Chapter 293: Deliverance
On the morning of the sixth day of the first month of May, Liu Jiyuan led his officials and subordinates to go out of the city to surrender in plain clothes and hats, and prostrate themselves under the surrender platform. As a country, the Northern Han Dynasty has been completely wiped out, and for the soldiers and civilians of Hedong who do not know the details everywhere in the city, the real hell has just begun.
At this time, the south of Taiyuan City was still in the hands of Liu Jiye, and after Liu Jiye received the news of the surrender of the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent accidents, he did not open the south gate, but contracted the Jianxiong army and occupied the southern city. Wait and see the situation after the Song army enters the city. Sure enough, after the Song army poured into Taiyuan from the north, west, and east gates, they immediately began to burn and loot uncontrollably.
After Liu Jiyuan surrendered, Zhao Jiong included all the concubines of the Northern Han Kingdom into the imperial camp. One of the greatest joys of the conqueror is the woman who possesses the loser, Jiangnan Cai Yu is a favorite, and he fell into the water on the way north and died, so that Zhao Jiong has no reason to enjoy this pleasure exclusive to the conqueror, and now the five months of hard work have finally paid off. Liu Yanrang and other veterans also looked at other departments to enter the city to make a fortune, and each took a small number of personal soldiers into the city to loot, in fact, for these high-level generals who were idle, the wealth looted by the city was just a drop in the bucket, but the process of washing the city was what they enjoyed, which was also a war disease often committed by professional soldiers. In addition to looting people's property, the various ministries also plundered women in Taiyuan City to serve as military prostitutes.
When all the troops flocked into the city, the Anxi army stayed in the imperial camp and did not move, but seemed a little ill-intentioned, so Wu Yingying also led three hundred Anxi soldiers into the city from the north gate. Wu Yingying knew in the original history books that Liu Jiye was guarding the southern city and did not surrender, and at this moment Cai Hanqiong was also ordered to confront Liu Jiye in the south, and Wu Yingying took the tooth soldiers through the city to the south of the city. Along the way, they witnessed the tragedy of countless families being destroyed and their wives separated, and there were also many Taiyuan people hiding behind the roof to give cold arrows to Wu Yingying and other Anxi troops, but Wu Yingying and Zhang Zhongyao both restrained their subordinates, and they were not allowed to kill the people without permission. The streets were littered with corpses, most of them old and weak, women and children, and from time to time, several screams could be heard from the houses on both sides of the street, or women struggling could be seen through the broken windows. In the distance, scattered black smoke could be faintly seen.
When I walked to one place, I saw that hundreds of Hujie troops pressed more than 100 Taiyuan soldiers to the ground, and they were about to ask for beheading, and many heads had been piled up next to them.
Wu Yingying has seen a lot of such scenes along the way, and now he has only three hundred soldiers in his hands, and it is still difficult to protect himself. Suddenly, I heard a person shouting loudly: "Shi can be killed, you can't be humiliated, if you want to kill, you will kill, I Cai Chengxiang has dozens of lives of Khitan dogs and Bianliang pigs, why be afraid of death!" Wu Yingying stopped and followed the prestige, but saw a stout man in a military robe twisting his hands behind his back and pressing to the ground, thinking that the crane army wanted him to kneel down and die, he was unwilling, so he was put to the ground, and the Song army officer next to him saw him clamoring loudly, lest the Taiyuan soldiers next to him make a mess, and even if he wanted to order the more than 100 Taiyuan soldiers to be beheaded together.
"Let's do it slowly!" Seeing that the matter was urgent, Wu Yingying didn't wait to give instructions to Zhang Zhongyao, stopped him in a loud voice, walked up to Cai Chengxiang, looked at his face and Cai Jiuyan, and asked: "Are you the son of Cai Jiuyan's old man, Cai Chengxiang, the head of the Jianxiong Army?"
Cai Chengxiang was already staring at death, but when he heard Wu Yingying's question, he said loudly: "What's the matter? Who are you?" He measured himself to die, and he had no intention of begging for the life of a Song general like Wu Yingying, and he replied quite hard. Zhang Zhongyao knew that Wu Yingying had met the old man, and motioned for the tooth army to disperse around Wu Yingying and Cai Chengxiang to protect, Wu Yingying said: "I am Wu Yingying, the envoy of Anxi Jiedu, and I have some friendship with your father, he should have mentioned me to you, right?" Cai Chengxiang heard this, staring at him in disbelief, and after a while, Fang said: "You are Wu Jiedu? Didn't you fight back to the Falcon Tubo in the Western Regions? How did you do it all the way with Bianliangzi!" Wu Yingying smiled bitterly: " It's a long story, I'll explain it to you later, but since I have encountered it, I can't let you die in front of me!"
As soon as Wu Yingying's words came out, the surrounding Taiyuan soldiers who were waiting to die begged and begged: "Wu Jiedu lives me!" "Wu Jiedu helps!" "Wu Jiedu, we are soldiers of the Yang family, and we have fought with the Lanzhou army!"
