782 Massacre and debate
The calm of this night made Hong Tao himself a little scared, whether it was in the city lord's mansion or outside the south gate, there was no resistance of any scale. For this reason, he got up in the middle of the night three times and asked Baga to inquire about the soldiers guarding the city, for fear that something would happen.
"Open the south gate and let them all come to the shore and assemble. The same goes for the people in the city lord's mansion, and the rebels are killed on the spot. "When Hong Tao was still a little weak at breakfast, he didn't dare to go to the city wall to see the excitement anymore, so he shrank in the camp and waited.
There wasn't much gunfire coming from the City Lord's Mansion, and soon a group of captives gathered by the river. Wang Fifty-six led the militia to count the numbers, and it was time for lunch to completely empty the city. The total number of prisoners was also counted, 2,500 people in one phalanx, and 19 phalanxes rich in more than 300 people.
The next step is the interrogation and screening work, which is more laborious than fighting, from the time of lunch to the next morning, it is considered to have a general context.
There are only 15,000 defenders in the city, the city lord's surname is Wei Ming, he is the cousin of Wei Ming's guard, and his daughter-in-law is the same clan as Liang Yiburi, and the standard Western Xia royal family is in the same lineage.
Reinforcements came from Xingqing and Xiping provinces, totaling 40,000 troops, and the two generals were killed in battle, most likely by snipers on the city walls. His generals also suffered heavy losses, except for those who were killed, they swam down the river, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive.
Pulling and pulling, only the two generals of Xiping Mansion were the largest among the reinforcements. The two of them really don't know how to water, so they can only wait for death. And they are not war generals, their position is called Chajun, a bit like the supervision of the Song Dynasty.
"Leave both of them behind, and the rest of the ten generals above will be put to death. Take the newly enlisted recruits to the prison and behead, and the captives themselves report and expose each other, and do it themselves. The place of execution was set up by the river, and the severed heads were tied to a log and lowered downstream. ”
Hong Tao felt that the guards were useless, what royal family was not royal, and they couldn't provide much information, and these two reinforcement generals from Xiping Mansion could be used as the leading party.
Most of the captives must have been taken back to Ganliang Road and Sichuan Road to be sold as slaves, but it was not enough to go like this, and they had to be infected with the blood of their own clan before they could be safe.
This is an account that cannot be paid off, and people are reluctant to recall the past, and if they don't recall the past, they can only look forward, and it may be more appropriate to live in a different place.
Killing the officials is just afraid that there will be people on the road to resist in tandem, everyone has the blood of the same clan on their hands, and there are no more respectable people, so the danger will be much smaller.
The massacre lasted all day, and the crying by the river was so loud that many neighbors and relatives had to expose others in order to survive, and even had to pick up a butcher's knife and kill their friends with their own hands.
Some people really can't do it, jumping into the river, committing suicide, crying and begging for mercy abound, but they are all forced by the veterans of the new army to stab the recruits to death on the spot.
Slowly, there are fewer and fewer such people, and most of them still choose to give in, just like Hong Tao said, after the backbone is broken, it will never be hard.
The battle of Yingli City actually lasted only one and a half days, but the follow-up work took five days, and it took more than a day just to find cloth and rope to tie people up. More than 40,000 people, not so tossed, relying on more than 3,000 militia really can't escort such a long distance.
Even so, Hong Tao was still not at ease, and finally sent Xiao Wuna to bring another 3,000 new troops to suppress the formation, and just returned to Liangzhou to see if Miao Kui's ammunition was delivered, and brought it back by the way.
So many captives can't just be sold on Ganliang Road, and Miao Kui has to take some away. There are more workshops in Sichuan, and there is a greater need for labor. It can also stimulate the merchants there, let them see the benefits of slavery, and cultivate some sales for more slaves in the future.
The New Army did not immediately march eastward, and Hong Tao decided to stay in Yingli and wait for another batch of reinforcements. More than 350 miles from Yingli to Xingqing Mansion, completely in the supply distance, he planned to use Yingli City as a supply station, not only for the new army, but also for the Lanzhou forbidden army of King Qi.
That's right, at this time, it should be the king of Qi to go out, attacking Xingqing Mansion and destroying Western Xia should be the credit of Zhao Maid, and he is just his general.
Whether or not this is the case, it must be so nominally externally. It is a scourge to throw such a great credit on his head, no one can carry it, and only by putting it on the head of Zhao Maid can it become a shining crown.
