Chapter 510: Although I don't like to win, I came to surrender one after another

It was Hao Shaoqi's messenger who brought back the news, and the messenger sent by Li Meng first went to Chen Liu's camp, and then someone came to this city to inform the news.

The generals of the Shun army who were waiting with Hao Shaoqi at the head of the city were all Hao Shaoqi's cronies, and after knowing the news, they would naturally go to make arrangements.

In fact, Hao Shaoqi's side has already made arrangements during the day, and the troops that he can't control are all put outside, and they are in the opposite direction to Chen's six battalions.

However, this gap is to clearly separate the troops that Hao Shaoqi can control from the troops that cannot be controlled, and let these uncontrollable troops stay away from the troops of the Jiaozhou battalion as much as possible.

Although Hao Shaoqi made his own choice, the old troops of the Heshun army had incense after all, and he did not want those troops who did not surrender to be annihilated because of something.

When the time comes, say hello to the generals of those troops and let them stay.

In the evening, Hao Shaoqi's descendants completed a series of arrangements, and then at dawn, at the place of discussion in the city, the generals of the Shun army were summoned.

Among the Shun army, especially the generals of Shaanxi and Henan, when the main generals deliberate, everyone is carrying a sword and is highly vigilant, if it is placed in the Daming or Jiaozhou battalion, it has long been taken down by people on the charge of suspicion or non-etiquette, which is a common thing in the Shun army.

From the beginning of the homeless army, the large and small groups of the homeless army are annexing each other, fighting openly and secretly, and it continues to continue, all the generals are in a state of high vigilance, for fear that when to go to the banquet is the Hongmen banquet, and they will encounter an ambush on the road.

Especially after Li Zicheng killed Luo Rucai in the name of setting up a banquet, the Shun army generals were even more vigilant against each other, if it was a system, if it turned out to be a different faction, then it would be extremely careful.

When I got up in the morning, the meeting convened by General Hao Shaoqi was like this, and many generals came with their personal guards, fully armed, and entered the council hall with solemn expressions.

Hao Shaoqi was wearing civilian clothes, and as soon as he entered the door, he indifferently announced the news of the defeat of King Chuang, and only a few thousand people from the army of nearly 100,000 took it out, I don't know why after hearing the news, after a commotion among the generals present, there was no noise or riot.

As long as it is a general who has been in the Shun army for a long time, he probably knows the rumors of the strength of the Shandong soldiers and horses in the Shun army, and many old people with qualifications have said that the battles under the vortex and Kaifeng city, from another point of view, the strength of the Jiaozhou battalion has always been a shadow in the heart of the Shun army.

From Zhuxian Town to entering the lake to take Xiangyang, to turning back and the decisive battle of the soldiers and horses of the Governor Hou Sui, the Shun army has been avoiding the army in Shandong, and this dynamic also makes the generals of the Shun army have fear and worry in their hearts.

But the estimation of the battle situation, although on the surface they are saying that the destiny of heaven is in my Dashun and this battle will be won, everyone has the worst result in their hearts.

Now that this worst result has come true, everyone can accept it more calmly, if he wants to withdraw or want to fight, he must have come to this meeting hall in full uniform, so neat, everyone has guessed one or two in their hearts.

The people below were so "calm", but it made Hao Shaoqi above sigh in his heart, this person's heart was not condensed, and he was afraid that he would already have a bad plan before the war.

Even if Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng wanted to take advantage of the state after the victory of the strong soldiers and horses, they just lost the bet.

After Hao Shaoqi said his intention to surrender, there was silence in the room, and Hao Shaoqi's two cousins were outside the conference hall, peeking through the gaps.

However, the generals in the room were all dejected, whether it was Hao Shaoqi's descendant or a side lineage, there was no point in arguing.

After a long time, a mighty general stood up and said weakly:

"General Hao, we have finally survived to this point, although we don't have to farm and suffer, but the brothers underground, it is not easy to follow us to have a way to live, do you want to push them back into the fire pit......

