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Chapter 445 After the War (1)

Zhang Dun stared at the old man who was carried in front of him.

Under the gray beard and hair, there is a skinny old face, with a pair of eyes looking at everything around him blankly. The armor he wears has proved his identity in the Cochin Army.

"Is this the pseudo-captain Li Changjie?" Zhang Dun asked.

Di Yong replied: "I have informed my husband that the last general has brought several Jiaozhi generals to see it, and it is confirmed that this thief is the Jiaozhi Puppet Commander, and the leader of the thieves is Li Changjie!"

Zhang Dun slowly clenched his fists and forced himself to calm down.

Li Changjie!
  A name that the late emperor once deeply hated.

He is also the person that today's officials want by name.

Now, he is in his own hands!
  This is great work!

The only one who can surpass this achievement is to capture Shenglong Mansion and destroy Jiaozhi.

"Detain him, keep him alive, don't let him die!"

This person can't be killed like this.

He must be taken back to Yongzhou City, cut into pieces with a thousand knives, and use his flesh and blood to pay tribute to the soldiers and civilians of Yongzhou who died ten years ago!
  Not only that, his head will also be sent to Qinzhou, Lianzhou, Silangzhou, Guangyuanzhou, Menzhou and other places for display.

Finally, it was sent to Bianjing and the Ancestral Temple, where it was displayed in front of the late emperor's spirit to comfort the late emperor.

This is how Li Changjie was dealt with in the booklet given to him by the officials.

No matter life or death, this is the way to go.

Preferably alive.

Now, Li Changjie fell into his hands alive.

The tasks assigned by the officials were fulfilled!

"No!" Di Yong bowed and bowed again.

Then there were followers on the left and right, who took Li Changjie down.

When Di Yong also retreated, Zhang Dun let out a deep breath.

Now, he has only one last task left in Guangxi - to force Jiaozhi to surrender and sign a peace treaty.

……

Li Changxian leaned against the rocks on one side of the gorge, panting. At this time, there were only less than [-] defeated soldiers left beside him.

Others may have died on the way to escape, or they may have fallen behind early.

no way!
  The main force was defeated too quickly.

As a result, not long after his side took action, the Chinese army was completely defeated.

The Song Army cavalry quickly entered the battlefield and began to pursue.

But it was precisely because of this that he was given the opportunity.

The chaotic battlefield allowed him to seize the opportunity.

Three thousand soldiers formed a fist and opened a breach.

Then he quickly got through.

In the process, they paid some costs, but they were still within acceptable limits.

But soon, Li Changxian and his troops discovered that the breakout was just the beginning.

For fear of being overtaken by Song cavalry, Li Changxian's troops took off all their armor immediately after breaking through.

Many people even lost their weapons.

More than two thousand people ran southward along the rugged mountain road in no order.

They soon discovered that they were very wrong.

First of all, the rugged mountain roads, complex terrain, and unfamiliar environment made them lose their direction quickly.

In the forest on both sides of the mountain road, a group of thirty or fifty archers would appear from time to time. These archers would always lie in ambush on both sides of the mountain road, shooting cold arrows at Li Changxian's troops from a high position.

Li Changxian had no choice.

In order to escape for his life, he could only rush forward desperately.

So, two or three hours.

Li Changxian's army only has a few people left around him.

At this time, the sun began to set in the west, and it would soon be evening.

Li Changxian and his troops were thirsty and hungry, and the little meat they had eaten in the morning had been completely digested.

The dry food he carried with him had been lost somewhere along the way.

Everyone was disheveled and in a miserable state, their physical strength was almost exhausted, and everyone's calves were cramping.

So, when they ran along the mountain road to this gorge, no one wanted to run anymore.

Only at this moment did Li Changxian understand why breaking out of encirclement has always been a taboo for the army since ancient times.

Because the danger not only comes from the process of breaking through, but also on the road after the breakthrough.

The enemy only needs a little pursuit, even if there are only a few dozen people, to completely collapse a large army in the process of escaping.

And human physical strength is limited.

Even if there are hundreds of people like them who have exhausted their physical strength, as long as there are thirty or fifty pursuers, it is enough to kill them all!

Thinking like this, Li Changxian licked his dry lips and managed to support his body.

"We have traveled dozens of miles!" Li Changxian said: "In another few dozen miles, we can see the Furian River."

"Everyone, please work harder. We will be safe if we reach the Furiang River before dawn tomorrow."

But no one responded to him.

Everyone was like a puddle of mud, motionless in place.

They had run to exhaustion.

Now, my body is getting cold, my stomach is hungry, and my legs are shaking.

No one wants to move anymore.

As for the pursuers?

If you can catch it, catch it.

Tired, destroy it!

This is what all soldiers are thinking.

They even begin to think that they shouldn't have run in the first place.

Isn't it better to just surrender where you are?
  Li Changxian looked at these soldiers who had completely lost their fighting spirit and will, and he also sighed.

So, he no longer paid attention to these people, he leaned on the sword in his hand, dragged his tired body, and staggered towards the south.

He still has a mission!
  His elder brother risked his life to get him a mission to return to Shenglong Mansion and warn the government and the opposition.

For the survival of Dai Viet, he must complete this mission.

