Chapter 2183: Liquidation of traitors
Chapter 2180: Liquidation of traitors
The Qin army conquered thirty-five counties in a row without bloodshed, but the remaining nine counties were unwilling to surrender, and they acted as if they were stubborn to the end.
The Qing Dynasty''s withdrawal from Youzhou this time was too hasty and basically did not make any preparations in advance. Except for a few surrendered generals such as Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi, the Liaodong families who treasoned and became traitors did not have time to withdraw.
Aguda now has no time to take care of himself, so he naturally can''t take care of these traitors, so he abandoned them without hesitation.
For the sake of interests, the Liaodong family betrayed Gongsun Xuanyuan, Gongsun Shu, Wang Mang and Chen Baxian one after another, and chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but at the critical moment, the Qing Dynasty also betrayed them.
It’s really unhappy to be repaid by the cycle of reincarnation in the heavenly way.
The Qin army never tolerated the attitude of traitors.
The eight prominent Jin merchant families in Bingzhou were all exterminated because of their collusion with the Yuan and Meng.
After Qin Hao unified Jizhou, all the Jizhou families who were willing to sell their country for personal gain and secretly sold supplies to Yuan Meng were also tragically exterminated.
According to statistics, there are more than 40 families that were exterminated by the Qin army for colluding with other races for treason, and three or four thousand people died under the butcher''s knife.
Now that the Qin army has completely captured Youzhou, the pace of liquidation will naturally not stop, but the situation in Youzhou is a bit special and the polarization is too extreme.
The Yan Kingdom under Liu Che was controlled by Liu Che, and basically no one colluded with foreign races, but the Liao Kingdom on the front line was full of traitors. If this was a liquidation, no one would be spared.
Therefore, there were differences within the Qin army in dealing with the Liaodong family.
The generals led by Wei Xuanyuan and Wei Qing believed that the Liaodong family had done too many bad things that were harmful to nature and were already rotten to the core. One of them was calculated and they could never be let go.
The civil servants led by Wei Yang and Li Hongzhang believed that the law did not punish the masses, and the impact of killing them all was too bad. A group of evil leaders should be killed, and a group of accomplices should be pardoned by a kind-hearted group of accomplices.
The civil and military factions quarreled over the issue of aristocratic families, and neither of them was willing to give in. In the end, Bai Qi made a statement to stop it and adjourned the issue, preparing to hand it over to Qin Hao for a decision.
Although Bai Qi said that, he still favored the military generals in his heart, so he later sent Gongsun Xuanyuan to conquer the lost land, and his purpose was naturally to make him take revenge.
The Liaodong family originally thought about the law and did not blame the public, but when they saw the Qin army sent him to recognize Gongsun Xuanyuan, they were all panicked.
Gongsun Xuanyuan and Xu people?
That was the former Liao Duke. He had been guarding Liaodong for many years, and the Qing Dynasty was not allowed to survive.
Xuanyuan, who has already been called king, is now forced to surrender. His current fate is not the crime of war, but the reason why the Liaodong family is dragging him down.
The traitors have caused Xuanyuan so much that their lives are in Xuanyuan''s hands. Could Xuanyuan let them go?
Impossible.
In order to protect themselves, 39 companies including Zhao Ji, Gao Qiu and Cai Jing, including Zhao Gao, Cai Tong Liang, Zhang Wang, Zhu Li, and others joined forces to control the county before the Qin army entered the city, and then closed the county town to prevent the Qin army from entering the city.
The reason why these traitor families did this is naturally not that they wanted to fight to the end with the Qin army. They didn’t have the courage, they just wanted the Qin army to promise to pardon them.
Wang Fu, Zhu Xie and Li Yan were sentenced to death in public after being defeated and captured. They died in great pain. They did not hope that this would happen.
Therefore, as long as the Qin army did not pursue their past, they would immediately open the city to surrender.
This not only prevents a war, but also allows the Qin army to receive 20,000 to 30,000 surrendered troops for free, as well as the money and food support of the Liaodong family, which can be said to have three goals in one fell swoop.
But what these traitor families don’t know is that what they can do with three goals in one fell swoop is a completely threatening move in the eyes of the senior officials of the Qin army.
If they voluntarily surrender to trial, the civil servants will also speak for them. After all, there are too many people involved in the complete liquidation. But they closed the city gates and resisted the inclusion, and they even dared to make conditions with the Qin army?
