After the Tang army captured the whole city of Haozhou, Guo Tingwei was forced to retreat to Zhongli with hundreds of remnants, and his subordinate general had a person named Huang Renjin who persuaded him to leave the boundary of Haozhou and go to Chuzhou to join Ma Renyu and jointly defend Chuzhou, which is a pertinent suggestion, although there are still some soldiers and horses in Zhongli City, but there are not many, that is, plus hundreds of remnants who were driven out of Haozhou City, a total of less than 2,000 people, how can they resist the siege of more than 10,000 Tang troops, and the war has been carried out to such a point, most of the surviving Wu soldiers are wounded, Even those who are not injured are all exhausted, and to be honest, there is not much combat power left. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The city of Haozhou has been lost, according to the Tang army, Dingyuan County has also fallen into their hands, Haozhou is destined to be unable to hold, and it is basically meaningless to continue to fight in Zhongli, but Huang Renjin's words did not shake Guo Tingwei's determination to defend the land to the death, Guo Tingwei said something to the remaining Wu soldiers after categorically vetoing Huang Renjin's proposal.

"The matter of the food king's loyalty to the king, now that the foreign thieves are invading, occupying my mountains and rivers and killing my fellow villagers, sticking to Zhongli is of course nine deaths, but in the face of the righteousness of the family and the country, what a seven-foot body! At this time, if he abandoned Haozhou and ran eastward, Guo He Yan faced his comrades who had died in battle for several days, he arrived under Jiuquan in the day, and He Yan saw General Liu who was righteous under Tu Mountain! Shouchun, you and I can't save it, but Haozhou Guo doesn't let an inch of land, if the Tang thief wants to come to take it, Guo won't let them get easy, Shouchun Guo is indeed powerless to save, but Guo has the strength to fight for every inch of land! If you die, why be afraid! ”

When the Tang army attacked Haozhou City, it did not forget to contain Zhongli, although the former was fierce, the pressure on the latter would not be much smaller, Guo Tingwei said these words in the blood-stained city, the morning sun was rising from the east, and the sun hit the broken city head and flag, which also seemed to be contaminated with Guo Tingwei's grief and indignation and the flesh and blood of the Wu army's soldiers, and became the sunshine of Wu State.

The soldiers of the Wu army saw Guo Tingwei's resolute attitude, a speech was tragic and desolate and heroic and passionate, most of them were inspired by it and their eyes were full of tears, the heroes can die when they embark on the end of the road after the bloody battle, but they will never live and will not bow their heads, even if the flesh and blood finally fall, his head is still holding his integrity high, although the soldiers of the Wu army can not fully express the emotions of the heartbeat, but their bloodstained hands are clenched the blade, the horizontal knife is rolled and the spear blade is missing, But it still flashes sharply in the morning light.

After Guo Tingwei was driven out of Haozhou City, the horizontal knives of the Tang army soldiers did not stop, and the people who stayed in the city and even the chickens and dogs became the souls of the Tang army under the sword, and the casualties of the Tang army in the bloody battle for days were of course not small, and the comrades died in battle.

Even when Meng Ping entered Haozhou City, he did not strictly order the soldiers not to slaughter the "innocent" people, and the anger in the hearts of the soldiers needed to be vented How to hold back, even if it was a very majestic general in the army, he did not dare to disobey and kill the red-eyed soldiers who had almost no reason to speak of at this time.

As the commander of an army, he must necessarily restrain his troops with military law on weekdays, but in many cases, he must know how to conform to the will of the army, otherwise who is willing to die for a general who is inconsiderate of his soldiers? Ci is not in charge of the army, attacking Haozhou for so many days, the Tang army siege suffered heavy casualties, when the generals asked Meng Ping to suspend the offensive, Meng Ping did not show mercy to his siblings, how can he be merciful to those who killed their siblings and helped the enemy army to kill their siblings?

There is no benevolence in war, war is only cruel, and human life in troubled times is not as good as dogs, this is the true face of war, slaughtering to deter the army and civilians in the enemy's territory is often more useful than using the name of benevolence and righteousness, no enemy army will remember your good on the battlefield, only when you are afraid of your might will give in, benevolence and righteousness, that is just a means of conquering the enemy's territory, slaughter, is also a means of conquering the enemy's territory, for the general who leads the army to conquer, these two are just two swords in his hand, which are the same.

