As the leader of the Khitan after Li Jinzhong, this man is also very intelligent and capable. He once defeated the famous Tang Dynasty general Wang Xiaojie in history. Although there are reasons for Wang Xiaojie's failure, it does not rule out that he is a capable person.
of generals.
But no matter how capable he was, in front of the absolute superiority of the Tang army and the monster Li Xian, he was defeated and had nothing to say. He was convinced. In the end, even if he died, he could only humiliately ask for forgiveness and express himself.
Only then could he commit suicide with a knife. Even if he died, he still hoped that Li Xian, the God of Death, would spare his tribe.
After Li Xian won this battle, he personally commanded 20,000 cavalry and immediately went to Yingzhou, preparing to occupy the almost undefended city.
Li Xian's army was extremely powerful and did not encounter any decent resistance along the way. In fact, in the places it passed along the way, soldiers and civilians who could not bear the oppression had long resisted, and the Khitan generals were killed.
After the official beheaded them, they then gathered in groups to welcome the king's troops. However, in order to save time, Li Xian only asked the comfort ambassador Guo Yuanzhen to lead the follow-up army to comfort the soldiers and civilians from various places along the way. However, his 20,000 troops were
Traveling day and night, we arrived at Yingzhou City in just four days and nights.
As expected, Yingzhou City turned into an empty city. Only three thousand veteran troops were stationed in the city. When Li Xian's army arrived at the city, they didn't realize what was going on. They didn't even close the suspension bridge.
Was rushed in by Tang Jun.
They were unable to resist, and when they saw the soldiers of the Tang army who were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, they immediately panicked.
Among them, there were many Khitan soldiers who were very bloody. However, the moment they resisted, they were killed by the Tang army soldiers on the spot. Those who dared to resist could not even last a few breaths before being cut into pieces by random blades.
, such bloodshed and violence left the Khitan veterans unable to resist any longer, so they had no choice but to throw down their weapons and ask for surrender from the Tang army.
The general responsible for guarding Yingzhou was Sun Wanrong's son Sun Chengzong. This man stubbornly ordered the army to resist, but was captured by two subordinates and handed him over to Li Xian. One of these two subordinates was named Li Kaigu and the other was named Luo Wu.
all.
Li Xian had naturally heard of these two men and knew that these two men were good generals with good character. Moreover, he had heard from his senior officers in the Khitan army that these two men had always disapproved of Li Jinzhong and Li Xian.
Sun Wanrong rebelled, so he was not reused. Therefore, when Sun Wanrong was brought to the front, Li Xian immediately ordered a heavy reward for the two of them, and at the same time urged Sun Chengzong to surrender. However, Sun Chengzong was considered a man, and he kept cursing and refused to surrender.
, Li Xian himself did not want to keep such a person who was a huge hidden danger to the Khitan ethnic group, so he ordered him to be beheaded.
So at this point, Li Xian easily regained Yingzhou
Before Li Xian went to Yingzhou, he had already ordered General Zhang Deyu to lead 3,000 people and go to the Khitan tribe with Sun Wanrong's handwriting to recruit the Khitan people.
In fact, only the old, weak, women and children were left in this ethnic group. In order to ensure victory in this battle, Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong killed the goose that laid the goose and laid out the eggs.
None of the young men were spared, so there was almost no resistance here. According to Li Xian's order, Zhang Deyu first ordered people to gather the chiefs of various ministries, and then took out Sun Wanrong's handwriting and asked the chiefs to circulate it.
In the letter, I saw Sun Wanrong's deep sense of repentance, and also saw that Sun Wanrong asked them to surrender to the Tang Dynasty immediately, to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty for the rest of their lives, and not to resist again, otherwise they would be the sinners of the ethnic group. Without any hesitation, they ordered them one after another.
The tribesmen came out and asked the Tang army to surrender.
After this battle, the population of the Khitan tribe dropped by 30%, and they were all old people, women and children under the age of fourteen. It can be said that they were short of people and could no longer defend their tribe. In this situation
Next, their life safety is a problem now, let alone their future lives.
On the one hand, Zhang Deyu led his troops to garrison the Khitan garrison. On the other hand, he also sent people to send letters to Li Xian for help, hoping that Li Xian could come up with a solution to the problem.
Unexpectedly, his people had not returned yet, and Li Xian sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that he had submitted a letter to the emperor, and he believed that a formal order would be issued soon.
Sure enough, less than half a month later, an edict was issued, requiring hundreds of thousands of immigrants from nearby Pingzhou, Jizhou, Zhaozhou, Jizhou and other places to immigrate to the Khitan homeland, allowing mutual marriage, land reclamation, and the court
It was announced that all those who immigrated to the Khitan homeland would be exempt from rent and taxes for five years. Later, Guo Yuanzhen was appointed concurrently as the governor of the Yingzhou Governor's Office, fully responsible for the government affairs and immigration matters of the Khitan homeland.
In fact, the Khitan tribesmen did not want Tang people to immigrate to them. However, since the Khitan people were all old and weak women and children, and there were almost no men between the ages of fourteen and sixty, they really needed a large amount of labor to supplement them. In addition, they also had
Knowing that Datang's order could not be disobeyed, he had no choice but to agree.
But they had no idea that after the people of the Tang Dynasty arrived, the Khitans were quickly assimilated completely through marriage and other methods. In just over ten years, there were no Khitans left in the world.
The same thing also happened among the Xi people. In fact, the number of the Xi people was not large in the first place. They were just attached to the Khitan. At the same time as the battle of Dongxi Shigu, Guo Yuanzhen led the army to quickly break through the Xi people's defense line. Their combat effectiveness
The Xi people, who were not very tall, immediately announced their surrender. After that, Li Xian also adopted the same immigration policy, immigrating some Xi people to the interior, and immigrating some Tang people to the Xi people tribe. It took more than ten years to
The Xi people were completely assimilated.
When the news came that Li Xian's army had put down the Khitan and Xi people's rebellion, the government and the public were naturally rejoicing. After hearing the news, the sick Emperor Gaozong seemed to have become much less ill, and he immediately issued an order to reward the meritorious officers generously. At the same time,
At the same time, he commended and expressed condolences to Prince Li Xian. Li Xian's reputation was unparalleled for a while.
But Da Zuorong was shocked. This fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy was really a genius. He formed a powerful alliance against the Tang Dynasty. However, he did not expect that when the alliance armies were winning one after another, the Khitan and
However, the Xi tribe's alliance was completely defeated by the army led by Li Xian. This made his tribe directly face the threat of Li Xian's army. At the same time, it also had to be attacked from behind by the two famous generals Li Xian and Xue Rengui. It can be said that
It fundamentally changed the battlefield situation.
However, Da Zuorong did not give in. Instead, he ignited a raging fire in his heart and ordered his army to immediately attack Yingzhou where Li Xian was located.
"Today I want to meet this man who was praised as the number one military god of the Tang Dynasty. This time I must kill him and avenge my father!" The young man looked in the direction of Yingzhou and said silently.
.(To be continued.) This chapter has been completed!