Chapter 280: A Thousand Corpse Pits
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Cao Yuanzhong heard that Shi Chonggui was still coming, and laughed, now the troops in Yunzhou City are weak, although there are 10,000 or 20,000 people, but there is no strong enough army to shake An Chongrong and Yao Yuanfu on the frontal battlefield.
However, from Cao Yuanzhong to Zhide Bai Chengfu Zhao Pu, no one is afraid of martial arts, because they have just received the news that two days later, Zhang Mai's army will arrive in Yunzhou!
Cao Yuanzhong said to Zhe Deyan: "Are things ready?" ”
"It's all ready." The Liu family of Huai'an County in Yunzhou, the Xu family of Changqing County, the Han family of Tiancheng County, the Xiao family of Xuande County, the Dingjiabao of Guangling County of Ulzhou, the Yangjiabao of Ding'an County, the Chen family of Ding'an County, the Baiyun Temple of Lingqiu County, the Luo Hujun of Hunyuan County in Yingzhou, the newspaper of Heyin County, the Ma family of Shanyang County in Shuozhou, the Anjia of Shenwu County, and the Yang family of Huanzhou, the Luo family of Guihua Prefecture, and the Zhang family of Wende County, all sent representatives, but they were all a little strange, why we handed over Yunzhou to Shi Chonggui, and we also needed to invite them to watch the ceremony so loudly. ”
Cao Yuanzhong said with a smile: "If you don't invite them to come, how can you show the sincerity of our army!" ”
Zhao Pu suddenly said: "However, the representatives of Naturalization and Wende County have a piece of news. ”
"What's the news?"
Zhao Pudao: "It is said that the Khitan has withdrawn eastward, and when it retreated eastward, hundreds of thousands of people in Youzhou were also taken captive. ”
Cao Yuanzhong was taken aback: "There is such a big thing!" ”
Zhe Deyan said: "There have been rumors on the grapevine before, saying that it is the Khitan who is capturing the population in Youzhou, and they have always done this kind of thing, so everyone is not very careful, but I never expected that it would be such a big deal as the abduction of the entire Youzhou." ”
Cao Yuanzhong said: "How could such a big event only come today!" The storytellers and monks we sent to Youzhou are all deaf and dumb? ”
Zhao Pu said: "The Khitan has cut off the border between Yanyun and Yanyun half a month ago, and the monks and storytellers we sent have not heard from them for more than half a month. And recently after the Jin army took control of the northern Taihang Kou. It seems that the news is also being blocked. ”
Hearing Zhao Pu say the news, everyone present was shocked.
If Zhang Mai heard the news, he would inevitably be aroused by the national indignation and be furious, if it was Fan Zhen Wei Renpu who heard the news, he would inevitably feel the righteousness of the sages and stand up and angrily reprimand the Khitan for being unkind, if Liu Heihu Shiba and other Tiance generals heard the news. At this moment, he must be roaring for revenge, but Cao Yuanzhong is so calm that he seems to have no heart, although his face is angry, he is already calculating in his heart.
If this is true, then it will be of great benefit to us!
Not only is it conducive to Tiance's large layout in the entire Youyun region, but even Yunzhou can also be adjusted! This is a handle, a handle that can even be used well and can even splash Shi Jingjiao with sewage - well, Shi Jingjiao has long been covered in sewage. Now what Cao Yuanzhong has to do is to tear off his clean robe that covers the sewage, so that everyone in the world can see his dirt and smell the filth on his body!
Cao Yuanzhong said: "This matter must be investigated!" When necessary...... Yan Gong, you go to Youzhou! ”
Zhao Pu said: "Now that Liao and Jin are all enemies, Cao Gongzi's daughter is not suitable for danger, so Zhao Pu should go." ”
Cao Yuanzhong said: "Yan Gong went, so there was no danger." If you say anything, you may be killed by the Khitans or the Jin generals in a fit of rage. ”
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Youzhou City.
This is the birthplace where the Duke was enthroned. This is the capital of Yan, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, here is the rear headquarters of the Han Dynasty to pacify the northeast, and here is the starting point of the Sui Yang's Eastern Expedition, how much glory, how much melancholy, and how much regret. How much of the past has now disappeared like smoke in the whole city.
In the huge Youzhou, there is only one empty city left.
Du Chongwei was greedy, cruel and cruel, and never cared about the lives of the people. If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have given the military order that would have been regarded as madness by Shilin! But now when I see an empty city, I still panic in my heart, the city is desolate, like a ghost domain, the wind blows, only the echo is left, this is a tomb without even a corpse, not the world.
