Although Chen Yuanda was no longer respected by Liu Yao, as a subordinate of the shogunate, he was also able to follow Beifu, so he heard Liu Guang's voice on Xiping City, and immediately poked his head out to talk......

explained to Liu Guang at the moment that Liu Dan died of illness in the fall of last year and was buried in Gaonu. Then he persuaded him: "General Liu is the same as a certain one, Xian came out of the left part of the Huns, and he was the same father and son as the Great Sima, although he had to be demoted to Jin because of the decline of national affairs, don't you remember the slightest old favor?" We are about to go far away and reserve a vein for the Liu clan and the Xiongnu, so why bother with it? ”

When Liu Guang heard this, he couldn't help but feel a trace of pathos in his heart...... But he must not show it, after all, the vast majority of the cavalry behind him are Jin people, and there are not a few Hu pawns who surrendered with him that day. So he angrily rebuked: "I am a Chinese, how can I be willing to live in Hulu again?" The Liu clan is not destroyed, China will not be at peace in the end, I am ordered by the governor of the capital, and you must be swept away together, so as to calm the atmosphere! ”

Chen Yuanda said: "Today, the only person who can coerce the Jin Kingdom is Hebei Shizhao, what is the reason for the Liu family?" Pei Wen of the Ru family made an appointment to come here, specifically to seek to seize Pingyang, not to the head of Zhu Liu. Now that we are gone, if Pingyang is naked, you can take what you want, if you want to make contributions, why don't you go to Pingyang, but chase me?

"Advise the general, we are just resting in Xiping City, and after dawn, we will go farther away, and we will no longer be troubled by Rujin. If the general is pressing, there are still tens of thousands of Han troops in the city, if they fight to the death, do the generals have a chance of winning? Even if the Liu clan is wiped out, the general is buried in the battlefield, what good will it do with you? It is better to retreat temporarily, report to Pei Wenyue, and take Pingyang, and be wary of Shi Zhao. Once Shi Zhao is destroyed, the Central Plains will be decided, that is, the second and third jailers can bind Zhu Liu, so why rush for a while? ”

When Liu Guang heard this, he couldn't help but hesitate, so he turned around and asked his subordinates: "What do you think?" ”

Before the words fell, he suddenly heard a "click" behind him, and then the sound of horses' hooves sounded.

Liu Guang said badly, and hurriedly turned around and waved the knife.

He just had a conversation with Chen Yuanda, although this Xiping City is very small, it is similar to ordinary villages and towns, dock forts, and the city walls are also low, after all, one is on the city, the other is under the city, and so many people are crowded into the city, it is inevitable that the sound will be noisy, Liu Guang unconsciously got closer and closer in order to hear the words clearly. Of course, he has always been on guard against the archery of the Hu soldiers in the city, but in the dark night, it is estimated that there is no accuracy......

Who would have thought that he would take advantage of the opportunity for him to persuade Chen Yuanda to turn around, and the city gate suddenly tore open a line, and then rode out quickly. Liu Guang instinctively blocked with a horizontal knife, the other party was in front of him in an instant, a spear stabbed at him, the strength was amazing, Liu Guang couldn't stand it, the tip of the spear hit his chest, he couldn't help screaming, and knocked off the horse.

Before being created, through the dim moonlight, I vaguely knew - isn't this Pingxian?!

Ping Xian originally wanted to lead the army out of the city to disperse the Jin cavalry, but because Chen Yuanda landed in the city first, it was inconvenient to talk to the other party. But he ordered people to cover up the sound through human language, quietly opened a gap in the city gate, and watched the movements of the Jin cavalry. Seeing that Liu Guang seemed defenseless, he dared to turn his head, and he couldn't hold it back anymore at the moment, so he rushed out and made a meritorious contribution with a spear.

