Chapter 156: Just ask, what is the responsibility!?
It would definitely be harmful to save an army and then let the Chu State no longer support the Fan family.
What Liu Yang was worried about was that the Chu army was too miserable, but his own losses were not much.
This is thinking from a strategic perspective.
Therefore, in many cases, it is not about the loss of a city or a land, but the war ultimately serves politics.
Why did Zhiyao and Wei Ju want to let Liu Yang go?
Wei Ju must have many considerations. First of all, the Wei family can reduce losses, and secondly, the Fan family must preserve its strength so that they can continue to contain the Zhao family. It is a fact that "Wen" is especially difficult to conquer.
As for whether the Fan family will give the Wei family a hard blow in the future? The Wei family has basically achieved its strategic goals after the Zhi family introduced Shi Gaoyi, and the remaining ones can be taken over after the Fan family is truly finished.
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Zhiyao had more considerations. Leaving the Fan family to contain the Zhao family was just one of them. What they wanted most was for the Fan family to exterminate themselves from Chu.
What does it mean? It doesn’t have too complicated connotations. It’s just that Zhiyao doesn’t want the scale of the war to expand any further, so the Fan family should fight against the Zhao family, and the Chu State should not go north to be stabbed in the butt by the Wu State again. Then the Zhi Yao family can go to the Wei family.
Zheng Guo played slowly.
Wu State had defeated Qi State last year. Not surprisingly, Fu Chai's power should have reached an extreme level, and he would start to set his sights on Jin State, planning to go north to fight Jin State. Defeat Jin Army and make other countries recognize his dominance.
Wu State has defeated Chu State repeatedly, and even captured "Ying" once. It really only needs to defeat Jin State to become the overlord.
Zhiyao didn't know when Wu's army would go north. What he wanted was that even if Wu's army went north, Chu would still have the power to attack Wu's internal emptiness.
To put it bluntly, Zhiyao did not want the Zhao family to continue to be strong, let alone the Jin State to become a second-rate vassal state.
For this reason, Zhiyao began to prepare to contact Gou Jian to see if there was anything he could do to help Yue. Doing this was a kind of stabilization or control of the international situation.
Therefore, Zhiyao will not only let go of the Fan family's private army led by Liu Yang, but also want to make way for the remaining Chu troops who have not arrived at the battlefield to return home.
Zheng Jun? If they join forces with the Chu Army, Zhiyao will let them go this time, and Zheng Jun will intercept them all the way.
Zhiyao had already found the reason. They had already fought the coalition forces twice and achieved good results. It would be nothing if they were unable to fight again.
What now depends is what choice Liu Yang makes.
Liu Yang found out that the Zhi family and the Wei family wanted to let go and fight in Heaven and Man. He wanted to preserve the Fan family's strength, but he had to consider the feelings of the Chu State.
Finally, Liu Yang gritted his teeth and shouted: "Attack!"
The Fan family's private army who received the order had to see whether they had noticed the intentions of the Zhi family and the Wei family in advance. If they were aware of it, they might feel why they had to fight so hard when they had the opportunity to leave. If they were not aware of it, they would not worry about gains and losses.
"Seek death!" Wei Ju was angry.
Zhiyao sighed in a low voice and gave instructions to the messenger: "Wave the flag and order our troops to join the attack."
This was an era where one could die to protect the family. Liu Yang's choice was to take care of the overall interests of the Fan family, or he believed that winning the support of the Chu State was far more important than protecting a "division" under his command.
Of course, the war has not yet reached its final outcome. Maybe Liu Yang can command Fan's private army and the remaining Chu army to make a comeback?
However, speaking of facts and reasoning, the combined 50,000-strong coalition army was defeated, leaving about 6,000 Fan's private army and about 10,000 Chu troops still resisting. In addition, their military morale has been lost. How can they win?
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About three quarters of an hour later, Liu Yang looked around and saw soldiers from the Zhi family and Wei family all around him. There were only less than thirty of his own people left. He looked up and looked at the sun in the west.
Given the option of surrender or death, most of the Chu army chose to surrender, and a small number of Fan soldiers also surrendered.
"Do you want to step forward?" Wei Ju thought from the bottom of his heart that Liu Yang didn't appreciate praise.
Zhiyao didn't know whether she should admire Liu Yang for making sacrifices for the sake of Fan's overall interests.
He must be a noble person if he does not hesitate to sacrifice for the country.
Now is an era where the interests of the country are considered before the family. If the nobles knew that Liu Yang had sacrificed for the Fan family, you would know that they would appreciate it. As for whether it is noble or not, it depends on the angle from which you look at it.
"Don't come forward. Retreat your troops." Zhiyao did not want to kill Liu Yang, and was not even interested in taking prisoners.
Wei Ju thought for a while, nodded and used it as a repeater, saying: "Retract the troops."
Naturally, someone will pass on the order.
The Zhi soldiers and Wei soldiers who received the order had different reactions.
When the soldiers of the Zhi family learned that they were about to withdraw their troops, they quickly went to harvest the heads, which made the Wei soldiers' cheeks twitch when they saw them.
"The Zhi family may become a public enemy!" Of course Liu Yang also saw what the Zhi family's soldiers were doing.
The soldiers from the Zhi clan not only cut off the heads of the Chu army, but also could not spare the heads of the Fan soldiers. If there were no officers watching, they might even frantically harvest the heads of the soldiers who died in the battle.
This is the disadvantage of military merit being judged by the head. As long as it can be exchanged for military merit, it doesn't matter who is beheaded. What is important is that it is military merit that is handed in!
