Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 155 Surrender
Zhu Yuan fell ill, but Shi Congyun didn't know it. The battle report he heard outside Shouzhou City was that Xu Wenzhen, a Jiedu envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, led 3000 people to surrender to the Zhou army before the battle.

Shi Congyun was naturally very happy. While sending the messenger who had experienced wars and could speak, to report to the officials in Huaibei, he transferred Xu Wenzhen and his 3000 subordinates who surrendered to Shouzhou.

The purpose of doing this is not to let them come to fight, nor to hope that they can capture Shouzhou City, but mainly to give Liu Renshan a mental shock and let him know that it is hopeless to rescue Shouzhou.

On the other side, more than 2 craftsmen and civilians who had originally built siege equipment under Shouzhou City were sent by Shi Congyun to the north to build trenches for the various armies, and gradually moved forward to narrow the encirclement of Zhu Yuan's army.

He knew in his mind that Shouzhou could not be conquered by force, and it would be a waste to keep so many craftsmen and civilians. It is better to build trenches in the north.

Many trenches and fortresses were gradually built on the east side of Zijin Mountain, and they continued to advance northward, compressing the living space of the Southern Tang Army on the Huaihe River.

The Southern Tang army organized two large-scale counterattacks, but they were no match for the Zhou army in the field. Now that the Zhou army relied on deep ditches and high fortifications, they had no chance of winning. Forced to retreat after the corpse.

After the supply was cut off, the Southern Tang army was in a more difficult situation. Every day, many people risked being beheaded and escaped from the camp to surrender. Shi Congyun specially explained to Li Chongjin that those who surrendered should be treated kindly, and those who have not surrendered should be treated kindly. example.

At the same time, the soldiers who surrendered were asked to go to the hundred steps in front of the Nantang camp every day, loudly persuaded those who did not surrender, and told them that there was nothing wrong here.

Of course, he is the commander in chief, and the commander in chief must have the presence of the commander in chief, and he cannot intervene in every detail.

Probably give Li Chongjin an explanation, how to do it, how to deal with it, and let their generals use their brains.

After six days of siege, Zhou Jun's frontier fortress had been built only one mile away from the Southern Tang camp. This distance, the Southern Tang Army was already under Zhou Jun's eyes, and he couldn't sleep well even if he slept.

Shi Congyun has already returned to the city of Shouzhou, and people keep coming to report to him about the situation in the north every day.

He was looking forward to the Southern Tang army's surrender as soon as possible, not because he was afraid of their counterattack, but because of the plague.

In history, when the Mongolian army besieged Bianliang, the people inside opened the city and surrendered in the end. It was not that they could not hold it, but that the city was plagued by plague, and countless people died every day. The plague was more terrible than the Jin army.

A lot of people gather together, eat, drink and scatter there, and the hygienic conditions cannot be guaranteed, which can easily lead to plague. This kind of thing is very common.

Plague kills are much more efficient than people kill.

By mid-March, some military officers from the north also wrote to him privately, saying that they felt that Li Chuyun's method of Yulang Zhidu Yuhou Li Chuyun was a little too much.

Li Chuyun chopped off the heads of many Southern Tang soldiers who died in Tushan, strung them up with hemp ropes and hung them on the ship's side to scare the Southern Tang soldiers and strike the enemy's heart.

Many officials and generals wrote to him privately, feeling that this approach was a bit excessive.In any case, the Southern Tang soldiers also died defending their homes and defending the country. Besides, the dead are the most important, so there is no need to do so. What is the difference between this approach and the barbarians?
Shi Congyun read these letters in Shouzhou Daying, and felt very relieved. He was still happy that someone among the soldiers of the Five Dynasties could raise such a question, which shows that at least until now, after decades of turmoil and fighting, rational And civilization is gradually returning, and some people are already afraid of the endless killing and realize that it can't go on like this.

Shi Congyun knew Li Chuyun quite well, and Li Chuyun was one of the famous generals he knew best in the Five Dynasties and early Song Dynasty. Because this man was very good at psychological warfare, he was also a contradictory character, so he paid more attention when reading history books.

For Li Chuyun, scaring people with their heads is considered light. In order to frighten the enemy, he once asked his subordinates to pick out ten of the fattest captives and cook them for food.Put the rest of the captives back, and let them bring back the news that the Song army cannibalize people, and directly scare the enemies in the city to collapse without fighting, and just like that, Jiancheng was taken down.

Seeing him as a demon king.

However, Li Chuyun was exceptionally kind to the common people. Everywhere he went, various policies favored the common people, and he understood the sufferings of the common people very well.

He died in depression also because Murong Yanzhao indulged his soldiers to harm the common people. He couldn't stand it, and dealt with those soldiers himself, which led to his estrangement. In the end, the Northern Song Dynasty chose to keep the older Murong Yanzhao.

So for Li Chuyun, Shi Congyun felt that he was not the kind of person who could go anywhere.

It's just that there are two types of people who pursue morality in this world, one is utilitarian and the other is moralism.

Utilitarians believe that for the sake of morality in their hearts, they can do all kinds of dirty things, and the means can be dirty, as long as they are always beneficial to the morality in their hearts.

