Chapter 111: Killing the Prisoner

Since Zu Dale has been defeated in the hands of Xiao Tianjian, then the generals under his command have nothing to say, and several generals wanted to pounce on Zu Dale and snatch it back, but before they rushed to Xiao Tianjian's side, they heard a dense volley of guns, and several generals fell in front of the two armies even though they were beaten and sprayed with blood mist.

Seeing that the firearms of the Xingtian army were so sharp, and Zu Dale had also been captured, the Guan Ning soldiers and auxiliary soldiers under the command of Zu Dale lost their fighting spirit, dismounted one after another, threw away the weapons in their hands to the ground, took off the armor on their bodies, announced their surrender, and let the Xingtian army dispose of them.

In this regard, Zu Dale and Zu Kuan's subordinates, only a few days after leaving Ruzhou, the entire army was wiped out on the bank of the Baichuan River to Yichuan County, and most of them became prisoners of the Xingtian Army.

After the news reached Ruzhou, Wang Jiazhen was immediately shocked, he listened to Chen Yongfu's opinion, thinking that the main force of the Xingtian Army was still in Ruyang County, and as a result, Zu Dale's lone army went deep and fell into the ambush of the Xingtian Army, so that Zu Dale's entire army was completely submerged in the ambush of the Xingtian Army, so that the future of this battle was bleak.

However, after Chen Yongfu heard the news, he was secretly glad that he did not follow Zu Dale to Yichuan, and the result was to avoid this catastrophe, for this time he misjudged the action of the Xingtian Army, Chen Yongfu did not feel a little sorry, of course, he would not feel any apologies because he did not cooperate with Zu Dale's troops to go to Yichuan, so that Zu Dale fell into the ambush circle of the Xingtian Army alone!

However, after Wang Jiazhen learned the news of the destruction of the Zuda Music Department, in order to save a little face, he immediately ordered Chen Yongfu to enter Ruyang County, taking advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Xingtian Army to go to Yichuan to recover Ruyang County, so as to save some face for the defeat of the official army this time.

After Chen Yongfu was ordered, he did not delay, and on the same day, he raised troops to kill Ruyang County.

And Xiao Tianjian also received news from Yichuan County after solving the Zu Dale Department, saying that Wang Shaoyu led his troops to send troops to Yichuan County from the northwest of Yichuan, and Yichuan County is very empty at present, and only a new battalion is guarding in Yichuan County, and this new battalion has just been formed, and the combat effectiveness is very worrying.

After learning the news, Xiao Tianjian did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered Luo Li to lead two battalions to rush back to Yichuan County for reinforcements, while he himself led the remaining two battalions to reorganize the Zu Dale Department that had just surrendered on the spot.

In this battle, Zu Dale and Zu Kuan's 3,000 Guanning troops escaped except for a few, more than 2,000 Guanning troops from Zu Dale became prisoners of the Xingtian Army, and more than 1,000 Ruzhou soldiers were also unlucky with Zu Dale and also became prisoners of war of the Xingtian Army.

How to deal with these prisoners of war, it is really a headache, those soldiers in Ruzhou are easy to say, they are all locals, and most of them are soldiers recruited by the government, many of them used to be ordinary people, and those who lack food and pay are often bullied by officials, and many people have long wanted to work for the government, so the arrangement of these people is very simple, and they will be directly incorporated into the Xingtian Army and become the people of the Xingtian Army, and they don't have to worry much about their backlash, and the rest of the old and weak will be dismissed and resettled. They were also happy to find a way to live and live, and they didn't have to go into battle to fight, so these Ruzhou soldiers were easily dismissed, and the Xingtian Army selected more than 400 strong men from them to supplement the army, and the rest were given some money, and they were dismissed and resettled in the local area to work as farmers.

