Chapter 117 Kill
As for Zuo Liangyu, although he was protected on the boat, he could not escape far, so he was blocked by more and more ships controlled by the rebels. Under Xiao Tianjian's huge reward, these officers and soldiers who participated in the rebellion all rushed up to fight, trying to catch or kill Zuo Liangyu, although Zuo Liangyu's men also tried their best to resist, but after retreating, they surrounded them. At first, this kind of fighting was still unorganized and spontaneous, but later, gradually more and more ships surrounded Zuo Liangyu's several boats to three layers inside and three outside. Yang Kunshan and Liu Jiang rushed here and began to Command the ship that besieged Zuo Liangyu.
Several ships controlled by Zuo Liangyu were surrounded in the middle, and arrows in all directions were like rain. From time to time, someone fell on the boat or fell into the river. No matter how they fought, they could not get out. Zuo Liangyu was also crazy and fought desperately in command of his men on the warship, but they soon killed them. The bullet can only prevent the rebels from jumping on their boats as much as possible.
After a fierce battle, Zuo Liangyu's men were killed and injured. Although they also killed and injured a lot of rebels, several of their ships began to be ignited by the rebels' rockets. Zuo Liangyu was also seriously injured and fell on the boat, forcing Zuo Liangyu to look up to the sky and shout, "I am also dead!"
Then a large number of rebels began to rush into their ships, and rushed at Zuo Liangyu and his remaining men...
The Battle of Jingzhou did not end completely until July 23. After this battle, Xing Tianjun completely annihilated Zuo Liangyu's troops in the area of Jingzhou. Only a few Zuo Liangyu's men fled, but since Zuo Liangyu's surrender, the main generals were all beheaded or captured by the Xing Tianjun.
Zuo Liangyu was killed by the rebels under the command of Yang Kunshan and Liu Jiang on the surface of the river. His body was sent back to Jingzhou City that afternoon and handed over to Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian inspected Zuo Liangyu's body with injuries. After confirming that it was correct, he cashed his reward on the spot and rewarded several of the six people who finally killed Zuo Liangyu. A hundred taels of silver, but because the situation was too chaotic, Zuo Liangyu was cut all over his body with wounds, and there were many arrow wounds, and he could not recognize who was the one who really killed him. Therefore, the battalion generals should not talk about it. Everyone who participated in the siege of Zuo Liangyu was rewarded with 20 taels of silver as compensation, so that these rebels were all high. I'm so excited.
As for Zuo Liangyu's family, they were basically burned to death on the ship, while his son Zuo Menggeng was killed on the spot by several rebels, and his head was also found and sent to Jingzhou City.
It can be said that in the war in Jingzhou, Zuo Liangyu's family was basically destroyed. In the future, there is no need to worry about what will happen to Zuo Liangyu's family.
Except for Zuo Liangyu and his family, Zuo Liangyu's generals and generals basically did not run away. They were not killed in the chaos on the spot, so they were captured by Xing Tianjun. It can be said that only a few people ran away. Even if they ran away a little, these people were scared out of courage in the future. I don't dare to make waves with Xing Tianjun anymore. It is.
In this battle, nearly 10,000 people of the left army were killed. It was not too much to say that it was a massacre. It completely killed the Zuo Liangyu Group and dyed the Yangtze River in Jingzhou red. Many corpses sank into the river and fed fish. It can't be verified, but at least it can be guaranteed that there is no problem to kill thousands of people.
And Xing Tianjun lost more than 1,000 people, more than 400 people were killed in the battle, and about five or six hundred people were injured, including more than 200 people were seriously injured, and the loss was relatively heavy. Basically, it caught up with the number of casualties in Xiangyang. It can be seen that this battle was quite tragic. .
In addition to the slaughter of Zuo Liangyu's troops, the capture of Jingzhou this time also captured the Huiwang and the whole family of the Huiwang who were divided into Jingzhou City. The Huiwang was also unlucky to get home. A guy like Zuo Liangyu sat in Jingzhou and was blackmailed by Zuo Liangyu many times. Before the city was broken, the king's mansion was also raised by Zuo Liangyu. For the reason of Jin, he sent troops to rush into the royal palace and looted it.
For this Huiwang, Xiao Tianjian was not a disaster in Jingzhou, so he spared his life. After confiscating Huiwang's family property, he moved him and his children and concubines to Baokang County to settle down and be demoted them to civilians, so that they can cultivate and weave themselves. Don't think about a comfortable and luxurious life in the future.
Although Xiao Tianjian was hit with a few arrows in Jingzhou City, he was wearing heavy armor and the injury was very light, which basically did not affect his activities. However, it was his behavior that won the hearts of the people. On the one hand, the other hand, it completely angered the soldiers of the Xing Tian Army, and also won the hearts of the generals.
It's a pity that his beloved horse was seriously injured after returning with Xiao Tianjian. Two days later, he died in the army, which made Xiao Tianjian feel sad. This yellow horse has been following him for many years, and his relationship with Xiao Tianjian is quite deep. Many times his men have to change a better war horse for him. They were all rejected by Xiao Tianjian. Now for Xiao Tianjian, this yellow pheasian was killed in front of the army. How could Xiao Tianjian be ruthless? Therefore, Xiao Tianjian personally insisted on burying this beloved horse and set up a monument to commemorate it. Just for this love horse, Xiao Tianjian killed a lot of Zuo Liangyu's hand to commemorate it.