This is the only thing that aroused everyone's emotions in this rally, the generals of the Shun army are all from poor people, and even if there is corruption at the moment, it is not so serious, and I always feel that I can't get over it regardless of the brothers below, Hao Shaoqi still replied listlessly:

"Even if the brothers below follow us and have eaten a few full meals, you look at them in Shandong, it is said that even if they are cattle and horses in the grange, nothing will be starved to death."

Having said this, there is nothing to say next, everyone has no objections, things are much more stable than Hao Shaoqi expected, of course, the generals of the Shun army are disheartened at this time, and no one is too lazy to make waves.

Jiang Hua, who came to persuade him to surrender yesterday, got the news, Hao Shaoqi didn't bother to keep him in the city, not to mention that it was inconvenient for some arrangements to have such an outsider, so he simply asked people to put Jiang Hua down in the city in a big basket and let him go to Chen Liu's military camp to say hello in advance.

Chen Liu, the general of the expedition to the west, was in Xuzhou and Fengyang Mansion, clearing out bandits, consolidating defense, and training new soldiers, but there was no battle to fight, and Lu Jiude, the eunuch guarding Nanjing on the south side of the Yangtze River, did not dare to act rashly, for fear that the other party would find some reason to cross the river, and how could he dare to cause trouble himself.

This made Chen Liu, who has always been active, quite bored, this time he broke into Runing Mansion from Nanzhili to the area of Ye County, all the way were the miscellaneous troops of the Shun army, and they were not vulnerable at all, and this battle was really not enjoyable.

I got up early this morning, put on the cloth, and ordered the whole army to be on alert, Jiang Hua of the Shandong Salt Gang saw Chen Liu's posture, and couldn't help but persuade:

"Why is Lord Chen so nervous, he Hao Shaoqi already knows the news of the big handsome's victory last night, and he has already said that he will surrender, there should be no accidents?"

Chen Liu replied angrily:

"In such a big battle, my side can only honestly surrender others, which is not very interesting, but I hope that he Hao Shaoqi will not understand, and he will have a solid fight with me, which is still happy."

Chen Liu was one of the people with the highest status in the Jiaozhou battalion, but Jiang Hua didn't dare to answer when he spoke like this, so he could only smile a few times.

He didn't have to wait too long, when the sun was about to noon, a white flag was raised in the city, and Hao Shaoqi sent his own trusted generals, saying that there were 46,000 soldiers in the Shun army, and all of them were willing to surrender to Shandong and let them be disposed of.

Jiang Hua breathed a sigh of relief, the great work was solid, and there was no need to worry about the future in the future, Chen Liu was full of disappointment, but he could only arrange for the soldiers to go out to be supervised, tens of thousands of people came over, the food and grass were consumed, and all kinds of supplies were all a lot of money, and there were some worries.

However, when Hao Shaoqi led the army to surrender, Chen Liu also sent people to send a horse to the army of the marshal Li Meng, although he was informed of the news, and Hao Shaoqi also wrote a letter to the Shun troops guarding on the other side, persuading them to surrender.

The Shun army troops that blocked the Shandong Ma Army and the Ming Army's Gaojie Department in the Jiaxian area were the whole army collapsed after hearing the news that the army was destroyed and King Chuang had fled, and it was no longer an army.

Xiangcheng was originally a city completely occupied by the Shun army, after Li Meng's victory, the Xiangcheng county commander who originally lived in a certain village on the mountain led a group of squires who were also in the mountains to protect themselves, and went down the mountain to resume their duties, and they shrank behind when they fought, but at this time they were brave and took the lead.

But the Jiaozhou camp still needs him temporarily, and this county commander can't see that he is an official of the Ming Dynasty at all, and his attitude towards Li Meng is like treating the emperor.

At the same time, Li Meng's marshal Xingyuan successively issued orders to Kaifeng City, requesting that the preparation and management of Tuntian Grange be transferred to this side as soon as possible, a large number of prisoners, a large number of ownerless fields, and the establishment of Tuntian Grange as soon as possible can be stabilized.