But for more than 2,000 Guan Ning soldiers, Xiao Tianjian has to be much more careful, most of these Guan Ning soldiers are from Liaodong, after the wild boar skin Xing soldiers, they lost their land in Liaodong, and later were recruited and became Guanning soldiers, these two years into Henan, they followed Lu Xiangsheng to suppress bandits, they worked very hard, and it can be said that they were stained with a lot of blood of the righteous army, but this is nothing, cannibalism and Lu eliminate disasters for the king! The key is that many of these people are veteran ruffians, they are not easy to train, and they are very grouped, and if one is not handled well, it may cause a lot of trouble.

For these people, after Xiao Tianjian discussed with Niu Jinxing and his subordinate generals, he took out the generals separately for care, first removed their backbones, and the rest were scattered and reorganized, so that they could not be reunited in a short time.

However, after all, these soldiers of the Guanning Army are people who have been in battle for a long time, and they all have a fierce atmosphere, especially since they are mostly cavalry, and many of them are quite good at kung fu immediately, and they are also the source of soldiers that the Xingtian Army urgently needs at the moment, if they are done well, these Guanning soldiers will soon be able to transform into an elite cavalry of the Xingtian Army.

Therefore, in order to stabilize the hearts of these Guan Ning soldiers, Xiao Tianjian personally came forward to appease them among these Guan Ning soldiers and ensure the quality of their food, which made these Guan Ning soldiers feel a little relieved.

And this time the Guanning army surrendered, so that the Xingtian army captured thousands of good horses, and finally gave the Xingtian army a chance to form a powerful cavalry team, after some pacification, Xiao Tianjian allowed Situ Liang to select six hundred strong from these Guanning soldiers, directly mixed with Situ Liang's original cavalry brigade, and directly upgraded to the first battalion of the Xingtian army's cavalry, so that the cavalry team of the Xingtian army has truly become a team with a whole system.

As for the remaining Guan Ning soldiers, Xiao Tianjian scattered them on the spot, eliminating the old and weak, there were still more than 1,000 people left, and these more than 1,000 Guan Ning soldiers were divided among the battalions, so that they would be digested on the spot, hoping that once they were dispersed, their officers would be transferred away, and if they wanted to make trouble for the Xingtian Army again, there would be no threat.

Chen Yongfu led 4,000 Kaifeng soldiers from Ruzhou to Ruyang County, but in the Wuwan Pass area in the east of Ruyang County, he encountered the stubborn resistance of the sixth battalion of the Xingtian Army led by Zhao Erdonkey.

Therefore, according to Xiao Tianjian's instructions, after Xiao Tianjian led his troops to leave Ruyang County, he took the soldiers of his headquarters into the area of Wuwan Pass to garrison, and constantly sent scouts to investigate the movements of the officials and troops in the direction of Ruzhou, and at the same time paid attention to the direction of Lushan in the southeast, and did his best to do things.

As soon as Chen Yongfu led his troops to move in Ruzhou, the scouts sent back the news to Zhao Erdonkey, and Zhao Erdonkey led his troops to meet them, and the two armies opened a big battle in the area of Wuwan Pass.

Chen Yongfu and the Kaifeng soldiers under his command tasted the power of the Xingtian Army for the first time, don't look at Zhao Erdonkey's sixth battalion is just a newly formed battalion, but nearly half of them are veterans of the previous three battalions, and most of these veterans are people from Yangcheng, Shanxi, it can be said that they are the backbone of the Xingtian Army, plus nearly half of the strong men who have been supplemented in western Henan, and the combat effectiveness is not inferior to how much it used to be in addition to the fact that the number of birds is not as large as before.

Although the strength of Zhao Erdon's troops was only one-third of Chen Yongfu's weaker, but once the two armies fought in the Wuwan Pass, Chen Yongfu's officers and troops were beaten by Zhao Erdonkey's horse, and Chen Yongfu had to take the initiative to retreat twice, reorganize his troops and horses to fight again, and after a few days, Chen Yongfu was not able to bargain for anything under Zhao Erdon, but also lost hundreds of soldiers and horses, so that Chen Yongfu had to give up continuing to attack Ruyang County, and withdrew to Ruzhou after leading his troops to rest.

