As the general was captured, the battle quickly ended.
A group of about a hundred Eastern Army knights saw that the opportunity was not good and fled north along Lingshui River. As for the other infantry and cavalry members, they did not have such good luck. After some of them were intercepted and killed, the rest
He could only abandon his weapons and surrender.
The prisoners were driven to one place. Liu Aqi, who had escaped to lure the enemy, finally returned with all his strength. However, the size of the team was reduced by more than half compared with before. In addition to heavy casualties, some of them escaped directly in the wilderness.
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However, the remaining people were enough to take care of these Eastern Army prisoners. Although they were said to be Eastern Army prisoners, in fact, most of them were Jihu disciples. At least Li Tai could not tell any racial differences between them by observing them with the naked eye.
The captured Xianbei soldiers were obviously different from those bastard soldiers in terms of their temperament, appearance, words and deeds. Even though they had surrendered, they still subconsciously maintained their formations. It can be seen that as professional soldiers, some military regulations have been implemented early.
It has become instinctive.
Of course, these high-quality soldiers also received Li Tai's special care. The other miscellaneous soldiers could only be driven to one place after disarming, while those Xianbei soldiers still needed to be tied up with ropes. Anyone who dared to resist would be killed.
A wave of the hand is a knife.
The battlefield outside the city was cleared, and more than a thousand enemy infantry and cavalry were captured. Except for a few hundred who were killed during the battle and those who escaped, all the enemy troops who came out of the city to fight have been wiped out.
Li Tai sent the guard general Pi Jing and Guan to the city gate and shouted to the city guards to surrender obediently. However, a soldier commander who stayed behind ordered the city guards to draw their bows and shoot at them. They were still determined to resist.
, without any regard for the life and death of Pi Jinghe and other prisoners.
Seeing this scene, Li Taixin said that Pi Jinghe was not good, but he did not let him continue to face Fei Ya to persuade him to surrender. This guy was not an unknown person. In the late Northern Qi Dynasty, he was even named a king. He just shot an arrow.
He almost shot himself, but after finally capturing it, if he was killed by an arrow from his comrades, it would be a big loss.
He waved to Liu Aqi again, and led him to lead a dozen captured Xianbei soldiers to the city gate and slashed them with swords. Then Liu Aqi shouted and called on the bastards in the city to revolt and surrender.
Keep them alive.
The reason why the alienation tactic is commonly used is because it is so easy to use, especially between two groups with unequal status and conflicting interests. Without provocation, the gap will be deep. Once it is aroused, it will inevitably explode more violently.
Thousands of Jihu soldiers who were defending the city were driven out of the city to die. It can be seen that they were also oppressed. Seeing that the situation was so bad, the authority and intimidation of the past was naturally gone, so soon the city was filled with riots and fighting.
After about half an hour, the head of the soldier commander who had been stubbornly resisting at the top of the city was thrown out from the top of the city.
After the people and horses outside verified that everything was correct, the rioting barbarians in the city slowly opened the city gate, threw their weapons on the ground, and then filed out and knelt on the ground in front of the city gate to ask for surrender.
At this point, the first small target after crossing eastward was captured. Li Tai was not in a hurry to enter the city, but asked Liu Aqi to lead his troops into the city to take over the city's defense.
The victory or defeat in a battle is not enough to judge the success or failure. Just now, there was still a group of enemy knights escaping to the north. If they really summoned the Eastern Wei Dynasty's successor army, they could live outside the city and be flexible in fighting or running.
After the city was captured, there were still more than 700 miscellaneous soldiers left. They were prisoners captured during the Qing Dynasty's suppression of Jihu the year before, and were assigned here to be used as slaves. Now that they had rioted and then surrendered, they saw Liu Aqi himself in Lishi.
Chief Hu, who was well-known in the area, had no obstacles to being recruited, and was even excited. He only knew that King Zuo Xian's troops would fight back, and Lishi would soon become their Jihu paradise again.
According to Pi Jinghe who surrendered, the city's defenders originally consisted of 800 Jinyang soldiers and nearly 3,000 soldiers enslaved by him.
The five hundred cavalrymen who followed him out of the city were naturally Jinyang soldiers, and there were still more than a hundred people staying in the city. If these warriors hadn't made noise and made trouble, he wouldn't have even planned to come out. After all, his mission was to defend Wutu City.
, report any situation immediately.
He is not rigid and does not know how to adapt. In fact, he cannot completely control these arrogant soldiers. Once they go out of the city to fight, many variables and accidents will inevitably occur. It is better to stay in the city.
Li Tai also felt the same. The anti-foreign sentiment among the soldiers was very serious. For example, He Basheng's old troops, like his adopted son, committed suicide and followed him. Later, some of Wuchuan's old troops returned to He Ba Jingwei's brothers.
, Zhu Meng and others who still follow him today are those brought back by He Basheng from Jiangdong, and they are not Zhenbing in themselves.
Therefore, the xenophobia of the Zhenbing is actually a special moral core and spiritual culture within them. The lower the Zhenbing is, the more they identify with this.
Although Pi Jinghe was young and brave and was recognized by Gao Huan and became his confidant, because he was not a soldier, he could not control the troops assigned to him. Even after the surrender, his original subordinates still shot him. It can be seen that in addition to his official position
Apart from itself, no other identity is constructed.
