Chapter 477: Meat and sheep
Early in the morning, the Great Zhou army came to twenty miles south of Wolf City, and finally saw the former Shura Field.
The ground is full of skulls, piled up like a mountain, and some have disappeared into the yellow sand.
Most of the skulls have been weathered and broken by the wind and sun.
The scene was cold and windy.
The soldiers took out several old Great Zhou soldiers' headbands from the pile of skulls, and the blood-stained headbands were all blue.
"This hatred is incompatible!!"
There was a wail in the army.
Most of the soldiers could not find the skulls of their ancestors at all, and they could not recognize them if they did.
The scout immediately came back to report the news.
"Marshal Qiyu! We observed at the southern gate of the Wolf City, and saw that there was indeed a cage covered with wire hanging directly above the city gate, and the skull was faintly visible in the cage! ”
Hearing this, Liang Xiao, who was already angry, shrank his pupils!
You don't have to think about it to know that it is the skull of his father Liang Xun, which was hung there by Hu Yanche to show his great achievements in bringing the disaster of moving the capital to the Great Zhou.
At this moment, Liang Xiao almost got out of anger.
He, as a manager, has to calm down no matter what.
Moreover, he did not dare to guarantee that this yellow sand would not be mixed with the bones of the Beihu people.
"Pack up the bones of the heroic soul, march into the wolf city tomorrow, if you can't ask clearly, kill and understand!"
Even if the soldiers were angry and marched in winter, they were always tired.
In addition, there are still the bones of their ancestors that need to be protected and collected, and the 80,000 soldiers finally returned to their former calm, endured their grief and indignation, and prepared for a possible decisive battle tomorrow.
"King Zuoxian, something is wrong!!"
"The army of the Great Zhou is here, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and there is a big Sima Liang Xiao in the banner!"
Tibai, who was waiting for the news of the Wind Emperor, suddenly received an urgent report from Pegasus and sat down on the agarwood chair on the spot.
"How is that possible? Even Liang Xiao was killed? Have they ...... my father?"
Whitening the scalp is numb.
"King Zuo Xian, our army in Wolf City is less than three thousand, and they are all old and weak......
The earth-colored ministers reminded one after another.
Tibai calmed down and immediately sent an envoy to visit Liang Xiao.
The envoy of Beihu knelt in front of Liang Xiao, trembling and not daring to raise his head.
"Now the royal court is guarded by our King Zuoxian, King Zuoxian is willing to lead the people to surrender, and only ask the Marquis of Lanling to let us live!!"
Liang Xiao's face was not very good-looking, and he interrogated with a calm face.
"How many people are there in Wolf City?"
"About 90,000, 3,000 defenders, you can all surrender!"
"Is your grain, grass, cattle and sheep enough to support you to return to Yanzhou with our army?"
"Enough ...... for five months"
"Has the Wind Emperor returned?"
"I never came back, King Zuo Xian only received news from the front once, saying that the 200,000 army had been defeated, and his father was gathering troops and preparing to return to China......"
In the face of Liang Xiao's interrogation, the Beihu envoy was terrified, and he didn't even dare to have any honorific title for Emperor Feng, and reported everything truthfully.
Counting some of the vanguard troops set up in North Juan at the mouth of the Great Wall, the number of troops who poured the country southward should exceed 260,000!
260,000 soldiers and horses, of which more than half are cavalry!
But now the result is that Liang Xiao has traveled thousands of miles and killed in Wolf City?
Zuo Xian Wang Tibai and others cried and shouted, and the entire wolf city was in mourning, this was the situation before he came to visit Liang Xiao.
In the face of absolute strength, there is no possibility of resistance!
Mu Lingxiao saw that Liang Xiao only interrogated about major official matters, and did not ask about Liang Xun, he was a little distressed, and finally couldn't help but interject.
"Since you Beihu people know that our marshal is here, why don't you return the bones of the previous generation of Lanling Marquis?"
