Chapter Eighty-Three
In the early morning of October 8, just as Ge Chang and the others chased Pan Long and turned to Chenzhou southwest along the Yuan River, the impatient Ma Xi'e led a brigade of infantry sailors into Tanzhou City from Xuanwu Gate. The scene he saw suddenly stunned Ma Xi'e and his civil and military officials.
In addition to the occasional wisps of clear smoke ignited in the distance, the Antai Avenue in front of you is no different from the daily situation. There are still pedestrians on the street, and the street has basically returned to its original appearance.
Yesterday, Ma Xi'e and Ma Xichong gathered a group of confidants to discuss what Lin Feng would turn Tanzhou City into in one day.
Without exception, everyone agreed that Panlong's tribal army would inevitably plunder everywhere, and Lin Feng would also fight, and the city would inevitably be seriously damaged and miserable. Some even pessimistically predicted that Tanzhou City would be over from now on. After Lin Feng defeated Panlong, he would plunder and even set fire to destroy evidence, causing a group of civil and military officials to feel up and down, and even drink without much taste.
In the original history, after Ma Xi'e attacked Tanzhou City, he led his troops to plunder for three days, killed officials and civilians, burned houses, and all the palaces were in ashes. All the treasures accumulated since the founding of the State of Chu were robbed, and Changsha, a famous historical city of a generation, was destroyed. However, in this time and space, because a Lin Feng appeared in the sky, Tanzhou City was magically preserved, which could only be considered a little damaged by some vitality at most.
Seeing a completely different scene from expectations, Ma Xi'e felt even more itchy. He immediately ordered his subordinates to go quickly, and the long team accelerated and headed straight to the King of Chu's Mansion.
Finally arrived! Ma Xi'e and Ma Xichong stepped over the blood stains in front of the King of Chu's mansion and rushed to the Jiulong Hall. The hall was empty, and only a dragon seat was left in the middle of the hall.
Ma Xi'e took a few quick steps and walked closer to observe the dragon throne carefully. The dragon throne carved with the whole jade block itself was not a big deal. There were only two longans originally inlaid with black gems and were picked up by someone.
Ma Xi'e sat on the dragon throne, let out a long sigh, and turned to instruct Ma Xichong: "I'm so exhausted! Xichong, after entering the city, I'll leave it to you to handle the big and small matters!"
Ma Xichong took a step back respectfully, bent down and whispered: "Please rest assured that the villain's first thing is to match the dragon throne with the most beautiful gems! King of Chu, should we hold a grand entry ceremony first?"
Ma Xi'e slapped the dragon seat handle and shook her head and sighed: "Oh, I originally thought that there was chaos in Tanzhou City, so we could just enter the field and take over. Who knew it was so quiet and peaceful? If I had known this, I would have made it more grand just now!"
To be honest, Ma Xi'e was really scared by Lin Feng's anger. Although there was no one guarding the seven gates of Tanzhou in the past day, Ma Xi'e strictly ordered no soldiers to enter the city, but just sent a few confidants to put on makeup and take a look at it casually. He just knew that Lin Feng had organized a bloody trial meeting and knew nothing about what happened.
Ma Xichong smiled and said, "It's okay, we still have a large number of naval troops that have not yet entered the city. Now, please let the King of Chu get up again and let's enter Xuanwu Gate again!"
Ma Xi'e moved his fat body. He wanted to get up, sat down again, raised his hand, and ordered: "Forget it, Xi Chong, please come forward for me! I want to visit the Tiance Mansion, which has not been in nearly two years!"
A trace of surprise flew past Ma Xichong's eyes. He immediately arranged for Deli's subordinates to clean up the Prince Chu's mansion and serve Ma Xi'e to visit with care. Then he went out to arrange the entry ceremony.
Subsequently, the "Story of Entering the City with the Second Score" which was nicknamed "a landmark event in the second phase of the chaos in Tanzhou" was released lively.
Ma Xichong fully utilized his identity as the governor of Wuping and immediately ordered to stop the first entry of the city with some impotence, re-arranged, and began his second entry.
