Northern Dynasties

Chapter 399
As the main general was captured, the battle ended quickly.

A group of about a hundred knights from the Eastern Army fled northward along Lingshui when they saw a bad opportunity. As for the other infantry and cavalry, they did not have such good luck. After some of them were intercepted and killed, the rest They can only abandon their weapons and surrender.

The captives were driven to one place, and Liu Ahqi, who fled to lure the enemy before, managed to return as a whole, but the size of the team had dropped by more than half compared to before. In addition to the heavy casualties, some of them fled directly in the wilderness up.

However, the remaining people were enough to take care of these Eastern Army prisoners. It was said that they were Eastern Army prisoners, but in fact most of them were Jihu disciples. At least Li Tai could not see any racial differences between them with his naked eyes.

The captured Xianbei army was obviously different from those jerk soldiers in terms of temperament, dress, words and deeds.Even after disarming and surrendering, they still maintain the formation subconsciously. It can be seen that as a professional soldier, some military rules have already become instinctive.

Of course, these high-quality soldiers have also received Li Tai's key care. The other miscellaneous soldiers can only be driven to one place after disarming, while those Xianbei soldiers still need to be tied up with ropes. Waving is a knife.

After clearing up the battlefield outside the city, more than 1000 enemy infantry and cavalry were captured. Except for the hundreds who were killed during the battle and those who escaped, the entire enemy army that came out of the city to fight was wiped out.

Li Tai dispatched the guard Pi Jinghe to the gate of the city to call on the guards at the top of the city to surrender obediently, but a soldier commander who stayed behind ordered the guards at the top of the city to draw their bows and shoot, and they still had the will to resist. , regardless of the life and death of Pi Jinghe and other captives.

Seeing this scene, Li Taixin said that Pi Jinghe was not good, but he didn't let him continue to face the flying arrows to persuade him to surrender.This guy was no stranger, he was even crowned king in the late Northern Qi Dynasty, he almost shot himself with an arrow just now, if he managed to capture him and was shot to death by his comrades, it would be a big loss.

He beckoned Liu Ahqi to come, and led more than a dozen captured Xianbei soldiers to the city gate to slash and kill them with knives. Keep them alive.

The reason why estrangement is commonly used is because it is really easy to use, especially between two groups with unequal status and conflicting interests. If there is no provocation, there will be a deep gap. Once it is aroused, it will inevitably explode more violently.

Thousands of Ji Hu miscellaneous soldiers who guarded the city were driven out of the city to die. It can be seen that they are also suffering from oppression. Seeing that the situation has become so bad, the previous authority and deterrence are naturally gone, so soon there were riots and fighting in the city. After about half an hour, the head of the soldier who was still resisting at the top of the city before was thrown out from the top of the city.

After the outsiders verified that it was correct, the rioting pawns in the city slowly opened the city gate, threw the weapons in their hands to the ground, and then filed out and fell to the ground in front of the city gate to ask for surrender.

At this point, the first small goal after Dongdu was taken. Li Tai was not in a hurry to enter the city, but let Liu Ahqi lead his troops into the city to take over the city defense.

A victory is not a matter of success or failure. Just now, there was still a group of enemy knights fleeing north. If the Eastern Wei Dynasty's successor army was really summoned, they would be flexible in fighting or running outside the city.

After the city was conquered, there were still more than 700 miscellaneous soldiers, who were captured during the suppression of Jihu the year before last, and were allocated here as military slaves.After the riots and surrender, I saw Liu Ah Qi, a Hu Chief who was quite well-known in the Lishi area, was recruited without any obstacles, and was even very excited. Stone will soon be their Jihu's playground again.

According to Pi Jinghe who surrendered, originally the defenders of the city consisted of [-] Jinyang soldiers led by him and nearly [-] soldiers.

The [-] cavalrymen who followed him out of the city were naturally Jinyang soldiers, and there were more than a hundred people left behind in the city. If it weren't for these fierce soldiers making noise, he wouldn't even plan to come out.After all, the task he received was to defend Wutu City, and to report any situation immediately.

It's not that he is rigid and doesn't know how to be flexible. In fact, he can't completely control these arrogant soldiers. Once he goes out of the city to fight, there will inevitably be many accidents.

Li Tai also felt the same about this. The soldiers in the town had a very serious xenophobic sentiment. Take He Basheng's old troops as an example, his adopted son committed suicide and followed them directly. Later, some of the old Wuchuan troops returned to the brothers He Ba and Jingwei. However, Zhu Meng and others who still followed him were brought back from Jiangdong by He Basheng, and they did not belong to the Zhenbing.

Therefore, the anti-foreignness of the town soldiers is actually a special moral core and spiritual culture inside them. The lower the town soldiers, the more they agree with this.

Although Pi Jinghe was young and brave, he was appreciated by Gao Huan and made him a confidant, but because he was not from a town soldier, he couldn't control the troops assigned to him. Even after he surrendered, his original subordinates wanted to shoot him. Apart from itself, no other identity is constructed.