Although these soldiers were not submissive, their combat effectiveness was considerable. The 500 cavalry led by Pi Jinghe did not wear sophisticated armor because they were chasing Jihu under Liu Aqi's command. Li Tai's command used them to defeat the outnumbered.
They were also well-armed, and despite all their efforts, they were still not wiped out, which shows how difficult they are to deal with.
As for the Jihu who rioted in the city, they were even more pitiful. There were only more than a hundred Jinyang soldiers left in the city, while the rioting Hu soldiers numbered more than 1,300. As a result, they lost nearly half of their lives with casualties.
Killed all these soldiers.
Li Tai couldn't help but feel emotional about this, that is, as long as the veterans of the Six Towns Mutiny didn't die cleanly, the world would never be able to unify.
Because these soldiers are both powerful in combat and extremely private in nature, even if Gao Huan is as powerful as Gao Huan, who rescued them from the Erzhu family and led them to defeat the Erzhu family and establish the Jinyang Bafu,
When it comes to loyalty, these soldiers are still loyal to their respective generals, and Gao Huan still ranks behind.
They have high loyalty and combat effectiveness. At first glance, this kind of people is really greedy, but their strong private nature makes them carry a kind of splitting gene in their bones.
Although the Gao Qi regime replaced the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and the system construction seemed to be very good, in fact, it failed to complete the transformation from the hegemony to the central government from beginning to end. The Jinyang Army is a rich legacy left by Gao Huan to future generations, and it is also a throughout history.
A burden from the beginning to the end of the Northern Qi Dynasty.
Of course, these situations are not issues that Li Tai needs to consider. What troubles him more is that the Eastern Wei soldiers are indeed very powerful. If they rush all the way to Jinyang without any strategy, they will most likely fail halfway.
These Zhenbing soldiers are not the same as those parallel imports like Jihu.
After conquering Wutu City, Li Tai immediately sent a message back, ordering Han Guo to lead 3,000 troops across the river and settle in Wutu City. This city was the largest garrison of the Eastern Wei Dynasty at the western foot of Luliang Mountain, and it was also related to their party.
Naturally, the people's retreat route is not safe for Jihu troops to defend.
In addition to the three thousand Longyou athletes, he now has more than three thousand Guqu who have been stationed in Weiping since last year. If necessary, Heishui Fangcheng can mobilize more than two thousand horses to go north for reinforcements in the short term.
In addition, Han Guo has also gathered more than 2,000 state soldiers in Dongxia Prefecture, which means that he can invest more than 10,000 troops here.
If you don't want to break through Jinyang and occupy it for a long time, but just make trouble, these troops are sufficient. However, if you want to obtain the maximum results at the minimum cost, then the route and plan still need to be carefully considered.
Pi Jinghe had almost shot Li Tai to death on the battlefield before, but now that he was captured and surrendered, he was still frightened. In order to make up for his mistake, he told everything he knew about the Eastern Wei intelligence.
Seeing this guy's sincere attitude, Li Tai couldn't help but secretly laugh at Big Brother's look, so he chose such a person to be his trusted governor? But when he thought that Gao Huan had also served as Er Zhurong's trusted governor, he felt relieved.
Well, which Lu is not the boss’s sweetheart?
According to Pi Jinghe's confession, in addition to Wutu City, although the Eastern Wei Dynasty also set up other garrison strongholds here, most of them did not have direct garrison troops. Instead, they were stationed by local powerful Xiangqu and accepted the authority of the Wutu City Lord.
of control.
Strictly speaking, Wutu City is just a place to monitor the activities of Jihu in the border area. The place that the Eastern Dynasty really used to prevent Jihu riots is Xiurong City in Lanzhou to the north of Wutu City. This is the place where Zhu's family
His former residence, Hengzhou among the six Xianbei states, was also settled here, and tens of thousands of Jinyang soldiers were stationed there all year round.
The other is Liubi City, located on the south side of the eastern foothills of Luliang Mountain, located in Xihe County, Fenzhou. For many years, it has been an important town to prevent and control Lishi Hus. It has also successively settled in Yuzhou and Lingzhou, and has stationed in
There are more people and horses than Xiurong City.
Of course, these so-called garrisoned men and horses are in the normal season. Now that the Jinyang army is marching southward, Pi Jinghe does not know exactly how many men and horses are still left to garrison these positions, and he dare not estimate it casually to avoid interference and misunderstandings.
Judgment.
In addition, Pi Jinghe also explained that there are still many remaining Jihu tribesmen in the Lishi area. Jihu people have a long history of living and reproducing in this area, and they made full use of the complex and changeable regional terrain to avoid the army.
Encirclement and suppression, and then began activities again after the army had withdrawn.
On the third day after the capture of Wutu City, Han Guo led his successors to rush for reinforcements and took over the city's defense. During this process, the Eastern Wei brigade was never seen coming, and it was certain that
To a certain extent, it confirmed the accuracy of the intelligence provided by Pi Jinghe and the fact that the remaining troops around Jinyang were empty.
However, the situation of the fall of Wutu City must have been leaked. Li Tai knew that the longer he delayed, the more time Jinyang would have to prepare and the effect of the surprise army would be lost, so when he no longer had any worries,