After the Pingyuan Army relieved Liu Zhang and others from being trapped, they did not immediately return to the court, but continued to move westward towards the interior of Biyar. (_《》)
At the same time, Xiao Muqing also sent a letter back to Huandi, temporarily recruiting 20,000 Huan people for the local army, and asking them to bring more guides who knew the terrain of Piyar.
Not understanding the terrain is equivalent to fighting with your eyes closed, and you will never defeat your opponent.
Ten days later, the reinforcements sent by Huandi met up with the Pingyuan Army, and by the way, the Pingyuan Army's armaments and resources were also replenished. Then, Xiao Muqing ordered that the entire army should move forward at full speed instead of marching slowly.
The Pingyuan Army advanced all the way, taking less than twenty days to seize the three cities of Butun Mountain, Dailiji, and Huahu. Next, they reached Tegeya, the capital of Biyar.
At this time, the Plains Army was still more than 250 miles away from Tegea. According to the general marching speed of the army, it would take three days to reach Tegea.
Piyar urgently mobilized troops from various places, hoping to assemble a large-scale army in the capital to fight to the death with the Pingyuan Army.
However, what Piar never expected was that the Plains Army arrived at Tegeya in only one day. When it was getting darker and the defenders at the top of the city looked out, the Plains Army had already reached the city in an incredible way.
Traveling two hundred and fifty miles a day, and marching as a legion, carrying a large amount of supplies and food, many people think that this is impossible to achieve, but the Pingyuan Army did it exactly. The whole legion is like
It seemed as if it suddenly fell from the sky to the front of Tegea City.
Tegea City was poorly prepared and rushed into the battle. It can be said that it fell into passivity from the beginning of the battle.
Seeing that the offensive of the Pingyuan Army became more and more fierce, and it became more and more difficult for the defenders to resist, King Pavella of Piar was forced to send an envoy to submit a letter of surrender to the Pingyuan Army and gave it to Xiao Muqing.
Wrote a handwritten letter.
The general meaning is to persuade Xiao Muqing to stop fighting. Piar has already accepted it and will never invade the Feng Kingdom again in the future, and is willing to become a vassal to the Feng Kingdom and pay tribute every year.
Xiao Muqing's reply to Piyar's surrender was three words: I don't accept it. It was you who started the war in the first place. Now that the war has become tense, you don't want to fight anymore. You can start a war if you want to.
, you ended it when you wanted to?
Xiao Muqing ordered all the soldiers in the army to continue attacking the city with all their strength, and they must capture Tegeya before dark no matter what.
Currently, there are only 20,000 defenders in Tegea City. No matter how strong and easy-to-defend the city is, it cannot withstand the strong attack of more than 100,000 people.
Pavila was the first one who couldn't sit still. He abandoned the capital, took his family, ministers and personal guards and fled in a hurry from the west of the city.
As the king fled, Tegea's defenders were defeated faster. By the end of the afternoon, the east wall of the city was finally breached by the plain army.
A large number of Feng soldiers poured into the city from outside the city. The bloody Feng people were more ferocious and violent than the Biar people.
After entering the city, they didn't care whether they were soldiers or ordinary people. They killed everyone they saw and robbed property they saw. They also set fire to large objects and buildings that couldn't be moved away.
Suddenly, the huge Piyar capital Tegea burst into flames, as if it had turned into a sea of fire. The streets and alleys in the city flowed into rivers of blood, and corpses and broken limbs were everywhere on the ground, making it look like a hell on earth.
After learning that King Piar had escaped from the west of the city, the 'student army' led by Liu Zhang, Bai An, Yan Yan, Xu You, and Xiong Gu immediately chased and killed King Piar out of the city. They didn't hate King Piar that much, but
It's impossible to stay in the city.
The Pingyuan Army killed many people and killed a large number of civilians, which they could not stop watching. Of course, they could not stop it. This was war, and this was the cruelty of war. This was what the Piar Army did when they invaded Qinglin County.
Pavila ran too fast, and Liu Zhang and others chased him for more than ten miles without finding any trace of him. Due to the lessons learned from the last rash advance, they did not dare to blindly pursue him this time, so they immediately withdrew their troops and returned.
Under the rampage of the plain army, the city of Tegea was looted. Most of the hundreds of thousands of nobles, civilians, and slaves in the city were killed and buried in the sea of fire. A large number of women and children were also captured by the plain army.
The spoils of war are to be brought back to Feng Kingdom.
After setting Tegea on fire, Xiao Muqing heard that the tombs of past kings of the Piar Kingdom were near Tegea. Without even thinking about it, he sent an order to dig graves and plunder money.
Such a barbaric approach made Liu Zhang and others feel that it was too much. Killing people was just a nod. Since King Piar had already escaped, why bother digging up other people's ancestral graves?
Xiao Muqing answered simply, the country's treasury is now empty, where will the military expenses for this expedition come from? Of course, the wool comes from the sheep.
If we cannot claw back military expenditures from this war, cannot make up for our country's losses in Qinglin County, and cannot earn enough benefits, then what is the point of fighting this war?
Fighting is about making money, not losing money. This is the consistent tradition and code of Fengjun's fighting. Hearing what Xiao Muqing said, Liu Zhang and others had nothing to say.
