Chapter 409: I am not Yang Guang, but the Wei family is Goguryeo
Wei put on a desperate posture, and the situation became far more complicated than Zhiyao expected.
The young and strong men who were temporarily armed may have only average fighting ability and fighting will. If there are enough of them, it is really annoying to have officers leading the team to harass or sneak attack again and again.
"If I slaughter an entire city, can I scare the rest into surrendering?" Zhiyao asked.
According to Zhiyao's idea, he quickly arrived at "Wei" city. There must be a process of persuading surrender by then. It is expected that the Wei family will not surrender, and launching an attack to capture it is basically equivalent to causing the greatest collapse of confidence in the Wei family.
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What I didn't expect was that there were quite a few people in the Wei family who were not afraid of death. They were young and strong and could obey, but they repeatedly launched attacks on the Zhi family's subordinates despite knowing that they were risking death.
The attack by Wei's scattered team could not cause many casualties to Zhi's troops. They were harassed over there so that they could not sleep at night, the outlying camps somewhere were set on fire, the transport team somewhere was ambushed, and there were everywhere in the wilderness.
Traps and other things become annoying if you encounter them too many times.
What was the most unacceptable thing for Zhi Yao? Wei Si repeatedly faked surrender and made it too obvious that he did not want to live a better life. A large number of Wei's young men were sent to the battlefield. How many people were lost would reduce Zhi's gains after victory!
A bit arrogant, but Zhiyao has regarded everything that he has not obtained as his own, and has even begun to plan how to use it.
If we record it in a positive way, we can't help but feel that Zhiyao is really a tragic actor, and then criticize Weisz for being capricious and not taking human life seriously.
How much history has been subject to human intervention is recorded in this way? All stains are erased, and the winner is left with only greatness, light, and justice.
This is not an era where the victors write the history books. Just now Zhiyao knew that she had said the wrong thing.
Zhiyao was looking at the historian who was accompanying him to record history.
Although Ji Zhou changed the names of many official positions in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, not all historians have the prefix "Sima". What is more puzzling is that the records of Zhi Yao's words and deeds have this prefix, and they are from the Hanoi area.
Have you thought of anything? The ancestors of the Sima clan in Hanoi have been serving as "Xia officials". One of their ancestors also participated in pacifying a force called "Xu Fang" and was granted the title of Sima clan by the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
That "Xu Fang" is not the later Xu State. Many forces in the Yin and Shang Dynasties generally have "Fang" as a suffix. Since it is the "Fang State" called in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, it generally has a relatively complete system, not the primitive one.
Tribal clan.
Ji Zhou was recorded as "Zhou Fang" by the Yin Shang Dynasty before. If we want to say which one has existed for the longest time and has always had a hostile relationship with the Yin Shang Dynasty, it must be the "Ghost Fang".
Every era has its own "fashion", right? During the Xia Dynasty, the head of the country was still called "hou". In other eras, "hou" became the title of the head's wife.
Zhiyao has a very unfavorable opinion of the Sima family from Hanoi, and I won’t go into details about the reasons.
Now, the middle-aged man named Sima Xiufu is writing diligently and faithfully recording what Zhiyao mentioned about massacring the city.
Sun Wu thought carefully for a while and said: "It may be feasible."
Killing an entire city so that others do not dare to resist, similar practices have happened too many times. No matter how many times it happens, brutality is a certain thing, but it can effectively prevent the majority of the enemy from continuing to resist stubbornly.
Zhi Xuwu said hesitantly: "This will hinder the harmony of heaven."
God!
Are you mad that you are going to massacre a city during a civil war? Are you confused?
It took nearly a month, and we were still close to seventy miles away from "Wei" city. To be honest, Zhiyao was really disgusted and a little confused.
Sun Wu said: "It's just a matter of announcing the massacre of the city and not doing it."
It seems like a compromise? It's just to scare people without actually doing it. Whether or not you want to clear your reputation in the future is another matter.
Zhiyao saw that Sun Wu and Zhi Xuwu were singing the double act. She was a little speechless and laughed a few times and said, "It's a joke!"
But, I’m really angry!
In fact, using various means to deal with an aggressor in order to protect one's homeland will be regarded as a just act by everyone except the aggressor himself.
Unfortunately, Zhishi was the aggressor this time. If he didn't completely lose his mind, he would have to maintain enough restraint.
Sun Wu and Zhi Xuwu looked at each other, and both breathed a sigh of relief.
If Zhiyao really committed the massacre, it would be certain that he would leave a reputation for brutality in the history books, and the subsequent process of annexing the Wei family would also become extremely bloody.
They could only endure constant harassment, and at most they would try to keep the enemies behind as much as possible. To occupy a certain place, they had to use gentle methods, which made many people of the Zhi family feel extremely aggrieved.
Many times it is difficult to distinguish many things clearly.
For example, the Zhi family treats the people of the Wei family as compatriots. Is it true that the Zhi family launched an aggressive military operation against the Wei family?
So the Wei family, who were being invaded, tried their best to resist the Zhi family. What was wrong with them?
Zhiyao understands that sometimes no matter how depressed she is, she can only endure it. She can only keep persuading that she is destined to be the final winner, which can be regarded as showing mercy.
