Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 892
"Your Majesty, Yulin Guozi and Wang Xiaoji, the general who captured Tang Dongshou surrendered the city, are here to surrender."

In Yunzhong City, Li Junxian sent a piece of good news.

The Turkic people were trapped on the mountain, crying day and night.Jieli repeatedly sent people down the mountain to ask for peace, but Luo Cheng refused.The Qin army did not attack by force, but only dug trenches and built walls, besieging Xieli with deep ditches and barriers.

Now the Jieli army can't even get the corpses, so in the end they have to kill horses and eat meat.

Those Turkic people slaughtered their war horses with their own hands, crying while killing.While eating the meat, he held the horse meat and cried again.

The Qin army at the foot of the mountain was unmoved.

Back then, the Xiongnu besieged Han Gaozu Liu Bang here, and finally withdrew their troops and let Liu Bang go. It can be said that this was a major decision-making mistake, and Luo Cheng would not make it again.

"True surrender and false surrender?" Luo Cheng asked.

"Really down."

Guo Zihe was originally Zuo Yiwei in the Sui Dynasty, but later committed a crime and was exiled in Yulin County.At the end of Daye, there was a famine in the county, so Guo Hehe and 18 companions who were exiled and exiled captured the county magistrate, listed his crimes against the people, killed him, opened a warehouse to help the poor, and then recruited soldiers and bought horses. He called himself King Yongping and established a reign name. Change yuan.

Although he claimed to be king, he also named his younger brother Guo Zizheng as Minister of State, and Guo Ziduan and Guo Zihua were left and right servants. In fact, he established his own imperial court.

At the beginning, he had only two thousand cavalry, so he surrendered to Liang Shidu, and soon turned to Tang, and then turned to Turk as a minister.

Jieli Khan began to canonize him as Pingyang Khan, but he dared not accept it, so he changed it to Qulishe.

But soon after, Guo Zihe was defeated by Liang Shidu, so he asked Li Yuan for help, and was named the governor of Shengzhou.But it didn't take long for the general manager to do this, and the Hetao area of ​​the Tang Dynasty was completely conquered by Siye, and Chai Shao's [-] troops were almost wiped out, leaving only an army of more than [-] people in Dongshoujiang City to the north of the Yellow River in Shengzhou.

When Guo Zihe heard that Li Gui in Hexi had also surrendered to Qin, he joined forces with his heirs to attack Xiaoguan, and wanted to go straight to Chang'an.

On Daibei's side, Jieli was defeated one after another, and was eventually trapped in Baideng Mountain. The Qin army had even occupied the Pianguan Pass and reached the east bank of the Yellow River, across the river from Shengzhou.

Guo Zihe finally decided to surrender to Qin.

For him, Yulin was originally a barren land, where the land was poor and remote, the population was sparse, and its soldiers and horses were few and weak, so it was powerless to compete for the world.

Now seeing that Da Qin had already won the battle, he simply switched to Luo Cheng again.

He also knew that he was capricious, so he simply became cruel and sent troops to pretend to open the East Surrender City on the pretext of sending food to Wang Xiaoji. .

"This kind of grass-headed king in troubled times really has no manners or shame!" Xuan Ba ​​scolded.

Luo Cheng has long been used to it. Guo Zihe is similar to Li Gui. There is no lack of heroism in troubled times.But they don't have any great ideals or talents, so they can only rule in one place.

When the chaos in the world gradually dissipated, they were eager to seek refuge in the final winner, but because of their limited vision, they often made wrong bets, so they could only be capricious and cast their fortunes here and there.

Such people are untrustworthy, but for Daqin today, there are many such people, and accepting their surrender can save many things.

Of course, in order to prevent them from repeating themselves in the future, Luo Cheng thought that it was okay to accept their surrender, or give them official titles, but it was impossible to keep them where they were.

"Confess Guo Zihe as the founding marquis of Jinhe County, confer the title of General Zuo Xiaowei, and call him to accompany him in the court. Yulin civil and military officials will confer titles and official positions according to their positions and talents, and new positions will be awarded according to their talents."

For the former Guo Zihe Ministry, all its backbone and confidantes must be transferred away.

