warring states careerist

Chapter 631
The messenger quickly conveyed the order, and the elite knights and cavalry were waiting on the two wings. When the horn sounded, they began to jog and maneuver towards the main road.

Those infantrymen who could ride horses could be regarded as light cavalry, and they would disperse in groups of one cavalry, and only wait for someone to escape from the city before chasing and killing them.

In the city, the two companies that boarded the camp first went through a tough battle at the beginning. After the first wave of Qi people's elite warriors were suppressed by the muskets at the top of the city, the Qi people's final counterattack was ineffective.

After crossing the top of the city, the two companies gathered their soldiers and began to follow the direction they had arranged before, regardless of the musketeers and spearmen who were impossible to keep up with, and drove the unsuccessful Qi army to rush into the city.

If you encounter a small group of enemies, you will rush to kill them, and if there are a little more, you will throw iron mines to blow up the formation before charging.

A small gap, in fact, there are only a thousand people on the front of the two sides fighting, but once the gap is broken, the entire Pingyang City will actually be unable to defend.

No matter how many people there are, it is only on paper, and the Qi army cannot organize a small-scale mass resistance.

The doctor who guarded the city did not run away. He knew that it was meaningless to run at this time. He would definitely be captured by the Mohist cavalry. When he saw the Mohist musketeers climbing up the city wall and the Mohist strange flag raised, I knew that Pingyang City could not be defended.

Surrounded by dead warriors and warriors, he waved his hands and said: "I have tried my best, don't resist anymore, it will only increase casualties."

He did not participate in the massacre in Wucheng, nor was he a nobleman in Feidi, and he knew that he would not be involved in the Mo family's trial, so he was not afraid.

Being captured by the Mohist family, you have to be released anyway. It's okay to be caught, at most you can spend some money and cattle and horses to redeem yourself.

When Hua Yuan was captured, he used [-] Wen horses. He estimated that [-] or [-] horses would be enough to redeem him, and he didn’t need the monarch to pay him.

If he escapes, the dead soldiers and private relatives around him will suffer many casualties, which will damage the foundation of his family in the future, so it is better to be captured first and wait for the future.

What's more, there are too many nobles captured in Qi State this time, and they will not cut their fiefdoms because of this. If the prince dares to do this, those nobles who are released after being captured will definitely drive away the prince and support a better one. For a more polite son.

He knew that when he fought against the Mohists, flying the white flag was considered a surrender.

The people around him found a piece of white cloth, held it up high, and signaled their surrender.

After Shi entered the city in the afternoon, the doctor saw Shi, and the first sentence he said was: "I am a Qi person, a doctor of one side, and I should be resourceful for Qi people. Since the city has been broken, the gap cannot be regained, and Pingyang has nothing to defend." , if the fight continues, it will only increase the casualties of Qi people, so please surrender."

"I hope that your army will not plunder and slaughter, do not hurt the people of Qi, and do not invade and surrender. I have been entrusted by Qi for many generations, and I cannot defeat the enemy. Weakness. I can't survive, I hope you don't plunder and slaughter, and hurt the soldiers..."

I don't know about the small tricks on the opposite side. The Mohists, under the banner of righteous teachers, don't kill or massacre. Everyone knows it. How can there be any need to say these things?

Needless to say, if you really want to die, you can die long ago, why wait until now?

But he didn't say anything, just solemnly said: "The surrender of the general is not because of disloyalty or disbelief. In the past, Qu Dang said: You start with this, and you must end with it. Tianwu slaughtered Wucheng. Could such a disaster not happen?" Did it fall on the head of the Qi people? He is the son of the Qi people, but he planted such a disaster for the Qi people, this must be punished."

"And you defended the city, which made me attack for three days. When I fought with the King of Yue, the city was destroyed in just one day. You have defended it very well, which is worthy of praise."

"And you asked to surrender in order to prevent the casualties of the Qi people. This is the loyalty to the people of Qi and the trust in tens of thousands of soldiers."

"An ancient saying: Dao means being loyal to the people and trusting the gods. When you think about benefiting the people, you are loyal; when you wish Shi Zhengci, you are trustworthy. If you think about benefiting the people, aren't you loyal?"

""Tai Oath" said: What the people want, the sky will follow. Qi people are willing to die in an unjust war? In the past, Qi Huan defeated the inhumane and tyrannical Shanrong for the righteousness of the Xia. .Now that Qi is unjustly attacking expenses, the army is resentful, and the people are determined, please surrender so that the soldiers will not be killed or injured, and Pingyang will be saved from war. This is a democracy that obeys the will of the sky and obeys the gods."

