That night, King Yan praised Zhu Gaochu in the camp, and Zhu Gaochu was also modest, but when he spoke, his expression was still very proud, and then he recommended Li Bin, Xu Zhong, two generals, and Chen Wen, Wang Bin, Zhou Hu and other cronies.

King Yan was very happy, a large number of Yan army generals were promoted, and Xue Liu was also promoted to deputy Qianhu, and then no one dared to call him Xue Liu easily, all of them were called General Xue Lu.

On the day of the great victory, a light rain suddenly fell in Beiping City.

Zhu Gaochi, the prince of the world, came to the living room early this morning, waiting for the officials and generals left behind in Beiping to come and report on their work.

Zhu Gaochi got up a little early today, so he arrived in the hall, and the others hadn't come yet.

Zhu Gaochi's expression was not good-looking, and his face was depressed.

Because one of his supporters, Yuan Zhongche, the son of Yuan Hui, was killed by the official army.

The Yuan family has been doing funerals these days, and he got up early today because he needed to visit early in the morning.

Yuan Zhongche is good at looking, and he is slowly replacing Yuan Hui during this time, and King Yan asked him to watch the generals of the Jianwen Department in Beiping City, which shows his trust in him.

Zhu Gaochi also wanted to make good use of him, but he didn't expect to die outside suddenly.

But to be honest, the death of Yuan Zhongche now does not have a major impact on King Yan, and soon Guo Zi came over, with the same sad face, and reported some bad news, which was very bad for King Yan.

After King Yan captured Beiping, he quickly took control of all the counties in Beiping, and those who were unwilling to be officials for King Yan were either killed or fled.

Then King Yan occupied Yongping Mansion, and the same was true.

Then he went south to occupy Baoding.

The Yan King was very smooth in front, but he was strongly resisted in Baoding.

Baoding Prefecture has jurisdiction over three prefectures and 17 counties.

Yizhou, Laishui County, Xincheng County, and Dingxing County, which are closest to Beiping, were occupied by Beiping at the first time.

The Yan Wangfu reappointed the county commander in the local area, and carried out grain and conscription, which were tied to his rebellious carriage together.

However, Xiongxian, Mancheng, Wanxian, etc., were all controlled by the Southern Army, and the local people also cooperated to resist with all their might.

Xiongxian was defeated by King Yan with nearly 10,000 troops, and there was still a situation where the southern army was stationed.

In Rongcheng County, the southern army was only a few hundred people, but the local county order launched the whole city to defend it, and King Yan was bent on fighting the battle of Zhending, so he only left 2,000 men and horses to attack the cities behind, but he did not defeat it.

Because of the fierce resistance in Rongcheng County and other places, the county towns occupied by the Yan Army and the Southern Army in Baoding Mansion are intertwined and connected.

Many fields of the common people are also connected together, and seeing that the autumn harvest is still two or three months away, some people in many counties occupied by the Southern Army have actually come out to destroy the rice and grain fields in each county.

Guo Zi now has a headache and does not know how to solve the counties that refuse to surrender.

The day before yesterday, Yao Guangxiao had said that he would send more troops and horses to conquer them one by one, and directly slaughter the places where the resistance was fierce, so as to set an example.

In the original history, after the king of Yan raised his army, Hebei resisted fiercely, and the king of Yan was furious, so every time the Yan army attacked a city, it slaughtered its city, and ordered the slaughter of the city inhumanely, which is the famous "King Yan swept the north" incident.

History: "The king of Yan is very angry, south of Yanjing, he has passed through the ruins, and the slaughter is complete" and said that "the green burnt white bones are shocking, and the north of Changhuai is reckless." It can be seen that Zhu Di is no worse than Lao Zhu when he kills people, and the clues can already be seen.

Although it is said that the king is defeated and the king is defeated, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, is the winner in the end, so naturally no one mentions this matter again.

But no matter how much history is concealed, as long as it is something that really happened, it will always be remembered by some people with good intentions.