Seeing Li Changxian's appearance, a dozen soldiers who had been following Li Changxian for several years also propped up their bodies and followed him silently.

The others were lying there, watching these people motionless. There was no wavering in their eyes.

Li Changxian slowly walked out of the long and narrow mountain road.

Then, he saw, on the other side of the mountain road, beside a stream, hundreds of Song Army soldiers wearing Fan Yangli, sitting on the grass in front of the stream, waiting for them quietly.

Li Changxian sighed.

He looked at the Song Army soldiers.

He knew that these people might have been waiting for him here for a long time.

I have even been waiting for him here for a long time.

The soldiers around him dropped their weapons one after another when they saw this scene.

Li Changxian smiled bitterly and faced the south, in the direction of the Fuliang River.

He knelt down and bowed solemnly three times.

"Your Majesty, the guilty minister has failed your Majesty's great trust!"

So, he pulled out the sword in his hand, aimed at the neck and cut hard, and blood spurted out.

……

Tian Shiru stood quietly by the stream, watching the Jiaozhi general commit suicide facing south.

He didn't intervene, just watched quietly.

The military minister was defeated and committed suicide. In Tian Shiru's eyes, this was the dignity a military minister should have.

He should be allowed to end his life with dignity.

It wasn't until the opponent's body fell to the ground that Tian Shiru waved his hand gently, and his Sizhou soldiers immediately crossed the shallow stream.

Their feet were tied with leggings and were wet by the cold stream water.

Tian Shiru watched quietly, but his heart was full of emotions.

Sizhou soldiers are mountain soldiers who are good at climbing mountains and ridges.

Now, with the blessing of leggings, Sizhou soldiers can walk over mountains and ridges as if they were walking on flat ground.

So, just a few hundred people pursued them and got ahead, cutting off the Cochin people's way of life.

Along the way, he had shot and captured at least a thousand Cochin soldiers.

And the loss to itself is minimal.

And most of them were non-combat losses-after breaking through, these Cochin people just wanted to run forward.

They organized no resistance at all.

Just run south.

……

After dusk, the battlefield began to calm down.

The Song Army cavalry patrolled the messy battlefield.

There were corpses everywhere.

Most of them died due to various accidents during the escape.

The heads of these corpses have been chopped off.

The Song army was happily counting the number of beheadings in each department.

These are all money!

And in the distance, there was the former Jiaozhi Camp.

It has now been turned into a ready-made prisoner of war camp.

The Cochin prisoners are now sitting in these camps very obediently.

Everyone had their heads drooped, dejected.

They are lucky!

In the past, almost none of these people could have escaped the fate of Song Jun's sword.

Because only dead people's heads can be exchanged for money.

But now, these people are worth even more than they turned into heads.

They are all young and strong, and they are all powerful adults.

The chieftains were beaming with joy.

It is said that many chieftains have prepared gold and silver, waiting to buy these prisoners.

……

In the afternoon after the battle, Zhang Dun escorted Li Changjie back north under the escort of Yan Chen's Yu Longzhi.

He entrusted all other matters to Di Yong.

The reason why Zhang Dun left in such a hurry was because Gao Zunhui and Lu Jiawen had openly sold out the captured Jiaozhi prisoners of war.

For a strong man under the age of [-] with no disability, every bid is more than five guan!
  Those over thirty years old, or those with disabilities are sold in packages.

Gao Zunhui is a maternal relative, who is inherently greedy and shameless.

Although Lu Jiawen was a civil servant, his reputation had long been tarnished during the implementation of the Municipal Change Law.

His assignment as the so-called Youjiang pacifier had a nice name, but it was actually equivalent to exile.

I think back then, Teng Zijing just went to Yuezhou to be the magistrate, which was considered a relegation.

Now, Lu Jiawen was transferred from Bianjing to Guangnan West Road in one go, taking charge of Zhujizhou in Youjiang.

In the officialdom, this is already derogatory and usurping Lingnan.

Therefore, it was okay for Lu Jia to ask shamelessly.

But Zhang Dun, Zhang Zihou, cannot bear the reputation of "just sitting back and watching people being treated as animals".

Therefore, I can only run away quickly and pretend not to know about this matter.

As long as you can't see it, you can pretend it doesn't exist.

Then no one can hold him accountable.

what?
  Are they buying and selling people?
  I do not know.

They must be hiding this from me!

As for you asking me whether I condemn it or not? I condemn.

However, Youjiang is the land of Jisi, a barbaric place. The local officials do not know benevolence and righteousness, and do not know the teachings of saints. This has been the case since ancient times.

Do you really want to take care of it? It is better to go to the local government in person!
  It perfectly solves all problems and avoids all moral responsibilities.

When Zhang Dun arrived in the evening, he received news that Guangyuan Prefecture had been captured by the Nong family. Yang Jingtong, the pseudo-prefect of Guangyuan Prefecture and governor of Cochin, burned himself to death, and gave birth to Yang Jingtong's wife, Li Xintai, the pseudo-princess of Cochin. There were more than a hundred people, and seven There is also news that Su Ziyuan led his troops to capture Yuanzhou two days ago.

So, Zhang Dun walked through Guangyuan Prefecture overnight and returned to Yongping Village without looking back.

(End of this chapter)