In addition, Hong Tao had to prevent the Great Song Emperor from taking risks, in case he jumped off the wall in a hurry, and he only carried enough ammunition for two or three large-scale battles to be very unreliable. Now time is in your favor, not afraid of slowness, only seek stability, step by step, as long as you don't make mistakes, no one will have a problem.
King Liang and King Qi raised troops to attack Xia, fought a battle, slaughtered 100,000 prisoners!
This news was the first to be published by Sichuan Daily, which was originally a little stuffy at the end of this summer, and as soon as this article came out, it was like pouring a scoop of cold water in boiling oil, and the result was two words, boiling!
It has been more than ten years since the defeat of Western Xia, and it has been almost ten years since the recovery of Youzhou, and nearly ten years of peace have allowed the Great Song Dynasty to cultivate and recuperate, but it cannot satisfy the gossip of the people.
In the early summer, when I first learned that the Western Xia people had invaded the south, I thought that the war would inevitably cost the people and money and erode thousands of miles, but the fact seems to have developed like this. The prince of Qi led a large army to the north, but the loss of troops and the retreat to Lanzhou.
It didn't take long for the battle to take a turn for the worse, first King Qi and King Liang Li Yingwai broke the siege of the Western Xia people, and I heard that they also injured the other emperor. More than a month later, the gate of the Tangut people was kicked open by the King of Qi and the King of Liang, and the Tangut people, who were still fierce two or three months ago, were about to lose their homeland, and they were relieved!
The caliber of the government and the opposition this time is relatively unified, and no one mentions anything to convince people with virtue, and they all agree that Xixia is a white-eyed wolf who is not familiar with his head, and he is not worthy of being educated by a saint, and must be severely punished!
At the same time, the name of King Zhao of Qi also appeared more and more in newspapers and became well-known to the public. The newspaper was also considerate, for fear that everyone would not know much about the young prince, so they simply added a separate issue.
At this point, the people remembered that this prince was not simple, he followed King Liang to the battlefield back then, and the battle of Xijin Mansion was when he and General Miao broke through the Liao army.
People's thinking must always diverge, otherwise how can it be called gossip. When the name King of Qi suddenly popped up and was talked about, many people remembered a rumor about the throne, it is said that it was not the current official family who should succeed the throne, but the King of Qi.
Royal gossip, this is much more interesting than the gossip of King Liang, as long as you start, don't want to stop, the more it spreads, the more evil it becomes, otherwise how can there be so many secrets and wild history in history.
It is strange that this time the Fuzhou Daily, the Sichuan Daily, and the Pravda did not make any comments on this matter that the people liked to see, and did not mention a word. Instead, they introduced the deeds of the pioneers and herdsmen of Ganliang Road who set up a militia to defend their homes, and began to quarrel with each other again.
Fuzhou Ribao and Sichuan Ribao fully affirmed the correctness of spontaneous arming, and the implication of the words was that we should not just rely on others, and that we should first have the courage to protect our own home. Pravda believes that fighting a war is a matter for the imperial court and the government, and the people should not be blindly involved.
It's just that this time it was opposed by more people, and some people even went to the Yangtze River Academy to argue with Xu Donglai face to face, asking him if the enemy hit the gate of the Yangtze River Academy, whether he, the editor-in-chief of the sage education, would surrender or pick up a bow and crossbow to fight with the enemy.
Not to mention, if Xu Donglai takes up arms, it is really not something that a scholar of this era can deal with. He has also trained with the children's group, although he has never killed anyone with his own hands, but he has seen a lot of murder scenes.
Of course, with the academy security guards and Wang San's new army, no one can be rude in the academy. In fact, there is no need for armed protection, and the local people are not allowed to spread wild in Guazhou and Yangzi Town.
There are gentlemen who teach children to read and write, understand reason, and find a good livelihood, as well as a female doctor who saves lives and the eldest princess who builds roads and bridges. We don't know any major national affairs, but God sent immortals to let the local people settle down and work, and they were envious of the nearby states and counties, and no one could be broken on this day.
Aren't you always yelling to protect your home, yes, just talk about not practicing fake tricks, and we'll show you a show. Don't talk about being rude, Guazhou Town and Yangzi Town can't tolerate you, you don't care about food and housing, and you don't serve money!
As a result, Fuzhou Daily seized on this incident to give Pravda eye medicine, and the reaction of the people of Guazhou Town and Yangzi Town was to support their argument with practical actions, and the people should defend their own interests, and it is very clear which is right and which is wrong.
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