Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 222: Supporting Daxi

Sun Shaozu and Sun Huaiyi escorted Deng Ren out. Deng Ren called out to his attendants in a hurry. Some soldiers came over upon hearing the noise, but were stopped by the cronies of Sun Shaozu and Sun Huaiyi.

Sun Shaozu shouted:

"Soldiers, you don't know that the Khan of Tartar is already dead! The grassland people have already withdrawn, leaving only us to guard the rear. If we continue to defend, we will die sooner or later, and we will be despised by the world after death. Why don't you abandon the dark and surrender to the light, and join the heavenly soldiers of Lord Yonghuai!"

When these words were spoken, many soldiers were shocked.

"Have all the grassland people really left?"

one soldier asked.

Sun Shaozu said:

"Is this true? I saw it with my own eyes. They took the gold and silver and left. Have you seen a grassland man in the past two days?"

When the soldiers heard this, they realized it was true and immediately laid down their weapons and chose to surrender.

They are not loyal at all.

The fighting has been fierce in the past few days, and we have been losing ground one after another. I have already thought about surrendering.

He did not surrender immediately because he was concerned about the talents on the grassland.

Now that they knew the grassland people had left, they immediately lost their will to fight and began to surrender.

This is also true for Deng Ren.

He was just kept in the dark. If he had known this was the case, he would have led his troops to surrender long ago!

It's just that it's too late to say anything now.

The two brothers Sun Shaozu and Sun Huaiyi captured him and were ready to present him to the Huaiyin army as a credit, so naturally they would not allow him to surrender again.

Soon, Sun Shaozu and Sun Huaiyi raised a white flag on the top of the city wall and shouted "surrender". Then the two of them cleared out the debris from the city gate and slowly opened it.

Sun Shaozu was very familiar with this scene.

He had used a similar method before to open the city gates of the capital and welcome the grassland people into the capital.

After the city gates were opened, the two brothers, with their soldiers, without weapons or armor, escorted Deng Ren out of the city to surrender.

The generals of the Huaiyin Army looked at the two surrendered men, and a hint of disappointment flashed in their eyes.

With the two surrendering, their long-cherished goal of breaking the city was gone...

"The criminal generals Sun Shaozu and Sun Huaiyi pay their respects to Lord Yonghuai!"

Sun Shaozu and Sun Huaiyi knelt on the ground with their foreheads touching the ground, waiting for Fang Yong's decision.

"Da da."

There was the sound of gentle horse hooves, and Fang Yong came over on horseback.

Looking at the two people kneeling below, a trace of disgust flashed in Fang Yong's eyes.

Both Sun Shaozu and Sun Huaiyi were complete traitors and opportunists.

If Sun Huaiyi had not surrendered to the grassland people, Datong would not have been captured.

If Sun Shaozu had not opened the gates of the capital and begged for surrender, the capital would not have been occupied by the grassland people so quickly.

These two should have been cut into pieces, but their ability to adapt to changing circumstances was too superb. Now they have turned to the light in time and led the people to surrender, which means they have made great contributions. It would be difficult for Fang Yong to kill them openly.

He said expressionlessly:

"Get up! You two have made great contributions, and I will reward you handsomely!"

Sun Huaiyi and Sun Shaozu were overjoyed upon hearing this and hurriedly stood up to express their gratitude.

Fang Yong looked at Deng Ren again.

Deng Ren's face was already filled with despair at this time.

He knew he had no chance of survival.

After all, he is also a poor man.

He was originally the garrison commander of Datong, and was quite competent in guarding the city.

Unfortunately, Sun Huaiyi's betrayal led to the fall of the city.

Later he fled to the grassland, led troops to fight, and never slacked off, always doing his best.

But it was Sun Huaiyi who betrayed and surrendered again...

We have made a mistake and have come to this point. There is no point in saying anything.

Fang Yong did not hesitate at all and ordered directly:

"Take this man to the front of the city and behead him. Kill his entire clan and invite all the people in the city to watch!" "Yes"

The Huaiyin army received the order and Deng Ren was quickly taken away.

