Chapter 91: Ambush
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The guillotine fell, blood splattered, and a huge head that had been burned out rolled down, and the onlookers in front of the execution ground applauded in an uproar. Tang Shide and other Huang Binghao's former henchmen were also detained in the execution ground at this time, watching the blood gushing out of the neck like a spring, the timid people were immediately frightened and incontinent.
Since Huang Binghao led his troops and horses into Yuanzhou, the people of Yuanzhou have only suffered from him and have not been favored by him.
The executioner put Huang Binghao's head on a vermilion lacquer plate, and presented it to Zhou Zhizheng, who was beheaded by a supervising colonel, and said: "The first offender Huang Binghao has been punished, please check the ...... by the prison beheading officer."
Zhou Zhizheng looked at Huang Binghao's skull, and there was blood dripping down, he was a civil official, how could he have seen such blood, and he felt a little dizzy at the moment.
Zhou Zhizheng calmed down, looked at the head on the vermilion lacquer plate, uncovered it with a white cloth, and said loudly: "Huang Binghao was demoted to a luxurious family before, or it can be said that he was forced by the situation. The privy envoy, Chongguo Gongren and Righteousness, did not investigate his crimes, allowed him to repent and reform, and re-serve the court. However, Chongguo Gong sent people to Yuanzhou several times to recruit surrender, and promised to be a high-ranking official, but Huang Binghao not only could not accept the surrender sincerely, but was instigated by treachery and petty, and his heart was greedy. Today, Chongguo Gong obeyed the order of the Son of Heaven, specializing in the military affairs of Jiangxi, and punished Huang Binghao and his son; and Tang Shide's traitors and villains, they will be killed together, and they will be ...... by Kuang Guo's law."
Tang Shide and other Huang Binghao's personal officials and staff were all detained on the edge of the execution ground, and when they heard Zhou Zhizheng's last words, they knew that they could not escape death, and their eyes were dark, and some people were so frightened that they were scared, only Tang Shide still had some backbone, and struggled to stand up and scolded bitterly: "Zhou Zhizheng, you are a traitor to save glory, and you can't die well!" But he broke the leg of the execution soldier behind him with a stick, and dragged him to the execution ground with a wail.
Zhou Zhizheng looked at Tang Shide and the others who dragged the executioner to the execution ground, smiled coldly, and signed an order to call the executioner to be executed.
It was almost in the twelfth year of Chongguan that Jiangzhou officially set up an embassy, so that Huang Binghao could officially take charge of the military and political power in Jiangzhou, making Jiangzhou the land of Huang Binghao's family, and making Jiangzhou soldiers and horses become the soldiers of Huang Binghao's family, but Jiangzhou officials also have the difference between private officials and public officials.
The so-called private officials are officials and generals who were recommended and promoted by Huang Binghao, like Tang Shide, who was Huang Binghao's staff in the early days, and is naturally Huang Binghao's confidant. After all, Jiangzhou has not set up an envoy for a long time, and Huang Binghao is in power, and he can't make full use of his private person. The officials appointed by the imperial court before have always had considerable power in Jiangzhou, and they are "public officials". They are at odds with Huang Binghao's interests, and they are often ostracized.
Before the war, the two factions of Yuanzhou who opposed and supported the surrender were almost divided by this, and most of the people who really participated in Huang Binghao's conspiracy were Huang Binghao's trusted private officials, and others were just coerced.
After the war, Lin Jian wanted to liquidate the officials and generals of Yuanzhou, and naturally this was the most important distinction; Tang Shide and other henchmen of Huang Binghao participated in the conspiracy of Touyan, and after being bound with Huang Binghao, they naturally had to be escorted to the execution ground to be executed.
More than a dozen heads fell to the ground, and Zhou Zhizheng also became hard-hearted, and when the heads were hung outside the city gate, he went back to Lin to pay the order.
Of course, Zhou Zhizheng was also worried in his heart, the main force of the Yuanzhou army was defeated, but the two cities of Yuanzhou and Luxi had not yet fallen, so he was afraid that they would have the ambition to break the net. Of course, in front of the elite of Huaidong, it is a matter of time before Yuanzhou and Luxi are taken, but Zhou Zhizheng's family is still in Yuanzhou City, so he can't rest assured.
Before the Huaidong army entered the lower Yuan yesterday, Lin Jian pushed Huang Binghao's eldest son to the front of the army and beheaded him, and asked Zhou Pu to hang up Huang Lizhang's head and come to the lower Yuan City, showing a tough attitude of not surrendering.
If Chongguo Gong did the same to Yuanzhou City and Luxi City, Zhou Zhizheng was afraid that his family in Yuanzhou City would be killed.
Zhou Zhizheng walked into the heavily guarded order with a complicated mind, and saw Gao Zongting walking quickly from the side courtyard, and saluted: "Lord Gao, ......."