Fu Yanqing looked at some traces of blood left in the corners, and knew that this time the Khitan relocation was bloody, and sure enough, it didn't take long for soldiers to dig a thousand corpse pits outside the city!
Although the Khitan people buried the corpse, they were also hasty, and they were not even in the mood to cover up the traces, so they were quickly found by Shi Jin's army.
Looking at the pit of a thousand corpses, Jing Yan's eyes were wide and he shouted to the sky: "Khitan, beasts too!" Our people are being brutalized! If this revenge is not avenged, what is the court to raise us! What is the court to raise us! ”
The surrounding soldiers heard his shout, and their eyes showed admiration, but Du Chongwei glanced at him, sneering in his heart, now he is shouting for revenge, what did he do in the first place? When you decided to ignore the Khitan relocation, you Jing Yanguang also acquiesced, with your many years of experience, would you not know that such a large-scale forced relocation would definitely kill people? From the bottom of my heart, although Du Chongwei hates Zhang Mai for holding high the banner of righteousness, but people can do what they say, you Jing Yanguang just rely on one mouth, when you say it impassionedly, when you do it, you shrink your hands and feet, it is better to be honest!
At this time, there were soldiers in a thousand corpse pits in other places, Fu Yanqing looked worried, and said: "Things are very bad, I really didn't expect that the Khitan would do so much!" ”
Du Chongwei seemed to be unable to see the corpses full of pits, and said: "It's not that we don't save Yanmin, isn't it too late?" ”
Just yesterday, Shi Jingjiao's holy decree came to the army, requiring the East Road army to immediately approach Youzhou to protect the people of Yandi.
Of course, when they marched into the army, the Khitans had already left. said that it was to hand over the city, but the Shi Jin army didn't even see the Khitan horse's buttocks, saying that it was to protect the Yan people, and when they entered the city, Youzhou had already become a ruin, leaving only the thousand corpse pits in front of them. Shi Jin is a monarch and a minister, and the whole operation seems to have been discussed with the Khitans.
At this time, another soldier came to report, and another pit of a thousand corpses appeared, and Fu Yanqing's face turned even paler: "Even if there is His Majesty's holy decree, I'm afraid that we will still be impeached." The general will not be subject to the order of the foreign monarch, and we are on the front line and do not advance to Youzhou at the first time, but wait for the holy decree. So that the swallow land is empty, and thousands of corpses are pitted - this is our fault, not all people in the world are blind! The scholars of Hebei and Shandong will definitely not let us go! ”
Yandi has been closely related to Hebei since ancient times, and Yan Zhao Yan Zhao has been jointly called since ancient times. Hebei is also connected with Shandong bloodline, regardless of the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Huangong's defense to save Yan. Or the Sui and Tang dynasties here are regarded as Shandong, this whole area has always been the same breath, whether it is Shilin Hao clan or the common people have marriage contacts, now Youzhou has been moved empty, Hebei Shilin is bound to have a fierce reaction, Hebei moves, Shandong Shilin will inevitably respond.
"Humph! A bunch of guys who only talk about it, what do they do! We are acting according to orders, and everything has our own majesty to make decisions for us! ”
During the Five Dynasties period, the status of Wenchen was low. In Du Chongwei's eyes, the only thing that matters is the knife in his hand, and the person with the knife is a qiē, as for the mouth, who has time to care about him, he would ask Shi Jingjiao for advice at the beginning, but he never thought that he could deceive the world, but he just needed a fig leaf to justify himself.
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This time, the Khitan retreated very briskly. Not only did they hand over Youzhou at once, but Danzhou, Shunzhou, and Jizhou were also handed over. No matter how Hu Han retreated to the east of Yuguan, plus the states that Shi Chonggui had recently collected, now there is only one Yunzhou left in the entire Youyun region, and all the others have fallen into Shi Jin's pocket!
The Yandi Prefectures had a population of one million, and the Khitan took hundreds of thousands of people captive. The former prosperous market was turned into ruins, but there were still many fish hiding in the corners of the city, fleeing to the outskirts of the barren mountains, and seeing the army of the Central Plains entering, some people cautiously walked out of the hiding place, and at the same time brought a shocking news to the Jin army!
"Recently, from the mouth of Yanmin who slipped through the net. The subordinates also heard a piece of news......" Fu Yanqing said cautiously, he had personally interrogated those Yan Min, although they did not dare to guarantee the reliability of this news, but this news was too big and too important for Fu Yanqing to intercept.