The war took place in late autumn, and the food and use of so many prisoners was a big problem, so Li Meng had to send a letter to Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, asking him to transfer supplies here.

Yuan Wenhong and a cadre of military quartermasters had already begun to prepare to send a large number of prisoners to the city of Kaifeng, the Kaifeng city wall and the nearby Yellow River embankment under the successive battles, in disrepair, if not repaired as soon as possible, I am afraid that there will be a big problem.

In the great war, although the casualty ratio was very small, the Jiaozhou battalion still had a certain number of casualties, and officers at all levels were ready to draw suitable manpower from among these prisoners and veterans to supplement them.

Not to mention the thousands of cavalry who surrendered, and more horses, these are what the Jiaozhou Battalion Horse Army, which has always been thin, needs most.

The burial of the corpses on the battlefield, as well as the grain and grass discarded by the Shun army, all need to be done by people, on the one hand, there are too many prisoners, it is difficult to deal with them, and on the other hand, a lot of manpower is needed, and there are many gaps, which really makes it difficult for the officials and local officials of the Shun army.

Fortunately, after this battle, part of Runing Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, Ruzhou Prefecture and Henan Mansion were almost completely under the control of Shandong, and the rout of King Chuang's soldiers and horses, and then most of the territory of Henan fell into the hands of the Jiaozhou battalion, which was also a matter of time.

When the land is larger, the population is larger, there are more fields, and there are more places to settle people, so it is a trouble, not a problem.

The news of Hao Shaoqi's surrender reached Li Meng's tent in the evening of the same day, and all the generals accompanying him were amazed, thinking that the tens of thousands of foot soldiers around were still a trouble, who would have thought that it would be solved so easily by the marshal, it was really a combination of Zhengqi and a god.

However, the subordinates were busy with these trivial and official duties to clean up the battle situation, and Li Meng only transferred 800 personal soldiers and 3,000 light cavalry to pursue Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, and there was no military order to issue any more.

Nearly 4,000 cavalry chased to Lushan and gave up the pursuit, King Li Zicheng of Chuang for so many years of campaigning, it was not once or twice that he ran away for his life, since he ran out of the encirclement, if he wanted to catch up, it would be difficult.

Although King Chuang ran out, the main force he had worked so hard to accumulate was wiped out after the battle of Xiangcheng, and it was not something that could be done in a hurry if he wanted to retrain such a force.

And King Chuang can have such a territory, can accumulate such strength, completely rely on one victory after another, after this defeat, everyone in the world understands who is strong and who is weak, there is a saying that everyone collects firewood and the flame is high, but Dashun is next the tree fell and scattered.

Even if King Chuang wants to recover, it depends on whether the Jiaozhou camp gives him this time, and the style of the Jiaozhou camp is basically none.

Li Meng is not Chongzhen, and the generals of the Jiaozhou battalion are not the superintendents of the Ming Dynasty, and they will never delay their plans and offensive because of a little trick played by Li Zicheng, the attitude of the Jiaozhou battalion towards the Shun army has always been to endure and wait, just to find an opportunity to complete the battle, and now this opportunity has been found, and the Shandong soldiers and horses who have endured it for so long will naturally have to do things neatly and neatly, leaving no trouble.

These are all later words, although the situation in Henan is very good, Li Xianfeng and the officials in Kaifeng City, as well as the prestige of the gentry who have status in Henan, have begun to write letters to send people to congratulate the Duke of Qi on this victory, presumably this news has spread, and all those in the world who are qualified to write letters to congratulate will come to express their attitude.

What is the meaning of this battle, everyone understands in their hearts, Li Zicheng, who represents the poor and thieves, and Li Meng, who represents the gentry of the big clan, should choose which side they should choose, and everyone should understand it in their hearts.

It looks like a happy event, but in the big camps around Xiangcheng, the high-ranking generals all know that the marshal is in a bad mood during this time, and his face is often cloudy.