Not long after Guo Zi just came in today, the rest of the people also followed suit.

Everyone came from Yuan Hui's house after paying respects, and it was rare to come to the Shizi Mansion together.

Guo Zi first greeted the prince when he entered the door, and then sighed without saying a word.

The news of King Yan's victory has not yet come, but Yuan Zhongche's death is obviously not good news for them, and everyone is very depressed.

"My father has come to order." Zhu Gaochi stretched out his hand and wiped the sweat on his head.

It's going to be hot in August, and the two fans behind me are useless.

He gasped and said, "Let's take a look, everyone." "After that, Jin Zhong handed over the secret order of King Yan.

Guo Zi saw it, his face changed greatly, and then he helplessly handed it to Jing Qing, Sun Yu, Mo Lin, Lu Zhen and others.

Everyone watched it all, and a trace of anger flashed in Jing Qing's eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

King Yan agreed with Yao Guangxiao's words and ordered that those who dared to resist the Jingnan army should slaughter its city, bare its land, and leave no chickens and dogs.

"You're all have no opinion, right?" Jin Zhong said at this time.

Guo Zi and other civil officials didn't agree before, so they reported to King Yan to decide, and now who dares to have an opinion?

Yuan Hui is not here today, and Yao Guangxiao rarely comes, so Jin Zhong seems to be the first henchman under the prince.

There was silence at the scene, and everyone was silent.

Zhang Xin shook his head secretly, King Yan is a ruthless character like Taizu.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, how many places has Zhu Yuanzhang slaughtered? Pingyun, Guichuan and other places are directly slaughtered, and the city is slaughtered at every move, which can stabilize the situation as quickly as possible.

Fujian and Guangdong are even more plagued, and every government in Guangdong Province has rebelled, and dozens or even millions of people have been slaughtered before and after.

The old Zhu family rebelled, and they were really ruthless than ordinary people when they killed people.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Jin Zhong said: "Outside, who is leading the troops now?" ”

Shizi looked at Tang Yun?

Tang Yun immediately said: "Liu Jiang, the deputy of the Central Guard." ”

Liu Jiang was the confidant of King Yan, and Tang Yun's deputy, who brought two thousand soldiers and horses to be responsible for capturing the cities outside, but with little effect.

"Give him another 3,000 soldiers and horses." Jin Zhong said sharply: "Order him to take down Rongcheng and slaughter it within three days." ”

The civilians looked horrified.

There was a faint unkindness on the face of the prince Zhu Gaochi, he thought about it, and hurriedly said: "Let General Liu persuade him to surrender first, they are all my Ming people, and if you have no choice, don't make a big move--"

Guo Zi and his civil officials looked up at the prince one after another, probably feeling that the prince was really benevolent and cherished the people.

But Zhu Gaochi immediately said: "Those women, old people and children, can they spare their lives?" ”

A smile flashed in Zhang Xin's eyes, the prince is pretending to be benevolent.

It's a pity that the civil officials don't seem to see it, and they are secretly praising the benevolence of the prince.

Jin Zhong said: "Ci is not in charge of military affairs, the prince must not be merciful, if they are let go, there will be more counties dare to resist, if we lose, no one will let us go, hundreds of thousands of people in Beiping City will be slaughtered by the imperial court." ”

Everyone was stunned, and it seemed that what Jin Zhong said made sense.

The prince sighed, and there was a painful voice: "They are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, why do you want to make such a fuss." ”

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Really set the castle.

Boom, a cannon rang out intermittently around Zhending City.

After King Yan won the battle outside the city, he raised a large army to surround Zhending City the next day and launched a siege battle.

But Zhending City is not easy to fight, there are nearly 50,000 officers and soldiers in it, as well as grain and grass, and countless equipment.

Zhu Gaoxu is taking a few generals and a team of soldiers and horses a few miles outside the city, and there are a large number of yesterday's Southern Army troops here.

