Chapter 165: Geng Bingwen's Death

Qu Neng still respects Geng Bingwen, a veteran. After all, everyone is a figure in the circle. If it weren't for this battle between the north and the south, maybe he would have been able to ask Geng Bingwen for some things.

Now in this situation, what Geng Bingwen wants to do, Qu Neng is probably clear.

It's just that he suddenly had a feeling of sadness that the rabbit died and the fox died, sighed, and didn't speak. Motioning to make the people around you wait for a while.

But after a while, the sound of crying came from inside.

Geng Bingwen committed suicide.

Geng Bingwen himself knows that his body is almost exhausted, even if he can survive it, he can live for a few years. Although many times people say that life is priceless. However, in terms of compensation, the elderly are always less compensated than the young and middle-aged. It's the same thing.

With Geng Bingwen's status, as long as he surrenders, he will definitely be able to live, and even some of the glory and wealth may be retained, but the political situation in the future will definitely not be good.

At Geng Bingwen's age, he doesn't want to accept the aggrieved life of the next ten years.

What's the difference between going a few years earlier and a few years later?

Geng Bingwen had his last words before he died, ordering all the people around him to surrender. Qu Neng stepped forward to look at Geng Bingwen's remains, and Geng Bingwen's dying expression had a sense of relief.

Let Qu Neng sigh. A thick burial was ordered.

Geng Bingwen's death can be regarded as the end of the battle in Guanzhong.

Geng Bingwen is gone, and there is no one to maintain the morale of the army. The rule of the southern army in Guanzhong completely collapsed, and wherever the northern army passed, it was able to surrender a county town by looking at the wind, and even a few cavalrymen. Thousands surrendered to hundreds.

It's like a wind sweeping away leaves.

In the Guanzhong area, there are only two places left in the hands of Nanjing. The first is Tongguan.

Very early on, Geng Bingwen was worried about the problem of Tongguan, so he let Tongguan be under the jurisdiction of Henan. Although it is said that Tongguan is a tighter defense on the east side. But now, it's the west side that's the most dangerous.

Thereupon. Geng Bingwen, just in case, also had the need for unified deployment, so Luoyang was given jurisdiction. That is, Sheng Yong is responsible.

So even if Geng Bingwen's entire army is wiped out, there will be no problem.

It's just that the situation is even more precarious.

The second is Lantian.

Geng Bingwen did not fight a war that he was not sure of, since he was going to retreat to Lantian with the main force, he had made arrangements in Lantian very early, because the transportation was convenient, and a large number of materials from the south were gathered near Lantian.

In addition, Lantian is already at the foot of Qinling Mountain, and there is a favorable location.

Geng Bingwen's original arrangement was enough to resist the offensive of the Northern Army.

Although it is said that Geng Bingwen's death and the army were almost wiped out, there were still 20,000 or 30,000 people who fled back to Lantian, plus the original garrison in Lantian, it was enough to fight.

Moreover, the fact that the soldiers chose to flee south instead of Beitou in this situation shows that they are diehard loyalists of Nanjing. In many things, it has been inseparable from Nanjing.

Although people's hearts are fluctuating, there are not many people who want to surrender.

It's just that some people don't stay in Lantian at all and go directly to Henan. Fortunately, the Ming army has not been open for a long time, and the army has not yet become corrupt and degenerate, although it has lost the battle and broken the main general. But the veterans accumulated during the Hongwu years, I don't know how many.

A lot of people are inconspicuous. But when it matters, it's very useful.

One of the members is named Yang Wen, a veteran, but he is just a commander, and when the dragons have no leader, he immediately makes a decision, kills the fleeing generals, and takes charge of the armies, which can be regarded as stabilizing the situation.

Once the situation is stabilized, the Lantian battalion of the Southern Army will not be too easy to fight.

However, the more the Northern Army won more battles, the more calm it became. The more choices Qu Neng has. On the one hand, Qu Neng sent people to play, asking the Beijing division to send officials to take over the place, and on the other hand, he confronted the Lantian Tongguan side.

In addition, he contacted Hanzhong, hoping that Hanzhong could make a surprise attack and go straight to the land of Xiangfan along the Han River. Surround the enemy of Lantian.

