Chapter 240: Pacification in the North

It's terrible, where is this war, it's clear that you won't fight back when you are beaten. Wherever muskets and artillery went, there was nothing but death and surrender.

Those who resist die, and those who surrender prosper. Li Cunmiao wanted to surrender, but he was really scared.

How can there be such a war, as soon as he looks at him, the forbidden army muskets are called over. This is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that before you can see your face, disaster will fall from the sky, and the cannonballs will fall from the devil in which direction.

has lived for most of his life, and who has ever seen such a formation. Liu Rengong came in person, and his army was also choked enough.

"King Jin, surrender." Liu Rengong looked gloomy, and he was also frightened.

Li Cunmiao's eyes were glazed: "Surrender, what's the use of surrendering at this moment, will the court treat us well."

Liu Rengong sighed: "The Son of Heaven is orthodox, this is the will of heaven." You and I go against the sky, this is retribution. Come down, if nothing else, we all have to think about our children and grandchildren. ”

Li Cunqiao was silent, he and Liu Rengong didn't have any friendship. On the contrary, the two fought constantly, and in order to fight for territory, they often fought head-to-head.

Later, Zhu Wen was powerful, and Li Keyong had no choice but to join forces with Liu Rengong. This is still the case, and they have to join forces to deal with the imperial court.

But it doesn't seem to be of much use right now, let alone the two of them joining forces. Now the whole feudal town is in full swing, and as a result, like a child playing at home, he will lose every battle.

This defeat is not an ordinary defeat, but the enemy has no casualties at all, and you have already lost everything.

Thanks to the lack of mobility equipment such as modern automobiles, the Janissaries would have been leveled out in a few months.

Now the speed of the Forbidden Army's attack is not determined by a battle, but by the speed of their march.

Because the feudal town is almost ready to collapse at the touch of a button, and the feudal town that can be fought again can only surrender when it encounters the muskets and cannons of the forbidden army.

It's not a heavyweight class at all, it's like a 70-kilogram boxer beating an eight-year-old child in the ring.

Before the war, Li Ji ordered that all those who surrendered would be crowned king and marquis to enter Beijing to enjoy their old age.

Now that the war is going to start, if you go and lick your face and surrender, it will depend on whether the court will give you a face.

If the court wants to give you a good face, it will give you a good face, and if it doesn't want to give you a good face, it won't give you a good face. You have to endure this, Li Cunqiao took off his helmet: "Come on, send a messenger, surrender!"

But something happened at this time, not Li Cunqiao, but Liu Rengong.

"General Liu, it's not good, the second son, the second son, he led people to flee to the Khitan, saying that he swore to die and not surrender to the court." The person who came was Liu Rengong's personal soldier.

Liu Rengong was shocked: "What did you say!"

The purpose of Liu Rengong's visit this time was to find Li Cunqiao to surrender together, and there was such a fuss at this juncture.

surrendered himself, and his second son Liu Shouguang actually rebelled again. If the court knew about this, it was unknown whether it would pardon itself.

This is not the biggest blow, and the cronies said again: "General Liu, that, the second son is still with ......"

The cronies stammered, wanted to say but didn't dare to say it, it was obvious that there was something unspeakable.

Liu Rengong was furious: "It's all at this juncture, what else can't be said, speak!"

The cronies hurriedly bowed their heads: "The second son also fled with Luo Xiaoniang."

Liu Rengong's body shook and he almost fainted. Li Cunmiao was shocked and couldn't help but shout: "General Liu!"

Luo Xiaoniang, Liu Rengong's favorite concubine. He had long felt that this rebel often had eyeballs with her, so he didn't catch any tricks, but just reprimanded a few words.

Unexpectedly, this brute really committed adultery with his mother-in-law, this green hat was buttoned up, and Liu Rengong was only angry.

In history, Liu Shouguang not only committed adultery with Liu Rengong's concubine, but also imprisoned Liu Rengong. This Liu Shouguang is also a wonder, and later Liu Shouguang and Liu Rengong were both killed by Li Cunqiao.

In other words, someone else brought a green hat to himself, and Liu Rengong killed the adulterer ** together at most. How could he have thought that it was his second son who committed such incestuous things.

"Brute! This brute! Liu Rengong pounded his chest angrily.

Li Cunqiao and his subordinates glanced at each other and guessed that eight or nine were not far from ten. They couldn't say anything about this, Li Cunqiao coughed: "General Liu, the second son defected to the Khitan, because he didn't know how to raise the blame for himself." As long as General Liu severed the father-son relationship with him, it is expected that the imperial court will not blame. ”

Liu Rengong sighed: "That's it, I'll just don't give birth to this little beast, let's surrender."

Li Ji drove the expedition in person and broke through more than a dozen cities one after another. He hadn't fought enough, and the battle was not enjoyable at all, and then the envoys of Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong came.

