503rd The dust settles
Li Siyi knew that his father-in-law was captured alive. But its fate can be known without asking, and it will have to suffer from a thousand cuts.
Therefore, he immediately chose to commit suicide.
However, it is obvious that Li Siyi thinks too much, Yizi is just Yizi, Cai Dao has clear grievances, and those who have a direct relationship with Li Changjie will be implicated, of course, there are also those generals and soldiers who participated in the massacre of Yongzhou City back then will be punished heavily, and others are still treated according to the established strategy, and the same is true for Yizi.
The dust has completely settled, and the Eastern Route Army and the North Route Army have finally converged.
What people didn't expect was that as soon as they met, in front of the generals, Cai Dao immediately announced that he had relieved the two marshals Guo Zhongxiao and Di An from their military powers.
In this matter, even if Cai Dao and Dean are old acquaintances, they still don't leave him a little affection.
It is precisely because the two of them are old acquaintances, but Dian has no responsibility at all at the moment of life and death, Cai Dao naturally wants to expel him from the territory of Dayue Kingdom, as for the official family, they will say whatever they like after they go back. Actually, Cai Dao didn't care about Zhao Xu's thoughts at all anyway.
Regarding the palace of the Great Yue Kingdom, although Cai Dao broke through it, he didn't want to get involved in it. Therefore, he appointed the Yang father and son, as well as the Guo brothers, to seize all the things in the palace with the Eastern Route Army present, and when the first batch of people arrived, they immediately sent these things, together with Li Gande and his surviving family, to Bianliang City, accompanied by Dean and Guo Zhongxiao.
Of course, it is up to them to decide whether the Guo brothers will go back with them.
Because, this time the extremely smooth capture of Thang Long City, there are still three months before the rainy season, so Cai Dao decided to use these three months to carefully start from the Red River as a starting point, all the way to the southern part of the Red River, and capture all the cities of Da Yue along the way.
At this time, it is time to test the leading ability of the remaining generals in the school. Without Cai Dao's help, let's see if these young generals have the ability to make contributions.
In this regard, Cai Dao made great compensation to Chong Pu, and it was he who made this general waste in the wilderness. But the battle situation is such a change, who could have imagined it?
After a three-day rest, the commander of the Southern Expedition will be Chong Pu as the commander of the Eastern Route Army, and Cai Dao will also take half of the army along the Red River to take the two cities on the north bank, Xin'an and Taiping. This is because these two cities are very important in guarding the lower reaches of the Red River, so they are the first targets designated by Cai Dao.
Next, there is a kind of Park leading alone, and his next target is Nanding City, which is a city located on the lower reaches of the south bank of the Red River.
The East Route Army here is not the army led by Cai Dao before, and after the Song Army is repaired, Cai Dao will integrate the two roads, and then decompose them into the East Road and the West Road.
There is no commander on the western road for the time being, and the rest of the generals will lead it together, and their first target is the important town west of Thang Long City, which is also the second most prosperous place - Xinghua City.
In this regard, Cai Dao offered a reward, no matter what method they came up with, whose method they used to lose the least troops, and take Xinghua City, whoever was the commander of the Western Route Army.
Even if Zhe Keda and Cai Dao are friendly, Cai Dao will not treat him preferentially alone. If you want to gain military merit and status, you have to use your ability and intelligence to earn it.
However, this time, Cai Dao tied Zhi Kerou to his side, and he really didn't dare to let this girl Zhang Fei go under his nose.
Previously, the battle at the north gate of the Imperial City was the most thrilling battle in the entire Battle of Thang Long City. Even if the Northern Route Army seized the road and fled, the battle could not be compared, because the situation of the Northern Route Army seemed to be dangerous, but it was far from defeat.
And of the 3,000 soldiers under Zhi Kerou, nearly half of them were killed and injured in battle, and they haven't collapsed yet, even Cai Dao was in a cold sweat after knowing it. This is rare in the past and present wars.
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After the dust settled, Cai Dao didn't care about letting his soldiers rest.
He ordered Chongpu and his 1,000 cavalrymen, who had hurried back, to descend their troops out of the southern city, and placed them east of the southern city gate near the banks of the Red River, where they were temporarily guarded. Don't look at the fact that there are only 1,000 people under Chongpu, but this 1,000 people is much more effective than 10,000 infantry. As soon as the forbidden army of the Great Yue Kingdom saw this elite cavalry, they immediately let go of their careful thoughts.
As for whether there will be soldiers in the Yue Forbidden Army who are familiar with water when they are close to Nan'an, Cai Dao is not afraid, because those sailors on the warship have just finished a boring victory and are already a little panicked.
The confrontation with Li Qiande's subordinates on the Red River was more of a game than a battle, and the warships of the Song army took the warships temporarily recruited by the Dayue Kingdom as bumper boats.
There are iron sheets wrapped around the ramming horns, and the warships of the Great Yue Kingdom are all crispy, which is a collision and a quasi. Cai Dao's subordinates not only have such a ramming angle for big ships, but also for clippers.
However, Cai Dao did not treat these forbidden troops of the Yue Kingdom badly, because, during the Second Southern Expedition, they were the cannon fodder for the Song army to capture the cities on the south bank of the Red River of the Yue Kingdom.
The rest of the Song army began a carpet sweep from the northern city, driving all the people of Thang Long City out of the city and placing them west of the southern city. These people, led by Xie Feibao, were staring at three thousand people here.
In the eyes of the ordinary people of Da Yue Kingdom, the invincible monarch Li Qiande and the general Li Changjie were captured one after another, which gave a great shock to the people in Thang Long City. As a result, under the deterrence of the Great Song Dynasty, the subjects in Thang Long City were all turned into sheep, and obediently under the coercion of the Song army, they carried enough food and left their homes.
As for those who don't have food, it doesn't matter, the general of the Chongpu Rang Department led 300 cavalry and pressed the excess military food in the camp of the 10,000 Dayue Forbidden Army to send to the common people.
But most of the subjects of the Yue Kingdom did not appreciate Cai Dao's kindness, and they all wept miserably on the banks of the Red River.
I don't know if it's for the loss of their country, or for the tragic fate they themselves will face.
By the time all this was done, it was already dark. All the soldiers of the Song Army who did not have to be on duty were paralyzed on the soft beds of important ministers such as the Prime Minister's Mansion and the General's Mansion
。 After a whole day of fighting, a whole day of searching, and then a whole night of eating and drinking, although the looted gold, silver, jewelry, and copper coins were finally handed over, but the surviving Song army was not worried at all.
Because, they all trust the new commander-in-chief, who has not met for more than a month.