As before, Yan Wang Zhu Di's favorite thing to do is to surrender.

King Yan's routine is to ask in the barracks first, and if you are willing to follow King Yan, come out, and then distinguish the rest of the people, officers and soldiers, and take them to the river in a group.

"Would you like to follow King Yan?"

"Fengtian is difficult, hit the Jingshi, do you want to do it?"

"Flutter"

The knife flashed by the river, the flesh and bones separated, and a large number of human heads rolled into the river, and then the corpses were pushed directly into the river.

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head secretly, he couldn't believe that King Yan had always used this way to recruit surrendered troops?

Later, he realized that most of the ancients did not have as much martial virtue as the later generations, and if they surrendered and followed King Yan, more than 90% would accept their fate and would not repeat it, of course, if they were defeated by the Southern Army, it would be another matter.

Of course, in the early stage, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, did not have enough soldiers and horses, so he did this, and later the more soldiers and horses fought, he basically stopped killing and surrendering.

"Let's go." Zhu Gaoxu couldn't stand it after watching it for a while, and took his subordinates to a big camp.

Today he also has such a task, and he took the initiative to propose it to King Yan.

Because Zhu Gaoxu believes that most of the first batch of people who surrendered to King Yan have no martial virtues, but the remaining diehards are easy to train into confidants.

On the way, Xu Xiang would whisper: "The battalion that King Gaoyang wants to see, but they are all Geng Bingwen's henchmen, who are willing to surrender, they surrendered yesterday, and those left today are all stinky and hard old stubborns, even if they surrender, I'm afraid it may be a fake surrender?" King Gaoyang, be careful. ”

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "If it is too easy to obtain, it usually has little value. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Xiang's face changed slightly, and he was a little red.

Only then did Zhu Gaoxu remember that Xu Xiang and the others were the first to surrender to King Yan in Beiping City, and they were the first to take refuge in themselves, so he immediately said: "General Xu, don't misunderstand, we are all our own brothers, so this king speaks more directly, because this king doesn't want to deceive his own people, this king is thinking, no matter what everyone does, only honesty and relative truth is the truth of the road to success." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, King Gaoyang is right." Xu Xiang said excitedly, because Zhu Gaoxu really didn't treat him as an outsider, and he would tell him anything about his heart and secrets, so it can be said that he relied on Xu Xiang very much.

They had more than 200 horsemen, and soon came to Fuchengyi, an official post on the edge of the Zi River, which was now used as a large camp for the Yan army to hold prisoners.

Yesterday, there were nearly 4,000 people locked up here, all of whom were the main force of the Southern Army, and later more than 3,000 were recruited by Qiu Fu, and more than 1,400 people remained inside.

Yesterday, Qiu Fu repeatedly asked if anyone wanted to surrender, and if not, he would be beheaded tomorrow, but more than 800 people did not make a sound.

Among these people, some may live in Beijing or southern cities, afraid that after surrendering, their families will be held accountable, and some are really loyal to Geng Bingwen, after all, Geng Bingwen has been fighting in the south and north for many years, and there are a lot of henchmen and generals under him, some of whom are father and son for two generations, and even three generations of grandparents and grandchildren are Geng Bingwen's generals.

"King of Gaoyang County." Guarding here is Wang Cong, the henchman of King Yan, who is now promoted to deputy Qianhu.

He saw Zhu Gaochu hurriedly clenched his fists, and then said to Zhu Gaoxu: "There are still eight hundred and eleven people in the camp, handed over to the king of Gaoyang County?" Then he turned around and left.

"Fewer people?" Chen Wen asked strangely.

"Last night and this morning, dozens of suicides were committed, and most of them were Geng Bingwen's henchmen." Wang Cong said helplessly: "They just learned that Geng Bingwen died, someone committed suicide by hitting the wall, and someone deliberately attacked the defenders. ”

Everyone's expressions changed slightly, but Zhu Gaoxu was in awe.