I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 157 Just ask, take responsibility! ?

It must be a harmful side to keep an army and let Chu State no longer support Fan's family.

What Liu Yang was worried about was that the Chu army was too miserable, but his own side did not suffer much.

This is a strategic point of view.

Therefore, in many cases, it is not the loss of one city or one place. War still serves politics after all.

Why did Zhiyao and Wei Ju want to let go of Liu Yang's troops?
Wei Ju must have had many considerations.First of all, the Wei family can reduce losses, and then the Fan family can continue to contain the Zhao family by preserving their strength, especially the fact that "Wen" is difficult to conquer.

As for whether Fan's will give Wei's position a hard blow later?The Wei family has basically achieved its strategic goals after the Zhi family introduced Shi Gaoyi, and the remaining ones can be accepted after the Fan family is really finished.

Zhiyao has more considerations here, leaving Fan's strength to contain Zhao's is just one of them, and what she wants most is that Fan's self-sufficiency in Chu State.

What's the meaning?There is no complicated connotation, it is nothing more than that Zhiyao doesn't want to expand the scale of the war, so Fan's family should take aim at each other with Zhao's, and Chu State should not go north to be stabbed by Wu State, and then Zhiyao can find Zheng Guosan with Wei's Play slowly.

Last year, Wu State had defeated Qi State. Not surprisingly, Fu Chai should have swelled to an extreme. He will start to look at Jin State and plan to go north to fight with Jin State. After winning the Jin army, the other countries will recognize their hegemony.

And Wu State has repeatedly defeated Chu State, and even captured "Ying" once. It really only needs to conquer Jin State to become the overlord.

Zhiyao didn't know when Wu's army would go north. What she wanted was that even if Wu's army went north, Chu would still have the power to attack Wu's internal emptiness.

To put it bluntly, Zhiyao does not want the Zhao family to continue to grow stronger, let alone Jin being reduced to a second-rate vassal state.

For this reason, Zhiyao began to prepare to contact Goujian, wanting to see if there was anything that could help the Yue country. Doing this was a kind of maintaining the stability of the international situation...or manipulation.

Therefore, Zhiyao will not only let go of the Fan's private army led by Liu Yang, but also want to make way for the rest of the Chu army who did not reach the battlefield to return to the country.

Zheng Jun?If they were joining forces with the Chu army, Zhiyao would let them go this time, and Zheng Jun would intercept them all the way.

Zhiyao has found the reason, they have already fought against the coalition forces twice and achieved good results, so it is nothing if they are unable to fight again.

What now depends on what choice Liu Yang makes.

Liu Yang found out that the Zhi family and the Wei family were fighting against heaven and man after they deliberately let them go. He really wanted to preserve the strength of the Fan family, but he had to consider Chu's feelings.

In the end, Liu Yang gritted his teeth and shouted, "Attack!"

The Fan's private army who got the order depends on whether they have noticed Zhi's and Wei's intentions in advance. If they are aware of it, they may think that they have to go all out when they have a chance to leave.

"Suicide!" Wei Ju was furious.

Zhiyao sighed in a low voice, and instructed the messenger: "Wave the flag and order our army to join the attack."

This is an era when he can die in order to protect the family. Liu Yang's choice is to take into account the overall situation of the Fan family, or he believes that winning the support of Chu State is far more important than keeping a "teacher" under his command.

Of course, the war has not yet come to a final result. Maybe Liu Yang can command Fan's private army and the remaining Chu army to make a comeback against the wind?
However, speaking of facts and reasoning, the [-] allied forces were defeated, leaving about [-] Fan's private army and about [-] still resisting Chu army, plus their morale has been lost, how can we win? ?
About three quarters of an hour later, Liu Yang raised his eyes and saw that there were soldiers from the Zhi family and the Wei family all around him, and there were less than [-] of his own people around him. He looked up at the sun in the west.

Under the option of surrender or die, most of the Chu army chose to surrender, and a small number of Fan soldiers also surrendered.

"Do you want to step forward?" Wei Ju thought in his heart that Liu Yang didn't know how to flatter him.

Zhiyao didn't know whether to admire Liu Yang's sacrifice for the overall interests of the Fan family.

He must be a noble person who does not hesitate to sacrifice for the country.

Now is an era when the family is the first to consider the interests of the country. If the nobles know that Liu Yang sacrificed for the Fan family, they will appreciate it without thinking about it. As for whether it is noble or not, it depends on how you look at it.

"Don't use it to go forward. Retract your troops." Zhiyao didn't want to kill Liu Yang, not even interested in taking prisoners.

Wei Ju thought for a while, nodded his head as a repeater, and said, "Retreat."

Naturally, someone will pass on the order.

The soldiers of the Zhi family and the soldiers of the Wei family who received the order had different reactions.

When Zhi's soldiers learned that they were going to retreat, what they did was to harvest the heads, which made the Wei's soldiers' cheeks twitch.

"The Zhi family may become a public enemy!" Of course Liu Yang also saw what the Zhi family's soldiers were doing.

The soldiers from the Zhi clan would not only cut off the heads of the Chu army, but it would be impossible to let go of the heads of the Fan soldiers. If there were no officers staring at them, they might even frantically harvest the heads of the soldiers who died in the battle.

This is the disadvantage of judging military merit based on the head. As long as it can be exchanged for military merit, it doesn't matter who the head is cut off at all.
What can Zhiyao do?Stop your own soldiers from harvesting heads?
He can have some restrictions, but he can't completely stop them, or he is going against the "new law" he formulated.