"What's the news?" Du Chongwei asked.
"I heard...... The Liao were defeated in Shangjing...... And it's a big defeat! ”
Du Chongwei gasped violently, and almost shouted in unison with Jing Yanguang: "What did you say!" ”
Xue Fu went north and went to Beijing to win, one of the two sides must win, and one side loses, no matter who wins and who loses, it can't be said to be unexpected, but this war ended so quickly? The huge Liao State was defeated so quickly?
This isn't a border battle! Shangjing is the capital of Liao! Even if you lose, it stands to reason that you should resist for three years and two years, why did you lose so quickly? It's all gone, so is it far from the country?
"Is the message accurate?"
"It's not ......very accurate," Fu Yanqing said, "According to those Yan people, it was revealed to them by some fleeing Khitan soldiers, but they have no way of judging the truth or falsehood......
"The Khitan soldiers are on the run?"
Du Chongwei's pupils were shrinking.
Under the high-pressure policy of the Liao State, the Han people in Yandi have fled to Hebei more in the past two years, and it is also common for the Han soldiers of the Liao State to flee, but the Khitan soldiers fled! What has to be the matter!
Jing Yanguang was almost already believing that this thing was true.
"If the Liao people are really defeated...... So what do we do? Fu Yanqing said: "If Yang Yi breaks Shangjing, most of them will wave his army south, and that is the Baisheng Xiongshi who just swept Mobei and broke through Shangjing!" ”
Du Chongwei, who also looked calm in the face of the Thousand Corpse Pit, finally couldn't help it, almost jumped up, and ordered repeatedly: "Order the whole army to enter Youzhou!" ”
"The grain in the rear will enter the cities!"
"Chang Si Department is stationed in Ruzhou to strictly guard against Juyong Pass and victory."
"Zhao Siwan's department is stationed in Danzhou to strictly guard against the Gubei Pavilion."
"Guo Congyi's ministry is stationed in Jizhou to strictly guard against Shimen Town."
"Wang Jingchong's troops are stationed in Shunzhou, as the central aid of the four states of You, Tan, Confucian, and Ji!"
"Li Yan patrolled the Great Wall with cavalry and supported all passes at any time."
"All departments, be careful, don't let a horse enter the customs!"
Jing Yanguang asked: "What is the direction of Luanzhou?" ”
Du Chongwei's arrangements just now are all facing the north, and what to guard against is Tiance who may go south, while Luanzhou is facing the east, and it is the Khitan people who need to be guarded against.
Du Chongwei said: "The Khitan is our friend, and Tiance is our enemy!" ”
At this moment, Du Chongwei finally regained his handsome nature, and shouted: "Also, order Shi Chonggui to quickly recover Yunzhou!" "Although he is the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces. But considering Shi Chonggui's status as a prince, he has never directed the actions of the Western Route Army, but now he has finally given an order.
"Over in Yunzhou, I heard that Cao Yuanzhong didn't plan to break the contract, and he was really ready to hand over the city." Fu Yanqing said.
"Alright, you hurry up and go west. Take all the people and horses we have arranged between the clouds and go to Yunzhou to meet the West Route Army before the handover day! We must make sure that we get Yunzhou back, as long as Yanyun is in our hands, then we can still fight with Tiance! ”
Du Chongwei is a handsome man, and he is arrogant and arrogant, but at this time, even he doesn't dare to say that he can defeat Tiance.
That's a heroic army that has just swept through Mobei and established Wei Huo Qigong! If they really won the battle of Shangjing, then who else in the world could win them!
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Cao Yangong did not leave the country. Soon after he left Yunzhou in the west, he 66 continued to receive the "things" that Cao Yuanzhong needed.
That was the extremely considerate Han Deshu, the "evidence" specially sent!
Han Deshu is now a special existence between Tang and Liao, on the one hand, he uses the cooperation given to him by Tiance to make the Liao State like a fish in water, and on the other hand, he secretly conveys some information that will not destroy the Khitan, but can bring invisible benefits to Tiance. When he rushed from Yunzhou to Youzhou, Yelu Shuogu had already entered the Western Liaoning Corridor, and Xiao Shili was patrolling the Great Wall in the north. left the last aftermath of Youzhou to him and Mo Baique, who has now been ambushed by Han Deshu. Therefore, during the last period of Liao's occupation of Yan Land, Han Deshu had considerable autonomy.
He saw the desolate status quo of Youzhou, knew the existence of the Thousand People Pit, and speculated how Zhang Mai's character would react to this, so he specially sent Cao Yuanzhong a powerful "evidence".
