over, and the swords and guns of the soldiers of the New Liao Army were still pointing at them clearly.
After being stunned for a while, Mo Li ordered the people to continue to clean up the battlefield and take prisoners. It was also dark, so I had to camp on the spot and rest. So the south bank of the Whitewater River was full of soldiers busy with torches in hand.
It wasn't until midnight that the soldiers tidied up the battlefield and began to eat dinner.
In this battle, counting from the beginning of the battle of Majia Village, the fierce battle lasted for most of the day, the rebels totaled more than 140,000 horses, in addition to more than 17,000 rebels who fled with Ma Shouying, and 5 or 6,000 people who fled in the dark, in addition to more than 37,000 people killed by the New Liao Army, countless wounded, most of them surrendered to the New Liao Army, and captured a total of 80,000 rebels.
In addition, more than 3,000 horses were seized, as well as countless supplies such as food, weapons, and armor.
As for the New Liao Army, more than 3,400 people were killed in the battle, most of them new soldiers, and thousands more were wounded. Overall, it was a brilliant battle to win more with less.
Early the next morning, Mo Li sent Cao Bianjiao, Li Guo, Bai Zhicheng, Ba Laodao and others to lead 3,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry with a total of 10,000 horses to cross the Baishui River and continue to pursue the remnants of Ma Shouying.
In addition, according to the prisoners, there were more than 10,000 troops in Changning and Daning, so Mo Li and the generals discussed and decided to send Du Geng and Zhou Yuji, Su Hansheng, Hui Dengxiang, Yang Shouli and others to lead 2,000 cavalry and 6,000 infantry to Changning to continue to suppress bandits.
Next, it was a matter of what to do with the 80,000 captives. It is impossible to kill, after all, it is 80,000 lives, not 80,000 pigs, but it is not a matter to lock it up like this, and now that nearly 20,000 troops have been divided to suppress bandits, there are only a little more than 10,000 troops left in the camp, and there are 80,000 prisoners.
It's not appropriate to let it go, in case they go back to their old business and get together again after they are released and continue to cause trouble for the place, it will be in vain.
It is even more impossible to escort all of them to Beijing, not to mention that there will be any accidents on the way with so many people on a long-distance journey, and the rations of these 80,000 people alone are a big problem.
Mo Li decided to select a group of strong prisoners to be incorporated into the new barracks, and the new Liao army also lost thousands of people in this battle, and it was indeed time to replenish the troops.
At the same time, Moli sent people to contact the Jingzhou government and asked them to send a government soldier to assist the new Liao army in escorting He Yilong, He Jin and other thieves to Beijing to be taken prisoner. Ma Dan, if you can't fight, can't you help escort a few prisoners?
In addition, the government of Jingzhou, Changyang and other places can be asked to provide prison cells, and some rebels who have committed relatively large crimes and have not yet been executed must be put into the cells of these local state capitals, so as to reduce the pressure on the new Liao army.
As for some of the people who committed lesser crimes, the people who were forced to obey the thieves, after teaching them a lesson, they were let go home and let them continue to work the fields to live. Most of these people are ordinary people who have been coerced by the rebels in nearby prefectures and counties, and they also have fields to cultivate in the local area, and after giving them a settling-in allowance, their lives are not very problematic, and the possibility of rebelling again is relatively low.
The Christians of Majiazhai were almost slaughtered, and their vacant fields and properties were taken over by the New Liao Army, and used to house some homeless prisoners so that they could also support themselves.
At the end of the day, the New Liao Army collected 8,000 prisoners who were willing to join the New Liao Army, released more than 21,000 people to go home to plough the fields, and imprisoned more than 5,000 people in the state capital's cells, escorted more than 1,000 people to Beijing, and left only 45,000 people still in the camp of the New Liao Army.
Due to the large number of people, Mo Li did not enter the town of Chajiayuan, so as not to disturb the place, so he simply temporarily stationed in the camp on the south bank of the Baishui River, and then stationed in Changyang County after the matter of the prisoners was dealt with, and commanded his subordinates to continue to chase and suppress the escaped Ma Shouying and the surrounding Haoqiang Green Forest who did not obey Wanghua.
However, after learning that the official army actually suppressed the return of the Ma family village, and wiped out all the rebels of Wang Jiayin and He Yilong, and the old Hui Ma Shouying also fled in embarrassment, the Han people within a radius of dozens of miles suddenly raised their eyebrows, and the government was finally willing to come forward for our Han people!
Thinking of the evil anger suffered by Huihui over the years, the Han people applauded the New Liao Army's large-scale crackdown on bandits, and those whose relatives were killed and injured by Huihui and were raped and plundered by the rebels were even more excited and cried excitedly.
Some people organized themselves and pooled money to kill pigs and sheep together, and came to reward the new Liao army.
After the extermination of Majiazhai and Wang Jiayin and other rebels, Changyang was full of rejoicing, and the people rushed to tell each other and applauded.
However, what is strange is that the Changyang County Commander sneaked out of Changyang with a family that night, and has not been seen since then, because he was afraid that the New Liao Army would be retaliated against by the Muslims!
Mo Li was surprised to learn that the Changyang County Order had been sealed and fled, and after asking the reason, he couldn't help but sigh, it seems that the Muslims in this area are really in trouble. Well, how can this be? It has to be rectified!