After capturing the city of Haozhou, although the red-eyed Tang army delayed in the city for a while, it did not slaughter the city, and then surrounded Zhongli non-stop, Meng Ping did not want to give the Wu army a chance to breathe, when the army was in full formation, Meng Ping came to Zhongli City and said something to Guo Tingwei at the head of the city.

"Since the Tang Dynasty raised the army in Huaishui, Huainan has been defeated and defeated one after another, and our army has been attacking the city and pulling out the village every day, Dingyuan County, Qingliuguan, and Chuzhou City have all entered my Tang bag, who can stop half a point? The general first marched to Tushan with Liu Xin, and then guarded Haozhou for many days, killing and wounding more than 1,000 of my Tang Dynasty Xiaoyong, which was enough to serve the country. Now that the general has lost Haozhou, the Chuzhou army has also been defeated by me, Zhongli is a small city, and the general defends himself with 2,000 soldiers, how can he be solid! A certain persuasion general, although the stubborn resistance is heroic, but it is also the way to die, why not follow the example of Dingyuan County to abandon the darkness and surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and be loyal to the Tang Dynasty? ”

Guo Tingwei didn't answer Meng Ping's words, but just took the longbow in the hands of the soldiers next to him, and shot an arrow at Meng Ping, who was quite far away from the city, how could the arrow really shoot at Meng Ping? However, Guo Ting's move not only resolutely showed his own attitude, but also completely angered Meng Ping, so Guo Tingwei was not enough, and said coldly: "If this arrow can return to the city, Guo may surrender!" ”

It was not only Meng Ping who was angry, but all the soldiers of the Tang Army hated itchy, Meng Ping waved his hand to bring the people bound from Haozhou City to the front of the battle, pointing to these people who were kneeling on the ground and begging, "If you don't surrender for one day, I will kill a hundred people, and if you don't surrender for two days, I will kill two hundred people, do you think the battle of the trapped beast is a righteous move?" I can't fulfill you. The Han people have been a family since ancient times, and victory or defeat is their own business, and if they lose, they will lose, so what if they fall? Should it be surrendered or not, in order to leave a name in history, he did not hesitate to trap the public to death, how is it different from murder? What qualifications do you have to serve everyone, and what qualifications do you have to make history books stand up?! ”

Under Meng Ping's cold military order, the Tang army soldiers waved their cold-blooded horizontal knives and cut off a hundred fresh heads from their shoulders.

"Siege! The city is not conquered, and the war is endless! Meng Ping was ruthless like a stone, and the words that popped out of his teeth were even more indifferent to the extreme, he knew that this move might not necessarily destroy the heart of the Wu army, but as long as the army attacked the city effectively, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers of the Wu army would eventually overwhelm the indignation and become a bargaining chip to knock them down, in his young and pure heart, he had a very simple and direct criterion for judging, killing a hundred Wu people today, oppressing the Wu army to drop half a day early, it would make the Tang army die a hundred less, such a simple conversion Meng Ping has no reason not to do it.

Meng Ping has only one ambition in his heart, for that ambition, that is, to become an executioner with blood on his hands, and he has no regrets, for that person's country, even if he bears the infamy in the history, even if he is called a human slaughter by later generations, he will not frown under Jiuquan.

The lonely Zhongli City is like a leaf of duckweed in the rainstorm, trembling under the tide of the Tang army's attack, the Wu army screaming at the head of the city has wide eyes, and the Tang army on all sides under the city head is angry, the sin in the world is nothing more than murder, war is to kill people in batches, at the moment when the blade is raised to the opponent, who still has benevolence and morality in his heart? It's just killing the other party to protect yourself.

In war, there is no right or wrong in everything, only friend and foe.

The Hundred Battles Army and the Guards took turns attacking Zhongli, and as Meng Ping said, day and night, the wounded soldiers of both sides were constantly carried back, and one corpse after another fell under the city wall, like rocks and grass piled up on the cold soil.

After a day and night, Wu Jun showed signs of exhaustion.

On the second day of the army's attack on Zhongli, Meng Ping did not break his promise and once again killed 100 people under the city.

Anger made Wu Jun fight again, but after only half a day, after the blood cooled, cold fear permeated his body, so some soldiers looked at Guo Tingyu's eyes, which were no longer so pure.

That night, Huang Renjin found Guo Tingwei again, but this time it was not to persuade him to retreat to Chuzhou, because the Tang army was besieging the city on all sides, and they had no way to retreat, so Huang Renjin persuaded Guo Tingwei to surrender.

Guo Ting said that he would not fall.

