Chapter 0607: A Knife in the Back [4]
After Luo Yunxiao thought about it for a while, he decided to negotiate an armistice with Qianqin. He made this decision based on the following two considerations. The first consideration is to free up your hands first, completely eliminate the declining dynasty of the Eastern Jin Dynasty from the world, and finally incorporate it into the territory of Dahua. Another consideration is that it is not yet the time to turn against Qianqin. Former Qin is of course very powerful, but in their north and west, there are several countries that are stronger than Former Qin, if they destroy Former Qin, it will be tantamount to opening a natural barrier in front of them, and in this way, it will be even more unfavorable to Dahua.
When Qin sent someone to propose peace talks, Luo Yunxiao agreed without hesitation. However, he still put forward an additional condition, which was to let Fu Bao, the third son of Fu Zhen, the Great Khan of the former Qin State, go to the capital of Dahua to be a proton, that is, to live in Jiaozhou, the capital of Dahua State.
What is a proton? It is to send one's own people to the enemy or other countries as hostages, and most of them are noble-born people such as princes or princes. At that time, Qin Shi Huang's father, Qin Zhuangxiang Prince Chu, Qin Shi Huang's great-grandfather Qin Zhaoxiang Wang, and the Warring States Yan Prince Dan all used to be protons. This is a product of the times, and it can be regarded as a fashion and a trend in this feudal era.
In Luo Yunxiao's opinion, with the prince of Former Qin as a hostage, it can at least guarantee that for a long time in the future, Former Qin will be afraid that his prince will be in the hands of others, so he will not dare to have the intention of invading the south casually, so as to better play the role of a natural barrier for Dahua.
When Fu Sheng heard Luo Yunxiao put forward this condition at the beginning, he was very angry and indignant, and even almost broke off the peace talks, he thought about it carefully, and finally calmed down, feeling that Luo Yunxiao's proposal was not too much. In this feudal era, it was not uncommon for countries to fight wars, and the victorious side asked the defeated side to use protons to ensure that the country was not destroyed.
Although they were not defeated in this war, they were far from the point where they had to hand over the protons. But the problem is that if there is a fire in the backyard of your house, if you don't save it, then the home will be burned down, and then I'm afraid you will only have to sing that song without heaven and earth? Where can there be a home without land? How can you be without a home? Without you, there would be no dry wine for me, and there would be no sale left.
Of course, Fu Sheng would never be able to sing if the wine is sold, he doesn't know what the wine is if it is not sold? The author's meaning is actually to say that once the Great Khan Fuzhen, the pre-Qin heaven, is gone, then his land will become a rootless duckweed, floating from now on. Therefore, if you want to save this day, you must make compromises and make concessions, and if necessary, it will become inevitable to sacrifice the life freedom of the third prince.
Fu Sheng immediately sent someone to the capital to persuade Fu Zhen to let the third prince Fu Bao follow Luo Yunxiao to Dahua Kingdom as a proton. Although Fu Zhen is very reluctant to leave his son and go to live in a distant foreign land, but now he can't take care of so much, the rebels are overwhelmed by soldiers at the moment, and he is now unable to protect himself, where can he have time to care about his son's fate and future. And mobilizing that Fu Sheng's army back to King Qin is the top priority!
In the end, under the premise that Fu Bao, the third prince of Former Qin, the princess, and the concubine and a group of 15 people came to Luo Yunxiao's side as hostages, the million-strong army of Dahua finally withdrew from the land of Former Qin in an orderly manner and retreated to Yongzhou, their own country.
Luo Yunxiao left part of his men and horses to continue to strengthen the defense forces of Yongzhou and Yizhou, while he himself and a group of senior generals led 20 divisions and iron cavalry divisions, sharpshooter divisions, and special divisions to directly point to Jiangzhou, preparing to completely bury Sima Zilong, a poisonous dragon, in the land of Dahuaguo, and lock him here firmly and permanently.
By the time Luo Yunxiao led the army to Jiangzhou, the battle that took place here was basically coming to an end, and the remaining men and horses on Sima Zilong's side had dropped from 1.2 million to about 500,000. In addition to the more than 400,000 horses killed and seriously wounded in battle, more than 300,000 people fled en masse one after another during this period, and the remaining less than 500,000 troops were all panicked and uneasy.
When Luo Yunxiao appeared in front of the remnants of the Eastern Jin Dynasty with nearly 700,000 horses, he immediately shocked Sima Zilong, and the seven orifices smoked, and the whole person lost a trace of his former vitality.
Needless to say, the tragic ending is conceivable. Under the heavy siege of the 1.5 million army of the Great Hua Kingdom, there were fewer and fewer people around Sima Zilong, and finally even the senior generals at the level of hussar generals also chose to surrender, and Sima Zilong had no choice but to flee to a river with less than 10,000 die-hard followers.
However, there was not even a single boat to be seen on the surface of the river, except for the rolling waves churning. Without a boat, you can't cross the river, and you can't escape Luo Yunxiao's clutches. Sima Zilong scolded his mother with strong hatred, revealing a dead pig scalded by boiling water, looking at the middle of the river with blank eyes, and he didn't know what kind of little Jiujiu he was still thinking about in his heart.
There is no road in front, there are chasing soldiers behind, at a very critical juncture, Sima Zilong is even so desperate that he is ready to give up, and suddenly sees more than 10 ships floating from the north bank of the river, Sima Zilong saw the flag fluttering in the wind on the mast of the ship, and his eyes suddenly lit up, those ships are the sailors of their Eastern Jin Dynasty! Now he felt that he was finally saved.
The problem is that at this moment, the three teams of the Great Hua Kingdom are already infinitely close to Sima Zilong and them, these three teams are the Iron Cavalry led by Ge Geya, the sharpshooter led by Xu Jiayun, and the special division led by Wu Yun. This is the most elite, the most powerful, and the most powerful existence in Dahua.
At this moment, Sima Zilong had just boarded a bow boat, and only then did he follow about 30 people; The other boats are the same, there are only a few dozen people on board, less than 500 people on the more than a dozen bow boats, and more than 9,000 people are still on the shore! Sima Zilong suddenly saw that the other party's pursuers had arrived, so he did not hesitate to order his subordinates to sail, ignoring those who were still boarding the ship and preparing to board the ship.
The dozen bows set out without waiting for those who were still boarding to come up, and seven or eight people were hanging in the middle of each bow half, and as the boat moved forward for about 20 feet, some people fell into the water because it was difficult to hold on, until all the people hanging in the middle of the hull fell into the water.