Chapter 323: Sha Yan Surrenders

Li Yu agreed to Sha Lu's conditions, as long as he raised the city and surrendered, and moved forward for the Tang Dynasty, then he would guarantee the three noes principle of the Tang army not to rob, kill, or plunder when entering the city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Previously, Li Yu led the army to invade the border of Silla, but resisted him to fight to the death and did not surrender the city, and slaughtered it after breaking the city. The women who robbed the wealth were rewarded to the soldiers who participated in the siege of the city, and inspired them to fight bravely against the enemy. More importantly, it is to instill in the minds of the soldiers that the expansion of the territory and the conquest of Yidi is a good deal from which everyone from the commander to the small soldiers can profit from it, so as to inject the soul of active external expansion into the army.

This soul is the interests of the whole army, no matter who, as soon as he enters the army and becomes a member of the army, then as long as he does not want to take a little dead military sound, and wants to worship the prime minister with military merits, he has to respect the unanimous interests of the army and enter the foreign war. As a result, an army interest group was formed, including the emperor (or the emperor was the one who had the greatest interest, that is, the winner), to fight against other political forces in the country.

Lest in the future, when the country enters a period of peace, a group of brainless and short-sighted literati officials who are greedy for the comfort of the world jump out to fool the government and government, and let the country go, resulting in unscrupulous generals and no male soldiers, and the people have no strong courage to recruit. Everyone in the country pursues a comfortable life that indulges in arrogance and lasciviousness, does not want to forge ahead, and for a long time does not understand the way of warfare, and is even more afraid of war, resulting in the country's armament being slackened, and becoming a super-sized fat tiger without tiger teeth and claws, and even difficult to act.

Isn't that the case in the Song and Ming dynasties? There is a huge country, everyone can drown the military and civilians of the enemy country with a single spit, and they control more than half of the world's wealth. As a result, they are beaten by the enemy all over the ground looking for teeth, and when they encounter danger, they bury their heads in the sand to comfort themselves.

Isn't there a joke that circulates on the Internet in later generations? The Song Dynasty had the wealth of the United States, the armaments of Nazi Germany, but the combat effectiveness was only at the level of Italy.

At the same time, if the military forms a country with interests and a political force headed by civilian officials and greedy for comfort, it must have a matching and strong combat effectiveness, otherwise it will appear to be underconfident in the confrontation and will eventually be overpowered by civilian forces. And this needs to be supported by a martial folk style.

Why did the Song and Ming dynasties finally die because their strength was far inferior to their own? Isn't it precisely the political clique headed by civilian officials who have eliminated the people's martial style and cultivated a weak literary style?

The people are still literate but not martial, and the army has become a place where people who can't read a few characters, how can they talk about confronting conservative and greedy political forces such as civilian officials?

Comparing the Han and Tang dynasties with the United States of later generations, there are four things in common why the three are strong. One is that the country is huge, the second is economically developed, the third is large, and the fourth is that the people are allowed to own weapons.

In the Han Dynasty, there were many martial rangers, so much so that it became a social problem, and some ministers during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty proposed to ban civilian weapons to solve the problem of rangers. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't think so, he needed to recruit soldiers from the people to form a strong army to fight the Xiongnu and expand the territory. Nuo has banned civilian weapons, can he still recruit soldiers who understand martial arts, are strong and brave, and can fight bravely in the future?

This is why there is the praise of later generations of "only Han dies by strength"!

In the Tang Dynasty, the folk martial arts were at their peak, and the official only stipulated that the Mo knife, crossbow, and armor were not allowed to be privately owned by the people, and weapons such as horizontal knives and bows and arrows were often owned by the people, and the people acquiesced in their possession. Tangxi Iron City, which is famous for making swords, was inherited from the Spring and Autumn Period to Tang Xianzong, and for more than 1,000 years, it was the most prosperous development from the Tang Dynasty. Known as "Ten Mile Tang Creek Ten Mile City, the furnace fire illuminates the world, and the red star is chaotic with purple smoke." The wine banner covers the green willows, and the iron song Qin Gengtian" is a big news!

