Chapter 305: The City Falls

In the morning, the gate of Nafu Qi City slowly opened, and a group of Tuyuhun nobles wearing white robes slowly walked out of the city gate.

Outside the city wall, tens of thousands of Tang soldiers lined up in a neat square. Li Jing and the generals were at the front, followed by mortars lined up in an arc.

A white flag fluttered in the wind at the head of the city.

Looking at these slowly walking over, looking frightened, their heads lowered, instead of secretly glancing at the Tuyuhun nobles in the Tang army, Zhang Yunwen suddenly remembered a word: bow your head and tie your neck. It seems that the ancients should have surrendered by hanging the seal around their necks and offering it to those who surrendered at that time!

Among these Tuyuhun aristocrats, the leader was not Murong Ping, but a middle-aged man who looked a little obese.

"Respected General Datang, I Tuguhun is a small country and a widow, I don't know the power of Datang Tianwei, I have repeatedly offended, and I will eventually provoke the sword soldiers! Today, we will wait for Kaecheng to surrender, and I hope that the generals of the Heavenly Empire will not embarrass our people! The middle-aged man wiped the sweat that kept flowing and said to Li Jing carefully.

Li Jing smiled kindly: "Where is the Prime Minister, the people who offended my Tang Tianwei are Fu Yun and the King of Tianzhu, Fu Yun has escaped, and the King of Tianzhu is nowhere to be found, how can this general blame the ordinary people?" ”

The middle-aged man hurriedly said, "Yes, yes!" The general of the previous dynasty is a reasonable person! Suddenly remembering what Li Jing called him, he suddenly said in surprise, "General, why did you call me just now?" ”

"Prime Minister!" Li Jing twisted his beard and smiled, "From today on, you are the state minister of Tuyuhun!" In addition, the candidate for the Tuyuhun Great Khan, this general has already decided, let's go to the city first, and announce it later! ”

Hearing Li Jing's first half of the sentence, the middle-aged man was suddenly ecstatic, and when Li Jing asked him to lead the way, he was still indulging in joy, and he didn't come back to his senses until Li Jing called the second time, and diligently led the way for the generals.

Although Fu Qi City is the capital of Tuyuhun State, its scale can only be compared with the state city of Tang Zhongzhou at most, and if the Tang army marches in full, I am afraid there will be some difficulties. Therefore, only 30,000 Tang soldiers entered the city, and the remaining 40,000 were stationed outside the city. No, the soldiers in the city looked at the soldiers who could enter the city with a look of envy, and those who were about to enter the city were excited.

At first, Zhang Yunwen didn't understand why these soldiers were so excited, but when the Tang army drove into the city, a group of soldiers rushed into a shop, looted the belongings inside, and pounced on the next one.

Looking at the Tuyuhun man who was crying bitterly, Zhang Yunwen walked away silently for a long time, took two quick steps, and caught up with Li Jing in front.

"Boss, won't you stop it?" Zhang Yunwen said to Li Jing in a low voice.

Li Jing looked ahead with a smile, but said, "What's the matter?" These soldiers are meritorious soldiers, and they are not men who have performed outstanding deeds in the war, and if I stop them, will I not make them chill? Who is willing to charge into battle and fight to the death at that time? ”

Xue Wanche, who was closer to Zhang Yunwen next to him, also said: "Yunwen, don't be so kind, it's time for these Tuyuhun people to attack my Datang, and it's much heavier than this!" Besides, when did an army enter the city and not loot its inhabitants? They are the only ones who will survive! As he spoke, Xue Wanche's eyes glanced at the somewhat obese middle-aged man.

Zhang Yunwen was silent for a moment, but said in a deep voice: "Could it be that the chief manager has forgotten the Turkic incident at the beginning? Seeing that Li Jing was stunned, Zhang Yunwen continued, "We are waiting for military generals to fight outside, how do those civilian officials know the way of the imperial soldiers?" In addition, the city of Fu Qi was newly surrendered, and the arsons were plundered, and they were afraid that they would be impeached. The loss of merit is small, but if you are charged with a crime, it is big! ”

As soon as these words came out, Xue Wanche was also stunned for a moment.

"Besides, if you encourage soldiers, how can you stop this way, you can completely replace it with the military merit medal system!" Zhang Yunwen suggested to Li Jing.

