Under the scorching afternoon sun, more than a hundred bloodstained prisoners in Lishui City had their hands tied with ropes and then formed a series. Under the scorching sun, they trudged to a dock on the southeast side of the county government office on the Mingshi River.
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These captured soldiers were soldiers of the Nanya Forbidden Army who followed Xu Bin, the capital general, to station in Lishui, but were abandoned by Xu Bin.
As an elite member of the Forbidden Army, even if he was captured, his face looked slightly ruthless. However, the cavalry guards of the Prince's Palace who attacked the city yesterday were too strong. They were killed and lost their helmets and armor. They were unable to resist. After the defeat, they could not escape from the city, so they had to
You can choose to surrender.
They still didn't know what fate awaited them. They only knew that the place they were going to was the most open area in Lishui City.
The cavalrymen, armed with armor and strong swords, stood guard on both sides of the streets, preventing the prisoners from making any struggle.
Even though there was a fight last night and the city changed hands, the land of Jianghuai has never lacked people who love to watch the excitement and come forward in twos and threes; even if some people are timid, they can't help but poke their heads out of the courtyards of each house.
, looking at everything in front of you.
"I heard that Li Yu, the king of eastern Zhejiang Province, led his troops to fight back. Even General Xu, who was as proud as a red-crowned rooster a few days ago, couldn't hold on for half an hour and was killed in a panic.
He escaped in embarrassment. Do you know what kind of person Prince Li is? You little brats are still young and have not even grown their feathers. How could you know that when the late emperor attacked Shengzhou and defeated King Dongchang of Yue, all the neighbors were listening?
The fame of Prince Li can be stopped in the middle of the night. Those are the real masters whose hands are stained with blood. Wen Muqiao, Niu Gengru, Zhang Wei, Du Chongtao, Yang Zhitang, Yang Tai, all of them are very famous people.
I don’t even dare to breathe in front of the prince..."
"Prince Li also supports the third prince?"
"Isn't that right? The Marquis of Xinchang who supports the third prince the most is Prince Li's younger brother. If Prince Li doesn't support the third prince along with his younger brother, who will he support? The general who led the troops into the city last night is Prince Li.
His direct son - I heard that the county prime minister wet his crotch when he heard about Prince Li's reputation and hurriedly knelt down to beg for mercy."
At this time, I saw dozens of people walking out of the county government gate from a distance.
Lishui City is not big, and there are only a few prominent figures. People with sharp eyes will immediately recognize the county chief guard Zhen:
"Isn't that Mr. Wei, the head of the Wei family? They are following hundreds of tied up prisoners. Where are they going to go?"
"You don't know yet? Master Wei begged for mercy, so naturally he wanted to surrender to the Third Prince. Isn't this a show of loyalty? They picked out the dog-legged soldiers stationed in Lishui City from the Anning Palace and took them to the South Street Wharf to behead them.
, to show that we are severing all ties with An Ning Palace!"
"These generals of the Nanya Forbidden Army helped Zhou to commit oppression, but they don't know how to repent, so they can't blame Li for being ruthless. However, this also gives Lord Wei an opportunity to be loyal to His Highness." Surrounded by several guards, Li Pu could faintly hear the sounds from left and right.
The people onlookers were talking about something but ignored it. He said with a smile to the head of the Wei family, Wei Zhen, who had a pale face and a fresh scar on his cheek.
Wei Zhen's face was as wrinkled as old Quan's withered vine. His smile at Xinchang Marquis Li Pu was uglier than his tears. He considered himself a Confucian scholar and was somewhat repelled by killing prisoners. What's more, the prisoners who were being taken to the temporary execution ground at this time were all dead last night.
Before that, he and his descendants from the Wei family were guarding Lishui together!
However, the cruel reality came before us. Wei Zhen, more than two hundred intruders from the Wei clan, and hundreds of people who had gone to Lishui City to avoid trouble became prisoners. Secondly, Li Yu, the king of eastern Zhejiang Province, returned to seclusion for ten years.