Although these town soldiers were disobedient, their combat effectiveness was quite impressive. The five hundred cavalry led by Pi Jinghe before were not equipped with excellent armor and defense because they were chasing Jihu under Liu Aqi's troops. Li Tai's troops defeated the few They are also well-armed, and they have not been wiped out after a lot of useless hands and feet, which shows how difficult it is to deal with.

As for the Jihu who rioted in the city, it was even more pitiful. There were only more than 100 Jinyang soldiers left behind in the city, while there were more than 300 Hu soldiers who rioted. In the end, they were killed at the cost of nearly half of the casualties. killed these town soldiers.

Li Tai couldn't help feeling emotional about this, that is, as long as the veterans of the Mutiny of the Six Towns don't die clean, the world will never be unified that day.

Because these town soldiers are powerful in combat and at the same time the nature of private music is too strong, even if the prestige is as powerful as Gao Huan, rescued them from the hands of the Erzhu family, led them to defeat the Erzhu family and established the Jinyang Overlord Mansion, but When it comes to loyalty, these town soldiers are still loyal to their respective generals, and Gao Huan is still behind.

With high loyalty and high combat effectiveness, this kind of people is really greedy at first glance, but the strong nature of private songs makes them carry a split gene in their bones.

Although the Gaoqi regime replaced the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the system construction looked very good, in fact it failed to complete the transformation from the hegemony to the central government from the beginning to the end.Jinyang Bing is a rich legacy Gao Huan left to his descendants, and it is also a burden that runs through the beginning and end of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Of course, these situations are not issues that Li Tai needs to consider. The more troublesome thing for him is that the soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty are indeed strong in fighting power.It is indeed not a feeling to beat these parallel importers like Zhenbing and Jihu.

After conquering Wutu City, Li Tai immediately sent a letter back, ordering Han Guo to lead 3000 troops across the river to settle in Wutu City.This city is the largest garrison of the Eastern Wei Dynasty at the western foot of Luliang Mountain, and it is also related to the retreat of their group, so naturally they are not at ease to let the Jihu people defend it.

In addition to the 3000 Longyou athletes, there are also more than 2000 old Songs who have been stationed in Weiping since last year. If necessary, Heishui Fangcheng can mobilize more than 2000 people to go north for reinforcements in a short period of time.In addition, Han Guo also gathered more than [-] state soldiers in Dongxia Prefecture, which meant that he could invest more than [-] troops here.

If you don't want to break through Jinyang and occupy it for a long time but just do things, these troops are naturally sufficient, but if you want to get the greatest results with the least cost, then the route and plan still need to be carefully considered.

Pi Jinghe nearly shot Li Tai to death on the battlefield before, but now that he was captured and surrendered, he still has lingering fears in his heart. In order to make up for his mistakes, he also knows everything about the Eastern Wei Dynasty that he knows, and talks endlessly.

Seeing this guy's sincerity, Li Tai couldn't help laughing secretly, what kind of eyes did Big Brother have, and why did he choose this kind of person to be his confidant governor?But when he thought that Gao Huan had also served as Er Zhurong's confidant and governor, he was relieved. Which Lu is not the boss' darling?
According to Pi Jinghe's confession, in addition to Wutu City, although the Eastern Wei Dynasty also set up other defensive strongholds here, most of them did not have direct garrisons. of control.

Strictly speaking, Wutu City is just an eyes and ears to monitor the movement of Jihu in this side. The place where the Eastern Dynasty really used to guard against Jihu riots was Xiurong City in Lanzhou to the north of Wutu City. The former residence, Hengzhou, one of the six states of Xianbei, also lives here, and tens of thousands of Jinyang soldiers are stationed all year round.

The other is Liubi City, located on the south side of the eastern foot of Luliang Mountain, located in Xihe County, Fenzhou. For many years, it has been an important town for the prevention and control of Lishi Zhuhu. There are more people and horses than Xiurong City.

Of course, the so-called garrisoned troops are in normal seasons. Now that the Jinyang army is marching southward, Pi Jinghe doesn't know exactly how many troops are still stationed in these positions, and he dare not estimate casually, so as not to cause interference and misleading sentenced.

In addition, Pi Jinghe also explained that in the Lishi area today, there are still many remaining Jihu tribes.Jihu has a long history of living and multiplying in this place. It made full use of the complex and changeable regional terrain to avoid the encirclement and suppression of the army, and began to carry out activities after the army withdrew.

On the third day after the capture of Wutu City, Han Guo led his successors to rush to reinforce and take over the city's defenses.During this process, no troops from the Eastern Wei brigade came, which also confirmed the accuracy of the information provided by Pi Jinghe to a certain extent, as well as the fact that the remaining troops around Jinyang were empty.

However, the situation of the fall of Wutu City must have been leaked out. Li Tai knew that the longer the delay, the more preparation time Jinyang would have to prepare, and the effect of surprise soldiers would be lost, so when he had no worries, , immediately start the next step of the plan.

(End of this chapter)