The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 320 Arrangements for Zhao Gu

Zhao Gu fled all the way back to Luoyang. Almost all the soldiers in Luoyang knew the news of Zhao Gu's defeat. Naturally, the morale of the soldiers in the city dropped to the extreme. Even Zhao Gu himself completely lost his will to fight.

Zhao Gu didn't say how talented he was, but after all, he followed Wang Mi during Wang Mi's era, and relied on experience to become a general who could garrison a city. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a small prince.

Under such circumstances, although Zhao Gu was defeated, he could gain some experience by recalling the situation on the battlefield.

But Zhao Gu recalled his night attack, and it can be said that there was no problem whether it was the initial night attack or the force attack.

But the soldiers on the opposite side were too strong. How on earth could they organize themselves in the dark?

And now recalling the counterattack rhythm of the Han soldiers, they did not rush out rashly, but put on their armor and weapons in the camp, formed a military formation, and then directly pushed away their military camp, holding various weapons Come to stab your own army.

Li Ju didn't even appear. He just relied on the soldiers' instinctive reactions to crush his night attack.

"How on earth are we going to fight this kind of army!" Zhao Gu couldn't help scratching his head, feeling that he was really lucky to escape.

I thought it was the dark night that gave me the chance to attack, but to be more precise, it was the dark night that gave me the opportunity to escape!

Normally, Zhao Gu saw a lot of soldiers, but this army gave him real despair.

No matter equipment, organization, discipline, especially night attacks, they could not cause chaos in this army. This made Zhao Gu not know how he should win the opponent.

Is it just relying on the defense of Luoyang City, which has been harmed countless times, but in the final analysis, Luoyang City is still defended by people. Now that the entire army knows that they have been defeated, there is no determination to defend it.

"I really have no choice!" Zhao Gu sighed.

Originally, he wanted to get some surrender treatment for himself, but now Zhao Gu knows very well that it is better not to think about any surrender treatment and just surrender honestly!

Zhao Gu originally wanted to show off his strength, but he gave up after being attacked head-on by the army led by Li Ju.

After all, Zhao Gu knew that if he didn't surrender, he might lose even Luoyang City's last bargaining chip.

So the next day, Li Ju took care of all the enemy troops that had attacked him at night. Zhao Gu decisively took the roster of his army and the household registration of Luoyang City and ran to Li Ju to surrender. His proactive and decisive attitude was even shared by Li Ju. A bit stunned.

It was you who attacked me last night.

This guy who looks strong in armor is probably your subordinate.

Could it be that last night, Zhao Gu, you planned to borrow a knife to kill people, borrow my hands to kill those who chose to resist tenaciously in Luoyang City, and then come out and surrender yourself!

How shameless! So evil! Li Ju looked at Zhao Gu with very different eyes.

No wonder you first worked under Wang Mi, then under Liu Kun, and then jumped to Liu Cong, and then to Liu Yao, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, this guy has changed jobs so many times, every time Your boss is dead, but you are not dead. What kind of Lu is the horse, and Zhao Gu is the man!

Although Li Ju was full of complaints, he still accepted Zhao Gu's surrender.

After all, whether he had found the information or He Shenjun beside him carefully reminded Li Ju that Zhao Gu was a veteran who had been with Wang Mi. Although he did not choose to follow Liu Tai, he was more or less like the old man in Liu Tai's army. We all know each other.

Now that Zhao Gu has returned from his lost path and turned back, he can't neglect him. After all, no one knows where his thread can lead him.

As a surrendered general, Li Ju also knew that it was better not to pursue any further investigation when it came to Wang Mi's era.

At least for me now, the most important thing is to capture Luoyang. It doesn't matter whether Zhao Gu surrendered or captured it himself.

After all, the most important thing is to complete Liu Tai's mission first.

After successfully capturing the city of Luoyang, He Canjun calmly wrote down in his notes that on the 22nd, Gu asked to surrender and the army entered Luoyang.

After Li Ju captured Luoyang, he immediately began to send soldiers to the surrounding villages to appease him and at the same time complete the settlement with Li Ju.

To be honest, although Liu Tai has not taken advantage of the situation to attack Luoyang in recent years, Luoyang can be said to be the most serious place of the Yongjia Rebellion.

Although Zhao Gu has been in charge for several years, he has maintained relatively basic rules, so it has not yet reached the point where his bones are exposed in the wild.