Although his reputation has not faded, he saw Li Jiaerlang's overwhelming attack on Lishui last night. He also saw it with his own eyes, and his heart was still chilling at this moment.
As the head of the Wei family, would Wei Zhen really have a choice whether to be a prisoner or to surrender to Yueyang and serve under the Three Emperors to revive the family?
Of course, Wei Zhen and others expressed their willingness to surrender, but Li Pu would not believe them until they handed over their declaration of surrender.
The so-called surrender letter, in addition to jointly denouncing the thief Xu's fornication, palace confinement, treason and other crimes, also requires the Wei family and other direct descendants of various families to submit their names in front of the people in the city of Lishui.
, beheaded hundreds of prisoners of the Nanya Imperial Army who had surrendered and been captured last night at the execution ground by the Mingshi River.
"Wei Zhen, you thief! I remember how you behaved when you begged your grandfathers to defend the city. You wish you could lie down and lick my grandfather's big bird. If you are willing to be the butcher today, you won't be afraid that your descendants of the Wei family will be born.
A rotten heart, a rotten liver, and a rotten stomach?" A leader among the prisoners heard the onlookers talking, and when he saw the county prime minister Wei Zhen and Xinchang Hou Li Pu walking out of the county government office, he immediately started to curse.
Wei Zhen's face twitched, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and she looked away, letting the captive soldier insult her.
Behind Wei Zhen, the more than 20 disciples from the aristocratic families who were elected to perform the performance looked even more bleak. Most of them were relatively young. Although they had practiced fists, feet, swords and bows since childhood, and thought they were brave, they had no experience.
After those bloody wars in the early years of the founding of the Chu Kingdom, it has been more than ten years since the peace, that is, after the Jinling Incident, I have only recently realized how cruel the fighting on the battlefield is, and I have not yet learned how to betray and betrayal.
At this moment, they were asked to execute and behead the prisoners who had stayed in the same camp last night. How many of them could change and adapt?
Li Qi followed him silently with a group of guards. Who would dare to struggle after seeing the disciples of Li Qi's mighty family?
Today will be the most important and cruelest lesson in most of their lives.
"Pa!" A war horse galloped diagonally. The knight on the horse whipped his head and face with a whip, knocking the yelling prisoner to the ground.
After falling down, dozens of cavalrymen gathered around, urging the prisoners to go to the execution ground.
Under the scorching sun, hundreds of heads fell to the ground, blood spurted from their necks, dyeing the stone pier red, and soon seeped into the rippling blue waves of the Mingshi River through the gaps between the stone ditch and bricks.
Some people sigh sadly, some people say they are satisfied, some people are frightened, and some people are elated.
Gao Shao ignored Li Pu's invitation to watch the execution. He stood on the east city gate and watched everything.
Gao Shao was originally a scout in the army of King Dong Chang of Yue. King Dong Chang of Yue was defeated by Emperor Tianyou. He was injured and captured. He then fled back to his hometown. His wife contracted the disease and was driven away by the villagers, and he became a homeless and hungry man.
Even if he couldn't stop Li Pu from killing the captured soldiers, he would not join in the fun. He thought that outsiders said that Han Qian was cruel and cruel to others, but he had never done anything about killing prisoners, and it was strictly forbidden to kill prisoners.
After seizing Xuzhou, a large number of Zhai slave soldiers were recruited from various surnames, and they were all moved directly to Linjiang County, where they were granted farmland and granted civilian status. Those who were guilty of serious crimes were also handed over to the judicial department for trial.
In this regard, I don't know how much better than Li Pu.
Of course, Gao Shao knew better than anyone else the hidden dangers faced by the Chishan Army, and he also knew very well the fear and hatred that people like Xinchang Marquis Li Pu had for Han Qian. In the past, when Li Pu stayed in Jinling, no one was without troops, and he was not afraid of what he could do.
, and with Li Pu so eager to force the Lishui families to take sides, Gao Shao couldn't help but worry about what Li Pu wanted to do.
