966, posthumously seal the enemy (I)
"Soldiers, do you know who these coffins are? They are not my Datang soldiers, nor are they my Datang people. They are even our enemies, enemies who have great blood feuds against our Chinese people, and their families. Li Shimin said.
Everyone looked at those coffins, there were more than 30 of them, and everyone didn't know who these coffins were. And then they can only wait for Li Shimin to explain in person, so that they can understand who these people are.
"These coffins are the famous generals of Goguryeo, Eulji Wendeok and their families!" Li Shimin said.
Hearing this, many generals and even soldiers also exclaimed. Because of course they know who Eulji Mundeok is, and many of their soldiers' fathers died in Goguryeo, and of course they know about the generals who commanded the Goguryeo army, that is, Eulji Mundeok. This name can be said to be their greatest father-killing enemy, who doesn't know! Even if they don't understand Goguryeo culture, they are well aware of the translation of the words Eulji Wendeok. Now that the corpses of Eulzhi Wende and the corpses of their families have been sent here, they also have all kinds of emotions in their hearts, and they don't know how to say it. Because if revenge is to be spoken, their hatred has already been avenged, then what can they say if Eokchi Wende and even their family members are dead?
However, Eulzhi Wende was still lucky, he hiccups early, otherwise if he waited for the Tang Dynasty to conquer Goguryeo, those angry soldiers would definitely scrape him alive. At that time, Emperor Li Shimin will not stop it, after all, he killed hundreds of thousands of people in China, and this is not the most hateful. The most hateful thing is to use the bones of those fallen soldiers as Jingguan to show off their martial arts, which is the most hateful. But now that he and his family are dead, they have received retribution, and everyone is satisfied.
"Your Majesty, pull these corpses and feed them to the dogs!" "Yes! Your Majesty, chop up these corpses and feed them to the dogs. This leaves them dead without a corpse, and then makes them lonely ghosts! "Your Majesty, they can't just die like this, they must be punished well, let them know that they can't escape punishment even if they die!" "Your Majesty, you can't let them die like this!" ……
Facing a large group of people who asked to dispose of these corpses, Li Shimin was expressionless, but he gave Jing Wen a look.
"Your grandfather's, you are a good person again, and I will carry the black cauldron. Your grandfather, why is it so good to be an emperor? Jing Wen complained in his heart.
"Your Majesty, the minister has something to say!" Jingwen said.
"Jingwen Aiqing, what do you have to say?" Li Shimin asked.
Jingwen said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although they have great hatred for our Chinese children, we can't treat them like this. China is a civilized country and a country of etiquette, and we cannot treat other people's bones like this. It's like a dog bites a person, and it is impossible for a person to bite a dog too! Although these Goguryeo people treated the bones of our Chinese army like this. Then we can't repay them like this, after all, we are civilized people, not beasts. So, we still have to respect them. They are also our opponents, and we should respect our opponents. And Ulchi Wende is our opponent no matter what, and we should respect it. ”
And everyone listened to this. They were also a little moved. As a military man, of course, I know the importance of respecting my opponents. If a soldier does not respect his opponent, then he will definitely be humiliated by himself. Although this Yizhi Wende killed hundreds of thousands of troops in the Central Plains. But in fact, for the ancient soldiers, they actually didn't particularly hate it. Killing hundreds of thousands of people at a time, there were many Chinese civil wars, even more brutal wars than the Goguryeo War. Didn't Bai Qi also kill 400,000 captives at one time?
Therefore, when soldiers kill the enemy on the battlefield, even if they are killed, they will not have too much resentment. After all, the battlefield is like this, everyone is involuntarily, and no one has personal and private hatred. And no matter what the reason is, he is also fighting to defend his motherland Goguryeo, which is understandable for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. So their hatred for Eulzhi Wende is not that he killed hundreds of thousands of Han people, but that he has so little respect for the Han army. Using the enemy's bones as Jingguan to show off martial arts can be said to be a great disrespect, which is the reason why the Tang army hates Yizhi Wende.
And now Jingwen said, if Datang also took these corpses of Yizhi Wende and his family members and chopped them up to feed the dogs, or some other insulting behavior, then wouldn't it be disrespectful to the other party? Jingwen said that a dog bites a person, and it is impossible for a person to bite a dog, which is also a truth. Although Eji Wende did not respect the army of the Sui Dynasty back then, it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to treat them like this now, otherwise what is the difference between the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo? After all, the Central Plains is a state of culture and etiquette, even if there is no literate army, those martial artists have been deeply planted with etiquette and various morals, so now that they listen to Jingwen's words, they also know that if they are the same as Yizhi Wende this time, then I am afraid they will still disrespect their opponents. At that time, Eozhi Wende did not respect the fallen soldiers of the Central Plains, and now he has been punished and his whole family has been killed. If you don't respect your opponent this time, will you be punished next time?
This is ancient times, and many mysterious things are unexplainable, so they don't know if they will be retributed like this. Now no one said anything about taking Etoji Wende's body and the corpses of his family to feed the dogs, and chopping up or something, after all, Eulchi Wende is also an opponent worthy of respect on the battlefield. Although he is dead, the Central Plains will not take the corpses of him and his family to feed the dogs!
"Your Majesty, since this is the king of Goguryeo who killed his own hero in order to curry favor with our Tang Dynasty. Gao Jianwu is a person like him, he killed his own heroes, just to keep his glory and wealth, there is no need for this kind of country to exist. And the emperor should posthumously seal Yizhi Wende, so that my Datang respects the opponent, and it can be regarded as respecting the meritorious and loyal ministers. We also let Eulji Wende see in the spirit of heaven how his motherland Goguryeo treats him as a loyal minister and meritorious hero, and how we, the Tang Dynasty, as an opponent, treat them as an enemy. This can reflect that our Datang is a country of benevolence and righteousness and a state of etiquette. Jingwen said.
"Chase the enemy?" Everyone was a little surprised. (To be continued......)