Fortunately, Chen Yongfu retreated in time this time, if he delayed for another two days, when Xiao Tianjian led his troops back to Ruyang, Chen Yongfu would not be able to leave if he wanted to.

At the same time, Luo Li led his troops back to Yichuan County, facing Wang Shaoyu's department, who wanted to outflank Yichuan County from behind, and the two armies immediately launched a big battle in the north of Yichuan County.

Don't look at Wang Shaoyu made a lot of determination this time, and also took out a lot of silver to boost morale, and wanted to make contributions in Yichuan County, but when the officers and soldiers under his command heard the news that Zu Dale's department was annihilated by the Xingtian Army, they suddenly had no will to fight, plus they ran into Luo Li, the living king of Yama, and beat them violently, Wang Shaoyu only lasted less than three days in Yichuan County, and was beaten and collapsed by Luo Li, and finally fled back to Yiyang County with less than a thousand remnants of the defeated generals and the general Ma Rutian.

But this time Wang Shaoyu led his troops to attack Yichuan County, but it caused great harm to the people of Yichuan County, the officers and soldiers are like bandits, this sentence is not false at all, Wang Shaoyu's Luoyang soldiers and military discipline is extremely corrupt, when Wang Shaoyu led the army to cross the Luohe River into the territory of Yichuan County, his soldiers and generals began to make trouble everywhere.

These Luoyang soldiers don't look at the war bear bag very much, but when they kill ordinary people, they race one by one, in order to repay the merit to the above, they slaughter ordinary people and refugees everywhere, cut off their heads and hand them over to the top to ask for merit.

The places they passed were really like razors, and the people in a radius of dozens of miles were driven away by the killings they killed, and thousands of ordinary people in the Yichuan area were killed by them in this way, and the heads became the so-called achievements of Wang Shaoyu.

When Luo Li led his troops to defeat Wang Shaoyu, on the way to pursue Wang Shaoyu, when he saw the tragic scene where the officials and soldiers in Yichuan County passed, the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army who surrendered to Luo Li were all angry by what the officers and soldiers under Wang Shaoyu did, Wang Shaoyu's officers and soldiers not only killed people and robbed food and money, but also insulted women everywhere, even a little girl who was less than ten years old did not let go, when the people who were harmed saw the return of the Xingtian Army, these people knelt on the side of the road along the way, Cry to Luo Li about their tragic experience.

Luo Li is not as good as Xiao Tianjian to speak, when he understood what the officers and soldiers under Wang Shaoyu's command were doing, he immediately ordered to drag out the officers and soldiers of Wang Shaoyu's department who had been captured, first stripped them of their clothes in public, tied them to the trees on the side of the road, and let these ordinary people beat them at will to vent their anger, as a result, these captured officers and soldiers were killed by the angry people on the spot.

Luo Li still didn't understand his hatred, led the soldiers under his command, and held these officers and soldiers under Wang Shaoyu's command prisoners of war, and chased them all to the bottom of Yiyang County, and ordered the thousands of prisoners of war to fall down in the open space outside Yiyang County, and passed the order down, so that the recruits in the army could come out of the ranks and act as executioners, and slaughtered all the officers and soldiers under the command of Wang Shaoyu in Yiyang County in one breath.

The defenders and officials in Yiyang County watched the Xingtian Army outside their city, killing more than 1,000 officers and soldiers like killing chickens and dogs, and no one was left alive, which scared the people in the city, and some of the timid ones even peed their pants in fright, and even some officials were so frightened that they fainted on the city wall immediately.

Luo Li was not willing to give up, galloped to the city, pointed to the people in the city, and scolded Wang Shaoyu by name, and let Wang Shaoyu go out of the city to die.

