Chapter Eighty-Six: Gone
Just sighing, Pang Yue suddenly heard a commotion behind him, and turned his head to look, but it was a team of soldiers who were walking towards this side with a captive tied up with flowers, and it was Lu Qiwu who led the team. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The captives that can be personally escorted by the battalion officer will naturally not be small fish and shrimp, Pang Yue suddenly lifted his spirits, and then looked at the captive carefully. I saw that his face was covered with blood, his mouth was tightly gagged with rags, and he struggled in vain while whining and screaming something.
"Who is this?"
"Haha, Yu Dashuai, this is the biggest fish in Ji'an City, let our old Lu catch it!" Lu Qiwu said proudly.
"Liu Wuyuan? Didn't he run? Pang Yue was a little surprised, and a little surprised.
After the city was broken, he saw with his own eyes that there were still a lot of Qing troops who broke through, mainly from the north, and there were also in the west and south directions, and even some dazed Qing troops opened the east city gate and jumped into the river. The Qing troops who escaped from the city were killed on the spot by the defensive lines deployed outside the city, but many Qing cavalry broke through the obstruction and disappeared into the smoke and dust, and were chased by the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion. He thought that many important people had escaped, but he did not expect that the biggest fish would remain in the city.
"It was Hu Yousheng who ran away, not him. This old boy was also stubborn, and stayed in the palace to resist to the end. It took a lot of work for us to catch him. Lu Qiwu smiled and patted Liu Wuyuan's shoulder.
Liu Wuyuan, who had been reduced to a prisoner, still looked unconvinced, turned his head sideways and glared at Lu Qiwu angrily, if his mouth was not blocked, he might have to scold. In fact, it was not that he didn't think about breaking through, but unfortunately he moved slowly and was blocked in the city, so he had to resist to the end.
In the final stage of street fighting, hundreds of veterans of the headquarters around Liu Wuyuan fought resolutely. These people are all old subordinates who have followed him for many years, and they have long gone to the dark, even if they are in a desperate situation, they will not surrender. But the mantis arm could not stop the car after all, and these hundreds of diehards were finally killed by the Ming army that flocked into the city, and Liu Wuyuan was also captured.
"In the past, Lord Futai refused tens of thousands of soldiers and horses with inferior military strength and held Ji'an for more than a few months, just like a famous general. Today, a certain personally raised troops to test the edge, but he was not allowed to enter the city after many fierce attacks, which shows that the ability of Lord Futai to use soldiers is really worthy of his name. Pang Yue looked at Liu Wuyuan and smiled meaningfully.
The surrounding soldiers of Huguang Town heard the banter and laughed together.
Liu Wuyuan's face turned red, and his mouth couldn't stop whining.
Pang Yue motioned to take out the rag from his mouth.
"Dog thief! Kill if you want to! Why bother! Liu Wuyuan scolded, "Grandpa was defeated today, and he thinks he is unlucky!" But you dog thief is just a grasshopper after autumn, and you can't jump for a while! ”
Pang Yue laughed, and after laughing, he couldn't help but shake his head: "In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zu Dashou surrendered in Daling River Kaicheng, and Lord Futai was also in the army at that time. If Lord Futai could be as iron-clad as he is today, condemning Jiannu, how could there be today's affairs? ”
Liu Wuyuan was speechless for a while, and only after a while did he angrily reprimand: "The general trend of the world, those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die." The Qing Dynasty dominates the world in accordance with the way of heaven, you dog thief can't do anything, he will be sent by heaven one day! ”
Pang Yue didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore, and waved his hand to ask someone to take him down. When Liu Wuyuan was dragged down, he still struggled and scolded angrily, until his mouth was blocked again.
Following Liu Wuyuan, from time to time there were captured Qing generals who were brought up, some were captured in the city, and some were arrested around the city, one after another, either pretending to be calm or begging for mercy. Judging from the battalion number and official position reported up, the Qing army in Ji'an has been almost wiped out, and perhaps, as long as you wait a little longer, the word "almost" can also be removed.
This is following last year's battles of Guangzhou and Yuezhou, Huguang Town once again completely annihilated a certain Qing army, it can also be said that since the Jiannu army rebellion and the Ming and Qing wars began, the Ming army has won a rare victory.
And taking Ji'an also means that Huguang Town's battle plan has completed an important step and seized a crucial opportunity.
Inside and outside the city, the smoke of gunpowder is not over, and the city is up and down, cheering and thundering.
Pang Yue stayed on the city tower for a while, and then specially sent people to all battalions and teams to reiterate the military discipline after entering the city, and then led the General Staff Department and other command organs to enter the prefect's yamen in the city, and erected the handsome flag and the town flag.
It was nearly midnight, the battlefield inside and outside the city was completely calm, and the Flying Tiger Battalion, which went to pursue the remnants of the enemy, also brought back the heads of Hu Yousheng, Yang Yuming and other defeated generals.