But basically, except for the villages around Luoyang City that can quickly escape to Luoyang City for shelter, the vast majority of other villages are basically in a situation where there is no cockcrow for thousands of miles.

It can be said that the military register and civilian register submitted by Zhao Gu combined were only just over 50,000 people.

You know, this was once the capital of the Jin Dynasty, but now all it has are ruins and nothingness!

After Li Ju captured Luoyang, he began to take over the surrounding counties. Except for Luoyang, which was at least barely a fortified city, there were basically no people in the surrounding counties. Therefore, it was really difficult to capture the surrounding counties. Nothing difficult.

Li Ju quickly reported to Li Tai, and he took over Hangu Pass and other checkpoints and counties around Luoyang.

As for Zhao Gu, Li Ju simply packaged Zhao Gu and gave it to Liu Tai.

For Liu Tai, it was just a matter of convenience to send an army of ten thousand people to capture Luoyang while he was taking advantage of the Central Plains.

After all, he also needs to start attacking Chang'an, and he must take down the bridgehead of Luoyang.

However, if Liu Tai leads the army, he may not have time to sort it out after attacking Luoyang. But now that he has captured Luoyang in advance, he will be able to build Luoyang into a bridgehead in advance.

Then, after taking a short rest for a year, he sent troops to Chang'an.

Zhao Gu's surrender to Li Ju was almost a matter of course for Liu Tai, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, the gate of Luoyang is in the hands of Li Ju, Luoyang is almost undefeated, and Luoyang itself is in tatters. The general who defends the city, Zhao Gu, is a very pure wallflower in Liu Tai's eyes.

After all, it was his standard to join whoever he saw was strong. Maybe he had a bit of simple nationalism at first, but if he really worked for a hypocrite, Zhao Gu would not object, making Liu Tai feel that this guy's morals were almost the same as his own. .

Under such circumstances, as long as Zhao Gu feels that he has no hope of victory, it is naturally very normal for Zhao Gu to surrender.

Therefore, in Liu Tai's eyes, Luoyang has neither strong geographical defense nor famous generals. It would be strange if Li Ju could not defeat it even with his own soldiers.

After all, he really wanted to give Li Ju some credit, and planned to gradually elevate Li Ju or Huan Xuan to become the benchmark for demotion. For Liu Tai, it was a natural military action, but for Yang Xianrong now, it was an imminent crisis.

The situation in the court that had been stabilized by Yang Xianrong was now discussed and offered by everyone.

"Queen Sheng'an, now that the crisis of the King of Han is right in front of us, we must first strengthen the defense of Tongguan and use the advantages of this place to stalemate with the King of Han. When the Jin court sends troops in the future, we will make another plan!" You Ziyuan said.

"That's right! Although the King of Han is strong, he only conquered the Central Plains this year. Although he used his remaining power to conquer Luoyang, it is unthinkable to conquer our country Zhao in a short time!" Pu Tai also stood up and insisted. .

Everyone in the court looked at the words of You Ziyuan, who represented the military, and Pu Tai, who represented his relatives and the Huns themselves, but they also understood that at least with the current power of Zhao, it was impossible to directly surrender to Liu Tai.

If Liu Tai had taken down Liu Yao and attacked Zhao directly, the Han people might have surrendered to Liu Tai due to the turmoil in people's hearts. Even if there were remaining Xiongnu forces, the resistance would not be too strong.

But now, after several years of training, Yang Xianrong has successfully stabilized the politics of people's hearts. At least for those in power, even if they know that Liu Tai has vaguely formed a power that sweeps the world, they now have the upper hand. The land of Qin Dynasty, under such circumstances, can still be defended somewhat against Liu Tai by relying on the current Tongguan.

This is just like the Jin court versus Liu Tai. They more or less relied on Jianghuai's benefits to protect themselves.

At the same time, Liu Taiyin allowed people from Zhao to come and take the imperial examination, so Zhao would naturally arrange some spies from aristocratic families to take advantage of the opportunity of the imperial examination to spy on Liu Tai's true identity.

Even if you don't know Liu Tai's military measures, it is still good to know Liu Tai's policies. See if you can run it and escape to Liu Tai's side to continue being a powerful family.

As for the policies implemented by Liu Tai, for foreigners such as the Xiongnu, it was a policy of national subjugation and genocide. For wealthy families, Liu Tai's policies were very harsh.