"Oh, Huang Binghao and the others have already been ambushed, what do the people in the city think of this matter?" Gao Zongting returned the salute and asked about the beheading.
"Huang Binghao vainly ignored the kindness of Gu Chongguo's forgiveness for his military crimes, plotted to surrender to the prisoners, and provoked the army in vain. The people in Xia Yuan City cheered in unison, praising the privy envoy for eliminating harm for the people. Zhou Zhizheng said.
"Hehe," Gao Zongting smiled and invited Zhou Zhizheng to go inside.
Seeing Zhou Zhizheng coming in with Gao Zongting, Lin Jian smiled and said, "Duke Zhou came just in time; Yuanzhou's guard Wei Zhong and Zhou Cheng, who participated in the army, closed the city to refuse to enter the city, and detained the relatives of Huang Chen and the others, and just sent someone to ask Yuan to surrender, I plan to trouble Zhou Gong to go to Yuanzhou on my behalf......"
Hearing that the situation in Yuanzhou was under the control of Wei Zhong, Zhou Cheng and others, and Lin Jian was willing to surrender, Zhou Zhizheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Wei Zhong, Zhou Cheng and others were originally advocating accepting surrender, so they were squeezed out by Huang Binghao and stayed in Yuanzhou City. At this time, Wei Zhong, Zhou Cheng and the others had no room for bargaining, as long as Lin Jian did not kill them all, it was natural for them to surrender.
Zhou Zhizheng immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "The privy envoy instructs, Zhizheng is not tired." ”
Lin Jian said to Wu Jingze: "I use the power of Duke Zhou to know the Yuan Zhou army and preside over political affairs, so you will temporarily stay in Yuan Zhou to assist the Duke of Zhou and join the army as a secretary." Over there in Yuanzhou City, you will also accompany Zhou Gong on a trip......"
Si Kou joined the army as a kind of record to join the army, in the early years by the military general, until the late Yue Dynasty turned into a civil servant, mastering the matter of catching and robbing Si Kou, often by the general judge control of the local military equipment.
Jingxiang is in danger, and then Lin Jian will transfer all the soldiers and horses in his hands to the northern line as much as possible, and there will not be many troops stationed on Yuanzhou's side, so make the greatest use of local troops. Lin Jian used Wu Jingze as the secretary to join the army, so he naturally used him to take charge of the local military equipment in Yuanzhou.
Zhou Zhizheng also understands this truth, Lin Jian can use him to replace the position of prefect of Yuanzhou, which is beyond his expectations, if he still tries to get involved in military power, he will be a little ignorant.
Zhou Zhizheng said: "Zhizheng has a few children in the clan, although they are stubborn and unbearable, but they still have blood and bravery, and they are willing to be driven by the privy envoys, and I specially asked me to ask the privy envoys to allow them to be recorded as Huaidong soldiers......"
The children of the clan that Zhou Zhizheng said were Zhou Qichang's subordinates who accompanied him yesterday to help Wu Jingze capture Yuan Dongmen and welcome Zhou Pu into the city.
Zhou Qichang's department wants to be regarded as an uprising, and he has made a great contribution to winning the door, so naturally he can't be regarded with the surrendered soldiers and prisoners - Zhou Qichang's department is only four or five hundred, but he has a close relationship with Zhou Zhizheng, so he easily won Zhou Zhizheng to Huaidong before the war.
In order to avoid suspicion, Zhou Zhizheng took the initiative to ask that Zhou Qichang be incorporated into the Huaidong Army, saying that he would not be involved in military power.
Lin Jian smiled slightly, shook his head and said: "The situation here in Yuanzhou is difficult to settle down for a while, there are rout soldiers and deserters everywhere, and Chen Zishou has not caught it, and you have no trustworthy manpower in Yuanzhou, and it will not be successful if there are too few trustworthy people." Zhou Pu said that Zhou Qichang was quite brave, so he asked him to be wronged first, and he was also the captain of Yuanzhou City, and helped Jingze supervise the local military equipment. Going north to resist the captives is a meritorious cause, and the peaceful place is also a meritorious service, so it is good not to feel too wronged...... "Lin Jian knew that Zhou Zhi was too worried, but he didn't break it, but he directly transferred Zhou Qichang's troops to Yuanzhou's government soldiers, and was controlled by Wu Jingze.
At most, Lin Jian will only leave three or five hundred elites for Wu Jingze in Yuanzhou, plus some wounded soldiers who need to be treated on the spot, but the situation in Yuanzhou is not stable, and almost 20,000 soldiers have fled among the mountains and fields.
Some of these rout soldiers will surrender or return directly to their hometowns, and they will not become a scourge, but it can be expected that some people will inevitably go into the deep mountains and old forests to become bandits and scourge localities, and local soldiers are needed to clean up and clean up.
