Chapter 107 Slaughter

As for Shanxi, the situation is much more optimistic, because Xing Tianjun has a good foundation in the southwestern part of Shanxi, and even the reputation in the non-Chentian Army-controlled area is very good. Once Yan Chongxi starts to take action in Shanxi, it makes Shanxi officials unable to fight. After Pingyang Mansion was conquered by Yan Chongxi, Yan Chongxi stayed in some Renma Town. Guarding Pingyang Prefecture, he immediately began to go south and began to use troops in Jiangzhou, Xiezhou and other states and counties.

And these places have long been planted by the Xingtian Army, and they are ready to welcome the Xingtian Army in various places. As long as the front of the Xingtian Army points to it, there will immediately be people from the Xingtian Army to pull up the people to deal with it.

Although some officials in these prefectures and counties in Jinnan also resisted desperately, what is the people's intention? Even if they defend the city, there are often a response from the Xingtian Army in the city. They broke up in the city and took over the Xingtian soldiers to attack the city. Therefore, Yan Chongxi's offensive in Jinnan can be said to be like destroying, almost In a few days, you can take a county seat. In less than three months, more than a dozen prefectures and counties in Jinnan, including Jiangzhou, were conquered by Yan Chongxi and included under the wings of the Xingtian Army.

Fu Deming from Shanxi was in charge of civil affairs. Yan Chongxi fought the next city, so he took over a city and stationed the civil servants of the Xingtian Army prepared in advance to various places to take over the civil affairs. On the whole, the two cooperated quite tacitly. Wu did not do politics, and the literature did not suppress martial arts. Because they have cooperated with each other for a long time, they basically There is no stinging on it.

And Xing Tianjun has basically formed his own set of civilier selection system. In addition to a group of young students specially trained in his early years, after these years of experience, they can barely take on the management of some places, and they have also selected a group of personalities from some scholars from all over the world. Integrity, dare to take the lead, flexible mind, do not belong to those who only read and write poetry, first let them work in the original territory of Xing Tianjun, and then promote them on the basis of merit, and send them to the newly occupied place to serve. In this way, at least when Shanxi expands its territory, it is often military. In terms of civil affairs, everything is progressing smoothly, and the local people are also happy to obey the orders, so that although the war in Jinnan is in progress, all kinds of civil restorations are also going hand in hand, and the speed of local stability is beyond the imagination of many people.

After cleaning up the counties around the state, Yan Chongxi surrounded the state in mid-June. At this time, Xiezhou was already a lonely city. The city gathered the defeated soldiers who escaped from nearly 10,000 southern states and counties, as well as the noble gentry around Jinnan. At this time, the city of Xiezhou was full of despair and hysteria. Xu, Kong Fang, Zhizhou, Xiezhou, strictly investigated the work of the Xingtian Army and the people who tried to surrender to the Xingtian Army in the city. In a few days, he searched and arrested thousands of people in the city, but did not listen to their distinction. There was a policy that he would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let go. He beheaded these thousands of people, and their heads hung in various streets in the city. What did they say? As an example, but it is indeed very effective to do so. Basically, the Xing Tianjun in Xiezhou City was caught clean and killed a clean one, at least to solve the problem of Xing Tianjun in the city. The rest are all those who are determined to be enemies of Xing Tianjun. Even those who don't want to be enemies with Xing Tianjun are scared. Dare, I dare not risk my life to take over the criminal Tianjun.

Therefore, after Yan Chongxi led his troops to besiege Xiezhou City, he thought that he could easily conquer the last city controlled by the Jinnan court and flattened the whole Jinnan in one fell swoop, so he launched an attack, and because Xiezhou closed the gate, he cut off the contact between the city and outside the city early. Yan Chongxi did not know that Xing Tianjun's detailed work in the city had basically been completely destroyed, and the people who were originally scheduled to respond in the city had also been arrested and killed, so they were not fully prepared to attack.

However, I didn't think of the war together, but the original response in the city did not appear. On the contrary, the officers and soldiers stationed inside and outside the city and the local armed forces of the gentry showed an unexpected will to resist. All kinds of artillery and rockets in the city poured down like rain, and the officers and troops stationed in the city also launched a desperate Counterattack.

Even if the unprepared Xing Tianjun suffered a great loss, he lost hundreds of people and horses, and even captured hundreds of people who helped the war, and was immediately slaughtered under the city by the army.

Only then did Yan Chongxi realize that the problem was wrong. Feng Weihan, who was in charge of intelligence, was also quite shocked. After discussing, the two believed that the inner part of the city might have been exposed, and it was probably impossible to expect the inner response to solve the state lightly. Therefore, Yan Chongxi immediately changed his strategy and began to make preparations to attack the state.

After two days of preparation, Yan Chongxi transferred the heavy artillery outside the state city, gathered more soldiers and horses, and began to launch a strong attack on Xiezhou City.

This battle was very fierce. The Xiezhou garrison showed their determination to resist to the end. Under the stimulation of the bounty funded by the gentry in the city, the garrison can be said to be extremely tenaciously. First, they kept fighting under the city. When they failed, the remnants retreated into the city and continued to resist to the end. It can be said that they did it. In the follow-up, Xing Tianjun's attacks for several days were repelled one by one and paid a considerable price.

