Chapter 167: Capture the thief alive
The lips are like silk ribbons, like pearl curtains, endless.
The strange mountains and rocks in the distance have become lush and green. A piece of smoke has risen from the hillside, making it look extremely beautiful. Below the dangerous peak is the Han River passing through the mountains. The rain has not turned the Han River yellow, but a hint of green seeping out slightly, making people involuntarily believe that the Han River is like a sweet spring, with a hint of sweetness.
On the hillside of the Han River, there are corpses all over the ground! Human corpses, horse corpses, human corpses, and horse corpses are mixed together. Either human corpses are pressing on horse corpses or horse corpses are pressing on human corpses. During his lifetime, people and horses are united to fight together. After his lifetime, people and horses are still united and snuggled up to each other, making it easy to be a companion on the road to the underworld.
The postures of human corpses are strange. Some are lying on the ground, staring at their eyes open, as if asking God why they are not open; some are lying on the ground, burying their faces deeply into the arms of Mother Earth. Oh, Mom, I will serve you well in the next life...
The deaths of these corpses are almost the same: they were wounded by crossbow arrows! The crossbow arrows at the wound are clearly visible. Under the erosion of the lip rain, the wound turns white and white.
Going east along the hillside, it is far worse than here. There is almost no complete body, either missing arms or thighs, and some even have half of their heads cut off... There are broken arms and broken legs everywhere, which is terrible!
Moreover, the limbs are broken, and they are no exception, and they are obviously injured by the flowering bullet.
There was almost no drop of blood on the entire battlefield. The blood either penetrated into the soil or was washed clean by the lip rain for several days, becoming a drop of water in the Han River, nourishing the earth again...
Yes, it's all over, it's really over!
On February 25, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang led his troops to attack the Tiance Army camp, with countless casualties and inadequate advance. Later, under the attack of the Hu Xiao Army and Xiongwei Army, the bandit cavalry completely collapsed, most of them surrendered, and the few scattered into the mountains.
The Jingzhou army ignored the slippery mountain roads and searched for enemy traces everywhere. In the end, General Gao Yingxiang was captured alive in a cave, and Liu Zhe was also captured, while Wang Guangen died in the chaos.
In the military tent, the guards stood with guns and knives, with a clang of their hands, without looking sideways, and were filled with solemnity. Lin Chunhong sat upright in the handsome chair, stroked his arms with his hands, and instructed coldly: "Bring it up!"
I saw a middle-aged man tied up like a rice dumpling, pushed by two guards to Lin Chunhong. This man was quite haggard, with long hair scattered, and was draped on his white clothes.
The guard pressed the man in white with force and shouted, "Kneel down!"
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Lin Chunhong waved his right hand and said, "No more kneeling, let him stand!"
The guard let go and asked Gao Yingxiang to stand up. Gao Yingxiang looked closely and couldn't help but be surprised, "You are Lin Chunhong? Why are you so young?"
Lin Chunhong ignored him and asked, "King of Chuang? Gao Yingxiang?"
Gao Yingxiang said proudly: "It is this king! I have been captured by you today. I will kill and cut you. It's up to you!"
Lin Chunhong stared at Gao Yingxiang for a long time and sneered: "Why is the King of Chuangzhangsheng so far, why do you cherish your death?"
Gao Yingxiang was stunned, and just realized that Lin Chunhong said that he was captured alive. He was angry and said loudly: "Since the rebellion, I have suffered countless defeated generals. I want to see with my own eyes who have defeated me repeatedly!"
Lin Chunhong snorted and said disdainfully: "It sounds nice! Do you want to sacrifice your life?"
Immediately, Lin Chunhong laughed and said, "I didn't expect that, Gao Yingxiang, who killed people like a straw dog, was actually a coward who was greedy for life and feared death!"
Gao Yingxiang was furious, showing his true nature of fighting on the battlefield, his hair and beard were all open, and he shouted sternly: "Stop talking! If I am afraid of death, I will not go on this road! The court is unrighteous and the people have no way to survive. In order to survive, I can only rebel against him!"
Lin Chunhong said: "What a commoner has no way to survive! Fangcheng, the people in the south have a way to survive. Once the bandits arrive, there is no way to survive! Gao Yingxiang!"
Lin Chunhong shouted: "In two months in Nanyang, no less than 200,000 people have died! Is this the way you have to live for the people?"
Gao Yingxiang frowned and retorted: "It's a bird of a feather! You, Lin Chunhong, don't laugh at you for fifty steps! Don't think that I don't know your background! You just use the name of killing thieves to secretly support your troops! The so-called bullshit court and the so-called millions of people are nothing more than an unnecessary fig leaf in front of you, a hypocrite!"
Lin Chunhong sneered: "I can tell you that I am just relying on my own troops! You have fought with the Jingzhou army many times, have you heard that the Jingzhou army plundered the people, have you heard that the Jingzhou army had killed a commoner?"
Gao Yingxiang was silent.
Lin Chunhong unintentionally got involved in this matter, changed the topic, and asked in a gentle tone: "Have you ever read?"
Gao Yingxiang nodded. Lin Chunhong continued: "At the end of Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up from time to time, and Emperor Gaozu of Han finally succeeded; at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Green Forest and Red Eyebrows rose up, and Guangwu stood up from time to time; at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and finally Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan established..."