As for the benefits of Liu Tai's policies to the Han Dynasty and the common people, even the children of aristocratic families with national consciousness, under the Jin court's concept of governing the country with filial piety, naturally evaluated their own family first, and then worried about the so-called Han Dynasty.

So at least under the current circumstances, resisting Liu Tai is more or less politically correct.

At this moment, Prime Minister Zhu Ji said: "However, we need to contact the Jin court. If we can attack Liu Tai together and coordinate with each other, we may not have a chance of winning, so please send envoys to the Jin court to persuade him."

Everyone couldn't help but talk after hearing Zhu Ji's words, but no one had any objection to Zhu Ji.

Regardless of whether it works or not, send people to the Jin court to try first. Although they don't expect to defeat Liu Tai, no matter what, it is better than letting them go out to fight.

After all, when Cao Wei captured the land of Kyushu, the Shu Han and Soochow on the opposite side managed to persist for so long with the help of geographical advantages.

I don't expect to be able to kill Liu Tai, I just hope to maintain the power of myself and others by relying on the geographical advantage.

After all, the area where he is now is Qiang Qin. Back then, Qiang Qin relied on the danger of passes to withstand the strongest armies in the world.

So after everyone discussed it one after another, they immediately sent envoys to detour to Shu to contact the Jin court.

As for more, after much deliberation, they still need to add more soldiers to make themselves feel more secure.

To be honest, if Liu Tai really fought in and fought to the gates of Chang'an City, then these people might kneel down faster than the other.

But now Liu Tai has not even captured Tongguan, which is necessary to march into Guanzhong, so it is unrealistic for them to surrender.

However, Liu Tai did not want to attack Chang'an at this time. After all, Liu Tai also knew that it was difficult to take that land in one go.

Now Liu Tai first met Zhao Gu. When Li Ju sent him to Liu Tai, he even mentioned in the memorial that Zhao Gu was more or less a nuisance to his lord. All Zhao Gu's lords were more or less like this. The ending is somewhat unfavorable, so I ask the Lord to make good arrangements.

Liu Tai saw the memorial sent by Li Ju, looked at Zhao Gu again, sighed and said:

"Zhao Gu, you are also the old man who followed Uncle Wang back then. Logically speaking, should I still call you Uncle Zhao?"

When Zhao Gu heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but break into a cold sweat behind his back. At this moment, he even kowtowed to Liu Tai:

"You can't do it, you can't do it. Your Majesty, I love you so much. Please call me Zhao Gu."

Liu Tai felt a little sad when he heard Zhao Gu's words and said,

"I don't think you are an outsider, Zhao Gu, but when you chose Liu Kun instead of me, it did make me feel a little grudge.

But after all, you are the old man who followed Uncle Wang on the expedition, and there are indeed not many such old men nowadays. "

When Zhao Gu heard Liu Tai's words, there seemed to be tears in his eyes, as if he was remembering the days when he followed Wang Mi to survive together.

All I can say is that those days were not really happy, but looking back now, they are somewhat less cunning calculations and more of a struggle for survival.

Zhao Gu said to Liu Tai, "Zhao is short-sighted and does not recognize the real dragon in the world. The emperor of the Han family has encountered what happened today. Please ask the king of Han to point out a clear way. I will definitely live up to the king!"

Liu Tai heard Zhao Gu's words and said, "You are the old man you were before. I won't lie to you. I will give you four ways."

When Zhao Gu heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that Liu Tai was nostalgic for his old feelings. Not only did he accept him, but he also gave himself four choices. This was naturally the case for Zhao Gu. enough.

Liu Tai said, "The first is to go to Wang Sang's place. Basically, Uncle Wang's old ministers were there at the time. You won't be completely without foundation when you get there. If you can achieve meritorious service in the future, you will naturally not be treated badly.

The second is to guard the border. You are a veteran after all. The border is not peaceful now, especially the north of Jinyang needs someone to recover. If you are willing, you can be a general and guard the border for my great Han.

Third, if you disarm and return to the fields, I can naturally give you enough wealth to live the rest of your life, and you can avoid war.

As for the fourth point, if you are interested in naval warfare, you can arrange to be Tian Tian's deputy general and develop in the navy. "

Zhao Gu couldn't help but ponder after listening to Liu Tai's words. It was obvious that Liu Tai really wanted to arrange for him, instead of fooling himself.

So I was the first to cross it out decisively. The chance I have now is not based on my brother's success because he made the right decision. If he had to watch it every day, he might as well just kill himself!

(End of this chapter)