Seeing this, Jin Qi hurriedly rushed up to cover. Ping Xian wanted to take Liu Guang's life with a spear, but before the spear could be pierced, he was forced to withdraw and block the move. The three Jin cavalry came the fastest, all of them had spears, and they surrounded Ping Xian, but Ping Xian waved the iron spear that was taken from Zhen Sui, and in the blink of an eye, one spear and one spear, all three horses were stabbed.

But after a while, the rest of the Jin cavalry had snatched Liu Guang away, and then let out a shout, turned around and ran - the lord would not know whether he was alive or dead, where would he dare to continue to stay with the city. In the dark night, Ping Xian didn't dare to pursue, so he sneered and turned his horse back.

Seeing this, Chen Yuanda immediately went down to the city to report to Liu Yao, and suggested: "Although Liu Guang retreats, the Jin people will still chase after him, and the Ming Duke should rush to serve the Son of Heaven, if he is slow, he will be captured by the Jin people!" ”

Liu Yao thought so, so he didn't wait for the dawn, and left Xiping with Liu Heng and the others, and hurriedly left.

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The subordinates woke up Liu Guang - fortunately he was not dead - Liu Guang sent someone to report to Pei Gai urgently. By the time the messenger arrived, Pei Gai had already invaded Pingyang City, and fierce street battles were being fought.

It is said that Wang Teng and Hu Yanshi led the army to attack Hu Ying, but because the department was not elite and the good and bad were uneven, they were discovered by the Jin soldiers before they could get close to the base, and then a rain of arrows shot out, throwing off more than a dozen corpses on the spot, and then retreating in embarrassment. The second general restrained his subordinates, and they still couldn't go - they were still looking forward to Liu Yao leading the troops to meet them.

Liu Yao said it well at the time, now that life and death are on the line, only by launching a night attack and defeating the Jin Kou can they avoid them from attacking the city tomorrow. However, the morale of the soldiers was so demoralized that they couldn't pick out many people who could carry out the night raid mission. For today's plan, Erqing will lead most of the troops to attack the Jin base for me first, so as to attract the Jin people, and I will lead the rest of the troops to sneak out of the side door, taking advantage of the opportunity when the attention of the Jin people is on you, try to flank the assault......

As a result, the left did not see Liu Yao out of the city, and the right did not see Liu Yao's side attack, but the Jin people in front of him began to organize troops and horses, and there seemed to be signs of opening the wall to kill. The second general was in a hurry, and suddenly heard the Jin people on the opposite side shouting in unison: "Liu Yao has gone out of the north gate, opened the city and fled away!" You and the others have all been abandoned, can't you still want to die for the Liu family?! ”

Immediately, a drum sounded, the camp gate opened, and countless Jin soldiers lined up. Hu Jun knew that he was abandoned by Liu Yao, and at the slightest contact, he completely collapsed, and he didn't know where to run in the dark, and most of them knelt down and surrendered and became prisoners. Hu Yanshi immediately ripped off his horse for his subordinates and tied them up to welcome the Jin army; Wang Teng saw that the situation was not good, and left in a panic, and in just a few days, he was chased by the Jin cavalry and surrounded on the mountain, so he angrily scolded Liu Yao and killed himself.

The Jin army took the opportunity to attack Pingyang in the darkness of night. Almost half of the soldiers and horses in the city followed the two generals out of the battle, and Sancheng followed Liu Yao to the north, and the rest of them, the courage was lost, and there was no subordination, and the Jin people turned against the battle and opened the city gate - the Jin army was pouring in.

Fierce street fighting ensued.

Because the enmity between Jin and Hu is as deep as the sea, most of the Hu people are worried that after the Jin soldiers enter the city, they will carry out a brutal massacre regardless of the good and the bad - because they did that in Luoyang and Chang'an, it is inevitable that they will spend the belly of a gentleman in vain with the heart of a villain.