"Yao, is this..." Wei Ju felt that what the soldiers of the Zhi family did was too cruel.

Yes, very cruel indeed.

However, sometimes cruelty is necessary.

Zhiyao was recalling how Shang Yang answered such a question, but the terrible thing was that she couldn't find the relevant memory in her mind.

"Happy after hearing the war, nothing else." Zhiyao shook her head as she spoke, and then continued: "What will happen in the future, let's see."

At this moment, Zigong came over and whispered in Zhiyao's ear, "Nobody found the dead son Lu."

Gong Zilu approached 50 meters in front of the Jin army, and was trampled to death at a position about 120 meters closer to the Jin army.

At that time, the Jin army launched an attack after Gong Zilu's death, and the Chu people had no chance to recover Gong Zilu's body.

Can't find Gong Zilu's body now?Considering the advance of the army, people's big feet, horseshoes trampling and chariots running over repeatedly, this...wouldn't be a meat paste, would it?
In the distance, Liu Yang was shouting loudly: "Heaven!!!"

Lost, but people from the Zhi family and the Wei family didn't respond at all. Is it kindness or humiliation?
Zhiyao and Wei Ju turned their heads to look, and the people nearby were also attracted by Liu Yang's shouts.

Standing on the chariot, Liu Yang looked up at the sky again, and scanned the battlefield again after just a glance.

On the battlefield at this moment, the soldiers of the Zhi clan were busy beheading people, and at the same time the auxiliary soldiers from the Zhi clan and the Wei clan had already entered the field to clean up the battlefield.

The surrendered coalition soldiers, depending on who captured them, will be escorted by which side.

Liu Yang didn't say a word like "I am today, I will end up in the future", and looked at the world with nostalgic eyes for the last time, and cut himself with a horizontal sword.

No, just now was not the last time Liu Yang looked at the world.

Smearing the neck and cutting the carotid artery will not kill people immediately. It requires a process of massive bleeding, and then they can die due to excessive blood loss, or the trachea is blocked by blood and suffocated. The process may take thirty breaths or longer.

Liu Yang fell to the ground and kept looking at the sky, and finally died without closing his eyes.

Also, it is important to know that tongue biting is not self-killing and that it hurts, very painful!
After Liu Yang committed suicide, the remaining [-] or so members of the Fan family looked at each other with acquaintances, and committed suicide one after another.

At this time, Zhiyao needs to say a word: "If you want to restrain yourself, hand it over to Shi Gaoyi."

Of course Shi Gaoyi was not on the battlefield, he was busy dealing with the follow-up in his fief.

Because the Zhi family and the Wei family are willing to give Shi Gaoyi part of the inheritance of the Fan family, the new Fan family is likely to become a family with the same strength as the Xie family.

To be more specific, Shigao Yihui is a middle-level nobleman with one "capital", three "towns", and no less than thirty "states". It may have more troops than the Xie family, reaching a "division". .

The price Shigaoyi paid was that most of the Fan family collapsed, and for a long time, Fan was no longer named as his family, but was renamed Fangaoyi.

The political cost?Fan Gaoyi needs to follow the lead of the Wei family in the future, in the interior...

Night falls.

On the battlefield, there were still Zhi and Wei's auxiliary soldiers clearing the battlefield with torches.

This time, they will not only collect useful and useless things, but also bury the remains of the war dead on both sides.

After the big victory, Zhiyao and Wei Ju are in the same military tent, and the two have to discuss whether to withdraw their troops.

Wei Ju might still be brooding over Zhi's brutality, and wanted to bring it up again and again when facing Zhiyao, but then forced himself to hold back again and again.

Families have always been non-interfering in each other's internal affairs. Interfering is tantamount to trying to misbehave. It is quite normal for a family that has been interfered to have the strength to choose to turn its face immediately.

"Report to 'Yuan Rong' first, and then withdraw the troops?" Wei Ju fully understood, but still asked questions.

"Exactly." Zhiyao replied first, and then said: "Our army has arrived in Wen' for several days, and has fought against the enemy successively. There have been changes in the Zheng army and Chu army on the south bank of the river. Given the current situation, it is possible to retreat. .”

In fact, Zhiyao wanted to fight halfway across the river, but after continuous battles, it was time for the army to rest.

It's okay to not take a break, but it will be the next victory or the situation that one's own organization may be abolished.

The Zhi clan's new army will lose its personnel every time it participates in the war, and it will be difficult to get accurate statistics on the casualties for a while.

The rest of Zhi's troops suffered close to four or five thousand casualties, and the number of casualties would not be less than one thousand.

Compared with the results obtained, it is calculated that [-] heads were captured and more than [-] prisoners were captured.

What's going on at Wei's side?Zhiyao is paying attention, but the data will be more vague, and she doesn't know how many prisoners Wei has captured.

Wei Ju was very hesitant and said, "What if 'Yuan Rong' refuses?"

Zhiyao looked at Wei Ju quietly and didn't speak.

The two families have already received excessive taxes, which is tantamount to saying that they are harming their own families and caring about the interests of the country.

Based on the three views of this era, most nobles would not appreciate the Zhi family and the Wei family, but would only laugh at the stupidity of the two families.

Now that the Wei family has taken advantage of it, do you still want to take no responsibility at all?What are you thinking!

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