Chapter 125 Famous Ministers

After capturing Yuezhou in an almost ridiculous way, Xiao Tianjian followed Li Xin's advice, ordered troops in Yuezhou on August 20, and began to divide the water and drought into two ways to send troops to Changsha.

Hundreds of warships took the waterway, first entering Dongting Lake, and then entering the Xiangjiang River. They rushed to Changsha, while nearly 30,000 troops took the dry road and marched towards Changsha with the assistance of the sailors.

Along the way, Xiao Tianjian spent little effort, so he took down Xiangyin County and completely opened the north gate of Changsha, exposing Changsha to the front of the Xing Tian Army.

Li Qiande and Xu Yan led their troops to Yuezhou to aid Yuezhou, which also greatly reduced the strength of the Changsha garrison. Originally, there were more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in Changsha. However, with Li Qiande and Xu Yan after the soldiers were captured in Yuezhou, the officers and soldiers who took to Yuezhou were basically captured by the Xingtian Army, and in a blink of an eye, they became the strength of the Xingtian Army. Under the Changsha garrison It looks even more pitiful.

At this time, although Gao Doushu, a famous minister, is sitting in Changsha, he is unable to sing alone at the moment. After all, he is only a deputy military reserve, with limited power at hand, and his subordinates have no soldiers. Although after hearing the news of the defeat of Li Qiande and Xu's defeat, Gao Doushu immediately recruited the people to help defend Changsha, He At this time, the generals and officials of Changsha had no fighting spirit. They had already become frightened birds, and no one thought they could defend Changsha City.

Zhu Cixuan, the king of Ji in Changsha, was even more unbearable. He didn't wait for the Xingtian army to come to Changsha, regardless of the ancestral system of the court, he bought the Changsha guerrilla general Tang Zhizhong and others, and led his troops to protect him out of the city and fled to Hengzhou, and went to the King of Gui, who was divided into Hengzhou.

In this way, the Changsha garrison, which had few troops, was once again diluted a lot. There were less than 2,000 defenders left in Changsha, led by He Yide, the deputy general of Changsha, garrisoned in Changsha.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian had arrived under Changsha City, firmly surrounded Changsha City, and cut off all the connections between the upper and lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River and Changsha City with the navy, and surrounded Changsha City like an iron barrel.

In the face of such a situation, Gao Doushu, a famous minister, still mainly defended the city, asked for help from all places, and tried to insist on the arrival of the surrounding reinforcements to relieve the siege of Changsha.

However, Gao Doushu at this time is not the Gao Doushu when he was sitting in Yunyang in history. Although they are alone, Gao Doushu is indeed a very talented person. Unfortunately, Gao Doushu is a hero at this time. At this time, Gao Doushu is not enough to preside over Changsha's military affairs, although he has also raised a The people were criticized to help He Yide defend the city, but the number of troops inside and outside the city is very different, not to mention that the soldiers and civilians in Changsha have not seen swords for so many years, so they have no ability to defend Changsha City at all.

Xiao Tianjian originally wanted to attack Changsha City with one drum, but when discussing with the generals, Li Xin put forward the idea of not attacking, but to make full use of the officers and officials captured in Yuezhou, so Xiao Tianjian happily adopted Li Xin's opinion and defeated the captured governor Li Qiande and the supervisor. Yin Xianmin, the general officer, was recruited into the big account and asked them whether they wanted to live or die.

These three people are not the kind of people who dare to take responsibility. If you want to die, you will work hard with Xing Tianjun at that time. At this time, you still want to adhere to the principle! So the three of them immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, even saying that they wanted to live.

After all, their family is still in Changsha City, and they don't want their family to be slaughtered by Xing Tianjun after the Xing Tianjun broke through Changsha, so they all said they wanted to live.

So Xiao Tianjian ordered the three of them to find a way to persuade the soldiers defending the city to surrender, and said that as long as they surrender, they would never kill. After choosing the best selection, they would continue to be officials for Xing Tianjun, and they could be allowed to retain their property and ensure their personal safety.

After the three got the order, they quickly reached the city and shouted at the defenders in the city to persuade them to surrender. At this time, the defenders had no fighting spirit. When they saw that all three were captured by the Xing Tianjun, and the general He Yide and the general Yin Xianmin were old friends. The relationship between the two was quite good. They saw Yin Xianmin coming to persuade him to surrender and replaced the punishment. Tianjun made all kinds of guarantees, so he gave up defending Changsha City and finally died for the Ming Dynasty. On August 25, He Yide ordered to open the gates of Changsha and welcome the Xingtian Army to enter the city. At the same time, he arrested some officials in the city who tried to prevent him from surrender, tied them out of the city and handed them to the Xingtian Army for disposal. It also includes Gao Doushu, the deputy envoy of Changsha.

