The herald quickly conveyed the order, and the elite warrior cavalry was already waiting on both flanks, and when the horn sounded, they began to jog towards the vicinity of the main road.

Those infantry who could ride horses, or light horses, scattered in groups of horses, and pursued and killed as soon as someone fled out of the city.

In the city, the two companies of the first battalion experienced the first difficult battle, and after the elite warriors of the first wave of Qi people were suppressed by the muskets at the head of the city, the final counterattack of the Qi people was ineffective.

After crossing the city, the two companies gathered their men and began to drive the Qi army, which had been unsuccessful, to charge into the city in the direction they had previously arranged, regardless of the musketeers and spearmen who were impossible to follow.

When encountering a small group of enemies, they rush over to kill, and a little more will throw iron thunder to blow up the formation and then rush again.

A small gap, in fact, there are only a thousand people on both sides of the war, but once the gap is broken, the entire Pingyang City will actually not be able to hold it.

No matter how many people there were, it was only on paper, and the Qi army could not organize a small-scale assembly of resistance.

The doctor guarding the city in the city did not run, he knew that there was no point in running at this time, he would definitely be captured by the cavalry of the Mo family, and the moment he saw the rows of musketeers of the Mo family climbing the city wall and the strange banner of the Mo family rising, he knew that Pingyang City could not be defended.

Surrounded by the dead warriors around him, he waved his hand and said, "I have done my best, don't resist anymore, it will only add casualties." ”

He didn't participate in the massacre of Wucheng, he wasn't a nobleman of Feidi, and he knew that the Mo family's trial couldn't have him, so he wasn't afraid.

was captured by the Mo family, and he had to be released anyway, and it was nothing if he was caught, at most he would spend some money and cattle and horses to redeem himself.

When Hua Yuan was captured and used 300 horses, he estimated that his 1200 horses were enough to redeem them, and he didn't need the monarch to pay for himself, his own fiefdom and his own private property were enough to redeem it.

If you flee, there will be many casualties among the dead and private families of your followers, and you will damage the foundation of your family in the future, so it is better to be captured first and wait for the future.

Moreover, this time there are more nobles captured in the Qi State, and they will not reduce their fiefdoms because of this, that prince dares to do this, and those nobles who are released after being captured will definitely drive away the prince and raise a more polite son.

In a battle with the Mo family, waving a white banner is considered a surrender, and he knows this.

The people around him found a piece of white cloth and held it high in the air, signaling that they would surrender.

After entering the city in the afternoon, the doctor saw Shi, and the first sentence was: "I am a Qi person, a doctor, and I should be resourceful for Qi people." Since the city has been broken, the gap cannot be recaptured, Pingyang will have nothing to defend, if it continues to fight, it will only increase the casualties, so please surrender. ”

"I hope that your army will not do anything about plundering and slaughtering, and will not hurt the people, nor invade and surrender to the soldiers. I have been sealed by Qi for many generations, and I cannot defeat the enemy, because I am incompetent; Gongzi Wu asked me to defend the city and broke the city on three days, which was ineffective. I will not live, but I hope you will not take the plunder, slaughter and hurt the soldiers......"

Where do you not know the tricks on the other side, the Mo family is under the banner of a righteous teacher, not killing or slaughtering, everyone knows it, where do you still need to say this?

Needless to say, if you really wanted to die, you could have died a long time ago, so why wait until now?

But he didn't say anything, but said solemnly: "The general's surrender is not disloyalty or disbelief." In the past, Qu Dang said: You start with this, and you will end with this. Tian Wu slaughtered Wucheng, wouldn't such a disaster fall on the heads of Qi people? He is the son of the Qi people, but he buried such a disaster for the Qi people, which cannot be left unpunished. ”

"And you defended the city, so that I attacked for three days, when I fought with the king of Yue, the city was broken in only one day, you have defended it very well, which is commendable."

"And you surrendered in order to prevent Qi casualties, which is loyal to the people of Qi and trust tens of thousands of soldiers."

"Gu Yun: Tao, loyal to the people and faith in God. Thinking about the people, loyalty; I wish history is right, and I believe in it. If you think of the people, are you not loyal? ”

"Thai Oath" says: What the people want, the sky will follow. Are the Qi people willing to die in an unjust war? In the past, Qi Huan cut down the unruly and tyrannical mountains for the righteousness of Zhuxia, and the army's heart was inspired, and he went straight to the lonely bamboo. Now that Qi is unjustly fought, the army is resentful, and the people are determined, please surrender and save the soldiers from death and injury, and Pingyang from the war, this is the democracy of heaven and God. ”

The right person gave the nobleman a big step down, anyway, the victor can be reasonable, the doctor's face softened slightly.