In the siege of the city, although many innocent people, women and children were killed and injured, the people did not resent Xiao Tianjian because of this. After entering the city, Xiao Tianjian also fulfilled his promise and ordered to collect the corpses of those women and children all over the city. If there are relatives, their corpses can be taken to be buried. Xing Tianjun sent ten The two silvers were used as pensions, and no family members collected them, so they moved them outside the city. On the bank of the west river of the city, they chose a good place to bury them neatly. At the same time, they took out two silver, and built an ancestral hall there, and made a special trip to the generals there to make a grand public offering.
At the same time, after Xing Tianjun entered the city, he took the money and grain gathered by Zuo Liangyu in the city and allocated 150,000 taels of silver and a large amount of grain to distribute it out to relieve the local people who had suffered from war.
Those Jingzhou people who were forcibly trapped by Zuo Liangyu all surrendered after the war. After selection, they first picked out Zuo Liangyu's confidants hiding in it, dragged them out and cut them down, and left a group of strong and honest people, which were filled into the criminal army and trained into three battalions. At the same time, the elite personnel of the reserve battalion were replenished. As for the remaining people in the war camps, including those officers and soldiers who surrendered in the two wars of Chengtianfu and Jingmen, they were dismissed on the spot, ordered them to return home and immediately began to re-cultivate their land. Those who did not have their own land can receive the land distributed to them by the Xingtian Army for farming, including the confiscation of rich. The farming cattle at home have also been distributed.
The war is very devastating to people's livelihood. What Xiao Tianjian is most concerned about is not how much silver and grain is seized. What he is more concerned about is that if he captures a place, he must restore local agriculture, industry and commerce as soon as possible. Otherwise, when he really seizes the world one day, and then Turning to consider these things, I guess that I don't know how long the world will be in chaos. This is also his mastery. Nowadays, Henan's agriculture has recovered very fast. Those abandoned fields have begun to re-cultivate in large numbers. After this summer harvest, although Henan does not dare to completely solve the problem of famine, At least most of the people will have something to eat and will not be starved to death. As long as the people have food to eat, they will settle down. In the future, agricultural production will gradually get better and better. As for Huguang, there are already unique conditions. Agricultural production must be restored as quickly as possible for the future of Xing Tianjun. Lay a good foundation.
A few years ago, Xiao Tianjian had signed an order to protect cattle, mules and horses within the control area of the Xingtian Army, and no one should kill the cattle. The purpose was to restore the number of cattle as soon as possible, so as to promote the recovery of agricultural production.
The biggest harvest of Jingzhou's World War I is not a matter of money and food, but through secret countermeasures, Xiao Tianjian easily obtained a large number of available warships and various types of ships in Jingzhou, and a large number of available water pawns.
Many of Liu Jiang's old troops of the Zuo Liangyu Water Army, who encouraged him to join the Xing Tian Army, are fishermen or boatmen living on the Yangtze River all year round. These people can soon be transformed into effective combat effectiveness of the water army, so that Xiao Tianjian can have a useful water army on the Yangtze River in a very short time, plus Yang Kunshan An old subordinate controlled the water camp, and then he used these fleets captured from Zuo Liangyu to easily march into Wuchang Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River.
If it hadn't been for the rebellion of Zuo Liangyu's water army this time, then firstly, he may not be able to catch Zuo Liangyu. At most, he could only take down Jingzhou City and watch Zuo Liangyu lead the remnants to escape. Second, even if he beat Jingzhou City, he could not build a usable navy in a short time to continue him. The attack and plunder in the Yangtze River.
If there is no water army in the Yangtze River, it can be said that it is difficult to walk with his troops and cavalry alone. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom and the Mongols went south and ate in the Yangtze River area. They were blocked in the north of the Yangtze River and could not go south. In the end, the Mongols had to take a detour from Sichuan to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally destroyed it. In the Southern Song Dynasty, if the Xingtian Army could not establish a usable water army, it would be conceivable that it would be difficult to do the strategy in the Huguang area.
And the vast majority of his soldiers are people from the Central Plains, Shanshan and Hebei. Although these soldiers and generals are trained into tigers on land, they have to be blind when they go to the water. The vast majority of them don't know water at all. It's a joke to let them be water pawns. Therefore, the biggest gain of Jingzhou's World War is control. Most of Zuo Liangyu's water camp.
As soon as Xingzhou was broken, Zuo Liangyu died. The pawns left by Zuo Liangyu in Changhu were not good and begged to surrender one after another. Among them, Zuo Liangyu's generals immediately abandoned the ship and fled, but several of them were still tied up by their men and given to the Xing Tianjun, and were immediately beheaded on the shore.
Zuo Liangyu also concentrated more than a hundred ships on the Changhu Lake. These ships did not lose much, and they were immediately ordered by Xiao Tianjian to transfer to the Yangtze River and fill the newly established Yangtze River Water Camp of the Xing Tianjun, which made the scale of the water camp a lot.