Before Lin Chunhong finished speaking, Gao Yingxiang laughed: "After all the time, it is nothing more than that I cannot escape the end of death! I have long been selling horses since I was a child, and I have long put life and death aside. A real man stands in the world, nothing more than happiness! I have been timid and unhappy with corrupt scholars all day long, and I am not happy with the land. How could I ask for?"
Lin Chunhong sneered: "For your own selfishness, I will ignore the lives of the people in the world. No one in the world is your right! If you choose a place to stay, give the people a way out, prepare for war, and compete with the heroes of the world, I have to bow and admire you! Just like what you did in the past, kill for the sake of killing, God will punish people for the anger!"
Gao Yingxiang was silent for a while, sighed and said, "I don't want to do it, but I can't! As you said, I have long been in a different place!"
Lin Chunhong thought, this is true. So what if I find a place to stay? Isn’t it that the court is crazy about being surrounded and suppressed? In the early uprisings, all the people were plundered and flew around with them. When the court was unable to suppress them, they considered becoming a gangster. In history, Li Zicheng took this path, but that guy had a bad attitude and was taken advantage of by the Jurchens.
If I had chosen the path of rebellion at the beginning, I would have been like Gao. Li and others fled everywhere, carrying the people around to rebel. It was impossible to treat the people well and develop industry and commerce. The Ming Dynasty would not leave any space for you to develop slowly.
Gao Yingxiang continued: "I have experienced countless wars and ran away for half of the Ming Dynasty. It is obvious that the court is hopeless and destroyed in a daze. This time, I was captured, and I had no nostalgia for life. Looking at the world, you are the one who can live in the country. You can become a stepping stone for your foundation, and you will die without regrets!"
Gao Yingxiang said this very directly, and pointed out incisively that the reason why you, Lin Chunhong, was able to stalk the cicadas and orioles behind you was because of me, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other people in troubled times.
Lin Chunhong accidentally talked to Gao Yingxiang, slowly walked to Gao Yingxiang and whispered: "I will behead you and Liu Zhe later."
Gao Yingxiang was stunned for a moment, and then said gratefully: "Thank you..."
Gao Yingxiang knew very well that after falling into the hands of the court, it was nothing more than Lingchi's execution. Lin Chunhong could give him some pleasure, so of course he could not ask for it.
Lin Chunhong waved his hand and ordered: "Go down..."
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At the same time, Zhou Wang's encirclement and suppression of Huanglong had reached its final stage. Since Huanglong fled north, Zhou Wang ordered Tianwu, Longwei and Xiaowei to pursue the army, collecting food and grass all the way, and the supplies were huge. After the chaotic people were chased, they were almost all captured by the three armies. After being stringed together with ropes, they were escorted to Nanyang by the baggage battalion, and then shipped to Tongbai and Qiongzhou, becoming free laborers.
After Huang Long ran to the Funiu Mountain area, he got a chance to breathe. Once he counted, there were only more than 20,000 people left.
Zhou Wang was no longer polite to Huang Long, and immediately ordered the Tianwu Army to advance lightly and arrive at Qiding Mountain in advance, blocking the bandits' way. Then, the three armies launched the last battle against Huang Long, and countless surrendered. Huang Long died in the chaos and was eventually beheaded.
Zhou Wang collected more than 60,000 prisoners within more than ten days, and directly grabbed Guo Mingyan and Xu Yun like something, and the corners of his mouth were cracked to the back of his ears every day.
Subsequently, Lin Chunhong ordered the entire army to scatter into various places to clear out the scattered bandits and bandits who stood on the hilltops. In less than ten days, the bandits and bandits in Nanyang and Yunyang were cleared out, and public security improved greatly. Refugees stranded near Nanyang Prefecture City began to return to their hometowns, and the refugee problem was solved.
Since then, Gao Yingxiang was completely destroyed, the Jingzhou army won a great victory, and completely controlled the two prefectures of Yunyang and Nanyang.
Lin Chunhong adjusted the garrisons of each army: the Tiance army retreated to Xiangyang to guard the army, the Hu Xiao army, the Xiongwei army stayed in Yunyang, the Longwei army and the Xiaogu army were stationed at the Fangcheng Pass, and the Tianwu army guarded Nanyang City.
As for the Cavalry Camp, in view of the encirclement and suppression of Gao Yingxiang, more than 20,000 war horses were seized, Lin Chunhong followed the situation and ordered the Cavalry Camp to be expanded into the Cavalry Army and stationed near Fangcheng.
Moreover, given that Fangcheng was seriously damaged by Gao Yingxiang and a large number of unparalleled lands appeared, Lin Chunhong took over the land without hesitation and exchanged the land near Qinghe. Then, Lin Chunhong ordered most of the Ma Zhengsi of the Governor's Office to move to Fangcheng, and cultivate and raise horses with Qinghe as the center.
Although the climate in Nanyang is not as good as that of Hexi and the Mongolian grasslands are generally suitable for horse survival, it is at least dry and colder than Bailizhou. Since then, Qinghe has become a horse breeding center and has worked hard to achieve the long-term goal of 100,000 cavalry.
The purpose of this deployment is very obvious. Lin Chunhong used the garrison to clearly tell Nanyang, Yunyang and other places that the officials and gentry, Nanyang Prefecture, and Yunyang Prefecture are my territory. Whoever dares to act rashly should be careful of the head!
Chapter completed!