Chapter 1116: Drive the people and burn the city
Chapter 1114: Drive the people and burn the city
For a benevolent man like Murong Ke, making such a careless thing as driving the people and burning the city is undoubtedly an extremely difficult decision, but he has reasons to do so.
"Only by giving kindness and power together, the people of Hetao will understand what awe are, so that they will not dare to resist our Yuan Meng''s rule."
Murong Ke glanced at the generals again and explained slowly: "Snatch the city, but don''t kill much, this is a kindness;
Collection of grain, expelling, and burning the city, but still not killing much. This is Buwei.
Drive the people out of the city and then burn the city. In this way, although the people will hate our army after they have no place to live, they will be more afraid.
The people who were expelled from the city could only go to other Jin army cities. The Jin army would definitely meet and accept and resettle them. This would not only consume the resources of the Jin army, but also spread this awe invisibly. ”
After listening to Murong Ke''s explanation, the generals suddenly realized and became more convinced by Murong Ke. This was simply a killing of the number of kills.
Seeing that all the generals could understand, Murong Ke did not explain too much. In fact, his move had another intention, which was to place people among the people, and then take the opportunity to let his people get into the city, work together inside and outside to break through other cities, and completely disrupt the entire Yinchuan County, so as to take the opportunity to break through the blockade of the Jin army.
After taking a deep breath, Murong Ke said a little unbearable: "In half a day, handle all the problems, and then go north immediately after burning the city."
“Half a day?”
Murong Shao couldn''t help asking, "Father, you have to confiscate food and grass, expel the people of the city, and transport various materials. Is half a day too short?"
“Half a day is enough.”
A trace of solemnity flashed in Murong Ke''s eyes and he said in a deep voice: "Our army has no foundation in Hetao, and the 100,000 elite troops of the Jin army have come from the east and north directions, so there is not much time for us to spend here.
In terms of material things, just bring food and grass and arrows, and burn the excess with the city.
The Jin army is very rich. As long as it can capture Hetao, everything about the Jin army will belong to us at that time, so there is no need to worry about this little thing. ”
Since we want to pursue efficiency, we will inevitably ignore others.
Under the violent plunder and expulsion of the Yuan army, the people in the city were full of complaints, but the people could only dare to be angry but not speak out.
Following the expulsion of the Yuan army, the people in the city gradually gathered outside the city, but what was waiting for was the Yuan army with fire, burning their homes in one fell swoop.
Almost all the people in Hetao are refugees, and they are wandering and living in troubled times without a fixed place. They did not settle down until they came to Hetao, and after several years of hardship, they built a new home.
Many people couldn''t accept this and rushed towards him like crazy to stop the fire, but before they got close, they were shot into a sieve by Yuan army archers.
The relatives saw this and their eyes were about to break, but they had no way to stop them. They could only wail and shouted that Yuan Jun was a beast while holding his relatives.
For a time, the inner and outer cities and the outer cities were all reduced to Shura hell!
Murong Ke rode his horse slowly and saw countless pairs of eyes that were as deep as the sea. He was actually unwilling to do this in his heart, but the hostile relationship between the two sides forced him to do this. "Maybe I can''t resolve this hatred in my life, but after I completely occupy Hetao, I will try my best to make up for it."
As soon as he thought of this, Murong Ke''s eyes became more and more firm, and he immediately drew out his sword and shouted: "Set out."
Seventy thousand troops came and left, leaving only tens of thousands of people in the fields and a brilliant fire city that was completely ignited.
The fire was not extinguished for a long time and it burned for five days and five nights, and finally only one remains.
During this period, the people kept leaving. After all, the dead were gone, but the living still had to live.
The Yuan army only left food for the people for ten days, and if they could not reach the next city within ten days, the only thing waiting for them was to starve to death. Fortunately, the distance between the ten cities in Yinchuan was not too far, and ten days were enough to reach the next city.
In the next ten days, two small cities were captured by Murong Ke, and then the people were expelled and the city was burned down. In this way, Yinchuan County had nearly 100,000 refugees in the short term.
Yinchuan City, the prefect''s mansion.
After learning that Murong Ke had burned three cities, Qu Yuan was so angry that he was almost crazy. Yinchuan was built bit by bit. He was full of affection for every tree and grass here. But Murong Ke not only destroyed the stable lives of the people, but also destroyed Yinchuan County to this point. How could Qu Yuan not be angry?
Qu Yuan kept roaring and cursing Murong Ke, but the anger in his heart did not decrease at all. So he picked up his pen and rebuked Murong Ke''s atrocities by writing poems.
Qu Yuan was a literati who left the name of the literary list. He was extremely famous both in the people and in the political circles. After his poems and prose were spread, it caused a thousand waves and became a stain that Murong Ke could never wash away in his life.
"The command of the defenders of all cities to resettle refugees at all costs, and at the same time, we must be prepared for enemy spies among the refugees." Qu Yuan gave the order with a sad face.
Since he became an official, Qu Yuan''s career has been extremely open and he has become the prefect all the way. But now his good luck seems to have been used up, and he has not heard any good news after self-built breaking Murong Ke.
The only thing that made Qu Yuan happy was that Murong Ke did not massacre the city, and as long as the people were still there, Yinchuan''s foundation was still there, and the burned city could be rebuilt again. But at that time, I didn''t know whether he was or was the prefect of Yinchuan.
Qu Yuan looked east and murmured to himself: "Wang Jingluo, if you don''t come again, I will really not be able to hold on."
On the other hand, Wang Meng and Xi Zhicai, who also came from the east, finally met successfully halfway, but then they received news that Qu Yuan urged the army to promote it.
"This Murong Ke did not take advantage of the situation to go north, but instead carried out destruction everywhere in Yinchuan, but did not kill the people indiscriminately?"
After learning about Yinchuan''s information, Wang Meng frowned and asked Xi Zhicai beside him: "Military advisor, this Murong Ke is not simple. General Yang Ye has entered the Ningxia army. Do you think he dare not go north rashly because of this?
Or did Murong Ke’s goal from the beginning was not Zhenbei Pass, but Jinyang? ”
Xi Zhicai also frowned. He and Wang Meng had both determined Murong Ke''s purpose, but now Murong Ke''s actions are suspected of setting up a suspicion, but neither of them dared to gamble because of this. After all, the safety of Jinyang is much more important than Zhenbeiguan.
"Stay calm Yinchuan first, then talk about other things." Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice.
(This chapter ends)