On the third day, Meng Ping killed another hundred people.

Wails erupted in the Wu army, and weepers were everywhere.

At the end of the day, Huang Renjin found Guo Tingwei again, this time it was not only him, but also many generals, this time they did not persuade Guo Tingwei to surrender, but forced Guo Tingwei to surrender.

Guo Ting said that he would not fall.

Huang Ren then ordered his own soldiers to rush up and forcibly tied up Guo Tingwei, so that he had to surrender.

Guo Tingwei scolded loudly, and spat splashed Huang Renjin's face, but Huang Renjin was unmoved.

The reason why he tied Guo Tingwei to surrender, instead of simply opening the city gate to welcome the Tang army into the city, and not directly killing Guo Tingwei to ask the Tang army to surrender, is because he and the generals still respect Guo Tingwei, don't want him to die in the hands of the Tang army, and want him to recognize the reality and surrender to the Tang army, so that after the war is over, Guo Tingwei will be the one who "leads" the surrender, even if Meng Ping doesn't give him a good face, the Tang Dynasty will not treat him badly.

"You can't do anything, why should the general do this? The soldiers in the city have already suffered more than half of the casualties, and what good is it to continue fighting? Huang Ren persuaded each other bitterly, and his words were sincere, "After many days of bloody battles, the general has been loyal to the country, the Tang army is powerful, and the city has fallen into the crime of non-war. ”

Guo Ting said that he would not fall.

Tied up, he struggled to break away, his eyes were red, and he shouted in a sad voice: "The society is in trouble, the family and the country are unfortunate, how can Guo Ting be lucky?" General Liu, so-and-so is here with you! "Jumped over the women's wall and jumped from the city facing the loess.

Bang, before Guo Tingwei fell to the city, his head fell to the ground first, his neck snapped and broke, and then the whole person fell to the ground, blood gushed out of his mouth, and there was no movement after two convulsions.

Guo Ting's death by jumping out of the city shook many people, and the soldiers nearby, whether they were Wu Jun or Tang Jun, were obviously stunned. Huang Renjin and others lay on the head of the city and screamed a few times, but it didn't have half a point, and now, they can only erect the flag of surrender and ask the Tang army to surrender.

Meng Ping, who supervised the war, learned that Guo Tingwei fell into the city and died, he was silent for a long time, and whispered: "You are indeed worthy of the soldiers and civilians of Haozhou, but you have indeed never failed to the Wu State...... Actually, you're the same as me. He glanced at Xiao Suo's long sky, his eyes were like iron, "What about the people in the world?" As long as he lives up to his son, Meng Ping will not have half a complaint. ”

Meng Ping waved his hand and ordered: "Collect Guo Ting's body and bury it." ”

After Huang Renjin erected the flag of surrender, he hurriedly ran down the city to find Li Yanzou, who was helping to treat the wounded, and asked him to draft a table of surrender, which must be indispensable, with it Huang Renjin can bring the entire territory of Haozhou to surrender, not just Zhongli City, which is very important to him and the future situation of the soldiers, Huang Renjin is just a rough person, and he does not know how to write and ink, so this table has to find someone to write.

Li Yanzou is a scholar, he learned that Guo Tingwei fell into the city and Huang Renjin was about to surrender, he was so angry that he jumped up and pointed at Huang Renjin's nose and scolded him, and finally asked: "The soldiers fought bloodily for more than ten days, General Liu and General Guo all died on the battlefield, but now you want to surrender to the Tang thief, do you still have the idea of loyalty in your heart?!" ”

Huang Renjin was a little ashamed to be scolded by Li Yanzou, but there was no other way to do it, it was necessary to lower the table, he saw that Li Yanzou's attitude was resolutely refused to accept the order, so he had to change his face and let the soldier step forward, draw a knife to coerce him, and when the pen and ink were ready, Huang Renjin stuffed the brush into Li Yanzou's hand, and ordered him to write and lower the table, otherwise he would be killed.

Li Yanzou was pressed to the small case with the brush, his face was red and trembling, and in the face of the sword soldiers, he just wrote down a word, and he could no longer hold the pen, so he threw the brush on the ground, straightened his neck and closed his eyes: "How can the big husband lose the country and make a table for the traitor!" ”

Huang Renjin was furious and raised his knife to kill him behind the small case.

In the end, Meng Ping still got a drop table, but the format of the text was a little incomprehensible, and he had no intention of caring about these details, so in front of the disarmed Wu soldiers, he waved his army into Zhongli City.

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