Chapter 950: King Pingxi waved his army south
With the sound of the gong to collect troops from the rear of the routed imperial court troops, the Jin army that was approaching step by step stopped in place under the order of the commander Xu Huang, and silently watched the opponent who was still fighting to the death just now retreat from the front.
Not long after, the news of Lu Zhi's fall blew through the army on the side of the imperial court like a breeze, and the soldiers all howled and cried when they heard it, like a father who had died. The sect member told Lu Zhi's last words to the three armies, and then sent an envoy to the front of the battle to ask Xu Huang to surrender.
Xu Huang said in front of the battle: "Pass my commander's order, today's war is over, and the Jin Kingdom has won." After the remaining soldiers on the imperial court side unloaded their armor and loaded, they moved ten miles to the north and waited for incorporation. Send people to immediately clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded soldiers on both sides, clean up the bodies of the soldiers killed in the battle, and place them in two places according to the camp, waiting for the king of Pingxi to come to mourn and then enter the ground for peace!"
In a short time, Xu Huang's orders spread all over the battlefield, and also reached the soldiers who surrendered to the imperial court. The sect member then asked the soldiers to carry Lu Zhi's body and slowly walked north, leaving the land that had broken their souls.
After the war, after counting, the 75,000 soldiers who participated in the battle on the Jin side of this battle sacrificed more than 9,000 people, seriously injured more than 12,000 people, and slightly injured 15,000 people. If you compare the casualties of the two sides, you will find that this victory of the Jin Kingdom was not easy, and it can only be said to be a small victory. But it is undeniable that the army under Zhao Xing, as always, has maintained a very low mortality rate. Even if some soldiers are seriously injured and retired from active duty, they have left their lives after all, and they will have generous pension treatment from the Jin State in the future, and they don't have to worry about their livelihood.
After a while, King Pingxi was surrounded by the people in the city and came to the battlefield, looking at the bloody scene in front of him, even if Zhao Xing, who was accustomed to seeing the fragmented scenes on the battlefield in his two lives, still couldn't bear it, and almost shed tears.
Zhao Xing said to the officials behind him in a deep voice: "After registering our martyrs, clean up the remains, and send them to the Taihang Martyrs' Garden for collective burial in three days, and I will be the main sacrifice at that time." After cleaning up the remains of the soldiers on the imperial court, they were sent to Sheep's Head Mountain for burial. As for Mrs. Lu's body, it will be temporarily stored on Sheepshead Mountain, and after asking his family, he will choose the specific tomb to be buried. ”
Three days later, two grand funerals were held at the same time in the aftermath of Taihang Mountain and Yangtou Mountain. The king of Pingxi presided over the sacrifice in the Taihang Martyrs' Garden, and Liu Rong, the king of Jin, Wang Yun, the minister of state, and Cai Yong, the university scholar, presided over the burial of the soldiers who died on the side of the imperial court on the Yangtou Mountain. When the loess covers everything, there are only many sighs and sorrows left for future generations.
The more than 50,000 captured imperial soldiers were temporarily sent to the barracks of the Youzhou Training Regiment for detention, and after the end of the Central Plains War, they were repatriated according to their origins, and were not driven into the mines and mountains to work hard. They are all children of the Han people, and when the war is over, they all have parents, wives and children who need them to raise, how can Zhao Xing abuse these soldiers and give people a tongue.
Soon after dealing with these post-war matters, a request from Lu Zhi's youngest son, Lu Yu, to the king of Pingxi came from the palace of the Taifu of Luoyang. Lu Yu begged Zhao Xing to bury his father in Wangwu Mountain, which was far away from Taihang Mountain, and allowed the descendants of the Lu family to go to the tomb to sweep the tomb. After Zhao Xing heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then agreed, and specially allocated 500,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury to build a large-scale mausoleum for Lu Zhi to commemorate this resolute and disciplined Confucian.
There is an article in "Liezi Tang Wen", which tells the story of Yugong who was not afraid of difficulties, persevered, dug the mountain, and finally moved the emperor to move Taihang and Wangwu Ershan away. There is a martyr's garden on Taihang Mountain, so Lu Zhi chose Wangwu Mountain as his tomb, which is to compete with Zhao Xing after death!
After some time, Taifu Lu Zhi led an army to raid Keiguan, and the news of his defeat and death in Crouching Tiger City spread all over the states, so it set off a sensation in public opinion in the world. First, Zhu Jun fell in Yecheng, and then Lu Zhi was martyred under Crouching Tiger City, which was naturally a very heavy blow to the imperial court and the Cao-Liu coalition army. Huangfu Song, who was besieged in Chang'an, suffered from long-term depression, and soon after hearing of Lu Zhi's death, he left for a long time one night and followed in the footsteps of the two old men.
Huangfu Song died, Huangfu Jianshou was captured, and only Huangfu Li was left in Chang'an City. According to Huangfu Song's deathbed confession, Huangfu Li ordered the 40,000 imperial forest troops in the city to open the city gate and surrender to the vanguard army outside the city, so Chang'an City was completely preserved, and the people in Chang'an City did not suffer any military disasters, which is in line with the meaning of the name "Chang'an" itself.
Since Chang'an has been conquered, the Guanzhong region has been under the control of the Northwest Road. Guan Yu then ordered the army to divide into two routes, from the Blue Wolf Army and the Xiliang Army to the east, after successively crossing the Tongguan Pass and Hangu Pass, quickly entered the Luoyang area, and controlled Luoyang, which was now no longer garrisoned;
The Northern Route Army was no longer worried about the safety of the Jin State, so it reorganized its troops and horses, went south from Keiguan, and easily took Hedong County and Hanoi Second County, and then crossed the Yellow River and drove the army into Luoyang, which had long been empty.
Today's Luoyang City has become a world of thieves, beggars and ruffians. The rich and powerful people had already followed the emperor and his ministers to Xuchang, the heavily garrisoned capital. Those city fox society rats who originally lived in the corner jumped out to bully the poor people in the city who had nowhere to go at this time, and it was not until Ma Chao and Zang Ba entered Luoyang with a large army that the order and security in the city were completely clear.
After Ma Chao and Zang Ba entered the city, in accordance with the secret order of the king of Pingxi, they immediately controlled many important places involving history, culture, science and technology in Luoyang City, such as the library and the Tai Academy, and urgently dispatched troops to clean up all kinds of indiscriminate gangs and gangs in the city, and confiscated all the wealth and cultural relics and antiques looted and looted by these bad elements.
Immediately afterwards, the Crouching Tiger Army and the 50,000 infantry of the Liaodong Army in the Northern Route Army marched to Luoyang City, followed by a transport convoy of up to 50,000 people. This convoy was not only responsible for providing supplies to the North Road Army, but they also brought a large amount of food and winter clothes and clothing to the people in Luoyang City.
Behind the transportation team, there were many officials at all levels who were selected from the Jin State to be responsible for governing the Luoyang region in the future, as well as teachers and students selected from Taihang Academy to serve as Luoyang Taixue.
Behind these teams, there is also the convoy of King Pingxi!
Luoyang, as the imperial capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was the place where the Son of Heaven lived. Now that the old emperor has been driven to Xuchang, if the king of Pingxi does not enter Luoyang, who can suppress the imperial capital of Luoyang?
Not long after, the news that the king of Pingxi was waving his army south spread all over the world......