Seeing this, Wu Yingying smiled and said to the Hujie military captain who was in charge of the beheading: "Brother, give face, this group of Taiyuan soldiers will be handed over to me to deal with, Wu Yingying will feel Yunei, and there will be retribution in the future." After finishing speaking, he looked at Zhang Zhongyao, Zhang Zhongyao shrugged his shoulders, there is no such thing as a silver ticket in this era, and when there is a war, even Zhang Zhongyao will not carry a lot of gold, silver and copper coins on his body.
The captain of the Hujie military academy happened to be Cao Han's subordinates, as the saying goes, what kind of soldiers will be brought, he looked at Wu Yingying hesitantly, although Wu Yingying's official rank was many levels higher than him, but he only glared at Wu Yingying viciously, refusing to give in. For more than five months, the Hujie army was the main force attacking the city, the battle was the hardest, the most people died, and the Taiyuan soldiers were as deep as the sea, this time they flocked into the city, Wang Zhi made up his mind, one is to kill all the Taiyuan soldiers, the second is to rob more money, and the third is to find a few women to vent the fire of his soldiers. The imperial court is ready to immediately send troops to attack Youyan's plan, and middle-level officers like Wang Zhi are completely unaware, in their minds, the siege of the city for five months, the city of Taiyuan is broken, it is like a marathon to reach the finish line, and now is the time to vent to the fullest. The forbidden army has completed the feat of conquering Hedong that Emperor Sejong and Emperor Taejo have not completed, even if they have done something out of the ordinary, how could the officials and generals send them down?
Seeing that Wang Zhi was still hesitating, Zhang Zhongyao had nothing to do, the soldiers in the Ya military camp were immediately annoyed, and the lord rarely whispered and smiled at each other, this Hujie military captain actually didn't buy it, and Zhu Dao, the head of the capital, immediately stepped forward, pushed Wang Zhi's chest with his hand, and shouted loudly: "The military order of my family's Jiedu envoy, who dares to disobey!" The Anxi army has been in Lanzhou for a long time, when the Han people were rescued and the army was robbed, Liu Jiye was helped, so that the whole and the whole of the Northern Han Jianxiong Army had a feeling of gratitude, and Wu Yingying also mentioned many times in the military strategy discussion that the Jianxiong Army could be an ally of the Anxi Army, so the actions of Zhu Dao and other tooth troops were not purely arbitrary.
Wu Yingying and Zhang Zhongyao took advantage of the situation to push the boat, and did not stop the action of the Xiaya army, and only looked at Wang Zhi and other Hujie soldiers with cold eyes. Wang Zhi was afraid that he was a general, so he didn't dare to do it on the spot, so he secretly ordered his subordinates to report to Cao Han quickly.
As soon as the rope that tied Cai Chengxiang was freed, before Wu Yingying could speak to him, he immediately bowed down in front of Wu Yingying and begged loudly: "My father and Juan'er were both escorted to Nancheng by Bianliangzi, and they are in danger, please ask Wu Jiedu to save them!" It turned out that the neighborhood where Cai Chengxiang bought the house for Cai Jiuyan was where the family of the Jianxiong Army lived, and the Song army who entered the city heard the news from somewhere, and actually escorted all the old and weak to Nancheng, forcing the Jianxiong Army to disarm and surrender, and even more than 100 Jianxiong soldiers who came back with Cai Chengxiang and others to meet their families were also captured.
As soon as he knelt, the rest of the Jianxiong army soldiers also knelt down, and everyone knew that the Bianliang forbidden army would escort those old and weak women and children to the front of the two armies, which must be insulting and coercive in every way, and they would do everything they coerced.
Wu Yingying groaned slightly, saving the family members of Jianxiong's army was not a simple matter, and it greatly exceeded the original expectation. But the eldest husband has something to do, something must be done, after a while, he nodded and said: "Then bother Cai Dutou to lead the way, let's try our best!" Cai Chengxiang and other Jianxiong soldiers were overjoyed, and immediately took Wu Yingying through the streets and alleys, and took a shortcut to the front of the inner city wall of Nancheng.
At this time, Taiyuan is a thousand-year-old city operated by several dynasties, and the southern city guarded by Liu Jiye is not only the southern city wall of the entire Taiyuan City, but also a small city with a circumference of four miles. Hundreds of Hujie troops were holding the families of hundreds of Jianxiong troops in a large mansion, and when Cao Han led the main force of the Hujie army to arrive, they were going to be escorted outside the inner gate of the southern city to force the Jianxiong army to disarm and surrender.
Cai Chengxiang's familiarity with the neighborhoods in Taiyuan City is far greater than that of the Song Army, and it didn't take long to find the place where the Jianxiong Army's family members were detained, and a heart-rending cry was heard from a distance, as if the guards were committing violence, Wu Yingying, Cai Chengxiang and other Jianxiong Army soldiers sank in their hearts, and they all accelerated their pace and ran forward.