Gao Shao sent people to Donglu Mountain in the early morning to report the news. Han Qian had already sent people back before noon. He asked him to confirm that there was no threat from the Nanya Imperial Army to the north for the time being, so he led two battalions of troops to withdraw to Donglu Mountain.
Apart from that, Han Qian didn't say anything else in his letter, nor did he ask anyone to bring any message. He didn't seem to have any idea about the performance of the Duke's cavalry, Li Qi's bravery, or what Li Pu was going to do in Lishui.
accident.
Gao Shao couldn't help but think, had your Excellency guessed in advance that Li Pu would recruit soldiers from aristocratic families in Lishui City to compete with the Chishan Army?
Gao Shao hesitated whether to send someone to Donglu Mountain to ask for instructions. He thought that if he really wanted to lead two battalions of troops to occupy the east gate tower of Lishui City, he believed that Li Pu would not be able to do anything to him.
The East City Gate Tower is built on a slightly raised mountain ridge, which is the highest point of Lishui City. Standing on the East City Gate Tower, Gao Shao could see everything in the city.
After beheading hundreds of captured soldiers from the Nanya Forbidden Army, Li Pu, Wei Zhen and others retreated to the county government office. Soon he saw the captured soldiers belonging to the Wei family and other aristocratic families gathered at the north side of the county government office.
In a large courtyard, strong slaves and maidservants were constantly gathering from each family's courtyard in the city.
The compound was originally used as a barracks by the Nanya Imperial Guards. There was a garden of three to four acres in the yard. The fake rocks were removed and the fish pond was filled in to make a school ground. It was crowded with people in the afternoon. At a glance, it looked almost close to
It looks like eight hundred people.
This is also another important move for the Wei family and other families to surrender, that is, each family sends their children to select the best from among their slaves and maids, and recruit them into the army.
Unlike Han Qian who recruited slaves into the army and directly separated the slaves from the hands of the aristocratic families, Li Pu asked the families to select strong slaves as their private soldiers, directly commanded by the direct descendants assigned by each family, and then
Just reorganize them into the army and accept control and command - this was also the military system adopted by Emperor Tianyou when he rose up in the Jianghuai River and controlled the heroes in his early years.
For example, Wei Huang, the son of Wei Zhen, and Liu Zishu, a descendant of the Liu family who had fled from Shangjiabao to Lishui City for only two days, although the number of clan soldiers directly under his command ranged from dozens to more than a hundred, they were all awarded the title of camp commander.
, led the troops under his command to accept the control and command of the general Chen Mingsheng.
Li Pu used this method to complete the reconciliation with the Lishui family in exchange for their loyalty to him and Yueyang. Although there were hidden dangers that could not be lost, it also had immediate results.
However, this time, the soldiers and horses gathered under Li Pu's command were essentially in sharp opposition to the Chishan Army.
Gao Shao looked at all this with concern. At this time, he saw Zhang Ping coming on horseback from a distance. He stuck his head out from the crenel and greeted: "Sir Zhang, there is no movement in the soldiers and horses of Pingling in Anning Palace in Jiangcheng.
Tomorrow I will lead my troops to withdraw to Donglu Mountain and leave Lishui City completely to Mr. Li Hou. Do you want Mr. Zhang to go to Donglu Mountain with me?"
Zhang Ping is nominally the military supervisor sent by Yueyang to Han Qian, but the secret of Shenling Division is no longer a secret in the eyes of senior generals like Gao Shao. Seeing Zhang Ping's waning mood, Gao Shao thought that he just
The meeting with Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, should not have been a pleasant conversation.
"Okay, I'll go back with you." Zhang Ping raised his head and said.
Zhang Ping persuaded Li Pu to ask Wei Zhen and other aristocratic families to hand over their names, and they had other means. The captured soldiers were also people of Da Chu. There was no way to kill the prisoners in the battlefield. There was really no need to kill the prisoners, but Li Pu did not listen to him.
advise.
Zhang Ping could also guess that Li Pu was too afraid of Han Qian deep down in his heart, so he was so eager to ask the Wei family and other Lishui families to stand with him as soon as possible. If he couldn't persuade him, why would he stay here?