The Jin army of other departments is just that, and the military discipline in the Pei army is strict, and it has always been strictly forbidden to slaughter the city. Zhen Sui and other generals also once expressed their objections, saying: "The governor of the capital is benevolent and lenient to the Jin people, so it's just that, how can you not even kill the rebels?" And when the city is attacked, the damage will be heavy, and the soldiers will have their own grievances, if they do not let them slaughter the city to vent, with the courage of the flesh, I am afraid that they will not be able to control it for a long time. ”

Pei Gai's explanation for this is:

"On the battle array, the robe is killed, and the soldiers will be angry, but they can vent their anger on the enemy's head, how to make them slaughter the soldiers and people in the city? As the old saying goes: 'The weapon of the soldier is also the last resort of the saint.' 'Mortals with sharp weapons and murderous intentions should lead them to kill with murderous intent, stop invasions, suppress the country, and protect the people, and do not let them slaughter wantonly. If the city is slaughtered, who cares if it is a Jin person or a Hu person? If the city is slaughtered, the soldiers will be full of killing intent, and it will be even more difficult to control in the future. ”

An army that only knows how to kill, and the soldiers firmly believe that as long as the blade is in hand, they are invincible, in this case, how can you use military law and military discipline to restrain them? And how can an army that lacks restraint guarantee victory in the future?

Since ancient times, the slaughter of cities has been common, but in fact, the main purpose is not to let the soldiers vent their anger, but to facilitate their looting. Because many feudal armies do not have enough supplies for the soldiers at the bottom, and the small soldiers are often owed salaries, or even half-starved, that is, they are driven into battle, so if they are not allowed to kill when the city is broken, and thus allow them to plunder, what incentive do they have to continue to follow you?

The goods in the city are actually a carrot hanging in front of the soldiers, and the generals have no other way to boost morale, so they can only make this decision. Such an army, which relies solely on killing and looting to maintain morale, will easily collapse in the event of a setback. Since the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, there are often records in the history books that thousands of armies were attacked by the elite and collapsed instantly, and this is the reason.

Pei Gai does not intend to continue this vicious art of generals, he hopes that the three armies of the Great Sima under his command, even if they can't train the people's soldiers, or even the Yuejia army that "freezes to death without demolishing houses, starves to death without looting", must be stronger than those tyrants of the same period. Therefore, Pei's military discipline strictly forbade wanton slaughter or trespassing into people's homes after the city was broken, and only when they were attacked or resisted—at least if they were seriously suspected that the other party was hiding weapons and plotting against them—they were allowed to counterattack.

Therefore, when the Jin army entered the city, it was originally just to control the streets and alleys, official offices, and search for Hu and Han officials and generals, but soon encountered organized resistance, so naturally they could not "fight back", but had to fight back.

Many of the Hu people fought with the Jin army out of hatred or doubt, or wanted to die for Hu Han's loyalty, but after all, they belonged to a very small part, and they were alone. Those who can gather people to resist the Jin army are mainly Liu Cong's sons and those princes.

After Liu Cong died, Liu Yao helped Liu Heng ascend the throne, and put all the kings under house arrest. Then he fled out of the city and took Liu Heng's underage brothers with him - the eldest was only thirteen or fourteen, and the younger one was only four or five years old, basically since Liu Cong was drunk and drunk, he had never had any more sons - as for the adult kings, they were afraid that they would be difficult to control, so they did not bring any of them.

So Liu Yi, Liu Kui, Liu Ji and others had no choice but to gather their servants and distribute weapons to resist the Jin people - because they knew that no matter how benevolent Pei should be and be able to let go of the vast majority of the Hu people, he would never let go of the kings of the Emperor and Han, or he would not die for a while, and he would still inevitably be stabbed when he was sent to Luoyang in the future. Rather than being humiliated, it is better to fight to the death, maybe there is a chance to break out of the city and escape......

After Pei Gai entered the city, Guo Mo came to report the matter, and Pei Gai said: "All the sons of Liu Yuan and Liu Cong, as well as their close branches, do not need to stay, just take the head and sacrifice it to the Son of Heaven." ”

Guo Mo won his life and happily surrendered his hand.

