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Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly, he was actually worried that Zhou Shiju would be hacked to death or trampled to death in the melee this week, and now seeing him come out and surrender by himself, it is naturally the best result, he rode through the gap in the team, walked to the front, and said to Zhou Shiju from a distance: "Who is coming?" Tell us who you are! ”

Zhou Shiju said weakly: "The defeated general is the slang Qu Shuai Zhou Shiju, who was dazed for a while, and followed the thief marshal Wang Zhongxuan to raise troops against the imperial court, and today I witnessed the power of the imperial court, only to know that I waited for the mantis arm to be a car, vulnerable to a blow, and was willing to lead the troops to surrender." ”

Wang Huaqiang's face put away a smile, and he shouted in a deep voice: "I am the captain of Fengche of the Great Sui, Wang Huaqiang, the head of the Panyu Road march, Zhou Shiju, if you surrender, you will throw away your weapons alone and come to us." ”

Zhou Shiju fled together in the defeated soldiers in the escape just now, suffered a lot, fell down twice, almost trampled to death, and even the leather armor was torn to death, he was like all the barbarians, he was completely frightened, lost the courage to fight again, after hearing Wang Huaqiang's words, he suddenly came back to his senses: "General, I will lay down my arms and surrender, can you leave me to wait for my life?" ”

Wang Huaqiang's eyes flashed with murder: "Zhou Shiju, you are not qualified to bargain with us, laying down your arms and surrendering immediately is your only way to survive now." ”

Zhou Shi raised his head, looked at the thousands of people behind him, and gritted his teeth. Stand up. In the slang tribal language, he said, "The Han general said it." Put down your weapons, you can have a way to live, don't mess around, listen to their orders to save your life! ”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and limped towards the Sui army, Wang Huaqiang waved his hand, and several sergeants ran forward, and soon tied up the Zhou division. The knife holder was escorted back to the camp around the neck.

When those barbarians saw that Zhou Shiju was captured alive, they all dropped their weapons, and wanted to come over and surrender in the same way, but they only heard Wang Huaqiang shouting: "The whole army listens to the order, does not accept the surrender of these barbarians, and all of them are killed, and the first rank is counted in this battle!" ”

The Xiangzhou army burst into bursts of cheers, the crossbowmen pulled the triggers on their hands one after another, and the archers even sprinkled bursts of arrows into the sky, cleaning the barbarian crowd like dark clouds.

Three or four thousand brute soldiers at this time. All of them were huddled together in a dense group, and a crossbow bolt passed. At least two people can shoot through, and the feather arrows in the air can sweep down the crowd piece by piece, although some barbarians are dying and struggling, and want to rush out desperately, but they can't run more than a dozen steps before they are all shot down by crossbow arrows, and it takes only five or six minutes, none of the three or four thousand barbarians can still stand, and they are all shot like hedgehogs, and the corpses are all over the field.

Zhou Shiju on the side had already burst into tears, and kept scolding: "Treacherous thief, you, you can't die well, Lao Tzu will not let you go even if he is a ghost!" ”

Wang Huaqiang had been smiling on his lips just now, looking at this massacre, ignoring Zhou Shiju, at this time the overall situation was decided, he waved his hand, and the lance hands stepped forward one after another, adding a few more lances to each body in the corpse pile, in case some people pretended to be dead.

Wang Huaqiang turned his head and glanced at Zhou Shiju, and said coldly: "Zhou Shiju, I didn't say that I wanted you to surrender, you yourself wanted to surrender, I didn't even say that I accepted your surrender, you just threw away your weapon and came over, and I just asked you to tie you up." As for these subordinates of yours, they burned, killed, and plundered in our Han villages, and did all kinds of evil, and now they want to live when they throw down their weapons? Stop dreaming! ”

Zhou Shiju gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "The surname Wang, if you slaughter prisoners of war, you will not die well!" ”

Wang Huaqiang said disdainfully: "It's a matter of the future if I don't have to die well, anyway, you won't see it, Zhou Shiju, the reason why I left you alive is because you are still useful, and it will not hurt you to cooperate with us well." ”

After Wang Huaqiang finished speaking, he waved his hand, and several sergeants dragged Zhou Shiju, who was still screaming and scolding, out.

