The number of county soldiers in Huyang City was much greater than Liu Xiu and Li Yi expected, at more than 4,000.
There are as many as 3,000 county soldiers stationed in Nancheng alone, and there are more than 1,000 people in Dongcheng. Without Liu Xiu's surprise attack tactics, Li Yi's troops and Deng Yu's troops alone would not have been able to capture the lake.
Positive.
Lian Feng and Guo Deng were able to recruit so many troops in such a short period of time, which shows that their abilities are not weak.
However, it is quite interesting that the Huyang County soldiers, who have more than 4,000 troops and are fully equipped, were blocked in the city by 2,000 people, who were also disguised as refugees, and kept them locked up.
The reason for this is that Lian Feng is just a scholar. He can't fight, and he won't take the initiative to ask to go out of the city to fight. Guo Deng, who can fight, cares too much about his official position and neither dares nor is willing to take the responsibility of going out of the city to fight.
risk.
In the Battle of Huyang, the attacking Chungling Army suffered heavy losses, with more than a thousand casualties. However, the Huyang County soldiers defending the city suffered less casualties, with less than a thousand casualties, and more than 3,000 surrendered.
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The Chung Ling Army has never captured so many prisoners since the uprising. In the Huyang County Yamen, Li Yi looked at the list of prisoners. Among them were six military commanders and more than 30 camp commanders, leading a team of nearly
One hundred people, more than 3,300 soldiers.
After reading this statistics, Li Yi walked up to Liu Xiu and said with a frown: "General Liu, there are more than 3,000 prisoners in our army now. How should we deal with them?"
At this time, Liu Xiu was looking through the account books in Huyang, including the treasury account books, the granary account books, and the material account books. Liu Xiu raised his head, glanced at Li Yi, and asked casually: "Ji Wen, what do you mean?"
Li Yi said seriously: "We can't afford to keep so many prisoners now. In my opinion, these surrendered troops will be a trouble and hidden danger if they stay. It's not as good as all..." As he spoke, he made a killing gesture
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Seeing this, Deng Yu frowned and was about to step forward to speak. Liu Xiu waved his hand and said, "Most of the soldiers in Huyang County are recruited from the people in Huyang City. If they were all executed, how much would the people of Huyang hate them?"
Us!"
Li Yi asked: "What does the general mean?"
Liu Xiu thought for a while and said: "We will be detained for two days. When the situation in the city stabilizes, we can all be demobilized! Of course, if there are people who are willing to stay in our army, we welcome them. If you don't want to stay in our army, you want to go home."
Yes, give them some money and food and let them go!"
In Li Yi's opinion, executing all the county soldiers was the easiest way. It was okay to demobilize the county soldiers, but they had to be given money and food when they were demobilized, which Li Yi couldn't accept.
He said: "The county soldiers did evil and caused the casualties of more than a thousand brothers in our army. We can forget it if we don't avenge this revenge, but we also need to give them money and food?"
Liu Xiu smiled and said, "Ji Wen, we have to take a longer view."
If your eyes see the whole world, you will not care about the gains and losses of a city or a pond. If your eyes see the people of the world, you will not care about the casualties of a single soldier.
Now these captured county soldiers may not be willing to surrender to our side, but demobilizing them and distributing money and food will make them grateful to our side. In the future, these demobilized county soldiers may become our side's potential source of troops.
In addition, such an approach will also greatly eliminate the hostility and wariness of the people in Huyang towards ourselves, and is a good way to win over the people.
Li Yi scratched his head and reminded: "General, we don't have much money and food now. We don't even have enough to reward meritorious soldiers, but we still use it to distribute to the surrendered troops?" Anyway, Li Yi couldn't understand Liu Xiu's approach.
Liu Xiu said with a smile: "The account books of Huyang's treasury and granary are all here. Although the money and grain stored in it is not too much, it is still quite a lot. It is enough to reward our soldiers and demobilize the captured county soldiers."
"But in this case, we will have no extra money to transport food back to Caiyang." This is the key point Li Yi wants to say. After finally conquering Huyang, if we can't get the loot to transport back to the rear, the victory will be lost.
Big discount.
Liu Xiu said: "The situation in Caiyang is stable and there is no need to transport money and food from our side."
Seeing that Li Yi was still arguing, Liu Xiu waved to him, turned to Deng Yu and said: "Zhonghua, you handle the matter of the captured county soldiers. By the way, you will also draft the notice to calm the people and post it as soon as possible.
go out!"
"Yes! Lord!" Deng Yu was 100% in agreement with Liu Xiu's decision. After hearing Liu Xiu's order, he obeyed without saying a word.
Li Yi glanced at Deng Yu who was leaving. He changed the topic and asked: "General, there are many big households in the city. It is said that they donated money, grain, and food to Lian Feng and Guo Deng.
We have a lot of servants and guards, how should we deal with these people?"
Liu Xiu rubbed his forehead. Li Yi continued: "I think we should check them all!"
"Some people may not donate money and food voluntarily. This matter needs to be investigated carefully." As he spoke, Liu Xiu said to Feng Yi and Jiu'er: "Gongsun, Jiu'er, you two need to cooperate in this matter."
Ji Wen, let's go investigate together."
"Yes! Lord!" Feng Yi and Jiu'er bowed their hands. Li Yi frowned secretly. Liu Xiu still couldn't trust him for such a trivial matter. He still wanted Feng Yi and Jiu'er to cooperate with him. They said they were cooperating, but in fact they were supervising!
