Chapter 529: Letter of Surrender
Xu Guang entered the Tongjue Garden with a grimace, but was greeted by a violent "killing" sound, which made him startled.
After taking a closer look, it turned out that the Silver Spear Army stationed in the Tongjue Garden was forming an array for training.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
I have heard too many killing sounds recently and I am really scared. Especially that night, he was so anxious that he climbed over the wall and accidentally fell into Dongshi. While he was limping, several knives were held to his neck, and he was almost killed.
That was the moment closest to death, and his memory is still fresh.
"Mr. Taofu." Xu Guang stepped forward and saluted.
"Xu joins the army." The two of them greeted each other according to their old official positions.
"What's going on with the Golden Tiger and Tongque stations?" Xu Guang asked first.
"Still trying to persuade you to surrender." Taobao said: "The defenders of Jinhutai are less than a thousand, but they are already willing to surrender. In the morning, I sent people to step down and asked doctors to treat the injuries. Ming Gong agreed. Tongquetai has not yet I agreed, but I didn’t harm the messenger.”
There are more than a hundred wounded soldiers on Jinhu Platform, many of whom are seriously injured and unable to move. When the general heard that Bingjingtai had surrendered, he reluctantly expressed his willingness to surrender, but asked Chen Gong to send doctors to the platform first to treat the wounded soldiers. Some of them could no longer hold on.
Originally, it was just a test, and I didn’t expect the other party to really agree. But who could have imagined it? Shao Xun agreed immediately and immediately sent people to the Golden Tiger Platform to treat the wounded soldiers.
The guard general was so convinced that he sent people to send the weapons down the mountain, and then personally went down to the Tongjue Garden as a pledge.
There were also a thousand soldiers on the Tongque Platform. They refused to surrender, but they did not harm the envoy.
This is the situation. It is actually very clear.
Bingjing and Jinhu platforms were surrendered, and the third platform was eliminated. The Tongque platform was actually not easy to defend. I don’t know what those people were thinking. If I really thought of Da Hu so much, I should have fought to the death outside the city.
There are some people who are extremely brave when they are hiding behind the city wall. I really don’t know what to say about them.
"You can still live if you do evil by God, but you can't live if you do evil on your own. Some people don't want to live, so let them go." Xu Guang sighed.
“You joined the army and came here just to inquire about the military situation?” Tao Bao asked, pointing to the sergeants, clerks, carriages and horses behind Xu Guang.
"No." Xu Guang said seriously: "Chen Gong was pleased to hear that Bingjingtai had been restored and sent me to pick up the Hu family. All the soldiers guarding the platform were driven outside the city and handed over to Liu Hedu for command."
"Liu Hedu? Leading an army alone?" Taobao was startled.
Liu Hedu is the son of Liu Hezhu, and his father is the chief of Daluze. If we really want to talk about merit, it is Liu Hezhu, the old fox, who has the greater merit. However, he also understood that father and son were one, and if Liu Hezhu was not promoted, then his son would be promoted and command a group of troops.
Wait a minute——
"Santai surrendered its troops to form an army alone?" Tao Bao asked.
"Yes." Xu Guang said: "Mr. Chen gave me the military title 'Zhongyi'. I am already the commander of the Zhongyi Army..."
Taobao felt that his face was deformed with jealousy. .
Xu Guang has become a "regular official", but he is still a "pseudo official". How can this make people feel better?
"Don't worry, general." Xu Guang took a step closer and whispered: "As long as the following things are done, Mr. Chen will not forget the general's contribution."
Peach Leopard Chang He breathed a sigh of relief and had a smile on his face.
Xu Guang felt dark in his heart.
Taobao calls himself a "wise general", but in fact it is just the "wisdom" of a warrior. His emotions and sorrows are all written on his face. How much real wisdom can he have?
"What's the matter?" Taobao asked: "I will definitely do it!"
"If the three generals Tao, Zhi, and Cheng can bring Princess Pingjin and Mrs. Liu of Shangdangguo to the present With Chen Gong, I will have a worry-free future,” Xu Guang said.
Taobao was stunned.
“The people from Jinhutai are coming down——” Zhi Xiong came over from a distance and stopped mid-yellow. He obviously heard what Xu Guang said.
His face looked a little ugly.
