"Dong-dong-dong-"
"Dong-dong-dong-"
"Dong dong dong..."
In the field of war drums and flags flying, the bright red flags of the Jin army that blocked out the sky and sun were like a vast ocean surrounding the small Xinfeng City!
Under Xinfeng City, the Zhaozhao Battalion, which was ready to attack, finally launched its attack on Xinfeng City!
Only this time, the goal of the Zhaozhao Battalion is not to capture Xinfeng City, but to completely destroy Xinfeng and make Xinfeng the burial place and burial place of Yan Bing!
At this time, it was noon, and all the Yan soldiers were exhausted and hungry. The Huotou army went to make food, and each team defended the men and horses at the top of the city.
"Chief, it's not good! The Jin army is attacking the city!" Yan Bing hurried into the city to report the news, as if his buttocks were on fire.
The guard general's name is Duguqiu, and he is the leader of the Dugu tribe of Xianbei. The Dugu tribe is one of the eight tribes that followed the Murong tribe early in the morning.
"Why are you panicking! Didn't I already order the city gates to be sealed? How could the Jin army defeat this impregnable Xinfeng City?" Duguqiu continued drinking and having fun while served by two trembling women, without any rush.
"But……"
Duguqiu waved his hand and said impatiently: "Nothing, just go down first."
"Yes, leader!" Yan Bing sighed, and reluctantly retreated with worries in his heart.
In the afternoon, the wind blew violently. The guard sergeant flew to report the fire. Dugu Qiu waved his hand and said indifferently: "The sergeant must have been careless in preparing the rice. He missed the fire. Don't make a fuss about it."
Before he could finish talking, each door reported several times in succession, and the west, south, and north doors were all on fire.
When Duguqiu hurriedly ordered his generals to mount their horses, the whole city of Xinfeng was already on fire, red from top to bottom, and the sound of intermittent explosions was heard!
In the sky above Xinfeng City, tens of thousands of unknown objects soared high, passing like meteors, and the moment they landed, there was a loud thunder strike!
The fire caused when the thunderbolt landed quickly ignited the houses in the city. After an hour of being released, Xinfeng City was red on all sides, and the thick black smoke obscured this small city in Guanzhong.
At the same time, the explosion of the thunderbolt not only made the Yan soldiers exhausted from fighting the fire, but also caused a lot of losses to the Yan soldiers. Thousands of Yan soldiers were hit by the thunderbolt falling from the sky or died from the explosion. !
Cao Ren led his generals to find a way out of the sudden smoke and fire. When he heard that there was no fire at the east gate, he hurried out of the east gate. The soldiers trampled on each other, and countless people died. Cao Ren and others had just escaped from the fire when a shout came from behind. Zhao Yun led his troops and came to fight in a melee. The defeated troops all fled for their lives. Who was willing to turn around and fight.
While running, Mi Fang led an army to arrive and charged and killed them for a while. Cao Ren was defeated and fled. Liu Feng led another army to intercept and kill him.
At the fourth watch, the men and horses were exhausted, and most of the sergeants were exhausted. They rushed to the Baihe River and were delighted that the water was not very deep. Both men and horses went down to the river to draw water. They were shouting at each other and the horses were neighing.
But he said that Zheng Luoan was sitting on a hill outside the city, saw the fire in Xinye, and was mobilizing his troops to prevent the enemy from breaking through.
At night, I suddenly heard people in Xinfeng City shouting for their horses to neigh, and they urgently ordered all the buildings in the Zhaozhao Camp to gather and stand by. The scouts came to report that the Yan soldiers had sealed the city gates. Both men and horses were caught in the fire. Many people had begun to jump to the city to survive. There were many dead. , too terrible to look at!
Zheng Lue then led the generals to watch the fire and go away. When they reached the north gate, they heard loud shouts. Looking up, two more Yan soldiers who were burned by the fire couldn't stand the burning and jumped from the city to commit suicide.
Red flames were seen inside the city, and thunder was heard in the sky. After this night, Xinfeng City has become a purgatory on earth!
"Hurry, break through the city gate and beg for surrender from the Jin army!" Duguqiu finally chose to save his life. Under the desperate efforts of the Yan soldiers, the damaged Xinfeng North Gate was opened on his own initiative.
"The guilty general Dugu Qiu did not know that the heavenly troops were coming suddenly. He did not dare to offend the power of heaven, so he asked for surrender!" Dugu Qiu, with disheveled hair and face as black as carbon, knelt down under Zheng Lue's horse with his remaining 10,000 horses and asked for surrender.
Zheng Lue was very satisfied with his masterpiece. As soon as he raised his hand, a soldier immediately came forward to take the seal letter of soldiers and the great banner of Yan soldiers from Dugu Xin's hand.
"Okay, although Beidi Xianbei is stubborn, those who understand current affairs are heroes. I, the general, accept your request to surrender and let your people disarm!" Zheng Lue took Duguqiu's saber, a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes, he With a look of disgust on his face, he added: "This general will send them where they should go."
Although Dugu Qiu didn't understand the word Beidi very well, and he didn't understand the meaning of the so-called place he should go to. He only thought it was a surrender camp, but Zheng Luoyun approved his surrender, which meant that he could hold his own. life!
"Thank you, general, for your kindness!" Immediately, Dugu Qiu ordered the Yan soldiers to abandon their military battles and take off their incomplete armor that had been burned by the fire.
On the night when Dugu Qiu led more than 10,000 Yan troops to beg for surrender, Zheng Lue issued a military order that he could never turn back - to trap and kill the Yan troops who surrendered!
After receiving the news, Yang Tan was shocked and immediately broke into Zheng Lue's tent to admonish: "The enemy has surrendered. Why did the general order the massacre of the unarmed surrendering troops?"
