ps: Sorry, there are really a lot of meetings during this period. I have to attend three meetings in a row this week. The updates will be very unstable. Please bear with me.
On December 4th, the second year of Tianyou (AD 905), starting from the Liangjun camp opposite Shihoubao, dozens of Liangjun camps, including Tumenling, Changping Village, Sizhuang, and Arrowhead, successively raised their flags to the Yan Army.
, the Yan army marched out of Shihou Fort and headed south along the Changping Passage, accepting the surrender of Liang Army one by one.
Li Chengzhong, surrounded by dozens of generals, wearing a large crimson coat, golden armor, and a golden helmet with curled ears, rode a snow-white Dawan horse and arrived at the gate of Gaoping City.
Li Zhen, He Delun, Yang Shihou and other more than a hundred civil and military officers of the Liang army knelt down under the north gate, holding official hats and helmets in their hands and the flag of the King of Liang in front of their knees. The flying talisman and arrows of all the troops were piled on the ground. No one dared to raise his head for fear of invading Yan.
Wang Zhiyan's taboo.
Li Chengzhong sat upright on the carved saddle and laughed loudly. When Li Zhen waited for Liang Jun to surrender, he shortened his body again and crouched lower.
Li Chengzhong stopped laughing for a long time. He was so excited that he shouted loudly: "I, Hu Hansan, am back!" But no one answered. All the generals under his command looked at each other, not knowing why. Liang Jun surrendered and each of them trembled.
Seeing the surrendered general Liang Jun kneeling in front of his horse, Li Chengzhong raised his hand and said, "Get up and speak."
The surrendered generals raised their heads, but did not dare to stand up. Only Li Zhenxian took three steps and kowtowed again: "The guilty minister Li, together with He, Yang, etc., and more than 237,400 sergeants, are lying down.
I beg Your Highness to accept it."
Li Chengzhong nodded: "Yes!" Marquis Yu stepped forward and took stock of the large and small flags and flying talisman arrows piled on the ground.
Li Zhen kowtowed again: "The guilty ministers and others present the heads of the king, the two thieves Li and the soldiers of Shu and Wu, 10,000 and 835 more, and more than 21,900 soldiers are surrendered to your highness to congratulate the Yan army.
Your Highness Fuqi sincerely accepts it."
Li Chengzhong nodded: "Yes!" Another sergeant came forward and took the heads of Wang Zongji and Li Shenfu from the tray.
Li Zhen kowtowed three times: "The king of Liang, Zhu Shi, the bandits Jingxiang, Kang Huaiying, Shi Shucong, etc., entered Xishan seven days ago and left, but the guilty ministers and others did not come forward to report. I beg Your Highness for punishment."
Li Chengzhong smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. I understand what you mean and I don't blame you. Li Zhen, I heard that your strategy is useful. Han Yanhui also praised you a lot and returned to the General Administration of Military Staff.
Under the supervision of Han Yanhui of the United Front Work Department, if I have merit in the future, I will be born again with you."
Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief. Han Yanhui stepped forward to help him up and stood aside.
Li Chengzhong said again: "He Delun, you have been confronting Gu's army here for many years, and your results are pretty good. The generals under Gu's command also praised you for being good at managing troops; Yang Shihou, you did a pretty good job in the surprise attack on Xuanzhou, too.
I admire your talents very much. However, due to the structure of the army, you cannot be awarded an officer without going through a military academy. I will grant you two the rank of guerrilla general for the time being. They will be transferred to Fan Yang to study for one year, and they will be awarded military positions after they have completed their careers."
He Delun and Yang Shihou were slightly disappointed, but they did not dare to express it in words. They immediately kowtowed and thanked them.
Li Chengzhong then said to the demoted generals: "Since I have surrendered today, I will be included in the lonely army. No matter civil or military, each will be demoted two ranks with his original rank and retained. The higher one will go to Fanyang, and the lower one will go to Bailangshang. One year's service
After success, officials will be awarded based on merit in their studies. Those who do not want to join the army but are committed to the people can also go to Youzhou Academy to further their studies. I would like to make it clearer. This arrangement is not to fear you as surrenders, but as subordinates of Gu.
