"General Jijiu, it's not good! The Jin army has invaded the camp, and the brothers can't stand it!" The rebels climbed into the military tent in disgrace and reported their funeral to the army's commander Sun Yi.
Sun Yi was the son of the national master Sun Tai. After the king of Kuaiji sent people to kill Sun Tai, he ordered the killing of Sun Tai's six sons. Only Sun Yi remained in Linhai County.
When Sun En gathered followers of the Tianshi Sect to rebel in Linhai, he called himself General Zhengdong. He named his brother-in-law Lu Xun the Taoist Lord and defeated the bandits. The wild Sun Yi heard the news and went to seek refuge, and was immediately promoted to the priest of Tianshi Dao.
The Tianshi Dao rebels attacked Linhai, marched into the three Wu areas of Kuaiji, Wuxing, and Wu counties, penetrated Xin'an, Dongyang, and Danyang, and even sent people to lurk in Danyang, Gyeonggi Province. The Tianshi Dao rebels ravaged eight counties on the left and right of the Yangtze River.
After Sun En killed Xie Yan, he received news that Zhuge Kan and Zheng Lue were sending troops to Wuxian. He led his main force northward, divided his troops in Lou County, and handed half of his troops to his cousin Sun Yi.
Unexpectedly, in less than half a day, the Jin army reached Lou County!
"Did this Jin army fall from the sky?" Sun Yi didn't even have time to put on his armor, so he started to flee hastily with his guards.
"I don't know! There are Jin troops from all directions now, at least tens of thousands of them. We can't resist them at all!"
"Trash! We have 50,000 people, but we are actually afraid of 10,000 people?"
"The general doesn't know anything. Our troops are all believers of the Holy Religion. Most of them are farmers who were working in the fields with hoes not long ago. How can we defeat the serious elites of the imperial court?"
"What the hell! Why can eldest brother lead us to victory? In my hands, our people are so helpless?"
"General, the Jin army is fighting under the banner of the Qualified Cavalry Army, which is the most elite force of the Northern Expeditionary Army in the imperial court. The commander of the Qualified Cavalry Army is the General of the Northern Expedition of the Jin Dynasty! The Heavenly Master relied on the cooperation of his followers inside and outside to win such a victory. After many cities, at most I met a simple-minded Xie Yan, how can he compare with Xu Xiao’s Cavalry Army?”
yes! The Qiaoqi Army is a powerful army that can beat the barbarians everywhere and even their parents can't recognize them!
How can we compete with the peasant army in our hands?
Hearing the name of Xu Zongwen and the reputation of the Qiaoqi Army, Sun Yi was too frightened to say anything more. Although the words spoken by my subordinates are unpleasant, they are indeed the truth!
Sun Yi saw the chaos in the camp. The elite cavalry of the Suzaku Camp were rushing left and right, harvesting the defeated Tianshi Dao remnants everywhere. The two sides were not on the same level at all!
What else can you do? Run away!
"Hurry and cover my general's breakout and go to Wu County. We still have our army there. As long as we get to Wu County, we can survive!" Sun Yi understood that this battle could not be called a battle between two sides, but a unilateral massacre by the Jin army. !
Sun Yi still didn't know that just as he was desperately leading his people to break out of the encirclement, even abandoning all the followers of the Tianshi Sect, the danger was not far away, but was approaching step by step!
Sun Yi was being escorted by his personal guards to break out of the siege to the north. He was about to take advantage of the shortage of manpower in the Suzaku Camp and find an opening to escape. For this reason, he did not even think about running to Lou County City because he thought that a small It is impossible for the small Lou County to stop Xu Zongwen's army of tigers and wolves!
"ah!"
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to escape, he felt a chill on his back. A long knife penetrated his thin brown shirt, directly piercing his heart and lungs, and the blade penetrated out of his chest!
"How could you? You are brave!" Several of Sun Yi's soldiers surrounded him with long knives in their hands. The one who assassinated Sun Yi was the comrade who had just reported the battle!
The rebel who assassinated Sun Yi had bright eyes. He grinned and said, "This captain is the commander of the wolf guard under General Zhengbei. The rebel Sun Yi is dead. If you put down your weapons, you may be spared." If you wait until death and refuse to repent and stubbornly resist, Sun Yi will be your fate!"
Zhang San was ordered to assist Zhang Gui in commanding the troops to attack in a sneak attack. In the chaos, he led the people to change into the clothes of the followers of the Tianshi Sect, and asked step by step to determine the identity and camp location of the coach Sun Yi, adhering to the adventure of not entering the tiger's den, but the tiger's cubs. Spirit, Zhang San really found an opportunity to get close to Sun Yi!
Just like that, after Zhang San gained Sun Yi's trust, he easily killed Sun Yi when Sun Yi was defenseless!
"Ah! You! Are you Xu Xiao's person?" All the soldiers looked at each other in horror, as if they couldn't believe it. However, Sun Yi was dead and his body could no longer move. The reality had already happened and it could not be tolerated. They don't believe it.
