Chapter 44 Kexijing is in a dilemma
What Wu Song encountered at the West Gate at this time, that is, the Yingchun Gate, was a Jin army that reacted. The leading general looked about the same age as YelΓΌ Dashi, around forty or fifty years old, and the reason why he attracted Wu Song was because he spoke the golden Chinese language and was a golden man.
And the Jin generals must not be low in Xijing, so Wu Song decided to capture him alive.
After conveying this order, dozens of palace tent troops who followed him immediately surrounded them, their number was no more than ten fingers, but all of them had extraordinary martial arts, even more powerful than the palace tent army, and nine times out of ten they were the personal soldiers of this golden general.
Wu Song snorted and took the lead in hacking a golden soldier to death, but the other golden people were extremely brave, leaning against the city wall, still protecting the person inside, Wu Song sneered, and continued to attack with the palace tent army, gradually shrinking the encirclement......
The battle continued, and it was clear that the balance of victory was gradually tilted in favor of the Liao army due to the surprise attack of the Liao army and the negligence of the defenders of Xijing.
Time passed minute by minute, at the end of the day, the sky became darker and darker, but the shouting and killing in the city subsided, and when it came to the last gate of Xijing, the Yingchun Gate was conquered, and many torches were gradually lit up on the city tower and downstairs.
The battle is over, and the Liao people are cleaning up the battlefield.
The torches shone through, and the walls were full of corpses, blood splattered on the masonry, swords and sticks, everywhere. Among them, the Jin people have the most corpses, the Liao people, and the Xi people among the Jin soldiers are the least.
During the battle, Wu Song found an interesting phenomenon, at the beginning of the battle, the Xi people were still quite brave, but when they knew that it was the Liao people who fought with them, almost all the Xi soldiers chose to surrender, and almost two-thirds of the Xijing defenders were Xi people, which is also the reason why the battle could end in such a short time.
As for the reason for the surrender of these Xi people, it is not difficult for Wu Song to guess that the Xi people have the same origin as the Liao people, but the Liao people belong to the Khitan people, and the Xi people belong to the five Xi tribes.
People surnamed Xiao like Xiao Gan and Concubine Xiao Defei are actually Xi people. After Xi people became noble, almost all of them were given the surname Xiao.
In some places where Xi people gather, Fu Yin and the left-behind division are all Xi people.
After Xijing was conquered by the Jin people, the Xi people in the city naturally became the people of the Jin people, and the Jin and Xi were of different races, so they were naturally harsh in their treatment, so the Xi people's good impression of the Jin people was very low, and their sense of belonging to the Liao State was still quite high at this time.
After placing the captured Xi army, Wu Song ordered someone to issue an order to Anmin and deal with trivial matters, which was no problem.
Yelu Langyan was also ordered by Wu Song to lead a light horse to the Erzhou Pass to collect the pass, sure enough, as Wu Song expected, the second pass was successfully accepted, and the Liao people in the checkpoint heard that Xijing had been recovered, either killing the Jin generals and surrendering, or the Jin generals fled by themselves.
After all, for De, Hongerzhou, Xijing Datong Mansion is the key, and those who get this capital get Erzhou, which is also the scene when the Jin people occupied Xijing.
It's just that under Wu Song's arrangement, history repeats itself again, but this time the winner is the Liao.
After all this was arranged, it was close to late at night, Wu Song, Yelu Wolf Smoke, Yelu Baixue and everyone came to Xijing's Mansion Yin's Mansion together, the original Mansion Yin's name was Xiao Cheng, he was a Xi person, after the Jin soldiers captured Xijing, he was appointed as the Mansion Yin of Datong Mansion because of his flattery with Jin General Wanyan Xie Shi, to put it bluntly, it was a puppet of the Jin people in the Xi people, and managed the Xi people for the Jin people.
This brother Xiao Cheng was also unfortunately captured alive by Wu Song, and with him was the Jin general Wanyan Xie Shi, the Jin general Wu Song met at Yingchun Gate.
Wu Song put Wanyan Xie Shi in a prisoner car, and planned to take him to Youzhou to be disposed of by Emperor Tianxi.
Fu Yin Xiaocheng's mansion was very large, so Wu Song borrowed its lobby and sat on a chair made of golden silk nanmu to listen to Yelu Langyan and others report on the war.
In this battle, the Liao army suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, which was considered very small, mainly because of the surrender of six or seven thousand Xi people, and everyone was immersed in the joy of recovering Xijing.
Some people suddenly came in the lobby, their clothes were shabby, and their roads were blue, but the richness on their faces was faintly visible, including Xiao Cheng, the old man.
It was Yeluliang who brought them in, he entered the hall, and he respectfully bowed to Wu Song, "The ruler is resourceful, outwitting Xijing, shameful before the snow, very happy, and will definitely praise the Liao people, but the same Liao people, we are waiting for the bloody resistance to the Jin people on the battlefield, but these Xi people are helping to abuse, and the subordinates have selected dozens of Xi prisoners who are extremely guilty of crimes, you might as well use my Liao people's "recommendation pillow for prisoners" method to humiliate these shameless pigs and dogs, what do you say?" β
When the generals in the lobby heard this, their eyes were full of excitement and they were talking. And those kneeling Xi captives were like ashes, and some of them kept rolling their eyes, as if they were thinking of countermeasures.
Wu Song was puzzled, what to recommend a pillow for a prisoner, he is not a Liao person, so he is naturally not familiar with some Liao customs.
But Wu Song thought that these ridiculers really deserved it, and seeing that everyone was interested, Wu Song simply agreed to Yeluliang. But as soon as the words were spoken, Yelu Baixue's jade fingers secretly pinched his arm, causing him to gasp.
Wu Song asked secretly, "Xue'er, what's wrong with you, why are you pinching me for no reason?" β
Yelu Baixue glared at him angrily, "You flowery person, don't talk to me, I won't pay attention to you anymore." β
Wu Song didn't know why he was scolded, but he saw that the captives temporarily withdrew from the lobby under the leadership of Yeluliang.
During this time, the generals kept looking out the door. Wu Song also took the opportunity to talk to the angry Yelu Baixue, and finally understood what was going on with this pillow for prisoners.
It turns out that there is a custom in the Liao State to treat those tribes who have hatred. When the Liao people captured many leaders of a tribe, if those leaders wanted to go back, it was very good, and the Liao people could agree, but there was a condition, these leaders must "recommend pillows and change people", that is, recommend women to serve the Liao people.
The most humiliating thing is that these women are either the daughters of those people, or their wives, to put it bluntly, they are exchanging their wives and children for themselves.
Adulterous wives and daughters, this is simply a great shame among the Han people, although the Liao people are after the Hu people, but they still have a sense of humiliation.
But most of these leaders have always been unacceptable, first of all, due to the low status of women in ancient times, men have three wives and four concubines, and there is nothing unacceptable to exchange one woman for their own lives. But there is a group of people who would rather die than give in, or whose wives and daughters are unsatisfactory to the Liao people, and both of these people will be executed.
After listening to Yelu Baixue's story, Wu Song suddenly fell into a dilemma, he is not a gentleman, but he also doesn't want to be a villain with a bad heart, those who ridicule people are guilty, punish them directly, and why do they insult their wives and daughters so much, this is no different from beasts.