Chapter 40 Dingxichuan
(It's been a bumpy ride, and it's finally back!) Collect! )
Ah Dieguangyan attacked the Xichuan grain and grass camp at dawn, not that he didn't want to be early, but it was not easy to turn over the two mountains, and his subordinates were tired along the way. The grain and grass battalion said that there were five or six thousand soldiers, but most of them were deployed on the side of Gao Chongwen's main force, and he didn't expect a surprise army to suddenly emerge from the ribs. After rushing into the camp, Adie Guangyan discovered the benefit of the dawn impact, that is, there was a ready-made breakfast to eat. After breakfast, Ah Dieguangyan listened to the shouting and killing sound from outside the camp, patted his belly and said:
"Those who are full will go out with General Ben to kill for a while, and burn the camp with baggage."
Gao Chongwen can pardon even the enemy generals who surrender, let alone the generals who have made meritorious contributions to his own family? After being praised by Gao Chongwen after reporting for duty, Ah Dieguangyan went to sleep with his head in his hands.
When the first card falls, the countless cards behind will fall, this is the domino, the surrender of the defenders of Lutou Pass, is the first domino, when I heard that Gao Chongwen promised to ask for pardon of Qiu Liangfu, the Xichuan garrisons around the country will not let me, I will not let you move to Lutouguan, the purpose is of course not to recapture Lutouguan, but to surrender first.
Outside the Lutou Pass, the generals waiting for Gao Chongwen to receive them were carefully lined up in two columns, and the surrendered soldiers sat cross-legged on the side of the road, waiting for the arrangement, and the team stretched for several miles, and even the Wei Wu Department who was ordered to set off for Guanghan was blocked in front of the pass, so they had to send a few heralds to ride horses to open the way on the road.
"Brother, how many people did you bring to surrender?"
"It's not much, it's only eight hundred. What about you? ”
"Not much, one thousand two."
"Your turtle son is okay, where are there so many soldiers?"
"Brother, be quiet, I counted the tolerance and the township soldiers, bring more people to look better on face, and the tall and handsome will be easier to deal with."
"You turtle son, you're a goblin."
However, compared with Qiu Liangfu's 20,000 people, these officers are a little smaller, and the only one who can compete with Qiu Liangfu is Xing Jun. After Gao Chongwen loaded Uncle Liu Fang and Su Qiang into a prisoner car and sent them to Chang'an, he pulled out the camp and rushed straight to Chengdu, and soon met his old enemy Xing Jun. Xing Jun originally had 20,000 people in his hands, but in the face of Gao Chongwen's headquarters and 50,000 or 60,000 troops, his mind turned slightly, and Xing Jun tied himself into a zongzi, crying and grabbing the ground in front of everyone, and entered Gao Chongwen's camp.
On February 26, Gao Chongwen defeated Liu Pi's last 10,000 troops in the northern suburbs of Chengdu, and in the afternoon, Duan Wenchang opened the city gate, and Gao Chongwen's army marched into Jinguan City. Gao Chong's military discipline was strict, there was no crime in the autumn, the soldiers had no place to live and stayed on the street, and they refused to harass the people, and Chengdu was immediately stable.
Liu Bi and Lu Wenruo, who knew that the defeat was decided, led dozens of cavalry to escort their families and fled to Tibet. After Duan Wenchang made this clear, Gao Chongwen immediately sent Gao Xiayu and Li Ding to chase after him, and finally caught up with Liu Pi in the sheep irrigation field. Seeing the pursuers from a distance, Liu Bi's dozens of cavalry scattered in a hurry, Lu Wenruo knew that he had committed the great crime of exterminating the nine clans, and after killing the whole family, he was killed by the stone and died in the river, Liu Bi did not dare to tie the stone, and he couldn't bear to kill the whole family, so he jumped into the river, and was fished out of the river by Li Dingjin's soldiers who were familiar with the water, tied to the horse and brought back to Chengdu.
Since the army was raised in September, which lasted five months, and finally put down the Xichuan rebellion, Gao Chongwen loaded more than 20 members of Liu Pi's family into a prisoner car and sent them to Chang'an, and began to become a parent official with the help of Duan Wenchang and Lin Yun, the recalled former Jiedu judge. Except for Lu Wenruo, who was dead, he only killed Xing Jun, who deceived him and deceived his pure feelings, and Shen Quan, the pavilion inspector who was loyal to Liu Pi, seized the statistical treasury, maintained law and order, killed the scoundrels who took advantage of the chaos and robbed and 310 routs, and sent Adie Guangyan to lead troops to Songzhou to strengthen border defense, and the entire Xichuan was settled in less than half a month.
There was also jubilation in the court, and the new emperor won a great victory with his first army on the throne, what could be more inspiring than this? Xichuan has always been known as a strong army, and it is surrounded by mountains, but it was defeated by the imperial army with fewer strikes and more battles, what does this mean? In Jianzhong, the shadow of the failure of several crusades against feudal towns during the Zhenyuan period seemed to be swept away, and the self-confidence of the government and the opposition was unprecedentedly high.
However, the ministers in the court were obviously much more sober-minded, Du Huangshang, Lu Zhen, Li Jifu, and Li Jiang all spoke to Li Xuan openly and secretly, explaining that the reason for the victory over Xichuan was that Xichuan had always been under the rule of the imperial court, and the centrifugal tendency was not strong, and there were no rebellious feudal towns around.
The emperor's mind was obviously also very calm, and he was not carried away by the victory, and the emperor said to Gou Sheng:
"Now, the flying eagle should focus on infiltrating Ziqing, Huaixi."
Not long after Xichuan's good news arrived at the imperial court, the edict of Gao Chongwen was issued, and Gao Chongwen was added to the school, the deputy ambassador of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu, Chengdu Yin, and as for the Jiedu envoy, Li Jingyao, the king of Tan, led the Jiedu ambassador and the governor of Yizhou.
The late March issue of "The Foreign History of Chunming Dynasty" published the appointment of the imperial court, and at the same time published Xue Tao's "Thief Pinghou Shanggao Xianggong":
Shocked to see the white desolation of the world, and glimpse the old sunset of the green mountains. The beginning believes that the great power can be reflected, and the sun and the moon borrow light.
Xue Tao's name is more well-known because of this poem, but the emperor smiled strangely when he saw this poem, and the emperor said to Du Huangshang and Li Jiang:
"Gao Chongwen is only afraid that he will stay in Xichuan for less than a year."
At the end of March, Liu Bi's family finally sat in the prisoner car, the representative of the historical feudal era, and came to Chang'an.
But there was no time to regret it, as soon as he entered the Mingde Gate, the guards of Qianniuwei were already waiting. After verifying that he was right, he grabbed Liu Bi's hair and dragged Liu Bi down, all the way to the Danfeng Gate, where the emperor and the crown prince were already sitting upstairs. The prince asked:
"You are a nobleman, why do you rebel?"
Liu Pi replied:
"This is the general's coercion under the criminal minister!"
The Emperor smiled and said:
"Did Ju Wenzhen and Liu Guangqi force you too?"
Liu Bi was speechless for a moment, the emperor nodded, and the Qianniuwei soldiers dragged Liu Bi down.
"The History of Chunming Dynasty" published Liu Pi's best sentence:
"It's too late to regret!"
On March 28, Liu Pi's family of 19 was beheaded in the south of the city. The imperial court sent an envoy to proclaim the world.