Pei Shiju rode over from behind, looked at the soldiers who were still killing corpses in front of him, and sighed: "Hua Qiang, you promised me that you would hand over these people to me for disposal." ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled: "Hongdae, I know that you can't bear to kill these thieves, so I can help you do it early, since Gu Ci is not a soldier, and he is not righteous, you think that I Wang Huaqiang is ruthless and unjust, it is impossible to keep these people because of reason." This will not be beneficial to our army's next campaign. ”

Pei Shiju's face was as cold as frost: "Oh? Do you still have a point? These people have given up resistance, do they have to kill? If you kill them, you won't be able to bring those villagers back to life, this will only be revenge, when will it be a head! ”

Wang Huaqiang waved his hand: "Of course I didn't kill these thieves just to help the villagers take revenge, that's just one of the secondary reasons, as a general, you can't raise troops out of anger, attack and kill with anger, and kill ominous things, I know very well that dealing with these barbarians is mainly for future combat considerations."

First, our army has few soldiers, only 3,000 people, and these prisoners have four or five thousand, judging from the strength of Donghengzhou, it is impossible to control these prisoners at all, and when the time comes, we can only release them, and these people are familiar with the tactics of our army, and the next time they go back to talk to Wang Zhongxuan and others, they may be prepared, and they will not be as easy to win as today.

Second, when our army came to Lingnan this time, we did not levy the people in a hurry, and even the baggage and carts had to be carried by ourselves, so we only brought ten days of dry food, and today we have to eat after the siege of Donghengzhou, otherwise it will be cut off in three days, and there will be more than three or four thousand mouths at once, what will we feed on?

Third, this expedition to Lingnan, the need for both grace and power, but when to establish grace, when to establish authority, very particular, when our army pacified Nanchen, it was to attack the weak with the strong, swallow the small with the big, the problem of winning the war is not big, the key is to win the hearts of the people in the future, so the Yue Guogong can return all the prisoners after winning the battle, because it does not affect the war situation.

Even if we eliminated 20,000 Zhou Shiju, Wang Zhongxuan's main force still had more than 100,000, far more than our army and the defenders of Panyu City, if the enemy received the news of defeat, it was bound to shrink the barbarian troops everywhere and concentrate the main force to fight a decisive battle with us.

Therefore, we need to be powerful in this battle, and on the one hand, we cannot give Wang Zhongxuan a chance to join the defenders from all over the country. On the other hand, it is necessary to let the barbarians know that the main force of Zhou Shiju was killed by our army, and this is the fate of the opponent of our Great Sui Heavenly Army, which is enough to deter those half-hearted barbarian commanders, let them take the initiative to surrender, and even give Mrs. Xian and his grandsons a little warning, if they are still hesitating, they will not waste time after knowing the result of this battle. ”

Pei Shiju's frowning brows softened slightly: "Hua Qiang, what you said makes sense, but after all, this is a violation of Gao Shiju's Huairou policy, and thousands of eyes are watching this matter, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you hide it." ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly: "Hongdae, I don't need you to help me hide it, just report it truthfully, when the high servant shot this order, the original intention was to let us enter Lingnan with the army, if I have 50,000 troops in my hands now, of course, I don't have to do this, but I will release the prisoners and let them preach the benevolence of our army, but our army is only 3,000 people now, and it is a heavy attack with a small number of people, so achieving a military victory is the top priority."

On the battlefield just now, I never said that I accepted the surrender of the enemy, that is, I didn't want to be killed by the prisoners, and I really wanted to blame the high-ranking servants, I only said that these were not prisoners of war, because they slaughtered the villagers, so I refused to accept their surrender. “

Pei Shiju glanced back at the direction in which Zhou Shiju was dragged away: "What did Zhou Shiju say?" It seems unreasonable that you killed all the brutes and left behind the head of the thieves. ”

Wang Huaqiang laughed: "This matter is easy to explain, just before the battle, more than a dozen horsemen ran out of the enemy camp, it seems that the direction is not to the east of Shixing, but directly to the south, what kind of people are these, as well as the inside story of Wang Zhongxuan's traitors, all need to be interrogated this Zhou Shiju to know, so I leave him alive for the time being, there is nothing to doubt, of course, after asking, Zhou Shi will definitely be raised with a thousand knives to pay tribute to the Han villagers who were killed by them this time." (To be continued......)