A number of fathers, elders, women and children in Youzhou and Jizhou are victims of this disaster. Those who experienced it firsthand were also eyewitnesses to the event.
After a matter was born, the messenger who entered the Jin army to deliver news to Fu Yanqing could prove when Shi Jin's army knew about this matter.
Two fled from Youzhou to Hebei. As a result, he was blocked by the Jin army and had to cry back to the little citizens of hell on earth......
After receiving the military order not to accept the "fugitives" in Yandi, the two Jin army soldiers who were condemned by their conscience and let Yanmin go without permission, and were quickly punished and fled, they were able to prove that Du Chongwei not only did not enter Youzhou to save people as soon as possible after knowing what happened in Youzhou, but instead set up obstacles at the border and did not allow Yanmin to "cross the border", so as to push the people of Youzhou into a place of no return.
The above are all "human witnesses", which were managed by Han Deshu to be sent to the Han local Haoqiang of the naturalized army, and then came to Yunzhou, in addition to hundreds of people, who were hidden in Youzhou and Wuzhou, waiting for the Tiance Tang Army to "rescue".
And then there is the "physical evidence" - that is, a map of the distribution of "thousands of people pits"! According to the map, you can find all the burial places of the Khitans.
Fathers, messengers, people who were blocked back after fleeing, soldiers with a clear conscience, plus the empty Youzhou, a thousand corpse pits full of corpses...... Han Deshu and Cao Yuanzhong both understand very well what kind of anger it will arouse and what kind of flame it will detonate!
Cao Yuanzhong put down the list of "evidence", suddenly sighed, and said to his nephew: "Heaven is really going to destroy the Shi clan!" In such an unfavorable situation both internally and externally, Du Chongwei actually did such a perverse thing! Before, the marshal was still trying to ease the relationship with Shi Jin, but as soon as this matter came out, don't think that the marshal would compromise with Shi Jingjiao again! ”
Cao Yangong said with some incomprehension: "My nephew really doesn't understand, how could Du Chongwei do such a thing?" How could Shi Jingjiao allow him to act like this? Don't they know that such a big thing will definitely be exposed, and they will be nailed to the pillar of shame for it? No matter how tyrannical and ruthless they are, they shouldn't be so stupid. ”
Cao Yuanzhong looked at his nephew and suddenly said: "Actually, if there is no marshal, what Du Chongwei has done may not be out of line. ”
Cao Yangong was stunned: "What? He didn't understand what his uncle meant.
Cao Yuanzhong said: "Yan Gong, you have been in the country for too long, sometimes, you have to jump out and look at the world from the eyes of the people of Liao, Jin, and Shu, and then you can handle things more correctly." ”
Cao Yuanzhong's words made Cao Yangong even more incomprehensible.
Cao Yuanzhong retreated from the others, and then said: "Gong'er, you must know that under the influence of the marshal, the morale of the people in our Tiance Datang has actually become very different from that in other regions. What Du Chongwei did. In the eyes of the military and civilians of our Tiance Datang, it is simply intolerable, but in Shijin and Liao, if no one stands up for it, then the evil deeds of the Khitan and Du Chongwei's help will be tolerated. People who don't suffer will be numb. They were indifferent to the birth of a qiē in other places, and then felt that they could tolerate it, and the Khitan and Shi Jin monarchs who did evil did not feel that they had done any evil things. Do you understand? ”
Cao Yangong seemed to understand a little.
Unconsciously, a new kind of value is being formed in Tiance, which originated from Zhang Mai, and is now imperceptibly spreading throughout the whole territory of Ganliang, and spreading to the entire northwest with the pace of Tiance's Tang army, which is an intolerable evil. It is intolerable to the betrayal of the nation, and it is intolerable to ignore the life and death of the people!
Cao Yangong was young, he was still a teenager when Shazhou was incorporated into Tiance, he grew up with the expansion of Tiance, and naturally integrated into this value without knowing it, but Cao Yuanzhong was different, he remembered very well that the original Shazhou was not like this. Therefore, he also knew that this was not the case in the Central Plains and Khitan.
China has been out of obscurity since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Establish the backbone of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, and for a long time, there is a strong ambition and integrity in the hearts of the people, even if it has not been completely extinguished by Qin Shi Huang, so it is expected that Zhang Jian will be left behind, and there will be a death to wait for Du Gen. The strength of the Han and Tang dynasties is not only the strength of the emperors and generals, but also the strength of the civil power is its more important foundation.