Even the defenders in the city sneaked out of the city at night and launched two raids on the Xingtian Army. The first raid even successfully attacked the artillery array of the Xingtian Army, which destroyed several artillery of the Xingtian Army on the spot and killed and injured many generals of the Xingtian Army.

The unexpectedly tenaciousness of the defenders greatly surprised Yan Chongxi. At the same time, it completely angered the Xing Tianjun. Yan Chongxi ordered on the spot that after capturing Xiezhou, he would slaughter the city.

And the Xingtian army had not suffered such a loss. At first, their morale was low. Later, under the mobilization of the officers and the morale was restored, they launched a crazy attack on Xiezhou City.

This time, Yan Chongxi completely put away his contempt for Xiezhou. In addition to the normal siege of the city, he sent a large number of engineers to hide in the help of the people, sneaked under the city and began to dig the city. At the same time, a large number of people were used to fill all kinds of trenches excavated by the officers and soldiers outside the city, and sent troops to set up ladder ants to attach them.

All kinds of heavy artillery fired fiercely at the city almost day and night. After a few days of going down the city wall of Xiezhou, it was bombarded with a lot of holes, but the defenders still stubbornly resisted and refused to collapse and give up.

In the end, the engineers played a role in blowing up a section of the city wall in the west of the city with a lot of gunpowder. Only then was Yan Chongxi able to conquer and understand the state city. However, after the Xing Tianjun entered the city, the resistance in the city did not stop. A large number of defenders and local gentry were still stubbornly resisting in the city and engaged in a street battle with the Xing Tianjun in an attempt to save the situation. This is a complete offending of the Xingtian Army. After entering the city, the officers and soldiers of the Xingtian Army also killed their eyes. They slaughtered the city for two days and nights in the city, and almost all the people who participated in the defense of the city were slaughtered clean. Even a few innocent men in the city were not spared and became this slaughter. The victim of.

As for the large number of gentry gathered in the city who fled to Xiezhou in Jinnan, it can be said that they were killed and killed. It was not until Fu Deming's persuasion that Yan Chongxi ordered to stop the slaughter of the city and withdraw the soldiers and horses to understand the state city. At this time, Xiezhou City almost became After the inventory, there were less than 2,000 women and children left in the city, and almost no man could be found.

War is sometimes extremely cruel, and this is the first time for Xing Tianjun to slaughter the city. After checking the tragic images in the city, Yan Chongxi also realized that he had gone a little too far, so he hurriedly ordered to clean up the bodies in the city and appease the remaining women and children in the city. On the other hand, he sent someone to report to Xiao Tianjian that he was guilty. Please punish Xiao Tianjian.

After Xiao Tianjian learned the news that Yan Chongxi was slaughtering the city in Jiezhou in Jingzhou, he was immediately furious. Originally, he wanted to order Yan Chongxi to be dismissed and arrested on the spot, but the generals, Li Xin and others tried to dissuade him.

After Xiao Tianjian calmed down, he carefully asked Yan Chongxi's men about the process of the battle of the state. At the same time, Feng Weihan also sent his men to Jingzhou to plead for Yan Chongxi to learn about the brutality of the military palace in the state battle city and the stubborn resistance of those gentry.

Xiao Tianjian calmed down his anger a little. After sitting down and thinking about it carefully, he ordered Yan Chongxi to take 30 military sticks, exempting him from half a year's official salary, and continuing to temporarily lead the military affairs of Shanxi. There will be no similar slaughter in the future.

Xiao Tianjian, who calmed down, thought about it carefully. In fact, he could also understand what Yan Chongxi did. He watched the generals he had trained, and fell under the enemy's knives and guns in batches. In addition, the massacre of the officers and officials in the city, as well as the killing of prisoners, he would have ordered the slaughter of the city. The city is also a very common thing in ancient wars. To some extent, it can act as a deterrent to the enemy, so that the defenders dare not resist so stubbornly in the future.

What's more, war is an extremely violent thing. Under the strict control of many years, it is impossible for soldiers to be without a little anger. Seeing that they get along with each other day and night, like brothers' robes die around, it's no wonder that they are not crazy. This kind of anger always has to find an outlet to vent, so even if it's punishment The discipline of the Tianjun army is strict, and there will be fights in the army from time to time. This is actually caused by too much anger accumulated in the soldiers' chests and nowhere to vent.

And Xiao Tianjian has always thought that those who are soldiers need to be iron-blooded and fiercer, even if they are more brutal can they have the courage to face their enemies in wartime. If they are controlled by military discipline alone, it is obviously not what he wants to be trained as a group of sheep. After all, it is still too early to finish the war. Xing Tianjun's The soldiers must have some fierceness and wolf nature. Although the slaughter is a little too much, how many armies in history have not done such a thing?

Yan Chongxi's potential of a famous general. If he is heavily punished because of this matter, it will obviously affect other generals, so this time he finally chose to deal with Yan Chongxi lightly, and clearly said that he would not take an example, so he gave up.