Looking at such a fierce Xingtian army and Luo Li, the killing god, Wang Shaoyu did not dare to respond to the battle even if he had the courage of an ambitious leopard, and sent a supervising team to supervise the battle, and closed Yiyang County.

Luo Li played a full prestige outside Yiyang County, considering that this time they were not ready to attack Yiyang County, and finally led the troops to evacuate Yiyang County, but before leaving, they still looted the Zhuangzi of the three Fu Kings outside Yiyang County and the Zhuangzi of the local officials of Yiyang County, so that the rich people in Yiyang County fled from Yiyang overnight, some people ran to Luoyang City for refuge, and some people simply fled to Kaifeng with their families, in short, everyone can see that Yiyang County can no longer stay, let alone family wealth, Even a small life may not be guaranteed.

After Xiao Tianjian learned about this, he also shook his head and smiled bitterly, and he didn't say anything about Luo Li's doing, after all, this time Wang Shaoyu suddenly behaved so actively, and led his troops to cooperate with Wang Jiazhen to raid Yichuan's back, which was something he didn't expect, so that Wang Shaoyu caused such a big disaster in Yichuan County, Luo Li's anger was also understandable, and at the same time, Luo Li's doing this can also be said to have shocked the officials and soldiers, although he killed too many people, but it was not a wrong thing, so Xiao Tianjian didn't ask more about it.

But for Niu Jinxing, Luo Li did this, but he had an appetite, took the initiative to find Xiao Tianjian, and said to Xiao Tianjian: "The marshal doesn't have to be angry about what General Luo did, General Luo's move is also caused by anger, after all, this time Wang Shaoyu led his troops to attack Yichuan and slaughtered many people in Yichuan County, and he did this to avenge the innocent people who were killed!"

Now that the discipline of the official army has collapsed, Wang Shaoyu's slaughter of Yichuan is just a glimpse, and the officials and soldiers in other places are basically the same as them, and the people have long had no hope for the government! If the marshal acts like this, he will definitely be able to win the hearts of the people of the world, but it is better for the marshal to simply put out a banner of suppressing the army and reassuring the people, and he will definitely make the people of the world return to the marshal! ”

Xiao Tianjian's eyes lit up after hearing this, Niu Jinxing said well, the collapse of military discipline in the official army is not a matter of one or two days, and the common people are afraid of the official army can be said to be even more afraid of thieves, he has forgotten this matter for so long, so that he didn't remember it until Niu Jinxing mentioned it.

Isn't he doing this now just to ask for the world? And subduing the hearts of the people is also the key to his success, Luo Li's slaughter of the prisoners under the command of Wang Shaoyu under the anger of this time also happened to buy the hearts of the people for him, and at the same time shocked the arrogance of the officials and soldiers.

So he immediately nodded and said, "This is a wonderful plan!" I am not angry at what Luo Li did, these officers and soldiers really deserve to be killed! Suppress the soldiers and calm the people! Well said! Just do as the gentleman says! Fight the banner of suppressing the soldiers and pacifying the people, and see who the people of the world are helping! Hehe! ”

This matter must have been decided, Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered a big flag to be customized in the army, and asked Niu Jinxing to personally write down the four characters of suppressing soldiers and people, and embroidered it on the banner with black thread.

Although Xiao Tianjian and Niu Jinxing, who should have thought of it, thought of it this time, after all, this time the official army launched an attack on the area controlled by the Xingtian Army in western Henan from several directions.

Xiao Tianjian first led his troops to defeat the Zu Da Le Department in Yichuan, and the whole Zu Da Le Department made a good start, and then Zhao Erdonkey won a small victory over Chen Yongfu in Ruyang County, and then Luo Li defeated Wang Shaoyu's department in Yichuan, the situation can be said to be very optimistic, but what Xiao Tianjian didn't expect was that Liu Yaoben on the Lu side fell into a crisis.

(The third chapter arrives, and it is a big chapter of more than 4,000 words, and the brothers have nothing to do with two more clicks, hehe!) )