"Let Cheng Yaojin lead the troops to take over Yulin County and Dongshou Surrendered City, Guo Zihe's troops, select [-]% of the elite to join the army, and the rest will all be dismissed and returned to their hometowns, and given land for resettlement."

Guo Zihe wanted to stay in Yulin County, and even continue to lead his subordinates, but Luo Cheng could not agree to his request.

He can accept Guo Zihe's request to surrender, and he can also grant them official titles, but he will not let them stay where they are and continue to have soldiers and horses.

This is different from the situation in Lingnan. Ning Changzhen and others in Lingnan can temporarily serve as prefects after being attached to the imperial court and continue to command the troops, but not here.

Luo Cheng will not continue to give these military leaders a chance to separate themselves.

If you want to surrender, you must surrender with sincerity, otherwise, you will just wait to be wiped out. Luo Cheng has this strength and this domineering spirit.

He is not Li Yuan, who recruits surrenders and rebels everywhere, and then arbitrarily confers officials and titles, allowing those people to continue to retain their territory and have soldiers and horses. Li Yuan does not have that ability, but Luo Cheng does.

Cheng Yaojin led the elite Qin army and crossed the Yellow River with the emperor's will. After arriving in Yulin to announce the edict, Guo Zihe was not satisfied, but he dared not refuse. Finally, under Cheng Tijin's strong request, he had to hand in Send out troops and horses, and then go to Yunzhong County to meet the emperor with a group of backbones under the protection of the Qin army, and thank you for receiving the title.

Lao Cheng unceremoniously abolished all the rabble of Guo Zihe. In the end, only 2000 people were retained, and they were broken up and organized into various battalions under his command. The rest were sent back to their hometowns with a sum of money and food.

As for the Dongshoucheng Wang Xiaoqi and his Guanzhong soldiers who came from Guanzhong, Lao Cheng only selected a thousand, and the rest were all designated as the people in the Dongshoucheng's fields, and they were given land and farming.

The siege of Baideng Mountain continues.

But the emperor had already begun to adjust the deployment of the army. Cheng Yaojin led the army to take over Yulin County and Dongshou surrendered city, and then stationed in Wuyuan County, Hetao.

And Luo Siye was stationed in Lingwu County and Huining County, commanded the soldiers and horses of the two counties, and became the marching marshal of the [-] coalition army with Li Gui.

Xue Wanche was in charge of the defense of Dingxiang County and Wuchuan area, and organized his troops to cultivate fields on the spot.

Zhao Gui was in charge of Zhuojun and Huaihuang.

The Qin army is not only confined to the Yunzhong area, tens of 10 horses have begun to spread and stationed in the counties of northern Xinjiang. Although the soldiers from all walks of life have not yet begun to disband and return home, they have begun to defend while defending. The local army is self-sufficient.

Even the Qin army in the camp of Yunzhong County began to station troops in Yunzhong, Yanmen and other places.

Feng Xiaoci's troops, even after taking down Lingqiu, only left 5000 people to garrison Lingqiu, and then the remaining [-] troops retreated to the east of Taihang Mountain and stationed in Shanggu, Weibo, Hengshan, Zhaojun, and Xiangguo. county.

These adjustments have greatly reduced the logistics pressure on the Qin Army's Northern Expeditionary Army, but the pressure on Jieli, Li Yuan, and Dou Jiande has not diminished at all.

Jieli tried to break out of the siege several times, but was stopped by the deep ditch barriers of the Qin army at the foot of the mountain. He lost a lot of soldiers and horses, but returned in vain.Although there are springs on the mountain, the weather is getting colder and the Turkic horses are eating less and less.

If this continues, they will die of hunger and cold sooner or later.

"Your Majesty, Xieli requests to meet and talk with His Majesty at the foot of the mountain!"

"Who does Xieli think he is, so what qualifications do he have to meet with me? Tell Xieli, he has no other choice, either surrender directly or wait for death!" Luo Cheng snorted coldly.

Now Luo Cheng is not in a hurry. With the summer grain supply, Luo Cheng can fully support it until next spring, but Xieli cannot last until then.

Although he has a lot of horses, there is not much grass to eat on the mountain. His horses are rapidly decreasing. If he is trapped for a while, even if the Turkic horses have not finished eating, they will all starve to death, and they will no longer be able to gallop.

(End of this chapter)