He has been with Shi Le for a long time. Like Wang Yang, Kui'an, Taobao, Ji Bao and others, he was one of Shi Le's early "Eight Riders" - "Eighteen Riders" is a collective term. In fact, The early "Eight Riders" can also be divided according to their seniority. According to seniority, there are always people.
Da Hu failed and was hunted by the Jin army. At that time, he did not have the courage to commit suicide and surrendered "unexamined".
After surrendering, I found that my loyalty to Da Hu was not as strong as I thought, so I was very ashamed.
But after feeling ashamed, Shao Xun gave him a job and he still took it.
After accepting it, I felt even more ashamed...
I was so ashamed that I actually wanted to give my former mistress to Mr. Chen. This, this - has the bottom line been broken through again?
Maybe he has no bottom line at all.
In the beginning, he followed Da Hu to start a rebellion. He mainly did the work of robbing Taoists, and it was only for money.
It turns out that I am really a bad person.
Taobao's face was relatively calm. It can be seen that his psychological construction was earlier and more complete than that of Zhi Xiong. After hearing Xu Guang's words, he only asked: "Is this an order from Mr. Chen?"
"Dong Chen did not Order." Xu Guang said seriously: "I heard that Duke Chen wants to organize Tao and Zhi's soldiers into an army, but the leader doesn't know who he is for..."
Peach Leopard looks up at the sky.
After a while, he seemed to have given up. He called for his own soldiers and asked, "Where are Shile's family members?"
"Rest in the garden." The soldiers replied.
Taobao nodded, and then said in a slightly trembling voice: "I smell that the Shangdang's wife has national beauty, and she should present it to Mr. Chen for enjoyment. Please ask them to get in the car."
The expression on the soldier's face also changed. It's not very pretty, but I did it anyway.
"General Zhi..." Xu Guang looked at Zhi Xiong again.
"I——" Zhi Xiong opened his mouth.
"General Zhi, there are some things that you won't have a chance to do after today." Xu Guang said earnestly: "I heard that you have a magnificent mansion in the city, and you have offended many people in the past. How can I keep this if I am white?" "I——" Zhi Xiong muttered, and then said dejectedly: "I will offer Mrs. Liu together with General Tao."
Xu Guang smiled and said: "Actually, why bother? If you attack Santai, you have already broken up with Shi Le, and the rest is just a matter of convenience."
After saying that, he stood with the two of them. Together, wait quietly.
Not long after, Cheng Xia, who received the news, rushed over. He looked at Tao and Zhi first, then at Xu Guang, then quietly pulled him and whispered.
Xu Guang looked a little embarrassed and shook his head from time to time.
Cheng Xia's face was full of pleading, and he bowed repeatedly.
After a while, Liu and others were escorted over by the sergeant.
In order to prevent anyone from being disloyal to Shi Le and letting his family members go, the people escorted were all Tao Bao's close associates when he was the prefect. However, it seemed that Mrs. Liu had no desire to die even though her face was full of anger. Mrs. Cheng stood behind her with the baby in her arms, her face full of fear. She seemed to be more careless than Mrs. Liu.
The group quickly got on the carriage and headed to Ye Palace.
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In the Prime Minister's Mansion of Ye Palace, Shao Xun was sitting at the top, listening to reports from Yu Chen and others.
“Since the autumn harvest, 300,000 dendrobiums of ‘ownerless grain’ from the fields have been stored in Bai Zang’s warehouse.” Yu Chen said: “With this grain and grass, we can support 30,000 troops in three months. We need another 300,000 hu of grain from the three counties of Ji, Wei, and Dunqiu, but it has not yet been shipped. Send people north to Guangping counties to collect grain and return." "Okay." Yu Chen agreed.
"What are you going to do about Hebei?" Shao Xun asked.
"Please Ming Gong leave a battalion of elite soldiers to help defend." Yu Chen said.
Shao Xun did not answer immediately.
Actually, when he was fighting in Hebei, other places were not peaceful and there were many things going on.
Because he captured Wancheng in the first half of the year, Jianye was stimulated. Sima Rui issued a secret edict and "undertaken" Zu Ti as the governor of Xuzhou and led his army north to Xiapi.
The wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River did not object openly. After all, Sima Rui even came up with the secret decree. However, if they objected openly, it did not mean that they would not hold back.
At the end of the wrangling, Sima Rui only managed to get Zu Ti a few thousand troops, which was really meager.
