Chapter 95 Entering the city
It was finally bright, and the people who had been waiting for the night began to receive the sunlight and felt warm. As time passed, Yao Duan began to send the deployment to report the information outside the city. Important strongholds had been taken down by the Song army, and those who could walk by themselves helped them walk out of the city, and returned to the military camp for treatment.
Waiting for noon, the spring cold of last night was gone, and the hot sunlight shone on people. The generals with armor and stomach began to feel hot, and dripping sweat came out of their vests.
The shouts of killing in the city had already stopped, and the soldiers who reported the victory were one after another, but they were always unable to completely eliminate the remaining enemies. Everyone was anxious, but they saw a knight in red robe and armor rushing towards him. When they saw Guo Hao, they rolled up and dismounted, clasped their fists and said, "According to General Yao, report to General Guo and all the generals, the enemy troops in the city have been completely eliminated, the enemy general Wanyan Jiujin was given the head, and hundreds of Han troops surrendered."
"good!"
Guo Hao looked happy and asked the officer: "How many Jin soldiers surrendered, where is General Yao now?"
"I don't know about this last general. General Yao is now discontinuing military affairs in the prefect's office in the city's central government office. Because he is afraid of recurrence in the city, he asked General Guo and the generals to come to the city to meet him."
Seeing that he didn't know the truth, Guo Hao stopped asking, and just smiled at the rest of the people, "In this way, let's go into the city to find him."
Everyone was anxious to wait. Yao Duan came to ask for it at this time, and the city must have made great contributions. At that time, Guo Hao took the lead in front, with more than a hundred personal soldiers scattered in guards, and the rest of Zhang Xian was behind, and Lu Yongzhong and others followed closely. Everyone followed the officer and went to the city together.
Taiyuan City suffered a great disaster four years ago, and the city was burned by fire. After the Jin soldiers occupied Taiyuan, they knew that this place was important and sent people to rebuild it. However, the Jin Dynasty had financial difficulties and was not enough to use it to raise soldiers. It was also a lot of money to worship the upper nobles. There was no money to spend in Taiyuan City. A group of Song generals led their troops into the city. Many of them had arrived here two years ago. At this time, the process showed that the streets were dilapidated and simple. Apart from the smoke and fire that siege last night, the damage was not very big, but it was already a miserable situation, which made people feel sad.
The people in groups of three or three also knew that the war in the city had stopped and began to stand on the roadside. Seeing Guo Hao and others coming in a furious manner, they bowed and bowed one by one.
Zhang Xian looked at the many people and saw that they were dressed in tatters and looked haggard. When he thought of Zhang Xiaochun's words last night, he felt sad. He waved his own soldiers and ordered: "You go back to the camp first and order the military officers to make more steamed buns. You should make a big slump, then cook some rice porridge and give alms to various parts of the city."
"Good!"
His personal soldiers were poor and had long been unable to stand the situation in front of him. He immediately agreed, turned his horse's head and ran towards the military camp outside the city.
Zhang Xiaochun was riding a horse beside Zhang Xian. He heard it sincerely and couldn't help but put his palms together, saying, "The general loves the people as much as his son. If you have such a good idea, God will bless him."
"Adults also believe in gods and Buddhas?" Zhang Xian shook his head and smiled, and replied: "We are the generals who are licking blood on their heads every day, and they are doing business that harms the world and kills people and robs. It is best to become famous immediately and die immediately, which is better than to die in old age and sick bed!"
Seeing Zhang Xiaochun being stunned, Zhang Xian laughed and said, "How can a real man die of old age in bed?"
The two of them were talking lively. Although most of the others were military generals, they only felt that Zhang Xian’s topic was ominous, and they only smiled and shook their heads, not willing to accept his words. Only Guo Hao turned around and smiled at Zhang Xian and said, "It is exactly what I want to die of old age in bed."
At this time, Taiyuan City was at everyone's feet, and a hard-headed nail was removed. Everyone was in a relaxed and happy mood, and there was no grudge after talking and laughing.
I arrived at the government office in Decheng for a while. The situation in Hedong was different from other places. Taiyuan was under the jurisdiction of the government office and the structure was relatively large. The Xuanfu Envoy of Hedong Road was also in the same office as the prefect. This government office was huge in scale. Except for the main entrance that seemed to have been burned and blackened, the rest were intact. Guo Hao led everyone to the front of the Deyuan office. The blood stains of the body seemed to have just been cleaned, and the water stains on the green brick floor were still there, and the bloody smell was still clearly heard.
Yao Duanjia's stomach has been removed. He sat in front of the Yimen Gindao and asked his personal soldiers to bandage the wound. Seeing that the general manager came, he asked someone to tie the cloth head up, and then he didn't dress. He strode outside the door and said, "The general manager has met General Manager Guo, but he did not ask for instructions last night to act rashly. It was all Yao's suggestion. If the general manager blames him, he will be fully responsible."
He fought very easily. When everything was done, his mind was more detailed than Zhang Xian. He knew that this matter could be big or small, and what Guo Hao wanted was nothing more than face. So when he saw the general manager, he apologized for the crime and took all the blame on himself.