Everyone is wondering, whether there is any hidden danger in this battle, but after thinking about it, after this battle, it should be one victory after another, could it be that there is something wrong with the Jiaozhou battalion in other directions, outside the plug and outside the customs are all good, now it is winter over there, even if there is a battle, it has stopped.

What's wrong with the big handsome, the only one suitable for asking and consoling, in the current camp, only the chief bookkeeper Yuan Wenhong can say two sentences.

On this day, he sent the deployment documents of Hao Shaoqi's Department and Xiangcheng Dongshun Army to the commander's tent, and after coming in, he saw Li Meng staring at the map in a daze.

The pro-soldiers had already passed through, and after Yuan Wenhong entered, he first bowed down to say hello, and then said:

"Marshal, General Chen of Zhengxi selected 5,000 people to supplement the troops in the surrender of the soldiers, and Lord Yuan of the guerrillas in northern Henan and Lord Sijia of Guide each picked 2,000 people, and the head of the Tuntian Zhuangtou over there in Kaifeng reported to the marshal that the soldiers of the Shun army here are all young and strong, and they know how to do farm work, as long as they survive this winter, they will be good laborers in the future."

Li Meng looked at the map and didn't look back, and replied in a deep voice:

"These forces of the Shun army are the only young and strong laborers left in Shaanxi and Henan, and they can't survive to rebel, they are all from peasant households, so they are naturally good laborers, let those people from Tian Zhengsi check, the families of these laborers are still not there, if they are, let them reunite as much as possible."

"The handsome man is merciful, these descendants must be grateful."

Yuan Wenhong bowed down and praised, but he admired the hatred in his heart, these young soldiers of the Shun army have been fighting for many years, and the land of Shaanxi and Henan has been plagued by famine and war for many years, ten rooms and nine emptiness, most of these soldiers are alone, and most of them have no family.

But as soon as Li Meng's move came out, these Shun troops must be grateful to Dade, and the originally unstable mind will also settle down because of this move.

Shandong does not spend much, but it can win people's hearts, and present the image of a benevolent and righteous teacher in front of the world, which is really a few birds with one stone, and this practice is really wonderful.

Yuan Wenhong confessed his guilt, hurriedly found a table on the side, spread out the pen and paper and wrote out Li Meng's order, and after writing, handed it to Li Meng to look at the seal, and where did he say:

"Lord Tang, the commander of the Ma Army, has already sent a messenger, saying that he will come to meet your lord this afternoon with Gao Jie, the chief soldier of the Ming Court."

Li Meng was already sitting in his seat, read the order, summoned the seal of his own soldiers, and asked:

"What does Tang Er's side think of the cavalry of the Shun army, if I don't think of leaving some seeds for the cavalry this time, I will let the people below kill them cleanly!"

"Back to the marshal's words, Lord Tang said that many of the horse teams of these Shun army are too reckless and have too heavy habits, or they are the soldiers of the Ming army back then, and the battle under the horse is okay, but it will take a while to adapt to the military discipline of our Shandong, but Lord Tang is also grateful to the marshal, the size of the horse army has suddenly doubled, he said that as long as the first half of the year, the marshal can see an invincible iron horse that dominates the world!"

Although it was relayed by Yuan Wenhong, these words were still heroic and abnormal, even Li Meng, who had always had a calm face, laughed, but he could still see the sullen look on Li Meng's face, Yuan Wenhong hesitated, and still opened his mouth to persuade:

"Dashuai, the students dare to say a word, the rebellion in Linqing is nothing more than the noise of the rural villagers, why worry about calming down in an instant, and now the news has not arrived, it must be a delay on the road, Dashuai should not worry, the current victory is complete, it should be celebrated, Dashuai should also be comfortable!"

Li Meng patted the table and said boringly:

"What a big victory, I have led the troops for almost ten years, if I can release Yuan Shizhong and the three regiments an hour earlier, Li Chuang will definitely not be able to escape, but unfortunately I only thought of this in the war, but let this Li Chuang run away, it will take a lot of twists and turns in the future, I think about it is depressed!"

