After the soldiers stopped attacking and shouted to persuade them to surrender, some time passed before two unarmed enemy soldiers came out of the tent. They walked through their own battle formation and came to the Wei army's formation. They bowed down deeply and shouted:
: "My lord, Wang Rui of Zhao County of Qi State, pays homage to King Taiyuan of the Wei Dynasty. My lord is willing to surrender. I only ask that the king have mercy on the soldiers and people in the city, tolerate him and do no harm."
After Li Tai heard this, he replied: "King Gao surrendered, don't ask about anything else. He fought alone in the north and south, and did not use killing and surrender as a threat!"
This was a rather rude reply, but the current situation was pressing, and Gao Rui inside the tent had no other choice. Under the repeated shouting and urging of the Wei army outside the tent, he could only walk out barefoot, with two men behind him.
The attendants each held his robes, talismans and other items.
"The sinner Gao Rui, pay homage to the king, beg, beg the king..."
Gao Rui had never had such an experience in his life. At this moment, he was filled with fear and shame, and he was shaking uncontrollably in the middle of his words.
"The king has spared his courtesy and is here to attack the sinners. The king is not the culprit. Now that he has known the sins, he has surrendered. There is no need to worry about his safety."
Li Tai came forward and confiscated Gao Rui's talisman tokens, and personally put a Wei army robe on him. The reason why he was given such preferential treatment was not to win Gao Rui's heart, but mainly to give it to those around him from the Northern Qi Dynasty.
The soldiers saw that by treating Gao Rui, the king of the Gao clan, with courtesy, they could greatly dispel the worries and resistance of the people who surrendered to the Qi army.
After appeasing Gao Rui for a while, he looked in the direction of the tent and asked in a deep voice: "Where is Hulu Jin?"
"Hu Lu, Grand Master Hu Lu felt that the defeat of the army had humiliated the country and he was ashamed to see the masses, so he killed himself in the tent."
After Gao Rui heard this, he lowered his head and replied solemnly.
Li Tai was stunned for a moment when he heard this. After his sergeants disarmed all the soldiers present and conducted a thorough inspection inside and outside the tent, he slowly walked into the tent and saw him soon.
When they arrived, Hu Lüjin was lying on the couch, having been out of breath for a long time.
Although Li Tai had fought against Hu Lujin before, he had never observed him closely. At this time, he stepped forward to take a closer look at his body. He felt quite sad in his heart, and he couldn't help but think of the man who had died of illness before.
The boss, Yu Wentai, couldn't help feeling that as these people from the old era gradually passed away, an era was ending. Although some people from the old era still existed, they could no longer become the mainstream of the current world.
He asked people to carry Hu Lujin's body out of the tent, showed it to those who surrendered to the Northern Qi Dynasty, and then said: "Hu Lujin relied on his weak wisdom to lead the army to resist me, so that the two sides fought for many days and suffered heavy casualties.
Many. Regardless of whether there are casualties or casualties, the crime is all on this body. I originally wanted to investigate the crime, but I didn't expect that this person is still stubborn and refuses to submit to the law. He abandons the crowd and takes action on his own. It is unjust!
Only our military government enforces the law strictly, never indulges in injustice, never obeys because of high position, and never loses compassion because of humble position! I tell you people today, everyone will make a complaint. Who was ordered the day before, and who should be blamed? God has a good life.
Virtue, as long as you have one sentiment, I can forgive you, and I cannot bear to harm you, so I am willing to live in harmony with you and live up to the virtue of Heaven!"
It’s not that he had such deep grudges against Hu Lujin that he would not give up even if he died, but the atmosphere brought by Hu Lujin was very bad. Isn’t it the basic practice of joining your army if you can’t defeat him? Why?
When you come to me, you would rather die than surrender?
As an ordinary person, he understood why Hu Lujin made such a choice. It was simply that he was too tied to the Northern Qi regime, and he was worried about his children and grandchildren. In addition, he was already so old, so it was better to die than endure humiliation and surrender.
But I have been fighting with you for so long, not to mention buying horse bones for thousands of dollars. In the end, I was not even given the chance to live or die. How can I agree? For such a politician, death is by no means the end;
A new start.
Just like in history, his son Hu Luguang, as a hostile party, would try his best to alienate and slander him while he was alive. Hu Luguang was the great traitor of the country. As long as he existed, the Northern Qi regime would not be able to survive! The dead Hu Luguang would be the bright moon.
He is a good man, the only pillar of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the light of the family and the country. When the bright moon is there, the country will survive, and when the bright moon dies, the country will perish! The main character is a murderer and a murderer. You old people from the Northern Qi Dynasty are not good at it, let alone your moral character!
For Li Tai at the moment, he doesn't have too ambitious plans, he just wants to use this to create some disharmony among the Northern Qi prisoners to facilitate management.
After successive battles, nearly 10,000 Northern Qi captives were captured and surrendered, and the war between Heluo and Heluo was not over yet.
So many prisoners would be a hidden danger if they were not dealt with properly. Li Tai was not so mad as to directly order the execution of tens of thousands of prisoners, nor did he have enough energy and time to organize these people in detail, so he could only resort to the tried and tested method of public trial.
The solution came out.
As one of the elders and confidants of the Gao Huan Group, Hu Lujin's prestige among the Jinyang soldiers can be said to be no less than that of Qi leader Gao Yang. Now if he is brought out and criticized, the Jinyang soldiers can be destroyed directly.