Next, the Pingyuan Army launched a large-scale excavation and plundering of Piar's ancestral tombs, and all the treasures in each tomb were robbed.
Feeling that the gold, silver and jewels he had plundered were almost gone, Xiao Muqing ordered the entire army to retreat. On the way back to the Feng Kingdom, the Feng Army also plundered, killed and destroyed the towns of Piar along the way.
In Xiao Muqing's words, either they won't fight, or if they want to fight, they will cripple Piar and give them a painful beating all at once, so that in the next ten or twenty years they can only recover their strength and be unable to invade the Feng Kingdom border again.
This time the Plains Army's long-distance attack did indeed cause Piar to be seriously injured.
Not only the capital was destroyed, but also the ancestral mausoleums and more than a dozen towns were destroyed. The number of casualties in the army was not too many, around 100,000, but more than a million civilians were killed, and tens of thousands of women.
He and his children were captured and taken to Feng Country to serve as slaves.
It is impossible to estimate how much gold and silver the Pingyuan Army plundered from Piar this time. There were more than ten batches of carriages carrying the loot, and the number of carriages in each batch was between 200 and 300. The last batch
They returned to Zhenjiang with the Pingyuan Army, with a total of five hundred carriages.
The Ming elements of each batch of trophies were put together, and they were more than a foot high. The richness of the trophies from this battle made Tang Yin speechless.
In order to display the results of the Fengjun's victory and to enhance the pride, self-confidence and cohesion of the people of the country, Tang Yin also ingeniously ordered the construction of an exhibition hall in Zhenjiang to display some exquisite trophies and open them to the public.
The construction of an exhibition hall was the first of its kind at the time, but it was nothing new to Tang Yin.
Because this campaign against Piyar was very fruitful, Tang Yin, who had tasted the benefits, immediately showed his warlike nature. He asked the Pingyuan Army who had returned to the court to stay in Zhenjiang to rest and recuperate. On the other hand, he ordered the Sanshui Army led by Liang Qi to
Continuing to send troops to Piyar has no offensive goal or focus. It has only one purpose, which is to plunder to fill the currently empty treasury.
In Tang Yin's view, the financial income from governing the country is not as enjoyable and generous as that from foreign conquests.
At first, Piar thought that Feng Guo was a sheep, and wanted to make a fortune while Feng Guo was not yet firmly established in Huandi. However, he did not expect that Feng Guo was a wolf, and he was also a vicious and greedy hungry wolf.
, even though they no longer want or dare to provoke the Feng Kingdom, the fierce Feng Army still attacks one after another.
Tang Yin was very excited about this Pingyuan Army battle. He specially invited Xiao Muqing to explain to him the specific details of the battle and the performance of Liu Zhang and others on the battlefield.
Xiao Muqing spoke eloquently. In the end, he greatly praised the performance of the 'student army', especially Liu Zhang. In his opinion, this person was a natural-born general. With time, he would become a general.
It will definitely shine in the future.
Tang Yin raised his head and smiled while listening. In his memory, Xiao Muqing had never praised a person so much. He said: "It was mentioned in the battle report that Liu Zhang took it upon himself to pursue and kill the enemy. As a result, Fan Xia
The big mistake of rashly advancing almost led to the annihilation of the entire army."
"It is indeed true, but the general can only say that... the flaws cannot be concealed." Xiao Muqing said sternly: "Experience, tactics and strategies can all be mastered through acquired learning, but a keen sense of smell on the battlefield is of great importance to
The ability to grasp fighter opportunities and the courage to move forward are innate and cannot be learned, and Liu Zhang has exactly these."
It was rare for Xiao Muqing to be full of praise for a junior. Tang Yin looked at him with a smile and said: "So, I really made the right choice as a candidate."
"Yes, Your Majesty. In fact, the general also wants to keep him by his side. If one day... the general is no longer in the army, Liu Zhang can also take over the banner of the Pingyuan Army!"
After hearing this, the smile on Tang Yin's face disappeared instantly, his face darkened, and he said in a serious voice: "Where can you be if you are not in the army? You created the Pingyuan Army with your own hands, and you are the one who I trust the most and can entrust you with important tasks.
The legion, even if you are seventy or eighty years old, you still have to be in charge of me!"
Although Tang Yin's words were arrogant, Xiao Muqing was extremely moved. As a minister, to be able to gain such trust and reliance from the king, he had no regrets in his life.
He lowered his head and said: "Didn't your Majesty always say that if the earthen jar is not broken away from the wellhead, the general will inevitably die in battle..."
Even Wu Guang, who was so powerful, could be defeated in front of the battle, let alone himself?
"This is for others, not you!" Tang Yinteng stood up suddenly, walked up to Xiao Muqing, then slowly squatted down, and said quietly: "Although you and I are monarchs and ministers, in fact, I have always treated Xiao Muqing
You treat me like an old brother. You helped me win the country of Feng. I don’t want to be the only one left while enjoying the country.”
Xiao Muqing was moved when he heard the words, his eye circles suddenly turned red, he stood up and knelt down, and said in a trembling voice: "With these words from the king, even if the general is shattered to pieces, the general will not hesitate!"