Moralism believes that the means must also conform to morality, and must conform to the morality in the heart from the beginning to the end, otherwise they would rather not do it.

Li Chuyun obviously belongs to the utilitarian type of person, who doesn't care much about fame and means.

Shi Congyun asked Luqiu Zhongqing to write back and praised those who asked him questions, but he didn't let people reprimand Li Chuyun or stop his actions, because it was indeed conducive to the collapse of the morale of the Southern Tang army, and early surrender could solve many problems and prevent many bad things. occur.

When the siege ended in mid-March, the soldiers who had escaped from the Tang army camp told the Zhou army that the food in the barracks was about to run out, and now their daily rations were less than one-third of what they used to be, and all the horses, mules and other pack animals had been killed. I'm hungry.

Some people were so hungry that they wanted to catch fish by the river, but they were shot and killed by the sailors in the river. Those sailors would come to the boat every day at meal time and let them watch the meal.

They were afraid and hungry, and they couldn't stand the torture.

And Zhou Jun also felt it. The Southern Tang Army did not launch a counterattack in the next few days. It must be exhausted or completely desperate.

I'm afraid that if it weren't for the high level of the army still struggling to support, many soldiers under him would already have the intention of surrendering.

After Shi Congyun learned the news from Shouzhou City, he directly said to the messenger: "Let Li Chongjin come and see me, I have something to explain."

The next day, Li Chongjin came to see him on horseback across Feishui. Shi Congyun and many soldiers were moving stones to the trebuchet in the south of the city, and then threw them in the direction of the city wall of Shouzhou.

Idle is also idle, he thinks it's fun, although it doesn't do much.

It's like using firecrackers to blow up cow dung when I was a child. It's useless, but I just feel happy.

Filling it by yourself, and then watching the trebuchet throw stones the size of a millstone to the Shouzhou city wall is the same. It's useless, but it's fun and fun.

After Li Chong came in, he folded his hands and stood beside him. While Shi Congyun worked hard with the soldiers to move the stones, he took the time to tell him, "It's almost time. The best way to deal with the enemy is to divide and disintegrate."

"Is there any difference?" Li Chongjin asked him.

Shi Congyun asked Luqiu Zhongqing, who was standing in the distance, to come and listen, "Of course it's different, we used to be gentle and avoid death, and many things in the world don't know how to cherish them once they come too easily.

Our pardon was given too easily. For all the soldiers and generals in the Southern Tang Dynasty, as long as they surrendered, they would be spared death, so they would not value it so much.

Before, it was because they still had the fighting spirit and the ability to counterattack. I didn't dare to force them to death. Who knows if they will come back with a desperate counterattack. "

As he spoke, he put down the stone in his hand, panted heavily and clapped his hands: "It's different now, after so many days of siege, their food is about to run out, and people are too hungry, so there is no need to fear their counterattack.

At this time, we can force them. What we have to do is to punish the culprits and ignore them. After they are disintegrated from the inside, they will naturally collapse. "

Li Chongjin was puzzled, but he didn't say anything, while Luqiu Zhongqing and the several officials around him were also a little puzzled, Luqiu Zhongqing cupped his hands and said, "Marshal, how did you split up?"

Shi Congyun said: "It's very simple, label them and treat them differently.

At this time, the Tang army's ability to not surrender is nothing more than the high-level generals supporting and gathering the army. At this time, the relationship between the generals and the soldiers must be divided. "

Everyone looked at him, waiting for the next sentence.

Shi Congyun ordered: "Luqiu Zhongqing brought five carts of money over there, and wanted to let the soldiers of the Tang army know three things.

First, the officials forgive all Southern Tang soldiers, as long as they surrender to absolve them of their crimes, but all Southern Tang Army commanders and above senior officials are not allowed to forgive.

Second, within ten days, the soldiers who are willing to surrender throw down their weapons and immediately surrender to the south. After ten days, our army will launch a full-scale attack and kill everyone on the riverside.

Third, all Southern Tang soldiers will be rewarded with a reward of [-] yuan for every head of the Southern Tang Army Commander level and above that they bring!If many people work together, they will share [-] yuan equally. "

As he said, Luqiu Zhongqing and other civil servants next to him had already taken notes with Mao Notes, and Shi Congyun said to Li Chongjin: "I will let Luqiu Zhongqing and others go to the north to assist you, find someone to write more letters and shoot them into his camp. Send people to ride horses outside the camp to publicize it loudly, so that all the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty know.

At the same time, you are also preparing, if you still resist after ten days, you will be shot.At that time, they were probably almost hungry, so it wouldn't be too difficult to fight. "

Li Chongjin looked at him with distasteful eyes, swallowed, nodded to him, "I know." Then he got on his horse and left in a hurry.

Luqiu Zhongqing said, "Marshal's method of disintegrating and disintegrating is really ruthless and hits the nail on the head."

Shi Congyun smiled triumphantly, "According to both military and political issues is the fastest way to win.".
In mid-March, more and more people from the Southern Tang army surrendered along the Huaihe River, and even internal strife broke out. People came and went along the Huaihe River, and many river networks intersected.