The next day, Pang Yue sent additional sentry cavalry and sailor sentry boats to the north to patrol and guard, and on the other hand, he ordered to carry out the aftermath and sweep up the aftermath, such as burying the corpses, sorting out the captured armor and equipment, rewarding the meritorious soldiers in the army, and punishing those who escaped from the battle or neglected their duties.
This battle was a hearty victory for the Ming army, not to mention the soldiers of the headquarters of Huguang Town, Hao Yongzhong and Zhang Xianbi's troops were also happy, whether it was the reward in exchange for the head or the captured military funds distributed, it really made these poor ghosts happy.
The next morning, all the captured Qing soldiers were taken outside the city to be beheaded, and no one was left. The splashes of blood and the falling human heads proved that what Pang Yue said before was not a lie when he said "resist and kill the whole army in three days".
As in the past, the dirty work of beheading is still done by the sidelines, and this time it is the turn of Hao Yongzhong and Zhang Xianbi. Although these two people have been on the battlefield for a long time and have long been bloodthirsty in their bones, they suddenly cut off so many heads, their own necks are a little itchy, and it is inevitable that their hearts will be frightened.
"In the first battle of Ji'an, the two generals and the soldiers of Ganzhou and Nan'an have worked hard!" Pang Yue watched the execution scene for a while, then turned to Hao Yongzhong, Zhang Xianbi, and Yan Yuese, who were accompanying him. Not far behind him were mountains of headless corpses and stacked captive heads. The earth had long been soaked in rivers of blood, glowing with an eerie black and red.
Hao Yongzhong and Zhang Xianbi were sincerely afraid, and they didn't even dare to say it.
Pang Yue said with a smile: "You and I are in the army, don't learn from the twisted attitudes of the literati, and you will be rewarded for your merits, which is a matter of course." After speaking, a list of commendations was read out on the spot.
The people on the list were all meritorious people in the Ganzhou and Nan'an armies reported by Hao Yongzhong and Zhang Xianbi before, and Pang Yue basically approved them, and specially doubled the rewards for a few of them. Pang Yue, who captured the Qing generals and concubines of the officials in the city, also gave them all to his liking and rewarded Hao, Zhang and others.
Hao Yongzhong and Zhang Xianbi, as well as the officers of the Ganzhou and Nan'an armies present at the scene, thanked them again and again.
"Of course, meritorious deeds should be rewarded, but mistakes must not go unpunished." After sending out a number of sweet dates, Pang Yue's words changed, "In this battle, most of the soldiers performed bravely, but there are still a few people who escaped from the battle, the military law is ruthless, and the crime should be beheaded!" ”
Over there, a soldier from the Supervision Division escorted another group of people who were tied up to the execution ground. These are all officers and non-commissioned officers who have escaped from the battlefield, with the largest number of the Ganzhou and Nan'an armies, a few of the Yuezhou battalions and Yongding battalions, and none of the veteran main battalions in Huguang Town. They were all taken on the spot by the overseers who were patrolling around the battlefield, and now they were waiting for them only to be cut according to the law.
The executioner was replaced by the military justice team of the Supervision Division, and in this place where the prisoners had just been killed, the same hands rose and fell, and the heads fell to the ground.
"In the same army, they are all brothers and sisters, if it is not for military law, how can I be willing to kill people easily?" Pang Yue sighed and looked around at the crowd, "I hope you will take this as a warning, I don't want to cut off so many heads next time, and I don't want to see someone present lose their heads." ”
At this time, the generals of the main battalions in Huguang Town, who were beside Pang Yue, were all solemn, and the generals of the Ganzhou and Nan'an armies couldn't help but gasp when they saw this scene.
"Clear rewards and punishments are the foundation of a strong army. It couldn't be better if the general disposed of it like this. Zhang Xianbi was the first to react, subconsciously wiped his forehead, and echoed, "Those soft bones who are greedy for life and afraid of death, even if the general doesn't make a move, the last general will not let them go." ”
"The soft egg who escaped from the battle, I Lao Hao also hated it, and the general killed it well." Hao Yongzhong stayed for a moment, and then said.
The other generals of the Ganzhou and Nan'an armies naturally followed suit, and successively echoed one after another. No one raised the slightest dissenting objection or expressed the slightest displeasure. I don't have the guts, and I don't have the need.
What's more, those unlucky people who were killed were also insignificant small characters in the Ganzhou and Nan'an armies, and those who really belonged to Hao Yongzhong and Zhang Xianbi's descendants were all refined characters, how could they escape from the battle when they were fighting a good battle? In addition, Hao, Zhang and others have really benefited, and they really can't afford to brush Pang Yue for such small fish and shrimp.
"It's great that you can think that way. In addition, this time I fought for days and days, and you worked hard to achieve this great victory. Today, Ben will prepare a small banquet in the city to celebrate! In front of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, Pang Yue's smile was still warm.