Chapter 126: Abandon Weapons and Avoid Death
The military serves politics, and the ultimate goal of politics is profit!
This kind of truth was known long before Chen Kefu crossed, and fighting a war is only a means, not an end.
Just as he said to Li Benlei, when they first broke through Liaodong City, they were alone, with no reinforcements behind them, and no response in front. In Liaodong, there are hundreds of large and small cities surrounding them, the Liao people have 100,000 soldiers, and the Liao people have nearly hundreds of thousands and nearly a million people.
At such times, they were weak and small, and not only did the Liao army put them to death. Even those Liao people will not have a few who are honest and surrendered, maybe they all have some ideas in their hearts.
The art of war is cloudy, and when you are weak, you will show it to be strong!
The weaker you are, the more you have to show your strength, and only in this way can you deter those who are stupid.
Chen Kefu gave an order, and almost half of the 100,000 people in Liaodong City were killed by him, basically blood flowed and people died, which was only a little better than slaughtering the city.
Such a ferocious approach is completely to make an example of a hundred and kill chickens to show monkeys.
As soon as Liaodong City was broken, he immediately used the newly formed army to take risks to come to Liaodong City again, and then started the war, all in order to weaken the strength of the Goguryeo people near Liaodong City and reduce their pressure. If the newly formed army of the Liaodong Army has been sitting at home and letting the Goguryeo people come to the door and be beaten passively, it is very unwise.
Turn passivity into initiative, and do not wait for the Liao people to gather again to suppress the territory, but use strategies to break the Liao soldiers and horses. With ambush warfare, such a tactical advantage to fill the weakness of the new formation of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army, so that they can better defend the Liaodong City in the future.
At present, the main forces of Gao Zhen and Gao Yannian have been lost, and the two cities of Anshi City, Baiyan City and the nearby mountain cities have also fallen into their hands. It can be said that the original strategic goal of this battle has been achieved, and after half a day of melee, those newly reorganized soldiers have also seen more or less blood, and it can be said that Chen Kefu's strategic goal has been fully accomplished.
If he continues to fight now, it will not be of much benefit to him to completely destroy that Liao army. And if the fight continues, seeing that it is getting dark, and as soon as it drags on until the evening, "this time will be delayed longer than originally planned, and the soldiers will sacrifice more in vain, and the fighters' physical strength will be consumed more."
For Chen Kefu, who is about to move to the next battlefield, this is unnecessary.
After a panicked half-day battle, except for the thousands of men and horses who were higher than Zhen and the hundreds of men and horses who were still holding on, the other horses who entered the city were either hacked to death, or they had all been divided into large and small encirclements by the Liaodong army, and they were surrounded by shields like copper walls.
All the Liao people are desperate, in the face of such a shield array, now that they are divided, and there are not many Liao people, they will be killed here one by one!
On the top of the tall teahouse in Nancheng, on the side of the street on the third floor, "several Sui generals wearing gorgeous armor suddenly poured out."
The Sui soldiers recognized it at a glance that this was their own commander, and many people looked up at him.
Chen Kefu smiled slightly, standing on top of the tall teahouse that most of the people in the whole army could see, looking at the Liao people who were about to be wiped out below.
"Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not die!"
As soon as Chen Kefu's words fell, all the Sui troops near the teahouse began to shout loudly, "Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not die!" ”
Like a bō wave, the shouts of the sentences spread from the teahouse to the surroundings, and in a short time, the roar of the Sui army spread throughout the entire battlefield. Eventually, they gradually converged "to form a complete sound bō, echoing dàng over the entire southern city."
"Exemption for those who surrender their weapons"
Since the Goguryeo people found out that they had fallen into the trap, they were about to die here, and they were all very brave and tenacious in the battle, "especially the two men and horses who were higher than Zhen and Gao Yannian, basically they were completely desperate."
The bursts of shouts of the Sui army" were combined with the sound of the Sui soldiers constantly hitting the ground with their shields, as well as the sound of those spears hitting the ground, which converged into a series of soul-grabbing sounds.
There are not many people in Liao who understand Chinese, but it is not that no one understands it. After all, the land of Liaodong has always been a place where all ethnic groups meet, and there are people of all ethnic groups who come and go to trade, and even in Goguryeo, there are many Han people who avoided Liaodong in the past due to the war in the Central Plains.
At this time, hearing the shouts of the Sui army, most of the Liao people were still pale and did not know what to do. ,
However, some Liao people who thought they would die today understood the words of the Sui army, and hurriedly shouted loudly in Goguryeo, "The Sui army said that as long as those who surrender their weapons will not die!" ”
"Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not die!" One after another shouts came out of the mouths of the Liao people, and those Liaokong, who were already desperate, began to ignite some hope again.
