Chapter 1219: Surrender
In the battle of Anyang, in addition to the dead and wounded and scattered, the rebels also surrendered more than 10,000 troops. Although Du Shiyi said that he ordered Cui Qianyou, Tian Qianzhen, and Sun Xiaozhe to go and surrender, of course he would not let the three of them arbitrarily fill in their strength. Except for Azler, who was very experienced in recruiting and surrendering, he didn't say a word, and pulled over more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, after the others were placed in the temporary military camp in Chou Sigang outside Anyang City, Du Shiyi sent elite officers from Anbei and Shuofang Hedong soldiers and horses to disperse the surrendered troops.
And because Sun Xiaozhe provided timely information and rescued many captured officials, Du Shiyi had to fulfill his promise and reward him for his merits. Previously, Li Huaiyu was asked by Azler to be his deputy, and he knew the means of Azler's righteous son, so he let Sun Xiaozhe go to serve as a vanguard envoy in the forward battalion, leaving only Cui Qianyou and Tian Qianzhen, the two rebel generals, by his side. On the second day after the capture of Anyang, when he came to Chou Sigang in person, it was Cui Qianyou and Tian Qianzhen who were with him, although he was only a few steps away from Du Shiyi, but there were elite tooth soldiers on the left and right, not to mention that the two did not dare to have different intentions, and even if they did, they did not dare to act rashly.
Entering the city after heavy rain last night, Du Shiyi only slept for less than an hour after dawn. After leaving Chang'an all the way to Hebei, he also analyzed the battle situation and the enemy's movements day and night together with the military Chinese and Wu, and his eyes were bloodshot and sour. However, when he appeared in front of the rebels, his back was straight, and he did not show any fatigue, and the teeth soldiers under his command were also high-spirited.
In contrast, the surrendering rebels looked dejected and listless. Since the foundation of the government military system has collapsed, now all the major military towns without exception are mainly recruited, as professional soldiers, their livelihood is to fight wars, and this is the case with the rebellion against An Lushan with their heads. After entering Luoyang before, everyone grabbed a vote, but no one expected that they had only occupied the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty for a short period of more than a month, and they were driven out by wolves
Now the last place of refuge, Anyang, Yejun, has also been finally breached, and the looted things have no time to take away, some are lost in the city, and some fall on the battlefield, and everyone is very confused about the future future. What will happen to them after they fall? Will they be exiled to another country, or will they be relegated to a more remote place to fight on the border, or will someone else surrender first and then kill them in order to settle for all? But even the last worst possibility is that they are now defenseless, and they are being guarded by a heavily armed army, how can they resist?
In this era when there is no megaphone, of course, Du Shiyi will not really gather 8,000 people together, which is different from encouraging morale before the battle, and the effect of responding to a hundred calls is enough to make up for the lack of manpower. Therefore, he ordered only ten out of every five hundred men, and finally gathered one hundred and sixty rebel soldiers. When these people staggered and were escorted by the tooth soldiers, and then stood in a phalanx with trepidation, everyone did not know what they were about to face. Suddenly, the first person in the front row on the far left heard a voice in his ear.
"Why did you rebel with An Lushan?"
There were all the tooth soldiers who were motionless like nails, and none of the soldiers dared to look around rashly, so when they suddenly heard this, the young man who was clearly only seventeen or eighteen was shocked, and said instinctively: "An Dashuai said that Luoyang and Chang'an have gold and silver treasures, and if they win, they will be ours."
As soon as the words came out, he realized what he had said, and his face turned pale. Not only him, but the other people around him who heard this were all panicked one by one, especially the middle-aged man who saw the question clearly was surrounded by many tooth soldiers, and even Cui Qianyou and Tian Qianzhen, who had previously recruited them, followed with a respectful attitude, who didn't know that it was an important person who came? Sure enough, they saw the man standing still in front of the young soldier, and his gaze was extremely stern.
"Your ancestral home is Hebei? Do you have siblings at home? Can there be a field? ”
The young man had never seen much of the market, but he had a martial spirit, and he was frightened at this moment, and he replied without thinking: "I am a native of Lucheng, Shenzhou, and I still have A-Niang and two younger brothers at home, and I have no land, so I live on my salary in the army and the twenty acres of land rented from my master's family. ”
"Since you are the pillar of the family, have you ever thought that if you become a traitor, your two younger brothers will be implicated, and your aunt will not be able to spend her old age in peace?"
Du Shiyi asked rhetorically again, seeing that the young soldier was dumb all of a sudden, his face was blue and white for a while, he just skipped this person, took a few steps forward, and stopped in front of a middle-aged man who was at least forty miles away: "Why are you rebelling?" ”
The middle-aged man was not as reckless as the young man in front of him, he carefully bent down and saluted, and then said helplessly: "An Dashuai...... No, it is An Lushan who governs the army strictly, and there are orders before, but those who dare to disobey their orders will be punished by the three clans. As the little brother said just now, our family members are all in Hebei, and we dare not disobey. ”
This extremely smart person didn't dare to disobey the four words, and suddenly the young man who had just been frightened came back to his senses, and hurriedly shouted I don't dare to disobey. The others also came to their senses at this time, and out of fear of the uncertain future, one by one desperately shouted, justified, and begged for mercy, until the sergeants on all sides shouted violently, and raised their sheathed sabers to suppress them, and the crowd gradually fell silent. It wasn't until they heard the middle-aged man who asked him say something slowly that there was a small commotion again.
