The emperor was captured because Gou Xi and Gou Chun were lured deep into the battlefield. They lost themselves in the successive battles. They were proud and arrogant. They were defeated by Liu Cong's counterattack. Shi Le also detoured from behind, directly cutting off their escape route.
First, Gou Chun was captured, and then Gou Xi... The letter stated that he felt that the situation was over and he only had a few hundred riders around him, so he finally had to surrender to Shi Le to save his life.
Ming Yu's heart ached when he saw it, and his eyes instantly filled with tears. He was filled with grief, "General, he... actually ended up here short of his ambition."
Two years of extravagance not only damaged Gou Xi's body, but also damaged his mind. How could he surrender?
As long as he does not surrender, and there is an emperor in Yanzhou, he can raise his arms and form a new army. Even if he cannot turn defeat into victory, as long as he finds the emperor and escorts him to Yuzhou and Jiangnan, he can make a comeback. How can he be afraid of death?
And descend?
This was a fatal blow to Jin's morale.
Ming Yu quickly looked down. As soon as the Gou Xi brothers surrendered, the emperor was in a difficult situation. It was almost as soon as the news of his surrender came. The two generals who originally belonged to Gou Xi also surrendered to Shi Le with their armies.
In the end, the emperor could only gather the remaining generals to defend Yuncheng, but Liu Cong's offensive was so fast that he could not hold on.
Zhao Juren was on the western front and was held back by Shi Le's 50,000-strong army, unable to come back for reinforcements. By the time he rushed back, Liu Cong had already killed the emperor and captured all the ministers and clan members.
Zhao Ju was also defeated and disappeared with the remaining 8,000 Zhao troops.
Ming Yu suppressed the grief in his heart, folded the letter and looked at Zhao Hanzhang: "Your Majesty is in the hands of Liu Cong, do you want to surrender?"
Zhao Hanzhang raised his eyebrows, and after thinking for a moment with a sullen face, he said: "The emperor can be changed again." Surrender is impossible.
Ming Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said: "Your Majesty was captured. I don't know where the prince is. Apart from the prince, now in the clan, only King Sima Yan of Wu and King Sima Ye of Qin are closer to the emperor by blood."
They are all descendants of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty.
In total, Sima Yan gave birth to a total of twenty-six sons. Except for a few who died in infancy, they all died one after another in the remaining years. The current emperor is the youngest one. Besides him, there is also a King of Wu who survived.
More than a dozen other princes are all dead, and as for their descendants, not many are still alive.
The Sima family was so fertile and had so many grandchildren that she really couldn't remember them, and too many had died in the past few years.
Many people died during the Eight Kings Rebellion, and Shi Le killed another group two years ago. Now that Yuncheng has been breached, I don’t know how many people have escaped.
Zhao Hanzhang wrote to Zhao Ming, asking him to stay in Yuzhou and look for the surviving clan members and officials.
As for the emperor, if he can be saved, he will be saved. If he cannot be saved, we will discuss it after she returns.
Zhao Hanzhang paused for a moment, then asked him to help find out the news about Zhao Zhongyu, "He is the minister, so he must be at your majesty's side. If you can contact him, please save his life first, and then I will find a way to replace him."
Zhao Hanzhang sent the letter and then ordered Luoyang to attack Pingyang County with all his strength, and ordered Beigong Chun to support the Shangdang.
Zhao Hanzhang said: "Take all the prisoners as war slaves and tell them that they can exchange their military merits for good citizenship. Those who have good citizenship can choose to leave the army and divide their fields for farming; they can also stay in the army to gain military status and accumulate military merits for promotion. Tell them
I, Zhao Hanzhang, treat them all equally, no matter they are Han, Huns, Jiehu or Xianbei, as long as they do not violate the laws I have set, they are all good citizens here!"
"I, Zhao Hanzhang, am not cruel and do not kill innocent people indiscriminately. If you follow me, those who are capable will not only have enough to eat, but also build a career and honor their ancestors! Those who are incompetent can also plow fields and herd animals, and they will not lose their lives innocently!"
Fan Ying and Zeng Yue wrote down the words and went to personally encourage and persuade the prisoners of war.
On the second day, Zhao Hanzhang spoke in front of the battle again, and everyone's already shaken hearts became even more shaken.
Among the captured people, not to mention the Han people, they basically surrendered as soon as Zhao Hanzhang opened his mouth.
The rest were all Hu people. They were hesitant because Shi Le treated them badly.
Except for some of them who were forced to serve as soldiers by him, the rest were sent by him to persuade the Hu people who came back after arriving in Bingzhou.
The situation of the Hu people at that time was not very good.
It was also the Sima family who was responsible for the evil. There have been constant fighting, which made life difficult for the people. The Hu people were also ordinary people in the Jin Dynasty. They migrated here. When the Jin Dynasty was in power, the prefects and county magistrates would favor the Han people and give more taxes to the Hu people.
Common people with a lower status.
When encountering soldiers who could not pay military pay, they would be captured as refugees and escaped slaves and sold for military pay; and when Liu Yuan's Han Kingdom was established, the Xiongnu still looked down on Jiehu and other miscellaneous men, and even more wantonly bullied and oppressed them.
Therefore, Zhang Bin persuaded Shi Le to raise the banner of Jie Hu and then unite with other Hu tribes to dominate one side.
Shi Le did indeed do this. After he joined Shangdang, his position gradually became more stable, and Liu Cong tried to take Shangdang away several times but failed.
Therefore, the temptation Zhao Hanzhang gave them only made them waver, but it was not enough to make them loyal to her.
Zhao Hanzhang: "Since you have surrendered to me, you must be loyal to me! During this period, anyone who dares to betray me or do anything wrong to me will be killed without mercy!"
The prisoners lowered their heads silently, "General, please rest assured, they are only physically loyal to Zhao Hanzhang, and will not be loyal to her in their hearts. They are all doing it to survive."
Zhao Hanzhang made some arrangements and left Tunliu County, leading his army to Lu County.
She searched among the prisoners, found two generals, asked them where their families and friends were, then asked them to follow her, and led them to open the gates of two cities along the way, waiting to receive their families.
After meeting with relatives and friends, Zhao Hanzhang met and selected two literate teenagers from their children to be transferred to Tunliu County as officials, and also selected two girls to help Fan Ying handle paperwork in the army. In fact, they were just odd jobs.
They also let their daughters-in-law join the military medical team, learn medical skills with the army, and help treat wounded soldiers. They also have military status and receive military pay every month.
After all, he is better than his husband who has achieved military exploits but is still a military slave.
The two Hu men knelt in front of Zhao Hanzhang and expressed with tears that they would be loyal to Zhao Hanzhang.
Zhao Hanzhang nodded, let them go down, promoted them to team leaders, and each led a hundred prisoners.
As soon as they came out of the main tent, Sun Dong and Zhi Hei looked at each other. In fact, they did not want to betray the general, but Zhao Hanzhang gave him too much, and the situation was like this. If one day they were captured by the general, they would surrender to the general again.
Well, I believe the general will forgive them.
Zhi Hei muttered in a low voice: "I am still loyal to the general in my heart."
His body...he just couldn't help it.
When attacking Lu County, Zhi Hei took the initiative to be the vanguard and led his men to storm Lu County. Only by performing meritorious deeds could he get rid of his slave status and switch to military status. Zhao Governor, oh, no, it was Zhao Hanzhang who said that if he accumulated military merits and joined the army,
General, let him transfer his son to his command, and even his wife can be transferred to his camp as a medical girl.