"Captain, please spare my life! We have no choice but to follow Sun Yi. Please spare our lives, Captain!" All the soldiers could only look at the battle situation around them, and they were not sure how many people there were in the Jin army. They could only see rocks surrounding them. Blocking the road, there were chasing Tianshi Dao soldiers everywhere. They kowtowed to Zhang San and begged for mercy. All of them refused to surrender and threw down their weapons.
Zhang San was overjoyed. He immediately called the nearest soldiers from the Zhuque Camp and took away the prisoners. He stepped forward with his sword, cut off Sun Yi's head, climbed on a horse nearby, and stabbed Sun Yi's head upside down with a spear. , began to circle the camp and shout loudly: "The leader of the thieves, Sun Yi, has been brought to justice, and the leader of the evildoers has been killed. You still don't surrender? Those who surrender will not be killed!"
"Those who surrender will not be killed! Those who surrender will not be killed!" The soldiers of Zhuque Camp had a tacit understanding. Regardless of whether Zhang San really killed Sun Yi, they all shouted slogans in cooperation, one by one, over the entire camp. There was a lingering voice of Sun Yi's death persuading him to surrender.
"Surrender! The Jijiu Generals are all dead. We have no choice but to surrender. Look, there are so many Jin troops, and they are also the heroic cavalry of General Zhu Xu." The rebel army was filled with rags and ragged clothes. Seeing the disparity in strength between the two sides, no one wanted to continue to resist.
"Yes, the Cavalry Army under General Xu Xiao is a warrior capable of fighting a hundred battles. They are invincible and never suffered a defeat. We might as well surrender to the imperial court!"
"Come down! Brothers, surrender!"
"We are all Han, so there is really no need for this! General Xu is a great hero! I would rather follow the general to the north to kill the barbarians than to be a thief in Jiangdong!"
"Yes! These days of darkness and darkness must come to an end. Let's abandon the darkness and surrender to the light. Let's surrender the general! Han people will not kill Han people!"
“Han people don’t kill Han people!”
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The followers of Tianshi Dao are just farmers who have just put down their hoes. They don’t even have a sword, let alone armor. Only Sun Yi’s personal soldiers have that kind of treatment. How can they stop the soldiers of the Suzaku Camp who are covered in armor and are invulnerable to swords? opponent? Relying on Sun En's lustful power, they were able to harm the people of the eight counties of Jiangzuo. Now Sun En divided his troops and went to Wu County. Sun Yi, who led the army, died at the hands of the Jin army. They were leaderless. What would they do if they didn't surrender?
"Han people don't kill Han people!" Zhang Gui was overjoyed when he learned that Zhang San had killed Sun Yi. He quickly sent people to surround and suppress the escaped rebels, and also quickly sent people to persuade them to surrender, hoping to end the battle as soon as possible and reduce the number of Suzaku Camps. of casualties.
The anti-thief camp was in flames. The morale of the Tianshi Dao believers was low and they had no intention to fight. The occasional stubborn resistance was quickly killed and extinguished by Zhang San and Zhang Gui with their respective troops!
"Brother Zhang Gui, gather all the prisoners, I have something to say." Zhang San put the long sword into the scabbard, found Zhang Gui, and explained his purpose. He believed that the victory or defeat of the camp was determined now, but if the prisoners could not be dealt with well, It will definitely cause turmoil again and all previous efforts will be wasted.
Although the Zhuque Battalion killed nearly 10,000 enemies in this battle and achieved brilliant results, Zhang Gui also understood that it was impossible to completely restrain nearly 30,000 prisoners with just 1,000 Suzaku Battalion soldiers, so he gathered the prisoners outside the camp.
"Brothers! You are all descendants of San Wu. You are the common people of Jin Dynasty, not the Hulu barbarians in the north. Now our imperial army has begun a large-scale counterattack. The rebel Sun En is like a grasshopper after the autumn. He can't jump much. Damn it, Sanwu is about to be liberated. This captain has made the decision to distribute food to you so that you can go home and live a good life..."
"I hope you will find your way back from your lost ways, stop being bewitched by Thief Sun, trust the court, live your life honestly, and don't make the same mistake again and again!"
Fortunately, there are still two thousand stones of food in the camp. Otherwise, whether or not these prisoners can be successfully sent back home will be a headache. If you are not careful, it will cause a riot!
"Thank you Captain, thank you General, thank you very much!"
"Long live the sage of the imperial court, general!"
Zhang San repeatedly promised that they would not be held accountable for their crimes. When the followers of Tianshi Dao heard that they could return to their hometown and receive food, they were all overjoyed and shouted loudly, "Long live."
In fact, Zhang San's method of appeasing the captives was not something he came up with himself, but was given by Guo Shang himself before he sent troops.
The land in the south of the Yangtze River is uneven and the population is large. In order to solve the land problem between the expatriates and the locals in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial court has always adopted the method of land separation.
However, twenty years have passed since the last time the Gengxu Empire was cut off. That time was still presided over by Great Sima Huanwen. Over the past twenty years, the population has increased, refugees from the north have continued to move south, and the land in the south of the Yangtze River has long been saturated. Sun En and others The reason why we can have tens of thousands of followers of Tianshi Dao and can easily gather 100,000 people to rebel is that the land issue is the most important hidden danger!