The Hu family and the Zhong family encountered the same thing, but they dealt with it far more decisively than the Zhi family. They caught one and killed the other, and then went to destroy the villages that sent people to attack, and once they captured a city, they filled it with loot.
Slave operation.
With the methods of the Hu family and the Zhong family, and the Zhi family's help in propaganda, the attacks suddenly subsided a lot, and even the cities and villages along the way sent people to surrender before the Zhi family's army could approach.
However, because Wei Si of the Wei family repeatedly made false surrenders, the surrender of the Wei family members in various cities and villages became unreliable, which still made Zhi family feel distressed.
In any case, with the Hu family and the Zhong family ruthlessly treating the Wei people who attacked and pretended to surrender, it really made the Wei people who wanted to cause trouble become much more honest.
So? Most people still fear power rather than virtue. Only by knowing cruelty can we understand how rare kindness and patience from the enemy are.
Zhiyao still failed to reach the "Wei" city before the first snow of winter began to fall.
When they arrived at "Wei" city in the snow, they heard the news of "Geng"'s fall.
This "Geng" is one of the more important cities of the Han family. Once it falls, it means that the Wei family has opened a passage to "Han".
If nothing else goes wrong, the Wei family's army should have crossed Huishui and arrived at the "Han" city, the Han family's home base?
Zhiyao, who arrived at the outskirts of "Wei" city, had just set up camp when Wei family retainer Jian Bochong came over as an envoy.
Of course Zhiyao knew Uncle Jian, and was very surprised that he was not dead.
It's not that Uncle Jian should have died in the territory of Zheng. The main reason was that Wei Ju disappeared during the expedition. Later, Wei Ju was confirmed to be dead. The Wei family retainers who accompanied him on the expedition should have gone underground to accompany him.
"Uncle Zhi, the Wei family is willing to surrender." Uncle Jian didn't say anything else and just said what he wanted.
What is more surprising..., or rather numbing, is that the clan members or retainers of the Zhi family, including Zhi Yao, behave extremely coldly, even with expressions of disgust on their faces.
The situation is like this. While Zhiyao was in "Xintian", some people from the Wei family went to surrender. The reality is that the Wei family's preparations for war did not stop.
Later, Zhiyao marched towards "Wei" and encountered surrender and rebellion more than once. This is also the reason why he could say that he wanted to massacre the city.
Weiss, who wants to live... or anyone else, they don't want to have any bottom line.
If you encounter such an enemy and do not maintain the same moral level as them, you will easily become Yang Guang and conquer Goguryeo!
Zhiyao originally didn't want to see Uncle Jian.
Sun Wu thought that Uncle Jian should be allowed to come over.
Now, Zhiyao is ignoring Jian Bo at all, so Sun Wu must be the one to show up.
"In this way, the gates of the city of 'Wei' are wide open, and the entire army goes out of the city with hands tied. The leader of the Wei family goes out to ask for surrender." Sun Wu said.
Zhiyao is watching Sima Xiu's father record history with old Zhi's pen and paper.
This period of history will definitely be exciting when future generations see it. We will witness Wei Si using many despicable methods after becoming the master of the Wei family. At the same time, we will also see Zhiyao's anger and helplessness.
Jian Bo said solemnly: "There is no oath of alliance, and it is not an alliance under the city. How can this be done?"
What?
Do you want Zhiyao to go to the city in person to discuss Wei's surrender terms?
Or did the Zhi family give the Wei family more time so that the Wei family could force the Han family to surrender?
It can still be seen to this day that the Wei family refused to admit defeat at all and refused to appear as an alliance under the city. This seemingly casual sentence actually revealed their true attitude!
Besides, even without Weiss' repeated teasing before, Uncle Jian still came without any sincerity this time.
The Wei family wants to surrender. Where are the documents left as evidence, the Wei family's mountain and river maps and household registers? I haven't seen any of them. I only heard the two lips of Uncle Jian, who didn't show the evidence of the envoy, touching each other. It seemed like that.
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Uncle Jian said again: "My lord is not in the city."
Really? Zhiyao didn’t believe anything he said.
As the leader of the Wei clan, even if it was important to force the Han clan to surrender, how could Weiss, who had never proven himself on the battlefield, leave his home nest at this time?
It was Weiss who had a brilliant record and was confident enough to force the Han clan to surrender, so he could leave his home base at this moment.
Zhiyao really didn't want to talk nonsense anymore and gave Sun Wu a look.
At this time, Uncle Jian reached into his sleeves, causing several soldiers in the tent to immediately block Zhiyao.
Uncle Jian took out two bundles of scrolls and said, "One is a map and the other is a household register. I present it to Uncle Zhi."
The sleeves of today's noble clothes are indeed a bit long, enough to hide a scroll about thirty centimeters long.
No wonder Uncle Jian's sleeves hung down abnormally when he was standing just now.
Zhiyao glanced at Uncle Jian who was holding the scroll high with a strange look, and then glanced at Cheng Shuo and several guards who were standing by the curtain, wondering if they didn't check Uncle Jian's long sleeves just now?
If he took out a pocket crossbow and shot Zhiyao, wouldn't Zhiyao's death be in vain?
Then, what does Uncle Jian want to cause trouble???
You’re not going to do the same thing as Tuqiongdijian, are you?