0924 A tooth for a tooth
After the soldiers stopped attacking and shouted to persuade them to surrender, it took some time for two unarmed enemy soldiers in the big tent to march out, and they approached through their own battle formation and came to the front of the Wei army, and then bowed deeply, shouting in their mouths: "My lord Wang Rui of Zhaojun of Qi State, worship the king of Taiyuan of the Great Wei, my lord is willing to surrender, but please have mercy on the people of the city and tolerate it."
When Li Tai heard this, he replied, "The king of Gao is descending, and he doesn't ask about the rest. Fighting in the north and south alone, he did not take killing and surrendering as a threat!"
This answer is quite polite, but the current situation is pressing, and Gao Rui in the big tent has no other way to do it, under the repeated shouting and urging of the Wei army outside the tent, he can only walk out with his hair and feet on his feet, followed by two attendants, each holding his robe, sigils and other things.
"Sinner Gao Rui, meet the king, beg, beg the king......
Gao Rui had never had such an experience in his life, and he was full of fear and shame at this time, and he was already trembling halfway through his words.
"The high king is exempt from courtesy, and now he is here to fight the sin, the king is not the first evil, and he knows that the sin has surrendered, and he is safe and secure."
Li Tai confiscated Gao Rui's sigil tokens before entering, and personally put on a Wei army robe for his people, the reason for this preferential treatment was not to buy Gao Rui's heart, but mainly to show the surrounding Northern Qi soldiers. Through the courtesy of Gao Rui, the king of the Gao clan, the fear and resistance of these Qi army people can be greatly dissipated.
After calming Gao Rui slightly, he looked in the direction of the big tent and asked in a deep voice, "Where is Hu Lujin?"
"Hu Lu and Hu Lu Taishi feel that the army has been defeated and humiliated the country, and they are ashamed to see the masses, and they have already killed themselves in the tent."
When Gao Rui heard this, he replied with his head down.
Li Tai was also stunned when he heard this, and after the sergeants under his command had disarmed the Qi soldiers present and thoroughly investigated the inside and outside of the tent, he also walked slowly into the tent, and even saw Hu Lujin, who was lying on the couch and had been angry for a long time.
Although Li Tai had also fought against Hu Lujin before, he had not observed the other party at close range, and at this time he stepped forward to take a brief look at his remains, and he was also quite embarrassed in his heart, and he couldn't help but think of the old man Yu Wentai, who died before, and couldn't help but sigh that as these people of the old era gradually passed away, an era is also ending. Although there are still some people from the old era, they can no longer be the mainstream of the current world.
He asked Hu Lujin's body to be carried out of the tent and showed it to the Northern Qi people, and then said, "Hu Lujin relied on his modest wisdom and led the army to reject me, so that the two sides fought for many days and suffered many casualties. Whether it is a dead or wounded, the sin is in one body. was originally obsessed with asking for the crime, but unexpectedly, this disciple still refused to surrender to the law and abandoned the crowd to self-determination, which can be described as unjust!
Only our military government strictly enforces the law, does not indulge in vain, does not obey because of high position, and does not lose mercy because of inferiority! Tell the masses today, who was ordered the day before they made a complaint, and to whom should the crime belong? Heaven has the virtue of a good life, but there is a forgiveness for you, and I can't bear to do harm, so I can not bear to do harm, so as to respond to the virtue of heaven!"
It's not that he has too much resentment against Hu Lujin that he refuses to give up even if he dies, but the atmosphere brought by Hu Lujin is very bad. Isn't it the basic exercise of your town soldiers to join if you can't beat it? Why did you come to Lao Tzu and you would rather die than surrender?
As an ordinary person, he also understands why Hu Lujin made such a choice, it is nothing more than being too deeply bound to the Northern Qi regime, plus planning for his children and grandchildren, and he is already so old, it is better to die than to surrender in humiliation.
But Lao Tzu has been fighting with you for so long, not to mention buying horse bones, and in the end, he didn't even give Lao Tzu a chance to kill and kill, can this be promised? For such politicians, death is not an end, but a new beginning.
Just like his son Hu Luguang in history, as a hostile party, when he is alive, he will desperately slander him, Hu Luguang is the country's eldest daughter, as long as he has the Northern Qi regime, it will not be good! The dead Hulu Mingyue is a good person, the only pillar stone of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the light of the family and the country, the bright moon is in the country, and the country is dead when the bright moon is dead! The main thing is to kill people, you Northern Qi relics are not capable, and your morality is even worse!
For Li Tai at the moment, he didn't have too grand ideas, but he just wanted to use this to create some disharmony among the Northern Qi captives so as to facilitate management.
After a series of battles, the Northern Qi captives who were captured before and after surrendered were captured
There are also nearly 10,000 people, and the war between Heluo is not over.
Once so many prisoners are not handled well, it is also a hidden danger, Li Tai is not so mad as to directly order the execution of tens of thousands of prisoners, and he does not have enough energy and time to carry out a meticulous reorganization of these people, so he can only come up with the tried and tested method of public trial.