It's just that all of these things are needed

It takes time.

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In the city of Anyi.

Zhao Yong's face was ugly.

Looking at the letter in his hand.

He was silent for a long time and said, "Is Geng Bingwen really gone?"

Song Sheng's envoy said, "Uncle Shi, how can you deceive people about this matter. If Uncle Shi doesn't believe it, you can wait a few days to know if it's true or not, but in this way, the great work will not be yours, Uncle Shi."

With the intricate relationship between the two parties, it is a very simple matter to find a close person on the other side to persuade them to surrender.

However, the so-called intimacy is just a stepping stone to persuasion. The real persuasion is to change the situation in the world, and the bargaining chips and offers in the hands of the imperial court.

However, He Xi had already ordered that it was impossible to open any high prices for all persuasions.

Generally speaking, it is just to keep the original job and redeem the merit for the crime.

However, even if He Xi is not active in this, when the situation is more and more favorable to Beijing, many people's minds are also shaken.

Among them is Zhao Yong.

It is not easy to make Zhao Yong waver.

As a general who was pushed to the front line by the Korean public department, there were people in the imperial court. His family is also in Nanjing. These people are his support when it is advantageous. Now it's all his burden.

If he surrenders, he will face the death of his family and the other generals of the Korean Gongyi lineage.

This kind of enmity is not a national enmity, but a personal enmity.

In fact, at this point, there are thoughts and discussions about how long Nanjing can hold out and how long Shanxi can hold out.

Within the Korean public system, they all felt that it was impossible for them to have a place in Beijing, and when they killed Lan Yu, they did not make any less efforts. It's almost impossible to be forgiven by the Northside.

If you can, you can insist. Even if you can't hold on, you must have a unified and coordinated opinion, so that you can support each other in the future.

After all, they were all frustrated figures in the Hongwu Dynasty at the beginning, and as long as they lost their power and regained it at this moment, they would know how valuable power is.

They are desperate to keep it.

It was easy for Zhao Yong to surrender, and as soon as he surrendered, it would be a major blow to the Korean Gongyi family in Nanjing.

That's the problem.

This is very sorry for the old brothers in Nanjing.

Therefore, Nanjing Han Gong actually asked him to find the right time to give up Shanxi and retreat into Henan, leaving the green mountains behind, not afraid of no firewood.

It's just that Zhu Yunwen loves face too much, so he refuses to give such an order.

Zhao Yong can only do but not say.

It's just that Zhao Yong also has to think about himself.

What is Zhao Yong's biggest feeling in recent years?

It's old.

During the Hongwu years, he didn't feel old at all. When he was suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang, all he thought about every day was to recover, to regain power, and to return to the center.

After all, forty or fifty years old. As a general, is it old?

He was even a little younger than Fu Youde.

What he felt at the time was that what Fu Youde could do, couldn't I, Zhao, do it?

But these years, it's only three or four years. Zhao Yong has completed the transition from middle age to old age.

Perhaps, people feel that they are old, and many times they are old mentally.

Compared with Xu Da before his death, he was still studying the establishment and changes of the new army, and compared with Geng Bingwen, who was more than seventy years old, he also perfected the new defensive tactics. Although Zhao Yong was young, when he found that he was invincible in the war when he was young, it didn't work. Outdated.

He wanted to learn new tactics, but he couldn't.

It's just that these new things, in the clouds, seem to be books from heaven. If you can't, you won't, and if you don't understand, you don't understand.

Zhao Yong looked at his contemporaries and generals, or they either collapsed and sank into the sand, or shrank behind and did not dare to come out.

The spirit of Hongwu was also dispersed.

A lot of times, people

ambition is related to ability. When Zhao Yong found out, now he seems to have become an incompetent person, just like those heads he killed on the battlefield when he was young.

is also a very famous official, but it turned out to be nothing.

When people get old, they don't have so much heart.

He loved his family and his children. But in the hearts of the people who are mixed in the troubled times, there is a ruthlessness. This ruthlessness is not only to others, but also to oneself.

After all, in the troubled times, what kind of human tragedy has not been seen, what kind of scene has not been experienced, and the morality in the hearts of these people is something that many people in later generations cannot understand. That is, the heart is too ruthless.