What can Zhiyao do? Can he stop his soldiers from harvesting heads?
He can have some restrictions, but he cannot completely stop them, otherwise he will be fighting against the "new law" he has formulated.
"Yao, is this action?" Wei Ju felt that the actions of the Zhi soldiers were too cruel.
Yes, it is indeed very cruel.
However, sometimes cruelty is necessary.
Zhiyao was recalling how Shang Yang responded to such a question, but the terrible thing was that he couldn't find the relevant memory in his mind.
"There is nothing better than being happy after hearing about the war." Zhiyao shook his head as he spoke, and then continued: "We'll see what happens in the future."
At this time, Zigong came over and whispered in Zhiyao's ear: "Young Master Lu's body has not been found."
Gongzilu was about 50 meters in front of the Jin army, but was trampled to death about 120 meters behind him.
At that time, the Jin army launched an attack after Gongzi Lu's death, and the Chu people had no chance to recover Gongzi Lu's body.
Now the body of Gongzi Lu cannot be found? Considering the advancing army, the trampling of human feet, the trampling of horse hooves and the repeated rolling over by chariots, it won't be turned into meat, right?
In the distance, Liu Yang shouted loudly: "Heaven!!!"
Failed, but the people of the Zhi family and the Wei family didn't pay any attention to them. Is this a kindness or an insult?
Zhiyao and Wei Ju turned to look, and people nearby were also attracted by Liu Yang's shouts.
Liu Yang, who was standing on the chariot, was looking up at the sky again, just looking at it before scanning the battlefield again.
On the battlefield at this moment, the soldiers of the Zhi family were busy cutting off heads, while the auxiliary soldiers from the Zhi family and the Wei family had already entered the battlefield to clean up the battlefield.
The surrendered coalition soldiers will be escorted by whoever captured them.
Liu Yang did not say a word such as "I am what you will end up with today", he looked at the world with a nostalgic look for the last time, and then committed suicide with his sword.
No, just now was not the last time Liu Yang looked at the world.
Wiping the neck and cutting off the carotid artery will not cause death immediately. It requires a process of massive bleeding, and then death can occur due to excessive blood loss, or the trachea may be blocked by blood and suffocate. The process may take thirty breaths.
Or longer.
Liu Yang fell to the ground and kept looking at the sky. He finally died without closing his eyes.
In addition, you must know that you cannot kill yourself by biting your tongue, and it will be very painful, very painful!
After Liu Yang committed suicide, the remaining thirty or so Fan family members looked at each other and committed suicide one after another.
At this time, Zhiyao needs to say something: "Haosheng restrained and handed over to Shi Gaoyi."
Of course Shigaoyi was not on the battlefield, he was busy handling the follow-up in his fiefdom.
Because the Zhi family and the Wei family are willing to allow Shi Gaoyi to inherit part of the Fan family's inheritance, the reborn Fan family will most likely become a family with the same strength as the Jie family.
To be more specific, Shigaoyi would be a medium-sized noble with one "capital", three "cities", and no less than thirty "states", and its military strength may be greater than that of Jie's clan, reaching one "division"
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The price Shigaoyi paid was that most of the Fan family was disintegrated. For a long time, Fan was no longer the surname and was renamed Fangaoyi.
The political price? Gaoyi will need to follow the Wei family in the future. What about the mainland?
Night falls.
On the battlefield, there were still auxiliary soldiers from the Zhi family and the Wei family holding torches and cleaning up the battlefield.
This time, they will not only collect useful and useless things, but also bury the remains of the dead from both sides.
After the great victory, Zhiyao and Wei Ju were in the same military tent, and they discussed whether to withdraw their troops.
Wei Ju may still be resentful of Zhi's cruelty. When facing Zhi Yao, he wanted to mention it again and again, but he held it back again and again.
Each family has always refrained from interfering in each other's internal affairs. Any interference would be tantamount to evil intentions. It is extremely normal for the family that has been interfered with to have the strength to choose to turn against them immediately.
"Report to Yuan Rong first, and then withdraw the troops?" Wei Ju understood completely, but still raised questions.
"Exactly." Zhiyao answered first, and then said: "Our army has arrived in Wen for several days. We have fought battles with the enemy one after another. The Zheng army has been on the south bank of the river, and the Chu army has made strange movements. With the current situation, we can retreat.
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In fact, Zhiyao wanted to cross the river halfway and attack, but after the continuous battles, the army really needed to rest.
It’s okay not to take a rest, but if you win the next battle, your own establishment may be ruined.
Zhi's new army would lose numbers as it participated in the war, and it would be difficult to get accurate casualty statistics for a while. The approximate total number of casualties was about two thousand, of which the battle dead may be close to five hundred.
The remaining Zhishi troops suffered casualties of close to four to five thousand, and the number of casualties would not be less than one thousand and five.
Comparing this with the results obtained, a total of 8,307 heads were captured and more than 20,000 prisoners were captured.
What is the situation on the Wei side? Zhiyao is paying attention, but the data will be more vague. At the same time, he does not know how many prisoners the Wei has captured.
Wei Ju was very hesitant and said, "What if Yuan Rong refuses?"
Zhiyao looked at Wei Ju quietly without saying anything.
The two families have already paid excessive taxes, which is tantamount to harming their own families and caring about the interests of the country.
Based on the views of this era, most nobles would not praise the Zhi family and the Wei family, but would only laugh at the stupidity of the two families.
Now that the Wei family has taken advantage of it, they still want to take no responsibility at all? What are you thinking!