When you're in a Jedi, everyone explodes, just hoping for a chance to survive. But if there is still Xia Hao's choice, there is no need to die at all, then there will not be many people who can really fight for their lives at this time.
In the battle array, there is a special tactic of besieging the city, in order to break the mortal heart of those defenders, and make them have no fighting spirit.
The current situation on the battlefield is almost the same, as the Liao people who understand Chinese do not know how to shout, and after a while, the Liao people on the entire Nancheng battlefield have heard these words.
Those large and small Liao arrays that were already completely encircled by the Sui army were hesitant for a while, although no one immediately abandoned their weapons and surrendered, but no one was desperate to hold their swords and soldiers, and slashed wildly against those copper walls.
After Chen Kefu's order was handed down, Gao Yannian's more than 1,000 horses had already carried out two rounds of hedging with the soldiers of the Sui Army's heavy cavalry brigade, at this time more than 1,000 horses, only about five or six hundred people remained, and most of them were wounded, even Gao Yannian, a fierce general, at this time one arm was also loosely pulled, and when he charged just now, his left shoulder socket was pierced by a Sui army horse lance. Originally, the lance was going to his heart, and when he was critical, he quickly dodged to the side, but although he let go of the position in his heart, he still didn't completely dodge it in the end, and the Sui man, who seemed to be just an ordinary cavalryman, still inserted the sharp horse lance blade into his left shoulder socket, and one hand immediately lost his ability.
When Gao Yannian turned his horse's head again and was about to continue hedging, he suddenly found that the Sui cavalry on the opposite side did not immediately continue to rush like a storm, but began to line up in a glaive-shaped defensive formation, which made him a little dazed.
An old brother of the tribe next to him rode to his side on horseback" "Patriarch, those Sui people want us to surrender, saying that they are abandoning weapons and avoiding killing, patriarch, you can decide, whether to rush or surrender, we will listen to you." ”
Gao Yannian looked around blankly, and found that his old brothers were all looking at him one by one, but at a glance, from everyone's eyes, he could see everyone's thoughts, who could live and who was willing to die.
Turning his head to look near the city gate, there were many fewer people and horses above Zhen, but they were a little closer to the city gate, and it seemed that they were only about twenty paces. And the infantry formation of the Sui army seems to be completely chaotic, and the two sides are stuck together.
Gritting his teeth, Gao Yannian said to everyone, "Brothers, we have surrendered the Sui army today, what should the wives and sons of that clan do?" Are you willing to make them slaves to other tribes? If the umbrella is higher than General Zhen, he will immediately be able to stand out of the city, brother, for the sake of parents, wives and children, let's die here! Gao Yannian's words fell, some knights were still hesitating, and some had already made up their minds to surrender to Sui, and they and others would definitely become slaves of the Sui people, and the parents, wives and children of the clan would definitely become slaves of other tribes. Even if he dies in battle, his relatives still have something to rely on.
The knights of the Sui army on the opposite side had already set up a glaive defensive array, and a leading cavalry general shouted loudly to them, "Listen to the Liao people on the other side of Wuna, this time is completely the strategy of our general, and the letter you received from Gao Jianwu who came here was forged by my general.
The garrison of Liaodong City, Rongliu Wang Gao Jianwu, was defeated by our general two days ago and has been captured. Now that your men and horses have completely fallen into the trap of our army, there is no need to make useless resistance. Two days ago, as soon as you left the two cities of Anshi and Baiyan, my 100,000 troops had already entered the cities of Anshi and Baiyan, and now all of you have been captured by our army and are on the way to Liaodong City, and you will be able to meet them in another day. The general has an order, as long as those who abandon their weapons and surrender are spared death, if they resist stubbornly, you and the other two clans, regardless of age, men and women, will be killed! The head of this regiment will give you another quarter of an hour to think about it, and when the time comes, slaughter everyone in your two clans! ”
Gao Yannian and his subordinates, who were about to charge, were stunned for a moment, they were behind this desperate palace in order to let the relatives in the clan have a way out, but if they continued to fight, they would let the old and young in the clan be slaughtered, so what else would they fight?
, "Patriarch, is what the Sui people said true?" ”
The other person immediately said, "Since Liaodong City can fall into the hands of the Sui people, and we have fallen into the trap of the Sui people, then they sent people to Anshi, and it is not impossible to take advantage of the emptiness of the cities to take our mountain city." Patriarch, what do we do now? ”
Gao Yannian wanted to open his mouth to reprimand them, these were all tricks of the Sui people, and the second city of Anshi must still be in the hands of his own people. It's just that the words reach the corners of his mouth, but he can't say anything, he doesn't dare to gamble with the lives of the whole clan.