As a result, Changsha surrendered without fighting under the pressure of the Xingtian army, which was also controlled by Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian ordered only to let a battalion of soldiers enter the city to take over the defense of Changsha. No one was allowed to enter the city to harm the people in the city. For this reason, he also killed dozens of lake thieves who tried to fish in troubled waters outside Changsha. This Some lake thieves are used to doing bad things. Originally, they wanted to follow Xing Tianjun to Changsha City to plunder, but they didn't think that they didn't take the opportunity to make a fortune, but Xiao Tianjian took advantage of this opportunity to clean it out.

In addition, some ruffian hooligans in Changsha City also wanted to take the opportunity to make a profit in the city. After Xing Tianjun entered the city, he rudely arrested this group of people and directly cut off their heads and hung them on the wall, so as to deter the ruffians in the city from making trouble. It can almost be said that they took over very smoothly. Changsha Defense, the people in the city were relieved when they saw Xing Tianjun's military discipline, so they were relieved. In just one day, they began to go out and do what they should do. The prosperity of Changsha can hardly be said to have been affected.

And Xiao Tianjian also fulfilled his promise. For the surrendering officials and soldiers, he did not kill one, and reorganized them into the Xingtian army. Those who did not want to continue to be soldiers were allowed to go home for the people. As for those who surrendered officials, according to the reaction of the local people, they picked out those who had conscience and retained the officials, and the rest Then save their family property and let them go home and live on their own. Of course, Xiao Tianjian has no good intentions for these corrupt officials. Now he treats them so leniently, which is just a stopgap measure. When he turns back and frees his hands, he secretly ordered his men who stay here to clean them up one by one, but at the moment. Just settle the hearts of these people!

For these corrupt officials who don't know how many corrupt officials are greedy, if they are so easy to let them go, not only Xiao Tianjian feels that he can't get through, but even the people will feel that Xing Tianjun is too unprinciplinal when they turn around. There are excuses and opportunities to deal with them. In short, they will not make them too comfortable.

However, for those who insisted on refusing to surrender and tried to resist to the end, Xiao Tianjian treated them differently. After understanding the human style of these people, he immediately selected some powerful officials who were greedy for ink and directly cut off the city gate. At the same time, he invited the people around Changsha to watch the punishment. When they were cut, Thousands of people gathered inside and outside the city and shouted outside the execution ground, which added a lot of points for the Xingtian Army.

But for Gao Doushu, the deputy military reserve, Xiao Tianjian has more or less heard of this person's deeds. He knows that this person is a capable minister, and his reputation as an official is also quite good, so he personally came forward to persuade Gao Doushu to surrender, but he didn't think that Gao Doushu cursed Xiao Tianjian on the spot. He also tried to take a bite of Xiao Tianjian.

The guards in the big tent almost pulled out their knives and cut off Gao Doushu on the spot. In the eyes of these Xingtian military departments, Xiao Tianjian was simply their god, and this dog official actually scolded Xiao Tianjian, which was simply looking for death.

Xiao Tianjian looked down at the phlegm on his clothes, but said with a smile, "Get back, don't be rude to Lord Gao!" The guards then retreated to both sides angrily, staring at Gao Doushu one by one, and couldn't wait to swallow him alive.

Xiao Tianjian came forward and personally loosened the rope for Gao Doushu and asked with a smile, "Does Lord Gao hate Xiao so much?"

Gao Doushu glared at Xiao Tianjian and scolded, "A traitor like you, harms the country and the people, and everyone will be killed!" It's just a pity that I have no soldiers and no generals on hand. I can't kill you and eliminate harm for the people! Now that you have been caught, you can kill me! I want Gao to surrender to you, hum! Don't have a big dream of spring and autumn again!"

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian's face suddenly sank and asked him, "Lord Gao, why did you say this?" Why do you say that Xiao is harming the country and the people?

Gao Doushu continued to glare at Xiao Tianjian and said, "Aren't you harming the country and the people? As a people of the Ming Dynasty, you make trouble for the land, slaughter the people, fight against the court, and kill the officials of the court, making the people of the world miserable. Aren't you harming the country and the people?

(In a rough calculation, I actually updated nearly 260,000 words this month, but it's not easy! It's a breakthrough!)