Appropriately and decisively, he gave the nobleman a big step down. Anyway, the winner can reason, and the doctor's face softened a little.

What he said was for the sake of rectification, mainly to remind Shi: the massacre of Wucheng had nothing to do with him. The first thing he did when he surrendered was to ask Shi not to slaughter and plunder. How could he do the massacre of Wucheng? What about something like that?
Shi also gave enough steps, using the explanation of "Shangsi Limin, Zhongye; I wish Shizhengci, Xinye." Proved that he was not loyal, and then said that people like Gong Ziwu were the masterminds who would die, Those of you who did not participate, as long as you surrender, you will not only be innocent, but you will also do what God wants, and you will be meritorious.

As for saying that three days is enough for him to stay on guard, these words sounded very pleasing to Doctor Na Qi, and he felt a little complacent in his heart.

In terms of etiquette, after the Goujian Xuzhou League, the Yue State was regarded as a "Marquis" in the Central Plains system. The title of king was only a priesthood in the local culture, not a title in the system. In name, it was a formal Marquis in the Huaxia system. It doesn't matter what you call yourself behind closed doors.

King Yi of Yue fought with Shi and was captured in one day. During the battle, most of the cities were captured within one or two days. It is extremely rare for him to be able to defend for three days.

When Qi Huan conquered mangosteen, the Marquis of Yan sent them out of the country to thank Qi Huan.Qi Huan said that he and the Marquis of Yan were both princes at the same level, and it would be against the etiquette to say that Marquis Yan was sent out of the country. The gift of China.

The etiquette system is still in the background of the nobles, and it is applicable to compare the time of the battle with the King of Yue and the siege of Pingyang. One is to say that the means of attacking the city are really powerful, and you have defended it for three days. According to the rules, Lilly gives the other party a step down, and even someone with a higher rank than you can't hold it for three days. You don't have to blame yourself if you keep it for three days.

The nobleman was praised and sure that he would not be implicated in the massacre of Wucheng. He was overjoyed in his heart, but his face showed hesitation for a long time, and then he said: "Your words make sense."

So he didn't die, and Shi also took this opportunity to say that in order to prevent them from committing suicide, all the swords were taken off, and those soldiers with swords who never left their bodies had to obey orders.

After these people were escorted away, the results of the battle have been counted. The Mohist side suffered about [-] casualties, and the Qi State side suffered [-] casualties. It is because he wants to learn from Yu Rang to swallow charcoal and paint himself in order to find an opportunity to instigate riots.

Shi said: "Then check it out. I'd rather miss it than let it go. We still have to win the decisive battle in the city. We can't leave too many people. The nobles and the common people are held separately."

Everyone is already familiar with the screening.

Just look at a few points.

The length of the nails, the callus of the thumb, etc., such things as bad running, will not appear among these nobles.

At this time, the nobles basically had bamboo slips in their left hands and longbows in their right hands, which existed as a solid force for the feudal system.

The length of the nails and whether there is black mud can distinguish common people from nobles.

The calluses left by the thumb when drawing the bow and the thick thumb that has been trained since childhood are also good ways to distinguish nobles and commoners.

Besides, there are many other means, so the officers asked, "What about after screening?"

Shi thought for a while and said: "We need to go to Yingyi immediately with the whole team. Gongzaoye will soon capture Dongmou, and the encirclement has been completed."

"There are still [-] Qi troops in Yingyi. Excluding the soldiers who accompany the army, there are at least [-] troops ready to fight. We need to go all out, and we can't leave too many troops in Pingyang."

"How about this……"

He smiled and said: "Ask the captured Qi people to demolish Pingyang City. The city wall is dug up, the city gate is removed, and a brigade is left to guard the prisoners and maintain order. All the rest will go to Yingyi. "

"As long as the city is demolished, even if the Linzi army is defeated and fled, they can't choose Pingyang, they can only run around, and it will be easy to catch when the time comes."

"Since Tian Wu is under the city of Yingyi, the elite private soldiers in his hands are reluctant to use them to fight to the death. They must escape. Try not to let him escape to a place where he can hold on. He lives from the dead, and those who bear the blood debt If a person really resists, the loss will be great."