Liu Xiu couldn't trust Li Yi, mainly because he felt that he was too eager for quick success and quick gains. He was worried that if Li Yi was asked to handle this matter alone, he would cut through the mess quickly and seize all the big households in the city, and seize the large sums of money.
They all go to the elder brother to ask for credit.
Our side has just started now, and it is the time to lay the foundation. After laying a ground, we must first stabilize the ground. Random inspections will cause a backlash from the local nobles, which will be very detrimental to our side.
Others may not consider these things, but Liu Xiu cannot but consider them.
Fortunately, after the Chung Ling Army captured Huyang, it was Liu Xiu who made the decision, not Li Yi. The Chung Ling Army did not do anything too extraordinary in Huyang City, and the situation in Huyang was relatively stable.
Under the propaganda of the government, the officers and soldiers of the Chung Ling Army were described as lunatics who killed without blinking an eye. After the Chung Ling Army captured Huyang, the people did not dare to go out of their homes and hid in their homes, as if a disaster was imminent.
However, the calm situation outside made the people gradually let go of their guard.
In the afternoon, people could occasionally be seen walking out of their homes and looking around on the streets of Huyang. At first, when people saw the patrolling Chung Ling Army approaching, they ran back to their homes like frightened rabbits.
But after several repetitions, the people saw that the Chung Ling Army was not killing anyone on sight as the government described. People gradually became more courageous and no longer evaded the patrolling Chung Ling Army.
By the time it was getting close to evening, some vendors had returned to the streets and started to continue their business. There were more and more pedestrians on the streets. Teahouses, restaurants and other places were even full of people, talking to each other.
The situation inside the city after the army captured Huyang.
The next morning, the Chung Ling Army's notices to calm the people were posted and hung in several eye-catching places in Huyang City.
This notice of peace and security, drafted by Deng Yu himself, first detailed the stupidity of the Xinmang court, and then detailed the purpose of Zhu Tiandu's rebellion, which was to regain the country and save the people of the country from disaster, etc.
Deng Yu was a well-known talent, eloquent, and the notices he wrote were full of literary talent. While he tried his best to belittle the current imperial court, he also established the Zhutian Capital Department on the moral high ground.
Wang Mang's throne was born unfairly. It was the usurpation of the throne by traitors and traitors who usurped the country of Han Dynasty. Now that you are not good at being the emperor, the world is in chaos and the people are in dire straits. Zhu Tiandu, on behalf of the people, wants you to abdicate and restore the country of Han Dynasty. Naturally, this is the case.
Reasonable.
After the announcement of peace of mind was posted, the concerns of the people in the city were further dispelled. On the second day after the Chung Ling Army captured Huyang City, the people in the city basically returned to normal, and there was no scene of large-scale panic or flight.
In the afternoon of the same day, the county government posted another notice. The first was to announce the results of Guo Deng's punishment, and he would be executed in public two days later. The second was the results of the treatment of the captured county soldiers. Those who were willing to stay in Zhutian's capital department, Zhutian
The capital will accept all of them, and those who are unwilling to stay will be sent away and a sum of money and food will be distributed.
This policy of the Chung Ling Army greatly won the favor of the people of Huyang. There are only 30,000 to 40,000 people in Huyang City, and more than 3,000 county soldiers, which is almost one-tenth of the population of Huyang. Almost every family
Every household has relatives and friends among the county soldiers. Now that they heard that they can return home safely, people are naturally happy from the bottom of their hearts and are grateful to the Chung Ling Army.
Under Liu Xiu's leadership, the situation in Huyang stabilized quickly, at least on the surface.
In the afternoon, Liu Xiu was working in the county government office. A soldier ran in from outside, stepped in and saluted, and said: "General, Mr. Liao Heng from Liao Mansion wants to see you!"
Liao Mansion? Liao Heng? Liu Xiu looked at a loss. He turned to look at Jiu'er beside him. Although Liu Xiu assigned Jiu'er a task and asked her to go with Feng Yi and Li Yi to investigate the big households in the city, Jiu'er had no choice.
The son still stayed with Liu Xiu most of the time.
Jiu'er took two steps forward, came to Liu Xiu, and whispered: "This Liao Heng and Guo Deng have an unusual relationship. Both of them may have come from the Baisong Sect!"
Liu Xiu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is Guo Deng a member of the Jianghu?"
Jiuer nodded and said: "Yes, it is said that after he left Baisongmen, he went to Huyang and became a corps commander, and then gradually became a county captain from the corps commander!"
It is not easy to step from the lowest level of a soldier to a county captain, even though a county captain is only a small official the size of a mung bean.
You must know that there was no imperial examination system at that time. Most of the officials were recommended and not recommended by anyone. Guo Deng still had some abilities when he became a county captain based on his own ability.
Liu Xiu pondered for a moment and asked: "Liao Heng also came from Baisongmen?"
"This is what I've learned about!"
Liu Xiu snorted and said: "It seems that the purpose of him coming to me today is to plead for Guo Deng."
Jiu'er curled her lips disapprovingly and said, "My lord, you don't have to see him."
Liu Xiu glanced at Jiu'er but didn't speak immediately. Just as he was thinking about it secretly, another soldier hurried in and intervened: "General, Liu Chengjun was attacked in the city and turned out to be seriously injured!"
Liu Cheng was from Chung Ling and one of the Liu family's clan members. Since he had no extraordinary ability, he only held the position of military commander in the Chung Ling army.
When he heard that Liu Cheng was attacked, Liu Xiu subconsciously stood up and asked, "How is he injured? Where is he now?"