Fang Yong waved his whip and said, "Enter the city!"

The Huaiyin soldiers shouted in unison, "Enter the city!"

For three years,

The capital city welcomed its new owner!

There was no scene of people warmly welcoming the emperor. Except for a few brave people, most people did not dare to go out.

In the eyes of most people, the Huaiyin thieves are still thieves after all.

Only a few dared to come out and watch.

Fang Yong was in front and the army was behind.

In the middle of the team was Emperor Longqing's dragon chariot and the carriages of the nobles in the capital.

After all, in name only, Fang Yong sent troops in the name of serving the king.

The signboard of Emperor Longqing is still indispensable now.

Now that the aliens have been driven away, the next thing to do is to support Daxi and restore the true dragon to its throne!
In Fang Yong's view, supporting Daxi mainly consists of three steps.

The first step to support Daxi:
They took over the defense of the capital, occupied the Beijing Camp, the Infantry Yamen, the Five Cities Army, the Imperial City Forbidden Army Flag Brigade, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Palace City Yulin Guards and other departments.

After many wars, most of these departments are now in name only. For the sake of Daxi's country, Fang Yong had to reluctantly use his own troops to rebuild these departments. In order to reduce the financial pressure on Daxi, he also paid the salaries of these departments out of his own pocket.

Emperor Longqing was so moved that he cried.

Looking at the Forbidden City which he had not been away for long, he thought that "once gone, he would never look back in this life", but he did not expect that he would be back here in just two months.

This is all thanks to Fang Yong!
The second step to support Daxi.

Eliminate cliques, punish the loyal and eliminate the good.

Simply put, it means eliminating those ministers who are loyal to Daxi.

This step sounds difficult, but it is actually very easy.

Because now there are almost no ministers loyal to Daxi.

The third step to support Daxi is to eliminate the disloyalty.

In the vast territory of Daxi, when the capital was in danger, only one loyal minister, Fang Yong, stepped forward. The remaining prefectures and governments were obviously rebellious and wanted to sit back and watch the outcome of the war.

For these disobedient people,

Fang Yong needs to be conquered!
Must be conquered!

Conquer them one by one!
Of course, we can’t rush into these things now and need to do them one by one.

Since entering the capital, the Huaiyin Army has maintained strict military discipline and has not harmed the civilians in the slightest.

Deng Ren and other traitors and those who committed crimes during the war were executed in public by Fang Yong, which greatly deterred the villains and stabilized public order.

Fang Yong did not rush to initiate a purge of those corrupt officials, but instead stabilized people's hearts first and left all affairs as usual. This reduced the vigilance of people from all walks of life and restored order.

Under such policies, all industries and sectors quickly recovered and resumed their duties.

Fang Yong additionally ordered Ma Laohei to lead 80,000 troops to station at Juyongguan to pursue the retreating grassland troops.

Of course, there is a high probability that you won’t be able to catch up.

The real order was to recapture the passes along the way and take back Datong and other places.

In addition, a few people were sent to Taihang Mountain to tell Wei Xing, who was still eating grass in the mountains, that the capital had been captured and asked him to come back...

On the other side, Mao Cheng, who had been watching the outcome in Jizhou, was stunned after receiving the news.

He didn't expect the grassland people to be defeated so completely. The war was over before he even had the chance to place his bet.

Mao Cheng had to hurriedly send a letter of surrender to Fang Yong, expressing his willingness to surrender to Fang Yong with the condition that he hoped to keep the troops in his hands.

It’s simply wishful thinking!

Does this guy really think he is the God of War?
Fang Yong decided to wait until Ma Laohei recaptured the passes outside Beijing, and then he would free up his hands to attack Mao Cheng immediately.

Before this, Fang Yongxian sent people to negotiate with Mao Cheng about surrender in order to stabilize Mao Cheng first.

So, after a few days, the grand court meeting began, and it was time to reward people according to their merits.

(End of this chapter)