This is the order. You can come down and ask, you can inquire, which of the officers and civilians under Gu's command does not have school qualifications? As for the sergeants, it will be arranged by the General Administration of Military Staff, and the Training Department will open a training camp for Shangdang recruits.
The sergeants will be retrained. The sergeants don’t have to worry about being away from home and not being able to return home. The next step is to conquer Henan. Then it will be time for you to go home!"
After the lecture, Li Zhen, He Delun and Yang Shihou all came over, respectfully took the reins of Li Chengzhong's horse, and marched into Gaoping City. Along the city wall to the streets, densely packed Liang Jun surrender soldiers knelt down, and all kinds of soldiers knelt down.
There are mountains of bladed instruments.
I don't know when, the officers and soldiers of the Yan army inside and outside the city suddenly cheered in unison, and the sound shook the whole country.
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
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After the war, all kinds of affairs were very complicated, and all departments of the General Administration of Military Staff were running smoothly, which could hardly keep the Yan Army's war machine running smoothly.
The top priority is the reorganization of the surrendered sergeants. Including the prisoners of war captured in the Battle of Bohequan, the coalition forces of the princes who surrendered to the Yan army numbered 370,000. These sergeants can be roughly divided into four classes.
One type is young men who are both auxiliary soldiers and civilian men, numbering about 150,000; the second type is sergeants who can go into battle, including the soldiers from various states in Henan who were temporarily transferred to the party by King Liang for the Northern Expedition, as well as the subordinates of major military leaders.
of about 100,000.
There are still 60,000 to 70,000 people, who are the elite of the old Xuanwu Army who have survived from all the battles in the east and west. Their military quality and combat skills are not weak. One-on-one, they are even better than the main force of the Yan Army. For example, in
In the Battle of Bohequan, more than 4,000 Yuancong soldiers and Tingzi soldiers were captured, more than 7,000 Yajun soldiers from Zhu Youning's Jianwu army were captured, more than 8,000 Yajun soldiers from Shishu Congbao's army were captured, and more than 6,000 Yajun soldiers from Zhang Guihou town were captured.
In addition, the Yajun commanded by He Delun, Kang Huaiying and Yang Shihou who surrendered in Gaoping are the most complete, with about 40,000 people.
The last one is to be defeated by an alliance of 40,000 people from Shu, Wu, Jing, Chu and other countries.
Currently, the Yan Army gathered in the Shangdang area has nine field armies, two security forces, 200 supplementary battalions, the newly formed Jinzhou Army and the Hedong Army vassal, with a total strength of 250,000. It is separated from Shangdang by a mountain.
There are also more than 20 reserve brigades and 100 supplementary battalions gathered in Handan, with a strength of 100,000. In addition to the 370,000 allied troops surrendering and prisoners of war, Hebei needs to cope with more than 600,000 people.
A person's monthly food consumption is at least 200,000 dan!
Solving the food problem has become a top priority!
Immediately, some radical staff officers from the Yuhousi Operations Division of the General Administration of Military Staff proposed a secret plan: imitating the Changping Battle of the Warring States Period, trap and kill the coalition troops to surrender! The plan swore to kill nearly 400,000 coalition troops to surrender.
Not only can it avoid the worry of food, but it can also reduce the fetters of the Yan army and prevent these surrendered soldiers from changing in the future. Finally, this move can shock the world, make the princes of the world unable to resist, and clear the way for the unification of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Chengzhong was shocked when he saw this plan and immediately had a headache. After the Qin State killed the Zhao State and surrendered its soldiers, the Zhao State was left without a single member. From a strong country that could compete with Qin alone, it immediately became a weak country.
Flow, this move is indeed extremely effective. But trapping and killing the coalition forces to surrender the soldiers seems to be following the policy of the Qin State at that time. In fact, the difference between the two is thousands of miles.
During the Warring States Period, the countries had been hereditary for hundreds of years, and they were all very different in terms of language and culture. Although they were all countries of China, it was an indisputable fact that they were one country. Qin would have been impossible to conquer if it had not done this trick.