The officers got the order, and Shi said again: "Hurry up and fix it. The people and soldiers of the Xuanyi Department made it clear that they must fight continuously, so that casualties can be reduced and victory can be won. After the battle under the city of Yingyi, captured Tian Wu, the whole army has a dinner, and the battle of alignment is over."

He still thought that Tian Wu was under the city of Yingyi, so once Pingyang was broken, he needed to go to Yingyi for a decisive battle immediately.

Dongmou has not yet been captured, because there are few people in Gongzaye, and most of the guards in Dongmou are nobles with blood debts in Feidi, but it is not suitable to support Gongzaye.

Because if Dongmou is defeated first, and Pingyang is also defeated, I am afraid that the Qi army under Yingyi will break through to the east regardless, and his own army will not be in Liangfu and Pingyang, but in Dongmou, and there may be no hurry to stop it.What's more, I heard news from Yingyi that the Qi army has also started digging holes. Although the efficiency is slow, it must be guarded against.

It was determined that Gongzaoye was enough to capture Dongmou, and there was also news from Gongzaoye that although there was a deadly resistance, the city could be broken within three to five days at most.

That being the case, the final battle of the alignment, I feel that I have everything under control.

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In a small town to the east of Dongmou, Tian Wu in disguise is still waiting quietly. The news of Pingyang's destruction is expected, but he didn't expect it to be destroyed so quickly.

Compared with Pingyang, which quickly broke through the city, Dongmou's defense can last for a few more days.

One is that the Ministry of Public Works is a partial division, with few guns, and the elite engineering troops of the Mohist School are all in the appropriate army.

The second is that many of the nobles guarding Dongmou are the nobles of the Fei Kingdom. The news of the Mohism’s issuance of the Injustice Order was too early, so these nobles had to resist stubbornly and had no intention of surrendering: they were all dead anyway, and those of the Fei Kingdom It is impossible for the national volunteers to let them live, and a battle to the death is inevitable.

For those in Yingyi, the elite in Gongziwu's hands was to guard Dongmou and prevent the public from building the Ministry of Metallurgy and suitable soldiers.But in fact, he didn't go to Dongmou at all, but chose to wait in a small town. Gong Zaoye didn't have many soldiers in his hands, so he couldn't choose to attack two cities at the same time.

Tian Wu didn't move for a long time, but only sent some local defenders to support Dong Mou symbolically, so that Gong Zaoye was unsuspecting.

The distance between this place and Dongmou and Pingyang is only [-] to [-] miles. As soon as the news of Pingyang's destruction came, the cronies around were a little panicked.

"The siege is suitable for the high means of attacking the city, and it is indeed difficult to defeat. Winning is also difficult to attack. Now that Pingyang is destroyed, the son should go."

Tian Wu said, "No hurry. If I leave now, Kai Zhishi and Gong Zaoye will definitely become suspicious. I will stand still now, and they will only think that I am under the city of Yingyi."

"When is the right time to pull the army to Yingyi, it's time to escape. Everything is under control."

"I've known for a long time that Pingyang City won't last for a few days, but I also know that Dongmou can defend for a longer period of time, but it's not impossible to attack. If you are in the right place, what would you do?"

The confidant thought for a while, and quickly bowed to him: "Young master has a good plan. Since Dong Mou can last longer, the army of Gongzaoye will not be able to pursue us. Since Pingyang was broken early, and Dong Mou has no choice but to attack, Kai Zhishi will definitely return. Let's rescue Yingyi first, and then as long as the Ministry of Public Works and Metallurgy can capture Dongmou within five or six days, it will be able to block the way for our army to flee."

"If he takes Pingyang but goes to support Dongmou, and he is afraid that our troops under Yingyi will flee in panic, so he must go to Yingyi immediately after taking Pingyang."

"However, he moved to Pingyang for a decisive battle, so he couldn't move in a hurry. It would take at least two or three days. After approaching, he had to set up camp and recuperate, which would take another day. Although he was good at using troops in the decisive battle, it took a day to solve the problem. .”

Tian Wu laughed and said, "That's exactly what it means. We will cross the Yishui River when we are ready to move our troops to win the battle. By then, Gongzaoye will be able to break the city and be unable to pursue it. It's a hard fight in Yingyi, and we'll catch up here after the fight, we've been walking for five days, how can he catch up?"

"Even if Gong Zaoye finds out that the situation is wrong and guesses something, can he leave Dong Mou, who is about to capture him, and let the whole army come after me?"

"Don't worry, just wait for two days. Everything is under my control."

(End of this chapter)