6. Rebel against the embankment
On the city wall, behind the wooden fence, under the watchful eyes of the Tang army armed with firearms and crossbows, the rebel soldiers who had served for less than seven years, as well as all the women and children's families, lined up in a long line from the narrow Feixiang city gate.
"Father, father."
"Husband."
Inside the city, there were as many as 700 rebels who had been in service for seven years or more, including dozens of military academies, who were still sitting cross-legged, and they looked up at the high women's wall, and the mouths and faces of the officers and soldiers behind the wall, and they already knew what fate they were about to face.
But their children and wives were reluctant, so they were full of scenes of life and death.
"Go, go quickly, don't bury our bodies right away, and don't mention us after that, we will die of rebellion, and we really have no face to dig up a grave and erect a monument." They were hoarse, and they were also pushing their families out of the safe city.
"Hurry up!" Although Hun Xuan couldn't bear it, he could only wave his hand at this moment and let their family leave the city as soon as possible.
Three days later, on the embankment where the old city of Qingzhang was located, more than 700 rebel backbones knelt on it, their hands and necks were tied with ropes, and the whole scene was not scolded or cried, only despair and remorse.
They were not allowed to kneel in the direction of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an City, but were ordered to kneel in the direction of the Daimyo Mansion of Weizhou to the east.
Behind the kneeling rebels, there were officers and soldiers who were executing, and behind each rebel backbone, a bright iron knife came out.
In the sky, the frost at dawn was flying, some sticking to the faces of the tortured, others brushing on the sharp blades.
"You are originally a meritorious hero of the imperial court, but you are coercing the situation to make a mess, trying in vain, you don't know that the army is the army of the Son of Heaven, and the state and county are the states and counties of the imperial court.
In the old city, the person who supervised the execution was the new Xiahou Zhongxuan, the assassin of Zhaozhou, and he also understood that the purpose of the imperial court to let him come here was not only to demonstrate to Wei Bozhen, but also to completely sever relations with the Zhaoyi army forever and completely in the three states of Xu, Xing, and Ci.
Since then, I, Xiahou Zhongxuan, am no longer the old department of the Zhaoyi Army, and the backbone of the Shandong faction of the Zhaoyi Army that happened was all cut by me, and I will only be the assassin of the imperial court, and take care of this land for the imperial court.
Thinking of this, Xiahou Zhongxuan couldn't think about anything more, he raised his hand, and then waved it down resolutely.
Hundreds of blades immediately chopped down, one by one, human heads, jumping on the dam of the Lieren embankment, and then rolling into the large swamp of mud under it, the entire embankment, formed a two-mile-long blood mist, and then the corpses of the rebels who were executed were also pushed down the embankment, and the whole Qingzhang Da Nao was full of human heads and corpses, which was miserable.
was cut off along with the head, as well as Xiahou Zhongxuan's past.
After all the backbone of the rebel army was cut off, Niu Yi, the envoy of the Fenghua Army, received the edict of Deyin, which not only praised the meritorious officers and soldiers for the imperial court, but also announced that the people of the three prefectures of Huan, Xing, and Ci would all be paid taxes for one year, and each would live in peace.
In the military office of the Daimyo's Mansion, Tian Xu, who was playing in boredom and resentment, after hearing the fall of Feixiang City and the killing of Lieren Embankment, secretly used his strength in his hand to squeak the round chess pieces, and his whole face was distorted - on the embankment of Qingzhang, let the backbone of the rebel army be killed in the direction of my Wei Bo, which was the naked intimidation of my Wei Bo by the imperial court.
At this point, he somewhat understood why Tian Yue, who was killed by him, had to fight against Chang'an for the rest of his life.
Chang'an and Weibo, no matter what method is used, will never be able to coexist.
If you want to sit firmly in Weibo's position, you have to fight Chang'an to the end!
But now is not the time, he must first send an envoy to show his "deference" to the Son of Heaven.
However, the imperial court also had the same strategy towards Wei Bo:
Yuanyi's daughter, twelve-year-old Yuan Yun, with tears in her eyes, but she was wearing a gorgeous dress and a hairpin in her hair, sitting on a small Huadian cart, surrounded by cavalry escorts, passing through the empty land of Qingzhang and slowly heading towards the mansion of the famous man of Weizhou.
After all, she was still Tian Ji'an's unmarried wife, so the official army sent her to Wei Bo to complete the marriage, instead of sending her to Gouji Ridge to be beheaded, or confiscated into the court as a slave.
Through the curtain, Yuan Yun saw it, and saw the dead bodies faintly full of corpses in the embankment of the people, and couldn't help but swallow in fright and cry even more.
She remembered her father, who had been sent to Jingshi
And in the Ya Soldier Courtyard of the Daimyo's Mansion, Nie Feng, the returning Wei Bo general, heard the cries of his wife and domestic servants, and suddenly his soul was about to fly, and he sighed in his heart, and instinctively thought, "Could it be that what happened to my daughter Aluo?" ”
Sure enough, when his wife saw him, she sobbed and told him that Ah Luo was at home and had been taken away by a nun.
"How could you have been taken away from home!" Nie Feng was angry and puzzled, as a mother, how did you take care of my daughter.
My wife said, "As soon as you went out to Qingzhang, a bhikshuni appeared outside the house, and she said that she had taken a fancy to my family and was going to take her away, and I thought that this bhikshuni was a madman, so I asked the servants to drive her out, but the bhikshuni smiled and said that it was useless, I will definitely be able to take your daughter away, if I don't believe it, I will know that night."
Frightened, his wife locked Ah Luo in the iron cabinet of the family's dormitory, leaving only a gap to deliver food and water, and he and several slaves took turns to watch over him.
The next day, however, she awoke in a daze, and found that the servants were lying on the ground, the locks and chains of the iron cabinet were scattered, and the door was wide open, and Aro had disappeared, leaving only a silk strip with the words "five years" written on it.
Nie Feng held the silk strip at this time and sat on the ground dejectedly.
The rebellion set off by Sima Yuanyi of the Zhaoyi Army in Zhaozhou was extremely resolutely and severely suppressed in the Tang family court presided over by Gao Yue, and it was declared peaceful in just over 50 days, and 700 backbone rebels were beheaded, and the rest were all divided into other armies.
Also because of Gao Yue's vigorous and resolute action, the cost of this counterinsurgency was actually very small, and the total military expenditure was only 1.1 million guan, and the imperial court was given three states to defend it with the Shence army, which the emperor was very satisfied with.
In the east hall of the Jinluan Hall of Daming Palace, Gao Yuelai fulfilled his original promise and said to the emperor sitting on the rope bed, now that the rebellion has ended, the ministers please return the power of the three divisions of the judgment branch, the household department, and the salt and iron transfer.
"Gao Lang, will this time be just an introduction to Yuanyi?" The Emperor then asked.
"Then it depends on what Your Majesty thinks." Gao Yue replied.
Hearing Gao Yue's words, the emperor immediately knew that he immediately stood up from the rope bed, although his voice was low, but his attitude was very resolute, "I still want to put down the rebellion in Fang Town, and the Holy Judgment is arbitrary. ”
"However, every time the imperial court has an edict, it wants to travel thousands of miles, but when it comes to the door, it is the opposite." Gao Yue raised a very realistic problem, that is, in the current situation, the government decree cannot leave the Daming Palace.
"I will be responsible for the order in the future, and Gao Lang will be responsible for doing it, although it is difficult, please do your best." The emperor said that the world should be joined forces by you and me, and I have no suspicion of you from now on.