But this force was gradually weakened in the invasion of barbarian forces and the demise of its own will, and after the demise of the Tang Dynasty, the people's morale was morale. It has fallen into unprecedented darkness and obscurantism, and by the time of the Five Dynasties, the people's requirements for the monarch are so low that they will not be able to do anything about injustice, and they will not have a strong counterattack against the people who expect Mingjun and Qingtian to make decisions for them, and the public opinion that serves the monarchy will not have a real clamping force, and the political arena will not form a political trend because of this, the law will not uphold justice, and those in power who do evil things will not be punished by them.
But Tiance has changed, unconsciously, changed.
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Gao Huaide dragged the spear upside down and spurred the horse, if in normal times, he would never be willing to let his bone-piercing dragon run so wildly, but at this time he couldn't care about it.
The land of the Le River is vast and sparsely populated, Gao Huaide rushed into the wilderness, Xiaofu traveled at night, saw the defeated soldiers of the Jin army along the way, and after asking, he learned that Li Yiyin had defeated the middle army horse of the White Horse Silver Spear Regiment yesterday, and 7,000 soldiers and horses surrendered to 5 or 6,000 people, and only more than 1,000 people took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Zhang Mai's general order did not require the White Horse Silver Spear Regiment to be wiped out, and let these hundreds of people flee into the Great Wall, and he wanted to use the words of these people to tell the Jin army to come by itself!
Gao Huaide mixed in the defeated army, also entered the Great Wall, heard the news along the way, only to know that the vanguard of the White Horse Silver Spear Regiment Qiancai was also Li Yiyin and Li Yixiu before and after, besieged in the Great Wall outside the Baidao Mountain, after entering the Great Wall, and heard that the Yanmen Pass army was heading towards Yunzhou, he came towards Yunzhou.
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People have a strange attitude towards rumors. Sometimes a little rumor leaks out and spreads all over the city, and sometimes the "news" that is known to the whole world is regarded as a rumor.
The "rumors" about Zhang Mai's arrival in Eilechuan have become more and more powerful in northern Shanxi recently!
Shi Chonggui was taken aback at first, and after many inquiries, most of the sources of the current news came from Yunzhou, so he refused to believe it, thinking that this was Cao Yuanzhong's pretense to scare him away. Although the "rumors" have become more and more true in the past two days, some soldiers of the White Horse Silver Spear Regiment have broken through the Great Wall and brought news that the White Horse Silver Spear Regiment has met Zhang Mai in the Le River and has been defeated. Shi Chonggui was still skeptical when he heard this.
Now there are only two days left before his "seven-day covenant" with Cao Yuanzhong, and his 50,000-strong army has also entered Huairen County.
Shi Chonggui's vanguard arrived, and Cao Yuanzhong ordered Bai Chengfu to retreat into Yunzhou City, so Shi Chonggui easily obtained Huairen.
At this time, there were many more defeated soldiers in the Great Wall, and the news of "Zhang Mai going north" became more and more true, and Shi Chonggui also specially summoned a few defeated soldiers to interrogate him personally, but these defeated soldiers were all from the Chinese army of the White Horse Silver Spear Regiment, they were all broken by Li Yiyin, and they had not seen the Modao Battle Axe Formation with their own eyes, but it was just a rumor on the battlefield.
Shi Chonggui said after careful interrogation: "It is said that Zhang Mai is here, but no one has seen him, and it is said that there is a Mo knife battle axe array on the grassland, but this Mo knife and battle axe formation was not lost in the battle of Guanzhong?" Hmph, this must still be a rumor created by Cao Yuanzhong! If he hadn't mentioned the Mo Dao Battle Axe Formation, I might have been deceived by him, but mentioning this Mo Dao Battle Axe Formation was a clever flaw. Gao Xingzhou's defeat by Li Yiyin may be true, but the news of Zhang Mai's northward journey is mostly fake! ”
Yao Yuanfu said: "But I heard that Cao Yuanzhong actually summoned the representatives of the 16 counties of the four prefectures in northern Shanxi, saying that it was a good ceremony when the city was handed over, and this kind of thing should also be made a big fuss, I don't know what he is going to do." ”
Shi Chonggui said: "No matter what he wants to do, but he is so fanfare, when the time comes, he will only be cocooned and self-bound, so that they can't even regret it." ”
An Chongrong said: "Then are we going to Yunzhou?" ”
Shi Chonggui said: "Go!" Of course go! Send someone to tell Cao Yuanzhong, two days later, I will come to collect the city according to the agreement. (To be continued......)