Even though their original intention was just to protect themselves and the conditions set out were reasonable, they ignored the most important point, and they were not qualified to provide conditions with the Qin army at all.
"Governor Wei Yang, Mr. Li Hongzhang, now do you think we should solve the problem of the Liaodong family?"
Bai Qi looked at the two of them and asked indifferently. Although he still couldn''t see any expression, he could tell from his tone that he was already angry.
Wei Yang stood up and said with his fist: "The Liaodong family first committed the crime of treason. Not only did they not admit their mistakes and repent, but they closed the city gates and resisted the heavenly army. They were simply unforgivable. I believe that the clan must be exterminated to shock the aristocratic families in the world."
Wei Yang gave the Liaodong family a chance, but they were not successful and did not seize the opportunity. Now that the situation has developed to this point, Wei Yang naturally could not speak for them anymore.
"Let Gongsun Xuanyuan''s army be responsible for extermination of these aristocratic families. He is most familiar with the land of Liaodong, and it will be easy to deal with these mobs." Bai Qi said with a faint smile.
The Qin army sent not many troops to four counties and one vassal state, and most of them were cavalry, so they lacked the ability to attack. However, in the process of collecting four counties and one vassal state, there were also many garrisons who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, with the number of people being about 20,000.
20,000 surrendered troops, plus 20,000 Qin troops, with Gongsun Xuanyuan''s ability and prestige, Bai Qi believed that at most half a month, he would be able to encircle and suppress all these traitors.
Bai Qi still underestimated Xuanyuan''s prestige in Liaodong, so he ordered Xuanyuan to be the leader of the army and good news came back.
"Report to the Grand Governor, Governor, and the people of Feiru, Haiyang and Xinchang counties, were dissatisfied with the civil unrest in which a family confronted our army, so they took the initiative to open the city gate to welcome our army into the city.
After entering the city, General Gongsun surrendered to the rebels, beheaded Zhao Huan and Zhao Kai, the sons of Zhao Ji, and captured the great traitor Zhang Bangchang alive. ”
Hearing this, Bai Qi couldn''t help but look surprised. He thought that it would take at least half a month for Gongsun Xuanyuan to capture all nine cities, but he didn''t expect that he had captured the three cities on the first day.
"General Xuanyuan is worthy of being the first general in Youzhou. When he went back, he told General Xuanyuan that the five traitors, Zhao Ji, Gao Qiu, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng, should try their best to capture them alive. The governor will execute these five traitors in front of the three million people in Youzhou."
"No."
There is no suspense in this Liaodong fight against traitors.
Zhao Ji and others never expected that the Qin army''s reaction would be so fierce. They just wanted to get pardon, but in the end they brought a more violent blow.
Gongsun Xuanyuan''s prestige in Liaodong was too high. Before the army could attack the city, the rebels in the city were already in trouble and did not dare to be enemies with him.
In the end, five of the nine county towns took the initiative to surrender, and only four resisted.
Under Xuanyuan''s fierce attack, these counties fell one after another and did not hold on for even a day. Only Wangping County, which was guarded by Tong Guan, lasted for two days and caused more than 200 casualties to the Qin army.
After breaking the city, Gongsun Xuanyuan was furious and betrayed Tong Guan, who had given high expectations but betrayed his subordinates, and directly slacked in public.
With Xuanyuan''s revenge, his heart felt much more happy, so he did not attack Zhao Ji, Gao Qiu, Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng, but instead pushed them back to Yanjing to wait for the defeat.
Bai Qi read out the treason of the four people in front of all the people of Yanjing, and then executed the four people in lieu of condemnation and insults by the people of the whole city.
Since then, among the traitors who betrayed the Han and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, only the monk Wu Sangui Kexi and the other two remained alive.
[Dingdong, the host unifies Youzhou, the main mission 5 Emperor Path reward: 1 golden summoning card, any five-dimensional attribute is permanently added to any one of the five-dimensional attributes.
The current host has: 4 gold summoning cards, 1 gold intelligence summoning card, 2 bronze summoning cards, 2 bronze random summoning cards, 4 million people summoning cards, 1 bronze 100-summoning card, and 1 random 100-summoning card. 】
(This chapter ends)