He said that, in order to correct his name, he was still secondary, mainly to remind Shi: The slaughter of Wucheng has nothing to do with him, and the first thing he surrendered was to ask Shi not to slaughter and loot, how could he do something like slaughtering Wucheng?

Shi also gave enough steps, with "on the benefit of the people, loyalty; I wish history is right, and I believe in it. The explanation proved that he was not disloyal, and then said that people like Gongziwu were the masterminds to die, and those of you who did not participate as long as you surrendered, then not only are you not guilty, but also the democracy of God is from what heaven wants, and it is meritorious.

As for saying that it was enough for him to keep it for three days, this was very popular with Doctor Naqi, and he was slightly complacent in his heart.

In terms of etiquette, after Gou Jian Xuzhou Huimeng, Yue Guo was even the "Hou" in the Central Plains system, and the title of the king was only the priesthood of the local culture, not the title of the system.

Yue Wang Phong and Shi fought, was captured in one day, and most of the cities in the course of the battle were breached within one or two days, and it was extremely rare for him to be able to defend for three days.

In that year, Qi Huan conquered mangosteen, and Yan Hou sent him out of the country in order to thank Qi Huan. Qi Huan said that he and Yanhou were both princes of the same level, and it was a violation of etiquette to say that Yanhou sent out of the border, and he passively transgressed, so he gave the border city of Qi where Yanhou arrived directly to Yanguo, thinking that it was a gift from Huaxia.

The etiquette system is still under the background of the aristocracy, and the time of the battle with the king of Yue to attack the city is compared with Pingyang, one is to say that the means of attacking the city are really powerful, you have been defending for three days, which is very good, and the other is also to use the etiquette of the aristocratic rules to give the other party the steps, and people with a higher rank than you can't keep it for three days, you don't need to blame yourself for three days.

The nobleman was praised and sure that he would not be implicated in the slaughter of Wucheng, and he was overjoyed, but his face showed hesitation for a long time, and then he said: "Your words are reasonable." ”

So he didn't die, and Shi also took this opportunity to say that in order to prevent them from committing suicide, they had all the swords down, and those soldiers who didn't leave their swords had to obey their orders.

After these people were escorted away, the results of the battle had been counted, the Mo family suffered about six hundred casualties on the side, two thousand casualties on the Qi side, and the rest of the Qi army were all captured, but there were also some nobles who mixed in with the soldiers, probably trying to learn from Yu to swallow charcoal paint in order to find an opportunity to incite trouble.

Shi Dao: "Then let's screen it." It's better to miss than to let go, we still have to win the decisive battle of Yiyi, and we can't leave too many people behind. The nobles and the commoners were divided into detached persons. ”

The matter of screening is already skillful in everyone.

It's nothing more than a few points.

The length of the nails, the calluses of the thumbs, and so on, such things as not being good at running, do not appear in these nobles.

At this time, the nobles basically had bamboo slips in their left hands and longbows in their right hands, which existed as a solid force for the feudal system.

The length of the nails, whether there is black mud or not, can distinguish the common people from the nobles.

And the calluses left by the thumb drawing the bow and the thick thumb trained since childhood are also a good way to distinguish the nobles and commoners.

There were many other means, and the officers asked, "What about after screening?" ”

After thinking about it, he said: "We need to go to Yingyi immediately, and the Gongzaoye side will soon capture Dongmu, and the encirclement has been completed." ”

"There are still 60,000 Qi troops in Yingyi, and there are at least 30,000 troops that can be fought after removing the soldiers who accompany the army, so we need to go all out, and we can't leave too many troops in Pingyang."

"That's it......"

He smiled and said, "Call the captured Qi people to demolish Pingyang City." The walls were dug up, the gates were removed, and a brigade was left to guard the prisoners of war and maintain order, and all that was left to go to Yingyi. ”

"As long as the city is demolished, even if the Linzi army is defeated and flees, it will not be able to choose Pingyang, it can only run around, and it will be easy to catch it when the time comes."