"No need to say this again. The two generals made big mistakes first and then made great contributions. How to deal with it is the business of Your Majesty and the Shufu. I will report it according to the truth."
Guo Hao was in a good mood at this time and did not want to tell Yao Duanzhe. He immediately waved his hand and smiled, revealing this.
But seeing Yao Duan's upper body tilted with white cloth, a smell of medicine, sweat, and smell of smell of odor came to his nose, he couldn't help asking: "As a general in command, do you still have to change your temper back then? Why did you get injured?"
Yao Duan didn't care. He bowed to Zhang Jun first, then nodded and smiled at Zhang Xiaochun and others, and then put on his clothes, answered: "Last night, the golden dog was like crazy. When I saw my cavalry rushed forward, I didn't dodge or avoid it and turned around to fight. The cavalry could not be used on the street, and the Taiyuan street was as chaotic as a ghost. I was about to become a tangled situation, so I rushed forward in a hurry. After killing a few, my brothers' morale came up and slashed and killed each other. It was so refreshing. Before you came, I had already ordered the streets to clean up and collect dead bodies, otherwise the bloody heads would be too ugly."
Guo Hao was still dissatisfied after he finished speaking, but he couldn't teach a lesson. As a general in command, he often led hundreds of people to attack the enemy. Sometimes the army fought with a momentum, and the main generals were all bare-handed. What else could the soldiers say?
Immediately shook my head and smiled, saying, "It's better to capture Taiyuan later than to take risks with you."
Seeing that Yao Duanhun didn't take it seriously, he looked like the spring breeze was passing by, and he didn't care, so he said again:
"Wanyan Jiujin is also a general. Now that he is dead, his head will naturally be submitted to Chang'an. If the body is buried, the rest of the dead Jin soldiers dug a large pit and buried them. Now the weather is getting hot day by day, so you must not cause a plague. As for the people who died in the king's army, please record your names and have their own coffins in the army and be buried on the spot. In the future, the family members will be moved to bury them."
This is all the urgent matters after his victory. Everyone respects it. He is now proud of it, and his generals are ordered to go and handle it.
Guo Hao pondered again: "There are less than 10,000 people in the city, so it is not difficult to provide pensions. First, the military camp allocates grain and provide relief, and clothes and medicine can be allocated from the army. First, calm people's hearts. As for what the next step is, we will have our own government affairs hall to cook, so we don't have to pay attention to it."
Zhang Xian took a step forward and said with a smile: "I have ordered someone to handle this matter just now."
"good."
Guo Hao looked at Zhang Xian with satisfaction, then turned to ask Yao Duan: "I'm afraid there are still seven or eight thousand Jin soldiers in the city, and the rest of the sects come to report, beheading more than a thousand and capturing more than two thousand people. You are the main battlefield, so how to report the harvest in detail, I can report to Your Majesty and the two palaces."
"Beheading five thousand."
"ah?"
Guo Hao was first surprised, then nodded and said, "The savages who lead beasts to eat people will be killed and killed. There is no need to contain prisoners when fighting in the streets."
After hearing this, several generals behind him were eager to try. Gao Feng, the former commander of the former army of the Holy Sage, arrived at the ground a little early last night, and most of the prisoners were in his hands. He immediately stepped forward and asked for instructions: "Master General, it is better to deal with the prisoners together. How can we keep them to consume our military rations?"
Zhang Xiaochun was imprisoned and captured by the Jin people in recent years. He knew in his heart that the other party was not completely uncivilized savages. In fact, the political, military and economic system were already moving closer to the Song Dynasty. However, the two countries had extremely fierce fighting. If the Song army did not surrender, they would naturally be killed. The Song army did not use the Jin army as the army, so the prisoners were naturally killed. He wanted to speak, but he knew that his identity was awkward, so he just sighed secretly and endured.
Lu Yongzhong did not have as many ancient vigils as he did. After all, he was a literati and Jinshi. When he thought of thousands of people tied up there like chickens, he still sharpened his knife to kill him. He suddenly tightened his heart, and his forehead was sweating. He immediately stopped him and said: "Not to mention the ominous killing of prisoners, Han Shumi is now ordered to go on an envoy. Our army attacks Taiyuan in a certain situation, and the Jin people have nothing to say. If all the prisoners are killed and passed to Shangjing, how can Han Shumi welcome the emperor back?"
His words made the scholars full of enthusiasm, and everyone was silent. The Song and Jin countries fought with strength, and it makes sense that the fists in their hands are harder. The more painful the Jin people hit here, the harder the envoys in front of them. When Lu spoke Chinese words, even Zhang Jun showed contempt, and everyone said in his heart: "This man is really a fool."
It would be fine if he didn't say this. As soon as this was said, Guo Hao smiled and said, "It is politics for the two countries to talk about peace. We soldiers don't care. Since the prisoners are kept in the way, it is better to kill them with one knife. This is the case with the war between the two countries, what's the point of saying? Besides, there are ordinary soldiers here, and there are no relatives of the Wanyan tribe, so what if you kill them. There are very few Jurchens, kill one less, haha."
When the Lord General said this, everyone laughed. For a moment, they sent their personal soldiers to order the general to kill all the captured Jin soldiers.
Chapter completed!