At the end of June, Zu Ti took a boat and went north to Huaiyin to win over powerful people, collect funds, build furnaces, and smelt weapons, but there was no further movement for the time being.
In the direction of Jingzhou, because Wancheng would no longer participate in the counter-insurgency, the imperial court ordered Wang Dun to lead his troops to join the counter-insurgency sequence.
Tao Kan and Zhou Fang led their armies, advancing both by land and water, and defeated Du Tao several times, with remarkable results.
However, local people such as Du Zeng and Wang Chong joined the rebellion one after another, and it was not completely quelled.
Wang Dun didn't seem to focus on countering the rebellion. He focused more on recruiting and appointing private individuals to expand his power.
When receiving this news, Shao Xun ignored it and just gave an order to Le Kai, the commander of the Wancheng shogunate army, to recruit young men and strengthen the alert.
Several counties in southern Yuzhou also received orders to recruit soldiers to guard their borders in case of accidents.
The overall approach is defensive, to avoid being suddenly attacked and to invade the empty hinterland.
As for the direction of Xuzhou, I heard that Mi Huang, the internal historian of the East China Sea, had a little friction with Zu Ti and even lost a match. I was worried that he would lose all his capital, so he ordered him to stay on the defensive and not to act rashly. .
Now that Shi Le has been defeated militarily and has entered the stage of political warfare, Shao Xun wanted to withdraw some of his troops to strengthen the defense in the south, but Yu Chen asked him to leave "a battalion of elite soldiers"...< br>
To be honest, Shao Xun now only has two and a half battalions of elite soldiers, namely the Silver Spear left battalion and the right battalion, plus half of the Heijin army.
The three main players will give you one?
He stood up and walked to the map, looked at it for a long time, and said: "Since the Black Army went north, they have been fighting for a long time, and there are still 2,900 soldiers. I will leave this army to you, but I won't Instead of stationing in Yecheng, we will be stationed in Anyang."
After that, he said: "I have ordered Yinqiang Zhongying to dispatch two troops to go north, and these two troops should have arrived in Chenliu. Although they have never fought in a battle, they have been practicing for a long time and are not a group that can be defeated at the first touch. The Heiji Army originally had six buildings (3,600 people), but now it is divided into seven buildings. There are some vacancies. They recruit hundreds of strong men who have no family members in Anyang. Make up.”
Yu Chen breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It will be much easier to handle if there is a black army to hold Anyang."
These 4,200 soldiers, a mix of old and new, are the "one battalion" that Shao Xun promised him Elite soldiers".
He never expected that Shao Xun would keep the Silver Spear Army in Hebei. It was unlikely at this stage.
Anyang is a very important node. It connects the past and the future. It also communicates with the Baigou water system. It is guarded by the black army and Yecheng is confident in the front.
Now there is only one problem left: there are no reliable left-behind troops in Yecheng.
"Cai Chengke is the prefect of Wei County." Shao Xun added: "He does not know how to handle government affairs, but only trains Yecheng's sergeants. The Nanyang and Guanxi soldiers will stay for a while. Yecheng surrendered miscellaneously. The total number of soldiers is less than 15,000. If you are worried, you can come up with a solution from Henan."
Yu Chen smiled bitterly and raised his hand.
This son-in-law acted shamelessly again and asked the Henan nobles to use their old skills to help him defend Yecheng.
Of course, each family has some elite troops that they regard as treasures. They provide them with delicious food and drinks on weekdays, and they also try their best to make up for the equipment - Shao Xun was hacked in Yingchuan back then. Isn't it the armor's fault?
They even tried their best to invite the Forbidden Army generals to help with training, and became familiar with the golden drum flag and various tactics and military formations to improve their combat effectiveness.
It would be heartbreaking for any one of these people to die, and no one would take it out easily.
But what should I say? Mr. Chen has already reached this point. You should increase your bets quickly. What are you waiting for?
When Mr. Chen marries Guo Shengtong and no longer wants Yin Lihua, it will be too late to cry!
So Yu Chen just smiled bitterly, but did not refuse.
Of course, he has a deeper idea, but this is not enough for outsiders.
Uh, one more thing -
Why let Cai Cheng be the prefect? Why not Yang Dan?
Yu Chen was a little confused.
At this time, I saw Cai Cheng peeking his head outside and quietly winking at Shao Xun.
(End of this chapter)