Li Meng said depressed, but Yuan Wenhong was not good at what to say, Li Meng's battle from a few years ago, guiding the movements of the Shun army and the Ming army, to the total annihilation of the Shun army in the Battle of Xiangcheng, changing the Shun army's four sides into the iron bucket formation of the Jiaozhou battalion, such a layout of soldiers, can even be called magical.

As for the king Li Zicheng who took advantage of the chaos to escape, this is just a slight flaw, anyway, with the absolute superiority of the Jiaozhou battalion, it will not become a destructive mistake in the future, but Li Meng still blames himself and regrets it like this, how to say it, it can only be said that he pursues perfection too much, and Yuan Wenhong has no way to persuade him.

There was silence in the military tent for a while, and Yuan Wenhong asked again:

"Marshal, General Chen sent someone to bring a message today, saying that Hao Shaoqi is the general of the Shun army, and he is familiar with the terrain of Henan and Huguang, can he be assigned to serve under his account, and the Xuzhou army can give him a position as a general."

Li Meng groaned, shook his head, and commanded:

"This is not good, this battle ended too quickly, Hao Shaoqi is the core figure of the Shun army, if he is allowed to go on the expedition with the army so soon, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be some chaos, Hao Shaoqi's soldiers can be trained to come out of four thousand, and then make up a regiment for him, let him go to Weihui or Zhangde, he is in the north of the Yellow River to guard, first familiar with the various regulations of the Jiaozhou battalion, the experience is out, there is his use, Chen Liu's side, there are so many people in the Inventory Division, let him be transferred!"

Compared with Hao Shaoqi, who is extremely familiar with the interior of the Shun army and the terrain of Henan, the spies of the Inventory Department are naturally much worse, but Li Meng's consideration also has deeper reasons, Yuan Wenhong naturally will not say it, and this matter can be regarded as a foregone conclusion.

However, Tang Er, the commander of the horse team, and Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui of the Ming Court, arrived at the meeting earlier than the notice, and when he heard the report of the pro-soldiers outside the military tent, Li Menggang wanted to see him, but he thought of one thing, and opened his mouth to command:

"Let Commander Tang lead General Gao to walk around our barracks, see the daily drills of each battalion, and also go to the battlefield that is being cleaned up."

The camp of tens of thousands of troops is not small, plus the people who came from everywhere, Ding Zhuang, and the soldiers of the Shun army, plus the freight yard and the site where the corpses were burned, it is not too much to describe it as huge.

Although Tang Er, the commander of the horse team, did not understand the intention of the marshal's order, as a direct subordinate force, he knew that he would unconditionally carry out the order, and although Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui who came with him, had always been respectful and respectful, it was too slippery, which made Tang Er, who claimed to be a professional soldier, extremely unaccustomed to it. Since it was determined that the Shandong soldiers and horses had won a great victory, I felt that Gao Jie was in awe on the one hand, and on the other hand, he had made small calculations, such as distancing his army from the camp of the Ma army, sending people to enlist in Latin on the ground, hooking up with local squires, and so on.

This is also understandable, there will be no doubt about the matter of Toucheng, the only thing is that Gao Jie wants to make his troops larger and his chips bigger.

After looking at the large camp of the Jiaozhou battalion, Gao Jie, who was full of life, looked at the rigorously trained infantry queues, looked at the mountains of materials and a large number of people, the mighty division and the huge material and manpower behind all of them, Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, suddenly felt a chill, as if he was used to playing and played himself to the position of the general soldier, as if he would not be easy to use, and it was outdated.

After the visit, it was almost time for lunch, Tang Er and Gao Jie had different thoughts and went to the handsome tent for lunch, and when they were about to get closer, they saw a horse galloping by, and the knight shouted to the guards who blocked the road on the horse:

"Six hundred miles urgent, Shandong urgent!!"