"I think many of you have heard of me, but it is the first time you have seen me, I am the protector of the capital of Anbei, and I should be the right minister to recruit Marshal Du Shiyi."
Seeing that the crowd was quiet for a moment, Du Shiyi smiled and said, "Presumably, when you were escorted over, you all thought about whether you were going to be killed as an example." At the moment, I can tell you unequivocally that if you want your life, just by the way your army was demoralized and demoralized, the army of the three roads in Anbei Shuofang and Hedong will not have to show mercy, and if so, you will not stand here. But in my opinion, An Lushan deserves to die, An Qingxu and others deserve to die, but if they want to kill a corpse all over Hebei because of this big war that they set off for their own selfishness, I Du Shiyi can't do it."
After a depressing silence, someone whispered: "Dare to ask what the marshal plans to do with us?" ”
Seeing that many people were all holding their breath and waiting for their answers, Du Shiyi couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
After the Anshi Rebellion in history, there were many feudal towns from north to south, all of which were actually the result of the wrong decisions of the central court of the Tang Dynasty. In the Anshi Rebellion, many outstanding heroes, such as Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, and Hun Shizhi, were either suspicious, or high-ranking officials and lords, or relieved of military power, plus the servant Gu Huaien was forced to rebel by the eunuchs, and the Lai Zhen, who was known as coming to chew iron, was even unjustly killed by the Son of Heaven, and in the end, no one was divided. On the contrary, those rebel generals who were once reused by An Lushan Shi Siming, in the Tang Dynasty for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, one by one, in front of the self-respecting envoys of the army, even after experiencing the reduction of the feudal domain again and again, there are still many feudal towns standing.
Loyal ministers and good generals will rebel and surrender generals, and the former will be defeated in a certain way
As for the lower sergeants who are based on the rebels' surrender or the Fang Zhenbing who crusaded against the rebels, the more numerous low-level sergeants have become the targets that everyone must encircle, and they are simply spoiled. When the court gave money and food, they went to the court and expelled the Jiedu envoy and even any superior general; The court did not give money and food, and the festival made the favor envelope, so they went to the festival to expel the court officials, or rebelled with the festival envoy.
Not long ago, the soldiers under the command of the Hedong Jiedu envoy expelled Wang Chengye, the envoy of the Jiedu, and put Cheng Qianli on the top as the Jiedu envoy, which is the prototype of this phenomenon. He didn't want to do this, but at that time, if he forced Li Longji to remove Wang Chengye from his post as the envoy of the festival, Li Longji could instead make him feel pitiful, or he would not obey him, but he would turn good things into trouble, and he had to make this decision. But now that the war in Hebei has advanced to the final stage, he will gradually establish rules in the army.
The army must be used, but he must not habitually slaughter his compatriots who are of the same blood as himself, and he does not want to do this kind of thing
"In the sixth year of Kaiyuan, the rebellion of Kang Zhibin in Lanchi Prefecture, all the rebellious Hu soldiers were moved to Jianghuai and Heluo, until I served as the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu and wrote to ask for help, and these tens of thousands of households were able to return to their hometowns. If, according to the old practice of the past, you follow the thieves and rebel, you and your families will inevitably leave your homeland, and even if you escape a single life, the notoriety of the rebels and their families alone will be enough to ⊥you will not be able to hold your head up for the rest of your life."
This time, more than 100 rebels were in a state of panic. Du Shiyi's words were reasonable, and the thought that they might all be escorted south because of the crime of rebellion, everyone couldn't hold back. As the first person knelt down with a thud, more people knelt down with Hulala, and after a while, they saw that the phalanx in front of them was a little shorter.
"Beg the marshal to spare our family"
Under the repeated requests, Du Shiyi raised his hand and pressed it, and then said word by word: "Your military status is still there, and your family members are still looking forward to it at home." If you feel that you are content to escape a life, then you will nest in this sorrowful Gang, and I will leave people and horses to guard here, and when this battle is over, you can also go to Lingnan to settle down. But if you still want to get rid of this rebel hat and regain the glory of the Youyan man who was lost by yourself, then you might as well show me what the Youyan Iron Army was like at the beginning, and after he triumphed and turned his merits into crimes, he could still be rewarded for his merits."
After meeting with four groups of such rebels, all the morning was spent in Chou Sigang, and some Yu grain was simply used as lunch, and Du Shiyi set off for Anyang.
He really wanted to follow the strategy of surrendering a certain mighty army of benevolence and righteousness that was fighting more and more in later generations, but he didn't have enough time, not enough personnel, and no time to do ideological propaganda at all levels. What's more, today's Hebei, like Mobei at the beginning, is like a completely crippled virgin land, waiting to be reclaimed.
The big landlords of the entire Hebei official family, after An Lushan rebelled, some of them were rebellious, and some of them were uprooted, and the fields became ownerless, that is to say, in the future, Hebei will face an unprecedented reshuffle
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