So he strengthened the attack on the kings, and finally no one was able to escape from Pingyang City, and captured more than 600 of them and their henchmen, and selected the kings, marquis, princes, princes, and princes and princes, a total of 99 ranks, pickled them and put them in wooden boxes, waiting for the victory.

By the time it was dawn, he had completely calmed down Pingyang City, plundered the palace, and captured all the people of Liu Cong's palace - Liu Heng was still young, and he had no wives and concubines. This is based on Liu Yao's resentment towards Liu Cong, so he didn't take any of Liu Cong's wives away, and he refused to even notify him.

Pei Gai immediately ordered more than 100 people, including Empress Liu Cong, concubines and princes and concubines, as well as more than 300 important ministers of Hu and Han, to Luoyang. Ordinary officials are temporarily detained, and after being screened one by one, they will see whether they are killed or imprisoned, and they may be released directly or even retained; As for the other female dependents of the broken house, they will also be detained first, and in the future, they will be divided with the generals under their command as wives.

In fact, when Liu Congzhu, the Jin family, the Fan family, the Wang family, the Xuan family, etc., were unkempt and disheveled, Pei should hear the crying voices of the women, and couldn't help sighing slightly, showing unbearable expressions, but said to himself: "This is also pitiful." According to its original intention, in the deep palace, the woman is not guilty, and she can be released directly or allowed to others, but the problem is that as a Jin minister, this matter cannot be arbitrary, and it must be taken to Luoyang and handed over to Sima Ye for disposal.

Our Chinese is talking about the courtesy of monarchs and ministers, and we can't be like Hu Kou, Liu Yao captured Emperor Yang of Jin Hui, but he didn't report it, so he took it himself......

Immediately, the cavalry returned to Liu Guang, and reported that Liu Yao and others left Xiping overnight and continued to flee to the northwest. Zhen Sui shouted that it was a pity, but Pei Gai's face was as usual - it was a pity that it was a pity, but Hu Lu escaped, I hurriedly called up the sleeping soldiers to take Pingyang in the future, and I still fought in the middle of the night, where is there still enough strength to chase? asked Guo Mo and the other generals: "What do you think Liu Yao wants to flee to?" ”

Guo Mo speculated: "If you are in the northwest direction, you will either be a puzi or a fox...... both of which are counties in the northwest of Pingyang County. Pei Gai shook his head and said, "Or rest there." However, if I advance in a hurry, I can reach it in four days, and then I will retreat to the second county, why not stick to Pingyang? "Liu Yao abandoned more than half of his manpower, just to give up the big city and go to the small city? It doesn't make sense.

"And its land is close to the West River, and the West River Tai is already occupied by Shi Hu, is it impossible for Liu Yao to go to Shi Hu? If he had this heart, why did he refuse to open Pingyang City to Na Qiang army in the past? ”

Guo Pu hesitated and said, "Could it be ...... He wants to flee to the high slaves? ”

This is very possible, after all, since Liu Yao was defeated under Dali City, he fled to Gaonu, and accumulated a period of time there, and then crossed Caisangjin and marched to Pingyang - Gaonu is his old nest. Pei Gai sneered and said: "If he returns to the high slave, he will die by himself!" He ordered Yao Yizhong to lead a group of soldiers and horses to Caisangjin, just west of Pingyang City, to prevent Liu Yao from rushing westward through here.

Soon divided the troops in four directions, and in the middle of ten days, they successively recovered the counties in the north of Pingyang, but unfortunately Yong'an and Yang counties were basically looted by the Qian army, not to mention the living people in the county, and even a few live dogs could not be found. It's a pity that he couldn't find out where Liu Yuan's bones were buried, so Pei had to order Guo Yu to go to Yongguang Mausoleum, step on its above-ground buildings, and then dig out Liu Yuan's coffin - don't open it yet, don't care if it's empty, load it directly and transport it to Luoyang.

(The end of Volume 9 "The Beacon Rises in the Clouds")

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