"Since Tian Wu is under the city of Yingyi, the little elite private soldiers in his hands are reluctant to be used to fight to the death, and he must escape, as much as possible not to let him escape to a place where he can be defended. Those who live in the land of death, those who bear the blood debt really resist stubbornly, and the loss will be great. ”

The officers were ordered, and they said: "Hurry up and repair, and the people and soldiers of the Xuanyi Department have made it clear that they must fight continuously, so that they can reduce casualties and achieve victory." After winning the battle under the city, Tian Wu was captured, and the whole army had a meal, and the battle of alignment was over. ”

He still thinks that Tian Wu is under the city of Yingyi, so as soon as Pingyang is broken, he needs to go to Yingyi for a decisive battle immediately.

Dongmu has not yet been captured, because there are few people on the Gongzao Metallurgical side, and most of the people guarding Dongmu are nobles who have blood debts, but they can't support Gongzaoye.

Because if Dongmu is broken first and Pingyang is also broken, it is only afraid that the Qi army under the victory will break through to the east regardless of it, and his army will not be in Liangfu and Pingyang, but in Dongmu, and he may not be in a hurry. Moreover, I heard news from Yingyi, saying that the Qi army was also starting to dig a pit, although the efficiency was slow, but it was necessary to guard against it.

It is appropriate to determine that Gongzao Metallurgy is enough to capture Dongmu, and there is also news from Gongzao Metallurgy that although there is a death resistance, it will be able to break the city in three or five days at most.

That being the case, the final battle of alignment is under control.

…………

In a small city east of Dongmu, Tian Wu in disguise was still waiting quietly, and the news of Pingyang being broken was expected, but he didn't expect it to be broken so quickly.

Compared with Pingyang, which soon broke the city, Dongmu's defense could hold on for a few more days.

One is that the Ministry of Public Metallurgy is a partial division, with few artillery, and the elite engineer units of the Mo family are all in the appropriate army.

Second, many of the people who guarded Dongmu were Fei nobles, and the Mo family had the news of issuing an unjust order too early, so that these nobles had to resist stubbornly, and they had no intention of surrendering: they were all dead anyway, and those Fei national volunteers would inevitably not be able to let them live, and a death war was inevitable.

For the people on the Yingyi side, the elite in Gongziwu's hands is to guard Dongmu and prevent the Ministry of Public Metallurgy and suitable soldiers. But in fact, he didn't go to Dongmu at all, but chose to wait in a small town, Gongzaoye did not have many soldiers in his hands, and he could not choose to attack two cities at the same time, at most he divided his troops to help.

Tian Wu did not move, but symbolically sent a part of the local defenders to support Dongmu, so that Gongzaoye was unguarded.

This place is only thirty or fifty miles away from Dongmu and Pingyang, and as soon as the news of Pingyang being broken came, the cronies around him were a little panicked.

"The artwork is suitable for the siege of the city, and the means of siege are indeed difficult to beat. It is difficult to break through Winyi, and now that Pingyang has been broken, the son should do it. ”

Tian Wu said, "Don't worry." If I leave now, I will inevitably be suspicious of the suitability of the smelter and the public smelting. I am not moving now, and they will only let me be under the city of Winyi. ”

"When the army is pulled towards Yingyi, it is the time to escape. Everything is under control. ”

"I have known for a long time that Pingyang City will not last a few days, but I also know that Dongmu can hold for a long time, but it is not impossible to attack. What would you do if you were the right one? ”

The cronie thought about it and hurriedly bowed: "Childe is a clever plan." Since Dongmu can hold out for a long time, then the army of Gongzaoye will not be able to pursue us. And Pingyang broke early, and Dongmu was not able to attack, so he would inevitably return to the division to save Yingyi first, and as long as the Ministry of Public Metallurgy could capture Dongmu within five or six days, it could block the way when our army fled. ”

"If he captures Pingyang but goes to support Dongmu, and is afraid that our army under Wonyi will panic and flee in all directions, he will definitely go to Win Yi immediately after conquering Pingyang."

"But he moved to Pingyang, since it was a decisive battle, and he couldn't rush it, it would take at least two or three days. After approaching, it will take another day to set up camp and repair the whole team. In the decisive battle, although he made good use of his troops, it would take a day to solve it. ”

Tian Wu laughed and said, "That's exactly what I mean." When the division wins the battle, it is the time for us to cross the Yishui. At that time, Gongzaoye will be able to break the city, unable to pursue, and he will win a hard battle, and then chase it here after the fight, we have been walking for five days, how can he catch up? ”

"Even if Gongzaoye finds out that the situation is wrong and guesses something, can he leave Dongmu, who is about to be captured, and the whole army will chase me?"

"Don't worry, wait two days. I'm in control. ”