As one of the veterans and henchmen of the Gao Huan Group, Hu Lujin's prestige among the Jinyang soldiers can even be said to be not weaker than that of Gao Yang, the lord of Qi. Now that they are brought out to criticize and fight, they can directly destroy the collective sense of identity and belonging of the Jinyang soldiers, so that there is no tacit understanding between them, so as to reduce the probability of gathering people to make trouble.
With the surrender of King Gao Rui of Zhao County and the announcement of Hu Lüjin's death, several other enemy troops in the city who were still conceited and stubborn resisted also abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and Kim Yong Cheng was completely controlled from then on.
In addition to these Qi prisoners, there were nearly 3,000 Western Wei soldiers in the city. Most of these people were captured in the Battle of Bishan not long ago, and since then they have been imprisoned in Jin Yong City, originally there were more than 5,000 people, but during the siege of Li Tai, these Western Wei soldiers were not only unable to eat, but also were angered and abused by the Qi army, and now there are less than 3,000 people left, and all of them have been tortured and inhuman.
These people originally thought they would die, but they didn't expect that the king of Taiyuan finally captured the city and rescued them, and they all cried with joy when they were rescued. When Li Tai came here to appease them, all the people bowed to the ground and wept silently, first thanking Li Tai for saving his life, and then talking about the treatment he had suffered in the prisoner of war camp in the past few days, and gritting his teeth with hatred for Hu Lujin and other Northern Qi soldiers.
At the beginning of Li Tai's siege of the city, Hu Lujin dragged hundreds of Western Wei prisoners of war to the city to kill Liwei. Later, when Li Tai attacked the city with Heyang cannons outside the city, in order to maintain the morale of the defenders in the city, Hu Lujin repeatedly ordered people to tie these prisoners of war within the bombardment range of the stone cannons, turning the soldiers' fear of the stone cannon attack into appreciating the evil taste and pleasure of the Western Wei Dynasty's own people beating their own people.
After Li Tai learned of this, his eyes were also bright, and even if the staff strictly investigated who else in the Northern Qi army was involved in this matter except for Hu Lujin, the person who gave the order.
War is cruel, not only destroying human life, but also suppressing human nature. As long as it is conducive to winning, you can do anything. Just as Li Tai used ethics and filial piety to coerce Hu Luguang to forcibly fight when it was not suitable, it is difficult for Hu Lujin to make such an arrangement from a moral point of view.
But war is also a win-lose theory, winning is winning, and losing is losing. Now that Li Tai is the winning party, he naturally has no reason to laugh at his previous suspicions. He can ignore and not pursue responsibility for ordinary hostile acts, but this kind of means beyond the norm must be held accountable to the end, and it is a-for-tat, how you commit violence to me, I will retaliate.
He selected hundreds of sergeants from the prisoners of war who were the first to expose Hu Lujin's stubborn resistance, led them up to the dirt mountain, and then repaired and erected the Heyang cannon, and after calibrating the angle and strength, let these people control and smash into the city. As for the Qi soldiers who participated in this matter, they were all bound and discarded in the range of the bombardment, until these people were smashed into plasma.
This kind of practice is rarely done in Li Tai's career from Rong, in addition to Qi Jun's previous practice is a bit disgusting, but also because he has a relatively negative impression of the Jinyang soldiers as a whole. Not only because of the constant hostility, but also because of a kind of national emotional disgust.
The Hu-Han contradiction ran through the beginning and end of the Gao regime, and even in the last years of the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was not eased, but intensified. For example, the enemy general Han who captured the tiger before was captured, his son Han Feng still made violent comments in the last years of the Northern Qi Dynasty: "The dog man is unbearable! But you have to kill them!"
Therefore, even if Li Tai was tolerant of the prisoners of the Jinyang soldiers, it was often based on the fact that these soldiers still had strong strength to use, and they were not as tolerant and preferential as the people of the Southern Dynasty.
Even if in the future, with the change of identity and circumstances, it is necessary to consider the issue of ethnic tolerance more comprehensively, and the people he wants to integrate are also those Xianbei people who are actively seeking integration and striving for progress.
After Kim Yong Cheng was conquered, he suddenly let in
Li Tai's men and horses were very anti-guest-oriented between Heluo, and the fortifications that the Northern Qi had built on a large scale between Heluo in the past few years were almost completely controlled, and their military strength was suppressed to the corners.
The barbarians were also excited about this victory, and they felt more and more that the King of Taiyuan was incomparably powerful, and he was extremely bold in doing things, and he could get rich rewards every time he followed.
This time, Li Tai did not treat these barbarians badly, and after conquering Kim Yong City, the treasury materials in the city were scattered to these barbarians in addition to the sophisticated armor and some grain, oil and materials used by the army, so as to reward them for their righteous spirit of helping them when the situation was still quite unfavorable.
Because with Kim Yong Cheng and other fortresses in hand, even if there are more people and horses attacking Hayang, they can fight against the city without panicking. So after Li Tai took a short rest and arranged the city defense task, he personally led 10,000 elite soldiers to the direction of Yiyang to assist the people of Gaole's army to resist the counterattack of Duan Shao's army.