In the martial Tang Dynasty, even though the Anshi Rebellion to the end of the Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties, the warlords of the land of Shenzhou were everywhere, and they were constantly competing with each other, but it also made Hu Lu have no chance to take advantage of the void.

Li Cunmiao has been fighting in Hedong and Yanyun for decades, and the rising Khitan hero Yelu Abaoji fled in embarrassment. On the other hand, in the Song and Ming dynasties, where the literary style was prosperous and advocated a comfortable life, even though there was a richer land of China than the previous generation, no one could provoke the pillar at the moment of national crisis, which is really sad!

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After receiving Li Yu's reply, Sha Lu decided to surrender Kaicheng tomorrow, so he summoned the generals to announce the matter.

The surrender of the city to Tang was only known to Sha Lu's cronies in advance, so he was not surprised by Sha Lu's announcement of tomorrow's surrender, and his reaction was very calm. The non-Sha Lu cronies and the loyal Silla generals were shocked, and knelt in the temple crying bitterly and begged Sha Yu to take back his life.

"Our country has lost but on both sides of the Lulu River, ninety percent of the territory is still there, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers capable of fighting. As long as our army holds the mountain city of Beihan, blocks the Tang army under the city, and waits for the king's reinforcements to arrive, why worry about not defeating the Tang army? ”

"General Sha, you are deeply favored by the country, how can you betray the country and seek glory in the face of national crisis?"

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Sha Lu snorted coldly, "The king heard that Ah Yu vomited a month ago, and transferred 30,000 elite soldiers from China to the north to support Jin Yuanshu, and all of them surrendered to the Tang Kingdom. Akagi, Axe, Gelian, and Izumi in the present-day northeast...... The nine counties had no soldiers to fight, and when King Tang Yan was still in Seng Liang City, he sent more than 10,000 troops led by Hei Yan Changzhi to attack it. It is reported that the three counties of Axexiang, each company, and the mother city are all lost, and it is only a matter of time before the nine counties in the northeast fall. At that time, the Tang army will be able to move south along the river from the east, and you can still expect the Garo and Yixian counties, which are almost undefended, to resist the Tang army like tigers and wolves? Besides, the 30,000 elite soldiers who were still fighting against the Tang army in Baekje were ordered by the king to come back to help, how could the Tang general Liu Renyuan not take the opportunity to counterattack? How many of the 30,000 elite soldiers can be transferred to help Bukhansan? How many of the 60,000 elite soldiers defending Tang Haikou along the southeast coast can be drawn north? Beihae Mountain is separated by seven or eight hundred miles, and can the fortress of Bukhanshan support until the arrival of reinforcements? ”

Sha Lu was speechless for a series of rhetorical questions about several generals who were unwilling to surrender, but in line with his loyalty to Silla, he still unswervingly opposed surrender.

"Since you don't want to surrender and are willing to be loyal to the king, then go and be loyal as soon as possible!"

"Sha Lu, what do you mean by you traitor? Still trying to kill us? ”

When the generals who were reluctant to surrender heard this, their faces changed, and they had a bad premonition, and they all held the matching knives hanging on their left waists, but they felt empty, and then remembered that when they entered the hall, the matching knives on their waists were taken away by the guards at the door.

The faces of the eight people changed greatly, and the generals who were willing to follow Sha Lu to surrender stepped aside, Sha Lu smashed the cup in his hand, and dozens of knife and axe men who had been waiting outside quickly rushed into the hall and slashed at the eight people.

How can the eight people without weapons with their bare hands resist the overwhelming number of people and the sharp sword and axe hands? In an instant, it was cut off by the one who chopped the melon and vegetables.

Sha Yan asked people to clean up the main hall, after all, King Yan entered the city to discuss matters in this palace, how could he leave a palace full of filth to greet him?

The gate of Bukhansan was slowly opened under the watchful eyes of Li Yu and tens of thousands of soldiers, and Sha Yu led the remaining more than 6,000 defenders out of the city to formally surrender and immigrate to Li Yu for city defense.