The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

Zuo Bu did not have as many soldiers as he claimed. Apart from his own private soldiers and servants, the rest of his soldiers were captured men when he was looting the people.

The fighting capacity of these captured men is even lower than that of the bandits.

At least the bandits are forcing the people to attack the city, so under the "survivor bias", the base number is large enough! Those who can survive can become veterans!

Zuo Bu captured a lot of able-bodied men, but the key point was that he had never fought a decent battle, so how could the able-bodied men have the fighting power?

Two hundred cavalrymen stormed the camp of a 100,000-strong army!

It takes three days and three nights to catch 100,000 pigs, but it won't take that long to catch 100,000 people.

Because they will be afraid, they will surrender!

What's worse is that after realizing he had been deceived, Bochijin ordered the entire army to attack and really capture Zuo's prisoners!

The poor able-bodied men were captured by Zuo Santong's men to make up the numbers. Zuo Santong ran away and was captured by Bochijin again.

What are you catching him for?

Learn from the bandits, capture them and use them as cannon fodder!

Under the pressure of the barbarians' butcher knives, these former auxiliary troops attacked Quzhou City in a dense and mighty manner.

Facts have proved that the Zuo army is not good at fighting barbarians or rebels, but they are very good at fighting their own people!

Regardless of the cost, countless people were used to fill the line, and the afternoon of the next day...

Quzhou City was broken!

Seeing the situation was hopeless, the prefect Li Yuanlu hanged himself inside the prefectural yamen, facing the direction of Wangdu. His wife and son then drowned themselves in a well.

The barbarians led their troops to attack Quzhou. They did not put down their weapons for three days, slaughtering the people, looting food, gold and silver, and finally robbing the imperial tombs.

Because the emperors of the Great Qi Dynasty had implemented excellent anti-theft measures throughout their dynasties, and in addition, they did not yet have explosives! Seeing that they could not dig it open, the barbarians simply set fire to it and burned the entire imperial tomb.

This battle had two consequences.

First, the barbarian prince Bo Chijin was shocked to discover that using Qi people to fight Qi people was so effective! These people were even more powerful in slaughtering cities and looting than the barbarians themselves!

Therefore, from then on, Bochijin opened up a new world. He suggested to his father Khan that since we barbarians have a small population, in addition to plundering the Qi people, we should "use Qi to control Qi".

Commonly known as, raise a dog! Let the dog bite people!

Secondly, the empress, who had always been so arrogant that she even went so far as to break off relations with Li Jize, strip him of his title, and openly label him a traitor, finally saw the light of day. Where were the so-called talented people of the Great Qi? Where were the loyal ministers of the Great Qi?

After hearing the news of the burning of the imperial tomb, the empress held a ceremony to pay homage to her ancestors at the Taimiao in the royal capital that day.

It is said...

She drove away all the eunuchs and palace maids, locked herself in, and no one knew what she was doing.

Anyway, people outside heard bursts of shrill "pig-slaughtering screams"!

Right!

The empress placed all her trust and hopes of turning the situation around on Zuo Santong. She had never trusted anyone so much!

But what about the end?

In the end, Zuo Santong made her lose so miserably! Even her ancestral graves were set on fire.

The most frustrating thing, the one that made the Empress vomit blood, was that she wanted to punish Zuo Santong for the crime of framing her...

But the civil officials in the court pleaded for him!

What a misfortune!

This crime is the crime of the Quzhou prefect.

What is Li Yuanlu’s crime?

When Zuo Santong was attacked by the barbarians, as the prefect of Quzhou, why didn't he open the city gates to rescue him? Secondly, Zuo Santong's troops came to support you, why didn't you open the city gates to let the reinforcements in?

Therefore, the loss of the imperial mausoleum was originally your territory as the prefect of Quzhou! It is your fault!

When reinforcements come to rescue, you refuse to allow the enemy troops to enter the city to rest and defend, it is still your fault!

The most important point is...

Zuo Santong didn't take a single cent of your court's military pay, and they went to rescue him! But Li Jize ran away!

Your Majesty, we don’t have many people available now. If you kill such a “loyal minister”, who will still work for you?

When the empress heard this, she thought it made sense!

Therefore, Zuo Santong deserted the battlefield, causing 100,000 strong men of Zuo's army to become accomplices and executioners of the barbarians. Not only was he not guilty, but he was even given a higher title!

Li Yuanlu fought to the bitter end, martyred for his country, yet he received no reward at all! He was even punished by imperial decree from the empress and the court, and his body was not even allowed to be buried.

What is Li Yuanlu’s crime?

His biggest sin is that he is too noble! He doesn't form cliques!

His biggest crime was that he didn't take bribes, and he didn't receive gifts from officials in the court! He had no backers!

In any case, after the barbarians defeated Zuo's army, no one could resist their cavalry.

They marched in a mighty and unscrupulous manner and began to burn, kill and loot, killing their way through the entire north and arriving near the royal capital!

And what can Da Qi do?

He ordered all cities to close their gates and not to leave, hoping that "the barbarians have robbed enough and will leave on their own!"

This! This is the tragedy of Da Qi!

This is also the tragedy of the country under the rule of the empress!

After all, barbarians are different from bandits. Bandits want to overthrow your regime, while barbarians just want to rob!

It may sound cruel, but the truth is...

Under the leadership of Bochijin, the 20,000 barbarian cavalry did not encounter any decent resistance from the Great Qi.

Where there are cities, close them; where there are no cities, flee quickly to places with cities.

As for the people in county towns and villages, let them fend for themselves!

The people of Da Qi have generally suffered from "barbarian phobia". They dared to attack 100,000 troops with only 200 cavalrymen. How many could 20,000 people defeat?

I'm afraid even if all the people of Da Qi were tied together, it wouldn't be enough to fight!

This is what the court and all the officers and soldiers of Da Qi said about the imperial court and the empress.

After a long time, it seemed that the empress also felt that the barbarians were invincible!

The barbarians were also plundering like crazy. At first, they were divided into thousands, but by the end, they were divided into hundreds or even dozens. Everyone was out to rob and kill. The old, the ugly, and the weak were not wanted, they were all killed! The rest, whether it was food, people, or livestock, were all taken away, leaving nothing for the Great Qi.

In this way, Da Qi did not resist, and the barbarians went crazy looting!

Faced with the tightly closed gates of the royal capital, they sneered, walked around the city and plundered the surrounding areas of the royal capital.

This day...

A total of about a hundred barbarian cavalrymen arrived in Qinghe County unknowingly!

Some of the "common people" who were arrested said that Li Jize of Qinghe County had killed the prefect of Qinghe and had privately opened the Changping cabin in Qinghe, so the people were very rich.

The eyes of the hundred barbarian soldiers who had looted so much lit up when they heard this! Who would complain about having too many people and too much food?

Let’s continue to grab!

Little did they know, the same group of people had also set their sights on the supplies of this pair of barbarian cavalrymen, "Rob them!"

We Liangshan heroes want to rob the imperial court’s food and money, we want to rob the bandits, and of course we want to rob the barbarians too!

What? You said the Barbarians were elite, and the other two couldn't compare!

Elite! I'm after the elite! Second Captain, where's your fucking red cannon?

Pull it out! Let these barbarians see what a "tornado destroys the horse farm" means!