Zhao State is different from the Warring States Period at this time. Although it is also following the policy of "imitating the Warring States Period", the Tang Dynasty lasted for nearly three hundred years, and the country was in the hearts of the people, whether it was Henan Province or Hebei Province, even if Liang Dynasty was now separated.
In both the State of Yan and the State of Yan, almost no one would think that they were not from the Tang Dynasty.
If we really kill all 370,000 coalition troops, God will be angry and everyone will complain!
Furthermore, the Allied Forces are different from the Zhao Army during the Warring States Period. The Qin Army cannot force Zhao to surrender its soldiers and turn its guns, but that does not mean that the Yan Army cannot. In the past hundred years, the land of China has developed a group of professional warriors. Let me help you fight today.
It is a common thing to help him fight tomorrow. As long as these surrendered soldiers have a good life, they have no idea of loyalty - even if they are loyal to the country, they are not loyal to the Liang Kingdom that has only been established for a year. As a great general
Although Li Chengzhong, the "emperor's uncle" of Yudie who entered the imperial family in the Tang Dynasty, was a little embarrassed, his qualifications made it easier to gain loyalty than the king of Liang.
Therefore, Li Chengzhong immediately summoned Zhang Xingzhong, Jiang Miao, Zhou Kan and others, and cursed them until the three of them blushed, and then gave up. After burning the "strategy" in front of the three of them,
, Li Chengzhong directly issued a plan to lower the pawn.
The 150,000 young men from Henan who were temporarily recruited by the King of Liang to serve as auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands were stripped of their armor, their weapons collected, their travel expenses sent, and they were sent back to the country. These young men had not received much military training and were all working in the fields.
Unlike the young men from Hebei Province who regularly participate in military training every year, the farmers who forage for food cannot be recruited into the army after a little training, so it is no big deal to send them back.
Even if any enemy draws them here again to recruit troops, they will be defeated in one blow and will be of little use other than a waste of food. Now Li Chengzhong is not only focusing on Hebei, he is about to start an expedition to Henan.
Therefore, there is no need to move them to Hebei - it is much easier to directly bring Henan under the rule than to resettle them and organize them to carry out production.
As for the second type of surrendered soldiers, they are already the standing troops under the military leaders of all parties in the Liang Army. If they are dispersed and sent back, if they are gathered by others, they will become a large army in a blink of an eye. Therefore, Li Chengzhong ordered them to stay in Shangdang
The area was reorganized and trained, and these 100,000 people were incorporated into the Yan army's combat establishment three months later.
There are also 60,000 to 70,000 elite tooth soldiers. These people are the most typical professional warriors of this era. Apart from fighting in battle, they don’t know much about making a living. However, it must be admitted that these tens of thousands of soldiers are really good soldiers, and they are also the king of Liang.
The foundation to rely on. If Li Chengzhong hadn't been born, and if Hebei's military system hadn't been formed, King Liang would have ended the Tang Dynasty's 300-year-old foundation and created his own dynasty with the support of tens of thousands of professional warriors.
Therefore, what Li Chengzhong had to do was very simple. It took half a month to organize them into more than a hundred supplementary battalions, and conduct simple training so that they could have a preliminary understanding of the composition system of the Yan army. After that, they could directly follow the army.
, to make up for the losses in the conquest of Henan at any time.
As for the surrender of prisoners from other countries in the coalition, Li Chengzhong has no good solution for the time being. He is neither willing to let these sergeants return to their original places to replenish the strength of each country, nor can he allow them to join the supplementary battalion and accept reorganization - the rural concept of this era
It was still very heavy. Li Chengzhong thought that he did not yet have the domineering spirit of being able to vibrate his body and attract all parties to surrender. When the restrictions were loosened, these surrendered soldiers would probably start to escape.
After much deliberation, he had no determination to "trap and kill" them. In the final analysis, this was against the moral bottom line of Li Chengzhong's time travellers. Therefore, he could only grit his teeth and escort them back to Hebei, where they would be used as weapons in major workshops and mines.