Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 418 Entering Hezhou

The battle by the river didn't last long. The advantage of the Qin army, who was waiting for work, against the unsuspecting Southern Han army, and attacked halfway, caused the Southern Han army to collapse quickly.

The most important thing is that the Southern Han Army has too little war experience, and the soldiers from the grassroots to the high-level generals don't know how to respond quickly when an emergency arises.

Soon, after the soldiers discovered that dropping their weapons and surrendering could save their lives, many followed suit, and large numbers of soldiers surrendered.

As the sun slanted westward, the north bank of the He River gradually quieted down.

Corpses and broken arms, armored weapons, and broken flags were all over the beach. The white sand beach and the light green ground were dyed blood red. The Qin army slowly shuttled through it, cleaning the battlefield.

On the edge of the woods in the distance, several large pits have been dug, and many corpses are piled up like a hill, and they are processed in a centralized manner.

The Qin army and the Southern Han army who died in battle have the same destination, but the honor of the soldiers of the Qin army is that they don't have to be buried naked in the cold soil, and their relics will be returned to their families.

But as the defeated party, the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty did not have that kind of treatment. They would be pulled out naked and buried deep, their armor and weapons would be handed in, and the few relics would be divided by the soldiers.

Liu Renshan glanced at the dense pile of corpses, his face remained unchanged. As a veteran, he had seen many scenes like this, but he just told the auxiliary soldiers who were working: "Bury them deeper, don't let wolves and wild beasts harm them, and they will be buried on the road to Huangquan." Go safe."

Everyone nodded in agreement, and burying people was a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. If Liu Renshan didn't say anything, of course his soldiers would be buried in a safe place. The Southern Han people thought they could do whatever they wanted.

A large number of prisoners of war gathered at the riverside for guarding, and they were so densely packed that they couldn't be counted clearly, but it seemed that there were at least five thousand prisoners of war, and the soldiers of the Qin army were still confiscating their weapons and armor.

The most exciting result of the battle for Liu Renshan was the identification by the generals of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the killing of their leading general Wu Yanrou.

Without any delay, he immediately had Wu Yanrou's body beheaded, and the head and battle report were sent to the Hezhou siege camp.

This fight was very successful!
However, although the scale is huge, in fact, the two sides did not lose many people during the fighting stage. They only had 87 people killed in battle, and not many were injured. In fact, only more than 900 people were killed in the Southern Han Army, and some were killed in the chaos. , Some were killed when they were too seriously injured while cleaning the battlefield, and most of the rest surrendered and were captured, and more casualties were jumped into the river recklessly in a panic and drowned.

He Jiang is not a brook or river. The river is [-] paces wide, the water is surging, and the waves are choppy.

It was only evening, and the riverside shoal about a mile downstream was already full of floating dead bodies. The riverside was covered with white flowers for miles, which was very frightening, like pieces of whitened dead fish, and there were more to come. It took many days to float up, and the drowned people killed many more than Qin Jun.

On the north bank, there were nearly 2 soldiers of the Southern Han Army, almost half of them were driven into the river, some were shot and killed by the water troops on the river surface, and more were swallowed by the waves. It was very tragic, and the water level near the battlefield rose a few points.

This is undoubtedly a great victory. Tens of thousands of reinforcements are scattered and defeated, which means that Hezhou is in a dead end, and it is also a heavy blow to the Southern Han Dynasty.

On the second day, the Hejiang battlefield was basically cleaned up, and the follow-up settlement was still going on. Most of the soldiers also had a good rest for a day. Most of them were not taken away when the army collapsed.

The soldiers had a good celebration by the river, and then Liu Renshan selected 3000 strong and strong captives to use as auxiliary troops, and then distributed dry food to the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and asked them to send the Qin army away. The water army has been assembled on the Hejiang River, and the warships are supervised. The news that they will go directly down the river and attack Guangzhou in the south will be brought back to the south and widely spread.