In Jinzhou, Li Ji sat in the Jin Palace, and the envoy knelt down.

"Long live Your Majesty, this is the surrender of General Li of my family. My general did not dare to ask His Majesty for forgiveness, but I begged Your Majesty to be honest and obedient to the general, so that his subordinates and soldiers would not be caught in the war, and for the sake of fratricide among the people of my Tang Dynasty, he could spare the peace of my general's family. "This person is Li Cunxuan's messenger.

Li Cunmiao, who succeeded Li Ke and used the throne to proclaim himself King of Jin. But the imperial court did not issue an order to admit it, so this envoy did not dare to call the king of Jin in front of Li.

Liu Rengong's envoys are similar, they are all begging to save the people of the Tang Dynasty from seeing each other, and spare Liu Rengong's whole family.

Li Ji looked at the table of lowering handed over by the two, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong bowed to the table extremely humblely, first listing their crimes one by one, and then selling miserably. said that they dealt with the remnants of the Yellow Nest back then, and how they didn't know the power of the sky later. In the end, he begged, not daring to ask for the title of king and marquis, only begging that the Son of Heaven would let his family return to the mountains. Enjoy a few acres of thin land, and this life is cloudy.

"The country has its own laws, and the family has its own rules. You two surrender now, but I won't let you go. I have given you a chance, and I have given you a chance to enjoy your happiness. But you don't repent, and you have caused casualties among the Jinju soldiers, how can I spare you again! ”

Li Ji didn't want to give them any face, so he didn't surrender at the beginning. Now that I know that I can't beat it, I come to lick my face and surrender again, how can there be such a good thing in the world.

The two envoys knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and Li Cunmiao said again: "My general knows that the Son of Heaven is generous and benevolent, and he does not dare to ask His Majesty for forgiveness. But beg Your Majesty to kill the general if you want to, and spare the general's family. ”

Liu Rengong's envoy also cried: "My general is too, he is really blinded by lard and blocked his heart. The general is willing to die to thank the world, and only asks His Majesty to be merciful and spare his family. ”

Li Ji said coldly: "As far as I know, the second son of Liu Rengong not only has no remorse, but also cheats on his mother-in-law, and even led troops to defect to the Khitan, he wants to fight my Tang Dynasty to the end!"

The messenger shuddered with fright, and his heart was terrified. Liu Shouguang's defection to the Khitan is easy to say, and it is reasonable for the emperor to get the news.

Liu Shouguang and his mother-in-law Luo Xiaoniang secretly concealed it from the Liu Mansion, and few outsiders knew about it. This emperor is far away in Jinju, how can he be so well-informed.

The envoy panicked in his heart, and kowtowed again: "Your Majesty, my general has severed the father-son relationship with that rebel son. Liu Shouguang was expelled from his home and his name was crossed out of the family tree. The general is bent on returning to his majesty, please be gracious! ”

Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong would rather fight with their lives, and begged themselves to spare their families. Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, although these feudal towns are arrogant, but for the sake of their families, they don't want their lives.

In fact, Li Ji didn't want to kill them, but he just wanted to give this envoy a threat. Although Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong were beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, after all, they still had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in their hands. If there is really a fight, the forbidden army will naturally not suffer. But after all, they are all the people of the Tang Dynasty, this is a civil war, if they surrender at this moment, it will save the lives of these tens of thousands of soldiers.

Moreover, if these two are pardoned, the other feudal towns will be even more captured.

"Well, in that case, I promised the two of them. As long as Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong lay down their weapons, I can spare them and not die. However, the death penalty can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped, and the two have different intentions and have committed many crimes. For the time being, he will be escorted into the capital to wait for his fate. As for their families, they will all be taken to the capital, and I will give them a place to live. ”

When the two envoys heard this, they were overjoyed, and they kowtowed one after another: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

The forbidden army entered the city to take over the defense, and Li Cunqiao personally led his troops to open the city gate to greet them. Li Cunmiao's soldiers threw away their weapons one after another and held their heads in their hands.

Li Cunmiao knelt on the ground and listened to the law.

When the forbidden army entered the city, they first opened a warehouse to release grain. Moreover, the decree was moved to appease the people, and as for those who surrendered, they were registered one by one.

The number of troops surrendered was large, and the imperial court used it. Whoever is able to fight, stay in the army. Some of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they distribute their travel money to go home to farm.

As for Li Cunqing's land, shops, and mansions, all of them were confiscated. The soldiers who followed Li Cunmiao's allegiance were also used by the imperial court, some were given an official position, and some were sent to the local area to do an idle position.

The soldiers of the near army were worried that there would be no good fruit to eat after surrendering, but they did not expect that the imperial court would treat them very favorably, regardless of their previous suspicions. If you are willing to continue to be a soldier, stay in the local area and become a local solidarity soldier. Those who are unwilling to become soldiers will be given travel expenses and go home to farm.

