Chapter 5: Incomprehensible Styles and Burning the Qin and Cooking the Crane
When people live like this, sadness and this kind of emotion are already a very luxurious enjoyment. After reaching a high position, people will only become more ruthless. Too many interest entanglements will soon change the original feelings in form.
All the most primitive emotions were lost.
Therefore, Yun Zheng's sadness did not last long. After Wen Yanbo left, the hard-hearted general reappeared in the Chinese army's tent.
Lang Tan, Wu Jie, and Li Dongchu should have suppressed all the resistance in Hongzhou City, and the often-occurring plot of offering prisoners will soon be staged.
Yun Zheng has experienced too many such things, but he doesn't really like to look at those losers. No matter whether they are stubborn or docile, it has no meaning at this time.
Yun Zheng will neither kill the prisoner because he is stubborn nor spare his life just because he is docile. Whether he kills or not depends on the current situation.
There is no doubt that the defender of Hongzhou City will die. There is no doubt about this. He killed a large number of Song troops and also injured Han Niu. There is no chance that Yun Zheng will let him live. Besides, his head is still useful. If he encounters someone who is unwilling to surrender,
The city lord, his head is the most severe warning.
There were so many prisoners that Yun Zheng couldn't even see the side at a glance. The terrifying artillery fire made these Liao people who had sworn to defend to the end tied up with iron chains in despair. They all knelt on the ground and waited for Yun Zheng's fate. Their faces were filled with panic.
The look has never faded until now.
Wang Anshi, Chen Lin, Su Xun, and Wen Yanbo, who came specially to watch the ceremony, were all wearing their official uniforms, holding their own banbans in their hands, and standing on both sides.
In this environment, only Yun Zheng can sit down. The Emperor's Sword behind him represents his supreme power in this camp.
Su Xun, who joined the army, cupped his hands and said: "To the general, Zhang Jinshou, the lord of Hongzhou City and the left deputy governor of the Liao Kingdom, has been captured. How to deal with it, please tell me how to deal with it!"
"Left Deputy Imperial Envoy? This is a high-ranking official of the third rank. The small city of Hongzhou cannot hold the position of a sixth-rank official. Why is there such a situation of such a high-ranking official and a low-ranking official?"
Su Xun raised his hand again and said: "The general doesn't know. There have been many honors and honors in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Liao Kingdom. Zhang Jinshou's left deputy governor is a distinguished title. His father once held this position. After his father's death, the Liao Emperor
He deliberately showed mercy and did not remove his father's title, but instead placed it on him. Although it was only a false position, it was also a supreme honor. The Liao Emperor hoped that Zhang Jinshou would inherit his father's legacy and regain this title."
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "Is this the reason why he clings to Hongzhou City? For a Han Chinese to obtain such an important position, his father must have made great contributions to the Liao Kingdom, right?"
Wen Yanbo sneered and said: "No matter how high your achievements were in the past, your sins today will be as deep as your sins. Heaven's way of reincarnation will not repay you, so I won't bully you."
Chen Lin said gloomily: "Such a traitor with a prosperous family will definitely not surrender to our army. It is better for the commander to behead him in public to boost the power of the army."
Pulled by two strong men, Zhang Jinshou stared fiercely at Yun Zheng who was sitting in the handsome seat. Just when he was about to open his mouth to curse, the strong man stuffed a walnut tied with a rope into his mouth and pulled the rope.
With it tied behind his head, Zhang Jinshou could only make a whining sound, and could no longer curse him if he wanted to.
Yun Zheng also lost his will to ask him questions. He took out a vermilion lotus from the lotus tube and threw it on the ground. He said: "Since the crime cannot be forgiven, let's chop it off. If you dare to stop our army in the border towns of Liao Kingdom, it will be cut off."
Those who move forward, take this as a lesson!”
The strong man replied, picked up the order, and dragged the struggling Zhang Jinshou to the outside of the prison gate, where the execution platform had been set up and was waiting for the operation.
Killing Zhang Jinshou was just Yun Zheng abiding by his own power. After symbolically killing Zhang Jinshou, the remaining prisoners would naturally be executed by the Military Justice Department under Chen Lin. Those who should be killed, those who should be sent to the capital as prisoners, and those who
People should stay in the military and prepare for other uses. The Military Justice Department has a mature system that Yun Zheng does not have to worry about.
Doing such a thing is very familiar to Chen Lin. Chen Lin had already dealt with such a matter when she was in Xijing. The person who sent the letter to the Liao Emperor was personally selected by Chen Lin.
Yelu Yixin was a favorite of the Liao Emperor, and only by selecting people who were related to him could the important letter be sent to the Liao Emperor's desk.
Hongzhou City is quiet now, but everyone knows that there must be cries from hell there, but they are far away and cannot be heard.
As the army went on an expedition, such killings were unavoidable. There must be a place to release the murderous intent in the sergeants' hearts. Lang Tan led the same sergeants that Han Niu led when he first ascended the city. Hundreds of his comrades were stained with blood due to their carelessness.
Huang Sha, when they entered the city, how could they specifically control their murderous intentions?