The envoy of Beihu was sweating profusely, and he was in a hurry, and said: "That, that skull has been hung by Hu Yanche at the gate of the southern city, no one dares to move, and our King Zuo Xian is also worried that he will be questioned by the Marquis of Lanling after it is sent, so I hope that the Marquis of Lanling will personally arrange for the heroes of the Great Zhou to pick it up, so it is the safest......
The other party's answer was okay, Liang Xiao was not annoyed, and Mu Lingxiao had nothing to say.
"You go back, early tomorrow morning, I will see Tibai personally lead the troops to surrender, disarm the troops, otherwise I will descend to the sky and bear the consequences!"
Liang Xiao gave an order in an irresistible tone, and the Beihu envoys agreed repeatedly, and under the escort of the Great Zhou cavalry, they returned to Wolf City to report the news.
Mu Lingxiao explained: "Marshal, in fact, Ling Zun's matter is also a public matter, after all, after returning to China, the imperial court will hold a state funeral for him and other martyrs......"
"It's okay, I'm a son of man, I know my father's ambitions before his death, he definitely doesn't want me to be messed up because of family affairs, I hope I can capture Wolf City in the most calm state and meet him." Liang Xiao sighed.
The generals sighed, but they were also in awe.
After the publicity of the Big Sunday Daily, more and more people learned about Liang Xun's life and deeds, and admired it.
Such a heroic martyr, in order to cover the retreat of the king and the army and the people, martyred the country, and was once slandered by the great family as the culprit of the disaster of moving the capital!
This is the influence of the former great family, which can almost control national public opinion.
"It's clear every day! It's all day by day! Chang Polang sighed.
Guan Long Haojie, the most respectful martyrs.
"Marshal, do we want to accept everyone in Wolf City and not kill anyone?" Dong Lian asked weakly.
Liang Xiao explained: "It's easy to kill people, and the best way to completely disintegrate the nomads in the vast desert and never suffer from future troubles is to bring them back to the Central Plains, completely deconstruct and destroy their civilization, break their fetters and past beliefs, and make them no longer able to form a climate." Otherwise, after a hundred years or a thousand years, the nomads will make a comeback, causing the primordial spirits to be devastated. ”
The generals seem to understand whether they understand or not, and even well-educated people like Long Wushuang, Shifang, and Zhuge Ding can only comprehend seven, seven, eight, eight.
But they were convinced of Liang Xiao.
After all, Li Mu of the Warring States led the crowd to defeat the Xiongnu, and in the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang sent the general Meng Tian to lead 300,000 people to attack the Xiongnu in the north, and built the Great Wall in exchange for temporary tranquility.
During the Wu Dynasty, the Xiongnu repeatedly violated the border, and the peerless Emperor Wu also defeated the Northern Xiongnu for a time.
Three hundred years later, the rise of the Northern Hu, poisoning the Central Plains, and even vainly trying to restore the name of the Xiongnu, this is a bloody fact.
It is a good strategy to tempt the nomads with a more affluent life in the Central Plains, let them surrender, and then completely disperse their ethnic groups.
Liang Xiao didn't reveal much.
The history of the area has taken a different track since the Qin Dynasty, but the threat of nomads is much the same.
It is still impossible to completely solve the potential threat of nomads by attracting and enforcing them alone.
It is necessary to ensure that the national strength is strong and the military strength is crushed for a long time before it can be completely recovered.
As a new dynasty, the Great Zhou will inevitably embark on a path that is different from other ancient dynasties, if not perfect, at least the greatest dynasty in relative terms.
It's just that he is confident that he will achieve this.
The next day, Tibai, the king of Beihu Zuoxian, led the crowd to surrender, and the monarchs and ministers took the sheep and came to Liang Xiao's front to kowtow and apologize.
"Sinners Tibai and others are waiting for Beihu to wait for them, knock on the heavenly commanders, the heavenly generals, and the heavenly soldiers!"
On the same day, the Tianri cavalry, which annexed the Wind Emperor and his party, under the command of Marshal Benjamin, rushed straight to the Wolf City.