Later, Liu Renshan ordered the navy to patrol the Hejiang River every day. With the strength of the navy in the south of Hezhou City, it was impossible to block the Hejiang River, but it was possible to investigate from time to time.

If it were someone else, they might not be so cautious. After experiencing such a big defeat, I don't believe that Nanhan would dare to fight back across the river.

But he is Liu Renshan, and he thought of what happened when he was in Shouzhou.

At that time, the army of Hou Zhou outside the city exceeded [-], and there were several times inside and outside. , Burned the siege equipment they had been repairing for several months, and made Shouchun guard for more than a year.

He just remembered those past events, and he dared not relax because of his own judgment. If there were ruthless people in the Southern Han army who wanted to fight to the death as he did back then, then slack would lead to catastrophe.

So even after the big victory, he didn't dare to relax at all when he had a huge advantage in troops.

On the third day, a messenger was sent from Hezhou to tell him the good news that the governor of Hezhou had surrendered.

When the reinforcements were wiped out and the head of the leading general Wu Yanrou was taken by the soldiers to the city and shown to the people at the head of Hezhou city, the city of Hezhou was terrified, but they still did not surrender immediately.

So Pan Mei lined up the next day and ordered to attack the city. The soldiers of the three armies were full of confidence, and they heard that after the victory in the south, their morale was high, and they rushed forward. Going forward bravely with the trenches, not afraid of arrows, directly frightened the defenders at the top of the city.

The forward of the Qin army was covered with several layers of heavy armor and covered with a large shield. The follow-up soldiers followed up one after another. Dozens of long dragons, in just a quarter of an hour, had already approached the foot of the city wall from various places and began to prepare siege equipment. There is no way to stop it, and there are dark Qin troops everywhere at the foot of the long city wall.

This kind of momentum and movement frightened the already frightened Hezhou governor. Wu Yanrou's head was still hanging under the banner of the Qin army, so he didn't dare to fight anymore. He immediately asked to see the envoy and surrender.

Pan Mei also quickly dispatched a group of elite troops to take over the city. For fear of fraud, all the elite soldiers in heavy armor went in, and they also pulled wooden carts inlaid with iron. After entering the city gate, they stood at the gate. Both sides, so that the door cannot be closed at once.

However, the accident did not happen, and the process of taking over went very smoothly. The soldiers and civilians of Hezhou were really frightened and had no intention of resisting.

The army took over Hezhou very smoothly, which also means that the northern gate of the Southern Han Dynasty has been fully opened.

From Hezhou to the south, regardless of water or land, you can directly and quickly pass through Panyu.

On the one hand, Pan Mei reported her victory to the imperial court, on the other hand, like Liu Renshan, she released the news that the Qin army was about to go down the river and take Guangzhou directly!
The morale of the tens of thousands of troops was also high, and everyone was screaming to go to Guangzhou. The news spread quickly, and Liu Renshan released a large number of prisoners. The south trembled for a while, Hezhou fell, and the reinforcements were defeated. The people of the Southern Han Kingdom were panicked .

After Pan Mei took Hezhou, apart from restraining the soldiers and routinely opening the treasury to reward the three armies, the first thing she did was what the emperor repeatedly told him.

The first thing is to gather all the people in the city, burn down the big buckets used for grain collection in the Southern Han Dynasty in front of everyone, and announce that the people under the Qin State will use the same small buckets for grain collection instead of allocating money.

The second is to convict the officials in charge of taxation in Hezhou and execute them in public.

This is the instruction given by the officials and prime ministers after deliberations based on the national conditions of the Southern Han Dynasty spying on them before sending out troops, requiring them to carry out these two things every time they capture a city or a pool.

All the people in the city cheered for a while, and Qin Jun won the great support of the local people.

Not to mention the perverse behavior of the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, it was only a regime that had ruled south of the Five Ridges for about 50 years. It was easier for Qin to win the hearts of the people, and because of this, the emperor attached great importance to this matter.

(End of this chapter)