Zheng Lue replied coldly: "Why didn't the Xianbei people let go of the women, children, the old and the weak when they massacred my compatriot Shi? When the Huns destroyed our capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, why didn't they let the whole city go? The Jie people regard us Han people as two-legged sheep. When you are killing people at will, why don't you think of yourself as a human being and do something worse than an animal?"
"General, you are so ridiculous!" Yang Tan's voice gradually became louder: "The barbarians do not know how to be kings, and their animal nature has not faded, so the northern land is thousands of miles away, and the ground is full of fishy smell! But the general is a brave cavalry general, and the imperial court appointed General Ning Shuo , the vanguard of the Western Expedition ordered by the general, the general replaced not only the general, but the general, the Jin Dynasty! You ordered the massacre of the surrendered troops today, and the general's reputation for killing and surrendering will surely spread throughout the world in the future. This move will not only It is ominous and destroys the integrity of our Jin Dynasty!"
"General, God has the virtue of saving lives. To avoid the door of killing is contrary to God's will! Killing and surrendering will not lead to any gain. General, please make a clear decision!"
From ancient times to the present, "killing and surrendering is ominous" has been a military proverb deeply engraved in the hearts of people all over the world. Although it is not a law, it is the way of heaven and humanity that is more deeply rooted in people's hearts than the law.
Since the birth of man on the earth and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, there have been killings and conquests in the world. For land, cattle and sheep, wealth, women, and power, people can always find various reasons to kill each other to the death.
However, no matter how many battles and killings are carried out, one thing remains unchanged, and that is not killing prisoners of war who have given up any resistance. If the victorious side makes prisoners of war slaves and does hard labor, and abuses prisoners of war in various ways, people will certainly condemn and denounce it, but that's it.
The law of the jungle is the eternal law of the world. People always fear the victor, and they also give more tolerance morally. However, things in this world always have their limits. Once you cross this limit, even if the force cannot destroy you immediately, the sudden unity of heaven and humanity will bury you forever! Among the many limits in the human world, non-killing on the battlefield is the most eye-catching one.
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, there have been countless military battles, and the two people who are most famous for killing and surrendering are Bai Qi and Xiang Yu. Therefore, historical books and unofficial histories have denounced these two people a lot, and their end was even more lonely.
The three schools of Confucianism, Mohism, and Taoism abhorred killings and conquests.
"There are no righteous wars in the Spring and Autumn Period" and "those who are good at fighting will serve their sentences" are Mencius's warnings to the world.
Lao Tzu said, "Soldiers are an ominous weapon." "Those who enjoy killing people cannot succeed in the world."
Furthermore, the Mohist theory of universal love and non-aggression became popular all over the world, denounced the injustice of military warfare, and advocated "righteousness" as the foundation of military warfare.
All this and so on, even if you are cursing fiercely in the battle, let alone killing and surrendering?
Yangtan didn't know why Zheng Lue took the risk.
"Bang!" Zheng Lue didn't know why. Not only was he unmoved, but his voice was like a loud bell. He punched through several cases and said unswervingly: "Duguqiu slaughtered Xinfeng. The crime is unforgivable. I I want these 10,000 Xianbei people to be buried with the children of the Han family! Since Xinfeng has not grown a blade of grass, let it become the tomb of the people of Xinfeng. I want the Xianbei people to build a Jingguo to intimidate the young people from all over the world, pay homage and comfort them. The souls of the Han people who were brutally massacred by the barbarians are in heaven!"
In Zheng Lue's heart, Xu Zongwen's words to drive away the barbarians were very popular!
"Zuo Zhuan" is not of my race, so his heart must be different!
"What? You still want to stay in Beijing and watch!" Yang Tan's eyebrows trembled, and he couldn't stabilize his body. He took three steps back. At this time, he felt like he was given a slap on the head. He thought that Zheng Lue's trap and killing of surrendered soldiers was shocking, but he didn't expect that Zheng Lue would kill the surrendered soldiers. There is also Zhujing Temple!
Jing refers to a high hill, and Guan refers to a palace.
When the ancients killed thieves and laid out the corpses of a victorious battle, they would build a temple as a place to hide the corpses. There are ancient battlefields.
Zheng Lue was determined, but Yang Tan went away hesitantly.
Zheng Lue thought for a while, then walked out of the tent to the hillside outside the city.
It is now the end of September. Although the days are warm as Indian spring, the autumn wind at night is already as cold as water.
The stars in the sky are bright, the mountains and rivers are flashing with military lights, and Xinfeng, which was still burning in the day, is still showing a faint smoke screen.
If he and his elder brother Xu Zongwen had not participated in Xie Xuan's recruitment in Jingkou and joined the Beifu soldiers, he would not have had the opportunity to lead the army in the Northern Expedition and make meritorious deeds.
Drive out the barbarians and restore China!
Last year, the old capital of Luoyang was recaptured by the Qiaoqi Army. Now Chang'an is in sight again, and its recovery is just around the corner. Almost the entire Central Plains has become the territory of the Jin court again.
The wish was about to become a reality, and Zheng Lue's heart often surged with a sense of a long journey ahead.
Brother, I am willing to bear this notoriety.
After Xinfeng, he will have a drunken party with the soldiers of the three armies. After slaughtering these ten thousand Xianbei, he is willing to bear the responsibility for life or death himself!
When he saw Xianbei's troops disappearing in the rain of arrows, the embankment in Zheng Lue's heart suddenly burst open!
"My general orders that all Xianbei soldiers, old, young, women and children, be not spared. All will be killed!"
"Tomorrow, cut off the heads of all the Xianbei people and build a Jingguan under Xinfeng City."
"promise!"
With this order, within ten miles of Xinfeng, there were loud cries, sleepless nights, and a bloody atmosphere that would not dissipate for ten days...
