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Chapter 681 The Death of Wang Chengen

At dawn, the sun did not reveal its true face.Because the Songshan Mountain in the east of Luoyang blocks its face, but it does not prevent it from spreading its light all over the earth.

However, the beautiful morning brought some people not hope, but despair.

Wang Cheng'en, the commander-in-chief of Lintao, was already covered in blood.As long as he moved, the dried blood scabs would fall off sparsely along with the sound of nail plates.

He was sore all over, and his bones seemed to be falling apart.Neither the bones nor the muscles could withstand such a high-intensity battle.

At the end of the crossbow, he couldn't penetrate Lu Jin, no matter what Wang Chengen's skills were, he was at the end of his rope.

After all, age is not forgiving. Wang Chengen remembered the days in the past few years, when he fought continuously for a whole day and was still alive and well.

Wang Chengen looked weakly and helplessly at the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood in front of him.

Among them are strong men from Xiningwei, his hometown, elite soldiers from Lintao Prefecture, and personal guards from Zhuanglangwei.

Many of them were alive and kicking yesterday, but today they are lying in bloody mess.

Among the blood stains, there are not only the blood stains of the enemy, the blood stains of comrades in arms, but also the blood stains of oneself.After the bright blood dries up, it becomes pitch black, polluting the dry earth, soaking through the armor on his body, and filling the gaps in his armor.

The corpses were strewn all over the ground with the circle of officers and soldiers as the center.There are rebels, and there are officers and soldiers, but after all, there are more corpses of officers and soldiers.

He raised his eyes and saw the soldiers of the rebel army staring at him and the others like wolves and tigers, but when the officers and soldiers relaxed a little, they wanted to pounce on them again.

Although their armor is dilapidated, it is still strong; their weapons are simple but sharp; although they are a little thin, their eyes are sharp and firm.

This is a master of tiger and wolf!Wang Chengen, who has many years of combat experience, judged subconsciously.

"Enough food and soldiers", such a simple sentence, was a goal that was not known how difficult it was to achieve in the last years of the dynasty.

Qin Bing is known as the elite. Under the leadership of famous ministers and generals like Hong Chengchou, they fought against the peasant army in Shaanxi many times, but they retreated after eating out many times.

Even if Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, had prepared for so long, he had only prepared more than a month's food and salary for more than [-] officers and soldiers under his command.

For example, the deployment of Wang Cheng'en, the commander-in-chief of Lintao, is nothing more than rewarding some expenses to ensure food and salaries during wartime.

In contrast, the "thief army" has enough food and salaries, and it is distributed on time, which is enough to crush the officers and soldiers.

What is even more frightening than this is that there are no officers and soldiers elsewhere.

It turned out that when Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief of Lintao, stood by and waited for help, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, Chai Shihua, the commander-in-chief of Gansu, and Zuo Guang, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, fought and retreated first, and retreated to the officers and soldiers camp.

The soldiers around Wang Chengen were already quite afraid, and gradually some people began to whisper.

Military Law: Anyone who makes noise without reason will be shot to death!However, there is no military judge to stop the execution now, which shows that the soldiers have different intentions.

Wang Chengen climbed to the highest place nearby with his last hope.He built an awning with his hands and looked out, only to see that the rebel army was stretching endlessly, only a team of artillery was dragging the artillery and approaching.

Judging by its banner, it is Li Shi'an's "Second Artillery Regiment".

It turned out that Wang Chengen specially ordered the soldiers not to use open flames at night. In order to avoid accidental injury, the rebels never used artillery again.

Now that the sky is bright, the "Second Artillery Regiment" is where it comes in.

It's over, it's over!Lintao General Wang Chengen finally had nowhere to go.

He hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help shouting: "Where is Cao Wenzhao? Come and talk to me!"

Cao Wenzhao frowned when he heard the words, and thought to himself: What kind of world is it now, how can he be so confident in surrendering?
Fortunately, for the sake of strengthening the faction of surrendered generals, Cao Wenzhao responded loudly: "Cao Wenzhao is here, what do you have to say?"

"I heard that King Shun is benevolent, and I have many Lintao soldiers under my command. I have old friends with you. I hope you can say something nice and let the rebels treat them kindly!" Wang Cheng'en, the commander-in-chief of Lintao, shouted loudly with his already hoarse throat .

When Cao Wenzhao heard it, it was a bit wrong.He quickly responded: "You take care of this on your own, why bother me? King Shun's benevolence, presumably will not deprive you of the people under your command!"

"I, Wang Chengen, has received the emperor's grace, and I can eat the king's salary. How can I do the thing that one person served two masters in the Qin Dynasty and Muchu?" Loyal and unfilial, unkind and unrighteous people!"

Then he turned his head and shouted to the soldiers: "I'm going to die, you can do it yourself!"

After speaking, Wang Chengen grabbed the long knife in his hand and wiped his neck, and fell on his back.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen's left and right were greatly saddened, and some people were even moved by his loyalty, and they shouted loudly: "I wish to follow General Cao to the left, and I wish to follow General Wang to the right!"

Immediately after that, more than ten people stood up and died by themselves.

More than a dozen people fell to the ground neatly, and the shock to everyone can be imagined.Even Cao Wenzhao couldn't help feeling ashamed and sighed: "I hate to die that day, and leave it as a shame today. The king of all ages has inherited grace, and loyalty will last forever!"

Even Cao Wenzhao, who had surrendered for a long time, was like this, not to mention other people, all admired and regretted.

Although the soldiers under his command did not die from the beginning, most of them hid their faces and surrendered.Cao Wenzhao had no face to see Jiangdong's elders, so he had to hide his face and retreat, giving all the credit to Jiang He of Yulinying.

Jiang He couldn't help but lamented, "I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me. How can I insult a loyal man like Wang Chengen?"

He didn't dare to claim credit for it, he only explained the matter clearly, but reported it to Zhang Shun.

Zhang Shun was also deeply shocked. In the past, he upheld the principle of taking the righteousness of the world as the key link and using profit and fraud as the means, but he didn't realize that there were such loyal people in the world.

Meanness is the passport of the mean, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.When he met a living person who could take loyalty as his heart and die.No matter which side he is on, he is a person worthy of respect after all.

Therefore, Zhang Shun ordered the burial of Wang Cheng'en, the general of Lintao, and personally wrote the epitaph saying: Bravely crown the three armies and be loyal to the king, defeat the soldiers and die against the will of the people!
The rest of the more than ten people who died were also buried around him to show his loyalty.As for the victims of the rebel army and the common people who were killed in the war for no reason, Zhang Shun also ordered them to be buried opposite to their cemetery to show that they went against the will of the people and there was a reason for their end.

In order to prevent the tombstone from being destroyed, Zhang Shun ordered ten families to grant [-] mu of land each to guard the tomb full-time to warn future generations.

After the matter was over, the morale affected by Wang Chengen's death revived.

Song Xiance couldn't help admiring Zhao Yutou in private: "The prosperity of the lord is really God's will. Many of his subordinates have surrendered, and many of them dare not talk about loyalty. If things go on like this to benefit and cooperate, it will not last long."

"Now the lord praises his loyalty and belittles his deeds of the disabled people. Both merits and demerits are divided, and everyone gets what they deserve. It can be called a good person!"

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