In addition, Yuanzhou is between Gan and Hunan provinces, so how can you be wary of Tanzhou Zhang Han. Just leaving three or five hundred elites for Wu Jingze is far from enough to calm the place, and it is necessary to supplement the local military equipment, and at present, he can only recruit strong warriors from the prisoners.
Using Zhou Qichang and others as generals, first, the Zhou family and the Huang family have formed a mortal enemy, and they are not afraid that they will not do their best to suppress the bandits, and they are not afraid that they will collude with the remnants of Huang Binghao's forces, and second, they will use Zhou Qichang to supplement the local military equipment, and it is also to provide some way out for the non-Huang Binghao generals who surrender and surrender.
For the generals, if Huaidong didn't use him, he insisted on sending them back to their hometown, how could they farm with peace of mind? In the end, it also creates local instability. What Lin Tie wants to purge is only the descendants of Huang Binghao in the Yuanzhou Army, and other officials and generals, as long as they surrender, Lin Tie still has to be cut and hired as much as possible.
Zhou Zhizheng saw that Lin Jian actually appointed Zhou Qichang as the captain of Yuanzhou City, and he was grateful, and he didn't say more, but said: "I'm afraid that this hairy boy Qichang will live up to the trust of the lord......"
Lin Lian laughed and said, "Is there anyone who didn't come from the hairy boy......
Lin Jian immediately signed the appointment of Zhou Qichang, Zhou Xiu and others as the generals of the Yuanzhou Mansion Army, and transferred 200 people from the infantry battalion and the cavalry battalion to Wu Jingze, which can be regarded as setting up the Yuanzhou Mansion Army.
After Zhou Zhizheng and Wu Jingze led Zhou Qichang, Zhou Xiu, Yang Biao and other generals to visit Lin Lian, they ordered 1,000 soldiers and horses and went to Yuanzhou City to accept the surrender of the Yuanzhou defenders.
For the generals and officials of Yuanzhou who are not descendants of Huang Binghao and are willing to surrender, Lin Jian will not be too harsh.
In fact, like Zhou Cheng, who joined the army in the records of the Yuan Zhou Mansion, advocated surrender before the war. also because Zhou Cheng had a clear position before the war and was monitored by Huang Binghao, it was inconvenient for the Military Intelligence Department to take the initiative to contact him.
After the war, even if it was a thousand dollars to buy horse bones, Lin Jian would not treat a demoted general like Zhou Cheng badly.
Zhou Zhizheng and Wu Jingze arrived at the city of Yuanzhou on the 20th, Wu Jingze led his troops to wait outside the city, and Zhou Zhizheng entered the city to discuss surrender.
Lin bound Xu Weizhong and Zhou Cheng led their troops to surrender, and the soldiers and horses under Wei Zhong were taken over by Wu Jingze, but Wei Zhong retained the position of general, served as the counselor of Sikou, and was Wu Jingze's deputy, and the general position was still above Zhou Qichang, but he did not directly control the military power. Zhou Cheng retained the post of secretary and counselor, and assisted Zhou Zhizheng to act as the civil affairs of Yuanzhou.
After the ordinary soldiers surrendered their ordnance, they were allowed to return to their hometowns with travel expenses, and they could continue to serve in the army, and their salaries and rations were compared with those of the Huaidong soldiers; The attached officials and middle- and lower-level generals also pardoned their former sins and stayed in Yuanzhou to be used.
The 30,000 main force of the Yuanzhou army will be defeated, and the Yuanzhou garrison is only a thousand people, Lin Tie made such a condition for surrendering, and there is a great difference between surrender and surrender, Lin Tie agrees with Wei Zhong, Zhou Cheng and others to surrender, how can they refuse?
In the afternoon of the same day, Wei Zhong, Zhou Cheng and others opened the gate of Yuanzhou, welcomed Wu Jingze and his troops into the city, and handed over the relatives of Huang Binghao, Chen Zishou and others who they had seized in advance.
Although Chen Zishou said that he was on the run, Lin Jian had clearly listed him as a war criminal who must be executed, and his son, nephew, and relatives of Huang Binghao were treated equally. It's just that the "equal treatment" here is definitely not what Chen Zishou's relatives expect.
Before Zhou Zhizheng left, Lin Jian had already shown a few opinions:
For Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou's brothers, sons, and nephews who have reached adulthood and served in the Yuanzhou army, they will all be beheaded on the spot in Yuanzhou for the crime of betrayal. The only one who was spared was Huang Binghao's eldest son, Huang Lixing, who strongly opposed Huang Binghao's confrontation with Huaidong before the war, and excluded Huang Binghao from the core of Yuanzhou's army. In addition to Huang Lixing's demotion to the people and his escape, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou also had some relatives, and Lin Lian asked Zhou Zhizheng to temporarily detain them in Yuanzhou's prison, and when he had time in the future, he would investigate his crimes in detail to convict them, and no longer kill them.