The so-called massacre, rape, and robbery cannot be controlled at all. The army is inherently a violent institution, and Yun Zheng cannot think of anyone in history who can really command an army that has never committed any crime and can be invincible.
Just look at Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo's obvious expressions and you will know that such an army has not existed since the days of Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han.
The army led by Yun Zheng naturally had strict military discipline in the Song Dynasty, but as soon as they left the border of the Song Dynasty, they were definitely a group of ferocious beasts.
An invincible army is forged by relying on blood, brutality and the experience of victory again and again.
If we say what is the foundation of a victorious army, we can only say that it is the endless desire in the hearts of soldiers and the endless desire for victory.
The whole army was integrated. Chen Lin very wisely sent Yun Zheng four captured Liao beauties. After Yun Zheng took a look at them, he forwarded them to Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo.
Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo accepted the gifts with peace of mind, as if they had obtained two good horses. However, Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo had different methods when dealing with these women.
Wang Anshi, who got along well with his first wife, was naturally unmoved by beauty, so he changed hands and gave it to the two chief guards who were protecting him these days.
As for Wen Yanbo, the old guy was very voluptuous and did not refuse anyone who came. He did not come out of his tent until noon the next day, which made Yun Zheng, Wang Anshi and Chen Lin laugh together.
"My life was ridiculous when I was young. This old problem has followed me all my life. I am still very self-reflective about other temptations. But when it comes to beauty, the more the better."
The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty wanted to make their family a "farming and studying family" and a distinguished family through the cycle of "getting an official position because of wealth" and "acquiring wealth because of official service".
However, as long as such aristocratic families fail to pass the imperial examination or become an official for several consecutive generations, they will revert to the status of common people.
Therefore, as long as they go to the Emperor's Hall at dusk, they will enjoy it to the fullest.
Before it, in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, warriors showed off their power and power; even before that, in the Tang Dynasty, family status was valued, and those who participated in politics had to be nobles.
Only in the Song Dynasty did the status of literati rise to an all-time high. The emperor suppressed warriors and praised literati for governance. He was even willing to spend money on scholar-bureaucrats and literati, allowing the literati to go to court to discuss politics while having prostitutes and concubines, leading a sensual and sensual life.
happy life".
Perhaps, they were too comfortable immersed in the gentle countryside, and the literati and officials of the Song Dynasty did not want to make progress and forgot their responsibility to clarify the world and clean up the mountains and rivers.
The reason why Wen Yanbo said this was not because he didn't know how to restrain himself, but because Yun Zheng's gift of prisoners and his acceptance of the gift were both a matter of elegance for the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty, rather than a failure.
virtuous behavior.
"Marquis Yun is still a teenager, so why doesn't he like women? This is not the attitude that a young man should have. Could it be that Marquis Yun still has some unfulfilled ambitions, so he doesn't dare to indulge in lust?"
Yun Zheng saw that Wen Yanbo's old habit had happened again, and said helplessly: "I was born with a mysophobia, and I am insensitive to women outside. Not only this time, when I first broke through Shenglong City, I captured thousands of beauties from the Jiaozhi Palace.
, not all of them were given to the savages.
I have no idea whether those beauties were eaten by savages."
Wen Yanbo burst into laughter and said, "You Yun Changsheng, the one who doesn't understand amorous feelings, should be number one!"
Wang Anshi said seriously: "Marquis Yun is right to do this. If you really bring the beautiful woman from Jiaozhi to Tokyo, your Majesty will definitely keep a few people in the palace and then give them to the scholar-bureaucrats.
This will ruin my Song Dynasty bloodline. When I learned about Zhenjiang Prefecture a few years ago, it was an important road for water and land transportation. Japanese people would often go up the river and ask for crossing in a large city like Zhenjiang.
He even wrote the names of his patrons on his clothes to show off when he went back.
I once ordered to stop it, but it didn’t work well!”
"The great desire of a man's lover is like a flood, and it is better to clear it than to block it. Jiefu followed the old path of Yu's father. Even if you have a treasure like soil in your hand, you will still fail."
Hahaha, Yun Zheng is the best at incomprehensible style, Wang Jiefu is second at burning harp and boiling cranes!"
Hongzhou City has been captured, and the army will continue to march eastward after three days of rest, so everyone in the big tent is very relaxed.
Chen Lin had received the secret message and knew that the Liao Emperor had sent generals to Zhongjing Road to defend against the enemy. She only had Yelu Yixin with less than 200,000 troops in front of her, and they were all tribal troops with average combat power. Even the most powerful
The steady Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo also had no doubts about whether the army could enter Nanjing Road.
Yun Zheng performed various changes on the map countless times and found nothing wrong. However, every time he saw the location of Zhongjing, his brows would furrow.
For Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo and Chen Lin, as long as they capture the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, it will be an unprecedented victory. For Yunzheng, weakening the northern forces in one fell swoop is the real meaning of the Northern Expedition. With the artillery army,
As long as the Song army was not overly incompetent, it would not be an unattainable task to capture the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun. He just didn't want to capture Yanyun, only to discover that there was suddenly a more terrifying path in the northwest of the Song Dynasty.