"Oh? What military merit medal system? Li Jing also asked with interest.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at the Tuyuhun Palace, Zhang Yunwen had no choice but to stop talking: "Well, forget it, I'll talk about it later!" ”

At this time, the palace was crowded with people, and the nobles and nobles in the city were all here. And Murong Ping stood in the corner with a gloomy face, looking at Li Jing and the others who slowly walked in.

Seeing Li Jing's arrival, a flattering smile appeared on the faces of these nobles.

Li Jing said with a smile: "You are waiting for the old man here, it is really hard, and the old man is uneasy!" ”

"It should be, it should be!"

Li Jing stood on the steps and said to these nobles: "Okay, don't say anything else, the old man, let's get straight to the point and get straight to the point!" Although Fu Qi City surrendered today, Tuyuhun has not yet surrendered, and there are still tribes and stragglers who resist our army everywhere, and Fu Yun escaped, and the Tianzhu King is nowhere to be found! The old man took his own initiative to set up a new Great Khan and Minister of State for Tuyuhun here! What do you think? ”

The words fell, and there was a sudden silence. The middle-aged man who led the way looked around and fell silent.

Seeing this, Li Jing frowned slightly, then stretched out and said to everyone: "Originally, there were twenty-four famous kings in Fuyun, but now they have died in battle and escaped, and twenty-four positions have been vacated, which of you wants to be this king?" ”

Seeing that everyone's expressions were already moved, he immediately continued: "My Datang sent troops this time, but to punish the two of Fu Yun and the Tianzhu King, and leave immediately after capturing and killing the two, and will not step into Tuyuhun again!"

Hearing Li Jing's assurance, all the nobles couldn't help but be moved. They glanced at each other, and then, under the leadership of the fat middle-aged man, they waved to Li Jing: "It's all up to the general's orders!" ”

"Good!" Li Jing immediately stroked his palms and said, "Among the sons of Fu Yun, the old man is one of them, and he thinks that he can be made a sweat!" ”

The obese middle-aged man immediately said with interest: "I don't know who the general likes?" ”

Li Jing twisted his beard and said with a slight smile: "Fu Yun's sister-in-law, Murong Shun, has kept the Central Plains for the proton for more than ten years, and he has not been able to return for a long time. This Murong Shun has been in a foreign country for more than ten years, and he can be regarded as a hero of Tuyuhun! The old man wants to make this person Khan! What do you think? ”

As soon as the words fell, the fat middle-aged man immediately said: "Murong Shun has contributed to the country, and he is Fu Yun's son-in-law, I have nothing to say, it is all up to the general's arrangement!" ”

The Tuyuhun nobles glanced at each other, and at the same time bowed down and said, "It's all up to the general's arrangement!" ”

On the same day, Murong Shun was appointed as the new Great Khan of Tuyuhun, and the obese middle-aged man named Murong Mu was the minister of state. As for the twenty-four kings, it was divided among the remaining nobles.

After Murong Shun ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to order the entire army and tribes to stop resisting and surrender the whole country to the Tang Dynasty.

On the second day after the Tang army entered the city, Li Jing issued an order to prohibit the Tang soldiers from plundering the people in the city, and at the same time promised the soldiers that they would award four types of combat medals to the meritorious soldiers to encourage the meritorious soldiers.

The soldiers were still a little unclear about this battle medal, but after several documents explained it, they knew what was going on.

The battle medal is divided into four levels, which are gold, silver, bronze and iron four categories, the front of which is embossed with a regular script "Tang" character, lined with decoration on all sides, and the north side is written in small block letters with a fly's head: "A certain year, a certain month, a certain day, how many enemies are killed in a certain battle, and the medal is specially awarded to pass on to future generations!" ”

As for what type of medal to award, it depends entirely on how well the soldier performed in the battle and what role he played in the battle, not entirely on the number of beheadings of the soldier!

Hearing this news, the Tang soldiers immediately cheered, especially the four words "to pass on to future generations" on the back of the medal, which are clearly the heirlooms awarded by the government to these soldiers.

Li Jing also said in the order that if a military order is not allowed, the qualification for the medal will be directly revoked.

So, half a day after the order was issued, the plundering quickly became less and even disappeared.

The city gradually settled down.