As usual, all the fields were re-measured, and the fields were divided to fight local tyrants. Soon, the situation in Jinju calmed down.

Liu Rengong is the same, dividing the fields all the way and relocating all the way. In the past, the generals were treated the same way, which greatly stabilized the hearts of the surrendered generals.

Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong were escorted into Beijing by a team of forbidden troops, saying that they were escorted, and the forbidden army was quite polite to them, more like an escort. This is also Li Ji's order.

Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong were grateful, and they both regretted not being at the beginning. If he had surrendered earlier, would he have ended up in this field?

The emperor brought them to the capital just to facilitate surveillance. They have no troops and no power, and they can no longer pose any threat.

The greatest enemies of the imperial court, Li Cunqiao and Liu Rengong, surrendered, and the situation in the north was basically stabilized, except for Li Maozhen, the king of Qi in the northwest.

Pity him Li Maozhen is not so lucky, he escaped all the way and lost all the way. In the end, he was very angry, the forbidden army had a demon law. What's worse is that he sent waves of messengers to surrender, and all he received was two words, no!

Fight and can't fight, surrender and don't let surrender, this is to force people to die.

I think how arrogant and rampant Li Maozhen was back then. He first sneered at Zhaozong in a book, accusing Sang of scolding Huai. Zhaozong had a fiery temper and immediately sent troops to attack. As a result, he was beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, and Li Maozhen's soldiers came to Chang'an, forcing Zhaozong to kill Du Rangneng.

Now that feng shui is taking turns, he has been forced by the imperial court to have no way to retreat and nowhere to escape. Surrender and rejection, stubborn resistance and unable to resist.

Sometimes you can't even see the appearance of the forbidden army, and then a row of muskets is stamped, and people become a sieve.

Sometimes they hide in the city and close the gates, and the cannonballs fall from the sky. Li Maozhen's only job alive now is to run for her life, the city doesn't care, fuck it. With only a few hundred relatives with him, he fled for his life.

Without the commander, before Kong Jie's army arrived, those cities opened the city gates first, replaced them with dragon flags, and the city guards led people out of the city and surrendered early.

Cronies, sometimes when you are rich, they sacrifice their lives with you. When you are down, they begin to have different hearts.

Wang Jian is like this, and Li Maozhen also feels it.

The relatives he brought with him had no food or pay, so they could only rob their families and sacrifice their lives to the end of the world.

They are more like a bunch of bandits than a rout. robbed all the way and fled all the way, what was fatal was that Li Maozhen was arrogant and arrogant on weekdays, and disdained those grassland aliens. He wanted to escape to Tubo, Hexi, but was chased and beaten by the Tuboans. He wanted to escape to the party, but before he could reach the party, he was shot away by random arrows.

On this day, Li Maozhen hid in a mountain col, and his territory had long been returned to the imperial court. The forbidden army behind him was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and the war horse under the crotch had no strength, and he really couldn't escape.

What to do, his relatives have escaped enough. It's better to live than to die like this, and it's better to be a bandit. So when it was time to rest, the relatives began to stay away from Li Maozhen, and from time to time they gathered in groups of three or five and whispered together.

Li Maozhen only felt that his back was numb, and he felt that these relatives were unreliable. Taking advantage of the opportunity to kill the horse and barbecue, he wanted to slip away. It doesn't matter where you go, it's a big deal to go to the countryside incognito, and no matter how capable the court is, it can't catch itself.

Li Maozhen stood up and patted the soil: "This king wants to go to the toilet, you eat first."

Even his tone became polite, Li Maozhen looked around, pretended to be careless to relieve his hand, and then touched his horse.

The horse was tied to a tree, and Li Maozhen was just about to untie the rope and wanted to turn over and slip away from the horse, but when he looked up, he found that something was wrong.

The entourage did not know when they had quietly surrounded themselves, and some of them had even drawn their knives.

Li Maozhen was so frightened that she took a step back: "You, what are you doing!"

"King Qi, where are you going? You don't want to pee, untie the horse rope, throw off the sashes, and run away by yourself, right? ”

was told that she was in her heart, Li Maozhen smiled a little reluctantly: "That, this king is in a depressed mood and wants to go around."

"As for the king, you are not a king now. The brothers heard that Wang Jian, the king of Shu, was beheaded and sent to Chengdu Mansion, and the beheader received a lot of benefits, and the court gave many rewards. King Qi, the little ones have taken a lot of advantage from you, and they don't want to kill you, as long as you obediently follow us, we will send you to the Zuo Long Tiger Army, and we will never embarrass you. ”

Li Maozhen was shocked: "You, you villains!" You want to rebel, I treat you like this on weekdays, you villains who will take revenge. ”

"The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the first emperor treated you well, don't you also take revenge. It's almost gone, it doesn't matter who it is, let's go together! ”

PS: Thank you for the reward that I hope will rest when I am tired.

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