Suddenly, the scale of entering the city was greatly improved. The cavalry who were urgently drawn from the city led the way in front, ordered passers-by to avoid and kneel down; in the middle were cavalry in bright uniforms waving sixty-four flags to open the way, and the huge band followed. After that, the tall king chariot, two thousand infantrymen followed, and three thousand navy troops were lined up to the end. The entire team of entering the city was winding out for nearly two miles. At a glance, it was really majestic and majestic.
However, this scene cannot withstand careful observation. Except for Ma Xichong, who was proud of her eyes on the jade chariot, and the other officers and soldiers who followed her were listless. Anyone who was sneaked around and went back and forth in the Xuanwu Gate several times in the morning would curse in his heart. Besides, the attack on Tanzhou City has little to do with them from beginning to end. If it is not straightforward, it will naturally be too angry!
"The madam raised me! When the barbarians burned and killed them, you didn't see anyone. When Lord Lin avenged us, you didn't see anyone. Now there is nothing left, but you are showing off your power in five or six!" A middle-aged man forced to kneel on the side of the road stared at the team in the center of the street and whispered in the dialect of his hometown Hubei.
"That's right, a bunch of treasures! It's really not embarrassing!" A young man next to him also cursed fiercely.
Ma Xichong, who was in the middle of the team, couldn't hear this. He looked proudly at the people kneeling on both sides, and was seriously planning in his heart how to arrange a group of generals close to him.
Just when this drama was released lively, Lin Feng regarded Huang Zongwang's mansion as his temporary office and handled many follow-up matters.
Lin Feng first summoned the special soldiers, rich guards in the city, and a thousand elite soldiers from Wuchang, and surrendered from Tanzhou in front of the mansion. He did not make any speeches and encouragement. He just placed the 60,000 guan in front of the mansion with traces of war, and rewarded them on the spot according to their merits!
First, a group of guards, according to the principle of "killing a rebel to reward ten guan, injured to reward a hundred guan, and death to reward a thousand guan" agreed in advance, 15,000 guan was sent to the scene according to the people's hair; then the elite Wuchang, who, because of the timely rescue and brave pursuit, rewarded 100 guan, and then 20,000 guan, and then distributed 20,000 guan; finally, the special forces soldier, according to the performance of the previous two successful raids and the battle in Tanzhou, distributed 500 guan, and distributed 15,000 guan again. Of course, Zhang Bin, Ge Chang and all the guards who pursued Pan Long, the money of the elite Wuchang was only recited on the spot and recorded in their personal account.
Seeing the huge amount of money being divided, the surrendered soldiers in Tanzhou who had been watching the show were all the time, and there was only envy in their eyes and sadness in their hearts.
Of course, Lin Feng called out the soldiers in Tanzhou not to make these people smell like the scene, but to have a purpose.
After dividing the money, Lin Feng walked to the surrendered soldiers and said loudly: "My Tang army has always been a clear reward and punishment. All merits will be rewarded, and all mistakes will be punished! You were originally soldiers guarding the city in Tanzhou. It was a big mistake to fail to resist the death when the city was broken. But considering that you were also betrayed and suffered harm, you just hid from then on and did not take advantage of the chaos to hurt the innocent. It can be considered as a compensation for merit and demerit. Naturally, I cannot reward you! However, now I want to give everyone a good opportunity to make merits and a good opportunity to be promoted!"
When the soldiers heard that there was still a chance, they immediately became energetic and listened intently.
Lin Feng first raised a finger and said loudly: "The good opportunity to make contributions is to give each of you two days off. You go to Tanzhou City to find Tanzhou soldiers who were familiar with before. Whenever you persuade a soldier to surrender to the Tang army, I will reward you with two stale money, and so on, no top-up!"
As soon as this condition was mentioned, many soldiers looked at each other and immediately gave their eyes to each other. Such an army with clear rewards and punishments had such good Shangguan. Such an army should be able to attract their brothers to come out to serve in the army again, so it should not be difficult to pick up the money.
Lin Feng raised another finger and said loudly: "I don't need to talk about the combat effectiveness of my Tang Dynasty elite soldiers. You can inquire about their treatment by yourself. You can use any weapon to touch their weapons to verify them. If you think you have the ability, we will hold a small selection competition here in three days, and select the best ones to be selected as the Special Warriors Reserve Team!"
Chapter completed!