The collective sense of identity and belonging of the soldiers allows them to have a tacit understanding with each other, thus reducing the chance of gathering together to cause trouble.
With the surrender of Prince Gao Rui of Zhao County and the announcement of Hu Lujin's death, the enemy troops in several other places in the city who were still stubbornly resisting also abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Since then, Jinyong City has been completely controlled.
In addition to these Qi army prisoners, there are nearly 3,000 Western Wei soldiers in the city. Most of these people were captured in the recent Battle of Mangshan and have been imprisoned in Jinyong City since then. It turns out that there are more than 5,000 soldiers.
, but during the period when Li Tai besieged the city, not only were these Western Wei soldiers deprived of food and drink, but they were also angered and abused by the Qi army. Today, there are only less than 3,000 people left, and each of them has been tortured into inhuman form.
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These people originally thought they would die, but they didn't expect that King Taiyuan finally captured the city and rescued them. When they were rescued, everyone cried with joy. When Li Tai came here to comfort them, everyone bowed to the ground and burst into tears.
, first thanked Li Tai for saving his life, and then when he talked about the treatment he had suffered in the prisoner of war camp in recent days, he gritted his teeth with hatred for Hu Lujin and other Northern Qi soldiers.
At the beginning of Li Tai's siege, Hu Lujin's men dragged hundreds of Western Wei prisoners of war to the top of the city and killed them to establish their authority. Later, when Li Tai's men attacked the city with Heyang cannon outside the city, in order to maintain the strength of the defenders in the city,
In order to improve the morale of the army, Hu Lujin repeatedly ordered people to tie these prisoners of war within the bombardment range of stone cannons, turning the soldiers' fear of the stone cannon attacks into the bad taste and pleasure of appreciating the Western Wei's own people beating their own people.
When Li Tai learned about this, his eyes gleamed, and he immediately set out to investigate who else in the Northern Qi army was involved in this matter besides Hu Lujin, the person who gave the order.
War is cruel. It not only destroys human life, but also suppresses human nature. As long as it can help win, anything can be done to the extreme. Just as Li Tai used ethics and filial piety to coerce Hu Luguang into fighting under unsuitable circumstances, It is difficult to criticize Hu Lujin from a moral perspective for making such an arrangement.
But war is about victory and defeat, winning is winning and losing is losing. Now that Li Tai is the victor, he naturally has no reason to let go of his past grudges. He can ignore ordinary hostile behaviors and not hold them accountable, but this kind of violation is beyond the norm. If you use other means, you must be held accountable to the end, and you must retaliate in kind. I will retaliate for whatever violence you do to me.
He selected several hundred sergeants from among the prisoners of war who were the first to expose Hurüjin's crimes of stubborn resistance. His officers led them up the Tushan Mountain, then repaired and set up the Heyang Cannon. After correcting the angle and strength, he let these people control the bombardment into the city. As for those Qi army officers and soldiers who participated in this incident, they were all restrained and thrown into the bombardment range until these people were bombarded into plasma.
This kind of approach was rarely done by Li Tai in his military career. In addition to Qi Jun's previous actions being a bit disgusting, it was also because he had a relatively negative impression of the Jinyang soldiers as a whole. No. Just because of the ongoing hostility, there is also a kind of national emotional disgust.
The conflict between Hu and Han lasted throughout the Gao family's regime. Even in the last years of the Northern Qi Dynasty, it did not ease, but intensified. For example, the enemy general Han Yi who was captured alive by Han Qinhu before, his son Han Feng still made violent remarks in the last years of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Said: "The dog man is too big to be tolerated! He must be killed!"
Therefore, even if Li Tai was tolerant of the prisoners of Jinyang soldiers, it was often based on the fact that these soldiers were still strong enough, and he was not as tolerant and preferential as he was to those who surrendered to the Southern Dynasties.
Even if the issue of ethnic inclusion needs to be considered more comprehensively as the status and circumstances change in the future, the people he wants to integrate are also those Xianbei people who are actively seeking integration and striving for progress. As for some who are still stubborn and short of change, as the Being eliminated at the end of troubled times is also the most suitable destination.
After Jin Yong City was captured, Li Tai's troops immediately had a strong tendency to rebel against the enemy in Heluo. The defenses of the fortresses that the Northern Qi Dynasty had built in Heluo in the past few years were almost completely under control, and its military power was suppressed. Arrived at the corner area.
The barbarian soldiers who assisted in the battle were also very excited about this victory. They felt more and more that King Taiyuan was unparalleled, and he was also extremely generous in doing things, and they could get rich rewards every time they followed him.
This time Li Tai did not treat these barbarians badly. After conquering Jinyong City, in addition to the fine armor and some grain and oil supplies used by the army, the remaining materials in the city's treasury were distributed to these barbarians to reward them for their efforts in the situation. And the loyalty to help others even when the situation is quite unfavorable.
Because with Jin Yong City and other city fortresses in hand, even if there are more men and horses from Heyang to attack, they can still occupy the city and fight without panic. So after taking a short rest and arranging the city defense tasks, Li Tai personally went to He led 10,000 elite troops and rushed to the direction of Yiyang to assist Gao Le's troops in resisting the counterattack of Duan Shao's army.