In this season, the number of business travelers on the Huaihe River has decreased by [-]%, and the rich and prosperous place with a large population has also changed into another look.

Wherever the flames of war went, burning, killing, looting followed, and the people in Huainan had been unable to farm normally for two consecutive years.

Just like the battle in Zhengyang, it was a beautiful battle for the Zhou army, but in the battle of tens of thousands of people, almost all the fields around the site were trampled down by people and horses. In autumn, many people could not eat food.

Afterwards, there were many incidents of burning, killing and looting in the army. Fortunately, Li Gu was still there to restrain them for a while, but Li Gu couldn't make too many restraints.

But the north was not completely over yet, and there was an incident with the Baijia Army in the south. A Baijia army robbed their grain transport convoy west of Xiacai, wounded more than a dozen soldiers, and killed two grain transporters.

When the matter was reported to Shi Congyun, Zhang Yongde was furious and asked for a thorough investigation. At the same time, he led his troops to flatten the place where the Baijia Army was located.

Shi Congyun temporarily suppressed it on the grounds that the fighting in the north was tight and it was not appropriate to divide the troops.

These so-called "white armored soldiers" are actually ordinary people in Huainan. When Zhou Jun first arrived, because of the heavy taxes in the Southern Tang Dynasty and strict treatment of the people, many people in Huainan welcomed them and offered to provide fodder for Zhou Jun.

As a result, the generals of the Zhou army did not take it seriously, and many generals like Zhao Chao and Bai Yanyu even asked for bribes and allowed the soldiers to plunder, but the officials did not punish Zhao Chao and others, but let them go, which caused the local people to be very disappointed. Casting armor, closing the village for self-defense, known as the "Hundred Armored Army".

Later, when Shouzhou was besieged, the officials also ordered the township soldiers from the north to encircle and suppress these "white armor troops", but they were defeated and returned home.

Because the war in Shouzhou was tense, the officials didn't care about these things when they returned to Daliang, and now they are making trouble again.

However, Shi Congyun knew in his heart that it was not the right time for the Baijia army to make trouble at this time. They were able to win before because the battle in Shouzhou was tight, and the main force in the Southern Tang Dynasty was still there. Guo Rong sent out all Huaibei township soldiers. Militia, training is slack, equipment is at their own expense, and morale is not high.

Now Shouzhou is hopeless, and the main force of the Southern Tang Dynasty is about to collapse in his hands, and the Zhou army's forbidden army can completely free up their hands to deal with them.

Making trouble at this time is almost tantamount to courting death. If Zhang Yongde really leads his troops there and finds out which village is responsible, they can be wiped out in an instant, leaving no one, man, woman, or child behind.

He didn't let Zhang Yongde go, because he probably understood why these people dared to take risks to snatch their food.

The Huainan War has been fought for two years, and the number of forbidden troops, township soldiers, and militias stationed near Shouzhou has reached about [-]. Many people are starving to death, so they dare to take the risk.

The government has issued orders to appease the people, but where the army is present, these orders are useless, and it is difficult to restrain the army.

Shi Congyun sighed in his heart, many things in the world are difficult, right and wrong cannot be explained clearly, as a general, he can't indulge the people to rob the army food, but the people also have their own last resort.

But no matter what, things have to work out.

On March 27, great news came from the north that [-] Southern Tang soldiers attacked and killed an army commander, and rushed out of the Southern Tang camp with his head to surrender to the Zhou army.

Hundreds of Tang troops chasing after them were shot back by Zhou Jun with bows and crossbows.

After Luqiu Zhongqing got the news, he immediately reacted, fulfilled his previous promise, and deliberately stood in front of the north gate of Daying to let the Southern Tang Army on the opposite side watch, and loudly commended their achievements. The size was distributed to 27 Tang soldiers.

The effect was immediate. That night, the Southern Tang army, who couldn’t go hungry any more, rioted. Led by more than a dozen commanders, about 3000 Southern Tang soldiers rebelled and rushed out of the camp, killing their superiors. Army surrendered.

The soldiers who were ordered to pursue them dropped their weapons halfway through the chase, and surrendered to the Zhou army along the way.

Counting the number of people after dawn, more than 5000 people surrendered to the Zhou army that night, and the people in the Southern Tang camp were panicked.

Shi Congyun, who got the news, was pleasantly surprised and thought, now the top generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty might start to worry about their own heads, and fear that someone would chop off their heads and exchange them for money while they were sleeping that day.

If you are afraid of death, it is almost time to surrender.

Sure enough, that afternoon, Li Chongjin's envoy hurriedly crossed the Feishui River to Shouzhou City and reported to him, "The commander of the Southern Tang Army, Zhu Yuan, the recruiter from the north, sent an envoy to meet General Li in the big tent, and begged the commander to accept their surrender!"

Shi Congyun was overjoyed, after so many days, it was almost time to harvest!

Immediately tell him: "Go back and tell Zhu Yuan and other Southern Tang generals that if you accept their surrender, you can also protect them from death in front of the officials, but they will come to the city of Shouzhou to find my commander to surrender."

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